May 6, 2021 • 33 mins
Big Ben talks about reports of Aaron Rodgers trying to sabotage the Packers, LeBron James playing out the season on a bum ankle, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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Hope all is well with you, and our top story
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comes from the world of pro football, and that is
what keeps the lights on in these parts. You might say, well,
it's May there's no pro football, and may I get it.
There's no games. The training camp doesn't open up until July,
but the drama orama does not stop. It's around the
clock twenty four seven and the story of the day
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is none other than you guessed it, Aaron Rodgers. The saga.
It is time right off the top here for our
obligatory Mallard monologue on mister Rogers neighborhood. And I don't
know about you, but I have not gotten Aaron Rodgers
fatigue yet. I have not. I continue to be in
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great enjoyment relax. I don't know if I phrase that properly,
but I enjoy the news that's coming out on Aaron Rodgers.
So if you've not been following along, maybe you actually
have a life. I'll get you caught up here. So
the big scoopage, the big scoopage to come out. There's
a couple of things here in the Aaron Rodgers as
the world turns a news cycle, and these involved accusations
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of a foul play. Foul play on two fronts. We
are told the Packers suspect that the forty nine Ers
and Broncos both have tampered with Aaron Rodgers regarding a
possible trade of the Green Bay Packer quarterback outbound of Wisconsin. Now,
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the bigger bombshell to me dates back to last season,
whispers indicating that Aaron Rodgers was going around with loose
lips and telling prospective free agents on the packers that
before you make any decisions, I want you to know
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I'm not gonna be here. Most likely I'm done with
these losers and I'm out of here. So i want
you to know that. All right, So let us discuss
the question. Now, what do you love, what do you like?
And what do you dislike about the latest wrinkles in
the Aaron Rodgers story. So my thoughts in this You've
got paper cuts, war path, and cockpit, and we will
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tie all of these things together and we'll kick off
with the fact that we absolutely love the revelation. After revelation,
you don't have to dig very deep to find gold.
Sometimes gold is right there back in the gold rush
in California, the reason so many people came out to California.
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Briefly there was gold everywhere right there here, back of
the room, you name it, and quickly that disappeared. But
Aaron Rodgers has taken the baton from Deshaun Watson. Radio
silence contin is. Deshaun Watson attempts to write a big
enough check to get everyone to shut up. He wants
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to pay that hush money and get back to playing
in the NFL, wants to suspension is up. We'll see
if that works out or not. But the negotiations, from
what we're hearing, continuing on the Deshaun Watson front. More
on that later, But Aaron Rodgers, all right, stay in
y'all light. Rogers is single handedly filling up the NFL
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news contect content. What am I trying to say? The
news content bucket? Right, the news content easy for me
to say. There's a bucket, It's in the back of
the room. But among the bag full of stories here
we refer to some of them. Another one of the
Aaron Rodgers stories, which is related to the hey, I'm
not going to be here story, is the Packer GM
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accusing the Packer GM as being like Jerry Krause in
text message to the infamous general manager of the Chicago Bulls,
Jerry Krause, who famously broke up the Bulls. Now. I
might be wrong on this, but I don't think the
Packers can even sniff the air that the nineteen nineties
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Chicago Bulls had. And if you break up the Packers,
you're not exactly breaking up an instant dynasty here. But
maybe I'm wrong on that Now, this is death by
a thousand paper cuts, is what it is. Individually like,
You could argue each of these stories on their own
merit are innocuous, right, But when combined together they form
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this toxic cloud, that mushroom cloud floating around Aaron Rodgers
above his head. There ain't above Green Bay in many respects. Now,
part B of this, we told you what we love.
What we like are that these stories are on brand
for the Aaron Rodgers that we have been talking about
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for many, many years. He is the Lebron James of football,
the passive, aggressive superpowers to undermine anyone that comes in
his way. Aaron Rodgers, who is obviously fit to be tied.
He's on the war path. It's payback time. How dare
you draft? Jordan Love? And you're going to have to
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now deal with my vengeance. And he believes Aaron Rodgers,
based on what we have seen here, that Aaron Rodgers
is a big believer in an eye for an eye,
a tooth for a tooth, That two wrongs definitely do
not make a right, but three lefts do make a right.
Right here go drive. Three left turns do make a right.
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They do. Now Rogers is looking to settle a bit
of agreements. We pointed this out, especially with Mike goodacounts
the GM there in Green Bay. How far keen who
push the envelope? How far will this goes? Aaron Rodgers
have enough sway where he can put the kabash on
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Goodakoons the GM of the Green Bay Packers. We are
going to find out. Inquiring minds would like to know.
I'm gonna go knowing that I'm gonna go knowing that
that if this was the traditional setup where you had
the ownership the way it typically is, the Green Bay
Packers are an outlier. They're not normal. They'll never be
normal until they get rid of the whole stock setup
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that they have where maybe you own part of the
Green Bay Packers, not that you have any sway or
say in that, but they are a publicly owned, not
publicly traded team. Anytime they need money, there the Green
Bay Packers. All right, we're gonna sell some more stock,
and the Green Bay Packers you can't sell it, you
can't trade it, but we're gonna give you an opportunity
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to buy a share of the Green Bay Packers, but
you can't own too much of it. Blah blah blah
blah blah. All right, Now what we dislike last word here.
What we dislike is where this is headed. It's all
being telegraphed. Barring some unforeseen last minute plot change, we
are going to divorce court. Haven't changed in my position
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on that. This is the exception to the rule where
Aaron Rodgers is the guy's got enough muscle to get
this done. Both sides, though, are using the media to
plant stories. Now I don't mind this at all. I'm
just merely pointing it out right, merely pointing out we
talk about Aaron Rodgers story. It's good for our business,
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so keep it coming. But Aaron Rodgers choreographing the timing
of the NFL draft revelation, and it was to embarrass
the Packer front office. Mission accomplished, mission accomplished by mister Rogers.
