June 4, 2025 • 45 mins
Big Ben talks about the New York Knicks deciding to fire head coach Tom Thibodeau, Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald giving Sam Darnold a vote of confidence, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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No da na da da Hey, good bye, fresh off
the upstart playoff run, the toast of the NBA, overcoming
demons of years gone by. The New York Knickerbockers said
bye bye to their head coach. They shot their shot.
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This is so great, this is outstanding. I love this.
It is such incompetence. It is malfeasance. So if you
haven't heard by now and what are you doing? It's
a bad job, ay you? So we learned in the
afternoon hours the Knickerbockers had the I did to Paul
as their head coach, Tom Thibodeau, he going bye bye.
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He's out of there now. This is one year after
signing a three year big money extension with New York.
Thibodeau is kicked out of Gotham, get out of here,
so New York, New York will be looking for a
new voice to bark underneath Penn Station there try to
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get over the hump five years of coach Tibbs and
no more. The Knickerbockers say bye bye, still trying to
win a championship for the first time in over fifty years,
since the early seventies, which was before the internet. We
know that it was before cable television existed. In fact,
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in nineteen seventy three, more people were listening to radio
than we're watching even television. It was a crossover point
back then. But there were radio it was much more
popular even than television. So it's been a minute, so
let us discuss the question did the Knicks do coach
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Tom Thibodeau dirty did they do him dirty with this
pink slip? So I've got infomercial, sesame street, and iPad
and we will combine all of these things together and
we're going to make a nice trip to can Kuhn.
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Tom Thibodeau does not appear to be the kind of
guy that would go to can Kuhn, but he can,
he can afford it, and he's got plenty of free time.
Plenty of free time. So my first thought here, as
I learned from one of my teachers as a kid,
that my teacher was named doctor Seuss. I think that
doctor Seuss got canceled somewhere along the way, but you know,
not in my world. So doctor Seuss taught me when
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I was a child that sometimes in life the questions
are complicated and the answers are simple. And this would
be one of those times. The answer to the question
that we posed whether or not the Knicks did Tom
Thibodeau dirty, is apse of freaking lootely. That is the
answer here. We're talking about a basketball travesty. Of course, no,
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it's just basketball. What is that? From a pure just
hoop head perspective? Right now, we can question how much
coaches matter and all that stuff, and why do you
even need a coach? That aside that conversation, We've had
that conversation, you and I, but that aside, just talk
about from the basketball side, like what are you doing here? Seriously,
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what are you doing? You know, watching Tom Thibodeau coach
the Knicks over the last five years. I'm a big
fan of infomercials. When as a little kid, I you know,
I hang out at night watching infomercials back in the
old days, and I love infomercial I remember it was
one infomercial that was very popular, old school infomercial. It
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was the Jack l Lane. Most people don't even know
who that is anymore. He's gone, but Jacqueline Power Juicer
was very popular infomercial. And I was singing about that
when I was watching the fallout from the coaching change
in New York, because coach Tibbs squeezed every ounce of talent,
every ounce of talent out of that roster, that locker room,
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however you want to say it. And it was like
he was taking a rock and juicing a rock and
he got something out of it. He did. They had
back to back fifty win regular seasons. Well it doesn't matter.
It's the regular season. Okay, back to back fifty win seasons,
Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in a generation,
a bleeping generation, and doing that while looking like a
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swamp donkey coaching the NIXT. I mean, his whole life
dependent on every game. He was bedraggled. He just what
did not care about his appearance. He just was trying.
He was a coach. And that's it. Big Apple Fashion
Week in Manhattan, and he's out there like a slob
because he's just a coach. He's just grinding away every
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single game and all that stuff. And he helped. It
wasn't the only reason, wasn't even the main reis the
players are ultimately the ones that matter. But that being said,
Tom Thibodeau took over a team that was a laughing stock.
Everyone would point their finger and say haha, like Nelson
from the Simpsons, and they turned that into a team
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that would punch back and did punch back and professionally.
I mean, let me be clear, you've got two dimensions
at the same time, because you've got the professional dimension.
From a again hoops standpoint, mayn that blows, BOYD does
that blow? And then on the other side, you've got
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the personal side of it, and financially in that dimension,
this is a wonderful mitzvah for Tom Thibodeau because the Knicks,
if my mal or math is correct, the Knicks have
to pay him thirty million dollars to do nothing. He
doesn't have to work again. He can go move to
Key West and you know, smoke weed all day and
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all night and all that and just knock himself out,
go play pickleball, sit on He's sit on a sofa
for the next several years and just watch TikTok videos.
And the Knicks gotta pay him thirty million. I mean,
my god, what is wrong with that? But but yeah, you've
got two different things going on. It does not appear
that coach Tibbs is hardwired to be that guy who's
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just like, hey, I don't really care about whether I
work or not. It seems like a guy that actually
likes his job, takes pride in his work, doesn't cut
corners things like that. Now, page two, So the question
is who done it? Oh, it's a great mystery. Oh
it's just sports radio. But so who done it? This
is not the kind of a movie that is normally
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made you overcame the odds, the Knicks. We're not supposed
to even get to the final four of the NBA
this year, and they did. So who pulled the trigger?
Who's the one that's fingerprints are on the trigger there
to move to change coaches for the Knickerbockers. So there
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is this great debate. There are a couple of camps
here that have there's three possibilities, like Triangle, there's three possibilities.
I'm gonna give you the possibilities A, B, and C,
and then you make the call. But I'm actually gonna
make the call first because I have the bully pulpit,
so I'm going to make the call before you. So
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the very top. You always start out with the disgruntled
star player, because that's what usually happens in that business.
Lebron snaps his fingers, coach gets fired, all right, That's
normally how that works. Nikole Jokich has a problem with
Michael Malone. He gone doesn't matth three days before the
three games before the end of a seasons coaching. It's
called the coach killer. I don't get the sense that's
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going on here. Not to say that Jalen Brunson and
Tom Thibodeau were sitting around the campfire and smoking and
singing Kumbaya and all that. I don't think that was
going on. Uh, there was a pretty good relationship. Jalen
Brunson fully blossomed under the guidance or the tutelage or
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just the freedom to play from Tom Thibodau and became
an all NBA level player where you know, the hot
take artists or like, hey, wait a minute, this guy
is like in the same category of this guy and
that guy. I'm blah blah blah, just like that. Now
we believe they had a sincere bond. Maybe we're gullible,
It's possible, you know, what do we know? It's just
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I don't get the sense and I'm I'm not great
at the English language. I don't really know much. You know,
I know some weird random words from different languages around
the world. But body language, oh man, that's my wheelhead.
I know the body language and right there, right, So
it's not the player. Well then you go, well, what
about the executive? Was their bad blood? And Leon Rose
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was the executive, The President of Basketball Operation, I believe
is the official title. So was it leon Rose. What
about the owner James Dolan. So I have looked at
the available evidence. I have deliberated in the jury room.
I do not believe it was Leon Rose. I don't
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I do not think it was leon Rose. Leon Rose
before he came to the next was the agent for
who Tom Thibodeau. Yes, they were, Buddy leon Rose calling
me he even got to hire this guy higher TIBs. Okay.
So I don't buy that. Now, agents are slime balls
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and slaves balls. I have had agents and they're generally losers.
They're just bad people. So it's conceivable, like maybe like
two percent, that Leon Rose is just a snake, and
he did. But I don't buy that. I don't buy that.
I look at Sesame Street. I look at Sesame Street
and a cookie monster who lives on Sesame Street. And
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you follow the cookie crumbs, And when you follow the
cookie crumbs, they lead back to James Dolan. The plot thickens.
