November 19, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about reports of Arkansas taking a shot at Jon Gruden, the trend of stars going AWOL in the NBA, why Shota Imanaga would stay with the Cubs when they rejected him, Too Much or Not Enough, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number three, our number three,
and we're going to talk some college football here. That's right,
college football. There's a lot of chatter about the future
of Lane Kiffin. Will he stay at Ole Miss or
go to another LSU or Florida like school in free
agency and coaching even though he's under contract. But there's
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a story out that Arkansas is on the prowl for
a former NFL head coach. Would Arkansas actually take a
shot at John Gruden? We'll discuss that. Pro bouncy ball.
What does this trend of stars going a wall say
about the modern NBA? Historically terrible, the lack of playing
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by star players in the NBA, it's at an all
time high. So much for the end of load management.
And in the Major League Baseball world. Why would Chota
Imanaga stay with the Cubs? They rejected him, he took
the qualifying offer, They didn't want him around, and he's
still staying. We'll talk about that as well and more
right now here, it is our number three. Could a
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former NFL coach, a championship level coach be headed to
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of the day. So a lot to get to, but
we begin this hour. Don't bear the lead, my man.
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We'll go to college football. Busy time on the coaching carousel,
round and round and round and round and round and
round and round. Coaching carousel. So former Penn State coach
James Franklin, if you've not been following the dominoes here,
James Franklin Lands and Blacksburg's in Virginia Virginia Tech. He's
doing the hokey pokey and shaking it all about Lane Kiffin.
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Hot detrot Lane very popular on the coaching carousel right
now the old Miss coach, reports of him meeting with
the governor, having a phone meeting with the governor of Louisiana,
being wooed by Florida, and deciding by this weekend whether
he's gonna stay at Oldness or whether he's gonna leave
or not. So Lane Kiffin playing some footsie and he's
not alone. Lane briefly an NFL head coach, not a
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good one with the Raiders. And who's gotten next? Who's
gotten next? Well, if you have not been following the
chatter that has been going around here, perhaps not another
former Raider coach in the headlines Chucky boy John Gruden? Yeah,
John Gruden? How about that guy? So John Gruden has
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emerged as a favorite to become the next head coach
at an SEC school. Which one that would be the
Arkansaw Razorbacks, Holy Blake and Arkansas Batman. Yes, the Arkansas
razor Backs. According to the latest numbers out from the
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prediction market that we had to call earlier from a
gentleman from Rhode Island called it bro it was. How's
this legal?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
The prediction market says that the odds have improved. The
same John Gruden, who coached the Buccaneers and the Raiders,
And that is a good jumping off point. So let
us discuss the question would Arkansas do it? Would they
actually do? It's one thing to talk about it, It's
one thing to throw the room around. Would Arkansas actually
take a shot at John Gruden? Has he rehabbed his
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reputation enough to get that opportunity? So on this one,
I've got revival tent, Pandora's Box, what's in the box,
and Friends with Benefits. Will combine all of these things together,
and we are gonna make the babaganooche. We're gonna make
the Boba ganooshe. Now, first of all, the answer to
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the question would Arkansas actually take a shot at John Gruden?
The answer is a three letter word. Y e S
is the word. And I'm also nodding my head. Yes.
In fact, I'm nodding my head like a bobblehead that
is on the back of a truck, a pickup truck
that does not have good shock absorbers and is riding
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on a very rocky road. So I'm bobbling baba babble
babble babble bah, That's what I mean. So the razorbacks
the way I look at this. They are thirsty. They
are at John Gruden's a thirst trap. They are thirsty
in the sec because they have not only been a university,
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they have been irrelevant for some time now in terms
of the big boys. Here, they're wandering the desert and
they're holding a gas can. They're asking, what's it gonna
take for us to join schools like Georgia and Alabama?
And we'd like to have a seat at the big
boy table. Can we get a seat at the big
boy table? You can't get a seat at the big
boy table because you sucked, but we won't. We don't
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want to suck. We want to be at the big
boy table. Well, come on, So they have not won
ten games. I'm sure Hank will call it from Tokyo
and correct me, but they have not won ten games
since twenty eleves been a minute, and they're just kind
of bummed out and been sitting on the outside. They're
the house band, if you will here, and college football's
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house band, and they're the school you schedule when you
have your homecoming, and that's who you want to play.
And they don't have the headliners. They don't sell out
when they go on the road and all that stuff.
And so if you're in that position, what are you
gonna do. You're gonna beg borrow and steal because that's
Southern Fried football. That's what you gotta do. And you
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don't make friends, you make headlines. And John Gruden, if
you want to make headlines, John Gruden, we've seen this
the last couple of years. A couple of years ago
it was Dion Sanders made all kinds of headlines. That
thing's gone sideways quick in Colorado. They're not very good.
Bill Belichick got the job at North Carolina. Well in
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twenty twenty six, is it the year of John Gruden.
We'll have to check with the Farmers Almanac to see
if that's the case. John Gruden, he's a walking headline
on social media. The guy has made a living over
the last couple of months opening giant boxes of free
crap sent by teams like the Seattle Mariners and different universities.
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He just opens up a bunch of merch and puts
it on It is oh wow wow like that. So
and Groom's not getting back to the NFL anytime soon.
Despite the many malle monologues we've done about John Gruden
going back to the NFL. He is currently involved in
a lawsuit which, oh, by the way, he is winning,
as Charlie Sheen would say, winning against the NFL, which
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generally means you are radioactive in Roger Goodell's world. Sorry
not sorry. So he's got to take what you take,
what he can get in this case. Arkansas, Arkansas, Walmart money.
You have to ozar there, beautiful land, not very expensive
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to live in most places. Seems like a good launching
pad for John Gruden to move on up, kind of
on the edge of town and you get to play
some big time teams here. You want to revive your brand.
Where are you're gonna go? So if you take over
that kind of program, it's like James Franklin going to
Penn State, Right, that's a dormant program. James Franklin had
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some success, didn't win against good teams at Penn State,
but he had some success. And you go to Virginia
Virginia Tech and you have some success. Okay, same thing
with John Gruden. He would play in Fayetteville. I go
there in Fayetteville like a rock music group at a
revival tech. He would just be great, just be wonderful.
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He said, Well, it's the Bible Belt. They'll never allow
a guy like John Gruden, and the Bible Belt want
to bet if they're hungry enough. Football is religion in
the Bible Belt, and Sunday Service starts on Saturday night,
if you know what I mean. So why not? And
the NFL did famously leak a bunch of emails got
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CIA operation. The Great Brent Musburger said at the time
as a Raider broadcaster called it a professional hit job
by paid assassins, not the normal goombas. As he said,
So Gruden sixty two, what has Gruden been doing? We
mentioned he's been doing this unboxing thing. He's young at heart,
he's chomping at the bit. He's been doing coaching clinics.
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He's been giving advice to random NFL teams. And he's
also been playing grab ass with barstool. That's what he's
been doing. So he's lurking. You hire John Gruden, you
don't just get a coach. He's more than just your
standard coach. You get a headline every single day, not
just on Saturday, every single day. Arkansas doesn't need a babysitter.
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They do not need a babysitter. They need a lightning ride,
and not a rod from Bakersfield, an actual lightning lightning rod,
and that would be John Gooden. Desperate times, desperate measures.
We've heard that many times over the years. And so
Arkansas does not want a rebuild. There's even there's no
such thing as a rebuild in college football, not with
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the transfer portal. That does not exist in terms of
a long, slow, methodical process. No, the rebuild is, Okay,
let's get some really powerful boosters that have ties to
Walmart if you're Arkansas, and we'll just buy some really
good football players and we'll pay for a really good
football coach, and all of a sudden, within one year, boom,
we're good. Like somehow Indiana did that. They hired a
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good coach, they got the right players, and they've spent
a little bit of money, but they've picked the right players.
