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May 18, 2026 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about NBA reporter Shams Charania getting heat for spoiling Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's MVP win, Dodgers starter Blake Snell having elbow surgery, if the Panthers are making the right call by not extending Bryce Young before the season, Insta-Advice Line, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How do you do? It's our number three, our number three,
and we start out in the NBA media musings medium
usings is Shams Sharania in the NBA's doghouse our after

(00:20):
spoiling the SGA NVP announcement. It was supposed to be
announced on television on Sunday night, Shams announced it early
in the day on social media. Also Major League Baseball,
where does Dodgers starter Blake Snell having elbow surgery land
with you after one start this season? Also in the NFL,

(00:43):
thumbs up or thumbs down? Are the Carolina Panthers making
the right call by not not extending quarterback Bryce Young
before the upcoming season. We'll take a look at that
and more, and who knows what else here? It is
our n three. Well, that is a sham wow situation,

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(02:56):
Now heading into the weekend, there was an announcement that
was made much fanfare. They said, well, the NBA is
going to announce who the winner of the MVP award is.
Three horse Rays, Victor Wembanyama, Nicole Jokic and SGA, the
former Clipper. They were gonna announce it on Sunday during
the Amazon Prime pregame show. So tune in Sunday night

(03:23):
you find out who the MVP is. All right, ezps,
no problem? Okay, there we go, We're in. Do you
hear what happened?

Speaker 2 (03:30):
No?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
You missed it? Okay, Well, it turns out that the
senior NBA insider, Shams Sharaniyah had other ideas. Sharania announced
on Sunday afternoon, actually really in the morning, that SGA
had won the highest individual honor yet again, second consecutive

(03:55):
MVP for the former Clipper. So that is a good
jumping off point. Let us discuss the question, is Sham
Sharania in the NBA's doghouse for spoiling Shay jogis Alexander's
MVP win the announcement that was supposed to be on Amazon.

(04:16):
So I've got mirror on the wall, We've got Venice Beach.
And if that was not enough a Honda accord, and
we will combine all of these things together, and you
and I together are going to make a delicious deep
dish pizza. Now I'm talking Chicago. I'm not talking about

(04:38):
the Detroit style pizza. That's not a bad piazza, but
I'm talking about the Chicago deep dish peach. All right,
So he trees nodding his head in Chicago. He's driving
around right now nodding his head. So, first of all,
I am in agreement on the fact that there is
a trip to the doghouse, our urf for Sharati Sham

(04:59):
Shara there the NBA in side or not. He turned
the NBA's big Amazon moment into a mid morning push
notification on social media. That is what he did. Now,
I said, he's doing his job. I'm just doing my job.
That's all my job is. And clearly someone at the
NBA gave him that information, otherwise he wouldn't have had it. However,

(05:24):
despite that, we know how these things work, we know
how sensitive people that are in these industries operate, and
so it's kind of like Sham's walking into the NBA's
surprise party and everyone's all prepared. They got the balloons
over to the right. They got a nice little cake.
The lights are out and he goes in there and

(05:46):
he flips on the lights just before they make the announcement.
Hey Lloyd, but you die. Can't do that. Somebody, somebody
at the league headquarters there in New York looking into
the mirror. Why are they looking into the mirror. They're
looking into the mirror on the wall and they are

(06:06):
absolutely practicing there. Shams, Can we have a talk? They're
doing that voice Shams, can we have a talk right now?
Getting the old tap on the shoulder? Tap tap? Why
is somebody tapping me on the shoulder? Right to the
principal's office right there. We'll time out, time out, time out,

(06:26):
time out. Thet'll time out. Yeah, you're on the natty list.
What are you doing? So the NBA, as I understand it,
gifted that announcement, the MVP announcement as a carrot on
a stick to Amazon, which I would say of the
broadcasters like ESPN's been bad because you don't know when
Barkley is gonna be on there, and the only reason

