Hour 4 - Krafty Old Devil

Ben Maller talks about Patriots owner Robert Kraft saying the NFL wants 18 games and every team playing an international game each season, reports that Mike McCarthy is a "strong candidate" for the Pittsburgh gig, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How do you do It's our numbber fall, dearly, dearly,
our four Patriots owner Robert Craft saying on our affiliate
in Boston, the Sports sub that the NFL wants eighteen
games and every team playing an international game every year.
What do we love and what do we hate about this? Also,

(00:22):
how much weight do you give Mike McCarthy being a
strong candidate. That's a quote for the Pittsburgh coaching job.
And explain the instruction manual on how coach John Harbaugh
and GM Joe Shane are going to work collaboratively with
the Giants. We'll talk about that as well as all
coming your away right now. Have a wonderful humpday, get

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over the hump on this humpty hump January twenty first.
Here it is our number four, a crafty old devil.
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business is out of the way. Let's get now to
the meat of the matter. Of course, I would argue
that was more important than anything I'm about to say,
but our lead from the the boardroom. That's actually from
a radio interview of all things. The NFL has its
eye on the prize. You have to have your eye
on the prize. You have to do it. So if
you didn't see this or hear about it, maybe not.

(03:25):
It's been bouncing around here, the NFL laying out their blueprint,
not a new blueprint. Not a new blueprint. So I
see Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who loves a good massage.
So Robert Craft told our friends at these sports hub
in Boston where you can hear this show five nights

(03:45):
a week. It popped up. I believe. According to Blind
Scott with Scott Zolak, and according to the sound bites
that are bouncing all over the place the Echo Chamber,
Bob Craft explained that he would like the NFL wants
eighteen games in the regular season. Now was okay, I've
heard that before. So Kraft lated it all out. He says,

(04:07):
they want to reduce the preseason from three games to two.
Nobody watches that anyway, So I want to go to
two games and then the eighteen game regular season. But wait,
there's more, said the guy selling you a product on
the infomercial. But wait, there's more. And this says every
NFL team will be traveling abroad. That's right, traveling to

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another country. Some teams will be playing in Canada and Mexico,
and other teams will be going to Australia, New Zealand
and all parts in between. So let us discuss. Keep
in mind that with every extra game, the nerds, the
medical people claim with every game that is played in
addition to the normal games, you know usual, when they

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went more from sixteen to seventeen games, they said the
rate of injury went up between fifteen and twenty percent.
That was the claim that was made. So as we
jump off on that and discuss the question, Robert Craft says,
the NFL wants eighteen games, every team playing a game
outside of the continental United States each season. What do

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we love in? What do we hate about this? So
I've got drug lords, planters and spatula, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are gonna
have a smorgasborg of gabba ghul is what we're gonna have.

(05:32):
That's what we're gonna all right, So delete off here.
So Robert Craft, Patriots owner, is out here. He's doing
the lord's work, is he not? Or is it the
devil's work? I guess it depends if you're a football
player and you're worried about your acl messed up and
this thing twisted and spaghetti ligaments and all that stuff.
So we love that Robert Craft has picked up a

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little side hustle in his eighties. He is the unofficial
press secretary of Roger Goodell floating the eighteen and two model,
the eighteen or two model, carrying the water. It's perfect.
The benevolent billionaire owner of the Patriots, Robert Kraft. They're
telling us, hey, don't worry about the eighteen games. We're
cutting the preseason by a game. We're good, Okay, the calculator,

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this is the calculated ratcheting up the tensions with the NFLPA. Oh,
the drama of labor negotiations. So we are on the
eve allegedly of the CBA talk yes, the collective Bargaining Agreement,
and the owners are tossing this out into the ethos

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and saying, oh, here we go. This is what we're doing.
We're gonna put the players on a headlock and play
eighteen games, classic leverage roove. So the question becomes, then
if the owners say we want eighteen games, said, well,
they should get whatever they want. Well, the players will
be like, well we want something in return. Okay, what
do the players get? I don't give more money. Okay,
we'll give you more money. Fine, we'll play eighteen games,
no problem, that's always the answer. Just get more money. Now,