And the Indiana Hoosiers, a basketball school, matter in college football.
If Indiana can matter in the Big Ten in college
football because of the portal and hiring the right coach,
and then soaka Arkansas in the Southeastern Conference, absolutely so yeah,
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you take a shot at John Gruden because you're starving
and even though Gruden's have played a leftover. The leftovers
aren't that bad when you're hungry. It's like that might
be just ground beef, but it tastes like a steak
all right now. Secondly, to pro Bouncy Ball, we go
the rare and appropriate mention on the NBA. I bring
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this up a startling trend to some, but not those
of us that have been paying attention, a startling trend
about the state of the NBA, and it's not good,
which makes for good talk radio. So I'll give you
the details. They've crunched the numbers. We're not even at
Thanksgiving yet, and all told, all told, NBA stars have
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already missed over two hundred games. They've already missed over
two hundred games this season due to injury or illness.
That is doubling the total that we saw a couple
of years ago when everyone's started freaking out about we've
got to do something about load management. My god, we're
ruining our product. So they've actually doubled what they did
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a couple of years ago and everyone lost their mind.
Now the NBA's official star designation. What makes a star
in the NBA? Do you know you don't. Okay, I'll
tell you, yeah, I'll tell you yeah, yeah, okay. So
a star in the NBA, the designation in the league's
player Participation Policy stipulates that a star player is one
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who has made an All Star or All NBA team
in any of the previous three seasons. That is a star.
So you have to be either an All Star or
All NBA guy within a three year span, you're a star.
And of those players this season, how many stars are
there in the NBA? You know, forty five? That's it.
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There are forty five bona fide stars in the NBA
that meet that criteria, which means that on average, on average,
NBA star have already been sidelined by about five games
each they've missed. On average, the forty five players on
average have missed five games each. Now for a league
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that has major credibility issues, right, you got gambling scandals
over here, you got players that don't want to play
over there. It's a hot mess. It is an absolute
hot mess. So the question is what does this trend,
which has continued and it's gotten worse this year, this
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trend of stars going a wall. Some of these are
legitimate injuries a lot of them are not. But what
does this trend say about the current status of the NBA?
So this is to put this in terms of fire.
This is like a five alarm inferno, is what this is.
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And it's at Adams Silver's headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. His
stars are vanishing like they are socks in a dryer.
Where do they go? I don't know where they go?
What happened to all the sucks? I don't know where
they went, but they're not there. I don't understand over
two hundred games. Let me repeat that for those of
your little slow over two hundred games of the stars
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already have been missed. We're barely past Halloween. We're not
even a thanks even then, we didn't really begin until Christmas. Help. Now,
the NFL plays on Christmas, so forget that. I guess
the NBA begins sometime what in February after the Super Bowl,
but then college basketball I don't know, April, whatever. You
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get the point. So this is not so much a
pro bouncy ball league. He's like a celebrity injury report league.
The CIR Celebrity Injury report league is what it is.
And these guys are not treating the season like it's
a job. It hasn't been that way in a long time.
They're treating it like it's some kind of internship. They're
not getting paid, and it's just clock in when you're
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inspired and then clock out when you're just a little sore.
Maybe you might get sore. Just that's it. That's all
you have to do. And keep in mind this did
not just happen. I'm gonna get on the bully pulpit
here and start screaming and shouting like the lunatic that
I am, because this has been an issue where there
are some smart people who saw this and were ridiculed
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and mocked by the wokesters, like what are you doing?
Just let the players miss a couple of games? What
doo cares? Why are you such a hard Oh, that's
what they were doing. This is the legacy of Adam Silver.
I said it. Nobody has the balls to say it right.
They're a bunch of They all suck the toes of
Adam Siliver. This is Adam Silver's legacy is the commission
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of the NBA. He inherited the job. David Stern was
the old commissioner. This was his empire under the tutelage
of David Stern, the NBA became this monster in the
sporting world. And it was Adam Silver who opened Pandora's box. Fully,
what's in the box? He opened Pandora's box. David Stern
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would have had a stroke trying to stop what's going
on right now? How do we know that because he
did almost have a stroke trying to stop what was
going on. Back in the day when Greg Popovich who
brought this disease to pro bouncy ball. Greg Popovich who
famously sent to several of the Spurs stars home on
a Southwest Airlines flight believe it or not from I
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think it was Orlando. They were supposed to go to
Miami and play on a TNT game back when TNT
had the NBA. He sent these guys home on a
Southwest Airlines flight and David Stern lost his mice. So
what are you doing? This is it? This is our product?
We sell the stars. That's the business model. You're effing
up the business model. Holy crap. And there were a
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bunch of woke sports riders. I don't understand. Let the
guys have a night off. They had to play back
to bad you know, like a bunch of sissies. The
player I can't play back to back. And so David
Stern find the Spurs, a bunch of money, find Popovich,
as I remember, and then he, you know, he left
as the commissioner and Adam Silver came in there. And
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what did Adam Silver do? He endorsed load management as
like some kind of birthright. He said, well, that's a
good idea. Yeah, he rubber stamped the guy that is
a commissioner of the NBA. He robber stamped the death
of his product. Adam Silver did that. I didn't do that.
Adam Silver did that. He killed his own product. He did.
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And now he tried to do this last year. He
sent out some Joe dumar He used Joe Dumars as
a useful idiot to send out this. Well, we've determined
now after years of saying load management's great, it's actually
not good. Well, problem, you can't unring the belt. You
can't do it right. We have now a generation of
basketball players that have been raised. You must protect your
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body on you. You you're not just there for your salary.
You have to worry about your long term health and
you have to be healthy for this. It's this cultural
shift that has taking place there. And there was a
point and this has changed in my lifetime where you
would feel shame, shame, shame if you missed games, especially
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road games, because they're like, oh, there's fans there that'll
never get to see me. They pid a lot of money,
they traveled from far away, all that stuff, right, all
and a lot of it might have been bull crap,
but it made us feel good, right. And there were
players that would play. They would maybe play half a
game right as, wow, we're gonna play half a game whatever,
But you would feel bad if you missed time. You
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felt like you were letting the fans down, You felt
like you were letting your team down, you felt like
you were letting the city down. All that. Now you
feel guilty. You talk about a onoin't eighty. Now you
feel guilty. If you play too much. It's like, dude,
what are you doing? It's brain rot and it's all over,
not just the NBA. It's in other sports too, but
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we're talking about the NBA right here. And the message
is crystal clear, don't risk it, don't not worth it.
You're making fifty million dollars a year don't do it.
Don't do it. So they're all playing scared with that,
and they've been indoctrinated. It's not just the players, it's
the people around the players. It's the voodoo medicine people,
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it's the support staff, the whole wellness army around these
NBA players telling them not to play. It's the first
full generation of NBA players that have been indoctrinated, conditioned
that the regular season is bad. Don't do it once
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you get your money, especially, don't do it. Don't don't try.
And they're Okay, so I get to wait, I get
the full amount of money. I don't have to show
up to work. I mean, we only work eighty two
games during the regular don't do it. And so it
reminds me when I covered baseball and there would always
be that rookie that would come up from Triple A
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or Double A and would hustle, hit a routine ground
ball to shortstop and run like they're trying to run
away from some kind of bear in the woods. And
that player would get tapped on the shoulder and say, okay, listen,
you're making us all look bad. Don't hustle like that.
What are you doing? It's like the NBA player if
somebody comes in is gung ho to play like the
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other players, Like, what are you doing? Do you're making
us look bad? Come on, man, shame on you. So
that's the NBA. Good good job, Adam Silver, hell of
a commissioner. Meanwhile, final fought. We go to baseball. Quickly,
we go to Major League Baseball. We go to Chicago.
