November 6, 2024 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about the passing of the 2024 NFL Trade Deadline and which teams came out on top, Joel Embiid receiving a 3-game suspension for shoving a Philly reporter, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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the Way Tire Buying showb so our lead this hour
is from the battleground, those key swing states that will
help decide who wins the swap meet of football, better
known as the trade deadline. I assume you were paying attention.
There was nothing else going on no on Tuesday anyway,
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perhaps not, perhaps you were distracted by other events. But
the game of musical chair ended for the regular season.
The music stopped. The twenty twenty four NFL trade deadline
has passed. Happened at four pm Eastern time on Tuesday afternoon.
We saw all together. They did the math on this.
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There were eighteen moves that were made, and we have
the good, the bad, and the uly. All right, so
let us discuss the question for the esteemed panel, how
would you rate the experience of the twenty twenty four
NFL trade deadline? So I have orange juice, rubber stamped
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and jim nance, and we will put all of these
things together and we are going to gnaw away, is
what we're going to do. Okay, We're gonna gnaw away
at the nighttime hours. So a nobody, nobody I know
who got traded is a household name. There's no aura
points by anybody here. You have mostly raw spam, hard
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oh football people will tell you there are several players
that relocated that are a big deal, But the players
that were traded were mostly traded for lower level scratcher tickets. Right, So,
as we like to say here, we do not do
narrow casting. We do broadcasting. So we tried to talk
about people that the vast majority know about if you
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look at the logistics. This has been an age old
problem in the NFL, and it is so far behind,
so far behind the other trade deadlines in baseball and
basketball and in hockey, that everyone is so paranoid about
getting burned. No that's true in other sports as well,
but as a result in football, plus there's this old
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school mantra that it's impossible to just throw a player
in and have them succeed. I mean, like DeAndre Hopkins
really has been terrible for Kansas City, for example, was
traded not that long ago. But as a result of
the logistics, we have major supply chain issues like I
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did not see soybeans, pork bellies, or frozen concentrated orange
juice repackaged by anybody. The commodities of the NFL were
lacking the panache at the trade deadline. Now where is
the juice well, Ojy's dead, But where is the juice
at the trade deadline? So who are the winners? Page two?
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Who are the winners of the NFL trade deadline? Because
I want winners. I want teams that want to win. So,
as I've laid out for you already, Benny Buzzkill, we
lacked the Rasmataz. However, on my scorecard, here's how I
judged it. I gave the win to the Lions, the Commanders,
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and the Steelers. All of them get an A on
the Malor report card. And here's why. The front office,
the nerds in the front office, what they did is
they rubber stamped these teams as legit teams. All right,
this is a test, Hey, do you think we're actually
that good? And if you do, then you have to
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go and make moves. Now, Kansas City already made most
of their you know, they made their moves prior to
the to the last minute. But other teams that made
moves the last minute. I'm going with the Lions, the Commanders,
and the Steelers because they brought in reinforcements. And Detroit,
for example, they added someone who's not a household namesa
Darius Smith, but he's a pass rusher from the Browns.
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They didn't give up anything, which tells you the guy's
probably not that good, but he's certainly not Aiden Hutchinson. However,
this season, Zadarias Smith seven quarterback hits on the season.
If you look at the numbers, five sacks. No active
Detroit lion has more than two and a half sacks,
so he's got double what they've got on the active
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roster in Motown. And then the team formerly known as
the Redskins added a player that you'd say is a
household name, but he's a defensive back. And other than
Dion Sanders, there's nobody that you that was years ago.
There's nobody's a household name, but a cornerback from the
New Orleans football team, Marshawn Lattimore heads to the DMV.
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There he'll be hanging out and having a fine time. Now,
the Saints picked up a lot, I guess if you
like draft picks, a third round pick, a fourth round pick,
and a sixth round pick. There were some other picks included,
but that is a tremendous endorsement that Washington looks around
they say, well, the Cowboys, they suck the Giants as
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always are terrible and Philadelphia is beatable. So the division
is right there for Washington, and they needed help even
though statistically they've been pretty good in the secondary. They
had Lattimore. Now the Steelers, they made a couple of trades.
Mike Williams, who's good until he gets hurt. He wasn't
good with the Jets, but he came over from the
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Jets for a fifth round pick. And also a trade
with Green Bay for Preston Smith, who's a not a
name you know of, not a name you know of,
but a guy that has been okay, And the Steelers
just need okay, they've got stars on defense, they just
need to plug in okay around those stars. Now, last
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word here, The better story is in the losing teams
locker room, the teams that flop. So which teams did
the old flopperoo at the trade deadline? I'm glad you asked,
so the way I broke it down. The Dallas Cowboys.
The Dallas Cowboys, Oh but what did they do? What
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are you doing? The Ravens and the Chargers, all of
them are on the knotty list at the trade down.
And there's others, but those are the three we're going
to focus in on now. Jerry Jones yet again weaved
his magic. At the trade deadline, the Cowboy made a trade.
They said they weren't, then they said they were, and
then people said they weren't. Then they made a trade.
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So the Cowboys acquired the great Jonathan Mingo from Carolina.
Who never heard of him?
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Right?
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Jonathan Mingo is the guy's name now the Cowboys. The
reason this is a head scratcher, there's actually there's two reasons,
all right, h The first one is Dallas traded a
fourth round pick, which is more than the Chiefs traded
to get DeAndre Hopkins. The second reason that you question
the sanity of Jerry Jones and the Cowboys is they
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acquired a guy who was not a starter on the
worst roster in the NFL Carolina. You see, Jonathan Mingo
wasn't good enough to start for the Panthers, but he's
worth a fourth round pick to the Dallas Cowboys, who goofed,
I've got to know. And then we had the Ravens
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on the Knottil. They didn't make a big move, but
they made a move and here's why. All right, about
an hour before the trade deadline, came to an end.
My phone starts blowing up, and it was a trade
Maya at Rams l I am said bye bye did
to a Tradavious White, who you probably might know if
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you're a football hardo from his days in Buffalo defensive back.
And the trade was for nothing, pretty much. Rams just
gave Tradavious White away and it was like a flip
of seventh round picks. But not even next year, not
the year after. It's twenty twenty seven. And so I
end up getting into a spicy debate with Baltimore's Sports
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gas bag Sports with Coleman, friend of the show, and
merely pointing out that Tradavious White's probably a really nice guy.
I don't know, I'll probably never meet him. But White,
these stories they were over the top. They were building
him as a former Pro Bowl defensive back. What an
addition for the Ravens. And I'm like, where's that coming from? Right?
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Where is that? He's not that guy? You're not that guy, Pal,
You're not that guy. He is a Jim Nance type ballplayer.
