June 10, 2026 • 44 mins
Big Ben talks about the NBA declining to upgrade Victor Wembanyama's shove of Jalen Brunson to a flagrant foul, reports that Aaron Donald is more likely than not going to return to the LA Rams, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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Our lead begins at the headquarters in Midtown, Manhattan, where
the Association ruled on the shove hurt round the NBA.
This is where Victor Weimbanyama he shoved Jalen Brunson in
the Game three and this got replayed a bunch. Not
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all of those misshots by the Knickerbockers in the fourth
quarter got replayed. This got replayed a lot. So if
you didn't hear what happened the fallout on this and
perhaps not, perhaps you were not paying attention. We've learned
that Victor Wembanyama will not will not be assessed a
flagrant foul for the shove of Jalen Brunson during Game
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three the other night, in front of all the one
percenters who are at Madison Square Garden. Now, the play
happened in the first quarter, and to describe it for
our blind listeners, Brunson tried to sit a screen and
then when Manyama came over these they were just trying
to set a screen on when Manyama seven foot four
Spindley and he turned one Banyama and did what anyone
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would do. He just shoved brunch into the ground like
a sack of trash. Get out of here, both hands
right to the upper body. I just like that. So
he went down. Now, no foul was called on the play,
despite the complaining, the whining by the Knickerbocker fans. Now
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the the NBA reviewed, it decided against upgrading the no
call to a flagrant foul. Now why does that matter,
Wemba Nyama will be able to stay at two points
at the end of this fugaze point system in the
NBA if you get flagrant fouls all because of Rashid Wallace,
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the legacy of both teams played hard. My man, both
teams played hard Rashid Wallace. So they put all these
rules in and two flagrant foul points this postseason. That's
where Wemby is at this point, he elbowed nas. Read
of your menis Timberwolves. That was in the second round
of the place. So he picked up a couple points
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on that. And if you reach four points, what happens?
You evaporate at that point four If you reach four points,
that triggers an automatic suspension. So the NBA senior vice
president of Bureaucracy and referee Development, somebody named Monty McCutchen,
who's been aroun for a while, he said, the foul
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should have been called on the court, should have been
called on the court. But you know what that means.
But it wasn't escalated retroactively, meaning ix nay on the
retroactive punishment. A. So, as a result of all this,
one Manyama is being called the NBA's new Golden Boy.
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The Wemby rules, all of that stuff. Do the treatment
he is receiving here from the league in the NBA Finals.
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question, and I'll give you a two part question.
Is Spurs star victor Wan Banyama getting special treatment from
the NBA? And is this a problem? Is this a
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big fundamental problem. So I've got Pastrami sandwich on rye
with mustard, flip phone and start trek, and we will
combine all of these things together and we're gonna walk
the beat. We're on the overnight beats. We're gonna walk
the beat all night long. So a to answer the
question two part question, the first part is Spurs star
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Victor wiman Yama getting preferential special treatment? Absolutely, of course
he is. Wemby is getting treated like he's the adopted
son of Adam Silver and got put on the insurance
plan and they just want to take care of him
and that's it. And the NBA protects him like he's
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what the last baby manatee at a place in Florida
where they're protecting the baby manates and he's like the
last one. They gotta protect him. Now, if you look
at the whistle here, whistle, whistle, whistle. If you look
at the whistle, the NBA refs, they it's like slapstick.
They looked away like WWE officials who suddenly didn't see
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the steel chair come flying in and hit the guy
in the back of the hat. Didn't see that kind
of the vibe. I god, Wemby could close line. I'm
telling you he could absolutely go out there and close
line a guy right into the scorer's table, and they'd
call it. They wouldn't call it a foul. They'd call it.
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They call it a vertical push, is what they'd call.
But not afoul. It's something something else and all that. Now,
if the table's turned, and Jalen Bruss's popular player and
obviously a big deal in New York, and all that.
If the table's turned, though, Jalen Brunson, let's say he
somehow is a little little bug on the rug if
he were able to shove Wemby, who's not very heavy.
So if Brunson shoves wehm By Yama, let's reverse the
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tables like that. Adam Silver would repel down from the
rafters at Madison Square Garden like spider Man, Spider Man,
spider Man, and he would give a citation to Jalen
Brunson or anyone else the dare mess with Wemby Yama,
don't you do that? For example, if Luke Cornet the
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big lug, the big lug there for San Antonio, if
he did what Wemby did, I'll tell you what's gonna
happen on Wednesday night. Luke Cornett would be sitting down
having a nice Pistrami sandwich on rye with mustard at
Cat's Delhi, watching Game four on a TV that is
from the nineteen eighties, and that's it, and then also
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having to write a handwritten note of apology. So that's
how that would go. When you crunch the numbers, outside
of Wemby taking a Louisville slugger and bludgeoning someone is
almost untouchable. Outside of that is almost untouchable. And while
it is expected and it is understandable that this is
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how this is going here, the reason it's understandable, the
precedent has been said way back almost fifty years ago,
when Magic Johnson and Larry Bird we're playing the NBA
is all about the cavalcade of Stars, and Wemby is
the teacher's pet. He's the lucky star at this point,
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and he's the darling. I don't have the ways I
can say it. I think we kind of get the
point now. And it's a TV show, it's on ABC,
and Wemby is the lead actor. Everyone else an extra.
It's the Wemby world. That's that's it. And there is
a dimension of the multiverse where the NBA is like,
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this guy's going to be in the finals until every
year until twenty forty, so we might as well just
get used to it. Don't even hide it. Do not
even hide it now turning the page, but not far.
We're going to continue with this theme here the Alumni
Association on page two enters the chat the Alumni Association.
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So former next player and I believe there's a museum
for him in China loves China's fall on Marbury, highly
overrated ballplayer in his ear in the NBA, was supposed
to be a legend, just never all that good anyway,
he's out there, yeap. And he played with the Knicks
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way back. I was barely alive in four to nine,
a a little kid. Fact. Then he played for the Knickerbockers,
and he went on a passionate rant Stefan Marbury of
course on social media where else, and criticized the Wimby
move that we just talked about as dirty dirty, dirty
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dirty dirty dirty dirty, dirty dirty and typical of he said.
Wemby then attacked all international players and he said, I
it overseas, that's how the play, and he urged the
next this is the key part Marbury urging the Knickerbockers
to retaliate with physicality in game four. And here's the quote.
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Just imagine I am the aforementioned Stefan Wemby is an
international player. The quote began, they played dirty overseas. If
I'm watching film and I see Wemby throw somebody on
my team next game, I'm going to pop him in
his rib cage so hard with my elbow. After y'all
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watch that film what he did Jalen Brunson. Quote continues,
you better make sure you put that knife in his
neck next game. Wow, all right, it seems rather violent. Okay,
So the question what is your instinct on former New
York Knicks guards Stefan Marbury demanding retaliation on the Spurs
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Wemby in all of that because of the shove of
Jalen Brunson. So Stephan Marbury's out there, he wants the
eye for the eye. I believe that's called the eye
for the eye retaliation here on Victor Wiman. Yeah, I'm
for that shove of Brunson. And it's the rant was
pure old testament basketball, Like he's speaking the language of
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the elbow, the forearm, the punch to the nuts back
alley screens like, that's what he's talking about. However, the
modern NBA, they don't operate. That's why this is so outragised.
Like what Wemby did, if you're of a certain age,
was just like every game that happened. It wasn't that
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big a deal. They didn't have to look at it
from seventeen different camera angles, and that was just the
reality of the situation. Of course, now it's been so
many years since the NBA was like that because the
players don't seem to care all that much, at least
during the regular season. They don't care, and they're all
buddies with each other. And so that's the old generation.
And it wasn't even really when Marbury was playing either.