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if you listen to this show over the years, you
know that we have a casual acquaintance of friendship with
a guy that was the number one overall pick many
many years ago in the National Football He would go
on to have a career in Hollywood. And if you're old.
You know who he is because he was a big
star in the nineteen eighties. But he's a friend of
the show and he listens to the show a few

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nights a week. Fred Dreyer is his name. He played
this character called Hunter on TV and he was in
this very popular show called Cheers back in the day.
So we had Fred in studio a few times. We've
had him on. I should get Fred back in here.
Super Bowls coming up, maybe we'll reach out to Fred
see if he wants to come down the hill here
and hang out with us. So, by the way, Fred
played in the NFL for the Rams. He was drafted,

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was supposed to be he drafted with the Patriots, but
I guess he didn't want to play for the Patriots
owner at the time, so he played with the Giants
and then went to the Rams. And Fred told us
when he was in the NFL in the nineteen seventies,
they were playing fourteen games a year in the nineteen seventies.
Fred said that the NFL owners went to the place
this is when it was a mom and pop operation,

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and said, we want to play, we would like to
get to twenty and we're we're gonna get to sixteen.
We're gonna start with that. So they went to sixteen.
But the goal was always This goes back to when
Pete Roselle was the commune. You don't even know who
that is, just google them, look them up on Wikipedia
or whatever. So Peter Roselle was the commissioner. This is
million years ago, and they then wanted to play twenty
games from fourteen. And that was when the NFL wasn't

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as popular as Major League Baseball in the United States.
So anyway, this has been a mission for over fifty
years and now we're at the point. Now it's a
fifty year journey towards total world domination, and they finally
have the lack of shame to go forward with this

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and do it. Now, what do we hate? What do
we The NFL uses this. They use this rhetoric essential
for revenue growth, that's always the art. Well, we've got
a h the revenue. We need to improve our revenue.
That is malarkey with a capital M. The NFL has

(09:08):
so much money right now, how much money they have?
They have so much money right now. They're like the
drug lords of the nineteen eighties, the cocaine cowboys. They
have to bury the cash in their backyards, you understand,
because they have so much money at three forty five
Park Avenue, it's overflowing and they don't know what to
do in the vault there, the vaults full with the

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gold boo yond. They don't know what to do. They
own out of the top one hundred TV shows, ninety
three out of the top one hundred. Of course, to
be fair, TV stop trying. TV stopped trying years ago.
They stop making compelling TV shows. They stop making good
movies many many years ago. That stuff's on the internet,
and they only make superhero movies. That's all they make.

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And the TV shows, oh my god. They don't want
to offend anyone, and they offend everyone because they're terrible.
I digress, though, So that's struggling. You need to worry
about growth police. And then the other thing that I
hate is this international push that bothers me, sending these
players out like missionaries, spreading the gospel of Pigskin into

(10:13):
the wild blue yonder and beyond. And when we went
up to the Mallard telescope, and we went up to
the telescope there on the top of the mountain, and
we looked down from the Mallard telescope and we looked around.
We had a panoramic view on the Mallard telescope. We
looked around there and what did it tell American football?
Which really drive I'm about to say drives owners crazy.

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American football is uniquely North America. It's our experience. It's
what we do here and you know in Canada and
America a little bit in Mexico. But you're trying to
indoctrinate people in Munich and Madrid and turn them into customers,
and for the most part, they're not interested. Right. It's

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kind of like the NFL is a curiosity for some people,
like what are those dumb Americans into it? And if
I don't understand why they have so many stoppages, I
don't get it. It's kind of like us watching clips
every year of that cheese rolling event on Cooper Hill
in England. You know they do they roll the ball
the cheese and then people chase after the ball the cheese.

