July 30, 2025 • 51 mins
Big Ben talks about Micah Parsons being "further away from a deal" now than he was back in late March, Trey Hendrickson returning to Bengals camp, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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yet again from a contract stalemate in Auxnard, California's The
Obligatory Mallard monologue about the tense negotiation between Jerry Jones
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and Micah Parsons. More chatter from Jerry's world. So if
you've not heard the latest, maybe not. We're hearing things
are going the wrong direction. The plot thickens now, the
gap is widening. Gotta watched the gap. Also the spawn
of Jerry, That would be Stephen Jones keeping up with
(02:24):
the Jones. So Stephen Jones, he's the guy that won
the Genek lottery and was born into great wealth and
has not had to earn any job. He's gotten because
he has the right last name and the right DNA,
much like Bronnie James. So Stephen Jones claims the Cowboys
the NEPO baby Stephen Jones claims the Cowboys don't drag
(02:44):
their feet on contract negotiations, as he snickered. So let
us discuss the question for the esteem panel. So Edge
Rusher Micah Parsons said to be further away from a deal,
further away from a deal with the Cowboys today, further
away from a deal with the Cowboys right now then
(03:08):
he was back in late March. So give me your reaction.
So I've got Frankenstein, Austin powers and underlying issue, and
we will combine all of these things together, and we
are going to say calabunga dude, all right, because when
you're riding the tsunami, you gotta say calabungadoo. So my reaction,
(03:32):
a my reaction is, you know what this is. This
is old man engagement farming. That's it. That's my hypothesis.
It's old man engagement farming. This is a billionaire owner
who's been around since the nineteen eighties as an NFL owner.
He's not doing the TikTok. He doesn't know TikTok from
(03:54):
a toaster. Jerry Jones. He doesn't use Instagram, and he's
too old even for Facebook. You're not on there. He
doesn't give a damn about X. He's still reading those
old newspapers and he's using a flip phone and all that,
and that's how he lives his life. But he does
know how to stir the pot. He loves to stir
(04:15):
the pot right vague references and press conferences, BS flowing,
a soliloquy of BS there, and he knows how to
keep people engaged and the tension starved Dallas faithful, foaming
at the mouth and reacting even though Jerry's been doing
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this for two generations now, two generations and people still react.
It's wild. Now, why is that? Because Jerry Jones. After
a minutes long mall Or investigation, we determine Jerry Jones
does not run the Cowboys like a football team. He
runs it like he's doing a Vegas residency. He might
as well be carat top. But in this case, Jerry,
(05:00):
he is Frankenstein. When it comes to owners. He's equal
parts P. T. Barnum and Vince McMahon. If you combine
them together. They had a baby, which is very odd
because Jerry's older than them, but still just go with it. Well,
not P. T. Barnum but Vince McMahon. So Jerry wakes up.
(05:20):
I'm convinced in very expensive sheets every morning, and he
asked himself, how can I, Jerry Jones hijack the NFL
news cycle today? What can I Jerry Jones do to
get everyone running around? And so today's story is further
away from a deal than back in March. Now, Pollie,
(05:41):
that is not a negotiation problem. That is a script line.
Is what that is. That's in the script is what
it is. And Jerry's sitting in his yacht somewhere off
the coast of Aux Gard there, and he's got his
bottle of Johnny Walker blue and he's whispering sweet nothings
in the night right now and saying, you know, y'all,
(06:03):
uh really fire up the social media there. I'm gonna
fire him up right now. Here's what I'm gonna do.
You just wait and see. He's not worried. Even Michael
Parsons said I'm never playing again and retiring, Jerry wouldn't
be concerned. And we know that these negotiations, whether it's
the Cowboys or eybody else, it doesn't get serious until there's
a countdown clock. Because what happens T T Dick eventually
(06:29):
boom right, gotta see all the cowboy fanboys in the media,
the people that freak out Steven A. Smith, those those
guys having veins bursting from their neck. And that's when
Jerry's happy. And so Jerry didn't forget to pay anybody.
And uh, as far as the calary, the salary cap
space or Calgary space, the salary cap space, you know,
(06:53):
it's about staying relevant. That's really what this is about.
And Jerry Jones knows the only thing worse than bad press,
no press and no internet coverage and all that stuff.
And secondly, the cowboy fans right, stop chanting pay Micah.
Jerry's got them to chant that louder there. The second though,
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they stop calling into sports radio and posting things online.
And Jerry, you go on the YouTube there and then
the moment that you don't see Jerry Jones boattox face
on the YouTube, you know that that's when he panics.
That's when the panic sets and he's like, oh man,
oh whoa. In the meantime, he's just tossing logs on
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the fire. You know, you got to keep the logs
on the fire and keep the fire burning. And that's
what you do. And you know some of you don't
like it, and you send me what do you always
talk about the Cowboys? I don't know, because people seem
to engage it. We have the data. If you stop
listening when I talk about the Cowboys, you stop downloading
the podcast and listening to the streams on iHeart and
all that. I'll move on. But it's a good formut
(07:59):
so Jerry's the choreography on the Drama ol Rama. The
script does not end until Jerry Jones says cut. And
I maintained my long standing position that all of this
will come down to right before the kickoff of the
NFL season, and on those NFL pregame shows, which are
archaic at this point with the age of the Internet,
(08:22):
it's just a chuckle fest. It's like going to the improv, nonetheless,
and I love going to the improv, don't get me wrong.
I just don't need to see a bunch of ex
jocks in their sixties chanting and laughing on television anyway. Nonetheless,
they'll get done at the very last second, Jay Glazer,
this show just didn't There's a deal done all right now. Meanwhile,
we go to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Follow up, follow.
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Up, Alert, follow up alert. You might remember in a
previous episode of the show, we told you about a
fireworks extravaganza that went back.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Well.
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Charges coach Jim Harbaugh has given us a status update
on the running back who did not play was safe
insane fireworks? Well, it's not good running back Najie Harris,
Nasei Harris of the Chargers. Now, I used to be
with the Steelers running back Naji Harris. He's got a
(09:12):
really messed up by like some of the stuff I've heard,
if it's true, really bad. He still does not have
a timeline Naji Harris on when he will actually practice.
Not a guy. Not a guy. We talked about practice,
so he hadn't practiced yet because you can't see. And
(09:35):
it's not blind football. I bet your Stevie Meatballs could
run the football, or blind Scott or blind Emmett the
Seahawks fan or ink of Terror. The Chargers want a
running back, they can bring those guys in, all right,
So what are your thoughts on this development? Jim Harbaugh
saying that that Naji Harris still does not have any
timeline to practice, all right. So first off, this is
(09:57):
exactly why you you would have listened to our public
service announcement, never ever trust anything ah and say, or
for that matter, coaches. We know not to trust politicians.
But this is this is different. This is sports. So Frostburg,
who works on the Jason Smith Show with the Great
(10:18):
Mike Harmon Harmon in here in the big chair, and
I saw Frostburg in the hallway. He's like, I'm going
off to Canton because he travels with the Chargers and
they're going to be playing in the Hall of Fame game.
And so that game's coming up on Thursday. So it's
we're just like, I believe it's on Thursday. So it's
a couple days away, the Hall of Fame game, I believe.
(10:40):
And anyway, so they're going there, and and so they're
about to begin exhibition games, the Chargers, and Najie Harris
hasn't practiced yet, right, but these ages I go, they'll
tell you all that my guy runs a four three forty. Yeah,
and he can actually levitate like in the Bible. Yeah,
and he can turn water to wine. You can do
all those things, yeah, absolutely, Okay. And then in this case,
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well it's just a little scratch or anything like the
minor incident. Yeah, just like a little flick or fleck
of debris that got in the eye. Yeah, then if
that's the case, why is Jim Harball of all people,
not exactly mister transparency if you followed him with the
Niners in Michigan over the years, telling reporters there is
(11:25):
still no timeline. There is no timeline. Now if a
player misses this much time, there's a good amount of time.
Can we still say it's a superficial injury because that's
what they said, right, It ain't superficient. Obviously, it's not superficial.
You don't have to be a doctor to know it's
not superficial. You don't miss multiple weeks of training camp
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unless your eyeball or in this case, Najie Harris eyeball
most likely looks like he lost a street fight to
a bottle rocket at this particular point. Unfortunately, and let's
not ignore the larger picture here, because we take a
couple of steps back, Nase is already on thin ice.
He didn't get a long term contract with the Chargers.
(12:13):
He did not. He was underwhelming, certainly underwhelming with the
Steelers that the tenure there was not good. So change
the scenery guy, fresh start and if you look at
his body of work, Naji Harris, you watch the clips
of Nase, what kind of runner is he? So if
you like the three yard dive, play checks that box
(12:35):
force touches, just awkward, no separation, no long runs, that's
your guy. So now he's in LA with the Chargers.
It's probably his last best opportunity to be a running
back one. If he screws this up, he can get
out of job somewhere. It's not going to really be
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legit like a legit opportunity. And so now if this
is accurate that the the eye is completely messed up.
And so now he's like one of doctor Evils henchmen.
I think it was number two from the Austin Powers
trilogy there. And he's gonna have to wear an eyepatch
or something like that. And which is I guess the
case this is going? The way it's going, it sounds
(13:17):
that way is really mis messed up. Either way, even
if he comes back in plays, this is going to
be a public service announcement right around the fourth or
July from NFL Productions NFL Films. Hi, my name Isndre Harris.
You might remember me. I used to play for the
Pittsburgh Steelers, and they went out to the Chargers there
and I blew my eye out. My career with the
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Chargers literally ended by playing with fireworks. Don't be like me,
the PSA right light, sparkler safe, insane. Do not light
your retina on fire. Do not light your retina. I know,
I hopefully NA. She's all right. It does not sound
like it's going very well. And the lesson I learned
(14:01):
working in radio is that we're all replaceable, very replaceable.
So it's certainly running backs in football are easily replaced.
