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Big Ben talks about the Blue Jays beating up on Shohei Ohtani to win Game 4 of the World Series, the possibility of a Kirk Cousins trade out of Atlanta, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

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another night of the world. So is do we have

(02:04):
live baseball action right now? No, we do not have
any live baseball action right now, but we start out
in Los Angeles or a top of mountain looking down
on skid row the Dodgers and the Blue Jays back
at it. Less than twenty four hours after the eighteen
inning thriller in Chavez Ravine and Toronto was looking even

(02:27):
the series up in Game number four right there, big
stage here. Man, it was a massive so important. We
had live music for it. La a huge pitching advantage.
If you looked at the matchup, you said, Okay, that's
a win for the Dodgers, chuck that up for a win.
You had Shane Bieber representing the Canadians and Sho Hail

(02:51):
Tani for the Doyers, the greatest player ever to play
the sport. Of baseball. You cannot lose. You cannot lose
a game started by the greatest player, God's gift to humanity,
show hail today. You cannot lose. That's why they play
the games. So if you didn't see it, I assume
you know by now we watched, so you would not

(03:12):
have to. It's our good mits of the day. But
Flattie is your daddy, and he walloped a two run
homer off God's gift of baseball, show Hail tany in
the third inning there and Shane Bieber, of all people,
Shane Bieber, the Beabs went out there and pitched four
hit ball into the sixth inning, into the sixth inning,

(03:38):
Shane Bieber, who's got like a terminator arm. Unreal, unreal,
and Toronto gets back on track. They get a six
to two win over the Doyer's Addison Barger adding a
couple of hits and an RBI for the JS and
don't look down, but Toronto has reclaimed home field advantage

(04:02):
and we are guaranteed that the World Series will end
on Canadian soil at the Rogers Center in downtown Toronto
right there. At some point this weekend, the World Series
will come to an end there in that fine city.
And that is a good jumping off point because Dave
Roberts better storing the losing locker room. And so Dave

(04:23):
Roberts addressing a very pathetic Dodger offense here and the
question and Roberts insinuating that there's going to be some
changes to the Dodger lineup heading into the next game here,
game number five of the World Series. So the question
is what has gone haywire? What has gone haywire for
Dave Roberts and what was billed as the big blue

(04:46):
wrecking crew at Dodger linup. So my thoughts on this,
I've got Ripley's believe it or not, Super Nintendo and
Checkered Flag, and we will combine all of these things together.
We're gonna put them in a food processor. We're gonna
pick out whatever comes out of that food processor. Man,
is it going to be delicious. So a the Dodger

(05:06):
offense has been offensive, Let's call it like it is here.
They got the names, they don't necessarily have the games
they don't. It's been far too many weak performances by
the Dodgers the entire postseason, which is shocking. It shows
you how great the Dodgers must be, because they're in
the World Series two wins away and they haven't played

(05:26):
well on offense pretty much the entire postseason since the
wild card round. They're well below they being the Dodgers,
well below their regular season domination, and even that was
below what they were supposed to be. It is carried
over the Toronto Blue Jays doing what the Brewers could
not do. A contact heavy lineup of Blue Jay hitters here,

(05:48):
opportunistic bullpen exploiting the soft underbelly of the Los Angeles Dodgers,
and something again Milwaukee was unable to do. And yet
here we are and Toronto is doing it at this point.
Although they're not winning the series. The series is tied up.
It's now a best of three and Toronto has home
field advantage yet again. But La has gone from the

(06:11):
big blue wrecking crew with all these amazing names, and
they still have the names, but now they're like a
wet noodle, like a pool noodle, a blue pool noodle
is what they are right there. And so the offense,
which has been billed as a nuclear reactor, right now
it's a dead battery and they need some jumper cables

(06:31):
because it's not going well. And it's not just one guy.
It's not just one guy. This is as the line goes,
and all encompassing suck is what's going on right now
with the Dodgers. Pete Rose the long gone, well, not
that long. You can die that long ago. But Pete
Rose was asked to describe his philosophy. The All Time
hit King was asked to describe his philosophy on hitting,

(06:54):
and he said, I believe it was six words, see
the ball, hit the ball. Boom, that's it. See the ball. Ball.
So maybe the Dodgers need to go to the eye
doctor because they must not be seeing the ball. They're
not really hitting the ball at all. The boys in Blue,
the Dodgers here, they're not stringing together hits. Everyone's treating

(07:14):
it like batting practice, trying to hit home runs here,
and they can't even fake it at this particular point.
The four to twenty one ops for the Dodgers in
the postseason. Now, I didn't play in the major leagues.
I just do an overnight talk sho. I don't think
that's good. Oh, you're being too critical. The boys are trying. Okay, great,
that's congratulations. If you want that kind of contempt, sure

(07:35):
that guy David Vassa does. The Dodger post game will
lick the toes of all the players, despite massaging Mookie
Bets right now as we speak. But that is not
a slump, by the way. That is who you are
this postseason. That is who the Dodgers are this postseason.
It's also a cry for some kind of intervention. They
might want to bring in some major league tactics and

(07:57):
put a shrine up in a locker and get a
little statue burned, some sage in the locker room or
something along those lines. So the Dodgers making some washed
up blue jay pitchers collectively looked like the ninety five
Atlanta Braves with Glavin Maddox and Smoltz, Bang bang bang,
just like that. Now, Mookie Bets, I'm gonna start with Mooki.