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They've been doing that for two hundred years and we
look at it, we laugh at it. We're like, let's
just got dumb. That's their thing, that's the thing. Or
if you go to Saudi Arabia. They have and I'm
not making this up. I'm not ripping anybody. They have
a sport called camel jumping. That's a real thing where
guys leap over They line up like three or four
camels in a run, they leap over them like Superman

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at all it. But just we're not into that either.
But you force feeding your taste to someone is the
fastest way to make them hate you, whether it's a
relationship or a football team or whatever. If you you
better like this, you shove it down your throat. I
don't want that, all right. That's sufficient the NFL, they

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also have to be more careful, all right. There is
a saturation point, there is a tipping point. And that's
the old argument. Your kids keeps sneaking, you know, sneaking
into the kitchen eating the chocolate chip cookies you sit
them in. Back in the old country, now you'd get
arrested for this. But back in the old country, you'd
buy twenty seven boxes of chocolate chip cookies. You'd put

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them in a room, you'd lock the door, and you say,
you're not getting out here until you eat all twenty
seven boxes of cookies, and that kid will never eat
another chocolate chip cookie again. All right. Now, furthermore to
Pittsburgh we go the land of the Yinser. In Pittsburgh,
the search continues for the replacement to Mike Tomlin, a

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coveted job. There we saw that former Packer and Cowboy
coach Mike McCarthy is set to interview today today, this
twenty first day of January. Mike McCarthy on Humpday will
be doing the Humpty Humpty and be hanging out in Pittsburgh. Now,
the reason I brought this up the insider crowd is

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claiming that he is a strong candidate for the Steeler job,
implying that he is one of the favorites to get
the job. Question that's from state sponsored NFL media. So
the question how much weight do you give Mike McCarthy
being a quote strong candidate for the Pittsburgh gig. Holy

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Spaccoli batman, Mike McCarthy. Now, he is a heavyweight. However,
if you look at the scale here, this is the flyweight.
In fact, it's the super flyweight division, not just flyweight.
It's a super flyweight division of boxing. It's thinner than
the lines on his resume recently since winning the Super Bowl.

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That game that the Packers won back with Mike McCarthy
hasn't been well over decade. It has been fifteen years
now or something like that. Mike McCarthy has coached thirteen
seasons with Green Bay and Dallas since then and has
a four hundred winning percentage in the playoffs, He's six
and nine and has not been able to sniff the

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Promised Land since then. This when I saw this story
that Mike McCarthy is a strong candidate, I immediately said, this
is a planter's story. And I'm not talking about honey
roasted peanuts. I'm talking about planted. It's a planter special,
is what it is. That's somebody who's in Mike McCarthy's camp,
whether it's his aged or the assistant to the aged,

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or the assistant to the assistant agent's plumber, whoever it
might be, sent this out. The Sultan of Spin, the
Sultan of Spin practicing the art of manifestation there and
trying to speak it into existence. So we'll toss this
out and it's like I have a crystal ball that's
going to work. Like this. Police, they haven't met fa

(15:00):
to face unless I missed it. They haven't met face
to face with a formal livery So how can you
be a strong candidate if you haven't even met face
to face? Don't you have to do that first before
you become a strong candidate? Am I wrong? What do
I know? I just do the Overnight show? Anyway? How
can you just logically, how can you be the front
runner if you haven't had that meet and greet. It's illogical,
It's what it is. It's like you cannot win the

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Kentucky Derby if the horse is still in the trailer.
It's impossible to win the Kentucky Derby if your horse
is in the trailer. It's just it's possible. The other
problem McCarthy as is age. He's not old in terms
of coaching, but he's certainly past middle age. He's sixty two.
He's what kind of tire rack tires, But they don't
sell these kind of tires. He's a retread bald tires,

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the yinsers. Now the selling point would be, hey, he's
from there and all that stuff. They keep coaches though
for fifteen years. So if you do the math, he's
sixty two, you want to hire a coach that's going
to be there fifteen years throw away the key, he
would be in his late seventies. He'd be coaching on
a recliner on the sidelines, maybe seventy seven by the
time this is done. And the Steelers generally haven't recycled coaches.

