March 5, 2026 • 39 mins
Big Ben talks about the Kansas City Chiefs trading CB Trent McDuffie to the Rams, the passing of former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz, Maller to the Third Degree, another edition of #AskBen, and more!
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So we are back at it, and a reminder coming
up later on. We're just getting started here, you know,
we're starting up the old engine here, and we got
a long journey into the early morning hours. But if
you stay with us all night here on the overnight,
you were going to get marginal overnight talk radio. I
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guarantee you. Later this hour we have the Whom I Game.
Next hour will be the in Trivia, also Mallard of
the third Degree, the Riddle of the Day. Later on
ask Ben and way way down the road it'll be
fact or fiction. But we begin with this our lead
story from can Zaw City, the Holy Land of the
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Chicken Finger. The whole people say it's a barbecue town.
Now no, it's a chicken finger Town. The Chiefs have
decided we're gonna make a move. We're gonna make them.
We're gonna retool our roster. Now, are we gonna add
something or are we gonna get rid of something? Well,
they've decided, you know what, let's get let's declutter. We're
gonna declutter. That's what Andy Reid saying. So the Chiefs
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have said bye bye to a key player. Now, if
you didn't see this, and maybe not, we have learned
that the canes Za City Chiefs have agreed to a
deal with the l A. Rams and they are sending
all pro defensive back Trent McDuffie to LA for not one,
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not two, not three. However, four draft picks, including the
twenty ninth overall pick, the one of the Rams first
round picks. They're back to one. They're back to one.
The Chiefs will also receive a gift bag including a
fifth and a sixth round pick, and then in this
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year's draft and then a twenty seven third round pick.
There will be a quiz on this later, so please
take notes. That is a good jumping off point. Let
us discuss the question does this Chiefs Trent McDuffie trade
to the Rams count as a blockbuster trade. I saw
that Blockbuster trade. We does the Trent McDuffie trade by
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Kansas City to La count as that so, I've got
emoji filled text messages, Crayola's and aquarium and we'll put
all of these things together and we are going to
make a traduction with some to zekey sauce. That's the plan,
all right. So a to answer the question, why don't
we just pump the brakes, pump the breaks on blockbuster
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trade conversation? All right, this is a blockbuster like Blockbuster
video in twenty twenty six. You know, you know what
I'm saying, does it? It's a solid football trade. The
Rams got a good player, the Chiefs lost a good player.
It's a nice addition for LA. It doesn't rise to
the level of high crimes and misdemeters for Kansas City.
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It's not a great day for the Chiefs. McDuffie's pretty
talented player, and you gave that up, and that's exactly
what the Rams wanted. You helped the Rams out. The Rams,
who were on the doorstep of the Super Bowl Merseattle
needed some help to get by the Rams. Otherwise the
Rams were in the Super Bowl and they would have
won it. Whoever played the Patriots gonna win. So the
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Rams get a physical, smart defensive back and that's exactly
what the doctor ordered. So we like to move for
l A. And yet again the general manager, Less Snead,
once again running the f M picks Ben Mahler chicken
finger platter at the landing there in Liberty, Missouri. That's
where f them picks. Get me some more chicken? Figure,
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Can I get some extra dipping sauce? Sure, we'll get
you some extra dipping sauce. How the figure they're good,
The fingers are good. Okay, how about the fries?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You like?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
The fries are good too. Yeah, right there all there
at the landing where we had the last Kansas City
mallor meet and greet a couple of years back. But
Less Sneed clearly was not a smitten kitten. He looked
at all the quarterbacks they went to the combine, and
the Rams looked around, and they saw who was available,
who was likely going to be available with that pick,
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And so he's all right, Less Snead, the Rams CM
you know, I mean the cartoon bubble in my head.
He fired off a few emoji filled text messages over
to Arrowhead and then when he did dad, he went
over there. On the way they completed the trade, they
did the DOCU sign, but he picked up a ready
made brisket Trent McDuffie. So the Mallord Progress Report, the
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Mallord Progress Report, the Rams get an a minus and
a mis because they really only gave up a fifth
round pick because they already have two first um now
I have won. They traded the lower first round pick,
and they traded a fifth to sixth and the seventh.
Nobody cares about a sixth and the seventh round pick.
Those are worthless, So you gave up one pick to
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get an all pro. Mcduffee is a war daddy defensive back,
the kind that you plug and play, and they're gonna
give him an extension, which of course in California won't
be that big because of the taxes. But then they'll
move on. But in Kansas City on their report card,
the progress report card, they get a C. That's it.
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It's a head scratcher, considering how we always hear it's
very difficult to find elite defensive backs in the NFL.
So many people complain about that. And they say, ah,
I can't do it. It's hard to find them. And
when you get one, you'd like to think you're not
just gonna send them out of town like some leftover
burnt ends from some barbecue plates. But Mahomes, that would
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be Patrick or Patty or pat or whatever you call him.
But Mahomes sent out a post on social media and
he used the word damn. He what a burger. He
used the word damn. That tells you everything. Now, I
kind of grasp when I was walking to the studio,
I was like, I kind of get what Kansas City
was trying to do. They wanted to reallocate resources here.
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They didn't want to pay him. You don't want to
pay the man, so you're not gonna pay the man.
They want to spend the money, and they wanted to
spread that around on some other players, and they wanted
those digital discounts. And so they grabbed some Keno cards
from the Rams and they'll get younger players, they'll draft
some defensive back. It's cost certainty. And they picked up
the mystery box of those late round draft picks. Now, meanwhile,
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keeping the drum beat going, we gave you the port
card the Rams getting an AUS and the team from
Kansas City gets a C. Keeping that theme going, the
question here is where does the new Ram pickup Trent
McDuffie rank among the NFL's elite defensive backs. He's what
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the Rams needed, but where is he in the hierarchy
of NFL defensive backs. So after a minutes long deliberation
which included several YouTube videos and a deep dive with
the nerds, with the nerds, the stats and all that, McDuffie,
this is not Revis Island. This is not Dion Sanders
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in the mid nineties prime time. Those guys have beachfront
property in Canton, Ohio if there was a beach there.
But mcduffee he's still writing the book. He's still writing
the book, and he's built a pretty good foundation, pretty
good foundation. He's on the fast track here, battle tested
postseason games, back to back Super Bowls, got it done
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in those games and the pressure cooker. So it's not
like he's been playing for the Raiders. There's some suck
team like the Browns where they don't ever play in
big games. This last year was a stinker for Kansas City,
but we know before that they were really, really good.
So he's gotten it done under the bright lights, and
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that's good. So the quarterbacks who played against him, based
on what I was seeing him, they treated the McDuffie
side of the field like a construction zone. Like you're
here on the four h five or one on one
in La. Get the construction zone, you know, slow down
for the cone zone. Detour, detour, detour, and you try
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to find a new route or route. Now, good things
do come in small packages occasionally, and McDuffie would appear
to be proof on that. He's not the tallest, he's
not the biggest, he's not the strongest defense back. He
has been the chef's kiss, making up for it with
good footwork and all that stuff, and provided air tight coverage.
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How tight, so tight. He's basically become a brand ambassador
for Crayola that you knows Crayola pens where the erases
half the field most of the time, where they don't
often throw to where he's at right now on Benny's
Big Board, not a list for Terry and England. Benny's
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Big Board. McDuffie's in the top five top ten conversation.
