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It's yet another example why the NFL continues to dominate.
Believe it or not, the NFL dominated on Thursday Night.
I'll explain how coming up here in just a couple
of minutes. Jonas Knox in for Big Ben here on
Fox Sports Radio. You can always listen to the show
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no fear now, I do have bad news. Obviously, Ben
Maller is not here, and we will get to exactly
why Ben Maller is not in on the program. But
also we're going to talk a lot of NFL. I

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don't know if anybody is big fans of Last Jedi
whatever that new Star Wars movie is, so I regret
to inform you that it is in fact true. He
Man kills Zitboy in the end and a whole galaxy explodes.
So there's there's you spoiler alert for you nerds out
there that are standing in line dressed as stuffed animals

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in your forties. That's what you can expect to go on.
At the ending, he man kills Zitboy with um with
a proton pack and an abba zaba wand that's the
latest out of Star Wars. Huh geeks. Unbelievable. Man. No,
we'll get to them later. Don't worry about. We've got

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all sorts of fun stuff for them later. Um. I
do want to talk about the NFL, because the NFL
is king man, and you know you're gonna hear this.
A lot of people are gonna be ripping into the
NFL for the Thursday night game. You had the Broncos
and the return of Brock Osweiler on Thursday Night Football
taking out those devastating Indianapolis Colts, and people are gonna

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mock the NFL and they're gonna take their pot shots.
And it's this whole standalone theory, like if you're on
an island, everything seems and everybody's watching, you know, you
kind of get this feeling like stuff is blown out
of proportion in the NFL, so you get these standalone games,
these island games, and so if there's a big hit
or if there's a couple of big hits, it turns

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into a big deal. Case in point, Steeler's Bangles from
a couple of weeks ago, when John Gruden and mcdonoh
made it seem like guys were pulling shives on each
other in a prison yard. I mean, come on, it
was an NFL game, but because it was the only
one going, everyone made a big deal about it. And
then you had the Davante Adams hit where Danny Trevathan
of the Bears lit up Davante Adams, and that turned

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into a big deal because of course it was a
Thursday night game and everybody was watching. So what's going
to happen? And this happens every single week in the NFL.
People are gonna pile on the Thursday night game and
they're going to rip the Denver Broncos and the Indianapolis
Colts and the NFL in general with What a stinker

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that was? What it What an unbelievable snooze festival game
that was for the NFL. How embarrassing. We told you
the NFL was struggling and it's going to be this
whole pylon theory. All right, Well, I got a theory
of my own, and it's a theory on corny restaurants.
All right, Now this is all going to tie together.

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We're gonna walk through this together because we could all
relate to this. All right, this is a very relatable
subject matter, and we're gonna make it all makes sense
here in a second. All right, So I believe that
most restaurants with corny traditions are overcompensating for bad food, right,
Like I used to work at TGI Fridays. Yeah, that

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whole thing where you got to wear suspenders and you
got to have like a certain bit of number of
flare on the side of it. Like, I mean, it's
totally ridiculous, and you dress up like it's basically Where's Waldo?
And they come out and they sing for the birthday
and all that stuff, and look, a lot of it
is We've got to figure out some way to separate
ourselves because we've got average food, two below average food,

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and some portions of the menu. A couple of things
are decent, but we've got average to below average food.
That's just that's the way things work. There. There's a
restaurant out here in southern California. Anybody listening on our
Great am five to seventy LA Sports, the flagship of
Fox Sports Radio. Right, if you're listening in the Greater
Los Angeles area, you know this to be the case.
And maybe there's there's a couple of these around the country,

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so maybe you can relate. There's a restaurant. There's one
in North Hollywood called Michelli's, and then there's another one
in down in Hollywood, m called and both of them
are Michelli's, and it's an Italian restaurant, and there I
think they're the same owner, but they're just in two
different locations and it's a chain, and it's this Italian restaurant.

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And when you go in there, it like it feels
like you're in Italy. They've got, you know, plants all
over the place. I mean, they're they're fake, but there's
a lot of things in LA that they are fake,
and we all stare at them, you know what I mean.
So there's like a bunch of fake plants around and
and you got to it feels like you're in Italy.
Like the bottles of wine, Like they've got the little
basket that you can draw on that hold the bottles
of wine. Like if you like you feel like you're

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in Italy, and the waiters even come out and sing
to you. The waiters come to your table and they
sing like operatic style, great voices, like it's a great
place to go, a great place, a fun venue to
go and have some dinner. Oh, by the way, the
food stinks, like the food is bad. But they know

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the food's bad. They gotta have something to overcompensate for, right,
So what do they do. They bring a bunch of
waiters out. The waiters start singing. They got a bunch
of decorations on the side. You know, it's like bucca beeppo.
That's just that's the way they got to do things. Now,
you can trash places like that, but you gotta admire
the business model, right, I mean, listen, what can we do.

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We don't have the greatest menu, The food's kind of average.
How can we spice things up and get people to
sit through and tolerate this garbage food? Oh? I know,
let's get people to sing. Let's draw on some flare,
let's flip some bottles, sing some happy birthday. Let's turn
this into a festive environment and totally take all the

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attention off the menu and all the items on the menu.
That's what the NFL was on Thursday night, singing waiters
twelve pieces of flare. The food wasn't very good, but
I guarantee you a lot of you still watched, guaranteed
see because the NFL figured out how to make their

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bad restaurants watchable with gambling and fantasy football and hope,
and the NFL sells it every single week. We can
sit here and we can mock all the bad games
in the NFL, and I do it. I do a
bunch of shows here on the weekends on Fox Sports Radio.
You probably don't listen because you have a life, but
for those of you that do, we appreciate your loyalty.

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That's going to pay off dividends down the road. Trust me,
I don't know how, but trust me, and I talk
about all all the time. I'll be brutally honest about it.
Like there are certain games in the NFL that just
stink and I don't have a whole lot of interest in.
But the cool thing lately is to rip the NFL.
Like everybody wants to talk about the demise of the NFL.

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It's peaked, it's falling apart, so on and so forth,
and you had all this controversy this year in the NFL.
Guys taking knees, people protesting, you know, people angry at
each other. That hits the violin, saw the injuries that
have piled up like it's the cool thing to do.
Thursday night was a bad game between Denver and Indianapolis,

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no doubt about it, with bad teams. But it's another
example of why the NFL is still king okay, because listen,
I love football. I'm always gonna watch these games. I'm
always gonna get if a football game is on, I'm
always going to tune in and I'm always going to
check it out just the way it is, I'll always watch.
They don't have to worry about me. They're never gonna
lose me as a customer, like it's part of my job.

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But I'm also been a fan of the NFL for
years and years. But if you're a culture, a Broncos fan,
you're always gonna watch too. And if you're just a
fan and you're looking at that game on Thursday night,
that's about hope. Who's going to be here next year?
Who isn't what's the plan moving forward? But if you're
playing fantasy football and you got somebody going in that game.

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That's a big game for you. Same with the gamblers.
It's what the NFL has figured out long before every
other sport. We sit here and we can criticize it,
and we can mock it, and we can make fun
of the singing waiters, and we can make fun of
the flare and the bottle flipping and all the other
garbage decorations they got on the wall. But the reality
is the NFL has figured it out. Oh the food

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here sucks. Ha. You got t Y Hilton in your
fantasy league. There's a singing waiter for you. Oh you
had a piece of our garlic bread. Huh. Oh you
almost cracked a tooth when you've been into it. Hey,
have no fear, pal, don't worry because the second half
over just hit. The NFL figured this out before every
other sport did. It's why they're still king like everyone

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could talk about. Oh my god, no, not a chance
in the world. I'm going to tune in and watch
that Colts Broncos game. My ass. If you are a
fan of either of those teams, or you at fantasy
or gambling at interest in that game, you know exactly
why you tuned in, like Dan Buyer and Mike Harmer
were just on before this show here on Fox Sports Radio.
Heard on many of these Fox Sports Radio affiliates. You

(09:26):
want to know why their show kicks ass on Sundays
because they do a gambling show and you guys can't
get enough of it. Okay, you guys can't get enough
of it. I see it. I got people that tweet
me about fantasy advice. The hell do I know about
fantasy leagues. I'm terrible at it. I've never won it
once in my entire life. It's a waste of money.
I just do it to hang out with some buddies

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I used to go to high school with. But you
love it, and the NFL has figured out what you love,
and they figured it out a long time ago. So
while every other show is going to come on here
and they're gonna pistol whip the NFL and talk about
how disgusting that game was and what a waste of time,
and I had other plans. I went out for the evening.
You're full of it. You either watched or you know

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somebody who watched. There was enough interest in that game
because the NFL has made every single game that they
have interesting outside of the preseason, which is a waste
of time. By the way, if you gamble on the preseason,
you need to go see you need to go get
some professional help. Seriously, I love the NFL, love it,
and I love defending the NFL. After a stink bomb
like that on Thursday night, that's a p one. You

(10:33):
want to know the radio term for a p one,
A loyal listener. I'm a loyal follower and watcher of
the NFL. How's that all right? Jonas knocks in for
Ben Maller here on Fox Sports Radio. Edmund Garcia is
your national update anchor here on the Ben Maller Show,
The Great Edmund Garcia. My man, it's up, Edmonds are good?

(10:57):
You are you gonna go see Last Jedi Eddie? Yes?
I am, Yes, I am. Now, were you excited to
find out that I was going to be doing the
show here for Ben this evening slash morning because you
were waiting to hear my nerd voice? Yes? Okay, yes
that is true. And by the way, for those for
those listening and wondering where Ben is, he took the

(11:18):
unit off to go see the Last Jet. Yeah. Well, actually,
um and this is I don't know if we should
get into this now them as well, if we're on
the topic. I have it on good authority that Ben
was at the holiday party earlier a Fox Sports Radio
at a holiday party. I'm assuming you did go Eddie
to the holiday party on Thursday here for Fox Sports Radio.

(11:39):
I actually did not. Okay, yeah I didn't either. I
was still waiting for my invite, and so u Ben Maller.
While at the Fox Sports Radio holiday party, there was
some conversations about how he says that you guys, every
time you're out are suspended. So the higher ups heard
about that, and not only did they were just going

(12:00):
to suspend Ben for one hour of the program for
lying about your suspensions, but they decided to make it
all four hours when they found out that he ditched
and went across the street and he dressed up as
C four Pio or whatever his name is to go
see very close on that one. Very close four Pio, No,
not at all four Iowa Sam trying to pronounce NHL names. Okay,

(12:20):
very close big in Iowa. Uh yeah, Ben has been
Ben has been claiming that the Danny G Radio has
been suspended all week when he's actually just taking a
week's vacation, I assume, because you know, it's the end
of the year and he hasn't taken it, so he
wants to, you know, get paid for those days. Yeah,
he does that. That's his move. And but the funny

(12:41):
thing about that is people will still tweet at me.
Is Danny really suspended you? You're falling for it again?
He Come on, no, he's not suspended. Now listen. I
don't want to And again, I'm not trying to start
an overnight war here, all right, I do, uh, you know,
as Tom Looney refer to at the Fox Sports radio
voice here, I do my little Nickel and dime lemonade

(13:04):
stand show on the weekend overnight here. I'm not trying.
I'm not trying to start an overnight war here. All
I will say is that someone whose name rhymes with
manny d h sent me a text message to ask
if I could let everybody know that Bennet's been suspended.
His name rhymes with manny d, you know what I mean,

(13:25):
so made they might have sent me a text message
on the side saying if you could just let everybody
know that ben had been suspended. Um, I can't confirm
if that's the case, but I'm just here to help out.
That's it. Well, I was told he went to go
see Star Wars, which is very ironic because I actually
did take a day off to go see the last
Star Wars movie and Ben made fun of me over that,

(13:47):
so I didn't do it this time, and then yet
now he does it. It's just what are you kidding me? Yeah?
I mean it's but listen, this is a professional broadcast,
and so I don't think a professional broadcasters dressing up
is um Chong Baka or whatever that guy's name is
on on Star Wars. Who's who's that guy? It looks
like Harry and the Henderson's, that big Harry guy. What's

(14:07):
his name? You know Harry and the Henderson's, But you
don't know Chewbacca. You should be suspended for the rest
of this show, okay, Jesus, all right, you know what.
I will put myself on suspension for the next five minutes.
How's that? Okay, I will suspend myself for the next
five minutes. During the break, I will not do a show.
All right, there it is? That is my son. It

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was funny that yesterday Ben said he would not watch
one second or that Broncos Colts game. And I'm like,
he always gives me crap about not watching, you know,
if it's a really bad game, like like last night,
that I won't I'll be like, you know, declare, I'm
not watching this crappy game. And then he's like, at
your job, Eddy, what are you talking about. You've got

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to watch this game. And then he came on and
then he said he wasn't watching. I'm like, wait a minute,
he said that, and then now I know why because
he's not here. Yeah, there it is. You didn't have
to watch it, all right. So so the whole cruise here,
well except Danny Gee he is out reportedly on suspension.
Uh and and Ben and but we've got Iowa Sam,
We've got Cooper, justin Cooper who threw his phone down.

(15:11):
He spiked his phone down in the parking lot. He
did drop his phone. Did not sound good. So every
the whole cruise here until six am Eastern. HEAs is
that the Chong Bacca is that cheech and Chong Bacca.
I have no idea, like the final iteration. I don't
know what's his name, like, uh, Don Vader whatever his
name is donnar Vader bar barth Vader? Is that his name?

(15:34):
I don't know Listen. I don't watch that stuff, so
it's not really crossing Spaceballs and Star Wars. I do
the I hang out with the cool kids on weekend overnights.
All right, Um, Jonas Knox, impre Ben Maller here Fox
Sports Radio eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox the
phone number eight seven seven nine nine six six three
six nine. You can get me on Twitter at the
Jonas Knoxes. We come to be alive from the Geico
Fox Sports Radio Studios. Up next, though, we have an

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embarrassing situation, a real track, tragic event that has taken
place in the world of sports. Terrible, terrible news. But
you've got to hear it and we'll have that for
you next year on FSR. The Ben Maller Show has
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Joined the charm circle and follow the man who is
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(16:19):
is at the Jonas Knox and you can tweet that
and follow me and complain about the fact that Jonas
Knox is here. I'm Eddie Garcia and I'm at Eddie
on Fox and now why from the Geico Fox Sports
Radio studios in for Ben Maller. It's Jonas Knox. Oh thanks, Eddie. Yeah,
but I have not gotten one negative response by anybody

(16:40):
really that I am in for Ben. Yeah, not to
not one them. A lot more than one, yeah, a
lot more than one. The Mallar militia is not happy. Um.
But but if you're not happy, listen, wait till Ben's fall. Yeah,
I mean, wait till people find out the ending of
the Last Jedi? Who I mean, can you believe that

(17:03):
vomit Vicky through a javelin, through nuclear man at the
end of that and the whole world exploded. Can you
believe that Eddie in the Last Jedi? No? I really
can't believe that. By the way, is vomit Vicky? Is
that the name of a garbage pail kid? I just
I don't know if that's maybe that is? Oh, Billy
shut up? All right? Uh So Jonas knocks in for

(17:27):
Ben Maller here on Fox Sports Radio. Uh's just terrible news.
This is uh, this is real tragic and um and
I hate to be the one to pass this along. Um,
but it comes with a little, you know, a little backstory. Um,
and this is gonna be tough. This is gonna be
tough to get through. So there's this movie that came

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out probably about ten years ago, and the movie was
called The Wrestler and it was about Mickey Rourke starred
Nittie was up for Best Actor. Um, and I guess
he almost won. A lot of people felt like he
should have won. But but anyways, the movie was about
this real popular wrestler from like the eighties or the

(18:11):
early nineties, and now it's you know, two thousand and eight.
He's still you know, still wrestling, but he's doing the
independent scene. He's hardly making a living. He's getting evicted
all the time, he's trying to you know, his body's
breaking down. But the whole point being a guy's in
like his forties or his fifties, he's still trying to wrestle,

(18:32):
still dyeing his hair blonde, trying to hold on to
his fame from back in the day. And it just
talks about the demise of him personally and professionally, and
like you see stories like that. And there's this one
scene in the movie where he's at an autograph signing,
and he looks around because that's the only one of
the only ways he can make good money. He had

