March 20, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Stefon Diggs going to Foxborough to meet with the Patriots, why the Patriots would want a multi-time bad actor like Diggs, FA tackle Cam Robinson signing with the Texans, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We go welcome. It's our numb b win as we
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side by side. It's like wine and cheese. Unbelievable because
I don't like wine. I don't mind cheese though. Anyway,
Here an hour number one on this twentieth day of March.
Free agent wide receivers Stefawn Diggs is in Foxborough to
meet with the Patriots. How do you assess this one? Also?
Why would the Patriots want a multi time bad actor
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like receivers Defawn Diggs? And free agent offensive tackle Cam
Robinson has signed with the Texans. Do you find that significant?
We'll go there as well. We'll sp the beans on
all that right now here. It is our number one. Hey, you.
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I thought was interesting and I have editorial control. So
maybe he saw it or heard about it, maybe not.
I don't know. But we've learned now that the controversial
wide receiver by the name of Stefan Diggs, who authored
up the Minneapolis Miracle and it's been downhill ever since then,
back in his Viking but Stefan Diggs, who was not
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retained by the Houston football team. They didn't make any
effort to keep him. He's free to roam around the NFL.
And we are told that at this hour Stefan Diggs
has boots on the ground in Foxboro, Massachusetts, the Commonwealth.
He is visiting with the New England football team that
used to win Super Bowls, but now they're known as
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the Patsies if you will here and walby Patriots and Digs.
They haven't agreed to a contract. They're gonna have a
little meat and greet there, maybe some eggs, possibly some bacon.
I don't know what else they're gonna be eating, but
it is supposedly headed that direction. Now, keep in mind
there was a story the other day and that Stefan
Diggs was talking to the Raiders and hadn't been too
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much too much noise about Stefan Diggs. But part of
the reason for that, and part of the reason that
Stefan Diggs is available and can be yours if the
price is not right. But the reason he's in the
New England area is because he's getting poked and prodded
medical exams. Because Stefon Diggs a knee went shredded, shredded ligaments.
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Acl Boom goes to the dynamite and so that he's out,
and he's been out for four months post operation and
will be out much longer. So let us discuss the
question free agent wide receiver Stefawn Diggs in Foxborough at
this late hour to meet with the Patriots. How do
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you assess this one? So I've got cookbook, garage opener,
and kindergarten, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a bowl of cherries,
is what we're going to make now. Very rarely adding
Stefon Diggs to your team is a bowl of cherries,
unless you happen to do a talk radio show, and
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then Stefan Diggs is really good for business, really really
good for business. So my first thought on this is
that the plot thickens with New England being involved here,
and I would factor this part of the story as
a mixed messages story because if you remember, let's go
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back in the hot up time machine, the EBB and
flow of the stories of the NFL offseason, the human
drama of gash, baggery and blowhards. So the story the
other day was that the Patriots could have had DK
Metcalf could have traded with Seattle. Certainly we're interested. If
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they wanted DeVante Adams, they could have gotten him. They
chose not to sign those guys because they're alpha wide receivers.
They're alpha wide receivers, they're abrasive. They would not mix
well with Drake May, the neophyte quarterback of the Patriots.
So those guys are a glass. If you look at
DK Metcalf and DeVante Adams to was side by side
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with Stefan Dicks glass of fat free milk compared to
a venomous cocktail for the player that's visiting town and
Stefan Diggs, the level of toxicity is insane. I still
get a kick. I flashed back to some of those
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those calls from Andy the comic book guy, that Bill's
Mafia guy, who was trying to explain to me, oh no,
there's not Bills loves Stefan Digs. They could not wait
to get rid of his ass. They should have got
rid of me earlier. But Bill's Mafia, some of those
guys were completely hornswaggled by Stefan Diggs. But if you
look at his track record from Minnesota where he flamed
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out there to Buffalo and then on to Houston. The
one common denominator in all of those locations is Stefan Diggs.
Now in two of those locations, the team actually was
better off when Diggs left town Minnesota better off, and
also Buffalo better off when dig Exitage Stage left. But
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and for all the individual success, there's a former All
pro is at a bunch of thousand yard seasons. When
you look a little bit close, a little bit close,
you ask the question, why does the player keep bouncing around?
Why does he bounce from side to side to side
to side. And then you look at the cookbook and
you're like, oh, why is there a cookbook here? But
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you look at the cookbook and you see the ingredients
in the recipe and it's it's equal parts temperamental. You've
got a little mild content over there. You've got classic
mood swings, look at me, diva, activity in fighting, and
then dissension. All of those things and you put them
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all on the pot and what you get is a
hot mess. You get a hot mess. And he was
also a terrible playoff performer in Buffalo, I mean he
was bad. So you put this all together, and pretty
much everywhere he's been it's wash, rinse and repeat. You're
like going at the laundromat there and you're doing the
laundry now turning the page, but not turning the page.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Four.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So why since this is the flavor of the day,
why would the Patriots want a bad actor likes the
fawn Diggs on their team, knowing the track record that
Diggs is a volcano, and you know it's going to erupt.
You're not sure exactly when it might be in week four,
it might be in week eight, maybe it's twelve, maybe
it's sixteen, maybe to the playoffs, but at some point
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there'll be molten lava, kaboom, the volcano go. There's an
actual sound of the volcano. But Robert Craft is shopping.
That's the owner. He likes the orchids of Asia Day
spat there in Florida. But Robert Craft is shopping at
the discount rack. Er go. The player is priced to sell.
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And I actually got an email from one of our
p ones there in the Boston area. Actually's out of
the sticks.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
But he sent me said, but I know you're gonna
talk about Stefan Diggs of the show, make sure you
mentioned the only reason they want him is because he's
gonna work cheap, and that's definitely part of the stow.
Stefan Diggs is at a fork in the road, the
old crossroads here.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
He's thirty two. Next season, he suffered the season inning
ACL injury, played eight games with the Texans, and prior
to that injury, in Week eight, Stefon Diggs had forty
seven catches. He had about five hundred yards receiving in
three touchdowns. It wasn't amazing. It was okay, it wasn't amazing,
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But there was also some underlying tension between the player
and the quarterback CJ. Stroud. It was going down a
similar path to the issues that Josh Allen had in Buffalo.
So when you think diplomacy, you do not think you
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do not think Stefon Diggs. Now. Nevertheless, the Patriots can
give Stefon Diggs something that few other NFL teams can
give him, and that is the garage opener that opens
up the back room, which is the wide receiver room.
So he just clicked the little clicker they're in the
garage door opener, and he would immediately be at the
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very top of the totem poll for wide receivers in Foxborough.
