May 8, 2025 • 40 mins
Did the Steelers get enough for George Pickens and is he the answer for Dallas? The Rams hold minicamp in Maui as a PR stunt. Plus, Fact or Fiction and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Welcome, It's our number four.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
As we nibble around the edges on this Thursday, the
eighth day of May twenty twenty five. And here an
hour number four, the Football Power Hour, all of that
jumbo size, Here an hour number four. Did the Steelers
get enough in return for George Pickens?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Also?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Is George Pickens the missing piece for the Cowboys offense?
Or will this volatility around him be a problem? And
will George Pickens thrive in Dallas or will his issues.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Continue to haunt him in a new location.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Also is the RAMS Mini camp in Maui a brilliant
way to build team chemistry in paradise or just a
flashy PR stunt.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We'll talk about that as well.
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It is the dawn of a new day, and here
it is our number four.
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Have a great Thursday.
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the heart of Texas, and that is where the Cowboys
have broke up. That broke up and broke out of
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the doldrums of the offseason.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
The doll drums have ended. On a random day, a.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Random day in May, Jerry Jones pulled the trigger on
what we are told is a sizable a trade.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
A sizable trade.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
If you didn't hear, maybe not.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
The Dallas Cowboys have gone to the flea market, and
this one.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Involves a lot of fleas.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And they have acquired the services of wide receiver George Pickens,
a notorious figure in modern NFL football. So George Pickens
goes from the Dallas fotball team, which is over here,
or from the Pittsburgh football team over to the Dallas
football team is over here. So from Pittsburgh to Dallas
now Pittsburgh will get a third round pick in twenty
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twenty six, a fifth round pick in twenty twenty seven,
this is a test, and the Cowboys get a sixth
round choice like two years from now down the line.
So it's essentially George Pickens for a third round pick
and the fifth round you don't usually get anything good there.
That's where Stiff's like Sugar Sanders get drafted. All right,
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So let us discuss the question did the Steelers get
enough value in return for George Pickens, who was one
of their better known players. He was a believe a
second round pick. So on this one, I've got Andy
Van Slight that's an old baseball player Tuna, and an
old actor, Richard Gear And we will combine all of
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these things together and we are going to make a
happy meal with Gabba Gooul with the Gabba Ghul.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
A happy meal, all right.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
So to kick off here to answer the question, did
the Steelers get enough value in return?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
It obviously depends on what side of the aisle you're on.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I'm gonna go no, But there's a greater reason to
make the trade, like in terms of just raw value.
The bargaining that takes place the George Pickens divorce.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Which is what this is.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
This has been simmering for several years, and I have
taken calls from multiple Steeler fans over these Why are
you saying George Pickens is gonna be traded or he's
gonna leave this.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You don't know what you're talking about. You know the
whole rap. You know, you're the overnight guy. You don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Football, there's nothing here. We used to have this caller
named Andy the Comic Book Guy. I think he retired
from calling the show Andy the Comic Book Guy, and
he would say the same thing.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It was the same conversation, but it was about Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Like Stefan Diggs and the Bills had a very cantankerous relationship,
and he'll have issues in New England because that's what
he does. And so I was like, well, he's not
gonna last there. And I remember Andy of the Comic
Book Guy was, Oh, you don't know what you're talking about.
By the same conversations with Pittsburgh fan, right, And I know, listen,
we pay attention, you pay attention, you figure out a
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thing or two. So George Pickens had been at Loggerheads
with the coaching staff for a long time, and so
finally Mike Tomlin went Popeye the Sailor man. That's all
I can stands, and I can't stands no more. And
so the assumption was once they got DK Metcalf, that
they were gonna have a one to two punch of
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DK Metcalf and George Pickens.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Well, turns out that DK Metcalf has a similar.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Skill set as Pickens, and so they got him from
Seattle and they paid him, and then that that's it,
and George Pickens is risky business. Pickens has the stardust.
I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like he doesn't
have the star dest He's got the tools to dominate
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the NFL. The problem, he's also got a big toolbox,
if you know what I mean. And however, it.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Tells you what level of dingle berry, what level of.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Dingle berry George Pickens must be for Mike Tomlin and
the Steelers a very buttoned up conservative outfit to hit
the eject button.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And their argument is we didn't get a lot for him.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
But this is addition by subtraction in Pittsburgh, and it
channels another Pittsburgh legend from years gone by, there was
a player for the Pirates named Andy Vanslke and he
was teammates. There was this baseball player named Barry Bonds
who did a lot of steroids and hit a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Of home runs.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
And Andy vans Like and Barry Bonds hated each other,
couldn't stand each other.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Everyone that's ever met Barry thinks he's a schmuck. Right,
So from I've.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Heard so, Andy Vans like one set of Barry Bonds.
I would rather lose without him than win with him.
And that's the steel. I'd rather lose without George Pickens
than win with him. Now, Furthermore, is George Pickens the
missing piece, this wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboy eyes?
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Or will his high level of volatility continue to follow
him as we get down to.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Training camp, which will be a couple months away in July.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
They get through the rest of May June, and then
mid July training camp begins. So the only way you
think this is the missing piece is if you're doing
a lot of Colombian bambam. Every man, woman and child
knows that Dallas is not one player away. Now, George
Pickens is a lottery tick he's a lottery hasn't been scratched,
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and you don't know what you got. And he hasn't
even scratched the surface of his skills. He's never been
an All Pro. He's never been even to the Pro Bowl,
which is where they play like Hopsky and Connect four
and all that.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
So he hadn't done that.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And he is living in the world of if only.
That's who George Pickens is. He's an if only player.
If only he had focus, if only he locks in,
if only he had better work ethic, if only he
got along with his coach is better.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
If only if only he wore nose.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Canceling noise canceling headphones, right, if only he didn't pay
attention to the outside noise. And as the Tuna Bill
Parcells preached, you lose with potential. George Pickens has potential.
You lose with potential, you win with production. And Pickens
doesn't have consistent production. Now, the argument to counter that is.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Not his fault.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
He's never had a good quarterback. He's had a bunch
of J.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Broni's in Pittsburgh, and now he's going to have a
good quarterback. Well, we can debate how good Dak Prescott
is will George Pickens thrive in Dallas or will his
issues follow him along? So for him, this is a
brass ring opportunity. Like you look at the Cowboys and
that offense in Dallas. They have one guy, Ceedee Lamb,
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and that's it. So now you've got the second option
in George Pickens. So in theory, that'll work pretty well.
Last year, I believe Jake Ferguson the tight end was
the number two option. He was the second leading pass
catcher last year. The other thing going for the Cowboys.
And it has been speculated in the echo chamber that
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the Cowboys are not going to sign sign him to
an extension George Pickens, which actually makes a lot of sense.
Pickens is entering the final year of his rookie deal
he signed back in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So he's got to be a boy scout.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
He's got to keep his nose clean and play well
in order to get the bag.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
What's in the bag?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Money, money, money, that's a lot of money, A lot
of money in the bag. Now that said, right, changing laundry.