(18:52):
this autograph signing. He looks around and he sees all
these other wrestlers and nobody's in line asking for autographs anymore.
They're in like some high school gymnasium and they're all
broken down, um, a lot of medical issues. And it's
like it's like it's like a sad story because and
you see this happen in life sometimes where somebody who
had it all falls into this rut and they just

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become a shell of themselves. And we're seeing that in
the world of sports. And uh, and I think it's sad.
I really do think it's sad. Um. And I just
want to give my thoughts and my prayers and if
you're near a candle, if you could light it um
to the Los Angeles Lakers and their fans. Just it

(19:35):
is Uh, it is terrible. What is what has happened
to a once proud organization, Uh, just a once once
proud fan base. Um. Just to see what they've become. Wow,
what an embarrassment. It's a believable. Man, Like we're talking
about you've got how many banners are hanging up in
the in the building where we got seventeen seventeen band

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sixteen banners World Championship band ers and the Lakers have
been relegated to lip readers. That was the big story
that came out of Thursday night and the NBA, the
LA Lakers fans trying to figure out, you know, like
they're the people standing in line for the Last Jedi,
trying to figure out the ending and which spoilers are

(20:20):
real and which ones aren't. Hey, what do you think
Lebron whispered to a Lonzo Ball? What do you think
they were saying to each other? He had his mouth covered.
Do you think they were talking about baby team up together?
You gotta be kidding me. Man. You're one of the
proud organizations in all of sports, one of the most

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historic franchises, and every single game there's like a new
load that is hit for the Lakers and their fans.
I don't understand it. I really don't understand what's happened
to you. Like, at some point, if you're a Laker fan,
you gotta take a step back and just acknowledge what's

(21:01):
happening here, all right, Like take a step back. First
of all, you were defending with all your might and
all your heart your number two pick of the draft. Okay,
and this isn't gonna be a piling on Lonzo Ball bit.
I'm not going to get into that. But you're defending
a twenty year old number two pick who clearly was

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drafted too high. Like like you're you're, you're you're defending
that like that, Like that's that's a whole separate situation altogether.
But then on top of that, everything is this desperate
look for looking for a sign, just desperately looking for
some sort of sign like, oh God, is our good
days ahead? Oh? They were whispering to each other like

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what are we doing here? Like like what are you doing? Man? Like,
at some point, don't you have to just take a
step back and go you know what? I don't think
I want to sit in high school gymnasium and sign autographs,
you know, I think I want to just like like
really get a better idea of who I am as
a human being and Laker fans good christ Man, Like,

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what are we talking about here? Like that's go to
ESPN dot com right now, Like that's the lead headline
Lebron mum about his words for Lonzo Ball after the game.
Who gives a rip like Laker fans think there was
some discussion at post game like hey, man, just sit tight,
I'm gonna be with you in a year, like like

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what And Lebron's gonna play vague afterwards and not talk
about what happened, Like come on, guys are better than that.
I know you've had lean years, but you're better than this.
It's very disappointing, man, trust me, we do the show
here in LA. There are some Laker fans who get it,

(22:51):
some Laker fans who who understand this is a going
to be a process. This is going to take a
long time, and you can't guarantee anything. And we all
learn that from Greg Monroe saying no and going to
live in Milwaukee and not signing with the Lakers. Nothing
is guaranteed, all right. And then there are other Laker
fans that are way too passionate that turned into glorified
lip readers, like sixteen times over a world champion and

(23:16):
now you're reading lipts through jerseys with NBA sponsors on
them just so you can get an idea as to
whether or not Lebron's going to be joining Lonzo Ball
and I promise you that will be one of the
leads on every single show tomorrow. What do you think
he said? How about this? Who gives a rip? Your
team stinks you're not going to the playoffs? Try and

(23:37):
get better. That's it, all right, So you can blow
that candle out now, save it for real tragedies, right
Jonas sucks in for Ben mallor. I have no idea
why I always say I'm just hit a fart noise?
Or was that not a partment? Well, it's it's or
blowing out a candle. I thought, I thought. I thought

(23:58):
that Coop might have had fat seals again before the show.
I didn't know if that was which. By the way,
how about the fact that like Eddie Garcia and Coop
and I was sam I wouldn't need it because it's
I don't eat past nine. But there was an opportunity
to have some fat seals in the studio. And you
guys got jobbed. You guys got totally jobbed. What was this? Yeah, well,

(24:22):
well listen the little pre show meeting, that long meeting
the Coop. You want to film it on the details
or should we tease that for later. I mean I
wasn't gonna mention it, but all right, um, I mean
I guess, uh, we were gonna have a visitor today
because we've got mixed you know, it's a half crew. Yeah,

(24:43):
how about that? Yeah listen, And again I'm not trying
to start problems here. I don't want to overnight war,
not at all. I'm not trying to start problems. I
mean Ben got suspended for you know that. Again, I'm
not trying to stir any rumors here. Just the way
it goes, all right, eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox the phone number eight seven seven nine nine six

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sixty three six nine and you can get me on
Twitter at the Jonas Knox would come to you live
from the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios. Coming up next,
we will tell you a little This is lesson learned,
all right. You shouldn't You should always be careful what
you wish for, okay, because you may be getting that
very soon in the world of sports, and it's going
to really piss you off, right, So we'll get to
that next. But for all the latest from around the

(25:24):
world of sports, it's the great Edmund Wow. Thank you
very much Jonas and let's check in on Thursday, NFL
Action with the Broncos beating the Colts twenty five to thirteen.
Denver quarterback brock Oswarler had to come in for the
injured Trevor Simeon and he played pretty well. He had
three touchdowns, two passing, one rushing. Denver Stamps in eight
game losing streak and get to win in a game

(25:46):
that had no playoff implications whatsoever. There was one scary
moment in this one. In the second quarter, we had
Colts tight end Brandon Williams taken off on a stretcher,
then taken to the hospital. He was diagnosed with a
concussion and he has been released from the hospital. News
from the NFL Arizona Cardinals are reportedly putting veteran running
back Adrian Peterson an injury reserve, ending a season due
to a neck injury. In NBA Action, we had the

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Cavaliers beating the Lakers one twenty one, two one twelve.
Lebron James with a triple double in this one for
Cleveland twenty five points, twelve rebounds, twelve assists. Warriors still
without Steph Curry or Draymond Green in the lineup because
of injury, still beat the Mavericks one twelve to ninety seven.
Kevin Durant thirty six points and eleven rebounds in that win,
and the Knicks down the nets one eleven two, one
oh four. Chris tap Sportzingis, though the star for New

(26:27):
York and our leading score, did lead this game in
the third quarter with a knee injury and no update
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(26:48):
talking about the subject you were talking about with the Lakers.
I have my nephew is a gigantic Lakers fan. Yeah,
and he's never really liked Lebron James And I said,
so all this talk about Lebron coming to LA are
you really are you really down with this? And he said,
I am so desperate for the Lakers to win. I
would invite Satan on the team. Oh, come on, there's

(27:10):
a holiday season, Eddie, you gotta bring Satan into this.
I'm just quoting Gee timely reference right there. I would
say Peo were even born when that skit was going
on Saturday Night Live. Not true, Huge, Dane Carvey fan,
You're the one. You think I'm a lot younger than
I look. I'm much older than you. Are you thinking

(27:31):
I have that problem too? Youthful parts? Back to you,
Jonas good stuffed. By the way, we are coming to
Alive from the Geico Fox Sports radio studios, where it's
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with Geico, Go a guy, go dot comic call eight
hundred nine four seven auto. The only art part figuring
out which way is easier. Um, A guy tweets in

(27:52):
and says, I don't even like Star Wars, but the
Star Wars stuff isn't funny. Stop sucking and ruining the show. So,
by the way, does that guy aware that at the
end of last Jedi Um booger Bart who pulls out
a water pistol and he shoots Um Chris the clown

(28:14):
and then all the Galactoi and uh skid Mark Skeeter,
I'll die at the end. Is he aware of that? Oh,
we're back on the air. I didn't mean to give
away any spoilers. Sorry about that, guys. Sorry stick to
porn stick Yeah, I mean sorry. This is these weekend

(28:39):
these weekend shows, they're a little too professional for me.
By the way, another guy tweets him clearly not bothered
at all by the by the Lakers opinions that were
shared on this show a second ago. Um, he's got
a Laker logo on his U on his little like
Twitter picture. He's a Laker logo. So clearly this guy's
he's a fanboy, all right, he's he's still got a

(29:00):
uh a sidel threat stuffed animal in his bed, like
I'm he's one of those nerds and that and that's fine,
and we're not here to poke fun or make fun
of him. But he writes in uh, bleep off you
part time Phil Fraud and bleep your Boston Celtics. Now,
now was he meaning that to me or to Ben?
Because Ben's been doing a lot of Boston show. I

(29:22):
bet Ben did do his Boston show. Okay, I bet
he did. So that is let's go ahead. Why is
everyone so negative? Man? Nobody could. We're just busting balls here,
We're having some fun. You go after Star Wars, you
go after the Lakers. I mean, you want to die tonight?
Don't you want to get shot? Jeez? Like that scene
out of Training Day at the end of the movie
where the Russian Bobsters show up, you don't have to

(29:44):
go there. I was saying, we've had shots fired through there.
I couldn't believe that. All right, I take that back,
by the way, speaking of shots fired, did you hear
about the end of Last Jedi where the I don't
I don't want to give away, No, I don't know.
All right. Um, So we're talking about this earlier, like
everyone's gonna criticize and they're gonna complain about Thursday night football.
That's gonna be the big conversation. They're gonna, Oh, man,

(30:05):
what a dogass game that was on Thursday night. Man,
how I'm not wasting my time with that crummy game.
Let me tell you something. Okay, we have to go
through this every year, and I don't know how many
times this half that has to happen. And maybe it's
one of those situations where it's like I'm never gonna
drink again moments and then like a week later a
year at a happy hour and everybody's gone through that
but how many times do we have to go through

(30:27):
this to where we get late in the NFL season
you criticize and complain about an NFL game, and then
about two months from now, you're sitting around on a
Wednesday or a Thursday night and you realize, Wow, I'm
watching an old dominion college basketball game. Like, you can
complain all you want, but you know what, give me

(30:49):
Broncos Colts if there's nothing else going on. I'm good
with it, man, I have no problem with it. That's
what I'm saying. Everyone like, the NFL's figured this out,
and they figured it out a long time. I'm ago like,
there's reasons to be interested in these games, whether it's
it's fantasy football playoffs right now, you don't play fantasy football.
There's there's a lot of you who do. This is

(31:10):
these are big games for you because maybe you're in
a championship league or maybe you do a daily league
or whatever the case may be. But these are big
weeks for you because there's a lot of money on
the line, So you're interested in that game. If you're
a gambler, you don't. You don't give a rip what
the game is. If it's regular season, and you think
you've got a good read on the game, you're gonna
gamble on that game. And it's a standalone game, so

(31:32):
there's gonna be a lot of action on it regardless.
And if you're a Broncos fan, if you're a Colts
fan and you're trying to figure out what the hell
this future is going to look like, you're interested in
that game. So sometimes I feel like there's like this
negative spin on the NFL, especially late in the season,
where everybody tries to paint it as oh my god,
I'm not watching any of these games. That's that's my

(31:52):
line in the sand. I'm gonna be so defiant and
it's like stop, man, Like, Okay, you don't want to
watch it, that's fine. Leave it for the rest of us.
Because the NFL is doing okay right, even on a
quote unquote down year, the NFL is still king. So
for Broncos fans, for Colts fans, fantasy football gambling, the

(32:13):
NFL figured it out a long time ago. Like they've
figured it out a long time ago. It's like I said,
you go to a restaurant and there's a bunch of
singing waiters. Chances are the foods not that good, but
the atmosphere that helps out the cause of the restaurant.
That's what the NFL's got here. The food on Thursday
night wasn't that good, but you had some singing waiters,
you had some entertainment mixed in with it. You got

(32:34):
fantasy football, you got gambling. It's fun, man, and I
got news for you. Wait till college basketball is all
that's going Okay, if you're not an NBA fan, wait
till you got to sit through some college basketball. Can't worry.
And I'm not talking about those Maui Invitational tournaments on
like Christmas when nothing else is going on, like we're

(32:55):
talking midweek. I gotta get my sports fixed and there's
no new episode of Diners, Dry Evens, and Dives. So
you're got to sit through a Colgate Duquesne college basketball game.
Have fun with that. You'll be missing the NFL. Then,
all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Jonas
Knox in for Ben Maller here Fox Sports Radio coming
up next. This is maybe the most important pick all

(33:18):
weekend long in the NFL. Do not go anywhere. This
is must listen radio. That's next here on FSR known
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Sports Radio Studios. In for Ben Maller, It's Jonas Knox.

(33:43):
Thank you, Eddie again. The positive feedback continues to roll
in here on Fox Sports Radio. A guy who's definitely
not a nerd, definitely not okay with the Twitter handle
Patriot Paul. Okay, so definitely not a geek. So whatever
you whatever you think, not a nerd with Patriot Paul.

(34:06):
Right soon, it says, normally I can tolerate you, but
tonight you suck ass. It's so funny, man, So you suck.
I've got good news, Patriot Paul. I've got good news.
The good news is I'll be on for the next

(34:27):
three hours after this. All right, So there we go.
If if you haven't been sold on me yet, you
will be sold on me for the next three hours
here on Fox Sports Radio. All Right, it is time
for a little something we do on the show here,
or they do on the show here. I'm just filling in.
I'm just the filling guy. It is time for a
little something called this and it's n f L pick hum.

(34:56):
Justin Cooper, your executive producer here at Fox Sports Radio
of the Ben Mallor Show. He is the authority figure
on this show and this segment. He is the guy
who lets you know whether or not you have won,
or whether or not you have finished in dead effing last,

(35:19):
and Justin Cooper is here for the results. Okay, what's
the order of this, Coop? I know a quarterback, running back,
two wide receivers at tight end. We've got to make
the picks. What's the order? How the hell are we
doing this? Well, I'm very happy that Ben is gone
today because I can actually say this without having to
go through the whole circus. But he was the winner.

(35:39):
He picked the best players during the NHL puckham yesterday.
Oh wow. And so since you are picking in his absence,
that means you will be going first. Okay, Yeah, And
obviously obviously I would need to pick somebody that's going
to be very, very effective. I would need to pick
somebody who is an elite level passer, who's a dominating quarterback. Well,

(36:04):
since we're on the top of yeah, I'll take why not,
there it is, So Mitchell Trubisky goes to to Ben Mallard.
Good pick for him, alright, good pick, all right, I
am up next. I will be taking Alvin Kamara. Oh wow, yep, okay, Eddie,
you are your next. Well, um, the last two weeks

(36:26):
I've picked Tom Brady and he has sucked the last
two weeks. So in a lame attempt to try and
put the whammy on him against my Steelers, Tom Brady.
All right, good, good, good thinking there, Sam back to
break shot. All right, So I a quarterback, and then
you don't have to pick in that order. You can
just whatever whatever you want. Two picks for me, Yes,

(36:47):
all right, I'm gonna take Philip Rivers. Mister Buller tie,
I'll take for wide receivers to Fon Diggs. Okay, back
to Eddie. Let's go with Todd Gurley. Oh and oh
you're gonna you're gonna You're gonna take him Jonas? Oh
what about okay? Well, okay, no, no no, no, no, I'm
gonna keep it with the Rams and I'm gonna talk

(37:09):
all time. Great Rams here already in his career, Ladies
and gentlemen, at the running back position. I would like
to pick Robert Delpino. Give me Robert Delpino, legendary La
Ram for Ben Maller this weekend. Alright, alright, so now
let's see that Bill. Oh did you you skipped me?
I think it doesn't matter. He picked he picked, uh

(37:32):
Robert Delpino. Did I take your Delpino pick? I'm sorry that.
I guess. Now I'm gonna have to pick Cam Newton
and then so that that means another another pick for you, Jonas. Okay, God,
I gotta think of who do I want? Who's a
dominating wide receiver and I'm talking about like physically imposing.

