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Ben Maller discusses Roger Goodell's "State of the NFL" address including his comments on the missed call & Colin Kaepernick, rumors about Klay Thompson and the Lakers, Sean Payton's wardrobe choice, and more!

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rate quote. The state of the NFL address Well, yes, now,
I remember the good old days when Paul Taglio BOBU

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was the Commissioner of the NFL and people would literally
fall asleep listening to him drone on and on and on,
and he has been around a while. Goodell has been
the commission for many, many years. And as Roger Goodell speaks,
it is a tradition. The Piranhas are out to get Goodell. Now,
he is not a sympathetic figure, and I certainly don't

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have any empathy for Roger Goodell. But the same thing's
gone on the last couple of years with Goodell. He
attempts to go on and talk about how wonderful everything is,
and there's pyrotechnics going off and people losing their mind
in the media, and it happened yet again. If you

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watch this, you might have seen him. Maybe you actually
were sleeping, if you work overnights, or if you're a
podcast listener, you might actually have a day job. You
didn't get to see it. But during the news conference,
Roger Goodell was asked repeatedly questions about mostly Colin Kaepernick
in the NFC Championship game. Those two things. Goodell acknowledging

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that there was a call that should have been made.
It wasn't made, he said in the NFC Championship Game,
and he understands the frustration of the Saints fan. I
love these journalists that get on their bully pulpit and
rant and rave. All NFL fans need an explanation. I'm
an NFL fan, I'm good. I'm gonna enjoy watching the

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Rams and the super Bowl. I don't need an explanation.
You can put your explanation you know where, all right,
before we get into this though, before we get into this,
let's go to the audio tape. As they say, and Goodell,
who had clearly been taking notes, he has a group
of people around him that are in charge of his

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That is why during the early rounds of the playoffs
they had video of Goodell showing up to strangers houses
to give them super Bowl ticket Because every day we
know someone that makes forty five million dollars a year
shows up to strangers houses to hand them super Bowl
tickets without it being a rigged deal. But here's the
commissioner on the notorious final play, which wasn't the final play,

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that's the ironic part, but the play of note, the
play off record, if you will, in that NFC Championship game.
We understand the frustration of the fans. I've talked to
Coach Peyton, the team, the players, and whenever officiating is
part of any kind of discussion post game, it's never

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a good outcome for us. But we also know our
officials are human. We also know that they're officiating a
game that moves very quickly and have to make snap decisions,
and they're not going to get it right every time.
We have worked very hard to bring technology and to
try to make sure we could do whatever it's possible
to address those issues. But technology is not going to

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solve all those issues. The game is not officiated by robots.
It's it's not going to be. But we have to
continue to go down that path. Trust to go down
that path. All right, I here's more from your dell,
and he pointed out that while many in the media

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are of the belief that you must have every one
of these calls go to replay all the judgment calls,
that is not a universally agreed upon position. The other
complication is that it was a no call. Our coaches
and clubs have been very resistant and there has not
been support to date about having a replay official or

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somebody in New York throw a flag when there's no flag.
They have not voted for that in the past. It's
something that we're going to put to the competition committee.
But the reality is that's been at least an opposite
philosophically for many clubs. All right, so there's a goodell
on that, But wait, there's more. We're not done. No, no, no,
the the issue here, the question and the answer here,

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and it again. It's more of the same about replay,
and this is actually about replaying the entire game, which
some lunatics, these losers in New Orleans, will always replay
the game. I hope you choke on Gumbo listen to this.
Roger did did did you believe that the NFL rule
book gave you the authority to overturn the result of

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the Ram Saints games if you had chosen to do so.
Did you give it? Roger Mark? Absolutely not. I mean
I think it's clear, and I actually wrote down the
rule The Commissioner will not apply his authority in cases
of complaints by clubs concerning judgmental errors or routine errors