(06:47):
to watch is Barkley, and they've done a terrible job
promoting that. So I don't even I stop watching, and
I would only tune in to watch Barkley because I
want to do what he had to say, and I
don't even always on, so I just started. You imagine
tuning it at Barkley and you get that Kendrick Perkins.
What a freaking nightmare that is. So I stopped doing that.
NBC stuff's okay, it's not it's not great, but it

(07:10):
seems like it's better than the Amazon. I don't know
what's going on with the Amazon stuff. It just seems
so weak. Is it Blake Griffin sucks at TV? Or
Steve Nash and Dirk Novinski and those guys are just terrible.
I don't know, it just seems bad. Nonetheless, they didn't
ask my opinion, and I'm sure they hate this show.
That's fine. The point is that was a carrot on
a stick for Amazon and it got just spiked, just

(07:34):
hit away. And so somewhere there's some Amazon executives they
are like, wait a minute. They're pacing around some big
conference room and they're muttering, this is why we cannot
have nice things. How dare you? How dare you? You
don't undercut and embarrass a business partner and shumps without
people in the NBA giving information is just some dude

(07:57):
making sandwiches, right, It's pretty much yet that's it anyway.
I mean Woj was so much better than he is, right,
we all agree on that. Does anyone disagree that Woj
was like the maestro of that? And I know he retired.
We love Woj and he's doing his thing and helping
out at the college level, and that's fine. But Shams
is absolutely getting the we love your work. But it's

(08:21):
the old compliment sandwich. You know, they start out with
the compliment, then they tell you the real reason you're here.
You're an a hole, You're a schmuck, You're a loser.
You just screwed this up with Amazon. Now we have
to apologize to Amazon because of you. By the way,
we really think you're doing a great job. Have a
good day, all right now. Second week to La we
go talking bays Wall. The Dwyers mauled the Angels, but

(08:42):
I'm not going to talk about that. Instead, while we
were away from the Watchtower, the Dodgers have hit another
pitching pothole as left hander Blake Snell Yep, bro, I
ain't playing unless I get mine, Bro bro, I'm risking
my life, Bro, Blake Snell. He lied when he said

(09:05):
I am playing unless to get mine because he got paid.
He ain't playing, Bro, I'm risking life.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
I know.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
It's very dangerous, very dangerous. What he does. You go
out to the mountain, you might step on a live
hand grid it. You know, no could happen roadside bomb
right there the foul line anyway. So Blake sell left
handed pitcher. I say, picture, he's really not a pitcher.
He's just like occasionally pitches. You got paid, You're not playing, dude.
So Blake Snell elbow surgery to remove the top operation

(09:36):
of the baseball season loose bodies. There is an epidemic
of loose bodies. We must stop these loose bodies. Zombie apocalypse,
zombie apocalypse with loose bodies in baseball, Sammy Blake Snell's
out sidelining. Definitely, the surgery is all the rage in baseball.

(09:57):
You might remember Tiger's ace, Trek's google out with loose bodies.
Dodgers closer Edwin Diaz. When he's not watching cock fighting,
he's also undergone a similar operation. So recovery timelines typically
around two to three months. So it's mid May. Let's
see set May, June, July, and then August. So if

(10:22):
we see Blake Snell pitch before like August tenth, it
would be a surprise. At this point there is supposedly
newer technology and they claim, whoever they are, that there's
a chance for a quicker return to the field. Believe
it when I when I see it. One thing about
Blake Snell, he never hurries back. He just does not

(10:45):
hurry back. He doesn't. Now, the good news is Snell
will be okay. Understand, David Vasse will get all his
dry cleaning, make sure he gets all his dry cleaning,
and all his meals cooked for him, and he'll even
wipe his tuckus, so he'll be okay. Blake will be
okay in that regard to the best. Say, we'll make
sure to take care of him. So this is all
not Snell's first rodeo with loose bodies. He had a

(11:08):
similar procedure way back in twenty nineteen I barely remember,
with Tampa Bay, and he came back with the Rays
formerly the Devil Rays in about roughly two months. So
Snell has made one appearance this year, a very rocky debut,
lasted just three innings, gave up five runs, got smashed