(37:54):
I'm talking about a physically imposing guy. Give me Cole Beasley.
I'll take Cole Beasley, a wide receiver for Hey, that
that one actually could turn out. Okay, I don't do
you do PPR? You great? PPR here? No, we don't. Yeah,
that's a good point. That's a good point. Okay, I
am going to doesn't Jonas pick two? Well, del Pino
was his first one. I'm I'm gonna go with Jimmy

(38:14):
Graham and now it is back to you, Edmund Dallas.
I'm gonna pick uh Rob Gronkowski. All right, Sam, just
one pick for me? No back to back, back to back,
all right. I'm gonna go with uh. One wide receiver left,
Josh Gordon, Oh okay, and then I'm going to go

(38:34):
Homer pick here c J. Fiedorowitz for the Texans. Who yeah,
he's knocked at the well, um okay, okay, So who's
turning to Eddie? Okay? Well, well Aaron Rodgers back. It's
time to start picking Packer wide receivers again. So let's
go Davante Adams Pride to Fresness. Interesting, all right, so
my turn? All right? So no it's not and it's

(38:55):
my turn, okay, yes, and I'm gonna go with Adam Feeling.
Now it is your turn for back to back. Okay.
So I need a wide receiver and I need a
tight end. Doesn't really? All right? So I heard one?
Then I listen, I heard um Iowa, Sam gave out
you took? Was it? Josh Gordon with your pick? Okay?
It inspired me to take this guy as my second
wide receiver. Give me Charles Rogers. I'll take Charles Rogers

(39:20):
and then uh, and then for tight end, clearly I
want to go with somebody who's an upstanding individual. I'm
gonna go with Mark Chimura if I could a tight end. Okay,
um with my last pick. I'm afraid that nobody, like
I'm wondering what's going on that nobody's picked him here?
And Antonio Brown is he? I mean, I guess I'm

(39:40):
gonna go with Antonio Brown. Belichick's not gonna double team
him the whole game. Yeah, is that? Okay, Let's go
with another Packer. Let's go Jordy Nelson. Jordy Nelson, all right,
and then you have the last last pick, Jonas I believe, Yes, well, no,
I took me too. Yeah, you've ever really? Yeah? Boy?
Oh we're good? All right, Sam? Does he have one

(40:02):
more left? This is smooth, man. I thought this went well.
By the way, if you thought this was smooth, wait
till you hear about this next. Let it sink in,
Mallar militia. Let it sink in. He's nowhere to be found. Yeah, no, good,

(40:25):
Jonas Knox in for Ben Maller. We have got some quarters,
some interesting quarterback developments going on in the NFL. We're
gonna get to that here coming up in just a
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(40:46):
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dot com for a free rate quote. So we're watching
a Thursday night football right, Well, I mean most of

(41:07):
us were watching Thursday night football. Now there's going to
be a segment of you that'll be out there and
you're gonna say, well, I don't care about any of this.
I'm not watching Thursday night football. I don't care about
the Broncos or the Colts. I've got better things to
do with my life. So you go and you get
dressed up like it's Halloween again, and you stand in
line for four hours to watch Last Jedi or whatever

(41:29):
the Star Wars movie is. And that's fine. Listen, everybody's
into certain things that not everybody else is into, and
that's that's fair enough. But listen. I am an NFL fan.
I like the NFL. The NFL is fun to me,
the NFL is interesting. And I notice something on Thursday
that actually impacts several NFL teams, right because it became

(41:52):
very evident to me, what the hell is happening? Now?
You're watching the NFL on Thursday night, and you see
a couple of teams going nowhere and going nowhere fast,
and then you see brock Osweiler come in after Trevor
Simeon gets injured, and you look at brock Osweiler and
you go, okay, well, I mean he looked pretty decent,

(42:15):
and brock Osweiler put together a couple of decent throws,
and then you realize, oh, yeah, he's playing the Colts.
So as good as Brockofsweiler looked, and as much as
he likes being back in Denver, and as as you know,
he looked a lot better than Trevor Simmeon in the
short time Trevor Simeon was in there before he got injured,
you still realize this is brock Osweiler, not exactly a

(42:37):
guy you're gonna build your team around. Tried that one
time in Houston. Didn't work out blew up in their face,
so they need to figure out another plan. And so
all during the pregame on NFL Network there was there
was a report from Ian Rappaport, NFL Network Insider, talking

(42:59):
about the Bronco's quarterback situation, and I found it very
interesting because it wasn't until this report from Ian Rappaport
on Thursday that it occurred to me how one move
this season at the quarterback position impacted several other teams
around the league. Here was Ian Rappaport. Well actually talked

(43:19):
to Colts owner Jim Ursey about that yesterday, who told
me he's gonna get with new general manager Chris Ballhood
after the season and make a decision on the futures
of Chuck Bagano and their coaching staff. Verse they told me. So,
Ian Rappaport is talking about the situation with the Indianapolis Colts,
and he's talking, Okay, we got Chuck Pagano, what's going

(43:42):
to happen moving forward? And everyone pretty much expects that
Chuck Pagano is going to be the guy who is
going to be fired and one of the many coaches
after at the end of the season who's going to
be getting let go, and then he also doesn't report
talking about the Denver Broncos and how the plan in
Denver is to exhaust all efforts to try and find

(44:04):
the franchise quarterback, and the and the thought process in
Denver is we don't have a guy in the roster
right now. So clearly they don't believe that Brock Osweiler
is the guy. They don't believe that Trevor Simeon is
the guy, and they don't believe that Paxton Lynch is
the guy. So Denver's plan and what is their main
priority this offseason is to find the quarterback for this team.

(44:26):
And so they've talked about whether it's going to be
through the draft. They've talked about whether it's going to
be through free agency. They've talked about do they need
to make a trade for somebody. Some of the names
that were thrown out there were Alex Smith. You look
at some of the other names out there. Kirk Cousins
is a guy who's out there. Do they move up

(44:48):
in the draft again, is there enough wiggle room for
them to move up in the draft to try and
get one of these top two quarterbacks? Should it be
Sam Darnold, and Josh Rosen. So Denver's clear goal this
offseason is to try and get a quarterback. Like that's it.
That is their goal. It's very obvious. They can try
and fire Mike McCoy, they can try and make all

(45:09):
these other moves around it, whatever they want to try
and do. Denver is going to try and get a
quarterback in the offseason. And there's been a bunch of
other things in Ian Rappaport mentioned it before the game,
and so you see the situation. You look at Denver
and you realize, you know what, man, and I do
a show here on Sunday Nights with Brady Quinn, former

(45:30):
NFL quarterback who actually spent time in Denver, and we've
talked about it, and I said, man, am I crazy, Like,
because I look at the Denver job. If I'm a quarterback, man,
that's be kind of nice to play with some of
those white outs, right, Emmanuel Sanders and Damarius Thomas, and like,
it's not like the cupboard's empty, right, I mean, there's
something there. And even Brady Quinn told me he was

(45:53):
there Damarius Thomas's rookie year and said, the guy's a freak.
He's one of the best why receivers in football, but
he's had no quarterback, so you haven't really been able
to see it. He said. I'm telling you it is
a desirable job to play there in Denver for that organization,
with that defense and those weapons on the outside. So

(46:17):
I hear the report and I'm listening to the names,
and it just occurred to me. If the plan now
is we've got to find a quarterback if you're the
Denver Broncos, and that's the plan now, wouldn't that have
also been the plan a month and a half ago
when it was also clear then that you didn't have

(46:38):
a franchise quarterback on the roster. Like what has changed
in the last six weeks, that's really that much different
six weeks ago. Honestly, like you knew six weeks ago
you didn't have a quarterback that you could win any
legitimate games with on the roster. So why wasn't there

(46:59):
a moved be made a month and a half ago
at the trade deadline as opposed to now? And the
reason I bring that up is because you know who
is available back then, Jimmy Garoppolo. So you mean to
tell me Denver didn't even make a call on Jimmy Garoppolo.
Denver didn't even inquire on Jimmy Garoppolo. John Elway didn't

(47:23):
even think to reach out and see if Jimmy Garoppolo
was going to be available via trade. Of course they did,
of course they called. A lot of people can criticize
John Elway, and they can say, well, he hasn't been
able to find a quarterback, and he hasn't landed a
quarterback in then free agency or the draft. Okay, we
can play that game. But he's also the same guy

(47:46):
who delivered in the draft on several guys on the
defensive side of the ball, still a strength of the team,
and also delivered via free agency several pieces on the
defensive side of the ball, still the strength of their team.
So let's be fair if we want to criticize John Elway.
But here's what I think happened. I would be willing

(48:06):
to bet anything on one of two things took place
a month and a half ago, if not before that,
Denver called about Jimmy Garoppolo, and the Patriots either made
an unreasonable offer or they told him he wasn't available.
And I guarantee you, after they saw all that, the

(48:27):
forty nine ers had to give up to get him
was a second round pick. Elway was pissed. You need
to tell me John Elway wouldn't have given up a
second round pick for Jimmy Garoppolo. Are you insane? Of
course he would. It's why everybody around the league saw, Wow,
that's all they got for him. All this talk during
the offseason, all this discussion back and forth, the bet

(48:49):
are they going to get rid of Jimmy Garoppolo? Is
this Brady's final year? And all they gave up for
you know, got back in return was a second round
draft pick. Of course, John Elway would have pulled the
trigger on that deal. Of course. But the more you
see the teams with quarterback issues around the NFL, the
more you realize what a sweetheart deal it was the

(49:09):
forty nine ers got. Look around the NFL. Look how
bad some of the quarterback situations are around the league.
I mean, every year we talk about this, and it's
not just injuries and guys filling in and wait till
the starter gets back. We're talking about bad quarterback situations
around the NFL. And you mean to tell me they

(49:31):
could have couldn't have gotten more for a second round pick,
of course, But the reality is this, John Elway probably inquired.
John Elway probably made the call, But Belichick was never
going to trade Garoppolo inside the conference. That was never
going to happen, and definitely not to a Denver, a

(49:51):
team he may have to deal with in the playoffs,
and he was never going to trade him to Cleveland,
an organization he's gotten no interest in helping out. So
I'm watching, I hear the report from me in Rappaport
before the game talking about all these options and these
plans at quarterback, and they're going to exhaust every effort

(50:14):
effort to try and find the quarterback of the future
and all this stuff that they're going to do in
Denver because they need to address that position on that team.
And I'm thinking to myself, man, for a second round pick,
you could have solved it this season in a winnable division,
like you could have done in a month and a

(50:34):
half ago, and you would have figured it out. Like
look at the look at Denver. You think it's that
bad of a spot to be in. You've got an
outstanding defense and you can throw to Demarrius Thomas and
Emmanuel Sanders on the outside. I don't know, man Like,
there's a lot of bad, bad spots to be in
around the league. A lot of quarterbacks around the league

(50:54):
would love to have that kind of talent on the outside.
But it just goes to show that Alichick had no
interest in helping out anybody inside the conference, nobody like
I would. There's I would bet anything, I have anything
I own that John Elway inquired about it, and after
he found out what it took to get Jimmy Garoppolo,

(51:15):
Elway was pissed. Guaranteed, like I guarantee it because that
would have been a home run move for John Elway
and the Broncos. And now after the fact, you're looking
around going all right, well, was it Kirk Cousins? Do
we make him? I mean, who knows? Eli Manning? Is
that a potential? Is that a possibility? Alex Smith? Do
you go on the draft again? Like? I think the

(51:36):
move in the offseason were Denver's probably going to bring
it be to bring in a veteran. Another guy that
Ian Rappaport brought up was Drew Brees. You know what
if if Drew Brees doesn't get a deal done in
New Orleans, I find that highly unlikely, but maybe that's
a possibility. But man for a second round pick. After
I saw that report, I thought, Okay, now I get it.
Belichick had no interest in helping anybody out, no interest

(51:57):
at all, or else Elway would have pulled the trigger
on that. In a artbeat, Jonas knocks in for Ben
Maller here Fox Sports Radio. You know who did come
to work because Ben reportedly was suspended. That's just the
rumor mill flying around on overnight radio. You know who
did come to work? Edmund Garcia your national update Acre here,
Fox Sports Radio. They call me every d Eddie. Yeah, Jonas,

(52:21):
as you know, I always show up for work. Yeah,
you're you're, you're all unless it's a you know, paid holiday,
and then you know, only an idiot would show up
for work then and listen, and you are. You're grinding
through I mean, lack of sleep, just a tough schedule
all the way around, and you make it in. You know,
you're not standing in line dressed up as a you
know something you get out of a claw machine and

(52:42):
an arcade somewhere to watch a last Jedi. You're here,
You're working hard. You know. Ben likes to claim that
he's all about the listeners and he loves them and
blah blah blah. Where is he then if he loves
you so much to say that is true? Here and listen.
But here's the good thing though, Justin Cooper has not
had to field any calls from angry Mallar militia listeners

(53:03):
about Ben not being here and me filling in for Ben. Yeah,
not one. It's amazing, man. I will say this about
about the Mallard militia. Now listen, and this is not
to be critical. Many of you are dweebs and again
and that's fine, Like we're not here to poke fund
in anybody here. But I will say this, Arnie Spaniard

(53:25):
is a like a thirty year radio legend. The guy's
been everywhere he's to network radio. I love okay, I
love the guy. You know, you know I have a
soft spot for for the the founding fathers. I mean,
like I hey, like go Ben, and I have I

(53:45):
have a soft spot in my in my in my
heart for the founding fathers of this business. And Arnie
Spaniard told me that he's never felt worse about himself
in his entire career than the that he filled in
on the Ben Mallard Show because the Mallar militia absolutely
ate him alive, like it was a bludgeon of Arnie Span.

(54:12):
So because of the abuse, you've got me all right,
I don't have to tell you. I don't think it's
all that bad, yea. Um, so listen, could always be worse,
Hey told stool people. Nothing gets us going like little
Mike North. People have been asking, uh, if we will
have well he clearly he's not here. There's no Benny

(54:34):
versus the penny. Because there's no benny, will it be
you know, knocks versus the nickels on the No, no, no, no,
hold on, it's not Ralph. It's not Ralph Irvin. Okay, yeah, um,
even though they look alike, Ralph and Eddie look a
lot alike. Um, but but no, here's Eddie. We do
have a special treat, all right, this is really good.

(54:57):
At the bottom of the hour, which is a radio term.
For about fourteen minutes from now, at three thirty am
Pacific time twelve thirty or three thirty am Eastern time
twelve thirty Pacific time, we invented a new game. Justin
Cooper and I spent four hours of show prep together,
getting ready for this show to honor, to honor the

(55:21):
debut of the Last Jedi, the new Star Wars flick,
We are going to play a game called Star Wars
Star Track or Star Crap. Can't wait now. I don't
want to give away any details of this game star Crap. Okay, Yeah,

(55:42):
I don't want to give away the details of the game.
All I can tell you is it's never been done
on radio before, and it probably won't ever be done
again after how poorly this is going to be executed.
It is I'm telling you three thirty am Eastern time,
twelve thirty Pacific Star Wars, Star Track or star Crap.
If you've never watched Star Track, Star Track, yeah, it

(56:03):
sounds like something that Ben would say. Star Trek, Isn't
that what it's called? What's it called Nordic Track, Star Trek,
Star Trek Trek? Yeah, you're like you're on a trek?
Who cares? All right? It was it's called t r
ek accurate whatever, um, but one of those. So we're
gonna play that game coming up at three thirty am

(56:24):
Eastern time. Are Star Wars Star Trek and Star Crap
starts not Star Trek Trek a So, Star Wars, Star Track,
and Star Crap coming up at three thirty am. They're
already losing the game. You're on on Fox Sports Radio.
But if you've never watched any of those before, especially
Star Crap, I don't worry you can you can participate in.

