December 15, 2022 • 40 mins
Big Ben talks about Clipper Darrell getting KO'd by Cyrpto.com Arena security, Micah Parsons giving the Eagles "bulletin board material," Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, and more!
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boxing and basketball, but not not on the court. Not
a guy, not a guy. No, we're talking about being
a fan. All right. So, as you know, doing the
overnight showing, you're probably working overnight if you're listening live.
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We have odd sleep schedule. I have a really strange
sleep schedule. So by the time I get to sleep,
the sun's already up and all that. I wake up
and my phone blew up blue. Right while I was snoozing,
I woke up to a bevy of messages and I
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saw these things popping up on my phone, and these correspondence.
And my initial reaction was, you know what I thought?
I thought, who died? That was my first thought. And
then my mind's kind of rolling there, and I said,
what did I say last night? I shouldn't have said?
And I was like, I don't, I don't. I don't
think I said anything that that bad. So but it's
never good news, or it's never good news. People don't
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share good news rapidly. They share bad news. Rapidly, and
sure enough it was a hum dinger, hum dinger of
a tail involving a friend of ours. If you're part
of the radio family here, you're part of the mile
of militia. This is somebody we know. This is one
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of our guys, and you might know where I'm going
with this, but maybe not so. I learned from seven thousand,
two hundred and thirty eight text messages that Clipper Darryl,
the most famous celebrity fan in the NBA going today,
was knocked out cold by a sucker punch by a hoodlum.
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A rogue security guard at the arena formerly known as
Staples Center. Was all over TMZ. They had the video.
It happened late Monday, after the Clippers had spit roasted
the Celtics. Clipper Darryl was standing behind a line of
security guards following the game. If you didn't see that
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for our blind listeners that can't see it, So Clipper
Darrell standing behind a line of security goons. They were
in a verbal dispute. The security tough guy was preventing
the Great Clipper Darryl from moving past them on the
concourse and then moments later, out of nowhere, the Sunday
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Punched to the lawn took place, the old Sucker punched
to the jaw and turn out the lasts the parties over.
My man, Clipper Darryl knocked down. He went flying like
out of a cartoon into a trash can. It looked
like he was unconscious in the video, and he ended
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up getting medical attention as he was really messed up here.
So let us discuss the question what is your initial
reaction to the Clipper Daryl video, the thug security guard
knocking Clipper Daryl out. So I've got penal code, Paul
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Revere and Cube and we will tie all of these
things together and we are going to make a litigation situation,
which is what's gonna happen in this story. So a
on this show, in our little ecosystem that we've created
in this corner of the audio universe, we stand beside
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Clipper Darryl, although we should probably stand in front of
him to protect him. He has been on our show
multiple times. He's been in studio, We've had him in here,
he's called in after games, we've had him on the podcast.
He's verified, certified, and bonified as a member of the
Maller Militia, and on the same pedestal that we put
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the other stars that liked the show, like the Great
Mayor Parker, the Snowdog in Denver, the unofficial Broncos mascot,
a wrestler Miro who has been wonderful over the years,
TV's Fred Dryer, TV's Hunter back in the Day, old
NFL player, and my buddy William Shatner, among others, among others.
So we speak with reverence for Clipper Darryl, and we
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also speak for all of the Mallar militia when we
say get well, sick well, because you are sick right now,
You're you're ill. And the video is disgusting, right the scentless,
unwarranted attempt to pummel a fan favorite, a man who
spreads joy with rhythmic chanting at NBA games, and let's
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call it what it is. This was a travesty, is
what this was. The security guard acting like a brute,
a thug. And under the California Penal Code I looked
this up here, it's two for two PC that is
assault and battery, and really battery because when someone inflicts
actual force or violence, that is battery. This essentially means
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that the battery is a complete completed assault. So you
start out assaulting and then you go to battery. Now,
if this was self defense, that would be different, but
that was not what happened in the video, and A
Cooper Darrell has quite the case here. This guy, the
guy that threw the punch there, should do some time
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in the justice system. Now, probably won't happen, right, It's
normally a misdemeanor, and that would be if they're seriously
serious bodily injury. Right then it becomes a felony anywhere
from one to four years in prison. But being in California,
whoever threw the punch there will likely be given a
UFC contract and a bag of candy and a retro
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Mike Tyson Punch Out video game as a parting gift
when they leave the Pokey Pokey poke Now, Patriot, it's
our fight coverage here. We'll go to the CompuBox stats
in a minute. But why do you think Clipper Daryl
was being restrained Because that led to the verbal disagreement
and then that led to the punch. So I have
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reached out to Clipper Darryl. Understandably, he's keeping a rather
low profile right now, and he's not responded to our
efforts to get him on the radio show. And I
did not expect him to do that because he's going
to be advised by legal people to not say anything
on the record. I would imagine here going forward, if
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he plans on taking the next step, he's attempting to
recover the stories he suffered. He's got some headaches here,
there's a lot of pain. He's medicated from the punch
that knocked him into the trash can. So, based on
my experience of over twenty years going down to that
arena in La the outhouse in downtown we'd like to
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call it because it's skid Rose essentially, that's where it
is right there, the arena formerly known as Staples Center.
The security at that arena have a terrible reputation that proceeds.
They're known as the Red Coats. They were known as
that for years and that people would act like the
legend of Paul Revere. The Red Coats are coming. The
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Red Coats are coming right, which is really the Israel
Bistles story, But we don't have time to get to
that now. But GESTOPO level security strong arm tactics, It's
more likely than not that my man Clipper Daryl was
trying to get down to the friend zone where friends
and family wait for NBA players after the game. There's
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an area right around the basket there in the arena
that the family waits. And I'm assuming the position that
Daryl wanted to catch up with a Boston Celtic, Blake Griffin,
the ex Clipper who's friends with Darryl and is a
backup now in Boston, And it would appear based on
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what I saw in the video of the security was
preventing Darryl from making his way to where he wanted
to go. They wanted him to leave the arena. He
obviously thought, wait a minute, I know this guy should
be down there. And one thing led to another, and
then he ended up leaving bruised and battered and knocked out.
Ice Cold could have died. You really, the Clipper Darren
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gonna die, right, I remember the mocking Clipper l He
could have died. People die from punches all the time.
You hit your head in the wrong way, that's it,
game over all, right, that's you're gone. See you later
to the pearly gates. But I actually have some some
other things I want to share with a class or
how I kind of relate to this. Now, when the
arena which is now have they have a crypto name
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to it, But when it first opened, I've told this
story in the past, But I was leaving the arena
in the early days when they opened that place called
Staple Center. I was actually chased. Now keep in mind
this is before I lost a lot of weight, so
I was like really fat, and I was I was chase, granted,
not a high speed chase by some security guns, the
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redcoats who were on walkie talkies. Now my crime, What
did I do? What did I do to lead to
a security detail? I left the arena with contraband. I
was carrying a plastic cup filled with doctor pepper to
my car and the security you cannot take that beverage out,
how dare you now? The most famous incident involving the
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bungling security at the arena formerly known as Staples Center
happened about a decade ago. It did not get enough traction,
but it was hours before a Clipper game when the
tough guys security at that arena there allowed a knife
wielding homeless lunatic to blow past a security checkpoint at
the media entrance, get all the way down near the
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court less than two hours before a game. They actually
had a standoff in the arena and a security of
course not that tough. Then suddenly they were backing off
at that point. All right, last word here, So how
does this play out now going forward? For the great
Clipper Darrel friend of the show, And again we've reached
out to him, he hasn't got back to us. Yeah, asson,
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we'll talk to him over the next few days. Hopefully
we'll get him on, get him in studio, something along
those lines. But as a distant relative of Nostre Damas
and friend of Nostradina's all right, the crypt Keeper arena
president has admitted the security guard was guilty. So that's
a dad giveaway, Dad giveaway. They claim they investigated and
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somehow they determined that's not company policy to sucker punch
people that are there at the arena as fans. Shocking,
the guy's been terminated and also the lapd is as
he was arrested. But this story is going to end
up in the cube, as in the Cash Cube, blowing
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money in the air everywhere for Cupper Daniel to grab
grab that money, grab that paper. Now, sweet Baby James.