(08:18):
We talked about the Dodgers' offensive problem. I want to
start with Mooki Bets. And here's why. Because everyone tells
me that the resume matters. Y'all tell me that. So
Mooki Bets is an MVP, he's an eight time All Star,
He's won a bunch of Silver Slugger Awards. I'm told
that's a big deal. Right now. He is like an
old NFL kicker, mister automatica. In this case, he's an

(08:39):
AUTOMATICA out. He's on Highway one fifty eight. Mookie Betts
is batting a buck fifty eight. He's an automatic out.
He needs a map, he needs a GPS to find
his way. My got Mookie Bets ball. You know, at
this point he belongs in a museum, Not the Hall
of Fame, Mookie Bets. He belongs in the please Believe

(09:00):
it or Not museum, the freak show department right next
to Lobster Boy. You can have the human corkscrew. I'm
telling you, it's like a corkscrew. He might be trying
to kill some kind of bugs, maybe some mosquitoes or
something like that. That's why he's swinging the way he
is and just not trying to put the ball in play.
It's like, well, I'm not hitting home runs right now,

(09:21):
and this is I was called the bad guy. Let
the record show this hot take validation, Hot take validation.
I got killed. Two monologues upset the Dodger fans more
than anything this year. The Clayton Kershaw one. I'm still
getting crap about at the end of the year when
they had the mock funeral of Kershaw, they dug up
the mound. It was unbelievable. It was like he was

(09:41):
a dinosaur and they dug up the bones. And then
also the Mookie Bets sucks monologue, which was completely accurate.
One hundred games in terrible and all the fanboys, the
cheerleaders there, the Dodger marching and showers is Saudi very upset.
You shouldn't say that. Is it true? Yes, but you
shouldn't say that. But it's true. I know it's true,

(10:02):
but you shouldn't say that. Oh my god. Sorry. Mookie
bat sucks right now. Nineteen at bats, three hits, zero
extra base hits in the playoffs for rookie bats. He's
a punch and judy hitter at this point, and they're
paying him like he's prime. Tony Gwinn back in the
day and Barry Bonds love child with Tony Winn or
something like that. And then you've got the I would

(10:26):
say Comodo dragged him the room, but that's being too kind.
You've got the rat in the room, the big vermin
in the room. That would be Andy Paez of the Dodgers.
The Dodgers would actually be better off, and this is
rather shocking with a Pez dispenser. If they had a
Pez dispenser at home plate, they would be better off.
At this point, Andy Paez is on Highway sixty seven.

(10:50):
He's hitting oh sixty seven in the World Series. He's
doing the full Michael Conforto cosplay. Now, Michael Conforto was
the guy that Dodgers added, was supposed to be a
big bat in the lineup, and is so horrific that
he can't get near a batter's box in the in
the playoffs here because he's just talks, and that is

(11:11):
Andy pis. He's been completely overmatched. He's he just lost late.
He needs to contact someone over at Baywatch because he's drowning.
At this particular point. It's bad, real bad, and they're
leaving them out to dry. Dave Roberts is leaving them
out there. The guy's shown you he can't play. He's like, well,

(11:31):
we can't play, and Roberts keeps saying it's not rob
it's the nerds because they don't believe that there's a
thing called the slump. They don't think that every game's
individual and all that stuff and lack of confidence is
not a thing. And so here's the guy drowning and
he's continued to be and there does sound like Roberts.

(11:51):
Finally after losing another game in the World Series, it's like,
all right, well, the nerds have told me that I
can put somebody else in there, so we'll do that,
and they Andy Poz can get a one way ticket
to cam Kun or some other nice tropical location if
you would like. And it's not just those guys you got.

(12:12):
Will Smith had the big home run in Game two
in Toronto, hadn't done much other than that. Max Muncy,
what's going on? What's wrong with him? We not good either.
They're both kind of in the witness protection program most
of these games in the World Series, so that's where
we are. And Roberts, it keeps running out the same
lineup because that's what the nerds tell him to do,
and you know, he's just the middle manager and that's

(12:33):
what he does, and he just sends them out there.
And now, as for the pitching, there's a lot of
people I could rip for the pitching, but I'd like
to focus in because I've limited time, as you know,
because it's a network radio show. So I would like
to focus on Blake Trining. Now, Blake Trining should be
put on an exploratory rocket out to Mars, never to

(12:54):
come back. Holy crap. I'm convinced that the Nerds and
Dave Roberts that Blake Tryon has photos of them because
he keeps getting into these games. It's unreal. Another guy
that has shown you he's washed up, he can't play,
and he keeps getting in these World Series games has
an eight thirty one earned run average as a reliever

(13:15):
in the postseason eight thirty one earned run average. Blake
trying to He's cooked, he's burned. It's horrific. It's like
knowing you're going to pour gasoline on a tinderbox. Who
would do that? Dave robertson the Nerds, that's who does it.
And so it's like you watch a guy that keeps

(13:36):
hitting the self destruct button and makes things worse when
he comes in out of the bullpen, and like he
keep saying, well, this time he hits the button, it's
gonna be confetti. Well no, it's not confetti trapnel, But
next time it's gonna be confetti. But again it's trapnel,
but no, next time. Next time, it's enough enough and so,
and then you add that with the Dodger offense, who's