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by that lasts involving such complaints will continue to stand
as completed. So that was not a consideration. Yeah, these
intellectual morons, that Arcto Fish, whoever that bloody moron is,
don't read the damn rulebook, you moron. I sent it
last week, Mike flori On. These moron read, they read
part of the rulebook, they selectively leave out the other part,

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which I read saddle back College. I read it saddle
back bloody College. I read it all right now. And
there's also a tradition when it comes to Colin Kaepernick,
who sucked at the end of his career with the
forty nine ers and decided to go into protesting, which

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clearly has worked out well for him. He got the
Nike deal. But here is Goodell again every year asked
about the last several about Colin Kaepernick. As you noted
at the beginning of your comments, we're here in Atlanta,
one of the hallmark cities of the civil rights movement,
where so many Americans at various points of time stood
up for what they believed in. There's a segment of

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this society now that believes Colin Kaepernick took some similar actions.
And we're now two years I guess we're moving NFL.
Are you comfortable collectively with how the league has responded
to that, and do you have any concerns how history
might look upon that. I've said it many times privately
publicly that our clubs are the ones to make decisions

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on players that they want to have on their roster.
They make that individually, they make that in the best
interests of their team, and that's something that we as
in NFL take pride in individual clubs make decisions that
maybe another club won't do, and they all want to
win and they're all going to do whatever they can
to win. So from our standpoint, that's our focus and

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that's will continue to be our focus. Yeah, and dumb
people can't figure that out. Oh those collusion, collusion, Oh
my god, collusion, everywhey, look, collusion, DC collusion, NFL My
players not signed collusion. Shove collusion up your tuckis with
this collusion. Sick of hearing about collusion? All right? Now,

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The question is did Roger Gadelle botch the State of
the League address? Because Summer outraged that that was one
of the great loaded questions of our time. Roger he
basically said, this is Colin Kaepernick's like Martin Luther. Kick
you gotta you gotta let him in. That's essentially what
he said. All right, Anyway, did did Didell boch? No?

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He didn't botch it. My thoughts here, You've got George Carlin,
the Tasmanian Devil, and the Pollyanna. All right. Now, First
of all, Roger Gadell was in a no win situation again,
not a sympathetic figure, all right, not a sympathetic figure.
Let's start with the whole Saints thing. The Saints fans
are irrational lunatics. They believe losing a game that they

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had multiple chances to win after this great injustice is
a sign of the apocalypse. Grow up. You never ever,
as the line goes, you never try to reason with
a crazy person. The reason is you can't. I mean

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the old George Carlin famous advice never argue with an idiot,
right because they will bring you down to their level
and beat you with experience. So as for the officials
being human, For Roger Goodell, this is another reason the
league cannot go to robotics. That is the trump card.

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You've always got that in your back pocket. Although if
they did use more of the advanced technology, Goodell would
then say that, well, these are humanoids. It takes time
to work out all the glitches with the new technology
and all that. Even when Apple comes out with a
new iPhone, which happens every so often, there's glitches. They

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have to do upset updates on the phone and all that.
But the artificial intelligence work in progress now. So in
an effort to pacify the angry. We played the sound
bite there. Goodell, throughout an olive branch, talked about examining
again judgment calls for replay. Nothing is going to come

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of this. Nothing is going to come of this. It
is a rabbit hole, right, you're gonna you're asking people
want more red tape, they want more bureaucracy, and everything's fixed,
everything's a rig deal and all that. It's like, it's
kind of like the way the court system works in America, right,

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You if you don't get the judgment you want, you
just keep going through the snake hole, right, the court system,
and eventually you'll find If you're looking for a liberal judge,
you'll find that. Or if you want a conservative judge,
you might have to go a little bit further, but
you'll find what you want. It's a slippery slope now. Now, meanwhile,
did Roger Goodell point out that these Saints were the