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It didn't go on too much. It was like the
tail end. If anything, it was the tail end when
Marbury was doing this thing for the Knicks and all
those other teams, and so in the NBA is all
about hugs and good vibrations and all that stuff, and
so you look at it, they'd rather cuddle than elbow
each other. They just what it's proper to corn and
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the other thing. When you do push back, you must follow.
And this goes from beginning of time. When you do
push back, you must follow the Nike marketing slogan just
do it, meaning real retaliation is silent, it's sudden. It
is not telegraphed how And the issue here is that
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the marbur is talking like this is the Nix of
the mid nineties, the mid nineties Nicks and spoiler alert,
this is not a Nicks heat matchup in the mid
nineties or late nineties here, and you don't have Charles
Oakley or Anthony Mason. They're not walking through that door.
Mason's cross to Parley Gates and Oakley is not allowed
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in or he'll get arrested for trespassing by James Dolan.
So they're done. The Knicks have not had that tough
side to them since people had flip phones and fax machines.
It's been that long. Here. The other bugaboo, since we're
on the bugglebooz. The other bugaboo here, as we've talked
about Wemby, the face as Lebron has gotten old the
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last couple of years, Wemby is the face of the
NBA to come here, and as we talked about, you
cannot mess with that, and so you have to protect
him like he's the pope and the popemobile. You gotta protect, protect, protect,
protect all right now, last word to King James Land.
Where is King James Land? We're not sure. However, Lebron
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James has entered the endless Michael Jordan versus Lebron goat debate.
Time Magazine was apparently still in business. I think that's impressive,
because who's reading Time magazine? Anyway, They went out there
and said he gave an interview, a recent interview to
Time Magazine, which I house bouncing around the web, and
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Lebron was asked about his place among basketball legends, and
he said, quote, I am not taking nobody over me.
I think he learned that at Duke. Oh he didn't
go to Duke. Where are you learning? Okay? Anyway, that
was quote I'm not taking nobody over me. There's no question.
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Quote continues, but Lebron said, I think Mike will say
the same thing, rest his soul. Kobe will say the
same thing, Magic will say the same thing, Bird will
say the same thing. Shack could say the same thing.
The late great Wilt Kareem. He's ran through all these
other players and went on and on and on answer
the question, do you have a problem with Lebron James
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picking him as the goat and saying everyone would do
the same thing. So let's put this under the Mallard microscope,
examining the curious case of Lebron James, a man who
claims he does not obsess over barber shop goat talk.
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He's mentioned this many times over the years, all while
holding a pair of clippers. And he's got the mirror there,
and he owns the chair, he's the whole thing. And
I don't do that. That's the Lebron. I do not
do that. I do not do it, all right, So
I don't know if it's a problem. It's more of
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a pet peeve. And I have a bully pulpit here
to air my grievances, so I will take advantage of that.
And I will now explain to you, my friend, my
pet peeve. So I get that every all time, great
backs them sell and that's they believe in themselves, although
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they don't normally say it, right, they don't say it.
And and Lebron does come across as a douchey mcdouche
when the way that he says, like Lebron naming himself
the goat is kind of like directing your own biopic
and giving yourself the Oscar. And I hate to burst
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Lebron's ego bubble. Michael Jordan never if you can prove
to me I'm wrong, I will correct this. To my knowledge,
Michael Jordan never ever called himself the goat. That he
was not raised that way, and he just acted like
he was the goat and let other people decide that
you're the greatest of all time and all that stuff.
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But watch all of MJ's run with the Bulls, and
I watched all the Lebron James run with these seventeen
different teams Lebron's played for. And what air Jordan did.
He took the baton. Well, forget Maggie Johnson and Larry
Bird were very popular and they were becoming even more
popular in the NBA. They had his renaissance in the
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nineteen eighties. And then Jordan in that era came along
right around the showtime Lakers and the Celtics, who are
these great teams, and he took the baton. Jordan from
Magic and Bird and then had a dust storm. Jordan
reached a different dimension of star Dust and he went
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Star Trek. Is what Jordan was able to do there,
to explore strange new worlds never before seen by an
NBA player, and to boldly go where no man had
gone before. And while Lebron's career is the greatest sequel
ever made, every man, woman and child knows the sequel
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is never the equal. And that's the reality. And Jordan's
teams were they six and zero in the finals something
like that with the Bulls believe they were. And Pete
Dobbins Lebron quantity, quantity over quality. And by the way,
we have a little text to Lebron we'd like to
send out here, and this is voice to text. The
rule has always been, if you have to declare yourself
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the goat, you're probably not.
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We begin this hour with a little football, little football?
Why not little football? Actually it's a big football story,
a developing story out of La La Land. We have
an update update on the future of Aaron Donald. Is
he going to ram it all day and ram it
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all night? Inquiring minds would like to know have you
heard the latest on this? You have not. Oh, we've
learned some positivity, good vibrations for Aaron Donald if you
want to see him play football again. Adam Scheffer telling
the world that while no one is definitely saying Aaron
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Donald is returning, everybody is acknowledging that it is a possibility.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Schefter believes it is quote more likely than not. That's
his phrasing, not my phrasing. It's more likely than not
that Aaron Donald will come back, especially if the Rams
present a clear plan for usage. There have been some
chatter that the Rams are going to let him skip games,
only playing home games. Key divisional games skip some of
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the weaker games on the RAMS schedule is who knows
if that's I doubt that's true. That's not the way
the NFL has done business. They're not like basketball or baseball.
People have brought up to Roger Clemens thing. If you're old,
there was this pitcher named Roger Clemens, big steroid cheat,
and he came back and they let him pitch in
limited games and they gave him all these rules that
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were just for him normally. That's not how it goes
in the NFL world anyway. Good jumping off point. The
key part of that more likely than not, that's the
money quote, and that's what we're going to play off
of here as we discuss the question how much value,
how much value do you put on this report saying
it is more likely than not that Aaron Donald will
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return to the Rams for the twenty twenty six regular season.
So my observations have got civil court, human rights violation,
and beastie boys, and we will combine all of these
things together, will lock them together there, and we're gonna
be guile time. We're going to beguile time, is what
we're doing here.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
We always start with number one, number one, number one,
number one, having fun.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
This is the classic June Things are a little rocky,
kind of slow story in the news cycle of the NFL,
the cottage industry where you have to have fresh, piping
hot news every day. When I hear the phrase more
likely than not, I flash back. There was this ridiculous
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investigation the Miami Dolphins. Jonathan Martin I think was the
guy's name, And this goes back in number of years.
And so the NFL hired this big lawyer law firm
group to come in and investigate, and they released this
long manifesto and seem like every other thing as I
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remember in this manifesto was it's more likely either or not.
And so then I felled down a rabbit hole. I
fell back, and I said, it's annoying. The phrase is
annoying more likely than not, and it's just a cowards
way of saying yes without saying yes.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Do I say it every once in a while, Absolutely,
I'm a coward. I do say it. It's a legal phrase.
And what I discovered this is years ago. All right,
When you hear it's more likely than not, that is
the standard used in civil court it's called a preponderance
of the evidence, you know, in a criminal case, beyond
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a reasonable doubt. Well, in the civil court a little
over fifty percent guilty. Guilty. That's why Oj Simpson was.
He killed people. He's dead now, but he chopped two
people's heads off, except they couldn't prove it in the
criminal court. However, in the civil court, preponderance or the
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evidence they got him. And so of course this is
obviously not a courtroom. We know that. It's just educated
guesswork is what it is. Here's the truth. Miles Garrett
is not just a ram. He's not just a possible
new teammate for Aaron Donald. That is a recruitment magnet,
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is what that is. And with the Super Bowl being
hosted in the Hood and Inglewood and up to no Good.
After the season, Aaron Donald, he's gone on the record
and he's admitted that Miles Garrett and him together for
sure said got him thinking. He said, he has to
feel the passion. He can't just make love. He has
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to have the passion to really go for it. So
he retired after the twenty twenty three season. If you've
been in a coma and he has not become a
couch potato. We understand he still works out multiple times
during the day, and we hear that he's working out
like a madman right now to see if he can
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find the spark plug to unlock a higher power, a
higher level and come back to the rams. And you
would assume if he did not want to come back.
