Bye Bye Boban

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listening to Fox Sports Radio. I recall as a kid
the NFL films people they would come up with themes
to a season and return to glory or something along
those lines. Well they did that for the NBA. The
Lakers season would be doorway to Disaster would be the
Lakers season and another chapter Days of Our Lives continues.

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We're a couple of days or a day away, depending
on how you look at it. From the trade deadline
less than two days away. And if you're a podcast
listen maybe some big trade has already happened, but as
we do the show live, no big trades have happened.
Bub kiss, nothing, zippo, And ninety nine percent of the

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focus is all about a man that has a unibrow.
And normally in society when you have a unibrow, people
goof on you, poke fun at you and all that.
But everyone loves Anthony Davis and the man that is
not playing, he's out celater Gonzo. But if you've not
heard the ladies, as we head into what I consider
the eleventh hour. Now, some say it's not the eleventh

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hour because we still have to wait. We get all
through the whole day today, this is our Wednesday show
and then you have the trade deadline on Thursday. But
for me, this is the eleventh hour. So where are we?
You had Magic Johnson, who we know is taking his
walking orders from the general manager of the Lakers, Lebron James,

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and publicly, very publicly, all these executives in the NBA
they text WoDES or whoever they're tight with, and the
word out of Laker Land is that Magic is threatening
to end talks with New Orleans unless the Pelicans show
a willingness to engage in a give and take type

(02:43):
of relationship. We always do that in the Sleep Number commercial,
compromise everyone. They should just buy a sleep Number bed.
There's there's no need to compromise. You get what you want.
They go, they want it perfect, but they're not going
to do that. So we're told the Lakers have made
literally every bad player on the roster, which is everybody

(03:04):
other than Lebron James available. You want Brandon Ingram, you
can have. Kyle Kuzman can be yours. Lonzo Ball, you
want a guy that missus foul shots, you can have him,
Josh Hart, whoever that is, zoobots, you name it, you
can have it. Northans. Now, stunningly, the Pelicans have not
jumped to attention at this amazing offer. A bunch of

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draft picks and all that, and so what that is
the backdrop. The Purple and Gold went out to play
a professional basketball game in Indianapolis, and they held Victor
Oladippo did not score. Victor Oladipo, the only player anyone's
ever heard of on the Pacers, was shut out, and

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the Lakers still manage to lose by seven five thousand
points and all the deep but didn't score. They lost
a game by forty two points. Now what does that mean?
After being taken to the slaughterhouse by the B squad
in Indiana, the Lakers are now twenty seven and twenty seven. Now,

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keep in mind, my producer told me a day into
the NBA season that the Lakers were gonna pass the
Clippers by. He laughed at me. Oh no, Now twenty
seven and twenty seven. I'm using mala math, but I
believe I'm right. That is five hundred five hundred does

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not get you in the playoffs. In fact, the Lakers
are in tenth place in the West. They are six
games away from being next to last. Now, it's gonna
be very hard to catch the Phoenix Suns, who are
dead last in the Western Conference. But with a little luck,
if the Suns get hot, it could happen. Could happen?

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All right, So let's discuss now the question, it's all
about the trades. What do you make of Lebron James
very apparent so far failed attempt to get the Uni
Brow as general manager Lakers. Now, my observations it's a
lot to unpacker. You've got the reality check, the rebellion,
and the blue chip, and we will link all these together,

(05:23):
like Batman and Robin. Batman and Robin go together. You
have Robbin without Batman, it's not as cool. You have
Batman without Robin. Not as cool. Now, first of all,
this has been an eye opening exercise for the Lakers.
Unless the Pelicans blink in the final hours before the
trade deadline, the Lakers are going to have to pick
up the pieces. This is great. This is like in

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a corporation you announced we're going to close the store.
You're all going to lose your job, and then a
month later you come back and say, just kidding, this kidding.
People are starting to look look around for other things.
And so Lebron as the GM, he's gonna be stuck

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holding the bag with a roster chocked full of flawed players.
Brandon Ingram has only proven to be an all star
apparently weed smoking, but he's got no killer instinct. Kyle
Kuzma is your typical marginal NBA talent, certainly not a
building block, and someone who's along for the ride. No

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one's gonna build their franchise around Kyle Kuzma and Lonzo Ball,
the kid who can't shoot straight. The rest of the
rosters filled with a hodgepodge of broken souls. Shout out
JaVale McGee, Land Stevenson, the clowns. This is the reality
check that the Lakers. You know, I've been trying to

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say this. People don't believe me, or you're just a hater,
You're an angry guy, Nona. I speak the gospel. You
can't handle the truth. I've been speaking to truth all
live long season in the Mbia. Now. Secondly, ask for
what happened in Indiana on a random Tuesday night. I

(07:11):
think it's kind of Bobby's here. What's going on now?
King James swimming in unchartered waters. These are shark infested waters.
It's not good. In fact, that was the biggest blowout
loss that Lebron James has ever been part of. Of course,
before he signed on with Warner Brothers, he actually took

(07:34):
basketball seriously. But now he's in LA and he's making
movies and hanging out with b and sealas celebrities in
the Hollywood scenes, so he's not as worried about basketball.
So I don't know that he cares that much. He
had never lost a game by more than thirty six points.
And the great Bojan Bogdanovitch, I think I butchered his name, Bogdanovitch.
He had twenty four points. I don't know, Bojan Bogdanovitch.

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I think, yeah, forty two point win by the Pacers.
Pacers shot fifty six percent from the floor, they shot
fifty six percent from three point range. They made nineteen
three points. You know what that is a dereliction of duties,
a dereliction of duties on defense. And this is a

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byproduct of the NBA trade deadline, of the fact that
the general manager, who has complete control, he has carte
blonde on the Lake organization, Lebron James. This is a
byproduct of his activity. Consider that curb stopping a message
in a butle or in this case, a message in
basketball sneakers. They mailed it in, they went through the motions,

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they were lethargic. It was messy and what they were
saying they might as well have hired a skyrider. Hey,
Lebron James, you want to trade all of us, we
will disintegrate on the court with you out. Now, you
don't have to be an inside. You don't have to
have worked in professional sports just watching sports, you know what.

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I know, it's obvious what happened to the Laker team
in Indiana was the professional sports version of a rebellion.
That's what it was. It was a clear disobedience insubordination.
This is why, Hey, you want to mess my life
up and send me to New Orleans or some other

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godforsaken town in Podunk, USA. You know what, I'll get
you back. I'm gonna get you back, Lebron. That's what
I'm gonna do. And there you go, sit back and
enjoy the pandemonium as we close in on the NBA
trade deadline and the trade deadline should it pass without
Anthony Davis being traded and no major transactions, Boy, it's

(09:53):
even to get more awkward, more uncomfortable. You talk about
a precarious situation in Lakerland. Now, Luke Walton's already got
one foot in the grave as a coach. But if
he has any intention of keeping his job as head
coach of the Lakers, I've assumed the way this ends
as the Lakers reassigned him somewhere in the organization on

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But this is a heartburn, headache situation. Now it's a
great job. The real winner here is the Indiana Pacer fan.
I gotta tell you. On Big Ben's big board of
NBA fans, I have the Indiana Pacer fan number one
right now today, in this moment, the greatest fan in
the NBA is an Indiana Pacer fan. Why is that

(10:39):
they get a gold medal for heckling? I know in
these delicate, soft snowflake times we live in that heckling
has looked down upon and you are supposed to be
shamed for heckling. But let's go to the audio tape here.
It was comedy Gold in Indianapolis. It was the first
course I started out with in Ingram here, first quarter.

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This is the Pacers television broadcast. Brandon Ingram stepping to
the line, and he was then serenaded with this the
average sixteen points last year. In year two he's at
seventeen point two and this last five. I don't know
if you can make that out, but let me tell
you and then we'll play it again, see if you
can make it out. The crowd was serenading Brandon Ingram

(11:26):
with Lebrod's gonna trade you Lebrod's gonna trade you the
average sixteen points last year. In year two he's at
seventeen point two and this last five. That's great. Fandom
is what that is. I mean, I don't I've never
met in Indiana pacer fan, but that's great. It's a
wonderful job by you guys. And then in the third quarter,

(11:48):
Javaiale McGhee the game's a rat kill. At this point,
JaVale McGee steps to the file line and he gets
regaled with this listen last year and one hum ring.
They're just presented it to him. At the game. Lebron
James didn't play because McGee didn't play in the first one.
And when they played at Golden Stack at Horn got

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in my way no that the crowd will played again.
The crowd was chanting, not we're trading when Jael. They
were galing JaVale McKee that he sucks so much that
he's not even worth being traded by the lady, that
the other teams don't even want him, and the Lakers
don't even bother throwing his name in the trademark. You
listen to listen again last year and one him ring.

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They just presented it to him at the game Lebron
James didn't play because McKee didn't play in the first one.
And when they played at Golden Stack, Oh that is great.
I want to hug a Pacer fan. That is just marvelous.
Isn't that great? That made my whole night When I
saw that, I was like, this is the greatest thing
I've seen in a long time. This is wonderful, right,

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I mean, it just is. You had a photo, remember
the old line of photos worth him million words. This
particular photo worth about eight gazillion words because there's a
photo of the Laker bench down trodden, sullen, and the
players are all huddled sitting next to each other, the

(13:14):
coaching staff. You've got the players all grouped together in
the Laker bench and then there's one chair, two chair,
three chair, and then Lebron James there were three empty chairs.
Lebron maybe he had I don't know, farting issues or
something like that, but it was it was four seats
away on one side, and then and then a lot

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of people were looked this on the other side of
the coaching staff, seating in the crowd in the front
row where they charged money for the seats. Was Rondo.
He was sitting in the crud. So you had Rondo
on one side, you had the entire Laker roster in
the middle, and then separated on the other side by

(13:58):
four or three or four chairs was James. Oh no,
this is systemic dysfunction. This is wonderful. My wildest dreams
have come true. This is Karl Malone. This is Gary
Payton that didn't work out. This is Dwight Howard, Steve
Nash that didn't work out. Oops, it happened again to

(14:19):
the Laker franchise. This is a hot mess. The Sacramento
Kings have a better chance of making the playoffs than
Lebron James and the Lakers. Now the final point here,
at least Lebron was able to deal with his load
management issues to get out in the court. That's a
good thing. So baby steps, And as far as the

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Pelicans are concerned, we continue to play the waiting game
at least for another day and a half. And Anthony
Davis has been put in the twilight zone. New Orleans
is not going to play him, at least for the
next couple of days. They gotta get a blue chip player.
The Lakers don't have a blue chip player to trade.

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The Milwaukee Bucks do, the Celtics do, the Knicks do,
and the Clippers do. They have more to offer in
a trade, and so obviously Nworleans. He can't sell for
pennies on the dollar. And unless they panic at the
last second, then do something irrational that they have to
wait eat. Would be a huge mistake to take the

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gabba that the Lakers are offering. All right, is the
Ben Mather Show on Fox. We say hello to Edmund Dallas,
steam boat, Willie Judas, solid gold, blah blah blah, Garcy. Well,
the Lakers did make a big move tonight. I don't

(15:43):
know if you saw this, but Reggie Bullock is coming
to down I know Reggie Bullock. He's a former Clipper.
Oh that's right. He was the first round pick of
the Clippers. He's been playing in the G League, I believe.
So he's a great G League pickup. And the Laker
kool a drinkers in the media. Whatever the Lakers do. Oh,
this is wonderful, This is tremendous. This fits right in

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with the Lakers planes. They can do no wrong, and
they've assembled a roster of losers and everyone that covers
the Lakers. They are such kool Aid drinkers. All this
is a great Reggie Bullock. People who cover the Lakers say,
Reggie Bullock is a good move. It's tremendous. There's no
end inside, Eddie. I love the Pacer fan. Have I
said that. I need to say that. I was. Yes,

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I was surprised that Pacer fans show up enough to
be able to be that vocal. But good for them,
that was impressive. Well, they only show up a few
times a year. Right when there's stars come in. They
sell out the arena and the Lakers because they used
to be good when we when our grandparents were alive,
the people made a big deal back in the old days.
And so they still live on that past laurels. They

(16:48):
rest on their past laurels. And some people like to
look at the uniform. There's no reason I actually watch
the Lakers play, but you look at the uniform and
people think, well, that used to be a meaningful uniform.
Did all those championships, Eddie, the Lakers in one of
the past to that help them lose. They would have
lost by like fifty two if they hadn't won all
those championships, right, I don't know about that. Do they
still play at Conseco Fieldhouse? Uh? No, I think they changed.
Didn't they change the name of it? It still? I

(17:11):
believe so. I've been there, have you. I was there
when the Lakers played the Pacers in the NBA Finals
million thirty years ago, Eddie, and they were pumping in
crowd noise. Was that is the move in Indiana? Didn't
the Colts do that as well? We were you know
how I know they were pumping in crowd noise with
the auxiliary press box for the NBA Finals was press
was near the Pearly gates. Right behind me was a speaker,

(17:35):
and we could tell when the Lakers were shooting fileship,
when shack back in those days were shooting foleshots. They
were pumping in the crowd noise. From the speaker, we
could tell what was going on. Hey, it's a good
job by them. May do you think they were doing
that tonight? Though? I don't think they had to. I
mean pretty much just had to make sure the players stayed.
They had five players in the court, they were gonna win.

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The only thing that could have stopped the Pacers, I
guess was what maybe the air conditioning system as in
San Antonio, bats would have been a problem as so,
and people have been ripping me for that that collarless
show Eddie the other day. Yeah, but I'm told that
we had the most podcast downloads we've had in some time.

(18:17):
So that tells me that while I'm getting complaints from
many of the callers that say, what about us, it's
all the show's all about me. Based on the podcast numbers,
that was a win. Like people think I'm kidding, I'm
not kidding, Eddie. We had amazing podcast downloads of our
post super Bowl show. You were not here for that,
but it was all about me and Uh, I guess

(18:40):
Ralph a little bit, uh and Roberto and Coop. But
it was tremendous podcast. So it's like, we have some
breaking news from the NBA, mister Maller involving your Los
Angeles Clippers have made a big move tonight. According to
Clippers and Sixers agree to trade Tobias Harris, whoa ball on?
Mark John Oh No, Mike Scott for Landry Shamette. Who

(19:06):
Wilson Chandler Yeah, Mike Muscala, Yeah. Twenty twenty first round
pick twenty twenty one, unprotected first round pick via Miami
and two second rounders. It's a great trade. I've never
heard of any of those players. I don't know who
those players are, but it's a great trade. It's a
wonderful trade. I don't like getting a giving a bow.
I don't like trading. Come on, I didn't they offer

(19:30):
to Buias Hairs like seventy five million dollars or something
like that, and he didn't take the seventy five million.
Is someone gonna pay him more than seventy five million
to Buias Hairs? He got a first round pick in
twenty twenty, Eddy, that's big, big, huge, twenty twenty one
unprotected first round pick, a couple of second rounders. It's

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the way to go. Great move by the Clips Trust
Jerry West the logo. Does he not know what he's doing? Eddie?
It's a tremendous move. How about the greatest? What a
way to end your Clipper career? What a decorated Clipper
career for Tobias Harris. He ends with a game when
he shot in Charlotte. Yeah, a buzzer, well not a
buzzer beater, but it was like with five seconds to

(20:12):
go or something like that. Game when he shot Man,
You're gonna be okay for the rest of the show,
knowing that he's no longer with your clippers. I'm more
upset about Boban. Yeah, who'd they get Landry Schmitt? I
have never heard of these people. Who the hell is
that Wilson Champ become Bowan and Tobias always get traded together.
They're best friends. All right, Well we'll press Oh my god,

(20:33):
look at the time, we'll hear Lebron has chimed in.
Lebron's got a theory on what's going on with his
teammates and why they are revolting. We'll get to that
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(21:19):
Derek and Denver says that Malan monologue deserves an award
standing ovation from Derek and Denver. The fact that Cooper
Loop and Robert two had no rebuttal to anything you
said shows how powerful and how honest that was. And
that's coming from an unbiased lifelong Pacer fan. Well, thank you, Derek.

(21:40):
I appreciate that, and it does coming from you, Derek,
that means a lot. And so I don't need a
Marconi Award. I have a tweet that I will print
out and say, so is that is great? Darryl in
Wisconsin says Big Ben, you're hilarious. Well, thank you, Darrel.
That's very kind. I appreciate it. Who else do we have?