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beneficiary of four blown calls against the Rams, No, because
that's not the positive story, right, that's not the narrative
the media is trying to spread. Did Roger Goodell highlight
that the officials had a gaff on New Orleans that
infamous pass interference plated He pointed out that yes, the
call should have been made pass interference, but also the
video showed two penalties that were committed by the Saints
prior to the ball getting out of Drew Brees hands

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hands to the face by andrews Pete number seventy five
and also holding by number sixty seven the right guard
Larry Warford holding holding right and also the pass was
tipped by Michael Brockers. Watch the video. Watch the video.
He didn't mention that, right, Nah, he didn't do that

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because it would be lighter fluid for the crazies. And
the commissioner also pointed out that as we heard the audio,
that extraordinary circumstances rule about replaying games, which we had
last week. But lies dopes made for a good story,
so why why not just go with now. Second, let's
address the Komoto dragon of the room, the Kaepernick derangement syndrome.

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There are groups of extreme knuckleheads in the media who
have an agenda, the Johnny one note crowd, we'd like
to call them, and it's to get Colin Kaepernick back
in the league. That is their goal, a right, they
are there, their enemy combatants. That is their goal to
get Colin Kaepernick back in the NFL, these social justice
warrior foot soldiers and whatever. Roger Goodell says on that

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as well about Kaepernick, he gets raked over the Colts.
These these people have tantrums. It is not a level
playing fields. It's it's kind of like getting the old
school political establishment to say anything good, like Nancy Pelosi
to say something good about President Trump, right that they

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can't do it. They can. I mean, it's it's not
and these reporters are compromised now for this branch of
the football reporting world, Roger Goodell is the Tasmanian devil
on a tricycle. Right. The last eight times Goodell has
had a news conference, he has been asked about a
guy who hasn't played a regular season or a preseason

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game in seven hundred and sixty days now. Colin Kaepernick
is a shoe salesman. What other shoe salesman should work
in the NFL. He works for Nike. He's an ambassador
for Nike. That's what Kaepernick does. And clearly he's not
winning this collusion case, which I'm sure the Mueller Special

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counsels on that as well. As much as it's dragged
on and it just shows you people can't handle the truth.
And Goodell referenced the with that loaded question. He referenced
the fact that each team makes their own opinion. He
also said that later on in that news conference, Kaepernick,
you want to win and all that, and he hadn't won,

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and it's hard to argue with that. I don't know
how you's back on that. I mean, the last twenty
four starts, Kaepernick walked off the field the loser twenty
of the twenty four stars. He was four and twenty
his last twenty four starts. He never grasped how to
read a defense. He turned out to be a one
hit wonder. He got off to a good start and
then his career fizzle. But anyway, the last thing, the

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whole point of the State of the NFL address is
to be a cheerleader, a male cheerleader, just like the
Rams have. It's like when corporations give their quarterly report.
If you play the stock market game wall Street, what
they want to hear is rainbows and lollipops. What Wall
Street wants is sunshine. They want that, they want a
pot of gold. And this is the football world's way

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to report the health of the industry. Goadel gets up there,
and he's gotta be a mister happy, right, Pollyanna, one
on one watered down, focus on the positives, avoid the negatives,
put your blinders up. I'm gonna sit there and talk
about the crappy stuff going on in the NFL, like
shout out John and the writers. He's not gonna do that. No,

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he's gonna go through the list of all the great things.
He'll avoid the fact that international barnstorming tours of the
NFL aren't really that successful and it hasn't worked. They
keep trying to play more and more games in different
countries around the world than it just hasn't resonated with
the locals and it bothers. You have a lot of
bothers of the NFL, but they won't like to talk

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about that because it's it's supposed to be positive, all right.
So the Ben Maler Show on Fox and this also
we'll bring in Edmund Dallas, Steamboat, Willie Judas, Solid gold Garcia.
The NFL made the right call when they canceled Maroon
five's news conference at the Super Bowl, which usually happened.