That is one of the more depressing things. You can
look at the depth chart at wide receiver for the
Patriots who used to be good. I'm old enough to
remember when the Patriots used to be the class of
the NFL. They suck. They're back to being the Patriots
when I was a kid. The Patsy's Kashawann Boody, Kendrick
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Bourne sounds like a James Bond character. De Mario Douglas.
Doesn't that sound like an old school taxi driver. Those
are the top wide receivers on the depth chart. So
needless to say, Stefan Diggs could walk in there or
hop in there on one leg and he'd be the
number one wide receiver in that wide receiver room for
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the New England papers A right now, last word here,
So we quickly, we quickly go to Stefan Digg's old
team in Houston, and the Texans made a roster move. Now,
normally we try to avoid talking about offensive linemen at
all costs. It's a futile act. But I thought this
was interesting. The coverage it got was rather bizarre to me.
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So the Texans signed a left tackle by the name
of Cam Robinson who played in Jacksonville and Minnesota. He
finished up last year with Minnesota sound a one year contract,
so it's a one year contract. And the coverage on
this was rather bizarre. I use the b word bizarre.
I saw any of it or consumed any of it,
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but really glowing stories about what a savvy move this
was for the Houston football team. So, free agent tackle
Cam Robinson landing with the Texans, do you find that significant?
Is this significant that Cam Robinson is going to the Tech?
And so it is significant in that it is a
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warm body. Okay, it's a warm body. In an effort
to plug a glaring hole that they got Rial Laramy Tunzel.
I thought he was getting too old or was going
to be too old soon. They wanted to be proactive,
not reactive, so they got Rial Laramy Tunzel and he
didn't have a great year last year, so they traded
him to the Commanders for a haul of draft picks
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and Cam Robinson. His addition is like a kindergarten project.
It's a scissors and pace job for the offensive line.
Because when I saw these shorts, the reason I bring
this up is because I thought maybe my memory was
going you know, I'm doing overnight radio here and not
sleeping that Well, maybe my memory is going away, because
I very clearly remember Robinson playing in Minnesota and being
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a turnstile. He was a matador olay oleo lay ole
as he was trying to block defensively, and so it's like,
what are we doing? And I went back and I
went through some of the numbers that are that are
out there, and Cam Robinson allowed the highest one on
one pressure rate among all offensive tackles in the NFL
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last year once he got to the Twin Cities. In fact,
from the time he put on the Viking uniform to
the end of the year, he allowed seventeen percent on
he got beat seventeen percent of the time. So well,
that's not that much. The league average nine point eight percent,
So he was eight point two percent higher if my
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math is correct. According to the Nerd stats there, that
is a chicken product. That is chicken fertilizer. That is
chicken fertilizer is what that is. So congratulations, you did
sign a warm body, Houston Texans. You signed Cam Robinson.
And occasionally maybe he'll block someone. It's possible he'll block someone,
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but yeah, even with that, I still maintain my position
that most sacks, most not all, but most sacks are
on the quarterback, not the offensive line, although you can't
have bad offensive lineman, and that's certainly part of the equation.
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I filled out my bracket. I did it yesterday in
the in the morning, and I brought out all these
nerds that you'd be very proud of me. I have
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watched a handful of games. Unfortunately, a lot of the
games I watched were Gottlieb games teams not in the tournament.
So I've been perusing different ways to get ready for
the tournament. So I fill out my bracket and that's
on there and a bunch of the other gas bags
and blowhards here also available also available as well. The
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Great Unwashed have a lot to say, as they always
do Gunner Rights and says why are we talking about
Stefan Diggs In the opening monologue. Gunner's upset, he's washed up,
he sucks f Yeah, you're right, Gunner, I made a
mistake there. I should have talked about the Minnesota Timberwolves,
the frauds from Minnesota to your team that lost to
the New Orleans Pelicans, embarrassing, pathetic franchise. You're right, I
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should have talked to Anthony Edwards. Aunt Edwards played like
an ant five of nineteen from the floor. Five of
nineteen from the floor for Anthony Edwards. Bad to the bone,
bad to the bone for Anthony Edwards. It was almost
all those points coming from the foul line. And I
should have started that, Gunner. I should just pointed out
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how embarrassing what a fraud the Minnesota Timberwolves are. That
would have been a better monologue than the Stefon Diggs monolo. Now,
mister Luciano, though he disagrees, He says ten out of
ten on the top of the hour Liddle lifting Mallard monologue.
As sorry as the fawn Diggs is, He says, I
am not surprised that he might sign with the Pages.
(20:15):
By the way, I am caught up on all the podcasts.
Great job, thank you, and don't forget. You can on
a slow day, you can go back and download any podcast.
They're all right there. In fact, some of the guys
like Toning the Bay Area. He'll go back and listen
to classic monologues. I think the archive goes back. It
doesn't go all the way back to the early days,
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but it goes back like twenty seventeen. There's podcasts up.
There's nothing more interesting than listening to a podcast from
a rant about something that happened in twenty seventeen. Late
night drug tester right since says Free Agents Left likes
the fawn digs. It's like the Dog Show. And he
may look nice, but that beach isn't winning any awards. Yeah,
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you don't need to be an experienced judge to see
his flaws. Yeah, there's a there's a fair amount. Berg
Dog says, I have hated regulation all my life and
I will never change. I will never change. Okay, we'll
get to the Baker's dozen. We'll get to that coming
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up in a minute. We will also take your phone
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Next hour, we've got mallor to the third degree. And
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as we work our way every hour there's like some
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talking about the really good Canadian version, because they know
how to make cheese snacks much better, much much better
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in Canada than they do here, not even close. All right,
let's go to the phones and in the leadoff chair.
I will likely regret this, but let's say hello to
Keg drinking Steve in Cannes City. Hello, Keig drinking Steve.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Sprung Man.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
We're another season, we got we got it all going on.
I'm getting a little bit strung myself right now with
the with all the wonderful action about to happen. Don't
don't you think that America Aaron Rodgers is an American
hero man all these all these dumb fan bases like
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Pittsburgh and Minnesota. Someone is about to become a Super
Bowl contender when he makes his his magical decision.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
He's right.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
He's the epic.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Gunslinger of our one of the greatest, if not there
his talents in NFL history. No one gives this guy
his his new No one gives this this man who
could be our president, Aaron Rodgers. The he does what
he wants when he wants, at all times. And if
you don't like it, you can you can stick it.
(23:19):
And and you're gonna be You should be on your knees.
You should be on your hands and knees begging Aaron
Rodgers to come to Minnesota or come to Pittsburgh and
and grace his presence in your gods forsaken town and
bring you to the to the next, to the next level.
(23:40):
This guy told Danica Patrick she wanted children and and
and and Aaron said, hit the hit the hit the bricks. Woman,
You're not gonna tell me what to do for poor
tom Brady. Tom Brady uh been over backwards for that woman.