(22:01):
Uh see? Philly Robs says, Hinky is pissed, horrible trade.
Shamat is a three point shooter from which is toss date.
You'll like him? Oh good? Never heard of him? Yeah?
The new star of the NBA Lamb Shammon. Is that
you say it Shammon? I think I say I think
you say it Shammon. I thought you can say that
on the air, which is like, damn it, break out. Sorry,

(22:24):
guys come to the Clippers and they flourish. Let me
tell you something that's true. People are making a big deal.
Oh you're gonna be so upset the Clippers. Mad. I'm
not worried about this at all. I got the long game, man,
I'm worried about the long game. And this guy who
I've never heard of before ten minutes ago, Landry Shammon,
damn it. He's gonna be good. Boy. Is he gonna

(22:44):
be great? Absolutely so? Yeah. Once I don't know, is
I don't I've never heard of him any but he's
gonna be good. I'm gonna follow him on Twitter right now. No, no, no,
they're not taking Tobias was deadweight, got rid of some
dead weight. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I read dead weight.

(23:06):
That's right. He was clearly a problem. Absolutely Dolphin Mike says,
now that Lebrick is no longer a cavalier, I enjoy
a good Lebron beat down monologue. Good job by you
go to hell Lebron James. Yeah yeah, that trop doesn't
get played. It does not get played much at all,
not that one. No, no, no, and go to hell,
Lebron James, a little Maggie. Maggie's probably like thirty years

(23:29):
old by now. But when she was in little Maggie
out with her dad on the weekend deliver in the newspaper,
and Maggie would call up and scream and mean things
about Lebron James. That was when Lebron left to go
to the Miami Heat. And since then Lebron spent but
four years in Miami or three years something like that,
and I think it was four and then he went
to Cleveland for a few and then he's in LA

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and Maggie's all grown up. I didn't go to college. Song. Yeah,
Brad's stop avoiding you talk about the Clippers. What do
you want to say there was a trade? I mean, well,
you want to do a victory lap here for the
whole show and celebrate how wonderful Jerry West is. I mean,
come on, you know what. Jerry West gets things done.
He's a deal maker, Magic Johnson. He has to take

(24:13):
his walking orders from Lebron James. Compare these two franchises.
The Clippers get the Great Landry shamm Itt bunch of
draft picks, right, They basically hoodwinked the Philadelphia seventy sixers.
In this trade an amazing transaction. They got rid of
a guy that didn't want to be a Clipper anymore,
in this overrated Tobias Harris. They got rid of him,

(24:36):
and now they've got extra draft picks and they're gonna
sign a bunch of I mean, it's just a win
win situation. What about Bobon? All right, it's not a
perfect trade because they lost we lost Bobon. But now
I can pull for Bobon if the Celtics don't win
the East, I guess I gotta pull for Philly because
I want to see Bobon win a champions But could
Bobon be traded again? Could this be just a temporary

(24:59):
style point, like a stopover when you travel from one
part of the country to another, And then Boban could
go to another mystery team Lakers. No, No, I don't
want him. I mean, that would be horrible. He's better
off going to play Russia or something like that. Please,
you're fired, blind legally blind, Christopher Right, since is now

(25:20):
post this massive law Clippers law Clippers La Clippers with
the Philadelphia with all no name player for no name players,
I thought the Pistons would have been robbed again like
last year with the Clippers. At least the trades are
more exciting. Yeah, mister Wonderful who completely avoided the fact
that Lebron James his bff, the guy that he worships

(25:44):
like a false god, a deity. Lebron James is tearing
apart the Laker franchise. He avoided that and then took
a shot at the age of Jerry West because mister
Wonderful has ages them all right, and they let me
tell you older people are protected class. Mister Wonderful. Of
course you're in such poor health you won't make it
to old age. But I hope to make it to

(26:05):
old age someday, so you can make jokes about me.
How about that. We'll press on. We're gonna hear from
Lebron James. The Lakers lost by forty two points. Great
job by the Indiana Pacers, tremendous performance by their fans,
everything involved. We'll hear what Lebron had to say about that.
He's got a fall guy. He's got a theory on

(26:26):
the obvious Komoto dragon in the room and why there
is a rebellion going on with the Lakers. We'll get
to that in a moment right now, though, years Eddie,
and then we start with Snooser from the NFL, where
the Philadelphia Eagles notified quarterback Nick Foles they would be
picking up his contract option for next season. Fols that

(26:46):
informed the team he was avoiding his twenty million option
for twenty nineteen. The Eagles are now expected to place
the franchise tag on Foles in an effort to trade him.
Some games are known in the NBA. Raptors over the
seventy six Ers one nineteen one oh seven, Kawhi Leonard
twenty four points, Kyle low're Jabaka each twenty points and
to win for Toronto, Joel and Beat thirty seven points
thirteen rebounds in defeat. Celtics, playing without Kyrie Irving still

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beat the Cavaliers one h three to ninety six. Jason
Tatum twenty five points for the Celtics. Thunder over the
Magic one thirty two to one twenty two, Paul George
thirty nine points, Russell Westbrook his seventh straight triple double,
sixteen points, fifteen rebounds, sixteen assists. Pacers pound the Lakers
one thirty six ninety four. That forty two point lost,
the worst ever for Lebron James. Team Indiana hit a
franchise record nineteen three pointers. Clippers over the Hornets one seventeen,

(27:29):
one fifteen, heat down the trail Players one eighteen to
one oh eight, and the Pistons beat the Knicks one
oh five ninety two. Miami still a game half up
under Troy for that final playoff spot in the East.
College basketball Number one Tennessee improves the twenty one and
one with their seventeenth win in a row is to
beat Missouri seventy two to sixty wins for number two Duke,
fifth rank Kentucky, Number seven Michigan and number eight North
Carolina losses for ninth ranked Michigan State and number ten Marquette.

(27:52):
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where the Washington Wizards announced that star John Wall will
have surgery for a rupture to achilles tendon. He'll be
sidelined at least twelve months. The injury reportedly happened when

(28:14):
Walls slipped and fell in his home. Now I go
to you for the inside scoop. Yeah, what's the real
story behind John wall and this? Achilles got in a
bar fight Eddie. He was a post bar fight party
at his house. He was having a house party. There
were strippers there. And yeah, no, I mean, you know

(28:35):
who falls and pops their achilles, Eddie at home? Like
you know my grandpa, exactly right, the eighty five year
old grandpa falls in the shower, a professional basketball player,
exactly in his athletic prime. No, no one's believing this
that the story will eventually come out. It might not
come out for a while. I think it'll come out
sooner then later. Yeah, I hope it's good. It is

(28:58):
not what we're being told. That's a version of the truth, Eddie.
It's not the truth. He might have been injured somewhere else,
and then he went back to his house and then
called the doctor so they can say he got injured
in his house. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, exactly right.
You're done? Oh my nut that? Yeah, yeah, I know

(29:18):
I'm done. Landry Shammad. Eddie, I'm learning his name is land.
His nickname is Landbou landbou landbou boom goes Landbou. I'm
sure that's Ralph. Laller will be saying, well, Ralph's Ralph's like, hey,
I'm retiring Ralph by At this point, my man roused
by word. The Clippers is gonna trade him. They're like, hey,

(29:40):
we can get something for Ralph. We'll get rid of
Ralph's final year. Prefer to be traded. He's a he's
a free agent at the end of the year. He's
going into retirements and they might want to trade him.
So they had the big trade tonight of according it's
a woje bomb as the Clippers just I don't know
how the Sixers can go on here, Eddie. Yeah, this
is gonna break that Sixer team apart, where they give out,

(30:00):
give up Landry Shammon and the Great Mike Moose Kala
is that he's saying, that's how I said it, Moose.
I think that's yeah, Yeah, Muskie, that's his nickname, Muskie.
Can you imagine Boban and Ebi together, I mean, the
Twin Towers are back right, It's like Elijah Wan and
Samson's huge. This mouscala Addy seven point four points a

(30:22):
game in Philadelphia. That is a big pickup. Massive depth, Eddie,
you gotta have depth in the NBA. That is a
tremendous transaction. I'm so excited. Can't wait to watch the
new guys play. Gonna be great, going to beat awesome.
I'm sure the ticket office is just flooded with calls
right now from people wanting I agree tickets for the Clippers.

(30:42):
I don't know about about Muskie or Moose. You know,
I knew not my favorite Clipper, but I'm all about Lambeau.
I am about Landry Shammont. Damn it, I am. Now.
I'm not giving out the number, Eddie. As you noticed,
that was a strategic move. People can feel free to call.
I'm not giving out the number. We did have somebody
calling using a golden ticket. Let's go now to somewhere

(31:05):
in Western New York or upstate New York. He moves
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queen that calls their show other than the Ben Maller Show.

(31:28):
Tell me you're not excited, Flexus. The reason you're using
this golden ticket because you're on team Landbow. You are
excited about Landry Shamoo. I don't know. I was just
gonna say that. I was gonna say something now you no, no,
I got I got breaking news here. Landry sham and
Eddie I'm being told here went to park Hill High

(31:49):
School in Kansas City, which means he was likely raised
on the Ben Mallard chicken fingers, which are available in
the greater Kansas City area. You see how it everything
comes together. You see how everything comes together here, Flexus.
This young man grew up in Kansas City eating the
Ben Mather chicken fingers, and now he's an NBA player,
and now he's a Clipper. Yeah, well, you know Kansas

(32:13):
City there. I want to Joe the truck or truck
or Joe. I want to if he's ever stopped there.
I love truck drivers, you know that. Ben. Yeah, well,
back in the day, Flexus, you were very popular with
the truck j that truck stop used to hang out
with on the interstate there in New York. Yeah, your
name was all over the bathroom. I remember you're telling

(32:35):
the story about that. It was very embarrassing. But yeah,
hey look at Syracuse they stuck it up last night.
Are you trying to talk college basketball right now? Is
that what you're trying to do? How there? It is college? Well,
it is actually college basketball season though, because we are
now past the super Bowl, but really, college basketball season
starts March first. What this is a show, isn't it?

(32:57):
Is it? I don't know? That's a good drop right there?
Say it again, say it's slower, Go ahead, This is
a super Bowl show? Is I mean you had a job?
You had one job? Flexus? Okay, let me try again
one time. This is a sports show, isn't it? Boom,

(33:17):
that's a job. Just think as a young Landbow eating
at the Landing Eatery and Pub there and can't say
that large portion of chicken tenders with my name on it, pile,
the mound of French fries pile right next to it. Boys,
that great? You want to join the saying club A club?
TAM's my preference. Oh yeah, she's a big fan of

(33:37):
she is. I'm a fan of Flexus too. You might
favor you might republican. You are my favorite drag queen.
I want you to know that you are a Republican
drag queen. That's interesting. That's very odd, Yes, very odd
that you would be. I'm an odd person. No, you're not.
I think you're very normal. You're more normal now than
we first started talking all those years ago. Flexus. Now
this is acceptable behavior. Back in the old days like this,

(34:00):
people kind of look down upon it. But now in
the year twenty nineteen, everything's great. But I'm number one.
I mean, I'm like Kentucky Worldcats tonight they Yeah, remember
when you were gonna move to Lexington and I was
trying to talk you out of it, and I know, yeah,
I guess I didn't have to worry about anything. You
never moved. I could have brought the whole New world. Yeah,
all right, I promised this lebron signe. I got a plenty.

(34:22):
Do you have anything else? We don't get upset. It's
a mercy call, all right, all right, I'll join your fans.
I'm not sending you money. Don't be begging for money
like weedman. All right, don't be like that guy. Oh no,
I gotta do it nine in New York and hold
about nine. Yeah, all right, thank you, all right, go away,
bye bye. It's great getting born, I'm telling you so.

(34:44):
Lebron James after the Lakers lost by forty two points?
How great is that? That is awesome? They lost the
game with Lebron James forty two points? Amazing? All right,
So let's go down of the audio tape. Here it
is make way, make Way. Here is Lebron and the
team crumbling around Lebron because of the trades. And here's

(35:04):
Lebron commenting on his theory as to why that could be.
We have a lot of guys that's been in trade
talks the last couple of weeks and that's never been
in that position before. So you have to ask those
guys and how they're dealing with it. I don't can't.
You can't really ask me. I've never been a part
of that, but I've been a part of teammates, you know.
I know it has to be tough on a lot
of our guys, especially our young guys. Uh you know

(35:27):
right now, they've just never been a part of it,
and um, you know, and they're here in every single day.
The worst thing that you can do right now is
to be on social media. And I know all young
guys love social media, so um, you know that definitely
can't help. Yeah. Of course Lebron, who's on social media
all the time, not worried about social media because they
ain't trading his ass. He's the one trading their ass,

(35:48):
all right, He's not worried about that. He's like, I'm
good man, I'm all right, It's all good. Here's more
from Lebron. Now, the greatest story in the NBA was
these Indiana Pacer fans who were hooting and hollering. They
were going crazy and they were razzing brandon Ingram and
Lebron's gonna trade you were that kind of chan and

(36:10):
then not good enough to be traded for JaVale McGee.
And Lebron was asked about that. Here's what he is saying,
that's just fans being fans, and if you let that
bother you, you know you're in a you're in the
wrong sport. Um, you know, fans are going to be fans.
I've that's I've heard at all. And you know I've
you know, I've been in rival games pretty much my
whole life since I started playing ball. So the things

(36:32):
I've heard is uh way worse than than than that.
I don't know about that. I mean, Lebron got upset
at Phil Jackson for using the word posse made him
seem like a racist, So how I don't think Lebron
has thick skin at all. We know he's fine quoting
anti Semitic rap music and he doesn't think that's a problem.
So I I don't know about Lebron's as you really
heard and heard at all. Isn't there a firewall around

(36:55):
Lebron James? It seems that way? My wrong? Is that
racist or nagg I don't know. Fine, we'll press on
time now for the who am I? Game? We'll get
to the NBA pick him in a moment. Here's the
who am I? Game? I am on pace to become
the only player in NBA history to average fifteen or

(37:16):
more points, six or more rebounds, and shoot sixty percent
or more in under twenty seven minutes per game. Again,
I am on pace to become the only player in
NBA history to average fifteen or more points, six or
more rebounds, and shoot sixty percent or better in under
twenty seven minutes of game action on average. Who am

(37:39):
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We'll have an emergency mal and monologue on this big
Clipper trade coming up here in about ten minutes. Emergency
malle monologue, Eddie. That means it was unplanned. I understand,

(38:21):
and we will run with this. I don't know if
the NBA is going to approve this trade. It's so
one sided in favor of the Clippers. I don't know
that the NBA is going to approve the trade. And yeah,
what a what a double shot for Cooper, Loop and Roberto.
Not only do the Lakers lose by forty two points
to Clippers. But the Clippers have just pulled the wool

(38:43):
over the Sixers. That is a stunning trade. This is
an amazing trade. I will walk you through why this
is an amazing trade if you missed it, the big
transaction here, the Clippers and the seventy six ers make
a trade. Now, I'm off a set about Bobon. I'm
not gonna lie about that. Bobon very sad about that.

(39:04):
We're gonna miss him. One of the great Clippers of
all time, right up there with the late Kevin Duckworth,
may he rest in peace, and the late Cherokee Parks.
But a very very good player. But he's gone. Man,
this is a tremendous, tremendous transaction. I'll explain more, but
it's it's essentially Tobias Harris and some other players for
two first round draft I mean, I mean the suspect

(39:28):
and Landry Shammon, suspects Lanbo Me and Lanbo Benny and
landbou down by the schoolyard. All right, let's get to it.
Here we go. It is time for Oh, I gotta
pay off the who am I game? Damn it? All right,
here's the I am on pace. Shut up, I'm on
pace to become the only player in the NBA history
at average fifteen plus point six plus rebounds and shoot

(39:50):
sixty percent or better in under twenty seven minutes per game.
Who am I? Let's see we have Andre the Giant. Guests,
Wendy Williams from Ed from Spokane, Nathan in Philly's going
with Tobias Harris the new Sixer. Who else do we have?
Houston mctare from William Sweet lou Williams from Doctor Mario,

(40:10):
Ron Harper's speech Coach from Big Loue. That's a cheap shot?
How dare you? That is a low blow? PAULI Shore
was guest, Eddie, do you have an answer? Yes, it's
Dwayne Schintzius, the Great Dwayne Schinzius. No, that is incorrect. Uh,
the correct answer, Eddie Montrez Harold of the Clippers, the
Papers team. Well you don't know your basketball, Eddie. We

(40:34):
gotta get do We got twenty seconds? Who's going first
coup NBA pick up? That would be James Harden Eddie,
all right, go ahead? Coop Nicola Yeokitch, Donovan Mitchell, Wow,
Kevin Durant, all right, wow, Coop, Rudy Gobert. Gobert, All right, Eddie,
Steph Curry, You're gonna have Steph Curry. I am going

(40:55):
to take Let's see here, I take Kemba Walker and
also the Marcus Alger. He better play, Eddie, Luca, Don sick, Roberto.
I don't know what teams you play for. I don't
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(42:01):
The trade deadline is on Thursday. Has Anthony Davis been
traded tonight in the middle of the night. No, he
has not been traded, but it is a move that
could lead to an Anthony Davis trade. Big deal, big transaction.

