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July 28, 2025 • 40 mins

Big Ben talks about Cowboys VP Stephen Jones saying "We want to pay Micah too. He has to want to be paid," Jameis Winston only being traded for a 'Godfather offer', Aaron Rodgers responding to criticism from Terry Bradshaw, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!

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the weekend and later this week they'll be practice football,
not real football, but practice football. And our lead is
from the NFL as the tensions get ratcheted up in Dallas,
Cowboy camp in Beautiful Auxnard, California, and more news out
on Michah Parsons. Re concerned about Michah Parsons in his

(02:04):
four oh one K, very worried about He's already making
a lot of money, but you want to make more money, more,
more and more and more more money? Or does he
want to make more money? Possibly not? The jabbing continues here.
The latest salvo tossed out at Cowboy camp this following
following a group of fans that were yelling pay Micah,

(02:28):
pay Micah as the chance rained down on Jerry Jones
the Cowboy owners during training camp over the weekends. So
following that, we discussed the commentary of the kid that
would be Stephen Jones and Stephen Jones, the Cowboys executive
vice president.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
He got the job because he happens.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
To have the right DNA, he said, of the situation
involving the Cowboy defensive player, he said, quote, we want
to pay Micah too.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
He has to want to be paid.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Close quote all right, So again, Stephen Jones, the Dallas
Cowboys executive vice president, the son of Jerry, he got
the job because of DNA, Stephen Jones saying of the
contract squabble, he said, we want to pay Micah too.
He has to want to be paid. So what does
that even mean? That's the question. So I've got Expressway,

(03:28):
garage sale, and Macy's and we will combine all of
these things together and we are gonna make a biscuit
with some mashed potatoes and some gravy on the side.
So a using all of the top technology, and some
of you people use like advanced.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
AI and all.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
No, no, no, I have a decoder ring that works
for me. I have a Dacota ring. That's all I need,
uh and it's priceless. Got it years ago, my decoder ring.
So Stephen Jones is sending a message, a very public
message about Michael Parsons kind of obviously needed to coder
Ring to figure that part out. But this is, according

(04:08):
to Dakota Ring, corporate speak. All right, this is corporate
speak for we low balled Michael Parsons. We did not
offer him the contract that everyone thought we were gonna
offer Michael Parsons, and he did not bite at the
offer that we made him, and now we are shocked
that he didn't sign and say thank you, Can I
have another? And so it's like they think that they're

(04:33):
entitled some kind of cowboy discount or something like that. Right, Oh,
there's gotta be some kind of discount or.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Something like that.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
No, no, so, but I like the positioning, Like the
positioning is, hey, it's not our fall, it's Michael Parsons.
He's the bad guy here and they're playing hardball. Remember
that show you used to be on TV Hardball. They're
playing hardball here and the Cowboys. This is not so
much of a leak. There's other stuff that was leaked
over the weekend. This is more of a direct. It's

(04:58):
actually audio of Stephen Jones. Of course we don't have
it here, but the audio of Stephen Jones saying that
to the media but there's other stuff that was leaked
as well, using useful idiots in the media to make
it look like Parsons is the difficult one and all
that stuff. So it does not change my position. I

(05:19):
have maintained I have been locked in Benny's bunker. I
am in Benny's bunker. When it comes to the Micah
Parsons story. We are on the expressway. There's no off ramps.
We are on the expressway. We are headed towards critical Mass.
That is where we are headed towards. And it's gonna
come down to the eleventh hour that first regular season weekend,

(05:40):
right before the Cowboys first game, and they're gonna milk
every single headline, right, just milk every single headline here,
classic Jerry Jones.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
Playbook technique there.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
The Cowboys, the glitz, the glamour, the dysfunction, all of that,
trying to run out the clock and hope that Micah
Parsons blinks. And the Cowboys is pretty much just kind
of going around talking in circles and all that. That's
what they do, which is good for us because we
get to break it all down scientifically there and that