After making waves declining declining his in the option, the
Cubs decline the option for Shota Imanaga, the starting pitcher.
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He will be back in Chicago with the Cubs. After all,
he signed the qualifying offer to return for a mere
twenty two million dollars on a one year deal. Quick question,
why would show it to Imanaga, the starting pitcher stay
with the Cubs when they rejected him, They blocked him
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like mutambo. So now, initially this makes zero sense. When
you first heard this or saw it, you're like, oh,
I didn't make any sense until you look at the market.
Until you look at the market. The Cubs didn't reject him,
they just didn't want to marry him long term. So
that's the first time they don't want to sign a
long term contract. They gave him the qualifying offer. The
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moral of the story, if the Cubs didn't want him,
then they wouldn't have done that. So it's the Cubs
way of saying, listen, we kind of like we had
a good time. Let's not put a label on this.
We're not gonna get married. How about just a nice
friends with benefit situation. Okay, fine, I'm good with that.
All right. So they're friends with benefits and it's a
one year deal. And for the player in Minaga, he
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clearly loves deep Dish pizza Lake, Michigan on a boat
in August and the Cubs swiped left, he swiped right,
and then the Cubs gave him an option of coming back.
He said, okay, it is Actually it's a win win
when you look at it, because he gets a one
year deal to kind of fix stuff. He was terrible.
You talk about Doctor Jekyll mister Hyde last year. He
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had an absolute fallout in the second half. First half,
he was an ace for the Cubs, had an ERA
of under three in the first half. The league was
hitting under two hundred against him. In the second half,
is era was over almost five. He was terrible as
batting practice in the second half or Emanaga, and Little
Birdie says that the Managa his agent did go out
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put feelers out test the market see who was looking
for starting pitching, teams like the Angels and teams like that,
and they determined there were not enough fish that were
willing to go that direction, and so they decided to
go back and the teams weren't going to pay the
big money. And that's really the lesson of what's happened
the last couple days of you follow the off season.
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In baseball, the free agent market, even for starting pitching
like I Monaga, is not great. There's a lot of
teams that are hoarding money. They're bunkering down here preparing
for a work stoppage. You look at Glaber Torres, Trent Grisham,
Brandon Woodriff, all of them took qualifying offers. Shane Bieber
in Toronto, stuck around Jack Flaherty in Detroit. Now those guys,
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a lot of them had bad seasons or bad parts
of the season or whatever, but they all stayed. And
what does that tell you, Well, it tells us that
these guys are not gonna They determined they weren't going
to find the money. Nobody really wanted them, and these
are pillow deals. They're one year deals. And you say, Okay,
I'll bounce back, I'll have a soft landing spot. I'll rebound,
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I'll go back to market and then I'll see what
I can get. I love that the economics in baseball
are such where twenty two million dollars is a sweetheart deal.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you'd like to
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Here's the Mallard Riddle of the day. Here it is
Josh Naylor. That's a baseball player. Josh Naylor named blank
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as one of the reasons he re signed with the
Seattle Mariners. Again, Josh Naylor named blank is one of
the reasons he re signed with the Seattle Mariners. It's
the Mallard Riddle of the day. The answer next.
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Bill Miller and you moments away from too much or
not enough and also are the Queen of Hearts if
we want to send a question in relationship advice all
that good stuff with Lorraine a hashtag Queen of Hearts,
which we determined many of you do not know how
to spell unfortunately illiterate. Yeah, it's not that hard. It's
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I mean, plus everyone's got spell check and even the
Obama phones. So we come on. You know, I know
you're some of you are intoxicated and you suck using
pharmaceuticals or whatever. That's fine, but you know, live your life,
you know, try to spell a little bit. It's a
teeny bit. Right back to it. Back to it we
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go and got to pay off the mallor riddle of
the day. Josh Naylor. That's a baseball player name named
blank as one of the reasons he decided to re
sign with the seattlele Mariners. That is a baseball team
that has never been to the World Series, that had
a chance to go to the World Series but did
not get it done. Uh, Andrea, that's right. Virgo in
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Service the Astrology Insider got it right. Bad job by her. Clearly.
What else do we have? Fade down? Uh? He credited
the brainwashing of Dan Arnold fan I think you mean
Sam Darnold fan boys for his signing in Seattle. Who
else do you have to see page down? Uh? Heuh.
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According to ferg Dog, Robbie, the Mariner fan threatened to
end his life if he didn't re sign with the Mariners.
Came back because it's NBA free. According to Late Night
Drug tester, uh see page down, and he wanted to
win Eddies pile of pasos from alf the alien o
Piner Miguel on fire says Josh. Naylor named the Pacific
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Northwest cush as the reason that he wanted to go
back the stinky Seattle fish market from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
I mean it's fine. It's a good tourist trap there
in Seattle. If you go to Seattle, you gotta go
to the fish market. See the guy's tossing the fish
back and forth there.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Uh.
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Doug in South Korea is going with clam chatta. Oh,
I love fresh oysters. Is you want clam chatta? You
gotta go to Maine for clam chatta? Yeah? All right?
What else do you have page dan uh. Let's Seeah
Naylor came back because of my threats of rioting. That
is from Robbie the Mariner fan, the space needle to
(29:10):
Mars from Donkey Sausage. That's his answer. All right, Lorreina,
do you have an answer, Lorraine?
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Yes, Ben, I'm gonna go with the Seattle bridge troll.
The what the bridge troll?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
You've never seen the You've never seen the bridge troll
in Seattle. I've been a Seattle multiple times. I don't remember. Really. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah, there's like there's a giant statue troll under like
bridge there.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
He's so cute.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I did not. I did not.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
That was what it is.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Well, last time I was in Seattle, ed from Spokane
was shouting my name into a bullhorn. We due to
Mallard meet and gre It was very awkward. No, that
is incredible. Josh Naylor said that the one of the
reasons he resigned with the Seattle Mariners is because of Tucker,
the Mariners clubhouse dog.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Nice, very excited about that. Of course. I think the
main reason he resigned is ninety two million dollars for
a guy that had five mediocre years and then one goodyear,
ninety two million dollars, I believe would be the reason
that you sign. Yeah, you know, I guess James is
gonna luck out. I don't see anyone else who wants
to play the game, so I hit the button. There Loreno,
let me let James play if he's awake.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
There, Ben Mallard game.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
We've endured too many of these? Is it too much
or not enough enough? Already? Let's do it? Hollering James
in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello, hollering James.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
James, is really what the Borton deal? Now? He's getting healed?
These shows? What do you know? Man?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Do you know this is the first time in eight
years that you've been awake both times we've gone to you.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
You know why need to be awake?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Why is that?
Speaker 7 (30:55):
If that was you'd have visited my weight when I died?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Well, how do you know you're gonna die before me? James?
You don't know. You never know.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
I smoked in my room. I smoked outside my room
in Minnesota. Okay, yeah, four seasons up here? Man, you
got pulled over my king.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Okay, you're wasting our time. Please you actually the rumors
you have two seasons you've got it's it's kind of
mild for like three months, and the rest of you
at snow's that's I know, you're right. Well, no, actually
you have. When I was told by when I was
at the meet and greet, somebody in Minnesota told me
we have snow and mosquito season, right, that's it?
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, I hate mosquito.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Oh they got It's the land of ten thousand lakes
and ten million mosquitoes. Yeah, a lot of lakes, a
lot of mosquitoes. All right, James, are you ready? Hollering James,
I am ready and ready to go. Okay. James won
the most famous edition of too Much Not Enough. He
was sleeping and that was in the song okay dated
(32:02):
reference there too much or not enough? All the answers
are either too much or not enough. You gotta get
three right to win the game. Good luck, Here we go.
James Harden has now recorded a forty point triple double
against twelve different franchises in the NBA. Is that too
much or not enough?