If you think that's the cure, all you are a loser,
running away, running away, from your problems. In any facet
of life, if you just run away from your problems,
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that is a race. It is an unwinnable race because
your bad habits are going to follow you. You're gonna
do the same thing you did in Pittsburgh, George Dickens
in Dallas, and it's not gonna be an different.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
In fact, it'll be.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
A louder sound coming out of Dallas because of the
way the Cowboys get media coverage. It'll be even louder
the noise around. George pickings that Steelers get a lot
of media coverage. They're a national team. They have fans
all over the place because of success they had fifty
years ago in Pittsburgh. All right, Now, last thing, we
head to the Aloha State and an NFL team has
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announced they are relocating some of their off season work
to Hawaii. Say what that would be the La Rams.
You can ram it all day, you can ram it
all night, and you can.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Ram it in Maui. That's right. The Rams announced that
they're going to hold a mandatory mini camp in Maui.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
It's mandatory from June sixteenth to the nineteenth, not that
the dates matter. Two days of on field workouts and
then that's it. So is the ram mini camp in
Maui a brilliant way to have team bonding everyone hanging
out together in paradise in the Hawaiian Islands, or just
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a flashy pr move by the end. So the arrow
on this one not that we spend much time worrying
about mandatory mini camp, but the arrow is pointing towards
marketing gimmick, Like do you think the guys when they're
in Hawaii are going to go surfing together and go
cowabunga dude, you know, and do the whole Hawaiian experience,
take both rides out to go whale watching. Methinks that's
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not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
The good thing about Hawaii it's very difficult to get
into trouble because everything closes.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
When the sun goes down in Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
So it's very difficult to get into a lot of trouble.
Now they're going to Maui, They're not going to Honolulu.
In Honolulu, there's a lot of a lot of bad
stuff there in Honolulu, a lot of crackheads and whatever,
So you can get in trouble there. But it Maui,
you know, from what I've heard not so much. Now,
if you really want to have a laid back trip
to Hawaii, you go to Kawaii is where you go.
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You go there and man, nothing going on and it's
just nothing but beaches and that's it and there's nothing
else going on.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
But this is obviously a marketing gimmick. And it's like the.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Richard Gears song from the movie Chicago, Razzle Dazzle, Right,
this is all about the razzle dazzle. Give me the
old razzle dazzle and put a lot of flash in
there and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
The rams love these photo ops.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
They've tried to embrace the whole Hollywood thing and all that.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
They love the viral viral moment.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Like, I'm convinced this is just for viral social media posts.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
They're not worried about team bonding or any of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And it just goes against the essence of foot what
football was supposed to be, where it's drudgery and it's
not you're not supposed to be hanging out on the
beach in Hawaii and you're not taking it seriously. And
then but then part of me is like, well, who
cares about a mandatory mini camp in June. Nobody cares
about that, But you think about the Rams have done.
(14:33):
They had the NFL Draft held eight I think they
were at a beach house one year, they were at
a fire station this year, and now they're going to
the Aloha State. But I'm pretty confident that you don't
go to Hawaii with the purpose of improving your football skills.
You go to Hawaii to hang out in a hammock,
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drink a cocktail, look at the ocean, and just kind
of go with the flow. And you're at a leisurely
paced they call.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
It island time.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You're on island time, light workouts, tropical setting.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And you gotta think the players are gonna treat this
like a vacation, right.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
What they ought to do if they really want people
to show up is have a non mandatory mini camp,
like a non mandatory workout in Hawaii. The entire effing
team will show up, right. A free trip to Hawaii.
I'm in mandatory. They got to be there anyway. You
make it non mandatory. And they said, we'll go.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
We'll take it Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
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Lou Hey betting Groove. Did my ears just sat me?
Or was the great Phillmore Mike on the show earlier?
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Legendary Fillmore Mike did make a rare and appropriate appearance.
He enjoyed a SoundBite which he thinks Loraina said involving sausage.
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Oh man, the guy is just an absolute Bay Area
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It does my heart very well that there's people from
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Yeah, I'm a big fan of Fillmore. Mike. He doesn't
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He has called a few times, and he did watch
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Just a quick john for him.
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And that will that would be coming up at some
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You keep saying that, Ben, this Houston Rockets series is
what I wanted to make a point about. So Steph Curry, Draymond.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Green and the Warriors of Old basically destroyed these great
Houston Rockets teams to a point where they were forced
to rebuild for what felt like a decade, and then
the same players came back and beat him again.
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Okay, okay, this Timberwolve series, is.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
That a statement or a question?
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Was that?
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I feel like that was a statement that was not
a question that was a statement.
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No, it's it's more of an a few to Houston
and the wrestlers that played for their basketball team. So
this Minnesota series, Steph is obviously out and we can
figure out a way to probably win this series air
hold down the fort until.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Step gets back.
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But the big emerging story that you should be talking
about on the show is the emergence of lacrosse great
Pat Spencer.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You know, you know, I was you must be reading
my mind. I was actually going to bring this up.
I jotted that I didn't mention this the other day.
But Pat Spencer, I think he is actually a time
traveler from the nineteen eighties. He looks like a nineteen
eighties NBA player to me. He and it's like the
mugdaff no, but but it looks like the kind of
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guy that you would see in the NBA, like in
the late eighties, where he just kind of doesn't look
like he belongs, like who doesn't belong there?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
And that's yeah, that's that.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
He looks like he should be playing for the Pistons
in like nineteen eighty nine or something like that.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Oh yeah, but he's you know, so it's a statement
for the Warriors future.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Right.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
You know, while steps three might be gone for a
playoff series, the franchise moving forward as a predictable transpire
is in good hands with Pat Spencer handling the ball.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yes, I go, they will be back. They will be back,
Pat Spencer. Back to the Donald Foyle days.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
With Mike Clippers and Coops Lakers.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
The playoffs are worse for the wear with phot those
teams not being in all.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
There's Alameta Lou checking in and checking out, saying bye bye. Yeah,
Pat Spencer. If you've not seen him through one of
our blind listeners, Pat Spencer has a He just looks
like he doesn't belong out there, like he won some
kind of raffle to play for the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
It's like, hey, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Like the kind of guy that you would see at
the y m c A on a Saturday morning playing basketball.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
And he's in the NBA and you're like, what is that? Like,
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Let's say speak about I don't understand Blind Scott, who
guaranteed the Celtics we're going to win this Those things
are not looking so good, Blind Scott.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Marcel's laughing at you.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Yeah, I found the term called blind supremacy. It explains
my college pretty good.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Dude.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
The description you just gave for the.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Blind was, like, that was pretty funny, man, because a
lot of blind people don't get out and look really
weird too, So like it be hard for You're explaining
this to blind people and they're trying to imagine something
that they might relate to. Dude, but this is the
Blind Scott and Mike the Leprechaun segment. I think if
he's on hold, we should pot him up for a
second and we should have a little discussion of a
Celtic round table. Here is he here?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
All right?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Well let's see here. We can hit the button nearly
put Mike the Leprechaun on. Mike the Leprechaun. Blind Scott
would like to talk to you, Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
I will, thank god, I either thing.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I can bring your care.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Whisker in my This is that's a private conversation. This
is not for all you're both on the air. Nobody
wants to hear that.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
The celic.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Hold on.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I'm turning off the Leprechaun Lee might have accidentally hung
up on Blind Scott.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Wow, is that possible?