And then took time off of practice and and then
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she went and slept with the jiu jitsu instructor and
had a kid. Man. He's not Aaron Rodgers is not
a Beta male like like like Tom Brady. We need more,
We need more men in this country who are not
going to take crap from anybody, and and we should
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be valuing we should be valuing Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Well, I think I think you've just given him a
hawk too on the radio. I mean, what more can
you do? I mean, you just I mean we spent
like three minutes. I mean, my god, I don't think
you missed anything. You looked at all. Holy crap.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I know, I know been all of your boot looking
SICKA fans will never say a bad, bad word about
about it.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You know that's that's not true. But by the way
you're bearing, you're bearing the lead here. I don't blame
you for bearing the lead. There was a mass exodus
from the Kansas City Chiefs cheerleading squad. Defend your defend
your cheerleaders. Defend them. They all quit, nine of them,
quick tag drinking Steve, nine nine women quit, nine of them.
(25:10):
Are you gonna be Are you gonna become a cheerleader
next year? Are you going to become a cheerleader?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I told you, I told you Spring is sprung. That's
nine more angels get their nine more angels get Daddy's
wings to good.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, I'm sure, yeah, I definitely become a you become
an you know, I can't.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I can't wait until we have a fresh, new, fresh,
new crop of talents, uh, coming from the hinterlands, fresh
off the turnip truck. Daddy likes some young and Daddy
likes some like some talented.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
So yeah, I'm sure, all right, all right, thank you,
go away. You're you're annoying me. You were on long enough,
it was that was We're good. The rare inappropriate phone
call in the NFL offseason from Keg drinking Steve making
his appearance felt well, the Baker's dozen get out, Well,
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not quite get the scar out, but get the scars ready.
Congratulations to the forefather of the next generation of Americans.
That would be Miami Dolphin wide receiver Tyreek Hill, who
has now a big announcement there on the TikTok. He
and his wife they are excited because Tyreek Hill is
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planning to have his thirteenth child. That's right, the thirteenth child.
That's a Baker's dozen. Congratulations mazele tav to that Sugarna
Tyreek Hill. Now, if you're keeping short, now he is married,
but that's only going to be his second child with
his wife. Hill had a very productive twenty twenty four
(26:47):
according to the Internet Tyreek Hill in I guess he
really had a productive twenty twenty three and early twenty
twenty four because if they did the math on this
and Tyreek Hill, he actually scored more touchdowns off the
field than he did on the field. As it is
said that he had five kids with five different women
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in twenty twenty four. That's the five by five are
not the five guys, the five gals, I guess is
a new restaurant. But so Tyreek very busy there. So
congratulations the thirteenth child for Tyreek Hill on the way,
which means if my malor math is correct, that Tyreek
is going to have to keep playing football until he's
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about sixty five years old about retirement age. He's going
to have to keep playing or Tyreek Hill will be
on the updated documentary of Broke so well on the math,
what's the man, he gotta play another eighteen years because
you got the child support payments and all that, so
you got to you gotta go. Joe the ghost Hunter says, Ben,
(27:51):
bad job by you. You should have had Steve blow
into the phone and tests his blood alcohol level. But
we don't need to test Joe the ghost Hunter when
it comes to Steve. I mean, we know going in,
we know what's happening here. We were fully aware when
Keig drinking Steve. It's in his name. When Keg drinking
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Steve comes on, you know what you're getting. You're fully
aware of what you're gonna get. It is no surprise
at all. All right, let's go back to the phone.
A very controversial caller. Also, people have very strong opinions
about this particular person. Let's say hello to Andre and
his dog Willis Is it a real dog or Now
I believe it's real. There are still skeptics out there
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and Andre and the Commonwealth and his dog Willison. Now Andre,
is it true, Andre, that you drove down to the
airport to pick up Stefon Diggs and drive him over
to Foxboro.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Good evening, Ben that that cannot be substantive that drove
down to pick up Stefan.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
No I did.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
I did not, based on the fact that I was
surprised but hopeful that Stefan Diggs was making his way
to the common Wealth. Based on how the season started
with the Houston Texans when he was healthy across from
Miko Collins. It was working, but Stefan dig as they
say for me, want shame on you for me twice
(29:20):
shame on me. This is not the first stop where
he's had a talented quarterback but wasn't able to see
eye to eye. Right in Buffalo, the true frandom, the
Bill's mafia out there after the games, you know, kind
of power bombing innocent tables. Some some might have been guilty,
but many I felt were innocent. But nonetheless, in the
(29:41):
freezing cold, they're out there is dropping, you know, the
the macho man Randy Salvage elbow on those tables. So
a very proud fandom. But him and Josh Allen were
friends for a time and then next thing you know,
is cursing the mountain sideline when things went sideways against
Joe and Joe Burrow. So the bottom line, U, thank
you for mentioning willis a little bit late. He's resting
(30:03):
right now, He's resting, and he's uh so next episode,
I'm gonna make theft. But I made it clear he's
got to get get the Snacker Rudies and we're gonna
get him on the air barking, having a good time,
but for right now resting. But Ben listen, this is hope,
This is hopeful and conclusion dig in New England, we
need playmakers.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
We we we we it's not.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
The system, it's the talent within the system that wins.
We've learned that the hard way. So I'm hopeful that
he can come to an agreement with Mike Rabel. Drake
Maye is capable and we can get this thing roll
because never mind the game that we wanted, we shouldn't
want to end the season. But the empire, uh is
(30:44):
pretty far off in the review. Patriots are in a
spot right now. But I think I think everybody would agree.
Never mind the fact that builds out there doing yoga
with his you know, uh a team assistant girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
That yoga thing that was like something to do with
a little kid, like that was a is that yoga?
Does that count as yoga? Isn't that what you do
like a little kid? You put the kid on your
on your legs and do they the helicopter thing in
that like a yoga move or not a yoga it's
like a kid thing you're playing with like a parent
playing with a kid is what I meant to say
on the beach, and that.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
It's not like it was posted as yoga. It was
posted by the young leaders.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Well, you say whatever, you say, whatever you want. I mean,
it's fine and say what you want. But I don't
believe that is I mean, I'm not a yoga expert.
We can go next to there's a yoga studio right
next door. Maybe we go ask them, but I do
not believe that is yoga. I believe that something something
different there.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
So yeah, I can cur I need a little bit
of yoga, you know. I got to make sure my
agility isn't what it used to be. Bench So I'm
all for you know, the poses and staying loose and
limber and healthy and all the rest of that. But
that looks like the game that you play on in
the elementary school playground, you know, with you know, you
have to put them up and you have a good time.
But it appears to be working, you know, for for them.
(31:55):
You know, I'm go ahead. But the fact of the matter,
the point that mister Belichick was brought up, is because
we've learned the hard ways, right, it's players not programmed
that at the end of the day, make the difference.