I heard him on our local affiliate here in La
on a five, the Great Petro Some money. This guy's
got billboards everywhere. The sweet Baby jam the all time
gold standard for that type of attorney. So sweet Baby
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James was on there and he was talking about the lawsuit,
and I said, talking about how much money couverd was
gonna again, and you're looking at a minimum mid six
figures is the estimate. So free tickets for life, free
tickets for life, a trunk of moolah from the basketball dojo,
and even better news for Clipper Daryl. In a few years,
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the People's Team, the Clippers will be leaving that bedraggled
hell hole with terrible thug security guards right next to
skid Row, and they'll be moving to the taj Mahall
get into it, to get into it, don't the mecca
fit for the People's team, And Clipper Darrell should have
his own throne at that new arena when it opens up.
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But I feel better, Clipper Darryl. We're pulling for you,
my man. And what a what a debacle, what an
absolutely you talk about incompetence, absolute incompetence by security, and
that is the definition they should use that in training videos.
Here's how not to act. Here's how not to act dumbass.
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coming from deep in the heart of Texas, we have
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tensions being ratcheted up between the Eagles and the Cowboys.
Now keep in mind that these teams are not playing
each other as we head into week fifteen, but the
smack a Laca is flying in the air everywhere. The
Eagles have a date with the Chicago Bears dub Bears
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this weekend, and the Cowboys they're off playing someone else.
So if you've not been following along here, this is good.
We got we got a good one. We got a
good one. So we enter into the chat. Now. Cowboy
linebacker Micah Parsons, very good player. This guy has been
wonderful for Dallas and better than advertised, and he is
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now questioning publicly the legitimacy of Jalen Hurtz, the Eagles quarterback,
whether or not he is the real McCoy when it
comes to the MVP race. Now, some of the gambling
houses have Jay Hurts as the favorite to win the
Most Valuable Player award in the NFL. Circa twenty twenty two,
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Michael Parsons popped up on some Von Miller podcast, Everyone's
got a podcast. I Von's not playing anymore, so I
guess he's got time now for his fledgling podcast, and Parsons,
the Dallas defender, was asked if it it's Hurts or
the team as it hurts of the team. Regarding the
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Cowboys and Mica, did he give a canned answer? Now,
we wouldn't be talking about this if he gave a
canned answer. Michael Barston said, it's system and team. System
and team about the success in Philadelphia, not Jalen Hurts.
But wait, there's more. He went on to say, I'm
not trying to make no enemies, Parsons explaining on the
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Vaughn Cast, I just loved the game so much and
I understand it so much. Parsons brag patting himself on
the back. He said that when things are off, I
just can't hold it in. I've almost got to say
something close quote all right, So let us discuss the question,
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why is Micah Parsons stoking the fire for the Eagles?
He plays for the Cowboys. What is he doing here?
I've got Cherry Tree, Sauce and Jim Rome, and we
will lock all of these things together and we're gonna
make one of those oversized Texas Cowboy hats. That's what
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we're gonna make. So number one, all right, Michael Parsons
is giving back to the community, the sporting community here.
This is what's known in my book as an act
of charity. That's true. Some people donate to a beloved
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cause that is near and dear to them. Others tossed
a few shekels into the collection played at the Tabernacle
of sports chatter, paying it forward to the industrial complex
of the hot take. In all reality, Michael Parsons is
pesticide free. He's unfiltered here, unable to grasp the concept
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of the standard cliche filled jargon of ninety nine percent.
He's in the one percent. He needs a Rosetta stone
on how to speak in cliches. You might remember Michael
Parsons agreed to go on with Skip Bayliss and Shannon
Sharp on Fox FS one every week, and then right
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after Dak Prescott got hurt in the opening game against
Tampa Bay, Parsons was a no show. He flaked out.
The theory was because he didn't want to speak the truth.
He would have gone on there and said, oh, we're screwed.
Cowboys turned out not to be screwed. But Michael Parsons
is like the myth of George Washington and Cherry Tree father.
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I cannot tell a lie, I cut the trait. That's
Michael Parson, He's unable. It would appear to bite his tongue.
We love that. As talk show host, we love that's
he just cannot hold back, all right. He exemplifies the
fire brand spirit and he enjoys being an agent provocateur, agitating.
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It's fun. He's a mischief maker, provoking the Philadelphia fan base.
And he said it. He said it in the soundbody.
He said, I just can't hold it in. He's admitting it.
Page two. So how much stock do you put into
what was actually said? Let's get to the point of
the matter, now, the meat of the matter. How much
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stock do you put into the fact that Jalen Hurts
is a product of the Eagles offensive system. So I'm
actually buying a lot of stock on this. People get
so defensive they start clutching pearls. Everyone's quick to go
pick up the pitchforks here. And this is the odd thing.
Micah parsons, It's actually not wrong here, in no uncertain terms,
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Jalen Hurts is both really good and it is a
byproduct of the offensive system they run in Philadelphia. Both
these things are simultaneously true. It's indisputable. Now, what does
that mean in Layman's terms, it means if Jalen Hurts
had to throw the ball, you know, traditional old school
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pocket offense, forty times a game, the Eagles would be
around five hundred or they have a losing record. It's
not my opinion, it's a fact, right, but that's not
his game. Just like if you had Tom Brady run
a hybrid offense where he would have to run ten
times a game, that would be what's known as stay
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it with me now, a boon doggle. That would be
a boon doctor. Jalen Hurts throws the ball around thirty times.
A little less than that, around thirty times a game.
The secret sauce and that when you get into the sauce,
the secret sauce is the dual threat ability. The fact
that he runs the ball eleven times. You never know
when he's gonna run eleven times per game. That's what
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separates him. That's the point of demarcation. He's averaging almost
five yards per carry when running the ball. He's in
the upper echelon of rushers in pro football. He's sixteenth
out of all the running backs and all the quarterbacks
to run. He's sixteenth in the NFL in that category.
That is his proprietary blend. And you mix in the
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team a J. Brown, a much better talent at receivers,
some other additions and Ted. Just like that, You've got
the recipe. It's not offensive, it's reality. Te is what
it is. Now, keep in mind that Jalen Hurts has
made me look like a total donkey. Like I've been
working on this project with a guy who's from Philadelphia.
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I can't talk about it, but I've been working the guy.
He's from Philly, and he brings it up every time
I talked to him. You know, remember what you said
about Jail and Hurts. I was like, yeah, I know.
It was a great take at the time, but Hurts
has been been wonderful. Didn't see this in him at
Alabama or Oklahoma. I thought this is a college quarterback
now an NFL quarterback. But this has been a magical
carpet ride for Jalen Hurts. But it is a product
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of the offense and the players around him. And it's
like the old quote from a long, long ago legend.
Before everyone considered Bill Belichick the gold Stand when I
was a kid, there was a guy named Bill Walsh
who coached the forty nine ers and that was the
gold standard for coaching. But one of his his many
many sermons, Bill Walsh said that organizations make quarterbacks, and
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so the real question here, as you pull back the
court the kurtain, the real question is is it sustainable.