(42:23):
I hope you are sitting down. If you're working in
a factory, you might want to take a break. If
you're driving a truck, you might want to pull over
on the interstate, because we are going to blow you
away with this. This is massive. The Los Angeles Clippers
have traded Tobias Harris, Bobon Maranovitch, and the Great Mike

(42:45):
Scott to Philadelphia for Landry Shammut, Wilson Chandler, and Mike
Muscala and a twenty twenty first round pick, a twenty
twenty one unprotected first round pick from Miami, and a
couple of second round picks. That is the Clippers unloading

(43:06):
some deadweight and getting back a bunch of draft picks
and some young players who they will have an opportunity
to play coming up. This is a tremendous, tremendous move
in the NBA. There's a lot of moving parts of this.
As the Sixers make another transaction, they're going for they
think they can win the Eastern Conference and Tobias Harris

(43:29):
is going to put them over the top. So let's
talk about this now. The initial reaction if you were
to grade the trade, and you only can grade this
trade based on what we know. We this could be
the middle part of another trade, but based on the
information we have here, and it's still fresh. The body
is not cold. The trade is not even cold yet.

(43:51):
But the information we have on this the grade for
the Sixers. I'm gonna give the Sixers a D. I'm
gonna give Philadelphia a D for this trade, and I'm
gonna give the Clippers an A. This is an a
trade for the Clippers. And I'm gonna tell you why.
What the Clippers have done here is show you why
I was so exciting. I did three monologues on Jerry

(44:12):
West being hired. Is essentially the de facto GM with
the Clippers. Jerry West. The reason every NBA player in
the history of the league has had Jerry West logo,
his face on their body, his outline, his silhouette on
their body is because their transactions like this. Lebron James,
if he could have a little piece of Jerry West, right,

(44:34):
and little piece of the talent of Jerry West, acquiring players.
The Lakers wouldn't have had a revolt and lost by
forty two points in Indianapolis in the game on Tuesday
night because Lebron doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
You didn't hear any rumors about Tobias Harris being traded.
You didn't hear anything about this kind of a transaction
going down. That is how you do it. He's a

(44:54):
blind side move, you know. Jerry West does it, old
school Lebron James. He brings in his surrogates who happened
to be his own agent, and he thought, oh, I'll
pull a fast one on the Pelicans, and of my agent,
who's happens to be Anthony Davis's agent, try to get
this guy with the Lakers. And that's of course been
a disaster. There is a uprising, a coup data in

(45:19):
Laker Land there with the players upset. But about this trade,
all right, my thoughts on this. You've got the portfolio,
you have the hoodwinked, and you also have the long game.
All right. Now, First of all, Tobias Harris played very
well for the Clippers. He's a vagabond journeyman NBA player.

(45:40):
Tobias Harris came into the NBA originally drafted by the
Charlotte Bobcats. They never played in Charlotte, ended up with
the Trader a bunch of times. He's been with Milwaukee, Orlando,
spent some time with the Detroit Pistons, and he played
his most efficient basketball the last year and a half
with the Los Angeles Clippers. But he's an average NBA player.

(46:03):
He averaged his career average is fifteen points a game.
He's never been an All Star. He's never been an
MVP candidate. He's not. And more importantly, the Clippers last
offseason offered Tobias Harris eighty million dollars. They were willing
to pay the price, right, and this guy's ego is

(46:25):
so large, this Tobias Harris, that he told them to
take a hike. No one's even ever heard of this guy.
And he said, I don't. I'm sorry. I can't live
on eighty million dollars. I'm gonna have to eat Chef Boyard.
I need real pasta, so I can't be eating the
Chef Boyard, even though I grew up on Chef Boyardi.

(46:45):
But anyway, the point is, Tobias Harris turned out eighty
million dollars. He is a good player. I give him credit.
He's improved his game, but he's certainly not a transcendent player.
And put it this way, the reason Jerry West is
a genius and Jerry West should take a victory lap
right now. He ought to take a victory lap. This
is an unbelievable transaction. Everyone in the NBA right now

(47:06):
is like, oh my f and god, how the hell
did he do it? Again? Old man West has continued
to dominate. That's why his nickname is mister Clutch. Yeah,
that's his nickname again. He comes through. Think about this,
Jimmy Butler, who I think we can all agree is
a better basketball player than Tobias Harris. Does anyone disagree

(47:26):
with that that Jimmy Butler is a better basketball player
than Tobias Harris. I think that's a pretty pretty fair point.
I think it's an accurate point. The Minnesota Timberwolves did
not get two first round picks in return for Jimmy Butler.
They didn't. So Tobias Harris, who's never been in an
All Star's never been an MVP candidate, he Jerry West

(47:47):
got more of value than Minnesota got for Jimmy Butler.
That's a win. Now. I listen, you look at what
as far as the players the Clippers got and Andry Shammon,
I love this Guy's my new favorite Clipper, Landry Shammont Man.
I just learned about him about an hour ago, but
I like him. He can shoot the three ball. I

(48:08):
like guys that can shoot. I'm a shooter from the outside.
He's fundamentally sound. He makes foul shots, unlike some of
these other young players. Shout out Lonzo Ball, so you
know he's fundamentally sound. He's a shocker from which you
toss state and he will have an opportunity to blossom
into more than just a role player with the Clippers.
But this really is all about the portfolio. That's what

(48:30):
this trade is about. If you invest, if you know,
when you make money and you invest your money, you
have a portfolio. You have a collection of investments. Maybe
you invest a little bit in real estate, stock market.
You diversify. And this is a wonderful situation for the
Clippers because they turned Blake Griffin, who they got rid

(48:52):
of and now they had to bias for a year
and a half and now they're set up to completely
take over the NBA. What this trade does is give
the Clippers an opportunity to take over the NBA because
their portfolio now they have options. They not only have cabbage.
Now I don't like cabbage, but it matters, like that

(49:13):
salary capstry they allowed paper to play with, to throw
around that monopoly money they can throw at these players.
They need it, God knows they need it. And draft picks.
So the leverage here, you know, the Clippers. I wouldn't
be shocked if they repackage and repurpose those draft picks
and trade them to New Orleans in a massive transaction

(49:34):
for Anthony Davis. If that happens, the Lakers might want
to move back to Minneapolis. There will be no end.
I will do every monologue for the next ten weeks
on the fact that the Anthony Davis ended up with
the Clippers and not the Lakers and Jerry West pull
the fast one. But even if that doesn't happen, there
are other possibilities here. Now as far as the Sixers
side of things, what this is also for Philadelphia the

(49:56):
reason I gave the Sixers a d While they are
going for it, they're also at meeting with this transaction.
It is a white flag situation. As far as Jimmy Butler,
if Jimmy Butler had been as good as advertised, if
this had not been a case of buyer's remorse, then
this trade does not happen. Prove me wrong, right? The
Sixers had every intention of having a big three of

(50:18):
Joel and bead Ben Simmons and Jimmy Butler. But Jimmy
Butler hasn't exactly worked out. It hasn't exactly worked out.
And Tobias Harris to assume that he is going to
assimilate in Philadelphia is a pretty big assumption. Now, I'm
not that bright, and I learned math because I was

(50:40):
hooked on math. You're not hooked on phonics, hooked on math,
which is how I use maller math. But here's the
way I look at this. Tobias Harris turned down eighty
million dollars. Let's do some mallamath on this. Let's do
the calculation, the arithmetic. So you turned out eighty million.
And Harris is putting up statistically a very good season
with the Clippers. Now goes to Philadelphia. Do you think

(51:02):
he's going to be okay with a secondary role as
a supporting actor. He was a headliner. You say what
you want, but he was a headliner on the Clippers.
He was one of the go two options on offense
for Doc Rivers. And now he is going to be
what the third or fourth option for the seventy six ers.
Is that going to help or hurt him getting paid?

(51:25):
I'm gonna say that is going to devalue to Bias Hairs.
Now he will be playing in playoff games. He will
be playing in some high profile games in Philadelphia. But
this is going to decrease the amount of money that
he gets. And it's a good lesson also for Tobias Harris.
Gonna supply and demand. But just can't say enough good

(51:49):
things about the Clippers. I mean, it is just a tremendous,
tremendous transaction. I'm upset about boban I fell in love
with Frankenstein. I did. I'm gonna miss him. But he's
a former Clipper now, and there's a brotherhood when you're
a former Clipper, when when you've played for the Clips,
when you've played for the people's team, there's a place
in my heart for you. And you look at the

(52:13):
short game, clearly the Clippers are taking a step back.
I think we can agree on that. But for the
rest of the season doesn't matter. The Warriors have already
won the championship, They've already got the parade planned anyway.
And so but now the Clippers are in position for
the You forget the short term short game, go a
long game. And not only can they can get multiple

(52:35):
free agents, but even if they don't have, they can
get one free agent and trade all these draft picks
in the world of basketball. And I don't necessarily agree
with this, I have not. I've been very clear. I'm
not a big fan of draft picks. But you know
who likes draft picks. Other NBA teams like draft picks,
and they like to trade good players for lottery tickets.
And at Miami Heat pick the twenty twenty one pick,
the Heat are going the wrong direction. They are looking

(52:57):
like they are going to be horrifically bad by the
year twenty twenty one, which is only a couple of
years away. And that is a pick that is not
lottery protected. It's unprotected. So that is a tremendous thing
to throw out in the trade market. All right, is
the Ben Maller's show on Fox and Again, Clippers get

(53:20):
an A, Sixers get a D. The trade tonight, Clippers
just broken the overnight while we've been on the air,
Clippers and Sixers. Tobias Harris, bo Bon, Marianovitch, Boy, we're
gonna miss him. Mike Scott, he's the one with the
emoji tattoos that almost went to jail for a long
time but got out of it. For Landry Shammont, the
Great Landry Shamont, Wilson Trendler, and Mike Muscala plus all

(53:43):
those draft picks. What a hole, What a hole for
the clips. Trades are supposed to be, and we often
talk about trades and all that they're supposed to be.
Quit pro quo. Right, it's an equal This was not
an equal trade. You traded a non draft pick for
a six pc of wonderful picks and young players just

(54:04):
just tremendous. And again the other problem here for Philadelphia.
I'm telling you keep an eye, un Tobias Harris. You
assume he's going to assimilate into a fourth banana role
in Philadelphia and he's gonna blend in there and everything
will be great in his new surroundings. I don't know
about that. I got my doubts about that. All right,

(54:25):
say hello to Edmund Dallas, Steamboat, Willie Judas blah blah blah,
solid gold guards Sea right over there. What a wonderful
fortifying of the Clippers future by Jerry West. This is tremendous.
You're not a basketball guy. He don't understand that. But
I can't read. And I'm looking at the Los Angeles

(54:45):
Clippers draft history, and I'm looking at some of these
names of the players they've picked recently. Let's see Miles Bridges,
Jerome Robins, they traded him, they drafted him to trade
him though, Bryce John Yeah, CJ. Wilcox, Reggie Bullock, who

(55:06):
the Lakers just picked up. It must be good Lebronippers,
alfarruk Aminu still in the NBA. You got paid a
lot of money at one time. Some pretty good Again,
you're assuming again, this is why you're an uneducated basketball course. Yes,
you're assuming. The Clippers gonna keep all those picks. I
say they're gonna repurpose those picks, repackage those picks, getting good, proven,

(55:29):
good player because teams in the NBA love lottery tickets. Uh.
The reviews are tremendous. They are absolutely tremendous. Uh, some
guy named who is this? I don't know who that is.
Let me pick somebod that out. You heard of Bill Simmons.
You've heard of Bill Simmons, right, Yes, it makes a
lot of money. He does a podcast somewhere. I think
he's still getting paid by HBO or whatever. Bill Simmons,

(55:50):
here's what he says, says, how the hell did the
Clippers get two first including that great twenty twenty one
Miami pick for a non all star who was leaving
in three months? The Jerry West Clippers is amazing. It's
from Bill Simmons, and he hates Doc Rivers. Simmons can't
stand Doc Rivers. So for him to say something positive
about the Clippers that you know, this is a great trade.

(56:11):
Some unreal What are the Sixers doing? What a bunch
of boots in Philadelphia trying to win games? I guess
there's something the Clippers again, Eddie, You're taking a guy
who's in a contract year, who is trying to get
paid max max max Max Max max max max max
max max money, and you're putting him in a position
where he's gone from the number one option on the

(56:31):
Clippers to a fourth option in some cases in Philadelphia,
and you're saying he's going to be subservient to that,
that he is going to sit there and allow that
to happen, in assimilate and not have a problem with that.
I think he might enjoy playing in playoff games. Well,
the Clippers actually, as you know, Eddie, I know you
know you're you don't know your basketball, but as of
right now, the Clippers were in the last playoff spot

(56:52):
in the Western Cop. Yeah, well you can kiss that. Yeah,
I don't know about that. I don't know. You don't
know basketball. I don't, but I know that. Not going
to hold onto the one word, one word, Eddie. Yeah, Lenbo,
he's a clip. I have no idea who that is. No,
you didn't know him thirty minutes ago. I've done my homework. Head,

(57:14):
I've heard of him. You guys at Crow guy was
a key player off the Sixers bench, very important. And
it's Coop's nervous in there. Coop, I can Coop's got
that nervous laugh over there because he's I got crap.
The Clippers are gonna they've done it again, the Jerry
That is an accurate statement. Yeah, they have done it. Again. Yeah,

(57:35):
this is unbelievab. I mean, they got more for Tobias
Harris than Minnesota got for Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler an
All Star an NBA. Also, Tobias Harris will never sniff
in All Star Game. The only thing he's gonna sniff
his farts in the locker room. That's all he'll be sniffing.
Tell me I'm wrong, Coop, go ahead, tell me I'm wrong.
I don't know. He scored thirty four points and brought

(57:55):
the team back to win today, that's right. And he
turned out eighty million dollars to get rid of that guy.
That's right. They got unbelieved. Your two favorite clippers are gone,
and you're talking about how one fa you old bond
was the most exciting plays a dark day for NBA basket.
I swear to God, I will I will go back
and I will listen to every single and do a

(58:17):
pick him that we've done. You picked Tobias Harris more
often than any other Clippers. That's a value pick, hoop.
That's why you picked to Bias in the last round.
I won't pick him again because his numbers are gonna
go down. That's why he's gonna be upset. This is no.
The wins are not gonna go. The Clippers are winning.
What are you talking about, You're they've been winning games.
There's gonna be some great draft picks. They will be,

(58:40):
and they'll trade those to New Orleans. First round draft picks.
You've always been all about those. You've always said on
this show that if you can get late first round
draft picks, you're doing good. Listen, you dope. The Miami pick, Okay,
the Miami pick could be the number one pick. What
They're in the eighth seed of the They're in a

(59:01):
in the playoffs as right now in twenty twenty one.
He's in twenty twenty one, so we don't know what's
gonna happen. Everyone's gonna happen in the Future's where I'm
better than you guys. I'm a distant relative. I'm not

(59:23):
angry you guys. Cooper was like excited, because angry anything
they always No, I'm not listening. This is a wonderful
that you guys are frustrated. I'm happy because you guys
want to see me very I'm happy with this trade.
I like this. This is a good transaction. Another season down,
the crapper for the club. Yeah, it's not down the
crack down the crapper. I love how he opens the

(59:45):
show like diss in me about how I said the
Lakers are gonna pass the Clippers this season and then
the guys gonna happen hour an hour. It's confirmed. You
just lost. Well, first of all, you said that in November.
All right, you said that in November. All right, here's
the thing. All right, the Clippers, the Clippers have a
better future. It is confirmed. The Lakers have an aging

(01:00:10):
cancer and Lebron James who is dividing that team. If
you don't believe me, go look at the video, Go
look at the Laker bench. That is a divided basketball team,
and be like amazed at who in the hell are
these guys. Well, again, you don't appreciate, you don't appreciate
the other. Eddam doesn't appreciate the underdog. I like. Then,

(01:00:31):
these are not household names, they're not name brands. I
like that until they get the Stars, and then I'll
like the stars. NBA is all about you know, guys
who you don't know. But here's the thing, Eddie, like
some of these teams in the lottery, all time the Clippers.
They might not make the playoffs this year, maybe they will,
Maybe lay Bow will be God's gift to the NBA.
But they're set up, Eddie. They are set up next

(01:00:52):
off season. It's up coming off season. They could be
the Golden State's gotta be worried right now. Steph Curry
probably doesn't. He can't sleep right now. Well, much more
on this if you want to tell me how right
I am? And pat me on the back here, and boy,
what a great night for the clips on the overnight
big trade. I'm so happy they did this because of me, Eddie.
They could have waited till noon to announce this trade