(11:29):
pretty good, and now he's out. So the question where
does Dodgers starter Blakesnell having elbow surgery land with you?
All right? So with me? The Dodgers didn't sign Blake Snell.
What they've done here is they've subscribed to him monthly payments,
and it turns out the monthly payments are there, but

(11:50):
zero deliverables on the monthly payments. And you have to chuckle.
Who could have possibly seen this coming? Who could have
possibly tried to warn the bozos in Dodgertown what are
you doing? You don't want to be in business with
this guy? And they didn't listen, all right? Blake Snell

(12:11):
is essentially a twitch streamer who occasionally does some cosplay
pretending to be a baseball player. That's who he is,
That's who he's always been. We do right away, this guy,
during the pandemic six years ago was a loser, and
he is only confirmed he's a loser. Blake Snell, that's
what he is. Missed four months in twenty twenty five

(12:33):
and made one start in twenty twenty six, and booth
gone again. Keep in mind the Dodgers won the World
Series in spite of him. If Blake Snell had pitched
one more game in the World Series, the Toronto Bluejays
would be the reigning champions of Baseball, not the Dodgers.
When Blake Snell pitched in the World Series, the Dodgers lost. Okay,
so he took four months off last year plausibly to

(12:56):
be ready for the World Series and then rode the
vomit comet in the World's all right, and so they
paid for an ace, they being the Dodgers, And he
has fleeced the Dodgers like a Venice beach tourist gets
fleeced buying knockoff sunglasses. Okay, that's what this guy's been
able to pull up. And he's got a brand ambassador.

(13:19):
You're paying essentially for a brand ambassador. At this point.
He's got the elbow lag, he's got the loose bodies
going on and all that stuff, and even looser accountability.
And I just don't want people on my team that
approach the sport like Blake Snow He's just bad news.
And the doctum. I have a bunch of these guys

(13:39):
and they keep winning, and I don't know what, you know,
they keep winning. You're wrong. I just don't like it.
I don't like the attitude. It just makes me want
to vomit is what it does. I mean, imagine explaining
to the late Fernando Valenzuela or even Oral Hershaw's I
guess he's still around any of these modern the mindset.

(14:03):
You tell those guys about the modern starting pitcher, I
guess Blake Stelly. He's too busy defending his ra to
the guys on Twitch with the user name xxx shoulder
Pain sixty nine four twenty or something like that. You
know he's too busy doing that to take them ound.
So Snell, he's not a wall. Now, I will say

(14:25):
that Blake Snell is not a wall. He's just content
creating adjacent is what he's doing. And he didn't just
bamboozle the nerds, the smartest people in the room in
the Dodger front office. This is grand larceny at a
skullduggery level. What Blake Snell has been able to pull

(14:47):
off here absolute skullduggery. And I'm jealous. So he's on
the injury list, which used to be the DL before
the wolkeshs got involved and he's out. The good news
is the three hundred and sixty five day stream schedule
is wide open, so good for him. All right, final thought,
we moved to the NFL. We go to Charlotte where

(15:08):
the Panthers are bad. However, they did create some content.
We're happy about that. We learned over the weekend the
Panthers are not planning to extend quarterback Bryce Young before
the rapidly approaching twenty twenty six NFL season. The Carolina
front office, when asked about that, has mostly talked about
Young's extension rather than it being a certainty. They've said, wow,

(15:32):
it was something we'll discuss at a later time. It
sounds like that later time will not be before the
upcoming season. So the question thumbs up or thumbs down?
Thumbs up or thumbs down are the Carolina Panthers. Are
the Carolina Panthers making the right call by not extending
quarterback Bryce Young before the season. So this is two

(15:56):
thumbs up on this and I'm never wrong about my
analysis on quarterbacks. Extending Bryce Young right now would be
like pre recording a video game or pre order you
know how you can order video games advanced like you
order a video game in advance, and you know, the
entire internet say, oh, this game's mid don't buy the game,
but you've already you've ordered it. Why would you pre

(16:18):
order the game when everyone says, well, this game sucks,
it's a mid game. Why would you do it? The
Panthers front office, now, they already made one mistake by
picking up the fifth year option. That was a bone
headed move by the Carolina Panthers, And now so they
at least they're not doubling down per se with the extension,
so they're trimming the fat, trimming the damage a little bit.