If he did not want to come back, Aaron Donald
play in the NFL, he would not be training like
a man possessed getting ready for a fight with Thanos.
He wouldn't be doing that. And obviouly things heat up
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between now in the next couple of weeks. He kind
of want to announce that before training camp. Although there's
also a world where Aaron Donald doesn't. He's so decorated.
They said, don't even go to training camp, just sit
out training camp, which I don't like. I don't like this.
It's a part of the whole thing. You got to
go through the drudgery of that stuff. Although it's really
soft now then it used to be back in the day.
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These guys make it seem like they're going to boot camp.
It is not that. So the smart money does say
that Aaron Donald will be back in less snap crack
pop happens, he pops a tire and obviously that won't happen.
The good news is if he does pop a tire,
we can do a tire Rack commercial and then he'll
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go over to tire Rack get a new tire, and
he'll be good to go. He has Michelin grade tires,
so he's in good shape. Now, page dude, we go
to Minnesota, where the soap opera continues. I know Eke
and Rosevio Minnesota on the edge of his seat right now,
Doc Dan can't get enough of the drama vikings. Little
Fella quarterback Kyler Murray complaining, complaining that splitting practice reps
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with JJ McCarthy during the mini camp, Well, it's making
it hard. Take a listen. We have the audio. Here's
a little alligator arms. Kyler Murray commenting on having the
split reps.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
I think the sofest part is again, I was there
for seven years. I know I had two different offensive systems,
but at the same time, you're getting all those reps
you know. Now, having a split reps, it's me already
being behind, not getting the amount of reps that you
know you would typically want to guy to get learn offense.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
That's probably the toughest part.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
You know, just again going back to the past, being
in control of everything. I understand on what we were
already doing because I was comfortable within the system. Now
coming in the new system, learning on the fly, trying
to play fast of fishing and then let let it
loose while learning is pretty you know, that's the toughest part.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
So hard. So we have a moment of silence for
Kyler Murray having to learn the playbook and not having
all the reps. Okay, question do you feel for Kyler Murray?
Do you feel for Alligator arms Kyler Murray that he
has to share the reps and it's hard for the Vikings? Oh,
it's so hard, all right. Yeah, there's a real SOB story,
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isn't it. They get the little violin out, please cry me.
The Mississippi River, okay, which splits the Twin Cities. You
can cross the Mississippi River. You can go from Minneapolis
to Saint Paul and all that. Anyway, the point is,
like you get a share. The reason you have to
share is because of Malfia, since that's the reason you're
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in this situation, like Kyler Murray, making it seem like
this is so difficult. Oh my god, I'm behind splitting reps.
It's like a human rights violation. I find the whole
thing comedy. I find it a Night at the Improv.
It's a Netflix comedy special. Kyler, you did not lose reps.
You lost leverage. That's why you're here. You knew the deal.
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And if Kyler Murray hadn't been mid with the Cardinals,
he would not be in a situation where he has
to share reps with the Minnesota Vikings and alliantor Armscott
all of the reps. He talked about it for seven years.
He got all the reps and he wasn't very good.
So it's possible it's better that he doesn't get all
the reps because when he got all the reps, e
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didn't quite work out. There didn't quite work out, and
he could actually benefit less is more and keep them fresh.
And if it doesn't work out in the NFL, when
he's playing late night Call of Duty on Twitch, she'll
be in really good and really good mindset there. He'll
be able to focus in on the joystick and play
Call of Duty. Now Murray is upset. Obviously, he can't
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speed run that Viking playbook, like the video game tutorial.
He can't just you know, kind of run through that
real quick. And now that said, this is the most
Fox quarterback controversy that we've had in years. And everyone
knows it. You and I and the person in the
back over there, they a we all know it. This
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is not legit. It is not. And it does seem
though Kyler's going to get the job. He's already got
it in his back pocket, and he's going to suck
at a time you cannot suck Kyler Murray. And he's
already planting the seed. The seed of it ain't my fault.
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I didn't get enough reps. If only I'd gotten more
reps back in shoot, I wouldn't suck here in mid September,
that whole thing. He's planting that to prepare and alibi
when the purple haze settles over him. All right now,
final point to New York or slightly across the river
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there the Hudson, New Jersey, where the Jets. We knew
this for a while. The Jets have had. They have
as many primetime games as we do here at Fox
Sports Radio in the NFL zero zero primetime games scheduled
for the twenty twenty six NFL season. Bupkiss Squad, Douche
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zip Bo. Now this is the first time, believe it
or not, the first time since twenty seven we are
told that they have been shut out of prim time.
That is, if my math is correct, nineteen seasons, almost
a generation, and the Jets have always had at least
one primetime game. Now they're not alone. There are four
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others wearing the dunce cap, the Embarrassments, the ugly redheaded
step children of the NFL, the Raiders, the Dolphins old
those teams used to matter, they don't matter anymore. Cardinals
they've never mattered. And the Tennessee Titans, who are pretty
average for a while and now they just suck. And
those teams not on the TV. The Boop, Well, they're
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on the TV if you only watch the primetime games.
They don't get a prime time game. And they're not
in the same with those other teams that Titans, Raiders, Cardinals,
and Dolphins are not in the same boat. And the Jets,
if you look at where they are right now, and
they're not just in the bottom, they're in the sewer.
Is where they are now. The head coach Aaron Glenn
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was asked about this. He said to me, it's more
of you earn the right. This is from Aaron Glenn.
You don't have to really learn his name. He won't
be the coach of the Jets much longer. I said,
that's the good thing about this league. You earn your right, players, coaches, everybody.
You earn your right to get what you get in
this league. Close quote. Now, that is seen as a
motivational statement. Clearly Aaron Glenn believing this will somehow inspire
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the boys to have a good year just so they
can get some games on prime time. Now, the question
Aaron Glenn, coach of New York, the AFC team in
New York. Aaron Glenn says that the Jets have to
earn the right for prime time TV matchups. What say you?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So I will go for Aaron Glenn gave a perfectly
pragmatic response. He mixed coach speak in his rebuttal, so
he hit all of those notes pragmatic coach speak talking
about the Jets getting shut out of the primetime schedule. Now,
he said, you have to earn the right to play
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under the lights, right, That was his line and Aaron
is being polite. Aaron Glenn is being nice. We don't
have to be We're not part of the mainstream media.
We're not part of the establishment. We don't go party
with these people. We can be honest here we are
on in the middle of the night, so we play
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ball under the lights. Unlike the Jets. We have the
lights on here in the studio, so they don't get
to do that and all that. We don't have to
play nice, so we can be unfiltered, and we'll do that.
The Jets did not lose primetime. Let's be clear on that.
They didn't miss out on national TV. They were evicted.
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The eviction papers came in. It took nineteen years and
now they're done. Usually a team in the top media
market gets if you're in the top media market, you
get at least one. We call it a pity game. Pity, pity, pity.
You get a pity game just because you have New York,
New York written and stitched into your jerseys. Now, this
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year the end was like, no pity for you. You've
been evicted. You don't get any pity. And you know
how historically bad you have to be for the NFL
to book and their television partners at the massive New
York television audience and not say just give him a
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just give him a random Monday night or a Thursday
night game. No, no, no, no thanks. We're good. We
are good, all right. Now, forget earning prime time. That's
not that's not it. The Jets haven't even earned daytime.
I don't know when else they can play because they're
not very good during the day either. They suck at night.
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They can't get on there. Now where else is there?
I don't know which? Which brings to mind the old
Beastie Boys tune you gotta fight for your right to
not be a TV ratings liability. See, they actually sung
it about the Jets. The Beastie Boys sung that about
just nobody. Nobody is lining up to watch Geno Smith.
