June 4, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald giving Sam Darnold a vote of confidence, if the Texans should be concerned about CJ Stroud's health, Cowboys DB Trevon Diggs being in-line to lose $500k for not showing up to offseason workouts, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka, Laca. It's our two. Our number two is
ready for you, and we go to Seattle where the
unthinkable has happened. We're not even at training camp. How
much weight do you give Seurs coach Mike McDonald and
his vote of confidence for a new quarterback, Sam Darnold,
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say what We'll explain. Should the Texans be concerned about
quarterback CJ. Stroud's health? They say they're not. Other reports
say they should be. And we have learned that the
Cowboys defensive back tra Von Diggs is in line to
lose five hundred thousand because he doesn't want to show
up to offseason workouts even though he's just rehabbing. He'd
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rather stay in Florida. How does that taste to you?
All that and more right now, we thank you for
being a loyal minion of this podcast, supporting this show.
It does mean a lot. And here's our number two.
Is it a good sign or a bad sign that
you haven't even gotten to training camp and your coach
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coming up a little bit later on but a good story.
Here you go where the news of the day takes you.
Our friend the ostrich Ant in DC believes that the
month of June is the pinnacle of sports talk radio,
the separation of the wheat from the shaft, the ones
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that can do it and those that can't. A lot
of people take their vacation time here in early June,
trying to get away from the grind and all that.
But our lead this hour is from the Pacific Northwest.
We're going to start out in the Pacific Northwest. New laundry,
same old drama, New laundry, same old drama. The life
in times of Sam Boo Boo Donald, one boo boo
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after another. Sam Darnald as he settles in to life
in Seattle, the failed Viking quarterback who was exposed like
the fraud he was at the end of the year
by the Lions and then the la Rams. And if
you had not heard the latest on this, this is outstanding.
This is a ten out of ten, this particular story.
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So we learned that the coach of Seattle probably know
who that is because he's a nobody. Mike McDonald who
had a farm Ei ei oh so Mike McDonald attempted
to put the key bosh to put the toothpaste back
in the tube. On the debate over the quarterback whether
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or not Sam Donald would be the quarterback in Seattle,
McDonald was asked by some of the Seattle media about
the possibility that someone other than Sam Donald would be
the quarterback. The Seahawks have added Drew Locke, who also
can't play, and jam And Milroe from the draft. Anyway,
here is Mike McDonald, the Seattle coach, commenting on the
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Sam Donald status and whether or not he'll be playing
table lists that would lead to a different quarterback.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You guys are crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
There's no way to ask the question with that sound
like an I.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Respect you got to ask it, but like there's you guys,
it's just a crazy question. There's just not gonna like
Sam's are starting quarterback. We love him, He's doing a
tremendous job. God forbid, you know you're you're the worst
player of all time because you made one bad throw
or one bad decisions Like that is not what we're
trying to build. We want these guys to go prepare
the right way and then I go out on the
practice field, go freaking let it rip.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And then we'll go fix it.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
We'll go we got time, it's it's June.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Third, we'll go.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Okay, they've got to get plenty of reps. We'll get
those things fixed. I mean Sam made a carill up
a lot of great throws yesterday. He's gashing us on
third and goal to start the start the start the
day out too. So yeah, that was kind of a
crazy question.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I don't think it's a crazy question at all. I
think his answer is rather crazy. So Donald signed a
three year contract with a bunch of escape patches because
Seattle knows they signed a crappy quarterback. It's up to
one hundred million. No, it was really just a one
year deal, and the Vikings can flush him away, or
the Seahawks and flush him away like the Vikings did
and all that. So we know that Seattle added, as
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we mentioned Jalen Milroe who had issues at Alabama and
Drew Locke who can't play. So let us discuss the
question how much weight do you give the Seahawks coach
Mike McDonald, as you just heard giving a vote of
confidence to Sam Donald even before training camp. Sam Donald
needs a vote of confidence, so I've got in flight, meal,
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happy Hour and Wimbledon, and we will combine all of
the things together and we are going to make an
updated resume because I believe Mike McDonald, if he truly
is fully invested in Sam Donald, he will be let go.
As the Seattle coach. You didn't do anything. He's not
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just a generic coach. He's a jack, just a coach,
nothing special there. So my first thought on this the
full Sam Donald experience. If you're Sam Donald and you
think you're locked in as the start, if you believe
all that bull crap that the coach said, you might
want to relook at some things in your life. There,
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go start biting your fingernails. Now it is OTAs just workouts,
shorts and visors and things like that for the most part.
And Sam Donald already already smelling like leftover tuna fish
that's been sitting out in the sun. It's just that
you can't make this up. The heartburn adding up there
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those boots on the ground. Boots on the ground say
that Sam Donald was intercepted multiple times in the first
open practice session with the media. Tossed a pair of
interceptions in the seven on seven portion of the practice.
And so here's where I sat from thirty six thousand
feet up in the sky. The Seattle Seahawks coach Mike
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McDonald is enjoying a nice in flight meal, and that
meal is a bowl of cereal, it's honey ohs or
in this case just owes as an oracle of obvious,
oracle of obvious, and I'm gonna go to the boiler
plate on what I am supposed to play, what I'm
supposed to say as an NFL coach. It is the
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disfunction junction, how do you function? That is the full
Sam Donald experience, and the Seahawks are just finding that
out there that you're having to give a vote of
confidence to Sam Donald. So really, what Seattle's doing, they're
playing the sweep Steaks and they're like, you can get
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seven or eight or nine games out of Sam Donald.
It's never a good thing when you have to play
hide the quarterback. And the only way Sam Donald can
be effective, and it only works for a limited amount
of time, is hide the quarterback, play hide the cours.
And at some point you can't hide the quarterback when
you play a good team late in the ear and
then you're exposed you're pants and you're out there and
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you don't have an underwear on. You're just pants the
whole thing. And so there's all kinds of loopholes and
get out of the contract and all that escape patches.
And let's clip and save this quote by McDonald who
had to say that, right, the oracle of the obvious,
And then we'll look back at this. I'll save this
in my notes, and then when we get the week
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five or six and Sam donald is no longer playing
quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, we can revisit this and
we point our finger in line and goof on Seattle.
And that's always fun to do. That's that's good talk radio.
So page two to Houston we go, speaking of the
quarterback shuffle. You've got drama in the lone Star State,
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as Demico Ryans. Demko Ryans, the head coach of the
Houston football team, has announced he has quote no concerns
close quote about quarterback c J. Stroud, who has been
limited from doing the thing that all quarterbacks seemingly need
to do, throwing the ball during spring practice, due to
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quote general soreness. So you know at this point what
c J. Stroud he's in his fifties. Body gets a
little sort Oh no, he's actually in his twenties. He's
in his twenties. So the Texans opened OTA's back on
May twenty eight. Yeah, twenty eight, and c J. Stroud
ce Jay Stroud of the Texans has not thrown passes
during any of the practices that are open been to
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the media. Now others are singing a different tune. So
the Texans coach, Tamiko Ryans is like this, there's nothing
to see here. Everything is fine, don't worry about this. Okay.