James Dolton had his hand in the cookie jar, and
that's where I'm going. The Knicks were the popular pick
by popular people. Once they upset the Celtics, you had
a celebration through the Canyon of Heroes. You had the
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Nick fans throwing trash and celebration. Everyone was saying, Oh,
the Knicks got this, they got home court at the Garden.
They're playing the Hicks from Indiana. There's no way they're
going to lose. That series of the Pacers, Are you
kidding me? Is a layup. And if we saw that crap,
I'm pretty confident that James Dolan going to his Hampton
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hodown and schmoozing and drinking those Moscow mules and the
Long Island ized teas, hanging out with olig arks and
aristocrats and all the things that rich people do. Of
the one percent, they were all, oh, you got this, Dolan,
this is great. You're ready to go. Way to go,
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James Dahl, Oh my god, this is amazing. And so
they were quick. Also. The other thing, even if you
don't believe that I'm right, the thing that is the
dead give way the Knicks using useful idiots in the
media their bodies behind paywalls. The Knicks made sure to
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say that it was leon Rose's decision. They leak that. Now,
what does that tell us? That tells us it wasn't
leon Rose's decision. That tells us that he was not
the one that made the call that he is being
propped off as the fall guy. He's they got to
blame somebody because it's not a popular move, so gonna
blame him. It was an irrational move by Dolan, the
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owner of the team. The Knicks had a plumbing issue.
Think of it this way. You got a problem with
your plumbing and instead of saying I'm gonna call like
Roto Ruter or whatever, I'm gonna call some plumber. Instead
of calling about gold the website, sending an email getting
the plumber, James Dolan determined that the best solution to
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the plumbing problem, to the leaky faucet, was to burn
the house down. Hey, there's the fastest league of a bit,
so let's burn the damn thing down. Let's do it.
Which is I think I believe the word is beta.
That is a beta move by Dolan. Now the last word, quick, right,
the last word here? Where do the Knickerbockers go now
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to replace Tom Thibodeau, Like, what's the chess move here?
Now you got the gambling market. The gambling market, they
immediately said, X Knicks associate coach Johnny Bryant, you don't
really know who that is, but apparently he's the darling,
the next big thing in coaching, Johnny Bryant. Bryant has
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been with Cleveland. He is a finalist for the Phoenix
Sun's job. Some saying the reason the Knicks fired Thibodeau
when they did is because they want that guy, and
to get that guy, they had to do this because
otherwise Bryant would go coach the Suns and he'd be
out in the desert hanging out with cactus, and they
didn't want that and all that stuff. The other read
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on the gambling market. You got Kenny Atkinson, who's the
second choice, and he's the coach of the year who
lost to Indiana, so he knows a thing or two
about that in the playoffs. And then you've got the
usual rejects like Frank Vogel and Buden and names like that.
And then further page down, Pat Strake, Ewing, Mark Jackson,
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long shots, unrealistic options, unrealistic options. And so now we
do not know, We do not know. Our crystal ball
is not working right now. We do not know who
the next coach or the Knicks is going to be,
but we do know what they're going to be like
and I will gare on tie the profile. You know
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how the FBI does profiling of what they think some
whack a doodle is like what they're like. So here's
the profile of the next Knicks coach. Okay, the next
next coach will be an innovative, offensive mind players coach
who likes drinking oat milk and hanging out doing hot yoga,
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drawing up plays on his iPad while doing hot yoga.
That'll be the next coach, right to the coddle coach,
because you go from a hard ass coach like Tom Thibodeau,
and the hard ass is relative. It's you know, it's
not that it's not a drill sergeant at Marine boot camp,
but it's it's like it's my NBA standards. So you
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have a coddle coach who drives the mister softy truck.
You've got that. And that'll be somebody that comes in
here and like rub shoulders with you know, people hanging
out those art galleries over over and soho. You know,
the art gallery crowd, and it goes to fashion Week,
you know, and dresses up as you know, Fashion East
and all that stuff. Just everything that Tom Thibodeaux isn't
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like he didn't Thibodau didn't care about all that crap.
He's just worried about coaching and obviously doesn't take any
pride in his personal appearance. He looks like Shrek, and
the next coach will not be that.
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Our friend the ostrich Ant in DC believes that the
month of June is the pinnacle of sports talk radio,
the separation of the wheat from the shaft, the ones
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that can do it and those that can't. A lot
of people take their vacation time here in early June,
trying to get away from the grind and all that lead.
This hour is from the Pacific Northwest We're going to
start out in the Pacific Northwest. New laundry, same old drama,
New laundry, same old drama. The life and Times of
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Sam Boo Boo Donald, one Boo boo after another, Sam
Darnald as he settles in to life in Seattle, the
failed Viking quarterback who was exposed like the fraud he
was at the end of the year by the Lions
and then the la Rams. And if you have not
heard the latest on this, this is outstanding. This is
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a ten out of ten this particular story. So we
learned that the coach of Seattle probably know who that
is because he's a nobody, Mike McDonald who had a
farm ei eioh. So Mike McDonald attempted to put the
key bosh to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
On the debate over the quarterback, whether or not Sam
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Donald would be the quarterback in Seattle, McDonald was asked
by some of the Seattle media about the possibility that
someone other than Sam Donald would be the quarterback. The
Seahawks have added Drew Locke, who also can't play, and
Jalen Milroe from the draft. Anyway, here is Mike McDonald
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the Seattle coach, commenting on the Sam Donald status and
whether or not he'll be playing tailists that would lead
to a different quarterback.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
You guys are crazy.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
There's no way to ask the question with that sound
like an idiot.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I respect you got to ask it, but like there's
you guys, it's just a crazy question. There's just not
gonna like Sam's are starting quarterback. We love him, He's
doing a tremendous job. God forbid, you know you're you're
the worst player of all time because you made one
bad throw or one bad decisions Like that is not
what we're trying to build. We want these guys to
go prepare the right way and then when I go
out on the practice field, go freaking let it rip.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
And then we'll go fix it.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
We'll go we got time, it's it's June third. We'll go, Okay,
they're gonna get plenty of reps. We'll get those things fixed.
I mean, Sam made a correll up at great throws yesterday.
He's gashing us on third and goal to start the
start the start the day out too. So yeah, that's
kind of a crazy question.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I don't think it's a crazy question at all. I
think his answer is rather crazy. So Donald signed a
three year contract with a bunch of escape patches because
Seattle knows they signed a crappy quarterback. It's up to
one hundred million dollars. Was really just a one year deal,
and the Vikings can flush him away, or the Seahawks
can flush him away like the Vikings did and all that.
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So we know that Seattle added as we mentioned Jalen
Milroe who had issues at Alabama, and Drew Locke who
can't play. So let us discuss the question how much
weight do you give the Seahawks coach Mike McDonald, as
you just heard giving a vote of confidence to Sam
Donald even before training camp. Sam Donald needs a vote
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of confidence. So I've got in flight Meal, Happy Hour,
and Wimbledon, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make an updated resume.
Cause I believe Mike McDonald, if he truly is fully
invested in Sam Donald, he will be let go as
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the Seattle coach didn't do anything. He's not just a
generic coach. He's a jack, just a coach, nothing special there.
So my first thought on this, the full Sam Donald experience.
If you're Sam Donald, and you think you're locked in
as the start, if you believe all that bull crap
that the coach said, you might want to relook at
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some things in your life. There, go start biting your fingernails.
Now it is OTAs just workouts, shorts and visors and
things like that for the most part. And Sam Donald
already already smelling like leftover tuna fish that's been sitting
out in the sun. It's just as you can't make
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this up, the heartburn adding up there those boots on
the ground. Boots on the ground say that Sam Donald
was intercepted multiple times in the first open practice session
with the media, tossed a pair of interceptions in the
seven on seven portion of the practice. And so here's
where I sait from thirty six thousand feet up in
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the sky. The Seattle Seahawks coach Mike McDonald is enjoying
a nice in flight meal. And that meal is a
bowl of cereal. It's honey, ohs or in this case
just owes as an oracle of obvious, oracle of obvious.