Speaker 9 (24:00):
You just.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Okay, so now we're stuck.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
With the maybe a little on the lazy side.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
He does know how to work the phones.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Maybe you don't work phones on my show. It's been
a while.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, very few shows actually take calls anymore, at least
at our place.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I know other.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Places they do, but we don't. We're one of the
few shows that do take the calls. Yeah, so wet
lock in the line one there and you got a job.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You get it?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Of course he called right back, all rights. See now
locke in.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Here's what you do.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
The lock in line, whatever line Scott's on, and then we'll.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
See I love you. I locked him on the opposite side.
And then Lorraina used to do that. No.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, and the limit is two falls on the air
at the same time. Any more than two the whole
thing goes to hell, it burns up.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
It'll no Marcell, thank god, no Marcell.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Okay, people wait, wait, wait, wait wait, Peo. People hate you.
People can plain about you. They can play about the Leprequnyork.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
Knicks fan now because of you, Mike, the Celtics fans stinks.
This is an example of them. They call themselves Mike
the Leprechaun. I'm so sick of the Celtics. I hope
they don't come back to Boston. The fans stand in
the middle of the sidewalks. They don't even know what's
going on at the games. Nobody knows the players. People
buy all the jerseys. We got this guy pretending to
be Mike the Leprechaun. I mean, how corny is that.
(25:16):
That's a Celtics fan. You don't see like a New
York Knicks guy being like I'm Donnie the Knickerbocker and
doing all these corny bits. I can't subscribe to this anymore.
I can't be a Celtics fan. I can't call into sports, right.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Okay, all right, all right, so hold on, Mike the Leprechaun.
Blind Scott is upset with the Celtics. He's leaving his
fandom because of you.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Well, that's his choice.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
That's his choice, the seven games.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
That's the seven true.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Here's the thing, though, leconn that've ruined the Celtics and
you made fun of Marcel and you're a fifth grade teacher, dude,
you can't even tease yourself to shut up and just
root for your own team.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Marcel.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
It's with the Mike the leprecaw stupid craft that goes
on nonstock.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
All right, take your breath, take your breath. All right.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
So Mike the leprekn Now, what do you This guy
Supermarket Steve hates you.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
He thinks that you're ruining the show. What do you
have to say to him?
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Mike, go to radio school. The Perkins School for the
Blind has a radio program.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You love radio. I get it. Mike. You're a star.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
We like you on the show, but your contributions are awful.
You harassed people on social media. You're like a Shanean
des Moines that calls the show. I got my Google moa.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Okay, calm down, Mike. Any final thought, Mike. I feel
like Mike's getting bullied here. Any thought, Mike.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
He's the show, He's the worst.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
He's Scott's still going.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
I'm I'm I'm in Rome right now.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
There's breaking news. There's no red smoke.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
There's red smoke, not white smoke. He's clicking and I
don't like it.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, okay, I'm going to hang up on both of you.
You're both annoying me. Let's go to Texas Jack. This guy,
he'll probably annoy me too.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
This was the guy that used to call up and
defend Luca, and then the Mavericks that I screw him,
will trade Luca.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
What's going on Texas? Jack?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Oh? You know, I bet I didn't call. I took
it easy on you. Yeah, yeah, I didn't slam me
about your stupid clippers.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
You know they made they made, they made the playoffs
as opposed.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
To your team.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Well, you know what happened to my team? It got
blown up. What are you? What are you trying to say?
But when you start going in on my cowboys, there's
gonna be a problem.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
What did I say that was wrong?
Speaker 4 (27:39):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
About him?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Was wrong everything?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Thank you? Right now?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
What is that that's a general statement. Give me a
specific example. What is a specific example you.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Said about George Pickets. George Pickens is gonna be fine.
He's the number two guy. Now he just stands over there.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
The problem is, and I don't know if you know
this in the idiot, I don't know. They let him go.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I don't know November, it's now May. If you have
a problem, contact management. I didn't have anything to do
with that.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So I just want to hear some of hockey talk.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Well he's got a podcast.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
You can found and find his podcast, so drown on
for hours about hockey.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Now, put my stick right in your mouth. Yeah, put
your your pretty stick right in your mouth. I want that.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I'm not taking no stick to the mouth. I'll tell
you that right now.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Well, your basketball team did, Your baseball team sucks, and
your football team hasn't been relevant in thirty years.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
No, no, and they're about to.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Be Oh yeah, this is this is the year. You
sound like the old Cub fan, the old Red Sox
fan for back. This is our year, this is good.
Next year is our year. Yeah, because all of a sudden,
Dak Prescott isn't going to pee his pants and big moments, right,
and the Cowboys aren't going to vance when they play
a halfway decent team.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, this is gonna be the year.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Kawhi Leonard's not gonna mess up either. Right.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You're doing what about ism? Is what you're doing. You're
doing what about?
Speaker 9 (29:08):
Is?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
What about?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
What about? What about?
Speaker 6 (29:11):
What about?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
What about? What about? What about? What about ism?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
In the playoffs? Guarantee mark it down?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Okay, and they'll lose on wild card weekend like they
always do usually. Okay, uh fine.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Okay, thank you, all right, I'll call. I'll talk to
you in six months next time you call. The show
can't wait. So one of Bill Belichick's toadies in the
media is changing his tune a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Julian Edelman, who had been a big advocate of Bill
Belichick and his sugar baby there.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
That story's died down a little bit. But you might
remember the Edelman and Gronkowski.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I guess they do some podcasts, because everyone's got a podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I'm sure that's great unless it's not. But they were
defending the now notorious.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Interview that was on that CBS morning news show where
she stepped in there.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
God forbid.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
They talk about their relationship, where they met and all
that stuff, and so it's been a disaster now. Edelman,
after originally running interference for Bill Belichick, he called it
a distraction when he appeared here on Fox Sports Radio
with our teammate Colin Cowherd. Is now a distraction. Now
(30:28):
what is his real position? So he was supporting Belichick,
but now it's a distraction. So which one is it?
I would like to know. I would like to know
which one is it? I don't know, all right, anyway,
It is the Ben Mahlor Show, the fun fact of
the hour, the fun fact of the hour.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Here are you ready for it?
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Mallor fun fact?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
The player voted by his peers the most overrated player
in the NBA, Tyrese Halliburton of the Niana Pacers is
shooting ninety one percent in late game, tie or lead situations.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
The player deemed the most.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Overrated the most overrated player, Tyreese Aaliburton is shooting ninety
one percent in late game situations.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Tie or lead and.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Been a dominating force for the Indiana Pacers as the
playoffs go on and on and on. No Pacer game
though tonight, No Bucks Bucks, No, no Pacers calves. Tonight
the only NBA game of Warriors and Timberwolves. Where is
the money, money, money money? But we got another split.
We have another split, the Timberwolves and the Golden State Warriors.
(31:50):
Now that game opened up Minnesota a ten point favorite,
they are up to a ten and a half point favorite.