(56:47):
This is gonna be good stuff right coming up next
here on on Fox Sports Radio, Jonas knocks in for
Ben Maller. Coming up next, Um, many of you were
caught in a lie. Right, You've been caught in a lie? Right?
And I don't and I'm not trying to. I'm not
here to, you know, get anybody in trouble, but I'm
just going to point out that many of you were
caught in a full blown lie. I'll explain how coming

(57:10):
up next year an FSR. The Ben Maller Show has
been called a show about nothing. However, Twitter has definitely
something joined the charm circle. And follow the man in
for Ben Maller. That would be Jonas Knox, and he
is at the Jonas Knox and you could follow our
executive producer. He is the liar, liar and the menace
of the Fox Sports Radio Network. It's the Coop de

(57:32):
Loop Justin Cooper, he's at you, h Broncho fan. I'm
sure he's thrilled as Bronchos actually won a game tonight.
And now lie move from the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios.
It's Jonas Knox. Thank you, Eddie. The positive feedback continues

(57:52):
to roll in here on Fox Sports Radio. People thrilled
to have me filling in for Ben Maller. Here on FSR,
guy rights in and says, can you do all us
FSR listeners a favor? And moved to Lithuania with your
two Well, I can't read that final part out the
air probably should have proved that five oh man, angry

(58:21):
bunch man people are people are really pissed. Are you
familiar with weed man hippie? Do you know who he is? Um? No?
Was it a video game that would be an interesting
video game. No, he's a he's a loyal caller to
the Ben Mallor Show and he loves Ben and he
says it literally every time he calls in. But yeah,

(58:42):
he tweeted that he was well, he had slept apparently
during the days you could stay up and listen to
the show, and well, his friend Ben is not here,
so he's not too happy. Let's listen, Like, I don't
know what to tell you guys, Like just you know,
we're having a good time here. I mean people are
people are very bothered by it. You know, embraced change

(59:02):
every once in a while, right, don't like break a routine,
all right, Like if you go to the gym and
you keep doing the same work out over and over again,
you're just gonna it's not gonna do anything. You gotta
mix it up a little bit, you know, Like come on,
Like like if you go to the gym you want
to work out your chest, you don't do bench the
whole time. You gotta mix in some flies, fan it
out a little bit. Come on, Yeah, that's you know,

(59:25):
like we're just trying to mix things up. I mean,
Ben got suspended. It's not my fault. He got suspended.
And again, I'm not trying to start rumors. I'm not
trying to say that he definitely got suspended. All I'm
saying is that a member of the Ben Maller Show,
somebody who works on the Ben Maller Show whose name
rhymes with manny d, told me that Ben may have
been suspended. Bill Miller and the reason he was suspended

(59:47):
is because he accused every other people on the show
for being suspended. That's all I heard. By the way.
Another positive comment coming in on social media, Guy right
and says Knox, shouldn't you be in line with the
rest of the Star Wars virgins and losers camped out
for hours to see it? Well, yeah, I can't multitask.

(01:00:13):
I don't know what the problem I just try to have.
We're just multitasking here. It's nothing wrong with that. By
the way, speaking of Star Wars, we'll play the highly
anticipated game Star Wars Star Track or Star Crap coming
up here in just a couple of minutes here on
Fox Sports Radio. I would like to call out to
many of you who are liars. You know who you are.
You're a liar. You talked a big game a lot

(01:00:37):
of you out there, you negative nancies, talked a big game,
big time lies being told by many of you out there.
And I heard a lot of talk a few months
ago about something that people quote, won't do I won't
do that, I won't do this. I will not take
part in that. Oh keep me away from that. What

(01:01:00):
an embarrassing event that's gonna be. I want no part
of it. And just like I said, you're full of crap,
and I call your bluff. I said it before it happened.
I called your bluff. I said, you're full of crap,
you're lying, and I'll prove it afterwards. And wouldn't you
know it, we got proof because the numbers from Mayweather McGregor,

(01:01:26):
the pay per view that none of you were going
to pay for, that none of you had any interest in.
That was all going to be a big wrestling event.
It was all going to be fake, and it was
all going to be scripted, and oh my god, I'm
not wasting my money. And that the numbers are in, folks,
and you're a liar. Four point three million pay per

(01:01:49):
view buys in North America alone, he's a liar. That's
just under the all time record of Mayweather and Pachyow,
which did four point six million buys. The event took
in more than six hundred million dollars in total revenue
just at the gate alone. Mayweather and McGregor did fifty

(01:02:14):
five million dollars in ticket sales, and the estimated this
is before the final numbers came out, but I think
Mayweather got three hundred millions for the fight. McGregor had
another hundred million for the fight, probably more than that
after the final numbers come out. But it just goes
to showman, all you guys out there who wanted to
be you were like the two cool kids who go
to a Halloween costume theme party and you don't dress

(01:02:37):
up because you're too cool for it. I'm not watching that.
I want nothing to do with that event. You're full
of crap. It's a fun event. There's nothing wrong with
having fun. It's a fun event. Have a personality. Take
it in and many of you did. Four point three
million buys. I mean, come on, man, stop telling why. Yes,

(01:03:01):
all guaranteed all the press conferences are going to be
the highlights of that fight. Guess what. The fight was fun.
It totally delivered. There were no losers in any of it.
Connor McGregor looked good. Floyd Mayweather he looked good. He
made boxing look good, the UFC look good. Everybody made
a lot of money. The fight was better than anybody anticipated.

(01:03:21):
It was a fun event. Four point three million pay
per view buys. It's unbelievable. Good luck getting Connor McGregor
to go fight in the UFC again for three million dollars.
Good luck with that, all right. Jonas Knox in for
Ben Maller. Here Fox Sports Radio eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox is the phone number you can get
me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox. Only positive comments, Okay,

(01:03:45):
only the positive stuff at the Jonas Knox, right, only
positive comments. If you have a negative comment, you are
not allowed to tweet. We have gotten confirmation from Twitter.
If you send me a negative tweet, your account maybe
shut down, like the tweet majest erase before. You didn't
even hate says I. You can give it a shot.

(01:04:05):
You can try and hit send on a negative tweet
to me at the Jonas Knocks. But I have a
feeling that your tweet's gonna get raised. That's just that's
what I hear. All right. Coming up next, we are
going to debut a segment that's never been done in
the history of sports stock radio. All right, So if
you want to be a part of history, do not
go anywhere. That's coming up next. But for all the

(01:04:26):
latest from around the world of sports, the great Edmund Garcia, Well,
thank you, Jonas. Let's start with Thursday Night Football Worthy
Broncos beat the Colts twenty five thirteen in a game
that only the hardest of hardcore NFL fans we're really watching.
Brock Osweiler in for the injured Trevor Simeon played well
three touchdowns, two passing, one rushing. Simeon left the game
with a shoulder injury. Denver snaps an eight game losing streak.

(01:04:48):
Also in this game, Brandon Williams, Colts tight end, taking
off a stretcher in the second quarter, then transported to
a local hospital. He was diagnosed with a concussion, but
he has since been released from the hospital. News from
the NFL Arizona Cardinal are Portaly gonna put veteran running
back Adrian Peterson an injured reserve, ending his season due
to a neck injury. In NBA games, note, Cavaliers beat
the Lakers one twenty one to one twelve Lebron James

(01:05:09):
a triple double twenty five points, twelve rebounds, twelve assists.
Warriors still without Steph Currier, Draymond Green and were injured
still beat the Mavericks one twelve ninety seven Kevin Durant
thirty six points and eleven rebounds, and the Knicks knock
off the Nets one eleven two, one oh five. However,
New York did lose their leading scorer, Chris Tampsporzingis in
the third quarter with a knee injury. This report is
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back to a couple of NFL notes. Colts owner Jim
Erse told the NFL network that quarterback Andrew Luck is
doing well, hasn't had any setbacks. And also from the
medical front, Ryan Shazier, the Steelers linebacker dealing with that

(01:05:50):
spinal injury, still in the hospital, still recovering from surgery,
but he has started his rehabilitation. Is he gonna play again? Chas,
You're gonna play again? Why do I have this? I
think he's gonna. I think he's gonna try to play again.
I think I don't think. Let's put it this way,
and this is just my opinion, but I think if
it's up to him, he's going to try and play again.

(01:06:11):
It will take a doctor telling him you can't play
anymore for him not to try and play again. Listen,
I mean I try and like, like, what do I
love as much as he probably loves football? Like if
somebody told me, you know, like doing this job was
gonna you know, you could do long term damage, I
think I'd probably still do it just because I love
doing it so much. But just on the outside looking in,

(01:06:33):
I mean that guy's legs go limp like that. I
mean the the thought that for about an hour you
think you're never gonna walk again, Like, how how the
hell do you play again? I mean it's it's crazy, man, Like,
you've got to be so passionate. You gotta love something
so much to to stare at that your mortality in
the eyes like that and still go back for more.
I agree. I think there's a lot of guys who

(01:06:54):
would say, even though it's, you know, been their passion,
and even though it's you know, it's their career and
all at I think a lot of guys would really
have second thoughts. And again I don't know him personally obviously,
which is being a Steeler fan and knowing the passion
he has for football, I would be very surprised if
he wasn't thinking right now, at least in his mind.
I'm going to come back again from yes so good stuff, Eddie.

(01:07:17):
I felt like that was actually like a legitimate conversation
we had and I'm sorry, no, no, no, I liked it. No,
that was fun as opposed to reading some of the
some of the feedback from the Mallar militia who were
very angry during this show. By the way, we're coming
to you live from the Geico Fox Sports radio studios.
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(01:07:39):
which way is easier. From a very serious topic the
health of Ryan Shay's ere, we turn over and this
is a seamless transition into a made up game that
we're going to do on the show. Now. The name
of this game in honor of h what is it?
The uh, the last the last two Jeans l, the

(01:08:01):
last Jugi or whatever last Jedi probably enjoy late at night, Okay,
late at night any weekend overnights like two pm, Eddie
um in honor of the Last Jedi, the latest in
the long line of critically acclaimed films that many of

(01:08:24):
you dress up like stuffed animals to stand in line
for for hours Star Wars. In honor of Star Wars,
we have a game. It's called Star Wars, Star Trek
or star Crap all right, now, Justin Cooper. I don't
know anything about these these movies or whatever they are,

(01:08:46):
So Justin Cooper have some some some names, some facts,
some some some questions for me, and I have to
guess whether or not it is Star Wars, Star Trek
or Star app all right, and starcrap means it's totally
made up, all right. So here we go, Um, Justin Cooper,

(01:09:06):
executive producer to the Stars except on this show, and
I fill in Justin Cooper is here ready to do
the inaugural version of Star Wars, Star Trek or Star Crap. Coop?
How many of these questions do we have? Well, I've
got I've got ten different characters, locations, slash h you
know ships. Okay, Now I am a Star Wars nerd

(01:09:28):
all right. Should I get in on this too somehow?
Or no? No? This is this would be cake for you, Eddie? Okay?
Can I enjoy cake? All right now? Now you're allowed.
How many challenges are you allowed in the NFL? As
A two? Two challenges in the NFL. If you're successful,
you get a second one, right, Okay? Um? Can I can?
I have two challenges to go to Eddie and this
you like like a lifeline. Yeah, but but we'll call

(01:09:50):
it challenges because I don't want to steal everybody's bit. Sure,
we'll just do We'll do challenges in this and I'll
go to Eddie Garcia because you can use the force
and go to me. How about okay, so I will
let's start with that one. Yeah, what's that? What's that
from Jonah? Um? What the force? Yeah? Police academy. He's
not taking this serious? Yeah all right? So all right,

(01:10:11):
so now if I get, now, what do I need
to get in order to be a Star Wars expert? Like?
How many do I have to get before you guys
consider me? Uh Wars? There's ten? How many he'd have
to get at least for it to be called an expert.
I'd say you have to get eight? Oh no, no,
I mean maybe I'm making these like, oh they're really

(01:10:32):
really easy. They're easy for me. I like Jonah when
we talked about this, Jonah said he knew nothing, So
in order to be a Star Wars expert, you'd have
to get all ten and ten plus side. All right,
maybe I made these too easy. I don't I don't know. Well,
I guess we'll we'll see here. Well, even if you
have never watched any of these movies, and look, there

(01:10:53):
are plenty of movies. I said the other day, Jonas,
I've never seen The Wizard of Oz, and people are like,
oh my god, I've only seen and pieces. But I
but I know the story, I know the characters. Just
because you know it permeates the culture, you know what
I mean, you just kind of pick things up even
if you don't watch it, because it's you know, I
know about the clicking the heels and no place like
home and all that kind of stuff. So through just

(01:11:16):
through culture and whatnot, you should have absorbed some of
this summer. By the way, speaking a Wizard of Oz,
I always had this feeling that the tin Man was
an alcoholic. I don't know why you think you might
be an alcoholic. H couldn't you see that guy just
hanging out outside pet Boys with a bottle of Jack Daniels. Absolutely,
I just get this weird feeling. All right, So here
we go. This is Star Wars, Star Trek or Star Crap.

(01:11:37):
Justin Cooper. Question one, let's get this rolling, all right,
Hitkru Sulu? Well is he supposed to say? Which which?
What is that? Which one? Okay? Which one? But what
family that belongs to? Okay? Um say it again, Coop.
I like hearing you say that he hit car Sulu?

(01:12:02):
Uh Star Wars? No, No, do you make that up? No,
that's mister Sulu. Does that help? Mister Sulu? Is that
star Trek? Yes, that star Trek. Yeah, that was his
full name. Next up, all right, Number two, Zoo bar

(01:12:24):
star Crap. Oh yeah, yeah, I think you're gonna get
that all right. All right, Bar. By the way, you're
listening to Star Wars, Star Trek or Star Crap here
on Fox Sports Radio. Do you want a snoxtion for
Ben Maller, who reportedly has been suspended. Next all right,
Number three, how about Boba Fette? Well, is really isn't

(01:12:56):
isn't he a tech producer here at Fox Sports Radio? Bobo,
he used to work up. I'll go, yeah, yeah, I'll go,
I'll go Star Wars. Yeah, look at this man, I'm
on fire on Yeah, I think you know a little
bit more than you lead on Jonas, all right, the uh,
let's go with the USS Enterprise Star Trek. Yeah, look

(01:13:27):
at I would say I'm mixing up the songs here.
Very nice. What you want is why they pay me
the big bucks. This is uh, I don't okay, it's
some nerds online might be like, go to hell, but
this is Star Trek voyage. I thought it was Cherry
to fire close enough, very close. Yeah, I think you've
got three in a row. Now you're on fire. Yeah,
all right, let's go with Let's let's try Kneelix Kneelix

(01:13:53):
Star crap. No, No, that isn't correct. That is that
is Star Trek. Damn it, Star Trek. Okay, let's try
this one. Let's how about Jorell. I kind of feel
like that's a trick question. Yeah, trick question. Yeah. Oh,

(01:14:15):
I mean like I mean, I'm like, is that a rapper?
I'll go star crap. Well, Eddie kind of gave that away,
I feel like, but uh yeah, yeah, I mean it's
not it's it's Superman's father. But yeah, I mean it's
a real character. It's not like a made up? What
was the first one? Is that not fair? Can I

(01:14:36):
not do that? Well? I think it's fair. I just
all right, Yeah, that's a that's a as as a
as a radio host here on Fox Sports Radio would say,
that's a one. Yeah, I guess that's a win. That's
a that's a win for you. Uh about have a
nerd stalking in the backgrounds? That's that's a friend of
the show Bill Shatner. It's Cavin Kirk from Yeah, Bill
Shatner loves this show. Sam. Do you know that that

(01:14:58):
William Shatner has blocked all of us on Twitter? Did
you know that? I did not know? Why? Why would
that happen? It's kind of a long story, but I
guess the bottom line is he's an a hole man.
Come on, Eddie, Am I not? Am I not right
on that? Coop? I mean he yeah kind of yeah, Yeah,
he's just he's he doesn't doesn't know what fun is.
I guess I'm mixing it up here right to how

(01:15:20):
many more we got, Coop? We got? We got? We
got like four four more? Okay, we're gonna to speak
through these Kylo Wren, Kylo Wren, Yes, Star trek No bitch.
That is the star is Star Wars. Okay, uh number
number eight z new? Oh my I know ziema um

(01:15:46):
z new Yeah, Star Wars. No, he's fading fast. That's uh.
I'm pretty sure that's the planet that scientologists. Uh start,
if we haven't, if we haven't offended anybody on the
show so far, let's bring in scientology and see two.