(13:56):
is supposed to be a death star and it's a
dollar general is what they are now turning the page.
So I would like to adjust to me. And I
realized this is my pet peeve and no one else
has this dick. When I'm about to complain about nobody
else has, I'm the only one that is gonna get
on the bully pulpit and complain about this. But it's
my job to do it because I see bull crap

(14:18):
and I just have to yell. It's therapeutic. I just
bear with me, just just go with it. So the
story after the Dodger Blue Jay game, a game won
by Toronto to even up the World Series, was not
that Shohiltani didn't get it done. It's that it's not
his fault he didn't get it done. You feel me

(14:40):
on that. So Otani was zero for three at the
plate with two strikeouts, and he was also the losing
pitcher on the mound. He allowed you know, he was
pitching okay, and then he allowed the last inning and
there's some runs that gave but he ended up giving
up four runs Otani in six hits and he was
the losing pitcher. And ever since that World Series game ended,

(15:02):
it's been a couple hours, there has been NonStop media
working overtime to cook in the kitchen of excuses. So
the question for the steam panel, the question is where
are you at on the media going into the kitchen
and cooking up alibis for sho Heo Tani and his

(15:26):
World Series clunker. So the media fanboys and girls, all right,
here's some of the excuses. I jotted down a few
of them. The media has told us that the reason
Otani sucked in the World Series because he was tired.
They told us that he didn't get enough sleep, like
that it was hot and the eighteen inning game went long,

(15:50):
so he was too tired. The level excuse, my friends, here,
the level of bull crap, like, what the hell is
wrong with you people? Seriously, can you imagine I don't
get much sleep at all during the week doing the overnights.
I should go to my boss and say, listen, just

(16:11):
the reason the show's not good. It's uh, I didn't
get enough sleep. Okay, that's good, that's perfect. But again,
the problem with Otan. I'm not anti Otani. It's gonna
sound like I'm anti Otani. I'm gonna get email. You
don't like Otani, you don't like No, I don't he
I like he's been built into baseball's demigod. Show. Hey,

(16:32):
Atani is Baseball's demigod. He is. He's half man, half
mythical lumberjack. And the minute that Otani looks mortal like
he most certainly did in this World Series game, instead
of just calling it like it is, it's like, well,
let's check his sleep IQ score. How much? How much

(16:53):
deep sleep did Otani get? Oh? My god? As for
the weather, it was a little warm. It was not
Phoenix Arizona warm. Okay, it was not Vegas warm. It
was not Death Valley warm. So what are we doing here? Okay? Yeah,
it's La baseball in October. It's still hot in La

(17:13):
in October. That's why people put up with the ridiculous
People's Republic of California taxation and all that crap because
of the weather. All right, And so you think Babe Ruth,
maybe he did. I don't know. I was alive when
Babe Ruth. But you think Babe Ruth ever complained because
he didn't get enough sleep. Wasn't the legend of Babe Ruth.
There's this old guy named Bert Sugar died years ago,

(17:34):
boxing guy, a sports historian, and Bert used to tell
stories about Babe, the womanizing of Babe Ruth and the
drinking of Babe Ruth and the just the excess of
the Bambino. And they traveled by train and they'd be like,
you know, random women chasing after Babe half naked and stuff.
Never got reworded. But anyway, so I don't think Babe

(17:56):
Ruth complained about that. But see this is the problem.
Is the problem as I get on the Bully pulp.
But the media has built Otani into a Super Nintendo
cheat code, like just a Super Nintendo cheat code come
to life. It's like if a video game Avatar could
come to life. Here it is and then he goes
out there and again he looked very human in this

(18:18):
particular game. And you have to invent excuses out of
thin air to keep the dream alive. You got to
keep the fantasy alive. Otani is too big to fail,
and there's a lot of people invested in this. There's
a lot of reporters from Japan that have gotten on
the company dime there and they're free loading in America,
covering the Dodgers on a daily basis. There's a lot
of people that have Otani endorsing their products. Major League

(18:40):
Baseball's heavily invested in the myth of Otani. They need Otani.
They cannot have Otani fail here, and so he's not
going to be perfect in every game. But to me,
that weakens the legend. When you do crap like this,
it weakens the legend, and that's not cool. You don't
need a Greek chorus of pr hacks coming in here

(19:06):
and explaining, well, the reason that Zeus misplaced his lightning
bolt is you know X, Y and Z. You just
just say he's stunk, miakopa, he'll be better next time,
and that's it, right period, hard stop. You don't need
all this other stuff. And it's like, are these real people?

(19:28):
I'm not wired that way? Maybe I should be. Everyone
else seems to be making a lot more money than
me and they're wired that way. I guess I should
just be a kiss ass like everyone else in the media.
Holy crap, I just admit it, move on, and you
don't need to say, well, it's because you didn't get
his twelve hours of sleep. You imagine needing twelve hours
of sleep to function, Holy Canoli, My god. All right,

(19:51):
last thing, quick, right to the Toronto side of things.
So the Blue Jays get the win in La. They
had to do that. They lost home field in Toronto
in game two, so they had to win a game
in Los Angeles and they did. So how are things
looking for Vladi Guerrero's Blue Jays in the World Series? So,
as Larry David would say, pretty deep, britt deep, pritt

(20:15):
deep good, not bad, not bad. When you look at
the tailor of the tape, the Dodgers a big favorite,
as Viva los Vicki lects to tell us in the
World Series, I had big favorite and all that, but
you look at it, and if you look at the
tailor of the tape, the Toronto Blue Jays are matching
La punch for punch. Four games in to the World Series.

