March 26, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about J.J. McCarthy not being told he's Vikings QB1 in 2025, the latest on Trey Hendrickson in Cincinnati, more than 1,000 D1 men's basketball players who entering the transfer portal, Eddie Garcia stops by for an in-studio visit, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dingmed Dong. It's our nub two hour two of the pod,
and a happy Wednesday to you. It's the twenty sixth
day of the month of March year and we talk
all things football. Also this hour the return of the
Great Eddie Garcia. He makes a visit and Sirias Sean
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but Eddie Garcia in studio later this hour our friend
member the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. But here at
the beginning, what do you read into JJ McCarthy not
being told he's the Vikings QB one in twenty twenty five?
And how would you classify Trey Hendrickson's status in Cincinnati?
Plus do you have a word for more than one
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thousand d one men's basketball players who have entered the
transfer portal? We'll talk about all of those stories and
more right now, give it up for our number two.
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a little bit. But our lead this hour is from
the Twin Cities. That's right, from the Twin Cities.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Was there a big move? No, there was not. But
as the dust settles settles down in the quarterback shuffle
comes to a halt. We mentioned in a previous hour
that mister unlimited Russell Wilson has found a new home.
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He's heading to the New York Football Giants that play
across the Hudson there in New Jersey, And so you
can eliminate him from the board. And by the process
of elimination, that means more likely than not that Aaron
Rogers is taking his talents to the Land of the
insur or to Malibu if they get an expansion franchise.
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So the Vikings have decided to avoid Temptation Island. It
would appear that they have decided they're not going to
add a veteran quarterback, at least not right now. And
that means what well. JJ McCarthy chimed in on his situation,
if you will, in the landscape in Minnesota and what's
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going on. So if you didn't hear what he had
to say, perhaps not. JJ McCarthy saying that the Vikings
have not have not informed him that he will be
the team starting quarterback in twenty twenty five. McCarthy telling
podcast this Week that the Minnesota coaching staff have not
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officially named him the top quarterback there, and so he's like,
I'm just you know, going shown up. And of course
he said this from some golf course in Mexico for
some reason why he was there. I'm sure there was
something he was promoting. JJ McCarthy. So yeah, So the
Vikings say they're not pursuing Aaron Rodgers at this time,
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and yet they have not named McCarthy. At the top
of the depth chart, so let us discuss the question,
what do you read in to JJ McCarthy not not
being told that he is QB number one number of
the vikings in twenty twenty five. So I've got dressing
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the Wheel and doctor Evil, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
a juicy lucy. That's the local culinary delight there in Minnesota.
The juicy losey cheeseburger with the cheese on the inside.
That's the way to do it, all right. So we'll
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put all these things together. We'll make some magic now.
Number number one, that's right, number one. So in terms
of McCarthy not getting the top designation on the Minnesota
depth chart, so I give this whole thing side I.
That's my first thought here. You don't get caught up
in the semantics, right, don't get caught up in the
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semantics and all that stuff. It's all being telegraphed. It's
all being telegraphed there in Minnesota. You say, we're not
interested in Aaron Rodgers, and Russell Wilson signs justin fields.
All the other quarterbacks are off the board other than
Joe Flacco and guys like that. But the big names
are off the board. So you look around and you say,
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all right, what's going on here? Quarterback carousels slowing down, down, down, down,
down down down, and what do you got? What do
you got? Well, the only other option would be reacquiring
Kirk Cousins from the Atlanta football team. Good luck on that. Yeah,
that's unlikely. And so McCarthy, you know, he says he
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does not. He has not been formally named. The verbiage
formally named QB one there. That is dressing, is what
it is. It is not salad dressing, No, not thousand
isles or the Devil's Blood ranch dressing. No, no, no,
it's window dressing. That is what it is. Coming off
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knee surgery in the exhibition season that cost him his
entire rookie season, his entire rookie campaign, McCarthy was snap
crackle pop. He was out. McCarthy would would have to
publicly defecate on the Viking logo at the fifty yard
line and then go to each end zone and urinate
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in the end zones in order for him to not
to not end up as the starting quarterback when the
season begins. And do you really need to formally name
a starting quarterback at this particular point. The other quarterback
the Vikings have on their roster is Brett Rippon. If
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Brent Rippin is on your roster, things are not going well.
I think you have a terrible blind spot on your
football team. You just do and unless the Vikings pull
a horseshoe out of their badonka donc and do the unthinkable,
the unimaginable and pull off some kind of trade for
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Justin Herbert, which had been mentioned in some clickbait stories
last week from people desperate for attention that run logs
in Minnesota. So outside of that, don't hold your breath.
And so you're like, all right, at this particular point,
Mike McCarthy, not Mike McCarthy, JJ McCarthy, JJ McCarthy is
going to be the starting quarterback and outside of another
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snap crackle, Pop is going to put up at least
above average umber. Sam Darnold went out and put up
pretty good regular season numbers because of the quarterback friendly
offense of Kevin O'Connell. You've got Justin Jefferson and Jordan
Addison in a decent tight end. Is still a little
bit left in the tank for TJ Hockinson. So you're
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in decent shape now page two. Test. Since he said
and Natty we Go and the ben Gals, the Bengals
have decided that no moss on the trade. The trade
talks involving all pro defensive star Trey Hendrickson have come
to an end. Does this mean that a new contract
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is about to be announced? Not so fast, my friend, No,
that is not the case. Hendrickson was given permission to
shop his warars at the flea market of the NFL
to go around and find a deal. And how's that
working out?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
According to Jordan Schultz, the guy that loves a good Starbucks,
Donning Brook, Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports telling us the
trade is DA at this point, dead on arrival, as
the Bengals are no longer no longer considering a Trey
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Hendrickson trade. Instead, they want to pay him. They would
like them him. So how do you classify the latest
reporting on the status of Trey Hendrickson in Cincinnati? So
it is a wheel, right, this is the wheel I
classified as the wheel of fortune, meaning that Trey Hendrickson's
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going to win a big pile of money on the
wheel of fortune. Now, whether that's in Cincinnati or not.
I'm still not buying that. There's no chance of trade
happens these things. There's up and down, there's the EBB
and the flow of this. And so right now, as
of a few hours ago, Trey Hendrickson was off the
the trade market. But he's going to get paid either way.
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And so it's an if he proposition still whether the
Bengals actually pony up the money because they gave all
their wide receivers and their quarterback money, and so the
defense sucked with Trey Hendrickson. The defense can suck without
Trey Hendrickson. No contract, to my knowledge, has been signed.
So as long as a contract has not been signed,
the t's crossed and the the eyes dotted. As long
as that hasn't happened, right then there's still some skin
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in the game. There's still some opportunity here. And if
you look at the future, it's like a nautical chart here,
it's like a nautical chart. With Trey Henderson, go any direction,
whichever direction the tide takes you. I can go out
to see maybe a big wild wave will come up
and all that. But the Bengals, it's been about three
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weeks In fact, I think it's almost been exactly three
weeks since the Bengals said, go out and find a trade.
So Trey Henderson, from what we're being told, he went
out and found multiple teams that were willing to trade
him and pay him. Multiple teams, all right, we'll give
you the money we got you. We're good, we'll pay you.
All right, So he went out and found teams that
would like to trade him and pay him, and the
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Bengals hung up. They said, ah, we're good, we don't
want to do it, and they worked out the financials
and all that. There were some issues about the trade compensation.
There's some questquestions about that, but Cincinnati claims they never
received a fair market offer, although there's other people debating
whether that's true or not. All right, now, final point,
we go to college basketball. That's right, college basketball now.
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It's all dead right now until Thursday. So we have
to get through the rest of Wednesday, and then it's
on again Thursday night, the Sweet sixteen, and that'll be
taking place Thursday, and then again on Friday, and then
by the end of the weekend will be down to
the final four. The thinning of the herd, The road
to the Alamo, the road to San Antonio for the
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Final Four. But the story in college basketball involving the portal.