The sharp Better is on the team from Minnesota, so
not an overwhelming amount, not an overwhelming amount, but they
have more of the bets from the sharp Better. So
(32:12):
the public, though, is on the other side. They're taking
the points here, and they are taking the Golden State
Warriors plus all those points, so.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Slight slight lean, slight lean to the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
So the public's on the side of Golden State plus
the points, the Timberwolves getting the sharp money on that.
And then tomorrow there's a couple of games. I don't
have the numbers on the Thunder and the Nuggets. The
line on that's five in favor of Oklahoma. Say they're
five point favorite in Denver, which seems like that's gonna
get some attention to the betters and the Pacers and
(32:48):
Calves that open to pick them. Indiana is the game
again being played tomorrow on.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
On Friday, and Cleveland is a two and a half point.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Road favorite now and they are getting the vast majority
of the cash money.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
The Celtics and the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
They don't play till Saturday afternoon at three point thirty
at the Garden, and that line is Boston by five.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
They are a five point favorite.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Don't have the numbers as far as too early yet
to get the numbers on the bets. It is the
Ben Maler Show. I need some judges. We are moments away.
I need some celebrities, judges, fact or fiction? Fact or fiction?
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Is it factor? Is it Fiction?
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On the Ben Maller Show. Dar Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Let's welcome in our celebrity panel of judges that have
assembled the form voltron around the country. We start out
with the Power Couple in Brandon and Florida.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
We have Leslie and Jack and Judge. Hello, Leslie, good morning.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
Good morning Ben.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
I think you have only half of the Power Couple today.
Speaker 9 (35:17):
I've got to inform you it's me.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Oh no, I'm I'm happy to talk to you. Is
Jack working out or is he sleeping? Is everything everything's okay?
Speaker 9 (35:26):
No, everything is fine. Okay, he's got I think he'll
wander in.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Okay, all right, he's busy. I understand.
Speaker 9 (35:35):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, we're all both very busy.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Well you are social, your socialites and when you're a
social absolutely.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Well you got the pickleball today? What do we got
going on today?
Speaker 9 (35:48):
I know I'm actually flying up to Boston today, Oh
you are, yes?
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Yes? For what?
Speaker 9 (35:56):
And then flying back to Long Island to be with
my son for Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Oh that's right. Happy, mother's dad forgot bat you up
by me? Happy?
Speaker 5 (36:06):
No?
Speaker 6 (36:07):
No, no, So.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
I'm busy person.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
I got you, all right, but very good. I have
a great Mother's Day weekend. Hold on a second. We
have America's favorite crossing guard, Daniel in Fort Wayne.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Hello, Daniel, Good morning Ben.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
Hey.
Speaker 9 (36:23):
In two weeks, I go on summer break.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Oh man, that means you're gonna take a break from
the show.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Huh yeah wait wait wait summer wait wait wait wait
but you mean spring break, not summer break.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Spring break.
Speaker 9 (36:37):
Well, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll be off for the summer,
but I'm going to help out a friend at a
substop for a few weeks and then come back to
being a crossing guards in August.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
All right, we'd like to alert all the affiliates that
Daniel the crossing Guard will be taking a break upcoming.
All right, hold on a sect, buddy, we got what
do we have here? Coach Russell? Hello, Coach Russell.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Hey, good morning Ben. I'll be taking a break, but
I'm still gonna be calling in because we'll be having
early morning workout.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Oh yeah, you gotta work out early.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Get in there before the heat, you know, the summertime,
come off.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Gotta get in there.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I remember. Oh yeah, well I don't. I didn't have
to do with Florida heat. But I know you gotta
get those workouts in early. Absolutely, all right. A hold
on a second coach there, number one, our favorite high
school coach there coaches football in the Orlando area.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
We have Brandon in Cansa City. Hello Brandon.
Speaker 8 (37:30):
And the Jets.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah there he is ready to go. What's up, my brother?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
What's up? Good morning, man, Good morning?
Speaker 8 (37:37):
Uh, good morning, Lorena.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
There you go, good morning. It's a wonderful morning.
Speaker 9 (37:44):
What happened to is Coop playing a hook here something?
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Well, he bet ten grand on the Lakers to win
over Minnesota. So he's, uh, he's in some some therapy
right now, you know.
Speaker 9 (37:54):
Yeah, Hey, make sure make sure you take his shoesting.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Gotta have his shoes.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
We don't want him to.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Do nothing crazy.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
All right, Well, hold on a sec the great Brandon
in Kansas City. I think that's all we have time for.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
All right. These are the three stories.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Figure out which of the three is not true, separating
fiction from fact. Story number one, number one, he doesn't
do it well. Nike on social media says that Paul
Pierce they actually sent this out on social media. Paul
Pierce a picture of him in his signature Nike Air
Legacy three is captioned just do It, alluding to his
(38:30):
eight mile walk into work. And so yeah, made a
bet that he said, the Celtics, who are gonna win?
He said he walked to work and so fairly that's
the thing, and story number two.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
The Celtics didn't.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Win, of course, during the during the Kentucky Derby, a
very excited eight year old kid ordered seventy thousand lollipops
on Amazon to give to his friends while playing on
his mom's phone.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
How about that, eight years old, you got seventy thousand friends.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Round, and that's pretty good grud iron. For the first
time since twenty twenty one, John Gruden, we'll be back
on the grid iron, not as a coach, but as
an owner. He's got a chunk of the Nashville Cats,
that is an Arena Football League team. Unless that is
not true, John Gruden is still canceled.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
It's taboo. All right, those are the three stories.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Figure out which are the three is not true? And
let's go back to our judges. We start out with
the Power Couple and a good morning, a big Mother's
Day weekend upcoming for Leslie Leslie.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
One, two or three? Was that Wait a minute, I
hear I heard a voice.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
No, No, you didn't, Now you didn't.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Okay, that was a false alarm. False alarm, false alarm.
Speaker 9 (39:46):
All right, I'm gonna go with number one, number one.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
All right, have a wonderful Mother's Day weekend to hope
you're your kids some better spoiler Hold on a second,
and we have Daniel, America's favorite crossing guard is about
to go.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
On spring break. Daniel one, two or three.
Speaker 8 (40:06):
Daniel number one, number one.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Everyone loves to say number one.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
What about coach Russell, the big high school coach. There
are our version of yes, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I'm gonna do the same. Number one, number.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
All right, number one, everyone's a great Brandon in Kansas City,
quickly branded one, two or three branded.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
I'm on going number three.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
That's sound phony.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
You should have got number one, number one, number one,
the Paul Piercer.
Speaker 6 (40:34):
That was the thing.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Yeah, the Nike part of it, that whole thing there
We go.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Welcome, It's our number four.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
As we nibble around the edges on this Thursday, the
eighth day of May twenty twenty five. And here an
hour number four, the Football Power Hour, all of that
jumbo size, Here an hour number four. Did the Steelers
get enough in return for George Pickens?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Also?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Is George Pickens the missing piece for the Cowboys offense?
Or will this volatility around him be a problem? And
will George Pickens thrive in Dallas or will his issues.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Continue to haunt him in a new location.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Also is the RAMS Mini camp in Maui a brilliant
way to build team chemistry in paradise or just a
flashy PR stunt.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We'll talk about that as well.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It is the dawn of a new day, and here
it is our number four.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Have a great Thursday.
