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coming from Vanity Fair. That's right, Vanity Fair. We are

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spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of
sports talk. And this is about Tom Brady. If you
have not been paying attention to Tom Brady, still feeding
the content machine, even though he's now retired twice, his
name all over the tabloids, all because of a Vanity
Fair interview his baby mama ex wife, very talkative. If

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you have not seen this, maybe not. Some interesting things
here that are worthy of our time. Giselle Bouchin, the
old supermodel, appearing on the very front of the April
issue of Vanity Fair, and she spilled her guts, going
in depth. This is just the content you need to
know about the inner workings of Tom Brady and his

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relationship which ended after thirteen years of marriage. Now among
the highlights for our purposes and on the bully pulpit
here doing sports radier. So she claims that she still
loves Tom Brady. Just you're just concerned that they don't
love each other anymore because they got divorced, and that
she says, they simply grew apart and wanted different things,

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and she was all over the place. Ah, this is
the death of her dream and all that. But Jiselle
also Giselle denying that she gave Tom Brady an ultimatum,
that it was between her and the NFL. That is
the popular inion of popular people that she did actually
give an ultimatum to Tom Brady. So let us discuss

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the question. Is Ji Bunchen being truthful when she says
that football and an ultimatum not the reason that she
went down Splitsville Highway with Tom Brady. So I have
cloak and dagger, shardona and billboard, and we will tie

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all of these things together and we are going to
make a nice Tom Brady sweatshirt, which I think you
can buy for like a gazillion dollars if you've got
the money. He's put his name on everything. Good for him.
I gotta get in on it too. That's the way
to do it, all right. So A now I read
the story. Why you know, I got a lot of

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free time. So I read this story in Vanity Fair.
Our light detector test sounded like this, Yeah, it was doing.
It is more probable than not that Jessell Bunching was
in this article playing the role of Pinocchio. Now, what
is my dness? I have roughly a decade of whispers

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and roars that what she's now saying is banana oil.
Giselle was not happy with the risks of playing in
the NFL. How do we know that she said it?
It wasn't just an implication she did that, but there
was There was also on the record quotes that indicated that.

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Now whether or not there was an ultimatum, I rolled
my eyes, he says, No, there was no ultimatum. We
weren't there. You weren't there. I wasn't there. But think
of this like a cloak and dagger ultimatum. We've all
been in relationships where there's no formal ultimatum, but there's
an ultimatum. It's the passive aggressive approach. So that's my

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high ypothesis on this. Now, what does that mean for
those of you a a little slow in the back of
the room. So in this chapter, let's play this out here.
Gizelle was able to find indirect ways to inform Tom
Brady that she was not happy, and this is how
she felt. Those little subtle behaviors that indicated she was

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annoyed and upset and resentful of football and the risk
of playing in the NFL to long term injury, and
she was ready for him to move on. Whether or
not she actually formally said it that way, that it
was an ultimatum, is irrelevant to our purposes. We know
for a fact that Tom Brady tried retirement before he

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retired again, forty days and forty nights he was away
from the NFL. Allegedly that trial run as a family
man had him high stepping his way back to the
NFL in Tampa. Now, meanwhile, Giselle mixed in this interview
with messages of flattery. In fact, she for some reason

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decided to defend her ex husband's lackluster play in Tampa
his final season in the NFL. Who did she blame?
Did she blame the coaching staff? Did she blame the fans?
Did who she blamed? The poor performance by Tom Brady
on his teammates, saying, quote, it's a team sport and

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you can't play alone. I think he did great, Giselle said,
under the circumstances, I mean he had no offensive lie. Yeah,
So again, when tom Brady plays well, it's tom Brady.
When tom Brady struggles, it's blamed the fat guys, the
offensive line excuse, which is very weak, right, very weak Tampa.

