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listening to Fox Sports Radio. Let's make a deal, unless
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the twenty nineteen NBA trade deadline, the lead up to

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the trade deadline saw several trades, one big one between
the Clippers and seventy six Ers. It happened in the
middle of the night. We were here when it happened.
I got to do a victory lap right after the
trade happened. It was wonderful, bleeping great, And so there
were many people that were expecting this to just be wonderful,

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that it was going to be nothing but joy, that
the emotion you would have would be joy. And there
was a lot of curiosity at the NBA trade deadline
the lead up to it. We were monitoring wog bombing runs.
And it turned out to be a trip to Dollsville,
is what it turned out to be. All the hysteria,

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all of the hullabaloo about the NBA trade deadline and
what did we get? We spent days talking about this.
We got Mark Gassoul traded to the Toronto Raptors for
Jonas Volucunis. That's what we got. The Milwaukee Bucks made
a trade with the Pelicans, but they didn't get Anthony Davis.

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Not not, they didn't get Anthony Davis. They flipped a
bunch of players around. They got an occasional three point
shooter in Meritage, they got him. The Clippers made another
great trade. I mean, oh my god, they just owning
the trade deadline, but it wasn't like a jaw dropping transaction.
The seventy sixers they got rid of Mark Helful's stop me,

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Please stop me. If you've you've heard any of these
that just blow you away. No the answers, No am
I supposed to sit here and do a mala monologue
about Nick stowskis being traded. I don't think or Greg
Monroe is. These are the players that change teams. There's
a lot of B and C level players that change

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teams in the NBA. So for some reason, I don't
understand this mindset, and maybe you can explain it to me.
Several people reached out to me during the day and
I was working at the other shop, and they were like, hey,
can you please can you tell me who you know
who won the trade deadline? Who was the big success
of the trade deadline? And I try not to do

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that type of show. I try not to do that
type of show because I find it hokey. I find
it disingenuous and wrong on so many levels. But just
some observations on there's some teams in the NBA that
should be feeling the emotion of ecstasy. They should be
feeling nothing but joy. And then there's these other teams
in this other pile that should have hostility, that should

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have frustration. Those are emotions that they should have. Now,
if you were to say that one side is where
after a horse race, when they have they announced, you know,
the winners and all that stuff, they have the the
area where the family he's hanging out. In that area,
you would put the clippers. You would put the knicks.
I never thought I would say this. You'd put the

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Sacramento Kings. That's a horror. You'd have to put Sacramento
in there. You'd have to put the Pelicans in there.
You'd have to put the Celtics in there. As far
as the losers, well there's not that many, because there
were a bunch of really mediocre trades, which, as I said,
is frustrating. But the teams that have to wear the

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Dunce cap, well, Lebron James can go stand in the
corner by himself. It's a bad job by you. I
would also throw the seventy sixers in there. Now. I
have been attacked by the good people of Philadelphia who
have tried to say, well, no, no, no no, let me
tell you some of the sixers. That was a great trade. No, no,
no, no no, it was. But so again, I mean, I

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guess in general, how would you sum all of this up.
You've got bullyball options and flammable and we will mix
all this together. Now, First of all, the story that
I absolutely loved was the overreaction, the irrational, irrational coverage

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around the Los Angeles Lakers over the last several months.
But it really went to a fever pitch in the
last ten days or so when Anthony Davis made his
plea to leave. He wanted to go to Los Angeles
from New Orleans. And this exasperated the situation. And many

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who carry the water for Lebron James, the guys that
rub his back side give him a bubble bath. They
were working overtime. They had every angle covered that this
was gonna happen, and that was gonna happen. They had
composed the trade, they had the trade done. It was

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gonna be a virtuoso trade for the Lakers. They were
gonna send a couple of broken down players that haven't
lived up to the hype like most young players, and
they were gonna send those guys to New Orleans and
they were gonna get back Anthony Davis. Now, I've heard

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from several several types. I've heard that Lebron James is
the most powerful man in the world of sports. But
you know what Lebron James is. He's a bully. That's
what Lebron James is. And it turns out that the
bully doesn't always win. How do you stop a bully?

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You punch him in the face. That is what New
Orleans did here. This is a major reality check. It
is an eye opening, gut turning situation for Lebron James, right,
I mean all joking aside here they thought they had
this system rigged, right, they had abused the system they

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had inside. You talk about collusion, you know that Mueller
investigation hasn't found all that much as far as actual
Russian collusion. Right, They're still looking. They found a lot
of people that violated their taxes. But you look at
this and you're like, wait a minute here, whoa I mean,
we have Lebron James, an operative of Lebron James working

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to get Anthony Davis to Los Angeles inside source confirmed.
And the Pelicans are a winner because they didn't take
the crap, the drek that the Lakers were thrown out there.
And it really is a case of I don't know

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if reverse robin hood is the right way to look
at this. But it's the little guy standing up to
the big bully, Lebron James, who's lived a life of
privilege in the NBA and thought he could just go
swoop in and take Anthony Davis and send just nothing.
The point guard that can't shoot the weeds, woking small
forward that's overrated. You can go down the list here,

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mediocre small forward not that you can go down And
the Pelicans said no. So I have them as a
winner and they'll get a lot of good stuff for
Anthony Davis in the off season. I also had the
Celtics here as a team that succeeded, and that the
Celtics didn't do anything of note, but they kept Anthony
Davis in check and they did enough to influence the

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Pelicans not to trade him, right not to trade him.
And the Celtics their issues are in house. There is
some stuff going on there that they got to work out,
but it's more about their own their own building. They
have to work out the politics there that are causing
them to become a wasteland. With all that talent, right,

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they're supposed to be this large, large group of talent,
but if the guys are not working in Unison. You
got problems, right, Everyone's got to carry their end of
the rope, and if you don't, you got issues there.
And so that's up to Brad Steven. Now the Clippers, obviously,
I mean, my god, what a success this has been
for the Los Angeles Clippers, the talk of the NBA.

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They bamboozled the Philadelphia seventy six ers. I'm Jerry West.
Why would anyone trade with him? He's so good, he's
so good. They traded Tobias Harris, who is turned out
eighty million. He's not even worth eighty million. He turned
that down. He went hostile. And so Jerry West is like,

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all right, I know the nuclear option. I'll go the
nuclear option. I'll make you the fourth option in Philadelphia.
In philadelph you're trying to play, you're trying to put
your stats up there, so you get a new contract.
I'm gonna send you to Philly where you are going
to be the fourth option. And by doing that, not
only did Jerry West get four draft picks which you

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can now trade to get a star player, and they're
not gonna keep those picks, and they have more money
to play with, and all that very allowed, very elaborate
scheme by the Clippers, just outstanding, and well, I certainly
do not like the white flag situation. Clearly the Clippers
are trying to lose every game this year, which I
do not like. It is only a three month, three book.

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The Lakers have been rebuilding for how many years? I mean,
they suck, They're terrible, and they continue on down that
path and nothing. They got four draft picks. They just
unloaded Avery Bradley, who was always hurt to Memphis, and
they ended up getting some guys I've never heard of
from the Grizzlies. But I'm sure they're fine. And so

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it's a three month situation in this summer. I mean,
my god, Jerry West is already paying dividends tremendously and outstanding.
And so again, I mean the Sixers, as I said,
a flammable situation. And here we sit. Here we are
NBA trade deadline twenty nineteen, as it normally is a
whole lot of chatter, a whole lot of people who

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are trying to pander to certain NBA stars and all that,
and the dust is settled on the trade deadline, and
it turns out that a few teams stood out the clips,
the Knicks because they have options, they have hope, they
have better situations in the offseason, and they weren't winning
the championship and anyway, and the Kings by making some

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minor moves but no major moves. Boy, I think all
of America has become a Sacramento Kings fan. I never
thought i'd say that if they can keep the Lakers
out of the playoffs, how great would that be for
the NBA. I think we'd all love that to have
Sacramento in and not the Lakers in the NBA plaffs.
I think that would be just absolutely marvelous. I think
I don't think anyone can can push back on that.

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All Right, it is the the Ben Mallor Shaw on Fox.
We say hello to Edmund Dallas Steamboat, Willie Judas Salad
gold Yards. See it. You've been doing this for a
long time. You know. It is very rare that these
things ever can live up to any expectations, because I mean, look,

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it's fun to speculate and predict and you know, throw
things up against the wall, but most of the time, man,
it doesn't really stick. Well. The thing you're getting at it, Eddie,
is the rumor is exciting trade is not. We like
the anticipation. It's almost like the mating game, right. I
Mean there's a lot of they like the chase, but

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once they're in a stable relationship, they don't like it
because it's all about to chase. And there's women like
that too. I look at the trade deadline like dating
Eddie about that. Okay, nobody else has that take. I'm
not not Calhoerd, not Gottlieb, but these other blowhards that
work here. I'm the one that has it, right, Jonas
knocks having that take. You think you would? Now you
do like a wrestling take or something like that. Oh yeah,

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you do like a wrestling and stripper thing or something,
And that is sure. Doesn't he do porn star wrestler
or something like that? That's true? Yes he has still
do that, I think. So. Yeah, gets some new bits
we do? New bits, come on, man, yes, yeah, always
every week something you're changing it up. Man, I got
I got an endless bits. I don't do the same
kind of bits we got coming up. New bits we

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got coming up tonight. Lame jokes we've never done. That
is new balder dash. We're gonna debut bald that is
a new bit as well, and Coop Scoop on entertainment.
We haven't done that either. Wow, this is big, Eddie.
What about the Lakers grave dancing that you were gonna
do at What a great? Oh that's right, How that's

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How long do you spend on that monologue? What's that
had said? How long do you spend on that monologue
before you had to toss it in the trash? Well,
I was on the radio in Boston, so I didn't
spend any time on it at all. No zippo. That
was a big moment. I think that is the greatest
moment for the Lakers season to beat the Celtics. That
is great. Yeah, you know what that is? You know
what that is? That's a band aid. That is That's

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like when you take it butcher knife and you slice
your arm from the shoulder to your wrist and then
you put a little Spiderman band aid on it. That's
what you've done. Yeah, we'll see, we'll see you. You
told me in November. I mean that it's all the
Clippers of given off because they're playing for next year,
which is fine. The Lakers on I thought I thought
you were completely against tanking Jerry West, the process. Okay, Kawhi, Leonard,

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Anthony Davis. These are stars, these are superstars. They all
want to play for the Clippers. Yes, they they absolutely
correct on that. We have a history, they have the
sound I know, right, they have everybody. They have the
greatest owner in professional sports. Nothing. Uh, he's only been

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the owner for a couple of years. The guy ran Microsoft,
one of the great companies in America, Microscott Microsoft. He's
worth forty one billion dollars, Eddie, he can buy the fan.
Didn't he say the iPhone was going to be a flop? Yeah?
And you know what how that work out? Yeah, here's
I mean, that's a great question. Let me help you out.

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Here's how. Here's how it worked out, Eddie. He's worth
forty one billion dollars. That's how it worked out. So
how big a mistake was that? If the man's worth
forty one million dollars, the Clippers are him saying the
iPhone is going to be a flop. That's the Clippers.
This is Steve Ballmer, who again could buy and sell
not everything, but the Clippers. This is great. He hired
Jerry West. Jerry West, the greatest general manage of all time.

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The guy that built the greatest team in NBA history
of the Golden State Warriors, that was Jerry West. His
fingerprints are all over that uh and here we are
wallah amazing. I don't know how the guy does it.
I don't know how Jerry West does it. But what
what what has he done with the Clippers? Well he
has given them the best of both wars, the best
the best owner and the best GM and they've won.

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But you don't. You don't know basketball, so shut up
listens though, No they're not. You don't know facts what
they want, couldn't name it any what they won. I
don't live in the past. I'm living in the future
right now. You're living in the past, Eddie. How far
in the future are you? That's a great loss. They
have to now the plan of Jerry West. You guys

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are too dumb. You don't understand the genius of Jerry West.
Explain it to you. But you know you should never
get in a fight with an idiot. You guys are
all eighties. But Jerry West here, well, Jerry West does
all right. He's like they got him. Now miss that
they have to miss the playoffs because then they keep
the pick and they throw that into a trade because
these other teams will take these draft picks off their

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hands and they'll get a star player they and they'll
they'll be great right away. Three months, it's February, we're already.
I mean, look at it's it's early February, almost the
second week of February. You get through February, and then
the season ends like April tenth, so it's like a
month and a half and then the next meaningful thing
will be Clippers signing big free agents. I mean, it's
just it's just absolutely great. I mean, the envy of

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the NBA right now. They didn't want a guy like
Kawah on your team? Though, what's that? I thought you
didn't want a guy like Kawa That's exactly what he said. No,
I never said that, never said that. All We will
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part the number eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox

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eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three six nine,
and we'll talk about all the trades that did not happen.
But a great day for the NBA because the Lakers
got punched in the face and it was wonderful and
the bully Lebron James, who try to use all of
his influence. He's the most powerful man in the NBA.

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Lebron James, he couldn't get what he wanted. Ha ha ha.
The jokes on you, Lebron. The joke is on you,
all right. The Barkley rule proposal, We'll get to that
and we will do it next. Be sure to catch

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Ben Maller. Will says. For someone who thinks giving out

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the number of jinxes of the show with bad callers,
You're sure didny great job of giving out the number. Well, No,
I ended that. No, I ended that that was the
first four days of the week. I'm like your typical
factory worker. I've checked out. I don't care no days off. No,
I'm not I'm not well, that is me, they say, apparently. Yeah,

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but you're taking off Sunday? Is that right, Eddy, Sunday
the Monday President's Day weekend? Yeah? Will you ever president?
I was never. Shouldn't the presidents be the ones that
take off? It's all of us to honor the great president.
Are you in elementary school taking off Presidents Day? Like
you're always take off President's Day? Always think of every couple?

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Why is this news? You many many French fricts. Yeah,
you are such a lazy employee. You are perfect for this.
The guy who took off the month of December. Yeah,
and worked the eleven straight months with no days off. Yes,
absolutely correct. That's one of our favorite foods. I want
to see what's here where we leave. Yes, Corporate Garcia
will be in effect next week, that is right, the

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one of the NBA Final. Dy's gonna miss that. You
missed the super Bowl, the Draft, all the big events.
Eddie takes off all of them. Somebody somebody died for
the Super Bowl. But thank you? Was the funeral one
in the morning? Was it one in the morning, Yes, yes,
it was interesting. Most funerals are not at night. I
don't know. It's all right anyway, Let's go to the phones.
Brandon in Minnesota is next on Fox Sports Radio. Hello Brandon,

(20:08):
ben Uh. I was wondering if you'd be willing to
change your name. I think you should change it to
Ben losing. Oh, you know, kind of like don't losing. Oh, oh,
that's pretty funny. You're you're you're, you're a funny guy.
You're you're, you're a genius. You're a young Einstein. You are. Yeah,
I got you know, I gotta undergrad degree, so I'm

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super smart, you know. But yeah, you sound like a genius.
Let me tell I've talked to a lot of geniuses
in my life. You sound very bright. Okay, thank you.
I thought so. But hey, you know, like, even if
the trade deadline, Lebron decided, you know what, I'm gonna
going to the Clippers and Clippers take Lebron, You'd be
singing to the high heaven. No, no, no, you would
love it. He was in a parade. Yeah, when when

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Lebron was good. I wanted him. He's no good anymore.
He's on a team that's not a he's on a
team that's not a playoffs right now, and he's a
damaged player. He just missed a month. I don't know
what more? What more can I say? The man missed
a month eleven for twenty one, he came back, played
a game, then he had load management twenty eight, twelve
and twelve. I don't want a guy that misses games

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because of load manage. Thought the Something young players were great?
What were they at in that fourth quarter? What's that?
What were the something great young players that in that
fourth quarter? They were on the court when they came
back because they were dad, I could have noticed they weren't.
So because that's a fluke win for the Lakers. That's
a big that's an amazing win. What happened? What happened? Wait?