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It was Tuesday, was supposed to be whoever performs the
halftime show the Tuesday before the super Bowl gets up
on a dais and answers question Maroon five, But who
the hell cares about the super Bowl halftime show anyway?
So stupid? Who's watching the game because of the halftime show?
I don't know. As you know, if you've listened to me,
I've granted on this before. I never watched the Super

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Bowl half not either. As a matter of fact, I've
been to two super Bowls and I did not go.
I didn't. I didn't why as I was there how
many times? As he said that three day, as I
was there in person for the game, I did not
watch Tom Petty or Bruce Springstein, two of the most
highly regarded American music Where were you, Eddie? Where where

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I was? Like, Yeah, I went to the snack bar,
the super Bowl, the super Bowl, super Bowls in a row.
He's mainstream, not he is was at the helmet catch mainstream.
That was an illegal playbasse the Steelers in the that
was glorious. That was one fantastic, just great. The Cardinal

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fans all two of them really enjoyed that. They liked that,
but so so what why did they cancel the press,
they cancel something about the same social justice foot soldiers
were going to parade because this believe if no one can,
no musical act can perform at the super Bowl, because
apparently they all have to be in lockstep with Colin Kaepernick,
and if they're not, they're I guess racist. I guess

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that's what they're trying to They're shaming these musical act
Maroon five's getting him ashamed because they're performing. And so
he just said, all right, fine, we're not going to
have a news conference for these guys. We'll just have
them focus on the super Bowl halftime show or whatever.
And they didn't put Maroon five up there, and that
upset the reporters because they wanted to make things uncomfortable

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for Maroon five. They wanted to, you know, make them
seem shame shameful, like they're they're evil people for performing.
Don't be halftime show. What does Maroon five and have
to do with Colin ca Nothing, that's the point. Nothing.
I didn't just Kaepernick have a musical background. I don't
know about. I still confused. Yeah, okay, yeah, no, there's

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all these all these musical acts who were supposed to
do the Super Bowl, And that's why Maroon Five's doing it,
because all these other big stars said no because there's
social justice warriors and the negatives. Yeah, that's the believe anyway.
But this is confirmation that the NFL did the right
thing based on Goodell's news conference when he kept getting
asked loaded questions about a guy that hasn't played again,

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not that I'm keeping track of this, seven hundred and
sixty days since he last played an NFL game, And
every few months Kaebernick's attorney goes on TMZ and says, oh,
we got something, we got something. It's gonna come down
the next week, and nothing ever comes it. Many many
French drives. Yeah, anyway, all right, it's the Ben Maller
Show on Fox. Will take your calls. People loved Weather

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fun so and it's still ridiculously cool. My brother sent
me a video in Appleton Wisconsin. I'll tell you the
video because you really care about that, don't you You
care about personal videos that my brother sent me. But
I'll get to that. Also, an NFL player who's going
to play in the super Bowl is being called out.
This is something to do with the me too movement,

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and we'll give you that. We'll get to it. One
player in particular being signaled out. He will be playing
in the Super Bowl on Sunday, and he is currently
being attacked by the me two crowd. We'll get to that,
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super Bowl with the me Too movement. We'll get to
that in a moment. Dupre writes and says, Roger Goodell
is a pussy willow in a suit. Interesting, it looks
like a flower to me. But okay, Rudy says, take
a baseball bat to the wind bag Ben Maller and

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shut him up. That's that's kind of harsh, Rudy threatening
violence and day. For the record, I've never threatened violence
to Rudy at all. I've never who hasn't happened? Mister
nice guy, says Roger Goodell looks at the television ratings
and has zero fs to give about a small minority

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of upset fans. He says, get over to stop watching.
He does not care, does not care? Hey, all right,
can't read that on the air, several people pointing out
I referenced the fact that Colin Kaepernick is a shoe
salesman at this point, and I said, why is this
demand for a shoe salesman in the NFL? And Will

