December 17, 2025 • 53 mins
Big Ben talks about the New York Knicks winning the NBA Cup over the Spurs and what it means (or doesn't) for the franchise, Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel toying with the idea of benching Tua Tagovailoa, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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Now, normally we have to wait till the summertime to
crown a champion. But when you just make one up
out of thin air, you can keep. Make sure you
have more than one. Let's have like three or four
of these fugazy Cup championship things. As we are in
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But we don't talk much basketball because players don't really
try that much. You have to pay them a lot
of money to get them to put some effort into that.
But we will begin with the only game in town.
I will credit the NBA scheduling. They did not schedule
us on a Sunday, a Thursday or a Monday. They
waited till the Tuesday. But our lead this hour from
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VVA Las Vegas VVA Las Vegas, and that is where
championships are crowned. Well, I guess Adam Silver's wet dream
Year three year three played out again. And no, I
am not on the NBA pay roll, so I do
not have to sit here and say this is good,
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because it's not. But there they were. They were out
there running around in Vegas, crown a champion. It's a
T shirt and hat kind of a game in the NBA.
Were you watching, Probably not. It wasn't even on television.
It was on the stream, not on television. Now we
used a machete to go into the Amazon and to
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watch oh G and a Newby twenty eight points, Jalen
Brunson twenty five points and apartures in a pear tree.
And the New York Nicks, for the first time in
my life are the champions. They had to make up
a championship for the Knicks to win a championship, and
they beat Wemby. They beat Victor Wembanyaba and the Spurs
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who choked in the fourth quarter. They Knicks win by
eleven a Fugezi. NBA Cup goes to New York and
so congratulations, first title in over fifty years. If you're
a loser and count this as a championship for the
woe begone New York Knicks. How cute is that you
had Jalen Brunson, he got the NBA Cup MVP. How
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special is that?
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Man?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
You always remember that? So special? Carl Anthony Towns, kitty
cat see Minnesota. You traded a winner. How could the
Timberwolves have traded Karl Anthony Towns? Oh my god, sixteen points,
eleven rebounds. He did miss a bunch of this game
with injury, but they ended up winning year, the champs
of the Big Apple as the New York Knicks get
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it done. And Mike Brown, Oh how about this Mike
Brown doing what pat Riley couldn't do. And Jeff Van
Gundy and every other stiff Nick coach, Mike D'Antoni, all
these other clowns, Don Nelson, all these guys that passed through.
But may you always remember nicely w championship. It's a
special night, and here's Mike Brown. One of the great
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moments in the NBA history. The next winning the NBA Cup.
In any event where you're the last one standing and
you're able to hang a banner especially iconic. MSG. You
take that seriously, and all of our guys took it seriously.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
But the most exciting part about it is I feel
like we're in New Low.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Right, let's go right gone, what fans we got love?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It goes?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah. Of course he said the same thing when he
coached the Lakers and he coached Cleveland. It's it's like
a bad stand up comedian. You're the greatest crowd I've
ever had. Let me tell you us that I was
in Detroit last night. The people in Detroit were a holes, right,
and that you were doing. You did that in Cleveland.
Then you go the next time over, you go to Pittsburgh. Well,
bet me time. I was in Cleveland last night. Those
people were schmucks. But you peep. But it's a great crowd.
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I'm a rack, all right. So let's discuss here as well.
Set your Liberty is down the street from that arena.
It's New York, New York. They have that right there.
So let us discuss the question what does this Knickerbocker's
in quote NBA Cup Championship in quotes, what does this
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do for the franchise of this title? So I've got
snow globe, crude oil, and deadwood, and we will combine
all of these things together and we'll charge you fifty
bucks to park, because that's how they roll in Vegas,
where they try to screw over the people that visit
that town with overpriced parking and no freebies anymore, because
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the corporations have taken over and they are a bunch
of losers. I think you also have a dirty water
dog and a soft pretzel if you want. But those
soft pretzels in New York anyway, are the same consistency
of the concrete that you walk on. So a my
first thought is the New York Knicks have done it.
They have done it. Baby, Oh my god. I hugged
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Jason Smith in the hallway, my friend, longtime Nick suck Up.
I said, I've known you. We used to do radio
back years ago. I said, man, finally you get to celebrate.
You gotta get a T shirt, you gotta get a hat.
You're a champion. And he' said big smile, cheshire cat
smile on his face. They was so happy there. But
you got to cue the trumpets right when you win.
You cue the trumpets, you release the doves, you alert
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the Smithsonian the knicker Bockers have won the cup. They
have whatever that is. I don't even know what it is.
They just made it up three years. They didn't even
have that. The first year it was called the NBA
Plays Something tournament. I don't remember what's called they then
they changed it. They threw a corporate sponsor on it,
because that makes everything kosher when you put a corporate
sponsor on it. And that's right, you get the Fughese
Trophy Capital left Fugheze congratulations. There a glorified stocking stuffer
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for the Knickerbockers. The Diet Doctor Pepper Championship for New York. Now,
some NBA pundits who you know, are deep up the
tuckis of Adam Silver. They're acting like the New York
cracked the Da Vinci Code by winning Miss Champion. Jim
had Jalen Brunts. They pretended like it was a real thing.
They all played along. Of course, I was getting paid
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out of money money. I would play along as well.
So Jalen Brunson was your little MVP, and that's special,
that's good. He won the MVP. Og Ananobi was cooking
with gas. He was cooking gas and Carl Anthony Towns,
Carl Anthony's he was crawling. Uh he was. He was
out there like a lion. Normally he plays like a
house cat. But no, no a. And suddenly the Knickerbocker
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is this twenty twenty five, twenty six vintage of the Knicks.
This was a Broadway revival. The Demon Slayer is what
it was. You're talking about slaying demons in December in
like game twenty five or something like that. You be dispersed. Congratulations,
Tim Duncan did not score no points at all. Tony
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Parker shut down, completely shut down. Congraduate's mazeltough to the
New York Knicks on winning. There James Dolan running around
the Big Apple like he just dunked in the face
of pat Riley and Jeff Van Gundy and all the
other stiffs that he's paid to coach the Knicks over
the years.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
There.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
See, you can't be a dirt bag owner who won
a championship. You see, I won a championship. I'm James Dolan,
I'm a schmuck and I want a championship because I
had to come up with a made up championship. Calm
down there, Calm down, This is not the Lombardy. Of
course they give that out in football. This is like
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I saw it. It looked like a like a snow
globe from Times Square gift shop. That's the trophy that
you win. You win a snow globe from a Times
Square gift shop. Congratulations. So the NBA, as Mike Brown
alluded to the Hobo coach Mike Brown, that the NBA
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mandates that you put up this is so great. You
put up a banner so good. It was embarrassing when
the Lakers did it, we mocked them. I think Milwaukee
won last year. That was stupid. And the Knicks, all
those rich people on Wall Street going to Manisburgh. Look
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there's a championships won by the Rangers, and then there's
the Knicks championships you know, back in the seventy and
then oh look there's twenty twenty five championship. This is
the equivalent of hanging a finger painting made by your
kindergartener at the Louver's so great. Oh so they gotta
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sell the championship hat and merch the T shirts. I
saw the players wearing the T shirts after the game
and the hats, so they'll sell those. Well, the Knicks. Next,
they're gonna summer a championship hangover so good. You don't
normally play right after you win a championship. I mean
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you take a couple of months on. Are they gonna
struggle down because they won their little championship. You can
have a hangover from the room temperature water you got
in Vegas. As Matthew mcconnie, he said that iconic scene
in the Wolf of Wall Street fu gayzy foghazzi woozy.
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It's fairy dust. It doesn't exist. And you can put
that cup in a piggy bank and it's still going
to be empty. The piggy bank is still going to
be empty. Now, meanwhile, someone that gets it. Page two here,
Sir Charles has chimed in Charles Barkley. Now he recently
unloaded prior to this event, mind you, on the NBA
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Cup speaking with a long time I got whacked from
his job on the sports radar of the Bay Area.
But Tom Tolbert, longtime Bay Area gash back. Now he's
doing a podcast like everyone else is, and so he
had Barkley on because Tolbert knows Barkley because he used
play in the NBA and played against Barkley. So Charles
Barkley confirmed that he hates hates the fact that the tournament,
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the NBA Cup, is all about that prize money and
they have to entice the players to prioritize those games
because the regular season the players obviously don't care. We
all know that it's an open secret here. And Barkley
called it ridiculous that they had to pay the players
essentially a bounty here to get them to play with
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extra efforts. So the question how did Charles Barkley's statement
about the NBA Cup being embarrassing? How did that sound
to you? So listen, Charles Barkley, obviously preaching to the choir.
It was a symphony. It was an absolute symphony. Every note,
every note was great. It was just a standing ovation.
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Bravo to Charles Barkley. Does it again at cacoffny of goodness,
cacoffny of goodness from Charles Barkley. Here, Sir Charles, Now
he did not genuflect to the altar of staying of Adam.
So I was gonna say, stan Van Gundal's watching the game,
so you wouldn't have to. And I'm pretty sure stan
Van Gundy had knee pads with Adam Silver's face on him.
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I mean he was really going to town. I mean,
tell you take a breath there, stand calm down. He
was praising the cup. And what a great thing was
Dwayne Wade, who's terrible as a broadcaster. Brother, I think
God is on Amazon. No one watches him, but God
does he suck so dway, Dwayne Wade was on there
and he didn't know what to say, so he was
just kind of agreeing with Stan van Gundy. But Stan
should get a room. He wants he wants that job,
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he loves that his good pang job NBA broadcaster. And
no one watches those games, so nobody cares what he says.
But I happen to be watching. And man, that was
some major sucking up to management by Stan van Gundy, Like, dude,
get a room so bad now. This is this is
how you juxtapost Charles Barkley to Stand Van Gundy. Charles
Barkley not a houseman, Stan van Gundy, houseman, big difference there.
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Charles Barkley is crude oil right, he's raw, he's unfiltered.
He stains the carpet. The whole thing tells the truth,
whether you like the smell or not. Okay, and calling
the NBA Cup embarrassing is not a hot take by
Charles Mark. It's basic math. It's basic math on the
mountain of bad ideas. On the mountain of bad ideas,
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this gimmick is parked right near the summit, right near
the summit, on the mountain of bad ideas, just below
Adam Silver spending years, years defending load management as a
sound strategy while the product, the quality of the product,
quietly fell apart like a stale churrow right in front
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of his fat face. Not fatty skinny, but you get
the point. Think about this. The NBA had to bring
in essentially the Keebler elves. They had to bring in
a bunch of elves here and wave a pot of
gold at the end of the rainbow. To get these
entitled players to try hard. They had to say, hey, fellas,
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let me dangle five. I have one hundred plus thousand
dollars and please try in December. Thank you, signed Adam
love y'all. Okay, meanwhile, this is what I don't get
about that, and maybe I'm wrong, and you can call up.