Jimmy Johnson doesn't think so. Jimmy talked about this. He's biased,
he's a cowboy guy. But Jimmy said this a few
weeks back, that it's a gimmicky offense. And that's the
attitude many in the NFL have behind the scenes. They
whisper it and snicker, Oh, this isn't gonna work in
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the playoffs. Can the Eagles keep this up? Is this
a house of card situation when the playoffs come around?
We saw Philadelphia made the playoffs last year. They didn't
have as good a record as they do this year.
They went out and played Tampa Bay and absolutely got smashed.
They got their bell rung by the Buccaneers and then
they scored some garbage by time points to make it
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a more respectable final score. All right, final point? So
should cowboy fans be worried that Micah Parsons says poured
lighter fluid on the upcoming Eagle Cowboy game when we
get to week sixteen. So I'm shaking my head. No,
I'm shaking my head. No. If I'm Jerry Jones, I
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want all my players talking trash like they are trying
to win the smack off with Jim Rome in the jungle.
That's what I want. And I'm gonna tell you why,
because if you talk to talk, you gotta walk to way. Right,
we have long advocates behind these microphones as really the
voice of reason. We do not buy into the popular
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bulletin board material. We don't bind it. We believe it's nonsense.
What I mean by that is the Eagles and Cowboys
one of the great rivalries. If that's your business, if
you work in that business and you happen to be
employed by a team in Philadelphia or Dallas, that's a
big deal. You're telling me that Philly was gonna sleep
walk against Dallas if it hadn't been for Micah Parsons
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talking trash. It's silliness, it's juvenile, and the Eagle players
could actually this could backfire. Could They could overcompensate, Right,
that's the other argument. They could overcompensate to try to
prove Mica Parsons wrong and have it blow up in
their face. It's elementary. But Micah Parsons, here's what he
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has to do now. He's got to go out You
talk to talk, you gotta walk to walk. He's got
to go out there and improve it. Should he have
a bad day at the office and be the Duke
of Puke against Philly, then that will be highlighted in
the Nona I told you so. See Michael Parsons loser,
blah blah, those people the cockroaches will come out and
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that'll be how that goes. Otherwise, if the Cowboys win
and if Jalen Hurst does not have a wonderful game,
then people will say story Michael Parsons was right, or
it'll be forgotten altogether. So you wrote the check and
you don't want to check the bounce, So you've got
to You've gotta be able to put enough funds out
there to cash the check. That's that's the lesson of
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How about that to the third degree, this is one
big band gets grill. Matt Ryan said that he isn't
thinking about whether or not he will return to play
next season. Then if he wants to play, will there
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be anyone that wants him? No, there shouldn't be. Matt
Ryan under any reasonable measurement has been lousy. He's a
turnover machine and I'm so sick and t out of
the quarterback defenders in leagues. I know his fault. It's
the coach's receivers. The offensive life no accountability for Matt Ryan.
He blows all right, he's made a ton of money.
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He's thirty seven years old. Go enjoy your life. You
don't know how much time he got left. Next, but
conflicting MLB reports, a reporter on MLB Network tells us
to not be surprised at the Braves trade Max Freed
this offseason due to rising payroll, but Buster only says
that ain't happening. Ben, could you see the Braves trading
the race? Yes, I absolutely could see him trading and
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Max free. There's people in Atlanta that don't believe he's dependable.
I know he had that big start in Game six
of the World Series against the Astros last a couple
of years ago now, but he's also been unreliable in
the playoffs. Is eras around five, and the regular season
it's around three, and he's arbitration eligible. By the time
he's out of arbitration, he'll be in his early thirties,
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past his prime. There's a lot of reasons to trade
him in Atlanta's got other pitching next. There's been a
lot of talk about mac Jones's frustrations with Matt Patricia,
though the pair has downplayed any you know, disgruntledness. You
think this is legitimate problem for the Patriots. It is.
It's also great clickbait because people click on it. You know,
a coaching player disagreeing, but Bill Belichick, unless he's changed,
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he despises players upstaging coaches and showing them off during games,
you know, and and all that, and he's he likes Patricia,
keeps hiring Patricia. So I think mac Jones has gone
after this year. How do we do he passed this edition?
That is a win. Yes, I WoT the guy, No gremlins.
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for you since since you've been on the show the longest,
oh I have been, I have the tenure. It's an
interesting one. Shane and de Moine wants to know what
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is the one ask Ben question that you think that
you've been asked the most. Okay, so it's a good
question by Shane. I would say, kind of car you had?
First car? Get asked that a lot? First car you
had that get? I think that one gets asked like
every every a few months somebody asked that question, So
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I think that would be the one. All right, what
is next year? What do we have? All right? Um?
By the way, the answer is a brown Valari. My
grandfather's car was passed down to me. I think that
we will have to kind of like reach back into
the the history books for this one. But blind Emmett
wants to know, uh, he said, who who have? Who
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would be the person that of everyone in FSR that
brings the best food other than Roberto. Just nobody brings
food anymore. Right, So yeah, ever since well COVID changed everything.
Who's the person that started? There was a guy in
the weekends used by donuts that Frank, Yeah, Frank Pollock,
the late flight Frank Pollock, may he rest in Radio Heaven.
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Frank was great. Yeah, and they're all for whatever reason.
I used to bust Frank's balls because he'd buy a
dozen donuts and there's always a coconut. Yes. I'd be like, Frank,
nobody wants the coconut, and he kept buying. Every week
he would buy it and he didn't like it, he
would eat it himself or he just yeah, and that
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when we would come in to start our show and
it'd be it'd be the only donut remaining every week,
and I'd be like, Frank, nobody wants the coconut donut.
You might he kept buying it. It's like okay, yeah,
but Frank was great. They've been other people who have
Rader Ryan Rader, Ryan, Yeah, it's a good one. Before
before he started his own business making making food, Yeah, yeah,
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bringing test test stuff, little cheesecakes and whatnot? Yeah, good stuff.
Now he's a rock and I heard, right, I was.
I texted the other day about the Ugly sweater party. Right,
he said, business is booming. Nice, nice family man. Now
Rader Ryan, He's got a lot of stuff going on.
Good for him. Uh. This next question is from fur Dog,
rather specific, but it works for all of us since
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we live in the area. Uh. He wants to know
how many times have you been to Big Bear Mountain?
I was there one of the kid. It's but I
haven't haven't been that your kid. No, I'm not been
instance of a kid. Wow. What's the other there's another
mountains closer that I would go to, Mountain High. Yeah,
I didn't. Haven't been a Big Bear a long time.
But there's some people a work here that have like
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cabins up there and whatnot. What about you, Eddie, last
time you were in the mountain winter wonderland of Big Bear.
I've never been to Big Bear. Never try it, Eddie.
It's a little closer than Arizona or whatever. You know. Roberto. Yeah,
I'm like you, I'm in a Big Bear since I
was a kid. I was like thirteen or fourteen, probably, yeah,
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I was probably Yeah, yeah, right around there, Coop last week. Right, No,
it's been it's been a couple of years, but I've
I've probably been like a dozen times. Yeah, I've not
been in a long time. But I would love going
to the snow if A I knew how to put
snow tires on properly or B I could just pay
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someone to do it and and then I would I
would go a lot, but paying the ass. So yeah,
I'm kind of like you with that. I don't want
to do with all that crap. It's a nightmare. Any message.
As we've talked about in the past, Coop messed up
is ca I messed up my car. You have to
wake up. You have to wake up super early too.
It's just just done. It doesn't work well for for us. No,
it's just not all right. What is next year? It's
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asked Ben your questions our answers for the rest of
the hour. Late night Drug Tester wants to know from everybody.
Do you have a fireplace to hang your Christmas stockings?