And I'm gonna go to the boiler plate on what
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I am supposed to play, What I'm supposed to say
as an NFL coach, it is the disfunction junction how
do you function? That is the full Sam Donald experience.
And the Seahawks are just finding that out there that
you're having to give a vote of confidence to Sam Donald.
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So really what Seattle's doing, they're playing the sweep Steaks
and they're like, you can get seven or eight or
nine games out of Sam Donald. It's never a good
thing when you have to play hide the quarterback. And
the only way Sam Donald can be effective, and it
only works for a limited amount of time, is hide
the quarterback, play hide the course. And at some point
you can't hide the quarterback when you play a good
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team late in the ear and then you're exposed. You're
pants and you're out there and you don't have an
underwear on. You're just pants the whole thing. And so
there's all kinds of loopholes and get out of the
contract and all that escape patches. And let's clip and
save this quote by McDonald who had to say that
right the Oracle of the Obvious, And then we'll look
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back at this. I'll save this in my notes and
then when we get the week five or six, and
Sam Donald is no longer playing quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks.
We can revisit this and we point our finger and
laugh and goof on Seattle, and that's always fun to do.
That's that's good talk radio. So page two to Houston
we go, speaking of the quarterback shuffle. You've got drama
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in the lone Star state, as Demico Ryans. Demko Ryans,
the head coach of the Houston football team, has announced
he has quote no concerns close quote about quarterback c J. Stroud,
who has been limited from doing the thing that all
quarterbacks seemingly need to do, throwing the ball during spring
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practice due to quote general soreness. So you know, at
this point what c J. Stroud, He's in his fifties.
Body gets a little sort Oh no, he's actually in
his twenties. He's in his twenties. So the Texans opened
OTA's back on May twenty eight, Yeah, twenty eight, and
c J. Stroud, c J. Stroud of the Texans has
not thrown passes during any of the practices that are
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open to the media. Now others are singing a different tune.
So the Texans coach Tamiko Rans is like this there's
nothing to see here. Everything is fine. Don't worry about this. Okay.
Now there's a conflicting report that is out singing a
different tune making it clear that the fans should panic.
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Panic at the disco. Panic at the Disco says, you
should not believe what the coach said. You shouldn't believe
the statements from the team there. With the Texans, there
should be concerns about c Jay Stroud. So let us
discuss as we do this show in early June twenty
twenty five. Should the Texans be quote concerned close quote
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about quarterback C. J. Stroud and his health. So I'm
actually shaking my head no on this, I'm shaking my head. No. Now,
you know, Ben Nuts, you're just supposed to panic right away.
That's your bad job about you. Okay. As you know,
we look at this on a case by case basis
as possibly tweaked something and working out lifting weights or whatever.
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And even if he did, whooped, damn do. That's what
I say, whooped, damn do. It's happy hour, happy hour,
which is code for it's amateur hour. In the hot
take factory, there is some issues with the machinery here
in the warehouse, and it's everything's clickbait these days. I
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get it. We live in the clickbait world. That's how
the game works. Anyone says, well, it's just clickbait. Everything clickbait,
like that's how it is because that's how people consume media. Clicking. Well,
I don't believe it in clickbait. Yes, you do. You
click on things. You're part of the problem. You are
part of the problem. But they're not concerned about c J.
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Stroud's health. The people that are putting this out there,
I don't think they should be. I do think there
any real concern for to c J. Stroud because of
why the calendar, that would be why there is no
legitimate concern. You're stirring the pot. You're looking for something.
You're looking for a little something, and that's a little
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something that you can latch onto and get your tentacles
into and all that stuff. And we can see now
now if you want to find out when there is concern,
that'll be in late July. I think around July twenty
twenty third, twenty four to twenty fifth, somewhere in that
area is when training camps open up in the NFL.
And if CJ. Stroud has decided to have a camp
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out in the injury tent. When the real training camp
opens up in a month and a half, then we
can revisit this. Up until that point, that's premature concern
and I'm not gonna have and I'm not a Texans
fan anyone. I'll let mister Irrigation worry about that. That's
and the deacon, I'll let those guys worry about now.
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Final point to Jerry's world, And speaking of absurd and
amateur hour, this is theater of the absurd, theater of
the absurd. From Jerry's world, we have learned now that
the Cowboys defensive back Trevon Diggs, That's right, the brother
of Stefon Digs, Trevon Diggs, is in line to lose
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five hundred thousand dollars. Now, what did he do? Did
he violate the team rules? Was he on the boat
with the bikini models and the pink candy which I'm
sure was not cocaine in Miami? Was he on the
boat with his brother? No, So, how did he lose
the or how is he going to lose the five
hundred thousand dollars by not showing up to the team
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facility by missing the team's offseason workout. So let's discuss
Cowboys defensive back Travon Diggs in line to lose five
hundred thousand smack a rus because he's missing off season workouts.
How does that taste?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
All?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Right? So it tastes like Sardinian cheese, which I am
told is the cheese that is made. It is maggot
infested cheese. Yum yum to my Tom, Tom, that's what
it is now in London, and it's Wimbleton time coming
up here. But in London they would call this an
(31:28):
unforced error. That's tennis lingo. It's an unforced error, is
what it is. Diggs is in his mid twenties. He
got a good sized contract. He supposedly has some kind
of internal beef with the training staff there with the
Dallas Cowboys, and so he is willing to forfeit five
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hundred thousand dollars to rehab his knee in Miami, Miami, Miami,
Miami South Beach, staying away from the cowboy for the
price tag on that five hundred thousand dollars. Five hundred
thousand dollars. This is boxers to me? Now, am I
completely out of touch. You're just an old head. You
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don't know what you're talking about. Bad these kids, they
got so much money they can flush away five hundred
thousand dollars. Digs the dunce, digs the dunce. Do you
dig it? Come on, I cannot imagine throwing away five
hundred thousand dollars like it's lunch money, and just I
(32:31):
don't need it, I don't want it. I don't I'm
getting rid of it. And all you have to do
is show up. It's not like you have to go
through some rigorous workout. You just merely have to show up.
And that's it. Like, what planet are we on at
this point? What planet are we?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Like?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Five hundred thousand you could buy a house. In some places,
you can buy multiple houses for that kind of money,
depending where you're investing your money. Heck, you could get
a fast food franchise. I assume you could put the
down payment and get a big chunk of like a
what a burger? What a burger? What a mistake for
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Travon Diggs. Money makes money. Instead, you're just gonna say,
I don't, I don't even hang out here, have a
my tie with my friend Weedman Hippi in Miami who
calls the show occasionally and just have a grand old time.
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Again Degree in a planet Far far is one gets
Grail all right, Jamallard the third degree time and here's cool.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
It was recently reported that the Vikings are concerned with
JJ McCarthy that, no matter what the team says, they
wanted Sam Donald back. Ben, do you think Viking fans
are in for a tough season ahead?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Well, I don't believe that they wanted Sam Donald b
They just the Aaron Rodgers thing. You can hide a quarterback,
and we saw it last season with the Minnesota Vikings.
They played hide a quarterback. And they've got a.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Coach who knows how to do that based on what
they were able to pull off last year with that
coaching staff and Sam Darnold and how many wins they
got and all that stuff, like listen, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
O'connen knows what he's doing. They've got good receivers. So
the Vikings. The baseline for the Vikings is ten or
eleven wins They're not gonna get any worse than that.