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Not enough?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
All right, James says, not enough. Let's find out that
is correct. Hardin has put up seventeen career triple doubles
against sixteen different opponents. James, You're off to a good start.
Question number two, there are now only seven players with
more career three pointers then, Lebron James. Is that too
much or not enough?
Speaker 7 (32:40):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Okay, let's find out correct again. Lebron passed Reggie Miller
and yeah, this is New York. As you now, there
are only five ahead of him. Klay Thompson, who's busy
with his lady friend.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Anyway, he's not distracted.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Then, not at all, Dame Livard ray Allen, James Harden,
and Steph Curry. Question number three, James, you're doing very well.
Devonte Adams of the Rims just became the fourth active
wide receiver with a thousand plus career receptions. Is that
too much or not enough? Okay, let's fight out now.
You get that wrong. You get that wrong, j James. James, James,
(33:29):
you've never cursed. Why would you do that?
Speaker 6 (33:30):
You better watch your mouth.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
No, he didn't say spit all right? Too much? You
do it one more time, You're gonna lose James Off,
hang up on you. Okay. He's only the second active
wide receiver of the thousand plus catches, joining Keenan Allen.
Question number four, there are already five teams that have
matched or exceeded their win total from last season. James.
(33:56):
This is for the win in which on football there
are already five teams that have matched or exceeded their
win total from last season? Is that too much or
not enough?
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Damn it? Your suck? Okay, so you found a word.
It is allowed. Yeah, not enough? There are six the Patriots, Colts, Jags, Bears, Panthers,
and forty nine ers. Well, James, it comes down to this.
You got the first couple of questions right, but you've
hit a slump. You need a slumpbuster. Of course, you
need a slumpbuster for years. All right, here we go.
(34:30):
Question number five. Christian McCaffrey. This is for the win
and loss. Now has fifteen career games with both a
rushing touchdown and a receiving touchdown. Is that too much
or not enough? That's the question?
Speaker 7 (34:47):
Too much for the Wears?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Wrong, dam James. Congratulations, you have just lost too much
or not enough? The answer was not enough seventeen career games.
You got the last three questions completely wrong. You screwed
up the entire game, James. But The good news is
you don't get a golden take. You don't get a
golden take, you don't, but you do get a lifetime supply.
(35:13):
Enough in James, the holidays are coming up, so if
you want nothing, just contact us. We're gonna send you nothing.
And also, as an added bonus, we're gonna give you
a round trip to nowhere, James. So if you want
to go nowhere, the Ben Malor Show will send you
nowhere and we're gonna give you nothing at all, and
that goes to the rest of your life. Game. So
if you want something like two years from now, just
reach out to us and say I'd like to cash in.
(35:35):
I'd like nothing. We'll send you nothing. Okay, Well, congratulations shuck. Okay, well,
I mean you can go to bed now. Okay. We've
got the Queen of Hearts with Loraina. Queen of Hearts
with Loraina, if you'd like to call up and be
on eight eight seven seven ninety nine one Fox hashtag
Queen of Hearts. It's you boys don't know how to
(35:56):
spell holy crap? All right, We'll get to that and
we will do it it.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
Next.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
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Speaker 6 (37:05):
Dear ry you heard the man.
Speaker 8 (37:08):
It's officially time for love again here on the Ben
Malors Show. Sorry you guys had to miss me last week.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
You're back there, I'm back, You're back all right.
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The Love Queen is back.
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Okay, your night mirror is over. Let's get right to it.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
Lorena, I'm ready late night.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Your Accester writes in hashtag Queen of Hearts, He says,
is it ever too early to have my lady wearing
holiday lingerie?
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
No, No.
Speaker 8 (37:33):
The best thing about holiday lingerie is it's usually red,
and red is a very versatile color. You can use
it all the time. But with lingerie, you usually want
to get your girl a new set every time.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Oh really, so one and done situation? Is that, right? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (37:46):
Just like a prom dress, You're not gonna wear it twice?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Is that like you have to buy a new TV
every year? The same thing? Right?
Speaker 6 (37:52):
Friday sales coming out?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yes, I can't wait for the video of the people
getting the fights at Walmart for the eighty inch televin
And I can't wait.
Speaker 8 (38:01):
You know about Christmas lingerie? I love the idea of
like role playing Missus Claus and like Santa Claus. I
think that's super fun for a festive time of the year. Yeah,
you know, take your sleigh.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Hey, yeah, absolutely, all right, let's hear those. Shane Shane
in The Moine writes, and he says, you own one
of your ex's shirts and still wear it.
Speaker 8 (38:24):
I did keep one of my ex's shirts for a
long time. It was a little comforting thing. But no,
not anymore.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
I have yes, so you don't need that anymore. You determined.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
I have enough current boyfriends. I can wear their clothes.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Oh all right, Uh, ferg Dog says, how do I
get that special someone to notice me? That's kind of
creepy for dog. I don't know if you want to Well, it.
Speaker 8 (38:44):
Depends on how you want to go. Do you want
to be like stocker Ish? Do you want to be
a normal person? Because you know, you could pull a
micro leprechaun and stand outside someone's window. Wow, you could
do a mail order bride, you could do you could
do like regular Instagram reaches out, which is a little harder,
especially if.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
They're more of a personality. But there's a lot of
ways to be noticed.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Next question from Mike. He says, speaking of friends with
benefits after going and doing the business, is it bad
for the man to immediately nod off and or go
for a cigarette?
Speaker 6 (39:19):
No, No, I don't mind it at all.
Speaker 8 (39:22):
No, once you're done to do in the business, whatever
you need to do, right, So I see it as
like an energy release, right, So after that you should
calm down, you should go.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
Into more relaxed date. I would love to nap after that.
Speaker 8 (39:32):
If you need to go and you know, smoke a
cigarette and get that mental high that you like, that's
good too.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
Whatever tops off your or.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Gather from Mike there. And I don't think I don't
recommend sleeping and smoking at the same time.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
I don't think no, not in bed either. Well, some
people do smoke in bed, you know, all cuddled up.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
All right. Dave writes this is an email. He says
he's thirty four years old. He thinks he's good looking,
at least decent looking, he said. He says he's been
on about eighty first dates the pa last four years
and zero second dates. He he says. He says he
thinks people women think he's boring.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
She says, should give up any any advice if you really.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
Do want companionship and love, I wouldn't give up, but
I would brow.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
To Russian bride.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (40:20):
I would also look at how you're approaching these women.
What kind of dates are you taking them onto? You know,
are you taking them to McDonald's, Are you just walking
in the park?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Like, I think you gotta go another twenty because they
say one hundred, right, at least one out of one
hundred is going to give you a second date. Right,
Maybe if you're over I can't be. The guy's got
to be long. There's no way you're oh for eighty.
That is impossible to be oh for eighty? Right? Or else?
Speaker 6 (40:40):
I mean so much finer bag over your head?
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Fine, blind women, right, come and do something.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
You can't do this.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Yes, there's guys that I don't believe. I think I
got no way. That guy's oh for eighty, Lauren, no way? Right?
Speaker 6 (40:52):
Depressing?
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Come on, you can't be over eighty
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number three, our number three,
and we're going to talk some college football here. That's right,
college football. There's a lot of chatter about the future
of Lane Kiffin. Will he stay at Ole Miss or
go to another LSU or Florida like school in free
agency and coaching even though he's under contract. But there's
(00:22):
a story out that Arkansas is on the prowl for
a former NFL head coach. Would Arkansas actually take a
shot at John Gruden? We'll discuss that. Pro bouncy ball.
What does this trend of stars going a wall say
about the modern NBA? Historically terrible, the lack of playing
(00:45):
by star players in the NBA, it's at an all
time high. So much for the end of load management.