I'll give out the number in a few minutes, you
can explain why I'm misguided. I don't understand why this
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is such a big deal. The average salary, the median
salary in the NBA is twelve million dollars. Do you
understand the median salaries? Told me as well. Okay, that's
just because there's a lot of guys making fifty million. Okay,
So the minimum getting salary, Like you know how you
hired at McDonald's, you get minimum wage if you're hired
by the NBA. The minimum salary, you know what it is?
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You don't, Okay, what do you think you think? Oh
you had a number? Okay, the minimum salary one point
two million. Let me repeat that for the yeah in
the back, one point two million. Uh now again where
I come from. If you make one point two million,
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you are wait for it, you're rich, is what you are. Okay.
So you don't have to shovel snow to make a
couple of extra bucks. You don't have to take an
extra job with delivering food or whatever. You don't have
to do any of that stuff. You're not eating the
Marcella and Brooklyn noodles and of Noodle's diet. You're not
doing Ramen and Adam Silver again. I go back to
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the point, this bozo Adam Silver, who the NBA media
doesn't want to criticize because they love Adam Silver because
they get access. Adam Silver nurtured this culture. He did right,
and now his little baby has grown up into a
fire breathing monster, a giant dragon, a three headed dragon.
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It has happened. It's all grown up now, congratulations, all
grown up. And the only way to get the players
to care about a regular season event is to bribe them.
That is not innovation, Adam Silver, that is not That
is desperation is what that is? All right? Meanwhile, last
word to La La land we go. We have a
follow up, follow up to a story we talked about
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a couple of weeks ago. It has now been a
few weeks since Chris Paul was unceremoniously excommunicated from Clipper Nation.
Clippers sent him home in the middle of the night,
in the middle of the night on a road trip,
and the point guard has not been released now. He
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wasn't eligibly to be traded until this week, so he
is eligibly betraded now. But according to a new deep
dive that popped up on the interweb, the world Wide Web.
A story came out about the separation between Chris Paul
and the Clippers, and it was some dirty laundry that
got aired there. According to this new report, the chatter
that Chris Paul his leadership was like grating cheese is
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what it was on the front office and the coaching
staff there. In particular, there was a new revelation that
Chris Paul got into a verbal brew haha with Jeff
Van Gundy. But you j justapo Stan Van Gundy wearing
knee pads for Adam Silver and Jeff Van Gundy who
was taken off television for being critical of the NBA
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hmm things that make you go hmm. So supposedly these
guys did not get along. There was an argument that
has now been reported between Van Gundy on a chartered
flight from Miami to Atlanta about defensive assignments. Apparently Chris
Paul didn't really play much defense. And Chris Paul met
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with Lawrence Frank, who I guess is the general manager
of the Clippers there whatever doing a hell of a
job this year, So then they had to get together there.
They said, hey, you know, we're going to fire your ass.
We're going to send you back to LA That's it.
And so CP three was blindsided. He even used a
teammate as a character witness according to this story that
was out there. So the question how does this late
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report of Chris Paul getting into a sparring match with
Jeff Van Gundy, How does this one? How does this
hit you? So we actually brought in for this Malamala.
We brought in Judge Judy, and Judge Judy has ruled,
She's banged her gavel and she's determined that this is
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much like divorce court irreconcirable differences, you know, case closed.
That's it. And this is the keep on this version
that came out. This is the Clippers version of what happened.
This is a carefully crafted story leaked by the Clippers
to a useful idiot in the media, and it's a
crime scene reconstruction of what happened through their eyes and surprise, surprise, surprise,
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CP three is holding the smoking gun. In their version
of the story. They escorted him to the exit. The
People's team decided that the vibe was toxic sludge and
they had to get rid of Chris Paul and make
no miss and this is a counter leak, right, this
is counter league and the truth is somewhere in between
what Chris Paul said when he used Lou Williams as
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his useful idiot to can't claim and Lou Williams was
the carrier pigeon there and they go, well, you know,
I was just holding everyone accountable. That was Chris Paul's
version of events. Now the Clippers have decided to clap
back and they're like, this guy's washed, he's uncoachable, he's
a bad teammate. The guy's dead wood. And you know
what happens. You don't have to be a gardener, but
if you know anything about gardening and you have dead
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wood there, you got to get rid of those dead branches.
You grab your shears and you start chop chopping, and
that's what you do. You don't negotiate with the dead branches.
You just get rid of them. And if you had
a sparting match between Jeff Van Gundy and washed up
Chris Paul, you're gonna take Jeff Van Gun. I was
Jeff Van Gundy was the coach of the team. I
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like that guy. Chris Paul's not gonna win that fight.
And and the part which really you can tell it
with some of the Clippers because it makes Chris Paul
look like a complete dope. The story that CP three
brought in brook Lopez as a character witness. He's getting
fired by the Clippers and he brings in brook Lopez.
See players like me. Brook Lopez likes me? Oh my god,
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what is this? Small claims court? Is that what we're
doing now? Your honor Kawhi also likes me. He likes yeah.
I know he doesn't play. I know, I know he
doesn't like basketball. I know. Well he's got that other
side hustle. He's got to do the endorsement thing, you know,
the no show Yeah that job? Yeah sure, why not?
This is like desperation theater. Desperation theater. Now, the thing
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that is hilarious to me is the Clippers have not
traded Chris Paul. The Clippers have not released Chris Paul.
Chris Paul is taking up space. This is how much
the Clippers loathe Chris Paul. Okay, he's not been released.
He is eligibly to be traded. Now they haven't traded him. Now,
why have they done that? They want to stick it
to Chris Paul. He is stuck in no madg Len.
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He's on the Siberian holding pattern, not the Siberian Express.
The Siberian holding pattern is what he's on here. And
they suck this year. It is a pathetic group of
basketball players that are just horrific. There's got to be
something else going on with that. We're not sure what.
I'm sure it'll come out at some point here, some
kind of behind the scenes stuff. But man, they're terrible.
It's unwatchable. I've watched them in a while and I
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don't plan on too. They're not worth my time. My
time's very valuable. I don't have time to watch bad
you know, people that aren't trying to compete and stuff
like that. Not worth my time. But man, you follow them,
malamath Chris Paul. His leadership started to become a nag
and a pain in the ass, and the room, the
locker room, parts of it revolted. And so CP three
f around play stupid games, win stupid prizes. So there
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Got through the basketball, We survived that no one died.
Last hour as the Knicks congratulations, the NBA season is over.
The Knicks have won the championship. They gave out T
shirts and hats and all the merch and they're gonna
raise a banner. So all you guys freaking out about,
oh my god, the NBA season is gonna go on forever. No,
it's not. They just gave a championship. You can't keep
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playing when you give out a championship. But our lead
this hour from South Beach, and we have a mantra
on this show. Bad sports makes good sports radio. And
so after getting Mommy wa in Pittsburgh by the weather,
not by the Steelers, by the weather as they turned
into teal popsicles, and the Dolphins now being decommissioned from
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the playoff race. In the AFC SO head coach Mike
McDaniel hinting that a change under center is coming down
the pike. And if you didn't hear this, perhaps not.
He was somewhat vague about it. However, the tone is important.
You're here is the very well spoken head coach of
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the Dolphins. You hear the question and the answer. Here's
Mike McDaniel being asked about a possibility of making a
change under center. Take a list. Are you considering a
quarterback change this week?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Well, I think the quarterback play last night was not
good enough and so for me, nothing's on the table.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
And who would you consider going to if you make
a change?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Well, I think that you know, we're in the process
of game planning for or the Cincinnati Bengals. So in
that process, we're trying to determine who'll give us the
best chance to win. And I'll probably give you more
clarity on that tomorrow. As we are I think fourteen
hours removed from the game.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Well not anymore. We're doing the overnight show, so we're
more than fourteen hours. But I was that was a
SoundBite there, And does anyone say um and ah more
than Mike McDaniel Is there anyone? I play a lot
of these coaching sound bites from different coaches. I don't
know anyone. One of my favorite radio shows when I
was a kid, they used to goof on the UM
and US the athletes that said the UM and the
OZ and this guy would have had the old guy
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used to listen to on the radio. What had a
field day with Mike McDaniels. So again you heard it.
He was asked point blank whether the Dolphins would make
a quarterback change and he said the quarterback play last
night meeting in the Monday night game was not good enough.
So everything is on the table. That is a good
jumping off point. Let us get into this and discuss
the question for the esteem panel. What do you read
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in what do you read into the Dolphins head coach
hinting at a benching on the horizon for two a
tongue of Ayilawa. So my observations, I've got thoroughbred racehorse
magic eraser and the mench on the bench and we
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will combine all of these things together and we are
going to have a Smorgasborg is what We're going to have.
Unbelievable ar So number number WA, the benching seed has
been planted. If you've ever done any gardening, you plant
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the seed. Now not every time you plant the seed
does the seed turn into profit. Got a lot of
farmers I've met you guys over the years, A lott
of you in the Midwest are working on farms, getting
up early, doing the things you have to do. And
I do appreciate that that dad when it was Minnesota,
couple was there and they're farmers. They had a family
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farm and they were like the last in the generation
and the kids that wanted nothing to do with it.
And so I don't know what. I haven't heard from
them in a while. It's been a couple of years,
but I remember having a very nice conversation. But the
point is, if you farm, if you're a farmer and
you plant the seed. In our little world of sporty talk,
when you plant the seed and that's been planted in
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South Florida, once the seed hits the soil in this case,
the nice beaches, and the Sandy Beach is there in
South Beach. The quarterback is already halfway into the transfer
porter at that point, and they're going to give that
quarterback the tools of ignorance, a clipboard and a headset,
and then that's it. And over my couple of years
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you give or take a couple of years doing this job.
This becomes a self fulfilling prophecy when you get this
kind of a vague statement. The moment you talk about
the possibility of benching the big money quarterback, the clock
starts ticking louder than a microwave just after three in
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the morning. This chapter, it's not a great chapter, but
this chapter of the Dolphins has been a boone doggle
with a capital B, big B boone doggle. The Dolphins,
for reasons beyond comprehension, handed to a tongue of Aila
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two hundred and twelve million US dollars. And now they're
looking back at that. The brass in Miami is looking
back at that, and they're looking at the receipt and
they're like, wait a minute, I mean, we thought we
bought a racehorse, a thoroughbred racehorse, And it turns out
we got a horse that has bad legs. That's what
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we got. Look at the cold numbers for Tua the
last nine games, that's more than half the season. Tua
ten touchdowns, eleven interceptions, a passer rating of eighty one.