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(02:41):
and right now they can't get up. They did it again.
They did it again. He is going to be a
feeding frenzy on Joe Missoula. We'll get to that more
later this hour. As the Celtics find themselves in a
pretty big hole, and man, this would be one of
the great choke jobs in basket ball history. But the
Knicks win both games in Boston, so they'll go back
(03:02):
to the New York on Saturday. And the other series
was blowout City as SGA put the ko from OKC
on Denver. But we're gonna talk some football here in
the heart of Texas, and that is where the Cowboys
have broke up. That broke up and broke out of
(03:24):
the doldrums of the offseason.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
The doll drums have ended. On a random day, a.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Random day in May, Jerry Jones pulled the trigger on
what we are told is a sizable a trade.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
A sizable trade.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
If you didn't hear, maybe not.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
The Dallas Cowboys have gone to the flea market, and
this one.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Involves a lot of fleas.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And they have acquired the services of wide receiver George Pickens,
a notorious figure in modern NFL football. So George Pickens
goes from the Dallas fotball team, which is over here,
or from the Pittsburgh football team over to the Dallas
football team is over here. So from Pittsburgh to Dallas
now Pittsburgh will get a third round pick in twenty
(04:10):
twenty six, a fifth round pick in twenty twenty seven,
this is a test, and the Cowboys get a sixth
round choice like two years from now down the line.
So it's essentially George Pickens for a third round pick
and the fifth round you don't usually get anything good there.
That's where Stiff's like Sugar Sanders get drafted. All right,
(04:31):
So let us discuss the question did the Steelers get
enough value in return for George Pickens, who was one
of their better known players. He was a believe a
second round pick. So on this one, I've got Andy
Van Slight that's an old baseball player Tuna, and an
old actor, Richard Gear And we will combine all of
(04:53):
these things together and we are going to make a
happy meal with Gabba Gooul with the Gabba Ghul.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
A happy meal, all right.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
So to kick off here to answer the question, did
the Steelers get enough value in return?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
It obviously depends on what side of the aisle you're on.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I'm gonna go no, But there's a greater reason to
make the trade, like in terms of just raw value.
The bargaining that takes place the George Pickens divorce.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Which is what this is.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
This has been simmering for several years, and I have
taken calls from multiple Steeler fans over these Why are
you saying George Pickens is gonna be traded or he's
gonna leave this.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You don't know what you're talking about. You know the
whole rap. You know, you're the overnight guy. You don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Football, there's nothing here. We used to have this caller
named Andy the Comic Book Guy. I think he retired
from calling the show Andy the Comic Book Guy, and
he would say the same thing.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It was the same conversation, but it was about Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Like Stefan Diggs and the Bills had a very cantankerous relationship,
and he'll have issues in New England because that's what
he does. And so I was like, well, he's not
gonna last there. And I remember Andy of the Comic
Book Guy was, Oh, you don't know what you're talking about.
By the same conversations with Pittsburgh fan, right, And I know, listen,
we pay attention, you pay attention, you figure out a
(06:14):
thing or two. So George Pickens had been at Loggerheads
with the coaching staff for a long time, and so
finally Mike Tomlin went Popeye the Sailor man. That's all
I can stands, and I can't stands no more. And
so the assumption was once they got DK Metcalf, that
they were gonna have a one to two punch of
(06:35):
DK Metcalf and George Pickens.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Well, turns out that DK Metcalf has a similar.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Skill set as Pickens, and so they got him from
Seattle and they paid him, and then that that's it,
and George Pickens is risky business. Pickens has the stardust.
I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like he doesn't
have the star dest He's got the tools to dominate
(07:01):
the NFL. The problem, he's also got a big toolbox,
if you know what I mean. And however, it.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Tells you what level of dingle berry, what level of.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Dingle berry George Pickens must be for Mike Tomlin and
the Steelers a very buttoned up conservative outfit to hit
the eject button.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And their argument is we didn't get a lot for him.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
But this is addition by subtraction in Pittsburgh, and it
channels another Pittsburgh legend from years gone by, there was
a player for the Pirates named Andy Vanslke and he
was teammates. There was this baseball player named Barry Bonds
who did a lot of steroids and hit a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Of home runs.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
And Andy vans Like and Barry Bonds hated each other,
couldn't stand each other.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Everyone that's ever met Barry thinks he's a schmuck. Right,
So from I've.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Heard so, Andy Vans like one set of Barry Bonds.
I would rather lose without him than win with him.
And that's the steel. I'd rather lose without George Pickens
than win with him. Now, Furthermore, is George Pickens the
missing piece, this wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboy eyes?
(08:12):
Or will his high level of volatility continue to follow
him as we get down to.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Training camp, which will be a couple months away in July.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
They get through the rest of May June, and then
mid July training camp begins. So the only way you
think this is the missing piece is if you're doing
a lot of Colombian bambam. Every man, woman and child
knows that Dallas is not one player away. Now, George
Pickens is a lottery tick he's a lottery hasn't been scratched,
(08:47):
and you don't know what you got. And he hasn't
even scratched the surface of his skills. He's never been
an All Pro. He's never been even to the Pro Bowl,
which is where they play like Hopsky and Connect four
and all that.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
So he hadn't done that.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And he is living in the world of if only.
That's who George Pickens is. He's an if only player.
If only he had focus, if only he locks in,
if only he had better work ethic, if only he
got along with his coach is better.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
If only if only he wore nose.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Canceling noise canceling headphones, right, if only he didn't pay
attention to the outside noise. And as the Tuna Bill
Parcells preached, you lose with potential. George Pickens has potential.
You lose with potential, you win with production. And Pickens
doesn't have consistent production. Now, the argument to counter that is.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Not his fault.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
He's never had a good quarterback. He's had a bunch
of J.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Broni's in Pittsburgh, and now he's going to have a
good quarterback. Well, we can debate how good Dak Prescott
is will George Pickens thrive in Dallas or will his
issues follow him along? So for him, this is a
brass ring opportunity. Like you look at the Cowboys and
that offense in Dallas. They have one guy, Ceedee Lamb,
(10:11):
and that's it. So now you've got the second option
in George Pickens. So in theory, that'll work pretty well.
Last year, I believe Jake Ferguson the tight end was
the number two option. He was the second leading pass
catcher last year. The other thing going for the Cowboys.
And it has been speculated in the echo chamber that
(10:35):
the Cowboys are not going to sign sign him to
an extension George Pickens, which actually makes a lot of sense.
Pickens is entering the final year of his rookie deal
he signed back in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So he's got to be a boy scout.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
He's got to keep his nose clean and play well
in order to get the bag.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
What's in the bag?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Money, money, money, that's a lot of money, A lot
of money in the bag. Now that said, right, changing laundry.
If you think that's the cure, all you are a loser,
running away, running away, from your problems. In any facet
of life, if you just run away from your problems,
(11:16):
that is a race. It is an unwinnable race because
your bad habits are going to follow you. You're gonna
do the same thing you did in Pittsburgh, George Dickens
in Dallas, and it's not gonna be an different.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
In fact, it'll be.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
A louder sound coming out of Dallas because of the
way the Cowboys get media coverage. It'll be even louder
the noise around. George pickings that Steelers get a lot
of media coverage. They're a national team. They have fans
all over the place because of success they had fifty
years ago in Pittsburgh. All right, Now, last thing, we
head to the Aloha State and an NFL team has
(11:53):
announced they are relocating some of their off season work
to Hawaii. Say what that would be the La Rams.