(01:01:14):
when I'm sleeping, but they did it now because they're
worried about me. They wanted me. I have first DIBs
on this, not Cowherd, not An these other clowns that
do radio. I got in on this first looking cat
on here. All right, we'll continue on more on this
big trade in the NBA. And also, I know Eddie

(01:01:35):
likes this story. It's all about Chippindales. We'll get to
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(01:02:19):
the love I get from the malle militiary. They are
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(01:02:40):
we're here. So truck truck driving Josh is How good
is it to be? Ben Maller. I agree. He says
the Lakers and not lose by forty two points to
the resilient Indiana Pacers, and now the Clippers are setting
themselves up to get Anthony Davis. It's got to feel
like Christmas morning, Miller. Good to be alive, Good to

(01:03:01):
be alive. Absolutely, it's not all positive though. There's some
haters out there, that guy Enzo that weasels. Yeah, he's
a weasel. No, No, he's accurate. It says big men,
you literally always say give me the better player and
not the fallacy of youth and draft picks. This is
the spin of the century. No, it's not Enzo, right because,

(01:03:23):
as I pointed out, Tobias Harris is not a great
NBA player. If Tobias Harris was an All Star and
an MVP candidate, I would agree with you that the
Clippers got hoodwinked. But they didn't. And I don't believe
they're gonna keep those draft picks. I think they're just
gonna keep them shortly them. They might trade them on Thursday,
they might trade them later today. They could trade them
in the off season. It gives them a portfolio of

(01:03:46):
draft picks to trade that is what these teams want
in these transactions. So the Clippers have set themselves up.
They have the best of both worlds. Not only do
they have Boco salary cap space, I think that means
a lot, they also have now draft picks. They got everything.
What more do they need? They got everything. I'm so

(01:04:07):
glad that you love You love a Laker, great man.
That's great. He's he built the Golden State Warriors. That's right.
Worst mistake the Bus family ever made was getting rid
of Jerry West. They picked Phil Jackson. There was a
power struggle and Jeanie Buss was sleeping with Phil Jackson,
so they got West. It's a bad job. Office romance

(01:04:28):
cost the Lakers Jerry West. You realize that you, Roberto
and you Coop you likely missed out on at least
three NBA championships because you couldn't keep Jerry West around.
It's a bad job by you. He's a Clipper, that's right.
And I'm gonna make sure Jerry West lives to be
one hundred and seventy years old. I am gonna make
sure he lives forever and ever and ever and ever

(01:04:49):
and ever. Let's say, yeah, let's go to the phones.
Who let's see, where shall we go. Let's say hello
to mister wonderful, who's of course big Laker fanboy. There, Hello,
mister wonderful. In the history of disingenuous monologues, that one
would probably take the cake. I disagree. That was a
fine Clippers. The Clippers just punted on the season, which

(01:05:11):
you killed teams for. Just No, they did not punt
on the season at all. Absolutely put on the ted.
They traded two guys, all right, then let me go.
Let me walk you through this because I know you know. No,
the Clippers. They traded Mike Scott, who hardly played, Bobo
who I love, who was locked to the bench. He
didn't play that much. They traded one key player, Tobias

(01:05:33):
who's fine, but you can fill that. Other players will
have an opportunity to step in. The Clippers. We'll see
what they do in the next couple of days. It
was not They didn't punt the whole season away. They're
still gonna compete for some suspects and some lottery tickets
to get Anthony Davis, who I think you just said
a couple of days ago. It was always hurt and
you don't want it, right, well, I didn't say I

(01:05:53):
didn't want him. I said he is always hurt. That
is obviously a concern. I don't like guys that are
always hurt. That bothers me. But hey, if Jerry West
and Jerry West, we trust the guy's the logo. He's
on every uniform, every piece of NBA memorabilia has Jerry
West silhouette on it. The Clippers have been playing the
long game since nineteen eighty four. So give me a break.

(01:06:15):
Let's get to the Let's get to the Let's get
to the Komodo Dragon, the room. Your guy, Lebron James, dividing,
separating and dividing like a like a trojan, like a trod.
Nobody wants him. How are you to get rid of
those guys? They're garbage? You understand, Lebron, what Lebron James
has done, that is a house divided with the Lakers.
And that's the work of Lebron James. Your guy. He

(01:06:37):
is an enemy combatant. Duran Durant just did a whole
trigger how he hates the lake. He's not Durant's not
going to the Lakers. Didn't say he's going to the Lakers.
I said once he's gone. Do you understand actually a
game again? Do you understand all star players as a
general rule, most of them agree with Kevin Durant as

(01:06:59):
a whole. Most of them they don't want to do
with Lebron James. He's a cancer exactly. How do you agree?
How did your boy? Why did Kyrine not play last night?
Load management? Kyrie? Yeah, I'm not talking about the Celtics, right,
we'll do with that. We'll do that on Thursday. I'll
be back on in Boston. We'll do a deep dive

(01:07:19):
on Kyrie, mister wonderful. I'm gonna hang up on you
before you RiPP Tammy and Montana because I know that's
how you end all your phone calls. And it's rude.
It's offensive to me, So I'm gonna hang up big then, Mallard,
we'll get to the the Chippendale story for Eddie'll take
more of these phone calls. Great night, just a true
boy man. The Clippers, what a win, what a win

(01:07:39):
it is, and the Lakers are infected with Lebron disease.
This is one of those great nights. As someone that
follows sports, very rarely you get a night like this.
Best of both Worlds right, Lakers lose by forty two.
They're pouting and pointing fingers at each other. The locker
rooms contaminated, there's a disease there, and the Clippers pull
off one of the great hei in NBA history. All right,

(01:08:01):
we'll press on right now, though. Let's get you caught
up on that big NBA trade that happened in the
overnight and everything else from Eddie. Oh sure, we'll start
with that big NBA trade where they should Eddi it
actually happened overnight. Yeah, the LA Clippers are sending Bias Harris.
What do we always say it when we're on. I've
been doing overnights a long time. You've been with me
a long time. The only thing that usually happens is
somebody gets arrested, or they die in an accident, in

(01:08:23):
a car accident, or at a club, there's a shooting. Normally,
use are the only stories we get. We don't get
a lot of trades on this show that happen overnight.
Is yeah, yeah, So the LA Clippers are sending Tobias Harris,
boban Marjanovich, and Mike Scott to the Philadelphia seventy six
in exchange for Landry Schemetz, Yeah Shimbo Sheno Wilson Chandler

(01:08:43):
Mike Muscala, two first round picks and two second round
picks on the court last night was the Raptors beating
the seventy six Ers one nineteen to one or seven.
Kawhite Letard twenty four points, Kyle howrre In Surgibaka each
twenty points for Toronto Celtics over the Cavaliers one oh
three to ninety six. Thunder beat the Magic one thirty two,
one twenty two, Paul George thirty nine points, Russell Westbrook
sixteen points, fifteen rebounds and sixteen assists for his seventh

(01:09:06):
straight triple double. Pacers pound the Lakers one thirty six
ninety four forty two point lost, the worst ever for
you Lebron James team. It was the Heat over the
Trailblazers one eighteen two one oh eight, and the Pistons
beat the Nights one oh five ninety two minaeme. He
remains a game and f up on Detroit for the
final playoff spot in the East. College basketball, top ranked
Tennessee improved their twenty one and one on the year.
They won seventeen in a row with the seventy two

(01:09:27):
sixty went over Missouri. Wins for number two Duke, number
five Kentucky, number seven Michigan, and number eight North Carolina,
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(01:09:47):
NFL leading up to the Super Bowl, rams At coach
Sean McVay said the star running back Todd Gurley was
expanted to play a big role in the game and
that he was one hundred percent healthy and a rated
to go against the Patriots. Well, he rushed ten times
for thirty five yards. Gurley did not meet with the
media in the final availability for the players yesterday. Clearly,
something's going on, Ben, What's the deal with Todd Gurley?

(01:10:09):
Is he hurt or not? What's going on? They're gonna
have to amputate his right leg. I don't know what's
going on with Todd Gurley. Very it was very bizarre.
There's clearly something going on, all right, this will come
out in the next couple of weeks or so, or
they can't keep it secret forever. Something's going on there,
and somebody from Todd Gurley's camp, assuming it's not some

(01:10:30):
horrific illness or something like that, that somebody from Todd
Gurley's camp is gonna gonna leak. You would think that
that's got to come out. You would think otherwise, what's
the what's the point? But I still it shows you
how many people watch the Super Bowl and they don't
really know what the hell they're watching. The amount of
people that are saying like that, Sean McVay just got

(01:10:50):
out coached by Bill Belichick when they were open receivers.
It was a lack of execution by Jared Golf. And
it's except, I mean, all these deep heartfelt stories about
the Super Bowl in the last couple of days and
they continue to say the same thing. Of all it
was just a defensive masterpiece for Belichick. And while that
will be how the record shows it to be, I mean,
it's because guys are all if you if you draw plays,

(01:11:13):
Eddie and guys are open down the field. Fifteen twenty
yards and your quarterback either takes too long to throw
the ball to Brandon Cooks in the end zone and
allows the Patriot defensive player to make a athletic acrobatic
play to intercept or to knock down a pass, or
you just don't see those open receivers because you've got
happy feed or whatever. How is that, Sean mcvas fall.

(01:11:36):
I'm not the one who's not I know. I just was.
I wanted to feel better. Yeah, it's more about me.
It's my therapy. It's Radiotherapist's what I'm doing here, all right,
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the Patriots had their latest championship parade. The duck boats

(01:11:58):
were out of the Boston and did you see Rob Gronkowski.
Now he started shirt off. He started he was drinking.
He's moved on from beer, Eddie. He's an adult now, Gronk.
He was drinking a five hundred dollar bottle of wine.
And that's how he began the Patriot Parade, and he
did end shirtless. At one point he was wearing he
looked like one of the village people. He had. You know,

(01:12:18):
when you're doing construction and you have that vest on
with the what do you call that stripping on it,
so you so you know, when people have their lights on,
you can your reflective material. You know what I'm talking about. No,
you've never seen a construction person with a vest on
on the highway and it reflects back, so you know
they're there. Sure, okay, yes, all right, So that's what

(01:12:39):
Gronk had. He was he had a shirt up, but
he had that on and it looked like one of
the like the the village people. You know. Oh, is
that the Chippendales thing. I thought you'd like that, you know, yeah,
you liked the Maroon five when they were doing their
stripped tease, their magic Mike dance at halftime. You like that.
I didn't watch it. You didn't watch it, No, Roberto
told me he did. He liked it. Roberto DVR. He

(01:13:00):
went back and watched the several things. It is. It's
not what I hear. The ball has more air pressure
and bound to higher, but it is not bouncer. Let's
go to angry Bill. Angry Bill, who's next? On Fox
Sports Radio? Hello, angry Bill, how was my best bud doing?
Let me see here? It doesn't work here anymore? Your

(01:13:22):
best But I think he's gone. You know, I wish
you would. I mean, you're doing a great job. I go,
you're just fantastic. Wow, thank you, very kind of you.
But I just want to understand how you can't put
the same intensity when you're talking about your stinking crappy
teams you route for as you do for the Lakers.
The four people to just finished. Listen to the last

(01:13:43):
hour and twenty minutes, got all excited about the NBA.
I was so excited. I forgot to change my depends.
That's how great it was listening to talk about I know,
and I listen. I understand. You go out to that Costco,
you get those depends, you get the big boxer depends
because you go through a lot of them each day.
I understand it's tough, it's not easy. I was so
impralled and listening to you, I didn't change him in

(01:14:04):
seez it's just such a mess. But the main thing
I think you should shower off you should shower off
my coach. Who's my coach? Which coach are you talking about?
Your coach mcvagh, Oh, the great Sean McVay, who did
a fine job in the Super Bowl. Yeah, he totally
solved the problem of the next time they get to
the Super Bowl. Next time you get to a big game,
they're going to wear their yellow uniforms so they can't

(01:14:25):
watch your six foot five quarterback, not your five foot
nine Murray quarterback. You're six foot five quarterback peeing his pants.
So yeah, what listen, that's exactly what he did. I did.
I hide from that angry bill right after the Super Bowl.
I was in here killing Jared Goff, killing Jared Goff.
I don't know how else. What do you want me
to say? He sucked, He was terrible. He lost the

(01:14:46):
Super Bowl for the Rams, and you can blame other people.
He was the guy. They were open receivers. He didn't
see him, and when he saw him, he saw him
too late. If I'm the coach of a team that's
halfway through the Super Bowl, he's a player, is not
doing his job. I changed the stupid guy and go
to a five foot nine quarterback his pants. Yeah, yeah, well,

(01:15:07):
how do you how do you know the five foot
nine quarterbacks not gonna pee in his pants? How do
you know that? You don't even know You don't even
know who the Rams backup. You don't even know who
the backup quarterback. You don't even know who the backup
quarterback for the Rams is, don't you don't know? How
do you know that? You don't know that? What's the name?
And the Rams backup quarterback? What's his name? Mon Pier,

(01:15:30):
You're a you're a dope, you're a marad, You're a loser.
Get out of here. You don't even know what you're
talking about. You So take that in your pooper and pope. Yeah, ridiculous,
all right, anyway, Yeah, he's Sean Mannion who's six foot
six and never plays. He's attempted. I think all year

(01:15:50):
he had fifty three pass attempts in mop up duty
for the Rams. And his entire career, I don't believe
he's even thrown one hundred passes in his entire career
in the NFL and Angry Bills. Ah, we'll put him
in the super that's what we're gonna do. We've got
the instat tribute. You also have Mallard to the third degree.

(01:16:12):
We'll get to that here in a moment. But here's
the instat tribute. Entering play on Tuesday, Blank ranked first
among all NBA players six foot ten or taller in
made three pointers this season. Again, entering play on Tuesday,
Blank was number one among all NBA players six ft

(01:16:35):
ten or taller. We made three pointers of this season.
That is the insta tribute. The answer and Mallard of
the third degree. We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
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(01:17:18):
live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller.
Mister nice guy, right, he says, Ben, people confuse low
scoring with good defense. That is accurate, mister nice guy.
We were reminded of that the people that had to
fill space on blogs and columns on the internet who
were waxing poetic about the great defense and it's bad offen,
there's bad offense. We're both sides. By the way, Tom

(01:17:39):
Brady the goat, he missed some opportunities. Also, that is
that is Matthew points out, how can you have a
professional radio caller like Angry Bill and he still leaves
his radio turned up in the background. It is fascinating. Well,
in his defense though, he's got the depends on so

(01:18:00):
it's a problem. You know, he's got he's got that.
Here's the instant trivia entering play on Tuesday. Blank ranked
first among all NBA players six foot ten or taller
in made three pointers this season. That is the question.
What is the answer? Eke is going with Spud Webb
as his answer. Randy Woods, a great former clipper from
Craig Oh, it's a great name. Greg Kite another great

(01:18:22):
former clipper in Celtic Tony, that's his guest. James is
going with Peppermint Patty and her lesbian girlfriend Marcy. I
didn't know that there were a couple. I had no idea.
Mazeltov Bob is going with Chris stops Porzingis minute Bo
from Wally Rashid Wallace, tossed up by just Josh h
else we will Purdue from a Riek in Minnesota, Christian

(01:18:44):
Layton from Robin, Minnesota, Joe l Mbid from Jonathan in Philadelphia,
who thinks the Sixers made a good trade. Miles Turner
from Todd Matt is going with Clipper legend, former Clipper legend,
boban Marjanovich, Eddie, do you have an answer? Yes, the
answer is zadrunas Ilgauskis. And it's also not Coco be Ware,

(01:19:06):
which was guessed by Rob. The correct answer the Great
former New Jersey and Brooklyn net Brook Lopez of the
Milwaukee Bucks ahead of Blake Griffin and Danill Logananari. Let's
get to anyway, it's Meller. How about that to the
third degree, this is one big band gets grilled kupa loop.