And in the Major League Baseball world. Why would Chota
Imanaga stay with the Cubs? They rejected him, he took
the qualifying offer, They didn't want him around, and he's
still staying. We'll talk about that as well and more
right now here, it is our number three. Could a
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former NFL coach, a championship level coach be headed to
the Ozarks? Say what? Welcome In the beginning of another
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we will have the Queen of Hearts with Lorraina need
some questions for that. She's back this week, so if
you want to ask her a question, you can send
that in right now on the X machine hashtag Queen
of Hearts, which seems to be a very difficult hashtag
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for some of you. Do spell good luck on that
attempt at hashtag Queen of Hearts. That'll be coming up
later this hour. Also too much or not enough, And
our friend Billy aka weed Man from Miami's on hold
the entire show. He wants you to ask him questions
for some reason. And we'll also have the malor Riddle
of the day. So a lot to get to, but
we begin this hour. Don't bear the lead, my man.
(03:23):
We'll go to college football. Busy time on the coaching carousel,
round and round and round and round and round and
round and round. Coaching carousel. So former Penn State coach
James Franklin, if you've not been following the dominoes here,
James Franklin Lands and Blacksburg's in Virginia Virginia Tech. He's
doing the hokey pokey and shaking it all about Lane Kiffin.
(03:46):
Hot detrot Lane very popular on the coaching carousel right
now the old Miss coach, reports of him meeting with
the governor, having a phone meeting with the governor of Louisiana,
being wooed by Florida, and deciding by this weekend whether
he's gonna stay at Oldness or whether he's gonna leave
or not. So Lane Kiffin playing some footsie and he's
not alone. Lane briefly an NFL head coach, not a
(04:09):
good one with the Raiders. And who's gotten next? Who's
gotten next? Well, if you have not been following the
chatter that has been going around here, perhaps not another
former Raider coach in the headlines Chucky boy John Gruden? Yeah,
John Gruden? How about that guy? So John Gruden has
(04:30):
emerged as a favorite to become the next head coach
at an SEC school. Which one that would be the
Arkansaw Razorbacks, Holy Blake and Arkansas Batman. Yes, the Arkansas
razor Backs. According to the latest numbers out from the
(04:50):
prediction market that we had to call earlier from a
gentleman from Rhode Island called it bro it was. How's
this legal?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
The prediction market says that the odds have improved. The
same John Gruden, who coached the Buccaneers and the Raiders,
And that is a good jumping off point. So let
us discuss the question would Arkansas do it? Would they
actually do? It's one thing to talk about it, It's
one thing to throw the room around. Would Arkansas actually
take a shot at John Gruden? Has he rehabbed his
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reputation enough to get that opportunity? So on this one,
I've got revival tent, Pandora's Box, what's in the box,
and Friends with Benefits. Will combine all of these things together,
and we are gonna make the babaganooche. We're gonna make
the Boba ganooshe. Now, first of all, the answer to
(05:44):
the question would Arkansas actually take a shot at John Gruden?
The answer is a three letter word. Y e S
is the word. And I'm also nodding my head. Yes.
In fact, I'm nodding my head like a bobblehead that
is on the back of a truck, a pickup truck
that does not have good shock absorbers and is riding
(06:07):
on a very rocky road. So I'm bobbling baba babble
babble babble bah, That's what I mean. So the razorbacks
the way I look at this. They are thirsty. They
are at John Gruden's a thirst trap. They are thirsty
in the sec because they have not only been a university,
(06:27):
they have been irrelevant for some time now in terms
of the big boys. Here, they're wandering the desert and
they're holding a gas can. They're asking, what's it gonna
take for us to join schools like Georgia and Alabama?
And we'd like to have a seat at the big
boy table. Can we get a seat at the big
boy table? You can't get a seat at the big
boy table because you sucked, but we won't. We don't
(06:49):
want to suck. We want to be at the big
boy table. Well, come on, So they have not won
ten games. I'm sure Hank will call it from Tokyo
and correct me, but they have not won ten games
since twenty eleves been a minute, and they're just kind
of bummed out and been sitting on the outside. They're
the house band, if you will here, and college football's
(07:11):
house band, and they're the school you schedule when you
have your homecoming, and that's who you want to play.
And they don't have the headliners. They don't sell out
when they go on the road and all that stuff.
And so if you're in that position, what are you
gonna do. You're gonna beg borrow and steal because that's
Southern Fried football. That's what you gotta do. And you
(07:31):
don't make friends, you make headlines. And John Gruden, if
you want to make headlines, John Gruden, we've seen this
the last couple of years. A couple of years ago
it was Dion Sanders made all kinds of headlines. That
thing's gone sideways quick in Colorado. They're not very good.
Bill Belichick got the job at North Carolina. Well in
(07:51):
twenty twenty six, is it the year of John Gruden.
We'll have to check with the Farmers Almanac to see
if that's the case. John Gruden, he's a walking headline
on social media. The guy has made a living over
the last couple of months opening giant boxes of free
crap sent by teams like the Seattle Mariners and different universities.
(08:13):
He just opens up a bunch of merch and puts
it on It is oh wow wow like that. So
and Groom's not getting back to the NFL anytime soon.
Despite the many malle monologues we've done about John Gruden
going back to the NFL. He is currently involved in
a lawsuit which, oh, by the way, he is winning,
as Charlie Sheen would say, winning against the NFL, which
(08:39):
generally means you are radioactive in Roger Goodell's world. Sorry
not sorry. So he's got to take what you take,
what he can get in this case. Arkansas, Arkansas, Walmart money.
You have to ozar there, beautiful land, not very expensive
(09:03):
to live in most places. Seems like a good launching
pad for John Gruden to move on up, kind of
on the edge of town and you get to play
some big time teams here. You want to revive your brand.
Where are you're gonna go? So if you take over
that kind of program, it's like James Franklin going to
Penn State, Right, that's a dormant program. James Franklin had
(09:26):
some success, didn't win against good teams at Penn State,
but he had some success. And you go to Virginia
Virginia Tech and you have some success. Okay, same thing
with John Gruden. He would play in Fayetteville. I go
there in Fayetteville like a rock music group at a
revival tech. He would just be great, just be wonderful.
(09:46):
He said, Well, it's the Bible Belt. They'll never allow
a guy like John Gruden, and the Bible Belt want
to bet if they're hungry enough. Football is religion in
the Bible Belt, and Sunday Service starts on Saturday night,
if you know what I mean. So why not? And
the NFL did famously leak a bunch of emails got
(10:07):
CIA operation. The Great Brent Musburger said at the time
as a Raider broadcaster called it a professional hit job
by paid assassins, not the normal goombas. As he said,
So Gruden sixty two, what has Gruden been doing? We
mentioned he's been doing this unboxing thing. He's young at heart,
he's chomping at the bit. He's been doing coaching clinics.
(10:30):
He's been giving advice to random NFL teams. And he's
also been playing grab ass with barstool. That's what he's
been doing. So he's lurking. You hire John Gruden, you
don't just get a coach. He's more than just your
standard coach. You get a headline every single day, not
just on Saturday, every single day. Arkansas doesn't need a babysitter.
(10:55):
They do not need a babysitter. They need a lightning ride,
and not a rod from Bakersfield, an actual lightning lightning rod,
and that would be John Gooden. Desperate times, desperate measures.
We've heard that many times over the years. And so
Arkansas does not want a rebuild. There's even there's no
such thing as a rebuild in college football, not with
(11:16):
the transfer portal. That does not exist in terms of
a long, slow, methodical process. No, the rebuild is, Okay,
let's get some really powerful boosters that have ties to
Walmart if you're Arkansas, and we'll just buy some really
good football players and we'll pay for a really good
football coach, and all of a sudden, within one year, boom,
we're good. Like somehow Indiana did that. They hired a
(11:38):
good coach, they got the right players, and they've spent
a little bit of money, but they've picked the right players.