Right now, last word to the Valley of the Sun,
a long standing nemesis, we have been victorious in our
battle with alligator arms. Murray the quarterback there, the pint
size quarterback of the fledgling Arizona football team. So Cardinals
(14:25):
quarterback Kyler Murray announced recently that his knee is as
close as it's going to get to full strength. His
little knee there. He had acl surgery's recovered from that.
So is this a big deal, a little deal, or
you know, no deal? All right, So you're probably thinking,
(14:47):
I'm gonna say it's a little deal because he's a
little quarterback I'm not gonna say that that's too easy.
That's too easy. I'm gonna go on my scorecard. I
wrote down a meh deal because Kyler Murray is a
meh quarterback. That's the kind of quarterback games. Good old
alligator arms Murray, Good old alligator arms Murray. Right, and listen,
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we know training camp is not like real football. It's
gone softer and softer and softer over the years, so
it's not real. It's not real football. You know, nobody's
trying to rip your head off. And if you're playing
quarterback like Kyler Murray, you don't have to worry about
looking down at Jared Verse of the Rams trying to
rip your head off, and you know, jump jump down
(15:29):
your throat. So it's essentially summer school in pads. That's
what this is. And so let's see how the knee
holds up, the little knee and when the real Wolves
are out there in week one of the regular season
in September. Now, the underlying issue here, the underlying issue
is not the ACL. It's the a cl What a
(15:52):
crumbling legacy, that's the ACL. A crumbling legacy for Kyler Murray.
Now we have been on top of this story for
some time. Right, we've seen this. Now you got paid,
so good for him. He got the money. But in
terms of just pure football, Kyler Murray every year, I'll
tell you, Scot he comes out every year like a
(16:12):
bottle rocket. Right. I I don't want to if nag
he's upsetting listening. I don't want up staying. But he
comes out like a Kyler Murray, like a bottle rocket.
And then what happens. He fizzles out. He fizzles out.
He's not Mighty Mouse. He's not Mighty Mouse. He's just
a mouse. That's it. He's a little pint sized, jittery
(16:33):
shoulder pad wearing video game obsessed rodent. That's what he
is right there, right, and in the alligator arms. You
look at his career arc at this point, and the
same thing. He'll come out in November like game Busters,
or in September and October like game Busters. Then we
(16:53):
get to it's about November, sometime in November, usually about
mid November, that good fall weather settles in and all
that stuff. And at that point, at that point, Kyler
needs a juice box and a nap. Somebody get him
a juice box. Can we cook him up. We don't
have any all right, fortunate listen, Arizona. They're idiots. They
(17:15):
gave this guy a quarter of a billion dollars. Nobody
told them to do that, they did, so hey, enjoy this.
They immediately had buyer's remorse when they signed him to
the contract. They immediately wanted to go a different direction.
And so they have a quarterback who cannot handle the rigors.
Much like the scouting report before he came into the NFL,
not going to be able to put up with the
(17:36):
violence of the NFL over a full season. And that
has been proven correct, right, So, and also it's not great.
The locker room doesn't believe in him. They know what
they got middling results from alligator arms Murray, right, and
you tell me that's my franchise quarterback, my franchise quarterback.
So the only franchise that Kyler Murray at this point
(17:59):
after years in the NFL, the only franchise I believe
he could carry is a Chick fil A. Now, the
reason I believe that he could carry a Chick fil
A is because they're not open on Sunday, so I
think he'd being good.
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lead this hour is from Ohio, not Kentucky, even though
the airport for the city of Cincinnati is in Kentucky. No, no, no,
(20:48):
you can't say no. You can't say northern Kentucky, Ohio.
It's from Ohio. So it's about the ben Gals. That's
a football team, not a great one. So if you
haven't heard the latest 's on this stories we talk
about the news of the day. This continues to be
a developing story. So we've learned now that Trey Hendrickson,
the storm pass rusher for the Cincinnati football team, Trey
(21:11):
Hendrickson is planning to report to the Bengals today today
He's going to show up, thus ending his holdout and
transitioning not that kind of transitioning into a hold in.
That's right, a holding apparently not any closer to a deal.
It's not like there's some kind of agreement in place. Now.
(21:33):
The reporting says that by showing up to camp, Trey Hendrickson,
the key part of this will stop getting fifty thousand
dollars a day finds chi Ching Chiching. So now, based
on the narrative. I always loved the narrative. I was like, well,
who's leaking the story? Where'd the story come from? So
the story that's being passed on to the messenger pigeons,
(21:57):
otherwise know as the useful idiots in the media. The
story is that it's a good faith gesture. It's a
good faith gesture by Trey Hendrickson, and it will try
to jump start negotiations that he is the bigger man.
So let us discuss the question, Trey Hendrickson, who can
(22:20):
be yours if the price is right? Trey Hendrickson returning
to the ben Gals going to Cincinnati's camp. Is this
a good faith gesture as it is being reported? How
do you read into this one? So I've got Saint
Poppy Van Winkle and huntingmooners, and we will combine all
(22:41):
of these things together, and we are going to put
the biscuit in the basket. Is what we're going to do.
So number I said, number, number, number, So all of
this is alt rock, old school alt rock. Little miss
(23:03):
can't be wrong, little miss camp be wrong. You know
the spin doctors. But if you're old, you know who
that is. It's a good faith gesture. That's the way
it's being reported. That's a good faith test. It's cute,
you think the way it's being reported that Hendrickson when
he shows up to Bengals camp, he's going to walk
into Zach Taylor's office there with a Hallmark card and say,
(23:25):
let's make a deal. It's not you, it's me, and
I'm back, and you know it's all good. No, the
reason he is showing up, and I don't blame him.
I'm not ripping Trey Hendrickson. The reason he's showing up
is he's getting dinged fifty g's a day. Fifty grand
a day. Now, i'd like to make enough money. I
(23:47):
know I won't do it here, but I'd like to
make enough money where you can be fined fifty grand
a day. That would be great, That would be wonder
you'n afford it. So this is not, oh, you're being
a cynical talk shows. This is not some kind of gesture. Okay,
this is math. Is what it is, right, good faith.
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I love that they're reporting good faith. That's so so wonderful. Right,
it's more like a good luck on having to pay
my bills because everything's been budgeted and all that and
I've got an American Express bill I got to take
care of and five miss days. You can do the math.
That's my math is correct. That's two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars that this guy has lost. Might be even
(24:32):
more than that, but at this particular rate, if I'm
advising Trey Hendrickson, okay, I say, well, why not just
go into the Bengals facility and light your cigar with
you know, the one hundred dollars bills And just because
you're burning money is what you're doing. You're not going
to get that money back, and so good luck. So
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he got dragged into Camp Hendrickson buy his wallet. And
again the spin Benny mc spinn spending like a dradle
is that he is the patron saint, that he's doing
the things the right way, Trey Hendrickson, and he wants
to be the leader, and he's the bigger man. He's
trying to restart the conversation. Ix nay on the narrative.
(25:17):
This obviously came from Trey Hendrickson. We always like to
look at the well, not from him directly, but from
the people around him who leaked the story. Why would
the Beangals say that. Bengals wouldn't say that, well, you're
the bigger man. No, they're gonna say, we're the bigger
you know, we want to offer you a fair deal.
You don't want to take the deal, That's what they're
gonna say. So it's pee what stings kind of like
(25:38):
that sweaty sock thing in the locker room. That's what
it smells like, dirty socks. So again he's showing up
because the way the rules are in the NFL and
the CBA, they have taken the balls off of the holdout.
There's no real leverage there other than losing money. Like
a lunatic to get fined fifty thousand dollars a day,
So losing fifty grand a day, that's a mandatory. There
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is no waiver on that. There used to be a waiver,
so it is who cares toll just wave it at
the end. There there's no forgiveness none whatsoever. That is
the new normal, of course, been that way for years.
It's not twenty fourteen anymore, it's twenty twenty five, and
so there's no opportunity, there's no work around on that.
So Hendrickson in the game of chicken. He blinked, blinky, blinky, blinky.
(26:24):
He blinked, plain and simple, you know it. He blinked.
And so we're supposed to believe that he's doing the
team some kind of great mitzvah here. Yeah, So he
is under contract for I don't know how he's going
to pay his bills at sixteen million dollars. I think
we should help him out somehow. So what this means
is the Bengals are going to continue to do things
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the Bengals do, because why would they change the Bengals.
So they're going to slow play this much like a
previous hour we talked about in a previous hour of
this show, we talked about Jerry Jones, who slow plays everything. Well,
the Bengals will do the same thing. And the only
one really sweating here is Trey Hendrickson. So I know
there's dumb people that fall for everything, but I would
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advise you if you think that's legit, that he's the
bigger man. He's showing up because he wants to get
a deal done and that's why he's No. It's not
good faith again, it's called I'm tired of bleeding money.
It's a lot of money. So you hold out, you
pay and that's the cost. And so he wants a
(27:26):
new deal. But right now he's showing up because he's
trying to stop the hemorrhagery of Green, not blood Green.
That's it.
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Page two we go to Motown, Motown Blues we go
and that's where the Lions who have been on the
brink of a big breakthrough that were in the NFC
Championship game, something that had never happened in my life.
They were there a couple of years back, and now
they have the seal of approval from Chucky. That's right,
(27:55):
John Gruden, we talked about this a little bit yesterday,
John Gruden visiting Detroit training came. So there's another gem
from John Gruden. Not only did he sing the praises
of the Lions, he also compared Jared Goff, the Detroit quarterback,
to Joe Montana. Do you see this? He used the
comp that golf in Montana are similar. So how does
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that sound to you? How does that one sound to you?