If not, where do you hang them? Yes, we do
have a a fireplace, although I don't think my wife's
in charge of decorations. I don't know that she put
any of that up, So I haven't. I haven't really
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paid attention. What about you, Eddie. We have a gas
fireplace that's in a weird position, you know. Is it
an Amish fireplace? No? Um, it's like in a corner.
It's really weird and we never ever use it. And
then there's like a like a little cubby hole for
like a TV next to it, which is probably where
the fireplace should be. But anyway, we hang the stockings
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over the TV enough for a Roberto next to our
Christmas stree. Oh all right, right there, coopaloo. When we
actually do hang them up, I have like a loft,
so it's kind of like off a little loft balcony area. Okay,
there you go, late night drug tester, what is next year?
To ask Ben? Your questions are answered. I'm getting all
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choked up. I'm reclement. It's so exciting here. This is amazing. Well,
the saw man would like to know what is your
favorite holiday activity to partake in? Uh, let's see eating.
I love the joy of eating. I fast a lot
during the year. I let myself go a little bit
one one or two days during the holidays, and you know,
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plus it depends on what what event you're at. You know,
I celebrate Hanaka. My wife obviously ex Christmas, but we
so we celebrate everything. But for me, it's like the
jelly donuts and the lottas and things like that brings
me back to my my childhood. What what what what
about you, Eddie? Anything particular that you you love this
time of the year. Uh. You know, my wife gets
very very happy when I put up the Christmas lights.
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It's her she loves that, so I don't mind doing it.
So I guess putting up the Christmas lights and having
her be happy about it is probably Roman Roberto puoting
up the lights, getting the tree with my daughter and
the wife, but most importantly eating my mom's to Mollies
and making moms to Molly's. It's all about the to
(35:22):
mollies eating. But my family also every year plays this
game called left Right Center. Oh that's a great game.
I love that game. We want to play that at
the Uggly Sweater party. Cool? Oh nice? Nice? Yeah. So
it's it's gambling game. You all start with like three
dollar bills and roll some dice and you have to
give the bills either to left right or put the center. Yeah.
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It's it's good. And then at the end everybody, everybody
gets all the money, or one person gets all the money. Oh,
it's it's it's You can be totally hammered and play
the game. It's a great game. Be sure to catch
live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two
am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. You're about to your hot
hockey talk, all Bruins, all the time. You give Eddie
(36:03):
five minutes, he'll give you no Bruins coverage. Here he
is Eddie Garcia. All right, thank you, Ben. We start
with the Great eight known as Alexander Ovechkin, Washington Capital Superstar.
He had a hat trick this past Tuesday night against
the Blue Jackets and in in the process scored his eight
hundredth career goal, becoming just a third player in a
Nitil history behind Wayne Gretzky and Gordy How to accomplish
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that milestone. He also became the first player to do
it with a single franchise. It was his twentieth goal
of this season, giving him eighteen consecutive seasons with at
least twenty goals and only two other players I've ever
done that, Brandon Shanahan and Gordy Howe. Ovechkin, with his
next goal, will tie Gordy Howe for second on the
all time goal scoring list. He's now ninety four line
Wayne Gretzky and the all time goal scoring list. I
(36:46):
saw that he has trademarked the Great Chase and the
Great is spelled gr with the number eight. He's trademarked
at the Grey Give my credit card out of here.
I want to buy a coffee mug with that on. Yeah,
well you can do that. Buffalo Sabers young standout Tage
Thompson had a five goal game in time for Phoenix
or something. I think he's from Utah, Oh, Utah. His
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dad was a player in the minor leagues in Utah
when he was born. He's really wasn't from a traditional
hockey hot fit, right, Yeah, his dad played for the
Kings back in the day. But Tage Thompson just the
fourth player in the last five years to have a
five goal game. The all time record for goals in
a game Joe Malone with seven in nineteen twenty fogs
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and Joe Malone's brother was Sam Malone, the bartender over cheers.
That's that's good. Knowledge. I'm sure Blind Scott's excited to
hear that. Yeah. Mitch Marner a couple of assists to
extend his point street to twenty three straight games. Maple
He's beat the Ducks seven nothing on Tuesdays now three
back of Patrick kanep me, were you that that's seven
nothing score? Ay? You had to be excited as you
(37:51):
hate Well I would have been, except for the same
night the Kings lost six nothing, allowing six goals in
the third period against Buffalo and Tage Thompson. So that
was not It's not very good there, but longest longest
point streak in NHL history fifty one by Wayne Gretzky,
but Mitch Marner twenty three currently for the Toronto Maple Leaves.
The Rangers beat the Devils in overtime four three Monday,
snapping New Jersey's team record eleven game road winning streak.
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They were one away from the all time NHL record
held by the Detroit Red Rings in the two thousand
five season in the Minnesota Wild. In the twenty fourteen season,
Pittsburgh paing was devensman Chris la Tang returning to the
ice Saturday against the Buffalo recovering from a stroke. He
suffered that stroke late Novebury missed only five games recovering
from it. It's the second time he's had a stroke
in his playing career. The other one was in twenty fourteen.
(38:34):
Apparently he was born with a hole in his heart
and that's one of the reasons why he's had these
stroke issues. But apparently it's you know, there are different
levels of strokes, and these are are minor, at least
that as minor as a stroke can be. But anyway,
back on the ice have to mission just five games.
I think he might have talked about this the other day,
but the NHL Board of Governors had their meetings in
Palm Beach, Florida, and Commissioner Gary Batman was asked about
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the digital around the rings. A lot of fans are
saying and they hated it, bothers him, they don't like
watching it, But he says it's a non issue because
the league's pulling indicates that fans find the games more
watchable because of the digital ads replacing the physical ones.
That is what we call some horse crap right there.
(39:15):
That's a complete nutter. Lie Pinocchio is online. One Pinocchio
on Line one, Pinocchio Online one, and finally, the Boston
Bruins are the top team. But they were shocked this
past Friday losing in Arizona at the Mullet Arena to
the guys off. The players were shocked by that violence.
(39:39):
Arizona snapping a nineteen game losing skid to the Bruins,
and there was an ugly brawl in the game. It
resulted in a fan biting off the tip and another
fan's finger. Six fans were involved. The biter was identified
as Nasha Kink shaunts oh, I like that the question mark.
It's a really weird name and first name. Anyway, he
was arrested for aggravated assault. Five of the people were
(40:00):
issued citations was as sorely conduct. The victim was identified
as Stephen Rocha, who was transported to a local hospital.
Don't favorite number now is nine. I don't know if
the finger was put back on, but so what I
did there? Eddie his new favorite numbers nine. It was
very funny, okay, humorous, humorous and that's your puck. The
World report and they told the guy that bit the
(40:20):
finger off, he said, just go get some chicken fingers
over at canes or something like that. Chillout man, thank
used to happen all the time. I had raider games
at the Colosseum here in La. Nothing special about that, Roberto,
the stories I heard about you raider fans. It's the Colosseum,
back before social media, when you could kick the you know,
kick someone's ass and no one would know about it,
(40:41):
unless because there's nobody had a can you ever been
in a fight at the stadium, Oh yeah, you have
any rules? No rules apply to that. No rules apply
to that. All's fair in love, war and a stadium fight.
I don't know. There's something about biting. I just just
not manly.
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boxing and basketball, but not not on the court. Not
a guy, not a guy. No, we're talking about being
a fan. All right. So, as you know, doing the
overnight showing, you're probably working overnight if you're listening live.
(01:51):
We have odd sleep schedule. I have a really strange
sleep schedule. So by the time I get to sleep,
the sun's already up and all that. I wake up
and my phone blew up blue. Right while I was snoozing,
I woke up to a bevy of messages and I
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saw these things popping up on my phone, and these correspondence.