He's in that neighborhood's good neighborhood, safe neighborhood, low crime,
and good shopping and solid weather. So I looked at
the Madden game, which is very important Madden. The Madden
people have him at a ninety four. Trent McDuffie a
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ninety four rating on Madden, which, as I understand it
is the video game version of a Misch and Star.
So there's not a lot of debate on that. And
now the Rams know exactly what they have to do. Well,
you got the man, you got to pay the man,
and that's why they are expected to give him a massive,
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massive contract. And the whispers that we're hearing here is
that McDuffie will become the highest paid defensive back in
the NFL, and right now it's Sauce Gardener of the
Colts on average annual value. McDuffie. If this goes the
way it's it's headed, he's going to get paid more
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than that. The cherry on top of him. So cow
guy played at a couple of high schools in southern
California bounced. You know, these high school kids get paid
money to go from school to school, So you got
to check from one school and went to another school
and all that. But they the Rams. I know this
is upsetting for Mark the full name guy and Nostradinas
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and the other trolls out there, but the Rams just
leveled up. The Seahawks are getting worse. The Rams are
getting better. So instead of being given the two point
conversion that Seattle got from the NFL, the erroneous two
point conversion, how about you get a free touchdown this year.
You're gonna need more than just two points to beat
the Rams upcoming because you got people leaving, fleeing, running
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out of Seattle. Will the last person that leaves Seattle
leave the lights and turn the lights off? And then
you got the rams. You just supposed what the Rams
are doing? All right? Now, last word to mister Rogers' neighborhood.
We go. We're gonna take the trolley to mister rogers neighborhood.
So Aaron Rogers apparently is fed up. He is fed
up with your fascination and my fascination about his marriage.
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So he was playing grab ass with high paid podcaster
Pat McAfee on the YouTube show and Rodgers had a
lot to say. We're not gonna go through the whole
thing here, but Rogers said that the obsession meaning the
obsession with his wife is effing bizarre, he said. He
also claimed that they're there are quote legitimate stalkers who
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have followed him closely at his home at the gym
in Malibu, And I guess we have a little bit.
Let's play a little clip here. This is a little taste,
just to prove I'm not lying. Here's Aaron Rodgers on
his buddy playing some grab ass with Pat McAfee.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Now I'm out of it. I don't want to be
back in it. I don't want to be a part
of that. I understand. You know when I play, If
I play that, there's scrutiny, there's a tension that comes
with it. But I'm fully content on living a private life.
But you have people out there that say about me
and create these narratives and talk about my wife and
talk about this and that and search for our wedding
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certificate and all this different. Like, we're not living a
public life. We're not going to now, not in the future,
not ever. When this is done, it's Kaiser Sosa and
you won't see me. You won't see me.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I'm not doing TV. Okay, not doing TV. So Rogers
has a couple of houses. But he's talking about the
home in Malibu, in here in LA. And as you
heard that Rogers he mentioned his wife is anyone? If
Rogers goes away, my life's not going to change too much.
I'll just talk about other people. It doesn't really matter.
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He makes it seem like this is going to be
a great loss for humanity that Rogers is going to
go away. Dude, go away.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
We don't.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
We'll find whether you're there or not. The beat goes on.
We were doing this before you got to the to
the NFL, and we'll do it after, so it's not
not any big deal. The story, though, is the wife.
That's obviously the story, right. The identity remains unknown and
as he said, there, I want privacy, all right? Question
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what a SOB story? Do you feel bad? Do you
feel bad for Aaron Rodgers getting swarmed by the locusts
of the paparazzo? Do you feel bad? So we don't?
I wish we did. I just don't. I guess what.
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I have an alternative theory. I think Rogers actually loves
this stuff. He loves it. There's no other reason that
you're in this situation. Right. This man announced that he
is secretly married. And then he treats if there is
a wife, he treats the wife like she's the nuclear
launch codes, she's the nukes. And it tells everyone, Hey,
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I'm married, but you can't know a name. Really, we'll
just give your first name and uh no, no nothing
other than that, no photo. Of course, what do you
think the propaazzo are going to do? They're gonna circle
you put mystery in the air everywhere. That's catnip for
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the tabloids. It's hide and seek. And this my sugar
of Rogers has made about four hundred million dollars. That's
just on the field, doesn't include the discount double check.
And he lives in Malibu. Now, I don't know if
you're familiar with Malibu. It is essentially a celebrity aquarium,
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is what it is. Now. A lot of it burned down, unfortunately,
because the mayor was off on vacation and the whole
thing burned and they didn't have enough water because there's
a bunch of incompetent people in LA But there's still
a lot of Malibu left, and that's where the very wealthy,
the very successful people in entertainment, they all have homes
there and it's a celebrity aquarium where the paparazzo are
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the sharks. And then they're out, they're hunting around and
it's the greatest marketing campaign in paparazzo history. And you know,
somewhere there's some people over at TMZ the Daily Mail
page six, the fautogs who are rubbing their hands together
like cartoon villains. The chase is on, right, they're just
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rubbing their hands together. The chase is on. This has
become mythological. Is she real? Is this some kind of
ai chat bock? And to my knowledge I might be
wrong on this, but I am married. And when you
get married, you have to file for it to be
a legal marriage. Don't you have to file it with
somebody out of state? Right if you're married in America?
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I believe that to be the case. So I don't
think you can hide that information. It's on the public record.
Is she possibly sasquatch? Could Rogers have married Bigfoot or
a lizard person? I don't know whoever gets that first video,
the first photos, whatever paparazzi gets that they're buying a
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new Bentley. They're getting a new Bentley, and look you
want privacy in all this stuff. I have a solution.
I have the Malor Plan. My advice to Aaron Rodgers
is to find a tiny wooden cabin out there in
the forest. Go to the woods. I hear a town
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called Lincoln, Montana. Off the really worked out well for
the unibomber for a while there, and you can live
that lifestyle. Get off the grid and no Wi Fi
and no electricity and you can poop in some dirt
and wipe your tuckus with leaves and you'll be good
to go. Otherwise, you're a celebrity, dude. You made a
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deal with the devil, and you take the good. That's
the money, money, money, the attention, and then you cannot
act shocked that wough you apparently are that the cameras
show up. That's the deal. Everyone knows the deal. Everyone
knows the deal. That's it.
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this hour is from college football. There was a story
reported a couple weeks back that claimed that this day
was already happening. It didn't happen that day, but it's
now happened. What are you talking about? A legend, an
absolute legend in the last couple of generations in college football,
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has crossed the pearly gates here. We assume you've heard
by now. News came out hours ago. Perhaps not though.
Lou Holtz. Lou Holtz, the silvertungue college football coach most
associated with Notre Dame, although he coached all over the place,
led the Fighting Irish to a national championship way back
in nineteen eighty eight, and bill up this amazing reputation
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as a master of rebuilding college football programs before players
could legally be paid. And he has died at the
age of eighty nine. He had been in some poor health.
Are there reports he was in hospice care? He died
in Orlando. So the life of Lou Holtz, that is
a good jumping off point. Let us discuss So the
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question how are you going to remember? How are you
going to remember Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz as he
checks out of this mortal coil. So I've got Doctor Seuss,
Red Lobster, and Cypress Hill, and we're going to provide
you some alphabet soup. ABC is what we're going to do.
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That's where we start with ABC. So, but we'll actually
start with number one. Yes, in a generation, the golden
generation of coaches, which Lou Holtz was a part of,
bigger than life, personalities across all sports, across all sports,
and he had Lou Holtz there who felt larger in life.