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Did he have a bunch of injuries in the offensive
line last season? Of course they did. They had a
no name bunch of fatties up front. But guess what
the Buccaneers because of the way they played offense with
a short passing game, the extension of the running game,
which is how most teams play these days in the NFL,

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they were an imposing group of linemen, but the Creamsicles
allowed the lowest pressure rate in the entire NFL for
Tom Brady. So it's the offensive lines fall. I'm gonna
say that you're wrong, You're dummy, never letting the facts
get in the way of a good story. Now, page two,

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what do you make of Giselle in this article claiming
that Tom Brady and her just grow apart and they
wanted different things. So this is another part of the
Vanity Fair story where I went to a bug eye
did I'll tell you why. It's one of my pet peeves.
The growing apart thing is a socially acceptable answer when

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you get out of a marriage. It's like it's a copa.
It's the factory setting on divorce. I don't care whether
you get divorced or not, that's none of my business.
But don't tell me it's because you grew apart, because
that's bullcrap. Right, that's a default answer. People accept it.
It's damage control and the whole point of the whole

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marriage thing if you're into it, and a lot of
people aren't into it these days, but you gotta put
work in, and there are speed bumps, so there can
be potholes, and you always got to find common ground,
and you got to put the work in. And then
the naked truth is, if you use that as the
default to get divorced, no one should be married because
people change over time, right, So people do. Technically everyone

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grows apart from everyone else. It's called life, right, So
if that's all it takes to get divorced, then everyone
would be divorced at this point, and you have to
find a way to manage the differences, especially in this
case when you got young kids involved in all that.
So I believe what happened here, and I read this
a couple of times. Gazelle Bunchen is giving a deluded

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version of events, watering down the shot and a lying biomission.
And I imagine, giving enough time down the line, we
will see some books pop up, and then we'll get
more information, and then more time will pass and even
more information. Once the kids are all grown, we'll get
the real story, all right. Last word here, So why

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was this even done? Why did Gizelle Bunchen do this interview?
A lot of it was about Tom Brady and so
Bunching has been away from her fashionista ways. He's been
having kids with Tom Brady, and this interview was done.
It was obvious. You don't have to be the sharpest

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tool in the shed to know that this was done
to let the fashion world know that she's back and
firing on all cylinders. Right. Vanity is what it is.
A billboard in that world, the fashion world. People read it,
they worship. It's one of the bibles. And so Jell

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she's announcing to you and to you and to me.
She's announcing that she's ready to strut down the virtual
catwalk again with purpose. She's ready to do the pirouette
and get more of those big fat checks the super rich.
Now she's super rich, but she's not as rich as
she was. It is interesting to know that Giselle and

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Tom Brady partnered up with some scam artists some crypto
scam artists that FTX scam. They were all over it.
There's photos of her with the lead scam artists from
that FTX operation, and it's estimated she lost twenty five
million dollars from partnering with the FTX crypto scammers. I

(10:57):
don't feel bad for her. She got what she deserved.
But hey, that's motivation. It's motivation to sell a bunch
of overpriced outfits to desperate housewives and knock yourself out
and make some more money. And I don't think she's
going to have to go down to the shelter anytime soon.

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I think she'll be okay. But my money makes money,
and she lost money, so now she's gonna make more
money on top of money. Hand over fists. Be sure
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the Big Apple kind of, I say kind of because
it's actually across the way. They're technically the swamp lands
of New Jersey, but that does not sound nearly as
good as the Big Apple, the Big City, the Mecca Jersey,

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you know how that is. Anyway, So we have a
lot of moving and shaking going on with Gang Green.
Has Aaron Rodgers been traded here in the overnight hours, No,
not yet, but there is is something of note, and
if you haven't seen it, the jets blowing up the
transaction wire. They signed McCole Hardman, laid of Cansa City.