And my initial reaction was, you know what I thought?
I thought, who died? That was my first thought. And
then my mind's kind of rolling there, and I said,
what did I say last night? I shouldn't have said?
And I was like, I don't, I don't. I don't
think I said anything that that bad. So but it's
never good news, or it's never good news. People don't
(02:35):
share good news rapidly. They share bad news. Rapidly, and
sure enough it was a hum dinger, hum dinger of
a tail involving a friend of ours. If you're part
of the radio family here, you're part of the mile
of militia. This is somebody we know. This is one
(02:55):
of our guys, and you might know where I'm going
with this, but maybe not so. I learned from seven thousand,
two hundred and thirty eight text messages that Clipper Darryl,
the most famous celebrity fan in the NBA going today,
was knocked out cold by a sucker punch by a hoodlum.
(03:19):
A rogue security guard at the arena formerly known as
Staples Center. Was all over TMZ. They had the video.
It happened late Monday, after the Clippers had spit roasted
the Celtics. Clipper Darryl was standing behind a line of
security guards following the game. If you didn't see that
(03:41):
for our blind listeners that can't see it, So Clipper
Darrell standing behind a line of security goons. They were
in a verbal dispute. The security tough guy was preventing
the Great Clipper Darryl from moving past them on the
concourse and then moments later, out of nowhere, the Sunday
(04:06):
Punched to the lawn took place, the old Sucker punched
to the jaw and turn out the lasts the parties over.
My man, Clipper Darryl knocked down. He went flying like
out of a cartoon into a trash can. It looked
like he was unconscious in the video, and he ended
(04:27):
up getting medical attention as he was really messed up here.
So let us discuss the question what is your initial
reaction to the Clipper Daryl video, the thug security guard
knocking Clipper Daryl out. So I've got penal code, Paul
(04:48):
Revere and Cube and we will tie all of these
things together and we are going to make a litigation situation,
which is what's gonna happen in this story. So a
on this show, in our little ecosystem that we've created
in this corner of the audio universe, we stand beside
(05:11):
Clipper Darryl, although we should probably stand in front of
him to protect him. He has been on our show
multiple times. He's been in studio, We've had him in here,
he's called in after games, we've had him on the podcast.
He's verified, certified, and bonified as a member of the
Maller Militia, and on the same pedestal that we put
(05:32):
the other stars that liked the show, like the Great
Mayor Parker, the Snowdog in Denver, the unofficial Broncos mascot,
a wrestler Miro who has been wonderful over the years,
TV's Fred Dryer, TV's Hunter back in the Day, old
NFL player, and my buddy William Shatner, among others, among others.
So we speak with reverence for Clipper Darryl, and we
(05:55):
also speak for all of the Mallar militia when we
say get well, sick well, because you are sick right now,
You're you're ill. And the video is disgusting, right the scentless,
unwarranted attempt to pummel a fan favorite, a man who
spreads joy with rhythmic chanting at NBA games, and let's
(06:16):
call it what it is. This was a travesty, is
what this was. The security guard acting like a brute,
a thug. And under the California Penal Code I looked
this up here, it's two for two PC that is
assault and battery, and really battery because when someone inflicts
actual force or violence, that is battery. This essentially means
(06:39):
that the battery is a complete completed assault. So you
start out assaulting and then you go to battery. Now,
if this was self defense, that would be different, but
that was not what happened in the video, and A
Cooper Darrell has quite the case here. This guy, the
guy that threw the punch there, should do some time
(07:03):
in the justice system. Now, probably won't happen, right, It's
normally a misdemeanor, and that would be if they're seriously
serious bodily injury. Right then it becomes a felony anywhere
from one to four years in prison. But being in California,
whoever threw the punch there will likely be given a
UFC contract and a bag of candy and a retro
(07:26):
Mike Tyson Punch Out video game as a parting gift
when they leave the Pokey Pokey poke Now, Patriot, it's
our fight coverage here. We'll go to the CompuBox stats
in a minute. But why do you think Clipper Daryl
was being restrained Because that led to the verbal disagreement
and then that led to the punch. So I have
(07:50):
reached out to Clipper Darryl. Understandably, he's keeping a rather
low profile right now, and he's not responded to our
efforts to get him on the radio show. And I
did not expect him to do that because he's going
to be advised by legal people to not say anything
on the record. I would imagine here going forward, if
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he plans on taking the next step, he's attempting to
recover the stories he suffered. He's got some headaches here,
there's a lot of pain. He's medicated from the punch
that knocked him into the trash can. So, based on
my experience of over twenty years going down to that
arena in La the outhouse in downtown we'd like to
(08:33):
call it because it's skid Rose essentially, that's where it
is right there, the arena formerly known as Staples Center.
The security at that arena have a terrible reputation that proceeds.
They're known as the Red Coats. They were known as
that for years and that people would act like the
legend of Paul Revere. The Red Coats are coming. The
(08:54):
Red Coats are coming right, which is really the Israel
Bistles story, But we don't have time to get to
that now. But GESTOPO level security strong arm tactics, It's
more likely than not that my man Clipper Daryl was
trying to get down to the friend zone where friends
and family wait for NBA players after the game. There's
(09:16):
an area right around the basket there in the arena
that the family waits. And I'm assuming the position that
Daryl wanted to catch up with a Boston Celtic, Blake Griffin,
the ex Clipper who's friends with Darryl and is a
backup now in Boston, And it would appear based on
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what I saw in the video of the security was
preventing Darryl from making his way to where he wanted
to go. They wanted him to leave the arena. He
obviously thought, wait a minute, I know this guy should
be down there. And one thing led to another, and
then he ended up leaving bruised and battered and knocked out.
Ice Cold could have died. You really, the Clipper Darren
(09:57):
gonna die, right, I remember the mocking Clipper l He
could have died. People die from punches all the time.
You hit your head in the wrong way, that's it,
game over all, right, that's you're gone. See you later
to the pearly gates. But I actually have some some
other things I want to share with a class or
how I kind of relate to this. Now, when the
arena which is now have they have a crypto name
(10:19):
to it, But when it first opened, I've told this
story in the past, But I was leaving the arena
in the early days when they opened that place called
Staple Center. I was actually chased. Now keep in mind
this is before I lost a lot of weight, so
I was like really fat, and I was I was chase, granted,
not a high speed chase by some security guns, the
(10:39):
redcoats who were on walkie talkies. Now my crime, What
did I do? What did I do to lead to
a security detail? I left the arena with contraband. I
was carrying a plastic cup filled with doctor pepper to
my car and the security you cannot take that beverage out,
how dare you now? The most famous incident involving the
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bungling security at the arena formerly known as Staples Center
happened about a decade ago. It did not get enough traction,
but it was hours before a Clipper game when the
tough guys security at that arena there allowed a knife
wielding homeless lunatic to blow past a security checkpoint at
the media entrance, get all the way down near the
(11:24):
court less than two hours before a game. They actually
had a standoff in the arena and a security of
course not that tough. Then suddenly they were backing off
at that point. All right, last word here, So how
does this play out now going forward? For the great
Clipper Darrel friend of the show, And again we've reached
out to him, he hasn't got back to us. Yeah, asson,
(11:44):
we'll talk to him over the next few days. Hopefully
we'll get him on, get him in studio, something along
those lines. But as a distant relative of Nostre Damas
and friend of Nostradina's all right, the crypt Keeper arena
president has admitted the security guard was guilty. So that's
a dad giveaway, Dad giveaway. They claim they investigated and
(12:06):
somehow they determined that's not company policy to sucker punch
people that are there at the arena as fans. Shocking,
the guy's been terminated and also the lapd is as
he was arrested. But this story is going to end
up in the cube, as in the Cash Cube, blowing
(12:28):
money in the air everywhere for Cupper Daniel to grab
grab that money, grab that paper. Now, sweet Baby James.