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You think of the guys that were around his age,
in his generation, You've got people like Tommy Lasorda, Mike Dicka,
Bobby Knight. These are humongous personalities. You don't have that now.
Most coaches are so barring these days, they're very borring.
But not those days. That was a mom and pop
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you had bigger than life people like Lou Holtz. And
Lou Holtz didn't just stand out. He took the stage,
he performed a card trick with his right hand with
his left hand, he made balloon pets for the kids.
And he always demanded excellen So I always demanded excellent,
was all coaches do. But physically he was a pint
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sized figure, but he had that cape on the sidelines.
He was like a superhero on the sidelines. And he
was a giant growing up years ago. And he did
follow It would appear the Doctor Seus's playbook. He said
what he felt and he did what he said. And
it wasn't always popular like the Holtz. Now he's passed away,
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his tributes coming in all stuff. But it wasn't double
ed story. It was equal parts lovable, unlikable to some.
And so you had that and then also just utterly original,
which I always appreciated. And he did wake up the
echoes of Notre Dame winning it all back in the eighties.
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But his true legacy is what used to be called
an encyclopedia, I guess, and now it's called Wikipedia or
Gronkipedia or whatever. The encyclopedia of tough love and witty
quotes that he left for us Mere mortals here and
his approach because of that, you know, Lou, you know
there were some people that were not you know, not
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big fans, as we pointed out, but in his era,
he was part of that time where that's how you acted.
In this era, you get clout, you get points for
being a victim, playing the victim, you get social media credit,
and people love to be the victim. They love to
have problems. When Lou Holtz was doing his thing, you
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were looked down upon when you celebrated all your issues,
and he said, wow, Holts, it was a relic of
a different era. It was a grittier time. That was
a grittier time, and he preached self reliance to his players,
and he famously won my all time favorite quotes, and
there were a couple of them. I'll give you a
few of them for Lou Holtz, but one of them
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was never tell your problems to anyone because you're the
team you're playing and not going to offer you sympathy.
And he lived by the math that life is ten
percent what happens and then ninety percent how you respond
to it. And the mother of all quotes for Lou Holtz,
and there's some debate about this, but for me, the
mother of all quotes, especially the times that we live
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in now, there would be players that would bitch and
complain that the practice was too hard, it was too
physical at Notre Dame, right, they'd bitch about it. So
Lou Holtz one day said that no one has ever
drowned in sweat, which is the ultimate comeback, right, just
shut up, you know you can be okay, Everything will
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be okay. And I did have the good fortune of
meeting Lou Holtz years ago. He was doing some speaking
and this goes back almost thirty years. It's doing some
local radio at the time, and he was speaking at
a promotion that we did, the Winning Way promotion, and
we had like Muhammad Ali was there, Lou Holtz, Terry
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bradch All, theyse random people were thrown together, and Holtz
followed another doctor Seuss belief that you need to be
yourself because everyone else is taken and will there will
never be another one like him because of the way
the world was then as it is now and just
everything is so upside down now. Page two here continuing
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as we celebrate the memory of Lou Holtz. We drive
down memory lane. So what is the one thing that
Lou Holtz did in all these years coaching, the one
thing that stamped his legacy in football and college football
coaching in particular. So a big part and I still
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remember this when I was a little kid, but a
big part of Lou Holt's legacy. The thing that will
be etched, it should be etched on his tombstone, right
next to a picture of a magic trick is poor
mouth p oo r mo o U t h. The
man did not just coach football. He buttered the opponent's
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Cheddarbabe biscuits with a level of frantic precision that would
make a line cook weep. If Lou Holtz had spent
as much time focused on the kitchen as he did
on the sideline, Like if you worked at Red Lobster
would be a global superpower right now. You'd be like,
what's what's going on in the Golden era of the
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Golden Domers which wasn't actually lou Holtz's ear, it was
before that. But when lou was at Notre Dame, lou
Holtz would look at the schedule and Notre Dame's always
had some really lightweight opponents mixed in, and they're an independent,
and they've always been an independent my entire life. And
so Notre Dame would play the service academies right to
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play Air Force or Navy, or they played Rice, which
is terrible SMU when they were horrific, and Lou would
get on the dais and make you believe that this
team that could be one in six was like the
football version in college of the nineteen twenty seven Yankees,
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and he turned what had been a casual hobby called poormouthing.
It was at the time Lou started doing that. It
was like a clunky rotary phone, and he turned that
clunky rotary phone into a sleek iPhone Promax is what
he did. It became known as his thing Lou Holt syndrome.
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Anytime a coach goes over the top with faint praise
for an opponent that clearly blows, that's Lou Holt syndrome.
He would heap such contrived, effusive and insincere praise on
teams where Notre Dame would be a three or four
touchdown favorite, and he'd be celebrating the underdog, and you'd
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swear that the fighting Irish who were about to face
both the Justice League and the Avengers at the same time,
and he'd hug them so hard they'd suffocate, killing them
with kindness. Every Monday, Notre Dame that have a news conference.
Sometimes it would be broadcast on television. There was no
internet in those days, and he'd get up there and
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he'd just go on and on about how great the
coach is, the school is, how tough it is. Notre
Dame's got no chance, you know. He say, ah, man,
let me tell you something that that Navy quarterback that
is the next, that's the next Joe Montana right, the
ext whatever. And it was performance hard. So rest in
peace to to Lou Holtz. A life well lived for
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Lou Holtz there as he leaves us behind. All right,
So final point here, I want to turn the page
to the Magnolia State. And this has been bouncing around
the echo chamber of the last couple of a couple
of days. I wanted to address it. So there's a
proposed law that if it does happen, it is as understated,
it is not happen, and it would exempt college athletes
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in that state from having to pay state income tax
on nil earnings, and this would significantly impact their take
home pay. Meaning if you're going to a play at
USC or cal or any of the California schools, the
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People's Republic of California, they'll take a big chunk of
your money. And they want more, more and more, more
and more, more and more and more. And in Mississippi
they're like, no, work good, we were work good. We don't.
We don't want to tax you at all. And so
this would be an unleveled playing field in college football recruiting.
So the question, Mississippi politicians planning to give tax breaks,
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nil tax breaks to college athletes, how does that strike you?
So this thing has gone from hey, let's pay the players,
which by the way, I supported, to let's give the
players extra coupons. Wait wait, so I supported paying the players.
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I think that you should have a setup where you
pay the players. But this is Wowie Kauzawi. This is
a carnival ride. And I don't know that I want
to be on that roller coaster. I don't know that
I want to be on that roller coaster. I'm not
like I like paying taxes. Don't get me wrong, I
hate paying taxes, But I pay taxes. I pay a
lot of taxes, a lot more than you do, probably
if you don't live in California. But it's an absolute
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race to the bottom. And here we are college football.
Everyone's slapping stickers on players, trying to lure them here, there,
and everywhere. Come on down now, in this upside down world.
You've got nineteen twenty year old college football players who
are making you know, two D three hundred thousand, four
hundred thousand and five hundred thousand more than that sometimes
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and some of these guys will be at Old miss
not many at Mississippi State, and they're gonna get a holiday,
a tax holiday. And the guy in Mississippi, the forty
year old guy who's got three kids, a wife that
hates him, that works at the Pigley Wiggley, that person
does not get a tax break. That's the system. You
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know what this is? This is it's Cypress Hill, insane
in the membrane is what that is. It bonkers. It's
absolutely bonkers, is what it is. Now. Mississippi politicians are
basically running a Black Friday promotion for linebackers. It's a doorbuster,
free taxes if you run, if you're four point three
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or four point four, not student. If that is your
forty time, come on down now, price is right, come
on down and all of that to get an edge
over Ohio State, Notre Dame, Alabama, and whoever else the
powers of the day are. Don't include Indiana in that now. Meanwhile,
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the normal SCHMO is standing online at the Department of
Motil Vehicles of Life, paying every effing penny, every penny.