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They don't normally do that. I think, really needing to
sell tickets, they got to hire a local boy. I'm
gonna cover up some of those smudges on the resume.
I don't know about that. And so being from the
burbs of Pittsburgh is nice. The resume of late is
not so nice there. So, until proven otherwise, I believe

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this is a pipe dream and it's being wrapped in
a perogi, is what it is. And now I'm also
not buying the Brian Flores thing. Not buying that either.
All right, now, last thing to the Big Apple we
go where John Harbaugh was welcomed with a gallup pep rally.
It was like a religious revival for the New York
Giants there so excited, Oh my God. And the Giants

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with John Harbaugh, well they kept the GM Joe Shane
and there's a great debate what is going to happen.
What are they're supposedly gonna work collaboratively. Harball will have
the final say in all this. I believe we have
some audio. Yes, I believe we have some audio. Here,
let's go to the audio tape, as we like to say,
and this would be let's go to Joe Shane. Here,

(17:17):
here's Joe Shane claiming, well, are you worried? Are you
concerned about the relationship, Let's go to the audio tape.
I'm not worried about that. Everywhere I've been, really, I've
been a link for twenty six years. So everywhere i've been,
the head coach and general manager work together.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
That's the only way it's gonna work, and get on
the same page, go through the process.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Again.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
We've done it everywhere I've been, so I'm not worried
about it. Like you said, that's just something on a
piece of paper, doesn't matter. We need to work together
and we're gonna come to the final condition and it's
always going to be about what's best for the New
York Giants. So I have no problem with that, and
you know, I'm looking forward to working with it. All right,
Somebody get a fire extinguisher. Liar liar pants on fire.
All right, so question explain the instruction manual on how

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coach John Harbaugh and the GM Joe Shane are going
to work collaboratively with the giants. So I'll explain this
to you like you're five years old and you're eating
glue in kindergarten. Okay, that's the level of explanation I
am willing to give you that you will not get
during the daytime hours, but I'm willing to do that
here because that's I like you. So this is the deal,

(18:19):
all right, just imas you're eating paste there in kindergarten
and all that, And here's the explanation. This is make
believe land, right. This is like when your mom said,
can you come help me cook supper? Okay, Mom, I'll
help you cook supper. And then your mom only allows
you to stir the bowl and you can't touch the

(18:39):
stove and all that. That's Joe Shane. Joe Shane with
the Giants is a stir. He's a stir, right. John
Harbaugh is the one holding the spatula. He's standing in
front of the stove and he's got the fire extinguera
who's just in case. So collaboration is like mutual decisions,
like oh we both decided to part ways. Bullkrap collaboration

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is like the Wolf of Wall Street for gayzy f
ghazi wazy woozy. What's the line fairy dust? All that
stuff doesn't exist. Joe Shane's new job title is not
GM for the Giants. It's the h H. Harbaugh Helper,
not Hamburger Helper Harbaugh Helper. Here are the jobs. Here's
the instruction manual, very simple. Okay, wake up early, gotta

(19:27):
wake up early extra. John likes extra pastry with his
coffee in the morning, so make sure he's got a
little extra pastry like a cinnamon in the morning, and
the coach for lunch. Now. He likes light mayo, a
little red onion with his tuna fish sandwich, So make
sure he's got a little red onion light mayo there

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and just nod, smile and write it down, and make
sure to clean his pool all right. He likes his
house vacuumed in the afternoon. He likes that. So listen
the point. The Giants did not hire a partnership. They
hired a boss. And if anything Joe Shane is if
he's nice, he can be the caddy for John Harbor
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deep in Texas there in Houston. Has the master script
been leaked? Has the script been leaked? In Pro Football?

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We'll get to that and we will do it.

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Next.