(01:16:07):
If they like to get a few licks, that's where
they believe like Jesus came from or something. I would
say it was this like original Star Trek series. Oh yes,
this is the fight theme. Yes, Star Trek. Yeah, you
know we got a vast library here starts. I am yeah, oh,
we we gotta burn through these. Sorry, uh, Leia Organa,

(01:16:29):
I'm sorry, Leia Organa. Porn star Oh Ron game, I'm
gonna go star crap. No, No, I'm really that was
supposed to be the easiest one on the entire thing.
Oh but I know I've heard of Princess Leia. You

(01:16:50):
gotta put the princess Yea off with the full name. Right,
we have one more, all right, yeah, but I'm gonna change. Yeah.
Let me let me give you, let me give you
one or two two real quick? Cling on Star Wars. Wow,
you are hopeless? Did I get it? You know you're
awful at this game. I was how many how you

(01:17:13):
gave you the live and prosperous sign? Okay? How many?
How many? How many? Right do I have so far? Five? Okay?
So if I get one more, that'll be six out
of ten? Ten? Yeah, because I was gonna throw in
a bonus. But all right, look, okay you got a bonus? Yeah,
real quick before you have to get the break Spars.
All right, here we go, Jonas bonus here Fox Sports Radio.
What do we got? This starts with an entry in

(01:17:35):
the captain's log what star crap? No God cheer Star
Trek oh Man. All right, well, you know five out
of what twelve? It's not bad. That's pretty Actually that's

(01:17:55):
Alonzo ball. That's a shooting percentage. That's not bad. I
think about it. That is the debut edition, probably never
gonna be done again. Here Star Wars, Star Trek star
crap here on Fox Sports Radio. Right, Jonas Knox in
for Ben Maller coming up next, A really really bad
situation for one of the more popular athletes in the

(01:18:15):
entire world. That's next year on FSR. Follow our exclusive
reddit page. Find our subreddit Ben Maller Show and be
part of our revamping, post stories and message other p ones.
Now live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios in
for Ben Maller, It's Jonas Knox. Thanks Eddie again. The

(01:18:36):
positive feedback continues here on Fox Sports Radio. Ben Maller
is out reportedly been suspended again. I can't confirm that.
I don't want to start any rumors here on the overnights,
but Ben Maller According to a member of this show
whose name rhymes with Manny d all Right. He says
that Ben has been suspended for accusing other people on

(01:18:58):
the show for being suspended. Well, that's just Manny being
Manny again. I don't Sam, is it? You're you're a
little over a half hour early for Puns of Fun
with Iowa Sam, which will be making an appearance coming
up an hour three. Oh oh yeah, a little little
little pof Puns of Fun with with Iowa Sam coming

(01:19:19):
up here uh the bottom of our three. Um Guy
tweets in and says, um Jonash, you need to get
out of the studio once in a while. You don't
know crap about Star Wars or Star Trek. You suck
Star Trek. Well he's he wrote track. Okay, sorry, Uh listen, Um.

(01:19:41):
If it ever gets to the point to where my
life is so bad that the only way I can
get it to be better is to go watch Star Wars,
then that remind me to disappear into the woods with
a thirty pack, a bottle of Belvedere and a sawed
off and we'll go ahead and die. Yeah that's Wednesday nights, Um,

(01:20:09):
and listen, I've already listen. I've established I established myself
as as as a bit of an expert here. I
think I went five for twelve on Star Wars, Star
Trek or Star Crap. Bit of an expert here. So
you guys can criticize all you want, but I walked
into your world. I talked about your nerdy event, and

(01:20:29):
I dominated that's what I did. I'm Connor McGregor. How
does that feel? More of this next? I swear quite
possibly the most despicable story of the NFL season, And
I don't think that I'm embellishing it. Well maybe a
little bit, but I'll explain what that is coming up

(01:20:50):
here in just a gouvern of minutes. Jonas Knox in
for Ben Maller here on Fox Sports Radio. You can
always listen to the show on the iHeartRadio app you
and find us on Sirius XM channel eighty three. And
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fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Visit Geico dot
com for a free rate quote. So in the NFL,
if you're a diehard fan of a team, like like,
it's it's all about, like I look at the NFL.
The reason why it's been very successful is because it's

(01:21:32):
appointment television. You know, Like, if you're a fan of
a team you love every single week getting up on
a Sunday or if it's on the East Coast one
pm Eastern time, whatever time your team's game starts, you
love getting up and watching your team. It's appointment Television's
really fun, and it's you know, it's why you know,

(01:21:52):
bars dedicate days to NFL games or dedicate specials to
NFL games. It's why there are fantasy leagues and all
the other things that come along with the NFL. Because
it's so popular and because it's the it's one of
the great television events, you know, like you can go
to NFL games, but there's something about the viewing experience,

(01:22:14):
something about watching the NFL. Being able to take in
the NFL at a sports bar or on one TV
and flipping back and forth or on the red Zone channel,
whatever you prefer. There's something about that, Like the NFL
has really figured out how to present themselves is a
great TV event. Now they've also got to present themselves
as a game that you can go to, that you

(01:22:37):
can bring a family and not worry about it. And
that's where the NFL sometimes as an issue because you
get a lot of drunks and a lot of rowdy customers,
and people get after it a little bit and they
take some of this stuff a little too a little
too seriously. But the one thing about the NFL, even
when your team's bad, you realize that for the entire year,

(01:22:58):
you only get to see them play sixteen times, so
you want to take advantage of those opportunities. And if
your team's on a bye week, that kind of sucks
because you know you're not as interested in really watching it.
Like just whatever your favorite team is, you want to
be able to really take those in even if they
stink sixteen times in a season, you get to sit

(01:23:22):
and watch and it's appointment television for you, regardless of
how bad there. That's what being a diehard fan is. Okay,
So I'm gonna ask you a couple of questions here,
and I'm gonna ask you these questions, and you don't
you know, obviously you can't talk to me in return,
but just you can answer these and sort of acknowledge
them and shake your head and nod or talk back

(01:23:43):
to me however you prefer. Right, Like, if your favorite
NFL team was bad okay, or is bad okay, whatever
your favorite team is, you still cheer for them because
you're a fan, right Like, there's the whole idea of well,
you know, you tank and maybe you lose and you
get a better draft pick or it helps our positioning

(01:24:04):
in the draft because we really want this player. But
you still cheer for them, right even if they win
a game, Like if you're a Browns fan, you still
cheer for them, right Like, you know, you're a fan.
You love your team no matter what, You're always gonna
love your team, so you still cheer for them. Right now,
if your favorite NFL team is bad, but they play

(01:24:25):
really hard. You respect that even more, right, like you
have like there's a certain sense of pride there, Like,
you know what, man, we know this team is really bad,
and we know the team stinks, but but you know what,
this is my team and I love the fact that
they're still battling to the end. You know, Like there's
some teams that are just always really really close, but
they can just never pull it out, you know, like

(01:24:46):
the Browns didn't. It didn't it feel like the Browns
are gonna win that game last week against the Packers,
but you know what, they just they couldn't pull it out.
Or on the flip side, you're a Packer fan, you
lose your starting quarterback, one of the all time great
quarterback talents the league's ever scene. But they still kept
fighting and now they're back within within contention of the playoffs,
and now they're getting Aaron Rodgers back. Like there's a

(01:25:08):
sense of pride that comes from that, right. Okay, what
about this? What if your favorite NFL team pretty much
admitted that they quit in a game. How would you feel?
How would that make you feel? Think about all the
time you put in, all the hours you spend watching,

(01:25:31):
all the time you spend reading, all the money you've
spent on jerseys or apparel or tickets, all the emotion
you've put into that favorite team. Right, what if what
if you found out that they pretty much gave up
in a game? How would that make you feel? Probably?
Pish you off? Right, Like, what a waste of my time?

(01:25:52):
Hold on a second, Like, I devoted a portion of
my time to this team and they quit. Well, that's
kind of what happened with the New York Jets last week.
And if you don't think that I'm telling the truth
or you think I'm embellishing that, get a load of

(01:26:13):
what their offensive coordinator had to say. All right, this
is a John Morton, by the way, John Morton, the
offensive coordinator for the New York Jets. If you were
not familiar with John Morton's work, don't worry. I wasn't either.
John Morton on Thursday, in talking with the media, he

(01:26:35):
said that the team just wanted to run out the
clock because he felt the Jets quote didn't have a
chance to rally against the Denver Broncos, who led the
game twenty three to nothing. Right, there was about eleven
minutes left in the game or so. And here are
the direct quotes from the offensive coordinator of the New
York Jets. All right, now, imagine you're a fan of
this team and your offensive coordinator says the following quote. Listen,

(01:26:57):
the game was out of hand and I didn't want
to let some bad stuff happen at the time. I
don't like to say no Moss, but it was time
to get out of there. They kicked our butts. They
kicked our butts. Sometimes that happens in the National Football League.
I'm not going to sit there and have those guys

(01:27:18):
run a bunch of routes and something bad happens, make
bad decisions. I didn't want that to happen. I made
this decision. I just wanted to run it and get
out of there. End quote. That's the offensive coordinator for
the New York Jets. Think about that. Okay, that is
a coach who's a high ranking coach on an NFL

(01:27:43):
franchise acknowledging that he gave up, that he quit in
the game. Now I kind of admire him saying that. Okay,
I kind of admire the guy having the balls to
come out there and say, hey, you know, we just
kind of kind of packed it in. Yeah, it was over.

(01:28:05):
We're we're we're done. We're done here. We don't need
to continue out with this. Our starting quarterback was out
of the game. We had no faith whatsoever in Bryce
Petty to take over and lead us in a comeback.
So we just went in and we we wrapped it
up there. Like, I kind of admire the balls in that,
Like I kind of admire a guy standing up there

(01:28:26):
and just sort of speaking honestly about it. I give
him a lot of credit for that. But just think
about that as a fan. If you're a fan of
the New York Jets, or if this was your favorite team,
how would that make you feel? Because maybe deep down
inside you also acknowledge that it's a bad situation to
be in. You're on the road against a great defense,
you're starting quarterbacks out, You're not that good of a

(01:28:47):
team to begin with. Oh boy, fourth quarter, about eleven
minutes left. Yeah, it's not looking good. But did you
turn the TV off? Did you walk away from that game?
Did you give up on that in that situation? No
one of the coaches did, though, Like, like one of

(01:29:08):
the top members of the coaching staff literally quit on
a game with over eleven minutes left to go. Mey,
just think about that. If you're Todd Bulls, if you're
the head coach of the Jets and you're Todd Bowls,
what the hell are you saying to yourself about that.

(01:29:31):
That's unbelievable to me. And it's not even getting that
much run. And I don't know if it's just because
it's the Jets and they're a bad team or whatever,
but what's the conversation. Like in New York, you could
say whatever you want about the Giants and you could say, well,
it's dysfunctional and they don't know what they're doing. And
Ben McAdoo is fired and their general manager got fired

(01:29:52):
and they bench Dli Manning and now he's just starting. Man,
I didn't hear any coaches on that team say they
quit in the middle of a game. I haven't heard
that yet. That guy stepped up to the mic in
front of the media and acknowledged, Yeah, we were just
trying to get out of there. What do you mean,
like like you would already clinched the playoffs spot like

(01:30:13):
it was already Hey, listen, we have clinched a playoff spot.
We don't really need this game. We're just doing it
for reps. That's insane to me, And like nobody's really
talking about it's just oh whatever, you know, may you
know that's just man, it's no big deal. It's a
huge deal. You get a coach acknowledging that he's that

(01:30:35):
he totally gave up that the plays he were calling,
whether they didn't believe in Bryce Petty or whatnot, acknowledging yeah,
I just, uh, you know, I just decided, Yeah, we're
gonna go ahead and wrap things up here. It's over.
Like if I'm Todd Bowls, I'm pissed. Todd Bowles is
coaching for his job. He's trying to save his job.

(01:30:56):
He's in year three yet to make the playoffs in
New York, and he's got a bad football team. He's
trying to show and trying to at least give the
impression that there's some hope here. And not only do
you get blanked in a December game on the road,

(01:31:18):
but now you've got one of your top assistants, your
play caller acknowledging that he just quit. You know what,
that gives the impression of that that was also Todd
Bowles telling him, Yeah, let's just go ahead and wrap
things up here. We don't need any more of this.
Like if your ownership with the Jets, do you want
to head coach or a coaching staff that gives up.
I mean, if you're going to give up, that's fine.

(01:31:39):
But then you step to the mic in that media
craziness in New York on a Thursday and you tell
everybody that you gave up, Like that's like, if I'm
Todd Bowles, I'm pissed, Like, what are you doing? Man?
And there's already been some incidents there before Matt Forte
questions some of the player calling and whatnot with with

(01:32:02):
the offensive coordinator there, and and now this guy steps
up to the mic in December when coaches people are
trying to save their jobs and says that, like if
you're if you're watching a bad Team's why I always say, like,
if you're a fan of a bad team, you're kind
of like ownership to where you just want some sort

(01:32:25):
of hope, you know, Like listen, Denver in Indianapolis aren't
going to the playoffs, right, they're bad teams. But if
you're a Denver Bronco fan, or you're an Indianapolis Colt fan.
You're kind of like ownership, you know, minus the old
Jimmer say bag of Hills stuff. You're kind of like
ownership to where you're watching the game and you're looking
at it going, Okay, who wants to be here? All right?

(01:32:46):
Who's who's not quitting? Who can we build around? Is
there any glimmer of hope anywhere on the roster. That's
kind of how you have to look at it. It It
makes the game's tolerable that or you can just bet
on it and drink your life away and that's always fun.
But you're trying to see something that you can root
for moving forward, you know, like like, hey, let's let's
make sure at least we can be bad, but at

(01:33:07):
least there's some hope for the future. Like you're a
Jets fan, you were probably watching that game, going, man,
it looks it seems like we quit, And sure enough,
yeah you did. Your your offensive coordinator acknowledged it less
than a week later. That's insane to me. Jonas knocks
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How about that Eddie little offensive coordinator saying, yeah, we
pretty much wrapped things up there with about eleven minutes

(01:33:52):
to go. Well, it's not like he's paid to win games. No, no,
not at all. It's like this is about life lessons
and protecting people. And you're a Steeler fan, what would
your reaction be if Todd Haley said that, uh, don't
let the door hit you in the ass on the
way out. And that's a guy who's actually done something
in the league and is actually an offensive coordinator for

(01:34:14):
a really good football team. This is an offensive coordinator
for a diaper fire. And he comes and he comes
out in a press been a while old throwback there,
and he comes out into press covert and says, yeah,
we gave up, we quit. That's that's insane. My only
reasonable explanation is he's trying to get fired. Yeah, maybe

(01:34:34):
that's what it is. I don't know why he would
try to get fired to me, and I would think
you'd want to be an NFL offensive coordinator. But that's
the only reasonable explanation I have for making that statement. Yeah,
that's insane. All right, So Jonas snocks again in for
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(01:36:46):
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this though, because I was talking about this earlier. One
of the other big events I guess you can call
it a big event was the La Lakers playing the
Cleveland Cavaliers on on a TNTs double header. It was.