At this point, burnt toast now to prove that not
only does he fail the eyeball test, he was so
bad the Rams said, listen, go find a trade. You suck,
we want to send you somewhere else. And they found
a sucker in the Baltimore Ravens, although not really a sucker.
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They didn't get anything return. So this guy, Trudavius White
was in the Rams doghouse. Out of two hundred and
five ranked defensive backs in the NFL this year, a
cord to the Nerds, he ranked one hundred and seventy seven.
So if you want a defensive back that will not
be able to keep up with the receivers, that the
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wide receivers can blow by, that will misstackles and get
absolutely cooked, this is your guys. Is your guy. And
then as we anticipated the Chargers, Jim Harbaugh called his shot.
He realized the Chargers weren't going to do anything, and
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they did Bupkiss. And so, despite having suckbag receivers and
questionable defensive backs, the Chargers played a silent night at
the trade deadline. Wasn't that nice? They did nothing app
solutely enough.
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So our lead this hour is from just a wonderful story,
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just a just a great story. I saw this and
my eyes got the size of delicious grilled cheese sandwiches,
over sized drilled Jesus sandwiches. And part of it is
because I relate to the story, because I lived the
life for a fair amount of time, and so I
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just love it. So there were no games on Tuesday,
but we have a doozy of a story involving a
household player in the in b a Now if you
did not hear and maybe not maybe not the now
he hasn't won it this year because they haven't given
out and the word this year. But the NVP Joel
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Embiid from the Philadelphia basketball team has been suspended for
the next three games without pay, without pay. Now, what
did he do? He gave the old shove to a
columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. You've never heard of some
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guy named Marcus Hayes. You don't know who that is.
Nobody knows who that is. But it happened after a
recent game. Now in beads show the columnist. He was
upset with a recent column which had chronicled what an
abject failure Embiide is getting on the court and contributing
and helping the team out. But in the column they
mentioned Embiid's son and his late brother, who both have
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the same name, questioning embiids professionalism and effort to stay
in shape and essentially say, hey, you know, Joel Embiid
talks a lot about how he wants to impress these people,
and he never shows up the work and plays right.
I'm not paraphrasing, but that's it. So they got into
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it after a recent game, and Beid is quoted as saying,
the next time you bring up my dead brother and
my son again, you are going to see that what
I'm going to do to you, and I'm going to
have to live with the consequences. A tough guy, and
Beid said, so that began the confrontation. Now, the columnist
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offered an apology for the comments, and Beid rejected the apology,
so he wouldn't accept the apology. Now the confrontation continued,
and Beiid said, I don't care what the media says.
You know, one of those guys, I don't care what
reporters say. And the columnist, the guy you don't know.
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His name is Hayes last name, he responded, but you
do to Embiid. So then Embiid, who moments earlier had
said he doesn't care what reporters say, then pushed the reporter,
and then a bunch of pr hacks broke up the
scrum in the locker room. So you got Joel Embiid
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on one side and this guy, Marcus Hayes, the columnist,
on the other side. So let us discuss the question.
Joel Embiid has now been suspended for three games for
a confrontation with a Philadelphia sports columnist. How does this
one hit you? So, I've got marching band, roadside billboard,
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and Neanderthal and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to put a smile on
your face. We're going to do it. And if we
don't do it, it's Eddie's fault. If we don't do
it's Eddi's fault. So num burrow. Joel Embiid pretty likeable,
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Pretty likable dude. Yeah, he is. Rise usually seems like
he's having a good time, you know, one out of
every ten games he plays. He's loquacious, and he's a
heck of a ballplayer when he actually shows up to work. However,
Marcus Hayes, the no Name column is what he did
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with his column. It was like he was with the
Ohio State marching band. He dotted the I with his column.
Because Embiid's profession and effort to stay in shape are
his kryptonite. They are and no man, woman, or child
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could disagree with that. He is regularly guilty of mouthfeasons.
He has been empowered by those around him. He has
now been convinced that this is acceptable behavior, that you
are rewarded for this. No adults work for the Philadelphia
seventy six ers. Nobody has the ability to say, hey,
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you know this is not really this is not good,
Like what you're doing is wrong and you should have
some pride in your performance and want to be in
these games. You don't. But nobody has the balls to
say that, So it takes a columnist in Philadelphia to
say it. Now, my favorite part from what I've seen
of this confrontation, I love that Embiid said he doesn't
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care what reporters say before seconds later giving a macho
man Randy Savage like top rope elbow drop the Hayes
in my head in the cartoon bubble on my head.
That's how it went down, right, I mean, tell me
you have a short fuse without telling me you have
a short fuse. And the line where I don't care
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what the media says. It reminds me of when I
was in locker rooms a lot, and I did this
for years. At the beginning of my career, I was
a radio stringer and I had a talk show and
I would go into locker rooms all the time, and
I had confrontations with NBA players and baseball players. I've
been kicked out of locker rooms. I know what that's like.
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I've been in those shoes. My favorite one of those
confrontations was a player on the Dodgers years ago who
was just terrible. The guy was horrific, and I merely
pointed out how bad he was. And I was in
the Dodger clubhouse, this is before a game, and the player,
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player X will call him, comes up to me and says,
I've been hearing what you what you're saying about me?
And I said, oh, yeah, yeah, you you listen? Huh?
He said no, I don't listen, but my family does.
And I don't like it.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
He just reading me in the Riot Act. Didn't hit
me though there was no physical violence, because I was
bigger than that guy. All right, now, Page two. What
did Joel n Be of the Sixers accomplish by giving
this shove in this media rhubarb with the columnist in Philadelphia?
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So what did he accomplish? I'm glad you asked. So.
I would argue that roughly one point five percent of
the seventy six er fan base had read or heard
what Marcus Hayes rode in the Philadelphia in But what
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Embiid did was broadcast that. He put that in a
boombox and beide essentially worked as a roadside billboard advertising
to make sure even the casual sports fan is aware
of what happened. Now to you me an idea, how
few people read the Philadelphia Enquirer. I do a radio show. Now,
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granted we're on nationally, but I'm on in the middle
of the night, and our audience, our footprint, the amount
of people that we reach here when everyone's sleeping, is
so much larger than the circulation of the Philadelphia Enquirer.
The last report it was less than fifty thousand readers
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the circulation per day. I mean, there's no one reading that.