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and Justin and every other guy that loved mirror with children,
they all had the same, the same answer. They said, well,
what about what about Al Bundy? Travis is like, come on,
Al Bundy, man, Al bloody Bundy, get him in the
damn NFL Polk High School Star. I don't disagree al
Bundy put him out there? Would you really if you

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put Al Bundy in a NFL uniform like in a
cardinal game? No one goes to cardinal games anyway, Who
the hell will know or touchdowns? One game? That's right,
Man's a legend, all right, Mister Wonderble says my god Ben,
please tell Eddie we all know he's been to two
Super Bowls every damn day. Well, humble brag Garcia, that's

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how he offers. I'm only pointing out the facts. Humble
bragg Garcia, King of the Plant, says, you're turning into Russia. Limbaugh,
du oh God, I may have I pray to Jesus
that I'm Russia Limba. I would like to have. I
will tie my arm behind my back and do blindfolded
if I could have some of that Russia Limball money.

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When Russia Limb, they get Rush Limba does the show
from La every once in a while and does it
right down the hall from when we do the show.
When Rush comes in, you know that in coming to America. Uh,
there's a group of people that throw rose petals that
that throw when he walks down the hall, they throw
rose petals and everything is wiped down and acid washed

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and cleaned everybody's ear. Yeah. They bring in special coffee,
special food. They spare no expense, gold plated. There's a
guy waiting for him when his when his driver pulls up,
there's a there's a guy waiting for him. They roll
the red carpet from the short walk in the courtyard
into the studio. There's arms security there when Rush comes in.

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When I come in, the trash is piled up. There's
feces on the floor in the bathroom, all over the place.
The copy machine does not work. Does not work, the
copy machine the microphone and listen to this actually doesn't
sound as bad. I think they might have put some
oil in it. Finally, did they fix this? That actually

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sounds pretty good. Yeah, not too bad. Oh, he took
up seven months, but that's you know, line one still broken.
If Rush Limball's line one broke, it would be seventy
five iHeart media Premiere network engineers. That would be all
over that. Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, I hope if you

(24:26):
want to compare me to Rush Limball, that's great. You
compare me to Stern. I'll take that. Any any radio legend,
I am all good. I love the legends of radio.
I am down with that. Hey, which the the ben Mallow,
Shawn Fox. We'll get to this story. I probably pushed
it back because boy, the time flies when you're having fun.
It really does. All right, right now, though, let's get
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Pelicans in New Orleans one h five ninety nine. New Orleans.
Still without injured end Discroneled Starry Anthony Davis for Denver,
they improved thirty five and fifteen. They're one game back
in Golden State for the best record in the Western Conference. Celtics,
playing without injured star Kyrie Irving still beat the Hornets
one twenty six ninety four, Treul Blazer's top the Jazz
one thirty two, one oh five, Damian Lillard thirty six

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points for Portland, and in overtime the Timberwolves and edge
the Grizzlies ninety nine ninety seven on a Carl Anthony
Towns buzzer beater. News from the NBA. Lakers star Lebron James,
who's missed eighteen games with the growing injury, was a
full participant in practice Wednesday, but will not play on
the team's next game, but was speculating he might return
to the court Thursday night against the Clippers. Top twenty
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An Carl Anthon Town. Let's talk days Anthony Davis. Yes,
the Uni brow. So we all know that he's demanded
to be traded. Would he do that? He's making twenty
five million dollars a year? How bad could life be?
So apparently the Pelicans decided that, you know, all these teams,
no matter the sport, they have these highlight video kind
of things when the team gets ready to come out

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on the court or on the gas or whatever. It's
a hype, hype, hype, right exactly. So the Pelicans decided
to remove all the highlights and images of Anthony Davis
from their Little Good, their pregame video Good. And they
say it was to protect Anthony Davis. Because they didn't
want the fans to boo his image because he's somebody scoreboards.