And college football for the last couple of years has
been very open. It's semi professional football. It's you know
how you have like Coca Cola and Diet Coke. It's
(31:22):
the NFL light It's Diet NFL with student ID cards
and this coupon book from the lawmakers in Mississippi. It's
just it's just wild, man, It is absolutely wild. And
you and I both know Mississippi does this, and it's
(31:45):
just a little more important college football in the South.
So you're gonna have Alabama and Georgia and Florida and
all these other southern states. Louisiana they're gonna do it too,
because if Mississippi's got an advantage, these other guys are
gonna say, we got to have that same same advantage
and then so places where they're never going to get
that advantage. I'm sure there's politicians in California like, let's
(32:08):
tax these guys more. Let's let's really bend them over,
Let's really tax these guys. So that's that's where we are.
And isn't the big meet and greet there? President Trump's
getting Nick Saban, Tiger Woods d Chambeau. Is that today?
I think that might be today, that's later today, they're
going to have to get together and they're going to
(32:31):
solve all of college football's problems right there while eating
some chicken nuggets and some fries and some some big
max and quarter pounders and they'll be good. Yeah. And
that new sandwich whatever that burger is from McDonald's, I
forget the name of it. Where the CEO guy couldn't
eat it because you know, he took like one little
baby bite because it must have been disgusting.
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Speaker 6 (33:06):
Notre Dame running back Jeremiah Love is the top rank
running back in the draft, and with a strong combine performance,
some say he could be a top ten pick. Then
do you think Love goes top ten?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
He's a fringe top ten guy because he's a running back.
I love the name. I love the name and all
the numbers from the combine and all that. Everyone's all
horny for this guy. He looks good. I believe it
when I see it in the NFL. But yeah, there's
about a forty five percent chance he goes in the
top ten. Next.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Von Miller said in a recent interview that if he
does not return to the Commanders, he would love to
go back to the Broncos to have a chance at closure. Ben,
could you see the Broncos and bringing back a legend
to finish out his career?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Well, I see, Coop. Yeah, this is a trick question
because if I answer wrong, you're going to so you
failing all. No, they don't need to bring von Miller back.
He's washed off, he's last, he's always heard, he's missed
the last the last couple of years. He already plays.
He doesn't make impact play. No. Next.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
Charlotte Hornets routed the Mavericks on Monday Night for their
fifth Street win.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
I already know what I'm gonna lose. It doesn't matter.
Go ahead, I don't care.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Now at five hundred for the first time since being
two and two, Ben, could you see them sneaking into
the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
I love con Canipple another great name, Jordan Love or
not Jordan Love but Jeremiah Love and Concannipple. Who doesn't
love Conca Nipple? The Hornets are They kicked the Celtics
and they were up by twenty seven points in the
in the second half. Absolutely, I hope they make the
plus because they're actually trying to win. All right, Coop,
go ahead, I want I know f.
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Are such a Bronco fable in SACS last year. That's nothing.
He didn't do anything other than that empty stats.
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Let's do the dance. These are actual questions by actual
listeners who used the hashtag ask Ben What's first?
Speaker 6 (35:25):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
Nick He Why Nick? He wants to know what is
your favorite muscle car if if you have one.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
I guess, yeah, I'm not a big muscle car guy
because my my height, I don't really fit in the
muscle cars. My wife she had one for for a while.
I'm losing her old the classic muscle car. But I
guess the the Corvette would be the one. But what
about you, Lrena?
Speaker 6 (35:56):
Oh gosh, my car knowledge is extensive, just.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Like okay, so you want to defer to.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
I differ I like the nineteen seventy Barracuda.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Oh I liked it. Purple purple Barracuda. Yeah, I gotcha,
all right, Yeah, I feel like that kind of ended
in the seventies, right, that was the last period of
the sixties, mid sixties of the seventies. That was a
muscle car time. And as a kid, I had these
hot wheels that were muscle cars, and I was really
good at crashing them. Into the side of the wall
(36:34):
and stuff like that. Other still, yeah, all right, what
is what is next year? Where are we going? All right?
Speaker 6 (36:39):
We have a we have a would you rather from
Ferg Dog? Oh, Ferg Dog, I forgot Yes, he wants
to know, would you rather spend a year in jail
for ten million dollars or ten years in jail for
a billion?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
All right? So one year I get a million, one
year you get ten million. Ten oh cop And that's
after taxes.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
It doesn't does not specify.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Okay, you know what I do the one year? I
think one year if I have Wi Fi in jail
and I have a phone. I'm not I'm not like
a felon or anything like that, so I'm not in
that part of the jail. I don't I think I
can handle a year.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
I'd go a year.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
I don't know who ten years? Not At my age,
I can't do ten years. What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 6 (37:25):
Yeah, I think ten mili will be enough. Like, I
don't think I need more than that.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
So I would do a year for sure, to invest
that in some you know, some stocks.
Speaker 6 (37:34):
And if you do ten years in jail, you might die.
And I if you die, then you can't spend your mind.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Well, the other thing I've heard, and we have a
lot of boys that listen in jail. We thank them
for listening. But sometimes these guys get long sentences and
they don't know how to live outside of jail. They
become so used to the jail life. They get out
of jail, they got to go back because they don't
know what to do when they get out. Cool.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
Yeah, I agree for all of those reasons. Ten millions enough.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
See for you should have gone two million dollars for
one year and like twenty million for ten or five
or something like that. All right, what's next?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
What do you got?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
All right, it's ask man? This one inert I offered.
Did you see this guy offered Giant State Mario's got
Giants tickets to Opening Dead. You say, oh, he says,
I won't go. I would go, but I think we
have a show that night. He offered to you too.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Shanon des Moines wants to know whenever your show ends,
I guess, like, yeah, off the air? Who in the
Mallard militia would you check in on?
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
No, I mean I would. If I don't work here,
I'll just work somewhere else. I mean, we've got a
big enough audience that would just, you know, do the
show somewhere else. So it doesn't matter what I'd like
working here. I'd like to keep working here. But if
I didn't work here, I'd just do something else. But
I just have everyone, everyone I can get ahold of it,
have him follow me to wherever I work next, so everyone,
I guess, would be the answer. What's next, coop? What
(38:54):
do we got?
Speaker 6 (38:56):
Let's see? Is there a food that you'll eat? This
from roy a food that you eat no matter even
if it's expired.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Well, puney, because it never expires. I just do the smell.
I do the smell in the eyeball. If it's growing hair,
I don't eat it. If it smells terrible, I don't
eat it. It's not going by my mouth.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Bread if there's no if there's no mold, I'll eat
the bread bad ways too long, eh.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
I eat green garlic one time,
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So we are back at it, and a reminder coming
up later on. We're just getting started here, you know,
we're starting up the old engine here, and we got
a long journey into the early morning hours. But if
you stay with us all night here on the overnight,
you were going to get marginal overnight talk radio. I
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guarantee you. Later this hour we have the Whom I Game.