So I'll go first here because I have a microphone
on wet headphone, so I'll get to go first. So
I love that John Gruden strolled in to the Lions
training camp there, and it's like he had the banana
in the in his tailpipe, like he was back on
Monday Night Football back in the day. Anything John Gruden
(28:40):
says about quarterbacks you take with a grain of salt,
just a little grain of salt. This is the same
John Grud, if I'm not mistaken, who once had a
love affair with Nathan Peterman. Remember that, Yeah, that's right, Nah, Yes,
Nathan Peterman who famously tossed not one, not two, not
three and o four five interceptions in one half of
(29:01):
a regular season NFL game. You're talking about unbreakable records.
Five interceptions in one half of an NFL game, and
John Gruden was out there. You would have thought Peterman
was God's gift to the quarterback position. Cruden always treats
every quarterback like he's unwrapping. And we know Gruden loves
to unwrap stuff because that's all he does at that
(29:23):
barstool thing. He unrest my Uh, some of my friends
send me videos of John Gruden just getting boxes and
boxes of free crap to unwrap. He's acting like that
kid on YouTube that gets paid just to open stuff. Anyway,
He's like he's unwrapping a like a vintage bottle of
Pappy van Winkle, the you know, the bourbon whiskey, very
expensive there, and he's holding it up, and then you really, well, John,
(29:45):
that's actually not that's not what it's actually like a
warm can of bud light. Well no, but John's holding
it up like it's this amazing thing. But every man, woman,
and child who pays any attention, any attention, knows when
it comes to Jared Goff, do I even need to
go here? Like Jared Gouff's not Joe Montana, Like Jared
Goff's not even qualified to be Joe Montana's mechanic at
this particular point in time. You know what Jared Goff is.
(30:08):
He's better than I thought. I'll say that. When he
first started, I didn't think he was very good. Now
I think he's this generation's Alex Smith. He's this generation's
Alex Smith. He's relatively safe outside of the big moment
because he'll choke. He's relatively safe. He's somewhat reliable against
subpar or average competition, but he's never really spectacular. He's
(30:30):
never really spectacular. And this guy, this guy, if you
spoon feed him the playbook. He'll get you some touchdowns
and whatnot, and you tell him what to do and
where to throw the ball and all that, and just
don't tell him to throw deep, because if you tell
him to throw deep, he can't do it. He'll throw
it short and throw it short, and he'll check down
action from Jared Goff there, check down Charlie, and then
(30:52):
of course he'll look like he just solved a Rubric's
cube because he just checked down. And the thing about
Golf is he's he doesn't elevate a team like that's
the point of demarcation for quarterbacks. Do you elevate your
your teammates? And Golf doesn't. Just that's the way that
(31:13):
we're talking about guy. Everything around him is pristine. You've
got good players, a random good coaching. Fine. Golf's like
a child, like a little kid that won't eat unless
you cut the crust off the bread. You know, we've
all been there, right. Normally we grow out of that.
You know, they's said a lot of uncrustables, so I
guess we don't grow out of it anyway. John Gruden though,
(31:35):
the master, the master over the years of football gas lighting.
It's great, So It's an odd thing because Gruden is
suing the NFL. It's getting bounced around the court system
the lawsuit from Gruden. Yet at the same time he's
supposed to be persona non grata because he's emails gunn
(31:56):
On he sends some things you're not supposed to say,
and he said, you know, you hit every ism possible
and all that. So he got banned from polite society.
But yet he shows up all over the place like
the NFL. Like the people that coach in the NFL,
they don't have a problem with John Gruden. It's like
it's at a higher level. They have a problem with you,
like Gruden's How many teams has Gruden shown up to
(32:17):
and been part of training camp? Saints, Lions, a couple
others too, Ravens. I think he shut up with the Ravens.
I'm probably missing some. But he still talks wax poetic
about the The Spider too. Why Banana? He talks about
it like it's the Dead Sea scrolls and you believe it.
(32:39):
When he starts yapping, he's like going on, na Spider too,
Why Banana? And you know, okay, thank you John. And
so he's not really like when it comes to quarterbacks,
Gruten's not really analyzing the quarterbacks and all that. He's like,
it's like he's trying to sell you on a time share,
and it's not a place you want a timeshare, you know.
It's like you don't really go overybody. He's like, Oh,
(32:59):
this is really good. Ah yeah, I got a really
good breakfast. The eggs are amazing. The eggs, Benedict are
so good. My god. So he's in many ways. One
of my favorite all time quotes is from a guy
named W. C. Fields get a street named after him
in la early Hollywood vaudeville comedian actor. And his quote was,
(33:21):
if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with
bull Pucky. We'll clean that up with Bullpucky. And so
Joe Montana is a like a Ferrari, an old Ferrari,
but it's still a Ferrari. And then you got Jared
Goff is like a Honda Accord. Now more people buy
Honda Accords than ferraris. You'll see more Honda Accords on
(33:43):
the road than you will the Ferrari because they're cheaper
and and that's why they is a final point we
go to La and Jared Goff's old team Rams. You're
gonna ram it all day, you can ram it all night.
Now Rams coach Sean McVay has been given a new
label by DeVante Adams. He said, Sean McVay is a
quote mastermind. Ooh, mastermind. So that is the quote there
(34:10):
during preseason practice is Adams going on and on, slobbering
all over the Rams coach talking about the college like camaraderie,
the RAM facility, the organiza, Sean saying he's being rejuvenated.
That's been rejuvenated. So DeVante Adams will sum it up
like this, calling Sean McVay a mastermind is blank fill
(34:34):
in the blank. So I love Sean McVay. My word
is going to be blasphemy though, and the word I'm
using blasphemy because it's really a shot at the Raiders
more than anything. Like he's praising he's praising his coach.
At the same time, he's really saying how bad it
was with the Raiders because that was the team he
(34:54):
went to training camp with when he was in Vegas
for the last couple of years and he finished with
the Jets last year. But it's really just taking a
so you're like a Raider fan. That's blasphemy. But my
other word would be huntingmooners. That would be my other
word here because as in orgo the hunting moon period.
You know, like when you start a new job and
it's exciting and you're fired up, and yeah, you think,
(35:18):
oh man, I'm gonna rise up in the company and
they're gonna pay a lot of money and all this stuff,
and it's gonna be that I'm gonna run the whole company.
And then you realize someday they'll never do that. But
but the honey moon period, you don't. You don't get
to that point. At the honeymoon period, you're like everything's great.
You're seeing rainbows and you're dreaming of lollipops and there's
a unicorn over there, and you know, John Gruden, what
(35:38):
I think Gruden's good? Do I think he's Einstein? I
don't think he's Einstein. I don't think he's Einstein On
a headsets Is he one of the top three coaches
in the NFL? Absolutely? Absolutely right? But right now with
the ramsay and with DeVante Adams, he's like a on
a college campus at ram practice there and it's it's kumbaya.
It's all good, and it's gets some isawass and we're
(36:01):
on our way. And I think I've been to training
camp over the years. At this point, there's a lot
of grab ass, a lot of grab ass on the
practice field, and they use the words all those words culture, energy, loved.
Every team uses the same verbiage every team they talk
about culture and energy. So it's giving a motivational pep
talk and all that stuff. But soon enough, the test drive,
(36:25):
the test drive turns into race day, and on race
day that is when the rubber meets the road and
you start seeing some cracks and the tires and all
that stuff. Now, Devonte Adams, at this point, I'm not convinced, right,
Davonte Adams, he's doing a high wire act at this point.
I'll believe it when I see it. And even if
he gets off to a good start, I got to
(36:45):
see it over the full season, right, because he's walking
in cleats on a high wire, tiptoeing over a pit
of vipers, a pit of vipers that are being fed
daily by father time he's crossed that thirty mark, I
think he's I believe he's thirty one now, could be
thirty two Devonte Adams. But that cliff for NFL receivers.
(37:09):
The thing about the cliff for NFL receivers, it comes
very fast and there's no warning, Like you know, right now,
there's a big tsunami warning supposed to the tsunami is
going to hit the West coast here in less than
an hour. As we're doing this in real time, and
there's a warning, there's warnings I expected to hit here
and coming up and you know, less than an hour. People,
you know, some people think, oh my god, it could
(37:31):
be brutal. To other people like this is ridiculous, nothing going,
nothing can happen. There's warning, there's warning, that's my point.
And there's no warning when a receiver just completely loses it.
Like one second you're a game changer, you're making big plays,
and the next you're in a desert and you're like,
what happened. I don't understand what happened? I don't know,
(37:51):
So I get it. DeVante wants to believe, and I'd
love for him to be wonderful. I know pookin the
Coup is going to be good. I don't know about Davante.
I'm in a show me state of mind. I got
to see you. You got to show me. I need
to believe in you, So you got to show me
what you can do, impress me, and we'll see what happens.
We get to the later part of November and going
to December, and when your hamstring start barking and you're
(38:15):
down in the fourth quarter against the divisional opponent and
you can't get separation off the line anymore. And you
got Sean McVay over there, who's a genius, and he's
holding a bag of icy hot and he's got some
essential oils and he hands it to you, and there's
a there's a gift package. It's got the pharmacy great ibuprofen,
all that right there.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
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Speaker 4 (38:42):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
I said, how about I said, here we go go?
Quote out gout, gout go.
Speaker 8 (38:53):
Well, you talked about him earlier. John Grudden, who was
at Lions camp as a consultant, told reporters that hopefully
he's not done coaching and that he's about to make
a comeback. Yeah, Ben, will it be in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Well, anything's probably, but Donald Trump's back as president, anything's possible, right,
And it is conceivable, Cruden said, we talked about this
in yesterday show. He's depending on a friend in one
of his coaching buddies to hire him. He's suing the NFL,
So until that's dropped, I don't see him getting a job.
But yet, Brian Flores has a job, and he's also
part of a lawsuit against the NFL, So I'd say
(39:24):
there's a fifteen percent chance Cruden returned next.
Speaker 8 (39:28):
And it's being suggested that forty nine Ers head coach
Kyle Shanahan could be on the hot seat this upcoming season.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Ben, do you think that's true? Uh? Well yeah, I
mean Shanahan might just leave because there were rumors he
wanted the Bears job and that he had put some
feelers out. So yeah, it brock Purty sucks. I could
see him leaving next.