And now now Green Bay they have come back and
they are counterattacking. And we always advise you when you
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hear a story and it comes from an unnamed source,
who is the person that benefits from the story. That's
the source. And in this particular scene of the play,
the Packer brass is the pilot and they are in
the cockpit getting on the public address system. If you've
ever flown, you know this. Right before the flight, the
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pilot gets on the PA system or one of the
flight attendants that says flight attendants prepared for takeoff. Flight
attendants prepared for takeoff. And that's what we're at right now.
They're leaking stories that further tarnish Aaron Rodgers, and now
he's doing a lot of damage himself. So you could
argue that these are self inflicted wounds by Aaron Rodgers,
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but it's going to make it much easier to cut
the chord when you highlight that he's a bad apple.
We saw this in a different generation with Brett Farve.
When Brett Farr was causing problems and making waves there
and right around the time he was let go all
of us, there were a number of stories that painted
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Brett Farm as the villain and the bad guy, and
they had to get rid of Brett Farm. We're seeing
that now with Aaron Rodgers, although again some of these
are coming from Rogers himself that he doesn't have the
best interest of the franchise. That story has been floating around.
He's looking to separate and divide the team and the
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analoge would be the old fox in the henhouse. All
of this, every delicious morsel, every morsel is legwork before
the last supper, right the last supper, which might have
already taken place. You can argue the NFC Championship game
was the last supper for Aaron Rodgers as a member
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of the Green Bay Packers in his future A beautiful mystery, etc. Etc. Etc.
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Well come in the beginning of another hour the Ben
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And so we begin this particular hour yapping about pro
bouncy ball. Now I could do an homage to a
certain NBA rookie who put up a bunch of points
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for the Minnesota Timberwolves. But I've been warned by management
if I too much time telling about the Minnesota Timberwolves,
I get in trouble. But Annon Edwards a great game,
amazing stat line for him in Minnesota's game there. He
had forty two points, eight three pointers. Forty two points,
eight three pointers and rarely missed, rarely missed for a
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bad Minnesota Timberwolves team. But that doesn't really need to
be said that qualifier, because they've been bad our entire lives,
they've been bad forever. But our lead does come from
that sport, specifically someone who we are allowed to talk
about endlessly, Lebron James. Lebron James. Now Lebron James came
back from injury. He has not been playing this week.
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He's taking the week off, right, taking the week off.
He's popped up a lot in the political world over
the last couple of weeks. And this is basketball monologue.
It's a plausibly a sports show. But we are told
Lebron James, who's likely not going to play in the
next couple of Laker games. He's afraid of the Clippers,
so he's dodging them. On Thursday Night, and he's gonna
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miss the Lakers next game following that. But Lebron, according
to what we're being told here, will not likely be
healthy until the off season. He's got that ankle injury
that he suffered back all the way back in March,
and here we are in May. Now Woge informs us
that Lebron is going to have to play with discomfort
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in the postseason. The Lakers have already been on thin
ice for over a month, slipping into mediocrity, in danger,
the danger zone of having to participate in that ghazy
NBA playing tournament. How embarrassing would that be from champions
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Granted it was a fake championship in the bubble, but
then to have to play in the playing tournament, man,
that is a humiliation situation. So let us discuss the
question what do you make of the latest chatter about
Lebron James and his ankle conundrum. So my take, I've
got pep boys, wishful thinking, and apple seed, and we
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will combine all of these things together. They are the
ingredients that will form when they fuse together, a malar
monologue which will not be as effective as Phase out
in the bleachers at Wrigley field, heckling Mookie bets. But
I digress, So we lead off with this. If the
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report has any credibility, and we think it does, the
Lakers are cooked. They're done, I eliminated. They are facing
a standing eight count. Teams already been exposed. The secondary
players are not good, certainly not as good as people thought.
They were scratched, cracked, and warped would be terms that
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we can use to describe what's going on. And really
it's just a matter of opening your eyes. Anthony Davis
came back, and people made a big deal about Anthony Davis.
After a win the other night against the Nuggets, Anthony
Davis shouted, We're back, right, We're back. That is a
premature celebration. There is a pill for that. We probably
sell it here in the overnight. But Anthony Davis is back.
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He's back to being a ticking time bomb, the player
that he had been in New Orleans and that Achilles
heel ready to pop, ready to pop, made it out
of paper machine. And then you got Lebron James and
this latest speculation he's got old man ankles thirty six.
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He's suffered out in two of the last three years.
Season altering injuries for Lebron James. People like to talk
about this because don't bring that up. You're not supposed
to say that. Now. The big beneficiary of that bubble
ball was Lebron. He had extra time off for rest
and relaxation, no travel, and he got his little Mickey
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Mouse ring. The Lakers need a tune up at this
particular point, and I recommend going to pet boys, manny
Mo and Jacky. That's what they need at this one.
And life moves pretty fast. It moves pretty fast, and
I gotta tell you right now, it's moving too fast
for the Lakers now. Furthermore, the tinfoil hat crowd, let
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me give you the other side of the aisle. The
tinfoil hat crowd, they say, hey, wait a minute, wait
a minute, now, stop, stop, pump the brakes, pump the brakes.
They've got a different narrative and I'll give it to
you in a nutshell here that their argument is that
this is all a strategic move. The tinfoil hat crowds,
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don't worry, don't do, not worry, don't don't don't do,
don't worry. Lebron James just has to rest up before
the playoffs, and he doesn't want to get criticism, you know,
since Lebron took a strong anti load management position even
though he practiced load management in Miami and Cleveland. But
now he's no anti load Maniam. So he's just playing
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everyone in the media and the fans. And he doesn't
want the blemish of load management being used by the
critics against him, so he's instead instead embellishing an injury. Now,
this side of the aisle argues that his ankle is
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nothing to worry about. It's simply a smokescreen to hide
a little vacation. Now, I'm not buying that strong man argument.
I'm not buying it. I believe that would be wishful thinking.