(01:39:02):
It was the first game, the first ever matchup between
Lebron James and Lonzo Ball. Yeah, a Lonzo Ball, everybody's favorite.
We love Lonzo Ball. It's obviously Cleveland won the game.
And uh and and again, I'm not going to pile
lon Lonzo Ball. I'm not going to to have a

(01:39:23):
big rip fest of Lonzo Ball. I'll simply point out
that he is, um. Well, he hasn't exactly been what
everybody had talked about him being. He hasn't been this
transcendent player that was going to uh revitalize a franchise.
He's he's he's a good player. Um, he'll probably continue
to be and continue to get better, and he's going
to be a good player who's going to be able

(01:39:44):
to get other guys involved. But he's not this transcendent
talent that you're going to rely on to win you games.
He needs pieces around him. Uh, if you want to
talk to him in football terms, he's a bit of
a game manager, if you will. And that's very apparent.
The guy needs pieces around him. And so one of
those pieces that Laker fans are enamored with now is
uh Lebron James. And the big story after the game

(01:40:08):
was Lebron James was was seen whispering and talking to
Alonzo Ball, but he was covering his mouth and so
of course when he was talking to T and T afterwards,
they had to ask him that they had they had
to ask Lebron James what he was talking to Lonzo about.
We saw you had a moment with Lonzo there. What

(01:40:28):
did you have to say to him? I didn't tell
him anything. I didn't tell him anything. It's not for everybody.
There's enough noise out there already was Zoe, and it's
not for me to discuss. Uh, but you know he
has a bright future, like I said the other day
in my quotes, and uh, you know, they got a
bunch of young guys and they don't stop running. I'll
tell you that. So so that was Lebron James refusing

(01:40:50):
to uh, to confess to what his discussion was with
Lonzo Baso. Let's ask a Lonzo Ball, Alonzo, what did
Lebron said afterwards? I was Lebron grabbed you after the
game on the court. What do you say to you?
You can't tell me anything. Just a good game and
kind of slapped hands. That's it. Oh man boy, those
guys are pretty sly. Here's the best part. Laker fans

(01:41:11):
have turned into lip readers, just hoping that they can
that they can try and uncover the mystery of what
the discussion was. Hey, you're gonna come play with me.
You guys are gonna come, You're gonna come join forces
with me in LA. Like the idea that people think
Lebron James looks around the NBA and seize the Lakers
as the place he wants to be because that's the

(01:41:34):
place and the team that's ready to take the next
step right away. Lebron James is in win now mode.
The Lakers are not. They might be in two three years.
Maybe that's something that to consider in two three years
from now. But as far as next offseason, why would
Lebron James go there if they're not ready to win
and compete right away? Like Lebron James is about winning titles, right,

(01:41:59):
So why what's this conversation everybody's having with LA, Like
everybody's just enamored with this idea of Lebron James going
to LA And I don't get it. It's like I said,
I'm not going to pile on Lonzo Balls. I think
too many people do that, and he takes a lot
of heat because his dad, and his dad's a blowhard.
I mean, whether you like his dad or not, but
I mean this is the same Laker fans who said

(01:42:21):
he was the savior. Like you're now lip reading, just
hoping Lebron joins him. Like, isn't the idea of the
NBA draft to draft the best player every time? It's
clear that Lonzo Ball is not the best player in
this draft. He may not end up being a top
ten player in this draft. Like, so if you're looking

(01:42:43):
around and you go, yeah, you should probably draft the
best player every time. It's like Darko Milichiic all over again.
Like Detroit took Darko. Why well, we already had somebody
that kind of played a similar position as Carmelo Anthony,
so we wanted to We wanted a draft for fit. No,
you draft the best player every time. That's why you

(01:43:04):
talk to anybody who does a draft board in the
NFL draft, they tell you, yeah, we draft the best
player every time, like like we have an idea of
who's there. But when you get into the later rounds,
it's not about well, we already took a quarterback, or
we already took a running back, or we already took
a tackle, Like why double up at that position? No,
you draft the best player every time. Whoever's the highest

(01:43:24):
rated player on your draft board, that's who you take
because you can never have enough good players. Like that's why,
I like, you can say whatever you want about Lonzo
Ball and maybe he'll turn out to be a decent pro.
But he was a brand pick as much as he
was a basketball pick, like he was like it was
all about the brand that he's in LA and it

(01:43:45):
makes all the sense in the world. I mean, it's
it seems like a pretty good fit here, Like why not,
Like if I mean, if I'm a Laker fan, I'm like, yeah,
I don't know that Tatum looks pretty good and some
other players look pretty good. Kuzma looks good, you know,
Like what did we we have to take him at two?
Like is that a number two pick? I don't know, man,
Like I just he acknowledge it for what it is.

(01:44:07):
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the latest from around the world of sports, the great
Eddie Garcia, Well, thank you, Jonas. Let's start with Thursday
night football in Indianapolis, where the Broncos beat the Colts
twenty five to thirteen. Denver quarterback Brock Oswiler was pressed

(01:44:51):
into action after starter Trevor Simeon went down with a
shoulder injury, and Oswiler played well at three touchdowns, two passing,
one rushing in the win. Also in this game, Colts
tight end Brandon Williams was taken off the field and
a stretcher in the second quarter was taken to a
hospital diagnosed with a concussion, but he has since been
released from the hospital. NBA Action Cavaliers beat the Lakers
one twenty one to one twelve. Lebron James At a

(01:45:12):
triple double twenty five points, twelve rebounds, twelve assisty fifty
ninth triple double of his career. Warriors over the Mavericks
one twelve to ninety seven. That's eight straight wins for
Golden State and they win again without Steph Curry and
Draymond Green out due to injury. Kevin Durant thirty six
points and eleven rebounds and the Knicks knock off the
Nets one eleven two, one oh four. Chris taps porzingis
the leading score for New York. Did leave this game

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Jonas back to the NFL where Arizona Cardinals are putting
veteran running back Adrian Peterson on injured reserve with a
neck injury, ending his season and possibly ending his career.

(01:45:56):
Thank you, Eddie, Yeah that I was watching that Cardinals
game when he went down and it like it just
sort of because he got up and you could tell
he was banged up a little bit, but he walked
off into the sideline. I was like, oh, that looked
a little bit worse than I think people may have acknowledged.
Like he got tackled to the ground and spiked his
head off the turf, and I was like, oh, that
didn't look too good. So yeah, it could be the

(01:46:17):
end of Adrian Peterson. Man, when that guy in his prime,
he was so good, good god man, Like, I don't
know if you're ever going to see a running A
lot of people try and compare Todd Gurley to him. Man,
not the way Adrian Peterson ran. He was so damn good.
Is I know this is kind of boring sportstock radio talk,
but which is great for me to bring it up.

(01:46:38):
Is he a slam dunk Hall of Famer Adrian Peterson?
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, no doubt about it. Yeah, No,
he was unbelievable. Like that year where he ran for
was it the two thousand, Like he almost broke the single.
I think he was like nine yards shy. Yeah, I
think he's got to be first ballot and he got
to uh, he and he got to they got to

(01:46:58):
the playoffs that year. Who is their quarterback? Was it
Christian Ponder? I think it was Christian Ponder? Like they
had nobody, everybody knew who was getting the ball every year,
And that was a year after knee surgery, and it's
one of the more incredible years you've ever seen. And
I think they got into the into the playoff game
and Ponder got hurt and then it was a backup

(01:47:18):
quarterback guy. Who was it? Was it Joe Webb might
have been. Yeah, it was Joe Webb Blue who started
the playoff game against the Packers. Like, I mean, they
had nobody. All they had was him. He's all they had.
So yeah, he's a first bound Hall of Fame. Twelve
thousand and two hundred seventy six rushing yards. That's twelfth
on the all time list. Guys like Marcus Allen, Frank O'harris, Thurman, Thomas,

(01:47:39):
John Riggins, all those Hall of Famers are behind him
on that list. So there you go. Who's who's in
front of him that isn't in the Hall of Fame? Um?
Where is everybody? Frank Gore is a number five? What man?
He thought what a career, Frank. Yeah, how about that?
He's awesome and that's it. Wow, And Frank Gore will

(01:47:59):
get in the Hall. That could take a while. Man,
I did not know he was number five in the
all time rushing list, Frank Gore. They showed a graphic
today it said that it was him And was it
Aaron Hernandez? No, it was him in only one other
running back I've ever been first and rushing on their

(01:48:21):
team for thirteen straight years. Oh yeah, And and that
and his knee And the only reason he went lower
in the draft Frank Gore is because of his knee injuries.
Like he like he tore up his knee what two
or three times at Miami like he always had. He
always had these knee problems, and he just he got
to San Francisco and they just figured out, okay, well
you can do a little more and a little more.

(01:48:41):
And he stayed relatively healthy throughout the course of his
career coming off those injuries. And he's a hell of
a career. And guess what he's gonna get signed in
the off season, Like why wouldn't you, Like he's already said,
if he can find the right spot, he wants to
play again, Like, why wouldn't you sign him? He mean,
he's still productive. I would behind that garbage offensive line
in Indianapolis in the snow last week, I think he

(01:49:02):
ran for like one hundred and thirty yards or something
like that. Why there anybody else noticed that that that
game up between Buffalo and uh Indianapolis last week looked
like the offensive line meeting room in Miami. Anybody else's
sorry about that? Uh? I'm good? Is that? Peyton Manning? Hey? Yeah, Coop,

(01:49:29):
before you move on, Jonas, you go back to to
what you were talking about before the lebron and the update.
Here's that? What's that? What do we got? Did I
hear you? He said? Were you? Were you dissing the
Kyle Kuzma pick? Did I hear that? Correct? He said
it was a brand pick? No? No, no, no no, no,
I said the Lonzo ball was a brand pick. Kyle

(01:49:49):
Kuzma was a good pick. Okay, it's the best rookie
on the team. Okay, yeah, I thought you said that
Kuzma was a brand pick too. No. No. But and
that being said, though Lonzo is a great player, he's
just not a good shooter. Well, he's a great players.
He's a great player overall. Literally, he's a great I
think he's a really I think he's above average defensive player.

(01:50:10):
I mean he's he's probably leading point guards in blocks
this season. He's he's not bad in steals. I mean
the other day he had four blocks in a game.
He's six six. I think he's I think he's above
average defender, and he's he's way better of a defender
than I thought he was going to be. I honestly,
the only like aspect of his game that you can
point to is is his shooting percentages. Other than that,

(01:50:33):
I mean, I mean, he's had almost three you know,
he's that near triple doubles. He's had two this season.
Can we send breaking news out? Like I was not
aware that he was a great player. I did not
look at Lonzo ball this year and go back. Sorry,
that might have violated protocol. There it's overnight. We can

(01:50:55):
get away with guy. We could be reckless as hell
here on overnight and didn't even play Bob's voice there.
We just dropped a cocaine Joe, come the air? Are
you kidding me? All kinds of fun stuff here, By
the way, I've heard some of the jokes that Justin
Cooper has rattled off on overnights and I think we're safe.
I think we are I think we were safe by
the way I heard you talk about I heard you
talk about the conversation that Lebron and Lonzo had after

(01:51:18):
the game. Yeah, but it's a different thing to see
the video of it. It's like a pitcher and catcher
in baseball covering. Oh my god, what what? But what
could he possibly be saying to him? Yea other than
trying to stir crap up and get talked to. This
is classic No, I mean, god, come on, hey, what's

(01:51:42):
so Let's let's try and get Maybe we could do
that as a as a fun, little, fun little segment.
Let's try and guess the tagline on one of the
sports debate shows on Friday in regards to that conversation, Like,
we'll try and guess what the tagline underneath will be
that's not going to be talking about, yeah, because those
those are those are my favorite things that I'll see

(01:52:03):
a conversation and the like the tagline underneath will be
like Lebron on his way to LA like, what are
you talking about? Agent? With the guy covered his mouth
with his shirt after a game, like what are you
talking about? Like, so let's sleep. We can guess what
the the tagline will be on one of the sports
debate shows coming up on Friday. That'll be fun, a
little friendly fire. Why not fun stuff la la with

(01:52:26):
Lonzo Oh yeah, oh yeah, justin Cooper. Yeah, thank everybody.
Good night. By the way, I tease puns of fun
with Iowa Sam, and I think we've got thirty What
do you think about thirty seconds, Sam? Thirty seconds the
little puns of fun. These are Iowa Sam's best puns.

(01:52:49):
This is in replacement of Yeah. This is in to
replace the lame jokes of the week, which are a
Ben Maller staple. He will be back from missus spension,
I'm assuming shortly, and he will get back to those
next week. But right now, little puns of fun with
Iowa Sam. It's really fad choke tie fun with Iowas Sam.

(01:53:17):
This is my second time this week. All right, here
we go. Indianapolis is so bad at football. Doctors are
changing in the medical terminology from cold sword to cult sar.
What was that? The Yankee broadcast team is so excited
for Stanton the slugger coming to town. John Sterling is
changing his name to Jean Sterling. No, God, please, no.

(01:53:41):
In relief of Bo had a great game for the Broncos.
Two touchdowns passing no picks. Wow, he's at Wait what
I have no idea what he say? I don't know
what was the last one? No attention? Did the clock
screw up? There? Wayne? Did you not finished the joke?

(01:54:02):
We used to do Puns of Fun with a timer,
so I used to try to rattle him off as
fast as he did. You guys aren't familiar with the format.
It took it. He did. He didn't want to. He
didn't want to hear the rest of it. Yes, no,
in really, Bo had a great game where the Broncos
two touchdowns passing no picks. Wow, he's the wizard, the
Wizard of Osweiler. Impressive. But you pull back the curtain

(01:54:25):
and you'll be hugely disappointed. My yeah, I think I
think the first first one was better, Like the half
joke was better. What everyone in this room was that
edition of Puns of Fun? Was that worse than the
one that he did earlier this week? It was? Why?

(01:54:48):
On my I you know, I think of all my
best material. I put it down on paper and then
you know, the scraps make it to the second edition
of Puns of Fun? Why was okay? Why was the
first time you did it this week better than the second?
I had better jokes, They're more thought up. That escalated quickly.
I mean that really got fast. The one you told

(01:55:12):
last hour was good? What was it? I don't even remember,
but it was better, so I don't remember. It was
better than he knows. I'll think of it. Have you
guys asked for it? I deliver? For the record, I
did not ask for Yeah, under pressure, that was come
through in the clutch. That was a special edition of

(01:55:34):
Puns of Fun with Iowa Sam here on Fox Sports.
I've gotten to do Puns of Fun twice this week.
It's been retired for what six months? Now, Well, let's
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(01:57:43):
It's Jonas Knox. Thank you, Eddie. Eddie. We gotta get
to something here and I need your help with this
because we're gonna expose a bunch of thieves. All right. Now,
it's the holiday season, right, it's not it's not a
time to steal from people. That's why when you ever
hear you hear about theft, like some of these delivery drivers,

(01:58:06):
like who steal items off the port and was there
like somebody was going around there. Delivery drivers would drop
these items off on the porch, like these Christmas gifts
people were getting delivered and then somebody would come by
and steal them. Oh yeah, hey they get caught on
camera like a bunch of losers. And so if you're
one of those people, you're a loser. By the way,

(01:58:28):
if you're one of those people, do not listen to
this show, right, because we will not say nice things
about you. But I need to address this, and you're
the only person who I think that we can have
this conversation with about about a bunch of thieves here
during the holiday season. What's been one of the bigger
stories and the more pleasant surprises in the NHL this season,

(01:58:52):
Eddie Garcia. It now, before people get out there and go,
oh my god, he's talking to NHL, I gotta turn
the radio. Trust me, this is gonna make sense to
you because it's about fever, right, It's got to be
the Vegas Golden Night of course. Okay, so the Vegas
Golden Knights. And I noticed something because on Thursday night,
the Vegas Golden Knights were hosting the back to back

(01:59:14):
defending Stanley Cup champions. All right, on your favorite team.
I'm sure that's a coincidence. Well, that's right. I did
grow up a Penguins fan. Oh my god, I didn't
even I didn't even I didn't even correlate that. I
didn't even know that that was like part of the
but but it did get me to thinking about something, Eddie,
because I'm watching the Vegas Nights and I'm like, God,
I've seen this somewhere before, Like where have I seen

(01:59:36):
this before? And I'm looking at him and I'm like,
I remember Marc Andre Fleury. He was a former Pittsburgh Penguin,
a great Penguin at you know, goaltender. And then I
see James Neil. I'm like, oh, well, he was a
former Pittsburgh Penguin. I'm thinking, but there's something I noticed
about this team, and then I thought, oh, I know
what it is. It's the fact that they completely stole

(01:59:57):
their jersey delane jersey design and a lot of their
logo from the Wheeling Nailers, the Pittsburgh Penguin affiliate, the
minor league hockey team. How about that the Vegas Nike Knights,
a bunch of thieves who stole the jersey designing concept
from the Wheeling Nailers, the Penguins minor league affiliate. How

(02:00:17):
about that, Eddie, That would be Wheeling, West Virginia, one
of the more infamous callers on this show. Radio Rich, Yeah,
how about that? Doesn't it kind of remind you of
the Wheeling Nailer jerseys? Damn thieves in Vegas. I gotta
tell you, it wasn't the first thing that came to
mind when I says, well that that is why I

(02:00:38):
needed to bring this up with you, because I think
that should be at least a segment on the Puck
Podcast this week, by the way, final score, Golden Knights,
two Penguins one, by the way, more more conversation. Probably
not on that though. Next year on FS we are
gonna go against the grain here, all right, in more
ways than one. We're going against the grain. We are

(02:00:59):
not going to follow the trends that you're going to
see take place in the world of sports. We're going
against the grain. So if you want to be rebellious,
if you want to have a little bit of an edge,
if you want to give double middle fingers to the
popular trends that you're going to hear about all throughout
the day on Friday and Sports, this is the show

(02:01:21):
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(02:02:07):
gonna all recover and we're gonna all get through this together.
Because you know, they say misery loves company, But what
about when you're a little bit rebellious. What about when
you say, you know what, I don't want to do
the norm. I want to go against the grain. That's
what we're gonna do here. Because the trend that you're
going to see happen coming up on Fridays, you're gonna

(02:02:28):
have a lot of people out there who are going
to do what a lot of people like to do.
This season, it seems like more than others, and that's
criticized the NFL. Let's take pot shots at the NFL
when need be. They'll mock the NFL for you'll have
some people that will blame the NFL and the protests

(02:02:48):
in the NFL and guys taken a knee and all
the disrespect there and then, and then you'll have other
situations where there'll be a couple of big hits in
a game and all of a sudden, people talk about
the violence in the NFL. Now the injuries have mounted
up in the NFL and the NFL is in such
a downturn. Oh my god, what a terrible product the
NFL is. And I will say this, I'm the first

(02:03:11):
to acknowledge when the NFL puts on bad events or
bad games, all right, because you gotta be truthful. I'm
not going to come on here and spin yarns and
try and tell you lies. But the reality is the
NFL has mastered the art of making you care about
their product. Okay, So what's going to happen throughout the
rest of Friday is you're going to hear about how

(02:03:33):
bad that Thursday night game was between the Broncos and
the Colts. And you're going to hear a lot of
people in sports media or sports television talk about how,
oh my god, I wouldn't waste my time watching that game.
You know what I did. I watched that game. I
had no issues with that game. I know Denver in
Indianapolis both stink. I know they're not very good teams,

(02:03:55):
and they're both going nowhere in a hurry. I know
that both of those head coaches make it fire. I
get it. And when you stack up the quarterback do
a quarterback pairing of Jacoby Brissette and Brock Osweiler or
Jacoby Brissette and Trevor Simeon, you probably think to yourself,
not exactly a ratings bonanza. And you know what, that's
probably not going to be a highly rated NFL game.