And the Indiana Hoosiers, a basketball school, matter in college football.
If Indiana can matter in the Big Ten in college
football because of the portal and hiring the right coach,
and then soaka Arkansas in the Southeastern Conference, absolutely so yeah,
(11:59):
you take a shot at John Gruden because you're starving
and even though Gruden's have played a leftover. The leftovers
aren't that bad when you're hungry. It's like that might
be just ground beef, but it tastes like a steak
all right now. Secondly, to pro Bouncy Ball, we go
the rare and appropriate mention on the NBA. I bring
(12:22):
this up a startling trend to some, but not those
of us that have been paying attention, a startling trend
about the state of the NBA, and it's not good,
which makes for good talk radio. So I'll give you
the details. They've crunched the numbers. We're not even at
Thanksgiving yet, and all told, all told, NBA stars have
(12:45):
already missed over two hundred games. They've already missed over
two hundred games this season due to injury or illness.
That is doubling the total that we saw a couple
of years ago when everyone's started freaking out about we've
got to do something about load management. My god, we're
ruining our product. So they've actually doubled what they did
(13:07):
a couple of years ago and everyone lost their mind.
Now the NBA's official star designation. What makes a star
in the NBA? Do you know you don't. Okay, I'll
tell you, yeah, I'll tell you yeah, yeah, okay. So
a star in the NBA, the designation in the league's
player Participation Policy stipulates that a star player is one
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who has made an All Star or All NBA team
in any of the previous three seasons. That is a star.
So you have to be either an All Star or
All NBA guy within a three year span, you're a star.
And of those players this season, how many stars are
there in the NBA? You know, forty five? That's it.
(13:50):
There are forty five bona fide stars in the NBA
that meet that criteria, which means that on average, on average,
NBA star have already been sidelined by about five games
each they've missed. On average, the forty five players on
average have missed five games each. Now for a league
(14:12):
that has major credibility issues, right, you got gambling scandals
over here, you got players that don't want to play
over there. It's a hot mess. It is an absolute
hot mess. So the question is what does this trend,
which has continued and it's gotten worse this year, this
(14:33):
trend of stars going a wall. Some of these are
legitimate injuries a lot of them are not. But what
does this trend say about the current status of the NBA?
So this is to put this in terms of fire.
This is like a five alarm inferno, is what this is.
(14:56):
And it's at Adams Silver's headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. His
stars are vanishing like they are socks in a dryer.
Where do they go? I don't know where they go?
What happened to all the sucks? I don't know where
they went, but they're not there. I don't understand over
two hundred games. Let me repeat that for those of
your little slow over two hundred games of the stars
(15:17):
already have been missed. We're barely past Halloween. We're not
even a thanks even then, we didn't really begin until Christmas. Help. Now,
the NFL plays on Christmas, so forget that. I guess
the NBA begins sometime what in February after the Super Bowl,
but then college basketball I don't know, April, whatever. You
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get the point. So this is not so much a
pro bouncy ball league. He's like a celebrity injury report league.
The CIR Celebrity Injury report league is what it is.
And these guys are not treating the season like it's
a job. It hasn't been that way in a long time.
They're treating it like it's some kind of internship. They're
not getting paid, and it's just clock in when you're
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inspired and then clock out when you're just a little sore.
Maybe you might get sore. Just that's it. That's all
you have to do. And keep in mind this did
not just happen. I'm gonna get on the bully pulpit
here and start screaming and shouting like the lunatic that
I am, because this has been an issue where there
are some smart people who saw this and were ridiculed
(16:26):
and mocked by the wokesters, like what are you doing?
Just let the players miss a couple of games? What
doo cares? Why are you such a hard Oh, that's
what they were doing. This is the legacy of Adam Silver.
I said it. Nobody has the balls to say it right.
They're a bunch of They all suck the toes of
Adam Siliver. This is Adam Silver's legacy is the commission
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of the NBA. He inherited the job. David Stern was
the old commissioner. This was his empire under the tutelage
of David Stern, the NBA became this monster in the
sporting world. And it was Adam Silver who opened Pandora's box. Fully,
what's in the box? He opened Pandora's box. David Stern
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would have had a stroke trying to stop what's going
on right now? How do we know that because he
did almost have a stroke trying to stop what was
going on. Back in the day when Greg Popovich who
brought this disease to pro bouncy ball. Greg Popovich who
famously sent to several of the Spurs stars home on
a Southwest Airlines flight believe it or not from I
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think it was Orlando. They were supposed to go to
Miami and play on a TNT game back when TNT
had the NBA. He sent these guys home on a
Southwest Airlines flight and David Stern lost his mice. So
what are you doing? This is it? This is our product?
We sell the stars. That's the business model. You're effing
up the business model. Holy crap. And there were a
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bunch of woke sports riders. I don't understand. Let the
guys have a night off. They had to play back
to bad you know, like a bunch of sissies. The
player I can't play back to back. And so David
Stern find the Spurs, a bunch of money, find Popovich,
as I remember, and then he, you know, he left
as the commissioner and Adam Silver came in there. And
(18:16):
what did Adam Silver do? He endorsed load management as
like some kind of birthright. He said, well, that's a
good idea. Yeah, he rubber stamped the guy that is
a commissioner of the NBA. He robber stamped the death
of his product. Adam Silver did that. I didn't do that.
Adam Silver did that. He killed his own product. He did.
(18:37):
And now he tried to do this last year. He
sent out some Joe dumar He used Joe Dumars as
a useful idiot to send out this. Well, we've determined
now after years of saying load management's great, it's actually
not good. Well, problem, you can't unring the belt. You
can't do it right. We have now a generation of
basketball players that have been raised. You must protect your
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body on you. You you're not just there for your salary.
You have to worry about your long term health and
you have to be healthy for this. It's this cultural
shift that has taking place there. And there was a
point and this has changed in my lifetime where you
would feel shame, shame, shame if you missed games, especially
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road games, because they're like, oh, there's fans there that'll
never get to see me. They pid a lot of money,
they traveled from far away, all that stuff, right, all
and a lot of it might have been bull crap,
but it made us feel good, right. And there were
players that would play. They would maybe play half a
game right as, wow, we're gonna play half a game whatever,
But you would feel bad if you missed time. You
(19:41):
felt like you were letting the fans down, You felt
like you were letting your team down, you felt like
you were letting the city down. All that. Now you
feel guilty. You talk about a onoin't eighty. Now you
feel guilty. If you play too much. It's like, dude,
what are you doing? It's brain rot and it's all over,
not just the NBA. It's in other sports too, but
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we're talking about the NBA right here. And the message
is crystal clear, don't risk it, don't not worth it.
You're making fifty million dollars a year don't do it.
Don't do it. So they're all playing scared with that,
and they've been indoctrinated. It's not just the players, it's
the people around the players. It's the voodoo medicine people,
(20:24):
it's the support staff, the whole wellness army around these
NBA players telling them not to play. It's the first
full generation of NBA players that have been indoctrinated, conditioned
that the regular season is bad. Don't do it once
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you get your money, especially, don't do it. Don't don't try.
And they're Okay, so I get to wait, I get
the full amount of money. I don't have to show
up to work. I mean, we only work eighty two
games during the regular don't do it. And so it
reminds me when I covered baseball and there would always
be that rookie that would come up from Triple A
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or Double A and would hustle, hit a routine ground
ball to shortstop and run like they're trying to run
away from some kind of bear in the woods. And
that player would get tapped on the shoulder and say, okay, listen,
you're making us all look bad. Don't hustle like that.
What are you doing? It's like the NBA player if
somebody comes in is gung ho to play like the
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other players, Like, what are you doing? Do you're making
us look bad? Come on, man, shame on you. So
that's the NBA. Good good job, Adam Silver, hell of
a commissioner. Meanwhile, final fought. We go to baseball. Quickly,
we go to Major League Baseball. We go to Chicago.