I heard him on our local affiliate here in La
on a five, the Great Petro Some money. This guy's
got billboards everywhere. The sweet Baby jam the all time
gold standard for that type of attorney. So sweet Baby
(12:48):
James was on there and he was talking about the lawsuit,
and I said, talking about how much money couverd was
gonna again, and you're looking at a minimum mid six
figures is the estimate. So free tickets for life, free
tickets for life, a trunk of moolah from the basketball dojo,
and even better news for Clipper Daryl. In a few years,
(13:11):
the People's Team, the Clippers will be leaving that bedraggled
hell hole with terrible thug security guards right next to
skid Row, and they'll be moving to the taj Mahall
get into it, to get into it, don't the mecca
fit for the People's team, And Clipper Darrell should have
his own throne at that new arena when it opens up.
(13:34):
But I feel better, Clipper Darryl. We're pulling for you,
my man. And what a what a debacle, what an
absolutely you talk about incompetence, absolute incompetence by security, and
that is the definition they should use that in training videos.
Here's how not to act. Here's how not to act dumbass.
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tensions being ratcheted up between the Eagles and the Cowboys.
Now keep in mind that these teams are not playing
each other as we head into week fifteen, but the
smack a Laca is flying in the air everywhere. The
Eagles have a date with the Chicago Bears dub Bears
(15:20):
this weekend, and the Cowboys they're off playing someone else.
So if you've not been following along here, this is good.
We got we got a good one. We got a
good one. So we enter into the chat. Now. Cowboy
linebacker Micah Parsons, very good player. This guy has been
wonderful for Dallas and better than advertised, and he is
(15:44):
now questioning publicly the legitimacy of Jalen Hurtz, the Eagles quarterback,
whether or not he is the real McCoy when it
comes to the MVP race. Now, some of the gambling
houses have Jay Hurts as the favorite to win the
Most Valuable Player award in the NFL. Circa twenty twenty two,
(16:07):
Michael Parsons popped up on some Von Miller podcast, Everyone's
got a podcast. I Von's not playing anymore, so I
guess he's got time now for his fledgling podcast, and Parsons,
the Dallas defender, was asked if it it's Hurts or
the team as it hurts of the team. Regarding the
(16:27):
Cowboys and Mica, did he give a canned answer? Now,
we wouldn't be talking about this if he gave a
canned answer. Michael Barston said, it's system and team. System
and team about the success in Philadelphia, not Jalen Hurts.
But wait, there's more. He went on to say, I'm
not trying to make no enemies, Parsons explaining on the
(16:51):
Vaughn Cast, I just loved the game so much and
I understand it so much. Parsons brag patting himself on
the back. He said that when things are off, I
just can't hold it in. I've almost got to say
something close quote all right, So let us discuss the question,
(17:12):
why is Micah Parsons stoking the fire for the Eagles?
He plays for the Cowboys. What is he doing here?
I've got Cherry Tree, Sauce and Jim Rome, and we
will lock all of these things together and we're gonna
make one of those oversized Texas Cowboy hats. That's what
(17:33):
we're gonna make. So number one, all right, Michael Parsons
is giving back to the community, the sporting community here.
This is what's known in my book as an act
of charity. That's true. Some people donate to a beloved
(17:56):
cause that is near and dear to them. Others tossed
a few shekels into the collection played at the Tabernacle
of sports chatter, paying it forward to the industrial complex
of the hot take. In all reality, Michael Parsons is
pesticide free. He's unfiltered here, unable to grasp the concept
(18:18):
of the standard cliche filled jargon of ninety nine percent.
He's in the one percent. He needs a Rosetta stone
on how to speak in cliches. You might remember Michael
Parsons agreed to go on with Skip Bayliss and Shannon
Sharp on Fox FS one every week, and then right
(18:39):
after Dak Prescott got hurt in the opening game against
Tampa Bay, Parsons was a no show. He flaked out.
The theory was because he didn't want to speak the truth.
He would have gone on there and said, oh, we're screwed.
Cowboys turned out not to be screwed. But Michael Parsons
is like the myth of George Washington and Cherry Tree father.
(19:02):
I cannot tell a lie, I cut the trait. That's
Michael Parson, He's unable. It would appear to bite his tongue.
We love that. As talk show host, we love that's
he just cannot hold back, all right. He exemplifies the
fire brand spirit and he enjoys being an agent provocateur, agitating.
(19:25):
It's fun. He's a mischief maker, provoking the Philadelphia fan base.
And he said it. He said it in the soundbody.
He said, I just can't hold it in. He's admitting it.
Page two. So how much stock do you put into
what was actually said? Let's get to the point of
the matter, now, the meat of the matter. How much
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stock do you put into the fact that Jalen Hurts
is a product of the Eagles offensive system. So I'm
actually buying a lot of stock on this. People get
so defensive they start clutching pearls. Everyone's quick to go
pick up the pitchforks here. And this is the odd thing.
Micah parsons, It's actually not wrong here, in no uncertain terms,
(20:11):
Jalen Hurts is both really good and it is a
byproduct of the offensive system they run in Philadelphia. Both
these things are simultaneously true. It's indisputable. Now, what does
that mean in Layman's terms, it means if Jalen Hurts
had to throw the ball, you know, traditional old school
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pocket offense, forty times a game, the Eagles would be
around five hundred or they have a losing record. It's
not my opinion, it's a fact, right, but that's not
his game. Just like if you had Tom Brady run
a hybrid offense where he would have to run ten
times a game, that would be what's known as stay
(20:52):
it with me now, a boon doggle. That would be
a boon doctor. Jalen Hurts throws the ball around thirty times.
A little less than that, around thirty times a game.
The secret sauce and that when you get into the sauce,
the secret sauce is the dual threat ability. The fact
that he runs the ball eleven times. You never know
when he's gonna run eleven times per game. That's what
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separates him. That's the point of demarcation. He's averaging almost
five yards per carry when running the ball. He's in
the upper echelon of rushers in pro football. He's sixteenth
out of all the running backs and all the quarterbacks
to run. He's sixteenth in the NFL in that category.
That is his proprietary blend. And you mix in the
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team a J. Brown, a much better talent at receivers,
some other additions and Ted. Just like that, You've got
the recipe. It's not offensive, it's reality. Te is what
it is. Now, keep in mind that Jalen Hurts has
made me look like a total donkey. Like I've been
working on this project with a guy who's from Philadelphia.
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I can't talk about it, but I've been working the guy.
He's from Philly, and he brings it up every time
I talked to him. You know, remember what you said
about Jail and Hurts. I was like, yeah, I know.
It was a great take at the time, but Hurts
has been been wonderful. Didn't see this in him at
Alabama or Oklahoma. I thought this is a college quarterback
now an NFL quarterback. But this has been a magical
carpet ride for Jalen Hurts. But it is a product
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of the offense and the players around him. And it's
like the old quote from a long, long ago legend.
Before everyone considered Bill Belichick the gold Stand when I
was a kid, there was a guy named Bill Walsh
who coached the forty nine ers and that was the
gold standard for coaching. But one of his his many
many sermons, Bill Walsh said that organizations make quarterbacks, and
(22:39):
so the real question here, as you pull back the
court the kurtain, the real question is is it sustainable.
Jimmy Johnson doesn't think so. Jimmy talked about this. He's biased,
he's a cowboy guy. But Jimmy said this a few
weeks back, that it's a gimmicky offense. And that's the
attitude many in the NFL have behind the scenes. They
whisper it and snicker, Oh, this isn't gonna work in
(23:01):
the playoffs. Can the Eagles keep this up? Is this
a house of card situation when the playoffs come around?