And here's the question, do you have a word or
words for more than one thousand, more than one thousand,
d one men's basketball players that have already entered the
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transfer a portal. This thing just opened up on Monday
and we're already over a thousand players that have entered
the portal. So I've got well, I've got a couple
of words. My words are opportunistic mercenaries. That is what
they do. And I get it. I listen, I would
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do the same thing. I did a show this week
with a guy that was a big star back in
the eighties, Rodney Pete, college star, and I was I
would say, hey, Rodney, you know, you would probably make
a ton of money changing schools and all that. And
he then pointed out he was a big star at
USC back in the day, and he's like, I would
have gotten the bag at USC. I would not have
needed to go from school to school. The school. But
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you look around and you talk about soldiers of fortune
and it's like Doctor Evil from Austin Powers And the
best part of the transfer portal. The very best part
is that no one can stop the players from relocating.
Can't do it. It's all about chasing the bag, is
what it is. The relentless pursuit of wealth and prosperity
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is what it is. If you do some Malor math,
you do the Malord math on this. There are three
hundred and sixty five NC DOUBLEA Division one schools. My
math is correct, it's right around there, so in three
sixty three sixty five, I think it's three sixty five
all the way from the team that won the championship
to our friend Gottlieb's Green Bay team, so they're all
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over the map. And each team, as I understand, it
has fifteen scholarships available. So you do the math on that.
That means there are a maximum of scholarship athletes five
four hundred and seventy five. Are you staying with me,
There'll be a ven diagram on this. So five hundred,
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four hundred and seventy five total available scholarships D one
men's basketball. So if you take away the players that
are no longer eligible meeting, they've graduated and they can't
continue to play or they have no eligibility to laugh
That means, if my malor math is correct, that two
out of every ten college basketball players have requested to
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go to a different school twenty percent. And it's only
been a day now. A lot of these deals are
done way in advance. These guys are out shopping their
wares in the transfer portal, even before the transfer portal
opens up, and they've got a little side hustle, little deal,
a little shuffle, and they find new teams. It is
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the isn't that crazy? Twenty percent? It is the Ben
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He was a little camera shot.
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My god, should his cohort come as well?
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Speaker 5 (18:25):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Everybody there?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
He is?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
He stopped by and you've got your sidekick with you
over there?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah I do. Uh sirious Sean. Uh, you know I've
been meaning to come in and see you guys.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, you're anytime you I would say, whenever you want
to come.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
By any out It's not really there's nothing on my way,
you know what I mean. It's not convenience.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It's that convenient for you to make. It's out of you.
We're way far away from where you live.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
And uh.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Also, I'm you know, I'm I've got normal sleep schedule now.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So now you're just rubbing in, Eddie. Now you're rubbing
it in that you're not a nocturnal place an he
comes in here and he throws a haymaker right away?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
How do you just switch to the day sleeping hour.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Dreaded day show.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I'm weird, Lorena. It just it. I just did it.
It wasn't hard. I just really Yeah. I think I
told you guys when I was still here that anytime
I lay my head down, if it's dark and quiet,
off all asleep at any time of the day. So
it's very unusual. But yeah, so it's weird. It's weird
getting up at like nine in the morning and doing things.
It's very unusually.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
No, I can. I don't think even if I didn't
have this job, I don't think I would get up
early and all that. So I've always been more of
a nocturnal person.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But I did.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I saw you the Charger games a few times in
the NFL games. I tried to see you at a
King's game. Yeah, the King's pr staff, who I used
to have a good relationship with, even right back to me.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
They've got new people there.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Oh, maybe that's the problem. Yeah, maybe I emailed the
old people. Maybe the email didn't bounce back. So I
was like I told that. I was like, I'm going
to meet you at a King's game, and I ISSU
was going to go out there and kind of get.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Into the can. They're at hot right now.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, I know they have. They have like this the
greatest home streak in King's history or something like that, right,
and you do for those that don't know Edie's you know,
mister hockey of course. And you've got multiple hockey podcasts,
is that right?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You've got I do, and I actually have another one
that's coming up.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Another one really, So you got the Kings one, yeah,
and then you've got the one that you've done for
a long time, right.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, that's just for fun with that's just with my Yeah,
for my old college friend. Yeah, and we've kind of
been doing it for so long now that we just
like can't stop doing it. At this point. It seems
like I don't know, uh, but the other you could
stop it, you could, we could, but it just it
would you know, it would disappoint a lot of people.
And yeah, some people anyway. Uh, the other one though, Yeah,
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I'm actually getting paid for that, The La Kings one
that's walked on La King.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
That's more important. So a lot of Kings people will
find that on where you look at their podcasts of course. YouTube.
Oh YouTube, you're a YouTuber.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Now you're an influence of that.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I hate being on YouTube. Do you like being on YouTube?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah? I don't mind it?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Really yeah, I hate it? Uh?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
And also currently it's on Amazon fire TV really yeah? Okay, anyways,
what is that? I don't know. I don't have it.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
So coup probably knows you don't have a fire stick.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I do not have a fire stick now, yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Is that legal? It's like it's like roku right, yeah, okay,
and you're on there.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, I'm uh, if you don't mind me saying so,
I'm April to tenth starting a new NHL show. It's uh,
it's called NHL Game Night. It's wrapping up all the
names from your day and same thing YouTube podcast, Amazon Fires.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Wasn't that around the time that the playoffs?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Though?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
The playoffs start around it'll be it'll be one week
before the end of the regular seat and we'll get
ready for the old Stanley Cup playoffs?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Is Sean gonna be on the show with you? Serious?
Sean gonna be on with you.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
We'll see tune in to find out.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Wow, Sean's excited about it. He was dancing. The reason
we played the song is because serious Sean we've known.
Remember when he came in here he was in high school.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I really do remember the day he came in with
the teacher.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I remember getting the email from his teachers like Sewan's
a big fan of show and he wanted to come in.
I was like, okay, this, I'd love to meet Sean.
And then Sean came in here and now ten years
out of high school, he's all grown up. He lives
in Phoenix now, in the Phoenix area, and he came
in and.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
He you, you guys are how do you feel? Knowing? Sincerely?
What's that that the highlight of Shawn's year is coming
in to see you? And me?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Well, no, you, I think it's more you.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Bad both of us and be a part of the
Ben Mallor.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Show, Salo show and see I don't even that Mike words,
is that might work? I think that might works. Let's see,
hold on, is it for me?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
If not, you got to go sit by Ben.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh yeah, definitely does.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Not work over here and see now people on both sides.
I mean, I don't know, Oh, you're going to be sandwiched, Ben,
I don't know if all right, so you got three podcasts,
you're doing all right with that. I do have to
get out to a King's game, though, I would like
to go out there. It was very I felt hurt, Eddy.
I felt I used to go back in the at
the forum when they were playing there. I used to
go out there and cover the team, and I was like.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Wow, that's a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That's a long time.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, I'll I'll tell you the people.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
You let me know. You're a made man over there, right,
You're connected, man, You're like a little bit. Look at
Eddie's connected over high Sean sailor your fans serious Sean,
Yeah go Eddie go, okay, all right, come down.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I wish there was like a boss out there somewhere
who loved me like Sean does I know?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Right? Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
And he's the only one that goes with me to
all the games and wants to hang out and do
all the fun stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, I know, what is Eddie like your hero? Is
he like the top of the list there?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Yes, aside from family, from.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Family, he's kind of like family. All right, he's kind
of like family.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Yeah he is. He's a family friend.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I would say, like uncle Eddie.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Yeah, I actually did have an uncle ed back in
the day before.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I did too. I had an uncle ed back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Everybody ever, doesn't everybody have uncle?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
No, I don't have an uncle.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You're weird.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
The weird one I had as I.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Have Shruss, I have a dick and I.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Twenty twenty five. That's yeah, it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I missed the drops. You know what was funny. I
came in here and I was I was sitting there
and I heard a couple of drops, and I'm like, oh,
I missed not having drops in my life.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
You want to hear our new ones?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah? I do.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Okay, what do we have? Well, we have the hollering
James ones a new one. We have a hollowing Yeah,
that's James.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
And then we got this one yesterday.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Let's see you and all over my face ship.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah. Yeah, that's our buddy in Vegas. That's our guy
in Vegas.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yes, Las Vegas and Mexico. Sean, Yes, the big big
Las Vegas Vegas.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
I've been to that's right.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
You've never been to Vegas? Have you not been to Vega?