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Then they said bye bye to Elijah Moore a couple
of years ago. Elijah Moore was a second round pick.
I was told by my friends who are Jets fans
that this guy was going to be one of the
great receivers of the next few years in the NFL.
And now Elijah Moore is going to the Cleveland Browns
where dreams go to die and a one two punch

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of roster moves. All of this with the anticipation that
Aaron Rodgers at some point will be relocating heading to
the Eastern Seaboard. The Jets packaging more with their third
round pick this year for the Browns second round pick.
So let us discuss. We'll start with the wide receiver
who they added the Jets. What does McCole Hardman bring

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to the Jets. So I've got inspector, gadget, bottle, and
Insta carton and we will connect all of these things
together and that will be the foundation that we will
build this malar monologue on top of So, first of all,
McCole Hardman brings another player we've heard of, a name

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brand player to the Jets. Now that doesn't really mean
that much, but the reason he was available is rather interesting.
And people don't like to bring this up. It is
the truth, which you don't like and you can't handle.
Micole Hardman is available and the reason he changed teams
is because he failed to stand out from the crowd.

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He was a tease who rarely pleased. Originally drafted as
insurance for Tyreek Hill when Tyreek was having some legal
issues a couple of years back, and mcole Hardman was
on the launching pad Andy Reid's launching pad, ready to
take off to the moon. He failed to leave the

(15:11):
solar system, He did not leave the atmosphere here. He
did not get to the moon. So how do we
know this? We know this because the chiefs made little
to no effort to retain his services. Kansas City gave
up on that need for speed, and last year was
the chancellor of McCole Hardman to make a name for itself.

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Tyreek Hill was gone and he was there. He had
been groomed for a couple of years to ascend up
the ladder and become the new Tyreek Hill, and it
did not happen. Hardman, until proven otherwise, continues to be
the inspector Gadget of the NFL. That's what he was
in Kansas City. Go Go gadget. He was the gadget,

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play gadget, play guy, the sweep guy. That was his
bread and butter With the Jets, he's going to be
plugged in as a slot receiver. We'll see if they
put him on kick returns. He's only twenty five years old.
He's got four years of service in the NFL. The
health is a red flag. Hardman McColl limited to eight

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games last season, had a pelvic injury. Might remember he
had surgery in February. He did not play in Kansas
City's comeback win over Philadelphia in the Super Bowl. Now, second,
how should Elijah Moore respond to this trade from the
Jets to the Browns? So he should be pleased as

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punch because remember this is the guy we talked about
this during the football season last year. Elijah Moore is
a guy that had a conniption fit during the season.
He had been demoted on the depth chart. Garrett Wilson
zoomed past him like ships passing in the night. There
in popularity. And what did Elijah Moore do? He sulked

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and he had bad body language. He asked for a trade,
and the Jets initially like, no, we're not trading you.
But now the genie is out of the bottle. The
genie is out of the bottle and the Jets have
had a change of heart. Your wish is my command
a Laddin style. But be careful what you wish for

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the Brownies. And maybe I'm wrong on this. I don't know.
I just do the Overnight Show. But I don't think
the Brownies are a football Cassablanca. If you know what
I'm saying, I wouldn't get overly excited about going to
Cleveland as a receiver. And I'll tell you why. There
are a number of variables which are not in your favor.
First and foremost, the Browns are a running team. Nick

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Chubba blab blab until he reaches the expiration date is
the heart and soul of the Browns offense. You get
to play with the creepy quarterback to Shaun Watson who
stunk last season, and he's despite the contract, did not
live up to the contract. And then the other variable
is mother nature. You have that going against you. We
see this all time, especially in Buffalo, where the teams

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that are around really bad, whether like the Great Lake teams,
teams that are near large bodies of water but not oceans.
It doesn't go well. That lake effects slopperty slop, those
weather games and They have a bunch of them in Cleveland,
not as many as Buffalo, but you look at players
who play in Green Bay, Buffalo and Cleveland, and it's
like the Bills every year at the end of September