Speaker 8 (39:45):
Charles Barkley was recently asked which teams he thinks has
the best had the best offseason in the NBA. Barkley
singled out the Nuggets and the Rockets.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Is he right, Well, no, it's the Clippers. They got
Bradley Beale. They got Chris Paul a couple of legends
added to the clip show. So that's the answer. That's it.
You failed this a way. That's a win. Larey, he
met fail is the new win in twenty twenty five.
That's a win by me. I won winner, I won
for dog. Put that on my board.
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That's right, you heard the man. It's time for love
here on the Ben Mallors Show. And this this has
been cracked quite the week. Okay, online dating is getting
scary out there.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
And if you're trek, what happened I missed something?
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Well.
Speaker 9 (40:50):
I have a friend and I went out to dinner
with him this week and he has been on a
baby daddy baby mama online dating thing. So if you
have kids, it's for you to go and meet someone right. Well,
the girl he was talking to said she wasn't with
her husband anymore. He found her phone and he started
sending like death threats. I know where you work, I
know you're kids. Watch me beat you into the ground house.
(41:12):
Leave my wife alone. And he's an innocent party in this.
He's like, I didn't even meet up with her yet.
So be very careful, especially when you're dealing with people
who have kids, significant others. You're gonna you're getting people
in trouble out here.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Think about that. I was just laughing because Douglas in
Mississippi said when he was a kid, his mom used
to call all the neighborhood kids the D word, and
he said none of us had any idea what it meant.
Speaker 4 (41:41):
Crazy.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
This is so funny, Like, uh, I just I just
imagine all the neighborhoo was your mom called?
Speaker 2 (41:48):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (41:48):
Even?
Speaker 8 (41:49):
I wonder we were laughing about.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Oh no, I was that just the visual of being like,
you know, a neighborhood kid and you're some mom's calling
you that. Yeah, let's see what do we have about
ferd Dog says, what does it say about women? A
woman if she owns a green sex toy? Is she
into aliens?
Speaker 8 (42:07):
Well?
Speaker 10 (42:07):
You know it's funny because I do have different toys
like that.
Speaker 9 (42:10):
They have ones that are in the shape of like aliens,
like slime arms, and they have alien tongues and alien
tails like. You can find all sorts of different toys,
and actually, I think the funner the better. Think about
how interesting your playdates could be with these.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Women have a different color every day, you are different
games the rainbow all right. For some reason, Josh just
sent photos of himself, Loren. I guess he's well, I
don't think he wants me to look at that.
Speaker 9 (42:38):
Maybe he's wanting to make a dating profile. Do you
think those are good photos for his dating profile?
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Yeah, it seems so fine. I don't. I don't think
he wants my opinion, Ben, so keep on. I'm good Shane,
and de Mones says, which of these two terms would
you rather be called? Lorena, ma'am or miss? Been yelled
at for calling a woman both in my.
Speaker 9 (42:59):
Life, So yeah, it's funny. Girls are really weirried about that.
I prefer miss over ma'am because ma'am is old and
I'm not old. I look very young, so I know.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
You really don't want to be called a bashka. That's
when you read the old lady that's like a European grandma.
Let's go to she makes a mean a great meat loaf.
Let's go to Josh in Orlando. You're on with Lorena.
It's the Queen of Hearts. It's going on Josh.
Speaker 11 (43:28):
Hey guys, good morning. All right. So I know this
is a fun segment, but it's actually a legit serious call.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
So I was the one.
Speaker 11 (43:35):
I was the one that just on the pictures. So
Lorena can get an idea. Oh, I've been online, off
and on online for the last five years. I know
obviously it's definition of me Kennedy expecting something, you know,
different outcome. But what is it with women? Why can't
women respond? Or why is it that when you like
a certain type of women, those women don't like you,
(43:56):
But you get these slump busters.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
I like you, and how do you You know?
Speaker 9 (44:01):
It's the law of attraction and you got to keep
on working at it because you're gonna hit a whole
bunch of missuses.
Speaker 10 (44:05):
You said, you've been doing this for five years. It's
maybe maybe mix it with going out at the same time.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11 (44:15):
People don't do that. These days and you can do
do you not do that?
Speaker 10 (44:19):
There's a difference because people do go out all the
time in Orlando.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
There's gonna be some bars and go to Orlando's why,
you guys, what's the problem is it's a tourist town.
So you could probably do very well with the tourists there, Josh.
Speaker 8 (44:30):
But then you see what it's saying there.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
But then families quick hit, I don't know, hit and
run up dump Now, Josh, you're fine, man, you look good.
I'm sure there's women out there. Would you know, you'll
be fine, You'll.
Speaker 8 (44:42):
Find the right one.
Speaker 10 (44:43):
And if you don't, then maybe you are meant to
be a bachelor in Paradise.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Or go to the Ukraine or Russia or wherever.
Speaker 5 (44:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Let's go to c J.
Speaker 4 (44:54):
What's going on? CJ?
Speaker 1 (44:57):
CJ is there? C J, he's there, He's on hold.
I don't hear CJ. He just gone JT the wingman,
Oh there you go. I guess that line died, says
am I. The only person that thinks that the gift
of hatch Chili's is a gift of love for your partner.
Speaker 10 (45:14):
I've never had a hatch chili. Are they spicy?
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Yeah, well it looks they looks spicy. I've never heard.
I mean, I don't know that was a thing. I
had no idea.
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Speaker 1 (45:40):
What it's time to that for pastor. I did want
to mention the Bears head coach Ben Johnson. He gave
a bold warning about Caleb Williams. We'll see about that,
see about that one. Not so sure? Not so sure,
but Ben Ben Johnson pumping the tires on Kyla Wolves. Well,
let's get to the game right now. Let's welcome in
our contestants from Sin City. We say hello to Slug.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
Hello Slugs, buddy. But I know we're going to do
this right.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
We'll pick a We'll pick a weekend in August. Right,
anybody got in the open weekends in August?
Speaker 10 (46:13):
Isn't it already August?
Speaker 8 (46:14):
Well, no, it's not yet, but the last two weekends
work for me.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
All Right, we'll do one of the last. I think
I'll check my schedule. I think we'll do Saturday. Is
that good? It does work for me too, Slug Saturday.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
That works for me.
Speaker 11 (46:27):
I sent you the weekends. I can do it. Otherwise,
they got my kids, so I got it.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
We want the kid. The kid does not want to
hang out with mouthwash Mike. That's definitely yeah, all right,
So who do you want to partner up with? Slug?
That's right, all right, And Felexus is going to play.
You wanted to play, right, Flexus?
Speaker 3 (46:44):
Yeah, I want to play.
Speaker 4 (46:45):
I'm on Coop, Okay.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Coop, good luck, I get the America's favorite drag queen.
Call it.
Speaker 4 (46:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
We have a list of words one to ten. Slug.
You were on the air first, our buddy from Vegas,
So please pick the number number eight. Number eight. All right,
let's go with make believe.
Speaker 4 (47:08):
Fantasy two words.
Speaker 8 (47:10):
No, it's a hyphenated word.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
It's hyphenated.
Speaker 8 (47:14):
All right, let's go with let's see uh Ben said
make believe. I'm gonna go with uh imaginary.
Speaker 11 (47:30):
Dreaming.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
What let's go with? How about let's go fake fake,
don't forgotten? Oh man, we were tap dancing around it.
Speaker 8 (47:48):
Okay, Uh, let's try let's try this one, Flexus, uh
made up?
Speaker 1 (47:57):
How about imaginary, don't fiction. All right, I'm gonna throw
it with siller word.
Speaker 10 (48:05):
All right, what's gonna be Michael?
Speaker 1 (48:06):
The word was pretend. Yeah, you weren't in close. Come on, flexes,
go ahead, pick a number, flexes, one to ten.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
Believe number one, number one, great.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Tribute to me. I appreciate that, thank you, thank you
very much.
Speaker 8 (48:26):
Okay, that's my ship. Flexus. Let's go with nation.
Speaker 9 (48:35):
Country.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Yeah, it's past word for idiots. Okay, go ahead, picking
number two to ten, but not eight. Sure, number four.
I kind of want to use the Mallet maneuver on
this one. You know the mala maneuver slug? Yes, all right,
(49:01):
here we go.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
Pose one more time? Sorry pose pose that sounds.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
That is not all right?
Speaker 8 (49:24):
Flexes, do you know the Mallard maneuver?
Speaker 5 (49:26):
Right?
Speaker 12 (49:29):
No, hold on, let me let me give you answer.
Speaker 8 (49:36):
You answer today, I'm gonna give you a hand.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
He answered it.
Speaker 4 (49:39):
No, he didn't.
Speaker 8 (49:40):
I didn't. I didn't give a clue. Yet it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (49:42):
Answer counts.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
He answered it.
Speaker 8 (49:45):
Come on, flex all right, here's my clue principles.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
Oh, come on, you don't even know who you're dealing with. School.
Speaker 10 (50:02):
Let's go with Okay, we got posts and principal.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Okay, business, come on, god on, all right, all right? Flexes?
Speaker 12 (50:17):
One more one here, one more flex forget the melody?
Why are we forget the mellor maneuver flexes. I'm gonna
give you this, the normal clue. Oh my god, workplace,
you do understand. He's never been one of these things.
You understand, workplace.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
He doesn't know what it is?
Speaker 11 (50:37):
What where you work?
Speaker 1 (50:41):
O my god? All right?
Speaker 5 (50:46):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (50:47):
He's a The word was office post off as post
off ash, post off ash, go the post off ash.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
No, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
This is a Oh no, this is terrible. That's the
word your own losers. Everyone's dumber for listening to this.