(06:14):
they want to pay Micah Parsons but only on their terms.
And the kicker of all kickers on this and the
part of it which is so great is every man,
woman and child knows that the fan, the cowboy fan.
They talk a good game, but they'll show up no
matter what. It doesn't matter. They're there for the star

(06:36):
on the side of the helmet. They're there for the area.
It's a captive audience. Cherry knows this. Everyone knows this.
And they're still gonna buy the jerseys. They're still gonna
go out there every year, and we believe this is
the year, and this is gonna be everything's gonna go great.
And why because the Cowboys, the cowboy fan is in
a toxic relationship with the front office. It's been that

(06:58):
way for thirty years.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
And the great thing is that a lot of them
don't even realize it.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
I was like, I don't understand no idea what this
is all about. Anyway, Now page two, here we go
to Jersey. We head to the swampland of New Jersey
where a Giants insider, a New York Giants insider says
quarterback Jameis Winston would only be traded for a quote

(07:24):
godfather offer. So does that one pass the smell test.
A Godfather offer, So this has gotta be the dumbest
thing I saw all weekend. I don't know what the
dumbest thing you saw all weekend, it was in sports,
But this is the dumbest thing I saw all weekend
in sports. A Godfather offer for Jamis Winston. So does

(07:45):
that pass the smell test? Not my sniffer, maybe yours.
My schnaz test is a no.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Here.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
This is ridiculous here. You talk about a babbling, bumbling
band of buffoons here that are out there. Oh I
would even say that, but in what world is that reality? Seriously,
Jameis Winston, if my math is right on this, Jameis
Winston is.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
The backup to the backup.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
He's behind Russell Wilson, who should be a backup is
not very good. He sucks and he's cooked, and he's
out there masquerading as the QB one for the Giants.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
So which you want? Let me get straight.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
So you won a first round pick for that would
be the godfather offer, A first round pick for a
guy who has been bouncing around the NFL like a
pinball and a pinball machine in recent years. So that
is what you're going for here. That's not a Godfather
off that this garage sales situation is. What this is

(08:47):
is a garage sales situation. It's absolute poppy cock, malarkey,
any of those big words if you want to use
now again. We love the player, Jameis Winston, famous, Jamis
the story. He's a great SoundBite. Don't get me wrong.
He's he's got the charisma, he's entertaining, he's electric. Much

(09:08):
of that for the wrong reasons, much of that for
the wrong for the wrong reasons. And he's one man band.
He'll throw four touchdowns and four interceptions and not even
work up a sweat, not even a sweat as a starter.
He's a loose cannon. He's not a star. He's a backup.
And everyone kind of knows that. And so you're not
exactly trading if you're the Giants, you're not trading a

(09:33):
Jameis Winston for anything more than just a late round traffic.
The idea that you're going to get a boatload of
unbelievable assets in return for Jamis Winston. When he often
needs some kind of tracking device on the football because
he's gonna throw it to the other team. Nobody's gonna
make a godfather offer for a backup quarterback. That's not
gonna happen. And it sounds like, after several minutes of

(10:00):
analyzing this, it sounds like the Giants are just trying
to puff their chest out like a rooster and they're like,
we have such a great quarterback room. O MG, we
are loaded. My god, look at us, How great are we?
We picked up the rotting carcass of Russell Wilson and
we thought, well, we have him, Let's draft a kid

(10:22):
from college who can't play, and then we'll get a guy,
a veteran as a backup who has been bouncing around
because all he does is throw interception. Those are our
three quarterbacks, right of course, we all know if you
have three quarterbacks, we know what that means.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yes, of course none.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
It's kind of like the idea that the Giants would
even throw it out there, and this unless the inside
had just made it up this person that covers the Giants.
But the idea that that would be the case, it's
like it's like going to the used car lot in saying,
all right, let me tell you something. I got this
twenty fifteen Mitsubishi Mirage it's got three hundred thousand miles
on it, Okay, but I'm not leaving him unless I