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the Mallard Militia. So actor courtingly, back to what we go?
Has the script been leaked? Some old the video popped
up of Oz the Mentalist. Ah, you know this guy's
Oz the Mentalist. I've seen him. No, you don't know this.
This is not doctor Oz. That's a different that's a
different one. I know who doctor Oz is. This is

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Oz the Mentalist who spoke in a video clip that
has now gone viral bouncing around. He spoke to the rams.
He's a mentalist and so he came in. He spoke
to the rams. This is in the preseason and in
the past. I'll get to the payoff on this. But

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but Oz, his name is Oz Pearlman knows a mentalist
and magician. He has popped up. He correctly predicted the
final four of March Madness last year, and so teams
bring him in is like a motivational speak. The players
must hate this, right, we got to listen to some
person come in and give us some motivational thought. We
don't want that. We just want to play ball and

(23:07):
leave us alone. So he's been traveling all over the
good little hustle for this guy. So this wasn't before
the This is actually from November, just a few months ago.
November of twenty twenty five, Oz the Mentalist paid a
visit to the La Rams and so he got Matthew
Stafford to stand up and was part of the trick

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and all that. And it ended with a Super Bowl prediction.
And the what is the prediction? Well, the prediction Oz
predicted that the La Rams will play the Denver Broncos
in the Super Bowl. Oh, oh my god, big prediction. Yeah,

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this is back in November. He also said that the
Rams will win the Super Bowl twenty three to fourteen.
What do you think bull crap? Right? Just got lucky?

Speaker 3 (24:02):
Well do you remember the other Uh? I don't know,
conspiracy theory.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
I guess you would call it all scripted that well
that we've talked about this before on the show.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
I believe where the colors in the super Bowl?

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yes, yes, yes, the super Bowl super Bowl sixty in
San Francisco. What is the logo?

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Let's see, we got orange and we got green. So
people are saying, that's Seahawks and Broncos.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Let you see all sick super Bowl sixty live coverage
here and let's see here. Uh, I'm looking at where's
the I see? Am I looking at the right logo here?

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Yeah, I guess you are.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
I saw it like, I see blue. Couldn't that be
ram blue?

Speaker 3 (24:43):
I suppose? And I see yellow. It's think I know
they're they're kind of stretching.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Him the orange. I don't see orange.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
It's kind of like the mixture where the yellow meets
the bridge there.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Oh my god. Really, if anything, this should have been
the sign that the Frisco forty nine are supposed to
be in the super Bowl. Not anything. There is green,
there's yellow.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
There's too many colors. Message in there.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, they should have more unique Super Bowl logos. They
used to have really unique Super Bowl logos. I know
that's very low on the list of things that need
to be done, but.

Speaker 5 (25:20):
I just, oh, this is never So I went to
go look up what I saw and okay, because I
was in the same time, they they inverted the colors
on the logo.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Oh okay, all right, well, hey listen, I don't know
about that, but Oz, the mentalist rams Broncos super Bowl.
That is the stupidest thing.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
They inverted color theory? Are you kidding me? Well, because
there's too many colors on the original logos.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
I was, let's go to the phones and we'll say
hello to Blind Scott, who's on the north end of Boston. Hello,
Blind Scott, welcome, breaking breaking news, breaking news. Somebody with
the Patriots took a bow movement. Breaking news.

Speaker 6 (26:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (26:02):
So, Jared Steadman, the quarterback of the Denver Broncos. He
was best friends with Steve Belichick and Bill Belichick said
he was no good and wouldn't play him because he
was a fanboy for Cam Newton. And we all knew
when Cam Newton came to Newego and he was washed
up so we couldn't even make the team over Cam
Newton that year, so the Patriots dumped him. But now
he's the quarterback for the Denver Broncos and the super Bowl,

(26:22):
and the Patriots are heavily favored with Drake Bay and
they're underdogs, and they had a team last year that
was the worst team in the league, and I just
don't think that Denver Broncos really stand a chance. But
I'm rooting for the Denver Broncos because I'm losing airtime
and I can't get on the radio.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Wait wait, wait, wait, wait, you because you're because they're
talking too much football. They're not goofing around.