You live in Phoenix. You just drive up to Vegas.
It's not that far away.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
If you've ever taken the super Chief from.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Uh, I know you take the trade shot.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Sean is kid, it goes right, Vegas, New Mexico.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Sean is the he's keeping Amtrak in business. You're literally
keeping Amtrack in business, correct, Sean? Right?
Speaker 6 (24:57):
One of them?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, if only he could get a job working on
the train.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I know you should. Why don't you get a job.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
You never want to get a job on something that
you love, Yeah, occasionally, because then you don't love it anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I wanted I love sports, I wanted to work in sports. Yeah,
so I had a job for a long time, working,
and I guess I still do. But yeah, it was great.
It was like working.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
I mean, she has a point if you look at it, like,
because I used to listen to sports talk radio all
the time, and.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Now you how often do you listen?
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Now?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Kup?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Never? Well I don't listen to But I don't want
to say I don't listen either, because I don't want
to take stuff from you know, somebody else. So I
don't listen to sports talgra. That's just that's different though
for me, I don't. I'm not consuming it or whatever
and all that.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
So well, I think it's because, you know, working on
the show. I mean, you're all the shows. The news
is the same. You know what I mean, it's.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
It's oh no, it's not. We're different. No, no, well
there was a show. Well different, we have different takes
on it. Well, there was a show. No, there was
a show here that did like Sky is falling radio
because some Juju Watkin or something that was injured, juj
Ben whatever, it's Juju whatever her name is. I don't
know that she's got hurt. He got the he got
it right. It's Juju Watkins, I got it right. Listen.
(26:09):
I know I'm him, man, I know my women's basketball.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Come on, I don't say I have no idea what
you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It's it's awesome, it's great. You know, when I left here,
you don't have to pretend like you're interested.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
In stuff that no one. When I left here, the
basketball left the face of the earth for me. Let
you know, I heard Luca, I heard I could not
hear that. It was such a big man. Literally everything
else NCAA tournament NB I had. I knew nothing about it,
and I'm so happy.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Well, Eddie's stopping by. Hey, Kathy, and Madison says hello,
and kay is welcome back, Eddie. Good to hear your
voice again. And el FaZe writes and says, can you
let Loraina know we don't play Sandstorm until Friday? Well
we had Sean, Sean, that's because of you, Sean, that
guy my theme song.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
It's okay, Well, everyone doesn't know what day of.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
The weekend is now, everyone's can fuse here.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Okay. It's only once every two years, maybe one or
two times a year. And that's it.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
One or two times you come in here, one or
two times a year.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Yeah, that's when we play it, like when it's not Friday.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
And also I didn't play the drops with it, so
it's not the same.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Okay, Yeah, No, do you care? Do you care about baseball? Anya,
you're done with baseball too, You're over with baseball. I
don't care about you don't care about No.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
It's our team's year. We're gonna win the World Series.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
It was your team, Uh, Sean likes the Pirates.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Pirates.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like the Pirates.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
We're gonna kick their in the Dodgers' faces this year.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
That I'll tell you. I'll bet you ten grand right
now about ten thousand nothing.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
I would rather bet that they're gonna lose their next game.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Don't bet bet anything. He still doesn't pay off.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
At this point. It would be disappointing if he did. Right.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
No, I pay off my bet.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
I ate the ball I heard from Eddie.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I think I don't believe that.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
I've literally never seen you like properly pay off.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
There was one time I wore a paper bag in
my head one time for a show because the Clippers
lost to the Cavaliers.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well, I think you kind of just did that because
of you know.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
No. No, the cave is after Lebron went to Miami
and the Calves. They were one loss away from sitting
the North American record for most consecutive losses and they
beat the Clippers, and I was so embarrassed. I said,
if they lose that game, I would have put a
paper back.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
It was one time he bought pizza one time.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I remember I did I bought pizza. Remember I remember
when I walked to Arizona because of the Arizona Wildcast
lost to Illinois and the n CUAA tournament.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
That was a long time ago. And you did not
do that.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I did.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I did. I told management. I took two steps towards
Arizona and la like they give a well Andrew Ashwood, No,
he did. He said, Ben, you're gonna die. And I
thought it would have been great publicity. And then you're like,
well no, I said, I said it would be good.
And then we did the math on how long it
would have taken me to walk to Arizona, and it
would have taken about four months. And they said, we
(28:57):
don't think we could do that. For I could probably
walk there in four now now now, back then, no,
you would have. You would have died. You probably would
have died. Actually, yeah, what depends what time of the
year it was. That's where Sean lives in serious Seawan
and Arizona. You like to heat their showing you're a
big fan of the heat.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
Yeah, I've gotten it doesn't really get to me now.
It's like it's it's only here for like three months
and then that's it.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
It's only one hundred and thirty degrees for three months.
What's the big deal, right, just turn the AC on.
You're good to go on that.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Yeah, it was. It's also monsoon time too, because you
know we got the rain.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Oh yeah, monsoon.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
That's our rainy season in late June the early September.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Any traveling any have you been able to do any traveling?
And you're locked in with hockey, so you can't go anywhere.
Your same same issues. You're not a big traveler, though.
You you go, like for a football season.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
You go somewhere. Yeah, we'll go somewhere. We're going to
the Hall of Fame again.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oh yeah, speaking of how now I'm trying to get
to Ohio for a mallor meet and greet, and I
don't want to be offended. I don't want to offend anyone. However,
I didn't say. But however, So there's a listener who's
a big, big fan of the show who runs this
restaurant bar in Ohio. Right, He's like, where in Ohio? Well,
(30:08):
here's the thing, all right, this is the problem. So
he's been he's been contact me. He's very kind of
loves the show. He listens to the podcast they do
on the weekends. He's a big fan, and he's like, hey,
I want you to come to my establishment. And I
was like okay. And so then I did a little
research over the last couple of days trying to figure
out travel arrangements to get because I got to pay
out of pocket. The company doesn't pay for this stuff.
(30:29):
I pay out of my pocket. So I was going
to go, and then it's in Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
There is strong with that.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
There's no direct flights to Columbus, Ohio. It's an all.
It's like an eight hour minimum situation, which means like
a three hour layover. That's minimum, and most of it
is like twelve hours thirteen fourth.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
You went to South Carolina, I'm sure there was no
direct flight for wherever it was he went there.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
It wasn't actually that because you drove. We drove, we flew,
flew to Atlanta, and then it took a little puddle
jumper to Myrtle Beach and then drove from Myrtle Beach
and wasn't that back. But this would be like a
whole thing. So I'm thinking maybe I should do like Cincinnati.
Well you don't give me the evilaiyah. I think Cincinnati
or Cleveland because there's more flights to those places.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, we'll fly into Cleveland and drive down there.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
And you've checked every airline then for no direct flights, and.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
You no, there's no direct flights to Columbus from l A.
I know that. I don't think there's direct flights to
Cleveland either. I think Cincinnati.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Unfortunately the lines that runs.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
He's taking every train line. Have you taken just about
every train line at amshrak has at this point.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
I've taken the Northern Empire Builder and Capitol Limited routes
right the Empire Builder.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Have you taken the one from like up the I
ninety five corridor, from like Boston down the East coast?