(20:36):
Everybody told us that the Dodgers had all the momentum
from Freddie Freeman's dramatic eighteen inning home run. The eighteenth
inning home run, the marathon. It ended like a half
hour from now yesterday. So my god, but Toronto again,
they're right there, neck and neck. They're getting it done.

(20:58):
And they were supposed to be emotionally fried because the
Dodgers had all the momentum. I'm right ready to pack
up the maple syrup and go back to Canada. Well
what happened. The Jays dropped the haymaker on the Dodgers,
and the reason there is no such thing as momentum. Oh,

(21:19):
he said it out loud. He said it out loud. Yep. Sorry,
Now the Jays are guaranteed to have the World Series
decided on their home field. They'll enjoy mama's home cooked
poutine and they'll get these skyline fireworks, the whole bit
right there, it's gonna be great. As far as the Dodgers,
maybe they'll find their offense. I think they left it

(21:41):
somewhere between La and Toronto so they can find it.
It looks like they're stuck in gridlock traffic at this point.
Good luck. But it is rather incredible that Shane Bieber
and I'm not gonna I've already gotten people. Well, it's fixed,
it's it's you know, it's a scary, terry situation. Uh,

(22:03):
that guy Porter, you know it's all rigged. I'm not
going there because if that's the kid, why are we
even doing this? Like if that's if this is all
like scripted professional wrestling, Like what are we doing? I'm
as well just do something else, talk about some other
crap on the radio. I need to talk about sports
if it's all rigged. But that said, all right, that
said bieber Fever. Bieber Fever. In the World Series. He

(22:25):
was supposed to be weekend at Bernie's and the ghost
of cy Young passed Shane Bieber and he went five
plus innings and one run ball. That is an act
of God, is what You've gotta be kidding me. The
Dodgers got emasculated by the corpse of Shane Bieber. That

(22:47):
is what in the Billion Dollar Boys Club and all
that four hits, It's rather unreal when you think about it.
That's why they play it. Even Mad Max that Suresy
should've gotten his ass kicked by the Dodgers, and he
didn't get his ass kicked. So the Jays they rolled
out a couple of Beater cars and somehow they have

(23:11):
at this point taken the checkered flag as they've matched
the Dodgers blow for blow in the World Series Grand Prix,
so they're they're right there. Unfortunately, Toronto did not get
the text message. They must have been on airplane mode.
They did not get the text message that they were
supposed to roll over and play dead in the World Series.
So again we're tied up to two. Home field goes

(23:33):
back to North of the Border and it's going to
be decided either way on Canadian soul. I just haven't
won a World Series at home since I think the
nineteen sixties, so they don't usually win at home. They
won't win at home this year. They might not win
at all, might not win. You know, it's mikes a
weasel word, but the way they're playing, the bullpen returned

(23:53):
to form. They suck and the offense sucks, so what
are you gonna How do you win with that? How
do you win with a bad offense and a bad bullpen?
And they won again they shouldn't have won. So that's
where we are. So sticky situations like the Dodgers are
covered in syrup, Canadian syrup, and right now the day
is feeling pretty good.

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(27:01):
Series is tied up at two wins apiece, but our
lead is not from the World Series. Instead, it is
from the dirty Birds of Atlanta. Inching closer to the
trade deadline as it is less than a week away.
Now today is Wednesday, and that'd be next Tuesday. It
is coming Tuesday, the trade deadline. So we do the shuffle.

(27:24):
You gotta do the shuffle. Now we're talking about the
quarterback shuffle. Here is what we're talking about. And a
story has popped up which is out of the files
of the captain obvious Department of Sports Media. As we
inch closer and closer to the trade deadline, time is
running out, time is running out, and NFL teams have

(27:47):
to make those last minute moves the November fourth trade deadline,
and a quarterback has emerged on the market. Who is it, Well,
that would be Kirk Cousins, shaker of Yes, the guy
that went out there and wrote the vomit comment against
the Miami Dolphins. So he reportedly wants to start. He

(28:07):
realizes Atlanta loves them some Michael Pennix Junior, so they're
not that interested in starting him, even though he was
an emergency starter because Penex was hurt So the story is,
from what we understand, that the Falcon backup quarterback desires
an opportunity to start elsewhere. Is that really a that
shocking that someone who's a backup wants to play. Okay, However,

(28:31):
they say that no trade appears imminent or eminent imminent.
Now why because Cousins is making so much money they'd
have to take money out of Fort Knox in order
to make the trade happen. And so that's a good
jumping off point. As we get closer to the trade deadline,
let us discuss the question does a Falcon Kirk Cousins

(28:54):
trade budge the needle? Would a trade of Kirk Cousins
budge the needle in the NFL? So on this one,
I've got QBC, Drew Carey, and Spanish American War, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to have a colossal good times. What we're
gonna have? So number one, I said number one, Number

(29:19):
all right, I'm giving this one stink eye is what
I'm giving it. Okay, Kirk Cousins, if you happen to
have the misfortune of watching him play quarterback this past
weekend against the Miami Dolphins. You know where I'm going
with this. Kirk Cousins had a showcase. He was in
the display case for the entire NFL to watch against

(29:42):
a pathetic, gutless Miami Dolphin team. Even Stevie Meatballs can
see how bad the Dolphins are this year. And what happened.
Cousins went out there and slipped on a banana peal,
He did a face plant and he essentially it was
on a live infomercial for everyone in the NFL. Everyone's
watching where they're gonna watch the tape afterwards against the Dolphins.