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He is poison under center and he's been that way
ever since he started for Seattle a couple years back.
And so I enjoy those one o'clock starts. And that's
not good at one o'clock, it's certainly not worthy. It's
obscene content. At eight o'clock, and not even the Jets
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fans want to watch them, whether it's during the day
or at night.
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How about that to the third degree.
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Over to the Cooper Hoop we go, Coop.
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It was reported earlier this week that when leaving the
Eagles facility for the last time, aj Brown signed a
wall with photos of himself on it and added the
best to ever play here always open.
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Yes, it's very very sweet of him the Ben.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Is he the best receiver ever to playing Philly?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
No, not even close. Now, old timers will say, Harold,
this guy named Harold Carmichael, who is before your time, Coop.
And I was a kid when he played. But he's
like the greatest Eagle of all time. But Deshaun Jackson
was very good. That's an old reference also to Shaun Jackson.
What else I love too? Yeah, yeah, I'm a CEO guy,
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all right. Next, the Toronto.
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Blue Jays have had a rough start to the season,
they said, eight games behind the Yankees and the Raids
in the Al East. However, Dylan season Max Sures are
are back. See's gotta win on Tuesday. If anything, Toronto
can turn things around. I don't sense they're going to
turn things around.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
The magic they had last year they don't have right now,
and I don't see how they're gonna find the magic.
I know it's June, there's plenty of time left. They
lost Boba sht he's not been great with the Mets.
That there's something missing from Toronto. I don't think they're
gonna do it next.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
Giants slambacker Brian Burns that on Monday that everyone in
the team is excited and it feels different this year.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Do you expect What do you expect from the Giants
this season? I do expect them to be better. I
think Harbon knows what he's doing. I just this time
of the year, Coop, we're better. Everyone's fired up. We're
in the greatest shape of our lot. I hate this stuff. Cope,
how do we go past decision a chicken dinner?
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Dog writes, and he says, I have a crush on
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Such an odd question?
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the best way to gently address the partner I have?
Let's just say there's a kind of a smell situation
he's discussing. But the questions are great.
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Aren't they depends what kind of smell you're talking about,
because if it's like flatulence or if it's regular body odor,
there's like he.
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Mentioned carriage areas that could smell.
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He mentioned an aquarium is what he mentions. That's just
what he said.
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you know.
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not going there. Shane in the mon writes and he says, Loraina,
do you have a favorite bad caller?
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Blind Scott Weed man, hippie. Who else?
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And obviously Anthony Anthony.
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Oh you're just now. Anthony's very happy, right now, Calm down, Anthony,
put your pants back. Yeah.
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And Marcel is one of my favorite callers of all time.
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greats come out of Brooklyn. All the greats come out
of Brooklyn, for sure. Rob in Coco Beach rights in
and says, what is the perfect ice cream Sunday in
your eyes?
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O much ice cream?
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You so much?
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Yeah, my gosh, between ice cream and pizza, Like, I'm
shocked I haven't turned.
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Into Did you enjoy the twenty five dollars ice cream
cone in Vegas that they have? Did you enjoy that?
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I did not know even I didn't even know that existed.
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you're there.
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Twenty dollars slice of pizza. I think on it.
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But on the drive back I did stop and get
Dairy Queen this time, which is always.
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A big deal.
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Now, did you stop at the You didn't stop at
the Mad Greek in Baker, Bad job by you.
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I stopped right next to the big thermometer.
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Well that's in Baker. That's the world's biggest thermometer.
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That is where I stopped it. I thought I was
gonna get pulled over.
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Well, no, they have. The Mad Greek has great shakes.
And Greek food because it's called the Mad Greek. But
there is a dairy queen there, so you went there.
Speaker 7 (39:27):
Yeah, I have a thing for blizzards.
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Okay, I got you. Michael from Tulsa writes and he
says a simple question. Here, mountains or the beach.
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I'm more of a beach girl.
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I have lots of bikinis and I prefer sitting on
the beach, or you could use.
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Those in the snow. You know, there's people that do that.
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They go skiing, and it's very sensitive to cold weather.
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Now you you're from Oregon, Lorena, you're living in La.
Have you done the ultimate La thing? The surf and
the turf where you surf in the morning and then
go and like ski in.
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The No, but you know I should do that.
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Not really, I don't have any not really.
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Let's play pass where we welcome in our contestants. Our
first contestant is Johnny D from Reno. Hello, Johnny D.
Welcome Johnny you there? Yeah?
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Now?
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Yes? Johnny, Yes I can't. Johnny, who would you like
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You?
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Got me?
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Ben?
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Loraine? Now and Cooper Loop. We'll go with Cooper Loop right,
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Good luck you two?
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Okay, and hold on a second, and then lorraina picked
one two or three?
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N three?
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Were you have picked? Mark on the north end? Hello? Mark? Welcome?
What's going on? My man? You ready to play? I am,
and I'm gonna pick you all right? Tone, you're going down? Cope,
you're going down?
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All right.
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We have a list of words one to ten. Let
me make sure everyone's there, all right. Everyone seems to
be there, all right, gentlemen, Johnny D. You were on
the air first, So pick a number one to ten.
We start out with ten points and then work our
way down nine eight, seven, six seven for seven.
Speaker 6 (41:42):
Alright, Uh let's see, let's go with learn.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
No, let's go with the let's go with school. Oh
come on shooting?
Speaker 9 (42:09):
No uh no, no, no, no, no, no, okay, okay,
So Johnny, you heard those two clues.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Let's go with uh, memorize. Huh, what do you say?
Speaker 7 (42:32):
No, he just said he's thinking, all.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Right, three, two one? Okay, who knew this would be that? Sorry?
I think you think you have it? Let's try. I
don't know. I feel like we've repeated that. I mean
the good words we've used. Educate, Yeah, there you go.
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Where is that five points or something?
Speaker 6 (43:00):
The study?
Speaker 1 (43:01):
The word was study? Yes? Yeah, all right, Well we're
up here Mark. Let's show Mark on the north end.
Pick a number one to ten? Please, number three? Number three?
All right, number three, let's go with any meenie miney moe.
How about let's see uh number three? What'd you say?
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Number three? How about rainforest? Great forest? Yeah? Why is
that funny? That's not funny? It's rainforest Brazil?
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
All right, Johnny?
Speaker 6 (43:43):
Uh, come on, man, let's go with uh. I mean,
I don't do you need another clue?
Speaker 1 (43:51):
You know? Have you been listening?
Speaker 6 (43:54):
Let's go with.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
I don't know, say something sucking. Oh, we're running out
of time. On we win the game? Mark jungle jungle?
Where was jungle? Rainforest? Jungle? Like jeez,
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Our lead begins at the headquarters in Midtown, Manhattan, where
the Association ruled on the shove hurt round the NBA.
This is where Victor Weimbanyama he shoved Jalen Brunson in
the Game three and this got replayed a bunch. Not
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all of those misshots by the Knickerbockers in the fourth
quarter got replayed. This got replayed a lot. So if
you didn't hear what happened the fallout on this and
perhaps not, perhaps you were not paying attention. We've learned
that Victor Wembanyama will not will not be assessed a
flagrant foul for the shove of Jalen Brunson during Game
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three the other night, in front of all the one
percenters who are at Madison Square Garden. Now, the play
happened in the first quarter, and to describe it for
our blind listeners, Brunson tried to sit a screen and
then when Manyama came over these they were just trying
to set a screen on when Manyama seven foot four
Spindley and he turned one Banyama and did what anyone
(01:38):
would do. He just shoved brunch into the ground like
a sack of trash. Get out of here, both hands
right to the upper body. I just like that. So
he went down. Now, no foul was called on the play,
despite the complaining, the whining by the Knickerbocker fans. Now
(01:59):
the the NBA reviewed, it decided against upgrading the no
call to a flagrant foul. Now why does that matter,
Wemba Nyama will be able to stay at two points
at the end of this fugaze point system in the
NBA if you get flagrant fouls all because of Rashid Wallace,
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the legacy of both teams played hard. My man, both
teams played hard Rashid Wallace. So they put all these
rules in and two flagrant foul points this postseason. That's
where Wemby is at this point, he elbowed nas. Read
of your menis Timberwolves. That was in the second round
of the place. So he picked up a couple points
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on that. And if you reach four points, what happens?