Now there's a conflicting report that is out singing a
different tune making it clear that the fans should panic,
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Panic at the disco. Panic at the Disco says, you
should not believe what the coach said. You shouldn't believe
the statements from the team there. With the Texans, there
should be concerns about c J. Stroud. So let us
discuss as we do this show in early June twenty
twenty five. Should the Texans be quote concerned close quote
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about quarterback c J. Stroud and his health. So I'm
actually shaking my head no on this, I'm shaking my head.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Now you know, Ben, you're just supposed to panic the way.
That's your bad job about you. Okay, As you know,
we look at this on a case by case basis
as possibly tweaked something and working out lifting weights or whatever.
And even if he did, whoop, p damn do. That's
what I say, whoop damn do. It's happy hour, happy hour,
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which is code for it's amateur hour in the hot
take factory. There is some issues with the machinery here
in the warehouse. And it's everything's clickbait these days. I
get it. We live in the clickbait world. That's how
the game works. Anyone says, oh, it's just clickbait. Everything clickbait,
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like that's how it is because that's how people consume media. Clicking. Well,
I don't believe it in clickbait. Yes, you do. You
click on things. You're part of the problem. You are
part of the problem. But then they're not concerned about
c J. Stroud's health. The people that are putting this
out of there, I don't think they should be. I
think there's any real concern for c J. Stroud because
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of why the calendar, that would be why there is
no legitimate concern. You're stirring the pot. You're looking for something.
You're looking for a little something, and that's a little
something that you can latch onto and get your tentacles
into and all that stuff. And we can see now
now if you want to find out when there is concern,
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that'll be in late July. I think around July twenty
twenty third, twenty four to twenty fifth, somewhere in that
area is when training camps open up in the NFL.
And if CJ. Stroud has decided to have a camp
out in the injury tent when the real training camp
opens up in a month and a half, then we
can revisit this. Up until that point, that's premature concern
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and I'm not gonna have and I'm not a Texans
fan anyone. I'll let mister Irrigation worry about that. That's
a and the deacon, I'll let those guys worry about now.
Final point to his world, and speaking of absurd and
amateur hour, this is theater of the absurd, theater of
the absurd. From Jerry's world, we have learned now that
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the Cowboys defensive back Travon Diggs, that's right, the brother
of Stefon Digs. Trevon Diggs is in line to lose
five hundred thousand dollars. Now, what did he do? Did
he violate the team rules? Was he on the boat
with the bikini models and the pink candy which I'm
(13:33):
sure was not cocaine in Miami? Was he on the
boat with his brother? No? So how did he lose
the or how is he going to lose the five
hundred thousand dollars by not showing up to the team facility,
by missing the team's off season workouts. So let's discuss
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Cowboys defensive back Travon Diggs inline to lose five hundred
thousand smack a roos because he's missing off season workouts.
How does that taste?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
All?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Right? So it tastes like Sardinian cheese, which I am
told is the cheese that is made. It is maggot
infested cheese. Yum, yum to my Tom, Tom. That's what
it is now in London and it's Wimbleton time coming
up here. But in London they would call this an
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unforced error. That's tennis lingo. It's an unforced error, is
what it is. Diggs is in his mid twenties. He
got a good sized contract. He supposedly has some kind
of internal beef with the training staff there with the
Dallas Cowboys, and so he is willing to forfeit five
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hundred thousand dollars to rehab his knee in Miami, Miami, Miami,
Miami South Beach, staying away from the Cowboy facility. The
price tag on that five hundred thousand dollars, five hundred
thousand dollars, This is bokers to me. Now, am I
completely out of touch? You're just an old head. You
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don't know what you're talking about. Bad. These kids, they
got so much money they can flush away five hundred
thousand dollars. Digs, the dunce digs the dunce. Do you
dig it? Come on, I cannot imagine throwing away five
hundred thousand dollars like it's lunch money, and just I
(15:33):
don't need it, I don't want it, I don't I'm
getting rid of it. And all you have to do
is show up. It's not like you have to go
through some rigorous workout. You just merely have to show up.
And that's it. Like, what planet are we on at
this point? What planet are we? Like? Five hundred thousand.
(15:54):
You could buy a house. In some places, you can
buy multiple houses for that kind of money where you're
investing your money. Heck, you could get a fast food franchise.
I assume you could put the down payment and get
a big chunk of like a what a burger? What
a burger? What a mistake for Trevon dis money makes money. Instead,
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you're just gonna say, I don't, I don't even rather
hang out here, have a my tie with my friend
weedman hippie in Miami who calls the show occasionally, and
just have a grand old time. Why not? All right?
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and Man Bites Dog, Man bites Dog. We'll get to that.
Ferg Dog rights in as he is the gatekeeper on
the show. He said, as hey, Ben, do you really
think Sam Darnold's not going to start every game next season?
According to no Stradinis, Well, you're quoting Nostradenas. According to Nostradenas,
the Seahawks are a stone cold lead pipe to win
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the NFC West running away. You can't bench him then,
according to Ferdough, Yeah, well keep in mind that our
guy Nostradenas the same guy that was giving a bubble
bath to the previous Seattle quarterback who we were ripping
on this show. And we had hot take validation. And
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how did we get hot take validation? We got hot
take validation because while nostra DNAs was giving a manny
and a petty to the Seattle quarterback last year, Gino Smith.
The front office was plotting to trade him. So that
is hot take validation. We win. Shane and Moynes says,
Will Campbell signed with the Patriots. And related news, New
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England isn't winning more than six or seven games this year.
I don't know about that. Play a last place schedule.
They got a new coach. You get a little bumpety
bump there. They did have a few players that seemingly
know how to play football. They can actually tie their
shoelaces and block someone or tackle someone. Late night drug
tester says, I'm sure your Stanley Cup final preview is
(20:21):
coming soon. Just worried about poutine intake last week may
may make you a biased for the Oilers over the Panthers. Well,
I do not want to promote ahead too much, but
there will be some hockey reference later on. There will
be some hockey reference later on. Who else do we
have Nick the Windy's Guy. I believe this is Nick
(20:43):
the Windy's Guy writes and he says, Hey, Ben, buddy,
I just want to say how proud I am of
my daughter Julianna far right for graduating from her high school.