Remember that in that particular sport, more than other sports,
titles are one not by the top team, but by
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the healthiest team. And just ask the Golden State Warriors
about that. Against the Toronto Raptors couple years ago in
the NBA finals, a snap crackle pop. Every team who
makes the playoffs is just a couple of sprained ankles
or broken legs away from losing or winning, depending on
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whose legs and ankles go. Snap crackle pop. All right,
last thing year so Lebron James, who is the big
beneficiary of this well timed, well placed report about the
health of his ankle. Now, one thing's always been to you,
and I like the NBA. No people will give me
a hard time. They bust my balls. What are you
talking about the NBA? Nobody wants to talk about the NBA.
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I like basketball some days I like it more than others.
But the NBA is all about building up the myth
and the legend. I've been very good at it over
the years. And Lebron James in this particular story, he
is the Johnny apple Seed, right. He's really, in many
ways the Johnny apple Seed. To his day, he travels
around throughout the NBA landscape planting seeds. And if he
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should stub his toe, which we all hope happens, I
think real basketball fans would love to see the Lakers
eliminated right away. I think it'd be great for the
NBA to see the Lakers limited. I think you'd agree
with me on that. But if Lebron does do that
and Stubb is towing the plus, no problem, right you
know Lebron, and say, listen, I was damaged goods. You
saw the story bad ink, not my fault, plausible and
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my ability. Now, if it goes the other way and
the Lakers end up defying the odds even though they're favorite.
If they defy the odds and go on and win
a championship, then King James is heroic overcoming a gruesome
injury that would have stopped and derailed mirror mortals, but
not Lebron. So this is what's known as a win
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win situation. Either way, Lebron's covered his bases right. Either way,
now we know the guy plays by a different set
of rules, that he's insulated by the stool pigeons of
the media who basketball media and also the political world
as well. It's unreal, and he continues to go about it.
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And we've highlighted the hypocrisy of Lebron James many, many times,
the famous interaction with a famous soccer player when he said,
I do my homework and then a couple of months
later had his pants pulled down because he didn't do
his homework. But that's the life of Lebron. Be sure
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How about that to the third degree? This is one
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big band gets grilled. Wop thatll loop. So. Marcus Peters
appeared on a Key to Leeds podcast this week and
he went full attack mode on the Rams. Peters said
he felt disrespected by the team after they traded for
Jalen Ramsey right after shipping him to Baltimore, and he
said the secondary wasn't the Rams problem and that they
probably would have won a Super Bowl had they not
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dealt him. What do you think, Ben? Yeah, Well I'm
offended by the way Marcus Peters played with the Rams.
He's full of crap. Olver The reason the Rams traded
Marcus Peters is that he was getting burned more than
an eight year old playing with matches. When he was
playing in LA he was an All Pro with the Chiefs.
He was I'm not kidding with the Rams. Pro Football
Focus said he was the worst defensive back in the sport.
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So he's rewriting history. And listen, I totally get the
whole grudge. I have grudges. I get that he's from
so call they traded him away. I understand, But no,
the Rams are not gonna win the Super Bowl. They
couldn't have won because Sean McVay was following Belichick around
like a puppy dog and Jared Goff pooped the bed next.
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There are reports out there that first year head coach
Nate Bjorkin's future with it yet. Do you know that
he was the head coach of the Pacers. I didn't,
but his future with the team is uncertain due to
issues with players and staff. Now it's his first year
as a head coach, and technically the Pacers are still
in the playoff hunt, but they'd been pulling the plug
too early. Now it sounds like Nate Borkan has failed
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the most important part of coaching in the NBA. As
the Great Casey Stangel said, you've got to keep the
five guys who hate you away from the four guys
who haven't made their mind up, and he apparently hasn't
done that any Indiana just doesn't have a good roster.
They don't have that Megas Star. They've got a lot
of Sheriff Woody types. They don't have buzz Lightyear. They
need a buzz Lightyear next. Ron Rivera spoke with the
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media and revealed there were some arterbacks in the draft
that Washington had discussed considering that they got a considered
trading up for, but they came off the board much
too early. He also went on to express confidence in
the quarterbacks that he has on the roster. Ben our
Washington football team. Fans are going to be getting a
full season of Ryan Fitzpatrick. Well they should. Fitz Magic
was better than two a tongue of Iloa last year,
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and I have Washington is the team to beat in
that division. Dak Prescott's injured Eagles stink. I'm going with them,
how do we do fail the division he failed to win.
That is a win, he said when he whispered win win, win, win, win,
like the hotel in Vegas. Win. Fox Sports Radio has
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Limitations apply Coop dwal Loop. All right, Ben, We're gonna
start off with a question for everyone. Right. This is
from mister Luciano. Hi, mister Luciano. He's in La but
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he's a Giants fan. He wants to know when Francisco
Giants fan, what is the next stint you would like
to travel to? Well, I've said many times I'd love
to do a Mallar meet and greet. Back before the
whole COVID thing happened, we were coming off the great
get together in Seattle and a great time in Washington.
But I'd love to go to Minnesota and also Cincinnati.
Got a lot of big Mallard militia people in those
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two towns, so I'd love to visit that, and I
don't know how likely that is. I got to get
to Wisconsin because my I've been there before, but my
my brother lives there, so I got to visit visit him.
So I've got a lot of places I want to go,
I mean anywhere, and I haven't got anywhere I'm in
a long time. So is that for everybody? Yes, Eddie,
where do you want to go? Eddie? Where are you? Jones?
And I have not I have neglected visiting the northeast. Uh. Oh,
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you gotta do it, Eddie. I know that's what I'm saying.
The Blind Scott Blind Scott will give you a walking
towards of the north end of Boston. The farthest east
I've been is Philadelphia. I have not been in New York.
I've not been to Boston. Come on it, we hold
the whole We are planning on. It's not a state,
but we are planning on going to the Chargers Washington
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football team game this coming season. I want to see DC.
I want to see the monuments. I want to see
and all that stuff. I've never been before. So that's
the that's the next plan for me. All right, So
you're heading to did he see in here? Of course
you're your wife had the opportunity to go to Cleveland,
I assume you would have gone with her, but she said,
who the hell wants to go on vacation to Cleveland. Yeah,
we've been to Campon, Ohio a couple of times. That
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wasn't there. I was just doing it for the joke, kitty.