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Wait wait wait wait? What happened to brandon Ingram? You're
Jesus as you call him the other day? Were brought?
I thought, brandon Ingram, who has a chance in a
lay up? And Missus actually got blocked? You guys got blocked.
He missed it blocked. I would have made it. He
didn't make it. You would have made it, absolutely, I
would have made that shot. Liam jokes aren't for another few.

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He's a loser, your guy, let me tell you. Yeah,
admit to me though, that the real LA team won
last night and the not so real one just lost.
Who do you in Minnesota? What the hell do you what?
You're just being a troll? You don't care about any
of this? Yeah, to be honest, I don't really. All right,
there you go, the truth comes out of you ought

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to hate the Lakers because they left Minnesota. They could
be the Minnesota Lakers. Still, you should be very upset.
Nobody in Minnesota should like the Lakers. Why would anyone
like the Lakers? Lakers are everything that's wrong with society.
It's the one percenters, It's the fake Hollywood people. It's
a bunch of phonies, the Lakers. Who would want to
support a team like that? What kind of everyone? People's team?

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Hard working, blue collar that's America of losers, not the
not the Lakers. I mean, who want that's Hollywood's team.
Everyone hates Hollywood. Have you seen the crappy movies coming
out of the last fifteen The big big Clipper fan. Yeah,
when he was Hollywood. They were good when he was

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making movies. I said, when he was making movies, stay
with me. Okay, when he was making movies, they were
good movies. Not anymore, Drek. Everything's a chick flick. Everything
Hollywood makes is a chick flick. Any movie with testosterone
cannot be made in Hollywood. They decided not to make Yeah,
My Giant as a cinematic masterpiece. They remake every crappy

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movie that was originally good because they have no no
new They have either no money or no new ideas,
and so they're other than chick flicks. Very good with
chick flicks. All right, we'll press on. Charles Barkley's got
a plan. I like this plan. I've heard this before,
but I hadn't heard it in a while, so it
made sense to me. So we'll get to that, and
we'll take some more of your phone calls as well,

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and Slaying the Dragon, we'll get to that as well.
In addition, but right now, from the Guico Fox Sports
Radio Studios, here's Eddie and the NBA trade Dad line
came and went on Thursday and New Orleans starting Anthony
Davis was not traded away by the Pelicans to the
Lakers or anywhere else. He will stay with the Pelicans
with the rest of the season. There were a few
moves of note that were made. The Raptors pick up

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Marcusol from the Grizzlies, the Bucks pick up Nicola Mirotitch
from the Pelicans, and the seventy six ers shipped out
former number one overall pick Mark el Folts to the Magic.
On the court, Lakers beat the Celtics in Boston one
twenty nine, one twenty eight on o John Rondo buzzer beater,
Lebron James a triple double twenty eight points, twelve rebounds
and twelve assists. Raptors over the Hawks one nineteen to
one on one. Toronto Opinion up its forty to win

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of the year they joined. Milwaukee is the only teams
right now in the league with forty wins or forty
and sixteen. The thunder of the Grizzlies one seventeen to
ninety five. Russell Westbrook gets his eighth straight triple double,
one off the NBA record. He had fifteen points, thirteen
rebounds and fifteen assist Pacers over the Clippers one sixteen
ninety two and the Trailblazers top the Spurs one twenty
seven to one. Eighteen College basketball fourth rank Gonzaga another
easy win as they beat San Francisco ninety two sixty two.

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Also wins for number twelve Houston, number twenty Iowa, and
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eighty three. Pretty surly guy, Frank Robinson not a not
a very loving guy. I didn't I didn't experience to
that with Frank, but he was a great baseball He
was pretty angry, won the MVP in both leagues, only
man to do that, won a Triple Crown, first black
manager in baseball, and was inductor in the Hall of
Fame in nineteen I covered him when he managed his
last sin as a manager at the Nationals Expos and

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then they became the Nationals. He seemed pretty angry. I
don't know. Maybe it's because he was managing the expos
in the National because that's why he was angry. But hey,
all right, thank you for that. Edie did. He was
a big basketball fan. He was always at the basketball games.
Went to the Laker games, Yeah, he went there, and
went to Clipper games too. He was all over. He

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loved the I think he wished he had been a
basketball player more than a baseball player. I got that vibe.
I don't remember he was a Hall of Fame baseball player,
but love the basketball. Couldn't get enough of the basketball.
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It is all you have to do. So Charles Barkley
brought some of it. And I've heard this before. I
think we've mentioned it, but I hadn't talked about it
in a while. It made sense to me and he
Barkley said, one of his friends had an idea the
tnt RAN. This commercial at halftime of one of the games,
and it was I guess one of the credit card
companies is offering to give you a new jersey if

(26:39):
you bought a jersey of a player within the last
year and the guy was traded. I saw that. Yeah, yeah,
so they'll like offer you a chance to to exchange
the jersey for some other jersey or like the new
jersey of the player, or if you don't like the
you're a fan of teams, you can get a different
player's jersey on the team. So that was cool and
they so they mentioned something about that, and Charles Barkley

(27:00):
went on this rift about how he was in Vegas,
of course, losing his money at the Super Bowl and
or maybe he won. I don't know, but he's he
said that A Bundy of us brought this up, and
this is something that we talked about years ago, and
it's I believe it still applies. Like when you get
to a certain age, I feel like there's a cut off,
and I'm not sure exactly when the age is, and
it might be high school, after high school, but there's

(27:24):
a certain point where there's only three acceptable people that
can wear jerseys. A child, right, a child because kids
can wear anything. You can wear your pajamas to the
store when you're a kid, it doesn't matter. You can
wear your diaper to the restaurant for dinner. Who cares.
You're a kid, you know, nobody cares. So there's that.

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And then he Barkley said somebody that actually played the
game like that was their actual jersey. And then he
said a hot check and he said that's it. That's
that's the list right there, that no one else should
be able to wear a jersey. I don't think he's
wrong one. I think we should make this law. Can
can the Trump administration put this in I think this
is good. I think we should put this in the wall.

(28:07):
This is a great idea. I'm gonna fight back on this.
You're not gonna fight back. There's nothing to fight them.
It makes sense. Hot chicks you can wear anything because
they're hot. Guys like looking at animates because they're beautiful women.
Kids can wear anything because they're kids, and the players
can wear them. Although that's a little douche. Yeah, that's
completely douchy. That's weird. Why if, like, why would you
wear your own jersey or or somebody else's jersey that
you played against or played with. It's just kind of weird. Secondly,

(28:29):
I think there are exceptions to the rule because I
have kind of had that, Like you know, I have
I have a lot of jerseys, and I have like
I used to wear them just on random days that'd
be my outfit for the day. And I in my
in my older age, I have felt kind of weird,
like I don't, I don't know if I want to
go outside wearing this. But I think there are exceptions.
I think if you're going to a game, I think

(28:51):
that's fine. And I also think that if it's like
the super Bowl or or you know, some supporting event, yeah,
a playoff game and you're having you know, people over
to your house, I think it's fine to wearing wearing
a jersey then as well. Yeah, like i feel like
I'm at the age now I can't do it though,
I mean, yeah, yeah, I feel like I'm at the

(29:12):
age and now I kind of way, But yeah, I
don't care. I don't. I like I wear like, I
have hats. I wear a lot of hats. I wear,
you know, I have shirts from teams like I wear
those like T shirts. I think that's perfectly fine, but
I feel like I'm crossing a line when I wear
the jersey. And I did. We did this thing for years.
I did this bit where I picked a different NFL
team every year, and I have a closet filled with

(29:34):
NFL jerseys that I've worn at different points. Last couple
of years. I just like I can't do it anymore.
I feel naked going to the Dodge game without a
Dodger jersey. I don't know. Can we get that? I
just feel naked? Yeah, yeah, I'll get that perfect. They're
a drop. Yeah, sure, that's a drop. That's a drop,
all right. So I recommend the Trump administration make this law.

(29:56):
There could be some loopholes in that, but yeah, I
think kids, hot beautiful women are treated the same. Right.
They can pretty much do whatever they want, guys. True
and yeah, the player thing here, Let's go to the phones.
Hollering James is in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello, holler and James, Hello, Ben,
how are you sunned down? Are you okay? Is everything

(30:19):
all right? Hollering James, Well, if I talked too lowered
the escort me out here with the Minneapolis Finance Brooklyn
Center Police Department. Who's been out here? Who's been out
here's a place for having psychiatric issues. For you, you've
had psychoa is it? Good? Guy that was causing a

(30:40):
disturbance out here was getting a lowoods the staff, and
the staff called the police on them, and they surprised him.
They came out with four officers. It's very dramatic. Can
you turn the radio up a little louder, James, I
think there's a guy over in Sheboygan that hasn't heard.
Can you turn that all the way up? And okay,
I'll turn it down so you can hear me all
right now a radiostatic. Yeah, we're from Montana. Who stole

(31:04):
my heart at see. I'm gonna make your dreams come true.
Holler and James. Are you ready for this? I'm about
to your mind's about to explode here, Oh boy, here
we go. Don't yell though, holland James. We don't want
you to get arrested. Don't yell. Hopefully nothing else explodes.
Let's go now to Montana and say hello, Holler and James.
To Tammy in Montana. Hello, Jammi from Montana. Hello, Holler

(31:31):
and James. Yes, please don't explode anywhere and keep your
voice down so you have a place to live. I mean,
I need my place to live, and I need all
the prayers from Ben Miller. It all appears for you
to make sure that I got a warm place to
reside and these very frigid Minnesota winters. Yeah, I'm sure

(31:52):
it's not cold. It's not cold in Montana at all, right, Tammy, No,
it doesn't get cold there at all. Yeah, No, it's
it's only like eight degrees right now. It's a warm
made degrees though. It's a very warm movie. Which you
definitely wouldn't take the polar plunch, now, would you. You
wouldn't either too. Like a lake foot of frozen water?
Is that right? For for the right amount of money?

(32:14):
Maybe everyone's got the price. Would you do that? If
Tammy and Montana said, hey, holler and James, I want
you to know, jump into Lake Minnetonka. Would you do it?
He'd have to come vincent you up. After he jumped
in a lake. He jumped in a frozen lake. He'd
hurt himself on the ice there. That would be the
problem he jump in. People really do it up? Can

(32:39):
you believe that? If you look on your local news
or you get the air news from different cities and
the states. These people really do it up here. They
jumped into a Well, our friend Fluffy Fluffy Dave's doing
it right. He's got the he's one of our guys
in Minnesota's up into a lake. He raised a bunch
of money to do it for charity. Yeah. So he

(33:00):
says it's only for like one minute, and then they
get right back out. I don't even think it's a minute.
It should stay in for more than a minute. Yeah,
if they're gonna get my money, they should stay in
there for like a you know, two minutes or something
like that. All right, well, very anything else. I know.
We're doing it. It's like an openness, like a dating line.
Here's what we're doing here. It's it's wonderful part of
an open dating line. I've believe in. You're shared in

(33:23):
your warm heart and a wonderful warm gift that you
set me the like you flay. All right, thank you, James. Yeah,
I have something Ben. You have time for me? You do, yes,
of course we always have time. Yes. Well, I just
wanted to say that, um, you know, you were talking
about um chick flicks and stuff like that. Well, Ben,

(33:47):
when when the movie about your life, which I'm going
to think is going to be titled The Nocturnal Colonel
is made like that, you're you're Yeah, now you're gonna
have to get glamour shots and he shouldn't be a
bully on people that have glamour shot. Although no one
one thought on this or with The Nocturnal Colonel, it

(34:10):
could be a porn movie and that could be head shots.
What are you? Wow, that's well, that's a new uncharted territory.
That could be like a spinoff. Remember they did a
Cosby show like that, and they did the Kardashians, they
did the pot they did the porn version of that. Yeah. Yeah,
and I'm concerned Ben. One one more thing, I really am.

(34:30):
Come on now, I think I just heard you do
a list of people who can't wear jerseys. So we
can't have the hack radio list. No Gascon wants that.
Gascon likes list radio. By the way, he's got a
he's got a glamor photo. Gascon did you see that
eddie on his Twitter face? How embarrassing is that? What

(34:51):
a hack? That guy? I mean, my goodest, he has
a glamour picture. Yeah, I was like, wow, all right,
thank you, Tammy. All right, I'll try to avoid this radio.
I'm sorry, Big Ben Mallard. No need to do that.
You know, my god, those glamor pictures of guess I

(35:11):
thought he was getting married or something. I know he's
got some other ones. He's like Oscar Davila Joya wearing
la ah. That is great, that is absolutely wonderful. All right,
real quick. Paul in Oceanside down, San Diego Way is

(35:32):
up next on Fox Sports Radio. Hello, Paul, Hey, I've
been listening to you for five years. I finally figured
out what it is that makes your show by far
the best show on his time slot in America. Well,
there's no other shows. They all suck, that's why. But listen, listen,
you're still you're still great. Here. For for eleven years,

(35:54):
there was something called You Bet Your Life, and it
was Groucho Marx, and it was it was it was
about how Groucho was smarter than anybody, and he was
totally laying in to his guests. And then but Yetie
had George Fennerman, who was this straight man, and and
Eddie is George Fenneman and your grouchow and it's it's

(36:17):
funnier than homemade dog poop. And that's what I think
is the chemistry is that you and Eddie are Groucho.
You know, I don't. I don't believe in chemistry. Chemistry
is a scientifical term. I do not believe in chemistry
in sports. But I'm glad you compared me to someone
that died in nineteen seventy seven. I appreciate, Paul that

(36:38):
you compared me to an American legend. Can you name
all the Marx brothers, Paul, I bet you can't name
all the mark Yeah, there's there's a there's Harpo, and
there's Groucho, and there's Zeppo, and there's Phoebe. I don't know,
but it wasn't chick chick chicko. The point is, if

(37:01):
you've got the Hebrew humor and you're that's so what
I hear back in the day before he got married,
he dabbled. He experimented, all right, I gotta thank you, Paul,
I gotta go thank you, buddy man. All right, what
do you want me? That's a first, right there, George?

(37:23):
And he said Jewish humor? Is that what he says? Hebrew?
That's bet huh? All right, here's the who am I game? Matt,
I don't what are he's moving on? Mavericks star Dirk
Novitsky became the fourth player in NBA history. Check this
out in the first on the same team to be
teammates with a father's son combo. I had the Mavericks

(37:44):
traded for Tim Hardaway Junior, and Nowitsky played with Tim
Hardaway Senior in Dallas back in twenty oh one. I
am the first NBA player that played with a father's
son combo as teammates. Again, Dirk Nowitsky has just done
it with the Mavericks, But I was the first player
in NBA history that played long enough where I played
with the father's son combo as teammates. That is the

(38:07):
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am I? Game? Dirk Davisky the Mavericks became the fourth
player in NBA history this week, the first with the
same team to be teammates with a father's son combo.