You can ram it all day, you can ram it
all night, and you can.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Ram it in Maui. That's right. The Rams announced that
they're going to hold a mandatory mini camp in Maui.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
It's mandatory from June sixteenth to the nineteenth, not that
the dates matter. Two days of on field workouts and
then that's it. So is the ram mini camp in
Maui a brilliant way to have team bonding everyone hanging
out together in paradise in the Hawaiian Islands, or just
(12:40):
a flashy pr move by the end. So the arrow
on this one not that we spend much time worrying
about mandatory mini camp, but the arrow is pointing towards
marketing gimmick, Like do you think the guys when they're
in Hawaii are going to go surfing together and go
cowabunga dude, you know, and do the whole Hawaiian experience,
take both rides out to go whale watching. Methinks that's
(13:02):
not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
The good thing about Hawaii it's very difficult to get
into trouble because everything closes.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
When the sun goes down in Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
So it's very difficult to get into a lot of trouble.
Now they're going to Maui, They're not going to Honolulu.
In Honolulu, there's a lot of a lot of bad
stuff there in Honolulu, a lot of crackheads and whatever,
So you can get in trouble there. But it Maui,
you know, from what I've heard not so much. Now,
if you really want to have a laid back trip
to Hawaii, you go to Kawaii is where you go.
(13:33):
You go there and man, nothing going on and it's
just nothing but beaches and that's it and there's nothing
else going on.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
But this is obviously a marketing gimmick. And it's like the.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Richard Gears song from the movie Chicago, Razzle Dazzle, Right,
this is all about the razzle dazzle. Give me the
old razzle dazzle and put a lot of flash in
there and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
The rams love these photo ops.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
They've tried to embrace the whole Hollywood thing and all that.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
They love the viral viral moment.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Like, I'm convinced this is just for viral social media posts.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
They're not worried about team bonding or any of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
And it just goes against the essence of foot what
football was supposed to be, where it's drudgery and it's
not you're not supposed to be hanging out on the
beach in Hawaii and you're not taking it seriously. And
then but then part of me is like, well, who
cares about a mandatory mini camp in June. Nobody cares
about that, But you think about the Rams have done.
(14:33):
They had the NFL Draft held eight I think they
were at a beach house one year, they were at
a fire station this year, and now they're going to
the Aloha State. But I'm pretty confident that you don't
go to Hawaii with the purpose of improving your football skills.
You go to Hawaii to hang out in a hammock,
(14:55):
drink a cocktail, look at the ocean, and just kind
of go with the flow. And you're at a leisurely
paced they call.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
It island time.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You're on island time, light workouts, tropical setting.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And you gotta think the players are gonna treat this
like a vacation, right.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
What they ought to do if they really want people
to show up is have a non mandatory mini camp,
like a non mandatory workout in Hawaii. The entire effing
team will show up, right. A free trip to Hawaii.
I'm in mandatory. They got to be there anyway. You
make it non mandatory. And they said, we'll go.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
We'll take it Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
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the great defenders of Bill Belichick. No longer all in
on Belichick and his sugar baby.
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Some changes there. We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 3 (19:01):
And they are also one of Bill Belichick's great defenders.
Has softened his position a little bit. Let's go to
the phones. Well, let's say hello to Eeny Meeny miney Mo.
Let's say hello to Ala Medalu, who's in the Bay Area. Hello, Ala, Mead.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Lou Hey betting Groove. Did my ears just sat me?
Or was the great Phillmore Mike on the show earlier?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Legendary Fillmore Mike did make a rare and appropriate appearance.
He enjoyed a SoundBite which he thinks Loraina said involving sausage.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Oh man, the guy is just an absolute Bay Area
radio legend.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
It does my heart very well that there's people from
the Bay Area you call him call into the show
who are better than me.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, I'm a big fan of Fillmore. Mike. He doesn't
call that often.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
He has called a few times, and he did watch
the TV show, so he supports all Malar themed products.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Just a quick john for him.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
From the Fillmore district in San Francisco over to Oakland
for the Ben Mallard meet and greet.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
And that will that would be coming up at some
point at a two be determined date, hopefully this year.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
You keep saying that, Ben, this Houston Rockets series is
what I wanted to make a point about. So Steph Curry, Draymond.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Green and the Warriors of Old basically destroyed these great
Houston Rockets teams to a point where they were forced
to rebuild for what felt like a decade, and then
the same players came back and beat him again.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Okay, okay, this Timberwolve series, is.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
That a statement or a question?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Was that?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I feel like that was a statement that was not
a question that was a statement.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
No, it's it's more of an a few to Houston
and the wrestlers that played for their basketball team. So
this Minnesota series, Steph is obviously out and we can
figure out a way to probably win this series air
hold down the fort until.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Step gets back.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
But the big emerging story that you should be talking
about on the show is the emergence of lacrosse great
Pat Spencer.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You know, you know, I was you must be reading
my mind. I was actually going to bring this up.
I jotted that I didn't mention this the other day.
But Pat Spencer, I think he is actually a time
traveler from the nineteen eighties. He looks like a nineteen
eighties NBA player to me. He and it's like the
mugdaff no, but but it looks like the kind of
(21:33):
guy that you would see in the NBA, like in
the late eighties, where he just kind of doesn't look
like he belongs, like who doesn't belong there?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
And that's yeah, that's that.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
He looks like he should be playing for the Pistons
in like nineteen eighty nine or something like that.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Oh yeah, but he's you know, so it's a statement
for the Warriors future.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Right.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
You know, while steps three might be gone for a
playoff series, the franchise moving forward as a predictable transpire
is in good hands with Pat Spencer handling the ball.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yes, I go, they will be back. They will be back,
Pat Spencer. Back to the Donald Foyle days.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
With Mike Clippers and Coops Lakers.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
The playoffs are worse for the wear with phot those
teams not being in all.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
There's Alameta Lou checking in and checking out, saying bye bye. Yeah,
Pat Spencer. If you've not seen him through one of
our blind listeners, Pat Spencer has a He just looks
like he doesn't belong out there, like he won some
kind of raffle to play for the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
It's like, hey, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Like the kind of guy that you would see at
the y m c A on a Saturday morning playing basketball.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
And he's in the NBA and you're like, what is that? Like,
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Let's say speak about I don't understand Blind Scott, who
guaranteed the Celtics we're going to win this Those things
are not looking so good, Blind Scott.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Marcel's laughing at you.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Yeah, I found the term called blind supremacy. It explains
my college pretty good.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Dude.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
The description you just gave for the.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Blind was, like, that was pretty funny, man, because a
lot of blind people don't get out and look really
weird too, So like it be hard for You're explaining
this to blind people and they're trying to imagine something
that they might relate to. Dude, but this is the
Blind Scott and Mike the Leprechaun segment. I think if
he's on hold, we should pot him up for a
second and we should have a little discussion of a
Celtic round table. Here is he here?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
All right?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Well let's see here. We can hit the button nearly
put Mike the Leprechaun on. Mike the Leprechaun. Blind Scott
would like to talk to you, Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
I will, thank god, I either thing.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I can bring your care.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Whisker in my This is that's a private conversation. This
is not for all you're both on the air. Nobody
wants to hear that.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
The celic.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Hold on.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I'm turning off the Leprechaun Lee might have accidentally hung
up on Blind Scott.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Wow, is that possible?