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were like, Josh Allen's gonna be the MVP. It was
the same way back in the old days with Jim
Kelly or Thurman Thomas in that year or the Bills,
and what it neverlely happens. You have to rack up.
You have to accumulate massive statistics if you're a receiver
or quarterback in those cities in September, October, and November,

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because you're not gonna be putting up video game numbers
in December and January. It's not gonna happen. And who
knows if we're ever gonna hear from Elijah Moore again.
All right, final, So now we go to the Komodo
dragon in the room. Why is the Aaron Rodgers trade
not complete? It's been over a week since all the

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last round of fireworks went off. Well, the answer is
because the Jets are not done shopping. That's my answer.
I've determined that I spent several seconds thinking about this.
Take the Jets right now are finagling on Instacart. They're
playing around with their apps. They're picking up the groceries.

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Is what the Jets are doing for Aaron Rodgers. That's
what They're stockpiling picks, That's what they're doing. You've got
dueling pianos here, because on one hand, the Jets have
to pacify Aaron rodgers wants and desires. He's got his
list of demands. They've now added the Jets Alan Lazard x,

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Green Bay McCole Hardman, the former chief, and they are
hot and heavy to a mating dance with Odell Beckham
to join the wide receiver room. So in addition, the
Jets have said bye bye to Elijah Moore, which is
a way for them to pick up some more fruits
and veggies on the instacrd app there and the Packers

(20:16):
need that in their diet. So New York, if I'm
correct on this, and we think we are correct, the
Jets now have the thirteenth overall pick, the forty second
and forty third picks in the April NFL draft, as
well as picks in the fourth, fifth, and the sixth rounds.
What does that mean? To rephrase that the Jets can

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now trade if they want a couple of second round
picks or a sampler dish of multiple picks to Northern
Wisconsin for the services of the aging Aaron Rodgers. And
by the way, Aaron Rodgers is living the life of Riley.
This guy is a limousine hippie. He really is you
think of a hippie. Is just kind of living the

(20:59):
life without a lot of things and all that. I
was reading a story somebody sent me one of the listeners.
You guys sent me from a website called the Richest
dot Com. It did a profile piece on Rogers, the
real estate mogul, and how he owns homes all over
the country. He's made a couple hundred millions, so he's
got a lot of money. He's got a del Mar

(21:19):
mansion in southern California five point one million. He owns
property in Nashville. He's got a twenty eight million dollar
Mediterranean style beachfront villa in Malibu. He's got a massive
car collection, including one eight million dollar Maybok Mercedes Benz
Maybox that he's driving around in from time to time.

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I don't even know he drives it. He's got it
so not only is a hippie, he is a boogie bawler.
Aaron Rodgers. Hey, he's got a lot of money. You
can't take it with you, you might as well spend it,
and he's spending it, and it has got quite the
portfolio going. It does not appear that he invested heavily
in crypto, though I don't see. I don't see a
lot of hypto on that sheet. Maybe he did, I

(22:02):
don't know. I've not seen his name mentioned tied into
that that side hustle. Be sure to catch live editions
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(22:44):
how about that to the third degree? This is one
big vent gets grilled good believe the Coltstein Gardner Minshew
to a one year, three and a half million dollar
deal on Tuesday. It's expected that Minshew will be a
bridge quarterback to whoever the Cults draft with the number
four overall pick Ben How long does Minshew hold on
to the job. This is gonna be a long bridge.

(23:06):
This is gonna be a bridge that lasts all season.
From what we are hearing, Indie is not in love
with any quarterback in the twenty twenty three draft class,
and there is a growing belief weasel terminology that they
may end up trading down and if that happens, that
would be punting towards the following year. They are fiddling
with several scenarios at quarterback. I'm all about Garden Minshew.

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He's the beneficiary. Minshew Mania will make a splash in
the Horseshoe City, the Circle City. This cat can play.
He is the number one quarterback the Colts have had
since Andrew Luck quit several years ago. He's got a
little bit of razzle dazzle. He's a cult hero. He's silly,
accurate and in the vision that has not a lot.