(38:52):
The Mavericks got Tim Hardaway Junior from the Knicks, and
Davitsky has played so long he played with Tim Hardaway
Senior back twenty one. I am the first NBA player
that played with a father's son combo as teammates. Who
am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Robin Vegas is going with Soon to Be Fell and

(39:13):
Whoopie Pie Blair. That's correct. Chris Mim from Big Lou.
That's his guests. Who else do we have? Let's see
here Joe Friday from Harry Podhead, Ben Maller's Toilet Seat,
guests by Bloated Bob, ROBERTOE. Parrish from Duprie Phil and
Joe niekro Pictures. Who else? John Starks? That was from

(39:38):
Trip John Starks from The Cowboy Killer Real. John's going
with Michael Olawa Candy. That's his favorite center of all time.
Real John or John the pie guy we used to
call him back in the day, was the great bow Outlaw.
He was guest by by Lou Barney Rubble from poly
d Eddie, What say you, Eddie? Is it Michael and

(39:58):
Clay Thompson? Uh? No, incorrect, that's not Tom Chambers either.
The correct answer Moses Malone. Moses Malone. He played with
Rick Barry and John Berry. The other guys that I
got it, Bimbo Coles and Ron Artest did it as well.
All right, let's get to it. Here we go. Time

(40:19):
now for the NBA pick um three players. Who's going
for him? That would be Roberto Thank you very much.
I'll go with Johns. Really that's your first pick. Yeah,
it's a good first pick. No, it's not. I will
go with Nicola Yoki, shall be Denver Nuggas Coup. I

(40:41):
will go with Joel Embiide you have him, Eddie. I'll
take step Curry and Blake Griffin. All right, back to
Coop we go, are you Andre Drummond? Andre Drummond is gone.
Back to me, Luca Doncha and Roberto Laker at the
names one more, Kevin Durrant, all Right, ottod Porter, who Cool?

(41:03):
Karl Anthony Towns, Eddie on Sign Whiteside Wait to be
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Search FSR to listen live. Pulling the curtain back. You know,

(41:25):
the NBA trade deadline was a dud when the All
Star Draft, the All Star Draft was more interesting. Things
I never thought I would say on radio. I was
so excited. I was like, Oh, this is gonna be
a layup. You know that layup line when you play basketball,

(41:46):
You gotta lay up, You getta lay up, you getta
lay up. Well, I come in here I break down
these two big trades at least and here we are
talking about the All Star selection from something called Team
Lebron and Team Jannis. What the hell is going on?
Welcome in the beginning of another hour. It's the Ben
Mallers Show. We are in the year everywhere the vast

(42:10):
Fox Sports Radio network, emanating live from the Geico Fox
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home front, you could say radio silence at the NBA

(42:31):
trade deadline. And so here we stand, here we sit,
and what are we going to talk about? The bleeping
All Star Game? Which who's watching this? Anyway? The All
Star Game has been unwatchable in the NBA, just like
it is in these other sports. At least in basketball,
no one actually watches it. Football people still watch the
Pro Bowl because it's football. But February seventeen, so we

(42:53):
are now nine days away as we head in to
slide into a February eighth year. On Friday, we're nine
days away from the All Star event. Team Lebron in
one quarner. In the other corner, team Jannis, a dental coumbo,
and they're gonna square off in Charlotte, North Carolina, and

(43:15):
so on TNT. They had a draft. Now, this normally
would not get my attention and certainly had no thought
at all, as I said, of talking about this, there
was no crossover. I thought, there's no way, there's no
way this is gonna crossover and spill into the show.
And look at me now, look at me now? And
I understand this thing's not for me. Like I'm a purist.

(43:38):
I don't like when the Lakers and Celtics play, and
the Celtics play their road you know, they wear their
road uniforms and the Lakers wear their home uniforms in Boston.
I think that's stupid. Call me crazy, but I like
watching the All Star Game where it's East versus West
and they have the All Star you know, they wear
their own uniforms or whatever. I like that. I don't
need to go out and try to buy a team

(43:58):
Lebron Jersey or a team be Honest Jersey. But I
know they're gonna I know they're gonna shove that down
my throat. I don't need that, you know. I mean
that's you know, I'm a simple man. It's what I am.
I And these are things I flash back to my
youth when I loved growing up, loved basketball in all sports,
and I remember fondly some things about All Star Games.
And I know this is not for me, but Lebron James,

(44:22):
I gotta give him credit. I will give Lebron credit
what he did. Again, flash back to my youth and
my grandfather who would sit at the kitchen table in
a T shirt and watch the Business Channel and trade
penny stocks all day, and he would say, what the
ma sugunu Lebron James is the level of hootspa Lebron

(44:47):
has now the All Star selection for this team Lebron.
Here's who he picked. Let's see if you can tell
the pattern here. His first pick was Heaven Durant. His
second pick was Kyrie Irving. His third selection was Kawhi Leonard.

(45:10):
All right. His fourth selection was James hard Now that
must have been a mistake. That must have been a
mistake by Lebron. Then Team Lebron selected, wait for it,
with the fifth pick, the currently injured he's just coming
back now. Anthony Davis was the fifth pick. I'm not done.

(45:30):
The sixth pick Clay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors.
Now let's go through the list again. Kevin Durant set
to be a free agent. He's got a player option.
Kyrie Irving set to be a free agent. They were
playing grabass and all that, the Lebron and Kyrie there

(45:51):
in Boston. He's got a player option. Kyrie shot the
ball so well he helped the Lakers win that game.
That's is that his first job as a Laker, he
helped him win. What is your twenty eight percent on
the floor? Oh my god, Kaali Leonard player option has
said he wants to play for the Lakers. Anthony Davis.
Lebron's already tampered to try to get Anthony Davis with

(46:12):
the Lakers and Clay Thompson, which I guess is the
fall back back back back back back apack. You know,
Clay Thompson like hits his head or something like the
falls down walking in the streets of San Francisco, then
maybe he'll be convinced to go to Lakers. But anyway,
so let's talk about this the question what do you
make of lebrons All Star Draft? What do you what

(46:34):
do you make of this? Keep in mind the Janis
Adenta coomba team it has himself, of course, but Steph
Curry not a free agent, Joel Embid not a free agent.
Paul George noticed Lebron didn't pick Paul George because, you know,

(46:54):
not a free agent. Kemba Walker, who I guess could
change teams. He was picked by by team jannest All right,
so what do we make of this? All right? My
thoughts on this. You've got choreographed, opportunistic, and space jam.
You've got those three things now number one. I gotta

(47:14):
tell you, I have a sneaking suspicion that this was manufacturing,
that this was choreographed. The NBA entertainment people, the marketing
arm of the NBA. It's like, hey, the All Star Game,
why don't we get people buzz? And they know how
this works, right, the people around it, they understand they're

(47:37):
gonna get idiots like me to take the low hanging
fruit and talk about on the radio. And people are
running around on social media. They're all excited. It just
seems so choreographed is another word we can use. Staged,
made for television. Right, it's all part of the soap
opera of the NBA. How else could this have worked

(48:01):
out the way that it worked out. I mean, for
all of those guys that have been connected either directly
or vaguely to the Lakers in these pipe dream stories
that have been out there by operatives of Lebron James,
and they all happened to end up on Lebron James
All Star team. Not one of them was picked, Not

(48:24):
one of them was picked by Jannis and then the CBO. Now,
maybe that just happened organically, or or there was some
direction that went into this, some NBA marketing, like, Hey,
why don't we have some fun with this. We'll get
everyone running around and it'd be wonderful. Now the second thing,

(48:48):
just for the purposes of this, this next part of
this malam monologue, Let's assume that this was not choreographed,
that it was not scripted, that this actually happened, and
Lebron just got lucky, and Janice is a moron and
a bozo, and he picked all the secondary players instead
of these guys. Let's assume that to be the case.

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For a second, right, let's say that is accurate. Well,
it's obviously opportunistic. That would be an adjective that you
could word use. It's opportunistic. It also seems desperate. Pathetic
would be another way you can describe it. Him on.
And if we had a real commissioner and not the

(49:32):
octopus that has no bones, if we had a real
commissioner in the NBA, this is by the by laws
of the NBA, by the spirit of the NBA rules,
it's criminal. It is criminal by the spirit of the
NBA rules. Pollusion. What do you think? The thing I

(49:54):
don't get, like Lebron can text all these guys he's got,
and all these guys are buddies, you know this. There's
all kinds of canoodling that goes on with these NBA players,
but they like to do it in public. Lebron wants
to do it in public. He wants to put on
a show. Now, he wants the world to know what
he's doing, how great he is. And it's like, you know,

(50:16):
if this wasn't set up by the NBA and someone
who just wanted to have some fun, maybe a T
and T or something like that. I don't know, But well,
what is janis doing, by the way with his team again? Way,
what are you? What are you up to? All right?
So the end game? What is the endgame here? Well,
the end game is that most likely Lebron James will
be shut out of most of these guys. And I

(50:40):
don't see anyone that there's a there's a clear path
to the to the Lakers. And if you're objective about this,
Durant likely heads east or stays in Golden State. But
he's the whimsical star Kevin Durant. So if you ask
me today in early February, I would say Durant goes
to the Eastern Commerce who or possibly the stays in
gold State or the Clippers. But he's you know, he

(51:00):
changes by the minute. Kyrie Irving another guy. He's a
poor man's Durant. He's not his thin skin, but he's temperamental.
Kyrie should stay in Boston. He should stay in Boston,
but he could do the irrational thing Kawhi Leonards. He
either stays in Toronto, goes to the Clippers. Anthony Davis

(51:22):
is going to be a held captive. He won't be
a Laker next year. That's not going to happen. And
Clay Thompson would have to be the dumbest guy in
the in the village to leave the Golden State Warriors.
So I would say it's a long shot that they
get any of those guys. It doesn't mean Lebron's not
gonna butter their biscuits and massage their shoulders and have
a bubble bath for all of them, but the chances

(51:44):
that any of them end up with the Lakers are
very small, small, but they could all be part of
Space Jam two, which Lebron will be filming this summer,
So that's good news. Lebron's got that project over at
the Warner Brothers lot so that it'll be coming up.
It is the Ben Malner Show on Fox. We say
hello to Edmund Dallas, steam boat really Judas solid gold

(52:07):
guard see it right over. Well, at least they didn't
televise it this year. Remember last year they didn't televise
it because the players would get their feelings hurt. Yeah,
they would pick last or something like that. So now
they just choreographed it so it would be more fun
to talk about. Hey, I fell for it. Why not?
I'm not gonna watch the All Star Game. Well I
say that, and I will because I'll look for crap

(52:28):
to talk about. So I probably will be forced to
watch the All Star Game because I need crap to
talk about. If I didn't, if I wasn't working that night,
I probably wouldn't watch the All Star Game, like it's
on a Sunday. If it was on a Saturday, I wouldn't.
But does the All Star Game really give you something
to talk about? Hyeah? Well they don't play defense. Yeah,
well it's terrible. We can complain about that and covet

(52:48):
about that. Bad it isn't and do that whole thing. Yeah,
but you know you can do that anyway, right you
not watching? Yeah? Yeah, probably true. You know I could
probably probably pull it off. Yeah, that's probably accurate. Or
just the highlights, you know, just the highlight Yeah yeah, yeah,
I mean that's so like you like the Alstar game
when they wear their own team jer their own team jerseys. Yeah,
I like that. I used to like it when he

(53:08):
had the old school, when he had the conferences, blue
and oh the red, white and blue. Yeah. Yeah, I
don't mind that either. I don't need a high falutin.
You know why they have to make those They have
to do these teams because they have a Nike sponsor. Yeah,
well no, Nike's got to make money, right, doesn't Kia
doesn't Kia have a doesn't really see Team Lebron on
the front. Who's buying this stuff? Though? Like, like, I've

(53:31):
never seen any Maybe I'm not getting out of my
house very much, but I've never seen anyone wear one
of these jersey. Teenagers. The parents buy it for their kids,
but they're expensive though, right, yeah, it's it's I don't
sell many of these things, but maybe I'm wrong. They
must sell enough of them to make it worthwhile. They
well don't they They cost about a dollar fifty to
produce and they charge one hundred dollars for him. So

(53:52):
the the markup is one where you're in pretty good shape, right,
I would say, yeah, I would agree with that. Yeah.
All right, Well I mentioned this last time. I want
to pay this story off. This is a wonderful and
a guy in media, Eddie has beat a big corporation
in a lawsuit. You know how rare this is. This
is once in a blue moon. Uh, this is Hailey's comment.

(54:16):
This is stunning. It involves tennis. Did you see this, Eddie? No? Uh,
this story got a little bit of plays. It's been
going through the court system for several years. Doug Adler,
Oh he won. Wow. Doug Adler one. He has ESPN.
He was suing ESPN. Adler is he's like a B

(54:39):
level tennis play. Serena comments during a match he used
the term, Uh, was it gorilla? Yeah, gorilla tennis is
what he I think it was. Was it grilla? Was
it gorilla tactic? Maybe it was, but it was effect.
But there's two different ways, you know, just go gorilla.

(54:59):
There's the kind you see in the zoo. And then
there's the guerrilla marketing, which is like g U E
r R. Yeah, that's exactly right, And so Adler said, hey,
that's what the term I was using. And you know
somebody on Twitter or some some snowflake got all upset
and ESPN or we have it all this play. This
is what led to him, Doug Adler losing his job

(55:21):
and he went to court and he has won. Doug
Adler has won. This is a first serve in. Venus
is all over her ce Venus move in and put
the gorilla effect on charging. Yeah, which I guess the

(55:42):
way of being aggressive, right is that was I'm not
a tennis fan, but isn't that a term that he
was trying to convey, being aggressive? Well, that led to
his that was from the twenty seventeen Australian Open that
he was obviously talking about Venus Williams there right, And
he went to court. There was a court case in
Los Ange to Liz and he won. ESPN has uh

(56:03):
they have conceded. There was an out of court settlement.
The reason I know that he won. Doug Adler. According
to the New York Post, he has been offered his
job back at ESPN. Wow, that is a stunner. That
is a stunner. I don't know. I don't know how
much money he got, but he he got something. He claimed.

(56:25):
Also in his court case, he brought up a Nike
ad from the nineteen right Gorilla Tennis with Andre Agassiz
Sampras and he received, according to the report, a monetary
settlement and he has rejoined their tennis broadcast. Believe good
for him. He was on Clay Show and he had

(56:45):
had like a heart attack over this health prom suppose. Yeah,
And I was gonna say, boy, do you take your
job back? But I guess you do? Write I mean, yeah, yeah,
I mean that and I and in some respect the
management at has and has changed clearly because the extreme
freaks that had worked there before and management would not
have allowed a settlement. So that's actually a decent job

(57:08):
by them, the new management admitting, hey, this is ridiculous
what are we doing here? So I'll give them against
my I don't like to compliment anybody, Eddie, but that's
whoever's in charge over there. That's a good job by
them admitting, hey, this is ridiculous, what are we doing?
That really is you're right, that is surprising news. Yeah,
I mean you can't. You can't beat Golia if you
can't slay the dragon that never happens. Well, it's happened now.

(57:31):
This is a man bites dog, right, isn't this one
of those stories? Yeah? Rare, Yeah, very rare. All right,
we'll press on. We'll take your calls. If you know
the number you can call. I give it out last hour,
so you're gonna go back and do the podcast. It'll
be done at the end of the show and you
can find you can find, you can find the number.
All right, we'll move on the slum Lord. We'll get

(57:54):
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and you can tweet at and follow our executive producer.
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(58:42):
lame jokes of the week coming up next hour. And
it is official again. I don't think we had one
Bartolo cologne jokes submitted this week. That is a first,
damn shame. I was convinced a couple of years ago
that this bit would die without Bartolo cologne jokes. Remember Eddie,
we talked about this. They say, as soon as Bartolo
Colone has done playing, he hasn't signed with anybody. I

(59:03):
don't believe he's a free agent. Well, let me ask
you this, what do we have? Weed man jokes? Two pages?
Two pages of weed man chokes? And some of these
are so funny. I was laughing my ass off at
the hilarious. These guys are great, and they're from all
over the country. We got Mallard Muschia guys in Iowa

(59:26):
and Cincinnati, all over California, in Boston, Connecticut, in the
North Carolina, and the entire country has the entire country
has united to goof on weed man in all states
above and below the Mason Dixon line. Everyone everyone wants
to goof on weed man, hippie. It's just tremendous. So

(59:49):
all right, we are on Twitter at Ben Maller if
you would like to be part, just Josh, as is
anyone else miss football season? Go to hell Lebron James.
That's what he said. All right, Roberto, you gotta play
the drop when he says that a little Maggie, we
gotta honor Maggie. She's not a little anymore. Very nice.