You evaporate at that point four If you reach four points,
that triggers an automatic suspension. So the NBA senior vice
president of Bureaucracy and referee Development, somebody named Monty McCutchen,
who's been aroun for a while, he said, the foul
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should have been called on the court, should have been
called on the court. But you know what that means.
But it wasn't escalated retroactively, meaning ix nay on the
retroactive punishment. A. So, as a result of all this,
one Manyama is being called the NBA's new Golden Boy.
(03:28):
The Wemby rules, all of that stuff. Do the treatment
he is receiving here from the league in the NBA Finals.
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question, and I'll give you a two part question.
Is Spurs star victor Wan Banyama getting special treatment from
the NBA? And is this a problem? Is this a
(03:51):
big fundamental problem. So I've got Pastrami sandwich on rye
with mustard, flip phone and start trek, and we will
combine all of these things together and we're gonna walk
the beat. We're on the overnight beats. We're gonna walk
the beat all night long. So a to answer the
question two part question, the first part is Spurs star
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Victor wiman Yama getting preferential special treatment? Absolutely, of course
he is. Wemby is getting treated like he's the adopted
son of Adam Silver and got put on the insurance
plan and they just want to take care of him
and that's it. And the NBA protects him like he's
(04:34):
what the last baby manatee at a place in Florida
where they're protecting the baby manates and he's like the
last one. They gotta protect him. Now, if you look
at the whistle here, whistle, whistle, whistle. If you look
at the whistle, the NBA refs, they it's like slapstick.
They looked away like WWE officials who suddenly didn't see
(04:57):
the steel chair come flying in and hit the guy
in the back of the hat. Didn't see that kind
of the vibe. I god, Wemby could close line. I'm
telling you he could absolutely go out there and close
line a guy right into the scorer's table, and they'd
call it. They wouldn't call it a foul. They'd call it.
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They call it a vertical push, is what they'd call.
But not afoul. It's something something else and all that. Now,
if the table's turned, and Jalen Bruss's popular player and
obviously a big deal in New York, and all that.
If the table's turned, though, Jalen Brunson, let's say he
somehow is a little little bug on the rug if
he were able to shove Wemby, who's not very heavy.
So if Brunson shoves wehm By Yama, let's reverse the
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tables like that. Adam Silver would repel down from the
rafters at Madison Square Garden like spider Man, Spider Man,
spider Man, and he would give a citation to Jalen
Brunson or anyone else the dare mess with Wemby Yama,
don't you do that? For example, if Luke Cornet the
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big lug, the big lug there for San Antonio, if
he did what Wemby did, I'll tell you what's gonna
happen on Wednesday night. Luke Cornett would be sitting down
having a nice Pistrami sandwich on rye with mustard at
Cat's Delhi, watching Game four on a TV that is
from the nineteen eighties, and that's it, and then also
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having to write a handwritten note of apology. So that's
how that would go. When you crunch the numbers, outside
of Wemby taking a Louisville slugger and bludgeoning someone is
almost untouchable. Outside of that is almost untouchable. And while
it is expected and it is understandable that this is
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how this is going here, the reason it's understandable, the
precedent has been said way back almost fifty years ago,
when Magic Johnson and Larry Bird we're playing the NBA
is all about the cavalcade of Stars, and Wemby is
the teacher's pet. He's the lucky star at this point,
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and he's the darling. I don't have the ways I
can say it. I think we kind of get the
point now. And it's a TV show, it's on ABC,
and Wemby is the lead actor. Everyone else an extra.
It's the Wemby world. That's that's it. And there is
a dimension of the multiverse where the NBA is like,
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this guy's going to be in the finals until every
year until twenty forty, so we might as well just
get used to it. Don't even hide it. Do not
even hide it now turning the page, but not far.
We're going to continue with this theme here the Alumni
Association on page two enters the chat the Alumni Association.
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So former next player and I believe there's a museum
for him in China loves China's fall on Marbury, highly
overrated ballplayer in his ear in the NBA, was supposed
to be a legend, just never all that good anyway,
he's out there, yeap. And he played with the Knicks
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way back. I was barely alive in four to nine,
a a little kid. Fact. Then he played for the Knickerbockers,
and he went on a passionate rant Stefan Marbury of
course on social media where else, and criticized the Wimby
move that we just talked about as dirty dirty, dirty
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dirty dirty dirty dirty, dirty dirty and typical of he said.
Wemby then attacked all international players and he said, I
it overseas, that's how the play, and he urged the
next this is the key part Marbury urging the Knickerbockers
to retaliate with physicality in game four. And here's the quote.
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Just imagine I am the aforementioned Stefan Wemby is an
international player. The quote began, they played dirty overseas. If
I'm watching film and I see Wemby throw somebody on
my team next game, I'm going to pop him in
his rib cage so hard with my elbow. After y'all
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watch that film what he did Jalen Brunson. Quote continues,
you better make sure you put that knife in his
neck next game. Wow, all right, it seems rather violent. Okay,
So the question what is your instinct on former New
York Knicks guards Stefan Marbury demanding retaliation on the Spurs
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Wemby in all of that because of the shove of
Jalen Brunson. So Stephan Marbury's out there, he wants the
eye for the eye. I believe that's called the eye
for the eye retaliation here on Victor Wiman. Yeah, I'm
for that shove of Brunson. And it's the rant was
pure old testament basketball, Like he's speaking the language of
(10:10):
the elbow, the forearm, the punch to the nuts back
alley screens like, that's what he's talking about. However, the
modern NBA, they don't operate. That's why this is so outragised.
Like what Wemby did, if you're of a certain age,
was just like every game that happened. It wasn't that
(10:32):
big a deal. They didn't have to look at it
from seventeen different camera angles, and that was just the
reality of the situation. Of course, now it's been so
many years since the NBA was like that because the
players don't seem to care all that much, at least
during the regular season. They don't care, and they're all
buddies with each other. And so that's the old generation.
And it wasn't even really when Marbury was playing either.
(10:54):
It didn't go on too much. It was like the
tail end. If anything, it was the tail end when
Marbury was doing this thing for the Knicks and all
those other teams, and so in the NBA is all
about hugs and good vibrations and all that stuff, and
so you look at it, they'd rather cuddle than elbow
each other. They just what it's proper to corn and
(11:17):
the other thing. When you do push back, you must follow.
And this goes from beginning of time. When you do
push back, you must follow the Nike marketing slogan just
do it, meaning real retaliation is silent, it's sudden. It
is not telegraphed how And the issue here is that
(11:39):
the marbur is talking like this is the Nix of
the mid nineties, the mid nineties Nicks and spoiler alert,
this is not a Nicks heat matchup in the mid
nineties or late nineties here, and you don't have Charles
Oakley or Anthony Mason. They're not walking through that door.
Mason's cross to Parley Gates and Oakley is not allowed
(12:02):
in or he'll get arrested for trespassing by James Dolan.
So they're done. The Knicks have not had that tough
side to them since people had flip phones and fax machines.
It's been that long. Here. The other bugaboo, since we're
on the bugglebooz. The other bugaboo here, as we've talked
about Wemby, the face as Lebron has gotten old the
(12:25):
last couple of years, Wemby is the face of the
NBA to come here, and as we talked about, you
cannot mess with that, and so you have to protect
him like he's the pope and the popemobile. You gotta protect, protect, protect,
protect all right now, last word to King James Land.
Where is King James Land? We're not sure. However, Lebron
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James has entered the endless Michael Jordan versus Lebron goat debate.