(11:00):
get that Blue Rolls Royce. I'm willing to give up
the Mitsu Messi mirage with three hundred thousand miles from.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Twenty fifteen, but I have to get that Blue Rolls Royce.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, good luck on that, right, Just like, come on,
let's be real here, you're lucky if somebody takes it
off your hands and scraps it at that particular point.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
That's the way it is. And so add on that
jamis is an acquired taste. It's kind of like oysters,
who the hell likes oysters? Weird people like oysters? Right?
Or liver who likes eating liver? Weird people. It's like that.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
And so nobody's giving you the old Godfather offer for
a stringy, slimy type of mucus that is oysters.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
So good luck on that.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
The Giants could trade Winston and get some late round
conditional draft pick and a nice handshake and an autograph
photo of somebody. Sure they get that, say thank you?
So I say thank you? All right now the last word.
We now pivot to a story that was as predictable
as the sun rising and the sun setting right.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
The story out of the Music.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
City Dateline Nashville, glowing reports, glowing reports from Titans camp
about quarterback cam Ward having already one reports had already
won over the room. Cam Ward. No games played yet,
cam Ward has already won over the organization. He's at

(12:32):
the facility at five thirty every morning, every single morning.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
Question. So cam Ward, according to these reports recently.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Has already already won over the Tennessee Titans is at
the facility five thirty in the morning every morning.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
How much stalk do you put in to this one?

Speaker 1 (12:55):
So?

Speaker 4 (12:55):
How about zero?

Speaker 1 (12:57):
There's a penny stock, not even that, not even a
penny stock on this one. This is the old eye roll,
is what it's like. Here we go again, Here we
go again. Uh, you know, stop me if you've heard
this every quarterback draft at the top of the draft,
and pretty much that's exclusively quarterbacks that go number one
overall in the draft. It's almost always and so stop

(13:20):
me if you've you've we hear it every year. Oh
that rookie quarterback, first guy in the building, he's the
last guy out, of course he is. He's he's that's
what you're supposed to do. Uh, you're a rookie quarterback,
you better be there early. That's how the job goes.
That's the bare minimum. It's another one of the story's

(13:41):
talk about doing the bare minimum. It's like saying the
guy put pants on and and then he came to work. Well,
he put pants on before he came to over. Well,
that's impressive. He put pants on and then showed up
to work. Are we gonna get a parade for him
brushing his teeth flossing? Does he get a parade for flossing?
Is there a raid for that? So this is the

(14:01):
old boiler plate training camp story. Right, they roll these
things out every single year. They roll these stories out
every single year. New rookie, clean slate, extra film work.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Right.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
They love him in the building, he's got the trust
of the locker room, all of that.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
And uh, of course I always my defaults always, well,
let me know when we actually see this person go
out there and do good things in a game, Right,
And doesn't look like deer in the headlights. When they're
out there running around, it's like, Okay, let's see if
this guy can do. Uh. It's the classic NFL media pablem,
is what it is. It's a classic NFL media pablum

(14:43):
where they're pumping the kid up like he's the Macy's
Thanksgiving Day balloon and just pumping them with air and
it's all hot air. There's no substance there. There can't
be any substance. I saw one reporter say that he's
got command of the huddle already. We made command of
the huddle already, which I love that. I think that's hilarious.

(15:04):
In training camp, he's been in the huddle for what
a week? Are we going to count rookie mini camp?
Is that what we're counting on this?

Speaker 5 (15:11):
Like?

Speaker 4 (15:11):
Where are we going on this?

Speaker 1 (15:12):
It's the preseason exhibition echo chamber, and no one ever
wants to say, well, we don't really know where this
guy blows.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
We don't know if this guy thinks or not.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
He hasn't played yet. We don't want to say that.
So we are in the hype business. We have to
hype this guy up. So instead's he's the first one
in the building and everyone loves him and he's a.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Great cam Ward number one pick in the draft.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
That's not leadership. Again, I've said this, I've preached from
the bully pulpit for years. It's not leadership. Just showing
up on time. Showing up to your job on time.
That's what you're supposed to do. That's like, that's the
again bare minimum. You don't get a medal for punching
in on the alarm clock. You get the medal when

(15:59):
you actually well, that's how that works.