(01:00:14):
All right, to the phones we go. Let's go to
Exclusive Steve. He's in Manhattan, Eddie and he's next on
Fox Sports Radio. Hello Exclusive Steve. Yeah, I want you
to yell and not pick the phone. If it sounds
better when you scream into a speaker phone, it's really

(01:00:35):
there's only one thing better than Maggigie. You have the
radio one while you're talking, it sounds like the Louke
Garrit speech. What you do is you tell the guy.
That's what you do. You tell the guy turned the
volume off, not at all what he's doing. Now I
know I've got it, and most of the time they
will turn it all the way up. I had one
guy who was it was it. What's the guy's name,
helmet Man, Remember Eddie? He ran up this guy, Steve

(01:00:56):
helmet Man, one of my callers. He ran across the room,
turned the radio all the way up, all the way
up right, great, and you should have told him you're
having trouble over his reception. Knocked on everyone's door in
the building. It's telling to shut everything off electronic in
the house. And I just want to let Bryce, Hopper
and Manning know that I'm starting to win the softball league.
If they were interested and bend the men to managerial job,

(01:01:20):
is yours to turn down? That's that I could say, guy,
you know I will negotiate. Now is this? Are they
gonna play in the Central Park? Are they gonna play
out in Westchester? Where are they going to play these games?
Because we're gonna play in the in New York City.
People don't realize I called the whole city to city
and not just Manhattan. You know, I'm a New York guy.
We're gonna play in the neighborhoods with the highest crime rates.

(01:01:40):
That's what we're gonna play. All right, Well, what are
those neighborhoods. What are we over in the Bronx? Where
are we? Where are we going here? You know the
Bronx gets a bad rap. Oh yeah, it's really safe there. Yeah,
there's a lot. There's not a lot of it. Yeah,
Brooklyn's don't walk through the park. Wait, wait, wait a minute.
My brother lives in the York. He's looking for twenty years.
Every time I go to when I go to Brooklyn,

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it's a bunch of hipp ups. Am I missing something?
All I see is is hippies? Now maybe on you know,
Queen's is a little shitty. I spent a night in
uh Man at a hotel near La Guardia. What was
the name of it. It was horrible. I was scared.
I thought I was gonna get that was it was
my last night on Earth. Yeah. Yeah, just the whole

(01:02:22):
thing is you know, would they put fifty million tourists
on between Madison and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan? You just
did certain neighborhood you can't trickle and the Bronx. It's
blocked by block, Believe it or not. That's how bad it.
Certain neighborhoods of Brooklyn has some really famous neighborhoods. He
just gotta be careful. But you gotta be careful anywhere
you go, you know. Then they had they pulled two

(01:02:43):
guys out of the FANDAM Morning Show, Boomer Size and
every windows but Giannati, the other kid that does the
show with him. They were doing the Devil's Game and
Boomer's goal scoring callers Uga chuck Uga, chuck up. He was,
he was, I'm hooked on a feeling. He he loved
this guy. He loves Matt Zuccarella, right, and now I

(01:03:05):
got I have no problem you know, calling somebody one
of your own. Like he keeps saying that Zucarella is uh,
I don't know what he I don't know what wooman
Danish or something, keeps saying, Zuccarella is that in my neighborhood.
Zucarella is Italian? Folks exactly. Yeah, that sounds Italian to me.
That sounds Eddie is an Italian. Eddie, you're a guy.
You're a hockey guy. Edie's from Norway, but he sounds

(01:03:28):
it sounds name. His nickname was the Norwegian Hobbit Wizard.
You'd agree it sounds Italian though, it does. Yeah, it
does sound a time. I don't know Boom. I don't
know if he likes coffee with his Danish so I
mean he's Danish or something. But listening and guys, yeah,
we could go on all night. Listen, listen, listen. I
really it's a treat to be on your show. Bann
from so many shows? Why, I don't know why you

(01:03:50):
would be banned? What shows have been you? I love this?
What shows have been you? Why? Why did you find
our show? Why I found your show? Because you guys
don't you're not on the same station. But I'm on
the internet with you. Guys. You guys are great on
the internet. You come on after Dino Costa, but you're
not the same station. Now Dino was talking with well,
you know, and let me tell you something that Steve, Steve,

(01:04:14):
I don't leave, Steve. This is gonna blow your mind.
Steve Dino Costa. I used to work with him. He
used to work here at our shop. Yeah, he used
to work right years ago, many years ago. Yeah, he's
doing a show. And does he live in Wyoming or
Montana or something like that. Last, Yeah, he's one of
those ex New Yorker's days. You know, they left, everyone
runs out of New York. And uh, he's from Yanks.

(01:04:36):
He has a but he's got a Brooklyn accent. And
he's in Saint Louis. That Louis. I love. He's moving.
Yeah he does. He had a he got hired here
on his resume. He has a much better resume than
I have. I got all right, listen, I gotta go see,
but we'll talk to I got some more start. I
don't have time. I don't have time. I got why
I can speed up a baseball game? Don't we want

(01:04:57):
to hear him? That's your last point? Speed up I
speed up the game? Is how you speed up a
baseball game. The foul balls, when the fans catch them,
it's an out. That wouldn't that give the home team
an advantage though, because the fans would they would just
drop it when their team. It's a call that I

(01:05:21):
don't have to call again. That one more thing actually
worked out that Actually that's a unique idea, Eddie. The
fans catch the ball, he's out. I like that. That
would speed up the game. Imagine the gloves being brought.
How about this one? How about this one one? Baseball
ball's got to be thrown back, Like when I was

(01:05:42):
a kid when I played baseball with my buddies at
the part we spent pick up over. Well, know what
we do is is if they actually somebody actually hit
the ball really far, we had to run and try
to find it. And that was we spent. It's kind
of like in golf when you golf use the damn ball. Well,
we ring one baseball and we'd all have to go
try to find If you get a foul ball, you
have to go run after that damn thing and bring

(01:06:02):
it back. What a pin in the s All right,
we'll press on. We have Mallet of the third degree
coming up in a little bit and a slum lord
a story that is loosely related to our show Saw. Yeah,
this is great. We'll get to that in a moment
right now, though, Eddie, Well, we had the NBA trade
deadline and no Anthony Davis being moved. That was of

(01:06:23):
course going to beat the big one trade move. He
worked out it well. He didn't change teams, okay, but
there were a couple of players of note that did
change teams. The Raptors pick up Marcus Soft and Mcgrizzlies.
The Bucks acquired Nikola Mirritage from the Pelicans and the
seventy six and shipped out former number one overall picked
Mark el Folts. He goes to the magic on the court.

(01:06:44):
On the court, we had the Lakers beating the Celtics
in Boston one twenty one, one twenty eight where John Rondo,
the former Celtic, wins it on a buzzer beater. Lebron
James a triple double twenty eight points, twelve boards, and
twelve assists. Raptors get their fortieth win of the year
beating the Hawks one nineteen, one on one Toronto and Milwaukee.
Right now the teams the NBA f he wins Thunder
over the Grizzlies one seventeen to ninety five. Russell Westbrook
is his eighth consecutive triple double, one off the NBA record.

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He had fifteen points, thirteen rebounds, and fifteen assists. We
had the Patients over the Clippers one sixteen ninety two
and they Trailbladers just top the Spurs one seven to
twente eighteen. College hoops Number four Gonzaga rolls over San
Francisco ninety two sixty two wins for number twelve, Houston,
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Been to baseball. The Philadelphia Phillies have acquired All star
catcher jt Real Mutomi Marlins balance of powership. He had
two seventy seven seventy four RBI twenty one homers last year,
one hundred and eleven games behind the play in Miami.

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He got prospects in return, basically for Florida. Now that's
all they want. Although the Marlins signed Curtis Granderson this offseason,
I explained that the grandy Man the grandy Man. Every
team gets an All Star representative, and he was the
marlins lone representative. Now I ask you, as our resident
baseball man, is he a legit All Star or was
he just the guy who was from the team that

(01:08:08):
needed an All Star? All Right, here's how I'm gonna
answer that. First of all, he's a good player. I
don't think he's a great player, and playing in Miami
top five catchers in the in the lag. How many
catchers can your name? I mean there's mean Yadi here,
I mean after Yaddi here, who lost? He's a cheater?
Remember that Pine tar on the Remember when the ball
stuck to this? Yeah, nothing wrong with that, that's kosher.

(01:08:32):
Uh Yeah, I mean there's the there's it's catching is terrible. Yes,
Monty Green dall is considered. I forgot Russell Martin. Why
you gonna Why are you gonna be a buzz kill? Roberto?
Why are you gonna be a buzz kill? Because I
wanted J T. Real moodle and the the doctors haven't done anything.
But like you said, it doesn't matter. There's not gonna
win the division because everybody else sucks. All right, So
he's he's a pretty good player. He's pose he still play, yeah,

(01:08:55):
catcher anymore? The first base catcher, Gary Sanchez, Oh, he
doesn't hustle, he's a slug. Jonathan luc Roy, Wow, he's
an Angel's an angel. He's going to heaven. So he's
a good player by default. Yeah, there's a dark, dark
period for catchers. They don't as far as off and

(01:09:17):
we'll see though. But my point, I was trying to make.
But I was really interrupted. Is that in Miami? That
is a low pressure or situation. You were out of
the race the moment you report the spring training you
have been eliminated. You were playing for next season. And
we'll see what he does in philadephis some good like
I like it, some guys can't handle it, and other
guys just us. They play like gas Monie Grandall in
big spots. Do you think that means they're not going

(01:09:37):
to sign Bryce Harper? Well, no, I traded for this.
He's not making a lot of money right Ria Muto
because he's still in his place contracts. So Bryce Harper,
I want to play in philadelp That's that's what you're
saying yesterday. Yeah, that's my that's my new theory. My
new hypothesis is he does not want to play in Philadelphia,
and I'm sticking with that. I'm not getting off that position.
Let's say hello to we are company from the Geico

(01:09:58):
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I'm gonna be if Geico is no longer our title sponsor,
if for somemer You know, Geico's been with us a
long time and they've been very loyal as a sponsor,

(01:10:20):
but for some reason, like we used to be sponsored,
remember Eddie in the old days auto Zone, the Auto
Zone studios, And we've been with Geico for a long
time when we love Geico. But if they were left us,
I'd be so screwed. I'm very I'm like a manager
in baseball. I'm robotic with my decisions. So let's go
to mister Wonderful. Who's gonna complain about something? He's in Ohio. Hello,

(01:10:42):
mister Wonderful. Hey Bozo, how to feel getting clown tonight
by those terrible Lakers? It's your Celtic again. I'm fine
if the Celtics are playing like this is it's embarrassing loss.
I think we can all agree that's when you lose
to thee to the Lakers, as the Celtics, that's embarrassing.
You're better and the Lakers you should win that game.
But you know, we all have off days and we'll

(01:11:03):
see what they do. They have a month and a
half to figure this out. In the subbings, they got
a month and a half roughly till the playoffs start
in early mid April. So they got we'll figure it
out and the Lakers. The Lakers won't figure it out
because they're not going to be in the playoffs. My
Sacramento Kings, all right, are going to be in the playoffs.
Go Kings. Now, Kyrie'll be hurt before the playoffs. That's

(01:11:25):
how he likes to do it. That's good. He was
hurt last year they got to the Eastern Finals. They'd
be better. Let him get hurt done. Yeah, they get
a trophy for that, Yes they did. Actually they put
a trophy. It's in the what does they call there?
They're practice facility, the R Box Center where they practice there.
You know, I don't know what you're gonna do, And
what's the NBA when Lebron retires? I mean, you've got
Lebron in your mouth more than Savannah and his wife.

(01:11:47):
I mean, it's unbelievable. Well, you know what I'll do.
I'll do the same people say the same thing. What
are you gonna do when Peyton man, he's no longer
playing in the NFL. All you do is rip Peyton man.
You know what, Peyton hasn't played a couple of years
and he still ripped them. No, I don't, I do.
I do, but not every day. I mean I picked
my spots to rip Peyton. By the way, watch have

(01:12:09):
you seen The Dark Side? Mister Wonderful? Have you watched that? Yeah,
it's great. It is a very good, uh good documentary.
It is good. And let me tell you there's litigation
and that is still working. Is the way through the
court system. I'm pulling for the people that made that documentary.
I believe they'll win in the end. They have they
have some very good things on their side. All right, Well,

(01:12:29):
so you just want to that's all you have, mister Wonderfull.
You low on materials at it? No, I just thought
it was interesting how you find all your lebron talking
to ripping take Manning. That's a good job by you,
all right, thank you, mister Wonderful. Go away. Who Ever
wrote that narrative can shove that. But where the sun
don't shine? So, Eddie, was it last year or two
years ago? We were connected with Lenny Deistra and seems

(01:12:54):
like it's been more than a year. Maybe it's been
two or three years. But Lenny started following me on Twitter.
Some fans of the show, some Mallard militia guys, wanted
to get Lenny in here to do an interview. John
the Pie Guy. Yeah, John the Pike Guy. I think, yeah,
there you go, John the Pike Guy. And so there
were other people too, and so Lenny started following me.
And I remember I was like, why don't we bring

(01:13:15):
him in, Eddie, and you were against it. You didn't
want him in here. Trouble follows him wherever he goes. Yeah.
So so there's two stories here, all right, we got
two Lenny Dikester stories. We don't have a lot of
time for this, but I want to give you now.
You saw one of the many I assumed you saw
one of them. I saw one about the den of
drugs and prosty. Yes, Lenny Distra has a house from

(01:13:38):
when he played I assumed this is from when he
played with the either the Mets of the Phillies or
one of those two. But he's got a house in
New Jersey and he has been accused, as Eddie said
of turning that home, the entire neighborhood into a drugs
and prostitution Now. The thing about there's a couple of
things that stand out. Number one, it's believed he doesn't

(01:13:58):
actually believe he doesn't live there, Lenny. It's in Lynden,
New Jersey. But according to the TV station in the
New York channel seven in New York, the neighbors have
come out swinging and apparently Lenny is charging. It's this
big mansion and he's charging a thousand dollars a month

(01:14:19):
per room. So imagine, I don't know how big this is.
I would assume it's a let's say, a seven or
eight bedroom home, which is what a rich ballplayer would
have bought back when Lenny had money. So that's he's
making like eight grand a month, let's say, on rent.
But that's eight different people who Miter might not enjoy
some prostitution. Miter might not enjoy fentnol or whatever other

(01:14:41):
party drugs or whatever's out there. And so yeah, Lenny's
in hot water. He's also still in trouble because he
was accused of kidnapping and threatening to kill an uber
driver and he was arrested. He was hidden yeah, he
was accused of that. He was found with meth and cocaine.
Let's invite that bunch of hooker. But it gets even

(01:15:02):
better for Lenny. This is a story that hasn't made
the rounds. Lenny was not inducted into the Phillies Wall
of Fame. And so Lenny has now explained why why
did you see this? Oh my god, Lenny has now
explained why he is not invited into the Phillies Wall
of Fame. He said, the reason he's not in he's
not mad, he said, let me just get this out there.