And I could sit here and read Wikipedia pages and
I'd reach more people than the Philadelphia Enquirer. But it's
great publicity. It is great publicity by Joel Embiid. And
as for Marcus Hayes, I give the guy credit. You know,
he's following the TJ model of the late great TJ. Simers,
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who was a friend of mine who stirred it up
all the time as a columnist, and TJ always told me,
he said, listen, if you're gonna throw Haymakers, you got
to be out there and let the people you're talking
about respond. And so Marcus Hayes walked into a beehive
and say what you will. Maybe you don't agree with
what he wrote. You say he's an a hole and
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all that, you hate the media and all that, but
he didn't hide, right, he was there, He was accountable.
He said, if you have a problem, confront me. And
beat had a problem confronted him. You know, that's what
you're supposed to do now. As men, you're not supposed
to hit each other, right in a civilized world, in
that environment, and Hayes wrote what he wrote. He walked
in there, faced the music in this case, faced the
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being attacked by himbat right, And you know he could
have been charge of the crime. All right. Final point,
So the NBA yet again scheduled no games. Every arena
was dark on election night. And I have to ask
you the question, does anyone think this is a good idea?
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Does anyone think this make sense? They've been doing this
for a couple of years now. Now I understand Adam
Silver he gets to flex his woke card and all that.
I get that, but isn't this just pure silliness the NBA.
I know they win, applause and way to go and
all that, But if you take a couple of steps
back as an adult and you put this under the microscope,
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isn't the NBA really saying that their fan base is
filled with Neanderthals, that the village idiot is a fan
of their product, and these people are unable to walk
into gum at the same time or in this case,
vote and attend or watch an NBA game on the
same day. They clearly think so little of the people
that support their product that they think they have to
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have no games or else people won't vote. And it's
that argument we've had a lot over the last five
to ten years where people in sports who think they're
a lot more powerful than they are. That's number one.
Number two, they don't seem to understand their role in
the cosmos, that it's a distraction from the real world.
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It's entertainment. And of course you could also play Devil's
advocate and say that the regular season product in the
NBA is not very enjoyable, and so they actually it
did a public service by not scheduling any games and
having all the arenas empty. The products so bad. But
I was able to watch a couple of hockey games,
and I enjoyed those. I'm not a big hockey guy.
I get in the playoffs in hockey, but I watched
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the Bruins not show up in their game against the
Maple Leafs. And then I also watched the Kings and
the Wild that had those on for a while, and
I was able to watch those games. Check this out.
I'm gonna blow your mind. So I was able to
watch two hockey games. I was able to I voted,
which you don't get applause for because you're just kind
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of supposed to do it if you're eligibly supposed to
do it. So I did that. I was able to
keep track of the election results, and I was able
to prepare for the radio show. I did all of
those things. I was able to do all of those things,
and I didn't have to cancel any games or anything
like that. You know why, because I'm a grown up,
and I believe that my fellow men and women are
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also grown ups and they can also handle these It's
just so stupid to me. I don't know why they
do it, because you know, they get the woke points
and all that. I get that the NBA, but it
just seems so silly. And now, considering how these elections
turned out, maybe they'll they'll flip the switch and go
back and say, well, you know, maybe we should play
play some games in years to come.
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It's the Chargers, the old San Diego Chargers degree. This
is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Coopoler Rex Ryan recently said that, as much as he
hates to see it, that Drake May is a stud
for the Patriots and could have a really bright future.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Bendy, the Pats have their guy in may Well. Drake
May has no past in the NFL, so all he
has is the present. In the future. He has played
better than anticipated. It is way too premature to say
he's the man, but I will say that he looks
pretty good and he's playing better right now than Caleb Williams,
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who he goes against this weekend in that Bears Patriots game.
So it's encouraging. Is the word I will use.
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Next, an anonymous NFL executive made a prediction that Anthony
Richardson will still be with the Colts next season and
that they will try to start him.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Ben, do you agree. I do not At this moment
in time, I do the show today, this moment in time,
the odds are heavily in favor of the Colts trading
Anthony Richardson right around the NFL Draft. Before the NFL Draft,
he has fallen out of the bubble of trust. Once
you fall out of the bubble of trust, it is
almost impossible to get back. And he was the worst
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quarterback in the NFL, worse than Bryce Young and everyone
else by a mile.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
Next, now, the Dodgers made the decision not to extend
qualifying offer to Walker Buehler. Now this means that he
could walk and the team wouldn't get any draft pick compensation. Ben,
do you think this is a bad idea by the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
No, it's not my money, and they have a license
to print money with all the money they've getting out
of Japan because of Otani. But I don't have a
problem with it. Walker Bueller was terrible during the regular season.
He was great in the playoffs. I love obviously, who
cannot say. You know, we could say enough good things
about how he pitched. He's got big balls, but you
know he's also had too Tommy John surgeries, So good
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luck on that. How did we do? Koop? You pass
this edition? That is a win putter on.
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Now, I've given this one before, but it's it's really
important to bring this up because the average human being
passes gas at least fourteen times a day.
Speaker 10 (29:39):
I've been counting my gas, Ben, You've said that before.
In the past few weeks. I've been counting, and I
just don't agree.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, a lot of them are they're not average? Well, no, no, no, no,
listen to Loraina. A lot of them are silent assassins.
If you know what I mean, you don't even know
you're doing it, and it just it feels like at
all that is true.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
I just played this silent fart sound but you didn't
even hear it.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
But Loraina, do not question science? All right? Dog writes
and says, is it okay to lie to women about
who I voted for? Says, by the way, I voted
for Ben. Well, thank you for a dog.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
Yeah, I wrote in Ben Mallard two, God bless you.
I just don't know if we had the upper hand
on that. You know, the malaria is very strong. If
we all got on board, it might have happened.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah, me and Doc Mike. You know, we ran every
year for about twenty years. But you just go ahead.
Speaker 10 (30:26):
Yeah, you know, when it comes to politics and love,
think gets a little messy sometimes. Just know your ground step.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah, but you've got to be like a real hard
oh to like not want to be with someone because
of their politics, To think that they have that much power,
I mean, come on, yeah, you'd be shocked. Yeah, I know,
I guess I'm from the old school where it didn't
really matter and who cares? King Rory writes and says,
how do I cheer up a significant other if who
they voted for didn't win? That's King Ry.
Speaker 10 (30:53):
Oh my gosh, you know what I was thinking about
this pizza and wine. I mean, it depends on what
they're there, what they enjoyed. Once again, find things that
make you happy? Well, you know, I like I like
fuzzy socks. If you give me some fuzzy socks. H
Coop has other ideas, no favors of the sexual kind.