(16:43):
And it's not just a bad football decision though, the
whole fifth hour thing, but giving him a contract would
be organizational malpractice. Bryce is a bit of a teas.
I wouldn't say the ultimate eas but he's a bit
of a tease. He gives you one wow, high highlight
throw and then follows it up with three straight drives

(17:05):
of how the hell did this guy end up in
the NFL? Shouldn't this guy be out delivering packages somewhere?
How the hell is he the court? He was the
top pick in the draft and Carolina traded a bunch
of things to the Bears to get this guy. What
were they thinking? Yeah, so some say he's a nice quarterback.

(17:25):
In the same way twenty eighteen, Honda Accord is a
nice car. It's reliable, it'll get you from A to B.
Nobody's posting photos of their Honda Accord online bragging about it.
You don't do that. That's not what you do. You
want the reality. If you look at the numbers and
the eyeball test, which is very important, Carolina's passing offense

(17:47):
was a graveyard. In twenty twenty four, they were twenty
ninth in the NFL, and it barely staggered up to
twenty fifth this past season. When Carolina, a losing team,
made the postseason, that pocket collapses, and it often does.
The little fella Bryce Young. He doesn't improvise. I've noticed

(18:08):
he processes like a twenty thirteen HP laptop, which if
you'd never had one of those, not good, not good.
He's slow. He often panics and it's like one of
those laptops overheating, Like what are you doing? Like seriously,
and again, Bryce Young is a guy that will give
you flashes, but that is not a foundation, is what

(18:32):
I'm trying to say. He can't build a franchise on
a flicker here and franchise. He's not a franchise guy.
He traded for him thinking he was. He's not. And
right now he's the human version of maybe maybe, maybe
he'll get better, keep waiting on, maybe he'll get better.

(18:53):
This will be the year. Okay, maybe he'll see the light.
I want to bet on that. I'm going now. I'm
gonna go now. Maybe he'll finally live like play and
live like the number one pick he was supposed to be.
Until then, he's stuck in no man's land. Too much
invested for Carolina to get rid of him, yet they
have to let this thing play out with the fifth

(19:14):
year option. But way too average to extend, way too
average to extend. It is the Ben Mahler Show. You
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(19:38):
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part of the program. That way, We read a lot
of those comments time now for the malor riddle of
the day. We'll also have the instead vice line at
the end of this album. But here's the riddle of
the day. Very famous woman talked about a lot on
this show, Diana Rossini back in the tabloids. Yes, she
was boys and girls. So Diana Rossini, everyone's favorite insider

(19:59):
who took the job to the next level. So Diana
Russini was spotted with her husband at a blank over
the weekend. Again, legendary former NFL insider Diana Russini was
spotted with her husband at a blank over the weekend.
That is the malar rid of the day. The answer,
We'll get to it. We will do it next.

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(21:43):
I walked by the spot Wayne in Southee. Wayne from
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she's here, FSR Tech Queen, what up?

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Bill?

Speaker 1 (21:55):
We're talking and Kooper Loop who is making sure to
say all of his sick days to when he can
go to Vegas, and I don't blame him. Uh, do
the same thing. The cops here at all. Broco fan,
that's a Brocco fan. He's under the weather, that's a shipping.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
He's gonna get me sick. I already know, no, no,
no's we are short staffed, and I just really close
to me. I felt too guilty using another sick day.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Will you give it? Were you give it a guilt trip?
Or you did somebody in management give you a guilt trip? No,
because there used to be somebody measure, remember Coop. I
will not say her name one time.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
This person who you're referring to told me, why don't
you take a nap and see if you feel better?