We we haven't had the players, so we haven't had
the program here in New England. So Diggs, regardless of
the gusty he kicks up in other destinations, if Rabel
can get through to him some kind, somehow, some way,
(32:16):
we need him here. We need him here in the Commonwealth. There,
it's gonna be another year in the lottery. From me
and Willis, who's sleeping right now, we're gonna be back
with the malin Militia. Benz, thanks so much for taking
the time.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
But we're gonna see with the spirit spirit next time.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
All right, Right, there were Diggs left. He left the
stadium early after one of those Bills playoff games, like
he he didn't even go a lot if I remember correctly,
and it was a couple of years ago, so I'd
have to go back and and check my notes, but
I'm I'm pretty sure that he just left the stadium
and didn't even go into the locker room, like just
went in his uniform and went to the parking lot
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and took off like I don't even think he changed.
I think he just he skid at all out of there,
like it was done. I think it was that was
that the twenty he said that must have twenty twenty
two or twenty two must have been twenty twenty two.
I would think that's one of the bad playoff performances,
and he had a couple of them with the Buffalo Bills.
He vanished. He was not a big game player in
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Buffalo at all. All right, it is the Ben Mahler show.
Not in the playoffs. He wasn't. Here's the who am I? Game?
And where I pretend to be somebody else? Thus we
call it the who am I? Game? Who works? Sola?
Luka Donzig joined Devin Booker and me as the only
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players to have twenty or more points, three or more rebounds,
three or more assists, one or more steals, and one
or more blocks in a quarter in NBA history. Again,
there's a stat for everything, and this is proof there is.
Luka Donzik joined Devin Booker and me is the only
players with twenty or more points, three or more rebounds,
(33:55):
three or more assists, one or more steels, and one
or more blocks in a quarter in NBA history. Who
am I? That is the question? The answer. We'll get
to it. If you know it, send me a listage
on x at Ben Maler. We'll get to it. We
will do it next.
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didn't say my name against It's me Ben. As we
are rolling through the overnight hours, time to pay off
the who am I? Games? Who timd somebody else? Yes?
The who am I? Game? Who? All right? Here we go.
Luca Donzik joined Devin Booker, that's a basketball player for
the Suns and me as the only players with twenty
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or more points, three or more rebounds, three or more assists,
one or more steals, and one or more blocks in
a quarter the NBA history. Who am I that the question?
What's the answer? Scrooge in the Bay Area going with
the tin Man as his answer, The King Rory says,
Vincent Kennedy McMahon, Yeah, I saw that he's had a
lot of work done. He was at the Knicks game,
(35:58):
Vince McMahon Nixon Heat game the other night on Saint
Patrick's Day. That was the Tracy Morgan game where he
puked all over the court and they delayed the game
for ten minutes because there was barf everywhere. As the
same game celebrity row Man, there you go, mister nice guy,
going with Dick Drago as his answer. Who else do
we have? Charlie Hull, who's twenty nine today from late
(36:20):
Night drug tester Patient zero, guest by Alf the Alien
ol Pine of the Great Rudy Gobear of your Utah.
Jazz Andy in lion Ol Lakes, Minnesota says the answer
has to be mister perfect Kurt Henning, Shane and the Moynes,
says former Fifth Hour podcast guest omar Vis Skel said
(36:43):
to be the answer from Shane in Des Moines, Elton
Brand guest by Rob in Minnesota. Who else you have?
Terry in England going with Satchel Page and remember the
late great Vin Scully telling the story about how Satchel
Paige got his nickname. Great, great story. He was working
like child labor and carrying I think it was there
(37:04):
a train station or a bus station, carrying bags around,
and that's how he got the name Satchel Page. Who
else do we have? Payems not his real first name, obviously,
DJ Spin going with Lou Brock as his answer. Mickey,
who is locked in in State forty eight, says Danny Tartable.
(37:25):
That's it. You're dating yourself, Mickey with the name Danny Tartable.
That's old school. That's like nineties baseball right there. That's
a while ago. Gil in San Diego says Barbara Streisan's
yoga instructor is the correct answer? All right? Who else
do we have? Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, going with Earl
(37:45):
the Pearl Monroe as his answer, mister Luciato, who's completely
caught up on the podcast, says, Carlo Gambino is the answer?
All right? Who else? Page? And I don't know if
we want to read that on the air, Lizzo was
guessed there not unfortunately not Lizzo. Lizzo. Did we save
(38:09):
Lizzo for the jokes? Will should be coming up later?
All right, Mary, do you have an answer? Married?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Actually?
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Mary stepped away as her cousin Marie, but she actually
told me to say mugsy bows Mexi bogussy.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
That was actually pretty good. I kind of felt like
I was somewhere in England like Terry. Probably Terry in
England's like oh man, one of my neighbors. No, it
is not muggsy bogues, but pretty solid. No, Luca Doncik,
joining Devin Booker and me the only players with twenty
plus points, three plus rebounds, three plus assists, one plus
deal and one plus block in a quarter in NBA history.
(38:46):
The answer would be none other than Fred van Vliet
van Velit. Anyway, I can get Fred van Vliet's name
on the on the show. But he got paid, he
on one of those big contracts, right He was He's
bounced a little bit around the NBA, but he got
(39:06):
paid a bunch of money, and so he's good. And
he didn't care if we mentioned his name randomly on
the are He had one big quarter back in the
day and and there you go. So I saw the
menu the randomly popped in. I had the Master's dinner,
the champions dinner Scottie Scheffler threw together because if you
win the Masters the next year, you put together the menu.
(39:28):
And I recall mentioning a messaging my friends sports with Coleman.
This is like one of the first times I'd actually
eat the menu. Like most of the menu they had
like cheeseburger sliders on there. They had meatball raviolie bites,
like that's that right. I didn't even eat the chili.
It's like it's like corn chip chili. I'd eat that.
And they had ribbi. It's like right in my wheel.
(39:48):
A good job by Scottie Scheffler. That's my kind of
menu me rare and golf
We go welcome. It's our numb b win as we
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side by side. It's like wine and cheese. Unbelievable because
I don't like wine. I don't mind cheese though. Anyway,
Here an hour number one on this twentieth day of March.
Free agent wide receivers Stefawn Diggs is in Foxborough to
meet with the Patriots. How do you assess this one? Also?
Why would the Patriots want a multi time bad actor
(00:49):
like receivers Defawn Diggs? And free agent offensive tackle Cam
Robinson has signed with the Texans. Do you find that significant?
We'll go there as well. We'll sp the beans on
all that right now here. It is our number one. Hey, you.
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a polarizing figure in the NFL. It's still NFL shopping season.
We're a little over a month away from the draft
and some movement on the flea market of football that
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I thought was interesting and I have editorial control. So
maybe he saw it or heard about it, maybe not.