Speaker 7 (26:40):
They We'll put blind Scott on there. You're gonna stay
on topic? You know you can't.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
You know, so you've never stayed on topic.

Speaker 7 (26:48):
Yeah, you gotta do. Yeah, you got to use the
right topic. Have a story. Like later today, I might
see Mike Brabel. He lives over here in the West End,
over by pan.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
You see, if you see Mike Rabel, that would be
a story. If Blind Scott he's Mike Vrabel, that's the story.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Be a miracle.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Dude.

Speaker 7 (27:03):
I'm gonna tell you about Fred dryer Man He's not
well liked in New England because he didn't want to
play for the Patriots. When you were talking to him
on AM earlier, I'm sure there was high core fans
that remember him.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
He didn't know.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Nobody remembers that. You don't even remember that.

Speaker 7 (27:16):
No, my father, when you used to have my father
used to cut like cust him out for it, but
he didn't want to play for the Pats like and
he was all.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Mad, but he didn't. Nobody wanted to play for the
Patriots until Robert Kraft got there.

Speaker 7 (27:28):
Terrible. Yeah, until I Scott Zola came in and then
Drew Bluff.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yes, Scott Zolac turned the fortunes of the franchise.

Speaker 7 (27:34):
Yeah, and then my mom told me to tell you
that Craft went across the suits my grandfather before he
owned the Patriots. You know, we listened to that interview.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
You should have been you should have been friends with him.
You could have been like an executive, get a no
show job with the page.

Speaker 6 (27:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (27:49):
Yeah, I should contact him now and try and get
in on it. Since I'm on the Sports Time, I'm
going to schedule you on the Sports Hub during the
Super Bowl run. Dude, do you know these Los Angeles
radio announcements. It is what I meant to ask you
the local guys from Los Angeles, because you're a RAMS fan.
Do you know those guys?

Speaker 1 (28:05):
I know some of them.

Speaker 7 (28:06):
I have been around for the guys are to radio.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
The oh the play by playing No, I don't know
the play by.

Speaker 7 (28:13):
A lot of attention on the sports Hub. They should
have you on to listen to it because you know
a lot about radio at of amateur radio play by
the people on the West Coast.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
For some reason, All right, hold on, all on sco
we might go back to Let's go to Let's go
to Steve in Manhattan, who has called for the first
time in a while. Hello Steve in Manhattan.

Speaker 8 (28:32):
Come hello again everyone, How it goes south? I'll be
back in fifty seconds. Spend distinguished panel, expanding audience.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Welcome to ee hee ha. Go Buchan and go b
bu Can and go bu Can and go you can
damn right.

Speaker 8 (28:53):
Listen, the mal of Militia and the Buchanan Brigade are
the two biggest groups in the last fifty years. Let's
and this past week, right, I got thrown off talk radio.
I'm not on that offense. Because I told a very
clean joke. And sometime in this call, I'm going to
do a drive run with the audience with them decide.
But first my advice, because I've given out advice with

(29:15):
dating and stuff before on uh on, you know, on
talk radio. But Robt Kraft, before he goes down a
spring break, he should buy himself a pair of gratzo glasses.
Get man, Come on, he's he has relatives and family
and stuff. They see something like that, it's not going
to go over good. And before I get the bonehead
and Shamus, Mike McDaniel is a total flake. He doesn't

(29:40):
like coaching in the cold weather. I mean, what is
he doing? I mean, this guy, how does he keep
getting jobs? Robert Salad, how do you guys keep getting high?

Speaker 1 (29:48):
There's a supply chain shortage, so that's your question. There's
a supply chain shortage of good coaches. So they just
keep recycling the same guys and shuffle them from town
to town. Unfortunately, everyone's plugged in. They all know these
guys stak, but they keep getting new jumps.