They'll be in that area. They're not gonna be as
good as they were last year, but they'll be in
that area. And if McCarthy by the end of the
season can actually not poop the bed like Donald did,
they'll be better in the postseason.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Next After clinching a spot in the NBA Finals, Pacers
center Miles Turner said, well, this is a new blueprint
for the league.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Man.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
I think the years of super teams and stacking talent,
that's not of effect as effective as it once was.
But do you think Indiana and OKSE have written a
blueprint for the rest of the league.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
No, because no one's gonna watch this and people on
Park Avenue in Manhattan are going to freak out.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
The NBA is a television show.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
This is bad television for the you know, the average viewer,
and so they.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Will change the rules and this this will not.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Continue next On Monday, Austin Ainge, a son of Danny Inge,
was introduced as the Utah Jazz is new president of
Best co Operations. He asked what his philosophy was on tanking,
and Ange applying, you won't see that this year Ben,
I think the jazz are gonna start trying again.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yes, they're just gonna be bad. Naturally, they're gonna be bad.
I love that he's the net bogm though, Austin Inge.
I wonder how he got the job. What do you
think his resume look like? Coop? Come on, we are amazing.
He passes a sho all right, he got Why my
dad is Danny Ainge. If my dad was Howard Stern,
I'd be doing mornings.
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Dear Rye.
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That's right, you heard the man. It's time for love
here on the Ben Mallards Show, and oh my gosh,
it's just the best time of the year to be
in love. We're at the end of spring, we're coming
into summer, and you know what summertime means, Ben, Oh,
what's that hot girl summer we hit in the streets.
This is the time to find your new love.
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Okay, all right, fair enough. We have a few questions.
Do you want to answer them or yeah, okay, all right.
Mike the leprechaun from the Greater Boston area says, should
a girlfriend be concerned if her boyfriend has exotic pets
at the house such as loud parakeets, hedgehogs, and wild geese.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
Yes. Also, if your boyfriend identifies as a leprechaun, that
can also be a big red flag.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
What if that's the cosplay though, I mean, if that's
your king, then yes, you just have to find a
woman that's in the leprechaw.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
The weird thing about animals, though, is you can't have
a guy who likes to do it in front of
his animals.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Why is that?
Speaker 6 (37:21):
What do you mean why is that? Because that's weird.
It's like letting his dog sit in the room and
watch you, weirdo.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
The dog does not interact. Yeah, exactly what I mean.
Like the dog doesn't know. The dog doesn't know what's
going on. The dogs he's trying to live his life.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
That's like the newborn parents who are like, oh, well,
the baby's in the crib on the other side of
the room. It's finally like, no, it's still weird.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
JT. The Wingman writes in he says, can I take
my fiance to a comic book lover's convention to help
with setting the mood and the bedroom for us? Well,
there's nothing that's you talk about arousing someone you take
them to like a comic con Holy craft. Yes, I
mean there are so many babies that are produced at
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Comic Con every year it's wild.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Honestly, I want to look into the statistics of that.
Ben because Comicon has some really really good looking people
dressed in some awesome outfit sin City.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
What's more impressive Comic Con or the Furry convention in
Pittsburgh Every year it's Comic Con Comic Con. It is hard.
I understand I've not done this. I don't wear one,
But if you're wearing the costume, I think it's hard
to produce a situation that would lead you to ways.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
So Comic Coon might have more babies that come from this.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yeah, it's a good pointn Ferg Dog writes in he says,
are women really as bad at driving as everyone says?
That's from Ferg Dog.
Speaker 6 (38:51):
I think I'm a great driver. I've never been in
a car accident.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Have you caused any car accidents?
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Well, actually I wasn't one, but he ended me and
that doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, I've been in multiple cars is where I have
gotten rear in two three of the four I got
ended up in. See, you never know.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
You can't make stereotypes out of drivers. Some people are good,
some people aren't. Some people are.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Are not.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Where I live, there's a there's a fair amount of
people I think that are It's just they don't know
how to They turn right onto I'm turning left and
they turn right right in front of me.
Speaker 6 (39:26):
Yeah, I don't think at the biggest.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Douchebag move like that's driving one on one or the
ones who.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
Try to take the exit real fast as it's coming up.
I'm like, why don't you just wait instead of trying
to kill us all because there's going to be another exit.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
And like, even if you're like out the world, every
app tells you all right, they'll they'll redo this.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
Don't be cutting people off.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
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of National Cheese Day? Which cheese should I serve? To
get the ladies in the mood.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
Oh my gosh, all the cheese. Take her to a
restaurant that has the cheese cart at the end of
at you too, Oh fresh mozzarella, Marella up, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Pro alone smells, but that's a good cheese cheese. It
smells a little bit.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
Hey, a little stinky.
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Speaker 6 (40:59):
Hey you know what, I I'm so glad I get
to listen to this overnight and.
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All just breaking news.
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I feel bad for tomb but you know he'll fight
something pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah. Well he's got good name brand value, so people
know who he is, and the Nicks ambassador knows who
he is. Who would you like to partner up with? Here? Milkman?
Speaker 2 (41:20):
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Speaker 1 (41:22):
All right, very good, Hold on a sec. You're gonna
play and we have Let's go to Frank in Vegas?
What's going on? Frank? Welcome? Thank you for having me
just driving on the mean and wet streets of Vegas.
All right, be careful man, crazy drunk people at all
hours of the day in Sin City. Who would you
like to partner up with?
Speaker 5 (41:43):
You?
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Play with me? Ben or Lorraine? I'm going with you,
all right, we're in it to win it. Very good.
Let's play here. We have a list of words one
to ten and see those you're cheating, so don't cheat.
And Mike in Colorado, who loves milk? You get to
go first. Pick a number? Please hold on a second,
(42:06):
let me make sure he's there. There you go, Mike,
all right, what pick a number? Please? Number two? Alright,
that's there's no singing for that number two? All right?
All right, Mike, let's go with uh hmmm, let's go
with I'm colorant. No, No, let's go with this. Let's
(42:39):
see here.
Speaker 5 (42:47):
Let's go with uh.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Dead No, no, go ahead there, Frank, the word is dead.
Speaker 7 (42:58):
Grateful.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
It's a terrible answer. All right, Mike, I'm gonna do
a Mallard maneuver. Uh tie.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Yeah, Hey, Frank, I said dead. You could have said
you know, you could have anyway. All right, go ahead, Frank.
Pick a number one to ten, but not two. Le'ps
go nine, number nine? All right? Do you know how
to play the game, by the way, you've heard the
game before, Frank, you've I have? All right, let's go
(43:33):
with how about sound.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Garden?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
What, Frank?
Speaker 6 (43:44):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Are you trying to upset me?
Speaker 6 (43:45):
Frank?
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Is that what you're trying to do? I am not
trying to upset you. You think that we were trying
to get the name of a band? Okay, all right, Wow,
let's sound I haven't heard sound God. Let's go with
(44:06):
band trivia? Uh clamor.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Yeah, there we go, Frank, you mean it's embarrassing. All right?
Go ahead, Milkman. Pick a number.
Speaker 7 (44:27):
Let's go number six, number six. There's a band with
that name. Let's go with uh personal.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Private. Yeah. Wow, on a roll today?
Speaker 5 (44:46):
How's that sandwich?
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Even? Who put? A guy doesn't know how to play
the game. Frank, go pick a number, Frank, go ahead,
three number three. All right, try to save some face here, Frank,
you im gonna win the game. How about persuade? Oh my,
(45:09):
trying to think what band from the eighties had that
name in it? Persuade? Thank persuade? Do you know what
synonyms are? Are you familiar with synonyms?
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Familiar?
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Okay? Wade, it's a big word.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
All right, all right, let's go ithut right up, let's
go with entice.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
Coke.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
No, I'm gonna go listen to some sound Garden right now.
See what's going on there.