Have you done that one? I've taken the ESLA for
that's the one from like Boston to d C or whatever.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
And yeah, I took it from DC to New York
and then I took a commuter to the EWR.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
We should get Sean like a train podcast asked, Yeah,
do you have miniature trains?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Do you have like a train set at home? Do
you have those trains?
Speaker 6 (32:04):
You know what some my uncle's friend of the my
uncle's friend of the family. Yeah, he gave me one
that he made and I put it right right, uh
right right from you mess it up or something like that,
you screwed it up. No, I didn't, it didn't. It's
up there all by itself and I haven't touched it
since I put it there.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Wait, so do you only you only know the Amtrak routes?
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Well, I know there several commuter routes like Metrolink and
New Jersey Transit and Sound Transit and all that.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
You have to travel all the countries, Like don't they
have a train that goes by through Siberia and Russia?
Isn't there like a Russian train that goes all the
way through Siberia. You can take that and go to China.
I'm sure they got a train in China. You can
go all of them, you know.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
I think the biggest ones they have are the ones
that go out of King's Cross in the UK. I
think that's one of the biggest.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
King's Cross and that's where Harry Potter goes to get
to Hogwarts.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Yeah, how about Japanese bullet trains out of Oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
My dad did that was I think in Germany they
have some of those to those bullet lines.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Or no, Japanese know it for the bullet train though
know for that.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Right about China. I think China has someone too.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Oh, the China has the train that goes through the building.
I saw a video and yeah, I did see that.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
The Lorraina saw the baseball game in China.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
She was telling.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
The bullet trains in China. In Japan, the Shinknsin, they
go so fast. When we were on when my wife
and I were on our honeymoon, we got on the
Shinkansin going the wrong direction, and the problem we just
like took a nap ate. I didn't realize for two
hours we were on the other side of Japan.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
But only take your ticket and say hey, you're on
the wrong train. Then nobody took the ticket. They just
said they just let you go.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
And because you get you like you know, the you
scan the ticket to get into the I don't know
what the platform, and then you just you're supposed to
get on the train going the correct direction.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
So it's like Bart, I guess in a way.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yes, very similar to Bart. Yes, yes, the trains in
Japan and Bart, Yes, a few less vagrants in Japan.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
I would think it sounds like what i'd use the
clipper card for scanning it to go in and tap
again to go out.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Okay, there's a there's a shot, got Eddie hanging out
with us though you didn't be here for a while, right,
you're not going anywhere?
Speaker 6 (34:24):
R Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I want to give a shout out to Sure when
the judge.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
We don't do shout outs. An I just did it.
We don't do. It's not a morning show, we don't do.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
He is listening to the show. Big fan of the
show is that former judge here in Las nice man?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Sure when the judge? Awesome? How do you know him?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
He contacted me after you know what happened. Yeah, and
he just kind of stayed in contact.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Oh that's great. Yeah, you find out how many people
really love you. Right, You probably get a lot of
love and people are still go I got a ton
of I get a lot of crap. They for guy,
and they think I gave you the guillotine. I did not,
had nothing to do with it. But people get rid.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I shouldn't this because you've mentioned it a million times.
How long was your vacation? Six months and twenty Okay,
so I still got two more months.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
You got two more months. I was it was? Jane
Well knows what was it? No, it's January twentieth of nine,
the inauguration day, the new president, the changing of the
guard at the White House, and got whacked and then
yeah is that six months? Twenty six months?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Still still more?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Enjoy your vacation. Two more months, you enjoy your time off?
There All right is the Ben Mahlor Show. And look
at the clock. Here are we doing the third degree? Still, Cooper?
Are we doing it?
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Cool? All right, coops?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
All right? If you want to fail? Oh no, no, I
mean we got Eddie whatever. Here's the instant tribute. So
on opening Day, which is tomorrow, Austin Wells, Yeah, tomorrow's
opening day. Well, they already had the Dodgers and the
Cubs in Japan, but the US opening day is tomorrow.
So Austin Wells will become the first catcher to bat
(36:03):
leadoff in Yankees' history. Blank holds the record for the
most starts batting leadoff by any catcher in a season.
I think Eddie'll probably get that. Sean might get that
as well. That is the insta trivia. The answer. We'll
get to it, and probably not. Mallard of the third degree,
and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
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top of your screen. All right, and we roll on
here it is I Ben and Eddie's saying that Sirias
Sean and not just short change you, Sean, but it's
more about Eddie.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
You know, I don't know what to disrespect you.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
We love it and we love you, and we love
Eddie and we haven't seen Eddie in a while, and
it's good that Eddie's hears. We're happy about that. Here's
the who am I game? And this is where we
pretend to be somebody else. No cheating, don't do not cheat,
don't do that. Look over my show game. Oh that's right,
the Instant Tribute. Confused though, here's the instant Tribute right
here we go, same thing, same exactly, It's the same.
I just changed the name, all right. On opening Day,
(37:51):
Austin Wells will become the first catcher to bat lead
off in Yankees history and never done it all these years.
Blank holds the record for the most starts batting lead
off by a catcher in one season. And that is
the question. What is the answer? This ses? Anyone know
the answer? Bruce Benedict guests by Miguel on fire. Who
(38:17):
else do we have? Page Dan Mallard, prop guy says
Eddie Garcia, the voice of reason is the answer. Late
night drug test. This is no coincidence that Eddie is
on the same night the Winnipeg Jets clinched the playoff spot?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Is there?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yeah? That Bill's the Sabers guy. I don't really call
him where any of the comic book guy. I really
think he's during the day. Now you Rod the Ambassador
Bakersfield got it right bad. He's still hanging out with
US tank engine from Sean in Portland? Who else the
jet lee from Scrooge tug boat guessed by Steve the
(38:50):
misplaced San Diegan Gummy Dave's excited to He says, go King,
Eddie go. Where's that dropped? The Go King, Eddie go.
That was one of the That was one of the
craziest calls we took. Reber. The guy was in jail
and he could sleep, and then as soon as he
got out of jail, he's calling the show Eddy. Yeah,
that always happens. All right, let's see here, Eddie. Do
(39:12):
you have an answer? Eddie Yah, you're here.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Yeah. It's former Giant and rocky catcher who once was
miss I was once mistaken for your VIT Tory Albo.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Your VT Tory Albert. Right, Sean, you have an answer
serious show.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
It's probably not even close, but I'm just gonna go
with Otani.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Otani, Well, what a great catcher, a good baseball knowledge. No,
that is incorrect. Correct answer. I use this because I
knew you guys were gonna be here. Pittsburgh Pirates Kendall, Jason, Yeah,
Jason Kendall twenty oh four, back when Eddie watched The Pirates.
That's how long twenty one years ago? Oh Eddie okaying,
(39:50):
he's not going anywhere, He's staying. Is that going anywhere
Dingmed Dong. It's our nub two hour two of the pod,
and a happy Wednesday to you. It's the twenty sixth
day of the month of March year and we talk
all things football. Also this hour the return of the
Great Eddie Garcia. He makes a visit and Sirias Sean
(00:22):
but Eddie Garcia in studio later this hour our friend
member the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. But here at
the beginning, what do you read into JJ McCarthy not
being told he's the Vikings QB one in twenty twenty five?
And how would you classify Trey Hendrickson's status in Cincinnati?
Plus do you have a word for more than one
(00:46):
thousand d one men's basketball players who have entered the
transfer portal? We'll talk about all of those stories and
more right now, give it up for our number two.
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a little bit. But our lead this hour is from
the Twin Cities. That's right, from the Twin Cities.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Was there a big move? No, there was not. But
as the dust settles settles down in the quarterback shuffle
comes to a halt. We mentioned in a previous hour
that mister unlimited Russell Wilson has found a new home.