Speaker 9 (31:17):
Yes, all right, get their mind off of it. How
can you how can you be upset about the election?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
If for you know, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
It's a very good point.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
In a healthy relationship. You you know, you get that. Anyway,
Let's go to Chris in Maine. Hello, Chris, Oh, what's up?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
And morning?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Good morning to you, Chris. What's up over there? We
would make anybody happy. Facts, So I have a question
with Rina. Yes, if you're on a date with a
guy and you find out he calls it sports talk
radio shows, is that a red flag?
Speaker 10 (31:56):
I love radio and I call in radio shows too,
and I'm not out I have heard stories that Lorena
sometimes will use a fake voice to call into radio shows.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
Yeah, you know, I do fake poices sometimes and it
works out real.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Good for me.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
What's your favorite show to call into?
Speaker 9 (32:13):
The ones giving away free stuff?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
She's a prize you know, we used to call them.
We call them something else back in the day.
Speaker 10 (32:20):
But one probably over twelve prizes, tickets and packages and
fun things, all right.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
JT the wingman, who you've met? I've met him, good dude.
I've seen him in three states, by the way, about
to be four states. When in the relationship, should you
tell your partner that my three cats sleep in the
bed with me?
Speaker 10 (32:38):
Oh my god, they'll probably I mean, you know, you're
probably going to be around your cats all the time.
She'll probably see it. Most cat people don't know how
to give their cats limits. They're just everywhere. They're on
the counters and what is that in their food? And
they're like, there's no how's that any different than dog people.
Dog people let their dogs sleep in the bed with
(33:00):
The dogs.
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Aren't on the counters while you're cooking, that's true.
Speaker 10 (33:05):
The cats, whenever they go and sit on things, their
little booties are on everything.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
That's true.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
I know this guy who put lipstick on his cat's
butt and he watched Oh.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Your MIC's on you might you just just you know, did.
Speaker 9 (33:21):
You date the guy or did you know I saw
it on TikTok or something. It's TikTok, but it showed
it leaves it everywhere.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Really, it's gross. It is kind of disgusting.
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Speaker 1 (33:43):
You idiot. Password the word Game of the Stars. Here's
Ben Meller, and away we go. It's past word time
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We have a slow in Vegas who hosted the the
last mallor meet and greet we did in Sin City.
(34:05):
Hello slug, everybody, Well you're gonna play. Who do you
want to partner up? What's you got me? Ben? You
got Eddie, Lorena or Koberlop.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
I'm gonna go to you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
That's right. We're in it to win it, Slug. We're
in it to win it, all right, hold on and
Black Steve the Second from North Carolina's gonna play. Hello
Black Steve the Second, and what's up guys? Good morning,
slug you soun. I'm very excited to be here at
Black Steve the Second.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Nothing more i'd want to do at six in the
morning in this Benny.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I know it's not quite six in the morning, but anyway,
all right, well, who do you want to partner up
with their Black Steve? Let me go with the legend
Edmund Dallas Garcia. Baby, you want to lose? Guys had
more cheating scandals than al Tube. I can't remember the
last time you won a game.
Speaker 11 (34:57):
Well you want anything, Ben, you.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Might want to go to the ear doctor, dummy. All right,
here we go. Let's see we're up, sluck. Pick a
number one to ten, please, it's password the word Game
of the Stars. I'm the all time wins king at
these games shows. By the way, all time wins. That's right.
This guy wasn't listening though, because he's not a fan.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
Number four.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I heard you what'd you say, tobacco road comment? I
heard you a little tobacco road comment. I hear everything
being all you do? Bro? Are you a stalker? That's
kind of weird. All right, let's go with let's see here,
how about mystifying? Magical?
Speaker 7 (35:43):
No, how about suspicious, it's just mystifying.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Let's say strange. No, let's go with I said mystifying.
How about puzzling? Confusing?
Speaker 11 (36:12):
But clearly this is confusing, Eddie. We start out with
ten points. Every wrong answer we go down to point.
So we got ten nine eight? Now it is eight points.
How about it that seven? Actually, how about puzzling?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I think we already had that.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Now let's do it again.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Confusing, weird.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
Hey, you guys are dancing all around it but not
hitting it.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Yeah, how do we throw it out? What do you say?
Let's skip that one. Yeah, the word we were looking
for was mysterious. Mysterious? Well whatever, not that black steve
my material. You're a thief. You're stealing my line. That
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made it better. Let's go with this guy's a punk.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
How about let's go with monarchy. Monarchy.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
That's a bad fluiddy word. But uh, how about boy, Uh,
let's go with.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Emperor hierarchy. Now, how about nobility?
Speaker 5 (37:40):
Nobility?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
No chance this guy gets that? No chance?
Speaker 7 (37:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (37:45):
That's a funny one.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
I'm gonna say no, God, we're so this is terrible.
How about how about kingship.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
Royalty, your.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Faith? We got the lead, and we get there, go again,
and we go again. This is when we pile up.
Pick a number one to Tampa. Now what do you want?
Pick a number one to ten, but not one or
not four? Slug all right, napping?
Speaker 5 (38:28):
Oh no, oh my dozing block steam dozing.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Jesus y.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Slug all right, baby, Let's see how many numbers I
got left.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Hurry up. We are not you're wasting time and that
I am filing a protest. I am filing a protest.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
This is this is aie ticket. You can lose your ticket.
I'm mean when you get
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Her Eddie's a chade or Eddie's a chade or
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is from the battleground, those key swing states that will
help decide who wins the swap meet of football, better
known as the trade deadline. I assume you were paying attention.
There was nothing else going on no on Tuesday anyway,
(01:55):
perhaps not, perhaps you were distracted by other events. But
the game of musical chair ended for the regular season.
The music stopped. The twenty twenty four NFL trade deadline
has passed. Happened at four pm Eastern time on Tuesday afternoon.
We saw all together. They did the math on this.
(02:15):
There were eighteen moves that were made, and we have
the good, the bad, and the uly. All right, so
let us discuss the question for the esteemed panel, how
would you rate the experience of the twenty twenty four
NFL trade deadline? So I have orange juice, rubber stamped
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and jim nance, and we will put all of these
things together and we are going to gnaw away, is
what we're going to do. Okay, We're gonna gnaw away
at the nighttime hours. So a nobody, nobody I know
who got traded is a household name. There's no aura
points by anybody here. You have mostly raw spam, hard
(03:02):
oh football people will tell you there are several players
that relocated that are a big deal, But the players
that were traded were mostly traded for lower level scratcher tickets. Right, So,
as we like to say here, we do not do
narrow casting. We do broadcasting. So we tried to talk
about people that the vast majority know about if you
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look at the logistics. This has been an age old
problem in the NFL, and it is so far behind,
so far behind the other trade deadlines in baseball and
basketball and in hockey, that everyone is so paranoid about
getting burned. No that's true in other sports as well,
but as a result in football, plus there's this old
(03:47):
school mantra that it's impossible to just throw a player
in and have them succeed. I mean, like DeAndre Hopkins
really has been terrible for Kansas City, for example, was
traded not that long ago. But as a result of
the logistics, we have major supply chain issues like I
(04:09):
did not see soybeans, pork bellies, or frozen concentrated orange
juice repackaged by anybody. The commodities of the NFL were
lacking the panache at the trade deadline. Now where is
the juice well, Ojy's dead, But where is the juice
at the trade deadline? So who are the winners? Page two?