After making waves declining declining his in the option, the
Cubs decline the option for Shota Imanaga, the starting pitcher.
(21:50):
He will be back in Chicago with the Cubs. After all,
he signed the qualifying offer to return for a mere
twenty two million dollars on a one year deal. Quick question,
why would show it to Imanaga, the starting pitcher stay
with the Cubs when they rejected him, They blocked him
(22:11):
like mutambo. So now, initially this makes zero sense. When
you first heard this or saw it, you're like, oh,
I didn't make any sense until you look at the market.
Until you look at the market. The Cubs didn't reject him,
they just didn't want to marry him long term. So
that's the first time they don't want to sign a
long term contract. They gave him the qualifying offer. The
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moral of the story, if the Cubs didn't want him,
then they wouldn't have done that. So it's the Cubs
way of saying, listen, we kind of like we had
a good time. Let's not put a label on this.
We're not gonna get married. How about just a nice
friends with benefit situation. Okay, fine, I'm good with that.
All right. So they're friends with benefits and it's a
one year deal. And for the player in Minaga, he
(22:54):
clearly loves deep Dish pizza Lake, Michigan on a boat
in August and the Cubs swiped left, he swiped right,
and then the Cubs gave him an option of coming back.
He said, okay, it is Actually it's a win win
when you look at it, because he gets a one
year deal to kind of fix stuff. He was terrible.
You talk about Doctor Jekyll mister Hyde last year. He
(23:17):
had an absolute fallout in the second half. First half,
he was an ace for the Cubs, had an ERA
of under three in the first half. The league was
hitting under two hundred against him. In the second half,
is era was over almost five. He was terrible as
batting practice in the second half or Emanaga, and Little
Birdie says that the Managa his agent did go out
(23:39):
put feelers out test the market see who was looking
for starting pitching, teams like the Angels and teams like that,
and they determined there were not enough fish that were
willing to go that direction, and so they decided to
go back and the teams weren't going to pay the
big money. And that's really the lesson of what's happened
the last couple days of you follow the off season.
(24:00):
In baseball, the free agent market, even for starting pitching
like I Monaga, is not great. There's a lot of
teams that are hoarding money. They're bunkering down here preparing
for a work stoppage. You look at Glaber Torres, Trent Grisham,
Brandon Woodriff, all of them took qualifying offers. Shane Bieber
in Toronto, stuck around Jack Flaherty in Detroit. Now those guys,
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a lot of them had bad seasons or bad parts
of the season or whatever, but they all stayed. And
what does that tell you, Well, it tells us that
these guys are not gonna They determined they weren't going
to find the money. Nobody really wanted them, and these
are pillow deals. They're one year deals. And you say, Okay,
I'll bounce back, I'll have a soft landing spot. I'll rebound,
(24:48):
I'll go back to market and then I'll see what
I can get. I love that the economics in baseball
are such where twenty two million dollars is a sweetheart deal.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you'd like to
be part eight seven seven ninety on Fox. We have
too much or not Enough coming up later in the hour.
Here's the Mallard Riddle of the day. Here it is
Josh Naylor. That's a baseball player. Josh Naylor named blank
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as one of the reasons he re signed with the
Seattle Mariners. Again, Josh Naylor named blank is one of
the reasons he re signed with the Seattle Mariners. It's
the Mallard Riddle of the day. The answer next.
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our two hour show. We never get to everything, honestly,
because this guy is over promised in things we never
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Speaker 2 (25:56):
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for years.
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Speaker 1 (26:36):
Bill Miller and you moments away from too much or
not enough and also are the Queen of Hearts if
we want to send a question in relationship advice all
that good stuff with Lorraine a hashtag Queen of Hearts,
which we determined many of you do not know how
to spell unfortunately illiterate. Yeah, it's not that hard. It's
(27:02):
I mean, plus everyone's got spell check and even the
Obama phones. So we come on. You know, I know
you're some of you are intoxicated and you suck using
pharmaceuticals or whatever. That's fine, but you know, live your life,
you know, try to spell a little bit. It's a
teeny bit. Right back to it. Back to it we
(27:23):
go and got to pay off the mallor riddle of
the day. Josh Naylor. That's a baseball player name named
blank as one of the reasons he decided to re
sign with the seattlele Mariners. That is a baseball team
that has never been to the World Series, that had
a chance to go to the World Series but did
not get it done. Uh, Andrea, that's right. Virgo in
(27:46):
Service the Astrology Insider got it right. Bad job by her. Clearly.
What else do we have? Fade down? Uh? He credited
the brainwashing of Dan Arnold fan I think you mean
Sam Darnold fan boys for his signing in Seattle. Who
else do you have to see page down? Uh? Heuh.
(28:07):
According to ferg Dog, Robbie, the Mariner fan threatened to
end his life if he didn't re sign with the Mariners.
Came back because it's NBA free. According to Late Night
Drug tester, uh see page down, and he wanted to
win Eddies pile of pasos from alf the alien o
Piner Miguel on fire says Josh. Naylor named the Pacific
(28:30):
Northwest cush as the reason that he wanted to go
back the stinky Seattle fish market from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
I mean it's fine. It's a good tourist trap there
in Seattle. If you go to Seattle, you gotta go
to the fish market. See the guy's tossing the fish
back and forth there.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Doug in South Korea is going with clam chatta. Oh,
I love fresh oysters. Is you want clam chatta? You
gotta go to Maine for clam chatta? Yeah? All right?
What else do you have page dan uh. Let's Seeah
Naylor came back because of my threats of rioting. That
is from Robbie the Mariner fan, the space needle to
(29:10):
Mars from Donkey Sausage. That's his answer. All right, Lorreina,
do you have an answer, Lorraine?
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Yes, Ben, I'm gonna go with the Seattle bridge troll.
The what the bridge troll?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
You've never seen the You've never seen the bridge troll
in Seattle. I've been a Seattle multiple times. I don't remember. Really. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah, there's like there's a giant statue troll under like
bridge there.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
He's so cute.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
I did not. I did not.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
That was what it is.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Well, last time I was in Seattle, ed from Spokane
was shouting my name into a bullhorn. We due to
Mallard meet and gre It was very awkward. No, that
is incredible. Josh Naylor said that the one of the
reasons he resigned with the Seattle Mariners is because of Tucker,
the Mariners clubhouse dog.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Nice, very excited about that. Of course. I think the
main reason he resigned is ninety two million dollars for
a guy that had five mediocre years and then one goodyear,
ninety two million dollars, I believe would be the reason
that you sign. Yeah, you know, I guess James is
gonna luck out. I don't see anyone else who wants
to play the game, so I hit the button. There Loreno,
let me let James play if he's awake.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
There, Ben Mallard game.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
We've endured too many of these? Is it too much
or not enough enough? Already? Let's do it? Hollering James
in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello, hollering James.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
James, is really what the Borton deal? Now? He's getting healed?
These shows? What do you know? Man?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Do you know this is the first time in eight
years that you've been awake both times we've gone to you.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
You know why need to be awake?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Why is that?
Speaker 7 (30:55):
If that was you'd have visited my weight when I died?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Well, how do you know you're gonna die before me? James?
You don't know. You never know.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
I smoked in my room. I smoked outside my room
in Minnesota. Okay, yeah, four seasons up here? Man, you
got pulled over my king.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Okay, you're wasting our time. Please you actually the rumors
you have two seasons you've got it's it's kind of
mild for like three months, and the rest of you
at snow's that's I know, you're right. Well, no, actually
you have. When I was told by when I was
at the meet and greet, somebody in Minnesota told me
we have snow and mosquito season, right, that's it?