Here you go, he says, I'm in the middle of
a mom and dead. Well, congratulations to your daughter there,
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and that looks like you're having a nice meal in
the I can't. There's no food on the plate. Hopefully
there's some good food coming there. But that's outstanding, So
proud Papa Nick. The Wendy's guy. Fired up, Mark writes
in and says it sucks being on the run cops
fed Fed's mob ex wife's irs collection agency is stressful.
(21:28):
Gotta go. I heard a noise. That's Mark from Queen's
and Arlington. Well, I actually can relate to that a
little bit because years ago, this goes back, god, maybe
seventeen or eighteen years ago, some woman who did not
pay her bills. She put my phone number down. I
(21:53):
think this is how it happened. And her name is Brianna,
not the one that works here. But I still get
this is like fifteen to seventeen years of messages from
debt collectors saying that I need to contact them immediately
and if not, they're going to take my car, my home,
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and all of my worldly possessions. Because after seventeen years.
You'd think they would have taken all that by now,
but for some reason they've been unable to do that. Anyway,
ys go with the phones and we'll say lo to
hollering James, who's in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Hello, hollering James.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I got on this show. Who said I won't hold?
I have to?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, well yeah, you don't. You hang up a million times?
Why do you do that? You stay on hold, You're
in line, you don't need to hang up. Why do
you hang up?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Why because my phone dies? I have one of them.
Sheep eight. I don't know how to say it. I
don't know how to read, but anyways I can spell.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Attention advertisers, you can reach the coveted demographic that does
not know how to read.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
V tech. I figured a vtach.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
A v tech hold on say v tech V tech
O v tech a v tech phone.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
It's a v tech phone. You have to cord its cord,
you charge it up.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
So this is like as a cordless phone. This is
a landline cordless phone.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Landline cordless phone, old school.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Okay, I'm looking at it. I think I had one
of these in like nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
When you were in college. Anyway, I like that you.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Have the show on in the background. That's good you're listening.
Some people don't listen.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
I have to listen, Ben, I'm your favorite listener. Or
with a very maybe with Jafsey. Have you going to
the Mermaid to meet you?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I know, it's like a religious experience when me and
you were together right there. You know, you bet legends
like I had.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
The most honorable time meeting you because everybody treated me
like I was somebody. And then the house I'm in
now in the house I was in the last time
before they were gonna vic me, before they wanted to
me the Senate AFFI dated, which was crazy, just like
I think that Sam Donald issues crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah? Is that is that your hot take? Sam Donald? Crazy?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I believe the Seattle Seahawks. They're both crazy. He ain't
going to last three years.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, that's a spicy meat ball. I only have to
last like seven or eight games, and then they can
bench him for jailing m I don't want.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
To be plased terrible of seven eight games. Put them
in a tank. I take out my vikings. They're going
to be a surprise.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Oh, you've never had that take before the Vikings are
going to be a surprise. That is an original take.
Did you come up with that on your own? No?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
You helped me.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Then I helped you. I helped craft to take. I
use my pocket knife to kind of craft have to
take interesting.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
We have to crow bar east.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
There's no crow barring to take. There's some finesse involved.
You have to you have to jim away the wood.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
It's carving it a reggie.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I'm not giving you a weggie. There's no weggie in
high and tight. You might like a weggie, but.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
You have to joking to day high. I'm tight, okay,
all right on my haircuts and it's a real shot
right now, Shorter.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
The last time you saw me better now there is
there are rumors out there you've lost a lot of
weight since I saw Is that true that you're leaning
mean now hollering James.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Because I'm not eating and doing energy drinks to stay
up all night with you, big sella?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Are you are you blaming me for your addiction to
energy drinks? And it doesn't sound at all like you're
high as a kite on energy drinks at all. It
doesn't sound like that unless I don't get.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
High, just stay awake all the time.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Well, you don't realize it because you're you're as high
as a kite, so you don't understand what's going on.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Interacts with the merriage. But back to foot.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
So you're on thirty six pills in the morning, thirty
six thirty six pills every time you beg for the song,
every time you've already begged. Don't know. We have it.
I don't know. It's not in the system. I don't know.
I can't just play it. They don't put the scoop it.
We always have it for you. Thirty six pills in
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the morning and thirty six bills that night, A months
to do in the afternoon. It makes me bel all right.
I bought these bills in time of sleep, I pop
in time of sports. I bought some bills before then
Le's show, and then I bopped some more. Jase school
chet this in Dan scoops into James. We're just Josha.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
He once told me the sports called man, what a buffer.
He turned into a Vikings fan. They're talking over your song.
Now you can dream and you can rhyme. Well, tell
me takes care of Hey, this is good This has
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become one of the great moments. He show that's me
fast asleep? What a race? Oh that's true, that did happen.
It was James. They call this song. The kids call
it a banger, and they said the banger Banger.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Flip Flor Feller.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
This is gonna be in the rotation on Kiss FM.
They're gonna be playing this. This is big.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
What you I wras is that the hot.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Rock station in Minnesota? Is that what it is? I'm
not familiar with that, but okay, I thought every city
has a Kiss FM.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Now now we've got three point X, which is a
head banger.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Okay, can I go Now? I feel like I'm done
with you know, just your take was you think the
surprise team next NFL season will be the Minnesota Vikings
who went fourteen and three last year. That's your surprise team.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
No position. They got beat by good teams, but I
think they got cheated by the referees too.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
On which of the seventy sacks that sam Donold took
against the Rams did they cheat.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
When offensive line in defensive lineman not only pushed their
way through with their hands at hold?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
But all right, I gotta go. Let's say hello to
Jackson who's in Seattle. Hello Jackson, welcome Adi ban.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Alla, first time long time.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
First time, long time. He's laughing at that. That's classic
radio jargon. Jackson first time line.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, we're going off of I wound up coming on.
You know, big dumper out here in Seattle is not
getting enough love?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, should we sup a bouquet of flowers? Like? How
can I help him out? What can I do here?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I don't know. We've got We've got a catcher that
has over twenty home runs on June first, Jim third,
now anyway.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
June fourth? Nice? Even the days just keep coming. He
did lose to the Baltimore Orioles last night.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I don't know, okay, okay, okay, now we got to
go on the Sam Donald you.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
No, no, I'm not done. So how does it feel as
a proud Mariner fan that cal Raley at this point
is projected hit sixty three home runs, driving one hundred
and twenty something runs, and has no chance of winning
the MVP. How does that make you feel?
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It's honestly sad, But you know, we're out here in
the Pacific Northwest, you know, we get ignored Southern Alaska.
It's okay.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Oh, yes, that was Jimmy. That was the famous line
by Jimmy Johnson. Remember Jimmy Johnson came up with that line.