(02:28):
He's heading to the New York Football Giants that play
across the Hudson there in New Jersey, And so you
can eliminate him from the board. And by the process
of elimination, that means more likely than not that Aaron
Rogers is taking his talents to the Land of the
insur or to Malibu if they get an expansion franchise.
(02:51):
So the Vikings have decided to avoid Temptation Island. It
would appear that they have decided they're not going to
add a veteran quarterback, at least not right now. And
that means what well. JJ McCarthy chimed in on his situation,
if you will, in the landscape in Minnesota and what's
(03:14):
going on. So if you didn't hear what he had
to say, perhaps not. JJ McCarthy saying that the Vikings
have not have not informed him that he will be
the team starting quarterback in twenty twenty five. McCarthy telling
podcast this Week that the Minnesota coaching staff have not
(03:36):
officially named him the top quarterback there, and so he's like,
I'm just you know, going shown up. And of course
he said this from some golf course in Mexico for
some reason why he was there. I'm sure there was
something he was promoting. JJ McCarthy. So yeah, So the
Vikings say they're not pursuing Aaron Rodgers at this time,
(03:59):
and yet they have not named McCarthy. At the top
of the depth chart, so let us discuss the question,
what do you read in to JJ McCarthy not not
being told that he is QB number one number of
the vikings in twenty twenty five. So I've got dressing
(04:22):
the Wheel and doctor Evil, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
a juicy lucy. That's the local culinary delight there in Minnesota.
The juicy losey cheeseburger with the cheese on the inside.
That's the way to do it, all right. So we'll
(04:43):
put all these things together. We'll make some magic now.
Number number one, that's right, number one. So in terms
of McCarthy not getting the top designation on the Minnesota
depth chart, so I give this whole thing side I.
That's my first thought here. You don't get caught up
in the semantics, right, don't get caught up in the
(05:04):
semantics and all that stuff. It's all being telegraphed. It's
all being telegraphed there in Minnesota. You say, we're not
interested in Aaron Rodgers, and Russell Wilson signs justin fields.
All the other quarterbacks are off the board other than
Joe Flacco and guys like that. But the big names
are off the board. So you look around and you say,
(05:26):
all right, what's going on here? Quarterback carousels slowing down, down, down, down,
down down down, and what do you got? What do
you got? Well, the only other option would be reacquiring
Kirk Cousins from the Atlanta football team. Good luck on that. Yeah,
that's unlikely. And so McCarthy, you know, he says he
(05:47):
does not. He has not been formally named. The verbiage
formally named QB one there. That is dressing, is what
it is. It is not salad dressing, No, not thousand
isles or the Devil's Blood ranch dressing. No, no, no,
it's window dressing. That is what it is. Coming off
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knee surgery in the exhibition season that cost him his
entire rookie season, his entire rookie campaign, McCarthy was snap
crackle pop. He was out. McCarthy would would have to
publicly defecate on the Viking logo at the fifty yard
line and then go to each end zone and urinate
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in the end zones in order for him to not
to not end up as the starting quarterback when the
season begins. And do you really need to formally name
a starting quarterback at this particular point. The other quarterback
the Vikings have on their roster is Brett Rippon. If
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Brent Rippin is on your roster, things are not going well.
I think you have a terrible blind spot on your
football team. You just do and unless the Vikings pull
a horseshoe out of their badonka donc and do the unthinkable,
the unimaginable and pull off some kind of trade for
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Justin Herbert, which had been mentioned in some clickbait stories
last week from people desperate for attention that run logs
in Minnesota. So outside of that, don't hold your breath.
And so you're like, all right, at this particular point,
Mike McCarthy, not Mike McCarthy, JJ McCarthy, JJ McCarthy is
going to be the starting quarterback and outside of another
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snap crackle, Pop is going to put up at least
above average umber. Sam Darnold went out and put up
pretty good regular season numbers because of the quarterback friendly
offense of Kevin O'Connell. You've got Justin Jefferson and Jordan
Addison in a decent tight end. Is still a little
bit left in the tank for TJ Hockinson. So you're
(07:57):
in decent shape now page two. Test. Since he said
and Natty we Go and the ben Gals, the Bengals
have decided that no moss on the trade. The trade
talks involving all pro defensive star Trey Hendrickson have come
to an end. Does this mean that a new contract
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is about to be announced? Not so fast, my friend, No,
that is not the case. Hendrickson was given permission to
shop his warars at the flea market of the NFL
to go around and find a deal. And how's that
working out?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
According to Jordan Schultz, the guy that loves a good Starbucks,
Donning Brook, Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports telling us the
trade is DA at this point, dead on arrival, as
the Bengals are no longer no longer considering a Trey
(08:55):
Hendrickson trade. Instead, they want to pay him. They would
like them him. So how do you classify the latest
reporting on the status of Trey Hendrickson in Cincinnati? So
it is a wheel, right, this is the wheel I
classified as the wheel of fortune, meaning that Trey Hendrickson's
(09:19):
going to win a big pile of money on the
wheel of fortune. Now, whether that's in Cincinnati or not.
I'm still not buying that. There's no chance of trade
happens these things. There's up and down, there's the EBB
and the flow of this. And so right now, as
of a few hours ago, Trey Hendrickson was off the
the trade market. But he's going to get paid either way.
(09:41):
And so it's an if he proposition still whether the
Bengals actually pony up the money because they gave all
their wide receivers and their quarterback money, and so the
defense sucked with Trey Hendrickson. The defense can suck without
Trey Hendrickson. No contract, to my knowledge, has been signed.
So as long as a contract has not been signed,
the t's crossed and the the eyes dotted. As long
as that hasn't happened, right then there's still some skin
(10:05):
in the game. There's still some opportunity here. And if
you look at the future, it's like a nautical chart here,
it's like a nautical chart. With Trey Henderson, go any direction,
whichever direction the tide takes you. I can go out
to see maybe a big wild wave will come up
and all that. But the Bengals, it's been about three
(10:28):
weeks In fact, I think it's almost been exactly three
weeks since the Bengals said, go out and find a trade.
So Trey Henderson, from what we're being told, he went
out and found multiple teams that were willing to trade
him and pay him. Multiple teams, all right, we'll give
you the money we got you. We're good, we'll pay you.
All right, So he went out and found teams that
would like to trade him and pay him, and the
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Bengals hung up. They said, ah, we're good, we don't
want to do it, and they worked out the financials
and all that. There were some issues about the trade compensation.
There's some questquestions about that, but Cincinnati claims they never
received a fair market offer, although there's other people debating
whether that's true or not. All right, now, final point,
we go to college basketball. That's right, college basketball now.
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It's all dead right now until Thursday. So we have
to get through the rest of Wednesday, and then it's
on again Thursday night, the Sweet sixteen, and that'll be
taking place Thursday, and then again on Friday, and then
by the end of the weekend will be down to
the final four. The thinning of the herd, The road
to the Alamo, the road to San Antonio for the
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Final Four. But the story in college basketball involving the portal.
And here's the question, do you have a word or
words for more than one thousand, more than one thousand,
d one men's basketball players that have already entered the
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transfer a portal. This thing just opened up on Monday
and we're already over a thousand players that have entered
the portal. So I've got well, I've got a couple
of words. My words are opportunistic mercenaries. That is what
they do. And I get it. I listen, I would
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do the same thing. I did a show this week
with a guy that was a big star back in
the eighties, Rodney Pete, college star, and I was I
would say, hey, Rodney, you know, you would probably make
a ton of money changing schools and all that. And
he then pointed out he was a big star at
USC back in the day, and he's like, I would
have gotten the bag at USC. I would not have
needed to go from school to school. The school. But
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you look around and you talk about soldiers of fortune
and it's like Doctor Evil from Austin Powers And the
best part of the transfer portal. The very best part
is that no one can stop the players from relocating.