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Speaker 1 (17:14):
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Speaker 4 (17:21):
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buying should be. So our lead this hour is from Pittsburgh, Pittsburg, PA.
We have a follow up to the follow up, follow
up to the follow up. Now, what does the follow
up to the follow up?

Speaker 4 (18:27):
You asked?

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Will the follow up to the follow up? You might
remember Terry Bradshaw, not that long ago. Terry Bradshaw, Yes,
the four time Super Bowl champ, the NFL on Fox Royalty,
who's been doing that forever and ever and ever and
ever and ever. So, Terry Bradshaw. He went on a
radio show in Arkansas and said Aaron Rodgers should chew

(18:52):
on bark, just chew on bark.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
Go ahead.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Now, over the weekend, Rogers responded, he did. He responded
to that. Now, if you saw this or not or
missed it, So Rogers with our guy Kyle Brandt, who
used to work here part of the Fox Sports Radio
Alumna Association, and here is Aaron Rodgers giving his rebuttal
to what Terry Bradshaw had to say.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
Tagoz, I've known Terry for a long time being a
part of Fox.

Speaker 7 (19:20):
Terry's a legend. He's an absolute legend. He won four
Super Bowls. He's had a legendary career in the media.
But Terry, like a lot of people, doesn't know me,
and so he's got an idea of what he thinks
about me based on what I've done, the documentary, what
I've said, Darkness Retreat, whatever the hell you want to

(19:41):
talk about. I'd love to get to know Terry on
a deeper level, and I feel like if he gave
me a chance to get to know him, they would
have a good friendship. Because for me, I have nothing
but the utmost amount of respect and deference for what
the greats have done, because they laid the foundation for
us to be able to play in this great game,
to be paid like kings, and to carry on the

(20:03):
tradition of excellence that guys like the Bradshaws of the
world in the seventies and mart Starr in the sixties
and Lombardy and Joe Montana and Steve Young and Troy Aikman.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
A Brett Farb I got you, all right.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Oh. The main part of that is he said, Terry's
a legend, and I'd love to get to know him.
And he doesn't know me, and he just knows me
from the documentary and he knows me from this.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
That and the other thing.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
He said, I think we'd be friends. So let us
discuss the question what did you make of the rant?

Speaker 4 (20:31):
We played most of it. What did you make of
the rant of Steelers.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Quarterback Aaron Rogers very diplomatic, right, very diplomatic response to
Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw telling him to go chew
on bark. All right, So I've got the spectrum, mannequin,
and post office, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make Lunch with Terry.

(20:55):
Actually followed Lunch with Terry years ago, a classic LA
radio show.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Terry Bradshaw did a.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Talk show for one hour day and it was well,
if you heard it, you know it was an all
timer back in the day. So number why I said
number W.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
This is so on brand for Aaron Rodgers. He's so
perfect for Aaron Rodgers. Here.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
This is a guy who essentially lives his life at
this point like he's inside some kind of sundance documentary.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
And the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
He mentioned a lot of it, right, he mentioned the
Darkness Retreat. I don't think he mentioned ayahuasca. Later on,
we'll get to the mystery wife that's out there as well.
And so now he's trying to emotionally connect to Terry Bradshaw. Hey.
Spoiler alert, spoiler, Hey, Aaron, hate to tell you there,
Terry told you to go gnawl on a tree.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
He would like you to find a nice tree out
in the woods and start chewing. Okay, not come over
to have some tea with crystals. I don't think that
was the approach that Bradshaw took. Now, Aaron Rodgers continues
to be great for talk radio. He's also on the
spectrum this weird bizarro spiritual sitcom thing that's going on here.