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There's not a lot there. Houston blows, Tennessee's I don't
know if they're any good, and Jacksonville I'm not sold
on as them arriving yet. So there's golden chance. He's
the guy all year, mean Shoe Manning. It's a squatter.
He's gonna have squatters rights. Squatters rights possession is nine
tenths of the law. Next, speaking of free agent signings

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and trades, which NFL team do you think has had
the worst offseason so far? Well, the Rams are up there,
but I'm not gonna go with the Rams. There's a
bunch of other teams that also suck. And these are
teams that we're not supposed to stink this offseason. For example,
all right, we're not done yet. I know there's more
players that are gonna be traded. But Arizona, Holy crap,
what's going on in Arizona. The Cardinals were a bad

(24:36):
team last year. They hired a wacky coach and Jonathan Gannon.
They've lost more players who we've heard of than a
lot of lineman, defensive lineman, offensive lineman. They've made no
impact moves. They're about to lose DeAndre Hopkins. They've got
their entitled Quarterback Alligator Arms Murray and it's just a mess.

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And then I got Green Bay. Also, Green Bay is
about to lose Rogers. Alan Lazard's gone, Robert Tonyan's gone.
They've lost three defensive starters. And the problem the Packers
have is they don't ever add anybody. They never signed
any free agents. It's either draft or signed with somebody
off the waiver wire. Next, Clayton Kershaw was asked to
comment on Julio Urius being in line to be the

(25:19):
opening day starter for the Dodgers. Kershaw said, Julio deserves
it and it's a special thing to be able to
do it. Ben, do you think being named opening day
starter is special? So this is something Coope that changed
in my life. When I was a kid, I thought
it was a big deal, but now as an adult,
I think it's purely ceremonial. It doesn't matter and the
big honor. If you get the ball in Game one
of the World Series, now that matters because you're supposed

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to start three games in that World Series, but no
regular season Game one doesn't matter that much. How did
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(26:25):
and friends for the arrest of the hour. Cool, what
do we have? It's ask Ben time. All right, We're
gonna start off with um. I'm gonna start off with
a question from Callaghan Tim. I think it's how it's pronounced.
But I'm gonna kind of change his question around just

(26:45):
a little bit. Oh, you're editing, you're not supposed You
told me you can't do that, Coop, if you said
you're not allowed to do that, I'm gonna I'm gonna
make the the question better. He says, Okay. His question says,
do you like bills that are automatically withdrawn from your
bank account? So I was gonna say, like, do you guys?
I feel like who who doesn't? But direct deposit is
that you're not direct deposit that because that's putting money

(27:07):
into your bank account, like the automatic debit from your
bank account. But do I guess the better question would
do any of you have bills that aren't automatically like
that you have to still pay old school? Uh? No,
I think there was the place I used to live,
we had one of the one of the like the
water bill or somebody we had to we had to

(27:27):
do it separately. But no, everything's everything's done that way.
It's like you don't even know you're losing your money.
You don't know when you're making your money. What about you, Eddie? No,
actually I still pay several bills each month, but I
do it online. I don't actually like send a check
in in an envelope or something like that. Why Eddie,
why do you? I don't know? I just I just

(27:49):
like knowing, like how much it is every month, whether
you know, instead of just I understand that I don't know.
I just I would rather know what look at every
month and make sure nothing seemed a regular. I guess
it's that depressing. But if it's if it is irregular,
you can contact them and spend seven eight hours on hold,
send the twelve emails, and then eventually they'll correct the problem.