Next hour will be the in Trivia, also Mallard of
the third Degree, the Riddle of the Day. Later on
ask Ben and way way down the road it'll be
fact or fiction. But we begin with this our lead
story from can Zaw City, the Holy Land of the
(01:16):
Chicken Finger. The whole people say it's a barbecue town.
Now no, it's a chicken finger Town. The Chiefs have
decided we're gonna make a move. We're gonna make them.
We're gonna retool our roster. Now, are we gonna add
something or are we gonna get rid of something? Well,
they've decided, you know what, let's get let's declutter. We're
gonna declutter. That's what Andy Reid saying. So the Chiefs
(01:38):
have said bye bye to a key player. Now, if
you didn't see this, and maybe not, we have learned
that the canes Za City Chiefs have agreed to a
deal with the l A. Rams and they are sending
all pro defensive back Trent McDuffie to LA for not one,
(02:02):
not two, not three. However, four draft picks, including the
twenty ninth overall pick, the one of the Rams first
round picks. They're back to one. They're back to one.
The Chiefs will also receive a gift bag including a
fifth and a sixth round pick, and then in this
(02:22):
year's draft and then a twenty seven third round pick.
There will be a quiz on this later, so please
take notes. That is a good jumping off point. Let
us discuss the question does this Chiefs Trent McDuffie trade
to the Rams count as a blockbuster trade. I saw
that Blockbuster trade. We does the Trent McDuffie trade by
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Kansas City to La count as that so, I've got
emoji filled text messages, Crayola's and aquarium and we'll put
all of these things together and we are going to
make a traduction with some to zekey sauce. That's the plan,
all right. So a to answer the question, why don't
we just pump the brakes, pump the breaks on blockbuster
(03:10):
trade conversation? All right, this is a blockbuster like Blockbuster
video in twenty twenty six. You know, you know what
I'm saying, does it? It's a solid football trade. The
Rams got a good player, the Chiefs lost a good player.
It's a nice addition for LA. It doesn't rise to
the level of high crimes and misdemeters for Kansas City.
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It's not a great day for the Chiefs. McDuffie's pretty
talented player, and you gave that up, and that's exactly
what the Rams wanted. You helped the Rams out. The Rams,
who were on the doorstep of the Super Bowl Merseattle
needed some help to get by the Rams. Otherwise the
Rams were in the Super Bowl and they would have
won it. Whoever played the Patriots gonna win. So the
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Rams get a physical, smart defensive back and that's exactly
what the doctor ordered. So we like to move for
l A. And yet again the general manager, Less Snead,
once again running the f M picks Ben Mahler chicken
finger platter at the landing there in Liberty, Missouri. That's
where f them picks. Get me some more chicken? Figure,
(04:15):
Can I get some extra dipping sauce? Sure, we'll get
you some extra dipping sauce. How the figure they're good,
The fingers are good. Okay, how about the fries?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
You like?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
The fries are good too. Yeah, right there all there
at the landing where we had the last Kansas City
mallor meet and greet a couple of years back. But
Less Sneed clearly was not a smitten kitten. He looked
at all the quarterbacks they went to the combine, and
the Rams looked around, and they saw who was available,
who was likely going to be available with that pick,
(04:42):
And so he's all right, Less Snead, the Rams CM
you know, I mean the cartoon bubble in my head.
He fired off a few emoji filled text messages over
to Arrowhead and then when he did dad, he went
over there. On the way they completed the trade, they
did the DOCU sign, but he picked up a ready
made brisket Trent McDuffie. So the Mallord Progress Report, the
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Mallord Progress Report, the Rams get an a minus and
a mis because they really only gave up a fifth
round pick because they already have two first um now
I have won. They traded the lower first round pick,
and they traded a fifth to sixth and the seventh.
Nobody cares about a sixth and the seventh round pick.
Those are worthless, So you gave up one pick to
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get an all pro. Mcduffee is a war daddy defensive back,
the kind that you plug and play, and they're gonna
give him an extension, which of course in California won't
be that big because of the taxes. But then they'll
move on. But in Kansas City on their report card,
the progress report card, they get a C. That's it.
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It's a head scratcher, considering how we always hear it's
very difficult to find elite defensive backs in the NFL.
So many people complain about that. And they say, ah,
I can't do it. It's hard to find them. And
when you get one, you'd like to think you're not
just gonna send them out of town like some leftover
burnt ends from some barbecue plates. But Mahomes, that would
(06:12):
be Patrick or Patty or pat or whatever you call him.
But Mahomes sent out a post on social media and
he used the word damn. He what a burger. He
used the word damn. That tells you everything. Now, I
kind of grasp when I was walking to the studio,
I was like, I kind of get what Kansas City
was trying to do. They wanted to reallocate resources here.
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They didn't want to pay him. You don't want to
pay the man, so you're not gonna pay the man.
They want to spend the money, and they wanted to
spread that around on some other players, and they wanted
those digital discounts. And so they grabbed some Keno cards
from the Rams and they'll get younger players, they'll draft
some defensive back. It's cost certainty. And they picked up
the mystery box of those late round draft picks. Now, meanwhile,
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keeping the drum beat going, we gave you the port
card the Rams getting an AUS and the team from
Kansas City gets a C. Keeping that theme going, the
question here is where does the new Ram pickup Trent
McDuffie rank among the NFL's elite defensive backs. He's what
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the Rams needed, but where is he in the hierarchy
of NFL defensive backs. So after a minutes long deliberation
which included several YouTube videos and a deep dive with
the nerds, with the nerds, the stats and all that, McDuffie,
this is not Revis Island. This is not Dion Sanders
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in the mid nineties prime time. Those guys have beachfront
property in Canton, Ohio if there was a beach there.
But mcduffee he's still writing the book. He's still writing
the book, and he's built a pretty good foundation, pretty
good foundation. He's on the fast track here, battle tested
postseason games, back to back Super Bowls, got it done
(08:06):
in those games and the pressure cooker. So it's not
like he's been playing for the Raiders. There's some suck
team like the Browns where they don't ever play in
big games. This last year was a stinker for Kansas City,
but we know before that they were really, really good.
So he's gotten it done under the bright lights, and
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that's good. So the quarterbacks who played against him, based
on what I was seeing him, they treated the McDuffie
side of the field like a construction zone. Like you're
here on the four h five or one on one
in La. Get the construction zone, you know, slow down
for the cone zone. Detour, detour, detour, and you try
(08:48):
to find a new route or route. Now, good things
do come in small packages occasionally, and McDuffie would appear
to be proof on that. He's not the tallest, he's
not the biggest, he's not the strongest defense back. He
has been the chef's kiss, making up for it with
good footwork and all that stuff, and provided air tight coverage.
(09:11):
How tight, so tight. He's basically become a brand ambassador
for Crayola that you knows Crayola pens where the erases
half the field most of the time, where they don't
often throw to where he's at right now on Benny's
Big Board, not a list for Terry and England. Benny's
(09:33):
Big Board. McDuffie's in the top five top ten conversation.
He's in that neighborhood's good neighborhood, safe neighborhood, low crime,
and good shopping and solid weather. So I looked at
the Madden game, which is very important Madden. The Madden
people have him at a ninety four. Trent McDuffie a
(09:54):
ninety four rating on Madden, which, as I understand it
is the video game version of a Misch and Star.