That's the worst thing. Post office, post office
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yet again from a contract stalemate in Auxnard, California's The
Obligatory Mallard monologue about the tense negotiation between Jerry Jones
(02:03):
and Micah Parsons. More chatter from Jerry's world. So if
you've not heard the latest, maybe not. We're hearing things
are going the wrong direction. The plot thickens now, the
gap is widening. Gotta watched the gap. Also the spawn
of Jerry, That would be Stephen Jones keeping up with
(02:24):
the Jones. So Stephen Jones, he's the guy that won
the Genek lottery and was born into great wealth and
has not had to earn any job. He's gotten because
he has the right last name and the right DNA,
much like Bronnie James. So Stephen Jones claims the Cowboys
the NEPO baby Stephen Jones claims the Cowboys don't drag
(02:44):
their feet on contract negotiations, as he snickered. So let
us discuss the question for the esteem panel. So Edge
Rusher Micah Parsons said to be further away from a deal,
further away from a deal with the Cowboys today, further
away from a deal with the Cowboys right now then
(03:08):
he was back in late March. So give me your reaction.
So I've got Frankenstein, Austin powers and underlying issue, and
we will combine all of these things together, and we
are going to say calabunga dude, all right, because when
you're riding the tsunami, you gotta say calabungadoo. So my reaction,
(03:32):
a my reaction is, you know what this is. This
is old man engagement farming. That's it. That's my hypothesis.
It's old man engagement farming. This is a billionaire owner
who's been around since the nineteen eighties as an NFL owner.
He's not doing the TikTok. He doesn't know TikTok from
(03:54):
a toaster. Jerry Jones. He doesn't use Instagram, and he's
too old even for Facebook. You're not on there. He
doesn't give a damn about X. He's still reading those
old newspapers and he's using a flip phone and all that,
and that's how he lives his life. But he does
know how to stir the pot. He loves to stir
(04:15):
the pot right vague references and press conferences, BS flowing,
a soliloquy of BS there, and he knows how to
keep people engaged and the tension starved Dallas faithful, foaming
at the mouth and reacting even though Jerry's been doing
(04:37):
this for two generations now, two generations and people still react.
It's wild. Now, why is that? Because Jerry Jones. After
a minutes long mall Or investigation, we determine Jerry Jones
does not run the Cowboys like a football team. He
runs it like he's doing a Vegas residency. He might
as well be carat top. But in this case, Jerry,
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he is Frankenstein. When it comes to owners. He's equal
parts P. T. Barnum and Vince McMahon. If you combine
them together. They had a baby, which is very odd
because Jerry's older than them, but still just go with it. Well,
not P. T. Barnum but Vince McMahon. So Jerry wakes up.
(05:20):
I'm convinced in very expensive sheets every morning, and he
asked himself, how can I, Jerry Jones hijack the NFL
news cycle today? What can I Jerry Jones do to
get everyone running around? And so today's story is further
away from a deal than back in March. Now, Pollie,
(05:41):
that is not a negotiation problem. That is a script line.
Is what that is. That's in the script is what
it is. And Jerry's sitting in his yacht somewhere off
the coast of Aux Gard there, and he's got his
bottle of Johnny Walker blue and he's whispering sweet nothings
in the night right now and saying, you know, y'all,
(06:03):
uh really fire up the social media there. I'm gonna
fire him up right now. Here's what I'm gonna do.
You just wait and see. He's not worried. Even Michael
Parsons said I'm never playing again and retiring, Jerry wouldn't
be concerned. And we know that these negotiations, whether it's
the Cowboys or eybody else, it doesn't get serious until there's
a countdown clock. Because what happens T T Dick eventually
(06:29):
boom right, gotta see all the cowboy fanboys in the media,
the people that freak out Steven A. Smith, those those
guys having veins bursting from their neck. And that's when
Jerry's happy. And so Jerry didn't forget to pay anybody.
And uh, as far as the calary, the salary cap
space or Calgary space, the salary cap space, you know,
(06:53):
it's about staying relevant. That's really what this is about.
And Jerry Jones knows the only thing worse than bad press,
no press and no internet coverage and all that stuff.
And secondly, the cowboy fans right, stop chanting pay Micah.
Jerry's got them to chant that louder there. The second though,
(07:15):
they stop calling into sports radio and posting things online.
And Jerry, you go on the YouTube there and then
the moment that you don't see Jerry Jones boattox face
on the YouTube, you know that that's when he panics.
That's when the panic sets and he's like, oh man,
oh whoa. In the meantime, he's just tossing logs on
(07:37):
the fire. You know, you got to keep the logs
on the fire and keep the fire burning. And that's
what you do. And you know some of you don't
like it, and you send me what do you always
talk about the Cowboys? I don't know, because people seem
to engage it. We have the data. If you stop
listening when I talk about the Cowboys, you stop downloading
the podcast and listening to the streams on iHeart and
all that. I'll move on. But it's a good formut
(07:59):
so Jerry's the choreography on the Drama ol Rama. The
script does not end until Jerry Jones says cut. And
I maintained my long standing position that all of this
will come down to right before the kickoff of the
NFL season, and on those NFL pregame shows, which are
archaic at this point with the age of the Internet,
(08:22):
it's just a chuckle fest. It's like going to the improv, nonetheless,
and I love going to the improv, don't get me wrong.
I just don't need to see a bunch of ex
jocks in their sixties chanting and laughing on television anyway. Nonetheless,
they'll get done at the very last second, Jay Glazer,
this show just didn't There's a deal done all right now. Meanwhile,
we go to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Follow up, follow.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Up, Alert, follow up alert. You might remember in a
previous episode of the show, we told you about a
fireworks extravaganza that went back.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Well.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Charges coach Jim Harbaugh has given us a status update
on the running back who did not play was safe
insane fireworks? Well, it's not good running back Najie Harris,
Nasei Harris of the Chargers. Now, I used to be
with the Steelers running back Naji Harris. He's got a
(09:12):
really messed up by like some of the stuff I've heard,
if it's true, really bad. He still does not have
a timeline Naji Harris on when he will actually practice.
Not a guy. Not a guy. We talked about practice,
so he hadn't practiced yet because you can't see. And
(09:35):
it's not blind football. I bet your Stevie Meatballs could
run the football, or blind Scott or blind Emmett the
Seahawks fan or ink of Terror. The Chargers want a
running back, they can bring those guys in, all right,
So what are your thoughts on this development? Jim Harbaugh
saying that that Naji Harris still does not have any
timeline to practice, all right. So first off, this is
(09:57):
exactly why you you would have listened to our public
service announcement, never ever trust anything ah and say, or
for that matter, coaches. We know not to trust politicians.
But this is this is different. This is sports. So Frostburg,
who works on the Jason Smith Show with the Great
(10:18):
Mike Harmon Harmon in here in the big chair, and
I saw Frostburg in the hallway. He's like, I'm going
off to Canton because he travels with the Chargers and
they're going to be playing in the Hall of Fame game.
And so that game's coming up on Thursday. So it's
we're just like, I believe it's on Thursday. So it's
a couple days away, the Hall of Fame game, I believe.
(10:40):
And anyway, so they're going there, and and so they're
about to begin exhibition games, the Chargers, and Najie Harris
hasn't practiced yet, right, but these ages I go, they'll
tell you all that my guy runs a four three forty. Yeah,
and he can actually levitate like in the Bible. Yeah,
and he can turn water to wine. You can do
all those things, yeah, absolutely, Okay. And then in this case,
(11:04):
well it's just a little scratch or anything like the
minor incident. Yeah, just like a little flick or fleck
of debris that got in the eye. Yeah, then if
that's the case, why is Jim Harball of all people,
not exactly mister transparency if you followed him with the
Niners in Michigan over the years, telling reporters there is
(11:25):
still no timeline. There is no timeline. Now if a
player misses this much time, there's a good amount of time.
Can we still say it's a superficial injury because that's
what they said, right, It ain't superficient. Obviously, it's not superficial.
You don't have to be a doctor to know it's
not superficial. You don't miss multiple weeks of training camp
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unless your eyeball or in this case, Najie Harris eyeball
most likely looks like he lost a street fight to
a bottle rocket at this particular point. Unfortunately, and let's
not ignore the larger picture here, because we take a
couple of steps back, Nase is already on thin ice.
He didn't get a long term contract with the Chargers.
(12:13):
He did not. He was underwhelming, certainly underwhelming with the
Steelers that the tenure there was not good. So change
the scenery guy, fresh start and if you look at
his body of work, Naji Harris, you watch the clips
of Nase, what kind of runner is he? So if
you like the three yard dive, play checks that box
(12:35):
force touches, just awkward, no separation, no long runs, that's
your guy. So now he's in LA with the Chargers.
It's probably his last best opportunity to be a running
back one. If he screws this up, he can get
out of job somewhere. It's not going to really be
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legit like a legit opportunity. And so now if this
is accurate that the the eye is completely messed up.
And so now he's like one of doctor Evils henchmen.
I think it was number two from the Austin Powers
trilogy there. And he's gonna have to wear an eyepatch
or something like that. And which is I guess the
case this is going? The way it's going, it sounds
(13:17):
that way is really mis messed up. Either way, even
if he comes back in plays, this is going to
be a public service announcement right around the fourth or
July from NFL Productions NFL Films. Hi, my name Isndre Harris.
You might remember me. I used to play for the
Pittsburgh Steelers, and they went out to the Chargers there
and I blew my eye out. My career with the
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Chargers literally ended by playing with fireworks. Don't be like me,
the PSA right light, sparkler safe, insane. Do not light
your retina on fire. Do not light your retina. I know,
I hopefully NA. She's all right. It does not sound
like it's going very well. And the lesson I learned
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working in radio is that we're all replaceable, very replaceable.
So it's certainly running backs in football are easily replaced.
Right now, last word to the Valley of the Sun,
a long standing nemesis, we have been victorious in our
battle with alligator arms. Murray the quarterback there, the pint
size quarterback of the fledgling Arizona football team. So Cardinals
(14:25):
quarterback Kyler Murray announced recently that his knee is as
close as it's going to get to full strength. His
little knee there. He had acl surgery's recovered from that.