(01:15:25):
He said, I'm quoting here Lenny dis quote. I was
tagging a couple of Phillies executives daughters. So don't I
don't blame the Phillies, blame me. Why didn't he say

(01:15:54):
that he was nailing them? Oh that's the next hour.
There you go, Lenny dikes dress. So again two stories there,
den of drugs and prostitution and the reason the Phillies
aren't honoring him. In his words, he was tagging a
couple of Phillies executives. Taught we're playing Patti Kake, all right,

(01:16:18):
twit Yeah, I'm sure it was nothing physical at all.
All right, we'll press on time now for the for
the instant trivia and here it is. All right, U Blank,
what are you? What are you doing? With Blank? Looking
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(01:16:39):
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(01:17:02):
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looking to achieve three separate seasons averaging thirteen or more points,
six plus rebounds per game, and shoot over forty percent
from three point range. If this person does it, he

(01:18:08):
would join Larry Bird, Kevin Durant, Dirk Naviski, and Al
Horford as the only NBA players to accomplish that feat.
That is the question. What's the answer to the Twitter machine?
We go? Let's see here. We've got mcguel on fire,
our buddy mcguel's going with the White Mamba, Brian Scalabrini,

(01:18:30):
Brandon the goat Ingram from Brandon, who else do we have?
Jerry West, the greatest GM of all time from the
Azzi Guy. Sean is going with Lenny Deister's drug supplier
as his answer. Brook Lopez guests by Gary. Let's see here, Joe,
I'm you're muted Joe in San Antonio, So I can't

(01:18:51):
read your answer because you're muted. He just annoys him.
Loose Sweetwater Brown from the Little Troller, JaVale McGee from
Just Josh Eddie. Do you have an answer? Yes, the
answer is blob No. Look for it. Believe it or not.
It's Otto Porter who just got traded this week from
the Wizards to the Bulls. Auto Porter. Let's get to it.
Here we go, It's Meller. How about that to the

(01:19:14):
third degree? This one gets great? All right, Kobolo, let's
do it. Ben Jalen Rose is getting from some flak
for comments he made the other day when he said
that Zion Williamson is a priminal All Star material, but
he's not NBA MVP material. Well those are fighting words.
Do you agree with him? Yeah, here's what I'll say

(01:19:36):
about Zion Williamson. I have watched him since the Super
Bowl ended. I watched him once the other night. But
here's here's my take. The jury is still out on
Zion Williamson. I'm pulling for him. He'll make my job
easier if he's really good, because we need these type
of guys to talk about. They feed the content on
the show. But hey, there's only a handful of players.

(01:20:00):
If the way I was, there's only a handful players
that have won an MVP award in the NBA. It's
usually the same couple of guys they rotated in any generation.
So it's a safe bet to say he won't win
an MVP. He'll be an All Star. And if you
look at the way he plays right now, he hasn't
made a mistake yet. He's perfect. But there's a very
small window. Karl Malone and Charles Barkley MVP guys. Sean

(01:20:23):
Camp very good player for several years with the Sonics,
Blake Griffin right now with the Clippers, not MVP players.
I think there's a better chance that he's like that
next now, Ben, we discussed this briefly yesterday. The Alliance
of American Football is making its debut this weekend. They'll
also be debuting the Sky Judge, or essentially a real
time replay official. Ben he thinks will eventually catch on

(01:20:44):
in the NFL. No, the NFL is slow to change anyway.
I don't I want fewer referees. I don't want more.
I'm an advocate of less officials. I want my officials
to be seen but not heard. I don't like this idea, Coop.
I don't think it's good at all because it's just
gonna create more penalty. There's penalty is on every play
you're supposed to play through them. Next tack that New Orleans.

(01:21:06):
New Bengals coach Zak Taylor said an interview that Andy
Dalton is quote a great fit for what we are
going to do. Ben, do you still think do you
think the Bengals still look for a successor this offseason?
Well they better listen. Zach Taylor doesn't have enough juice,
enough pizzazz to make this call. He's still wet behind
the ears. So this is gonna come from management with
Andy Dalton, and it's gonna come down to the money

(01:21:28):
with the Bengals. If they can find a quarterback cheaper
who's gonna be as good, they'll do it. Andy Dalton's
problem is his career plateaud he's average to below average.
They gotta do better. How do we do? Kopolo? I
guess he passed again. You guess that's a win again?
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if I was a good talk show host, I would

(01:22:31):
come in here and I'd do a deep dive on
jt Ria Muto going to the Philadelphia Phillies. I'd say,
by this is a blockbuster trade. The Phillies are trying
to win the National League Geese. They were in contention
until about a month ago in the season, and then
they fell into the abyss. A trapdoor opened up and
the Phillies fell through, and there was a pit of
piranha there that ate them up. And I would break

(01:22:53):
this down and talk about how he's gonna fit in,
and he certainly should. A bunch of home runs at
Citizens Bank Park it is a band box there, and
this is his opportunity. And he's twenty one home runs
last year in Miami should at least thirty home runs.
He only played one hundred and twenty five games last
season for the Miami Marlins, so he should be much better.

(01:23:13):
And he's under team control for a couple of seasons,
so he's not going anywhere to win win, right, win win,
And the Phillies are gonna try to sign him to
a big extension. It's just marvelous. Oh my god, I
want to do I certainly I'm not gonna sit here
and talk about hundred pence signing with the Texas Rangers
to a minor league contract. That that's not happening. Nor

(01:23:33):
Josh Tomlin going to the Milwaukee Brewers, although I'm sure
Tomlin will annoy me if the Dodgers and Brewers play
in the playoffs again. But that's a different conversation. No, no, no, no.
What I would like to get into you into a
conversation with you is about words. All about words. Right,
you heard about this, right, you heard about this. Let's talk.

(01:23:55):
So the people that run Major League Baseball have decided
that they have a problem and they're gonna fix it.
Major League Baseball has decided the term that has been
used since nineteen sixty six is derogatory and they are

(01:24:16):
going to take it out of again. This is hate speech.
Did you hear about this? Do you know what the
hate speech is that Major League Baseball has decided, we
just can't as a society, we can't do it. We
cannot do it. Boy, I don't know how to tell

(01:24:36):
you this, but Major League Baseball has decided to rebrand
the disabled list. They are ending the disabled list. It
will now be known as the injured list. The people

(01:24:57):
that run Major League Baseball, in a prepared statement, announced
that they're making this change out of quote concern, concern
about what you ask, concern that the term disabled for
injured players falsely conflates disabilities with injuries and an inability

(01:25:19):
to participate in sports. That it's a complete load of crap.
So there's all these big shots at baseball who gave
their their statements. Now the rules are going to stay
the same. It's still the disabled list. They're just going
to call it the injured list. Keep in mind, since
nineteen sixty six it has been the disabled this but

(01:25:42):
now here we are in twenty nineteen. They have to
change it. Now you can say, whole cares it's just
a word, big deal. This is absurd. Okay, this is
absolutely absurd. So what are the takeaways? What are your
takeaways from this decision by Major League Baseball to get
rid of disabled. You know the definition of disabled if

(01:26:03):
you look it up, it's of a person having a
physical or mental condition that limits movement, senses, or activities.
I would say, if you're unable to play in a
professional baseball game, that you have been disabled physically. You
are unable to move the way you need to move

(01:26:23):
to play professional baseball. It is not a wrong quote.
But here's what I've got. I've got overreach, Pandora's box,
and speed, and we will combine all these things. Now,
First of all, I begin with this who is behind it?
Like normally when something like this happens, there's a special

(01:26:45):
interest group banging the drum trying to get this change,
and then eventually they make so much noise that a
sports organization caves in the cow tao to help out
these people. That didn't happen here, right, Who exactly is
up in arms? Where are the people protesting in the

(01:27:06):
disabled community saying this is not right. We do not
like this. The answer is literally nobody, literally nobody. I
can't even say snowflakes because I don't even think the
snow flakes are upset with this. It is unnecessary. It
is Major League Baseball overreach. And I know they like

(01:27:29):
to claim, because they all live in New York or
Westchester County there in the New York area, or some
nice neighborhood in New Jersey, that they are bastions of
virtue in Major League Baseball. But they look like clowns.
Bozo the clown on this bunch of hard ohs now.
The second thing, as we chat here on Fox Sports

(01:27:52):
Radio is Pandora's box because it's been open right. Watch
out for those floodgates, because where do you stop? Right?
Where do you stop? And let's play this game out.
Let's do a little exercise, me and you. Okay, we
have some fun with this now. Baseball said in the
prepared statement that they're changing this out of concern that

(01:28:13):
the term disabled for injured players falsely conflaints disabilities with injuries.
So okay, that's fine, Let's let's let's go down this
rabbit hole. How about balls and strikes? Right, I feel
like the term balls is a sexist term. It's not

(01:28:34):
inclusive for the women that don't have the balls, so
it's offensive. I'm offended. I'm offended when I see a
two ball count. I'm offended by that. I'm really offended
by a three ball count and a four ball count,
because there should be no more than a two ball count.
What about strikes? Strikes, that's an aggressive term to strike someone.

(01:28:58):
I don't want that in my society. That conflates that
baseball supports that kind of activity. We don't need that
in baseball. What about this term if you're a baseball fan,
you know homeplate. The home plate is white, but around
it is black. And there's a term for pitchers, paint

(01:29:20):
the black racist. Right, that's as bad as black face.
They might as well get rid of it. It's horrific, right,
Come on, right, we gotta get rid of that term shortstop?
Do I even need to explain? Right? I mean, it
clearly mocks people who are vertically challenged, people who used

(01:29:41):
to be called dwarfs or midgets. That's offensive to them.
That's a protected class. Why would baseball mock them? Calling
a position on the field, shortstop and designated hitter. You
want to punch somebody, I'm gonna hit you. I'm the
designated hitter. I'm here to punch you. Yeah yeah. Stolen base?

(01:30:07):
How about stolen base? That conflates that Major League Baseball
endorses crime. You didn't earn that base, you stole it.
You're a criminal. Baseball shouldn't support criminal activity. That's wrong.
How about bullpens. There's a lot of cattle, a lot
of cattle out there that are offended. You're goofing on them.

(01:30:32):
The best pictures in baseball the top pitchers are starting pitchers.
The ones that aren't good enough to start and go
to the bullpen. You're mocking the cattle, right, it's not right.
How about losses. That's a negative, hurtful thing to lose, right,
you don't want to lose. What's up with that? How

(01:30:54):
about they tried? They tried? We have the winds column.
Even that's offensive, right, because wins that means you're better
than someone else, and we're all equals, we're all the same.
You see where I'm going with this now? The last
point I would like to compliment Rob Manford because he
has said for several years. He wanted to speed up

(01:31:17):
the game of baseball. And what this does do one
of the by products of baseball going from the disabled
list to the injured list, It is speeding up the game.
This is a high impact move. Why is it a
high impact move? Let me explain, because speed up the game? Right,
that's that's the one doing baseball. How many letters are

(01:31:40):
in the word disabled? Do you know how to spell
the word disabled? D I S A B LED. That's
eight letters. How about injured? I, N J, you R ed.
That's only seven. That is a one letter net positive
for Major League Ball. So that has sped up the

(01:32:02):
pace of play. Good job by the commissioner, is he
Ben Maller's show on Fox we say lo to Edmund Dallas, Steamboat,
Willie Judas, Solid gold Garcia. I saw this story that

(01:32:23):
you you were just discussing, Big Story, Eddie, Big Story.
Sometimes you see a story and you have to you
think it's the oni, right, you think it's exactly Yes,
I wait a minute, this is this realness? Can't be real. Yeah,
it's real. It's real, It's really happening. It's real. Yeah.
I think they should change it. All team names are offensive. Also,

(01:32:46):
I pointed this out. I've done this before. But like
even the most benign names like red Sox and white
Sox offensive, There is a group of people that have
a neurosis against wearing socks. They feel awkward wearing socks.
They think they're disgusting and smelly, and and so they
should get rid of them. I mean, everything's offensive. It's

(01:33:07):
so stupid. It is so to think that people who
get paid a lot of money, that work for this
billion dollars industry in Major League Baseball, that this is
what these morons sit around and do well, I mean
what he got nothing? I mean, this is this is
a waste of everyone's time. So no more referring to that,
to the list as the d L Well. I was gonna, yeah,
I was gonna ask you, Ben, can we just call it?

(01:33:29):
Keep calling it the disabled list? Can we form a protest?
What's gonna happen if we, you know, call don't you decide?
I'm not going to call it the injured list. I'm
gonna keep calling it the disabled I gotta tell you, Eddie,
I think we're a bunch of rebels here the power.
We're going rogue dye. That's a good idea. If nobody,
if everyone refuses to adopt this, well, I mean, yeah,
it's you know what it is. It's like the nc

(01:33:50):
Remember the NCAA tournament changed the lingo. They tried to
change the lingo on the brackets, and remember that, Eddie
and they tried to come and then they nobody used it.
So they I still say to Vision one and Division
two and the Bold Subdivision and all that stuff, that's confusing.
It's not Division one and Division two. Oh no, that's
been gone for year. It's being gone for many years.

(01:34:11):
They don't do it. They don't do it that way.
We do it that way. What is it called? Isn't
it like the Bowl subdivision? Yeah? Yeah, they've they've changed
the name. Why make something you know that was clear? Uh?
You know less clear? Good idea. It's a bunch of
dopey intellectuals that sit around and how do we come
up with his nonsense? And it's like it's busy body work,

(01:34:32):
is what it is. That's exactly what it's got to.
I've got to validate my job, So I'm gonna come
up with this idea, yea, and get a pat on
the back for it, exactly, all right, anyway, Well, we'll
press on. Here got Big Ben's lame jokes of the
week later the souff you want to call, there's a
line open. We'll take some calls before we get to
the lame jokes of the week. We'll do that right now.
The sale to Cody in Iowa? Who's next on Fox

(01:34:53):
Sports Radio? Hello Cody? Hey, what's up man? What's going on? Cody?
How can we help you? But? Oh? Nothing? Huh. You're
your take on the disabled injured deals. I'm gonna have
to thank you very much. Eddie Iowa has checked in. Eddie,

(01:35:14):
I've won the monologue in the state of Iole. That
is a win. Um, say, I've seen that Landon Collins
with safety from New York is gonna be on the
free agency list this next year. Yeah. What do you
think about him possibly going to Green Bay? Because I
talk to you a few weeks ago on green Bay's

(01:35:36):
my team. Yeah. And now, do you own stock in
the Green Bay Packers? Are you alway stockholder? No? I
do not. No. You know they're the publicly traded. The
stock's not worth anything other than you get a nice
piece of paper that says you own part of the
Green Bay Packers. Like if I was, if I was
a Packer fan, I would buy it. I would frame

(01:35:58):
it and I would put it in my office. I'm
not a packer fan, but I absolutely would. Uh. Well,
here's here's all I'll answer this question. Cod do you
know this better than me? When in our lives if
the Green Bay Packer has been uber aggressive in free agency? Never? Right,
I mean not not until this new GM started this

(01:36:21):
last year. Yeah. But they what they signed Jimmy Graham? Right?
How did that? How did that? Jimmy Graham and Wilkerson
and how? And they missed the playoffs? Yep? Yeah? And
are they are they gonna release Jimmy Graham? Isn't that?
I think the rumors from from what I've heard, they're
gonna bring him back and they're gonna release Oh, Wilkerson's gone.

(01:36:45):
The former jet guy is gone. Yeah. Was he driving
around those high end cars in Green Bay like he
wasn't Jersey and getting trouble there? He probably was. It
stands out a little bit more in Wisconsin and Green
Bay then. Yeah. So anyway to answer your question, I
am going to push back on the Packers spending the

(01:37:05):
money on landon Collins because he's gonna get paid a
good amount of money and I don't I just don't
think they're gonna pay him. So, but yeah, we'll see.
All right, thank you, Bud. There you go. Iowa has
checked in, Eddie. We need more NFL free agency talk
is what we need. Yeah? That was that was great.