So there's not a lot of debate on that. And
now the Rams know exactly what they have to do. Well,
you got the man, you got to pay the man,
and that's why they are expected to give him a massive,
(10:14):
massive contract. And the whispers that we're hearing here is
that McDuffie will become the highest paid defensive back in
the NFL, and right now it's Sauce Gardener of the
Colts on average annual value. McDuffie. If this goes the
way it's it's headed, he's going to get paid more
(10:34):
than that. The cherry on top of him. So cow
guy played at a couple of high schools in southern
California bounced. You know, these high school kids get paid
money to go from school to school, So you got
to check from one school and went to another school
and all that. But they the Rams. I know this
is upsetting for Mark the full name guy and Nostradinas
(10:55):
and the other trolls out there, but the Rams just
leveled up. The Seahawks are getting worse. The Rams are
getting better. So instead of being given the two point
conversion that Seattle got from the NFL, the erroneous two
point conversion, how about you get a free touchdown this year.
You're gonna need more than just two points to beat
the Rams upcoming because you got people leaving, fleeing, running
(11:15):
out of Seattle. Will the last person that leaves Seattle
leave the lights and turn the lights off? And then
you got the rams. You just supposed what the Rams
are doing? All right? Now, last word to mister Rogers' neighborhood.
We go. We're gonna take the trolley to mister rogers neighborhood.
So Aaron Rogers apparently is fed up. He is fed
up with your fascination and my fascination about his marriage.
(11:41):
So he was playing grab ass with high paid podcaster
Pat McAfee on the YouTube show and Rodgers had a
lot to say. We're not gonna go through the whole
thing here, but Rogers said that the obsession meaning the
obsession with his wife is effing bizarre, he said. He
also claimed that they're there are quote legitimate stalkers who
(12:03):
have followed him closely at his home at the gym
in Malibu, And I guess we have a little bit.
Let's play a little clip here. This is a little taste,
just to prove I'm not lying. Here's Aaron Rodgers on
his buddy playing some grab ass with Pat McAfee.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Now I'm out of it. I don't want to be
back in it. I don't want to be a part
of that. I understand. You know when I play, If
I play that, there's scrutiny, there's a tension that comes
with it. But I'm fully content on living a private life.
But you have people out there that say about me
and create these narratives and talk about my wife and
talk about this and that and search for our wedding
(12:42):
certificate and all this different. Like, we're not living a
public life. We're not going to now, not in the future,
not ever. When this is done, it's Kaiser Sosa and
you won't see me. You won't see me.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
I'm not doing TV. Okay, not doing TV. So Rogers
has a couple of houses. But he's talking about the
home in Malibu, in here in LA. And as you
heard that Rogers he mentioned his wife is anyone? If
Rogers goes away, my life's not going to change too much.
I'll just talk about other people. It doesn't really matter.
(13:15):
He makes it seem like this is going to be
a great loss for humanity that Rogers is going to
go away. Dude, go away.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
We don't.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
We'll find whether you're there or not. The beat goes on.
We were doing this before you got to the to
the NFL, and we'll do it after, so it's not
not any big deal. The story, though, is the wife.
That's obviously the story, right. The identity remains unknown and
as he said, there, I want privacy, all right? Question
(13:42):
what a SOB story? Do you feel bad? Do you
feel bad for Aaron Rodgers getting swarmed by the locusts
of the paparazzo? Do you feel bad? So we don't?
I wish we did. I just don't. I guess what.
(14:02):
I have an alternative theory. I think Rogers actually loves
this stuff. He loves it. There's no other reason that
you're in this situation. Right. This man announced that he
is secretly married. And then he treats if there is
a wife, he treats the wife like she's the nuclear
launch codes, she's the nukes. And it tells everyone, Hey,
(14:28):
I'm married, but you can't know a name. Really, we'll
just give your first name and uh no, no nothing
other than that, no photo. Of course, what do you
think the propaazzo are going to do? They're gonna circle
you put mystery in the air everywhere. That's catnip for
(14:50):
the tabloids. It's hide and seek. And this my sugar
of Rogers has made about four hundred million dollars. That's
just on the field, doesn't include the discount double check.
And he lives in Malibu. Now, I don't know if
you're familiar with Malibu. It is essentially a celebrity aquarium,
(15:11):
is what it is. Now. A lot of it burned down, unfortunately,
because the mayor was off on vacation and the whole
thing burned and they didn't have enough water because there's
a bunch of incompetent people in LA But there's still
a lot of Malibu left, and that's where the very wealthy,
the very successful people in entertainment, they all have homes
there and it's a celebrity aquarium where the paparazzo are
(15:32):
the sharks. And then they're out, they're hunting around and
it's the greatest marketing campaign in paparazzo history. And you know,
somewhere there's some people over at TMZ the Daily Mail
page six, the fautogs who are rubbing their hands together
like cartoon villains. The chase is on, right, they're just
(15:54):
rubbing their hands together. The chase is on. This has
become mythological. Is she real? Is this some kind of
ai chat bock? And to my knowledge I might be
wrong on this, but I am married. And when you
get married, you have to file for it to be
a legal marriage. Don't you have to file it with
somebody out of state? Right if you're married in America?
(16:15):
I believe that to be the case. So I don't
think you can hide that information. It's on the public record.
Is she possibly sasquatch? Could Rogers have married Bigfoot or
a lizard person? I don't know whoever gets that first video,
the first photos, whatever paparazzi gets that they're buying a
(16:36):
new Bentley. They're getting a new Bentley, and look you
want privacy in all this stuff. I have a solution.
I have the Malor Plan. My advice to Aaron Rodgers
is to find a tiny wooden cabin out there in
the forest. Go to the woods. I hear a town
(16:57):
called Lincoln, Montana. Off the really worked out well for
the unibomber for a while there, and you can live
that lifestyle. Get off the grid and no Wi Fi
and no electricity and you can poop in some dirt
and wipe your tuckus with leaves and you'll be good
to go. Otherwise, you're a celebrity, dude. You made a
(17:20):
deal with the devil, and you take the good. That's
the money, money, money, the attention, and then you cannot
act shocked that wough you apparently are that the cameras
show up. That's the deal. Everyone knows the deal. Everyone
knows the deal. That's it.
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this hour is from college football. There was a story
reported a couple weeks back that claimed that this day
was already happening. It didn't happen that day, but it's
now happened. What are you talking about? A legend, an
absolute legend in the last couple of generations in college football,
(18:37):
has crossed the pearly gates here. We assume you've heard
by now. News came out hours ago. Perhaps not though.
Lou Holtz. Lou Holtz, the silvertungue college football coach most
associated with Notre Dame, although he coached all over the place,
led the Fighting Irish to a national championship way back
in nineteen eighty eight, and bill up this amazing reputation
(19:02):
as a master of rebuilding college football programs before players
could legally be paid. And he has died at the
age of eighty nine. He had been in some poor health.
Are there reports he was in hospice care? He died
in Orlando. So the life of Lou Holtz, that is
a good jumping off point. Let us discuss So the
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question how are you going to remember? How are you
going to remember Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz as he
checks out of this mortal coil. So I've got Doctor Seuss,
Red Lobster, and Cypress Hill, and we're going to provide
you some alphabet soup. ABC is what we're going to do.
(19:46):
That's where we start with ABC. So, but we'll actually
start with number one. Yes, in a generation, the golden
generation of coaches, which Lou Holtz was a part of,
bigger than life, personalities across all sports, across all sports,
and he had Lou Holtz there who felt larger in life.