He was so pissed the old NFL coaching cluck.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Yeah, farm out here, you said, Mike McDonald's farm out here,
out in the.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Out of ee ee i, y'all.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Mike McDonald had a farm ei eei all. And it's
in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, you said them to the farms.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
No, we got a good coach, We got lots of
the defense is going to be back.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
You know, We've got just you're just throwing random things
out You're just throwing random things out here. Well, you
like to yell with drunk collars all the time, and
I yell with sober callers also. I I don't discriminate
against only the drunks. I yell against people that are sober.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
No, thank you.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
I love to yell.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I'm a yellow too. Every time I do these meeting,
because there's usually like the wife of one of the
dudes say, I am trying to sleep and you're screaming
about something, complaining exactly why why are you complaining? How
much you just focus on the road or something.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
You're driving me alone, best catcher in the wig, give
me your take.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I love the nickname. Greatest nickname in baseball today. Is
there any nickname the Big Dumper? Come on, that's a
great name, The Big Dumper. That is just it just
pops the big Dumper like a nice load coming out
of your your took a sigh. I have big dump
right there, the big Dumper. All right, call more off
of Jackson. Everyone else in Seattle's sleeping.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
What what?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
What?
Speaker 5 (31:30):
What? What?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
All right? Go thank you? All right? You just start
fuxing around here. It's like, come on. So I would
put this story in the category of man bites. Dog
Zion Williamson who's facing a lawsuit claiming that he did
things he was not supposed to do at the time
he was not supposed to do and blah blah blah
blah blah. So it turns out that his ex girlfriend
(31:57):
who's older and uh, you know one of these booty
you know Instagram, I guess not Instagram. It's a OnlyFans model,
Mariah Mills I believe is the woman's name. So there's
a story out that she tried to get on the
lawsuit train. She contacted Tony Busby. As I understand it,
he's the number one ambulance chasing attorney. If you're a
(32:18):
woman looking at to sue a dude like that's who
you go to Tony Busby's in Houston, as I understand it.
So anyway, she contacted Busby, say hey, I like to
sue Zion and a guy that sues everyone, that's his
job is to sue people. That's his gig. Tony Busby
turned down the ex girlfriend of Zion Williamson. You talk
(32:42):
about not having any kind of if. Even Busby's like,
you have no case, and this is what I do
for a living. I sue famous dudes and get money
from them, and you don't have a case. I imagine
how much how much heartbreak she must have had. This woman.
We're gonna have mallor to the third degree. That'll be
coming up in a little bit time now for the
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Insta Trivia, and we do this for the late night
drug tester because he wanted some hockey Oilers forward Corey
Perry is forty years old. He's also the seventeenth player
and the first since Blank, to appear in the Stanley
Cup Final at least six times since the NHL went
to the sixteen team playoff format. I was the last,
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obviously to do it again Corey Perry when they dropped
the puck in Edmonton tonight. Corey Perry, at age forty,
I'll be the seventeenth player in the first since Blank
to appear in the Stanley Cup Final at least six
times since the NHL went to the sixteen team playoff format.
That is the insta trivia the answer. We'll get to it,
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deb I didn't do a hockey monolog give me once
in a while. The Oilers forward Corey Perry is forty
years old. He is the seventeenth player and the first
since Blank to appear in the Stanley Cup Final at
least six times. That'll be when the series he dropped
the puck tonight. First player to appear in the Stanley
Cup Final at least six times since the NHL went
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to the sixteen game playoff format. First player since Blank.
That is the question. What is the answer? With mallardly
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we have? Page Dan Mala prop Guy says Eddie Garcia
is the answer. All right, Loraina, do you have an
answer to the always popular Insta tribute question? Again? The
question one more time? Oiler's fourth Corey Perry forty years
old and he going to become the seventeen player first
since Blank to appear in the Stanley Cup Final at
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least six times since the NHL went to the sixteen
team playoff for it. I'm gonna say, alex Ovechkin, is
it alex Ovechkin? It is Peter Secora back with the
New Jersey Devils back in twenty twelve, A long time again.
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Degree in a planet far far gets grail, all right,
Samlard of the third degree time, and here's coach.
Speaker 6 (37:29):
It was recently reported that the Vikings are concerned with
JJ McCarthy that, no matter what the team says, they
wanted Sam Donald back. Ben, do you think Viking fans
are in for a tough season ahead? Well, I don't
believe that they wanted Sam Donald back. They just the
Aaron Rodgers thing. You can hide a quarterback, and we
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saw it last season with the Minnesota Vikings. They played
hide a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
And they've got a coach who knows how to do
that based on what they were able to pull off
last year with that coaching staff and Sam Darnold and
how many wins they got and all that stuff, like listen,
Kevin o'connin knows what he's doing. They've got good receivers.
So the Vikings. The baseline for the Vikings is ten
or eleven wins. They're not gonna get any worse than that.
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They'll be in that area. They're not gonna be as
good as they were last year, but they'll be in
that area. And if McCarthy by the end of the
season can actually not poop the bed like Donald did,
they'll be better in the postseason.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Next After clinching a spot in the NBA Finals, Pacers
center Miles Turner said, well.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
This is a new blueprint for the league. Man.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
I think the years of super teams and stacking talent,
that's that's not of effect as effective as it once was.
But do you think Indiana and OKSE have written a
blueprint for the rest of the league.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
No, because no one's gonna watch this and people on
Park Avenue in Manhattan are going to freak out. The
NBA is a television show. This is bad television for
the you know, the average viewer, and so they they.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Will change the rules and this this will not continue
next On Monday, Austin Ainge, a son of Danny Inge,
was introduced as the Utah Jazz is new president of
bast Co Operations. He asked what his philosophy was on
tanking and ange replied, you won't see that this year
and think the jazz are gonna start trying again.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yes, they're just gonna be bad. Naturally, they're gonna be bad.
I love that he's the net bo GM though, Austin
he I wonder how he got the job. What do
you think his resume look like? Coop? Come on, what
are you amazing? He passes a dition all right, he's
got Why my dad is Danny Ainge? If my dad
was Howard Stern, I'd be doing mornings
Boom, shaka, Laca. It's our two. Our number two is
ready for you, and we go to Seattle where the
unthinkable has happened. We're not even at training camp. How
much weight do you give Seurs coach Mike McDonald and
his vote of confidence for a new quarterback, Sam Darnold,
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say what We'll explain. Should the Texans be concerned about
quarterback CJ. Stroud's health? They say they're not. Other reports
say they should be. And we have learned that the
Cowboys defensive back tra Von Diggs is in line to
lose five hundred thousand because he doesn't want to show
up to offseason workouts even though he's just rehabbing. He'd
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rather stay in Florida. How does that taste to you?