Speaker 9 (24:00):
You just.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Okay, so now we're stuck.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
With the maybe a little on the lazy side.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
He does know how to work the phones.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Maybe you don't work phones on my show. It's been
a while.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, very few shows actually take calls anymore, at least
at our place.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I know other.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Places they do, but we don't. We're one of the
few shows that do take the calls. Yeah, so wet
lock in the line one there and you got a job.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You get it?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Of course he called right back, all rights. See now
locke in.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Here's what you do.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
The lock in line, whatever line Scott's on, and then we'll.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
See I love you. I locked him on the opposite side.
And then Lorraina used to do that. No.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, and the limit is two falls on the air
at the same time. Any more than two the whole
thing goes to hell, it burns up.
Speaker 8 (24:44):
It'll no Marcell, thank god, no Marcell.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Okay, people wait, wait, wait, wait wait, Peo. People hate you.
People can plain about you. They can play about the Leprequnyork.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
Knicks fan now because of you, Mike, the Celtics fans stinks.
This is an example of them. They call themselves Mike
the Leprechaun. I'm so sick of the Celtics. I hope
they don't come back to Boston. The fans stand in
the middle of the sidewalks. They don't even know what's
going on at the games. Nobody knows the players. People
buy all the jerseys. We got this guy pretending to
be Mike the Leprechaun. I mean, how corny is that.
(25:16):
That's a Celtics fan. You don't see like a New
York Knicks guy being like I'm Donnie the Knickerbocker and
doing all these corny bits. I can't subscribe to this anymore.
I can't be a Celtics fan. I can't call into sports, right.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Okay, all right, all right, so hold on, Mike the Leprechaun.
Blind Scott is upset with the Celtics. He's leaving his
fandom because of you.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Well, that's his choice.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
That's his choice, the seven games.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
That's the seven true.
Speaker 8 (25:43):
Here's the thing, though, leconn that've ruined the Celtics and
you made fun of Marcel and you're a fifth grade teacher, dude,
you can't even tease yourself to shut up and just
root for your own team.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Marcel.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
It's with the Mike the leprecaw stupid craft that goes
on nonstock.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
All right, take your breath, take your breath. All right.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
So Mike the leprekn Now, what do you This guy
Supermarket Steve hates you.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
He thinks that you're ruining the show. What do you
have to say to him?
Speaker 8 (26:12):
Mike, go to radio school. The Perkins School for the
Blind has a radio program.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You love radio. I get it. Mike. You're a star.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
We like you on the show, but your contributions are awful.
You harassed people on social media. You're like a Shanean
des Moines that calls the show. I got my Google moa.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Okay, calm down, Mike. Any final thought, Mike. I feel
like Mike's getting bullied here. Any thought, Mike.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
He's the show, He's the worst.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
He's Scott's still going.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
I'm I'm I'm in Rome right now.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
There's breaking news. There's no red smoke.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
There's red smoke, not white smoke. He's clicking and I
don't like it.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, okay, I'm going to hang up on both of you.
You're both annoying me. Let's go to Texas Jack. This guy,
he'll probably annoy me too.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
This was the guy that used to call up and
defend Luca, and then the Mavericks that I screw him,
will trade Luca.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
What's going on Texas? Jack?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Oh? You know, I bet I didn't call. I took
it easy on you. Yeah, yeah, I didn't slam me
about your stupid clippers.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
You know they made they made, they made the playoffs
as opposed.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
To your team.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Well, you know what happened to my team? It got
blown up. What are you? What are you trying to say?
But when you start going in on my cowboys, there's
gonna be a problem.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
What did I say that was wrong?
Speaker 4 (27:39):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
About him?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Was wrong everything?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Thank you? Right now?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
What is that that's a general statement. Give me a
specific example. What is a specific example you.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Said about George Pickets. George Pickens is gonna be fine.
He's the number two guy. Now he just stands over there.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
The problem is, and I don't know if you know
this in the idiot, I don't know. They let him go.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I don't know November, it's now May. If you have
a problem, contact management. I didn't have anything to do
with that.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So I just want to hear some of hockey talk.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Well he's got a podcast.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
You can found and find his podcast, so drown on
for hours about hockey.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Now, put my stick right in your mouth. Yeah, put
your your pretty stick right in your mouth. I want that.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I'm not taking no stick to the mouth. I'll tell
you that right now.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Well, your basketball team did, Your baseball team sucks, and
your football team hasn't been relevant in thirty years.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
No, no, and they're about to.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Be Oh yeah, this is this is the year. You
sound like the old Cub fan, the old Red Sox
fan for back. This is our year, this is good.
Next year is our year. Yeah, because all of a sudden,
Dak Prescott isn't going to pee his pants and big moments, right,
and the Cowboys aren't going to vance when they play
a halfway decent team.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, this is gonna be the year.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Kawhi Leonard's not gonna mess up either. Right.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You're doing what about ism? Is what you're doing. You're
doing what about?
Speaker 9 (29:08):
Is?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
What about?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
What about? What about?
Speaker 6 (29:11):
What about?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
What about? What about? What about? What about ism?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
In the playoffs? Guarantee mark it down?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Okay, and they'll lose on wild card weekend like they
always do usually. Okay, uh fine.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Okay, thank you, all right, I'll call. I'll talk to
you in six months next time you call. The show
can't wait. So one of Bill Belichick's toadies in the
media is changing his tune a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Julian Edelman, who had been a big advocate of Bill
Belichick and his sugar baby there.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
That story's died down a little bit. But you might
remember the Edelman and Gronkowski.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
I guess they do some podcasts, because everyone's got a podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
I'm sure that's great unless it's not. But they were
defending the now notorious.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Interview that was on that CBS morning news show where
she stepped in there.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
God forbid.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
They talk about their relationship, where they met and all
that stuff, and so it's been a disaster now. Edelman,
after originally running interference for Bill Belichick, he called it
a distraction when he appeared here on Fox Sports Radio
with our teammate Colin Cowherd. Is now a distraction. Now
(30:28):
what is his real position? So he was supporting Belichick,
but now it's a distraction. So which one is it?
I would like to know. I would like to know
which one is it? I don't know, all right, anyway,
It is the Ben Mahlor Show, the fun fact of
the hour, the fun fact of the hour.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Here are you ready for it?
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Mallor fun fact?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
The player voted by his peers the most overrated player
in the NBA, Tyrese Halliburton of the Niana Pacers is
shooting ninety one percent in late game, tie or lead situations.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
The player deemed the most.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Overrated the most overrated player, Tyreese Aaliburton is shooting ninety
one percent in late game situations.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Tie or lead and.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Been a dominating force for the Indiana Pacers as the
playoffs go on and on and on. No Pacer game
though tonight, No Bucks Bucks, No, no Pacers calves. Tonight
the only NBA game of Warriors and Timberwolves. Where is
the money, money, money money? But we got another split.