(30:05):
This was a segment on QVC. He was on the
home shopping channel. There and the phone lines, nobody called,
nobody called bat signa and Dad giveaway. There's just not interesting.
This was supposed to be Kirk Cousins come back concert,

(30:26):
a bunch of beautiful throws. It was gonna be glorious, right,
a symphony for Kirk Cousins. Instead, it looked like an
open mic night at the local Applebee's on a Monday.
Did not go well. No touchdowns, no juice, a lot
of checkdowns, a lot of just blah blah blah blah

(30:47):
blah blah blah blah football now regardless, Right, here's the thing.
He's still a quarterback and he's gott He had success
in the NFL, so somebody all we takes the bait. Now,
the question is would Atlanta be willing to do it?
They don't have to do it, and it's better to

(31:08):
get something than nothing. If you look at the contractual
situation of Kirk, Cousins' days are limited there now looking around,
as a distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of nostra Denis,
you look around the NFL and there are a few
Lonely Hearts club members. When it comes to the quarterback position.
You're talking about the Raiders. Gino Smith can't play. The Browns,

(31:29):
they haven't had a quarterback since Bernie Cozar. The Saints,
where have you gone, Drew Brees or Lonely Hearts? Miss you?
Those teams are dumpster diving franchises. So it doesn't make
a lot of sense. You're not going anywhere. Why would
you acquire a veteran, high paid quarterback at the trade deadline.
It's one of those things. It's like it's like being
on the dating app at one fifty eight in the morning,

(31:52):
and you know, you're not finding the one. You're finding
a one, but you're not finding the one. You know
what I'm saying, looking for somebody to keep it warm.
That's essentially what those teams are looking for at this point.
This get us through the rest of the season. We'll
get a high, shiny draft pick and that'll be that.
So what does that mean? Well, when you continue to
look off in the wild blue yonder around the NFL,

(32:15):
you realize that there's only really two teams that have
any kind of intrigue when it comes to a possible
Kirk Cousins trade. Now, I'm going to make my elevator pitch,
and I want to see if you agree or disagree.
So those two teams are Survey says forty nine Ers Vikings,
that's it, that's all. That's not a list, Terry and England.

(32:38):
That's a big board. That is a big board, not
a list, a big board. So the forty nine ers
have Brock Purdy who's limping around and when he's played,
he hasn't played that Well, now he's hurt, so he's
not playing and he got paid and all that, and
then so he got that and he's limping around on
one stick on one leg and it's like he's like

(33:01):
at this point, he's like a him and Mac Jones.
Mac Jones has been playing a lot. Mac had some
decent games to start. He's fallen off the side of
the road there lately, and he's kind of like a
rental car that's got four flat tires. It's not good
to look at and all that. Then you've got Viking
red shirt rookie JJ McCarthy, who's so bad? How bad

(33:26):
is he so bad that he looked over his head
to the point where Carson Wentz was starting ahead of
a healthy JJ McCarthy, Which is not a vote of confidence,
which is not a vote of conference. Now McCarthy's a
red shirt freshman. He's supposed to come back. The Vikings
are massive underdogs against the Detroit Lions this weekend because

(33:48):
there's his thirty seven. He isn't a long term savior
for anybody. However, you need a new band aid, you know,
take off your Hello Kiddie band aid. You can put
Kirk Cousins on right. And he's got a pulse and
coaches love the father flannagain. We're gonna gonna fix this guy,
make him better with our team, and I can coach
him up and all that stuff, and quarterback desperation is undefeated.

(34:14):
The Bengals went out and traded for Joe Flacco, who
got benched by the Cleveland Browns. So if Joe Flacco
can get benched by the Cleveland Browns and then end
up being relocated to you know who, the Bengals, then okay,
So Cousins knows it. The flea market is open and
it is really the balls in the court of Atlanta

(34:35):
whether or not they want to deal with it, and
do they really value Cousins? Is it better just to
leave them? Let him leave, or you'll get some kind
of compensation. Pick I believe that's how that works. Now,
speaking of the trade deadline, we go to Jersey conflicting
reports regarding the Giants edge rusher Keevan Thibodeau, the old

(34:55):
Oregon duck Kevon Thibodeaux, who has been described as a
name to watch in quotes, name to watch in quotes
during the upcoming trading season now State sponsored propped the
news service of the NFL NFL Media. They tell us
that the teams have called the Giants trying to poach

(35:16):
Cavan Thibodeau and inquire about trading for his services, much
to the dismay of our friend the movie man, and
they have been told the Giants have no interest, no
interest in discussing a trade involving the fifth overall pick
in the twenty twenty two I believe it was NFL draft.