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Are you kidding me? I'm not the legends about that
particular person. Yeah, she did the same stuff with me.
She's genter been. Yeah, you really can't take time off,
you know, she need to be here.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
I'm sick, I can't. I always.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
No, nobody, nobody management gave me a gut trip. But
when I called out Friday, I guess Bree filled in
for me, right, Yeah, twelve hours straight there?

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah? Yeah, I just you know we tried to get
Patty to come in. No, that's yeah, that was a
not so. I just I felt bad, although Coop seems
to sit in for him. You know, I'm just I've
noticed that I don't know what interesting. Okay, fair enough,
I got you, I got you. Well, you're here. Now

(23:33):
we will pay off the mallor riddle of the day
and get back to these amazing phone calls. I did
see there was one message I needed to read it.
I gotta go down page now, let's see where is that?
I can't read that? Oh Eileen, She says, the dumb
ass Dodgers saw Blake Snells giant snow hitter and paid
his sorry ass. Yes, clearly that was it. I would

(23:57):
not have paid her, and I was right. He has
been a bust as a dodger. Does anyone disagree with that?
Anyone disagreed? Blake Snell's been a bust as a dodger.
Here's the mallor riddle of the day. Diana Russini was
spotted with her husband at a blank over the weekend.
Back in the tabloids again, rj in La says Diana

(24:20):
and her husband were spotted at a woo SOX game. Yeah,
obviously I saw Anthony VAULTI play in a triple A game.
He got called up after he sucked. I didn't even
wo for three. Mark was there, p one, Mark, the
guy that won the FSR Bracket challenge. He was. He
was there, late night drug tester says, shopping for cheating
prospects at a construction site. From late night drug tester,

(24:43):
Theemi says, a church, very funny, the top uber each
driver there in Minnesota wrestling matches from courtesy Flusher. That's
his answer. Who else do we have? Alf the Alien
Opiner says at Stuart Roller Stuart's Roller World in Fullerton
watching roller hockey. Yes, sorry about your ducks, My my condolences.

(25:06):
We have a national Jubilee of prayer, praise and thanksgiving
from King Rory. A drive in movie theater guest by
Donkey Sausage. Who else do you have? Page down? At
a Donkey show? There you go? That's from Firk A
swing set from Asher. That's his answer, who else do
we have page down? I can't read that on the air.

(25:30):
Robbie the Mariner fences spotted at a divorce court. Spotted
at a divorce court. Who else page down. Lama's Class
from Mister Irrigation in Houston. Ike and Roseville, Minnesota says
a couple's retreat in Foxborough is the answer. Swinger's Anonymous

(25:51):
Convention from Elmo after Dark. That's his answer. Nashville Phil
says the answer he was caught she was kyt rather
out with her husband while attending a youth football camp
hosted by Mike Rabel. That would do something? Yeah, incatars
had rained out. Russos game taping of Maury from Shay
that's his answer. A lot of paternity jokes. What else

(26:14):
do we have? Page down? Uh, sexy Stuff adult toy
store in Tennessee. No, that's JT. The we mean. Rebecca
the ram fan says that Diana Residi and her husband
were spotted at an attorney's office. Oh we can Team
TV taping of Divorce Court from JJ in Seattle. Holly

(26:38):
Old Time Hollywood Pie Fight from Deacon Timmy from Busco,
Indiana says they were seen at a Mike Rabel meet
and greet. You know, I don't think he does that
all right? Do you have an answer? Lorraine the riddle.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
Of they were caught at a raising canes feeding each
other chicken Stone.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Very romantic, very romantic. No, that was incorrect. Diana Rossini
was spotted with her husband at a party before a
Bruce Springsteen concert in Manhattan. Daily Mail, page six. They
had it to Diana Rossini. There out with their husband