(01:37:26):
That was edgy radio as it was, wasn't it. Yeah?
Come on tell me you were not entertained by that? Yes,
you were entertained. A bad job by you if you
were not entertained. This is a very entertaining thing. Absolutely,
So Ben, what are the Ram's gonna do? This? Free
agency breakdown? LaMarcus Joiner, he's a free agent. Safety as
you know, it's all safety talk. If you want to
talk about a safety, we are here for you. If

(01:37:47):
you want to talk safety on the radio. Ken on
Earl Thomas? What about Earl Thomas? He's healthy? Is health?
Is the honey bear or honey badger rather? Tyron Matthews here,
free agent again from the Texans. Interesting, These are very
deep questions, very very deep questions. We'll press up. We'll

(01:38:08):
take some of these calls here coming up in a minute.
Big Ben's lame Jokes of the week later in the hour,
and it's all about letters again. It's all about letters.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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best one liners, or at least the ones that made

(01:39:16):
the cut. Our friend inca terror, right, so he says
best monologue ever out of the park, but perhaps no
one protested Ben because their disabilities prevented them too. So
what do you what do he has to show? It's
a fair point. It's a fair point. What's like I
always say, we are allowed to goof on the hearing

(01:39:39):
impaired on this show. They are with them and the Amish,
because if you're really Amish, you cannot listen to our show.
A real person who is part of the Amish belief
system cannot listen to the radio because of the technology.
I've never seen a horse and buggy with a radio
at So there's that and the care we can say, well,
you know you're what are you gonna? I didn't like

(01:39:59):
how that sound? Our buddy tripp says been the biggest
question of this NFL offseason is will Bill Belichick signed
Cole Beasley? That's true? Isn't that? That's like right out
of the cliche generic slot white guy receiver for the pages.
Isn't that that's accurate? Angry Bill? Someone that's spent a

(01:40:24):
lot of time on disabled lists over his life. Girl
on Fox Sports Radio, Hello, Angry Bill, how's my best
bud doing again? Your best boy doesn't work here? But
how how will we help you? Before we get started?
I just wanted to ask Eddie. Eddie, was number thirty
two your number in high school playing football? No, no, allously,

(01:40:50):
I'm I'm really surprised because that's the amount of hours
a week you like working. Sorry, it's a low blow.
I'm the only one allowed to goof on, Eddie. How
dare you? Well? Then, after all, it was NBA exciting
to have to have a deep problem here, and you're
the only one that could probably help me. You've come
to the right place when you have a life problem.
It's always good to call the overnight sports guy that

(01:41:11):
is where your food. Not even help me out with
all the NBA stuff. You've got to help me out
with one thing. Valentine's Days coming up next week. Yeah,
don't have a clue what to give Bella. Can you
help me back with the Bella stuff? But well, you
know my advice. I should give my advice out for
Valentine's Day. We might have to do a special romance.

(01:41:31):
Well you're not. I don't even robot it was going
to be here, So we will not do a special
romance with Roberto. Let's concentrate here. I'm just asking us
for some advice. What Bella wants probably a new dress.
I know that angry Bill does not actually go on
like those porn websites. He goes on the kennel websites.
He looks at those and funny, that's not that funny.

(01:41:55):
He's on the ship. You're on the shitsue adoption websites
is what you're on, that's what. Did they actually send
your buddy that fills in for you to the NBA?
Who's that? What are you talking about? I didn't mean
mb I'm getting old, man, You're not getting old, You're

(01:42:15):
already old. Did they send him to the super Bowl?
I'm not you. I don't know who. I didn't listen.
I don't know who they said. I have no idea
fills in for you, the guy that does all the
porn stuff. Oh Jonas, Yeah, Jonas was Yeah? Did they
send him to the super Bowl? I believe, I believe.
I believe he was there, My man, Jonas wasn't. He
didn't mock me, he didn't take I respect Jonas because

(01:42:38):
he didn't take photos of people that are mortal enemies
in line and try to mock me like other people did.
So I have no problem with Jonas. I'm happy you
got to go. Yeah, but the Fox Sports has got
to be telling you something. Ben if they send him
and not you, I mean, come on, I mean, that's
just not right. I don't care. They can pay I
get paid a lot of money. They can do whatever
they want. I don't care. I'm fine. Well I gotta

(01:42:58):
stick up for you. You're the last person I want
sticking up for me. Well, what happened? Shut up? I
get out of here, you moron. Here's a blast on
the no condom Carl from Massachusetts. We have not heard
from him in many, many months. Hello, no condom Carl,

(01:43:20):
Good morning man. How are you today? It's been a while, Carl.
What happened to you? Why have you been here with
this protection program? I was on the injury list. You
run the disabler No no, no no, and actually injury
bothers me. I think it should be the people who
need rest list. Ah, I got you. It's much easier.

(01:43:45):
Leff hurtful, Leff harmful. Then I grew up at a time.
I have two brothers that were born with congeneral glock comer,
and they've been blown blind most of their lives. Yeah,
I'm the brother who's four years younger than me. If
you ask him to keep an eye on something, he'll
pop his glass eye out and lay it on it.

(01:44:05):
That that must be tremendous, That that must be a
wonderful visual, that must be great. Well, i'll tell you're
used to freak the kids out in school when they
pop it out. Yeah, I was a kid. I'll tell
you it was a lot of fun. I think you
were one hundred percent on. We are on track to
make everything so simplified, so stupid. It's stuff. It makes

(01:44:29):
me sick. I just think it's absurd. These things are cyclical, right,
so eventually it'll shift back. At some point it'll shift back.
I don't know how long this is going to go on.
It's been going on a while now, and I don't.
With social media, people love to have a place to complain,
and people give them way too much power that they

(01:44:50):
don't deserve. So well, that's that's the whole thing. Social
media is allowed the people to come out of the close.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that. Oh yeah,
and don't call them people because that's offensive. People are bad.
Call them cockroaches because cockroaches are good, right, Yeah, it
allows Actually they're more like bedbugs to the type of

(01:45:14):
critter that you cannot kill, You cannot do anything, but
it doesn't really harm anybody. Well no, you said, well, yeah,
I think if you get bitten by a bunch of Yeah,
but they don't bring the diseases, so they're okay. Have
you seen have you seen photos of people that have
been bitten by bed bugs? Their whole back and legs
just covered. They're they're they're they're the worst bug you

(01:45:38):
could ever have in your house because you can't get
rid of them, because if you have one, you have
an infestation. Eventually. Yeah, I got a Carl, listen, we're here.
Don't be a stranger. Car. We love you, man, I
call it not a stranger. Right every night out here,
pedal in the news. All right, and be safe out there, car.
There are buddy, no condom, car. It's good. They're noise alive.

(01:46:00):
George and Youngstown real quick, George, you had something to add, George, Yeah, Man,
I gotta straighten down the Amish man. They are totally
into radio. The young guys out here north to Youngstown.
They check out their buggies. They got woofers all run
off to a whole battery. The only problem they got
is like with house electricity. Like the guys in due construction.

(01:46:21):
I saw a guy with a power saw right running
on gas man a little too cycle. They just don't
like that wire. Otherwise, they're totally into the radio, totally.
Oh yeah, their body owns the cell phone. They use it.
Oh okay, I got you. Well. I know the the Amish.
I remember that show. What was the Amish reality show
that was on TV? Remember that where they I guess
when they become was it thirteen or fourteen or something

(01:46:43):
like that. They're allowed to go to the banking Amish, yeah,
breaking Amish, and they're allowed to go to the outside
world and experience, you know, smut and tawdry things in life,
and then they can decide whether they want that life
or whether they want to go back to horse and
buggy land. And they make those good heaters, the the
heaters that you can get. They used to be an
infomercial for him. Don't look at me like that. There

(01:47:07):
they make there's like a room heater that was racist.
Is is that a rate? I don't know the racist.
I'll almost make good heaters. I don't know about all Amish,
but they anyway, all right, but all those Negroes looked,
I don't play. That's that's a baseball that don't play
that Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. We gotta

(01:47:29):
do two segments. We gotta do two. We gotta do two.
We'll get to that coming up here in a moment
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He needs still on the Pelicans and some moves that
were actually made. The Raptors acquire Mark Gasol from the Grizzlies,

(01:47:50):
the Bucks pick up Nicola mirritage from the Pelicans, and
the seventy six ers shipp down former number one overall
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(01:48:12):
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(01:48:55):
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(01:49:39):
comfortable at the scouting combine, there's a special exception. The
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(01:50:00):
the answer is apparently yes. Well, his dad actually came
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free rate quote. We have a name change in baseball
the Yankees. Zach Britton has changed his name. Did you
hear about this? No? Yeah, Zach Britton. He played with
Baltimore for a long time. It turns out, Eddie that
all these years we've been calling him Zach Britton. But
we have to change that because turns out that his

(01:50:42):
name at the end of it, the first name had
an H. They spelled zach Zac. It's actually a K Eddie,
so that's his legal name. So he's now asking people
to spell his name with a K instead of an H.
Please make note of that, Eddie. Big News duly noted
Zach Britton with a kiy. What took him so long?

(01:51:04):
That's my point, Like why there's been other worst examples
than that, though, I mean, what was Oh I'm trying
to think here, there was a center from UCLA, Dan
Gadzo reach yes and hez yeah get ZERI yeah. He
had two different names. My favorite was still that former
Angels pitcher was like Jerome Robinson and then he's like, no,

(01:51:26):
my name is actually Jeremy or vice versa. Was like, yeah,
Jerome or Jeremy, and he he went. We went by
one or the other for years. Where he decided, I
think I gotta tell everybody what my real name is.
Zach Britton has been in the Major League Baseball for
eight years. He's been in two All Star Games. He's
led the American League in saves, he was the reliever
of the Year, and he now at this point, has

(01:51:47):
decided I would like to change my name. Well, he didn't.
How does that happen? Although it wasn't Joe Fiseman, right,
the old old quarterback Joe Fisman. Didn't they change the prisman?
It was theisman, but he wanted to rhyme with heisman.
Worked out pretty well for him toil he Lawrence Taylor
came in there and broke his leg. Worked out pretty well.
All right, we got jokes. Let's do the hit that

(01:52:08):
button right there. We got jokes. That's where we got
we blame week. Coo, it's Big Band's lame joke of
the week. All these are actual jokes by actual listeners
like yourself. We thank you for sending these in the
ben Lame Jokes of the Week, a listener generated content
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(01:52:30):
I'll bounce it off Eddie, he'll bounce it back to me.
If the joke's funny, you'll hear this. If it's not funny,
you'll hear that. And if you could go either way,
you'll hear this. And Coop's got some some jokes. I
send him some jokes in the morning. I don't know
if you got him or not. And Weed Man, Hello,
weed Man, ve you rule after Red Nosed Lane, Deer Joanda,

(01:52:53):
Miammie Day County, Limberty City, col. I want you, but
it's not done yet. And I gotta go sit back
in that office again tomorrow. So make me laugh then. Now,
Weed Man, you I hear you're quitting the show. You're
considering leaving the show, so this could be your final
lame jokes seen four years. I'm doing with with you

(01:53:18):
every night. I'm insane complished, all right, I'll make a deal.
All right, wait, wait, wait, I'll make a deal with you.
How about you go out and get a job. You
don't have to call anymore? How about that? Okay, all right,
let's get to that jokes. Let's get to the jokes.

(01:53:39):
All right. What did Bill Belichick say when a domicon
stus started whining during the Super Bowl? What did Belichick
say when Sue was winning? I don't know, Ben Shush,
that's the inca terror. There you go. Have you heard
about the new Magic Show? No? I have no. Are
you talking about Magic Johnson? What are you talking about?

(01:54:00):
It starts with the King and makes winds disappear, Eddie.
It's amazing how that works, Iowa, Well it turns out.
Shut up. Uh no, you're not. You're not gonna get
to the Western Conference House. Lebron not gonna make the
plaus My kings are gonna make the class go Sacramento.
So Lebron, James Eddie, he wanted he wanted the unibrout

(01:54:21):
the trade deadline. Yes, we heard that. He ended up
getting a shave. That's what he got, ed, that's what
he got the tea. I notice Roberto does not like
Did you hear that Lebron James was has cast Luke
Walton in his new Warner Brothers projects. I did not
hear that, say, remake of dead Man Walking? Is? That's

(01:54:45):
not funny? That's what Matt the Warrior Raider, AES fan,
who also passes on that Lebron James has another sequel
in production to The Devil Wears Prada. Eddie, Oh really, yeah,
it's the Devil Wears Purple. That's the new. It's a
spin off. It has to spend off his y. All right.

(01:55:08):
Lebron's basketball IQ Eddie has plummeted recently. Is that right?
It's now minus forty two? That's the new from inca Terror?
What are you doing this? I don't know, Eddie. Why
were farmers across the nation confused on Sunday afternoon? I

(01:55:30):
don't know, Ben, Why were farmers confused on Sunday afternoon?
They could not understand how one goat could defeat an
entire team of rams. They couldn't figure out an I'm
ran in Vancouver sent that, thank you, buddy? Uh wow,
shut up. Julian Edelman went to Disney World after winning

(01:55:52):
the Super Bowl MVP Eddie, Yeah, with his BFF Tom Brady. Yeah, yeah,
it was for the award. He had to report to
work after though he was one of the seventh Warfs
actually put him right away, so he had to earn
his key. So are you, Cooper, do you have anything
over there? Cooper? What a feminists used for birth control

(01:56:14):
their personality? I think that was from Josh. Well, the
Russian Navy has a new weapon that makes targets hallucinate
and vomit, Eddie. Is that right? Yeah, it turns out
that Vladimir Putin just shows highlights of Jared goffin the
super Bowl and the horrific that's from Dave here. What

(01:56:39):
is the opposite of irony? Eddy? The opposite of irony?
I don't know, Ben, what is it? Riley? You know
our guy Marcel and Brooklyn said he does not like bread? Yeah,
it's his yeast favorite thing, Eddie, he does not like.

(01:57:00):
Get some seed. Why does Flexus only have seven toes? Oh? Boy, well,
I think I know, But why doesn't flexus have seven toes? No?
Why does why does? Yeah? Well, two of his little
piggies went to the market and one never came home.

(01:57:21):
That's from just Jobs. All right, very nice. Let's I
don't know, let's skip over that one. Oh boy, I
don't know some of these them having second thoughts about
all right, well, why don't we reset here. We'll get
to the rest of Big Man's lame jokes. You got
a bunch of weed Man jokes or some Blair and
Main jokes in here, a bunch of good stuff. We'll
get to all that, and we will do it next.

(01:57:42):
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It's Ben Maller and back to the lame jokes of
the week. Here we go, actual jokes by actual listeners.
Let's see if Crusty the Clown is there? Are you there? Rusty?
The people are happy? Tiger Woods Eddie is excited to

(01:58:29):
be starting a new diet for the PGA season. Oh
really yeah, he say he's most looking forward to the
cheat days. He's really liked he likes those cheats. Ye,
that's just Josh sent that one in. According to according
to Roberto, today's weather forecast is r Kelly Eddie. Oh yeah,
it's in the teens. That's a Kurt from Earth? Who

(01:58:52):
sent that? Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. What
is Roberto's least favorite stage play? M Roberto's least favorite
stage play? What is it? Ben? The Iceman cometh? He
does not Gordon in Tacoma? What? What job does Randy
and Norman think is non existed? I don't know what

(01:59:14):
the job does Randy and Norman think is non existent?
A bouncer, Eddie? A bouncer? Blair? Shut up, blairen Maine
does not understand threesomes. He announced that this weekend. Oh
really yeah, he said, if he wants to disappoint two people,
he can just have dinner with his family. Alright, Big Bence, Oh,

(01:59:42):
I don't leave me. I don't want a three way?
All right, here we go. What what is the difference
between what is the difference between twenty bodies and a
Cadillac twenty bodies? And a Cadillac. What is a difference?
Ben angry, Bill doesn't have a Cadillac in his bill famayo?