That is your two hundred million dollar quarterback. That is
not elite. That is a Kille Smoothie is what that is.
(29:18):
That's kill smoothie football. Nobody wants kill smoothie football. That's
what that is. Miami eliminated from playoff consideration, and so
the season is a wrap. Now. The plan B, which
Mike McDaniel didn't want to mention because everyone would have
started laughing. The Plan B in this boondoggle would be
Jets cast off Zack Wilson. Yep, that Zach Wilson. Zach Wilson,
(29:44):
which is when you have Zach Wilson or what Tua's
giving you, it's kind of like choosing do I want
to go to the electric chair or would I rather
have a nice lethal injection? Which one would be better
for me? Yeah? Sure? Now, Now, Zach Wilson his camp,
and I've heard this from a couple of people I
deal with who are in that world. The belief among
the people around Zach Wilson is he is going to
(30:06):
ride the coattails of Daniel Jones. That's his plan. The
people around him, they're going to campaign for him to
be the Daniel Jones of twenty twenty six. Daniel Jones
went to Minnesota for a little bit after the Giants
fired him, and then he went to Indianapolis and played
well for about seven games and then fell apart after
that and then got hurt. But he wants to be that, right,
(30:29):
Daniel Jones for a couple of games became Indiana Jones,
a folk hero in the Hoosier State Redemption Avenue. It
was all there, It was all there, and even that
pipe dream, of course ended because Daniel Jones forgot to
pray and he ended up going to the Temple of
Doom and his season was over. But now the Dolphins,
(30:49):
they never used the word bench. They didn't use the
word bench. They didn't say, hey, we're going to bench.
Tua certainly whispered it. The implication was made by Mike McDaniel.
And the whispers get louder, and they go faster, louder
and faster the whispers, and so this is also keep
(31:09):
in mind another nail in the coffin. If the Dolphins
do this, it is another nail in the coffin for
Boy Wonder, the coffee Coffee drinking my podcast hosting amman
a coach, the Umanah coach, Mike McDaniel, who was brought
in as the whiz kid, the offensive genius Boy Wonder
(31:30):
from the forty nine ers, and then he was gonna
scheme up to uh and the Dolphins. We're gonna let
the good times roll, the good times, and you're gonna
go to a higher level. And how's that working out? Yeah?
Not good? All right?
Speaker 9 (31:43):
Now?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Now staying in Miamy Page two, though, we stay in Miami.
And whether he's benched now or later, I have a
feeling we'll be talking about this a lot this these
next couple of shows this week is you know, this
is our Wednesday show and we've got a couple of
shows left in the week, and this will be a
story that we revisit. But that makes that whether he's
benched immediately or they waited another week to bench to
(32:04):
a it's all but carved in stone that he will
be exiting stage left from South Beach, which begs the question,
and here it is if to a tongue of I
LOA is truly d and e with the Dolphins, where
does he end up next? So I wrote on the
(32:27):
back of a napkin while watching the NBA Cup, because
I'm a loser, I wrote on the back of a napkin.
There that the people around to. Here's how you sell
to it. He's twenty eight years young. He's not even thirty.
He's still got prime years left in his football career.
(32:48):
He led the NFL on passing yards a couple of
years ago with the Dolphins, he led the NFL and
completion percentage another season in Miami. All that jazz, all
that jive right, all that jive us needs a change
of scenery. They'll say, like you just put them in
a different set of laundry, and all of a sudden,
(33:08):
it's like a magic eraser and abra cadabra, hocus pocus.
We're on our way. We're on our way there. Good
luck on that. Of course, the spin doctors have their version.
Now we live in a little town called Realityville, and
the whispers point out that Tua has got popcorn problems.
(33:29):
They keep popping up. Here Toa's arm strength is a
flatter than weak old soda, So good luck on that,
and a lot of a lot of ducks. He loves ducks.
He loves throwing wounded ducks. The interception to a through
in the Monday night game against the Steelers was example
one of the examples of that. It was just not good.
There a lot of floaters, a lot of floaters, and
(33:52):
you don't like to see those in the toilet. And
you know what I'm saying anyway, So it's just bad.
It's bad, bad, bad, bad, bad bad bet And the
vibe Tua has settled in to being the last couple
of years dependably boring, is what he's now. I am
the mayor of Realityville. Tua is the mayor of Dollsville.
(34:15):
It's a little town next to Realityville. It's called Dolesville.
And once the temperature dips below forty degrees in Dolesville,
forget about it. The whatcha mcaulleague does not work. It
just doesn't. The whole system freezes. It's like a busted
vending machine, is what it is. And so where does
he land? Where does Tua land? You know how we
(34:36):
decide these things. The malar wheel of spec yelation and
We're gonna spin the malar wheel of specul around round.
Big money, big money, big money. No, webbies stop, all right,
the malor wheel of speculation. Now, if you look at
it right now and the wheel stop right you can
see it because it's on the radio. Oh you can't
see it because the raid. So the wheel is stopped,
and you look at this and Tua packing his bags
(34:57):
right now, he's getting fitted for some new merch as.
The magic wheel of speculation says warm weather only is
what it says, warm weather only. That's what it says
on the magic malar wheel of speculation. Year. That means Saints, Raiders, Cardinals, Rams,
(35:18):
Oh no, not the Rams. Climate controlled football. The malar
wheel of speculation is never wrong. It is never very wrong.
The malar wheel of speculation. It is not so cold
weather teams need not apply. We are talking limited. It's
like back in the old days in baseball they had
the American League had the designated hitter and the National
(35:38):
League had the pitcher hitting. So if you were a
designated hitter, you were limited to about half the teams
in baseball. If you're Tua, you can't play in any
cold weather environment. Not that the Patriots need a quarterback.
But Baltimore, the Patriots, the Jets, the Giants, they're out right.
You can't go there. You can't go to Cleveland because
it's too cold there in the winter time. So you
(35:59):
could go to like the Detroit because they've got a
dome where you can go to Minnesota somewhere like that.
But I'm gonna go Saints, Raiders, Cardinals, Rams, climate controlled
of football to us. Next chapter is not about upside,
it's about sunshine. It's about such and a dome. We'll
take a dome. You play a dome anyway, all right,
(36:19):
final point to the boom tube. We go what Yeah,
we're talking boobs the boob tube. So let's start with
the apparent grassroots. So I got one of the big
fans of the show is in the Boston area. His
name is Mike. I don't mention his name or everybody
sends me stories and I usually don't right back because
I'm a douche. But he sent me a story about
(36:40):
people have been very upset with Tony Romo. So I
fell down this rabbit hole, and it does appear there's
a grassroots movement to boot Tony Romo from the number
one chair on CBS. Now, a few media pundits have
gone scorched earth on mister Romo that he is regressed
as a broadcaster. He's regressed. Claims have been made that
(37:05):
he has spent more time golfing working on his putting
than he has on his preparation for the television job.
So there's also been some support for J. J. Watt.
Yes that JJ Watt of Houston, Texans fame to be
promoted to the top chair on those broadcasts. So the
(37:28):
question becomes, what are the chances that CBS demotes Tony
Romo during this NFL season? There's three weeks ago and
then CBS has got a bunch of playoff games, So
what are the chances that Romo gets demoted? All right?
So I when I saw this, I was like, Okay,
(37:48):
this is really And then I kept reading about it
and I was learning more about it, and I was
just laughing inside. I'm laughing. I'm not laughing outside. By inside,
I'm laughing. I'm coughing up confetti, is what I'm doing.
As a proud Back in the day, Romo sexual when
Tony played for the Dallas Cowboys and we had a
talk show to do on a daily basis back in
(38:09):
his Dallas days. Let's check in on the Mallards Sportsbook
the odds of Tony Romo being demoted by CBS during
the season, barring some kind of Sharon Moore type scandal,
we are going to go Mallard Sportsbook odds zero point
(38:32):
zero zero, as in squad douche bupkis. Okay, that's what
we're going with. Goose egg donut, no frosting, nothing extra
on the doughnut. That's what we're going with. Yeah, that's
a great SoundBite that's from those days, that comes from
that era, the Ben Maler Show. We had so many
(38:53):
great callers back then, and there's only a couple of
them in the left, like Blind Scott some other guys
that were part of that era on the show. So
a little birdie with a very big beak, A little
birdie with a big beak tells me the bosses at
the Columbia Broadcasting Systems, better known by their gangster name CBS,
are smitten kittens with Tony Romo. Tony Romo described as
(39:21):
the mench on the bench. No, he's not Jewish, the
mensch on the bench. Prince charming of the telestrator. He
is bewitching to those that he's around, and even if
he wasn't all of those things, even if he was
a schmock like Bill Belichick. Right, here's the killer to
the grassroots movement. CBS is paying for better or worse,
(39:43):
Tony Romo eighteen million dollars per season. He is signed
through twenty thirty. So if you do the math, and
if you demote him, that's fine, you still have to
pay him. CBS would have to pay Romo to be
a number two, number three broadcaster or unemployed seventy two
(40:03):
million to go away. There's not enough barbecue sauce in
the entire state of Texas because real barbecue doesn't need sauce.
I've tried to explain that to my wife. She says, no,
you need sauce. I said, no, you don't go to
Kansas City, great Barbecue, Grece, Barbecue Town. I've been to.
It's Kansas City. They don't have sauce. They don't need
the sauce. I mean, it's optional, you don't have to
have it. But anyway, they're not going to demote him.
(40:24):
That's the point. They're not going to demote Romo, it's
not happening, not now, and has Romo's act on stale.
I haven't noticed. I flip around a lot, even I
know they do, usually their island game there. I really
haven't noticed. He sounds the same to me. I don't
hang on Tony Romo's every word. I'm an adult. I
(40:45):
form my own opinions, so I don't really care what
he's saying. But I know when Romo came onto the scene,
he was like a stick of dynamite. And now people
are saying he's like a sparkler, and I get it.
He's been around for a few years. It's the same
jokes every night, same props. It's like Carrot Top doing
comedy in Vegas, doing a residency in Vegas, and it's great.
(41:07):
You go see him, you're on vacation from Minnesota, and
then you know, next year you come out he's doing
the same bits. Well, who wants to see that? You've
already seen the act. You know this is the NFL.
But once the way this normally works, with very few exceptions.
Once you are in, it's like the mob. Once you're in,
there's only one way to get out, and it's not
you know, it's not what you think, so that's it.
(41:30):
I mean, you look around. They pretty much super glued
to the chair outside of Emmett Smith, who was so
bad they got rid of him. Joe Montana. People forget
because that was a million years ago. He tried broadcasting.
Wholly crap. Did he suck? Drew Brees has been terrible.