(27:16):
and some friends and they were going to the Bruce
Springsteen cons that's a good idea. You should probably date
your husband when you're in the middle of a giant
cheating scandal. You know, you should probably go out in
public with him. It's a messy situation, that's all the folks.
Let's say hello to Sean the Hood Guy. Here he is.
He's on right now. The reason he's up latest because

(27:37):
he's trying to find is Aaron Rodgers Jersey. He's trying
to find his Aaron Rodgers. He's so excited for this. Students, Hello,
Sean the Hood Guy.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (27:46):
People with champ Man? You know what, I've been waiting
for this guy man. But some of the other still
of fans they not really filling him anymore because he
always leave us on hold, and it's like he always
wants this center attention to everything. So some of the
fans been like, you know, he don't have to come back.
But I was telling everybody, you know, we don't want

(28:06):
Mason Rudolph as a starter, but some peoples like they'd
rather have some of the guys that was already there,
that's backup quarterbacks, rookies because they thinking it's a new
you know, a new era of rookies that's gonna play.
So some of them have been playing good. But Aaron
be keeping us on the whole too long, man, And
you know what them first, I could say the first

(28:27):
eight games, they got to come out high. Because after that,
by the week, week nine, and then that week ten
through the rest them are some deadly games. They might
be losing a lot of games the second half of
the season, man, So they better try to keep this
guy healthy and clean. If not, I say, bention. If
you don't play good, well, just the.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Year it all falls apart, Sean the hood guy? Does
it all? Is it all come apart? Here? Are we
looking at the Steelers week ten? And are they saying,
can we lose every game and get the top pick
in arch Manning? Is it that bad?

Speaker 2 (28:58):
It might be, man, because that that first half it
looks okay, but that that week tan through the rest,
oh man, you got Philly and all these other games.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Man, yeah, you know, Philly could implode by then too though, right,
they were teetering on the brink this past year in Philadelphia.
So he canna get trade aj Brown to the Patriots
supposedly in the next couple of weeks, I guess after
June and then so they'll trade him and things could
fall apart rapidly there.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
You never know, because that's what they call that movie
any given Sunday, So you never know, man, I don't know,
but I just want to sit and watch. We build
a pretty good team this year. But yeah, Mike McCarthy, man,
he got to do something because that just that once
Super Bowl on his belt, we might have the same coach,
you know.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
So yeah, well, see this falls apart. You know, Tomlin
looks a lot better. He'll be on TV every Sunday
on NBC. There and now I want to thank you're
Indiana Pacers showing the hood guy for the number five pick.
Very kind of you. You know, I'm not a draft guy.
You know that I'm not a big NBA draft guy,
but I did not have the Clippers getting a top
five pick in my lifetime happening again. But thanks to

(30:01):
your Indiana Pacers generosity and enjoy Zubots. I love my zoobots,
enjoy him in Indiana, and we'll enjoy that number five pick.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
So man, you know, I knew you could go take
a shot of that. Man, I couldn't wait to hear that.
You know what, I haven't watched nothing basketball this year.
I'm watching the playoffs, but I think it maybe might
be okay seeing the New York Knicks. I don't know,
it might go like that. I'm just watching now because
my team but on the shelf the whole season.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Well, if it is the Knicks and the Thunder, they
can use the same marketing they do when the Pacers
play like the Hicks, right, they could do the Hicks
from Indiana instead of Indiana. They'll do Oklahoma and they'll
do that whole thing.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
So but you know, man, hey, it's all about TV money,
and if the Nicks do okay, that's TV money for them.
So I'm just watching because my main player, he's attendant
all the rest of Mania events. He's not even he
didn't even come back.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
So well, you got to have your priorities, man, You
got to enjoy the wrestling. You gotta be at all events.
You can't miss it.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
I enjoy resting just about watching it at home.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
No, but yeah, if you had a ball of money,
you'd go out and watch in person.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Oh yeah, I would, but I don't, so I just
watch it at home. Man, you know, so I enjoy it.
I don't hate it. But I hear you gotta have
a better season. Man.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
All right, well, thank you. Good to hear your voice there, Sean,
you do well.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
I'm still listening. I've just been a little ill lately,
but listen.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
To the show man hanging there. I hope you feel better,
hope your health and does anybody.