Can't do it. It's all about chasing the bag, is
what it is. The relentless pursuit of wealth and prosperity
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is what it is. If you do some Malor math,
you do the Malord math on this. There are three
hundred and sixty five NC DOUBLEA Division one schools. My
math is correct, it's right around there, so in three
sixty three sixty five, I think it's three sixty five
all the way from the team that won the championship
to our friend Gottlieb's Green Bay team, so they're all
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over the map. And each team, as I understand, it
has fifteen scholarships available. So you do the math on that.
That means there are a maximum of scholarship athletes five
four hundred and seventy five. Are you staying with me,
There'll be a ven diagram on this. So five hundred,
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four hundred and seventy five total available scholarships D one
men's basketball. So if you take away the players that
are no longer eligible meeting, they've graduated and they can't
continue to play or they have no eligibility to laugh
That means, if my malor math is correct, that two
out of every ten college basketball players have requested to
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go to a different school twenty percent. And it's only
been a day now. A lot of these deals are
done way in advance. These guys are out shopping their
wares in the transfer portal, even before the transfer portal
opens up, and they've got a little side hustle, little deal,
a little shuffle, and they find new teams. It is
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the isn't that crazy? Twenty percent? It is the Ben
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the mini bar a little bit too hard, you can't
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go to bed. Whatever it is where you're hanging out with.
You dance the night away. I don't know what dance
move that is, but dance the night away. And now
back to the talk. Well, yeah, it is back to
the talk. And ty I Ben, and I did I
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not roll out the red guy? I thought I rolled
out the red carpet like we did. The hot Top
time machine was going to be here and all that,
and I don't I don't see the hot top time
sho I don't not. Yeah, are you sure about that?
We're positive right now.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
He was a little camera shot.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yeah, I'm camera shy too. But there's cameras all over
I mean every I can't and what are we doing
TV here? Mean?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
My god, should his cohort come as well?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Well, he's his sidekick. If his sidekick wants to helf,
he's running. The sidekick's running in just not walking all
right now, we tease, Well, if you're on social media,
you probably know what's gonna happen. But if you're not
on social media, you're a better person. You're a better person.
So that's a good thing. And push the door open
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out there's multiple people making their way in to the
main studio here at Fox Sports Radio, one after another.
It feel free. You go right over there, so ma
any noise though you're not, they're not making any noise.
You can go over there. You don't have to go
over there. What's going on? So live? We're doing live radio.
I'm directing people were live on the air. It is
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the Ben Malashaw. While we settle that the people speaking
in you do we have? Ferknuck says, are the rumors
of a special visitor to the studio tonight? True? If so,
please tell me it's Brian Finley. We all love and
miss that guy so much. Uh yeah, uh, I I
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don't think it's I don't think it's him. Definitely not
well now, just landing here from the Hot Tup time
Machine and our longtime friend and part of the Fox
Sports Radio Alumni Association, Get up Eddie Garcia about that? Hey,
how you doing there? You go to great Eddie Garcia?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Everybody there?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
He is?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
He stopped by and you've got your sidekick with you
over there?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Yeah I do. Uh sirious Sean. Uh, you know I've
been meaning to come in and see you guys.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah, you're anytime you I would say, whenever you want
to come.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
By any out It's not really there's nothing on my way,
you know what I mean. It's not convenience.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It's that convenient for you to make. It's out of you.
We're way far away from where you live.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
And uh.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Also, I'm you know, I'm I've got normal sleep schedule now.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
So now you're just rubbing in, Eddie. Now you're rubbing
it in that you're not a nocturnal place an he
comes in here and he throws a haymaker right away?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
How do you just switch to the day sleeping hour.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Dreaded day show.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I'm weird, Lorena. It just it. I just did it.
It wasn't hard. I just really Yeah. I think I
told you guys when I was still here that anytime
I lay my head down, if it's dark and quiet,
off all asleep at any time of the day. So
it's very unusual. But yeah, so it's weird. It's weird
getting up at like nine in the morning and doing things.
It's very unusually.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
No, I can. I don't think even if I didn't
have this job, I don't think I would get up
early and all that. So I've always been more of
a nocturnal person.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But I did.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I saw you the Charger games a few times in
the NFL games. I tried to see you at a
King's game. Yeah, the King's pr staff, who I used
to have a good relationship with, even right back to me.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
They've got new people there.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Oh, maybe that's the problem. Yeah, maybe I emailed the
old people. Maybe the email didn't bounce back. So I
was like I told that. I was like, I'm going
to meet you at a King's game, and I ISSU
was going to go out there and kind of get.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Into the can. They're at hot right now.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, I know they have. They have like this the
greatest home streak in King's history or something like that, right,
and you do for those that don't know Edie's you know,
mister hockey of course. And you've got multiple hockey podcasts,
is that right?
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You've got I do, and I actually have another one
that's coming up.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Another one really, So you got the Kings one, yeah,
and then you've got the one that you've done for
a long time, right.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, that's just for fun with that's just with my Yeah,
for my old college friend. Yeah, and we've kind of
been doing it for so long now that we just
like can't stop doing it. At this point. It seems
like I don't know, uh, but the other you could
stop it, you could, we could, but it just it
would you know, it would disappoint a lot of people.
And yeah, some people anyway. Uh, the other one though, Yeah,
(20:41):
I'm actually getting paid for that, The La Kings one
that's walked on La King.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
That's more important. So a lot of Kings people will
find that on where you look at their podcasts of course. YouTube.
Oh YouTube, you're a YouTuber.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Now you're an influence of that.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I hate being on YouTube. Do you like being on YouTube?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah? I don't mind it?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Really yeah, I hate it? Uh?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
And also currently it's on Amazon fire TV really yeah? Okay, anyways,
what is that? I don't know. I don't have it.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
So coup probably knows you don't have a fire stick.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I do not have a fire stick now, yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Is that legal? It's like it's like roku right, yeah, okay,
and you're on there.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, I'm uh, if you don't mind me saying so,
I'm April to tenth starting a new NHL show. It's uh,
it's called NHL Game Night. It's wrapping up all the
names from your day and same thing YouTube podcast, Amazon Fires.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Wasn't that around the time that the playoffs?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Though?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
The playoffs start around it'll be it'll be one week
before the end of the regular seat and we'll get
ready for the old Stanley Cup playoffs?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Is Sean gonna be on the show with you? Serious?
Sean gonna be on with you.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
We'll see tune in to find out.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Wow, Sean's excited about it. He was dancing. The reason
we played the song is because serious Sean we've known.
Remember when he came in here he was in high school.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I really do remember the day he came in with
the teacher.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I remember getting the email from his teachers like Sewan's
a big fan of show and he wanted to come in.
I was like, okay, this, I'd love to meet Sean.
And then Sean came in here and now ten years
out of high school, he's all grown up. He lives
in Phoenix now, in the Phoenix area, and he came
in and.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
He you, you guys are how do you feel? Knowing? Sincerely?
What's that that the highlight of Shawn's year is coming
in to see you? And me?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Well, no, you, I think it's more you.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Bad both of us and be a part of the
Ben Mallor.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Show, Salo show and see I don't even that Mike words,
is that might work? I think that might works. Let's see,
hold on, is it for me?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
If not, you got to go sit by Ben.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Oh yeah, definitely does.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Not work over here and see now people on both sides.
I mean, I don't know, Oh, you're going to be sandwiched, Ben,
I don't know if all right, so you got three podcasts,
you're doing all right with that. I do have to
get out to a King's game, though, I would like
to go out there. It was very I felt hurt, Eddy.