(04:31):
Who are the winners of the NFL trade deadline? Because
I want winners. I want teams that want to win. So,
as I've laid out for you already, Benny Buzzkill, we
lacked the Rasmataz. However, on my scorecard, here's how I
judged it. I gave the win to the Lions, the Commanders,
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and the Steelers. All of them get an A on
the Malor report card. And here's why. The front office,
the nerds in the front office, what they did is
they rubber stamped these teams as legit teams. All right,
this is a test, Hey, do you think we're actually
that good? And if you do, then you have to
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go and make moves. Now, Kansas City already made most
of their you know, they made their moves prior to
the to the last minute. But other teams that made
moves the last minute. I'm going with the Lions, the Commanders,
and the Steelers because they brought in reinforcements. And Detroit,
for example, they added someone who's not a household namesa
Darius Smith, but he's a pass rusher from the Browns.
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They didn't give up anything, which tells you the guy's
probably not that good, but he's certainly not Aiden Hutchinson. However,
this season, Zadarias Smith seven quarterback hits on the season.
If you look at the numbers, five sacks. No active
Detroit lion has more than two and a half sacks,
so he's got double what they've got on the active
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roster in Motown. And then the team formerly known as
the Redskins added a player that you'd say is a
household name, but he's a defensive back. And other than
Dion Sanders, there's nobody that you that was years ago.
There's nobody's a household name, but a cornerback from the
New Orleans football team, Marshawn Lattimore heads to the DMV.
(06:18):
There he'll be hanging out and having a fine time. Now,
the Saints picked up a lot, I guess if you
like draft picks, a third round pick, a fourth round pick,
and a sixth round pick. There were some other picks included,
but that is a tremendous endorsement that Washington looks around
they say, well, the Cowboys, they suck the Giants as
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always are terrible and Philadelphia is beatable. So the division
is right there for Washington, and they needed help even
though statistically they've been pretty good in the secondary. They
had Lattimore. Now the Steelers, they made a couple of trades.
Mike Williams, who's good until he gets hurt. He wasn't
good with the Jets, but he came over from the
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Jets for a fifth round pick. And also a trade
with Green Bay for Preston Smith, who's a not a
name you know of, not a name you know of,
but a guy that has been okay, And the Steelers
just need okay, they've got stars on defense, they just
need to plug in okay around those stars. Now, last
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word here, The better story is in the losing teams
locker room, the teams that flop. So which teams did
the old flopperoo at the trade deadline? I'm glad you asked,
so the way I broke it down. The Dallas Cowboys.
The Dallas Cowboys, Oh but what did they do? What
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are you doing? The Ravens and the Chargers, all of
them are on the knotty list at the trade down.
And there's others, but those are the three we're going
to focus in on now. Jerry Jones yet again weaved
his magic. At the trade deadline, the Cowboy made a trade.
They said they weren't, then they said they were, and
then people said they weren't. Then they made a trade.
(08:06):
So the Cowboys acquired the great Jonathan Mingo from Carolina.
Who never heard of him?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Jonathan Mingo is the guy's name now the Cowboys. The
reason this is a head scratcher, there's actually there's two reasons,
all right, h The first one is Dallas traded a
fourth round pick, which is more than the Chiefs traded
to get DeAndre Hopkins. The second reason that you question
the sanity of Jerry Jones and the Cowboys is they
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acquired a guy who was not a starter on the
worst roster in the NFL Carolina. You see, Jonathan Mingo
wasn't good enough to start for the Panthers, but he's
worth a fourth round pick to the Dallas Cowboys, who goofed,
I've got to know. And then we had the Ravens
(08:58):
on the Knottil. They didn't make a big move, but
they made a move and here's why. All right, about
an hour before the trade deadline, came to an end.
My phone starts blowing up, and it was a trade
Maya at Rams l I am said bye bye did
to a Tradavious White, who you probably might know if
(09:21):
you're a football hardo from his days in Buffalo defensive back.
And the trade was for nothing, pretty much. Rams just
gave Tradavious White away and it was like a flip
of seventh round picks. But not even next year, not
the year after. It's twenty twenty seven. And so I
end up getting into a spicy debate with Baltimore's Sports
(09:46):
gas bag Sports with Coleman, friend of the show, and
merely pointing out that Tradavious White's probably a really nice guy.
I don't know, I'll probably never meet him. But White,
these stories they were over the top. They were building
him as a former Pro Bowl defensive back. What an
addition for the Ravens. And I'm like, where's that coming from? Right?
(10:08):
Where is that? He's not that guy? You're not that guy, Pal,
You're not that guy. He is a Jim Nance type ballplayer.
At this point, burnt toast now to prove that not
only does he fail the eyeball test, he was so
bad the Rams said, listen, go find a trade. You suck,
we want to send you somewhere else. And they found
a sucker in the Baltimore Ravens, although not really a sucker.
(10:30):
They didn't get anything return. So this guy, Trudavius White
was in the Rams doghouse. Out of two hundred and
five ranked defensive backs in the NFL this year, a
cord to the Nerds, he ranked one hundred and seventy seven.
So if you want a defensive back that will not
be able to keep up with the receivers, that the
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wide receivers can blow by, that will misstackles and get
absolutely cooked, this is your guys. Is your guy. And
then as we anticipated the Chargers, Jim Harbaugh called his shot.
He realized the Chargers weren't going to do anything, and
(11:12):
they did Bupkiss. And so, despite having suckbag receivers and
questionable defensive backs, the Chargers played a silent night at
the trade deadline. Wasn't that nice? They did nothing app
solutely enough.
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So our lead this hour is from just a wonderful story,
(12:50):
just a just a great story. I saw this and
my eyes got the size of delicious grilled cheese sandwiches,
over sized drilled Jesus sandwiches. And part of it is
because I relate to the story, because I lived the
life for a fair amount of time, and so I
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just love it. So there were no games on Tuesday,
but we have a doozy of a story involving a
household player in the in b a Now if you
did not hear and maybe not maybe not the now
he hasn't won it this year because they haven't given
out and the word this year. But the NVP Joel
(13:33):
Embiid from the Philadelphia basketball team has been suspended for
the next three games without pay, without pay. Now, what
did he do? He gave the old shove to a
columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. You've never heard of some
(13:53):
guy named Marcus Hayes. You don't know who that is.