Speaker 7 (31:26):
Ah, there you go.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
It is the great Shawn the Hood Guy fan favorite. James.
You thought that was a pretty good call, right, James,
hollering James, Minnieapolis, Minnesota. Okay, you approves that call. Let's
say a load good. He's back trying to win Caller
the Year. Let's say hello to swamp Billy. Hello, swamp
Billy and Tennessee welcome, good morning.

Speaker 7 (31:47):
General.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Listen.

Speaker 7 (31:47):
Oh, I'm glad you're back on the ear. And uh,
you know, into everybody's life, a little rain must fall
and sometimes a little bit of Loraina. Maybe anyway, I
want to talk about the fake Sea Bass. I'm sorry, dear,
I didn't mean to go there anyway.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
But uh, you know, in.

Speaker 7 (32:07):
Amula militia, there is a kernel of truth inside our fantasy.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
All right, Hello, I was riveted. I thought you were
doing poetry and you stopped in the middle. I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 (32:21):
I want affirmation from.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
My Okay, so I can't. I can't win my Mark,
the full name guy earlier. All right, he got all
upset with me. He cursed me out, He cursed me.
By the way, I might have misspoke, I said Matt,
I meant Mark, but it meant Mad and Mark are
pretty much the same, right Lorein of Matt Mark, if
you see a guy named Mark, he looks like a

(32:45):
guy named Matt. Yeah. And if you see a guy
named Matt, he looks like a guy named Mark. One.
Like I said, I couldn't tell the difference. Exactly the
same thing.

Speaker 7 (32:53):
Anyway. I'm blind, okay, seriously, And uh, Sea Bass lives
in Jackson in the sea Okay. And I've never heard
anybody from Nashville called Nashville to Ville. It's kind of like,
you know how people from San Francisco don't say, uh, Frisco.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
They say saying oh yeah, people and the San Francisco
are very offensive, offended by that. They also don't like
no Cow. They don't like I learned that. I got
lectured by one of the Warriors broadcasters. You can't say
Frisco and you can't say no Cal. Okay, thank you.

Speaker 7 (33:23):
Right anyway, But anyway, I mean Sea Bass and I've
been to some events. We saw Sammy Sosi strike out
on a rehab assignment back when.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
I don't know if you saw it. You don't know
if you saw it. I don't think you saw it.
You know I was. I was cited back then.

Speaker 7 (33:41):
That's what I'm saying. I don't think SeaBASS is blind.
I hope he's not.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
He may claims to be blind. He's much Okay, I
take all that back then, but I tell you what
he is.

Speaker 7 (33:52):
He's opposer. There's probably drinking him because Vanderbilt's not gonna
make it to the NDY Double.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
A this year. Okay. In baseball, am I sensing? Am
I sensing an octagon between swamp Billy and the legendary
call you just attacked here?

Speaker 7 (34:09):
Well, let me tell you what I can do. With him.
I got a seventy five pound Blunos pitbull. I can
turn loose on him when he's coming out of Casey
Jones village, when he's got white gravy all over his pants.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Well, I don't know that I want a dog attack
on my resume because that sounds like that'll get me
into trouble.

Speaker 7 (34:26):
Have to know when it happens.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Okay, I'm just saying, swamp Billy. How about on the
on the air, swamp Billy, Blind Sea Bass versus you
in the verbal octagon and just duke it out anything.

Speaker 7 (34:38):
You got him on the line, don't you.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Now. I don't have him online. He's I put him on.
But I'll tell you what. I'm a marketing guy, I'm
a promoter, and if you're in on it, I will
toss that out to Blind Sea Bass. And we need
an octagon. We haven't had one in a while.