(22:17):
And I'll go back to the fact that he's got
a wife. No one has seen and this has been
been a while now, and who knows, maybe she lives
in an igloo or something like that. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
And now he's trying to build bridges Rogers with people
who have mocked him, like Terry Bradshaw, and listen, it's
it's definitely weak by Aaron Rodgers. And he might be watching,
we all might be watching the NFL's version of just
an emotionally available quarterback.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
Normally they're not that way.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
But if you take a step back, right Aaron Rodgers,
who's now trying to make it go one last run,
one last moment in the sun in Pittsburgh, we would
not be shocked if next week, not this week, but
next week Aaron Rodgers shows up in some kind of
hemp poncho and offers Terry Bradshaw one of those forgiveness

(23:14):
you know, circle things that a retreat in Sedona. They
can just all go together, all expenses paid, and go
hang out in Sedona and have a great time.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
So again, buckle up.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
We know there's a lot of Steeler fans Inser fans.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
Buckle up.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
This is the Aaron Rodgers full experience. It's going to
be a long wild ride. With Aaron Rodgers, and I'm
there for it. Listen, I'm there. It's a page turner,
every single page.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
I'm in. I'm in now for us, page number two.
Speaking of Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Now, we mentioned that Aaron Rodgers has a mystery wife,
and he talked about that. He went on the record
kind of kind of in that same interview, we got
a little more insight, just a little bit more. And
he's speaking to state sponsored NFL media at the Steelers

(24:03):
training camp.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
Are Rogers opened up about his marriage.

Speaker 8 (24:07):
Do we have that?

Speaker 4 (24:08):
I don't know if we have that.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
I guess we don't have that, all right, So he said,
quote when you meet the right one and you're with
the right one, your whole world changes in a second,
Rogers said of the mystery woman, supposedly named Brittany, he said,
and to have that person that unconditionally loves you behind
the scenes, there's no better feeling in the world. Rogers said,

(24:31):
And I have the most incredible wife close quote all right,
So does anything stand out? Is there anything here that
stands out about Aaron Rodgers yapping loquaciously about his mystery
wife Britney. So yes, yeah, I guess the whole thing,

(24:53):
the whole damn thing is it's ridiculous Rogers saying that
he's got the most incredible wife, and and yet we
still have no there's no background info, there's no photo,
there's no nothing, there's no there there, there's no there there,
and not one paparazzo. Rogers lives in the offseason in Malibu.

(25:13):
He is surrounded by paparazzo and nobody has a photo.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
So what is going on?

Speaker 1 (25:21):
It's like she doesn't exist, Like seriously, like this supposed
woman named Brittany does not exist. You're telling me that
this guy, Aaron Rodgers, who's been in the public eye
for years and your starting quarterback in the NFL, and
there's not one photo out, not one, not.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
A friend of a friend of a friend of a
friend of a friend's.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Gardener that said, Hey, I saw so and so and
I know who it is. Right, you realize that in
the times we live in, if you sneeze, right, if
you sneeze, TMC's got five different angles slow mo, five
different goes slow mo.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
It's twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
That's how the world works in twenty twenty five, Right,
this one not a single shot, not a single shot.
It's like, we can't even get one of those grainy
Bigfoot esque you know that the images of Bigfoot, which
you're always kind of weird, and it's like it's not
really a clean photo of Bigfoot, and it's like, what's
going on with that?

Speaker 2 (26:19):
You know?

Speaker 4 (26:19):
It's that kind of deal. It's that kind of deal.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
So Aaron Rodgers has been going down this anti mainstream
pseudo science like rabbit hole thing for for a long
time with all the stuff we've talked about here, the ayahuasca,
that darkness retweets and all that stuff. And so now
is there a chance that she's a ghost, that Britney's

(26:43):
a ghost from the haunted mansion at Disneyland, and that
he married a ghost from the haunted mansion at Disneyland.
It's possible, right, she might be imaginary. You can't totally
rule it out, right, you cannot totally rule it out,
and it's a small percentage chance, but you can't really
rule it out. The odds are but the odds are
not zero. The odds are not zero for Aaron Rodgers Man.