(02:00:02):
What do you guy? Coop anything over there? Yeah? How
do you? How do you find blind Scott at a
nude beach? I don't know, it's not hard. What old
NFL coach would weed Man hippie be if he was
an NFL coach? What old NFL coach would weed Man
hippie b? I don't know, bum Phillips that would be?

(02:00:24):
Who shout out to Eric from my last joke? What
is weed Man's favorite fair? Favorite fair of weed Man?
What is it? The Florida State Welfare? He loves that?
Anthony Anthony Anthony and Anna, We're not done? No, weed Man?
Weed Man really is a good sport Eddie Jerry Lamb jokes.

(02:00:47):
Is he really? Of course? That sport is cardboards boxing, Eddie.
That's what he got. That's a bill and I I
butchered the Why can't eat? Why can't eat? Phone home?
I don't know? Why can't d phone home? Because he
was roommates with weed Man? Hit the Obama phone shut off?

(02:01:10):
Matt the Warrior Raider has fan? Why does weed Man
Hippie loved dating homeless woman, Eddie. I don't know why
does weed Man like dating homeless women and drop them
off his bike anywhere? It doesn't matter we met weed Man.
Hippy keeps taking blurry pictures of himself while taking a shower. Ready,

(02:01:30):
Oh really, yeah, he's got major selfie steam issues, ed.
It's really a problem. It's a big problem there. Why
why did weed Man get in a fight with a rat?
I don't know. Why did weed Man get in a
fight with a rat? Well, he tried to steal the
mouldy cheese out of the trap at the super weed

(02:01:55):
Man is so poor? Ready? How poor is he? Someone
called him dirt poor and he worried it might bump
him into a different tax bracket. Bill in Iowa set
that one. What position would weed Man play in the NFL?
I don't know what's weed Man's position in the NFL?

(02:02:15):
Line slacker, that's what NFL team does weed Man hate?
I don't know what NFL team does weed Man hate?
The bills he can't save. You're gonna save the closes
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very straightforward. So we have the NBA trade deadline and

(02:03:22):
there is not a single trade that really does anything
for nothing Anthony Davis. For the last ten days or so,
we have run around like Mike the Headless Chicken and
were just going nuts about where is Anthony Davis gonna play? Well,
it turns out the Pelicans did the right thing, the

(02:03:42):
proper thing, and they didn't cave in to Anthony Davis
and Lebron James and his tampering Lakers and they held
on to Anthony. Well, now we have a conundrum. There
is a real life quagmire for the Pelicans. The belief

(02:04:02):
of many in NBA circles was that Anthony Davis would
not play again in New US. Now he's not going
to play for another team, but he would just kind
of hang out and show up and wear his suit
and his gold chain and chill out and sit on
the bench. You're sit in the locker room, and that
would be that. In a surprise, once the trade deadline

(02:04:24):
passed and it was confirmed that Woge was right that
Anthony Davis would not be traded, the New Orleans Pelicans
announced plans to allow Anthony Davis to come back and
play for the rest of the season. There's twenty seven
games left. The Pelicans play on Friday Night. They've got
twenty seven games left, and Anthony Davis, according to the

(02:04:46):
general manager Dell Demps, in a prepared statement, is going
to play. Now that prepared statement, here's how it read. Quote,
Anthony Davis will play the remainder of the twenty eighteen
nineteen season for the New Orleans. A number of factors
contributed to the decision. Statement continued, Ultimately, Anthony made it

(02:05:08):
clear to us that he wants to play and he
gives our team the best opportunity to win games. Moreover,
the Pelicans want to preserve the integrity of the game
and align our organizationtion with NBA policies. We believe Anthony
Davis playing upholds the values that are in the best

(02:05:32):
interest of the NBA and its fans. And the statements
said we look forward to seeing Anthony in a Pelicans
uniform again soon. End quote. Do you believe that that
statement was honest? Do you believe that that statement came
from Del Demp's, the general manager of the New Orleans Pelican? No,

(02:05:53):
of course not. Right now, a couple of things here.
You've got the helicopter, parent, the dirty laundry, and oblivious
and we will mix all this together. First of all,
you know what that that statement reminds me of a
hostage letter. The Pelicans, you know how you know they

(02:06:18):
did not want to play, did not want to play
Anthony Davis ever again in the big easy You know,
why what did they do at home? What did they
do at home with the scoreboard, the video and all that,
you remember where they did They edited out Anthony Davis.
They chopped him out of the sizzle reel to fire

(02:06:41):
up the fans in New Orleans. They said, you know what,
we do not want to even show the face of
Anthony Davis at the Smoothie King Center, which is a
silly named arena. We don't want to do that. And
so now here we are and they've done a one
eighty and they're they're sending out a prepared statement about

(02:07:02):
how they are a number of factors. But ultimately Anthony
made it clear that he wants to play and he
gives us the best opportunity to win. Blah blah blah,
blah blah. But the thing about this, can you tell
the weasel words in that statement? I read now, I'm
not going to read the whole thing again, but could

(02:07:23):
you hear did your detector of weasel terminology come out?
Because it did for me. There's one sentence that you
tells you it's a giveaway. It's a dead giveaway that
that did not come from the Pelicans. Here it is
quote the Pelicans want to preserve the integrity of the

(02:07:47):
game and aligne are organizationan with NBA policies. Period stop there.
It is that is directly from Fifth Avenue, from Park
Avenue there in New York. Integrity of the game is hey,

(02:08:08):
he wants to play, he's been cleared to play, he's
got to play. Now. I agree he should play, right.
This is a very uncomfortable situation for everyone involved. It's
uncomfortable because of the actions of Anthony Davis. It's I
completely understand why the Pelicans franchise would want to be

(02:08:30):
helicopter parents. We are in bizarro world, like. I don't
know how we got here other than just a lot
of money being involved. But for many generations of people
that played sports and watch sports, the idea that someone
would subscribe to the beliefs that you are better off
not playing someone and that is the best course of action,

(02:08:56):
it would just be no been none starting. I won't
even pay ten do it for years, and now we're
at the point where not only is that the thing
that the Pelicans wanted to do, they wanted to be
the overprotective helicopter parent, but many agree they should have
done that the Pelicans. If you look at this situation
now the NBA, it certainly appears as stepped and I

(02:09:19):
don't think there's much doubt on that that they've stepped
in because according to the by laws of the NBA,
they have to play Anthony Davis. The Pelicans have everything
to lose here and nothing to gain they do. This
is one of those catch twenty two situations. They are
standing in front of a brick wall, it's a dead

(02:09:43):
end street, and running after them are lions, tigers and
crawling along or some alligators. That's what's going on here.
The gamble is obvious. The gamble is, hey, you play him.
You have to play him. And let's say Anthony Davis,
who has been known as someone who's been made out
of glass. Let's say he goes up for a rebound
against the Portland Trailblazers and he comes down and he

(02:10:06):
happens to hit Damian Lillard and he pops his achilles
and he's gone for a year. Well, then you're screwed.
It's already happened to the Pelicans with DeMarcus Cousins, who
missed a good chunk of time and then eventually left
to go to the Golden State Warriors. The only option
and the only real play here for the Pelicans is

(02:10:30):
the NBA says you have to play Anthony Davis. That's
the stalemate. The Pelicans don't want to do it. So
the move here is to limit his minutes. Now, that
would be obvious that they're messing around with Davis. But
you can do that, right. There's no law in the
NBA rule book that says player X has to play

(02:10:51):
forty minutes a game or thirty five minutes a game.
You could play Anthony Davis fifteen or twenty minutes a
game and maybe not even that much, and that would
be following the letter of the law. And I do
not believe you would be attacked by any monsters. I
don't think that you would be kicked in the shins

(02:11:15):
with baseball bats if you did that. So there's a
little bit. It's a loophole that the Pelicans can do.
And if that does happen, and I suspect it will,
they would have to say what there. They would say, well,
we want to give a look at some of the
other younger players that we have on a roster, want
to see how they do in game action. Now there's

(02:11:38):
another part of this story, the final point here, the
water boarding part of it. And I would think, unless
Anthony Davis is totally oblivious to all of this, that
there's going to be a lot of bad blood. I
know that New Orleans is the funnel rama. It's all

(02:12:00):
about the partee and the celebration and the jubilation of
Bourbon Street and all that good stuff in New Orleans,
the beads, the whole Mardi Grawl, the Big East called
the Big Easy for a reason. But there are a group,
not many of basketball season ticket holders, who I would

(02:12:20):
think have some bad blood. I would think are going
to make things very uncomfortable to Anthony Davis. And it's
going to be, shall I say, I don't know what's
the proper word here, It's gonna be for him, uncomfortable.
Deplorable might be a word, But this is his decision.

(02:12:43):
He decided. Anthony Davis, with the help of Lebron James
and Lebron's agent, his operative to air his dirty laundry.
And essentially, what Anthony Davis has said is that this
organization is not good enough. I'm not good enough as
a player. I can't carry you guys. I suck. You

(02:13:03):
suck more than me, though, and I don't want any
one of you. I don't like the coach, I don't
like the players. I hate everything about this. So I
want out. And so he attempted to, as we know,
man handle the Pelicans to get out of there, and
they say, just rue you and so here we are.

(02:13:26):
All right, So Ben Mallas show on Fox, we say
a load of Edmund Dallas steamboat, Willie Judas solid gold Garcia.
We have a few more jokes, Eddie, if you want.
I didn't get to the big closer. I have a
few more lame jokes, laughing. Okay, let's let's see weed
many of there, weed Man and Coop had some more?

(02:13:46):
Did you have no more? Okay? All right, very good?
As you know, Eddie, Randy and Norman has an interesting
beef with with Ben malloy with me. I actually I
didn't know that he had an interesting beef with you.
But what is Yeah? When it comes to weed Man, Hippie,
they both agree that the checks he writes have been
bouncier lately. Of course, well, bed bugs, Eddie were falling

(02:14:13):
from a lawyer's clothing in Oklahoma, forcing the courthouse to
close in Oklahoma. But that awful. Yeah, authorities wanted to
know how weed Man ended up in the Sooner state.
They couldn't. How did they get there? One more? Here
here's the closer, Eddie. I'm ready, Actually, I think I
have two more sick here. Oh yeah, here it is.

(02:14:36):
This is not the closing. Weed Man Hippie Eddie. Yeah,
he doesn't have to file taxes this year. That's nice. Yeah,
but the government is making him file his toenails for
the first time of year. So that's Here's here's the closer.
Here's the closer. What's the difference between weed Man hipp

(02:15:00):
in punk satani Phil. The difference between weed Man Hippie
and patani Phil is what at least the groundhog works
one day a year, any right there? Just yellow Thanks
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(02:18:11):
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side the Mallar Marathon. In the Boston show, I had
the first hour, a guy called up who was lived
in the woods outside Boston, out in Massachusetts suburbia. He
calls up. He says, I got a problem. Now he's drunk.

(02:18:31):
He claimed that he wanted some fresh air. So he
opened his front door and a raccoon ryhouse, a fourteen
to fifteen pound raccoon, he estimated. He then was able
to put a box over the raccoon, and he didn't
know what like, he didn't know how to handle like
the rest of it, because the raccoon was trying to
get out of the box, because if you were a

(02:18:53):
raccoon in a box, you would try to get out
of the box. Also, yes, that's what any raccoon would do.
And so he's on the and I'm like, why would
you call the sports radio show if you've got a
raccoon in your in your a house. And he said,
this is what this is drunk logic Atty, he tells me.
He says, well, I was already on hold when the
thing ran in. I that's why I just wanted I

(02:19:14):
didn't want to hang up. Then I had Whoopee Pie
Blair that called him. Whoopee Pie Blair is very upset
because he he apparently called for the firing of the
host of the Afternoon JAB. Now, why would do such
a thing. Well, that's not necessarily the problem. The problem
is our friends on the Morning JAB heard about this

(02:19:37):
and suspended Whoopie Pie Blair from calling that station for
two weeks. And it sounded like someone had kidnapped Whoopee
Pie Blair's dog, and he was very upset. You could
tell he had been crying it. They suspended him to
like to his ear. Yeah, they told him you're not
allowed to call for two weeks. And he was so

(02:19:59):
upset by this, And I you know what I did.
I'm a good friend, I told him. I said, I
like you a lot player. I said, I'm warning you
right now if you do If you it's fine, this
is nothing. But if you get in trouble again and
you get suspended from calling a radio station, you go
to jail for thirty days the next time. And no,

(02:20:19):
I told him, Yeah, I said, it's a Federal Crime
I told him the FCC will step in, and like,
he doesn't bully me. Then Rico called up from Brooklyn,
or not Rico. What's her name, Marcel, Marcel, Yeah, Rico's endeavor.
Marcel called up from Brooklyn and he he wanted to

(02:20:40):
talk about the Knickerbockers, and it was sorry, he's gonna
go over well on a Boston radio station. Yeah, it
is very appropriate. And and then he agreed in an
effort to recruit Kevin Durant to New York. He is
willing to escort Durant around Brooklyn and be like his chauffeur,
you know how, like, yeah, it's really nice. Scooby Scooby,

(02:21:03):
Scooby Dooby doo. I think that's great, so very interesting.
And then some a few other things happened. The blind
Scott called up. He was complaining about everything, and as
he usually does, so in uh, that's right, Oh you
want to talk to Oh we Rico, Well he's up next.
Actually we'll talk to Rica. He's standing by. I got

(02:21:26):
I got an email here from our friend David in
Pennsylvania who sent us all that delicious candy while back
and some other good stuff. Those hard and he's he's
got a story. The headline is what happened to those
amish heaters? So we'll have to check that out. I'll
have to read that. We'll get to the coop scoop
on entertainment, and there's a line open. You want to

(02:21:48):
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trying to read this at there's a lot of there's
a lot of stuff on this page here about these

(02:22:30):
What happened to the Amish? Those little room heaters they
used to sell? There was an infomercial used to sell them.
No longer se I think they're selling them anymore. Corner
this website. They're not selling them, and I I haven't
seen it in a while. I just assumed they were
still selling them, but I guess maybe not. I don't know.
I don't really care either, to be honest with you,
it's said Dave sent the story. So as I was
reading it, let's go to Rico and den we got

(02:22:52):
the coop scoop on entertainment. Come up here in a minute. Hello, Rico,
I didn't know you were doing laying jokes and I
got a clean one for you. Why did Ben take
viagra into the Rockets locker room for your stunt? He

(02:23:16):
wanted to see James Harden. You learned that in radio school. Rico, No,
now still still in there. But uh, I actually did

(02:23:36):
tell my brother, who does have a show here in Denver,
about you. So hopefully he can be on one day,
maybe on a segment on there. He's on my high Sports.
But anyway, I called to ask you one main question
before I get to my point now, when I was
on the radio for a couple of years, the highlight
of my career, I interviewed Dennis Smith, the former Bronco
via the radio. What was your best interview that you
can remember in all your years that was like your

(02:23:58):
most ben her your favorite interview. See here's the I
don't remember the good interviews. I remember the bad interviews,
like I remember interviewing the kid from the Hawaiian Little
League team that hit the game winning Grand Slam in
the League World Series, and then couldn't put two words together.
Or the Patriots running back they couldn't talk. I don't.