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I could sit here and wax poetic about the Dwyers.
Max Munsey, who was apparently blind, he's illegally blind, then
he put some glasses on. All of a sudden he's
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by might start with that, that's a random regular season
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No da na da da Hey, good bye, fresh off
the upstart playoff run, the toast of the NBA, overcoming
demons of years gone by. The New York Knickerbockers said
bye bye to their head coach. They shot their shot.
(02:41):
This is so great, this is outstanding. I love this.
It is such incompetence. It is malfeasance. So if you
haven't heard by now and what are you doing? It's
a bad job, ay you? So we learned in the
afternoon hours the Knickerbockers had the I did to Paul
as their head coach, Tom Thibodeau, he going bye bye.
(03:06):
He's out of there now. This is one year after
signing a three year big money extension with New York.
Thibodeau is kicked out of Gotham, get out of here,
so New York, New York will be looking for a
new voice to bark underneath Penn Station there try to
(03:27):
get over the hump five years of coach Tibbs and
no more. The Knickerbockers say bye bye, still trying to
win a championship for the first time in over fifty years,
since the early seventies, which was before the internet. We
know that it was before cable television existed. In fact,
(03:49):
in nineteen seventy three, more people were listening to radio
than we're watching even television. It was a crossover point
back then. But there were radio it was much more
popular even than television. So it's been a minute, so
let us discuss the question did the Knicks do coach
(04:09):
Tom Thibodeau dirty did they do him dirty with this
pink slip? So I've got infomercial, sesame street, and iPad
and we will combine all of these things together and
we're going to make a nice trip to can Kuhn.
(04:30):
Tom Thibodeau does not appear to be the kind of
guy that would go to can Kuhn, but he can,
he can afford it, and he's got plenty of free time.
Plenty of free time. So my first thought here, as
I learned from one of my teachers as a kid,
that my teacher was named doctor Seuss. I think that
doctor Seuss got canceled somewhere along the way, but you know,
not in my world. So doctor Seuss taught me when
(04:52):
I was a child that sometimes in life the questions
are complicated and the answers are simple. And this would
be one of those times. The answer to the question
that we posed whether or not the Knicks did Tom
Thibodeau dirty, is apse of freaking lootely. That is the
answer here. We're talking about a basketball travesty. Of course, no,
(05:15):
it's just basketball. What is that? From a pure just
hoop head perspective? Right now, we can question how much
coaches matter and all that stuff, and why do you
even need a coach? That aside that conversation, We've had
that conversation, you and I, but that aside, just talk
about from the basketball side, like what are you doing here? Seriously,
(05:36):
what are you doing? You know, watching Tom Thibodeau coach
the Knicks over the last five years. I'm a big
fan of infomercials. When as a little kid, I you know,
I hang out at night watching infomercials back in the
old days, and I love infomercial I remember it was
one infomercial that was very popular, old school infomercial. It
(05:58):
was the Jack l Lane. Most people don't even know
who that is anymore. He's gone, but Jacqueline Power Juicer
was very popular infomercial. And I was singing about that
when I was watching the fallout from the coaching change
in New York, because coach Tibbs squeezed every ounce of talent,
every ounce of talent out of that roster, that locker room,
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however you want to say it. And it was like
he was taking a rock and juicing a rock and
he got something out of it. He did. They had
back to back fifty win regular seasons. Well it doesn't matter.
It's the regular season. Okay, back to back fifty win seasons,
Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in a generation,
a bleeping generation, and doing that while looking like a
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swamp donkey coaching the NIXT. I mean, his whole life
dependent on every game. He was bedraggled. He just what
did not care about his appearance. He just was trying.
He was a coach. And that's it. Big Apple Fashion
Week in Manhattan, and he's out there like a slob
because he's just a coach. He's just grinding away every
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single game and all that stuff. And he helped. It
wasn't the only reason, wasn't even the main reis the
players are ultimately the ones that matter. But that being said,
Tom Thibodeau took over a team that was a laughing stock.
Everyone would point their finger and say haha, like Nelson
from the Simpsons, and they turned that into a team
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that would punch back and did punch back and professionally.
I mean, let me be clear, you've got two dimensions
at the same time, because you've got the professional dimension.
From a again hoops standpoint, mayn that blows, BOYD does
that blow? And then on the other side, you've got
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the personal side of it, and financially in that dimension,
this is a wonderful mitzvah for Tom Thibodeau because the Knicks,
if my mal or math is correct, the Knicks have
to pay him thirty million dollars to do nothing. He
doesn't have to work again. He can go move to
Key West and you know, smoke weed all day and
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all night and all that and just knock himself out,
go play pickleball, sit on He's sit on a sofa
for the next several years and just watch TikTok videos.
And the Knicks gotta pay him thirty million. I mean,
my god, what is wrong with that? But but yeah, you've
got two different things going on. It does not appear
that coach Tibbs is hardwired to be that guy who's
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just like, hey, I don't really care about whether I
work or not. It seems like a guy that actually
likes his job, takes pride in his work, doesn't cut
corners things like that. Now, page two, So the question
is who done it? Oh, it's a great mystery. Oh
it's just sports radio. But so who done it? This
is not the kind of a movie that is normally
(09:01):
made you overcame the odds, the Knicks. We're not supposed
to even get to the final four of the NBA
this year, and they did. So who pulled the trigger?
Who's the one that's fingerprints are on the trigger there
to move to change coaches for the Knickerbockers. So there
(09:23):
is this great debate. There are a couple of camps
here that have there's three possibilities, like Triangle, there's three possibilities.
I'm gonna give you the possibilities A, B, and C,
and then you make the call. But I'm actually gonna
make the call first because I have the bully pulpit,
so I'm going to make the call before you. So
(09:44):
the very top. You always start out with the disgruntled
star player, because that's what usually happens in that business.
Lebron snaps his fingers, coach gets fired, all right, That's
normally how that works. Nikole Jokich has a problem with
Michael Malone. He gone doesn't matth three days before the
three games before the end of a seasons coaching. It's
called the coach killer. I don't get the sense that's
(10:07):
going on here. Not to say that Jalen Brunson and
Tom Thibodeau were sitting around the campfire and smoking and
singing Kumbaya and all that. I don't think that was
going on. Uh, there was a pretty good relationship. Jalen
Brunson fully blossomed under the guidance or the tutelage or
(10:28):
just the freedom to play from Tom Thibodau and became
an all NBA level player where you know, the hot
take artists or like, hey, wait a minute, this guy
is like in the same category of this guy and
that guy. I'm blah blah blah, just like that. Now
we believe they had a sincere bond. Maybe we're gullible,
It's possible, you know, what do we know? It's just
(10:51):
I don't get the sense and I'm I'm not great
at the English language. I don't really know much. You know,
I know some weird random words from different languages around
the world. But body language, oh man, that's my wheelhead.
I know the body language and right there, right, So
it's not the player. Well then you go, well, what
about the executive? Was their bad blood? And Leon Rose
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was the executive, The President of Basketball Operation, I believe
is the official title. So was it leon Rose. What
about the owner James Dolan. So I have looked at
the available evidence. I have deliberated in the jury room.
I do not believe it was Leon Rose. I don't
(11:36):
I do not think it was leon Rose. Leon Rose
before he came to the next was the agent for
who Tom Thibodeau. Yes, they were, Buddy leon Rose calling
me he even got to hire this guy higher TIBs. Okay.
So I don't buy that. Now, agents are slime balls
(11:58):
and slaves balls. I have had agents and they're generally losers.
They're just bad people. So it's conceivable, like maybe like
two percent, that Leon Rose is just a snake, and
he did. But I don't buy that. I don't buy that.