He's now back. He got a gig at Fox. I'm
assuming he still blows. I've not seen any games that
(41:52):
he's done yet. It's essentially a no show job. And
as far as like jj Watt, when did he become
God's gift to meet head sportscasting? I don't when did
that happen? There's no guarantee. There is no guarantee that
he's gonna be Ribbi, and it's more likely he'll just
be some louder chop liver.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
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Speaker 1 (42:17):
Airwake God Swell Wake got to third degree below.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
This is one bigvent gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (42:26):
With the Chargers improving to ten and four despite a
plethora of injuries, there now seems to be a ground
swellow support for Jim Harbaugh to be named coach of
the Year.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Does he deserve it? I love Jim Harbaugh, he has
no chance. It's Mike Rabel's award. Mike Rabel is your
coach of the year for the Patriots. If not Mike Rabel,
dare I say Liam Kohne Duval County in Jacksonville, Harbaugh's
not winning it.
Speaker 8 (42:48):
Next, as we approach the end of the regular season
in the NFL, if you were to redo the twenty
twenty five draft, who would you take number one?
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Overall? All right? So the draft, if you look at
the first round, it was horrific. I mean, there's hardly
anybody making any kind of impact. The only one that
really stands out is Ted McMillan of the Carolina Panthers
as your offensive rookie of the Year. Cam Ward is
to quote himself here, ass for the Tennessee Titans. So
I think it's it's him. McMillan is the guy. I
(43:17):
don't know that I drafted him number one, but there's
nobody else that's having any real impact. Next.
Speaker 8 (43:22):
Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon was asked about his job security
on Monday. He first tried to side staff the question
and then said, I believe in myself and I believe
in our team. He said, they're gonna get out of
this dipped. Then is ginning cooked?
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Well, the Cardinals will get out of the fun dip
they're in right now. I promise you they will be
good again. He will not be coaching them when they
are good again. So that's the answer, Coup, How did
we do you pass?
Speaker 8 (43:42):
Us?
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Win? I won again. I believe though Mike and Tucson,
I want again on again. I won.
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and N get rye.
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And N dear rye.
Speaker 10 (44:20):
Yeah you heard the man. It's time to get right
here on the Ben Malice Show.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
There it is love all right, It's amazing and call
up for this. The lines are full. Let's get some
questions here. What do we have aenie meenie miney.
Speaker 10 (44:32):
Moe catch a lover by the tone, Yes.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Adrian the pokey Pokey Pokey guy from years ago says,
is a text breakup okay? Or just call her?
Speaker 5 (44:45):
Ah?
Speaker 10 (44:46):
It depends on how close you were, or should you
just ghost her?
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (44:49):
If you really don't care about her at all, you
can completely ghost her Texas kind of you know.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
So would you'd rather be ghosted or text?
Speaker 10 (44:58):
I have been ghosted?
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Co Yeah?
Speaker 9 (45:00):
I went from like super hot love bombing to just
like disappearing into the night.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
That's unfortunate. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (45:06):
I hate that they get bored, they come back, and
then you got to tell them you know what, No, sorry, they.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Come back around. Yeah, I got you, all right. Uh.
Ferg Dog rights and says do women enjoy wrapping presents
or doing the laundry more?
Speaker 10 (45:18):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 9 (45:20):
I love wrapping the presents. It is so fun And
I just wanted a new way to wrap too. When
I the first year I worked here, I wrapped all
of Doug Gottlieb's presents for him his family.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Is he in a flight to Wisconsin to wrap them
this time? Or probably not? No?
Speaker 10 (45:34):
Probably not?
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Yeah, yeah I did. I'm terrible rapping gifts. You didn't
ask me for a Doug, but I like that. You
can watch YouTube videos and rap like you're working at
it at a department store.
Speaker 8 (45:44):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, it's a little life
hack makes it easier for you. It looks all pretty,
it says, dude. You enjoy going Christmas caroling as well?
Speaker 9 (45:55):
Oh my gosh, I want to go Christmas Caroling. I
asked some of my singer friends if they would want to,
and no one wants to go. But I just be
singing Christmas songs without any other chorus. It can just
be me myself and I all right.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Shannon Moynes says.
Speaker 10 (46:07):
Benelf the red nose right there.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Okay, Ben, this is a Queen of Heart's question from Shannon,
and Moyes says, can we get a Queen of Heart's
schedule update going overnight? She's been making selective special appearances
in the overnight.
Speaker 9 (46:24):
Oh I love that, Shane. I miss you when I'm
on the air too, But you gotta listen, Okay. People
have lives that they have to do, and I only
get paid twenty dollars an hour, So as far as
I'm concerned.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
Yeah, I got you, all right? Goat man, Rob writes
in he says, I'm sure you have heard now, my
friend Robbie the Mariner fan, has a bad case of hemorrhoids.
Speaker 10 (46:45):
Howard pushed so hard?
Speaker 1 (46:46):
How can he feel comfortable with this while well being intimate?
Speaker 10 (46:52):
So yeah, you know, they do have some numbing stuff.
Speaker 9 (46:55):
So if it's really causing you some issues, you can
put some numbing cream back there, because I know when
you're trying to get it on, you usually have to
put some pressure and you know, switch a.
Speaker 10 (47:04):
Little bit back there, you know I talking about. So
if it doesn't bother you, I'm sure there's some type
of pain reliever.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
All right. Well. JT. The Wingman writes in from just
outside Knoxville, Tennessee, says he's joining his lady there at
her holiday party this weekend and it's a jacket required event.
Should I go with a bow tie or a traditional necktie?
Some JT the Wingman.
Speaker 10 (47:26):
Ooh, with a jacket event? Well, if you can tie
a bow tie, I love a good bow tie. They
are much harder to tie though, So yeah, I would
go that direction.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Here's what I would say. And I've met JT. The Wingman.
He's been with many of these events that we've done.
He's a very nice man. I always like to hang
out a good guy and he's from Wisconsin. I feel
like the bow tie is a spotlight on you as
a man because most people don't wear both. Yes, So
if you want to not get any extra attention, just
wear a regular tie. The bow tie is it's an
(47:57):
attention getter because most people don't wear bow ties.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
Right.
Speaker 10 (48:00):
And then even beyond that is the bulow tie.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
Yes, the bolo tie that's like Philip Rivers tie, much.
Speaker 10 (48:06):
Easier to put on. It is definitely a statement piece.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
It is a statement piece for sure. And it's like,
are you a cowboy? No? No, no, I just have
a bullowtime Andy and Lionel lakes right. So, and he
says every Christmas it's the same. My gal says, don't
get me anything. She sticks with that idea for me
and that's fine. But I get her a little something
and she's irritated with me. I can't win here. Yeah, Well,
(48:29):
then he says, should I get her an adult toy
that's from Lorraina.
Speaker 9 (48:34):
Well, adult toys or toys for our gifts for everybody
you know, you can play with them.
Speaker 10 (48:39):
She can play with them group, it can be solo.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
That's why toys are so great, It's all encompassing, is indeed? Yeah, okay,
one shop stopped all you need there. Mike the Leprechaun says,
jealousy is one of the deadly sins. My ex girlfriend
is extremely jealous of my current girlfriend. We are supposed
to go to a holiday party this weekend.
Speaker 10 (49:01):
Whereas it's Michael lepre con right.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
They will be in the same space. Yes, how can
I avoid the fireworks? So he's gonna says, he's gonna
have the X and then his current girlfriend.
Speaker 9 (49:10):
Well, if you just leave your rubber chicken at home,
then no one will have to worry about getting jealous
of one another, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
Well, I did see. I just saw. They just added
that there was somebody's question. We don't have time for
it now, though I would have gone to him earlier,
but they didn't see that on the board. Unfortunately. Well
stand hold, maybe we'll do that next star. But there
it is. Look at that the Queen of Heart.
Speaker 10 (49:28):
We love Love.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
Well, that's you speak for yourself.
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Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (49:48):
Let's play the game. We walk him in our combatants.
We have that. Alam to Lou, who's in the Bay Area. Hello, Lou,
how's it going? Welcome? Whould you like to partner.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Up with Coach of the year?
Speaker 8 (50:02):
Go with me?
Speaker 1 (50:04):
Hell, Lou raina plead Lou reina. Okay, I see what Alam. Now,
I don't know if I'm gonna do that, Lou. I'll
be at the Mountain. We're going to do one at
the bar in Oakland there, probably around the Super Bowl.
I don't know if Lorrain is gonna make it, but
I'll be.
Speaker 10 (50:20):
I plan on going up there.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
Okay, all right, we'll make it.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
As long as you're there, I'm happy.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
All right, Well look at that and see that Lorraine
is worried about me being there. All right, Now, you're
gonna play our game. And we have Mike in New Hampshire.
Who's gonna play. Hello Mike, Welcome by the.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
Future Militia caller of the Year is here.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
All right? Who do you want to partner up with? Mike?
Speaker 2 (50:43):
I want to win.
Speaker 1 (50:44):
We're gonna play with you, all right, let's do it.
Here we go. Have a list of words. One to ten,
alame to Lou. You were on the air first. Please
pick a number, give me number five, number five?
Speaker 10 (50:56):
Okay, all right, covid.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
I don't think you can know you can't do that.
It's a proper No. How about not allowed? How about illness? Mike? Illnesses? No?
All right?
Speaker 10 (51:17):
Can I say? Cold is cold?
Speaker 8 (51:18):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (51:19):
I don't.
Speaker 10 (51:19):
Yeah, I guess that's wrong, but whatever, whatever, go with it.
Speaker 9 (51:24):
It's a flute.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
No, let's see, boy, here we go. This is where
it gets a disaster. How about uh, I think you
already said this. How about disorder?
Speaker 6 (51:39):
Disorder?
Speaker 1 (51:40):
Yeah, a disorder? Yeah, come on, come on, all.
Speaker 10 (51:47):
Right, I'm gonna do a Mallard maneuver venereal.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
Look at all arena stealing my own bit? How dare
you all right? I'm sure you don't, Lou, I'm working
at a bar. I'm sure you've never had any of that.
All right, pick a number, Mike, One to ten, but
not five?
Speaker 2 (52:14):
Three?
Speaker 1 (52:16):
No? Number three? All right, well that would be that
would be appropriate. Let's go with how about insane? Yeah,
here you go. We got the league. We're never going
to concede as the crossing guard likes to say, all
right now, pig a number, Lou, hurry up number seven.
Speaker 10 (52:35):
All right, destiny, no.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
Fortune, Mike, all right, we're out of time anyway. Yeah,
the word was fate. You lost Alimada, louis my good
looking out. At ten, I got ten points, I win
the game. I got more points. I won the game.
(53:06):
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But we don't talk much basketball because players don't really
try that much. You have to pay them a lot
of money to get them to put some effort into that.
But we will begin with the only game in town.