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, I hate mosquito.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Oh they got It's the land of ten thousand lakes
and ten million mosquitoes. Yeah, a lot of lakes, a
lot of mosquitoes. All right, James, are you ready? Hollering James,
I am ready and ready to go. Okay. James won
the most famous edition of too Much Not Enough. He
was sleeping and that was in the song okay dated
(32:02):
reference there too much or not enough? All the answers
are either too much or not enough. You gotta get
three right to win the game. Good luck, Here we go.
James Harden has now recorded a forty point triple double
against twelve different franchises in the NBA. Is that too
much or not enough?
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Not enough?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
All right, James says, not enough. Let's find out that
is correct. Hardin has put up seventeen career triple doubles
against sixteen different opponents. James, You're off to a good start.
Question number two, there are now only seven players with
more career three pointers then, Lebron James. Is that too
much or not enough?
Speaker 7 (32:40):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Okay, let's find out correct again. Lebron passed Reggie Miller
and yeah, this is New York. As you now, there
are only five ahead of him. Klay Thompson, who's busy
with his lady friend.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Anyway, he's not distracted.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Then, not at all, Dame Livard ray Allen, James Harden,
and Steph Curry. Question number three, James, you're doing very well.
Devonte Adams of the Rims just became the fourth active
wide receiver with a thousand plus career receptions. Is that
too much or not enough? Okay, let's fight out now.
You get that wrong. You get that wrong, j James. James, James,
(33:29):
you've never cursed. Why would you do that?
Speaker 6 (33:30):
You better watch your mouth.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
No, he didn't say spit all right? Too much? You
do it one more time, You're gonna lose James Off,
hang up on you. Okay. He's only the second active
wide receiver of the thousand plus catches, joining Keenan Allen.
Question number four, there are already five teams that have
matched or exceeded their win total from last season. James.
(33:56):
This is for the win in which on football there
are already five teams that have matched or exceeded their
win total from last season? Is that too much or
not enough?
Speaker 7 (34:05):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Damn it? Your suck? Okay, so you found a word.
It is allowed. Yeah, not enough? There are six the Patriots, Colts, Jags, Bears, Panthers,
and forty nine ers. Well, James, it comes down to this.
You got the first couple of questions right, but you've
hit a slump. You need a slumpbuster. Of course, you
need a slumpbuster for years. All right, here we go.
(34:30):
Question number five. Christian McCaffrey. This is for the win
and loss. Now has fifteen career games with both a
rushing touchdown and a receiving touchdown. Is that too much
or not enough? That's the question?
Speaker 7 (34:47):
Too much for the Wears?
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Wrong, dam James. Congratulations, you have just lost too much
or not enough? The answer was not enough seventeen career games.
You got the last three questions completely wrong. You screwed
up the entire game, James. But The good news is
you don't get a golden take. You don't get a
golden take, you don't, but you do get a lifetime supply.
(35:13):
Enough in James, the holidays are coming up, so if
you want nothing, just contact us. We're gonna send you nothing.
And also, as an added bonus, we're gonna give you
a round trip to nowhere, James. So if you want
to go nowhere, the Ben Malor Show will send you
nowhere and we're gonna give you nothing at all, and
that goes to the rest of your life. Game. So
if you want something like two years from now, just
reach out to us and say I'd like to cash in.
(35:35):
I'd like nothing. We'll send you nothing. Okay, Well, congratulations shuck. Okay, well,
I mean you can go to bed now. Okay. We've
got the Queen of Hearts with Loraina. Queen of Hearts
with Loraina, if you'd like to call up and be
on eight eight seven seven ninety nine one Fox hashtag
Queen of Hearts. It's you boys don't know how to
(35:56):
spell holy crap? All right, We'll get to that and
we will do it it.
Speaker 7 (36:00):
Next.
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
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Little Rain at ten nine, clean up Hearts going our Hill.
Gear Rye, gear Rye to Night, gear Rye to Night.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
Dear ry you heard the man.
Speaker 8 (37:08):
It's officially time for love again here on the Ben
Malors Show. Sorry you guys had to miss me last week.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
You're back there, I'm back, You're back all right.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
The Love Queen is back.
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Okay, your night mirror is over. Let's get right to it.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
Lorena, I'm ready late night.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Your Accester writes in hashtag Queen of Hearts, He says,
is it ever too early to have my lady wearing
holiday lingerie?
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
No, No.
Speaker 8 (37:33):
The best thing about holiday lingerie is it's usually red,
and red is a very versatile color. You can use
it all the time. But with lingerie, you usually want
to get your girl a new set every time.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Oh really, so one and done situation? Is that, right? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (37:46):
Just like a prom dress, You're not gonna wear it twice?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Is that like you have to buy a new TV
every year? The same thing? Right?
Speaker 6 (37:52):
Friday sales coming out?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yes, I can't wait for the video of the people
getting the fights at Walmart for the eighty inch televin
And I can't wait.
Speaker 8 (38:01):
You know about Christmas lingerie? I love the idea of
like role playing Missus Claus and like Santa Claus. I
think that's super fun for a festive time of the year. Yeah,
you know, take your sleigh.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Hey, yeah, absolutely, all right, let's hear those. Shane Shane
in The Moine writes, and he says, you own one
of your ex's shirts and still wear it.
Speaker 8 (38:24):
I did keep one of my ex's shirts for a
long time. It was a little comforting thing. But no,
not anymore.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
I have yes, so you don't need that anymore. You determined.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
I have enough current boyfriends. I can wear their clothes.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Oh all right, Uh, ferg Dog says, how do I
get that special someone to notice me? That's kind of
creepy for dog. I don't know if you want to Well, it.
Speaker 8 (38:44):
Depends on how you want to go. Do you want
to be like stocker Ish? Do you want to be
a normal person? Because you know, you could pull a
micro leprechaun and stand outside someone's window. Wow, you could
do a mail order bride, you could do you could
do like regular Instagram reaches out, which is a little harder,
especially if.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
They're more of a personality. But there's a lot of
ways to be noticed.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Next question from Mike. He says, speaking of friends with
benefits after going and doing the business, is it bad
for the man to immediately nod off and or go
for a cigarette?
Speaker 6 (39:19):
No, No, I don't mind it at all.
Speaker 8 (39:22):
No, once you're done to do in the business, whatever
you need to do, right, So I see it as
like an energy release, right, So after that you should
calm down, you should go.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
Into more relaxed date. I would love to nap after that.
Speaker 8 (39:32):
If you need to go and you know, smoke a
cigarette and get that mental high that you like, that's
good too.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
Whatever tops off your or.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Gather from Mike there. And I don't think I don't
recommend sleeping and smoking at the same time.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
I don't think no, not in bed either. Well, some
people do smoke in bed, you know, all cuddled up.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
All right. Dave writes this is an email. He says
he's thirty four years old. He thinks he's good looking,
at least decent looking, he said. He says he's been
on about eighty first dates the pa last four years
and zero second dates. He he says. He says he
thinks people women think he's boring.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
She says, should give up any any advice if you really.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
Do want companionship and love, I wouldn't give up, but
I would brow.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
To Russian bride.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (40:20):
I would also look at how you're approaching these women.
What kind of dates are you taking them onto? You know,
are you taking them to McDonald's, Are you just walking
in the park?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Like, I think you gotta go another twenty because they
say one hundred, right, at least one out of one
hundred is going to give you a second date. Right,
Maybe if you're over I can't be. The guy's got
to be long. There's no way you're oh for eighty.
That is impossible to be oh for eighty? Right? Or else?
Speaker 6 (40:40):
I mean so much finer bag over your head?
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Fine, blind women, right, come and do something.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
You can't do this.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Yes, there's guys that I don't believe. I think I
got no way. That guy's oh for eighty, Lauren, no way? Right?
Speaker 6 (40:52):
Depressing?
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Come on, you can't be over eighty
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