I look at Sesame Street. I look at Sesame Street
and a cookie monster who lives on Sesame Street. And
(12:22):
you follow the cookie crumbs, And when you follow the
cookie crumbs, they lead back to James Dolan. The plot thickens.
James Dolton had his hand in the cookie jar, and
that's where I'm going. The Knicks were the popular pick
by popular people. Once they upset the Celtics, you had
a celebration through the Canyon of Heroes. You had the
(12:44):
Nick fans throwing trash and celebration. Everyone was saying, Oh,
the Knicks got this, they got home court at the Garden.
They're playing the Hicks from Indiana. There's no way they're
going to lose. That series of the Pacers, Are you
kidding me? Is a layup. And if we saw that crap,
I'm pretty confident that James Dolan going to his Hampton
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hodown and schmoozing and drinking those Moscow mules and the
Long Island ized teas, hanging out with olig arks and
aristocrats and all the things that rich people do. Of
the one percent, they were all, oh, you got this, Dolan,
this is great. You're ready to go. Way to go,
(13:30):
James Dahl, Oh my god, this is amazing. And so
they were quick. Also. The other thing, even if you
don't believe that I'm right, the thing that is the
dead give way the Knicks using useful idiots in the
media their bodies behind paywalls. The Knicks made sure to
(13:51):
say that it was leon Rose's decision. They leak that. Now,
what does that tell us? That tells us it wasn't
leon Rose's decision. That tells us that he was not
the one that made the call that he is being
propped off as the fall guy. He's they got to
blame somebody because it's not a popular move, so gonna
blame him. It was an irrational move by Dolan, the
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owner of the team. The Knicks had a plumbing issue.
Think of it this way. You got a problem with
your plumbing and instead of saying I'm gonna call like
Roto Ruter or whatever, I'm gonna call some plumber. Instead
of calling about gold the website, sending an email getting
the plumber, James Dolan determined that the best solution to
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the plumbing problem, to the leaky faucet, was to burn
the house down. Hey, there's the fastest league of a bit,
so let's burn the damn thing down. Let's do it.
Which is I think I believe the word is beta.
That is a beta move by Dolan. Now the last word, quick, right,
the last word here? Where do the Knickerbockers go now
(15:00):
to replace Tom Thibodeau, Like, what's the chess move here?
Now you got the gambling market. The gambling market, they
immediately said, X Knicks associate coach Johnny Bryant, you don't
really know who that is, but apparently he's the darling,
the next big thing in coaching, Johnny Bryant. Bryant has
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been with Cleveland. He is a finalist for the Phoenix
Sun's job. Some saying the reason the Knicks fired Thibodeau
when they did is because they want that guy, and
to get that guy, they had to do this because
otherwise Bryant would go coach the Suns and he'd be
out in the desert hanging out with cactus, and they
didn't want that and all that stuff. The other read
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on the gambling market. You got Kenny Atkinson, who's the
second choice, and he's the coach of the year who
lost to Indiana, so he knows a thing or two
about that in the playoffs. And then you've got the
usual rejects like Frank Vogel and Buden and names like that.
And then further page down, Pat Strake, Ewing, Mark Jackson,
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long shots, unrealistic options, unrealistic options. And so now we
do not know, We do not know. Our crystal ball
is not working right now. We do not know who
the next coach or the Knicks is going to be,
but we do know what they're going to be like
and I will gare on tie the profile. You know
(16:29):
how the FBI does profiling of what they think some
whack a doodle is like what they're like. So here's
the profile of the next Knicks coach. Okay, the next
next coach will be an innovative, offensive mind players coach
who likes drinking oat milk and hanging out doing hot yoga,
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drawing up plays on his iPad while doing hot yoga.
That'll be the next coach, right to the coddle coach,
because you go from a hard ass coach like Tom Thibodeau,
and the hard ass is relative. It's you know, it's
not that it's not a drill sergeant at Marine boot camp,
but it's it's like it's my NBA standards. So you
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have a coddle coach who drives the mister softy truck.
You've got that. And that'll be somebody that comes in
here and like rub shoulders with you know, people hanging
out those art galleries over over and soho. You know,
the art gallery crowd, and it goes to fashion Week,
you know, and dresses up as you know, Fashion East
and all that stuff. Just everything that Tom Thibodeaux isn't
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like he didn't Thibodau didn't care about all that crap.
He's just worried about coaching and obviously doesn't take any
pride in his personal appearance. He looks like Shrek, and
the next coach will not be that.
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Our friend the ostrich Ant in DC believes that the
month of June is the pinnacle of sports talk radio,
the separation of the wheat from the shaft, the ones
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that can do it and those that can't. A lot
of people take their vacation time here in early June,
trying to get away from the grind and all that lead.
This hour is from the Pacific Northwest We're going to
start out in the Pacific Northwest. New laundry, same old drama,
New laundry, same old drama. The life and Times of
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Sam Boo Boo Donald, one Boo boo after another, Sam
Darnald as he settles in to life in Seattle, the
failed Viking quarterback who was exposed like the fraud he
was at the end of the year by the Lions
and then the la Rams. And if you have not
heard the latest on this, this is outstanding. This is
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a ten out of ten this particular story. So we
learned that the coach of Seattle probably know who that
is because he's a nobody, Mike McDonald who had a
farm ei eioh. So Mike McDonald attempted to put the
key bosh to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
On the debate over the quarterback, whether or not Sam
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Donald would be the quarterback in Seattle, McDonald was asked
by some of the Seattle media about the possibility that
someone other than Sam Donald would be the quarterback. The
Seahawks have added Drew Locke, who also can't play, and
Jalen Milroe from the draft. Anyway, here is Mike McDonald
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the Seattle coach, commenting on the Sam Donald status and
whether or not he'll be playing tailists that would lead
to a different quarterback.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
You guys are crazy.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
There's no way to ask the question with that sound
like an idiot.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I respect you got to ask it, but like there's
you guys, it's just a crazy question. There's just not
gonna like Sam's are starting quarterback. We love him, He's
doing a tremendous job. God forbid, you know you're you're
the worst player of all time because you made one
bad throw or one bad decisions Like that is not
what we're trying to build. We want these guys to
go prepare the right way and then when I go
out on the practice field, go freaking let it rip.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
And then we'll go fix it.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
We'll go we got time, it's it's June third. We'll go, Okay,
they're gonna get plenty of reps. We'll get those things fixed.
I mean, Sam made a correll up at great throws yesterday.
He's gashing us on third and goal to start the
start the start the day out too. So yeah, that's
kind of a crazy question.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I don't think it's a crazy question at all. I
think his answer is rather crazy. So Donald signed a
three year contract with a bunch of escape patches because
Seattle knows they signed a crappy quarterback. It's up to
one hundred million dollars. Was really just a one year deal,
and the Vikings can flush him away, or the Seahawks
can flush him away like the Vikings did and all that.
(22:27):
So we know that Seattle added as we mentioned Jalen
Milroe who had issues at Alabama, and Drew Locke who
can't play. So let us discuss the question how much
weight do you give the Seahawks coach Mike McDonald, as
you just heard giving a vote of confidence to Sam
Donald even before training camp. Sam Donald needs a vote
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of confidence. So I've got in flight Meal, Happy Hour,
and Wimbledon, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make an updated resume.
Cause I believe Mike McDonald, if he truly is fully
invested in Sam Donald, he will be let go as
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the Seattle coach didn't do anything. He's not just a
generic coach. He's a jack, just a coach, nothing special there.
So my first thought on this, the full Sam Donald experience.
If you're Sam Donald, and you think you're locked in
as the start, if you believe all that bull crap
that the coach said, you might want to relook at
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some things in your life. There, go start biting your fingernails.