I will credit the NBA scheduling. They did not schedule
us on a Sunday, a Thursday or a Monday. They
waited till the Tuesday. But our lead this hour from
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VVA Las Vegas VVA Las Vegas, and that is where
championships are crowned. Well, I guess Adam Silver's wet dream
Year three year three played out again. And no, I
am not on the NBA pay roll, so I do
not have to sit here and say this is good,
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because it's not. But there they were. They were out
there running around in Vegas, crown a champion. It's a
T shirt and hat kind of a game in the NBA.
Were you watching, Probably not. It wasn't even on television.
It was on the stream, not on television. Now we
used a machete to go into the Amazon and to
(03:30):
watch oh G and a Newby twenty eight points, Jalen
Brunson twenty five points and apartures in a pear tree.
And the New York Nicks, for the first time in
my life are the champions. They had to make up
a championship for the Knicks to win a championship, and
they beat Wemby. They beat Victor Wembanyaba and the Spurs
(03:55):
who choked in the fourth quarter. They Knicks win by
eleven a Fugezi. NBA Cup goes to New York and
so congratulations, first title in over fifty years. If you're
a loser and count this as a championship for the
woe begone New York Knicks. How cute is that you
had Jalen Brunson, he got the NBA Cup MVP. How
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special is that?
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Man?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
You always remember that? So special? Carl Anthony Towns, kitty
cat see Minnesota. You traded a winner. How could the
Timberwolves have traded Karl Anthony Towns? Oh my god, sixteen points,
eleven rebounds. He did miss a bunch of this game
with injury, but they ended up winning year, the champs
of the Big Apple as the New York Knicks get
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it done. And Mike Brown, Oh how about this Mike
Brown doing what pat Riley couldn't do. And Jeff Van
Gundy and every other stiff Nick coach, Mike D'Antoni, all
these other clowns, Don Nelson, all these guys that passed through.
But may you always remember nicely w championship. It's a
special night, and here's Mike Brown. One of the great
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moments in the NBA history. The next winning the NBA Cup.
In any event where you're the last one standing and
you're able to hang a banner especially iconic. MSG. You
take that seriously, and all of our guys took it seriously.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
But the most exciting part about it is I feel
like we're in New Low.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Right, let's go right gone, what fans we got love?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It goes?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah. Of course he said the same thing when he
coached the Lakers and he coached Cleveland. It's it's like
a bad stand up comedian. You're the greatest crowd I've
ever had. Let me tell you us that I was
in Detroit last night. The people in Detroit were a holes, right,
and that you were doing. You did that in Cleveland.
Then you go the next time over, you go to Pittsburgh. Well,
bet me time. I was in Cleveland last night. Those
people were schmucks. But you peep. But it's a great crowd.
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I'm a rack, all right. So let's discuss here as well.
Set your Liberty is down the street from that arena.
It's New York, New York. They have that right there.
So let us discuss the question what does this Knickerbocker's
in quote NBA Cup Championship in quotes, what does this
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do for the franchise of this title? So I've got
snow globe, crude oil, and deadwood, and we will combine
all of these things together and we'll charge you fifty
bucks to park, because that's how they roll in Vegas,
where they try to screw over the people that visit
that town with overpriced parking and no freebies anymore, because
(06:35):
the corporations have taken over and they are a bunch
of losers. I think you also have a dirty water
dog and a soft pretzel if you want. But those
soft pretzels in New York anyway, are the same consistency
of the concrete that you walk on. So a my
first thought is the New York Knicks have done it.
They have done it. Baby, Oh my god. I hugged
(06:57):
Jason Smith in the hallway, my friend, longtime Nick suck Up.
I said, I've known you. We used to do radio
back years ago. I said, man, finally you get to celebrate.
You gotta get a T shirt, you gotta get a hat.
You're a champion. And he' said big smile, cheshire cat
smile on his face. They was so happy there. But
you got to cue the trumpets right when you win.
You cue the trumpets, you release the doves, you alert
(07:18):
the Smithsonian the knicker Bockers have won the cup. They
have whatever that is. I don't even know what it is.
They just made it up three years. They didn't even
have that. The first year it was called the NBA
Plays Something tournament. I don't remember what's called they then
they changed it. They threw a corporate sponsor on it,
because that makes everything kosher when you put a corporate
sponsor on it. And that's right, you get the Fughese
Trophy Capital left Fugheze congratulations. There a glorified stocking stuffer
(07:45):
for the Knickerbockers. The Diet Doctor Pepper Championship for New York. Now,
some NBA pundits who you know, are deep up the
tuckis of Adam Silver. They're acting like the New York
cracked the Da Vinci Code by winning Miss Champion. Jim
had Jalen Brunts. They pretended like it was a real thing.
They all played along. Of course, I was getting paid
(08:06):
out of money money. I would play along as well.
So Jalen Brunson was your little MVP, and that's special,
that's good. He won the MVP. Og Ananobi was cooking
with gas. He was cooking gas and Carl Anthony Towns,
Carl Anthony's he was crawling. Uh he was. He was
out there like a lion. Normally he plays like a
house cat. But no, no a. And suddenly the Knickerbocker
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is this twenty twenty five, twenty six vintage of the Knicks.
This was a Broadway revival. The Demon Slayer is what
it was. You're talking about slaying demons in December in
like game twenty five or something like that. You be dispersed. Congratulations,
Tim Duncan did not score no points at all. Tony
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Parker shut down, completely shut down. Congraduate's mazeltough to the
New York Knicks on winning. There James Dolan running around
the Big Apple like he just dunked in the face
of pat Riley and Jeff Van Gundy and all the
other stiffs that he's paid to coach the Knicks over
the years.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
There.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
See, you can't be a dirt bag owner who won
a championship. You see, I won a championship. I'm James Dolan,
I'm a schmuck and I want a championship because I
had to come up with a made up championship. Calm
down there, Calm down, This is not the Lombardy. Of
course they give that out in football. This is like
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I saw it. It looked like a like a snow
globe from Times Square gift shop. That's the trophy that
you win. You win a snow globe from a Times
Square gift shop. Congratulations. So the NBA, as Mike Brown
alluded to the Hobo coach Mike Brown, that the NBA
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mandates that you put up this is so great. You
put up a banner so good. It was embarrassing when
the Lakers did it, we mocked them. I think Milwaukee
won last year. That was stupid. And the Knicks, all
those rich people on Wall Street going to Manisburgh. Look
(10:13):
there's a championships won by the Rangers, and then there's
the Knicks championships you know, back in the seventy and
then oh look there's twenty twenty five championship. This is
the equivalent of hanging a finger painting made by your
kindergartener at the Louver's so great. Oh so they gotta
(10:34):
sell the championship hat and merch the T shirts. I
saw the players wearing the T shirts after the game
and the hats, so they'll sell those. Well, the Knicks. Next,
they're gonna summer a championship hangover so good. You don't
normally play right after you win a championship. I mean
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you take a couple of months on. Are they gonna
struggle down because they won their little championship. You can
have a hangover from the room temperature water you got
in Vegas. As Matthew mcconnie, he said that iconic scene
in the Wolf of Wall Street fu gayzy foghazzi woozy.
(11:15):
It's fairy dust. It doesn't exist. And you can put
that cup in a piggy bank and it's still going
to be empty. The piggy bank is still going to
be empty. Now, meanwhile, someone that gets it. Page two here,
Sir Charles has chimed in Charles Barkley. Now he recently
unloaded prior to this event, mind you, on the NBA
(11:35):
Cup speaking with a long time I got whacked from
his job on the sports radar of the Bay Area.
But Tom Tolbert, longtime Bay Area gash back. Now he's
doing a podcast like everyone else is, and so he
had Barkley on because Tolbert knows Barkley because he used
play in the NBA and played against Barkley. So Charles
Barkley confirmed that he hates hates the fact that the tournament,
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the NBA Cup, is all about that prize money and
they have to entice the players to prioritize those games
because the regular season the players obviously don't care. We
all know that it's an open secret here. And Barkley
called it ridiculous that they had to pay the players
essentially a bounty here to get them to play with
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extra efforts. So the question how did Charles Barkley's statement
about the NBA Cup being embarrassing? How did that sound
to you? So listen, Charles Barkley, obviously preaching to the choir.
It was a symphony. It was an absolute symphony. Every note,
every note was great. It was just a standing ovation.
(12:47):
Bravo to Charles Barkley. Does it again at cacoffny of goodness,
cacoffny of goodness from Charles Barkley. Here, Sir Charles, Now
he did not genuflect to the altar of staying of Adam.
So I was gonna say, stan Van Gundal's watching the game,
so you wouldn't have to. And I'm pretty sure stan
Van Gundy had knee pads with Adam Silver's face on him.
(13:07):
I mean he was really going to town. I mean,
tell you take a breath there, stand calm down. He
was praising the cup. And what a great thing was
Dwayne Wade, who's terrible as a broadcaster. Brother, I think
God is on Amazon. No one watches him, but God
does he suck so dway, Dwayne Wade was on there
and he didn't know what to say, so he was
just kind of agreeing with Stan van Gundy. But Stan
should get a room. He wants he wants that job,
(13:29):
he loves that his good pang job NBA broadcaster. And
no one watches those games, so nobody cares what he says.
But I happen to be watching. And man, that was
some major sucking up to management by Stan van Gundy, Like, dude,
get a room so bad now. This is this is
how you juxtapost Charles Barkley to Stand Van Gundy. Charles
Barkley not a houseman, Stan van Gundy, houseman, big difference there.
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Charles Barkley is crude oil right, he's raw, he's unfiltered.
He stains the carpet. The whole thing tells the truth,
whether you like the smell or not. Okay, and calling
the NBA Cup embarrassing is not a hot take by
Charles Mark. It's basic math. It's basic math on the
mountain of bad ideas. On the mountain of bad ideas,
(14:15):
this gimmick is parked right near the summit, right near
the summit, on the mountain of bad ideas, just below
Adam Silver spending years, years defending load management as a
sound strategy while the product, the quality of the product,
quietly fell apart like a stale churrow right in front
(14:36):
of his fat face. Not fatty skinny, but you get
the point. Think about this. The NBA had to bring
in essentially the Keebler elves. They had to bring in
a bunch of elves here and wave a pot of
gold at the end of the rainbow. To get these
entitled players to try hard. They had to say, hey, fellas,
(14:58):
let me dangle five. I have one hundred plus thousand
dollars and please try in December. Thank you, signed Adam
love y'all. Okay, meanwhile, this is what I don't get
about that, and maybe I'm wrong, and you can call up.
I'll give out the number in a few minutes, you
can explain why I'm misguided. I don't understand why this
(15:18):
is such a big deal. The average salary, the median
salary in the NBA is twelve million dollars. Do you
understand the median salaries? Told me as well. Okay, that's
just because there's a lot of guys making fifty million. Okay,
So the minimum getting salary, Like you know how you
hired at McDonald's, you get minimum wage if you're hired
by the NBA. The minimum salary, you know what it is?