(02:04:18):
But what's going to end up happening is people are
going to overdramatize this and they're going to turn this
into a league wide issue and it's a load of crap.
Oh my god, look at the ratings for Thursday Night
Football and all time low for this week and this
month at this time, when the fact of the matter

(02:04:38):
is this late in the season, you're gonna get some
bad matchups. There are teams that are either not as
good as you originally thought they'd be, or teams that
are riddled with injuries. That's just the name of the game, okay.
But the brilliance of the NFL is this, They've figured
out a way to make their product watchable and make

(02:05:00):
their product interesting enough to enough people that no matter what,
there is no quote meaningless game in the NFL outside
of the preseason. And I was talking about this before.
It's why. It's why what the NFL has done with
fantasy football and what they've done with gambling, which which
and the whole gambling side of it in the NFL

(02:05:21):
trying not to acknowledge a gambling has had a major
has been a major assistance of the NFL's popularity. But
what the NFL has done by embracing fantasy football and
the gambling aspect has saved the NFL. For situations like
Thursday night, Denver and Indianapolis are bad football teams. That

(02:05:43):
was the first road win of the season for Denver.
They're going nowhere, and they're going nowhere in a hurry.
But you know what, you got t Y Hilton on
your fantasy team, you got Jack Doyle on your fantasy team,
you got Denver d defense on your fantasy team. Guess
what you're kind of interested in that game? Oh, you

(02:06:06):
got money on the first half over, or you're live betting,
or you've got you've bet a friendly wager, or you
got denver on the money line. Guess what you're interested
in that game? Like, we can all sit here and
just take a general point of view and just say
from from you know, just a general general idea here,
like and I'll just use myself for example, I didn't

(02:06:29):
bet on the game. I didn't have fantasy implications on
the game. So to fill in the blanks, my next
comment should be, Wow, what a terrible football game that was.
But I refused to do that because I acknowledge that
they're not just selling to me. They're selling to everybody,
and they figured out a way to present a product

(02:06:50):
that sometimes is inferior to other products in their league.
So at the comparison I was making before, to you
go to a restaurant that's got a bunch of cheesy
song and dance flares or singing waiters. The reason they're
doing that is to make up for the bad food
on the menu, and that's the way it goes. I
can assure you just fill in the blanks here. You
go to a Mexican restaurant on a Tuesday or a

(02:07:11):
Wednesday night and they got a mariachi band in the restaurant,
Chances are that food stinks. Sorry, that's just the way
it is. They've got to present the atmosphere. They've got
to present something else for you to be interested in
wanting to sit there and have average to blow average food.
So here come a bunch of guys with little banjos
and they're playing mariachi for you on a Wednesday night,

(02:07:34):
and you're looking around, going who the hell ordered this?
And you're reaching in trying to find a dollar to
tip them, Like that is their way to present their
product to you and to use anything they can to
try and enhance it. You ever heard of medieval times?
Midieval times out here in southern California. You go there
and it's like you're on the set of Game of

(02:07:54):
Thrones and they have these like you know, fake fights,
and guys are on horseback and it's like, you know,
it's like medieval times, and people are eating like these
big turkey legs and they're drinking out of these like
goblets that I mean, it feels like you're on the
set of Game of Thrones. You think the food's good
at medieval times, like like you think you think people

(02:08:17):
are thinking about where they want to go to eat.
They're like, hey, what are you? What are you thinking about?
You want to go to Uh, I don't know, Mastros
or like a really good steakhouse like Morton's. Nah, let's
go get one of those big turkey legs. Like we're
at the State Fair and watch a bunch of guys
stab each other with styrofoam swords. Like, no, you go
there for the atmosphere. You go there for the event.

(02:08:37):
The NFL has got enough to present to you. So
when you sit here and say, oh, the competition and
that Thursday night game was garbage, were like, stop stop,
I'm not gonna pile on the NFL. Was it a
bad matchup just from a general perspective, of course, But
to think that nobody was interested in that game on
Thursday night, You're insane. You're insane. There was enough out there.

(02:09:01):
It's why I always give credit to the NFL. They
were the first sport to embrace it, and they're the
first sport to make their sport year round interesting. The
NBA is slowly picked up on that. You notice how
NBA free agency has become a bigger and bigger deal
each year. You notice how the NBA Summer League was
such a big deal last year because the NBA is

(02:09:23):
starting to figure out how to present their products as
a year round sport. The NFL has already done that.
And so what you end up happening is when the
NFL's got these these you know, weak ass games later
in the season on a Thursday night, you're looking at
a good god who gives a rip about this? I
trust me, people give a rip about it. Bronco fans care,
Colts fans care, Gambler's care. So to fantasy football players.

(02:09:47):
Enough people care, don't don't. Don't listen to sports media
and sports radio and television try and tell you on
Friday how bad that game was and all I didn't
watch the game. Stop. Come on. You're the same people
that also came out and probably said, oh, I'm not
gonna watch McGregor Mayweather, you won't get my dollars. And

(02:10:07):
the numbers come out on Thursday and they did four
point three million pay per view buys. Give me a break. Ridiculous. Also,
if you are a big fan of us swimming upstream
and refusing to talk about stuff that is going to
be force fed to you all throughout your Friday, get

(02:10:28):
ready for the conversation of what did Lebron whispered Alonzo
ball at the end of the game when they covered
their mouths with their jerseys. What do you think it was?
Let's pose the question getting on our poll, what did
Lebron say to a Lonzo not not doing that? Either?

(02:10:51):
Give me a break, man, like stop lip reading? Who
gives a rip? Lebron loves to be the center of attention.
He loves getting everybody to try and guess what his
vague Instagram posts are. Don't even bother, don't even waste
your time. It's all crap. He's just gonna play the
whole Oh, I have no idea, you know, I mean,

(02:11:12):
I have no idea. I didn't say anything to him.
He's gonna play mystery because he knows it's going to
turn into a big conversation coming up on Friday. We
are not going to waste a single second of this show.
In the final hour of this show, when I'm filling
in for the great Ben Maller, getting the opportunity to
do weekday, weeknight radio here on Fox Sports Radio. We're

(02:11:33):
not wasting a single second further talking about what Lebron
James might have whispered to Lonzo Ball unless you have
something funny you want to tweet in and you think
what they might have said that will wread those at
the Jonas Knox on Twitter. All right, we'll do this
one last time, Lebron James. I'll go ahead and Phillison, mister, mister,

(02:11:57):
you're gonna play it vague. Lebron James, what did you
say the Lonzo Ball? After the game. We saw you
had a moment with Loronzo there. What did you have
to say to him? I didn't tell him anything. I
didn't tell him anything. It's not for everybody. It's enough
noise out there already was Zoe and it's not for
me to discuss. But you know he has a bright future,
like I'll say the other day of my quotes, and uh,

(02:12:19):
you know, they've got a bunch of young guys and
they don't stop running. I'll tell you that. So it's
a good Wayne Force. What a non story man eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox, Jonas Knox in for Ben
Maller here a Fox Sports Radio eight seven, seven, nine nine,
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on Twitter at the Jonas Knox Edmund Garcia is your

(02:12:40):
National Update anchor here at Fox Sports Radio. So badman. Yeah,
just trying to U figure out what I guess I
know what that was all about with Lebron and Lonzo.
Just trying to get people to talk about of course,
of course, because you know he doesn't get enough attention.
I mean, we need more attention for Lebron James. Yeah,
of course, I mean listen and uh and you know

(02:13:02):
what the h the excuse is going to be, Oh,
there's nothing to talk about on the Thursday night football games.
We got to find something to talk about. Just good listen,
talk about the last ye I'd rather hear about the
last Jedi than hear theories on what Lebron James is saying.
Alonzo Ball who cares? Man? Well. Also, it's like why
why give Lebron what he wants? You know what I mean?

(02:13:23):
I mean the only reason to do this is to
stir it up. He mean, he knows everyone thinks that
he's gonna go play in Los Angeles and that's or
at least that's the you know people people love talking
about where is Lebron gonna go after this season? In
La seems to be the popular destination. And now he's uh,
he's since he's telling Lonzo was secret? What are they

(02:13:45):
talking about? Talking about playing together next year? It's why
do you hate Lebron James? Eddie Garcia? I don't hate him.
I just find him annoying. Okay, let me ask you this,
all right. I have a couple of questions where he
followed enough Eddie? That was Eddie? All right? Okay, follow
up questions, Freddie Garcia? Here, who do you hate more?
Lebron James or Ted Bundy? I don't think Ted Bundy

(02:14:09):
is still with us? All right? So who do you
hate more? Lebron James or the night stalker Richard Ramirez? Um,
you know, anyone who's committed murder would have to be
ahead of Lebron James. Who who do you hate more? Eddie,
Lebron James or Jeffrey Dahmer. Again, the last statement stands, Okay,

(02:14:33):
so you don't hate him that much? Then, yeah, I
don't hate him at all. I just I just find
his antics to be annoying, like a lot of people.
But I am not alone here. It is not even
on the staff. Am I alone of this? I know?
I think the Coop de Lupa completely agrees with me
on now. He loves he's at Fat Sous they have
they have a two fifteen menu. Coop's his Fat Seals.

(02:14:53):
I'm still not over that statement in the earlier that
we're the only reason we're not enjoying delicious fats houses
because Ben's not here. Well listen, I mean, you go Ego,
you saw backdraft. I did Ben, and Danny isn't not here.
It's like, you know, half the normal crew. They are
half the normal crew is here. All right? Fatals is
open another forty five minutes. Wait, Fat Sous is over

(02:15:14):
to three am. Yeah, oh my god, god bless you
want to try it, Jones, No, I don't want to
get it. I don't eat past nine pm. I do
sixteen hour fast anyway I do. I cannot stand Lebron James.
I don't. I don't want him on the Lakers. Oh
I didn't know that, big I justin Cooper shots fired. Unbelievable. Yep,

(02:15:40):
how about that? Maybe you should be playing the uh
how much do you hate him? Game? Okay, Justin, all right,
let's but I don't want to have such a morbid
spin on it. All right, so I will play the
who do you hate more? I tell you ready for this,
Justin Cooper, who do you hate more? Lebron James or
Aaron Hernandez. Um, that's a tough one. Let's go with Lebron.

(02:16:10):
Oh my god, Oh my god, what a stake. You
know what the problem is. He's he's famished because he
hasn't had fat styles yet. He's got another forty five
minutes and he can't take it any longer. By the way,
I always Sam had a joke to chime in on
I hope that this is a better follow up than
that atrocious performance and that tons of fun after puns

(02:16:31):
of fun. My wheels are turning. And uh, we missed
a little bit of audio there. I mean the the
reporter actually asked more about what did Lebron? Would you
say to a Lonzo? And uh, Lebron said, UM, I'm sorry,
I can't tell you. You're not on a need to
Zoe Basis turn his mic off. Oh my god, how

(02:16:54):
do you man like? How do you how do you
think of that and then go, you know what, that
is funny. I'm gonna say that on the air, like
how did what's that? Process? Like? It rhymes? So let
being treated. Let treat it like a tresh What the
hell is that was that? Lebron James all right, Jonas
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(02:17:14):
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(02:17:39):
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(02:18:00):
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Jonas Knox. Oh we're back. No thanks, Eddie. I love
me some George Michael. That's what i've heard. Yeah, the

(02:18:22):
music's good too, That's what I've heard. A man so
good it's probably not the best sound effect to play.
My right hand was getting a work. Oh come on,
that's enough. Was that? Jim Abbott? I get nothing for that.

(02:18:50):
Who you got a look from? Coop? I don't even
know who you're talking about? All right? Um, yeah, so
Jonas knocks in for Ben Mallory here on Fox Sports Radio.
By the way, we'll have a Coop Scoop coming up
less than ten minutes from now here. On Entertainment. Yeah,
well I need to Coop and I are gonna have
I wanted to talk about this with him off the air,

(02:19:11):
but I'm gonna say something about one of the most
popular shows in the world that I think is going
to really bother a lot of people, all right, And
I'm not doing it to be a hot take or
try and stir the pot like when I when I
bust your guys's balls about Star Wars I don't really care. Like,
go watch Star Wars if you like to dress up
like a stuffed animal and you're in your forties, and

(02:19:32):
that's that's your business, and that's fine. You want to
dress up like a like Chris Boca or whatever his
name is, uh see nine po whatever that whatever that
guy's name is. You know what his name is? You
about to talk crap about Game of Thrones? Is that
you're about to do? Are two Deeter or whatever that
guy's name is. You know, like if you want to
dress up to those guys, and that's fine, No, it

(02:19:53):
is not Game of Thrones. I would never do that.
I love Game of Thrones. Interesting, Yeah, I probably we
dumped that. I don't know. That kind of kills my
rep on making fun of Star Wars nerds. Yeah, I
like him on the air and say I love a
Game of Thrones. Um, but but I will we will
have that for you less than ten minutes from now.
I do. I do want to say this though, because

(02:20:15):
I got bad news for an NFL coach, and like
I was talking about this in the off season, I
felt bad for this guy. But it really seemed like
they had turned a corner, you know, like they had
turned a corner and this team was like, this guy's
going to be back. So there's this story that came
out on Thursday about the offensive coordinator of the New

(02:20:35):
York Jets who comes out and uh John Morton, the
offensive coordinator of the Jets, comes out and basically acknowledged
that last week the Jets quit like that they just
wanted to get out of there, that they were trailing
in the fourth quarter and he just figured they had
no shot to win, so he was just calling plays

(02:20:56):
to basically give up to quit. And so I we're
talking about that earlier, Like that's crazy to me. Like
if I'm a Jets fan, that pisses me off. Like
if I'm a member of the New York media, like
that you've got I mean, we're asking questions if I'm
doing a show in New York. I mean, that's one
of the first things I'm talking about. Uh, you know,

(02:21:18):
if if I'm a you know, an NFL reporter in
New York, like, that's a that's a big deal to me,
Like that's that's an offensive coordinator a play caller acknowledging
that during an NFL game in December, all Right, you quit,
you totally gave up. And the person that it should
piss off even more is Todd Bowles, the head coach.