I don't know. But we've learned now that the controversial
wide receiver by the name of Stefan Diggs, who authored
up the Minneapolis Miracle and it's been downhill ever since then,
back in his Viking but Stefan Diggs, who was not
(03:03):
retained by the Houston football team. They didn't make any
effort to keep him. He's free to roam around the NFL.
And we are told that at this hour Stefan Diggs
has boots on the ground in Foxboro, Massachusetts, the Commonwealth.
He is visiting with the New England football team that
used to win Super Bowls, but now they're known as
(03:25):
the Patsies if you will here and walby Patriots and Digs.
They haven't agreed to a contract. They're gonna have a
little meat and greet there, maybe some eggs, possibly some bacon.
I don't know what else they're gonna be eating, but
it is supposedly headed that direction. Now, keep in mind
there was a story the other day and that Stefan
Diggs was talking to the Raiders and hadn't been too
(03:48):
much too much noise about Stefan Diggs. But part of
the reason for that, and part of the reason that
Stefan Diggs is available and can be yours if the
price is not right. But the reason he's in the
New England area is because he's getting poked and prodded
medical exams. Because Stefon Diggs a knee went shredded, shredded ligaments.
(04:12):
Acl Boom goes to the dynamite and so that he's out,
and he's been out for four months post operation and
will be out much longer. So let us discuss the
question free agent wide receiver Stefawn Diggs in Foxborough at
this late hour to meet with the Patriots. How do
(04:33):
you assess this one? So I've got cookbook, garage opener,
and kindergarten, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a bowl of cherries,
is what we're going to make now. Very rarely adding
Stefon Diggs to your team is a bowl of cherries,
unless you happen to do a talk radio show, and
(04:55):
then Stefan Diggs is really good for business, really really
good for business. So my first thought on this is
that the plot thickens with New England being involved here,
and I would factor this part of the story as
a mixed messages story because if you remember, let's go
(05:16):
back in the hot up time machine, the EBB and
flow of the stories of the NFL offseason, the human
drama of gash, baggery and blowhards. So the story the
other day was that the Patriots could have had DK
Metcalf could have traded with Seattle. Certainly we're interested. If
(05:37):
they wanted DeVante Adams, they could have gotten him. They
chose not to sign those guys because they're alpha wide receivers.
They're alpha wide receivers, they're abrasive. They would not mix
well with Drake May, the neophyte quarterback of the Patriots.
So those guys are a glass. If you look at
DK Metcalf and DeVante Adams to was side by side
(05:58):
with Stefan Dicks glass of fat free milk compared to
a venomous cocktail for the player that's visiting town and
Stefan Diggs, the level of toxicity is insane. I still
get a kick. I flashed back to some of those
(06:19):
those calls from Andy the comic book guy, that Bill's
Mafia guy, who was trying to explain to me, oh no,
there's not Bills loves Stefan Digs. They could not wait
to get rid of his ass. They should have got
rid of me earlier. But Bill's Mafia, some of those
guys were completely hornswaggled by Stefan Diggs. But if you
look at his track record from Minnesota where he flamed
(06:41):
out there to Buffalo and then on to Houston. The
one common denominator in all of those locations is Stefan Diggs.
Now in two of those locations, the team actually was
better off when Diggs left town Minnesota better off, and
also Buffalo better off when dig Exitage Stage left. But
(07:01):
and for all the individual success, there's a former All
pro is at a bunch of thousand yard seasons. When
you look a little bit close, a little bit close,
you ask the question, why does the player keep bouncing around?
Why does he bounce from side to side to side
to side. And then you look at the cookbook and
you're like, oh, why is there a cookbook here? But
(07:23):
you look at the cookbook and you see the ingredients
in the recipe and it's it's equal parts temperamental. You've
got a little mild content over there. You've got classic
mood swings, look at me, diva, activity in fighting, and
then dissension. All of those things and you put them
(07:45):
all on the pot and what you get is a
hot mess. You get a hot mess. And he was
also a terrible playoff performer in Buffalo, I mean he
was bad. So you put this all together, and pretty
much everywhere he's been it's wash, rinse and repeat. You're
like going at the laundromat there and you're doing the
laundry now turning the page, but not turning the page.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Four.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
So why since this is the flavor of the day,
why would the Patriots want a bad actor likes the
fawn Diggs on their team, knowing the track record that
Diggs is a volcano, and you know it's going to erupt.
You're not sure exactly when it might be in week four,
it might be in week eight, maybe it's twelve, maybe
it's sixteen, maybe to the playoffs, but at some point
(08:31):
there'll be molten lava, kaboom, the volcano go. There's an
actual sound of the volcano. But Robert Craft is shopping.
That's the owner. He likes the orchids of Asia Day
spat there in Florida. But Robert Craft is shopping at
the discount rack. Er go. The player is priced to sell.
(08:52):
And I actually got an email from one of our
p ones there in the Boston area. Actually's out of
the sticks.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
But he sent me said, but I know you're gonna
talk about Stefan Diggs of the show, make sure you
mentioned the only reason they want him is because he's
gonna work cheap, and that's definitely part of the stow.
Stefan Diggs is at a fork in the road, the
old crossroads here.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
He's thirty two. Next season, he suffered the season inning
ACL injury, played eight games with the Texans, and prior
to that injury, in Week eight, Stefon Diggs had forty
seven catches. He had about five hundred yards receiving in
three touchdowns. It wasn't amazing. It was okay, it wasn't amazing,
(09:33):
But there was also some underlying tension between the player
and the quarterback CJ. Stroud. It was going down a
similar path to the issues that Josh Allen had in Buffalo.
So when you think diplomacy, you do not think you
(09:53):
do not think Stefon Diggs. Now. Nevertheless, the Patriots can
give Stefon Diggs something that few other NFL teams can
give him, and that is the garage opener that opens
up the back room, which is the wide receiver room.
So he just clicked the little clicker they're in the
garage door opener, and he would immediately be at the
(10:15):
very top of the totem poll for wide receivers in Foxborough.
That is one of the more depressing things. You can
look at the depth chart at wide receiver for the
Patriots who used to be good. I'm old enough to
remember when the Patriots used to be the class of
the NFL. They suck. They're back to being the Patriots
when I was a kid. The Patsy's Kashawann Boody, Kendrick
(10:39):
Bourne sounds like a James Bond character. De Mario Douglas.
Doesn't that sound like an old school taxi driver. Those
are the top wide receivers on the depth chart. So
needless to say, Stefan Diggs could walk in there or
hop in there on one leg and he'd be the
number one wide receiver in that wide receiver room for
(11:01):
the New England papers A right now, last word here,
So we quickly, we quickly go to Stefan Digg's old
team in Houston, and the Texans made a roster move. Now,
normally we try to avoid talking about offensive linemen at
all costs. It's a futile act. But I thought this
was interesting. The coverage it got was rather bizarre to me.