I felt I used to go back in the at
the forum when they were playing there. I used to
go out there and cover the team, and I was like.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Wow, that's a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
That's a long time.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yeah, I'll I'll tell you the people.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
You let me know. You're a made man over there, right,
You're connected, man, You're like a little bit. Look at
Eddie's connected over high Sean sailor your fans serious Sean,
Yeah go Eddie go, okay, all right, come down.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I wish there was like a boss out there somewhere
who loved me like Sean does I know?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Right? Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
And he's the only one that goes with me to
all the games and wants to hang out and do
all the fun stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, I know, what is Eddie like your hero? Is
he like the top of the list there?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
Yes, aside from family, from.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Family, he's kind of like family. All right, he's kind
of like family.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Yeah he is. He's a family friend.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I would say, like uncle Eddie.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Yeah, I actually did have an uncle ed back in
the day before.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I did too. I had an uncle ed back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Everybody ever, doesn't everybody have uncle?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
No, I don't have an uncle.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
You're weird.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
The weird one I had as I.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Have Shruss, I have a dick and I.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Twenty twenty five. That's yeah, it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I missed the drops. You know what was funny. I
came in here and I was I was sitting there
and I heard a couple of drops, and I'm like, oh,
I missed not having drops in my life.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
You want to hear our new ones?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah? I do.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Okay, what do we have? Well, we have the hollering
James ones a new one. We have a hollowing Yeah,
that's James.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
And then we got this one yesterday.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Let's see you and all over my face ship.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah. Yeah, that's our buddy in Vegas. That's our guy
in Vegas.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yes, Las Vegas and Mexico. Sean, Yes, the big big
Las Vegas Vegas.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
I've been to that's right.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
You've never been to Vegas? Have you not been to Vega?
You live in Phoenix. You just drive up to Vegas.
It's not that far away.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
If you've ever taken the super Chief from.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Uh, I know you take the trade shot.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Sean is kid, it goes right, Vegas, New Mexico.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Sean is the he's keeping Amtrak in business. You're literally
keeping Amtrack in business, correct, Sean? Right?
Speaker 6 (24:57):
One of them?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, if only he could get a job working on
the train.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I know you should. Why don't you get a job.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
You never want to get a job on something that
you love, Yeah, occasionally, because then you don't love it anymore.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I wanted I love sports, I wanted to work in sports. Yeah,
so I had a job for a long time, working,
and I guess I still do. But yeah, it was great.
It was like working.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
I mean, she has a point if you look at it, like,
because I used to listen to sports talk radio all
the time, and.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Now you how often do you listen?
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Now?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Kup?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Never? Well I don't listen to But I don't want
to say I don't listen either, because I don't want
to take stuff from you know, somebody else. So I
don't listen to sports talgra. That's just that's different though
for me, I don't. I'm not consuming it or whatever
and all that.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
So well, I think it's because, you know, working on
the show. I mean, you're all the shows. The news
is the same. You know what I mean, it's.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
It's oh no, it's not. We're different. No, no, well
there was a show. Well different, we have different takes
on it. Well, there was a show. No, there was
a show here that did like Sky is falling radio
because some Juju Watkin or something that was injured, juj
Ben whatever, it's Juju whatever her name is. I don't
know that she's got hurt. He got the he got
it right. It's Juju Watkins, I got it right. Listen.
(26:09):
I know I'm him, man, I know my women's basketball.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Come on, I don't say I have no idea what
you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It's it's awesome, it's great. You know, when I left here,
you don't have to pretend like you're interested.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
In stuff that no one. When I left here, the
basketball left the face of the earth for me. Let
you know, I heard Luca, I heard I could not
hear that. It was such a big man. Literally everything
else NCAA tournament NB I had. I knew nothing about it,
and I'm so happy.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Well, Eddie's stopping by. Hey, Kathy, and Madison says hello,
and kay is welcome back, Eddie. Good to hear your
voice again. And el FaZe writes and says, can you
let Loraina know we don't play Sandstorm until Friday? Well
we had Sean, Sean, that's because of you, Sean, that
guy my theme song.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
It's okay, Well, everyone doesn't know what day of.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
The weekend is now, everyone's can fuse here.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
Okay. It's only once every two years, maybe one or
two times a year. And that's it.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
One or two times you come in here, one or
two times a year.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Yeah, that's when we play it, like when it's not Friday.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
And also I didn't play the drops with it, so
it's not the same.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Okay, Yeah, No, do you care? Do you care about baseball? Anya,
you're done with baseball too, You're over with baseball. I
don't care about you don't care about No.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
It's our team's year. We're gonna win the World Series.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
It was your team, Uh, Sean likes the Pirates.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Pirates.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like the Pirates.
Speaker 6 (27:33):
We're gonna kick their in the Dodgers' faces this year.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
That I'll tell you. I'll bet you ten grand right
now about ten thousand nothing.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
I would rather bet that they're gonna lose their next game.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Don't bet bet anything. He still doesn't pay off.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
At this point. It would be disappointing if he did. Right.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
No, I pay off my bet.
Speaker 6 (27:50):
I ate the ball I heard from Eddie.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I think I don't believe that.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
I've literally never seen you like properly pay off.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
There was one time I wore a paper bag in
my head one time for a show because the Clippers
lost to the Cavaliers.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well, I think you kind of just did that because
of you know.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
No. No, the cave is after Lebron went to Miami
and the Calves. They were one loss away from sitting
the North American record for most consecutive losses and they
beat the Clippers, and I was so embarrassed. I said,
if they lose that game, I would have put a
paper back.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
It was one time he bought pizza one time.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I remember I did I bought pizza. Remember I remember
when I walked to Arizona because of the Arizona Wildcast
lost to Illinois and the n CUAA tournament.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
That was a long time ago. And you did not
do that.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
I did.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I did. I told management. I took two steps towards
Arizona and la like they give a well Andrew Ashwood, No,
he did. He said, Ben, you're gonna die. And I
thought it would have been great publicity. And then you're like,
well no, I said, I said it would be good.
And then we did the math on how long it
would have taken me to walk to Arizona, and it
would have taken about four months. And they said, we
(28:57):
don't think we could do that. For I could probably
walk there in four now now now, back then, no,
you would have. You would have died. You probably would
have died. Actually, yeah, what depends what time of the
year it was. That's where Sean lives in serious Seawan
and Arizona. You like to heat their showing you're a
big fan of the heat.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
Yeah, I've gotten it doesn't really get to me now.
It's like it's it's only here for like three months
and then that's it.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
It's only one hundred and thirty degrees for three months.
What's the big deal, right, just turn the AC on.
You're good to go on that.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
Yeah, it was. It's also monsoon time too, because you
know we got the rain.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Oh yeah, monsoon.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
That's our rainy season in late June the early September.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Any traveling any have you been able to do any traveling?
And you're locked in with hockey, so you can't go anywhere.
Your same same issues. You're not a big traveler, though.
You you go, like for a football season.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
You go somewhere. Yeah, we'll go somewhere. We're going to
the Hall of Fame again.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Oh yeah, speaking of how now I'm trying to get
to Ohio for a mallor meet and greet, and I
don't want to be offended. I don't want to offend anyone. However,
I didn't say. But however, So there's a listener who's
a big, big fan of the show who runs this
restaurant bar in Ohio. Right, He's like, where in Ohio? Well,
(30:08):
here's the thing, all right, this is the problem. So
he's been he's been contact me. He's very kind of
loves the show. He listens to the podcast they do
on the weekends. He's a big fan, and he's like, hey,
I want you to come to my establishment. And I
was like okay. And so then I did a little
research over the last couple of days trying to figure
out travel arrangements to get because I got to pay
out of pocket. The company doesn't pay for this stuff.
(30:29):
I pay out of my pocket. So I was going
to go, and then it's in Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
There is strong with that.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
There's no direct flights to Columbus, Ohio. It's an all.