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Do you think they were trying to protect him or
was it a screw you Anthony Dad? It was absolutely
a screw you. You don't want to play for us.
We're not going to celebrate your brand and highlight you.
Screw you, go choke on a kincake. That's what they
told him, and that's fine. I have no problem with that.
He doesn't want to be there. They're like, well, we
still have a team that we have to put out
in the court. You want people want to work for

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your company, right if in any business. I know it's
a branch of the cartel of the NBA, but clearly
he's not interested in what they're offering, and he has
turned his back on the team very publicly, done that,
violating NBA by laws which are a joke anyway, and
so good they should do that. What's the place he's

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selling everyone? I would like to play for a different
team that you play against. That's who I would like
to work for, even though I agreed to work for
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all you have to do. So Which NFL player in
the Super Bowl at He's is being called out drawing
criticism for comments that he has made this week leading
up to the Super Bowl. I honestly have no idea
I could. I could guess. I think this one if
you think about it, who would say something that might
get the attention of some whackadoodle in the me too movement?
I think you can figure this out. Well. I mean,

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I'm gonna guess it's Tom Brady just because he's so
high profile. No, not Tom Brady. Two more guesses. I
have two more guesses. Two more guess. You don't get
it right, I'm gonna slap you. Um. I don't think
you're gonna do that. I will. You have to do.
You have to get up out of the studio, going
to another studio, to another studio. That's a good point.
I don't I stay in my I stay in my lane.
In Dominican sue, that's a good one. In Dominican sue.

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A monster, A renegade, a bad boy and ogre some
say not in domicanzu oh for two one more left, daddy,
one guess lefts it's an O two count. You better
swing it in close to the plate. You gotta swing
two count, all right. I'm gonna take the low hanging
fruit and go Gronk ding ning nick nick dang, Yeah,

(28:56):
here you go, Eddie. I don't have to slap you.
A good job, big headline on the Daily Mail, one
of the great tabloids in America. If you don't read
the Daily Mail, bad job by you. Very accurate, especially
what they're reporting on what Coop looks like these days.
Well now that was all the tabloids in London. They're
all owned by the same thing, Robert, and they just
the story pops up everywhere, but the Daily Mail reporting.

(29:17):
Patriots star Rob Gronkowski has drawn criticism for giving a
sexually suggestive answer to a retirement question and singling out Eddie,
a female reporter, to say she knows the number that's right,
and apparently that woman could not handle. According to someone
on social media, Gronk being called out. It happened super

(29:40):
Bowl media night questions about Gronk retiring. He was asked
specifically the odds on him retiring after the Super Bowl
on Sunday against the Rams, and he made reference, Eddie,
I'm gonna say it because I'm a bad boy, the
number sixty nine. He said, the number sixty nine. I
think all the NFL teams should retire the number sixty

(30:02):
nine so no one wears it because it could offend
someone in the meat to move and I don't want
anyone to be triggered, Eddie. But Gronkowski, according to the
story here, uh you know, they go on, they talk
about his past since high school, he's loved the number
sixty nine. He loves to joke about that. I could
see that. Yeah, and he's we've played these sound bites before.

(30:22):
But he pointed, pointed to a female report. Ready, oh,
that's a very aggressive move. And I mean, come on now,
I dare you the damsel in distress? And he said,
this is just in a British paper. Is not in
any of our our newspapers. No, no, well, it's just
the start. We'll see if he gets picked up or now. Yeah,

(30:43):
let we have the audio, Eddie. This is on the
other this is the audio. This is very offensive. Cover
your years. I am a shock chalk. I am the
captain of the Safe Harbor Eddie. We are about to
play some very saucy audio. I hope you are prepared.
Please please, if you're sensitive or your heart condition, just
turning out of the audio. This is gonna shock you.

(31:05):
This is going to blow your bloody mind. Rob, I
got some old head. How's it going, man, How I'm
doing great? Thank you for asking. I actually got some
questions from a first grade class. I'd like to ask
you one. Oh, that's the move I told you about it. No,
but I know people that do. I know a lot
of kids. So this is from Alison and this is
in missus tom Hi Allison and Missus Thompson's first grade class.