Speaker 8 (30:02):
Yeah, it with certain guys. Listen, I'll say it's certain
guys they have to hire, even if they stink. I
mean that's crazy to your team. I mean, if you're
looking to get the first pick in the draft and
do somefing like that and Shamus, now they did it
with Gettleman, They've get him. It was a GM at
the post, don't know before Shamus, Seamus and Bonehead. I'd
like to call him. And they let get him in

(30:22):
hang around a while, you know, because they let them
because he was in the organization a long time. They
let him announce his retirement. He was retired before Seamus
came in, but he hung around after that to get things,
you know, the transaction to go Smoothie, help with the
draft that was coming up, and everything like that. So
that's why I don't see any problem. And plus, Harbag

(30:44):
is older than Mike McCarthy and in sports radio in
New York is how.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
H Yeah, but there is that John Harbaugh still seen
is good even though he hasn't won in a long time.
And I would argue the reason that John Harbaugh took
so long to sign the contract with the Giants because
they wanted to make sure that he had all the
power over Joe Shane Dorko, the comedian is in Hawaii.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Hello, Dorkoh hi, Hey, I called because I wanted to
say I'm spicy and congratio to Pooka no Kara on
the Rams winning their games.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
This is the number one comic in all of Hawaii.
Top cow. He's the Who's the top comic in America?

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Right now?

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Who's the top comedy guy? Do we know?

Speaker 6 (31:27):
Who?

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Would that be? The guy that does the Trump impersonations?
He's pretty funny. What's that guy's name? You have no idea?
Watch that everyone's looking at. I think Jay Leno it
was it in nineteen ninety two. Shane Gillis Shane Gillis,
He didn't he do like a Trump thing? Or somebody
tell you the personation?

Speaker 7 (31:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (31:45):
I think so. I don't know. All right, you're like this,
You're like the Shane Gillis of Honolulu darko.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Okay, yeah. My brother, comedian Jano Macho, was in Shytown
for the game and saw Pooka pika his noseo yo,
yeah you bet you. But but I'm okaya what Puka does.
And also I have a crush show never mind, let's yo.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Brouh Okay, all right, thank you there. He is the
top comedian in all of Hawaii. They're going to close
the last comedy shop left after that. Let's say hello
to Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel, welcome, Oh.

Speaker 6 (32:26):
Good morning, Ben, welcome back to you, Cootie Loop and
Lorena as well. And Ben, I do agree with Steve
in Manhattan, my respectful Burrow friend of mine on hardball
going to the big Blue. He will definitely turn our.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Big okay, hold on sech Hey, Steven Manhattan, Marcel and
Brooklyn agrees with you.

Speaker 8 (32:50):
All right, Marcel, my fellow New York. Am I going
to get to tell the joke, Dear Ben?

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yeah, Let's see. Let's see if Marcel last tell the joke.

Speaker 8 (32:59):
First, let me just say, I want to say something
shadow I want, Well, I'm gonna tell the joke, but
first I want Adam Carolla and Ben Mallin to do
a sports show together.

Speaker 6 (33:07):
Go ahead, Marcella, what we'll say?

Speaker 1 (33:13):
If the well said, all right, what's the joke? What
do we have here? What's the joke?

Speaker 2 (33:19):
All right?

Speaker 8 (33:20):
This is this joke is totally clean, there's nothing, no problem.
Last week, right, Bill Clinton was in contempt of Congress.
So if you're in contempt of Congress, you could go
to jail. Now, Bill Clinton's going to jail, Well he
will he identify as a female, so you can go
to a female prison and walk around like a big rooster.
That's all I say. And I was total three.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Stations really all right? All right, I don't know why. Okay,
I don't care, interesting can do? All right? Well, thank you, Steve,
you've told you, Marcel. Did you laugh at that joke? Marcel?

Speaker 6 (33:55):
Well, I have to say because of Steve in my
Manhattan friends of Brooklyn, but he is not mister Clinton
is not a female. Miss Clinton is a female, as
a matter of fact, is a male.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Okay, tweet that out, send that out on social media, coop.
But Bill Clinton is a man, not a woman. Okay,
Let that let the world know. Yeah, you wish we
hit the breaking new sound that is big news from MARSA.
Any other news you'd like to break there?