Nobody knows who that is. But it happened after a
recent game. Now in beads show the columnist. He was
upset with a recent column which had chronicled what an
abject failure Embiide is getting on the court and contributing
and helping the team out. But in the column they
mentioned Embiid's son and his late brother, who both have
(14:18):
the same name, questioning embiids professionalism and effort to stay
in shape and essentially say, hey, you know, Joel Embiid
talks a lot about how he wants to impress these people,
and he never shows up the work and plays right.
I'm not paraphrasing, but that's it. So they got into
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it after a recent game, and Beid is quoted as saying,
the next time you bring up my dead brother and
my son again, you are going to see that what
I'm going to do to you, and I'm going to
have to live with the consequences. A tough guy, and
Beid said, so that began the confrontation. Now, the columnist
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offered an apology for the comments, and Beid rejected the apology,
so he wouldn't accept the apology. Now the confrontation continued,
and Beiid said, I don't care what the media says.
You know, one of those guys, I don't care what
reporters say. And the columnist, the guy you don't know.
(15:19):
His name is Hayes last name, he responded, but you
do to Embiid. So then Embiid, who moments earlier had
said he doesn't care what reporters say, then pushed the reporter,
and then a bunch of pr hacks broke up the
scrum in the locker room. So you got Joel Embiid
(15:41):
on one side and this guy, Marcus Hayes, the columnist,
on the other side. So let us discuss the question.
Joel Embiid has now been suspended for three games for
a confrontation with a Philadelphia sports columnist. How does this
one hit you? So, I've got marching band, roadside billboard,
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and Neanderthal and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to put a smile on
your face. We're going to do it. And if we
don't do it, it's Eddie's fault. If we don't do
it's Eddi's fault. So num burrow. Joel Embiid pretty likeable,
(16:28):
Pretty likable dude. Yeah, he is. Rise usually seems like
he's having a good time, you know, one out of
every ten games he plays. He's loquacious, and he's a
heck of a ballplayer when he actually shows up to work. However,
Marcus Hayes, the no Name column is what he did
(16:48):
with his column. It was like he was with the
Ohio State marching band. He dotted the I with his column.
Because Embiid's profession and effort to stay in shape are
his kryptonite. They are and no man, woman, or child
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could disagree with that. He is regularly guilty of mouthfeasons.
He has been empowered by those around him. He has
now been convinced that this is acceptable behavior, that you
are rewarded for this. No adults work for the Philadelphia
seventy six ers. Nobody has the ability to say, hey,
(17:31):
you know this is not really this is not good,
Like what you're doing is wrong and you should have
some pride in your performance and want to be in
these games. You don't. But nobody has the balls to
say that, So it takes a columnist in Philadelphia to
say it. Now, my favorite part from what I've seen
of this confrontation, I love that Embiid said he doesn't
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care what reporters say before seconds later giving a macho
man Randy Savage like top rope elbow drop the Hayes
in my head in the cartoon bubble on my head.
That's how it went down, right, I mean, tell me
you have a short fuse without telling me you have
a short fuse. And the line where I don't care
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what the media says. It reminds me of when I
was in locker rooms a lot, and I did this
for years. At the beginning of my career, I was
a radio stringer and I had a talk show and
I would go into locker rooms all the time, and
I had confrontations with NBA players and baseball players. I've
been kicked out of locker rooms. I know what that's like.
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I've been in those shoes. My favorite one of those
confrontations was a player on the Dodgers years ago who
was just terrible. The guy was horrific, and I merely
pointed out how bad he was. And I was in
the Dodger clubhouse, this is before a game, and the player,
(19:02):
player X will call him, comes up to me and says,
I've been hearing what you what you're saying about me?
And I said, oh, yeah, yeah, you you listen? Huh?
He said no, I don't listen, but my family does.
And I don't like it.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
He just reading me in the Riot Act. Didn't hit
me though there was no physical violence, because I was
bigger than that guy. All right, now, Page two. What
did Joel n Be of the Sixers accomplish by giving
this shove in this media rhubarb with the columnist in Philadelphia?
(19:40):
So what did he accomplish? I'm glad you asked. So.
I would argue that roughly one point five percent of
the seventy six er fan base had read or heard
what Marcus Hayes rode in the Philadelphia in But what
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Embiid did was broadcast that. He put that in a
boombox and beide essentially worked as a roadside billboard advertising
to make sure even the casual sports fan is aware
of what happened. Now to you me an idea, how
few people read the Philadelphia Enquirer. I do a radio show. Now,
(20:23):
granted we're on nationally, but I'm on in the middle
of the night, and our audience, our footprint, the amount
of people that we reach here when everyone's sleeping, is
so much larger than the circulation of the Philadelphia Enquirer.
The last report it was less than fifty thousand readers
(20:45):
the circulation per day. I mean, there's no one reading that.
And I could sit here and read Wikipedia pages and
I'd reach more people than the Philadelphia Enquirer. But it's
great publicity. It is great publicity by Joel Embiid. And
as for Marcus Hayes, I give the guy credit. You know,
he's following the TJ model of the late great TJ. Simers,
(21:08):
who was a friend of mine who stirred it up
all the time as a columnist, and TJ always told me,
he said, listen, if you're gonna throw Haymakers, you got
to be out there and let the people you're talking
about respond. And so Marcus Hayes walked into a beehive
and say what you will. Maybe you don't agree with
what he wrote. You say he's an a hole and
(21:29):
all that, you hate the media and all that, but
he didn't hide, right, he was there, He was accountable.
He said, if you have a problem, confront me. And
beat had a problem confronted him. You know, that's what
you're supposed to do now. As men, you're not supposed
to hit each other, right in a civilized world, in
that environment, and Hayes wrote what he wrote. He walked
in there, faced the music in this case, faced the
(21:51):
being attacked by himbat right, And you know he could
have been charge of the crime. All right. Final point,
So the NBA yet again scheduled no games. Every arena
was dark on election night. And I have to ask
you the question, does anyone think this is a good idea?
(22:13):
Does anyone think this make sense? They've been doing this
for a couple of years now. Now I understand Adam
Silver he gets to flex his woke card and all that.
I get that, but isn't this just pure silliness the NBA.