Come on, Roberto, where do you where? You where? I've
been in the northeast. But I definitely want to go
to Boston. But I gotta wait when the Dodgers play
to go to Fengway. That's definitely on my bucket list, exactly.
You gotta sit on the monster, though, the seats around
home play. They're all older for little people. You gotta
sit on the monster. I will. I will at Seattle. See.
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I want to go to Seattle for many reasons. That's
where Starbucks there. They got the Starbucks. I'm a big coffee,
big coffee guy. I want to see the Doctors play
the Mariners. I won't even know they have a Starbucks museum.
It was a beautiful sit Yeah, I agree. My my
wife was born there. She loves it a couple times.
I'm gonna go see a cracking game there next night,
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I'm gonna go on the Doctors play the Mariners hopefully. Yeah,
it's it's awesome. It's really beautiful, visually stunning, the skyline
right on the water. Yes, the whole thing is some
loony tunes there, but it's a well done city. All right,
what about you, Kopa Loop. I was just talking to
Robert about this, so um I do. I was supposed
to go see the Red Sox in Boston last year,
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but you know that got canceled, so that's that's still
on my list. Um. I was trying to go to
uh to DC to go see the Dodgers play the
Nationals on July fourth, because it's also my anniversary weekend
and I've never been to DC. But flights are pretty expensive.
The cost is going up now for the flights. Yeah yeah,
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but I think I am going to be going back
to Seattle to go see the Angels play the Mariners
sometime in July. Yeah. T Mobile Stadium. Is that what
they're calling it? Boo Park? Yeah, it'll always be safecoding,
exactly safe. All right? What is actually why don't we
pause for the couse we'll have a longer stretch. We'll
have ask Ben your question, estions, our answers, keep them
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more questions for this the authentic original fingerlicking good. We
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can use that, right, KFC doesn't use that anymore? They
we can use it? Maybe not? All right? What's next? Cool?
What do we have here? There is another one for everybody.
This is from Raz Raz, the man that made music
good again. Yes, did you ever spend any time on
a farm? And if so, have you ever milked anything? Uh? No, No,
I have not done that. Well I did actually when
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I was a kid. They used to the the Orange
County Fair. I grew up in Orange County and they
had the cow milking thing, but it was kind of disgusting.
So no, I've never milked. Well, I've milk segments of radio,
but that's about it. What about you, Eddie a farm
guy more of a city guy, mysel. You grew up
in Fresno, that's farming country. You grew up in a
small town outside And that's true. I definitely grew up
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in farm country, but I was never on a farm
or did any farming at all so, No, no, I've
never milked anything and uh no, not not interested in
that at all. But thank you, all right, Roberto, have
you I've never been on a farm. When I was
a kid in Mexico, went to my grandpa's ranch. Uh yeah, yeah,
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but no, I thank you. Did you make your work?
Did your grandpa put you to work as a little kid? No,
but my parents did. They wouldn't milk the cows from
from time to time. But I was like nine doing that.
It is odd though, you see those people like have
chickens in their backyard and they're like, oh, I want
chicken for dinner, all right, kill Mike the chicken coop.
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When when you were a kid, star child actor, did
you ever after milk a cow? No? Um, And I've
been like Roberto, I've been on a ranch. I don't
know if that's the same. Uh it was like in
Uh was it the bunny ranch coop? No, it was
it was. It was one of those things in Texas
where you like, you know, you go out there and
they would like make you a meal out on the range.
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One of those things. Yeah. But uh but yeah, no,
I've never yeah, never never milked any any animals. Just
all right, what's next year? It's asked Ben. Your questions
are answers for the rest of the hour. These are
actual questions by actual listeners like yourself. Used the hashtag
ask Ben on Twitter for everyone. Mark Man, the Broncos fan,
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wants to know if you've ever quit a job on
the first day. Yes, I actually have. I agreed, I
agreed to a radio job. Then I made the mistake
of agreeing to it without actually thinking it through. And
it was relatively early in my career, and I didn't
really want to work with the person that they wanted
(31:14):
me to work with, and so I agreed to the deal.
And then the next day I said, you know, I'm
I'm not interested in that, and then that was it.
So it's worked out pretty well for me. I think
I made the right decision, but I felt pretty bad
for a while because I screwed over the program director
that offered me the job. What about you, Eddie. No,
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but I did lose a job that I was hired
for before I ever started the job. I was hired
as a minor league baseball broadcaster for a team that
was supposed to be in Merced, California. Yeah, and the
team never started their operations. I went in, I got interviewed,
I got hired, and then they never played. They never
(31:55):
played a game. Now I had an I think I
told you this before, but there was a team. I
don't if it's still around, the Bakersfield fog A hockey team. Yeah,
they've rebranded. They're now the Baker's Felt Condors. Okay, well yeah, yeah,
years ago. I got I was working at six ninety.
I got a San Diego. I got a phone. Hey,
the broadcaster can't make it. Can you do the play
by play tonight? So I'm on my way to Bakersfield.
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They call him. We found somebody else closer. What about you, Roberto? No, never,
I did have a job that was miserable, but I
couldn't just quit. So yeah, I'll just stick it out.
Coop any anything, Nope, no, all right, no, quickly anything else?
Anything else? Rapid fire, quick, quick, quick, quick quick, ask
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Ben Charlie and san Antonio says the point four. When
Fisher hit that shot, was the first time a sporting
event made him emotionally and physically ill. Has that ever
happened to you? Oh? Yes, many times? Usually you know
as an adult when As a kid, when I was
pure and innocent, it happened quite a bit. But as
an adult usually it involves gambling. Had a bad bee,
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I'm just gonna be honest with you, Eddie. Anything ninety
two NLCS pirates lossed bream scorers, throw them on. I
broke a coffee table. Twenty seventeen World Series Game two.
I was at that game. Yeah, uh oh yeah, anything
any of twenty seven anything, no time for coop, You're
out of show. Coop them so
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Hope all is well with you, and our top story
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comes from the world of pro football, and that is
what keeps the lights on in these parts. You might say, well,
it's May there's no pro football, and may I get it.