(27:04):
This is another level.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
It really is.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
I mean, an incredible wife, but she I just wants
to keep a low profile. Okay, did she even say yes?
Who knows? Could she could have got say yes?

Speaker 4 (27:19):
Could have? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
That's another level of bizarro, just another level of bizarro.
And it's like, hey, did he marry a mannequin? Did
he find her in a display case somewhere and then
took her to a ceremony in Missoula, Montana to get married?

(27:42):
Because there's no one, no one in Montana? And uh,
it's like she's under the witness protection program or she's
under house arrest if she's real.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
Are they not living together? Is that what's going on?
What's what's the deal on this?

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yet he's walking around and letting people know us me,
it's like, trust me, bro, she's really amazed. Trust me.
Brow Yeah, you know what it sounds like back when
I was in high school and there'd be the everyone
had a friend who had a girlfriend, but she went
to a different school.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
She went to a different school, and you know, you.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Wouldn't know her and never came around you knowing you
known't even lying. They didn't have a girlfriend, they didn't
go to another school. He's made it up. So anyway,
Well see, someone'll come out here and we'll have a
different song to sing at that particular point. But geez,
there was also that movie about ten twelve years ago

(28:37):
called called Her, which was not a great movie.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Not a great movie.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
But it is.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
Possible that he is falling in love Rogers with an
operating system. I think that was a Scarlet Johansson film,
if I remember correctly. So it's possible that is the case.
All right, now, final final point. We now go to Europe.
That's right, we're classing up the jouint We're going to Europe.
And that is where viral video popped up over the

(29:05):
weekend of a very emotional he was verklemped.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
Who is he?

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Nikola Jokic the joker? Then kol Jokic went viral over
the weekend, reacting with raw emotion, raw emotion after watching
one of his horses win a race in his native Serbia.
He was about as happy as you could possibly be.
Now keep in mind when the Nuggets won the NBA

(29:30):
Championship a couple of years ago, he was about as
stoic as you could possibly be. There was no real emotion,
So what gives, right, what gives on that?

Speaker 4 (29:41):
So why did we get happy horse?

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Nikola Jokic, and then we got when the Nuggets won,
we just got the blah stoic Nikol yokch W.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
Gives on that.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
So this is kind of obvious. This is not the
first time this has popped up. After a minutes long
malor investigation, we have determined that the NBA is a
side hustle. This is what it is for Nikola Yukic.
It's a side hustle. And the fact that he's won
a couple of MVP Awards and he's got an NBA
championship and he's decorated and considered one of the top

(30:13):
players is fine, and he's not upset by that. But
it really just funds. It's an ends to a mean.
It funds Nikola Jokic to buy livestock, to buy horses,
to go to horse auctions and buy horses. He's definitely
more invested in the ponies. He's definitely more invested in

(30:34):
the thoroughbreds than he is Jamal Murray pick and roll, right,
who cares about that.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
I'm much more involved in the horses.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
And Jokic. Remember he called winning the NBA title good.
We can go home now is what he said. That
was the famous quote when the Nuggets won good, we
can go home now, like it was really slowing him
down because he wanted to get back to Serbia and
hang out with his horses. And he treats his basketball
career like he's going to the DMV on a Tuesday afternoon.

(31:06):
It's wild when when someone shows up and and and
gives you that kind of approach. It it's like that
old quote when someone tells.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
You who they are, believe them. Right.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
When you give Jokic a muddy racetrack in Belgrade, he's
out there crying like he's he's watching the movie Rudy, right,
the fighting Irish Rudy. Whih rah rah rah. That's real passion.
That is raw emotion.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
As I said, that's love.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
That is what he has. Uh.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
The NBA, that's like a government job. The NBA is
the kind of job where you punch the clock. It's
the nine to five. You're just getting the paycheck there.
But if you want to get down to the essence,
down to the soul, you've got to go to the horses.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
That's where you got to go.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
And the NBA to him, it's it's shocking to say this,
but it's clear that nikola Jogic is playing in the NBA.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
It's like he's working at the post office.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
It's like he's in the back of the post office
and it's like, Oh, we delivered the packages today. Okay,
that's cool. I'm gonna I'm gonna go home and hang
out with my stallion named named Carrot or whatever it's named.
And we love it, right because weirdly, there's something that
I actually like about this. It's it's honest, it's pure right,