Now it is OTAs just workouts, shorts and visors and
things like that for the most part. And Sam Donald
already already smelling like leftover tuna fish that's been sitting
out in the sun. It's just as you can't make
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this up, the heartburn adding up there those boots on
the ground. Boots on the ground say that Sam Donald
was intercepted multiple times in the first open practice session
with the media, tossed a pair of interceptions in the
seven on seven portion of the practice. And so here's
where I sait from thirty six thousand feet up in
(24:18):
the sky. The Seattle Seahawks coach Mike McDonald is enjoying
a nice in flight meal. And that meal is a
bowl of cereal. It's honey, ohs or in this case
just owes as an oracle of obvious, oracle of obvious.
And I'm gonna go to the boiler plate on what
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I am supposed to play, What I'm supposed to say
as an NFL coach, it is the disfunction junction how
do you function? That is the full Sam Donald experience.
And the Seahawks are just finding that out there that
you're having to give a vote of confidence to Sam Donald.
(25:02):
So really what Seattle's doing, they're playing the sweep Steaks
and they're like, you can get seven or eight or
nine games out of Sam Donald. It's never a good
thing when you have to play hide the quarterback. And
the only way Sam Donald can be effective, and it
only works for a limited amount of time, is hide
the quarterback, play hide the course. And at some point
you can't hide the quarterback when you play a good
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team late in the ear and then you're exposed. You're
pants and you're out there and you don't have an
underwear on. You're just pants the whole thing. And so
there's all kinds of loopholes and get out of the
contract and all that escape patches. And let's clip and
save this quote by McDonald who had to say that
right the Oracle of the Obvious, And then we'll look
(25:47):
back at this. I'll save this in my notes and
then when we get the week five or six, and
Sam Donald is no longer playing quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks.
We can revisit this and we point our finger and
laugh and goof on Seattle, and that's always fun to do.
That's that's good talk radio. So page two to Houston
we go, speaking of the quarterback shuffle. You've got drama
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in the lone Star state, as Demico Ryans. Demko Ryans,
the head coach of the Houston football team, has announced
he has quote no concerns close quote about quarterback c J. Stroud,
who has been limited from doing the thing that all
quarterbacks seemingly need to do, throwing the ball during spring
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practice due to quote general soreness. So you know, at
this point what c J. Stroud, He's in his fifties.
Body gets a little sort Oh no, he's actually in
his twenties. He's in his twenties. So the Texans opened
OTA's back on May twenty eight, Yeah, twenty eight, and
c J. Stroud, c J. Stroud of the Texans has
not thrown passes during any of the practices that are
(26:57):
open to the media. Now others are singing a different tune.
So the Texans coach Tamiko Rans is like this there's
nothing to see here. Everything is fine. Don't worry about this. Okay.
Now there's a conflicting report that is out singing a
different tune making it clear that the fans should panic.
(27:22):
Panic at the disco. Panic at the Disco says, you
should not believe what the coach said. You shouldn't believe
the statements from the team there. With the Texans, there
should be concerns about c Jay Stroud. So let us
discuss as we do this show in early June twenty
twenty five. Should the Texans be quote concerned close quote
(27:47):
about quarterback C. J. Stroud and his health. So I'm
actually shaking my head no on this, I'm shaking my head. No. Now,
you know, Ben Nuts, you're just supposed to panic right away.
That's your bad job about you. Okay. As you know,
we look at this on a case by case basis
as possibly tweaked something and working out lifting weights or whatever.
(28:09):
And even if he did, whooped, damn do. That's what
I say, whooped, damn do. It's happy hour, happy hour,
which is code for it's amateur hour. In the hot
take factory, there is some issues with the machinery here
in the warehouse, and it's everything's clickbait these days. I
(28:31):
get it. We live in the clickbait world. That's how
the game works. Anyone says, well, it's just clickbait. Everything clickbait,
like that's how it is because that's how people consume media. Clicking. Well,
I don't believe it in clickbait. Yes, you do. You
click on things. You're part of the problem. You are
part of the problem. But they're not concerned about c J.
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Stroud's health. The people that are putting this out there,
I don't think they should be. I do think there
any real concern for to c J. Stroud because of
why the calendar, that would be why there is no
legitimate concern. You're stirring the pot. You're looking for something.
You're looking for a little something, and that's a little
(29:14):
something that you can latch onto and get your tentacles
into and all that stuff. And we can see now
now if you want to find out when there is concern,
that'll be in late July. I think around July twenty
twenty third, twenty four to twenty fifth, somewhere in that
area is when training camps open up in the NFL.
And if CJ. Stroud has decided to have a camp
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out in the injury tent. When the real training camp
opens up in a month and a half, then we
can revisit this. Up until that point, that's premature concern
and I'm not gonna have and I'm not a Texans
fan anyone. I'll let mister Irrigation worry about that. That's
and the deacon, I'll let those guys worry about now.
(29:56):
Final point to Jerry's world, And speaking of absurd and
amateur hour, this is theater of the absurd, theater of
the absurd. From Jerry's world, we have learned now that
the Cowboys defensive back Trevon Diggs, That's right, the brother
of Stefon Digs, Trevon Diggs, is in line to lose
(30:21):
five hundred thousand dollars. Now, what did he do? Did
he violate the team rules? Was he on the boat
with the bikini models and the pink candy which I'm
sure was not cocaine in Miami? Was he on the
boat with his brother? No, So, how did he lose
the or how is he going to lose the five
hundred thousand dollars by not showing up to the team
(30:45):
facility by missing the team's offseason workout. So let's discuss
Cowboys defensive back Travon Diggs in line to lose five
hundred thousand smack a rus because he's missing off season workouts.
How does that taste?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
All?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Right? So it tastes like Sardinian cheese, which I am
told is the cheese that is made. It is maggot
infested cheese. Yum yum to my Tom, Tom, that's what
it is now in London, and it's Wimbleton time coming
up here. But in London they would call this an
(31:28):
unforced error. That's tennis lingo. It's an unforced error, is
what it is. Diggs is in his mid twenties. He
got a good sized contract. He supposedly has some kind
of internal beef with the training staff there with the
Dallas Cowboys, and so he is willing to forfeit five
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hundred thousand dollars to rehab his knee in Miami, Miami, Miami,
Miami South Beach, staying away from the cowboy for the
price tag on that five hundred thousand dollars. Five hundred
thousand dollars. This is boxers to me? Now, am I
completely out of touch. You're just an old head. You
(32:09):
don't know what you're talking about. Bad these kids, they
got so much money they can flush away five hundred
thousand dollars. Digs the dunce, digs the dunce. Do you
dig it? Come on, I cannot imagine throwing away five
hundred thousand dollars like it's lunch money, and just I
(32:31):
don't need it, I don't want it. I don't I'm
getting rid of it. And all you have to do
is show up. It's not like you have to go
through some rigorous workout. You just merely have to show up.
And that's it. Like, what planet are we on at
this point? What planet are we?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Like?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Five hundred thousand you could buy a house. In some places,
you can buy multiple houses for that kind of money,
depending where you're investing your money. Heck, you could get
a fast food franchise. I assume you could put the
down payment and get a big chunk of like a
what a burger? What a burger? What a mistake for
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Travon Diggs. Money makes money. Instead, you're just gonna say,
I don't, I don't even hang out here, have a
my tie with my friend Weedman Hippi in Miami who
calls the show occasionally and just have a grand old time.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
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Speaker 1 (33:33):
Again Degree in a planet Far far is one gets
Grail all right, Jamallard the third degree time and here's cool.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
It was recently reported that the Vikings are concerned with
JJ McCarthy that, no matter what the team says, they
wanted Sam Donald back. Ben, do you think Viking fans
are in for a tough season ahead?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Well, I don't believe that they wanted Sam Donald b
They just the Aaron Rodgers thing. You can hide a quarterback,
and we saw it last season with the Minnesota Vikings.