There's no games. The training camp doesn't open up until July,
but the drama orama does not stop. It's around the
clock twenty four seven and the story of the day
(01:30):
is none other than you guessed it, Aaron Rodgers. The saga.
It is time right off the top here for our
obligatory Mallard monologue on mister Rogers neighborhood. And I don't
know about you, but I have not gotten Aaron Rodgers
fatigue yet. I have not. I continue to be in
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great enjoyment relax. I don't know if I phrase that properly,
but I enjoy the news that's coming out on Aaron Rodgers.
So if you've not been following along, maybe you actually
have a life. I'll get you caught up here. So
the big scoopage, the big scoopage to come out. There's
a couple of things here in the Aaron Rodgers as
the world turns a news cycle, and these involved accusations
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of a foul play. Foul play on two fronts. We
are told the Packers suspect that the forty nine Ers
and Broncos both have tampered with Aaron Rodgers regarding a
possible trade of the Green Bay Packer quarterback outbound of Wisconsin. Now,
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the bigger bombshell to me dates back to last season,
whispers indicating that Aaron Rodgers was going around with loose
lips and telling prospective free agents on the packers that
before you make any decisions, I want you to know
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I'm not gonna be here. Most likely I'm done with
these losers and I'm out of here. So i want
you to know that. All right, So let us discuss
the question. Now, what do you love, what do you like?
And what do you dislike about the latest wrinkles in
the Aaron Rodgers story. So my thoughts in this You've
got paper cuts, war path, and cockpit, and we will
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tie all of these things together and we'll kick off
with the fact that we absolutely love the revelation. After revelation,
you don't have to dig very deep to find gold.
Sometimes gold is right there back in the gold rush
in California, the reason so many people came out to California.
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Briefly there was gold everywhere right there here, back of
the room, you name it, and quickly that disappeared. But
Aaron Rodgers has taken the baton from Deshaun Watson. Radio
silence contin is. Deshaun Watson attempts to write a big
enough check to get everyone to shut up. He wants
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to pay that hush money and get back to playing
in the NFL, wants to suspension is up. We'll see
if that works out or not. But the negotiations, from
what we're hearing, continuing on the Deshaun Watson front. More
on that later, But Aaron Rodgers, all right, stay in
y'all light. Rogers is single handedly filling up the NFL
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news contect content. What am I trying to say? The
news content bucket? Right, the news content easy for me
to say. There's a bucket, It's in the back of
the room. But among the bag full of stories here
we refer to some of them. Another one of the
Aaron Rodgers stories, which is related to the hey, I'm
not going to be here story, is the Packer GM
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accusing the Packer GM as being like Jerry Krause in
text message to the infamous general manager of the Chicago Bulls,
Jerry Krause, who famously broke up the Bulls. Now. I
might be wrong on this, but I don't think the
Packers can even sniff the air that the nineteen nineties
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Chicago Bulls had. And if you break up the Packers,
you're not exactly breaking up an instant dynasty here. But
maybe I'm wrong on that Now, this is death by
a thousand paper cuts, is what it is. Individually like,
You could argue each of these stories on their own
merit are innocuous, right, But when combined together they form
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this toxic cloud, that mushroom cloud floating around Aaron Rodgers
above his head. There ain't above Green Bay in many respects. Now,
part B of this, we told you what we love.
What we like are that these stories are on brand
for the Aaron Rodgers that we have been talking about
(05:59):
for many, many years. He is the Lebron James of football,
the passive, aggressive superpowers to undermine anyone that comes in
his way. Aaron Rodgers, who is obviously fit to be tied.
He's on the war path. It's payback time. How dare
you draft? Jordan Love? And you're going to have to
(06:22):
now deal with my vengeance. And he believes Aaron Rodgers,
based on what we have seen here, that Aaron Rodgers
is a big believer in an eye for an eye,
a tooth for a tooth, That two wrongs definitely do
not make a right, but three lefts do make a right.
Right here go drive. Three left turns do make a right.
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They do. Now Rogers is looking to settle a bit
of agreements. We pointed this out, especially with Mike goodacounts
the GM there in Green Bay. How far keen who
push the envelope? How far will this goes? Aaron Rodgers
have enough sway where he can put the kabash on
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Goodakoons the GM of the Green Bay Packers. We are
going to find out. Inquiring minds would like to know.
I'm gonna go knowing that I'm gonna go knowing that
that if this was the traditional setup where you had
the ownership the way it typically is, the Green Bay
Packers are an outlier. They're not normal. They'll never be
normal until they get rid of the whole stock setup
(07:29):
that they have where maybe you own part of the
Green Bay Packers, not that you have any sway or
say in that, but they are a publicly owned, not
publicly traded team. Anytime they need money, there the Green
Bay Packers. All right, we're gonna sell some more stock,
and the Green Bay Packers you can't sell it, you
can't trade it, but we're gonna give you an opportunity
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to buy a share of the Green Bay Packers, but
you can't own too much of it. Blah blah blah
blah blah. All right, Now what we dislike last word here.
What we dislike is where this is headed. It's all
being telegraphed. Barring some unforeseen last minute plot change, we
are going to divorce court. Haven't changed in my position
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on that. This is the exception to the rule where
Aaron Rodgers is the guy's got enough muscle to get
this done. Both sides, though, are using the media to
plant stories. Now I don't mind this at all. I'm
just merely pointing it out right, merely pointing out we
talk about Aaron Rodgers story. It's good for our business,
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so keep it coming. But Aaron Rodgers choreographing the timing
of the NFL draft revelation, and it was to embarrass
the Packer front office. Mission accomplished, mission accomplished by mister Rogers.
And now now Green Bay they have come back and
they are counterattacking. And we always advise you when you
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hear a story and it comes from an unnamed source,
who is the person that benefits from the story. That's
the source. And in this particular scene of the play,
the Packer brass is the pilot and they are in
the cockpit getting on the public address system. If you've
ever flown, you know this. Right before the flight, the
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pilot gets on the PA system or one of the
flight attendants that says flight attendants prepared for takeoff. Flight
attendants prepared for takeoff. And that's what we're at right now.