(32:26):
Like so many of these guys. We talk about these
NBA players all the time, and a lot of them
are living this double life. He's not living a double life.
He's not pretending he's not playing for the cameras Nikola Jokic.
Nikola Jogic does he want to win. Sure, he'd like
the Nuggets to win. I don't doubt that at all.
He wants to see good basketball in the court with
the Denver Nuggets. He really wants to win on the track.

(32:50):
That is what's more important.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
Right.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
It's kind of amazing that there's this little bit of
a weird bubble in the years that we live in
now where it's just next level celebrity for these NBA players,
and you look at all these guys trying to build
the brand.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
It's all about the brand.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Or if you've built the brand, you've got to keep
the brand up, people like Lebron and Steph Curry. And
then you've juxtaposed that with Nikola jokicch who's like brand
maybe the Cereal, the brand Cereal, that's about it. I
brand cattle.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
I'm into that. That's my thing here. And Jokic is
he not the first NBA superstar.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Now, they've been players in the NBA that have had
other interest, but I'm talking about next level star, one
of the all time greats. And that's what Nikola Jokic
is at basketball. And yet he sees the NBA as
a second job, that it's not his first job and
it's not his dream. He was the fat kid, right,

(33:55):
fat Kid's not supposed to make the NBA and it's
not his passion. It's not play for Nicole Yogich. To
be in the NBA pays really well, pays really really well,
which is great, and it allows him to have his
hand in all these other things that he would not
be able to do if he wasn't good at basketball,
if he didn't have that good side hustle.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Malor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Hear Mallard,
how about that?

Speaker 1 (34:24):
To the thirty guys, this is one big Ben gets
grilled cruple.

Speaker 8 (34:31):
Adam Schefter reported on Saturday that Jill Mixon will remain
on the Texans non football injury list for an extended
period and will be evaluated closer to the season. This
leaves the Texans with the shell of Nick Chubb and
a bunch of nobody's in the backfield. Ben, is this
going to be a problem for the Texans?

Speaker 5 (34:47):
No?

Speaker 1 (34:47):
I do not believe this is going to be a problem.
Here's the way I look at this. The Texans underachieved
last year, considering the expectations going into the year. They
were up and down last season. And then if you're
gonna have any injury, the running back position is where
you want to have it. That is an interchangeable position.
It's not ideal that Nick Chobb is out, and uh,

(35:08):
you know that's that's that's not you know, Joe Mixon
is out. You got Nick Chob, You've got other people there.
You should if the offensive line's good and the quarterback
play from CJ. Stratus pretty good. You can interchange that position,
so they'll be all right next.

Speaker 8 (35:24):
Evan Ingram set in an interview over the weekend that
it was easy being first in the building.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Or you've kind of got a theme here this weekend. Yes, yes,
first in the building. That's the quarterback of the Titans.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Yes.

Speaker 8 (35:33):
But Evan Ingram, the former tight end of the Jaguars
current tenant of the Broncos, that it was easy being
first in the building with the Jaguars, but it's tough
to do with the Broncos. Ben, do you think this
says more about the Jaguars players of the way Doug
Peterson ran the team.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
I am so sick of hearing first in the building.
I want to bang my head against the wall to
a bled scoop. Okay, I don't care if you're first
in the building. You've got to get the working Okay,
I don't care if you're first of the building. All
got It's like a you know what measuring contest? Go
first in the building. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (36:03):
You know.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
The Jags have their problems, but it doesn't matter if
they show up earlier or not, they're not good.