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Our friend the ostrich Ant in DC believes that the
month of June is the pinnacle of sports talk radio,
the separation of the wheat from the shaft, the ones
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that can do it and those that can't. A lot
of people take their vacation time here in early June,
trying to get away from the grind and all that.
But our lead this hour is from the Pacific Northwest.
We're going to start out in the Pacific Northwest. New laundry,
same old drama, New laundry, same old drama. The life
in times of Sam Boo Boo Donald, one boo boo
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after another. Sam Darnald as he settles in to life
in Seattle, the failed Viking quarterback who was exposed like
the fraud he was at the end of the year
by the Lions and then the la Rams. And if
you had not heard the latest on this, this is outstanding.
This is a ten out of ten, this particular story.
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So we learned that the coach of Seattle probably know
who that is because he's a nobody. Mike McDonald who
had a farm Ei ei oh so Mike McDonald attempted
to put the key bosh to put the toothpaste back
in the tube. On the debate over the quarterback whether
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or not Sam Donald would be the quarterback in Seattle,
McDonald was asked by some of the Seattle media about
the possibility that someone other than Sam Donald would be
the quarterback. The Seahawks have added Drew Locke, who also
can't play, and jam And Milroe from the draft. Anyway,
here is Mike McDonald, the Seattle coach, commenting on the
(04:23):
Sam Donald status and whether or not he'll be playing
table lists that would lead to a different quarterback.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You guys are crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
There's no way to ask the question with that sound
like an I.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Respect you got to ask it, but like there's you guys,
it's just a crazy question. There's just not gonna like
Sam's are starting quarterback. We love him, He's doing a
tremendous job. God forbid, you know you're you're the worst
player of all time because you made one bad throw
or one bad decisions Like that is not what we're
trying to build. We want these guys to go prepare
the right way and then I go out on the
practice field, go freaking let it rip.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
And then we'll go fix it.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
We'll go we got time, it's it's June.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Third, we'll go.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Okay, they've got to get plenty of reps. We'll get
those things fixed. I mean Sam made a carill up
a lot of great throws yesterday. He's gashing us on
third and goal to start the start the start the
day out too. So yeah, that was kind of a
crazy question.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I don't think it's a crazy question at all. I
think his answer is rather crazy. So Donald signed a
three year contract with a bunch of escape patches because
Seattle knows they signed a crappy quarterback. It's up to
one hundred million. No, it was really just a one
year deal, and the Vikings can flush him away, or
the Seahawks and flush him away like the Vikings did
and all that. So we know that Seattle added, as
(05:32):
we mentioned Jalen Milroe who had issues at Alabama and
Drew Locke who can't play. So let us discuss the
question how much weight do you give the Seahawks coach
Mike McDonald, as you just heard giving a vote of
confidence to Sam Donald even before training camp. Sam Donald
needs a vote of confidence, so I've got in flight, meal,
(05:55):
happy Hour and Wimbledon, and we will combine all of
the things together and we are going to make an
updated resume because I believe Mike McDonald, if he truly
is fully invested in Sam Donald, he will be let go.
As the Seattle coach. You didn't do anything. He's not
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just a generic coach. He's a jack, just a coach,
nothing special there. So my first thought on this the
full Sam Donald experience. If you're Sam Donald and you
think you're locked in as the start, if you believe
all that bull crap that the coach said, you might
want to relook at some things in your life. There,
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go start biting your fingernails. Now it is OTAs just workouts,
shorts and visors and things like that for the most part.
And Sam Donald already already smelling like leftover tuna fish
that's been sitting out in the sun. It's just that
you can't make this up. The heartburn adding up there
(07:03):
those boots on the ground. Boots on the ground say
that Sam Donald was intercepted multiple times in the first
open practice session with the media. Tossed a pair of
interceptions in the seven on seven portion of the practice.
And so here's where I sat from thirty six thousand
feet up in the sky. The Seattle Seahawks coach Mike
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McDonald is enjoying a nice in flight meal, and that
meal is a bowl of cereal, it's honey ohs or
in this case just owes as an oracle of obvious,
oracle of obvious, and I'm gonna go to the boiler
plate on what I am supposed to play, what I'm
supposed to say as an NFL coach. It is the
(07:46):
disfunction junction, how do you function? That is the full
Sam Donald experience, and the Seahawks are just finding that
out there that you're having to give a vote of
confidence to Sam Donald. So really, what Seattle's doing, they're
playing the sweep Steaks and they're like, you can get
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seven or eight or nine games out of Sam Donald.
It's never a good thing when you have to play
hide the quarterback. And the only way Sam Donald can
be effective, and it only works for a limited amount
of time, is hide the quarterback, play hide the cours.
And at some point you can't hide the quarterback when
you play a good team late in the ear and
then you're exposed you're pants and you're out there and
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you don't have an underwear on. You're just pants the
whole thing. And so there's all kinds of loopholes and
get out of the contract and all that escape patches.
And let's clip and save this quote by McDonald who
had to say that, right, the oracle of the obvious,
And then we'll look back at this. I'll save this
in my notes, and then when we get the week
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five or six and Sam donald is no longer playing
quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, we can revisit this and
we point our finger in line and goof on Seattle.
And that's always fun to do. That's that's good talk radio.
So page two to Houston we go, speaking of the
quarterback shuffle. You've got drama in the lone Star State,
(09:14):
as Demico Ryans. Demko Ryans, the head coach of the
Houston football team, has announced he has quote no concerns
close quote about quarterback c J. Stroud, who has been
limited from doing the thing that all quarterbacks seemingly need
to do, throwing the ball during spring practice, due to
(09:36):
quote general soreness. So you know at this point what
c J. Stroud he's in his fifties. Body gets a
little sort Oh no, he's actually in his twenties. He's
in his twenties. So the Texans opened OTA's back on
May twenty eight. Yeah, twenty eight, and c J. Stroud
ce Jay Stroud of the Texans has not thrown passes
during any of the practices that are open been to
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the media. Now others are singing a different tune. So
the Texans coach, Tamiko Ryans is like this, there's nothing
to see here. Everything is fine, don't worry about this. Okay.
Now there's a conflicting report that is out singing a
different tune making it clear that the fans should panic,
(10:23):
Panic at the disco. Panic at the Disco says, you
should not believe what the coach said. You shouldn't believe
the statements from the team there. With the Texans, there
should be concerns about c J. Stroud. So let us
discuss as we do this show in early June twenty
twenty five. Should the Texans be quote concerned close quote
(10:49):
about quarterback c J. Stroud and his health. So I'm
actually shaking my head no on this, I'm shaking my head.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Now you know, Ben, you're just supposed to panic the way.