(01:19:31):
During Monday's introductory press conference for Brian Flores Dulphin's GM,
Chris Greer refused to confirm anything on Ryan Tannehill's future
with the team. Ben, Does Tannehill start again in the NFL? Yes. Now,
if you ask me, should Ryan Tannehill start, I will
go no. But the question was will he start? I'm
going yes. Here's why, a Ryan Tannehill. It sounds crazy,

(01:19:54):
but if you look at the quarterback needy teams, Tannehill
has a chance to slide on in and compete a
starting job right away see the Redskins, see Jacksonville, see
the Cincinnati Bengals, the Giants as a possibility. There's a
lot of moving parts this offseason with teams looking for quarterbacks.
But do I think he's good? No? I mean the
second part of this, it's been seven years he's since

(01:20:16):
he got drafted into the NFL Tannehill, and he's the
same inconsistent quarterback he was. Tannehill's a big tease. He
flirts with you, but he doesn't deliver the goods and so.
But somebody's gonna give a chance as a star. Hill
have an opportunity right next. But you don't think it'll
be the Dolphins. No, he's not gonna stay in Miami.
They'll bring some other schmo in Miami A right. Next,

(01:20:37):
there's some NFL analysts out there that think bringing c J.
Anderson back should be a priority for the Rams. Do
you agree? No, I do not agree with that, and
I'll tell you why I do love c J. Anderson.
I've always enjoyed the fat athlete, the fat running back.
I've been a big fan of that style, the butterball
turkey running back. But there's no way he's a priority.
You said the word priority. There's no way. He's a

(01:20:59):
twenty seven year old backup running back. That is a
replaceable position, all right, And the real point of emphasis
for the Rams is to trying to figure out what
the hell happened, sweet Baby Jesus to Todd Gurley. I mean,
what the hell was that? He either ran out of gas,
he's hiding some phantom illness or injury. Either way, he
couldn't finish the job. But no, Anderson's not a priority.

(01:21:21):
Art Next. No, the start of last year, Adrian Peterson
said that Emmett Smith's rushing record was quote very realistic. However,
on Monday he said he wants to play two or
three more years. Well, he's not gonna get to Emmett
Smith in two or three years. Where does he finish
on the all time list? Ben? All right, so he's
gonna be thirty four years old. I bet against thirty
four year old running backs all the time and I win.
He had a fluky year last year. You know that

(01:21:43):
Adrian Peterson had five games with oh he actually had
five games where he had eight actually fifty one yards
or less than eight games, rather three with over one
hundred yards. I got my math mood messed up on that.
He was inconsistent. I say he can finish in the
top four. That's it, real, quick, coop, how did we do? Ben?
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(01:22:53):
trade in the NBA, and we'll get to that in
a moment. We'll have some more reaction to just turn
on the radio right now. But first, if you think
we are completely done with the Super Bowl, you are wrong.
That's a bad job by you, all right, So think again.
A lot of far fetched stories out there. Tall tales

(01:23:14):
are being passed around from the Patriots winning their sixth
championship in the Belichick Brady era. A lot of wonderful
things of being said. Many of them are not true. Now,
the good people, the very good people at inside the NFL,
they released a few video clips early in the day yesterday,

(01:23:37):
players and coaches miked up from NFL film. Now, I'm
very upset because one in particular caught my attention and
I was like, well, I think I might talk about this.
I think I need to go into this because this
this got my attention, and it's not a positive thing,
and people react to negative things, and so this is
something I saw and I was like, well, wait a minute,

(01:23:57):
I need to I need to talk about this. And
then I went back to the inside the NFL social
media account which had posted it, and the audio no
longer worked, so I was gonna send it the coop,
and of course it's my fault because I didn't just
send it the coop right away. Do we have it
all right? Well, let me explain. It involves Sean McVeigh,

(01:24:18):
all right, And it's not available anymore on the social
media account. I don't know why, though they didn't delete it.
They just it doesn't play, which is very odd. So
if you didn't see this or here about it, you
probably did not for some odd reason. Again, the video
clip vanished. I think it was Russian bots. I think
it was Russian bots. I think the Muller investigation should

(01:24:38):
look into this. I believe that's part of it. I
think it's certainly as part of it. But anyway gets
to the point. So the content of the audio was
a wired up audio feature, which is what NFL Films does,
and it was a very brief meet and greet between
Sean McVay and Bill Belichick, boy Wonder versus the grizzled season,

(01:24:59):
Matt the mastermind of the Patriots. It was right before
the kickoff of Super Bowl fifty three, and it was
what Sean McVay said, that caught my attention. Let's oh good,
we have it. Oh look at that. Somebody there worked
during the day. Good job for them. All right, let's go,
let's play the audio tape. Here we go. Listen to
this conversation. This is McVay and Belichick just before the
Super Bowl, trying to look for you, like, you know, man,

(01:25:22):
your best great job. Yeah, so hey, you always do
it though, and doing it you know, you're the best. Man.
The way that you guys are able to shift your
identity and really still be able to figure it out,
I mean weekend and week out, it is it's unbelievable, man, Really,
so much respect for you and the way you do it. Man,
you're what's right about coaching? Thank you appreciate your coach.
Why do you get a hotel room? Why do you
get a hotel room? Sean McVeigh. I don't know if

(01:25:46):
you can make all that out. Maybe we'll play it again.
It was a very brief meet and greet. The clip
I'm sure it made was longer than that, but he's
McVay said. The way you guys are able to shift
your identity and really still be able to figure it
out week in and week It's unbelievable. Man, he's out
of believable. This is before the game. This is before

(01:26:06):
the game. Uh, he said, you're uh play the rest
of me, he said, it's unbelievable. He went on and on.
I kept complimenting Belichick. Listen, listen, trying to look for you, like,
you know, man, your best great job. Yeah, so hey,
you always do it though and doing it you know,

(01:26:27):
you're the best. Man. The way that you guys are
able to shift your identity and really still be able
to figure it out. I mean, weekend and week out.
It's unbelievable, man, Really, so much should respect for you
and the way you do it. Man, you're what's right
about coaching? Thank you appreciate your coach, all right? Respect Yeah,
you're what's right about coach? Oh my god. Oh why

(01:26:49):
couldn't I have seen this as it happened. I would
have run to Las Vegas and bet all of my
money on the Patriots, all of it. Now, here's my problem.
So that audio from NFL Films. Unfortunately we have it
here in the system because it's not available online anymore.
Inside of the NFL played it on their final episode

(01:27:11):
and the mainstream football media. Their reaction was they used
adjectives like classy, respectful, proper. Those are not any adjectives
that I will use. Those are not words that I
will use. So let's discuss now the questions, what do
you make of Sean McVay his pregame strategy of waxing

(01:27:34):
poetic to Bill Belichick, going on and on to Bill
Belichick before the Super Bowl. There's only one word that
applies for this, and it starts with a D. Disgusting.
That is the word disgusting. Now you might say it
doesn't matter. You're making a mountain out of a molehole,
a molehill or molehole. That's fine. Now some of my

(01:27:58):
other thoughts. You've got the fan boy, Jerome Brown and
the teenage girl, and let me begin. We'll link all
these things together, like when you go to the movies,
you gotta have popcorn. Popcorn and movies go together. They're
linked together at the movies. I cannot see a movie
without popcorn, and it's not good for my current diet situation,
so it becomes problematic. Anyway, All right, here we go. Ay,

(01:28:20):
we have we've given Sean McVay on our show a mulligan,
and I do stand by that. For the loss, I
believe Jared Goff simply sucked at a time he should
not have sucked. And that is the reason, the main
driving force that the Rams only scored three points in
the biggest game of their lives. So you've got that.

(01:28:42):
But this is where I draw the line in the
sand right here, all right, this is it, Sean McVeagh,
let me say something very clearly here. I know you're
probably with your Instagram booty model right now, but let
me explain something to you. Okay, you and Bill Belichick
at that particular moment were equals. He wasn't better than you.

(01:29:05):
You weren't better than him. You were two combatants that
were about to play in the Super Bowl. Where you
weren't playing, you were coaching. There's no need to sing
the praises before a fight. Is Bill Belichick the greatest
coach in NFL history? Yes? Should they change the Lombardi

(01:29:27):
Award to the Belichick Award? Absolutely. Everyone understands that he
deserves to be rhapsodized for his success, and the media
does much of that. But you save that if you're
Sean McVay and you feel that way. You save it
for after the game. You do not do it before
the super bow. That was a total fan boy move.

(01:29:54):
Nauseating again, what should he have done? My advice, congratulate
Belichick on a great season, wish him the best. I
wouldn't even talk to him if i'm mcvayh I want
nothing to do with him until after the game. Stop
walk the other way. You certainly don't smother him with
lavish praise before the game. What's up with that? Now?

(01:30:20):
Part be Sean McVay has to clearly control his overwhelming
bubbling enthusiasm. That's it is. You got a channel it
And I'm not against humility. I'm not at the right
time and place when appropriate. This was not appropriate. This
was not the time, this was not the place. It's

(01:30:43):
amazing the RAM still had an opportunity to win this game.
If that is the mindset of their head coach before
the game, utterly annoying admiration. And listen, Bill Belichick was honorable.
He showed respect to Sean McVay, and he said, you're
taking over, buddy, Which part of me when I when

(01:31:06):
I heard that, I kept playing it over and over again,
and I was like, I went back to hear it
again because I was like, maybe I heard it wrong.
There's no way this actually happened. This must be doctored audio.
There's no way that Sean McVay actually said that, and
then Belichick came back with that line. But I'm thinking, like,
right at that moment when Belichick came back with, hey,
you're taking over, buddy. In Belichick's head, he's like, we

(01:31:30):
got these guys, We got him. This guy's so busy
about licking my toes that he is. He's more concerned
about finding me on the field to tell me how
great I am than worrying about what to do with
his football team. Oh my god, I mean, this is
my life. This is my life following sports. This is

(01:31:51):
what I get. Your teams don't do this. Does any
other coach do this? I don't ever recall this happening
before Super Bowl. Maybe it has happened. I don't ever
recall this happening last year when the Philadelphia Eagles upset
the New England Patriots. Did Doug Peterson go over and say,
I'd like to have your firstborn child, even though Belichick's
already got kids, I'd like to have your next kids.

(01:32:12):
It's ridiculous and what are we doing here? Seriously? McVeigh
has been a head coach two seasons now, this is
not his first trip around the NFL yet, was his
first Super Bowl. But what are you doing? And I
don't know. He's a story of the NFL. I've read
that he loves the history of the NFL as your

(01:32:34):
families an NFL family, and he's got NFL blood and
all that. But I would like to recommend Sean McVay
study the teachings of the late great Jerome Brown. Now
many people have forgotten about the life of Jerome Brown,
but I'm apparently old enough to remember one of the
great pieces of audio of all time. Jerome Brown was
from old school NFL. We're going back forty years for

(01:32:56):
the Philadelphia Eagles. He was one of the tremendous, his
gifted trash talkers in NFL history. Jerome Brown defensive tackle
and when he was in college at the University of Miami,
he put on combat fatigues before bowl game. He then
led the University of Miami the entire team out of

(01:33:19):
a banquet at the Fiesta Bowl. He gave a very
short speech while wearing military fatigues the late great Jerome Brown.
At a pregame event where the Penn State and Miami
football players eight together, Jerome Brown said, did the Japanese
sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they

(01:33:41):
bombed him or her or whatever? And it was one
of the great throwaway lines of all time. And then
they all walked out, and he also had a great
line that got replayed a bunch. He said, we didn't
come here to act monkeys for everybody, and he walked
away and that was it. Fast forward to twenty nineteen
and the Super Bowl coaches are giving spongebass to each other. Well, really,

(01:34:03):
McVeigh to Belichick, what are you doing now? Finally, was
Sean McVay trying to kill Bill Belichick with kindness? Was
that his strategy here? I don't buy that this is
the cliche. It's like we see in hollywhen you know
the teenage girl who's got a crush on some rock star.
That was Sean McVay with Belichick. He felt like he

(01:34:28):
was nervous, gushing compliments. Play it again, Play it again,
Play it again. Roberto, trying to look for you, like,
you know, man, so much respect for your best, great job. Yeah,
so hey, you always do it though, and doing it
you know, you're the best. Man. The way that you
guys are able to shift your identity and really still
be able to figure it out. I mean, weekend and
week out. Its unbelievable. Man, Really, so much respect for

(01:34:50):
you and the way you do it. Man, You're what's
right about coaching? Thank you? Appreciate your coach. Yeah, and
you notice Belichick was he was blindsided bu Belichick. If
you listen to him, most of that was Belichick. He'd
give you, oh yeah, yep, yep, yep, thanks, appreciate it.
He was like, you didn't know what to do. Belichick's like,
wait a minute, he keeps yep, yep, yep, appreciate it, Yep,
thank you. He was like, what Evenue and Orn McVay

(01:35:13):
and Belichick text buddies, which is another thing you know
you can can he just have sent a text? Hey, Belichick, man,
I really think you're great. The way you adjust, man,
you're wonderful. Why do you have to say it to
his face? It's up with that. Hey, I'm disgusted, absolutely
disgusted with that. And the Rams are gonna get back
to a Super Bowl. Or two with Sean McVay his coach.

(01:35:34):
He's gonna be coaching for fifty years. He's only in
his thirties. But come on, how about next time you
get to the Super Bowl, you don't walk over and
want to make love to the other head coach because
he's so good? How about that? Okay, so Mallers show
on Fox. I feel better. I don't know if you
cared about that, but I feel better. We say hello
to Edmund Dallas steamboat really judas solid gold regard. See.

(01:36:00):
I should should point out that Jerome Brown and his
Miami Hurricanes lost that game against Penn State after he
pulled that stunt with the fatigues and walked out of
the air. Doesn't matter. That was the proper thing to do,
and I may he rest in pace. He died in
a I believe motor acction, a car accident. I think
somebody did you not say yesterday that Vince Lombardi's name

(01:36:20):
should be removed from the Super Bowl Trophy and Bill
Belichick's name should be placed on the Super Bowl Trophy.
I didn't say it before the Super Bowl when I
was an equal the belotchick and I was coaching against him.
That's different, Eddie. I'm a gash bag. I'm a blowhard
on the radio. I could say that kind of stuff,
but if I was, it would be like me saying, boy,

(01:36:40):
Colin Cowhart's a first ballot Hall of Famer. He's amazing
at radio. He's got all these podcasts, downloads. Everyone loves
Cowherd in the industry. He's great equals. I'm a big
overnight guy. He's my overnight guy. You think Sean mcvay's
play calling was influenced by his reverence for Bill Belichick.
I believe so. He the first half of you. But

(01:37:01):
you just said earlier in the show that it wasn't
mcvagh's fault that he called a good game, but it
was Jared Goffin. I believe now looking back at it.
In the first half, there were a couple of times
there he got traught, he got caught, and he looking
across the field and he was smitten with Belichick. The
good handsome old man looks at Belichick. Yeah, okay, we
gotta forget about that. We got a big trade in

(01:37:22):
the NBA, big blockbuster trade, big couple of a couple
of very popular franchises, the Clippers, and sex. One guy
have probably heard of. Maybe Landry shamm It is now
a Clipper now that guy, sorry, Philadelphia, Landry shamm It
is a Clipper. You can sham it all day, and

(01:37:42):
you can sham it all n Well, No, this is big,
and I want you to know I did a mala monologue,
a emergency mala monologue, unplanned mala monologue. That's true that
there was not part of this. I didn't know this
trade was gonna happen, and we did it about the trade,
and I gave the Clippers in a right Right now

(01:38:03):
on social media, Jerry West is trending and you know
it's also trending the word mastermind. Everyone's like, oh, I
can't believe they did it. This is unbelievable. I mean,
what the Clippers have done here is stunning. And the
great Jerry West. There's a fan event on Friday, Eddie.
I might have to go to this. Jerry West and
Lawrence Frank a meet and Greek and Lawrence Frank Friday Friday,

(01:38:29):
Eddie at the Belasco Theater. I don't know he ever
been to the Blasco Theater. Not only have I never
been there, I've never heard of it I've seen I'm
looking at. It's in La, it's on the hills, it's
in downtown. It looks like Blaska. There's one in New
York too, but it's uh doesn't look like much of
a place on the outside anyways. Right for the Clippers,

(01:38:51):
I mean, Eddie, I mean you know that's that's rude, Eddie,
but accurate. You're not a basketball gay, Eddie. Doesn't don't
have to be to know where the Clippers standing in
world cliches. Oh take Joe, let's make jokes truth again.
The Clippers are the envy of the NBA. Jerry West
right now at age eighty. At eight, at age eighty,

(01:39:14):
Jerry West has just run circles around Lebron. James, the
two gms in La Lebron and Jerry West. Unbelievable, un
bleeping believable. Eddie. You can go away. Give Jerry West
a sponge bath when you see him on Friday at
that place. I've never heard of him, The Velasco Theater, Eddie,

(01:39:37):
yea good rate. Doors open at six Eddy, Reception at
six thirty. The event begins at seven thirty. Question and
answer with Jerry West and Lawrence Frank Right there there
it is February eighth, Eddy who it's a big event,
a huge yep. Absolutely, Man, all right, this McVay audio

(01:40:00):
upset me, Eddie. I gotta tell you, I'm not quite
over that. I'm annoyed by that. It's wonder. It means
a lot to me, means a lot. It's inappropriate. I'd
find him. If I owned the Rams, I would find
Sean McVeigh for that. What are you doing? Would you also,
as the owner of the Rams? Were your sunglasses indoors
at the stadium? Yeah? If I, if I was the

(01:40:21):
biggest non government landowner in the United States, I would
wear sunglasses wherever the f I wanted. You know, he
owns more land than any other person, not a not
a obviously the federal government has the most land richest. Well.
I didn't say he was a good guy stan cronky,
because I don't. I've heard some very bad things. But

(01:40:42):
he was a rich guy and then married into the Walmart.
So that's that, you know, that's not one percent, that's
half a percent. That is insanity when you're you take
a very wealthy man and you put the Walmart money
on top of that. Yeah, but he got that that
they're still married, right, Ann Walton as far as I know, Yeah, yeah,

(01:41:03):
good for them, very happy. Come all right, Ben Maller
Show will press on here and we'll take your phone calls.
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out the number. We'll press on. How about some pork

(01:41:23):
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(01:41:44):
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(01:42:05):
Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller Piers. I might have violated
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getting complaints from the Mallard militia. Some of the p
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(01:42:28):
bad here. I gotta read to some of these. Let
see here. Jay Scoop, winner of the talent show, the
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Talents His next time, for those of us that are eating,
will you please give a warning before playing such a
disgusting toe licking sound bite like that of McVeigh and Belichick,

(01:42:48):
Zach Eric and ohios? Is Bill Belichick knew he had
the Super Bowl in the bag after these small meat
and greet before the game with rams coach kissing toes.
That's just a taste, Daddy Paul d says, the word
you're looking for, Ben is pussy willow. That's the word
you're looking so the phones. We go right now, Eddie, yes,

(01:43:09):
it's word. We weren't going to find this guy, one
of my favorite callers, and then he vanished. He is back.
We go down to Brooklyn. You know who that is, Eddie. No, Marcel,
Marcel y No, not that game, Brooklyn, Marcel in Brooklyn.
Hello Marcel, Hey, top of the morning. Happy hump day

(01:43:31):
to you and yours Scooby dooby doo. Where have you been? Marcel?
Where have you be? Scooby dooby doo? I really miss
you at this smallment. I know, well, where have you been?
We've we've been here and you haven't called this. That's
a bad job by you, Marcel. I know, I know.
I have a lot of things to do. I gotta

(01:43:52):
I got my I got the shower going on, I
got cleaned up, all the kissien they have before, my
uncle Donamite and Esse gonna calm on Friday and all
that etc. What kind of show do you mean you
have to take a shower? What are you referencing there?
I'm not sure what you mean by taking a shower?
You know, you know, I don't know. I'm asking mister Moller.