They're leaking stories that further tarnish Aaron Rodgers, and now
he's doing a lot of damage himself. So you could
argue that these are self inflicted wounds by Aaron Rodgers,
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but it's going to make it much easier to cut
the chord when you highlight that he's a bad apple.
We saw this in a different generation with Brett Farve.
When Brett Farr was causing problems and making waves there
and right around the time he was let go all
of us, there were a number of stories that painted
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Brett Farm as the villain and the bad guy, and
they had to get rid of Brett Farm. We're seeing
that now with Aaron Rodgers, although again some of these
are coming from Rogers himself that he doesn't have the
best interest of the franchise. That story has been floating around.
He's looking to separate and divide the team and the
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analoge would be the old fox in the henhouse. All
of this, every delicious morsel, every morsel is legwork before
the last supper, right the last supper, which might have
already taken place. You can argue the NFC Championship game
was the last supper for Aaron Rodgers as a member
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of the Green Bay Packers in his future A beautiful mystery, etc. Etc. Etc.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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Well come in the beginning of another hour the Ben
(11:12):
Mathers Show. We are in the air everywhere as we
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live from the flight deck, soaring on the Red Eye
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all night long here hanging out in the Fox Sports
Radio studios. And good to have you along for the journey.
And so we begin this particular hour yapping about pro
bouncy ball. Now I could do an homage to a
certain NBA rookie who put up a bunch of points
(11:56):
for the Minnesota Timberwolves. But I've been warned by management
if I too much time telling about the Minnesota Timberwolves,
I get in trouble. But Annon Edwards a great game,
amazing stat line for him in Minnesota's game there. He
had forty two points, eight three pointers. Forty two points,
eight three pointers and rarely missed, rarely missed for a
(12:21):
bad Minnesota Timberwolves team. But that doesn't really need to
be said that qualifier, because they've been bad our entire lives,
they've been bad forever. But our lead does come from
that sport, specifically someone who we are allowed to talk
about endlessly, Lebron James. Lebron James. Now Lebron James came
back from injury. He has not been playing this week.
(12:45):
He's taking the week off, right, taking the week off.
He's popped up a lot in the political world over
the last couple of weeks. And this is basketball monologue.
It's a plausibly a sports show. But we are told
Lebron James, who's likely not going to play in the
next couple of Laker games. He's afraid of the Clippers,
so he's dodging them. On Thursday Night, and he's gonna
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miss the Lakers next game following that. But Lebron, according
to what we're being told here, will not likely be
healthy until the off season. He's got that ankle injury
that he suffered back all the way back in March,
and here we are in May. Now Woge informs us
that Lebron is going to have to play with discomfort
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in the postseason. The Lakers have already been on thin
ice for over a month, slipping into mediocrity, in danger,
the danger zone of having to participate in that ghazy
NBA playing tournament. How embarrassing would that be from champions
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Granted it was a fake championship in the bubble, but
then to have to play in the playing tournament, man,
that is a humiliation situation. So let us discuss the
question what do you make of the latest chatter about
Lebron James and his ankle conundrum. So my take, I've
got pep boys, wishful thinking, and apple seed, and we
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will combine all of these things together. They are the
ingredients that will form when they fuse together, a malar
monologue which will not be as effective as Phase out
in the bleachers at Wrigley field, heckling Mookie bets. But
I digress, So we lead off with this. If the
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report has any credibility, and we think it does, the
Lakers are cooked. They're done, I eliminated. They are facing
a standing eight count. Teams already been exposed. The secondary
players are not good, certainly not as good as people thought.
They were scratched, cracked, and warped would be terms that
(14:57):
we can use to describe what's going on. And really
it's just a matter of opening your eyes. Anthony Davis
came back, and people made a big deal about Anthony Davis.
After a win the other night against the Nuggets, Anthony
Davis shouted, We're back, right, We're back. That is a
premature celebration. There is a pill for that. We probably
sell it here in the overnight. But Anthony Davis is back.
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He's back to being a ticking time bomb, the player
that he had been in New Orleans and that Achilles
heel ready to pop, ready to pop, made it out
of paper machine. And then you got Lebron James and
this latest speculation he's got old man ankles thirty six.
(15:44):
He's suffered out in two of the last three years.
Season altering injuries for Lebron James. People like to talk
about this because don't bring that up. You're not supposed
to say that. Now. The big beneficiary of that bubble
ball was Lebron. He had extra time off for rest
and relaxation, no travel, and he got his little Mickey
(16:07):
Mouse ring. The Lakers need a tune up at this
particular point, and I recommend going to pet boys, manny
Mo and Jacky. That's what they need at this one.
And life moves pretty fast. It moves pretty fast, and
I gotta tell you right now, it's moving too fast
for the Lakers now. Furthermore, the tinfoil hat crowd, let
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me give you the other side of the aisle. The
tinfoil hat crowd, they say, hey, wait a minute, wait
a minute, now, stop, stop, pump the brakes, pump the brakes.
They've got a different narrative and I'll give it to
you in a nutshell here that their argument is that
this is all a strategic move. The tinfoil hat crowds,
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don't worry, don't do, not worry, don't don't don't do,
don't worry. Lebron James just has to rest up before
the playoffs, and he doesn't want to get criticism, you know,
since Lebron took a strong anti load management position even
though he practiced load management in Miami and Cleveland. But
now he's no anti load Maniam. So he's just playing
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everyone in the media and the fans. And he doesn't
want the blemish of load management being used by the
critics against him, so he's instead instead embellishing an injury. Now,
this side of the aisle argues that his ankle is
(17:32):
nothing to worry about. It's simply a smokescreen to hide
a little vacation. Now, I'm not buying that strong man argument.
I'm not buying it. I believe that would be wishful thinking.