(11:23):
So the Texans signed a left tackle by the name
of Cam Robinson who played in Jacksonville and Minnesota. He
finished up last year with Minnesota sound a one year contract,
so it's a one year contract. And the coverage on
this was rather bizarre. I use the b word bizarre.
I saw any of it or consumed any of it,
(11:44):
but really glowing stories about what a savvy move this
was for the Houston football team. So, free agent tackle
Cam Robinson landing with the Texans, do you find that significant?
Is this significant that Cam Robinson is going to the Tech?
And so it is significant in that it is a
(12:04):
warm body. Okay, it's a warm body. In an effort
to plug a glaring hole that they got Rial Laramy Tunzel.
I thought he was getting too old or was going
to be too old soon. They wanted to be proactive,
not reactive, so they got Rial Laramy Tunzel and he
didn't have a great year last year, so they traded
him to the Commanders for a haul of draft picks
(12:26):
and Cam Robinson. His addition is like a kindergarten project.
It's a scissors and pace job for the offensive line.
Because when I saw these shorts, the reason I bring
this up is because I thought maybe my memory was
going you know, I'm doing overnight radio here and not
sleeping that Well, maybe my memory is going away, because
I very clearly remember Robinson playing in Minnesota and being
(12:53):
a turnstile. He was a matador olay oleo lay ole
as he was trying to block defensively, and so it's like,
what are we doing? And I went back and I
went through some of the numbers that are that are
out there, and Cam Robinson allowed the highest one on
one pressure rate among all offensive tackles in the NFL
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last year once he got to the Twin Cities. In fact,
from the time he put on the Viking uniform to
the end of the year, he allowed seventeen percent on
he got beat seventeen percent of the time. So well,
that's not that much. The league average nine point eight percent,
So he was eight point two percent higher if my
(13:37):
math is correct. According to the Nerd stats there, that
is a chicken product. That is chicken fertilizer. That is
chicken fertilizer is what that is. So congratulations, you did
sign a warm body, Houston Texans. You signed Cam Robinson.
And occasionally maybe he'll block someone. It's possible he'll block someone,
(13:59):
but yeah, even with that, I still maintain my position
that most sacks, most not all, but most sacks are
on the quarterback, not the offensive line, although you can't
have bad offensive lineman, and that's certainly part of the equation.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we are just
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(14:21):
night long into the wee hours of the morning. And
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our number four straight ahead. It is a Baker's dozen,
(14:43):
a Baker's dozen. And at some point here we'll get
to the story about a well known star athlete and
AI united together. What is that all about? We'll get
to it, and we will do it next.
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(16:16):
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and Bill, you didn't say my name. It's me Ben
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every single bleeping night. And I did attempt to watch
some of that college basketball from Dayton the first four
(16:39):
and eh, eh not riveny not, but prepare myself here
because today and tomorrow the next couple of days are
the biggest days of the year for college basketball. It's
like all day, it's an all you can eat buffet
and from the morning or early in the day, depending
where you are, all the way through. And so that's
(17:01):
gonna be everyone's focus. Will be heartbreak, and there'll be
terrible games. There'll be a few dominant games, and just
like every year, just like every year. And speaking of that,
you still got time. Don't don't screw this up. Don't
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I filled out my bracket. I did it yesterday in
the in the morning, and I brought out all these
nerds that you'd be very proud of me. I have
(18:40):
watched a handful of games. Unfortunately, a lot of the
games I watched were Gottlieb games teams not in the tournament.
So I've been perusing different ways to get ready for
the tournament. So I fill out my bracket and that's
on there and a bunch of the other gas bags
and blowhards here also available also available as well. The
(19:04):
Great Unwashed have a lot to say, as they always
do Gunner Rights and says why are we talking about
Stefan Diggs In the opening monologue. Gunner's upset, he's washed up,
he sucks f Yeah, you're right, Gunner, I made a
mistake there. I should have talked about the Minnesota Timberwolves,
the frauds from Minnesota to your team that lost to
the New Orleans Pelicans, embarrassing, pathetic franchise. You're right, I
(19:31):
should have talked to Anthony Edwards. Aunt Edwards played like
an ant five of nineteen from the floor. Five of
nineteen from the floor for Anthony Edwards. Bad to the bone,
bad to the bone for Anthony Edwards. It was almost
all those points coming from the foul line. And I
should have started that, Gunner. I should just pointed out
(19:53):
how embarrassing what a fraud the Minnesota Timberwolves are. That
would have been a better monologue than the Stefon Diggs monolo. Now,
mister Luciano, though he disagrees, He says ten out of
ten on the top of the hour Liddle lifting Mallard monologue.
As sorry as the fawn Diggs is, He says, I
am not surprised that he might sign with the Pages.
(20:15):
By the way, I am caught up on all the podcasts.
Great job, thank you, and don't forget. You can on
a slow day, you can go back and download any podcast.
They're all right there. In fact, some of the guys
like Toning the Bay Area. He'll go back and listen
to classic monologues. I think the archive goes back. It
doesn't go all the way back to the early days,
(20:36):
but it goes back like twenty seventeen. There's podcasts up.
There's nothing more interesting than listening to a podcast from
a rant about something that happened in twenty seventeen. Late
night drug tester right since says Free Agents Left likes
the fawn digs. It's like the Dog Show. And he
may look nice, but that beach isn't winning any awards. Yeah,
(21:00):
you don't need to be an experienced judge to see
his flaws. Yeah, there's a there's a fair amount. Berg
Dog says, I have hated regulation all my life and
I will never change. I will never change. Okay, we'll
get to the Baker's dozen. We'll get to that coming
(21:20):
up in a minute. We will also take your phone
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Next hour, we've got mallor to the third degree. And
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one cheeseball bit. I promise you. No, it's gonna know
whether you like it or not. Yeah, this is the
land of the cheeseball and not the US version. I'm
talking about the really good Canadian version, because they know
how to make cheese snacks much better, much much better
(22:03):
in Canada than they do here, not even close. All right,
let's go to the phones and in the leadoff chair.
I will likely regret this, but let's say hello to
Keg drinking Steve in Cannes City. Hello, Keig drinking Steve.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Sprung Man.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
We're another season, we got we got it all going on.
I'm getting a little bit strung myself right now with
the with all the wonderful action about to happen. Don't
don't you think that America Aaron Rodgers is an American
hero man all these all these dumb fan bases like
(22:44):
Pittsburgh and Minnesota. Someone is about to become a Super
Bowl contender when he makes his his magical decision.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
He's right.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
He's the epic.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Gunslinger of our one of the greatest, if not there
his talents in NFL history. No one gives this guy
his his new No one gives this this man who
could be our president, Aaron Rodgers. The he does what
he wants when he wants, at all times. And if
you don't like it, you can you can stick it.