(01:44:14):
I taken a private shower before I think of my
private shower. Oh are you taking a private shower? Really? Yeah?
Exactly before no one before, no one else. Yeah, see me.
Oh wow, Okay, I don't know if we should go
any further on that. All right, Well, what's on your mind? Marcel?
I'm glad you're there. Don't forget about us. Don't be

(01:44:34):
a stranger, Marcel, I know, I know. Hey, before before
the Super Bowl fifty three takes place for the Patriots
of the Rams. Yes, Chloe and Hale and Gladys Knight
sing respectfully for our nation and our country, America. The
beautiful they due is so phenomenal. I watch it on

(01:44:56):
YouTube and then the legendary Gladys Night before the wonderful
rendition of the stars Bengal banner and the flyover over
at the Mercedes Fan Stadium in Laptop. Yeah, is that
phenomenal or what? Eh? Yeah, I watched the game. I did.

(01:45:16):
I didn't really watch this stuff. You know wat I
watched that? I watched that didn't Did you watch the
actual Super Bowl live? Marcel? It sounds like you did
not watch the Super Bowl? Is that accurate? Yeah? Yeah,
you did not? Wow, No, you did. Don't lie to me.
You did not watch it. I can tell hey, I
know you used you did not. What were you? What

(01:45:38):
were you doing on Super Bowl Sunday, Marcel in Brooklyn?
What were you up to? Well? I go, I go
to tweet some updates from my Twitter followers. Oh yeah,
what's your Twitter account? I want to follow you on Twitter?
What's your Twitter account at Marcel Mara seventy? Let me
spell that for you at M A R C E
L M Y R I C K and the number seventy.

(01:46:01):
All right, now, just just send send me a tweet.
I didn't write that down. Send me a tweet, Okay,
Oh that well? No, ill, then I'll look at your stuff. Okay, yeah,
at once again, mister, give me again, let me let
me spell that for you one more time, just to

(01:46:22):
be sure, Eddie, Am I gonna write it down this time? Either?
But go ahead? Sure, yeah, let me spell that for
you before you heading straight to another phone call or
the Fox Sports update. Trending Now, Marcel, Now, if you
I will give you an opportunity to make your radio debut, Marcella.
But go ahead one more time, Marl, because I think
everyone should follow you should have more followers than me.
Marcel I know m A R C E L Okay,

(01:46:48):
I got that M Y R I C K and
the number seven zero seven And why the number seventy
is that the year you were born? Is that your
number when you played sports? What are we looking at?
I'm you know sinceling, mister Maller. Yeah, I tweet with
some breaking news. Oh you Marcelle's got breaking news. I

(01:47:09):
like that. You got hot takes and breaking news, breaking
news here at home and around the world when news
or sports and even pop culture that really breaks. All
right now, MARCELLA, hold on, say stop talking. You're boring me.
Here's what I wants you to do, marcell Okay, we
have it says here on my big boffo rundown that
we have too much or not enough coming up, that

(01:47:30):
we have too much enough. So what I want you
to do is say, hey, if you'd like to play
too much and not enough, call right now and let's
get caught up on everything going on in sports and
find out what's trending. Here's Eddie. Can you say all that?
Can you remember all that? Marcel? I will do that
right now here we go. This is Marcel from Brooklyn.

(01:47:51):
I won't play too I want what is it too?
It's too much, all right, Marcel, I mean this is
I mean you're on network radio, Marcella. I mean that's
a bad job by you. We're going to play too
much or not enough? Write that down? All right? Oh,
all right, too much, you're not enough, Marcel. And then

(01:48:13):
so you say you promote that you do a billboard.
We call it a billboard. Your billboard that's coming up.
You solicit a phone call. We need a contestant. And
then you quickly transition and let's find out what's going on.
Here's Eddie. All right, okay, here we go. Hey America,
it's Marcel from I'm going to play too much and
not enough coming up right after trending now with Eddie. Yeah,

(01:48:37):
sports race, all right there, Regarless, it's not perfect. That's
a that's a winner, right there, Eddie. Good, Yes, that's
not fair. That's awesome. All right, let's lett it's great.
Let's start off with news from the NBA. We did
have a trade late in the night on Tuesday, with

(01:48:58):
the LA Clippers agreeing to say Tobias Harris, Bovan Marjanovich,
and Mike Scott to the Philadelphia seventy six for Landry
Chemet Wilson, Chandler, Mike Muscala, two first round picks and
two second round picks on the court, with the Raptors
beating the seventy six Ers one nineteen to one oh seven.
Kawhi Leonard twenty four points and Kyle Larry and Sergibaka

(01:49:19):
each had twenty points in that win for the Raptors.
Celtics over the Cavaliers one o three to ninety six.
The Thunder top the Magic one thirty two, one twenty two.
Paul George thirty nine points, Russell Westbrook another triple double,
seventh straight for him, sixteen points, fifteen rebounds, sixteen assists.
Pacers pound the Lakers one thirty six to ninety four,
forty two point win for Indiana. That is the worst
ever defeat for a Lebron James team. In the NFL News,

(01:49:42):
Philadelphia Eagles notified quarterback Nick Foles that they would be
picking up his contract option for next season. Foles then
informed the team he was avoiding his twenty million option
for twenty nineteen. The Eagles are now expected to place
the franchise tag on Foles in an effort to trade him.
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did you see that Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown may
or may not have gotten in some hot water. There
was a report that came out that he was involved
in a domestic dispute last month and that Hollywood, Florida
police were called out to the scene. No, he was
not arrested, and they are still trying to gather more information,

(01:50:25):
they say. But his lawyer, Antonio Brown's lawyer did come
out and speak and he said the allegations are baseless
and false. It's unfortunate that the media is trying to
use distractions like this and prior stories and have to
to tarnish my client's name and reputation. Will have no
further comment, you evil media guys. I think the only
thing tarnishing Antonio Brown's record is a mustache. That's the

(01:50:48):
only problem. That's he's getting some bad fashion advice. That
blonde mustache thing. That's a bad look, terrible, absolutely job
by him. I think, yeah, all rights edite, good, all right,
thank you. Edit is Ben Mallers show as we press
on Marcel in Brooklyn approved. Unfortunately, Marcel, no one called
to play the game. You didn't give out the number.

(01:51:08):
Bad job by you. Eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three six nine.
We're gonna play here in a minute. Too much or
not enough? And then we've got Roberto's wall of drops.
But I was thinking, like we're doing the wall of
drop I got, I got the weather. If you want
the weather, let's do the weather, all right, Yeah, yeah,

(01:51:30):
we'll do the way I think we can rotate. I
was thinking the vision I had here one week. We
could do the weather with Roberto. Then we could do
cooking with Roberto. You could give a recipe, we could
we could do some other like what other things you know, Roberto,
what what other things should you give advice? Though? Uh yeah,
like you said, cooking, um, romance with Roberto, we could

(01:51:50):
bring that back. Romance with Roberto. We could do that,
can do that too. That could be a winner, right,
we could do something with that. I mean, there's a lot,
there's a lot there home improvement with Roberto. Cleaning with Roberto,
we could do that, we could do like buying a
car with the list. Was that racist home improvement? Then cleaning?

(01:52:13):
It's more about you than cutting the grass with Roberto.
I don't know what you're talking about. Wow, typical liberal.
Look at that guy over there. Wow, unbelievable. All right,
let's get us. Let's get that. Is it too much

(01:52:34):
or not enough enough? Already investing with Roberto, we'll do
what are we traveling with Roberto? We'll look at El
Choppo with Roberto? That one that'll be good, very good.
Too much, you're not enough for Sallo To Jerry in Montana,
who answered the call of Marcel. Hello Jerry, how you

(01:52:58):
doing guys? Well? Coom Jerry? And where are you add
in Montana? No, I'm in Fontana, California. Oh well, Fontana
and Montana. Very similar, very very similar. Some say fawn Tucky.
It's been called fawn Tucky Fontana. I'm sure you've heard that.
What do you do, Jerry? What kind of work do
you do? I work in the aerospace in oh you

(01:53:19):
do all very cool? All right, Well, I'm glad you
called our show. You have a chance to win a
golden ticket, and all you have to do is answer
three questions, right, and good luck to you, Jerry here
in Fontana in southern California. Question number one, the Lakers
have lost fifteen games by forty or more points in
their franchise history. Is that too much or not enough?

(01:53:42):
It's been around a while, too much or not enough? Yeah,
they sure have been around a while, so I'm gonna
say not enough, not enough? He says, all right, is
that correct? No, believe it or not, that's too much.
They've They've lost eleven games by forty or more, seven
of them. And what I like to think that really
the golden ears of Laker basketball since twenty fourteen when
they really settled in to being a dumpster fire. But

(01:54:05):
you did not get that one right, So you're all
for one. Question number two, The seventeen years span between
first and last championship for Brady and Belichick is the
longest of all time. Of course, that's assuming that's the
last championship. Tim Duncan and Greg Popovitch are second with
a twelve year gap. Is that too much or not enough?

(01:54:27):
The Spurs gap first gap is I'm gonna have to
say not enough he says not enough. Is he right?
That is corrupt her? You're on the board. You will
not be shut out. Not enough. Duncan and Popovich had
fifteen years between first and last championship. All right? Question
number three? Tom Brady and Julian Edelman have now connected

(01:54:52):
on thirty one receptions in Super Bowls? Is that too
much or not enough? I'm gonna have to say too much?
All right? Too much? They're in the Super Bowl every year?
Is that too much? That's correct? Again? Good job by you, Jerry,

(01:55:15):
You got that one right. Too much. They have twenty
four connections Edelman and Brady, and half of those came
seemed like in this Super Bowl? Is here? All right?
Question number four? You get this right? You win the game?
Jerry Aerospace, Jerry in Fontana. Question for the Philadelphia seventy
sixers who made a terrible trade, just gave away the

(01:55:36):
farm for the Clippers. Boy, what a bad trade that was.
The seventy Sixers have three players averaging seventeen points or
more this season? Is that too much or not enough?
For the Sixers? Seventeen points? I'm gonna have to say,
but I'm gonna say too much? Say too much? Is
this correct for the win. No, oh, believe it or not.

(01:56:01):
They just got Tobias Harris, so that's now five. That's five.
They already they had four anyway, but that's their fifth
guy to average that many points. Tobias was averaging twenty
as he was trying to stat stuff and get a
new contract with the Clippers. All right, question question number
five last month, Yannis Adenta Kombo. Do you like howays

(01:56:21):
say that? Jerry sure, yeah, yeah, it sounds good. I didn't.
I didn't know how to say it the first three
years of his career, but now I know how to
say it. Yannis Adenta Kombo. He had a forty point
fifteen rebound game last month, joining Kareem as the only
Milwaukee Bucks to do that. Kareem did it twenty four times.
Is that too much or not enough for the former

(01:56:43):
lu all sinder, I've been Milwaukee for a while. I'm
gonna say not enough. This is for the win, not enough.
You get this right, you win a Golden ticket. It's
all on the line and that's a winner. Can congratulations? Jerry.
Kareem had thirty three in Milwaukee back in his salad

(01:57:04):
days with the Bucks, and Jerry you are where you
get a golden ticket. You can use that if you want.
You have thirty days to use it in the next
calendar month. Or you can pass it on to one
of your favorite callers like Marcel and Brooklyn or somebody else.
If he wants to pass it on. It has to
be right now though. Oh really, Oh you can't wait?
All right? You want to pass on? Too complicated with
people messaging me on Twitter? Passing on? All right? You

(01:57:28):
know what, I'll pass it on to weed Man. Oh oh,
dare you? You are a troublemaker, is what you are? Yeah? Hey,
I'm on a long drive. I drive from Chatsworth. I
listen to you all night. Oh man, you drive right
by everything. Man, wave with us. When you drive on

(01:57:48):
your way to Chatsworth, you'll drive right by your studios.
So all right, thank you man, be good, All right
there you go. Be safe out there, Jerry. So it's
a worse a commute than me, of course, but I
live in Vegas, so I actually have the worst community.
Absolutely man, weed Man got a golden ticket the Magic
Radio Bucks Love You by popular demand an encore performance

(01:58:11):
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(01:58:55):
checked out Marcel in Brooklyn his Twitter feed Eddie. Yes,
very interesting, says follow me for all the latest breaking
news from around the world. Wow, that's a lot of
news there you go. It seems like a nice guy.
He has a lot of stock market Wall Street stuff.
Did you know that the Dow jumped one hundred and

(01:59:17):
seventy two points according to Marcel's reporting there? I did
not know that. I didn't either until I read Marcell's
Twitter page and he also was Trent. He was commenting
on the President Donald Trump, the State of the Union.
There many many French fries, very very interest. Yeah. He
and Nancy Pelosi went out. They had a big mac together.
It was wonderful. They're all good. What was Pelosi reading?

(01:59:40):
You know she was? You didn't watch Did you watch
the State of the Union? I watched it. No, nobody
watched it. Really, you guys aren't into it at all.
You don't care about I watched zero interest. I checked
it out and Pelosi kept she was reading something. I
was trying to figure out what she was. Maybe he
loved letters from Trump? Yeah, probably not, probably not. Oh anyway,

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all right, this portion show brought to you by Discovered car.
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(02:00:23):
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(02:00:43):
of your favorite teams, colors and logos. For the record
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by the elite thus lovely ladies in TJ, where a
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know what? They're very open mind. Yeah yeah, my right
hand was getting work out out anymore. I'll just go
to Tan I used to work in city. It goes

(02:01:05):
just a short drive away. Ah. Yes, it's still cooled
out there, Bend. Not as cool as it was last
week when we had to miss Midwest Pole. But it's
still cold. What was it last week? What was it?
It was we had that polar vortex? Remember, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but it's still cold. How cold is it? It's Uh,
we have a My Mexican dopler says, we have a
trough of low pressure sweeping the west and Midwest. Whatever

(02:01:27):
trough means, whatever that means, be sure to wear your
ponts when going outside. Yeah, winter winter storm, Lucien, I
think it's Mexican. Yeah, all across the country, the Midwest. Yeah,
anymore that Arctic care is there, Arctic are is still
out there. Yeah, we got some uh, we got snow
everywhere in the in the Midwest. This country is not

(02:01:49):
as white as it used to be, but it will
be this week with lots of snow everywhere. Ben really
yeah alright, well yeah, some people are happy about that,
all right. Yeah. Beaver Dam is currently twenty five degrees
with no beaver damn. Oh yeah, we're big fans here.
We love the guy in da Wincinnati a very California,
like forty eight degrees with rain. Yeah, I know in
Boston it was very warm. It was almost as warm
in Bosses. It was in La des Moines, a cool

(02:02:13):
twenty one degrees. Your favorite city are your ponchos? Yeah,
very important. Cargo a very cold two degrees two degrees
in fourteen fifteen degrees below zero right now, ye, Minneapolis,
fifteen degrees. There's also an ice storm warning for a
portion of the Middlewest, including Chicago, ban Chicago, Chicago, Chicago.