That's your bad job about you. Okay, As you know,
we look at this on a case by case basis
as possibly tweaked something and working out lifting weights or whatever.
And even if he did, whoop, p damn do. That's
what I say, whoop damn do. It's happy hour, happy hour,
(11:19):
which is code for it's amateur hour in the hot
take factory. There is some issues with the machinery here
in the warehouse. And it's everything's clickbait these days. I
get it. We live in the clickbait world. That's how
the game works. Anyone says, oh, it's just clickbait. Everything clickbait,
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like that's how it is because that's how people consume media. Clicking. Well,
I don't believe it in clickbait. Yes, you do. You
click on things. You're part of the problem. You are
part of the problem. But then they're not concerned about
c J. Stroud's health. The people that are putting this
out of there, I don't think they should be. I
think there's any real concern for c J. Stroud because
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of why the calendar, that would be why there is
no legitimate concern. You're stirring the pot. You're looking for something.
You're looking for a little something, and that's a little
something that you can latch onto and get your tentacles
into and all that stuff. And we can see now
now if you want to find out when there is concern,
(12:24):
that'll be in late July. I think around July twenty
twenty third, twenty four to twenty fifth, somewhere in that
area is when training camps open up in the NFL.
And if CJ. Stroud has decided to have a camp
out in the injury tent when the real training camp
opens up in a month and a half, then we
can revisit this. Up until that point, that's premature concern
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and I'm not gonna have and I'm not a Texans
fan anyone. I'll let mister Irrigation worry about that. That's
a and the deacon, I'll let those guys worry about now.
Final point to his world, and speaking of absurd and
amateur hour, this is theater of the absurd, theater of
the absurd. From Jerry's world, we have learned now that
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the Cowboys defensive back Travon Diggs, that's right, the brother
of Stefon Digs. Trevon Diggs is in line to lose
five hundred thousand dollars. Now, what did he do? Did
he violate the team rules? Was he on the boat
with the bikini models and the pink candy which I'm
(13:33):
sure was not cocaine in Miami? Was he on the
boat with his brother? No? So how did he lose
the or how is he going to lose the five
hundred thousand dollars by not showing up to the team facility,
by missing the team's off season workouts. So let's discuss
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Cowboys defensive back Travon Diggs inline to lose five hundred
thousand smack a roos because he's missing off season workouts.
How does that taste?
Speaker 2 (14:08):
All?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Right? So it tastes like Sardinian cheese, which I am
told is the cheese that is made. It is maggot
infested cheese. Yum, yum to my Tom, Tom. That's what
it is now in London and it's Wimbleton time coming
up here. But in London they would call this an
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unforced error. That's tennis lingo. It's an unforced error, is
what it is. Diggs is in his mid twenties. He
got a good sized contract. He supposedly has some kind
of internal beef with the training staff there with the
Dallas Cowboys, and so he is willing to forfeit five
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hundred thousand dollars to rehab his knee in Miami, Miami, Miami,
Miami South Beach, staying away from the Cowboy facility. The
price tag on that five hundred thousand dollars, five hundred
thousand dollars, This is bokers to me. Now, am I
completely out of touch? You're just an old head. You
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don't know what you're talking about. Bad. These kids, they
got so much money they can flush away five hundred
thousand dollars. Digs, the dunce digs the dunce. Do you
dig it? Come on, I cannot imagine throwing away five
hundred thousand dollars like it's lunch money, and just I
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don't need it, I don't want it, I don't I'm
getting rid of it. And all you have to do
is show up. It's not like you have to go
through some rigorous workout. You just merely have to show up.
And that's it. Like, what planet are we on at
this point? What planet are we? Like? Five hundred thousand.
(15:54):
You could buy a house. In some places, you can
buy multiple houses for that kind of money where you're
investing your money. Heck, you could get a fast food franchise.
I assume you could put the down payment and get
a big chunk of like a what a burger? What
a burger? What a mistake for Trevon dis money makes money. Instead,
(16:17):
you're just gonna say, I don't, I don't even rather
hang out here, have a my tie with my friend
weedman hippie in Miami who calls the show occasionally, and
just have a grand old time. Why not? All right?
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and Man Bites Dog, Man bites Dog. We'll get to that.
Ferg Dog rights in as he is the gatekeeper on
the show. He said, as hey, Ben, do you really
think Sam Darnold's not going to start every game next season?
According to no Stradinis, Well, you're quoting Nostradenas. According to Nostradenas,
the Seahawks are a stone cold lead pipe to win
(19:15):
the NFC West running away. You can't bench him then,
according to Ferdough, Yeah, well keep in mind that our
guy Nostradenas the same guy that was giving a bubble
bath to the previous Seattle quarterback who we were ripping
on this show. And we had hot take validation. And
(19:39):
how did we get hot take validation? We got hot
take validation because while nostra DNAs was giving a manny
and a petty to the Seattle quarterback last year, Gino Smith.
The front office was plotting to trade him. So that
is hot take validation. We win. Shane and Moynes says,
Will Campbell signed with the Patriots. And related news, New
(20:00):
England isn't winning more than six or seven games this year.
I don't know about that. Play a last place schedule.
They got a new coach. You get a little bumpety
bump there. They did have a few players that seemingly
know how to play football. They can actually tie their
shoelaces and block someone or tackle someone. Late night drug
tester says, I'm sure your Stanley Cup final preview is
(20:21):
coming soon. Just worried about poutine intake last week may
may make you a biased for the Oilers over the Panthers. Well,
I do not want to promote ahead too much, but
there will be some hockey reference later on. There will
be some hockey reference later on. Who else do we
have Nick the Windy's Guy. I believe this is Nick
(20:43):
the Windy's Guy writes and he says, Hey, Ben, buddy,
I just want to say how proud I am of
my daughter Julianna far right for graduating from her high school.
Here you go, he says, I'm in the middle of
a mom and dead. Well, congratulations to your daughter there,
(21:06):
and that looks like you're having a nice meal in
the I can't. There's no food on the plate. Hopefully
there's some good food coming there. But that's outstanding, So
proud Papa Nick. The Wendy's guy. Fired up, Mark writes
in and says it sucks being on the run cops
fed Fed's mob ex wife's irs collection agency is stressful.
(21:28):
Gotta go. I heard a noise. That's Mark from Queen's
and Arlington. Well, I actually can relate to that a
little bit because years ago, this goes back, god, maybe
seventeen or eighteen years ago, some woman who did not
pay her bills. She put my phone number down. I
(21:53):
think this is how it happened. And her name is Brianna,
not the one that works here. But I still get
this is like fifteen to seventeen years of messages from
debt collectors saying that I need to contact them immediately
and if not, they're going to take my car, my home,
(22:15):
and all of my worldly possessions. Because after seventeen years.