Remember that in that particular sport, more than other sports,
titles are one not by the top team, but by
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the healthiest team. And just ask the Golden State Warriors
about that. Against the Toronto Raptors couple years ago in
the NBA finals, a snap crackle pop. Every team who
makes the playoffs is just a couple of sprained ankles
or broken legs away from losing or winning, depending on
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whose legs and ankles go. Snap crackle pop. All right,
last thing year so Lebron James, who is the big
beneficiary of this well timed, well placed report about the
health of his ankle. Now, one thing's always been to you,
and I like the NBA. No people will give me
a hard time. They bust my balls. What are you
talking about the NBA? Nobody wants to talk about the NBA.
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I like basketball some days I like it more than others.
But the NBA is all about building up the myth
and the legend. I've been very good at it over
the years. And Lebron James in this particular story, he
is the Johnny apple Seed, right. He's really, in many
ways the Johnny apple Seed. To his day, he travels
around throughout the NBA landscape planting seeds. And if he
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should stub his toe, which we all hope happens, I
think real basketball fans would love to see the Lakers
eliminated right away. I think it'd be great for the
NBA to see the Lakers limited. I think you'd agree
with me on that. But if Lebron does do that
and Stubb is towing the plus, no problem, right you
know Lebron, and say, listen, I was damaged goods. You
saw the story bad ink, not my fault, plausible and
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my ability. Now, if it goes the other way and
the Lakers end up defying the odds even though they're favorite.
If they defy the odds and go on and win
a championship, then King James is heroic overcoming a gruesome
injury that would have stopped and derailed mirror mortals, but
not Lebron. So this is what's known as a win
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win situation. Either way, Lebron's covered his bases right. Either way,
now we know the guy plays by a different set
of rules, that he's insulated by the stool pigeons of
the media who basketball media and also the political world
as well. It's unreal, and he continues to go about it.
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And we've highlighted the hypocrisy of Lebron James many, many times,
the famous interaction with a famous soccer player when he said,
I do my homework and then a couple of months
later had his pants pulled down because he didn't do
his homework. But that's the life of Lebron. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
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How about that to the third degree? This is one
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big band gets grilled. Wop thatll loop. So. Marcus Peters
appeared on a Key to Leeds podcast this week and
he went full attack mode on the Rams. Peters said
he felt disrespected by the team after they traded for
Jalen Ramsey right after shipping him to Baltimore, and he
said the secondary wasn't the Rams problem and that they
probably would have won a Super Bowl had they not
(21:31):
dealt him. What do you think, Ben? Yeah, Well I'm
offended by the way Marcus Peters played with the Rams.
He's full of crap. Olver The reason the Rams traded
Marcus Peters is that he was getting burned more than
an eight year old playing with matches. When he was
playing in LA he was an All Pro with the Chiefs.
He was I'm not kidding with the Rams. Pro Football
Focus said he was the worst defensive back in the sport.
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So he's rewriting history. And listen, I totally get the
whole grudge. I have grudges. I get that he's from
so call they traded him away. I understand, But no,
the Rams are not gonna win the Super Bowl. They
couldn't have won because Sean McVay was following Belichick around
like a puppy dog and Jared Goff pooped the bed next.
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There are reports out there that first year head coach
Nate Bjorkin's future with it yet. Do you know that
he was the head coach of the Pacers. I didn't,
but his future with the team is uncertain due to
issues with players and staff. Now it's his first year
as a head coach, and technically the Pacers are still
in the playoff hunt, but they'd been pulling the plug
too early. Now it sounds like Nate Borkan has failed
(22:37):
the most important part of coaching in the NBA. As
the Great Casey Stangel said, you've got to keep the
five guys who hate you away from the four guys
who haven't made their mind up, and he apparently hasn't
done that any Indiana just doesn't have a good roster.
They don't have that Megas Star. They've got a lot
of Sheriff Woody types. They don't have buzz Lightyear. They
need a buzz Lightyear next. Ron Rivera spoke with the
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media and revealed there were some arterbacks in the draft
that Washington had discussed considering that they got a considered
trading up for, but they came off the board much
too early. He also went on to express confidence in
the quarterbacks that he has on the roster. Ben our
Washington football team. Fans are going to be getting a
full season of Ryan Fitzpatrick. Well they should. Fitz Magic
was better than two a tongue of Iloa last year,
(23:20):
and I have Washington is the team to beat in
that division. Dak Prescott's injured Eagles stink. I'm going with them,
how do we do fail the division he failed to win.
That is a win, he said when he whispered win win, win, win, win,
like the hotel in Vegas. Win. Fox Sports Radio has
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Limitations apply Coop dwal Loop. All right, Ben, We're gonna
start off with a question for everyone. Right. This is
from mister Luciano. Hi, mister Luciano. He's in La but
(24:44):
he's a Giants fan. He wants to know when Francisco
Giants fan, what is the next stint you would like
to travel to? Well, I've said many times I'd love
to do a Mallar meet and greet. Back before the
whole COVID thing happened, we were coming off the great
get together in Seattle and a great time in Washington.
But I'd love to go to Minnesota and also Cincinnati.
Got a lot of big Mallard militia people in those
(25:06):
two towns, so I'd love to visit that, and I
don't know how likely that is. I got to get
to Wisconsin because my I've been there before, but my
my brother lives there, so I got to visit visit him.
So I've got a lot of places I want to go,
I mean anywhere, and I haven't got anywhere I'm in
a long time. So is that for everybody? Yes, Eddie,
where do you want to go? Eddie? Where are you? Jones?
And I have not I have neglected visiting the northeast. Uh. Oh,
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you gotta do it, Eddie. I know that's what I'm saying.
The Blind Scott Blind Scott will give you a walking
towards of the north end of Boston. The farthest east
I've been is Philadelphia. I have not been in New York.
I've not been to Boston. Come on it, we hold
the whole We are planning on. It's not a state,
but we are planning on going to the Chargers Washington
(25:50):
football team game this coming season. I want to see DC.
I want to see the monuments. I want to see
and all that stuff. I've never been before. So that's
the that's the next plan for me. All right, So
you're heading to did he see in here? Of course
you're your wife had the opportunity to go to Cleveland,
I assume you would have gone with her, but she said,
who the hell wants to go on vacation to Cleveland. Yeah,
we've been to Campon, Ohio a couple of times. That
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wasn't there. I was just doing it for the joke, kitty.