(15:42):
You don't, Okay, what do you think you think? Oh
you had a number? Okay, the minimum salary one point
two million. Let me repeat that for the yeah in
the back, one point two million. Uh now again where
I come from. If you make one point two million,
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you are wait for it, you're rich, is what you are. Okay.
So you don't have to shovel snow to make a
couple of extra bucks. You don't have to take an
extra job with delivering food or whatever. You don't have
to do any of that stuff. You're not eating the
Marcella and Brooklyn noodles and of Noodle's diet. You're not
doing Ramen and Adam Silver again. I go back to
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the point, this bozo Adam Silver, who the NBA media
doesn't want to criticize because they love Adam Silver because
they get access. Adam Silver nurtured this culture. He did right,
and now his little baby has grown up into a
fire breathing monster, a giant dragon, a three headed dragon.
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It has happened. It's all grown up now, congratulations, all
grown up. And the only way to get the players
to care about a regular season event is to bribe them.
That is not innovation, Adam Silver, that is not That
is desperation is what that is? All right? Meanwhile, last
word to La La land we go. We have a
follow up, follow up to a story we talked about
(17:07):
a couple of weeks ago. It has now been a
few weeks since Chris Paul was unceremoniously excommunicated from Clipper Nation.
Clippers sent him home in the middle of the night,
in the middle of the night on a road trip,
and the point guard has not been released now. He
(17:29):
wasn't eligibly to be traded until this week, so he
is eligibly betraded now. But according to a new deep
dive that popped up on the interweb, the world Wide Web.
A story came out about the separation between Chris Paul
and the Clippers, and it was some dirty laundry that
got aired there. According to this new report, the chatter
that Chris Paul his leadership was like grating cheese is
(17:55):
what it was on the front office and the coaching
staff there. In particular, there was a new revelation that
Chris Paul got into a verbal brew haha with Jeff
Van Gundy. But you j justapo Stan Van Gundy wearing
knee pads for Adam Silver and Jeff Van Gundy who
was taken off television for being critical of the NBA
(18:16):
hmm things that make you go hmm. So supposedly these
guys did not get along. There was an argument that
has now been reported between Van Gundy on a chartered
flight from Miami to Atlanta about defensive assignments. Apparently Chris
Paul didn't really play much defense. And Chris Paul met
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with Lawrence Frank, who I guess is the general manager
of the Clippers there whatever doing a hell of a
job this year, So then they had to get together there.
They said, hey, you know, we're going to fire your ass.
We're going to send you back to LA That's it.
And so CP three was blindsided. He even used a
teammate as a character witness according to this story that
was out there. So the question how does this late
(19:00):
report of Chris Paul getting into a sparring match with
Jeff Van Gundy, How does this one? How does this
hit you? So we actually brought in for this Malamala.
We brought in Judge Judy, and Judge Judy has ruled,
She's banged her gavel and she's determined that this is
(19:22):
much like divorce court irreconcirable differences, you know, case closed.
That's it. And this is the keep on this version
that came out. This is the Clippers version of what happened.
This is a carefully crafted story leaked by the Clippers
to a useful idiot in the media, and it's a
crime scene reconstruction of what happened through their eyes and surprise, surprise, surprise,
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CP three is holding the smoking gun. In their version
of the story. They escorted him to the exit. The
People's team decided that the vibe was toxic sludge and
they had to get rid of Chris Paul and make
no miss and this is a counter leak, right, this
is counter league and the truth is somewhere in between
what Chris Paul said when he used Lou Williams as
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his useful idiot to can't claim and Lou Williams was
the carrier pigeon there and they go, well, you know,
I was just holding everyone accountable. That was Chris Paul's
version of events. Now the Clippers have decided to clap
back and they're like, this guy's washed, he's uncoachable, he's
a bad teammate. The guy's dead wood. And you know
what happens. You don't have to be a gardener, but
if you know anything about gardening and you have dead
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wood there, you got to get rid of those dead branches.
You grab your shears and you start chop chopping, and
that's what you do. You don't negotiate with the dead branches.
You just get rid of them. And if you had
a sparting match between Jeff Van Gundy and washed up
Chris Paul, you're gonna take Jeff Van Gun. I was
Jeff Van Gundy was the coach of the team. I
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like that guy. Chris Paul's not gonna win that fight.
And and the part which really you can tell it
with some of the Clippers because it makes Chris Paul
look like a complete dope. The story that CP three
brought in brook Lopez as a character witness. He's getting
fired by the Clippers and he brings in brook Lopez.
See players like me. Brook Lopez likes me? Oh my god,
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what is this? Small claims court? Is that what we're
doing now? Your honor Kawhi also likes me. He likes yeah.
I know he doesn't play. I know, I know he
doesn't like basketball. I know. Well he's got that other
side hustle. He's got to do the endorsement thing, you know,
the no show Yeah that job? Yeah sure, why not?
This is like desperation theater. Desperation theater. Now, the thing
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that is hilarious to me is the Clippers have not
traded Chris Paul. The Clippers have not released Chris Paul.
Chris Paul is taking up space. This is how much
the Clippers loathe Chris Paul. Okay, he's not been released.
He is eligibly to be traded. Now they haven't traded him. Now,
why have they done that? They want to stick it
to Chris Paul. He is stuck in no madg Len.
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He's on the Siberian holding pattern, not the Siberian Express.
The Siberian holding pattern is what he's on here. And
they suck this year. It is a pathetic group of
basketball players that are just horrific. There's got to be
something else going on with that. We're not sure what.
I'm sure it'll come out at some point here, some
kind of behind the scenes stuff. But man, they're terrible.
It's unwatchable. I've watched them in a while and I
(22:23):
don't plan on too. They're not worth my time. My
time's very valuable. I don't have time to watch bad
you know, people that aren't trying to compete and stuff
like that. Not worth my time. But man, you follow them,
malamath Chris Paul. His leadership started to become a nag
and a pain in the ass, and the room, the
locker room, parts of it revolted. And so CP three
f around play stupid games, win stupid prizes. So there
(22:45):
you go.
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Got through the basketball, We survived that no one died.
Last hour as the Knicks congratulations, the NBA season is over.
The Knicks have won the championship. They gave out T
shirts and hats and all the merch and they're gonna
raise a banner. So all you guys freaking out about,
oh my god, the NBA season is gonna go on forever. No,
it's not. They just gave a championship. You can't keep
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playing when you give out a championship. But our lead
this hour from South Beach, and we have a mantra
on this show. Bad sports makes good sports radio. And
so after getting Mommy wa in Pittsburgh by the weather,
not by the Steelers, by the weather as they turned
into teal popsicles, and the Dolphins now being decommissioned from
(24:09):
the playoff race. In the AFC SO head coach Mike
McDaniel hinting that a change under center is coming down
the pike. And if you didn't hear this, perhaps not.
He was somewhat vague about it. However, the tone is important.
You're here is the very well spoken head coach of
(24:30):
the Dolphins. You hear the question and the answer. Here's
Mike McDaniel being asked about a possibility of making a
change under center. Take a list. Are you considering a
quarterback change this week?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Well, I think the quarterback play last night was not
good enough and so for me, nothing's on the table.
Speaker 8 (24:50):
And who would you consider going to if you make
a change?
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Well, I think that you know, we're in the process
of game planning for or the Cincinnati Bengals. So in
that process, we're trying to determine who'll give us the
best chance to win. And I'll probably give you more
clarity on that tomorrow. As we are I think fourteen
hours removed from the game.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Well not anymore. We're doing the overnight show, so we're
more than fourteen hours. But I was that was a
SoundBite there, And does anyone say um and ah more
than Mike McDaniel Is there anyone? I play a lot
of these coaching sound bites from different coaches. I don't
know anyone. One of my favorite radio shows when I
was a kid, they used to goof on the UM
and US the athletes that said the UM and the
OZ and this guy would have had the old guy
(25:39):
used to listen to on the radio. What had a
field day with Mike McDaniels. So again you heard it.
He was asked point blank whether the Dolphins would make
a quarterback change and he said the quarterback play last
night meeting in the Monday night game was not good enough.
So everything is on the table. That is a good
jumping off point. Let us get into this and discuss
the question for the esteem panel. What do you read
(26:01):
in what do you read into the Dolphins head coach
hinting at a benching on the horizon for two a
tongue of Ayilawa. So my observations, I've got thoroughbred racehorse
magic eraser and the mench on the bench and we
(26:21):
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to have a Smorgasborg is what We're going to have.
Unbelievable ar So number number WA, the benching seed has
been planted. If you've ever done any gardening, you plant
(26:42):
the seed. Now not every time you plant the seed
does the seed turn into profit. Got a lot of
farmers I've met you guys over the years, A lott
of you in the Midwest are working on farms, getting
up early, doing the things you have to do. And
I do appreciate that that dad when it was Minnesota,
couple was there and they're farmers. They had a family
(27:03):
farm and they were like the last in the generation
and the kids that wanted nothing to do with it.
And so I don't know what. I haven't heard from
them in a while. It's been a couple of years,
but I remember having a very nice conversation. But the
point is, if you farm, if you're a farmer and
you plant the seed. In our little world of sporty talk,
when you plant the seed and that's been planted in
(27:25):
South Florida, once the seed hits the soil in this case,
the nice beaches, and the Sandy Beach is there in
South Beach. The quarterback is already halfway into the transfer
porter at that point, and they're going to give that
quarterback the tools of ignorance, a clipboard and a headset,
and then that's it. And over my couple of years
(27:48):
you give or take a couple of years doing this job.
This becomes a self fulfilling prophecy when you get this
kind of a vague statement. The moment you talk about
the possibility of benching the big money quarterback, the clock
starts ticking louder than a microwave just after three in
(28:11):
the morning. This chapter, it's not a great chapter, but
this chapter of the Dolphins has been a boone doggle
with a capital B, big B boone doggle. The Dolphins,
for reasons beyond comprehension, handed to a tongue of Aila
(28:33):
two hundred and twelve million US dollars. And now they're
looking back at that. The brass in Miami is looking
back at that, and they're looking at the receipt and
they're like, wait a minute, I mean, we thought we
bought a racehorse, a thoroughbred racehorse, And it turns out
we got a horse that has bad legs. That's what
(28:57):
we got. Look at the cold numbers for Tua the
last nine games, that's more than half the season. Tua
ten touchdowns, eleven interceptions, a passer rating of eighty one.
That is your two hundred million dollar quarterback. That is
not elite. That is a Kille Smoothie is what that is.