(02:02:33):
So now we got an ice checks there. Now we
got an ice storm to go along with other those
ice agents sweeping the country. Oh no, where your poncho?
Where your poncho at your own discretion. Okay, Cancou, Mexico. Yeah,
high of eighty two degrees to eight, Miami seventy six
and Sherman Oaks and freezing fifty six degrees there it
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(02:03:38):
the podcast. I ranked in and raved about Sean McVay
and Bill Belichick and Sean McVay flirting with Belichick before
the game. It was very awkward, very annoying. But now
we can get to the business of the offseason, and
at the very front of the line, we go to Philadelphia,
specifically Nick Foles, America's favorite backup quarterback. And if you've

(02:04:01):
not been following the drama because you're paying attention to
other stuff, you might have missed this the business of football.
Shortly after, a story came out that said the Eagles
had let Nick Foles know they were exercising a twenty
million dollar option in his contract. Foles then said, you
know what, I don't need your money. I don't want

(02:04:21):
your money. In fact, I'll pay you to not pay me,
thus avoiding the option. So it's very straightforward here. Foles
will pay two million dollars and he will be set free,
although even that could be short lived because now the
scuttle butt around the NFL's the team in Philadelphia will

(02:04:43):
put a franchise tag on Foles, hoping that someone will
trade for him. The franchise tag is risky business because
it's in the neighborhood of twenty five million dollars. Gear
Untied Muto, the narrow for Nick Foles in the twenty
nineteen NFL season. Now, why would they do that? Why

(02:05:05):
would they do I'll tell you what, because Philadelphia does
not want Nick Foles to run off to an NFC
East blood rival, the Redskins or the New York Football Giants.
So they want to keep Nick Foles as far away
from a division rival as possible. All right, so let's
discuss the question. Indeed, Nick Foles make a mistake by

(02:05:27):
agreeing to void the guaranteed twenty million dollar contract, thus
setting this line of dominoes tipping over it. I believe
he did. I believe he did. Here you've got the fumble,
the happy Place, and dicey, and we will link all
these together like hamburger with cheese at, cheeseburger and fries.

(02:05:50):
Now number one, My theory has been that Nick Foles
should not cowtow to the Eagles. That's exactly what he's
done here. This is a recipe for disaster. After careful investigation,
Nick Foles, what he should have done, if he'd listened
to the Mallard advice, was throw a monkey wrench into

(02:06:10):
the best laid plans of Mice and Eagles. The unexpected curveball,
if you will, now what is the curveball? The curveball
would have been if Nick Foles had just accepted the
twenty point six million dollars he fumbled it, he should
have taken the guarantee of twenty point six million in
an attempt to stay in Philly. That would have been

(02:06:33):
the top career option for nick Foles. It's hard to
imagine that a team is going to be dumb enough
to give Foles twenty million dollars per season. There are
a lot of idiots that run NFL teams, so I'm
not saying it's completely impossible, but one fluke playoff run
does not suddenly mean that Wailah nick Foles is a transcendent,

(02:06:55):
franchise changing quarterback. Certainly, He's true. He had an out
of body EXPERI he had a very Joe Flacco like
run for the Eagles in twenty seventeen. He then came
crashing back to earth this season. A lot of wonderful
things said about nick Foles in the playoffs, the win
in Chicago, the sixty yard drive in the final seconds,
and then, as luck would have it, the Chicago Bears

(02:07:18):
field goal double doink didn't go through and so the
Eagles then went on to New Orleans. We know what happened.
But Nick Foles had more interceptions than touchdowns in the
postseason this year. He averaged six point five yards per attempt,
which is below average. His passer rating in the playoffs
this year was seventy. That's not the way the legend

(02:07:38):
is being written, right, When the legend becomes the fact,
or when the fact, you know, when the legend becomes
the fact, you go with the legend. The legend is
that Nick Foles is this amazing, wonderful all world quarterback.
He wasn't in the playoffs this year, all right, he wasn't.
And even in the past two regular seasons, nick Foles,
while the Eagles won six of his eight regular season
starts and he did have more touchdowns with interceptions, he

(02:08:02):
averaged less than seven yards per attempt, and his passer
rating was ninety. To put that in perspective, who is
a contemporary in that category? Who's a comp? And in
real estate you look for a comp. What's a comp
of a quarterback with a ninety point three rating? You
know what that is? Ryan Tannehill and Derek Carr of

(02:08:24):
the Rights, both of those guys are on the hot seat. Now.
It looks like Tannehill's done finito with Miami, And I
wouldn't put it past the Raiders to say goodbye to
Derek Carr and trade him to Jacksonville or Cincinnati or
somewhere else. And John Gruden can go draft some hot
shot five nine mighty mouse quarterback and put him out

(02:08:47):
him out there. Now the second point, most of the time,
most of the time you would say, hey, I want
to play. I want to play. If you're Nick Foles,
you want to start. This is the exception to the rule. Right,
it is right, this is exception. It is very important
in life to know your role and stay in your lane.

(02:09:11):
Right as the great LaVar Ball taught me that what
is Nick Foles. Nick Foles is a high end backup.
He is a below average starting quarterback. He is a
high end backup. That is who Nick Foles is and
I don't see that change. And Philadelphia is his happy place.

(02:09:31):
That's his pigskinned version of utopia, an oasis if you will,
right there in the Delaware Valley where they smoochya all
over him. They love him, and the only success he's
had in Philadelphia. When he left and went out in
the boondocks of the NFL was a hot mess. All
those flaws were on display. They weren't covered up by
the nice deodorant, the body spray of wins and good

(02:09:54):
players around you. He went to the Saint Louis Rams,
he went to Kansas City and sucked. I am confident
that that'll happen again, that this is gonna be a case.
Someone's gonna get Nick Foles. He'll go somewhere else, and
it's gonna be buyers remorse. He's not gonna be a
top ten quarterback. He'll be closer to twenty to twenty

(02:10:16):
five in many statistical categories. And people will say, wait
a minute, what happened? What happened to that Shakespearean drama
of Nick Foles in the plays? What? It doesn't matter
if you don't get to the playoffs. Now, last thing here,
Now that Nick Foles has agreed to buy back, what
are we going back to the eighteen hundred? You can

(02:10:37):
buy your freedom. What are we doing here anyway? For
two million dollars? He is going to be saddled, as
I said, with the franchise tact. Now, this is a
blessing and a curse at the same time. It's a
good problem to have. You're gonna get a twenty five
million dollars guaranteed salary, but he didn't want that. He
wants more than that, right, and the Eagles certainly are
not going to pay a backup quarterback with twenty five million.

(02:11:00):
But as I said, this is an effort to keep
Nick Foles away from the Giants and the Redskins. And
so that means that Nick Foles is headed to some
sorrowful place like the Miami Dolphins or Jacksonville or Cincinnati
out in the boondocks. And if you think this is
going to be another storybook finish for Nick Foles, good luck.

(02:11:23):
And now it gets dicey. Right now, it gets nicy.
So what's next, right, Nick Foles and his reps, the
people around him in his posse, that's right, lebron I said, posse,
they're better off trying to convince the Eagles to work
out some kind of agreement as an insurance policy. Although
it seems like that horse has left the barn at

(02:11:44):
this point, Carson wentz, what has he done? He has
mastered the art of getting hurt. The man was built
like an ox coming out of college, and he appears
to be made out of glass. He's the glass man.
And by the way, you know, to prove that Nick
Foles is not considered a lynchpin, you know what his

(02:12:06):
expected return for Philadelphia is on a trade, a third
round pick and a conditional pick. That's what the Eagles
are supposed to get. That's not much. That's not much
at all. The Raiders got a first round pick for
a receiver that fumbles all the time. And you're telling
me Nick Foles transcendent talent. According to some dopes that

(02:12:29):
this guy is not even worth the first round pick. Well,
that's what I'm telling that's what they say. We'll see
if that happens. It is the Ben Mallers Show on Fox.
I will do a Mallar monologue. I was gonna do
it an hour five, but I guess I'll wait till tomorrow.
There's a developing story in Major League Baseball's a lot
of stuff that's happened here late at night in the overnight,

(02:12:50):
and we like that because usually it doesn't happen. We're
usually victims of whatever happened during the day, kind of
regurgitating with our spin. You know, we get to go
into the ads box when everyone else has already hit.
We're batting night, but in this case, we're batting first.
Two big transactions, but one transaction the Clippers. Jerry West

(02:13:11):
is now doing a victory lap, slapping high fives and
everyone in the NBA's shocked. Old man West, eighty year
old Jerry West has done it again. The Clippers have
agreed to trade Tobias Harris, bo Bond, Marjanovich, and Mike
Scott to the Sixers for Landry Shammitt, Wilson chant I

(02:13:33):
tried as a laugher for Philadelphia. What are they doing?
Wilson Chandler, Mike Muscala, a first round pick in twenty
twenty and a twenty twenty one unprotected pick in the
first round, could be the number one pick overall from Miami,
and also a couple of second round picks thrown in
universally celebrated as a win for the Clippers. What are

(02:13:56):
they doing in Philadelphia? What are they doing? And if
you think Tobias Harris is gonna go into Philadelphia in
a contract year where he's trying to fatten up his
stats and assimilate in Philadelphia, and not cause any problems
as the fourth option. The fourth option, your delusion is

(02:14:17):
what you are. So we have that story, and then
we'll bring in Edmund Dallas Steamboat, Willie Judas solid gold
yar Sea. There's another story Eddie out tonight. I'm gonna
I'm gonna look at this and I'm gonna study up
a little more on it because I just read it over.
It's behind a paywall. Ken Rosenthal, hidden behind a paywall,
he is reporting that Major League Baseball has proposed a

(02:14:42):
three batter minimum. Yeah, and also a DH in both leagues.
There's a lot of stuff here to look over, but
that's the report from Rosenthal. There's a negotiation going on
between MLB and the players union, and the way it's
being reported here is this could actually start this year,
which seems like that's I can't imagine that a week

(02:15:04):
before spring trading. Hey guys, we're gonna have the designated
hitter in the nationally Now. I would not be against
that because the Dodgers have a lot of DH types.
Max Munsey could be Max Munsey could be a d
H right now. You can slide him in as a DH.
Although if that was the case, they should they should
have not traded Matt Kemp, who could have also been
a DH. They traded him, but they don't want to

(02:15:24):
pay him. But yeah, I mean, there's a lot of
stuff they're gonna they're talking, they're talking about lowering. I
like this from the players Union says that they should
lower team's draft position if they failed to win a
certain number of games across multiple seasons, which is like
we talk about, Eddie. They have in European soccer. Yeah, relegation.
It's the American version of relegation. Like you keep losing,

(02:15:46):
you're not gonna keep getting the number one and two
or three pick. We're gonna make you pick at the
end of the first round. I liked it. I think
that's good. So who would be the manager that would
hate this? The most council that Boso I was already,
I was there. I was there too. Started and then
bring another you sorry, I just gave him the bird Eddie.

(02:16:13):
Roberto said, I didn't mean to give you the bird
out that Roberto. Remember remember when remember when Joe buck
was he was blindside Wait a minute, one better and
Miley walked the guy, if I remember correctly. And then
they went to the bully and Brandon brought in that
that Brandon woodrufe guy in Game five of the NLDS.

(02:16:35):
They had to call this. If they do this, it's
the Craig Council rule. And I had been against this. Uh,
they got to do something. I might I I the
way I look at this, and we'll talk more about it.
I'll look deeper in it and and see what else
will come out. I'm imagine there'll be some other stuff
they'll come out today in this as it's a negotiation.
But there is way too much overmanaging coing on in baseball,

(02:16:57):
way too much, and it's it's ye problematic. And I
if this is what adults have to do. If Baseball
has to step in because the managers and the people
that run baseball teams can't control themselves and it's hurting
the sport, then that's what Major League Baseball has to do.
I wish they didn't have to do that, but it's
it's a bad product. It is horrific. I mean, you're

(02:17:20):
sitting around there and it's just garbage pitching changes and
then they pinch hit it, and then you make another
pitching change. It's ridiculous. So again, the league. The owners
want to propose if you're a relief pitcher, you must
face a minimum of three batters. And the players are saying, wow,
if you want to do that, then we want the day.
We want the DH. And then the counter offer, from

(02:17:43):
what I read from the story was the union said,
all right, so we want the d H. Well, the
owners then said, okay, well, we are going to get
rid of the forty man roster expansion. You know in
September every year in baseball, Yes, September, collbs and so
in the game's last eight hours because everyone, you know,
they bringing everyone from the bullpen and all that as

(02:18:04):
a nightmare. So they want to put a cap on
that and have no more than twenty eight. They want
to go to a twenty six man roster from a
twenty five man roster in baseball, so that one more
roster spot, seemingly for every team to just have one
designated hitter, big power hitting DH. And then they want
to Baseball says, okay, we'll do that. We'll expand the roster,
but you can't call everyone up in September. I don't

(02:18:26):
have a problem. I always seem like the DH in
the National League. I guess it will stop that old,
like you say, the overmanaging part of the game. Yeah,
I don't. I'm not. I don't mind the way it
is now with different different styles. But I have I
ever gotten excited about a pitching change or a pinch
hitter coming up. I've not gotten excited about that. That
doesn't really do anything for me. I would agree with you.

(02:18:48):
I can't imagine that this will take place for this
coming season. Yeah, And I don't think that a lot
of this is going to take place because ultimately the
Commissioner has the power. Right the way that I've been
told is that they need go eight. It's kind of
like you know, Trump, he couldn't get a deal with
the Democrats to get with Congress to build the wall.
So he's got that that emergency thing where he can

(02:19:10):
make it a government emergency or whatever and a federal emergency.
And again, like Rob Manford, if he negotiate, they don't
work out a deal, then he can just implement what
he wants. I think that's what he can do if
he he has the power of the commissioner, and they
can just put in whatever rules they want, I believe,
but probably well making it all up about he was

(02:19:31):
all hot and bothered about the pitch clock and he
didn't do that. So, but the September callups thing has
been absurd forever. Like imagine in the NFL the last
three weeks or four weeks of the regular season, instead
of a fifty three man roster, we'll have a seventy
three man roster. It's a totally different situation. You're going

(02:19:52):
to add an extra twenty players if you want to
your team, and depending how good your farm system is, Like, yeah,
some some teams will be more benefit. It's more beneficial
to other teams than some. Zack, what more on that?
Does it? We press on here? It is the Ben
Maller's show on Fox Bill in Indy. He's on Fox

(02:20:15):
Sports radiof I punch up the right button, Hello Bill
and Indy. What's going on? Thunderstorm here in Indianapolis. So
didn't hear that on Roberto's forecast? So that's okay, I
did it. I said, I mentioned, you know the weatherman
is never right? You know that? Well that that's true.
Pretty quick points for you, ben U. Possible Roberto statement restitution.
With Roberto, people call in confess something that they've done,

(02:20:36):
whether it be against their spouse, the government, et cetera,
or Stormy Daniels and oh no, no legal advice with Roberto.
Yeah yeah, kind of like like Bill Bill Handle has
that show, the radio guy, he has Handle on the law.
We could have Roberto on the law, an untrained, non

(02:20:57):
legal background giving out badly good advice on the radio.
We could do that, right, I think that's a winner,
right there, Maybe a literal way to the party. But
I was curious. There is a former media person at
another network who was fired for leaking some kind of
company's secret. My question to you and a follow up

(02:21:18):
to the Mallard segment that you do in the three
o'clock our Eastern time that Justin Cooper puts together. So, well,
what's the worst thing that you've ever had a on
staff employee due to you? Oh? Nothing? Well, I yeah,
I had a guy who gave me real estate advice

(02:21:39):
to buy a house right before the housing market crashed
in Oa. Saved my entire life in radio every dollar
I had said. I was living in a small apartment
in Hollywood. I was waiting for the right time to
buy a house, and people were saying, you know, they
don't buy a house wait a little bit longer. And
this guy who I will not name. I will not

(02:22:01):
name this person. I used to do a show with
him on Sunday. It was very popular, called the Blitz
oh nothing, but management hated it. But but we did
the show for a while and he told me, said, Ben,
just do it. There's no you can't wait forever. Buy
a house. I did, and within a year I needed
a scuba suit to go in that house. Tom molonions,
I'm his bitch, clearly, without a doubt. And then I

(02:22:21):
had another employee, forget his name, but he used to
work on the show, and he tried to mock me
and take a photo with a mortal enemy and then
became a fanboy and a jock sniffer, and that was
upsetting to me. I was a little annoyed by that.
But this stuff happens. So people changed, and these things happened.
It's unfortune, all right. It is the Ben Maller Shoal
Press on later this hour password the word Game of

(02:22:44):
the Stars. We'll get to that, and also we have
to get to pork bill spending. We also have band Wagner.
We have a lot of stuff to get to. We'll
get to it all, and we will do it next.
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(02:23:07):
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(02:23:28):
We got some pork barrel spending. Who doesn't love pork
barrel spending? This is tremendous. I saw this, I said,
this is wonderful. I hope Miami does the same thing.
You would happened in Atlanta for Super Bowl fifty three.
Now I was not invited. I'm not part of the
mainstream media. They go to these things. But the people
in Atlanta, let's just say they got a little carried away.