Speaker 8 (36:07):
Next steph Curry said in a recent podcast that he
thinks NBA pailot players are underpaid and that they always
will be until the CBA allows for them to participate
in the rise of equity of the teams.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Then do you think that'll ever happen?

Speaker 4 (36:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (36:19):
I also think overnight sports talk radio hosts are underpaid.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
Also, Yeah, shocking.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
You ask anyone they think they're under who's gonna say
they're not underpaid? It's never gonna happen. It's owner versus employee. Stop,
how do we do? He passes there? We got it
on the ops or whatever?

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Run the game?

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Oh, I think that actually?

Speaker 5 (36:40):
Quick?

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Well, Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup
in the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports
Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR
to listen live. Hey you sports figure guy or girl?

Speaker 4 (36:58):
Here were you talking to? So hear some instant advice?

Speaker 1 (37:02):
Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
Even if you don't like it, you and no.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Way we go.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
It's the instant advice line where we give back, we take,
we take, we take, we get back. In the world
of sports right now, we saved it as off. There
is no middleman.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
You are live on the air when you hear my voice.
Who needs our advice? Well, this week is sports. Somebody
could be a media member, a coach, an owner, a player,
a GM Well, how about Jerry Jones. Advice to Jerry
Jones on how to handle Micah Parsons. Cowboy fans chanting

(37:42):
mean things to Jerry Jones. So any advice to the
embattled cowboy owner how to handle Micah Parsons's defensive star.
You're live on the air when you hear my voice
at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. Hello, line one,
you're on the Airline one, go all right, thank you
for that line to Hello, line to your advice please
to Jerry Jones, line too.

Speaker 7 (38:04):
Good morning time.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Before I say something about the cowboys, how about the brickyard? Four?

Speaker 8 (38:09):
Hunting?

Speaker 4 (38:09):
All right, thank you for that.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Let's go your next caller three your advice to Jerry
Jones on how to handle Micah Parsons.

Speaker 7 (38:17):
Bring back benny versus a penny or we riot?

Speaker 1 (38:20):
That's right, No, just no benny versus the penny, No
peace or something like that. Yes, your next call, You're
on the air advice to Jerry Jones on how to
handle Micah Parsons.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
The only person dragging their feet more on the contract call.
It's the people for NBC vers all right, I.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Am aware there's a all right, thank you, Yes there
is a delay on that hold a riot man. Clearly
the militia has got my back. Your next advice to
Jerry Jones on how to handle Micah Parsons.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
David hair looks like okay?

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Your next eight seven, seven ninety nine. On Fox, we're
giving advice to Jerry Jones of the Cowboys, how to
handle Mike Parsons.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Call.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
You're on the air.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Best thing about twenty eight year olds?

Speaker 4 (39:04):
All right?

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Line number three? Hello, line three, you're on the air
line three. Hey man, A wise man one said, dog,
you are born to be a cowboy, and black lives
count black line.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
But you screwed up the last part of that. Line five. Hello,
line five, you're on the air line five.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
Yeah, dude, I would tell them take two weeks off
and click.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Okay, that's that's all. That sounds like you've done that
many times. A Line six, you're on the airline six. Hello, Oh,
look at that Hulk Cogan calling in line Line one.
You're on the airline one.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
Hello, happy birthday. Oh look at that weed man.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Somebody's shouting you out from far away. Line two you're
on the air line too. Hello. Line two is not
paying attention. We'll jump over here to this line. Line
I see the line ringing call.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
You're on the air.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Advice please to Jerry Jones on how to handle Micah
Parsons ROBERTA please come back right all right, he's driving
a bus somewhere. A. Line six.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
You're on the airline six.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Hello, stop hogging all the line lights and share everything else.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
That's right?

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Yes, share, yes, share, said Sean the hood guy.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
A line two, you're on the air. Hello, line too.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Line two is not really paying attention. We'll do one more,
only one more of it's good. I'll take credit. If not,
I'll blame the coop. Final call incident of ice line
for Jerry Jones.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
Line six.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
Line six, you're on the airline six. Go oh, Line six,
bad job by line six
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