(31:28):
She says, Rob, you're my favorite football player in the world.
Why do you think the number sixty nine is so
funny all the time? It just says, yeah, you just
gotta play it off right. You gotta play it off right,
and if you don't, it's not funny. You know what.

(31:49):
I want to agree? More class? Does you have this one?
More class? She's a first grader? All right, out there,
I'm a little bath problem. What's time six plus nine?
All right? Cronk felt for that, didn't. We talked about
this before our media a night primer. We said, this

(32:11):
is the this is the move that you have to
answer question that guy. I don't know who that person was,
but that's how you do it. That guy the way
he asked that question when you say Allison first grade,
Alison missus Thompson's class, Oh that is outstanding. What an idiot?
All right it is. Let's let's play a game. Here.
Is Gronk really in trouble. I'm gonna go no, Like,

(32:32):
if this is just the Daily Mail story. I mean,
apparently they got some guy on social media saying something
and and talking about how upsetting this was and say,
you know, a troll on Twitter, and they ran with that,
and they're like going on and on. I don't think
this is anything. I don't believe anything will come of this.
So I'm gonna say that this is nothing, but it
became a something because it got reported on the on

(32:53):
the tabloid. So I'm gonna say nothing comes with this,
but keep an eye, keep an eye on the next
The next day or so, let's go to Chris in Houston.
He's cashing a golden ticket, a very valuable Golden ticket?
How did he get a golden ticket? Well, he's a winner. Yeah, yeah,
because he was so good at goofing on Laker fan

(33:15):
boys or historians that we had to put it give
him golden ticket. It was wonderful. Now I got a
question for you. Now, you got quarterback A that has
au QBR one h three and you got quarterback BAT
that has a QBR ninety four point one. Which one
you're taking Tom Brady? Really? I know where you were,
I know the stats, but uh yeah, if you had

(33:36):
to pick gunder your head, you're gonna take Brady. You're
gonna take you got you got one h three and
you got ninety four? Which one your ticket? Yeah? That's
that's what has happened. It doesn't guarantee it's gonna happen again.
I hope, I hope Jared Goff plays wonderful and super
Bowl ticket? What what I have my doubts. I'm gonna
pick Tom Tom Brady. Picking Tom Brady h just ain't

(33:59):
comparison a jeared golf and Tom Brady anyway. Yeah, all right,
Well I'm taking Tom Brady, who was very average this
year statistically, and I would take him. No. The quarterback
would have writ in a one h three is the
Shaun Watson. While you want to sit here and say
he's not that very good of a quarterback. The quarterback
has ninety four is year golf. That was a great call.

(34:21):
Don't called Danny, Gia, Why don't call Danny? Call that
turn coat? That not that Apparently hosting Clay Travis show,
Clay can't show up to his own show. The first hour,
he started the show mentioning your name and replaying Watson interviewed,

(34:41):
call him out. He's a liar, he said, I was
texting him. I have not texted him since he turned
his back on our show. I have not since he
quit our show. He's a quitter. He's like he's like
Anthony Davis. He's a quitter. He left our show, left
me hanging. Unfortunately, I found the great Roberto, but I
didn't know. I'm not text that guy. I had nothing
to say. That guy, he's a weasel. He's hanging out
with you, He's Jane Fonda, He's hanging out with the enemy. Hannoy, Danny,

(35:05):
I call him, That's what I call him. There, How
dare him? Kind of scumbag? Is that? And then he
plays it and says, I was texting him. How about
you get you how about this, Dan, get your host
to be there when the show starts, Danny, how about that?
Get your host to be there when the show starts.
Can you do that? Can you produce your host to
show up when the show's supposed to start? My god,