(29:18):
That's kill smoothie football. Nobody wants kill smoothie football. That's
what that is. Miami eliminated from playoff consideration, and so
the season is a wrap. Now. The plan B, which
Mike McDaniel didn't want to mention because everyone would have
started laughing. The Plan B in this boondoggle would be
Jets cast off Zack Wilson. Yep, that Zach Wilson. Zach Wilson,
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which is when you have Zach Wilson or what Tua's
giving you, it's kind of like choosing do I want
to go to the electric chair or would I rather
have a nice lethal injection? Which one would be better
for me? Yeah? Sure? Now, Now, Zach Wilson his camp,
and I've heard this from a couple of people I
deal with who are in that world. The belief among
the people around Zach Wilson is he is going to
(30:06):
ride the coattails of Daniel Jones. That's his plan. The
people around him, they're going to campaign for him to
be the Daniel Jones of twenty twenty six. Daniel Jones
went to Minnesota for a little bit after the Giants
fired him, and then he went to Indianapolis and played
well for about seven games and then fell apart after
that and then got hurt. But he wants to be that, right,
(30:29):
Daniel Jones for a couple of games became Indiana Jones,
a folk hero in the Hoosier State Redemption Avenue. It
was all there, It was all there, and even that
pipe dream, of course ended because Daniel Jones forgot to
pray and he ended up going to the Temple of
Doom and his season was over. But now the Dolphins,
(30:49):
they never used the word bench. They didn't use the
word bench. They didn't say, hey, we're going to bench.
Tua certainly whispered it. The implication was made by Mike McDaniel.
And the whispers get louder, and they go faster, louder
and faster the whispers, and so this is also keep
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in mind another nail in the coffin. If the Dolphins
do this, it is another nail in the coffin for
Boy Wonder, the coffee Coffee drinking my podcast hosting amman
a coach, the Umanah coach, Mike McDaniel, who was brought
in as the whiz kid, the offensive genius Boy Wonder
(31:30):
from the forty nine ers, and then he was gonna
scheme up to uh and the Dolphins. We're gonna let
the good times roll, the good times, and you're gonna
go to a higher level. And how's that working out? Yeah?
Not good? All right?
Speaker 9 (31:43):
Now?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Now staying in Miamy Page two, though, we stay in Miami.
And whether he's benched now or later, I have a
feeling we'll be talking about this a lot this these
next couple of shows this week is you know, this
is our Wednesday show and we've got a couple of
shows left in the week, and this will be a
story that we revisit. But that makes that whether he's
benched immediately or they waited another week to bench to
(32:04):
a it's all but carved in stone that he will
be exiting stage left from South Beach, which begs the question,
and here it is if to a tongue of I
LOA is truly d and e with the Dolphins, where
does he end up next? So I wrote on the
(32:27):
back of a napkin while watching the NBA Cup, because
I'm a loser, I wrote on the back of a napkin.
There that the people around to. Here's how you sell
to it. He's twenty eight years young. He's not even thirty.
He's still got prime years left in his football career.
(32:48):
He led the NFL on passing yards a couple of
years ago with the Dolphins, he led the NFL and
completion percentage another season in Miami. All that jazz, all
that jive right, all that jive us needs a change
of scenery. They'll say, like you just put them in
a different set of laundry, and all of a sudden,
(33:08):
it's like a magic eraser and abra cadabra, hocus pocus.
We're on our way. We're on our way there. Good
luck on that. Of course, the spin doctors have their version.
Now we live in a little town called Realityville, and
the whispers point out that Tua has got popcorn problems.
(33:29):
They keep popping up. Here Toa's arm strength is a
flatter than weak old soda, So good luck on that,
and a lot of a lot of ducks. He loves ducks.
He loves throwing wounded ducks. The interception to a through
in the Monday night game against the Steelers was example
one of the examples of that. It was just not good.
There a lot of floaters, a lot of floaters, and
(33:52):
you don't like to see those in the toilet. And
you know what I'm saying anyway, So it's just bad.
It's bad, bad, bad, bad, bad bad bet And the
vibe Tua has settled in to being the last couple
of years dependably boring, is what he's now. I am
the mayor of Realityville. Tua is the mayor of Dollsville.
(34:15):
It's a little town next to Realityville. It's called Dolesville.
And once the temperature dips below forty degrees in Dolesville,
forget about it. The whatcha mcaulleague does not work. It
just doesn't. The whole system freezes. It's like a busted
vending machine, is what it is. And so where does
he land? Where does Tua land? You know how we
(34:36):
decide these things. The malar wheel of spec yelation and
We're gonna spin the malar wheel of specul around round.
Big money, big money, big money. No, webbies stop, all right,
the malor wheel of speculation. Now, if you look at
it right now and the wheel stop right you can
see it because it's on the radio. Oh you can't
see it because the raid. So the wheel is stopped,
and you look at this and Tua packing his bags
(34:57):
right now, he's getting fitted for some new merch as.
The magic wheel of speculation says warm weather only is
what it says, warm weather only. That's what it says
on the magic malar wheel of speculation. Year. That means Saints, Raiders, Cardinals, Rams,
(35:18):
Oh no, not the Rams. Climate controlled football. The malar
wheel of speculation is never wrong. It is never very wrong.
The malar wheel of speculation. It is not so cold
weather teams need not apply. We are talking limited. It's
like back in the old days in baseball they had
the American League had the designated hitter and the National
(35:38):
League had the pitcher hitting. So if you were a
designated hitter, you were limited to about half the teams
in baseball. If you're Tua, you can't play in any
cold weather environment. Not that the Patriots need a quarterback.
But Baltimore, the Patriots, the Jets, the Giants, they're out right.
You can't go there. You can't go to Cleveland because
it's too cold there in the winter time. So you
(35:59):
could go to like the Detroit because they've got a
dome where you can go to Minnesota somewhere like that.
But I'm gonna go Saints, Raiders, Cardinals, Rams, climate controlled
of football to us. Next chapter is not about upside,
it's about sunshine. It's about such and a dome. We'll
take a dome. You play a dome anyway, all right,
(36:19):
final point to the boom tube. We go what Yeah,
we're talking boobs the boob tube. So let's start with
the apparent grassroots. So I got one of the big
fans of the show is in the Boston area. His
name is Mike. I don't mention his name or everybody
sends me stories and I usually don't right back because
I'm a douche. But he sent me a story about
(36:40):
people have been very upset with Tony Romo. So I
fell down this rabbit hole, and it does appear there's
a grassroots movement to boot Tony Romo from the number
one chair on CBS. Now, a few media pundits have
gone scorched earth on mister Romo that he is regressed
as a broadcaster. He's regressed. Claims have been made that
(37:05):
he has spent more time golfing working on his putting
than he has on his preparation for the television job.
So there's also been some support for J. J. Watt.
Yes that JJ Watt of Houston, Texans fame to be
promoted to the top chair on those broadcasts. So the
(37:28):
question becomes, what are the chances that CBS demotes Tony
Romo during this NFL season? There's three weeks ago and
then CBS has got a bunch of playoff games, So
what are the chances that Romo gets demoted? All right?
So I when I saw this, I was like, Okay,
(37:48):
this is really And then I kept reading about it
and I was learning more about it, and I was
just laughing inside. I'm laughing. I'm not laughing outside. By inside,
I'm laughing. I'm coughing up confetti, is what I'm doing.
As a proud Back in the day, Romo sexual when
Tony played for the Dallas Cowboys and we had a
talk show to do on a daily basis back in
(38:09):
his Dallas days. Let's check in on the Mallards Sportsbook
the odds of Tony Romo being demoted by CBS during
the season, barring some kind of Sharon Moore type scandal,
we are going to go Mallard Sportsbook odds zero point
(38:32):
zero zero, as in squad douche bupkis. Okay, that's what
we're going with. Goose egg donut, no frosting, nothing extra
on the doughnut. That's what we're going with. Yeah, that's
a great SoundBite that's from those days, that comes from
that era, the Ben Maler Show. We had so many
(38:53):
great callers back then, and there's only a couple of
them in the left, like Blind Scott some other guys
that were part of that era on the show. So
a little birdie with a very big beak, A little
birdie with a big beak tells me the bosses at
the Columbia Broadcasting Systems, better known by their gangster name CBS,
are smitten kittens with Tony Romo. Tony Romo described as
(39:21):
the mench on the bench. No, he's not Jewish, the
mensch on the bench. Prince charming of the telestrator. He
is bewitching to those that he's around, and even if
he wasn't all of those things, even if he was
a schmock like Bill Belichick. Right, here's the killer to
the grassroots movement. CBS is paying for better or worse,
(39:43):
Tony Romo eighteen million dollars per season. He is signed
through twenty thirty. So if you do the math, and
if you demote him, that's fine, you still have to
pay him. CBS would have to pay Romo to be
a number two, number three broadcaster or unemployed seventy two
(40:03):
million to go away. There's not enough barbecue sauce in
the entire state of Texas because real barbecue doesn't need sauce.
I've tried to explain that to my wife. She says, no,
you need sauce. I said, no, you don't go to
Kansas City, great Barbecue, Grece, Barbecue Town. I've been to.
It's Kansas City. They don't have sauce. They don't need
the sauce. I mean, it's optional, you don't have to
have it. But anyway, they're not going to demote him.
(40:24):
That's the point. They're not going to demote Romo, it's
not happening, not now, and has Romo's act on stale.
I haven't noticed. I flip around a lot, even I
know they do, usually their island game there. I really
haven't noticed. He sounds the same to me. I don't
hang on Tony Romo's every word. I'm an adult. I
(40:45):
form my own opinions, so I don't really care what
he's saying. But I know when Romo came onto the scene,
he was like a stick of dynamite. And now people
are saying he's like a sparkler, and I get it.
He's been around for a few years. It's the same
jokes every night, same props. It's like Carrot Top doing
comedy in Vegas, doing a residency in Vegas, and it's great.
(41:07):
You go see him, you're on vacation from Minnesota, and
then you know, next year you come out he's doing
the same bits. Well, who wants to see that? You've
already seen the act. You know this is the NFL.
But once the way this normally works, with very few exceptions.
Once you are in, it's like the mob. Once you're in,
there's only one way to get out, and it's not
you know, it's not what you think, so that's it.
(41:30):
I mean, you look around. They pretty much super glued
to the chair outside of Emmett Smith, who was so
bad they got rid of him. Joe Montana. People forget
because that was a million years ago. He tried broadcasting.
Wholly crap. Did he suck? Drew Brees has been terrible.
He's now back. He got a gig at Fox. I'm
assuming he still blows. I've not seen any games that
(41:52):
he's done yet. It's essentially a no show job. And
as far as like jj Watt, when did he become
God's gift to meet head sportscasting? I don't when did
that happen? There's no guarantee. There is no guarantee that
he's gonna be Ribbi, and it's more likely he'll just
be some louder chop liver.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Airwake God Swell Wake got to third degree below.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
This is one bigvent gets grilled.