Time Magazine was apparently still in business. I think that's impressive,
because who's reading Time magazine? Anyway, They went out there
and said he gave an interview, a recent interview to
Time Magazine, which I house bouncing around the web, and
(13:11):
Lebron was asked about his place among basketball legends, and
he said, quote, I am not taking nobody over me.
I think he learned that at Duke. Oh he didn't
go to Duke. Where are you learning? Okay? Anyway, that
was quote I'm not taking nobody over me. There's no question.
(13:33):
Quote continues, but Lebron said, I think Mike will say
the same thing, rest his soul. Kobe will say the
same thing, Magic will say the same thing, Bird will
say the same thing. Shack could say the same thing.
The late great Wilt Kareem. He's ran through all these
other players and went on and on and on answer
the question, do you have a problem with Lebron James
(13:59):
picking him as the goat and saying everyone would do
the same thing. So let's put this under the Mallard microscope,
examining the curious case of Lebron James, a man who
claims he does not obsess over barber shop goat talk.
(14:21):
He's mentioned this many times over the years, all while
holding a pair of clippers. And he's got the mirror there,
and he owns the chair, he's the whole thing. And
I don't do that. That's the Lebron. I do not
do that. I do not do it, all right, So
I don't know if it's a problem. It's more of
(14:42):
a pet peeve. And I have a bully pulpit here
to air my grievances, so I will take advantage of that.
And I will now explain to you, my friend, my
pet peeve. So I get that every all time, great
backs them sell and that's they believe in themselves, although
(15:04):
they don't normally say it, right, they don't say it.
And and Lebron does come across as a douchey mcdouche
when the way that he says, like Lebron naming himself
the goat is kind of like directing your own biopic
and giving yourself the Oscar. And I hate to burst
(15:24):
Lebron's ego bubble. Michael Jordan never if you can prove
to me I'm wrong, I will correct this. To my knowledge,
Michael Jordan never ever called himself the goat. That he
was not raised that way, and he just acted like
he was the goat and let other people decide that
you're the greatest of all time and all that stuff.
(15:47):
But watch all of MJ's run with the Bulls, and
I watched all the Lebron James run with these seventeen
different teams Lebron's played for. And what air Jordan did.
He took the baton. Well, forget Maggie Johnson and Larry
Bird were very popular and they were becoming even more
popular in the NBA. They had his renaissance in the
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nineteen eighties. And then Jordan in that era came along
right around the showtime Lakers and the Celtics, who are
these great teams, and he took the baton. Jordan from
Magic and Bird and then had a dust storm. Jordan
reached a different dimension of star Dust and he went
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Star Trek. Is what Jordan was able to do there,
to explore strange new worlds never before seen by an
NBA player, and to boldly go where no man had
gone before. And while Lebron's career is the greatest sequel
ever made, every man, woman and child knows the sequel
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is never the equal. And that's the reality. And Jordan's
teams were they six and zero in the finals something
like that with the Bulls believe they were. And Pete
Dobbins Lebron quantity, quantity over quality. And by the way,
we have a little text to Lebron we'd like to
send out here, and this is voice to text. The
rule has always been, if you have to declare yourself
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We begin this hour with a little football, little football?
Why not little football? Actually it's a big football story,
a developing story out of La La Land. We have
an update update on the future of Aaron Donald. Is
he going to ram it all day and ram it
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all night? Inquiring minds would like to know have you
heard the latest on this? You have not. Oh, we've
learned some positivity, good vibrations for Aaron Donald if you
want to see him play football again. Adam Scheffer telling
the world that while no one is definitely saying Aaron
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Donald is returning, everybody is acknowledging that it is a possibility.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Schefter believes it is quote more likely than not. That's
his phrasing, not my phrasing. It's more likely than not
that Aaron Donald will come back, especially if the Rams
present a clear plan for usage. There have been some
chatter that the Rams are going to let him skip games,
only playing home games. Key divisional games skip some of
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the weaker games on the RAMS schedule is who knows
if that's I doubt that's true. That's not the way
the NFL has done business. They're not like basketball or baseball.
People have brought up to Roger Clemens thing. If you're old,
there was this pitcher named Roger Clemens, big steroid cheat,
and he came back and they let him pitch in
limited games and they gave him all these rules that
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were just for him normally. That's not how it goes
in the NFL world anyway. Good jumping off point. The
key part of that more likely than not, that's the
money quote, and that's what we're going to play off
of here as we discuss the question how much value,
how much value do you put on this report saying
it is more likely than not that Aaron Donald will
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return to the Rams for the twenty twenty six regular season.
So my observations have got civil court, human rights violation,
and beastie boys, and we will combine all of these
things together, will lock them together there, and we're gonna
be guile time. We're going to beguile time, is what
we're doing here.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Now.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
We always start with number one, number one, number one,
number one, having fun.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
All right.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
This is the classic June Things are a little rocky,
kind of slow story in the news cycle of the NFL,
the cottage industry where you have to have fresh, piping
hot news every day. When I hear the phrase more
likely than not, I flash back. There was this ridiculous
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investigation the Miami Dolphins. Jonathan Martin I think was the
guy's name, And this goes back in number of years.
And so the NFL hired this big lawyer law firm
group to come in and investigate, and they released this
long manifesto and seem like every other thing as I
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remember in this manifesto was it's more likely either or not.
And so then I felled down a rabbit hole. I
fell back, and I said, it's annoying. The phrase is
annoying more likely than not, and it's just a cowards
way of saying yes without saying yes.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Do I say it every once in a while, Absolutely,
I'm a coward. I do say it. It's a legal phrase.
And what I discovered this is years ago. All right,
When you hear it's more likely than not, that is
the standard used in civil court it's called a preponderance
of the evidence, you know, in a criminal case, beyond
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a reasonable doubt. Well, in the civil court a little
over fifty percent guilty. Guilty. That's why Oj Simpson was.
He killed people. He's dead now, but he chopped two
people's heads off, except they couldn't prove it in the
criminal court. However, in the civil court, preponderance or the
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evidence they got him. And so of course this is
obviously not a courtroom. We know that. It's just educated
guesswork is what it is. Here's the truth. Miles Garrett
is not just a ram. He's not just a possible
new teammate for Aaron Donald. That is a recruitment magnet,
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is what that is. And with the Super Bowl being
hosted in the Hood and Inglewood and up to no Good.
After the season, Aaron Donald, he's gone on the record
and he's admitted that Miles Garrett and him together for
sure said got him thinking. He said, he has to
feel the passion. He can't just make love. He has
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to have the passion to really go for it. So
he retired after the twenty twenty three season. If you've
been in a coma and he has not become a
couch potato. We understand he still works out multiple times
during the day, and we hear that he's working out
like a madman right now to see if he can
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find the spark plug to unlock a higher power, a
higher level and come back to the rams. And you
would assume if he did not want to come back.
If he did not want to come back, Aaron Donald
play in the NFL, he would not be training like
a man possessed getting ready for a fight with Thanos.
He wouldn't be doing that. And obviouly things heat up
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between now in the next couple of weeks. He kind
of want to announce that before training camp. Although there's
also a world where Aaron Donald doesn't. He's so decorated.
They said, don't even go to training camp, just sit
out training camp, which I don't like. I don't like this.
It's a part of the whole thing. You got to
go through the drudgery of that stuff. Although it's really
soft now then it used to be back in the day.
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These guys make it seem like they're going to boot camp.
It is not that. So the smart money does say
that Aaron Donald will be back in less snap crack
pop happens, he pops a tire and obviously that won't happen.