(35:36):
So we've got conflicting reports. You've got he said, he said,
question for you, and I'm gonna answer it first. But
I'm gonna pose the question and then i'm gonna answer.
And if you want to call up, there's a line
that opened up, so I'll give out the number in
a minute. But here it is, is Giants Edge Rusher
Cavan Thibodeaux available or not? Because again one report said

(35:56):
implied these available, and then immediately there was well the
Giants are not willing to trade him and all this stuff,
all right, So the Giants, what they're doing is they're
playing a kids game. So you know what it is.
That's right, Pikaboo, that's what they're playing. They're playing peekaboo
with the truth. You know it, and I know it.
This is what we call a Drew Carey situation. Now,

(36:18):
what is a Drew Carey situation when it comes to
the NFL trade deadline. If the price is right, you
can get the showcase Showdown. In this case, that would
be Kevan Thibodeau or go. You offer the right package
and all of a sudden you get to play. This
ain't plinko. We're not playing plinko, if you know what
I'm saying. So linebacker is actually something that the Giants

(36:39):
have a lot of. You wouldn't know it by the
way their defense is played most of the year, but
they have some name brand players. Brian Burns has been
a very good player on bad teams most of his career,
and they drafted Abdul Carter and they've they've got him.
So that was all after they went out and drafted
Kavan Thibodau, who was a Giant bust to begin his
NFL career. Let's call it like it is. He's mostly

(37:01):
been roster spam. You're the number five overall pick in
the draft. He's got no All pros, no Pro Bowls,
and the Pro Bowl they play TikTok toe. You can't
even get in a competitive game of tic tac toe
and flag football. My god. So the point is they
have some wiggle room here to trade the trade the player. Now.

(37:27):
The issue is they they were gambling that this was
going to be a breakout year Kevon was going to
go and this was the year they picked up the
fifth year options. So they're like, well, this is gonna
be great. He'll be so good, he'll be so great.
And they're still waiting, and they're waiting, and they're waiting
and they're waiting. If somebody dangles a nice big bag

(37:47):
of goodies, I mean a lot of goodies in there,
then the giants, let's say they're not putting their phone
on airplane mode. They're going to respond, They're going to
read the comments and all that stuff, and that's that.
So good luck. So yeah, technically, if you want to
get on a technicality, technically he's not available Covon Tibodeau

(38:10):
until he is. Until he is. And then a translation
for those of you a little slow in the back
of the room. Everyone's available at the right price. Everyone's
available at the right price. All right, now, final point.
We go now to Houston, the home of Mister Irrigation
and Ivan the Terrible and so many other great contributors

(38:32):
to the show. Despite him, my very passionate, spicy commentary
over the years about the cheating astro. So I saw
this and this was right in my wheelhouse. Now, to
be fair, I did not see this initially. This was
sent to me by a listener who I believe is
named Mike, who does not live in Houston, but lives
in the suburbs of Houston. He says, Ben, did you
see this? He sent me an email this afternoon and

(38:55):
he said, the Texans, So this is this is the
coach of the Texans, Tomko Ryan. Now Dimiko Ryans lectured
the media, the beat writers that cover the Texans, and
Mike wanted me to see this. So the Texans, who
as a team have been lukewarm, I think we can
all agree on that they've been luke warm most of
the season. They shown some signs of life, but not

(39:18):
consistently in just another run of the mill mediocre team. However,
despite being lukewarm the roster, they are boiling hot, at
least the coaches and Demiko Ryans, who has said many
times he doesn't care about the media, consumes the media. Yes,
Dimiko Rans gave a dissertation on media coverage and among

(39:43):
the things that he had to say, Ryan's was very upset.
Dimiko Ryans that the media, he said, everybody wants to
write a hot story. The Texans coach said, and most
of the time it's negative stuff that people want to
talk about. Nobody wants to talk about the positive stuff
that happens. Now, I added this last part boohoo hoo

(40:04):
question coach Demico Ryans of the Houston Texans. He says,
the media thrives around the Texans on negative coverage at
the very into negativity. What is your read on this one?
What is your read on this one? So on this one,
if you open up the textbook to page thirteen of
the textbook and you read right at the very top,

(40:26):
it is a textbook case of I don't care. But
let me present a research paper for five minutes on
why I don't care? Or go you care? Right? You care?
So you either ignore the noise. Might you ignore the

(40:47):
noise the concophony of sounds, or you don't. There's no
need for a ted talk. You're not the editor, you're
not the program director of the media. You're not I
don't know what podcasters have. I don't know, nobody do
it by themselves. But whatever, and You're not there to
teach the media to avoid negative headline. It's like you're

(41:09):
trying to reinvent the wheel, Like, what are you doing?
Demko Ryan? Seriously, for years it has been if it bleeds,
it leads. Now, why is that phrase popular in mass media?
If it bleeds at least? And why do I always
say the equivalent of that in sports radio the better
stories in the losing locker room? Now, why do I

(41:29):
use that phrase? I use that phrase because it's it's
the human condition is what it is. And the phrase
just give you an example of how far this goes back.
The phrase if it bleeds it leads originated in the
eighteen hundreds. Do you understand that we're talking about the
eighteen nineties during the Spanish American War. And I'm not

(41:51):
making this up. You can literally do your own research.
Shall google it, ai it, do whatever you want. This
goes back to the Spanish American War of the late
eighteen nineties when the newspaper magnet William Randolph Hurst and
if you've ever been to the Hurst Castle, you know
this guy was loaded. Okay, So William Randolph Hearst Hurst

(42:12):
realized in the newspaper business that when you sensationalize a
story of violence what happened, more people wanted to read
about it, and therefore you sold more newspapers and trickle
down economics, you made more money. So Dmiko Ryans is
acting like this is some kind of new phenomena. It

(42:33):
goes back to the eighteen nineties, dude, like, seriously, this
is how the media has operated. I would say it
goes back to the caveman in the Angerthal days when
they would draw the sabertooth tiger on the wall of
the cave to warn the others to avoid the saber
tooth tiger. You get the point. So it's again, it's

(42:54):
just human nature. That's my point. People don't click on
stories that say Texans are playing great, everything's fine. They
don't click on that. You click on sky is falling,
Texans blow, They're in trouble. You click on that story,
and you make money based on the clicks. So that's
how it works. It's essentially factory settings, is what it is.