You'd think they would have taken all that by now,
but for some reason they've been unable to do that. Anyway,
ys go with the phones and we'll say lo to
hollering James, who's in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Hello, hollering James.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I got on this show. Who said I won't hold?
I have to?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, well yeah, you don't. You hang up a million times?
Why do you do that? You stay on hold, You're
in line, you don't need to hang up. Why do
you hang up?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Why because my phone dies? I have one of them.
Sheep eight. I don't know how to say it. I
don't know how to read, but anyways I can spell.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Attention advertisers, you can reach the coveted demographic that does
not know how to read.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
V tech. I figured a vtach.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
A v tech hold on say v tech V tech
O v tech a v tech phone.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
It's a v tech phone. You have to cord its cord,
you charge it up.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
So this is like as a cordless phone. This is
a landline cordless phone.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Landline cordless phone, old school.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Okay, I'm looking at it. I think I had one
of these in like nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
When you were in college. Anyway, I like that you.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Have the show on in the background. That's good you're listening.
Some people don't listen.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
I have to listen, Ben, I'm your favorite listener. Or
with a very maybe with Jafsey. Have you going to
the Mermaid to meet you?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I know, it's like a religious experience when me and
you were together right there. You know, you bet legends
like I had.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
The most honorable time meeting you because everybody treated me
like I was somebody. And then the house I'm in
now in the house I was in the last time
before they were gonna vic me, before they wanted to
me the Senate AFFI dated, which was crazy, just like
I think that Sam Donald issues crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah? Is that is that your hot take? Sam Donald? Crazy?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I believe the Seattle Seahawks. They're both crazy. He ain't
going to last three years.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, that's a spicy meat ball. I only have to
last like seven or eight games, and then they can
bench him for jailing m I don't want.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
To be plased terrible of seven eight games. Put them
in a tank. I take out my vikings. They're going
to be a surprise.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Oh, you've never had that take before the Vikings are
going to be a surprise. That is an original take.
Did you come up with that on your own? No?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
You helped me.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Then I helped you. I helped craft to take. I
use my pocket knife to kind of craft have to
take interesting.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
We have to crow bar east.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
There's no crow barring to take. There's some finesse involved.
You have to you have to jim away the wood.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
It's carving it a reggie.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
I'm not giving you a weggie. There's no weggie in
high and tight. You might like a weggie, but.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
You have to joking to day high. I'm tight, okay,
all right on my haircuts and it's a real shot
right now, Shorter.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
The last time you saw me better now there is
there are rumors out there you've lost a lot of
weight since I saw Is that true that you're leaning
mean now hollering James.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Because I'm not eating and doing energy drinks to stay
up all night with you, big sella?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Are you are you blaming me for your addiction to
energy drinks? And it doesn't sound at all like you're
high as a kite on energy drinks at all. It
doesn't sound like that unless I don't get.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
High, just stay awake all the time.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Well, you don't realize it because you're you're as high
as a kite, so you don't understand what's going on.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Interacts with the merriage. But back to foot.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
So you're on thirty six pills in the morning, thirty
six thirty six pills every time you beg for the song,
every time you've already begged. Don't know. We have it.
I don't know. It's not in the system. I don't know.
I can't just play it. They don't put the scoop it.
We always have it for you. Thirty six pills in
(26:24):
the morning and thirty six bills that night, A months
to do in the afternoon. It makes me bel all right.
I bought these bills in time of sleep, I pop
in time of sports. I bought some bills before then
Le's show, and then I bopped some more. Jase school
chet this in Dan scoops into James. We're just Josha.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
He once told me the sports called man, what a buffer.
He turned into a Vikings fan. They're talking over your song.
Now you can dream and you can rhyme. Well, tell
me takes care of Hey, this is good This has
(27:15):
become one of the great moments. He show that's me
fast asleep? What a race? Oh that's true, that did happen.
It was James. They call this song. The kids call
it a banger, and they said the banger Banger.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Flip Flor Feller.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
This is gonna be in the rotation on Kiss FM.
They're gonna be playing this. This is big.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
What you I wras is that the hot.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Rock station in Minnesota? Is that what it is? I'm
not familiar with that, but okay, I thought every city
has a Kiss FM.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Now now we've got three point X, which is a
head banger.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Okay, can I go Now? I feel like I'm done
with you know, just your take was you think the
surprise team next NFL season will be the Minnesota Vikings
who went fourteen and three last year. That's your surprise team.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
No position. They got beat by good teams, but I
think they got cheated by the referees too.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
On which of the seventy sacks that sam Donold took
against the Rams did they cheat.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
When offensive line in defensive lineman not only pushed their
way through with their hands at hold?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
But all right, I gotta go. Let's say hello to
Jackson who's in Seattle. Hello Jackson, welcome Adi ban.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Alla, first time long time.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
First time, long time. He's laughing at that. That's classic
radio jargon. Jackson first time line.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, we're going off of I wound up coming on.
You know, big dumper out here in Seattle is not
getting enough love?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah, should we sup a bouquet of flowers? Like? How
can I help him out? What can I do here?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I don't know. We've got We've got a catcher that
has over twenty home runs on June first, Jim third,
now anyway.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
June fourth? Nice? Even the days just keep coming. He
did lose to the Baltimore Orioles last night.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I don't know, okay, okay, okay, now we got to
go on the Sam Donald you.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
No, no, I'm not done. So how does it feel as
a proud Mariner fan that cal Raley at this point
is projected hit sixty three home runs, driving one hundred
and twenty something runs, and has no chance of winning
the MVP. How does that make you feel?
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It's honestly sad, But you know, we're out here in
the Pacific Northwest, you know, we get ignored Southern Alaska.
It's okay.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Oh, yes, that was Jimmy. That was the famous line
by Jimmy Johnson. Remember Jimmy Johnson came up with that line.
He was so pissed the old NFL coaching cluck.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Yeah, farm out here, you said, Mike McDonald's farm out here,
out in the.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Out of ee ee i, y'all.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Mike McDonald had a farm ei eei all. And it's
in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, you said them to the farms.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
No, we got a good coach, We got lots of
the defense is going to be back.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
You know, We've got just you're just throwing random things
out You're just throwing random things out here. Well, you
like to yell with drunk collars all the time, and
I yell with sober callers also. I I don't discriminate
against only the drunks. I yell against people that are sober.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
No, thank you.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
I love to yell.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
I'm a yellow too. Every time I do these meeting,
because there's usually like the wife of one of the
dudes say, I am trying to sleep and you're screaming
about something, complaining exactly why why are you complaining? How
much you just focus on the road or something.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
You're driving me alone, best catcher in the wig, give
me your take.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I love the nickname. Greatest nickname in baseball today. Is
there any nickname the Big Dumper? Come on, that's a
great name, The Big Dumper. That is just it just
pops the big Dumper like a nice load coming out
of your your took a sigh. I have big dump
right there, the big Dumper. All right, call more off
of Jackson. Everyone else in Seattle's sleeping.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
What what?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
What?