We saw Philadelphia made the playoffs last year. They didn't
have as good a record as they do this year.
They went out and played Tampa Bay and absolutely got smashed.
They got their bell rung by the Buccaneers and then
they scored some garbage by time points to make it
(23:23):
a more respectable final score. All right, final point? So
should cowboy fans be worried that Micah Parsons says poured
lighter fluid on the upcoming Eagle Cowboy game when we
get to week sixteen. So I'm shaking my head. No,
I'm shaking my head. No. If I'm Jerry Jones, I
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want all my players talking trash like they are trying
to win the smack off with Jim Rome in the jungle.
That's what I want. And I'm gonna tell you why,
because if you talk to talk, you gotta walk to way. Right,
we have long advocates behind these microphones as really the
voice of reason. We do not buy into the popular
(24:07):
bulletin board material. We don't bind it. We believe it's nonsense.
What I mean by that is the Eagles and Cowboys
one of the great rivalries. If that's your business, if
you work in that business and you happen to be
employed by a team in Philadelphia or Dallas, that's a
big deal. You're telling me that Philly was gonna sleep
walk against Dallas if it hadn't been for Micah Parsons
(24:31):
talking trash. It's silliness, it's juvenile, and the Eagle players
could actually this could backfire. Could They could overcompensate, Right,
that's the other argument. They could overcompensate to try to
prove Mica Parsons wrong and have it blow up in
their face. It's elementary. But Micah Parsons, here's what he
(24:51):
has to do now. He's got to go out You
talk to talk, you gotta walk to walk. He's got
to go out there and improve it. Should he have
a bad day at the office and be the Duke
of Puke against Philly, then that will be highlighted in
the Nona I told you so. See Michael Parsons loser,
blah blah, those people the cockroaches will come out and
(25:13):
that'll be how that goes. Otherwise, if the Cowboys win
and if Jalen Hurst does not have a wonderful game,
then people will say story Michael Parsons was right, or
it'll be forgotten altogether. So you wrote the check and
you don't want to check the bounce, So you've got
to You've gotta be able to put enough funds out
there to cash the check. That's that's the lesson of
(25:37):
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How about that to the third degree, this is one
big band gets grill. Matt Ryan said that he isn't
thinking about whether or not he will return to play
next season. Then if he wants to play, will there
(26:42):
be anyone that wants him? No, there shouldn't be. Matt
Ryan under any reasonable measurement has been lousy. He's a
turnover machine and I'm so sick and t out of
the quarterback defenders in leagues. I know his fault. It's
the coach's receivers. The offensive life no accountability for Matt Ryan.
He blows all right, he's made a ton of money.
(27:02):
He's thirty seven years old. Go enjoy your life. You
don't know how much time he got left. Next, but
conflicting MLB reports, a reporter on MLB Network tells us
to not be surprised at the Braves trade Max Freed
this offseason due to rising payroll, but Buster only says
that ain't happening. Ben, could you see the Braves trading
the race? Yes, I absolutely could see him trading and
(27:24):
Max free. There's people in Atlanta that don't believe he's dependable.
I know he had that big start in Game six
of the World Series against the Astros last a couple
of years ago now, but he's also been unreliable in
the playoffs. Is eras around five, and the regular season
it's around three, and he's arbitration eligible. By the time
he's out of arbitration, he'll be in his early thirties,
(27:46):
past his prime. There's a lot of reasons to trade
him in Atlanta's got other pitching next. There's been a
lot of talk about mac Jones's frustrations with Matt Patricia,
though the pair has downplayed any you know, disgruntledness. You
think this is legitimate problem for the Patriots. It is.
It's also great clickbait because people click on it. You know,
a coaching player disagreeing, but Bill Belichick, unless he's changed,
(28:09):
he despises players upstaging coaches and showing them off during games,
you know, and and all that, and he's he likes Patricia,
keeps hiring Patricia. So I think mac Jones has gone
after this year. How do we do he passed this edition?
That is a win. Yes, I WoT the guy, No gremlins.
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apply over to the reading of the questions at the
dais the goop Loo. All right, Ben, We're gonna start
off with this question, which I think is gonna be
for you since since you've been on the show the longest,
oh I have been, I have the tenure. It's an
interesting one. Shane and de Moine wants to know what
(29:39):
is the one ask Ben question that you think that
you've been asked the most. Okay, so it's a good
question by Shane. I would say, kind of car you had?
First car? Get asked that a lot? First car you
had that get? I think that one gets asked like
every every a few months somebody asked that question, So
(30:02):
I think that would be the one. All right, what
is next year? What do we have? All right? Um?
By the way, the answer is a brown Valari. My
grandfather's car was passed down to me. I think that
we will have to kind of like reach back into
the the history books for this one. But blind Emmett
wants to know, uh, he said, who who have? Who
(30:25):
would be the person that of everyone in FSR that
brings the best food other than Roberto. Just nobody brings
food anymore. Right, So yeah, ever since well COVID changed everything.
Who's the person that started? There was a guy in
the weekends used by donuts that Frank, Yeah, Frank Pollock,
the late flight Frank Pollock, may he rest in Radio Heaven.
(30:47):
Frank was great. Yeah, and they're all for whatever reason.
I used to bust Frank's balls because he'd buy a
dozen donuts and there's always a coconut. Yes. I'd be like, Frank,
nobody wants the coconut, and he kept buying. Every week
he would buy it and he didn't like it, he
would eat it himself or he just yeah, and that
(31:08):
when we would come in to start our show and
it'd be it'd be the only donut remaining every week,
and I'd be like, Frank, nobody wants the coconut donut.
You might he kept buying it. It's like okay, yeah,
but Frank was great. They've been other people who have
Rader Ryan Rader, Ryan, Yeah, it's a good one. Before
before he started his own business making making food, Yeah, yeah,
(31:29):
bringing test test stuff, little cheesecakes and whatnot? Yeah, good stuff.
Now he's a rock and I heard, right, I was.
I texted the other day about the Ugly sweater party. Right,
he said, business is booming. Nice, nice family man. Now
Rader Ryan, He's got a lot of stuff going on.
Good for him. Uh. This next question is from fur Dog,
rather specific, but it works for all of us since
(31:49):
we live in the area. Uh. He wants to know
how many times have you been to Big Bear Mountain?
I was there one of the kid. It's but I
haven't haven't been that your kid. No, I'm not been
instance of a kid. Wow. What's the other there's another
mountains closer that I would go to, Mountain High. Yeah,
I didn't. Haven't been a Big Bear a long time.
But there's some people a work here that have like
(32:10):
cabins up there and whatnot. What about you, Eddie, last
time you were in the mountain winter wonderland of Big Bear.
I've never been to Big Bear. Never try it, Eddie.
It's a little closer than Arizona or whatever. You know. Roberto. Yeah,
I'm like you, I'm in a Big Bear since I
was a kid. I was like thirteen or fourteen, probably, yeah,
(32:33):
I was probably Yeah, yeah, right around there, Coop last week. Right, No,
it's been it's been a couple of years, but I've
I've probably been like a dozen times. Yeah, I've not
been in a long time. But I would love going
to the snow if A I knew how to put
snow tires on properly or B I could just pay
(32:55):
someone to do it and and then I would I
would go a lot, but paying the ass. So yeah,
I'm kind of like you with that. I don't want
to do with all that crap. It's a nightmare. Any message.
As we've talked about in the past, Coop messed up
is ca I messed up my car. You have to
wake up. You have to wake up super early too.