The good news is if he does pop a tire,
we can do a tire Rack commercial and then he'll
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go over to tire Rack get a new tire, and
he'll be good to go. He has Michelin grade tires,
so he's in good shape. Now, page dude, we go
to Minnesota, where the soap opera continues. I know Eke
and Rosevio Minnesota on the edge of his seat right now,
Doc Dan can't get enough of the drama vikings. Little
Fella quarterback Kyler Murray complaining, complaining that splitting practice reps
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with JJ McCarthy during the mini camp, Well, it's making
it hard. Take a listen. We have the audio. Here's
a little alligator arms. Kyler Murray commenting on having the
split reps.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
I think the sofest part is again, I was there
for seven years. I know I had two different offensive systems,
but at the same time, you're getting all those reps
you know. Now, having a split reps, it's me already
being behind, not getting the amount of reps that you
know you would typically want to guy to get learn offense.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
That's probably the toughest part.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
You know, just again going back to the past, being
in control of everything. I understand on what we were
already doing because I was comfortable within the system. Now
coming in the new system, learning on the fly, trying
to play fast of fishing and then let let it
loose while learning is pretty you know, that's the toughest part.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
So hard. So we have a moment of silence for
Kyler Murray having to learn the playbook and not having
all the reps. Okay, question do you feel for Kyler Murray?
Do you feel for Alligator arms Kyler Murray that he
has to share the reps and it's hard for the Vikings? Oh,
it's so hard, all right. Yeah, there's a real SOB story,
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isn't it. They get the little violin out, please cry me.
The Mississippi River, okay, which splits the Twin Cities. You
can cross the Mississippi River. You can go from Minneapolis
to Saint Paul and all that. Anyway, the point is,
like you get a share. The reason you have to
share is because of Malfia, since that's the reason you're
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in this situation, like Kyler Murray, making it seem like
this is so difficult. Oh my god, I'm behind splitting reps.
It's like a human rights violation. I find the whole
thing comedy. I find it a Night at the Improv.
It's a Netflix comedy special. Kyler, you did not lose reps.
You lost leverage. That's why you're here. You knew the deal.
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And if Kyler Murray hadn't been mid with the Cardinals,
he would not be in a situation where he has
to share reps with the Minnesota Vikings and alliantor Armscott
all of the reps. He talked about it for seven years.
He got all the reps and he wasn't very good.
So it's possible it's better that he doesn't get all
the reps because when he got all the reps, e
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didn't quite work out. There didn't quite work out, and
he could actually benefit less is more and keep them fresh.
And if it doesn't work out in the NFL, when
he's playing late night Call of Duty on Twitch, she'll
be in really good and really good mindset there. He'll
be able to focus in on the joystick and play
Call of Duty. Now Murray is upset. Obviously, he can't
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speed run that Viking playbook, like the video game tutorial.
He can't just you know, kind of run through that
real quick. And now that said, this is the most
Fox quarterback controversy that we've had in years. And everyone
knows it. You and I and the person in the
back over there, they a we all know it. This
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is not legit. It is not. And it does seem
though Kyler's going to get the job. He's already got
it in his back pocket, and he's going to suck
at a time you cannot suck Kyler Murray. And he's
already planting the seed. The seed of it ain't my fault.
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I didn't get enough reps. If only I'd gotten more
reps back in shoot, I wouldn't suck here in mid September,
that whole thing. He's planting that to prepare and alibi
when the purple haze settles over him. All right now,
final point to New York or slightly across the river
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there the Hudson, New Jersey, where the Jets. We knew
this for a while. The Jets have had. They have
as many primetime games as we do here at Fox
Sports Radio in the NFL zero zero primetime games scheduled
for the twenty twenty six NFL season. Bupkiss Squad, Douche
(28:31):
zip Bo. Now this is the first time, believe it
or not, the first time since twenty seven we are
told that they have been shut out of prim time.
That is, if my math is correct, nineteen seasons, almost
a generation, and the Jets have always had at least
one primetime game. Now they're not alone. There are four
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others wearing the dunce cap, the Embarrassments, the ugly redheaded
step children of the NFL, the Raiders, the Dolphins old
those teams used to matter, they don't matter anymore. Cardinals
they've never mattered. And the Tennessee Titans, who are pretty
average for a while and now they just suck. And
those teams not on the TV. The Boop, Well, they're
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on the TV if you only watch the primetime games.
They don't get a prime time game. And they're not
in the same with those other teams that Titans, Raiders, Cardinals,
and Dolphins are not in the same boat. And the Jets,
if you look at where they are right now, and
they're not just in the bottom, they're in the sewer.
Is where they are now. The head coach Aaron Glenn
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was asked about this. He said to me, it's more
of you earn the right. This is from Aaron Glenn.
You don't have to really learn his name. He won't
be the coach of the Jets much longer. I said,
that's the good thing about this league. You earn your right, players, coaches, everybody.
You earn your right to get what you get in
this league. Close quote. Now, that is seen as a
motivational statement. Clearly Aaron Glenn believing this will somehow inspire
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the boys to have a good year just so they
can get some games on prime time. Now, the question
Aaron Glenn, coach of New York, the AFC team in
New York. Aaron Glenn says that the Jets have to
earn the right for prime time TV matchups. What say you?
Speaker 4 (30:20):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So I will go for Aaron Glenn gave a perfectly
pragmatic response. He mixed coach speak in his rebuttal, so
he hit all of those notes pragmatic coach speak talking
about the Jets getting shut out of the primetime schedule. Now,
he said, you have to earn the right to play
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under the lights, right, That was his line and Aaron
is being polite. Aaron Glenn is being nice. We don't
have to be We're not part of the mainstream media.
We're not part of the establishment. We don't go party
with these people. We can be honest here we are
on in the middle of the night, so we play
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ball under the lights. Unlike the Jets. We have the
lights on here in the studio, so they don't get
to do that and all that. We don't have to
play nice, so we can be unfiltered, and we'll do that.
The Jets did not lose primetime. Let's be clear on that.
They didn't miss out on national TV. They were evicted.
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The eviction papers came in. It took nineteen years and
now they're done. Usually a team in the top media
market gets if you're in the top media market, you
get at least one. We call it a pity game. Pity, pity, pity.
You get a pity game just because you have New York,
New York written and stitched into your jerseys. Now, this
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year the end was like, no pity for you. You've
been evicted. You don't get any pity. And you know
how historically bad you have to be for the NFL
to book and their television partners at the massive New
York television audience and not say just give him a
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just give him a random Monday night or a Thursday
night game. No, no, no, no thanks. We're good. We
are good, all right. Now, forget earning prime time. That's
not that's not it. The Jets haven't even earned daytime.
I don't know when else they can play because they're
not very good during the day either. They suck at night.
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They can't get on there. Now where else is there?
I don't know which? Which brings to mind the old
Beastie Boys tune you gotta fight for your right to
not be a TV ratings liability. See, they actually sung
it about the Jets. The Beastie Boys sung that about
just nobody. Nobody is lining up to watch Geno Smith.
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He is poison under center and he's been that way
ever since he started for Seattle a couple years back.
And so I enjoy those one o'clock starts. And that's
not good at one o'clock, it's certainly not worthy. It's
obscene content. At eight o'clock, and not even the Jets
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fans want to watch them, whether it's during the day
or at night.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
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Speaker 1 (33:26):
How about that to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
This is one big Ben gets it right.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Over to the Cooper Hoop we go, Coop.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
It was reported earlier this week that when leaving the
Eagles facility for the last time, aj Brown signed a
wall with photos of himself on it and added the
best to ever play here always open.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yes, it's very very sweet of him the Ben.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Is he the best receiver ever to playing Philly?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
No, not even close. Now, old timers will say, Harold,
this guy named Harold Carmichael, who is before your time, Coop.
And I was a kid when he played. But he's
like the greatest Eagle of all time. But Deshaun Jackson
was very good. That's an old reference also to Shaun Jackson.
What else I love too? Yeah, yeah, I'm a CEO guy,
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all right. Next, the Toronto.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
Blue Jays have had a rough start to the season,
they said, eight games behind the Yankees and the Raids
in the Al East. However, Dylan season Max Sures are
are back. See's gotta win on Tuesday. If anything, Toronto
can turn things around. I don't sense they're going to
turn things around.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
The magic they had last year they don't have right now,
and I don't see how they're gonna find the magic.