(23:19):
And and you're gonna be You should be on your knees.
You should be on your hands and knees begging Aaron
Rodgers to come to Minnesota or come to Pittsburgh and
and grace his presence in your gods forsaken town and
bring you to the to the next, to the next level.
(23:40):
This guy told Danica Patrick she wanted children and and
and and Aaron said, hit the hit the hit the bricks. Woman,
You're not gonna tell me what to do for poor
tom Brady. Tom Brady uh been over backwards for that woman.
And then took time off of practice and and then
(24:01):
she went and slept with the jiu jitsu instructor and
had a kid. Man. He's not Aaron Rodgers is not
a Beta male like like like Tom Brady. We need more,
We need more men in this country who are not
going to take crap from anybody, and and we should
(24:21):
be valuing we should be valuing Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Well, I think I think you've just given him a
hawk too on the radio. I mean, what more can
you do? I mean, you just I mean we spent
like three minutes. I mean, my god, I don't think
you missed anything. You looked at all. Holy crap.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I know, I know been all of your boot looking
SICKA fans will never say a bad, bad word about
about it.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You know that's that's not true. But by the way
you're bearing, you're bearing the lead here. I don't blame
you for bearing the lead. There was a mass exodus
from the Kansas City Chiefs cheerleading squad. Defend your defend
your cheerleaders. Defend them. They all quit, nine of them,
quick tag drinking Steve, nine nine women quit, nine of them.
(25:10):
Are you gonna be Are you gonna become a cheerleader
next year? Are you going to become a cheerleader?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I told you, I told you Spring is sprung. That's
nine more angels get their nine more angels get Daddy's
wings to good.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, I'm sure, yeah, I definitely become a you become
an you know, I can't.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
I can't wait until we have a fresh, new, fresh,
new crop of talents, uh, coming from the hinterlands, fresh
off the turnip truck. Daddy likes some young and Daddy
likes some like some talented.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
So yeah, I'm sure, all right, all right, thank you,
go away. You're you're annoying me. You were on long enough,
it was that was We're good. The rare inappropriate phone
call in the NFL offseason from Keg drinking Steve making
his appearance felt well, the Baker's dozen get out, Well,
(26:05):
not quite get the scar out, but get the scars ready.
Congratulations to the forefather of the next generation of Americans.
That would be Miami Dolphin wide receiver Tyreek Hill, who
has now a big announcement there on the TikTok. He
and his wife they are excited because Tyreek Hill is
(26:26):
planning to have his thirteenth child. That's right, the thirteenth child.
That's a Baker's dozen. Congratulations mazele tav to that Sugarna
Tyreek Hill. Now, if you're keeping short, now he is married,
but that's only going to be his second child with
his wife. Hill had a very productive twenty twenty four
(26:47):
according to the Internet Tyreek Hill in I guess he
really had a productive twenty twenty three and early twenty
twenty four because if they did the math on this
and Tyreek Hill, he actually scored more touchdowns off the
field than he did on the field. As it is
said that he had five kids with five different women
(27:10):
in twenty twenty four. That's the five by five are
not the five guys, the five gals, I guess is
a new restaurant. But so Tyreek very busy there. So
congratulations the thirteenth child for Tyreek Hill on the way,
which means if my malor math is correct, that Tyreek
is going to have to keep playing football until he's
(27:31):
about sixty five years old about retirement age. He's going
to have to keep playing or Tyreek Hill will be
on the updated documentary of Broke so well on the math,
what's the man, he gotta play another eighteen years because
you got the child support payments and all that, so
you got to you gotta go. Joe the ghost Hunter says, Ben,
(27:51):
bad job by you. You should have had Steve blow
into the phone and tests his blood alcohol level. But
we don't need to test Joe the ghost Hunter when
it comes to Steve. I mean, we know going in,
we know what's happening here. We were fully aware when
Keig drinking Steve. It's in his name. When Keg drinking
(28:13):
Steve comes on, you know what you're getting. You're fully
aware of what you're gonna get. It is no surprise
at all. All right, let's go back to the phone.
A very controversial caller. Also, people have very strong opinions
about this particular person. Let's say hello to Andre and
his dog Willis Is it a real dog or Now
I believe it's real. There are still skeptics out there
(28:36):
and Andre and the Commonwealth and his dog Willison. Now Andre,
is it true, Andre, that you drove down to the
airport to pick up Stefon Diggs and drive him over
to Foxboro.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Good evening, Ben that that cannot be substantive that drove
down to pick up Stefan.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
No I did.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
I did not, based on the fact that I was
surprised but hopeful that Stefan Diggs was making his way
to the common Wealth. Based on how the season started
with the Houston Texans when he was healthy across from
Miko Collins. It was working, but Stefan dig as they
say for me, want shame on you for me twice
(29:20):
shame on me. This is not the first stop where
he's had a talented quarterback but wasn't able to see
eye to eye. Right in Buffalo, the true frandom, the
Bill's mafia out there after the games, you know, kind
of power bombing innocent tables. Some some might have been guilty,
but many I felt were innocent. But nonetheless, in the
(29:41):
freezing cold, they're out there is dropping, you know, the
the macho man Randy Salvage elbow on those tables. So
a very proud fandom. But him and Josh Allen were
friends for a time and then next thing you know,
is cursing the mountain sideline when things went sideways against
Joe and Joe Burrow. So the bottom line, U, thank
you for mentioning willis a little bit late. He's resting
(30:03):
right now, He's resting, and he's uh so next episode,
I'm gonna make theft. But I made it clear he's
got to get get the Snacker Rudies and we're gonna
get him on the air barking, having a good time,
but for right now resting. But Ben listen, this is hope,
This is hopeful and conclusion dig in New England, we
need playmakers.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
We we we we it's not.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
The system, it's the talent within the system that wins.
We've learned that the hard way. So I'm hopeful that
he can come to an agreement with Mike Rabel. Drake
Maye is capable and we can get this thing roll
because never mind the game that we wanted, we shouldn't
want to end the season. But the empire, uh is
(30:44):
pretty far off in the review. Patriots are in a
spot right now. But I think I think everybody would agree.
Never mind the fact that builds out there doing yoga
with his you know, uh a team assistant girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
That yoga thing that was like something to do with
a little kid, like that was a is that yoga?
Does that count as yoga? Isn't that what you do
like a little kid? You put the kid on your
on your legs and do they the helicopter thing in
that like a yoga move or not a yoga it's
like a kid thing you're playing with like a parent
playing with a kid is what I meant to say
on the beach, and that.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
It's not like it was posted as yoga. It was
posted by the young leaders.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Well, you say whatever, you say, whatever you want. I mean,
it's fine and say what you want. But I don't
believe that is I mean, I'm not a yoga expert.