It's just just done. It doesn't work well for for us. No,
it's just not all right. What is next year? It's
(33:16):
asked Ben your questions our answers for the rest of
the hour. Late night Drug Tester wants to know from everybody.
Do you have a fireplace to hang your Christmas stockings?
If not, where do you hang them? Yes, we do
have a a fireplace, although I don't think my wife's
in charge of decorations. I don't know that she put
any of that up, So I haven't. I haven't really
(33:37):
paid attention. What about you, Eddie. We have a gas
fireplace that's in a weird position, you know. Is it
an Amish fireplace? No? Um, it's like in a corner.
It's really weird and we never ever use it. And
then there's like a like a little cubby hole for
like a TV next to it, which is probably where
the fireplace should be. But anyway, we hang the stockings
(33:58):
over the TV enough for a Roberto next to our
Christmas stree. Oh all right, right there, coopaloo. When we
actually do hang them up, I have like a loft,
so it's kind of like off a little loft balcony area. Okay,
there you go, late night drug tester, what is next year?
To ask Ben? Your questions are answered. I'm getting all
(34:19):
choked up. I'm reclement. It's so exciting here. This is amazing. Well,
the saw man would like to know what is your
favorite holiday activity to partake in? Uh, let's see eating.
I love the joy of eating. I fast a lot
during the year. I let myself go a little bit
one one or two days during the holidays, and you know,
(34:40):
plus it depends on what what event you're at. You know,
I celebrate Hanaka. My wife obviously ex Christmas, but we
so we celebrate everything. But for me, it's like the
jelly donuts and the lottas and things like that brings
me back to my my childhood. What what what what
about you, Eddie? Anything particular that you you love this
time of the year. Uh. You know, my wife gets
very very happy when I put up the Christmas lights.
(35:01):
It's her she loves that, so I don't mind doing it.
So I guess putting up the Christmas lights and having
her be happy about it is probably Roman Roberto puoting
up the lights, getting the tree with my daughter and
the wife, but most importantly eating my mom's to Mollies
and making moms to Molly's. It's all about the to
(35:22):
mollies eating. But my family also every year plays this
game called left Right Center. Oh that's a great game.
I love that game. We want to play that at
the Uggly Sweater party. Cool? Oh nice? Nice? Yeah. So
it's it's gambling game. You all start with like three
dollar bills and roll some dice and you have to
give the bills either to left right or put the center. Yeah.
(35:43):
It's it's good. And then at the end everybody, everybody
gets all the money, or one person gets all the money. Oh,
it's it's it's You can be totally hammered and play
the game. It's a great game. Be sure to catch
live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two
am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. You're about to your hot
hockey talk, all Bruins, all the time. You give Eddie
(36:03):
five minutes, he'll give you no Bruins coverage. Here he
is Eddie Garcia. All right, thank you, Ben. We start
with the Great eight known as Alexander Ovechkin, Washington Capital Superstar.
He had a hat trick this past Tuesday night against
the Blue Jackets and in in the process scored his eight
hundredth career goal, becoming just a third player in a
Nitil history behind Wayne Gretzky and Gordy How to accomplish
(36:24):
that milestone. He also became the first player to do
it with a single franchise. It was his twentieth goal
of this season, giving him eighteen consecutive seasons with at
least twenty goals and only two other players I've ever
done that, Brandon Shanahan and Gordy Howe. Ovechkin, with his
next goal, will tie Gordy Howe for second on the
all time goal scoring list. He's now ninety four line
Wayne Gretzky and the all time goal scoring list. I
(36:46):
saw that he has trademarked the Great Chase and the
Great is spelled gr with the number eight. He's trademarked
at the Grey Give my credit card out of here.
I want to buy a coffee mug with that on. Yeah,
well you can do that. Buffalo Sabers young standout Tage
Thompson had a five goal game in time for Phoenix
or something. I think he's from Utah, Oh, Utah. His
(37:10):
dad was a player in the minor leagues in Utah
when he was born. He's really wasn't from a traditional
hockey hot fit, right, Yeah, his dad played for the
Kings back in the day. But Tage Thompson just the
fourth player in the last five years to have a
five goal game. The all time record for goals in
a game Joe Malone with seven in nineteen twenty fogs
(37:30):
and Joe Malone's brother was Sam Malone, the bartender over cheers.
That's that's good. Knowledge. I'm sure Blind Scott's excited to
hear that. Yeah. Mitch Marner a couple of assists to
extend his point street to twenty three straight games. Maple
He's beat the Ducks seven nothing on Tuesdays now three
back of Patrick kanep me, were you that that's seven
nothing score? Ay? You had to be excited as you
(37:51):
hate Well I would have been, except for the same
night the Kings lost six nothing, allowing six goals in
the third period against Buffalo and Tage Thompson. So that
was not It's not very good there, but longest longest
point streak in NHL history fifty one by Wayne Gretzky,
but Mitch Marner twenty three currently for the Toronto Maple Leaves.
The Rangers beat the Devils in overtime four three Monday,
snapping New Jersey's team record eleven game road winning streak.
(38:13):
They were one away from the all time NHL record
held by the Detroit Red Rings in the two thousand
five season in the Minnesota Wild. In the twenty fourteen season,
Pittsburgh paing was devensman Chris la Tang returning to the
ice Saturday against the Buffalo recovering from a stroke. He
suffered that stroke late Novebury missed only five games recovering
from it. It's the second time he's had a stroke
in his playing career. The other one was in twenty fourteen.
(38:34):
Apparently he was born with a hole in his heart
and that's one of the reasons why he's had these
stroke issues. But apparently it's you know, there are different
levels of strokes, and these are are minor, at least
that as minor as a stroke can be. But anyway,
back on the ice have to mission just five games.
I think he might have talked about this the other day,
but the NHL Board of Governors had their meetings in
Palm Beach, Florida, and Commissioner Gary Batman was asked about
(38:54):
the digital around the rings. A lot of fans are
saying and they hated it, bothers him, they don't like
watching it, But he says it's a non issue because
the league's pulling indicates that fans find the games more
watchable because of the digital ads replacing the physical ones.
That is what we call some horse crap right there.
(39:15):
That's a complete nutter. Lie Pinocchio is online. One Pinocchio
on Line one, Pinocchio Online one, and finally, the Boston
Bruins are the top team. But they were shocked this
past Friday losing in Arizona at the Mullet Arena to
the guys off. The players were shocked by that violence.
(39:39):
Arizona snapping a nineteen game losing skid to the Bruins,
and there was an ugly brawl in the game. It
resulted in a fan biting off the tip and another
fan's finger. Six fans were involved. The biter was identified
as Nasha Kink shaunts oh, I like that the question mark.
It's a really weird name and first name. Anyway, he
was arrested for aggravated assault. Five of the people were
(40:00):
issued citations was as sorely conduct. The victim was identified
as Stephen Rocha, who was transported to a local hospital.
Don't favorite number now is nine. I don't know if
the finger was put back on, but so what I
did there? Eddie his new favorite numbers nine. It was
very funny, okay, humorous, humorous and that's your puck. The
World report and they told the guy that bit the
(40:20):
finger off, he said, just go get some chicken fingers
over at canes or something like that. Chillout man, thank
used to happen all the time. I had raider games
at the Colosseum here in La. Nothing special about that, Roberto,
the stories I heard about you raider fans. It's the Colosseum,
back before social media, when you could kick the you know,
kick someone's ass and no one would know about it,
(40:41):
unless because there's nobody had a can you ever been
in a fight at the stadium, Oh yeah, you have
any rules? No rules apply to that. No rules apply
to that. All's fair in love, war and a stadium fight.
I don't know. There's something about biting. I just just
not manly.
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