They played hide a quarterback. And they've got a.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Coach who knows how to do that based on what
they were able to pull off last year with that
coaching staff and Sam Darnold and how many wins they
got and all that stuff, like listen, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
O'connen knows what he's doing. They've got good receivers. So
the Vikings. The baseline for the Vikings is ten or
eleven wins They're not gonna get any worse than that.
They'll be in that area. They're not gonna be as
good as they were last year, but they'll be in
that area. And if McCarthy by the end of the
season can actually not poop the bed like Donald did,
they'll be better in the postseason.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Next After clinching a spot in the NBA Finals, Pacers
center Miles Turner said, well, this is a new blueprint
for the league.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Man.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
I think the years of super teams and stacking talent,
that's not of effect as effective as it once was.
But do you think Indiana and OKSE have written a
blueprint for the rest of the league.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
No, because no one's gonna watch this and people on
Park Avenue in Manhattan are going to freak out.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
The NBA is a television show.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
This is bad television for the you know, the average viewer,
and so they.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Will change the rules and this this will not.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Continue next On Monday, Austin Ainge, a son of Danny Inge,
was introduced as the Utah Jazz is new president of
Best co Operations. He asked what his philosophy was on tanking,
and Ange applying, you won't see that this year Ben,
I think the jazz are gonna start trying again.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yes, they're just gonna be bad. Naturally, they're gonna be bad.
I love that he's the net bogm though, Austin Inge.
I wonder how he got the job. What do you
think his resume look like? Coop? Come on, we are amazing.
He passes a sho all right, he got Why my
dad is Danny Ainge. If my dad was Howard Stern,
I'd be doing mornings.
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clean up, Hawks Gonna help you.
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Speaker 1 (36:14):
Dear Rye.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
That's right, you heard the man. It's time for love
here on the Ben Mallards Show, and oh my gosh,
it's just the best time of the year to be
in love. We're at the end of spring, we're coming
into summer, and you know what summertime means, Ben, Oh,
what's that hot girl summer we hit in the streets.
This is the time to find your new love.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Okay, all right, fair enough. We have a few questions.
Do you want to answer them or yeah, okay, all right.
Mike the leprechaun from the Greater Boston area says, should
a girlfriend be concerned if her boyfriend has exotic pets
at the house such as loud parakeets, hedgehogs, and wild geese.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
Yes. Also, if your boyfriend identifies as a leprechaun, that
can also be a big red flag.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
What if that's the cosplay though, I mean, if that's
your king, then yes, you just have to find a
woman that's in the leprechaw.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
The weird thing about animals, though, is you can't have
a guy who likes to do it in front of
his animals.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Why is that?
Speaker 6 (37:21):
What do you mean why is that? Because that's weird.
It's like letting his dog sit in the room and
watch you, weirdo.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
The dog does not interact. Yeah, exactly what I mean.
Like the dog doesn't know. The dog doesn't know what's
going on. The dogs he's trying to live his life.
Speaker 6 (37:40):
That's like the newborn parents who are like, oh, well,
the baby's in the crib on the other side of
the room. It's finally like, no, it's still weird.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
JT. The Wingman writes in he says, can I take
my fiance to a comic book lover's convention to help
with setting the mood and the bedroom for us? Well,
there's nothing that's you talk about arousing someone you take
them to like a comic con Holy craft. Yes, I
mean there are so many babies that are produced at
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Comic Con every year it's wild.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Honestly, I want to look into the statistics of that.
Ben because Comicon has some really really good looking people
dressed in some awesome outfit sin City.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
What's more impressive Comic Con or the Furry convention in
Pittsburgh Every year it's Comic Con Comic Con. It is hard.
I understand I've not done this. I don't wear one,
But if you're wearing the costume, I think it's hard
to produce a situation that would lead you to ways.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
So Comic Coon might have more babies that come from this.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yeah, it's a good pointn Ferg Dog writes in he says,
are women really as bad at driving as everyone says?
That's from Ferg Dog.
Speaker 6 (38:51):
I think I'm a great driver. I've never been in
a car accident.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Have you caused any car accidents?
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Well, actually I wasn't one, but he ended me and
that doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, I've been in multiple cars is where I have
gotten rear in two three of the four I got
ended up in. See, you never know.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
You can't make stereotypes out of drivers. Some people are good,
some people aren't. Some people are.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Are not.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Where I live, there's a there's a fair amount of
people I think that are It's just they don't know
how to They turn right onto I'm turning left and
they turn right right in front of me.
Speaker 6 (39:26):
Yeah, I don't think at the biggest.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Douchebag move like that's driving one on one or the
ones who.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
Try to take the exit real fast as it's coming up.
I'm like, why don't you just wait instead of trying
to kill us all because there's going to be another exit.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
And like, even if you're like out the world, every
app tells you all right, they'll they'll redo this.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
Don't be cutting people off.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
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of National Cheese Day? Which cheese should I serve? To
get the ladies in the mood.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
Oh my gosh, all the cheese. Take her to a
restaurant that has the cheese cart at the end of
at you too, Oh fresh mozzarella, Marella up, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Pro alone smells, but that's a good cheese cheese. It
smells a little bit.
Speaker 6 (40:10):
Hey, a little stinky.
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What's going on? Frank? Welcome? Thank you for having me
just driving on the mean and wet streets of Vegas.
All right, be careful man, crazy drunk people at all
hours of the day in Sin City. Who would you
like to partner up with?
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You?
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Play with me? Ben or Lorraine? I'm going with you,
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Let's play here. We have a list of words one
to ten and see those you're cheating, so don't cheat.
And Mike in Colorado, who loves milk? You get to
go first. Pick a number? Please hold on a second,
(42:06):
let me make sure he's there. There you go, Mike,
all right, what pick a number? Please? Number two? Alright,
that's there's no singing for that number two? All right?
All right, Mike, let's go with uh hmmm, let's go
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Dead No, no, go ahead there, Frank, the word is dead.
Speaker 7 (42:58):
Grateful.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
It's a terrible answer. All right, Mike, I'm gonna do
a Mallard maneuver. Uh tie.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Yeah, Hey, Frank, I said dead. You could have said
you know, you could have anyway. All right, go ahead, Frank.
Pick a number one to ten, but not two. Le'ps
go nine, number nine? All right? Do you know how
to play the game, by the way, you've heard the
game before, Frank, you've I have? All right, let's go
(43:33):
with how about sound.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
Garden?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
What, Frank?
Speaker 6 (43:44):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Are you trying to upset me?
Speaker 6 (43:45):
Frank?
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Is that what you're trying to do? I am not
trying to upset you. You think that we were trying
to get the name of a band? Okay, all right, Wow,
let's sound I haven't heard sound God. Let's go with
(44:06):
band trivia? Uh clamor.
Speaker 5 (44:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Yeah, there we go, Frank, you mean it's embarrassing. All right?
Go ahead, Milkman. Pick a number.
Speaker 7 (44:27):
Let's go number six, number six. There's a band with
that name. Let's go with uh personal.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
Private. Yeah. Wow, on a roll today?
Speaker 5 (44:46):
How's that sandwich?
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Even? Who put? A guy doesn't know how to play
the game. Frank, go pick a number, Frank, go ahead,
three number three. All right, try to save some face here, Frank,
you im gonna win the game. How about persuade? Oh my,
(45:09):
trying to think what band from the eighties had that
name in it? Persuade? Thank persuade? Do you know what
synonyms are? Are you familiar with synonyms?
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Familiar?
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Okay? Wade, it's a big word.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
All right, all right, let's go ithut right up, let's
go with entice.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
Coke.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
No, I'm gonna go listen to some sound Garden right now.
See what's going on there.
Host
Ben Maller
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