It's like an eight hour minimum situation, which means like
a three hour layover. That's minimum, and most of it
is like twelve hours thirteen fourth.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
You went to South Carolina, I'm sure there was no
direct flight for wherever it was he went there.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
It wasn't actually that because you drove. We drove, we flew,
flew to Atlanta, and then it took a little puddle
jumper to Myrtle Beach and then drove from Myrtle Beach
and wasn't that back. But this would be like a
whole thing. So I'm thinking maybe I should do like Cincinnati.
Well you don't give me the evilaiyah. I think Cincinnati
or Cleveland because there's more flights to those places.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, we'll fly into Cleveland and drive down there.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
And you've checked every airline then for no direct flights, and.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
You no, there's no direct flights to Columbus from l A.
I know that. I don't think there's direct flights to
Cleveland either. I think Cincinnati.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Unfortunately the lines that runs.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
He's taking every train line. Have you taken just about
every train line at amshrak has at this point.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
I've taken the Northern Empire Builder and Capitol Limited routes
right the Empire Builder.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Have you taken the one from like up the I
ninety five corridor, from like Boston down the East coast?
Have you done that one? I've taken the ESLA for
that's the one from like Boston to d C or whatever.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
And yeah, I took it from DC to New York
and then I took a commuter to the EWR.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
We should get Sean like a train podcast asked, Yeah,
do you have miniature trains?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Do you have like a train set at home? Do
you have those trains?
Speaker 6 (32:04):
You know what some my uncle's friend of the my
uncle's friend of the family. Yeah, he gave me one
that he made and I put it right right, uh
right right from you mess it up or something like that,
you screwed it up. No, I didn't, it didn't. It's
up there all by itself and I haven't touched it
since I put it there.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Wait, so do you only you only know the Amtrak routes?
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Well, I know there several commuter routes like Metrolink and
New Jersey Transit and Sound Transit and all that.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
You have to travel all the countries, Like don't they
have a train that goes by through Siberia and Russia?
Isn't there like a Russian train that goes all the
way through Siberia. You can take that and go to China.
I'm sure they got a train in China. You can
go all of them, you know.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
I think the biggest ones they have are the ones
that go out of King's Cross in the UK. I
think that's one of the biggest.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
King's Cross and that's where Harry Potter goes to get
to Hogwarts.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Yeah, how about Japanese bullet trains out of Oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:56):
My dad did that was I think in Germany they
have some of those to those bullet lines.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Or no, Japanese know it for the bullet train though
know for that.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Right about China. I think China has someone too.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Oh, the China has the train that goes through the building.
I saw a video and yeah, I did see that.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
The Lorraina saw the baseball game in China.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
She was telling.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
The bullet trains in China. In Japan, the Shinknsin, they
go so fast. When we were on when my wife
and I were on our honeymoon, we got on the
Shinkansin going the wrong direction, and the problem we just
like took a nap ate. I didn't realize for two
hours we were on the other side of Japan.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
But only take your ticket and say hey, you're on
the wrong train. Then nobody took the ticket. They just
said they just let you go.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
And because you get you like you know, the you
scan the ticket to get into the I don't know
what the platform, and then you just you're supposed to
get on the train going the correct direction.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
So it's like Bart, I guess in a way.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yes, very similar to Bart. Yes, yes, the trains in
Japan and Bart, Yes, a few less vagrants in Japan.
Speaker 6 (34:12):
I would think it sounds like what i'd use the
clipper card for scanning it to go in and tap
again to go out.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Okay, there's a there's a shot, got Eddie hanging out
with us though you didn't be here for a while, right,
you're not going anywhere?
Speaker 6 (34:24):
R Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I want to give a shout out to Sure when
the judge.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
We don't do shout outs. An I just did it.
We don't do. It's not a morning show, we don't do.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
He is listening to the show. Big fan of the
show is that former judge here in Las nice man?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Sure when the judge? Awesome? How do you know him?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
He contacted me after you know what happened. Yeah, and
he just kind of stayed in contact.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Oh that's great. Yeah, you find out how many people
really love you. Right, You probably get a lot of
love and people are still go I got a ton
of I get a lot of crap. They for guy,
and they think I gave you the guillotine. I did not,
had nothing to do with it. But people get rid.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I shouldn't this because you've mentioned it a million times.
How long was your vacation? Six months and twenty Okay,
so I still got two more months.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
You got two more months. I was it was? Jane
Well knows what was it? No, it's January twentieth of nine,
the inauguration day, the new president, the changing of the
guard at the White House, and got whacked and then
yeah is that six months? Twenty six months?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Still still more?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Enjoy your vacation. Two more months, you enjoy your time off?
There All right is the Ben Mahlor Show. And look
at the clock. Here are we doing the third degree? Still, Cooper?
Are we doing it?
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Cool? All right, coops?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
All right? If you want to fail? Oh no, no, I
mean we got Eddie whatever. Here's the instant tribute. So
on opening Day, which is tomorrow, Austin Wells, Yeah, tomorrow's
opening day. Well, they already had the Dodgers and the
Cubs in Japan, but the US opening day is tomorrow.
So Austin Wells will become the first catcher to bat
(36:03):
leadoff in Yankees' history. Blank holds the record for the
most starts batting leadoff by any catcher in a season.
I think Eddie'll probably get that. Sean might get that
as well. That is the insta trivia. The answer. We'll
get to it, and probably not. Mallard of the third degree,
and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
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Speaker 1 (36:34):
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app and it will always pop up at the very
(37:14):
top of your screen. All right, and we roll on
here it is I Ben and Eddie's saying that Sirias
Sean and not just short change you, Sean, but it's
more about Eddie.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
You know, I don't know what to disrespect you.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
We love it and we love you, and we love
Eddie and we haven't seen Eddie in a while, and
it's good that Eddie's hears. We're happy about that. Here's
the who am I game? And this is where we
pretend to be somebody else. No cheating, don't do not cheat,
don't do that. Look over my show game. Oh that's right,
the Instant Tribute. Confused though, here's the instant Tribute right
here we go, same thing, same exactly, It's the same.
I just changed the name, all right. On opening Day,
(37:51):
Austin Wells will become the first catcher to bat lead
off in Yankees history and never done it all these years.
Blank holds the record for the most starts batting lead
off by a catcher in one season. And that is
the question. What is the answer? This ses? Anyone know
the answer? Bruce Benedict guests by Miguel on fire. Who
(38:17):
else do we have? Page Dan Mallard, prop guy says
Eddie Garcia, the voice of reason is the answer. Late
night drug test. This is no coincidence that Eddie is
on the same night the Winnipeg Jets clinched the playoff spot?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Is there?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yeah? That Bill's the Sabers guy. I don't really call
him where any of the comic book guy. I really
think he's during the day. Now you Rod the Ambassador
Bakersfield got it right bad. He's still hanging out with
US tank engine from Sean in Portland? Who else the
jet lee from Scrooge tug boat guessed by Steve the
(38:50):
misplaced San Diegan Gummy Dave's excited to He says, go King,
Eddie go. Where's that dropped? The Go King, Eddie go.
That was one of the That was one of the
craziest calls we took. Reber. The guy was in jail
and he could sleep, and then as soon as he
got out of jail, he's calling the show Eddy. Yeah,
that always happens. All right, let's see here, Eddie. Do
(39:12):
you have an answer? Eddie Yah, you're here.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Yeah. It's former Giant and rocky catcher who once was
miss I was once mistaken for your VIT Tory Albo.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Your VT Tory Albert. Right, Sean, you have an answer
serious show.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
It's probably not even close, but I'm just gonna go
with Otani.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Otani, Well, what a great catcher, a good baseball knowledge. No,
that is incorrect. Correct answer. I use this because I
knew you guys were gonna be here. Pittsburgh Pirates Kendall, Jason, Yeah,
Jason Kendall twenty oh four, back when Eddie watched The Pirates.
That's how long twenty one years ago? Oh Eddie okaying,
(39:50):
he's not going anywhere, He's staying. Is that going anywhere
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