Speaker 8 (42:26):
With the Chargers improving to ten and four despite a
plethora of injuries, there now seems to be a ground
swellow support for Jim Harbaugh to be named coach of
the Year.
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Does he deserve it? I love Jim Harbaugh, he has
no chance. It's Mike Rabel's award. Mike Rabel is your
coach of the year for the Patriots. If not Mike Rabel,
dare I say Liam Kohne Duval County in Jacksonville, Harbaugh's
not winning it.
Speaker 8 (42:48):
Next, as we approach the end of the regular season
in the NFL, if you were to redo the twenty
twenty five draft, who would you take number one?
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Overall? All right? So the draft, if you look at
the first round, it was horrific. I mean, there's hardly
anybody making any kind of impact. The only one that
really stands out is Ted McMillan of the Carolina Panthers
as your offensive rookie of the Year. Cam Ward is
to quote himself here, ass for the Tennessee Titans. So
I think it's it's him. McMillan is the guy. I
(43:17):
don't know that I drafted him number one, but there's
nobody else that's having any real impact. Next.
Speaker 8 (43:22):
Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon was asked about his job security
on Monday. He first tried to side staff the question
and then said, I believe in myself and I believe
in our team. He said, they're gonna get out of
this dipped. Then is ginning cooked?
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Well, the Cardinals will get out of the fun dip
they're in right now. I promise you they will be
good again. He will not be coaching them when they
are good again. So that's the answer, Coup, How did
we do you pass?
Speaker 8 (43:42):
Us?
Speaker 1 (43:43):
Win? I won again. I believe though Mike and Tucson,
I want again on again. I won.
Speaker 2 (43:52):
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Speaker 10 (44:05):
It's up, it buzzed with little rain at N.
Speaker 9 (44:09):
Clean up hearts gonna help you get rye, get rye
and N get rye.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
And N dear rye.
Speaker 10 (44:20):
Yeah you heard the man. It's time to get right
here on the Ben Malice Show.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
There it is love all right, It's amazing and call
up for this. The lines are full. Let's get some
questions here. What do we have aenie meenie miney.
Speaker 10 (44:32):
Moe catch a lover by the tone, Yes.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Adrian the pokey Pokey Pokey guy from years ago says,
is a text breakup okay? Or just call her?
Speaker 5 (44:45):
Ah?
Speaker 10 (44:46):
It depends on how close you were, or should you
just ghost her?
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (44:49):
If you really don't care about her at all, you
can completely ghost her Texas kind of you know.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
So would you'd rather be ghosted or text?
Speaker 10 (44:58):
I have been ghosted?
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Co Yeah?
Speaker 9 (45:00):
I went from like super hot love bombing to just
like disappearing into the night.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
That's unfortunate. Yeah.
Speaker 10 (45:06):
I hate that they get bored, they come back, and
then you got to tell them you know what, No, sorry, they.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Come back around. Yeah, I got you, all right. Uh.
Ferg Dog rights and says do women enjoy wrapping presents
or doing the laundry more?
Speaker 10 (45:18):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 9 (45:20):
I love wrapping the presents. It is so fun And
I just wanted a new way to wrap too. When
I the first year I worked here, I wrapped all
of Doug Gottlieb's presents for him his family.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Is he in a flight to Wisconsin to wrap them
this time? Or probably not? No?
Speaker 10 (45:34):
Probably not?
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Yeah, yeah I did. I'm terrible rapping gifts. You didn't
ask me for a Doug, but I like that. You
can watch YouTube videos and rap like you're working at
it at a department store.
Speaker 8 (45:44):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, it's a little life
hack makes it easier for you. It looks all pretty,
it says, dude. You enjoy going Christmas caroling as well?
Speaker 9 (45:55):
Oh my gosh, I want to go Christmas Caroling. I
asked some of my singer friends if they would want to,
and no one wants to go. But I just be
singing Christmas songs without any other chorus. It can just
be me myself and I all right.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Shannon Moynes says.
Speaker 10 (46:07):
Benelf the red nose right there.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Okay, Ben, this is a Queen of Heart's question from Shannon,
and Moyes says, can we get a Queen of Heart's
schedule update going overnight? She's been making selective special appearances
in the overnight.
Speaker 9 (46:24):
Oh I love that, Shane. I miss you when I'm
on the air too, But you gotta listen, Okay. People
have lives that they have to do, and I only
get paid twenty dollars an hour, So as far as
I'm concerned.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
Yeah, I got you, all right? Goat man, Rob writes
in he says, I'm sure you have heard now, my
friend Robbie the Mariner fan, has a bad case of hemorrhoids.
Speaker 10 (46:45):
Howard pushed so hard?
Speaker 1 (46:46):
How can he feel comfortable with this while well being intimate?
Speaker 10 (46:52):
So yeah, you know, they do have some numbing stuff.
Speaker 9 (46:55):
So if it's really causing you some issues, you can
put some numbing cream back there, because I know when
you're trying to get it on, you usually have to
put some pressure and you know, switch a.
Speaker 10 (47:04):
Little bit back there, you know I talking about. So
if it doesn't bother you, I'm sure there's some type
of pain reliever.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
All right. Well. JT. The Wingman writes in from just
outside Knoxville, Tennessee, says he's joining his lady there at
her holiday party this weekend and it's a jacket required event.
Should I go with a bow tie or a traditional necktie?
Some JT the Wingman.
Speaker 10 (47:26):
Ooh, with a jacket event? Well, if you can tie
a bow tie, I love a good bow tie. They
are much harder to tie though, So yeah, I would
go that direction.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Here's what I would say. And I've met JT. The Wingman.
He's been with many of these events that we've done.
He's a very nice man. I always like to hang
out a good guy and he's from Wisconsin. I feel
like the bow tie is a spotlight on you as
a man because most people don't wear both. Yes, So
if you want to not get any extra attention, just
wear a regular tie. The bow tie is it's an
(47:57):
attention getter because most people don't wear bow ties.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
Right.
Speaker 10 (48:00):
And then even beyond that is the bulow tie.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
Yes, the bolo tie that's like Philip Rivers tie, much.
Speaker 10 (48:06):
Easier to put on. It is definitely a statement piece.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
It is a statement piece for sure. And it's like,
are you a cowboy? No? No, no, I just have
a bullowtime Andy and Lionel lakes right. So, and he
says every Christmas it's the same. My gal says, don't
get me anything. She sticks with that idea for me
and that's fine. But I get her a little something
and she's irritated with me. I can't win here. Yeah, Well,
(48:29):
then he says, should I get her an adult toy
that's from Lorraina.
Speaker 9 (48:34):
Well, adult toys or toys for our gifts for everybody
you know, you can play with them.
Speaker 10 (48:39):
She can play with them group, it can be solo.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
That's why toys are so great, It's all encompassing, is indeed? Yeah, okay,
one shop stopped all you need there. Mike the Leprechaun says,
jealousy is one of the deadly sins. My ex girlfriend
is extremely jealous of my current girlfriend. We are supposed
to go to a holiday party this weekend.
Speaker 10 (49:01):
Whereas it's Michael lepre con right.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
They will be in the same space. Yes, how can
I avoid the fireworks? So he's gonna says, he's gonna
have the X and then his current girlfriend.
Speaker 9 (49:10):
Well, if you just leave your rubber chicken at home,
then no one will have to worry about getting jealous
of one another, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
Well, I did see. I just saw. They just added
that there was somebody's question. We don't have time for
it now, though I would have gone to him earlier,
but they didn't see that on the board. Unfortunately. Well
stand hold, maybe we'll do that next star. But there
it is. Look at that the Queen of Heart.
Speaker 10 (49:28):
We love Love.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
Well, that's you speak for yourself.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password is password, you idiot, password the word
Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller.
Speaker 1 (49:48):
Let's play the game. We walk him in our combatants.
We have that. Alam to Lou, who's in the Bay Area. Hello, Lou,
how's it going? Welcome? Whould you like to partner.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Up with Coach of the year?
Speaker 8 (50:02):
Go with me?
Speaker 1 (50:04):
Hell, Lou raina plead Lou reina. Okay, I see what Alam. Now,
I don't know if I'm gonna do that, Lou. I'll
be at the Mountain. We're going to do one at
the bar in Oakland there, probably around the Super Bowl.
I don't know if Lorrain is gonna make it, but
I'll be.
Speaker 10 (50:20):
I plan on going up there.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
Okay, all right, we'll make it.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
As long as you're there, I'm happy.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
All right, Well look at that and see that Lorraine
is worried about me being there. All right, Now, you're
gonna play our game. And we have Mike in New Hampshire.
Who's gonna play. Hello Mike, Welcome by the.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
Future Militia caller of the Year is here.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
All right? Who do you want to partner up with? Mike?
Speaker 2 (50:43):
I want to win.
Speaker 1 (50:44):
We're gonna play with you, all right, let's do it.
Here we go. Have a list of words. One to ten,
alame to Lou. You were on the air first. Please
pick a number, give me number five, number five?
Speaker 10 (50:56):
Okay, all right, covid.
Speaker 1 (51:00):
I don't think you can know you can't do that.
It's a proper No. How about not allowed? How about illness? Mike? Illnesses? No?
All right?
Speaker 10 (51:17):
Can I say? Cold is cold?
Speaker 8 (51:18):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (51:19):
I don't.
Speaker 10 (51:19):
Yeah, I guess that's wrong, but whatever, whatever, go with it.
Speaker 9 (51:24):
It's a flute.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
No, let's see, boy, here we go. This is where
it gets a disaster. How about uh, I think you
already said this. How about disorder?
Speaker 6 (51:39):
Disorder?
Speaker 1 (51:40):
Yeah, a disorder? Yeah, come on, come on, all.
Speaker 10 (51:47):
Right, I'm gonna do a Mallard maneuver venereal.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
Look at all arena stealing my own bit? How dare
you all right? I'm sure you don't, Lou, I'm working
at a bar. I'm sure you've never had any of that.
All right, pick a number, Mike, One to ten, but
not five?
Speaker 2 (52:14):
Three?
Speaker 1 (52:16):
No? Number three? All right, well that would be that
would be appropriate. Let's go with how about insane? Yeah,
here you go. We got the league. We're never going
to concede as the crossing guard likes to say, all
right now, pig a number, Lou, hurry up number seven.
Speaker 10 (52:35):
All right, destiny, no.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
Fortune, Mike, all right, we're out of time anyway. Yeah,
the word was fate. You lost Alimada, louis my good
looking out. At ten, I got ten points, I win
the game. I got more points. I won the game.
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