Speaker 5 (31:30):
What? What?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
All right? Go thank you? All right? You just start
fuxing around here. It's like, come on. So I would
put this story in the category of man bites. Dog
Zion Williamson who's facing a lawsuit claiming that he did
things he was not supposed to do at the time
he was not supposed to do and blah blah blah
blah blah. So it turns out that his ex girlfriend
(31:57):
who's older and uh, you know one of these booty
you know Instagram, I guess not Instagram. It's a OnlyFans model,
Mariah Mills I believe is the woman's name. So there's
a story out that she tried to get on the
lawsuit train. She contacted Tony Busby. As I understand it,
he's the number one ambulance chasing attorney. If you're a
(32:18):
woman looking at to sue a dude like that's who
you go to Tony Busby's in Houston, as I understand it.
So anyway, she contacted Busby, say hey, I like to
sue Zion and a guy that sues everyone, that's his
job is to sue people. That's his gig. Tony Busby
turned down the ex girlfriend of Zion Williamson. You talk
(32:42):
about not having any kind of if. Even Busby's like,
you have no case, and this is what I do
for a living. I sue famous dudes and get money
from them, and you don't have a case. I imagine
how much how much heartbreak she must have had. This woman.
We're gonna have mallor to the third degree. That'll be
coming up in a little bit time now for the
(33:02):
Insta Trivia, and we do this for the late night
drug tester because he wanted some hockey Oilers forward Corey
Perry is forty years old. He's also the seventeenth player
and the first since Blank, to appear in the Stanley
Cup Final at least six times since the NHL went
to the sixteen team playoff format. I was the last,
(33:27):
obviously to do it again Corey Perry when they dropped
the puck in Edmonton tonight. Corey Perry, at age forty,
I'll be the seventeenth player in the first since Blank
to appear in the Stanley Cup Final at least six
times since the NHL went to the sixteen team playoff format.
That is the insta trivia the answer. We'll get to it,
(33:48):
and we will do it next.
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Time down for the Insta Trivia with the Stanley Cup
Final beginning tonight and I will be watching and I'm
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deb I didn't do a hockey monolog give me once
in a while. The Oilers forward Corey Perry is forty
years old. He is the seventeenth player and the first
since Blank to appear in the Stanley Cup Final at
least six times. That'll be when the series he dropped
the puck tonight. First player to appear in the Stanley
Cup Final at least six times since the NHL went
(35:07):
to the sixteen game playoff format. First player since Blank.
That is the question. What is the answer? With mallardly
third degree coming up here Maul money Lee, So let's see,
does anyone know the answer? Brian prop Guess by Alf
the Alien Opiner, Michael Phelps from Scrooge in Northern California.
(35:27):
Maria Bakalova, who's twenty nine today from the Late Night
Drug Tester? Who else do we have? Page down? Lanni
Pofo from King Rory Rob in Vegas. Guests by Shane
in Des Moines former Brave Gerald Perry guess by Bay
City Tony the fraud King, Lebron James from Sean and Portland,
(35:50):
Gump Worsley, a great answer from our friend Robbie the
Mariner fan and also BP the iconic Gump Warsley, Bill
Quackenbush from Jade t of the Wingman in Knoxville, Eke
and Roseville, Minnesota, going with Willie O Ree as the answer.
Bobby Orr from Andy as he's listening in Line o' Lakes, Minnesota.
(36:14):
Chris Chelly ohs from Johnny Q. Wayne Brady NHL Hall
of Famer Wayne Brady guests by Brian Kelly, says Shane
in Des Moine, his lover Pat McAfee, Okay Mark in
Santa monicasist Doctor Frankenstein is the answer. Who else do
(36:35):
we have? Page Dan Mala prop Guy says Eddie Garcia
is the answer. All right, Loraina, do you have an
answer to the always popular Insta tribute question? Again? The
question one more time? Oiler's fourth Corey Perry forty years
old and he going to become the seventeen player first
since Blank to appear in the Stanley Cup Final at
(36:56):
least six times since the NHL went to the sixteen
team playoff for it. I'm gonna say, alex Ovechkin, is
it alex Ovechkin? It is Peter Secora back with the
New Jersey Devils back in twenty twelve, A long time again.
(37:20):
Degree in a planet far far gets grail, all right,
Samlard of the third degree time, and here's coach.
Speaker 6 (37:29):
It was recently reported that the Vikings are concerned with
JJ McCarthy that, no matter what the team says, they
wanted Sam Donald back. Ben, do you think Viking fans
are in for a tough season ahead? Well, I don't
believe that they wanted Sam Donald back. They just the
Aaron Rodgers thing. You can hide a quarterback, and we
(37:49):
saw it last season with the Minnesota Vikings. They played
hide a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
And they've got a coach who knows how to do
that based on what they were able to pull off
last year with that coaching staff and Sam Darnold and
how many wins they got and all that stuff, like listen,
Kevin o'connin knows what he's doing. They've got good receivers.
So the Vikings. The baseline for the Vikings is ten
or eleven wins. They're not gonna get any worse than that.
(38:16):
They'll be in that area. They're not gonna be as
good as they were last year, but they'll be in
that area. And if McCarthy by the end of the
season can actually not poop the bed like Donald did,
they'll be better in the postseason.
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Next After clinching a spot in the NBA Finals, Pacers
center Miles Turner said, well.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
This is a new blueprint for the league. Man.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
I think the years of super teams and stacking talent,
that's that's not of effect as effective as it once was.
But do you think Indiana and OKSE have written a
blueprint for the rest of the league.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
No, because no one's gonna watch this and people on
Park Avenue in Manhattan are going to freak out. The
NBA is a television show. This is bad television for
the you know, the average viewer, and so they they.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Will change the rules and this this will not continue
next On Monday, Austin Ainge, a son of Danny Inge,
was introduced as the Utah Jazz is new president of
bast Co Operations. He asked what his philosophy was on
tanking and ange replied, you won't see that this year
and think the jazz are gonna start trying again.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yes, they're just gonna be bad. Naturally, they're gonna be bad.
I love that he's the net bo GM though, Austin
he I wonder how he got the job. What do
you think his resume look like? Coop? Come on, what
are you amazing? He passes a dition all right, he's
got Why my dad is Danny Ainge? If my dad
was Howard Stern, I'd be doing mornings
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