Speaker 7 (34:54):
Yeah, I'm from I kind of Let me tell you
something else. I appreciate you talking about the Amazon Prime
thing because you know it reduced me to poppy and
I was I had to listen to oh no, oh no,
say one thing you never said. I'll tell you one
thing you've never said the poppy that Bernie Frattle has

(35:14):
call back anytime.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
No, you know, I never it is correct. I've never
heard told I think you've ever said that.

Speaker 7 (35:19):
By the way, Cooper, just just drink some whiskey gargle
and either spit it out or swallow it what it'll
want and it'll help you.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Yeah, you should swallow it. That's the second to drink whiskey.
I tell you garlic, Well, whiskey's old. Yeah, whiskey is
all put garlic.

Speaker 7 (35:36):
Put garlic.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Can you whiskey doesn't.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Matter where the shot Coop? Yeah, come on, do it.
Don't do it now, but get when you get.

Speaker 7 (35:44):
It right before you ever want to come to Smashville
or Music City or Babylon or the Horror of Babylon,
which is what Nashville is known as. It ain't known
as the deal.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
All right, I got you. I know listen, I want
I love you man. All right, Well, Billy, I let's
have an octagon, all right? Will okay? All right quick,
I know you're blind. I gotta go, but thank you, Bob.
There he goes Swampbility, blind Sea Bass. Let's make that happen.
I need confirmation from blind Sea Bass. I need that. Yeah,

(36:15):
Zach says, are all your listeners blind? I mean I am,
but glasses sound like the rest are, in the words
of Primetime blind blind. I think there's a word missing there, Zach.
But yes, everyone listening is blind. It's radio, It's theater
of the mind. Everyone's blind. We have the Insta Advice
Line unscreened Radio, the Insta Advice Line. Who needs our advice?

(36:39):
We'll get to that. We will do it next.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
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Speaker 1 (36:48):
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(37:56):
very nice man, very kind friend of the show, and
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we'll go back to Canada at some point. I love
the poutine and the people and I was just talking
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Speaker 3 (38:20):
Hey you sports figure guy or girl.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Here was you talking to year some instant advice? Hold
that thought. No one's paid attention to me for ten
whole seconds. And if you don't like it. You, Well,
sometimes this is hard to come up with people that
need advice. Well not today. The Detroit Pistons a number
one seed at home in Game seven, lost by thirty

(38:45):
one points. What advice do you have to Cad Cunningham
and the rest of the Detroit Pistons eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox, you're alive on the air when
you hear my voice? Hello, Line one. Advice to the Pistons.

Speaker 7 (38:56):
Line one, If you're gonna come back from the hile,
just make sho don't miss your bubblehead night.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Yeah, very important. He mid your but he did. He
pitched his snell in his bottle. That hello. Line two,
you're on the airline two. Yeah, morning time eight.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Pistons changing attack.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
That's when you're under pressure.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
That's right, Rick and Maryland there, morning time. Line three,
you're on the airline free advice of the Pistons.

Speaker 7 (39:17):
Line three, Hey man, but I met on the real
pitch ala where as douming Bennie versus a penny basketball,
hockey and baseball.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah, that's a good idea. We should
we should pitch that. I'll have some meetings coming up.
Line four, Hello, Line four, I line for my shed
from the Redneck Riviera checking in line uh five, Hello,
line five, your advice to the Pistons.

Speaker 7 (39:41):
Line five, don't be like that jerker spoil at the
ending of Shawshank redemption for me.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
F you Robbie the matter all right?

Speaker 7 (39:48):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (39:49):
What do you think that? Line six, you're on the
Airline six? Hello, Line six. Line six is not paying attention.
We'll go over to line one. Advice to the Pistons.
It's the instead of ice. Line Hello. Callers are blind
and some of.

Speaker 7 (40:04):
Us wish we were deaf so we didn't have to
hear ho raina.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
All right please. Line two you're on the air line too. Hello.

Speaker 7 (40:12):
Yeah, they should have played Kevin Herder and bring back out.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
HI one more coop. Hurry up. Line three you said
Line three, Line three you on their go. No, Line
three were not. You're not fastened up. Line three, bad jop.
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