(43:19):
And because of evolution or whatever you want to call it,
we're all even though we're all different wink wink, nod
not we're not. We're all hardwired to prioritize threats over
the warm fuzzy It's kind of you know, the warm
fuzzy stuff's fine, but you're more worried about threats. You
spot a lion out on the serengetti, you're gonna spot

(43:41):
a lion rather than sit there and admire the sunset.
You got me on that. I know. Listen, it's right
my wheelhouse. I want to think Mike, who sent me
the story, Good job by you. Low hanging fruit, which,
as I've said for years, is the most delicious fruit
is the low hanging fruit. So again, just stop whining,
Dimico Ryan. You want nice, warm coverage, go to Texans

(44:03):
dot com, which is like, you know, the Sunshine website
for the Texans. I'm sure it's all propaganda and you
probably love that, right, get your pants down there. You're
all excited and otherwise, you know, that's the content industry
that we're in. The content mill is open.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
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Speaker 1 (44:24):
Here we go, it's Mallard. How about that to the
third degree? Here? Wait, it's one Big Ben gets grilled.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
So Carson wentzen said to undergo season ending surgery on
his left shoulder, and that leaves the Vikings with only
two quarterbacks on their roster, JJ McCarthy and some guy
I've never heard of ben. Is there anyone that the
Vikings should target in a trade?

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Yeah, Jameis Winston. That's it. I mean, it's all depressing,
but Jameis Winston is fun bad. He's not bad bad,
he's fun bad. He'll at least be fun. Other than that,
it's Russell Wilson. It's Kirk Cousins. You are had Cousins.
Wilson's done. So that's it. That's the not a list.
That's the big board. It's a big board of one.
Russell Wilson's third string quarterback there behind Russ and Jackson Dart,

(45:12):
Jamis Winston next.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Kyle Shanahan told reporters on Monday that it isn't a
long shot for Brock Purty to play in Week nine
after missing the last four games in a row for
the forty nine ers. Does Party's return make san Fan
more of a threat in the NFC West.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
No, No, because he's been exposed as a second tier quarterback.
So it's about the other players. They don't have their
name brand defensive players. I'm not part of the forty
nine er Brock Purty marching in chowder society. And that said,
Mac Jones has cooled off, so Purty would be a
slight upgrade over the way Max played recently.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
Next, Tony Dungee took to social media this week to
say that the NFL needs to make every play reviewable.
This comes after the outrage over the Eagles Tush push
being called dead for forward progress when Jalen Hurts had
the ball rip from his hands.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Ben, do you think Dungee's right about this? Yes, Let's
make every game like Game four or three of the
World Series. Make every game six hours and thirty nine minutes.
We'll just keep going and go. How we done? Cobo up?
Come on, I want, I won, Michael Africa on, I won,
I won, I did.

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Speaker 3 (46:35):
Gear Rye gear Rye to nine, gear ry to nine,
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Speaker 4 (46:42):
Yeah, that's right. You heard the man. It's time for
some love here on the Ben Mallor Show. And I
just want to give a little warning out there for
all you people in situationships. Okay, yeah, your delusion can
only take you so far.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
Swash yourself all right? Were emailing me, Lorena? Then apparently
I made him a mistake. Here is it? Was it
your birthday this week?

Speaker 4 (47:05):
It was my birthday?

Speaker 1 (47:07):
You didn't say anything about it. I didn't want to
be what's that called? That's the word. Okay, Yeah, I
don't know your I'm not.

Speaker 4 (47:15):
I'm sure you saw my post.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
On I don't go on. I'm telling you I really.

Speaker 4 (47:21):
Well, I'm officially thirty three, and you'll be invited into
my birthday.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
Well, what is it? Was your birthday yesterday? It was Monday, Monday,
so this is two days after your birthday. But because
did you know about this? Coop? Yes? Why didn't I
know about it?

Speaker 4 (47:35):
He didn't get me any balloons either.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
I didn't. I had no idea.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
You got.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
Only and Coop only knew because he knows that I'm
going to plan my birthday party on his birthday weekend.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
And it actually made him mad. Oh you have you
have a big party. Well that is true, that.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
Is yes, and you will be invited.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
But I didn't know it was.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Your birthday before that incident happened.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
We're wasting valuable time. This is very important. We're doing
God's work here. Happy birth, Taylor, And I apologize I
did not know Arbio season. Okay, Lady Cydeburn says, how
do I dress my partners downstairs? Smelling issue? Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (48:12):
I just had this conversation with my friend the other day,
like how far have you gotten before you got turned off?
And I was like, no, that's why you got to
test it first, right, But if she really does have
an issue, you should have her go to the doctor.
Might have a bacterial infection, and don't use like sprays
to cover up the scent.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
That's not how that works. No, No, what if you
put like a clip on your nose.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
You can still taste it?