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You think of the guys that were around his age,
in his generation, You've got people like Tommy Lasorda, Mike Dicka,
Bobby Knight. These are humongous personalities. You don't have that now.
Most coaches are so barring these days, they're very borring.
But not those days. That was a mom and pop
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you had bigger than life people like Lou Holtz. And
Lou Holtz didn't just stand out. He took the stage,
he performed a card trick with his right hand with
his left hand, he made balloon pets for the kids.
And he always demanded excellen So I always demanded excellent,
was all coaches do. But physically he was a pint
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sized figure, but he had that cape on the sidelines.
He was like a superhero on the sidelines. And he
was a giant growing up years ago. And he did
follow It would appear the Doctor Seus's playbook. He said
what he felt and he did what he said. And
it wasn't always popular like the Holtz. Now he's passed away,
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his tributes coming in all stuff. But it wasn't double
ed story. It was equal parts lovable, unlikable to some.
And so you had that and then also just utterly original,
which I always appreciated. And he did wake up the
echoes of Notre Dame winning it all back in the eighties.
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But his true legacy is what used to be called
an encyclopedia, I guess, and now it's called Wikipedia or
Gronkipedia or whatever. The encyclopedia of tough love and witty
quotes that he left for us Mere mortals here and
his approach because of that, you know, Lou, you know
there were some people that were not you know, not
(21:58):
big fans, as we pointed out, but in his era,
he was part of that time where that's how you acted.
In this era, you get clout, you get points for
being a victim, playing the victim, you get social media credit,
and people love to be the victim. They love to
have problems. When Lou Holtz was doing his thing, you
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were looked down upon when you celebrated all your issues,
and he said, wow, Holts, it was a relic of
a different era. It was a grittier time. That was
a grittier time, and he preached self reliance to his players,
and he famously won my all time favorite quotes, and
there were a couple of them. I'll give you a
few of them for Lou Holtz, but one of them
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was never tell your problems to anyone because you're the
team you're playing and not going to offer you sympathy.
And he lived by the math that life is ten
percent what happens and then ninety percent how you respond
to it. And the mother of all quotes for Lou Holtz,
and there's some debate about this, but for me, the
mother of all quotes, especially the times that we live
(23:06):
in now, there would be players that would bitch and
complain that the practice was too hard, it was too
physical at Notre Dame, right, they'd bitch about it. So
Lou Holtz one day said that no one has ever
drowned in sweat, which is the ultimate comeback, right, just
shut up, you know you can be okay, Everything will
(23:27):
be okay. And I did have the good fortune of
meeting Lou Holtz years ago. He was doing some speaking
and this goes back almost thirty years. It's doing some
local radio at the time, and he was speaking at
a promotion that we did, the Winning Way promotion, and
we had like Muhammad Ali was there, Lou Holtz, Terry
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bradch All, theyse random people were thrown together, and Holtz
followed another doctor Seuss belief that you need to be
yourself because everyone else is taken and will there will
never be another one like him because of the way
the world was then as it is now and just
everything is so upside down now. Page two here continuing
(24:15):
as we celebrate the memory of Lou Holtz. We drive
down memory lane. So what is the one thing that
Lou Holtz did in all these years coaching, the one
thing that stamped his legacy in football and college football
coaching in particular. So a big part and I still
(24:35):
remember this when I was a little kid, but a
big part of Lou Holt's legacy. The thing that will
be etched, it should be etched on his tombstone, right
next to a picture of a magic trick is poor
mouth p oo r mo o U t h. The
man did not just coach football. He buttered the opponent's
(24:59):
Cheddarbabe biscuits with a level of frantic precision that would
make a line cook weep. If Lou Holtz had spent
as much time focused on the kitchen as he did
on the sideline, Like if you worked at Red Lobster
would be a global superpower right now. You'd be like,
what's what's going on in the Golden era of the
(25:23):
Golden Domers which wasn't actually lou Holtz's ear, it was
before that. But when lou was at Notre Dame, lou
Holtz would look at the schedule and Notre Dame's always
had some really lightweight opponents mixed in, and they're an independent,
and they've always been an independent my entire life. And
so Notre Dame would play the service academies right to
(25:44):
play Air Force or Navy, or they played Rice, which
is terrible SMU when they were horrific, and Lou would
get on the dais and make you believe that this
team that could be one in six was like the
football version in college of the nineteen twenty seven Yankees,
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and he turned what had been a casual hobby called poormouthing.
It was at the time Lou started doing that. It
was like a clunky rotary phone, and he turned that
clunky rotary phone into a sleek iPhone Promax is what
he did. It became known as his thing Lou Holt syndrome.
(26:33):
Anytime a coach goes over the top with faint praise
for an opponent that clearly blows, that's Lou Holt syndrome.
He would heap such contrived, effusive and insincere praise on
teams where Notre Dame would be a three or four
touchdown favorite, and he'd be celebrating the underdog, and you'd
(26:58):
swear that the fighting Irish who were about to face
both the Justice League and the Avengers at the same time,
and he'd hug them so hard they'd suffocate, killing them
with kindness. Every Monday, Notre Dame that have a news conference.
Sometimes it would be broadcast on television. There was no
internet in those days, and he'd get up there and
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he'd just go on and on about how great the
coach is, the school is, how tough it is. Notre
Dame's got no chance, you know. He say, ah, man,
let me tell you something that that Navy quarterback that
is the next, that's the next Joe Montana right, the
ext whatever. And it was performance hard. So rest in
peace to to Lou Holtz. A life well lived for
(27:40):
Lou Holtz there as he leaves us behind. All right,
So final point here, I want to turn the page
to the Magnolia State. And this has been bouncing around
the echo chamber of the last couple of a couple
of days. I wanted to address it. So there's a
proposed law that if it does happen, it is as understated,
it is not happen, and it would exempt college athletes
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in that state from having to pay state income tax
on nil earnings, and this would significantly impact their take
home pay. Meaning if you're going to a play at
USC or cal or any of the California schools, the
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People's Republic of California, they'll take a big chunk of
your money. And they want more, more and more, more
and more, more and more and more. And in Mississippi
they're like, no, work good, we were work good. We don't.
We don't want to tax you at all. And so
this would be an unleveled playing field in college football recruiting.
So the question, Mississippi politicians planning to give tax breaks,
(28:50):
nil tax breaks to college athletes, how does that strike you?
So this thing has gone from hey, let's pay the players,
which by the way, I supported, to let's give the
players extra coupons. Wait wait, so I supported paying the players.
(29:12):
I think that you should have a setup where you
pay the players. But this is Wowie Kauzawi. This is
a carnival ride. And I don't know that I want
to be on that roller coaster. I don't know that
I want to be on that roller coaster. I'm not
like I like paying taxes. Don't get me wrong, I
hate paying taxes, But I pay taxes. I pay a
lot of taxes, a lot more than you do, probably
if you don't live in California. But it's an absolute
(29:32):
race to the bottom. And here we are college football.
Everyone's slapping stickers on players, trying to lure them here, there,
and everywhere. Come on down now, in this upside down world.