Speaker 6 (34:20):
Marcel, how about some TV picks before?

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Yeah, we don't have to. We don't know. We don't
have time for that. Oh let me check, Marcel. Now,
if if Mike the Leprechaun says, we have Michael Leprecaun,
do we have time for TV picks? Michael leprekun, good morning, Marceau.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
Oh, here we go.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Why why is there so much tension between you two?
I don't understand.

Speaker 6 (34:42):
He is my enemy of mine. He don't vote for me.

Speaker 8 (34:47):
I wouldn't vote for you.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
If it sounds like you need a throat, laws is.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
All right?

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Well, why are you calling a radio show? If you
have larryn Jad, take gargle some salt water and eat
some garlic and you'll be okay. Oh yes, and you
should never take medical advice from an overnight talk shows.
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Speaker 4 (36:24):
Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot, password
the word Game of the Stars.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Here's Ben Meler. All right, let's do it. Password time.
We welcome in our contestants for past word. We know
I got to see here. Manuel and Gardena is going
to be one and so caw hello, Manuel.

Speaker 6 (36:44):
Welcome many bong rips.

Speaker 8 (36:47):
What's pleasing my man?

Speaker 1 (36:49):
We man, good to hear from you. And who would
you like to be partnered up with? Manuel and Guardina?
All right, we're in it to win it. Okay, very good.
We're gonna be one of the teams and Lorena pick
between two and six. Pick a number between two and six.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
Darn, let's go with two.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Really you sure about that? Six? Okay? Six? Okay?

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Six?

Speaker 1 (37:13):
It is he talked to you out of two? Well
you picked Chris in Boston. Hello, Chris, welcome.

Speaker 7 (37:19):
Good morning, Ben, How are you?

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Good morning, sir, Welcome to the show. Who would you
like to partner up with?

Speaker 6 (37:23):
There?

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Chris Cooper said, don't seem very confident. I wouldn't be
confident either. A the better choice, though, for sure. I
don't know about that. I don't know about that not lately.
Let's play the game. We have a listen of words
one to ten and Manuel, you were on the air first,
so please pick a number number number the oh choke.

(37:44):
All right, here we go. Let's see you. Let's go
with and I could do the malar maneuver on this right,
I could right, let's see if you can all right, uh, potted.

Speaker 8 (38:03):
Soil?

Speaker 2 (38:04):
What?

Speaker 1 (38:05):
No? Go ahead? Cook?

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Are you on the right word?

Speaker 7 (38:08):
Are we looking at the same word?

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Well, I just grabbed this out of the printer. He said, eight, oh,
I thought, he says, okay, all right, all right, all right,
I screwed that up. Go ahead there there you're screwed.
Then you're screwed.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Then your Chris, let's go with courageous.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Great, Yeah, there we go.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
It was easy. Come on, please, all right, I gave
you that one. I spotted you lead. But go ahead there,
picking number Chris.

Speaker 7 (38:32):
Let's go in honor of marcell number two.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Wow, it's a shot. Yeah, good luck coop.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Number two.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
That's what he said.

Speaker 5 (38:42):
Okay, let's go with uh foliage.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
No, all right, uh man, well let's go with uh container.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
What do you call?

Speaker 3 (39:01):
Are you the right number again?

Speaker 1 (39:03):
I don't know?

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Maybe?

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Uh all right, Chris, I'm gonna do the Valley of Duba.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
I don't do the malle maneuver. Don't do that. Hurry up, potted.

Speaker 9 (39:14):
Oil, no up flower Manuel, Oh.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Quickly, no, no, no, we're we're at a time. The
word was the word. It was blank.

Speaker 7 (39:37):
Yeah, that was my that was my partner.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
I didn't win anything. It's a for ghazy list. It's
for gaze. This list, my god,