So is this a big deal, a little deal, or
you know, no deal? All right, So you're probably thinking,
(14:47):
I'm gonna say it's a little deal because he's a
little quarterback I'm not gonna say that that's too easy.
That's too easy. I'm gonna go on my scorecard. I
wrote down a meh deal because Kyler Murray is a
meh quarterback. That's the kind of quarterback games. Good old
alligator arms Murray, Good old alligator arms Murray. Right, and listen,
(15:07):
we know training camp is not like real football. It's
gone softer and softer and softer over the years, so
it's not real. It's not real football. You know, nobody's
trying to rip your head off. And if you're playing
quarterback like Kyler Murray, you don't have to worry about
looking down at Jared Verse of the Rams trying to
rip your head off, and you know, jump jump down
(15:29):
your throat. So it's essentially summer school in pads. That's
what this is. And so let's see how the knee
holds up, the little knee and when the real Wolves
are out there in week one of the regular season
in September. Now, the underlying issue here, the underlying issue
is not the ACL. It's the a cl What a
(15:52):
crumbling legacy, that's the ACL. A crumbling legacy for Kyler Murray.
Now we have been on top of this story for
some time. Right, we've seen this. Now you got paid,
so good for him. He got the money. But in
terms of just pure football, Kyler Murray every year, I'll
tell you, Scot he comes out every year like a
(16:12):
bottle rocket. Right. I I don't want to if nag
he's upsetting listening. I don't want up staying. But he
comes out like a Kyler Murray, like a bottle rocket.
And then what happens. He fizzles out. He fizzles out.
He's not Mighty Mouse. He's not Mighty Mouse. He's just
a mouse. That's it. He's a little pint sized, jittery
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shoulder pad wearing video game obsessed rodent. That's what he
is right there, right, and in the alligator arms. You
look at his career arc at this point, and the
same thing. He'll come out in November like game Busters,
or in September and October like game Busters. Then we
(16:53):
get to it's about November, sometime in November, usually about
mid November, that good fall weather settles in and all
that stuff. And at that point, at that point, Kyler
needs a juice box and a nap. Somebody get him
a juice box. Can we cook him up. We don't
have any all right, fortunate listen, Arizona. They're idiots. They
(17:15):
gave this guy a quarter of a billion dollars. Nobody
told them to do that, they did, so hey, enjoy this.
They immediately had buyer's remorse when they signed him to
the contract. They immediately wanted to go a different direction.
And so they have a quarterback who cannot handle the rigors.
Much like the scouting report before he came into the NFL,
not going to be able to put up with the
(17:36):
violence of the NFL over a full season. And that
has been proven correct, right, So, and also it's not great.
The locker room doesn't believe in him. They know what
they got middling results from alligator arms Murray, right, and
you tell me that's my franchise quarterback, my franchise quarterback.
So the only franchise that Kyler Murray at this point
(17:59):
after years in the NFL, the only franchise I believe
he could carry is a Chick fil A. Now, the
reason I believe that he could carry a Chick fil
A is because they're not open on Sunday, so I
think he'd being good.
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the airport for the city of Cincinnati is in Kentucky. No, no, no,
(20:48):
you can't say no. You can't say northern Kentucky, Ohio.
It's from Ohio. So it's about the ben Gals. That's
a football team, not a great one. So if you
haven't heard the latest 's on this stories we talk
about the news of the day. This continues to be
a developing story. So we've learned now that Trey Hendrickson,
the storm pass rusher for the Cincinnati football team, Trey
(21:11):
Hendrickson is planning to report to the Bengals today today
He's going to show up, thus ending his holdout and
transitioning not that kind of transitioning into a hold in.
That's right, a holding apparently not any closer to a deal.
It's not like there's some kind of agreement in place. Now.
(21:33):
The reporting says that by showing up to camp, Trey Hendrickson,
the key part of this will stop getting fifty thousand
dollars a day finds chi Ching Chiching. So now, based
on the narrative. I always loved the narrative. I was like, well,
who's leaking the story? Where'd the story come from? So
the story that's being passed on to the messenger pigeons,
(21:57):
otherwise know as the useful idiots in the media. The
story is that it's a good faith gesture. It's a
good faith gesture by Trey Hendrickson, and it will try
to jump start negotiations that he is the bigger man.
So let us discuss the question, Trey Hendrickson, who can
(22:20):
be yours if the price is right? Trey Hendrickson returning
to the ben Gals going to Cincinnati's camp. Is this
a good faith gesture as it is being reported? How
do you read into this one? So I've got Saint
Poppy Van Winkle and huntingmooners, and we will combine all
(22:41):
of these things together, and we are going to put
the biscuit in the basket. Is what we're going to do.
So number I said, number, number, number, So all of
this is alt rock, old school alt rock. Little miss
(23:03):
can't be wrong, little miss camp be wrong. You know
the spin doctors. But if you're old, you know who
that is. It's a good faith gesture. That's the way
it's being reported. That's a good faith test. It's cute,
you think the way it's being reported that Hendrickson when
he shows up to Bengals camp, he's going to walk
into Zach Taylor's office there with a Hallmark card and say,
(23:25):
let's make a deal. It's not you, it's me, and
I'm back, and you know it's all good. No, the
reason he is showing up, and I don't blame him.
I'm not ripping Trey Hendrickson. The reason he's showing up
is he's getting dinged fifty g's a day. Fifty grand
a day. Now, i'd like to make enough money. I
(23:47):
know I won't do it here, but I'd like to
make enough money where you can be fined fifty grand
a day. That would be great, That would be wonder
you'n afford it. So this is not, oh, you're being
a cynical talk shows. This is not some kind of gesture. Okay,
this is math. Is what it is, right, good faith.
(24:09):
I love that they're reporting good faith. That's so so wonderful. Right,
it's more like a good luck on having to pay
my bills because everything's been budgeted and all that and
I've got an American Express bill I got to take
care of and five miss days. You can do the math.
That's my math is correct. That's two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars that this guy has lost. Might be even
(24:32):
more than that, but at this particular rate, if I'm
advising Trey Hendrickson, okay, I say, well, why not just
go into the Bengals facility and light your cigar with
you know, the one hundred dollars bills And just because
you're burning money is what you're doing. You're not going
to get that money back, and so good luck. So
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he got dragged into Camp Hendrickson buy his wallet. And
again the spin Benny mc spinn spending like a dradle
is that he is the patron saint, that he's doing
the things the right way, Trey Hendrickson, and he wants
to be the leader, and he's the bigger man. He's
trying to restart the conversation. Ix nay on the narrative.
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This obviously came from Trey Hendrickson. We always like to
look at the well, not from him directly, but from
the people around him who leaked the story. Why would
the Beangals say that. Bengals wouldn't say that, well, you're
the bigger man. No, they're gonna say, we're the bigger
you know, we want to offer you a fair deal.
You don't want to take the deal, That's what they're
gonna say. So it's pee what stings kind of like
(25:38):
that sweaty sock thing in the locker room. That's what
it smells like, dirty socks. So again he's showing up
because the way the rules are in the NFL and
the CBA, they have taken the balls off of the holdout.
There's no real leverage there other than losing money. Like
a lunatic to get fined fifty thousand dollars a day,
So losing fifty grand a day, that's a mandatory. There
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is no waiver on that. There used to be a waiver,
so it is who cares toll just wave it at
the end. There there's no forgiveness none whatsoever. That is
the new normal, of course, been that way for years.
It's not twenty fourteen anymore, it's twenty twenty five, and
so there's no opportunity, there's no work around on that.
So Hendrickson in the game of chicken. He blinked, blinky, blinky, blinky.
(26:24):
He blinked, plain and simple, you know it. He blinked.
And so we're supposed to believe that he's doing the
team some kind of great mitzvah here. Yeah, So he
is under contract for I don't know how he's going
to pay his bills at sixteen million dollars. I think
we should help him out somehow. So what this means
is the Bengals are going to continue to do things
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the Bengals do, because why would they change the Bengals.
So they're going to slow play this much like a
previous hour we talked about in a previous hour of
this show, we talked about Jerry Jones, who slow plays everything. Well,
the Bengals will do the same thing. And the only
one really sweating here is Trey Hendrickson. So I know
there's dumb people that fall for everything, but I would
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advise you if you think that's legit, that he's the
bigger man. He's showing up because he wants to get
a deal done and that's why he's No. It's not
good faith again, it's called I'm tired of bleeding money.
It's a lot of money. So you hold out, you
pay and that's the cost. And so he wants a
(27:26):
new deal. But right now he's showing up because he's
trying to stop the hemorrhagery of Green, not blood Green.
That's it.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Page two we go to Motown, Motown Blues we go
and that's where the Lions who have been on the
brink of a big breakthrough that were in the NFC
Championship game, something that had never happened in my life.
They were there a couple of years back, and now
they have the seal of approval from Chucky. That's right,
(27:55):
John Gruden, we talked about this a little bit yesterday,
John Gruden visiting Detroit training came. So there's another gem
from John Gruden. Not only did he sing the praises
of the Lions, he also compared Jared Goff, the Detroit quarterback,
to Joe Montana. Do you see this? He used the
comp that golf in Montana are similar. So how does
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that sound to you? How does that one sound to you?
So I'll go first here because I have a microphone
on wet headphone, so I'll get to go first. So
I love that John Gruden strolled in to the Lions
training camp there, and it's like he had the banana
in the in his tailpipe, like he was back on
Monday Night Football back in the day. Anything John Gruden
(28:40):
says about quarterbacks you take with a grain of salt,
just a little grain of salt. This is the same
John Grud, if I'm not mistaken, who once had a
love affair with Nathan Peterman. Remember that, Yeah, that's right, Nah, Yes,
Nathan Peterman who famously tossed not one, not two, not
three and o four five interceptions in one half of
(29:01):
a regular season NFL game. You're talking about unbreakable records.