(28:11):
It's not much. It's like four or five things. You know.
It takes a couple of seconds of the bill. I'm
like yaie, Yeah, I got like three or four bills
that play. I pay online when the time comes. All right,
Cooba loop, we're doing hot bill talk. We're doing personal
finance talking. Now you've tuned into the ben mall or see.
I used to be like Eddie because I do like
to see everything, and I'd like to keep track and

(28:33):
make sure there's no change in the bills. But I
forgot way too many times to pay bills. And I
just realized that I'm the type of person that cannot
do that because I would get late fees. And so
now all of my bills are automatic, except except my
gardener does not have any sort of like digital payment

(28:54):
or anything. So I still have to write a check
for him imail it to him. I wonder why he
doesn't have any We have to do that for our dog.
Groomer comes to our house and grooms a dog. But
that you have it on a set schedule. Every month
the dog rumor comes I think every not every month,
it's maybe every six weeks something like that. Yeah, Okay,
I guess is it one of those mobile The dog

(29:17):
gets a haircut as often as I do. All right,
what do we have here? What's next? It's asked Ben,
your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
The sawman wants to know for everybody's say. He says,
it is said that women take the hotter showers and baths.
Is this true with you and your wives slash fiance? Uh?

(29:43):
I don't. I don't know. I don't know how I
it depends on the situation. I don't really know how
hot the shower she takes and all that, but I'm
kind of medium temperature. Usually the problem is the like
the bath, you got to get it really hot because
it cools down relatively quick, so you can't if you
go cool in the bath, it's a problem. What about you, Eddie.
We have lived in our house I think for around

(30:06):
twelve years, congratulately. I don't think we've ever used the
bathtub other than to like if the dog gets into
something and you got to kind of like wash, you know,
clean the dogs. You never take a bath. I have not.
I can't recall the last time I took a bath.
A nice bubble bath. You've never had a bubble bath
in your adult life? No, actually, I have not had
a bubble bath in my adult life. Bad job about you.

(30:28):
I never I think. I think probably I take the
hotter showers than my wife. Okay, all right, Uh what
about you, Roberto? My wife definitely lives the water hotter
than I do. Definitely. All right, we're talking water now,
Coopa Loop, Um, No, I am definitely. I definitely take
the hotter shower. She always comments, and that I'd leave

(30:52):
the waters like scorching and turns my back red. But
the hotter the better. Yeah for me, I got you?
All right? What is next year? I like a boiling cauldron?
What do we have here? Cooper Loop? All right, ferg
Dog wants to know. Hi, Fergie, make sure Brian Finley's
tucked in. Go ahead, he says. Do you find the

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sound of wind chimes relaxing or annoying? Would it bother
you if a neighbor had a bunch of them? So yes,
it would bother me, first of all, if a neighbor
had a bunch of them. Secondly, if I'm walking somewhere
and they're off in the distance, not near where I live,
I think they're kind of cool, but not too many
of them, like like one, it's like, yeah, it's all right.
Reminds me when I was a kid in my grandparents

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had one of those things in the backyard, so it
kind of flashes me back to them. What about you, Eddie,
I think generally speaking, I would not want my neighbors
to have them. We live in a very windy area,
so that would be probably really annoying. So I'm gonna
say no on the wind chimes, all right, Roberto, definitely
no on the wind chimes. They're annoying. Let's ask Ben
Kopa Loop. I have the same exact answer as you,

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Ben If. I'm just like if I'm traveling, so we're
walking around and I hear him, I'm like, oh, that's nice,
but I would not want my neighbor to have them. No, God, No,
you don't want to close to home. You want to
down the street and around the block and a couple
of miles down that street. What's next? It's asked Ben.
Your questions are answers, so the rest of the hour,
these are actual questions by actual listeners. You can send

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your question in using hashtag asks Ben. If you like
this segment. We do it every single Thursday at this time.
If you don't like it, we only do it once
a week. So who they'll cares? What do we have? Cool?
Late night drug tester wants to know do you have
any magnets decorating your refrigerator? No, no, there are no
magnets at the Mallard mansion. Although my mom may she