(02:23:51):
Try to present as nice as possible an environment in
George So Atlanta spent millions of dollars in preparation to
host the game between the Rams and the Patriots. They
built a pedestrian bridge. Do you see this, eddie. They
built a pedestrian bridge that costs twenty seven million dollars. Now,

(02:24:14):
first of all, I can build the bridge. I can
go to home, deep own Lows and build a bridge
for less than twenty seven million dollars. I could. It
might fall down, but I would build it. So twenty
seven million dollars. Now it's a ton of money, eddie.
But here's the great thing. The people in Atlanta, the
city officials, the people putting the Super Bowl together, decided

(02:24:34):
after building the twenty seven million dollar bridge, that it
wasn't necessary to help fans cross this busy street in downtown.
The people thought it was necessary that built it. The
problem was because it was so close to the stadium.
NFL security said that the public couldn't use it because

(02:24:55):
it was a safety risk. They built a twenty seven
million dollar bridge for the Super Bowl, and the people
couldn't use it. Was only NFL personnel were the only
ones allowed to use it, and the public, the general public,
which it was built for, the taxpayers of Atlanta twenty
seven million dollars. The spirit of Atlanta. Right there, there

(02:25:17):
you go. Hopefully somebody lost their job over the probably
now they probably got a new job. Can you imagine?
I would be so nuts. It's a good looking bridge, Eddie,
it's a good looking bridge. Not safe, though not safe.
Let's say hello to legally blind Chris. Who's next on
Fox Sports Radio? Hello Christopher, Good morning, mister Maller. It's

(02:25:38):
amazing how Marcella is so busy with what he's doing.
No wonder he has no time to call the show. Yeah,
we learned he was taking a shower. Well, this is true.
This is what scared me as a blind man. But
besides that, I only imagine what mister Scott was doing
driving one of the duck boats for the Patriots yesterday.

(02:25:58):
And I hope he's okay. Serve life is dry? Yeah,
did you did you see? You didn't see it because
you're probably not. Yeah, I shouldn't use that, probably not.
But there was a there was a huge fight right
below blind Scott's apartment. Patriot fan on Patriot fan violence.
It was a good old fashioned street role in Boston.
A couple of inebriated Patriot fans fighting other inebriated Patriot fans.

(02:26:21):
It made for an amazing, amazing video. There were more
punches thrown in that than your average Floyd Mayweather fight.
It was in Sloma on that too. It's pretty cool. Yeah,
may come in handy for your h w E. I
hope did I say that your other show, mister mambler.
But more importantly, you must be celebrating Hanuka in February. Well,

(02:26:43):
that's correct, it's me. We have decided to continue to
rob the G League Pistons. Why don't you come to
Charlotte and rob the Hornets too. I mean, we've got
NBA All Star Weekend coming up and got nothing special
going on here in the community. Go ahead, destroy every
CMI doesn't hurt. Yeah, well, listen, when you have Jerry West,

(02:27:03):
when you've got the logo boy or you sit up, man,
or you sit up for amazing things, you should hire
the logo. You hired Mitch Cupjack. What's up with that?
The Hornets hired Mitch Cupjack. Well, you know, we only
deal with the best chair because you know, Charlotte's not
a racist community, and we deal with having Roberto here
to come and help us educate us on a variety
of new topics. Yeah, my last point for you minute.

(02:27:24):
All right, last point here we go. Final point from
legally blind Chris. If if the Rams wants will win
the Super Bowl, why not they go after the Philadelphia quarterback? Hey,
he won one, lady, he can help you. Now you're
talking like a blind man. That's what you're talking. Had
to dig it in. All right, go away, thank you,

(02:27:45):
I hate you. All right, it's Ben Mala show. We'll
press on. We gotta password coming up. You want to
play pass word the word game Stars calling now. We'll
also have Cowboys Corner. We'll check in with weed Man.
We've got all that. But right now, let's get you
caught up on the latest years. Eddie. He's never spent
twenty seven million dollars on a pedestrian bridge that wasn't used.
I think that is accurate. Yeah, we'll start with NBA news.

(02:28:07):
We got the trade deadline coming up on Thursday, late
Tuesday and EdWay to jail between the Clippers and the
seventy six ers. LA sending Tobias Harris, Boban Marjanovitch, and
Mike Scott to Philadelphia for Larry Shamet Wilson Chandler, Mike
Muscala two first round piper trade for the Clippers second
round pick. I didn't even talk about Wilson, Chandler Savvy Vettery,

(02:28:27):
but I'm all about Lamb. I like the guys that
can shoot. Eddie sham Wow, sham wow. Yeah, he's the
I'm gonna give him the nickname sham Wow instead of Lambo.
I like that better timely. Yeah, it should be good.
Thank you. On the court, we had the Raptors beat
in the seventy six ers one nineteen to one or seven.
Kawhi Letter twenty four points, Kyle Lowry and Surgibaka each

(02:28:47):
twenty points for Toronto Celtics over the cavol Here's one
O three ninety six the Thunder top to Magic one
thirty two, one twenty two. Paul George thirty nine points,
Russell Westbrook sixteen points, fifteen rebounds and sixteen assists for
his seventh eecutive triple double for Oklahoma City Pacers pound
the Lakers one thirty nine to ninety four, forty two
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(02:29:50):
Have you seen the photo of Bob Kraft Robert Kraft,
the Patriots owner, and he was wearing Yes? I did
see this? Yeah, Like, how would you describe what he
was wearing? He looked like he had robbed the jewelry
store to me? Right, am I wrong in this. From
what I understand, it was a gift from his friend
Meek Mill. But I thought Meek Mill was the Eagle fan.

(02:30:11):
He's a Philadelphia guy, Meek I know Kraft supported him
when he was in jail and all that and was
trying to get him out. And it's a diamond encrusted um.
Not it's not a medallion. I believe the term is eddie. Yeah,
I stout that's the term some serious ice. I thought
that was a term. How did he doesn't he look

(02:30:33):
like a cartoon character? Have you seen the little video clip?
There's a video clip of Bob Kraft wearing sunglasses and
he's got the chain that says champ was the say championships? Right?
Isn't that the champions? I thought it's a champion. I
think he says championships. Okay, I think that I'm going championships.
It's great, best friends. How did the Eagles feel about this?

(02:30:55):
Are the Eagle fans upset about this? Are they our
Eagle friend who works up and comes and brings us food.
It's crazy, man, Think about how Bob Kraft he's always
been rich, right, He's been a rich guy's adult life.
But he is really the last seventeen years, he's changed
more than Belichick and Tom Brady, Bob Kraft. I am

(02:31:16):
his wife unfortunately passed away, and he's just going for
What do you think is the wife would think about?
This is all the Yeah, what are you doing, Robert?
What do you do yourself? As she's probably happy he's
having a good time. But man, that's uh well, he's

(02:31:36):
a robber. Us Roberts like to live our lives. Man.
Oh is that how that works? Yeah? I got you
all right, bet Mallas show on Fox. We're gonna play
password in a minute. Right now, let's go to Cowboy
John Brad in Windsor, Ontario. Hello, cow what? Oh right, Well,
we might be here at Windsor because we're respecting ice
store this morning, but that anyway. One hundred and twenty

(02:31:58):
four years ago today, Babe Ruth was born in Baltimore.
Fifty two years ago today, Muhammada a Lady scored a
fifteen round decision over Ernie Terrell to retain the heavyweight title,
and fifty nine years ago to the R and B
singer Jesse Beldan join the twenty seven Club after his
KKK Booby Trap Hawide with alb after a concert of

(02:32:23):
his and Hope Arkansas and Jennifer Jason Leeterday. Yes, you're
all think people. Tomorrow morning we were along with Bucks
and Bonds by Hey, Hope Arkansas. You ever been to Hope, Arkansas?
He is so hot, I said a weed Man, hippie
who's in Miami. Weed man's on cloud nine right now
because he got a golden ticket. You know, I'm opening

(02:32:48):
from all I've never been in but we but we
mat wait wait, wait, wait man. You know this is
the morning dry hour. You know this, This is the
hour I hear from guys. Hey, I'm on my way
to work. I work on Wall Street, I work wherever,
and they drive in to the show listening to us
on satellite radio or whatever else they hear the show

(02:33:10):
on iHeart radio. You're actually better off being on this hour.
Weed man, Hey, everybody, I love you. You've gotta be happy.
That's the most important thing in life is your personal appy. No, no,
that's not true. That's not true. So whatever that means
to you, following happy right now, going home and having

(02:33:32):
sex with your wife, go into it. Then listen, listen,
who are you sick? Are you sick, weed Man, I
feel sick. Yeah, and I'm I was questioning. I was
crying to Lisa today. What am I accomplishing? Calling dead? Oh? Really,

(02:33:53):
are you thinking about giving this up? Are you thinking
about moving on? Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, weed Man?
You're giving up the weed Man franchise, all of it.
It was no, it was a compuls everybody hates me.

(02:34:16):
Oh stop, don't do the woe is me thing? Come on,
weed Man, that guy, that guy Jerry. My friends were
a curveball, and robertos So wisely said to me, hit
it out of the park, weed Man. Well, now the
electric company from the all the departments here we go
five hundred dollars and I don't have five hundred dollars

(02:34:39):
in them? Yeah, why you didn't pay for your electricity?
Is that why they won five hundred that apartments? By
the shatterings with two big bangs in a bicycle. I
remember kidnapped? Kidnapped? Did you get kidnapped from my listeners? Stop?

(02:35:00):
Come on, you're embellishing, you're I know what you're doing here.
You're trying to get somebody to send you five hundred bucks.
I know what you're doing here, weed Man, I'm onto you.
Oh he thinks he's off the air, so he ran
to listen to himself on the radio. He's such as, yeah,
so like five minutes, said the delay on this thing?

(02:35:23):
The podcast second time around? What is that? Any podcast?
Go to the chorus, going to going to the games?
Weed Man, listen, weed Man, you gotta thank this guy Jerry.
He's driving. He drives all over Southern Time and I'm

(02:35:44):
really looking forward to all opening Michel. No, I was
criding today and maybe I'm not touching anybody and I'm
just wasting my time. Oh, no, crazy person I am.
I don't know why you would think it's crazy to
call the show every single day. I don't know why
you was. But you didn't call the Boston show. I know,

(02:36:07):
I know I was not there. No, I will not
be there tonight either. I'll be there tomorrow Thursday night, yeah,
Thursday night. Yeah. And I want you to know the
work you did. Heal me you ad, yeah, yeah, you
had a lot of stuff in your ears. Probably, Okay,

(02:36:30):
all right, there you go. A couple password the word
Game of the Stars. We get to that. We do
it next. Be sure to catch live editions of The
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(02:36:51):
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Attention everyone, Password, password, you idiot, Password the word Game

(02:37:16):
of the Stars. Here's Ben Maller, and here it is
past word time. Each and every weekend about this time.
Password the word Game of the Stars. So that's some fun.
If you like this, we do it every weekend about
this time. If you don't like it, it's only once
a week. Who cares about once a week? No big deal? Right,
Let's welcome in our contestants. First of all, from Iowa,

(02:37:37):
we say hello to John. Hello John, Welcome John. How's
everything in Iowa? Cold? I got you? What part of
Io are in northern part? Just just a few miles
south of Minnesota. Okay, I got you. And what kind
of work do you do? Uh? Drive a truck? Truck job?
I got you? All right, very cool? Horn a sack?
You were going to play. You are one of our

(02:37:59):
contestants and we also have so you're Tyler in Kentucky. Hello, Tyler? Hello?
What's going on? Tyler? Welcome to the show. And what
do you do? What do you do in Kentucky? I
work at aluminum? Okay, aluminum? Very cool? All right, hold on,
I say, all right, let's oh I hung up on him.

(02:38:21):
Oh I hung up on him. That's John. Who would
you like to call back? Tyler? John? Who would you
like to partner up with? John? I had one job
to put him on hold? I hung up on him.
It's a bad job by me. Who do you want
to partner up with? John? Coop? Coop? All right, so
it's Coop and trucker John and we were going to
have Tyler. Hopefully Tyler calls back. Do you think Tyler
realizes that I hung up on him? Well, yeah, probably,

(02:38:43):
I think so. There's a delayed reaction though, because you
might be thinking, well, maybe maybe he will He's like, yeah,
maybe put me on hold? Or something. Yeah, you know,
my other option is Marcell and Brooklyn. That's my other option.
If Tyler doesn't call back, I'm gonna go to Marcell
and Brooklyn. All right, I believe he's calling back. I
think he's all back. Is he there? Yes? All right?
Here he is? All right? So put John on a

(02:39:05):
professional broadcaster. Yes, Tyler, Tyler y, Yes, I'm here. All right? Now,
who do you want to partner up with? Coops out?
You play with anybody else in the show. Who do
you want to partner up with? Yes? I know it's
very disappointing. All I'll take you, Ben. It's a good
job by you. We're gonna wind choice, not first choice,
first choice. Here we go. Let's we have a list

(02:39:28):
of words. Here we go one to ten. They're all
worth ten points. We go down to nine, eight, seven
with every incorrect answer, John, you were on the air first, John,
So what number do you want? One to ten? Four?
All right, we're number four, Go ahead, Cooper Loop. Oh wait, yeah, yeah,
let's go with handicapped golf. No, all right, let's go

(02:39:57):
with I'm not a bad guess, I guess. Let's go
with paralyzed discipled No, no, back to Coop, it's down
to eight points. Um, let's go with gimp. Wow, we

(02:40:18):
went there, coop, John, Uh, lamp, No, that's a different problem. Um,
let's let's go. Let's go with oh boy, immobile, Uh, paraplegic. Uh.

(02:40:41):
We're dancing around here, doing a dance here. What are
we at? How many points are we at? No? Seven? Seven?
That's six now, I think right? Because he was eight.
I went that's seven out of six. All right, Coop,
if you don't get it on this one, we're throwing
it on. All right, John, let's go with password wheel
chair do do do do? Yeah? All right, you don't

(02:41:10):
know it's a cripple. Crippled cripple not very politically correct though. Yeah,
so I didn't choose that word. What's a word? It
is a word? Some other words we could use it
We don't use either. But all right, all right, go ahead,
you are up there, tyler. Pick award one to ten,
but not four fours off the board. Hey, word number eight?

(02:41:32):
All right, let's go with slide uh playground? No, No,
that's not okay, John? All right, John, I feel like
they don't know the game sounds confident. Yeah, John, you heard,
you heard Ben's clue, right, piggyback off my work yet.

(02:41:53):
All right, so think of think of Ben's clue, and
then think of my clue. My clue was gonna be burnout.
Mhm uh huh uh. You put them both together, Slider,

(02:42:14):
take as much time as you want. I don't mind
the impending brick wall we're running into. Don't mind that.
That's my problem. That's not your problem I have. Uh huh,
I don't know, all right, because it's a great answer.
We like that defensive battle like this should be a double.
We could have a double shutout. Save the bulls for

(02:42:35):
after password. Let's go with Yeah, these are your people, Coop.
I am going to go with glide. I had slide.
I had glide. I don't know what the who cares?
You're not gonna non? All right? John, all right, John,
let's try one more time, one of our time. Let's go.
You're an optimist hydroplane. Yeah, yes, the game's out of time.

(02:43:04):
I win, not out of time. We got plenty of
time left. Cool, We're not you don't even know the clock?
Who we have plenty of time left? Alright, don't have
plenty No, we have plenty of time Who's up next?
Who's up? No, No, that's premature. You're playing a premature
Who's Up Next? Sorry, we're out of time. We're not
out of winter password, not outlation, not out of time.

(02:43:24):
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