(02:24:19):
I mean as far as big names, I mean there's
a lot of big names, but I don't most of
them weren't very good interviews. Well, so then you remember
all my calls then obviously no, I gotta go thank you?
Is that it Rico Rico suave over there? Look at

(02:24:39):
that Marcel in Brooklyn? Hello, Marcel Scooby do we do
Mallar Molestsha That's right, it's finally here for me, Marcel
Mark seventy on Twitter. Oh you like the attention? Look
at you? And before you say anything, mister Maller, I

(02:25:02):
changed my profile. I changed my Twitter profile. It's going
to be hashtag mall shot. Yes, absolutely, I appreciate that.
Let me check to make sure. Here, I'm gonna look
have you done have you done it yet or you
haven't done it yet. I've done it. I've done it
from overnight, overnight and now is it true that you
went to sleep? You called the show in Boston. Did

(02:25:24):
you then go to bed and now you're waking up?
Is that accurate? You've been up all night? Well, I
slapped from overnight and then I call your show one
in Boston. You guys there locally, I'm here in New York. Well,
I'm aware of that. I know where Brooklyn is. But
there's a Brooklyn in Minnesota. Do you know that, Marcella.

(02:25:44):
There's a rival Brooklyn in the Twin Cities. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Brooklyn is in the Land of ten Thousand Lakes. That
is Minnesota. All right, Well, how can we help you.
I'm very flattered that you've promoted our show on your
Twitter page for your many followers there. That's very exciting
to me. But how can we help you? According to

(02:26:07):
my Twitter, mister Mallory, it is six hundred fifty one. Ye.
Oh yeah, you have six hundred and fifty one followers. Yeah, amazing. Yeah. Well, okay, alright,
I'm going to play the game coming up later on.
Oh you want to play Balderdash? Yeah? Well what hold?

(02:26:31):
He just dictated to you what you're gonna do. Well,
he's the boss, Marcell's the boss. How about it? Now, Marcel,
here's what listen. All right, I'm gonna put you on
hold here, Okay, I'm gonna give you a chance, but
I'm gonna have a backup in the bullpen. Okay, of course,
all right, hold on, hold on. Marcel has no chance

(02:26:51):
that's gonna be interesting, entertaining, no chance it'll be entertaining.
But this is a good We got the coops. We
gotta get to We had the coop scoop. Oh you
like the board, so you don't want to do it
because you know that's all right. Somebody wants to call
me the line, it'll be a rat killman. It might not,
you know, Lenny might have an off week. Maybe Lenny
drank a bunch of whiskey. And how old is Marcella?
Do we know that this? Marcel? How old are you? Marcella?

(02:27:15):
You sound like a young guy. How old are you?
I'm twenty four. Yeah, you're very young guy. Let me see,
I'm just here. That's a drop in the span of
five seconds. He just aged a year. Belie Hey. Become

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Slash match limitations. Upply, we'll get to the coop scoop. Now,
I promise no more dilly dalling, but let's get the
latest all the news that broke overnight years Eddie Well

(02:27:56):
check in the NBA trade deadline. No Anthony Davis on
the move. Not surprising, there there were some moves of note.
The Raptors acquire Marcasol from the Grizzlies, the Bucks pick
up Nicola Merititch from the Pelicans, and the seventy six
ers ship top former number one overall pick Mark Hill Folls.
He goes to the magic on the court. Lakers beat
the Celvics in Boston one twenty nine, one twenty eight

(02:28:16):
on over Gien Rondo buzzer beater. The former Celtic gets
the game winning shot against his old team, Lebron James
also a triple double in the win, twenty eight points,
twelve rebounds, twelve assists. Raptors get their fortieth win of
the year. They're forty and sixteen thanks to a one
nineteen one oh one win in Atlanta over the Hawks.
Undertop the Grizzlies one seventeen to ninety five. Russell Westbrook
gets his eight straight triple double four OKC that's one

(02:28:37):
away from tying an NBA record. He had fifteen points,
thirteen rebounds at fifteen assists patients over the Clippers one
sixteen ninety two. Trailblazers down the Spurs one twenty seven
to one eighteen. College basketball number four again, Zaga rolls
to a ninety two sixty two one over San Francisco.
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(02:28:57):
pay for your X car. So visit Drew Car and
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the Kansas City Chiefs have forbid their star young quarterback,
the new NFL MVP, Patrick Mahomes. They had forbidden doing
something apparently just d yes. On social media, they showed
some video of him playing basketball, and the GM Brett

(02:29:20):
Veach said in a radio interview quote, Yes, I did
see Pat Mahomes playing basketball. We did address it as
soon as I saw it. I probably took me two
seconds to call his agent and tell him that is
a big no no. So I think the Chiefs Kingdom
can rest assured. We have it under control. No more
basketball for Pat. End quote. I think it is actually
in the contract. You're not allowed to play basketball, isn't it.

(02:29:42):
I think it is. If it is, then obviously he
can't be doing it. But if not, I mean you'd
be injured doing a lot of things, that is true. Yes,
like John Wall fall down in his home schies Yeah yeah,
he wasn't he out with like seven strippers? No, no,
Hardy just walking to the kitchen together. People tells milk, Yeah, exactly,

(02:30:07):
all Right's Ben Allas show, Let's get it's cowboy up
real quick, Cowboy John Brad Hello, Cowboy John That Windsor,
Ontario and then the Coop school, everybody resting. Frank Robinson,
Cash's Play, Senior Elie's father and Delashannon both died twenty
nine years ago today. Jesse Friedis Junior committed suicide four
years ago today, and the people. The first appearance on

(02:30:28):
the Ed Sullivan Show was fifty for five years to
go tomorrow. Let's see Woody would Bury will be ninety
five tomorrow, Yes, ninety five, Travis Tripp fifty six, Travis Trip,
the country singer, and Veto Anna from will be fifty
Cowboys Corner. He's back man. Several people in Minnesota pointing

(02:30:52):
out it it's not just Brooklyn, it's Brooklyn Park or
Brooklyn Brooklyn Center. So and there's a Brooklyn in Wisconsin
to it. I had to know that my life is
much better now that I know that. You know what
I also need in my life. I need entertainment. I
need Hollywood. I need to know what's going on. I
need some documentaries and that means the Koola loop. Justin Cooper,

(02:31:15):
this week's hollywoodwood Screen. They used to do that Hollywood minute.
Remember the Hollywood Minute? They used to do that. No, okay,
Coola loop, what do we have here? Well, Ben, I
don't have any documentaries for you this weekend, but I
do have something that you might be interested in. It
premiers on Netflix. It's available right now. Actually, uh, it
is a original film. It's called High Flying Bird's directed

(02:31:40):
by Steven Soderberg, and it is a Netflix original film
that follows a sports agent and his NBA rookie client
during a labor dispute that shuts down the league. Uh.
Some of the names that you may recognize that Zachary
Quinto he played up in the New Star Trek I know,
the original spot but he's dead. Yes. And also Kyle

(02:32:01):
McLaughlin is in this as well. Watch Everyone's Dead, Eddie,
I know cowboys thrilled about it? Yeah. Also available on
Netflix today is a comedy special, New comedy special, Kevin
Hart's Guide to Black History. So, Eddie, you might want

(02:32:22):
to tune into that. Uh racist im that's right? Uh?
And then also today, available today on Hulu. It's a
new comedy. It's called Um I'm trying to figure out
how to say. It's called pen fifteen Pen fifteen, Yes,

(02:32:43):
all all together, no spaces, you know, right that in
like middle school? Yeah, what it looks like. All ten
episodes streams today for this Lonely Island produced comedy. Do
you know the Lonely Island is ben no I don't know.
It's that SNL like comedy duo. They do songs blank
in a box here, Okay, anyway, it's set in middle school.

(02:33:06):
The catches that two of the seventh graders are played
by fully grown adults, and they started real version of
themselves in the year two thousand. I saw a preview
for this. Looks pretty funny. It's gotten good reviews, so
check that out on Hulu. And then also, I don't
know if you guys know this, but they still do
awards for music. They yes the Grammy trip right now
where teams can't play at Staples Center. That's right. I

(02:33:27):
can't remember the last time anybody cared about the Grammys.
But if you do, still carry It's on CBS eight
pm Sunday night, the sixty first Annual Grammy. It's a
wild Man. The Lakers played the Celtics last night. The
Clippers play the Celtics in Boston on Saturday, and the
La Kings in Boston Boston on Saturday. That's right. Wow,
it's like the Boston La thing all week. Oh. Another

(02:33:49):
show that nobody cares about. The Walking Dad returns. Always
good to talk about things no one cares about. How
about Now you see that Jeff Bezos story. He's calling
out the National Enquirer. Did you see what people are
doing on social media? They're confusing the National Enquirer with
the Cincinnati Enquirer, and they're attacking the Cincinnati Enquirer because
the Cincinnati Enquirer website or their Twitter feed isn't just inquirer.

(02:34:14):
And I guess people are on Twitter just they type
in inquirer and they tweeted out, we are not the
National Enquirer. They tweeted that out, leave us alone. There
you go. People are messing it up real quick. Howard
and Maine wants to add something about Whoopee Pie Blair.
Then we get to Baldurdash, Hello, Howard, Hey, man, how's

(02:34:35):
it going? Man? Going on? Man? What's this? Give me
the insight, Skinny? So, Whoopie Pie Blair has been banned,
he said from the station for two weeks? Is that act? What? Yeahs.
As far as I know, he and Javier have been
feuding for quite some time, and I do believe he
went on a rampage with Javiers as a Jets fan.
Obviously so and when the Patriots and Blair switching switching

(02:35:02):
teams more than he changed his underwear. But that's that's
not the point. And what you still the Double Way
affiliate here is actually turning into the Portland Whoopee Pie.
I saw, I saw that we gotta get whoopee pipe
player at that game, and I want to get a hat.
I want to get a whoopie Pie hat. That would
be cool. So yeah, and ever since Blair had his

(02:35:23):
local newspaper end up doing a column on him, did
you hear about this? Oh yeah, yeah I saw the column. Yeah,
it was amazing. Yeah, he's got He and Hobby have
been have been going back and forth for for quite
some time. I actually wasn't listening when the whole suspension
thing or when he went on his rampage because he

(02:35:43):
calls about three times a day with both stations, is
what it is, although they try to limit it, but
I don't limit. He called, he called, he's, he runs,
he's whatever he wants, he does. You're stupid. I gotta
go out, But thank you, man, I thanks for the update. Yeah,
they're having the Eamon Maine in Portland Mains could becoming
the Whoopee Pies for a night. I think that's cool.

(02:36:05):
Now was this whoope pie situation. Was this a crying
Craig incidents? Remember, yes, yes, crying Craig. I was taking
a couple of days off, and I said that I
had suspended him from calling the show. I would not
take his call. I said, crying Craig, I love you,
but I'm not taking your call. You're suspended. And he started.
That's how he got the nickname Craig. He was just

(02:36:25):
on the Craig from Rockland and then he started crying,
and he became crying really yeah, and I'm not saying
like Roberto, it was a long time ago, but he
was really crying, like he was like, oh, it was unreal.
All right, we'll get the bald d ash. We'll see Marcel.
I need a backup for Marcello. I think I have
a backup there and on line six we'll get to that.

(02:36:46):
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(02:37:28):
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Check out our friends over at discover Less. Welcome in
our defending champion. He hangs out at the cemetery during
the day and he calls sports radio at night or
early in the morning. We say hello to Lenny. Hello, Lenny,
what's up? Benny? The joins show as usual. It's Benny

(02:37:50):
and Lenny, the Benny and Lenny Show at us. Just
want to get Malla militias, gotta get out there and
support then shows dot tv. Yeah, whatever you said, and
also download the podcast and all that. Hold on a second, Lenny, Now,
what we're gonna do here, Marcel, I'm gonna let you.
I'm gonna have now. I think I wanna do two

(02:38:10):
against one? Is that all right? Can I do two
against you? Know what I'm thinking? Coop, Yeah, let's do it,
all right, Marcel? Are you there? Marcel? Yes? Good? All right,
you've never met PJ in Oakland, but I want you
to say hello to PJ in Oakland. Say say hello
to a guy named PJ in Oakland. He can say
hello to him, of course, PJ. Are you there? Hi? PJ?

(02:38:37):
You've been deputized. Are You're part of team Marcel? So
both you tea. It's a tag team. We've never done
this before. Okay, so the way this is gonna work,
if either one of you know the answer, you can
yell your name out. Okay, all right, now what do
you do for a living? PJ? I? Oh, your lift driver?

(02:38:57):
I got you? All right, Hold on a sec. We
put everyone, put everyone on the air, so we're berta.
Make sure the bottom bank is on the air. All right,
you are there, and Lenny you are there? Hello? Lenny?
All right, gentlemen, the challenge, all right, the two against one.
This will be amazing if you win this. Two human
beings against one, Lenny, I believe you can win. We

(02:39:19):
have draft day, beginner's luck and bad trades of the category.
Where do you want to go, Lenny, Let's go a
draft day? All right, Draft Day. I name the player.
You tell me the team that drafted him. Remember, your
name is your buzzer. It's the first ever two against
one balder dash in the history of the show. Two
hundred dollars. Again, I'll name the player. You tell me

(02:39:40):
the team that drafted him. Your name is your buzzer.
Jimmy Butler, PJ. Jimmy Chicago Bulls. Correct, all right, p
is on the board and they got the lead to
two hundred bucks. Team PJ. Marcel Draft Day for four
hundred dollars. I game the player. You tell me the

(02:40:01):
team that drafted him, Sam Bradford, Yes, PJ. Wow. Oh,
all right, six hundred dollars. I'll name the player. You
tell me the team that drafted him. Curtis, Curtis Martin,

(02:40:25):
Len Lenny, New England. Correct, we are tied up at
six hundred. It's tag team competition here on Baldadash. Eight
hundred dollars. I'll name the player. You tell me the
team that drafted him Danilo Gallinari, Lenny Lenny Nicks correct? Alright,

(02:40:45):
come back, Lenny takes the lead, last one in the
category for a thousand dollars on baldadash Ron Our test
ron Our test Marcel Marcel, No, Lenny, you want to
steal Lennie. I'm gonna go to Eddie. Oh Lifeline. All right, Eddie,

(02:41:08):
where do you want to go? I believe he was
drafted by the Chicago Bulls. You want to go with that? Lenny?
I believe that's correct? True, that is correct. Yes. Remember
as a rookie, he famously worked at Circuit City to
get the discount Michael Michael, he got the discounts at
Circuit City. All right, Next category at Beginner's luck or

(02:41:31):
bad trades? Where do you want to go? Annie? Bad trades?
All right, bad trades. Everyone in this category was part
of a bad trade. This eleven time for two hundred bucks.
This eleventh time pro bowler, come down. This eleventh time
pro bowler was traded by the Falcons for a first
round pick in nineteen ninety one. He would go on
to win a Super Bowl with the Packers. Oh, come on, guys, wow,

(02:41:56):
are we out of time? Here. I think we're out
of time. Yeah, it's Brett gonna hit the buzz. It's
Brett farm there's no name is your bug? All right?
Why don't we wrap this up right? Yes, it was
two against one, but in the end, coop, who is
the big winner? Here? Lenny wins? N I got a

(02:42:16):
good I'm a joke for you. He's got a good
homage joke. You want to hear a good homage joke?
Of course? All right, go ahead, A clicking crack, clicky crack, bang,
CLICKI crack quickly track bang. I don't know it's your
name is drive By? Actually bad little Lenny man. He's

(02:42:43):
hanging out of that cemetery all day. Got jokes? That's
a race, it's a I don't know what what is that?
I don't even know? Funny it's a funny joke. Why
can't we laugh at funny jokes? It's funny joke. You're
like base, we want to get rid of the sable.
Let's make the injured list. I hey, people like you,
how dare you? I gotta murder, gotta go. I don't

(02:43:03):
have to go anywhere. I

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