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restups back in the old days and we had so
many magnets. I get those schedule magnets and I used
to bring those home and she put those on there
and we had tough But no, for some reason, we've
not done the magnet thing here at the new Mallor mansion.
What about you, Edie? A lot of magnets there. You
got those little team logo magnets. Now, even though our
frigerator is like chrome looking, apparently it's plastic. Because the

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magnets want not stick. That makes it impossible. Yea, even
if we wanted him, we couldn't have them. Yeah, all right,
what about you, Roberto? Definitely, yeah, on the side of
the fridge, and they don't stick on the front of
the fridge the doors, but on the side, yes, plenty
of you think they the people that make refrigerators change that,

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because yeah, they all used to be like that where
you could stick magnets on them. And I stick out
some old magnet schedules there from the dodges. I don't
know why I used to home there. What years? What
vantage twenty six? I don't know why that it's very valuable. Yeah,
I don't know why. Um, I'm like you, Ben, I
grew up in a house where my mom had just

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like every inch of the fridge covered in magnets. Yeah,
and I have zero magnets on my fridge, but that's
because I used to have, like my old fridge, I
had a magnet on there and it scratched the front
of the fridge. So now I am I'm no magnets
allowed on the fridge, but we do have magnets on
the microwave. No magnets in Paris and italyiness classic. Well,

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you don't have to brag, you now you're bragging. Now
you're like, humble brag. What is next year? What do
we have? We get a magnet from everywhere that we go, Yeah,
souvenir a little magnet. Yeah, do you get one of
those little license plate keychain things? No? Just the magnets.
That's our thing. But we're running out of room on
the microwave, so I don't I don't know what we're
gonna microwave. All right, what's what's next? Milkman, Mike, h

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this is this is just for you Ben? Oh really,
that's what he says for Ben. Who is your favorite
Disney princess, the one who Well, I'll have to talk.
What is what is next year? What do we have? Well,
you're not gonna answer, Eddie answered. He wanted to answer.

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He likes princess talk, Eddie does, he enjoys He enjoys
hot and princess talk. We've had it before. Really, Yeah, no,
we don't do that. It's a high brow coop city
like we do May Sports Radio. We're hot, a lot
of testosterone on this show, harryl He Yeah. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays

(35:11):
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific the world. Right now,
we'll get over to Eddie Garcia and all the hockey.
And there's a hockey story that I saw. They caught
my attention. I'm gonna save it though. I'm gonna see
if Eddy uses that story It's an interesting hockey tale,
and it does not paint the NHL very good. But
here's Eddie, all right. Most teams have about ten to

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twelve games left in the regular season. If the season
end today, the playoff matches would be. In the East,
he Bruins against the Penguins, Hurricanes versus the Islanders, Maple
Leaves against the Lightning, and Devil's versus the Rangers. Panthers
are just one point out of a playoff spot behind
Pittsburgh Penguins, holding onto that final wildcard spot. Thanks with
their win last night, They've made it to the playoffs
sixteen years in a row. It's the longest consecutive playoffs
treak in the four major North American sports. In the West,

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your playoff matchups right now are Golden Knights versus Jets,
Stars versus Cracking Kings versus Oilers in wild versus Avalanche.
Calgary Flames are four points bind Winnipeg for that final
wild card spot. Natural Predators are five points out. They
also have three games in hand on Winnipeg. Boston Bruins
continue to lead the NHL with one hundred and thirteen points.
They're on pace for sixty three wins the most wins
in a single season in NHIL history sixty two by

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the ninety ninety six Red Wings and the twenty eighteen
nineteen Lightning, so they are on pace to break that record. Meanwhile,
the Blue Jackets, Blackhawks, and Ducks joined the Sharks this
week as team's officially eliminated from the playoffs. Oiler Starcono
McDavid hit the sixty goal mark last night with a
pair of goolds, clearly the overtime game winner against Arizona,
first time he's hit the sixty goal mark. He did
it in seventy two games, the fastest player to do