I know it's June, there's plenty of time left. They
lost Boba sht he's not been great with the Mets.
That there's something missing from Toronto. I don't think they're
gonna do it next.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
Giants slambacker Brian Burns that on Monday that everyone in
the team is excited and it feels different this year.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Do you expect What do you expect from the Giants
this season? I do expect them to be better. I
think Harbon knows what he's doing. I just this time
of the year, Coop, we're better. Everyone's fired up. We're
in the greatest shape of our lot. I hate this stuff. Cope,
how do we go past decision a chicken dinner?
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Speaker 7 (35:54):
I am loving that new intro.
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Thank you, thank you, and shadows to Milkman Mike and
his amazing vocals on there.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
That's all right milkman Mike, who knew he could sing?
He's more than just a milkman, everyone's favorite milkman in Colorado.
There Milkman Mike, so.
Speaker 7 (36:09):
Milk you're cowing your ears look at that.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Job and Milkman Mike with the vocals and produced by
Jay Scoop. But thanks to those guys for putting the
song together. I appreciate that. Are you ready, Loraina?
Speaker 7 (36:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
All right? These are actual questions by actual listeners. Ferk
Dog writes, and he says, I have a crush on
this girl who's really funny. How can I find out
where she got her sense of humor from? A? Yeah,
you flustered, firk Dog. You flustered, Loraina on the first question.
(36:46):
You flustered.
Speaker 7 (36:48):
Such an odd question?
Speaker 1 (36:50):
All right? Uh? Lady Sideburns rights and says, what is
the best way to gently address the partner I have?
Let's just say there's a kind of a smell situation
he's discussing. But the questions are great.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
Aren't they depends what kind of smell you're talking about,
because if it's like flatulence or if it's regular body odor,
there's like he.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
Mentioned carriage areas that could smell.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
He mentioned an aquarium is what he mentions. That's just
what he said.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
Well, you got to take good care of your aquarium,
you know.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah, you gotta have a filter.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
You don't want algae build.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
No, you definitely don't want that. You don't want mold.
Definitely not mold down there, you don't want that. A
lot of soap.
Speaker 7 (37:34):
Where do you keep your query?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
A lot of soap, a lot of.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
Water, yeah, definitely keep the fish clean.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Possibly a bath. Uh yeah, yeah, okay maybe you know, yes, Okay,
not going there. Shane in the mon writes and he says, Loraina,
do you have a favorite bad caller?
Speaker 8 (37:54):
Oh, oh, it's it's gotta between blind Scott Weed man, hippie.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Blind Scott Weed man, hippie. Who else?
Speaker 8 (38:07):
And obviously Anthony Anthony.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Oh you're just now. Anthony's very happy, right now, Calm down, Anthony,
put your pants back. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (38:17):
And Marcel is one of my favorite callers of all time.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Really, Marcella, he's really it was a legend. All the
greats come out of Brooklyn. All the greats come out
of Brooklyn, for sure. Rob in Coco Beach rights in
and says, what is the perfect ice cream Sunday in
your eyes?
Speaker 8 (38:34):
Oh, my gosh, I have had so much ice cream lately.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
O much ice cream?
Speaker 7 (38:39):
You so much?
Speaker 8 (38:41):
Yeah, my gosh, between ice cream and pizza, Like, I'm
shocked I haven't turned.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Into Did you enjoy the twenty five dollars ice cream
cone in Vegas that they have? Did you enjoy that?
Speaker 7 (38:49):
I did not know even I didn't even know that existed.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Well on the strip. The prices are the price, goug
you're there.
Speaker 8 (38:56):
Yeah, No, twenty five dollars ice cream is a.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Twenty dollars slice of pizza. I think on it.
Speaker 8 (39:01):
But on the drive back I did stop and get
Dairy Queen this time, which is always.
Speaker 7 (39:05):
A big deal.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Now, did you stop at the You didn't stop at
the Mad Greek in Baker, Bad job by you.
Speaker 7 (39:11):
I stopped right next to the big thermometer.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Well that's in Baker. That's the world's biggest thermometer.
Speaker 7 (39:16):
That is where I stopped it. I thought I was
gonna get pulled over.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Well, no, they have. The Mad Greek has great shakes.
And Greek food because it's called the Mad Greek. But
there is a dairy queen there, so you went there.
Speaker 7 (39:27):
Yeah, I have a thing for blizzards.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Okay, I got you. Michael from Tulsa writes and he
says a simple question. Here, mountains or the beach.
Speaker 7 (39:38):
I'm more of a beach girl.
Speaker 8 (39:39):
I have lots of bikinis and I prefer sitting on
the beach, or you could use.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Those in the snow. You know, there's people that do that.
Speaker 7 (39:46):
They go skiing, and it's very sensitive to cold weather.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Now you you're from Oregon, Lorena, you're living in La.
Have you done the ultimate La thing? The surf and
the turf where you surf in the morning and then
go and like ski in.
Speaker 7 (39:58):
The No, but you know I should do that.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
You might as well say free time. Yeah you do?
Speaker 5 (40:04):
Really?
Speaker 7 (40:06):
Not really, I don't have any not really.
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
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Game of the stars. Here's Ben Meler.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Let's play pass where we welcome in our contestants. Our
first contestant is Johnny D from Reno. Hello, Johnny D.
Welcome Johnny you there? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (40:38):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Now?
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yes? Johnny, Yes I can't. Johnny, who would you like
to partner up with?
Speaker 3 (40:44):
You?
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Got me?
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Loraine? Now and Cooper Loop. We'll go with Cooper Loop right,
beat you? All right? We're in l next to your name.
Speaker 7 (40:56):
Good luck you two?
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Okay, and hold on a second, and then lorraina picked
one two or three?
Speaker 7 (41:04):
N three?
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Were you have picked? Mark on the north end? Hello? Mark? Welcome?
What's going on? My man? You ready to play? I am,
and I'm gonna pick you all right? Tone, you're going down? Cope,
you're going down?
Speaker 4 (41:22):
All right.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
We have a list of words one to ten. Let
me make sure everyone's there, all right. Everyone seems to
be there, all right, gentlemen, Johnny D. You were on
the air first, So pick a number one to ten.
We start out with ten points and then work our
way down nine eight, seven, six seven for seven.
Speaker 6 (41:42):
Alright, Uh let's see, let's go with learn.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
No, let's go with the let's go with school. Oh
come on shooting?
Speaker 9 (42:09):
No uh no, no, no, no, no, no, okay, okay,
So Johnny, you heard those two clues.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Let's go with uh, memorize. Huh, what do you say?
Speaker 7 (42:32):
No, he just said he's thinking, all.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Right, three, two one? Okay, who knew this would be that? Sorry?
I think you think you have it? Let's try. I
don't know. I feel like we've repeated that. I mean
the good words we've used. Educate, Yeah, there you go.
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Where is that five points or something?
Speaker 6 (43:00):
The study?
Speaker 1 (43:01):
The word was study? Yes? Yeah, all right, Well we're
up here Mark. Let's show Mark on the north end.
Pick a number one to ten? Please, number three? Number three?
All right, number three, let's go with any meenie miney moe.
How about let's see uh number three? What'd you say?
(43:24):
Number three? How about rainforest? Great forest? Yeah? Why is
that funny? That's not funny? It's rainforest Brazil?
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (43:41):
All right, Johnny?
Speaker 6 (43:43):
Uh, come on, man, let's go with uh. I mean,
I don't do you need another clue?
Speaker 1 (43:51):
You know? Have you been listening?
Speaker 6 (43:54):
Let's go with.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
I don't know, say something sucking. Oh, we're running out
of time. On we win the game? Mark jungle jungle?
Where was jungle? Rainforest? Jungle? Like jeez,
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