I know they win, applause and way to go and
all that, But if you take a couple of steps
back as an adult and you put this under the microscope,
(22:37):
isn't the NBA really saying that their fan base is
filled with Neanderthals, that the village idiot is a fan
of their product, and these people are unable to walk
into gum at the same time or in this case,
vote and attend or watch an NBA game on the
same day. They clearly think so little of the people
that support their product that they think they have to
(23:00):
have no games or else people won't vote. And it's
that argument we've had a lot over the last five
to ten years where people in sports who think they're
a lot more powerful than they are. That's number one.
Number two, they don't seem to understand their role in
the cosmos, that it's a distraction from the real world.
(23:23):
It's entertainment. And of course you could also play Devil's
advocate and say that the regular season product in the
NBA is not very enjoyable, and so they actually it
did a public service by not scheduling any games and
having all the arenas empty. The products so bad. But
I was able to watch a couple of hockey games,
and I enjoyed those. I'm not a big hockey guy.
I get in the playoffs in hockey, but I watched
(23:45):
the Bruins not show up in their game against the
Maple Leafs. And then I also watched the Kings and
the Wild that had those on for a while, and
I was able to watch those games. Check this out.
I'm gonna blow your mind. So I was able to
watch two hockey games. I was able to I voted,
which you don't get applause for because you're just kind
(24:06):
of supposed to do it if you're eligibly supposed to
do it. So I did that. I was able to
keep track of the election results, and I was able
to prepare for the radio show. I did all of
those things. I was able to do all of those things,
and I didn't have to cancel any games or anything
like that. You know why, because I'm a grown up,
and I believe that my fellow men and women are
(24:26):
also grown ups and they can also handle these It's
just so stupid to me. I don't know why they
do it, because you know, they get the woke points
and all that. I get that the NBA, but it
just seems so silly. And now, considering how these elections
turned out, maybe they'll they'll flip the switch and go
back and say, well, you know, maybe we should play
play some games in years to come.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
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Speaker 1 (24:52):
It's the Chargers, the old San Diego Chargers degree. This
is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Coopoler Rex Ryan recently said that, as much as he
hates to see it, that Drake May is a stud
for the Patriots and could have a really bright future.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Bendy, the Pats have their guy in may Well. Drake
May has no past in the NFL, so all he
has is the present. In the future. He has played
better than anticipated. It is way too premature to say
he's the man, but I will say that he looks
pretty good and he's playing better right now than Caleb Williams,
(25:29):
who he goes against this weekend in that Bears Patriots game.
So it's encouraging. Is the word I will use.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
Next, an anonymous NFL executive made a prediction that Anthony
Richardson will still be with the Colts next season and
that they will try to start him.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Ben, do you agree. I do not At this moment
in time, I do the show today, this moment in time,
the odds are heavily in favor of the Colts trading
Anthony Richardson right around the NFL Draft. Before the NFL Draft,
he has fallen out of the bubble of trust. Once
you fall out of the bubble of trust, it is
almost impossible to get back. And he was the worst
(26:05):
quarterback in the NFL, worse than Bryce Young and everyone
else by a mile.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
Next, now, the Dodgers made the decision not to extend
qualifying offer to Walker Buehler. Now this means that he
could walk and the team wouldn't get any draft pick compensation. Ben,
do you think this is a bad idea by the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
No, it's not my money, and they have a license
to print money with all the money they've getting out
of Japan because of Otani. But I don't have a
problem with it. Walker Bueller was terrible during the regular season.
He was great in the playoffs. I love obviously, who
cannot say. You know, we could say enough good things
about how he pitched. He's got big balls, but you
know he's also had too Tommy John surgeries, So good
(26:44):
luck on that. How did we do? Koop? You pass
this edition? That is a win putter on.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
The ball.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
That Twitter.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
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listen live. It's advised with Lorrain at nine, Clean Up Hearts,
going to help.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
You, dear Ry gear Rye and N gear Right and
N dear Ry.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
You heard the man.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
It's time for love here on the Ben Mallor Show.
I'm your main host, Love Reina, Queen of Hearts, and
we got Benny Ben Ben, Benny Boy, what's up?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I'm just whatever you need, Queen. It's all about you.
Any thought of the week here, people very stressed out
this week.
Speaker 10 (27:38):
Any any advice, some things that make you happy, things
that make you feel good, no matter what they may be.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
All right, and we will take calls. Right, It's not
just a question love calls all right. As soon as
Coop sends me the calls, I'll go to the calls.
But we have questions, a bunch of questions for the
Queen of Hearts, Lorraine.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
I just want to say, I think I think a
lot of our listeners have more problems than what they're
actually saying.
Speaker 9 (28:03):
So don't be afraid to reach out.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Are you saying our listeners have issues? Is that what
you're saying?
Speaker 9 (28:08):
Yeah, and that they're afraid to talk about them.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
And I just want them to know that I'm offended
by that.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
This is a safe space. I want you to know
this is a safe space.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Just because you went to one mallor meet and greet
met a few people, that's not a great example.
Speaker 10 (28:21):
I wasn't even thinking about them. They were all great.
And I bet, and I bet the one who drinks listerine.
I bet he shares his listenine with any date he
goes on. And that is so sweet of him.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
You know, do what you can do.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
You get buzzed and you have good breath, like a
win Win fresh.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah, if you ever want to go swimming on a
date at the Bellagio, he's the guy. He'll take you
right there.
Speaker 9 (28:43):
Might have ma get a little extra change.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Og Yard Puffin writes, and he says a queen. Studies
show that couples who fart in front of each other
have healthier relationships. Lorena, have you ever felt comfortable enough
to let one loose there in front of a significant other? Oh?
Speaker 9 (28:59):
My gosh, No, I've never. I've never felt comfortable.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Obviously there's been.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Times you was going to say I've never farted.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
No, I have.
Speaker 10 (29:06):
Obviously, We're human. I mean it happens, and yes, Lee
says it makes people much more comfortable around each other.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Well, if Lee said it, yeah, well.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Lee must make everyone around him very comfortable because he's
a total gas.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
Far in front of him too. And I'm like, I
just I can't do it. I just can't.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Now, is this where I give my fart fun fact?
This is a good time to give my friend.
Speaker 9 (29:29):
I love fun facts.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Now, I've given this one before, but it's it's really
important to bring this up because the average human being
passes gas at least fourteen times a day.
Speaker 10 (29:39):
I've been counting my gas, Ben, You've said that before.
In the past few weeks. I've been counting, and I
just don't agree.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, a lot of them are they're not average? Well, no, no, no, no,
listen to Loraina. A lot of them are silent assassins.
If you know what I mean, you don't even know
you're doing it, and it just it feels like at
all that is true.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
I just played this silent fart sound but you didn't
even hear it.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
But Loraina, do not question science? All right? Dog writes
and says, is it okay to lie to women about
who I voted for? Says, by the way, I voted
for Ben. Well, thank you for a dog.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
Yeah, I wrote in Ben Mallard two, God bless you.