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the sixty goal mark since Mario Lemieux had sixty two
in the nineteen ninety ninety six season. Capitol Star Allurers
and Vetchkin three more goals this week. He now has
eight hundred and twenty in his career, seventy five away
from Wayne Gretzky for the all time record for goals
scored in a career. He also hit the forty goal
mark this season. It's thirteen times in his career he's
had four year more goals in a season, and that

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breaks Gretzky's record of twelve times Colord Avalanche head coach
jar At Bednargets a three year extension, you know, in
a contract through twenty twenty six twenty seven, winning his
coaching team history guided into the Stanley Cup title title
last year. Saint Louis Blues goalie Jordan Bennington hit with
a two game suspension for roughing and sportsmanlike conduct in
a game against Minnesota. Wild almost had a goalie fight
this week between Bennington and Minnesota's marc Andre Fleury, but

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the referees where Bud buzz Kills, wouldn't let up the
two net miners go at it. There's some good Twitter
stuff where Fleury's miked up trying to fight Bennington. If
you check that out, good, better, more people will talk
about hockey. If the day Fanatics replacing Adidas and becoming
the NHL's official on ice uniform outfitter, Yes, they are
ten year agreement. Now. The company has made Major League

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Baseball's game uniforms since twenty seventeen. But as you mentioned,
fans were throwing a fit over this. They're gonna have
the Fanatics logo. Don't is that on baseball? No, No
baseball has the Nike logo. Yeah, so they're gonna have
that on the hockey. Yeah, but they're still making the
uniforms for baseball, even though they got a Nike logo
on the fanatics runs every team trips they do. Quebec
Major Junior Hockey announced it's banning fighting starting next season.

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The OHL and WHL, the other two prominent junior leagues,
are applying, we men need testasterro, we need to check out.
It's getting less and less and all right, let's get
to the controversy. San Jose Sharks goalie James Rymer announced
he was not going to take part in the team's
pregame skate because they were going to wear the Pride
jerseys and he was not going to do it for

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religious reasons. And now the Chicago Blackhawks announced they're not
going to do the Pride jerseys because there's a report
there's security concerns in Russia. Yes, because Russia don't like
the gays in Russia, Eddie. And if you are a
Russian player and you go back to Russia and you
were wearing the Pride jersey, they might cut off your

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toe or something. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know.
If you ever been to Russia, Eddie, I have not,
but why not just let the Russian guys just not
take part then and let the wrestling team they're a team,
you stand united with their Russian comrades. Okay, does that
mean the NHL is trying to get Russian players injured
if they want them to wear these these projects by

(39:14):
the NHL? Though? Seriously, wait, what a bunch of morons
the NHL? How bad does the NHL look? This is
like the third or fourth time this has popped up.
When the Rangers had this happened Minnesota while did it
as well. Why Yeah, so there's like four or five
teams in the NHL something, But the NHL has said
if the players don't want to do it, then they
don't have to do it. So that's true. But the
problem is every time a team says they don't want
to do it, it's everyone writes a story about it.

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It's like, oh my god, I can't believe this, and
it's it's a marketing disaster, pr disaster for the NHL.
That's true. I think the teams are just gonna start
getting rid of it altogether. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
They're gonna be like that it's not worth it. And
what would have have there been any Russian players that
have warned the Pride jerseys all use them as a game.
There's one for the Kings this past week. Vladislav Gabrakov

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he one jersey. So is he going back to Russia?
Is he staying here? I have no idea, man, I
know the guy and the flyers also right, he was
having Yeah, he's rushing, but I think I don't think
it's racist. For burning would be something else. Does that
have a drop for that though? I don't know, he sing,
we don't have a drop that sent every everything covered

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there alls me to be covered, all right there, Just
thank you for Puck the world. Unbelievable, Puck the World.
That the most amazing segment at all, Unless it's not.
I don't know. It might be depending on like hockey.
I's got a murder. I gotta go. I don't have
any to do.