(02:21:41):
And I don't know if Todd Bowles had a say
in this. I don't know if it was Todd Bowles
directing uh John Morton and this is the way you
call it, But this is this is crazy to me,
and the fact that it's not a bigger deal is surprising.
I don't know if that's just the Jets thing or not,
but I was thinking about this with Todd Bowles. He
was put in a really tough situation, right He's putting

(02:22:03):
a really really bad situation with the Jets this season
because before the year, the Jets were trading away or
cutting all their veterans, and it was so obvious that
they were going into the tank. And then this amazing
thing happened. The Jets didn't go in the tank. They

(02:22:23):
started winning some games, and all of a sudden, people
are looking at the Jets going, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa this is I mean, you had people before the season,
NFL scouts, people to cover the NFL say this is
going to be maybe one of the worst teams that
we've seen in the NFL in a long time, and
then they end up winning a few games, and all
of a sudden, the opinions changed, and it's like, man,

(02:22:43):
what a job Todd Bowles has done. This guy should
be allowed to keep his job and to stay with
this team. What he's been able to do with this roster.
And then you start to look at what the Jets
have coming up all right, and you realize, okay, well
they finish up the season at the Saints, against the Chargers,
at the Patriots, Oh, that's all like, oh, okay, that's

(02:23:10):
all we got to finish up the season. And then
you start to look big picture at this whole scenario,
and it's why I think Todd Bowles is still going
to get fired at the end of the year. The
Jets are five and eight right now, Okay, let's just
go through this together. At New Orleans that's a loss. Okay,
five and nine home against the Chargers. The way the

(02:23:33):
Chargers are playing, that's probably a loss. Five and ten.
At the Patriots week seventeen, and the Patriots probably are
going to have some home field implications to play for,
that's probably a loss two. So now you're the Jets
and you're five and eleven and all this conversation about
Todd Bowles, and he deserves to be around and deserves
to stick around with what he's done with this team.

(02:23:55):
And I think it's a mistake to fire him. But
I think he's going to get fired because if you're
five and eleven, six and ten at best, that puts
Todd bowls eight games under five hundred after three years
in New York, in that media market and no playoff appearances.
How the hell are you keeping that guy. I mean,

(02:24:17):
we're not talking about Jacksonville. We're not talking about Gus
Bradley getting chance after chance after chance with the Jaguars.
This is New York. It's different markets, a different animal altogether.
I mean, don't you don't think it is. You don't
think New York and how big a scene and how
big a deal things are there factor into decisions made
in New York. Look at the Giants. The Giants hadn't

(02:24:40):
fired a head coach during the season and over forty
years they did this year. Why because of the negative
feedback they got from fans from media. Like, it's just
a different market altogether. So as much as we want
to sit here and praise Todd Bowls for the job
he's done this season. The reality afterwards is going to
be his eight games on five hundred maybe nine. It's

(02:25:03):
a bad spot to be in, Like you're Todd Bulls,
I don't know, I don't know how you can expect
to be around. And on top of that, it's late
in the season and you've got an offensive coordinator who
acknowledges that he quit in a game on the road.
That's bad news for Todd Bulls. Moving forward, Jonas Stocks
Fox Sports Radio in for Ben Maller. Here. You can

(02:25:26):
also listen to the show on the iHeartRadio app. As
we do it all live from the Geico Fox Sports
Radio studios. We will have a very controversial edition of
Coop's Scoop coming up here on Fox Sports Radio next.
But for all the latest from around the world of sports,
it is the great Edmund Garcia. Well, thank you very much,
Shannas Kocks. Let's start with Thursday Night football, where the
Broncos beat the Colts in Indianapolis twenty five to thirteen.

(02:25:49):
Denver quarterback brock Oswiler was pressed into action after starting
quarterback Trevor Simony was knocked out of the game of
the shoulder injury. Oswiler played well, had three touchdowns, two passing,
one rushing in the win. Colts Brandon Williams was injured
in this game, taken off the field on a stretcher
in the second quarter and to a local hospital. He
was diagnosed with a concussion that he has now been
released from the hospital. Some NBA games of note, Cavaliers

(02:26:11):
beat the Lakers one twenty one to one twelve. Lebron
James a triple double twenty five points, twelve rebounds, twelve assist,
the fifty ninth triple double of his career. Warriors over
the Mavericks one twelve to ninety seven. Still no Steph
Curry or Draymond Green in the lineup for Golden State
because of injury, but Kevin Durant led the way with
thirty six points and eleven rebounds. It's eight straight wins
now for Golden State. Nicks over the Nets one eleven
to one oh four, but New York did lose their

(02:26:32):
leading scorer, Christaps Porzingis due to a sore knee in
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coming up here, and I feel like maybe this is
a good segue into it, although I will admit I

(02:26:53):
don't understand this story. So let me read the headline.
Entourage actor Jerry Ferrara, who used to work here at
Fox Sports Radio, Yeah, joins Knicks e sports team as
head scout. What uh? Yeah? Ferrera said he's looking forward
to analyzing games at the combine scheduled for February, and

(02:27:16):
can't wait to sit in the war room during the draft.
I don't know what in the world they're talking about. Uh?
Sports is video games? Yes? Yes? But what do the
Knicks have a team? The New York Knicks, they have
an esports team and he's now their heads scout or
I don't know. That's I don't coop, you sometimes include

(02:27:38):
video games and your your coop scoop entertainment. You have
any idea what this is, what this means? Well, you
said video games and esports. It sounded like the FSR
holiday party on Thursday Night. No, I don't know what
that means. I mean, I'm a little bit familiar with esports.
I didn't know that they were. Now that there's a combine,

(02:27:58):
how does that? Is there an NBA E sports I mean,
how does that work? Is there an ab N combine?
Maybe I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, I'm
not sure what that is. So yeah, I don't know
what you're talking about. Yeah, sure you do. But I mean, look,
even if the av N combine there, at least there'd

(02:28:20):
be more stuff like, there'd be more measurables. Right, Come on, Coope,
hold on your mind out of the gutter, man, I'd
be serious, though, What are you supposed to like? Is
there like a like how fast your thumb can click?
At the at the sports combine? I'm reading this year

(02:28:40):
and I guess this is an NBA two K E
sports League. Oh okay, well listen. I'll say this the
most impressive video game feat I'd ever seen in my life.
And I've told this story before. It a nice swear
to Jesus on every detail I'm about to give you
this story. You remember Mike Tyson's punch Out for Nintendo.

(02:29:04):
I had a friend come over to my house, turn
his back to the screen, and beat the first eight
guys on Mike Tyson's punch out. I swear to god,
he just listened to the sound. Yeah, he just listened
to the sound. So because every time a guy would
throw a punch there would make some sort of a
noise like Piston Honda would raise his eyebrows or something

(02:29:26):
like that. No, that's a name. That was his name,
the character in the name Piston Honda. I didn't make
I didn't make it up. I'm not angry Bill. That's true.
That's true. Yeah, of course he does. All right, Thanks Ed,
coming to you live here from the Geico Fox Sports

(02:29:47):
Radio studios. It's easy to say fifteen percent or more
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Maller every single week at this time. We do this,
all right, you guys, it's scoops entertainment, scoop or something

(02:30:12):
like that, coop scoop on entertainment. You know, have you No,
I'm going, uh, I'm going Saturday. Take us for what
this doesn't include you, Jona. I was just Last Jedi talk. Yes, Now,
here's the thing with I mean, like, that's obviously the
main entertainment attraction of the of the weekend. What do

(02:30:34):
you guys feel about he man uh killing Booger Bob
at the end of stop Last Jedi. So here's here's
the thing. Now, I normally I would go to a
midnight showing, but now doing producing this show, I can't.
I can't do that. And um, as much as I
would love to, I can't. I can't pull an eddie

(02:30:55):
and and take the day off to go to the
right right Yeah, because he's there right now. Uh So,
But I still want to see it with, you know,
a group of friends that are into Star Wars. It's
it's more fun seeing the movie with fellow Star Wars nerds.
Do you wear gear? Do you dress up like any
of the character you got a Star Wars? You know? No,

(02:31:16):
I don't. I don't right now. Actually I don't dress up.
I did. I have done that in the past in
my younger days, not for Star Wars, but for Harry Potter.
Uh you dressed up for Harry Potter? Yeah? When I
was when I was a kid. Yeah, like, what three
weeks ago? Please shown us. There hasn't been any new

(02:31:38):
Harry Potter movies in years. Well, if it makes you
feel any better, my mom dressed me up is the
Ultimate Warrior for Halloween one year. That doesn't make me
feel better because the Ultimate Warrior is a badass. I
swear to God on this. I showed up to my
neighbor's house to get candy and he asked if I
was supposed to be a girl because she she cut
the wig. We got a wig at a thrift store.

(02:31:59):
We don't a lot of money, so we had to
do it all on our own, and she cut the
wig too short, and so I was supposed to go
as the Ultimate Warrior. And I think I showed up
and they thought I was like Katie lying or something.
Did you have the frillies on your Oh yeah? Oh yeah,
it was yeah, embarrassing. That's also embarrassing. Good good, all right,

(02:32:19):
So premiering on TV this week, more specifically on Netflix.
It's actually premieres today on Netflix. It's called Wormwood. It's
a mini series drama and it's from an acclaimed documentary filmmaker,
Errol Morris, and he makes a detour. It's it's a
semi scripted six part mini series and it follows one

(02:32:40):
man's twist field six decade investigation of the mysterious death
of his father. And then it's an event that's tied
to the CIA's secret LSD experiment. So I will definitely
be checking that. It's the name of the show. It's
called Wormwood Wormwood, Yes, and it's getting good reviews, so
it's gonna be a like I said, a six episode
mini series starring Peter stars Guard and Uh, I will
definitely check that. I'll let you guys know how. It

(02:33:01):
is premiering on Amazon. This is something that I probably
won't check out, but I have a feeling that a
lot of our listeners will really enjoy this might be
I think you'd really like it too, Jonas, it is important, No,
but close. Uh. It's premieres on Amazon, so I don't
know if you have an Amazon Prime or not. I

(02:33:23):
do not. Okay, Well, it's called Jean Claude Van Johnson.
First episode's free, Jonas, so you can check that out
for free. Yes, it stars Jean Claude Van Damn. He
plays get Yeah, I believe it or not. This look great.
And now this is I know this is a stretch,
an acting stretch, though I'm not sure if he can

(02:33:45):
pull it off. He plays a global action movie star
named Jean Claude Van Johnson. Is that a joke? No,
this is a real show. He lives a secret double
life as an undercover operator. Who the hell would watch that?
Itctually looks really good. It's like true It's like True

(02:34:05):
Blood on HBO. You remember that show on HBO? Awesome?
That show stunk. Oh it was so good. Are you kidding?
Vampires and booths? Oh, that's that's my favorite thing. I
would say. It's like to say it out loud theory.
I remember talking to a couple of buddies of mine
who love True Blood. I was like, here, let me,
let me explain to me, as if I've never heard
of the show what it is like. Well, there's these

(02:34:27):
uh vampires and they live on the swamps in Louisiana
and they run a restaurant and some of the town
is vampires and some of the town isn't vampires. I'm like,
it's a pretty good description. I did not know they
ran a restaurant. I'm like, dude, it's like food. It's
The Lost Boys goes to Chili's. The guy that runs

(02:34:47):
the restaurant is a shape shift or not a vampire,
but that's a that's a whole another Oh my god.
All right man. And lastly, just to wrap up a
coup scoop entertainment, if you're not wanting to go and
see Star Wars, there is another movie that you can
check out that is released in theaters today. It's called Ferdinand. Yes,

(02:35:08):
it's an animated feature. It's about a wise cracking goat
and three hedgehogs that try to help a giant but
gentle bull escape from his captors. That actually has gotten
good reviews. So if you like kids movies, that go ahead.
I had that book when I was a kid. Oh
it's a book. Yeah, Oh my god. I'd rather see
Last Jedi the Nerds. Oh that's gonna be I've I

(02:35:28):
have a few friends that have already seen it and
reported back to me, and they're telling me it's amazing.
Speaking of geeks, you, uh, if you've seen thor Ron
a rock or whatever it is, Rolling rock Rock, Rolling Rock,
that's that's right down your alley. Yeah, have you seen
that movie? No, I fell asleep. Halfway through out Cold
everyone said, oh, I got it so bad, the best

(02:35:50):
four movie ever. I'm all, man, if that's the best
good christ I've never set. Oh no, not okay, okay,
by the way, I've got to uh, I need to
say something, Coop. Are you a fan of Stranger Things?
I love Stranger I finished season two and you didn't

(02:36:10):
like it? Wow? Was that bad? Are you kidding? It
was so good? Bad? Bad bad? What's wrong with just
very very I didn't like and I don't want to
give away the ending. You didn't like, EA didn't like
the the the showdown, the well, the showdown, and then
up the final the final scene where they're atin just

(02:36:32):
so cheese bomb. It goes with the with the theme.
Though I thought the first, the first Stranger Things, was
better than the second, it's not. You know, I can't
like fought you too much for that opinion. Yeah, although
I do, uh, you know, I'm a little disappointed in
Coop though he's he hasn't made mention one time throughout

(02:36:55):
the course of the evening into the early morning here
at Fox Sports Radio, something that he mentions every single
time I see him, And that's uh. Emma Rossum or
Emmy Ronnie rossm Yeah from Shameless. Yeah, this season's great.
Have you have you been watching? Oh? Yeah, Oh it's
so good. The show so good. Kevin's the most hilarious

(02:37:16):
character on Yeah. But no, Emmy Rossum she's no. Yeah, Yeah,
Coop needs a cigarette? All right? Jonas stocks in for
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(02:38:26):
Fox Sports radio aphili. It's less than ten minutes from now.
I'll kick the coverage with Clay Travis will be with you,
so you can stick around for that. I do want
to finish up with this because it became really really
apparent to me. I'm watching Thursday night football and you
watched it too. Don't don't lie and say you didn't. Okay,
if you acknowledge and you tweet out and you dress

(02:38:49):
up like like bar Vader and you go watch Last
Jedi or whatever the hell that guy's name is, you
can at least acknowledge and have an honest conversation and
say that you watch the NFL game too, Okay, because
I'd rather be be caught seeing the the Colts and
the Broncos on Thursday night then then going to see
a Star Wars movie. Okay, So you have a sickness, dude,

(02:39:09):
you have a sickness? What to the NFL? Yes? Hey
told stool. You know, don't you have anything better in
your life to do than watch that crap? I know
you got to talk about it for your job, Eddie.
I am a professional broadcast. Yeah, okay, so I had
money on the game. There you go. No I didn't. No,
I think you did. I promise you I did. Why
would you watch that? There's there's gotta be something. Listen.

(02:39:31):
I like the NFL. It's and also because I appreciate.
But you can't like that. That's I did. It's garbage. No, no,
because you know what. You guess what's gonna happen in
March or in May. You're gonna be sitting around going. Man,
I could kill for an NFL game right now. Give me.
I give promise you if that game was on in March,

(02:39:52):
I wouldn't spend one second on it, just like I
didn't spend one second on it last night. You were
full of hate, Eddie. It's crap. I'm not gonna watch crap. Okay,
do you The NFL loves you, man, you're old school.
Oh damn, just eat it up. You know, there are
two things that I'm loyal to, Eddie. You know what
they are? The NFL and Edmund Garcia. Yeah. So what
I'm talking about here, that is how you rally the

(02:40:15):
voters to get your support. That that's what you do here.
By the way a Blind Scott, a a Ben longtime
Ben Mallershaw listener, tweets in and says, you sound really
good when you're on while I'm doing stock market research.
How's it looking, Scott? Oh? Oh yeah, Oh he's being legit.

(02:40:36):
I talked stocks with blind Scott all the time. I
love Blind Scott. It's one of my one of my
favorite listeners of the show. Here. Absolutely, I'm gonna go
you know, I think I'm gonna go around and give
everybody some grades here. I think we all get a's. Well,
I think I think we're all gonna get a's. I
think I think I get an A. Okay, Sam's get yeah.

(02:40:56):
I think Iowa Sam gets an A. I think Coop
gets an A. I think Eddie Garcia gets in a yes.
And you the listeners, the Mallam Militia, you get a
big fat ass. How's that? Last Jedi? Its Jonas, Son
of a Bitch,

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