I just don't know if we had the upper hand
on that. You know, the malaria is very strong. If
we all got on board, it might have happened.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah, me and Doc Mike. You know, we ran every
year for about twenty years. But you just go ahead.
Speaker 10 (30:26):
Yeah, you know, when it comes to politics and love,
think gets a little messy sometimes. Just know your ground step.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Yeah, but you've got to be like a real hard
oh to like not want to be with someone because
of their politics, To think that they have that much power,
I mean, come on, yeah, you'd be shocked. Yeah, I know,
I guess I'm from the old school where it didn't
really matter and who cares? King Rory writes and says,
how do I cheer up a significant other if who
they voted for didn't win? That's King Ry.
Speaker 10 (30:53):
Oh my gosh, you know what I was thinking about
this pizza and wine. I mean, it depends on what
they're there, what they enjoyed. Once again, find things that
make you happy? Well, you know, I like I like
fuzzy socks. If you give me some fuzzy socks. H
Coop has other ideas, no favors of the sexual kind.
Speaker 9 (31:17):
Yes, all right, get their mind off of it. How
can you how can you be upset about the election?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
If for you know, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
It's a very good point.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
In a healthy relationship. You you know, you get that. Anyway,
Let's go to Chris in Maine. Hello, Chris, Oh, what's up?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
And morning?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Good morning to you, Chris. What's up over there? We
would make anybody happy. Facts, So I have a question
with Rina. Yes, if you're on a date with a
guy and you find out he calls it sports talk
radio shows, is that a red flag?
Speaker 10 (31:56):
I love radio and I call in radio shows too,
and I'm not out I have heard stories that Lorena
sometimes will use a fake voice to call into radio shows.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
Yeah, you know, I do fake poices sometimes and it
works out real.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Good for me.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
What's your favorite show to call into?
Speaker 9 (32:13):
The ones giving away free stuff?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
She's a prize you know, we used to call them.
We call them something else back in the day.
Speaker 10 (32:20):
But one probably over twelve prizes, tickets and packages and
fun things, all right.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
JT the wingman, who you've met? I've met him, good dude.
I've seen him in three states, by the way, about
to be four states. When in the relationship, should you
tell your partner that my three cats sleep in the
bed with me?
Speaker 10 (32:38):
Oh my god, they'll probably I mean, you know, you're
probably going to be around your cats all the time.
She'll probably see it. Most cat people don't know how
to give their cats limits. They're just everywhere. They're on
the counters and what is that in their food? And
they're like, there's no how's that any different than dog people.
Dog people let their dogs sleep in the bed with
(33:00):
The dogs.
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Aren't on the counters while you're cooking, that's true.
Speaker 10 (33:05):
The cats, whenever they go and sit on things, their
little booties are on everything.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
That's true.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
I know this guy who put lipstick on his cat's
butt and he watched Oh.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Your MIC's on you might you just just you know, did.
Speaker 9 (33:21):
You date the guy or did you know I saw
it on TikTok or something. It's TikTok, but it showed
it leaves it everywhere.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Really, it's gross. It is kind of disgusting.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password is password.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
You idiot. Password the word Game of the Stars. Here's
Ben Meller, and away we go. It's past word time
each and every weekend about this time. It's welcome in
our contestants to play password. Let's see who we have.
We have a slow in Vegas who hosted the the
last mallor meet and greet we did in Sin City.
(34:05):
Hello slug, everybody, Well you're gonna play. Who do you
want to partner up? What's you got me? Ben? You
got Eddie, Lorena or Koberlop.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
I'm gonna go to you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
That's right. We're in it to win it, Slug. We're
in it to win it, all right, hold on and
Black Steve the Second from North Carolina's gonna play. Hello
Black Steve the Second, and what's up guys? Good morning,
slug you soun. I'm very excited to be here at
Black Steve the Second.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Nothing more i'd want to do at six in the
morning in this Benny.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I know it's not quite six in the morning, but anyway,
all right, well, who do you want to partner up
with their Black Steve? Let me go with the legend
Edmund Dallas Garcia. Baby, you want to lose? Guys had
more cheating scandals than al Tube. I can't remember the
last time you won a game.
Speaker 11 (34:57):
Well you want anything, Ben, you.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Might want to go to the ear doctor, dummy. All right,
here we go. Let's see we're up, sluck. Pick a
number one to ten, please, it's password the word Game
of the Stars. I'm the all time wins king at
these games shows. By the way, all time wins. That's right.
This guy wasn't listening though, because he's not a fan.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
Number four.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I heard you what'd you say, tobacco road comment? I
heard you a little tobacco road comment. I hear everything
being all you do? Bro? Are you a stalker? That's
kind of weird. All right, let's go with let's see here,
how about mystifying? Magical?
Speaker 7 (35:43):
No, how about suspicious, it's just mystifying.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Let's say strange. No, let's go with I said mystifying.
How about puzzling? Confusing?
Speaker 11 (36:12):
But clearly this is confusing, Eddie. We start out with
ten points. Every wrong answer we go down to point.
So we got ten nine eight? Now it is eight points.
How about it that seven? Actually, how about puzzling?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I think we already had that.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Now let's do it again.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Confusing, weird.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
Hey, you guys are dancing all around it but not
hitting it.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Yeah, how do we throw it out? What do you say?
Let's skip that one. Yeah, the word we were looking
for was mysterious. Mysterious? Well whatever, not that black steve
my material. You're a thief. You're stealing my line. That
(37:04):
made it better. Let's go with this guy's a punk.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
How about let's go with monarchy. Monarchy.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
That's a bad fluiddy word. But uh, how about boy, Uh,
let's go with.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Emperor hierarchy. Now, how about nobility?
Speaker 5 (37:40):
Nobility?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
No chance this guy gets that? No chance?
Speaker 7 (37:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (37:45):
That's a funny one.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
I'm gonna say no, God, we're so this is terrible.
How about how about kingship.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
Royalty, your.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Faith? We got the lead, and we get there, go again,
and we go again. This is when we pile up.
Pick a number one to Tampa. Now what do you want?
Pick a number one to ten, but not one or
not four? Slug all right, napping?
Speaker 5 (38:28):
Oh no, oh my dozing block steam dozing.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Jesus y.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Slug all right, baby, Let's see how many numbers I
got left.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Hurry up. We are not you're wasting time and that
I am filing a protest. I am filing a protest.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
This is this is aie ticket. You can lose your ticket.
I'm mean when you get
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Her Eddie's a chade or Eddie's a chade or
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