You've got nineteen twenty year old college football players who
are making you know, two D three hundred thousand, four
hundred thousand and five hundred thousand more than that sometimes
(29:55):
and some of these guys will be at Old miss
not many at Mississippi State, and they're gonna get a holiday,
a tax holiday. And the guy in Mississippi, the forty
year old guy who's got three kids, a wife that
hates him, that works at the Pigley Wiggley, that person
does not get a tax break. That's the system. You
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know what this is? This is it's Cypress Hill, insane
in the membrane is what that is. It bonkers. It's
absolutely bonkers, is what it is. Now. Mississippi politicians are
basically running a Black Friday promotion for linebackers. It's a doorbuster,
free taxes if you run, if you're four point three
(30:40):
or four point four, not student. If that is your
forty time, come on down now, price is right, come
on down and all of that to get an edge
over Ohio State, Notre Dame, Alabama, and whoever else the
powers of the day are. Don't include Indiana in that now. Meanwhile,
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the normal SCHMO is standing online at the Department of
Motil Vehicles of Life, paying every effing penny, every penny.
And college football for the last couple of years has
been very open. It's semi professional football. It's you know
how you have like Coca Cola and Diet Coke. It's
(31:22):
the NFL light It's Diet NFL with student ID cards
and this coupon book from the lawmakers in Mississippi. It's
just it's just wild, man, It is absolutely wild. And
you and I both know Mississippi does this, and it's
(31:45):
just a little more important college football in the South.
So you're gonna have Alabama and Georgia and Florida and
all these other southern states. Louisiana they're gonna do it too,
because if Mississippi's got an advantage, these other guys are
gonna say, we got to have that same same advantage
and then so places where they're never going to get
that advantage. I'm sure there's politicians in California like, let's
(32:08):
tax these guys more. Let's let's really bend them over,
Let's really tax these guys. So that's that's where we are.
And isn't the big meet and greet there? President Trump's
getting Nick Saban, Tiger Woods d Chambeau. Is that today?
I think that might be today, that's later today, they're
going to have to get together and they're going to
(32:31):
solve all of college football's problems right there while eating
some chicken nuggets and some fries and some some big
max and quarter pounders and they'll be good. Yeah. And
that new sandwich whatever that burger is from McDonald's, I
forget the name of it. Where the CEO guy couldn't
eat it because you know, he took like one little
baby bite because it must have been disgusting.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
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Speaker 6 (33:06):
Notre Dame running back Jeremiah Love is the top rank
running back in the draft, and with a strong combine performance,
some say he could be a top ten pick. Then
do you think Love goes top ten?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
He's a fringe top ten guy because he's a running back.
I love the name. I love the name and all
the numbers from the combine and all that. Everyone's all
horny for this guy. He looks good. I believe it
when I see it in the NFL. But yeah, there's
about a forty five percent chance he goes in the
top ten. Next.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Von Miller said in a recent interview that if he
does not return to the Commanders, he would love to
go back to the Broncos to have a chance at closure. Ben,
could you see the Broncos and bringing back a legend
to finish out his career?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Well, I see, Coop. Yeah, this is a trick question
because if I answer wrong, you're going to so you
failing all. No, they don't need to bring von Miller back.
He's washed off, he's last, he's always heard, he's missed
the last the last couple of years. He already plays.
He doesn't make impact play. No. Next.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
Charlotte Hornets routed the Mavericks on Monday Night for their
fifth Street win.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
I already know what I'm gonna lose. It doesn't matter.
Go ahead, I don't care.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Now at five hundred for the first time since being
two and two, Ben, could you see them sneaking into
the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
I love con Canipple another great name, Jordan Love or
not Jordan Love but Jeremiah Love and Concannipple. Who doesn't
love Conca Nipple? The Hornets are They kicked the Celtics
and they were up by twenty seven points in the
in the second half. Absolutely, I hope they make the
plus because they're actually trying to win. All right, Coop,
go ahead, I want I know f.
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You love you.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Are such a Bronco fable in SACS last year. That's nothing.
He didn't do anything other than that empty stats.
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Here we go.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
It's time now for ask Ben and friends your questions
and our answers, we do the round robin and Kooper Loop,
Let's do the dance. These are actual questions by actual
listeners who used the hashtag ask Ben What's first?
Speaker 6 (35:25):
All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
Nick He Why Nick? He wants to know what is
your favorite muscle car if if you have one.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
I guess, yeah, I'm not a big muscle car guy
because my my height, I don't really fit in the
muscle cars. My wife she had one for for a while.
I'm losing her old the classic muscle car. But I
guess the the Corvette would be the one. But what
about you, Lrena?
Speaker 6 (35:56):
Oh gosh, my car knowledge is extensive, just.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Like okay, so you want to defer to.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
I differ I like the nineteen seventy Barracuda.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Oh I liked it. Purple purple Barracuda. Yeah, I gotcha,
all right, Yeah, I feel like that kind of ended
in the seventies, right, that was the last period of
the sixties, mid sixties of the seventies. That was a
muscle car time. And as a kid, I had these
hot wheels that were muscle cars, and I was really
good at crashing them. Into the side of the wall
(36:34):
and stuff like that. Other still, yeah, all right, what
is what is next year? Where are we going? All right?
Speaker 6 (36:39):
We have a we have a would you rather from
Ferg Dog? Oh, Ferg Dog, I forgot Yes, he wants
to know, would you rather spend a year in jail
for ten million dollars or ten years in jail for
a billion?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
All right? So one year I get a million, one
year you get ten million. Ten oh cop And that's
after taxes.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
It doesn't does not specify.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Okay, you know what I do the one year? I
think one year if I have Wi Fi in jail
and I have a phone. I'm not I'm not like
a felon or anything like that, so I'm not in
that part of the jail. I don't I think I
can handle a year.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
I'd go a year.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
I don't know who ten years? Not At my age,
I can't do ten years. What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 6 (37:25):
Yeah, I think ten mili will be enough. Like, I
don't think I need more than that.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
So I would do a year for sure, to invest
that in some you know, some stocks.
Speaker 6 (37:34):
And if you do ten years in jail, you might die.
And I if you die, then you can't spend your mind.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Well, the other thing I've heard, and we have a
lot of boys that listen in jail. We thank them
for listening. But sometimes these guys get long sentences and
they don't know how to live outside of jail. They
become so used to the jail life. They get out
of jail, they got to go back because they don't
know what to do when they get out. Cool.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
Yeah, I agree for all of those reasons. Ten millions enough.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
See for you should have gone two million dollars for
one year and like twenty million for ten or five
or something like that. All right, what's next?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
What do you got?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
All right, it's ask man? This one inert I offered.
Did you see this guy offered Giant State Mario's got
Giants tickets to Opening Dead. You say, oh, he says,
I won't go. I would go, but I think we
have a show that night. He offered to you too.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Shanon des Moines wants to know whenever your show ends,
I guess, like, yeah, off the air? Who in the
Mallard militia would you check in on?
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (38:33):
No, I mean I would. If I don't work here,
I'll just work somewhere else. I mean, we've got a
big enough audience that would just, you know, do the
show somewhere else. So it doesn't matter what I'd like
working here. I'd like to keep working here. But if
I didn't work here, I'd just do something else. But
I just have everyone, everyone I can get ahold of it,
have him follow me to wherever I work next, so everyone,
I guess, would be the answer. What's next, coop? What
(38:54):
do we got?
Speaker 6 (38:56):
Let's see? Is there a food that you'll eat? This
from roy a food that you eat no matter even
if it's expired.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Well, puney, because it never expires. I just do the smell.
I do the smell in the eyeball. If it's growing hair,
I don't eat it. If it smells terrible, I don't
eat it. It's not going by my mouth.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Bread if there's no if there's no mold, I'll eat
the bread bad ways too long, eh.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
I eat green garlic one time,
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