Five interceptions in one half of an NFL game, and
John Gruden was out there. You would have thought Peterman
was God's gift to the quarterback position. Cruden always treats
every quarterback like he's unwrapping. And we know Gruden loves
to unwrap stuff because that's all he does at that
(29:23):
barstool thing. He unrest my Uh, some of my friends
send me videos of John Gruden just getting boxes and
boxes of free crap to unwrap. He's acting like that
kid on YouTube that gets paid just to open stuff. Anyway,
He's like he's unwrapping a like a vintage bottle of
Pappy van Winkle, the you know, the bourbon whiskey, very
expensive there, and he's holding it up, and then you really, well, John,
(29:45):
that's actually not that's not what it's actually like a
warm can of bud light. Well no, but John's holding
it up like it's this amazing thing. But every man, woman,
and child who pays any attention, any attention, knows when
it comes to Jared Goff, do I even need to
go here? Like Jared Gouff's not Joe Montana, Like Jared
Goff's not even qualified to be Joe Montana's mechanic at
this particular point in time. You know what Jared Goff is.
(30:08):
He's better than I thought. I'll say that. When he
first started, I didn't think he was very good. Now
I think he's this generation's Alex Smith. He's this generation's
Alex Smith. He's relatively safe outside of the big moment
because he'll choke. He's relatively safe. He's somewhat reliable against
subpar or average competition, but he's never really spectacular. He's
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never really spectacular. And this guy, this guy, if you
spoon feed him the playbook. He'll get you some touchdowns
and whatnot, and you tell him what to do and
where to throw the ball and all that, and just
don't tell him to throw deep, because if you tell
him to throw deep, he can't do it. He'll throw
it short and throw it short, and he'll check down
action from Jared Goff there, check down Charlie, and then
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of course he'll look like he just solved a Rubric's
cube because he just checked down. And the thing about
Golf is he's he doesn't elevate a team like that's
the point of demarcation for quarterbacks. Do you elevate your
your teammates? And Golf doesn't. Just that's the way that
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we're talking about guy. Everything around him is pristine. You've
got good players, a random good coaching. Fine. Golf's like
a child, like a little kid that won't eat unless
you cut the crust off the bread. You know, we've
all been there, right. Normally we grow out of that.
You know, they's said a lot of uncrustables, so I
guess we don't grow out of it anyway. John Gruden though,
(31:35):
the master, the master over the years of football gas lighting.
It's great, So It's an odd thing because Gruden is
suing the NFL. It's getting bounced around the court system
the lawsuit from Gruden. Yet at the same time he's
supposed to be persona non grata because he's emails gunn
(31:56):
On he sends some things you're not supposed to say,
and he said, you know, you hit every ism possible
and all that. So he got banned from polite society.
But yet he shows up all over the place like
the NFL. Like the people that coach in the NFL,
they don't have a problem with John Gruden. It's like
it's at a higher level. They have a problem with you,
like Gruden's How many teams has Gruden shown up to
(32:17):
and been part of training camp? Saints, Lions, a couple
others too, Ravens. I think he shut up with the Ravens.
I'm probably missing some. But he still talks wax poetic
about the The Spider too. Why Banana? He talks about
it like it's the Dead Sea scrolls and you believe it.
(32:39):
When he starts yapping, he's like going on, na Spider too,
Why Banana? And you know, okay, thank you John. And
so he's not really like when it comes to quarterbacks,
Gruten's not really analyzing the quarterbacks and all that. He's like,
it's like he's trying to sell you on a time share,
and it's not a place you want a timeshare, you know.
It's like you don't really go overybody. He's like, Oh,
(32:59):
this is really good. Ah yeah, I got a really
good breakfast. The eggs are amazing. The eggs, Benedict are
so good. My god. So he's in many ways. One
of my favorite all time quotes is from a guy
named W. C. Fields get a street named after him
in la early Hollywood vaudeville comedian actor. And his quote was,
(33:21):
if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with
bull Pucky. We'll clean that up with Bullpucky. And so
Joe Montana is a like a Ferrari, an old Ferrari,
but it's still a Ferrari. And then you got Jared
Goff is like a Honda Accord. Now more people buy
Honda Accords than ferraris. You'll see more Honda Accords on
(33:43):
the road than you will the Ferrari because they're cheaper
and and that's why they is a final point we
go to La and Jared Goff's old team Rams. You're
gonna ram it all day, you can ram it all night.
Now Rams coach Sean McVay has been given a new
label by DeVante Adams. He said, Sean McVay is a
quote mastermind. Ooh, mastermind. So that is the quote there
(34:10):
during preseason practice is Adams going on and on, slobbering
all over the Rams coach talking about the college like camaraderie,
the RAM facility, the organiza, Sean saying he's being rejuvenated.
That's been rejuvenated. So DeVante Adams will sum it up
like this, calling Sean McVay a mastermind is blank fill
(34:34):
in the blank. So I love Sean McVay. My word
is going to be blasphemy though, and the word I'm
using blasphemy because it's really a shot at the Raiders
more than anything. Like he's praising he's praising his coach.
At the same time, he's really saying how bad it
was with the Raiders because that was the team he
(34:54):
went to training camp with when he was in Vegas
for the last couple of years and he finished with
the Jets last year. But it's really just taking a
so you're like a Raider fan. That's blasphemy. But my
other word would be huntingmooners. That would be my other
word here because as in orgo the hunting moon period.
You know, like when you start a new job and
it's exciting and you're fired up, and yeah, you think,
(35:18):
oh man, I'm gonna rise up in the company and
they're gonna pay a lot of money and all this stuff,
and it's gonna be that I'm gonna run the whole company.
And then you realize someday they'll never do that. But
but the honey moon period, you don't. You don't get
to that point. At the honeymoon period, you're like everything's great.
You're seeing rainbows and you're dreaming of lollipops and there's
a unicorn over there, and you know, John Gruden, what
(35:38):
I think Gruden's good? Do I think he's Einstein? I
don't think he's Einstein. I don't think he's Einstein On
a headsets Is he one of the top three coaches
in the NFL? Absolutely? Absolutely right? But right now with
the ramsay and with DeVante Adams, he's like a on
a college campus at ram practice there and it's it's kumbaya.
It's all good, and it's gets some isawass and we're
(36:01):
on our way. And I think I've been to training
camp over the years. At this point, there's a lot
of grab ass, a lot of grab ass on the
practice field, and they use the words all those words culture, energy, loved.
Every team uses the same verbiage every team they talk
about culture and energy. So it's giving a motivational pep
talk and all that stuff. But soon enough, the test drive,
(36:25):
the test drive turns into race day, and on race
day that is when the rubber meets the road and
you start seeing some cracks and the tires and all
that stuff. Now, Devonte Adams, at this point, I'm not convinced, right,
Davonte Adams, he's doing a high wire act at this point.
I'll believe it when I see it. And even if
he gets off to a good start, I got to
(36:45):
see it over the full season, right, because he's walking
in cleats on a high wire, tiptoeing over a pit
of vipers, a pit of vipers that are being fed
daily by father time he's crossed that thirty mark, I
think he's I believe he's thirty one now, could be
thirty two Devonte Adams. But that cliff for NFL receivers.
(37:09):
The thing about the cliff for NFL receivers, it comes
very fast and there's no warning, Like you know, right now,
there's a big tsunami warning supposed to the tsunami is
going to hit the West coast here in less than
an hour. As we're doing this in real time, and
there's a warning, there's warnings I expected to hit here
and coming up and you know, less than an hour. People,
you know, some people think, oh my god, it could
(37:31):
be brutal. To other people like this is ridiculous, nothing going,
nothing can happen. There's warning, there's warning, that's my point.
And there's no warning when a receiver just completely loses it.
Like one second you're a game changer, you're making big plays,
and the next you're in a desert and you're like,
what happened. I don't understand what happened? I don't know,
(37:51):
So I get it. DeVante wants to believe, and I'd
love for him to be wonderful. I know pookin the
Coup is going to be good. I don't know about Davante.
I'm in a show me state of mind. I got
to see you. You got to show me. I need
to believe in you, So you got to show me
what you can do, impress me, and we'll see what happens.
We get to the later part of November and going
to December, and when your hamstring start barking and you're
(38:15):
down in the fourth quarter against the divisional opponent and
you can't get separation off the line anymore. And you
got Sean McVay over there, who's a genius, and he's
holding a bag of icy hot and he's got some
essential oils and he hands it to you, and there's
a there's a gift package. It's got the pharmacy great ibuprofen,
all that right there.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
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Speaker 4 (38:42):
Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
I said, how about I said, here we go go?
Quote out gout, gout go.
Speaker 8 (38:53):
Well, you talked about him earlier. John Grudden, who was
at Lions camp as a consultant, told reporters that hopefully
he's not done coaching and that he's about to make
a comeback. Yeah, Ben, will it be in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Well, anything's probably, but Donald Trump's back as president, anything's possible, right,
And it is conceivable, Cruden said, we talked about this
in yesterday show. He's depending on a friend in one
of his coaching buddies to hire him. He's suing the NFL,
So until that's dropped, I don't see him getting a job.
But yet, Brian Flores has a job, and he's also
part of a lawsuit against the NFL, So I'd say
(39:24):
there's a fifteen percent chance Cruden returned next.
Speaker 8 (39:28):
And it's being suggested that forty nine Ers head coach
Kyle Shanahan could be on the hot seat this upcoming season.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Ben, do you think that's true? Uh? Well yeah, I
mean Shanahan might just leave because there were rumors he
wanted the Bears job and that he had put some
feelers out. So yeah, it brock Purty sucks. I could
see him leaving next.