Come on, Roberto, where do you where? You where? I've
been in the northeast. But I definitely want to go
to Boston. But I gotta wait when the Dodgers play
to go to Fengway. That's definitely on my bucket list, exactly.
You gotta sit on the monster, though, the seats around
home play. They're all older for little people. You gotta
sit on the monster. I will. I will at Seattle. See.
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I want to go to Seattle for many reasons. That's
where Starbucks there. They got the Starbucks. I'm a big coffee,
big coffee guy. I want to see the Doctors play
the Mariners. I won't even know they have a Starbucks museum.
It was a beautiful sit Yeah, I agree. My my
wife was born there. She loves it a couple times.
I'm gonna go see a cracking game there next night,
(26:55):
I'm gonna go on the Doctors play the Mariners hopefully. Yeah,
it's it's awesome. It's really beautiful, visually stunning, the skyline
right on the water. Yes, the whole thing is some
loony tunes there, but it's a well done city. All right,
what about you, Kopa Loop. I was just talking to
Robert about this, so um I do. I was supposed
to go see the Red Sox in Boston last year,
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but you know that got canceled, so that's that's still
on my list. Um. I was trying to go to
uh to DC to go see the Dodgers play the
Nationals on July fourth, because it's also my anniversary weekend
and I've never been to DC. But flights are pretty expensive.
The cost is going up now for the flights. Yeah yeah,
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but I think I am going to be going back
to Seattle to go see the Angels play the Mariners
sometime in July. Yeah. T Mobile Stadium. Is that what
they're calling it? Boo Park? Yeah, it'll always be safecoding,
exactly safe. All right? What is actually why don't we
pause for the couse we'll have a longer stretch. We'll
have ask Ben your question, estions, our answers, keep them
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coming for the arrest of the hours. Late, great Larry
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more questions for this the authentic original fingerlicking good. We
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can use that, right, KFC doesn't use that anymore? They
we can use it? Maybe not? All right? What's next? Cool?
What do we have here? There is another one for everybody.
This is from Raz Raz, the man that made music
good again. Yes, did you ever spend any time on
a farm? And if so, have you ever milked anything? Uh? No, No,
I have not done that. Well I did actually when
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I was a kid. They used to the the Orange
County Fair. I grew up in Orange County and they
had the cow milking thing, but it was kind of disgusting.
So no, I've never milked. Well, I've milk segments of radio,
but that's about it. What about you, Eddie a farm
guy more of a city guy, mysel. You grew up
in Fresno, that's farming country. You grew up in a
small town outside And that's true. I definitely grew up
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in farm country, but I was never on a farm
or did any farming at all so, No, no, I've
never milked anything and uh no, not not interested in
that at all. But thank you, all right, Roberto, have
you I've never been on a farm. When I was
a kid in Mexico, went to my grandpa's ranch. Uh yeah, yeah,
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but no, I thank you. Did you make your work?
Did your grandpa put you to work as a little kid? No,
but my parents did. They wouldn't milk the cows from
from time to time. But I was like nine doing that.
It is odd though, you see those people like have
chickens in their backyard and they're like, oh, I want
chicken for dinner, all right, kill Mike the chicken coop.
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When when you were a kid, star child actor, did
you ever after milk a cow? No? Um, And I've
been like Roberto, I've been on a ranch. I don't
know if that's the same. Uh it was like in
Uh was it the bunny ranch coop? No, it was
it was. It was one of those things in Texas
where you like, you know, you go out there and
they would like make you a meal out on the range.
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One of those things. Yeah. But uh but yeah, no,
I've never yeah, never never milked any any animals. Just
all right, what's next year? It's asked Ben. Your questions
are answers for the rest of the hour. These are
actual questions by actual listeners like yourself. Used the hashtag
ask Ben on Twitter for everyone. Mark Man, the Broncos fan,
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wants to know if you've ever quit a job on
the first day. Yes, I actually have. I agreed, I
agreed to a radio job. Then I made the mistake
of agreeing to it without actually thinking it through. And
it was relatively early in my career, and I didn't
really want to work with the person that they wanted
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me to work with, and so I agreed to the deal.
And then the next day I said, you know, I'm
I'm not interested in that, and then that was it.
So it's worked out pretty well for me. I think
I made the right decision, but I felt pretty bad
for a while because I screwed over the program director
that offered me the job. What about you, Eddie. No,
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but I did lose a job that I was hired
for before I ever started the job. I was hired
as a minor league baseball broadcaster for a team that
was supposed to be in Merced, California. Yeah, and the
team never started their operations. I went in, I got interviewed,
I got hired, and then they never played. They never
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played a game. Now I had an I think I
told you this before, but there was a team. I
don't if it's still around, the Bakersfield fog A hockey team. Yeah,
they've rebranded. They're now the Baker's Felt Condors. Okay, well yeah, yeah,
years ago. I got I was working at six ninety.
I got a San Diego. I got a phone. Hey,
the broadcaster can't make it. Can you do the play
by play tonight? So I'm on my way to Bakersfield.
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They call him. We found somebody else closer. What about you, Roberto? No, never,
I did have a job that was miserable, but I
couldn't just quit. So yeah, I'll just stick it out.
Coop any anything, Nope, no, all right, no, quickly anything else?
Anything else? Rapid fire, quick, quick, quick, quick quick, ask
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Ben Charlie and san Antonio says the point four. When
Fisher hit that shot, was the first time a sporting
event made him emotionally and physically ill. Has that ever
happened to you? Oh? Yes, many times? Usually you know
as an adult when As a kid, when I was
pure and innocent, it happened quite a bit. But as
an adult usually it involves gambling. Had a bad bee,
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I'm just gonna be honest with you, Eddie. Anything ninety
two NLCS pirates lossed bream scorers, throw them on. I
broke a coffee table. Twenty seventeen World Series Game two.
I was at that game. Yeah, uh oh yeah, anything
any of twenty seven anything, no time for coop, You're
out of show. Coop them so
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