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Oh hello, all right, there you go. Rob the goat
Man says dating advice for everyone. When is the ideal
time to let that first? The one rip? You know,
just let one rip? Do?

Speaker 4 (48:48):
I think the best time is either accidentally or like
when you're asleep, right, Like they can't blame you if
you're sleeping. But for me, the first time one of
my boyfriends farted around me, we were like playing, so
he picked me up, and by picking me up, it
put pressure on him and.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
He parted it.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Ah, so it's your fault. Yeah, you cause that.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
And but you know, the embarrassment was there for both people.
So laugh about it, laugh about it, move on, and
make sure you didn't eat anything nasty that day because
you really can smell it.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
So avoid the garlic and the onions. Yeah, maybe some
pineapple or something delicious. Well, speaking of that, JT. The
Wingman writes in from Knoxville. He says, is there a
particular food that puts a lady in the mood? You?
Of course, representing all women, Lorena would know what every
other woman likes that gets her all giddy.

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Yeah, that's a that's a good one because they say oyster?
Is that afrodij Yeah? I like the slurping motion of it.
I mean, think about what the man does with his
mouth when he eats.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
I mean the oysters.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
There's things that are really unattractive to watch a man eat.
So don't don't like hot dogs around her or something
like that.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Okay, all right, well, open wide baby, depends what you're into.
Blind Scott is up, bellow, blind Scott, what's up?

Speaker 5 (50:09):
Larry Bird? Birthday?

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Thank you?

Speaker 5 (50:11):
I know I don't have much I know I don't
have much time up again, so this is a serious question.
I was dating someone just like me, like a year ago,
and you know, I look at myself as the biggest celebrity.
But we were being made fun of in public. They
might be listening right now. They're like me, They're like, uh,
you know, non binary. But we were being made fun
of so bad. I just dumped them. I feel like
I want to get back together with them, But you

(50:31):
think like, since they're autistic, I directly told them that
I didn't like them anymore. You think that I can
recover this relationship. I'll take the questions off the air.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Well, no, I do you really want to? I mean,
what do you do?

Speaker 4 (50:43):
I kind of like this question to be honest with you.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
On the dating, was he dating on the spectrum? Was
that what he was doing?

Speaker 4 (50:51):
A lot of people have to date on the spectrum.
More people are on the spectrum than you'd imagine, which
is why probably are a lot or single.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Make sure you communicate Okay, I've been to the Spectrum.
It was in Philadelphia Basketball Arena.

Speaker 4 (51:01):
It's a beautiful place, beautiful place to Yeah, they find
really good relationships, sure about that. Yeah, just make sure
you know, you know what you do want and if
you're okay to handle the pressure of being in a
public relationship with that person or you know, keep them
under the covers.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
There you queen of Hearts with love arena. Well.

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Speaker 1 (51:36):
We go, and we sail over to Daniel in Port Wayne, Indiana,
America's favorite crossing guard. Hello Daniel, Good morning Ben.

Speaker 5 (51:45):
How are we doing?

Speaker 1 (51:46):
If I was any better, I would be a Dodger,
but not an LA Dodger because they lost the World
Series game last week. So yeah, yeah, anyway, you're gonna play,
who do you want to partner up with? Sir Dan,
I gotta go with you. You didn't say I'm in
it to win it and all that. You just said,
I'm gonna go with you. I appreciate that whole. On
a second, and we have Mitch in man Cato. Hello, Mitch,

(52:10):
Hello Ben, how are you Mitch? You ready to go?
My man? If I was any better, I'd be a Viking.
But not a Minnesota Viking, because you know right they
got their doors blown off by the chargers last week.
Who do you want? You want you play with? Oraina
or Coop? Who do you want to play with? Cool? Okay,
there you go, Coop? Yeah, okay, all right, you said it.

(52:33):
You don't never beat it. Daniel in Fort Wayne. We
have a list of words. Uh well, it's a big
more of a big board. Please pick a number one
to ten, number one, number number number three. Alright, let's
go with blah blah blah blah blah. How about now?

(52:55):
I believe this is one word. It's it's a conjoined word,
which is one word? Yes, all right, it is low price.
You're looking at it right here, he says, low It's
a conjoined word, low price.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
It is?

Speaker 6 (53:16):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (53:16):
Daniel? All right? All right? God, let's go with inexpensive.
He che guys dummer, your guys dumber.

Speaker 6 (53:35):
If it wasn't the answer for him, I'm gonna be
the answer for us.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
How about you? All right, it will get economical. How
about that? You go all right, we're on the board.
Go ahead, pick a number of bis. I mention, I
love you because you really upset Coop and I love that.
I really am happy for you that you've annoyed Coop
so much. I know that's that's the beauty, that's that's

(54:00):
why it's special.

Speaker 6 (54:00):
Go ahead, pick a number, please, Mitch, pick a number,
he says, say five, five, okay, hurry hurry up.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
Coat big again, coat co o a T coat, hurry up.
Three two say Awork, you lose, Coop, you lose. Bad
clues by you. Coop is now walking away in defeat.
He's given up.