We can go next to there's a yoga studio right
next door. Maybe we go ask them, but I do
not believe that is yoga. I believe that something something
different there.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
So yeah, I can cur I need a little bit
of yoga, you know. I got to make sure my
agility isn't what it used to be. Bench So I'm
all for you know, the poses and staying loose and
limber and healthy and all the rest of that. But
that looks like the game that you play on in
the elementary school playground, you know, with you know, you
have to put them up and you have a good time.
But it appears to be working, you know, for for them.
(31:55):
You know, I'm go ahead. But the fact of the matter,
the point that mister Belichick was brought up, is because
we've learned the hard ways, right, it's players not programmed
that at the end of the day, make the difference.
We we haven't had the players, so we haven't had
the program here in New England. So Diggs, regardless of
the gusty he kicks up in other destinations, if Rabel
can get through to him some kind, somehow, some way,
(32:16):
we need him here. We need him here in the Commonwealth. There,
it's gonna be another year in the lottery. From me
and Willis, who's sleeping right now, we're gonna be back
with the malin Militia. Benz, thanks so much for taking
the time.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
But we're gonna see with the spirit spirit next time.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
All right, Right, there were Diggs left. He left the
stadium early after one of those Bills playoff games, like
he he didn't even go a lot if I remember correctly,
and it was a couple of years ago, so I'd
have to go back and and check my notes, but
I'm I'm pretty sure that he just left the stadium
and didn't even go into the locker room, like just
went in his uniform and went to the parking lot
(32:50):
and took off like I don't even think he changed.
I think he just he skid at all out of there,
like it was done. I think it was that was
that the twenty he said that must have twenty twenty
two or twenty two must have been twenty twenty two.
I would think that's one of the bad playoff performances,
and he had a couple of them with the Buffalo Bills.
He vanished. He was not a big game player in
(33:12):
Buffalo at all. All right, it is the Ben Mahler show.
Not in the playoffs. He wasn't. Here's the who am I? Game?
And where I pretend to be somebody else? Thus we
call it the who am I? Game? Who works? Sola?
Luka Donzig joined Devin Booker and me as the only
(33:34):
players to have twenty or more points, three or more rebounds,
three or more assists, one or more steals, and one
or more blocks in a quarter in NBA history. Again,
there's a stat for everything, and this is proof there is.
Luka Donzik joined Devin Booker and me is the only
players with twenty or more points, three or more rebounds,
(33:55):
three or more assists, one or more steels, and one
or more blocks in a quarter in NBA history. Who
am I? That is the question? The answer. We'll get
to it. If you know it, send me a listage
on x at Ben Maler. We'll get to it. We
will do it next.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
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Speaker 4 (34:25):
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(35:13):
didn't say my name against It's me Ben. As we
are rolling through the overnight hours, time to pay off
the who am I? Games? Who timd somebody else? Yes?
The who am I? Game? Who? All right? Here we go.
Luca Donzik joined Devin Booker, that's a basketball player for
the Suns and me as the only players with twenty
(35:36):
or more points, three or more rebounds, three or more assists,
one or more steals, and one or more blocks in
a quarter the NBA history. Who am I that the question?
What's the answer? Scrooge in the Bay Area going with
the tin Man as his answer, The King Rory says,
Vincent Kennedy McMahon, Yeah, I saw that he's had a
lot of work done. He was at the Knicks game,
(35:58):
Vince McMahon Nixon Heat game the other night on Saint
Patrick's Day. That was the Tracy Morgan game where he
puked all over the court and they delayed the game
for ten minutes because there was barf everywhere. As the
same game celebrity row Man, there you go, mister nice guy,
going with Dick Drago as his answer. Who else do
we have? Charlie Hull, who's twenty nine today from late
(36:20):
Night drug tester Patient zero, guest by Alf the Alien
ol Pine of the Great Rudy Gobear of your Utah.
Jazz Andy in lion Ol Lakes, Minnesota says the answer
has to be mister perfect Kurt Henning, Shane and the Moynes,
says former Fifth Hour podcast guest omar Vis Skel said
(36:43):
to be the answer from Shane in Des Moines, Elton
Brand guest by Rob in Minnesota. Who else you have?
Terry in England going with Satchel Page and remember the
late great Vin Scully telling the story about how Satchel
Paige got his nickname. Great, great story. He was working
like child labor and carrying I think it was there
(37:04):
a train station or a bus station, carrying bags around,
and that's how he got the name Satchel Page. Who
else do we have? Payems not his real first name, obviously,
DJ Spin going with Lou Brock as his answer. Mickey,
who is locked in in State forty eight, says Danny Tartable.
(37:25):
That's it. You're dating yourself, Mickey with the name Danny Tartable.
That's old school. That's like nineties baseball right there. That's
a while ago. Gil in San Diego says Barbara Streisan's
yoga instructor is the correct answer? All right? Who else
do we have? Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, going with Earl
(37:45):
the Pearl Monroe as his answer, mister Luciato, who's completely
caught up on the podcast, says, Carlo Gambino is the answer?
All right? Who else? Page? And I don't know if
we want to read that on the air, Lizzo was
guessed there not unfortunately not Lizzo. Lizzo. Did we save
(38:09):
Lizzo for the jokes? Will should be coming up later?
All right, Mary, do you have an answer? Married?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Actually?
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Mary stepped away as her cousin Marie, but she actually
told me to say mugsy bows Mexi bogussy.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
That was actually pretty good. I kind of felt like
I was somewhere in England like Terry. Probably Terry in
England's like oh man, one of my neighbors. No, it
is not muggsy bogues, but pretty solid. No, Luca Doncik,
joining Devin Booker and me the only players with twenty
plus points, three plus rebounds, three plus assists, one plus
deal and one plus block in a quarter in NBA history.
(38:46):
The answer would be none other than Fred van Vliet
van Velit. Anyway, I can get Fred van Vliet's name
on the on the show. But he got paid, he
on one of those big contracts, right He was He's
bounced a little bit around the NBA, but he got
(39:06):
paid a bunch of money, and so he's good. And
he didn't care if we mentioned his name randomly on
the are He had one big quarter back in the
day and and there you go. So I saw the
menu the randomly popped in. I had the Master's dinner,
the champions dinner Scottie Scheffler threw together because if you
win the Masters the next year, you put together the menu.
(39:28):
And I recall mentioning a messaging my friends sports with Coleman.
This is like one of the first times I'd actually
eat the menu. Like most of the menu they had
like cheeseburger sliders on there. They had meatball raviolie bites,
like that's that right. I didn't even eat the chili.
It's like it's like corn chip chili. I'd eat that.
And they had ribbi. It's like right in my wheel.
(39:48):
A good job by Scottie Scheffler. That's my kind of
menu me rare and golf
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