Speaker 8 (39:45):
Charles Barkley was recently asked which teams he thinks has
the best had the best offseason in the NBA. Barkley
singled out the Nuggets and the Rockets.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Is he right, Well, no, it's the Clippers. They got
Bradley Beale. They got Chris Paul a couple of legends
added to the clip show. So that's the answer. That's it.
You failed this a way. That's a win. Larey, he
met fail is the new win in twenty twenty five.
That's a win by me. I won winner, I won
for dog. Put that on my board.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
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Speaker 8 (40:23):
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Speaker 1 (40:27):
It's clean up, Hawks, gonna help you.
Speaker 8 (40:29):
Gear rye, gear riye tonight, gear right tonight, dear ride.
Speaker 9 (40:36):
That's right, you heard the man. It's time for love
here on the Ben Mallors Show. And this this has
been cracked quite the week. Okay, online dating is getting
scary out there.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
And if you're trek, what happened I missed something?
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Well.
Speaker 9 (40:50):
I have a friend and I went out to dinner
with him this week and he has been on a
baby daddy baby mama online dating thing. So if you
have kids, it's for you to go and meet someone right. Well,
the girl he was talking to said she wasn't with
her husband anymore. He found her phone and he started
sending like death threats. I know where you work, I
know you're kids. Watch me beat you into the ground house.
(41:12):
Leave my wife alone. And he's an innocent party in this.
He's like, I didn't even meet up with her yet.
So be very careful, especially when you're dealing with people
who have kids, significant others. You're gonna you're getting people
in trouble out here.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Think about that. I was just laughing because Douglas in
Mississippi said when he was a kid, his mom used
to call all the neighborhood kids the D word, and
he said none of us had any idea what it meant.
Speaker 4 (41:41):
Crazy.
Speaker 1 (41:41):
This is so funny, Like, uh, I just I just
imagine all the neighborhoo was your mom called?
Speaker 2 (41:48):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (41:48):
Even?
Speaker 8 (41:49):
I wonder we were laughing about.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
Oh no, I was that just the visual of being like,
you know, a neighborhood kid and you're some mom's calling
you that. Yeah, let's see what do we have about
ferd Dog says, what does it say about women? A
woman if she owns a green sex toy? Is she
into aliens?
Speaker 8 (42:07):
Well?
Speaker 10 (42:07):
You know it's funny because I do have different toys
like that.
Speaker 9 (42:10):
They have ones that are in the shape of like aliens,
like slime arms, and they have alien tongues and alien
tails like. You can find all sorts of different toys,
and actually, I think the funner the better. Think about
how interesting your playdates could be with these.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Women have a different color every day, you are different
games the rainbow all right. For some reason, Josh just
sent photos of himself, Loren. I guess he's well, I
don't think he wants me to look at that.
Speaker 9 (42:38):
Maybe he's wanting to make a dating profile. Do you
think those are good photos for his dating profile?
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Yeah, it seems so fine. I don't. I don't think
he wants my opinion, Ben, so keep on. I'm good Shane,
and de Mones says, which of these two terms would
you rather be called? Lorena, ma'am or miss? Been yelled
at for calling a woman both in my.
Speaker 9 (42:59):
Life, So yeah, it's funny. Girls are really weirried about that.
I prefer miss over ma'am because ma'am is old and
I'm not old. I look very young, so I know.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
You really don't want to be called a bashka. That's
when you read the old lady that's like a European grandma.
Let's go to she makes a mean a great meat loaf.
Let's go to Josh in Orlando. You're on with Lorena.
It's the Queen of Hearts. It's going on Josh.
Speaker 11 (43:28):
Hey guys, good morning. All right. So I know this
is a fun segment, but it's actually a legit serious call.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
So I was the one.
Speaker 11 (43:35):
I was the one that just on the pictures. So
Lorena can get an idea. Oh, I've been online, off
and on online for the last five years. I know
obviously it's definition of me Kennedy expecting something, you know,
different outcome. But what is it with women? Why can't
women respond? Or why is it that when you like
a certain type of women, those women don't like you,
(43:56):
But you get these slump busters.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
I like you, and how do you You know?
Speaker 9 (44:01):
It's the law of attraction and you got to keep
on working at it because you're gonna hit a whole
bunch of missuses.
Speaker 10 (44:05):
You said, you've been doing this for five years. It's
maybe maybe mix it with going out at the same time.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11 (44:15):
People don't do that. These days and you can do
do you not do that?
Speaker 10 (44:19):
There's a difference because people do go out all the
time in Orlando.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
There's gonna be some bars and go to Orlando's why,
you guys, what's the problem is it's a tourist town.
So you could probably do very well with the tourists there, Josh.
Speaker 8 (44:30):
But then you see what it's saying there.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
But then families quick hit, I don't know, hit and
run up dump Now, Josh, you're fine, man, you look good.
I'm sure there's women out there. Would you know, you'll
be fine, You'll.
Speaker 8 (44:42):
Find the right one.
Speaker 10 (44:43):
And if you don't, then maybe you are meant to
be a bachelor in Paradise.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Or go to the Ukraine or Russia or wherever.
Speaker 5 (44:51):
You know.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Let's go to c J.
Speaker 4 (44:54):
What's going on? CJ?
Speaker 1 (44:57):
CJ is there? C J, he's there, He's on hold.
I don't hear CJ. He just gone JT the wingman,
Oh there you go. I guess that line died, says
am I. The only person that thinks that the gift
of hatch Chili's is a gift of love for your partner.
Speaker 10 (45:14):
I've never had a hatch chili. Are they spicy?
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Yeah, well it looks they looks spicy. I've never heard.
I mean, I don't know that was a thing. I
had no idea.
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Speaker 4 (45:39):
Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
What it's time to that for pastor. I did want
to mention the Bears head coach Ben Johnson. He gave
a bold warning about Caleb Williams. We'll see about that,
see about that one. Not so sure? Not so sure,
but Ben Ben Johnson pumping the tires on Kyla Wolves. Well,
let's get to the game right now. Let's welcome in
our contestants from Sin City. We say hello to Slug.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
Hello Slugs, buddy. But I know we're going to do
this right.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
We'll pick a We'll pick a weekend in August. Right,
anybody got in the open weekends in August?
Speaker 10 (46:13):
Isn't it already August?
Speaker 8 (46:14):
Well, no, it's not yet, but the last two weekends
work for me.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
All Right, we'll do one of the last. I think
I'll check my schedule. I think we'll do Saturday. Is
that good? It does work for me too, Slug Saturday.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
That works for me.
Speaker 11 (46:27):
I sent you the weekends. I can do it. Otherwise,
they got my kids, so I got it.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
We want the kid. The kid does not want to
hang out with mouthwash Mike. That's definitely yeah, all right,
So who do you want to partner up with? Slug?
That's right, all right, And Felexus is going to play.
You wanted to play, right, Flexus?
Speaker 3 (46:44):
Yeah, I want to play.
Speaker 4 (46:45):
I'm on Coop, Okay.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Coop, good luck, I get the America's favorite drag queen.
Call it.
Speaker 4 (46:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
We have a list of words one to ten. Slug.
You were on the air first, our buddy from Vegas,
So please pick the number number eight. Number eight. All right,
let's go with make believe.
Speaker 4 (47:08):
Fantasy two words.
Speaker 8 (47:10):
No, it's a hyphenated word.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
It's hyphenated.
Speaker 8 (47:14):
All right, let's go with let's see uh Ben said
make believe. I'm gonna go with uh imaginary.
Speaker 11 (47:30):
Dreaming.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
What let's go with? How about let's go fake fake,
don't forgotten? Oh man, we were tap dancing around it.
Speaker 8 (47:48):
Okay, Uh, let's try let's try this one, Flexus, uh
made up?
Speaker 1 (47:57):
How about imaginary, don't fiction. All right, I'm gonna throw
it with siller word.
Speaker 10 (48:05):
All right, what's gonna be Michael?
Speaker 1 (48:06):
The word was pretend. Yeah, you weren't in close. Come on, flexes,
go ahead, pick a number, flexes, one to ten.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
Believe number one, number one, great.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Tribute to me. I appreciate that, thank you, thank you
very much.
Speaker 8 (48:26):
Okay, that's my ship. Flexus. Let's go with nation.
Speaker 9 (48:35):
Country.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
Yeah, it's past word for idiots. Okay, go ahead, picking
number two to ten, but not eight. Sure, number four.
I kind of want to use the Mallet maneuver on
this one. You know the mala maneuver slug? Yes, all right,
(49:01):
here we go.
Speaker 4 (49:03):
Pose one more time? Sorry pose pose that sounds.
Speaker 1 (49:22):
That is not all right?
Speaker 8 (49:24):
Flexes, do you know the Mallard maneuver?
Speaker 5 (49:26):
Right?
Speaker 12 (49:29):
No, hold on, let me let me give you answer.
Speaker 8 (49:36):
You answer today, I'm gonna give you a hand.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
He answered it.
Speaker 4 (49:39):
No, he didn't.
Speaker 8 (49:40):
I didn't. I didn't give a clue. Yet it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (49:42):
Answer counts.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
He answered it.
Speaker 8 (49:45):
Come on, flex all right, here's my clue principles.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
Oh, come on, you don't even know who you're dealing with. School.
Speaker 10 (50:02):
Let's go with Okay, we got posts and principal.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Okay, business, come on, god on, all right, all right? Flexes?
Speaker 12 (50:17):
One more one here, one more flex forget the melody?
Why are we forget the mellor maneuver flexes. I'm gonna
give you this, the normal clue. Oh my god, workplace,
you do understand. He's never been one of these things.
You understand, workplace.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
He doesn't know what it is?
Speaker 11 (50:37):
What where you work?
Speaker 1 (50:41):
O my god? All right?
Speaker 5 (50:46):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (50:47):
He's a The word was office post off as post
off ash, post off ash, go the post off ash.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
No, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (50:59):
This is a Oh no, this is terrible. That's the
word your own losers. Everyone's dumber for listening to this.
That's the worst thing. Post office, post office
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