We have another split, the Timberwolves and the Golden State Warriors.
(31:50):
Now that game opened up Minnesota a ten point favorite,
they are up to a ten and a half point favorite.
The sharp Better is on the team from Minnesota, so
not an overwhelming amount, not an overwhelming amount, but they
have more of the bets from the sharp Better. So
(32:12):
the public, though, is on the other side. They're taking
the points here, and they are taking the Golden State
Warriors plus all those points, so.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Slight slight lean, slight lean to the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
So the public's on the side of Golden State plus
the points, the Timberwolves getting the sharp money on that.
And then tomorrow there's a couple of games. I don't
have the numbers on the Thunder and the Nuggets. The
line on that's five in favor of Oklahoma. Say they're
five point favorite in Denver, which seems like that's gonna
get some attention to the betters and the Pacers and
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Calves that open to pick them. Indiana is the game
again being played tomorrow on.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
On Friday, and Cleveland is a two and a half point.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Road favorite now and they are getting the vast majority
of the cash money.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
The Celtics and the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
They don't play till Saturday afternoon at three point thirty
at the Garden, and that line is Boston by five.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
They are a five point favorite.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Don't have the numbers as far as too early yet
to get the numbers on the bets. It is the
Ben Maler Show. I need some judges. We are moments away.
I need some celebrities, judges, fact or fiction? Fact or fiction?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Is it factor? Is it Fiction?
Speaker 3 (33:31):
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We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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Speaker 4 (34:46):
Is it fact or fiction.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Let's face some raw facts.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
On the Ben Maller Show. Dar Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Let's welcome in our celebrity panel of judges that have
assembled the form voltron around the country. We start out
with the Power Couple in Brandon and Florida.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
We have Leslie and Jack and Judge. Hello, Leslie, good morning.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
Good morning Ben.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
I think you have only half of the Power Couple today.
Speaker 9 (35:17):
I've got to inform you it's me.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Oh no, I'm I'm happy to talk to you. Is
Jack working out or is he sleeping? Is everything everything's okay?
Speaker 9 (35:26):
No, everything is fine. Okay, he's got I think he'll
wander in.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Okay, all right, he's busy. I understand.
Speaker 9 (35:35):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, we're all both very busy.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Well you are social, your socialites and when you're a
social absolutely.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Well you got the pickleball today? What do we got
going on today?
Speaker 9 (35:48):
I know I'm actually flying up to Boston today, Oh
you are, yes?
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Yes? For what?
Speaker 9 (35:56):
And then flying back to Long Island to be with
my son for Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Oh that's right. Happy, mother's dad forgot bat you up
by me? Happy?
Speaker 5 (36:06):
No?
Speaker 6 (36:07):
No, no, So.
Speaker 9 (36:09):
I'm busy person.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
I got you, all right, but very good. I have
a great Mother's Day weekend. Hold on a second. We
have America's favorite crossing guard, Daniel in Fort Wayne.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Hello, Daniel, Good morning Ben.
Speaker 8 (36:22):
Hey.
Speaker 9 (36:23):
In two weeks, I go on summer break.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Oh man, that means you're gonna take a break from
the show.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Huh yeah wait wait wait summer wait wait wait wait
but you mean spring break, not summer break.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Spring break.
Speaker 9 (36:37):
Well, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll be off for the summer,
but I'm going to help out a friend at a
substop for a few weeks and then come back to
being a crossing guards in August.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
All right, we'd like to alert all the affiliates that
Daniel the crossing Guard will be taking a break upcoming.
All right, hold on a sect, buddy, we got what
do we have here? Coach Russell? Hello, Coach Russell.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Hey, good morning Ben. I'll be taking a break, but
I'm still gonna be calling in because we'll be having
early morning workout.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Oh yeah, you gotta work out early.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Get in there before the heat, you know, the summertime,
come off.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Gotta get in there.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I remember. Oh yeah, well I don't. I didn't have
to do with Florida heat. But I know you gotta
get those workouts in early. Absolutely, all right. A hold
on a second coach there, number one, our favorite high
school coach there coaches football in the Orlando area.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
We have Brandon in Cansa City. Hello Brandon.
Speaker 8 (37:30):
And the Jets.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yeah there he is ready to go. What's up, my brother?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
What's up? Good morning, man, Good morning?
Speaker 8 (37:37):
Uh, good morning, Lorena.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
There you go, good morning. It's a wonderful morning.
Speaker 9 (37:44):
What happened to is Coop playing a hook here something?
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Well, he bet ten grand on the Lakers to win
over Minnesota. So he's, uh, he's in some some therapy
right now, you know.
Speaker 9 (37:54):
Yeah, Hey, make sure make sure you take his shoesting.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Gotta have his shoes.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
We don't want him to.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Do nothing crazy.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
All right, Well, hold on a sec the great Brandon
in Kansas City. I think that's all we have time for.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
All right. These are the three stories.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Figure out which of the three is not true, separating
fiction from fact. Story number one, number one, he doesn't
do it well. Nike on social media says that Paul
Pierce they actually sent this out on social media. Paul
Pierce a picture of him in his signature Nike Air
Legacy three is captioned just do It, alluding to his
(38:30):
eight mile walk into work. And so yeah, made a
bet that he said, the Celtics, who are gonna win?
He said he walked to work and so fairly that's
the thing, and story number two.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
The Celtics didn't.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
Win, of course, during the during the Kentucky Derby, a
very excited eight year old kid ordered seventy thousand lollipops
on Amazon to give to his friends while playing on
his mom's phone.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
How about that, eight years old, you got seventy thousand friends.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Round, and that's pretty good grud iron. For the first
time since twenty twenty one, John Gruden, we'll be back
on the grid iron, not as a coach, but as
an owner. He's got a chunk of the Nashville Cats,
that is an Arena Football League team. Unless that is
not true, John Gruden is still canceled.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
It's taboo. All right, those are the three stories.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Figure out which are the three is not true? And
let's go back to our judges. We start out with
the Power Couple and a good morning, a big Mother's
Day weekend upcoming for Leslie Leslie.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
One, two or three? Was that Wait a minute, I
hear I heard a voice.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
No, No, you didn't, Now you didn't.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Okay, that was a false alarm. False alarm, false alarm.
Speaker 9 (39:46):
All right, I'm gonna go with number one, number one.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
All right, have a wonderful Mother's Day weekend to hope
you're your kids some better spoiler Hold on a second,
and we have Daniel, America's favorite crossing guard is about
to go.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
On spring break. Daniel one, two or three.
Speaker 8 (40:06):
Daniel number one, number one.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Everyone loves to say number one.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
What about coach Russell, the big high school coach. There
are our version of yes, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I'm gonna do the same. Number one, number.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
All right, number one, everyone's a great Brandon in Kansas City,
quickly branded one, two or three branded.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
I'm on going number three.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
That's sound phony.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
You should have got number one, number one, number one,
the Paul Piercer.
Speaker 6 (40:34):
That was the thing.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Yeah, the Nike part of it, that whole thing there
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