(35:27):
So does this mean the Judas nickname for me can
go now to Danny? No, No, he's baby Judas. You're
still doing. What you did is you took a private
screen conversation, a screenshot, and you you repeated that that's
a violation from the bubble of trust. You've done that.
I didn't. I wasn't aware of that. Of course, you're
aware of that. You are. No, it was not all right.
So my brother, who was allowed me to say this
on the air. He's giving me permission. He did the

(35:49):
classic guy that grew up in warm weather who went
the cold weather thing. He lives in Appleton, Wisconsin, where
it's like minus twenty something today with a wind chill
like minus whatever gazillion, and he went out, he took
a cup of warm boiling water. He then went out
in his backyard covered in snow and Appleton Wisconsin and
poured the cup of warm water in the air and

(36:09):
immediately turned to ice, just like that. That was his move.
I don't blame him. I think i'd have to do
that too if I was there. Right, you gotta go
with the positives. But I noticed he did not something
you can't do here. His garage door was open, and
I'm like, that's a rookie mistake. You gotta close. Don't
you have to close your garage door in the cold weather.
Wouldn't you want to do that? That's a bad job.

(36:32):
Maybe on open. Maybe that's the concern on open. If
you close the garage door because of the coal that
might not open? Is that an I was born in
Hawaii and raising California. I saw some video in Chicago.
They were burning lighting fires on the train track. Yes,
how would you like to be the first one on
that train after they've ripped the tracks on fire? Good times?

(36:56):
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that on the air, Ernie. The great oponus has been

(38:01):
maybe they should take down your picture at Super Bowl
Radio Row so you don't get booed or have your
healings a feeling. Sir, well, that would be I would
be devastated. I mean, you don't want to be booed.
Be the worst thing ever. Eugene in Chicago. I hope
you're enjoying that nice warm weather in Chicago, Eugene, he says,
Big Ben, Big Game Thursday, Lakers, clipberriers big question. Will

(38:24):
Lebron James play No, Lebron is scared of the good
ship Clip. He is hiding, hide it out. I want
to lose the Clippers, so we'd rather sit there on
the sidelines. At what point are people are gonna say
Lebron James is not making any real effort to come
back to the Lakers. Eighteen consecutive games, now, Lebron James

(38:45):
will have or eighteen total games this season. I believe
it's eighteen in a row. I might be wrong on that,
but but it's eighteen total games Lebron James has missed. Now,
if you know that they play eighty two games over
the course of a season, and you've missed eighty eighteen
of them, and there's a bunch of games left, so
you figure Lebron's gonna do do more of that. But
let's just let's focus in. I love fun with numbers.

(39:07):
I use this thing called mallor math, which is a
lot of fun. I was very bad at math, but
then I learned mallor math, and I was in great shape.
Once I learned mallor math, I was great. So the
Lakers are out of the playoffs, right now, they're tied
with Sacramento. You never want to be tied with the
Sacramento Kings in anything, but they're tied with the Sacramento
Kings in the NBA standings at twenty six and twenty five.

(39:29):
So they have played fifty one games. So Lebron James,
we game number fifty two against the Clippers. He has
missed eighteen. That is thirty five percent, thirty four point
six percent of the Lakers games this season. Lebron has
not played in Have I told you he's past his prime?
I I told you that. If I let you know
that he's past All right, let's get to it. Here

(39:51):
we go, let's do it right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's time for the NBA Pecky. We didn't do it
yesterday because we had not a guest. We had Fred Dryer,
the Great Tea. He's Fred Dryer, friend of the show.
He loved being in here. He text me today, loved it.
Who's going first, Coupa Loo, we have to hurry up here.
That would be Eddie Garsh, mister NBA about that, Yeah,

(40:11):
lion squirrel, let's go with Steph Curry. Wow, thank you
for that, Eddie. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Joe
L m B, Joel MB Coopa Loop. I'll go with Jonathantenna.
Compo board has held except for Eddie pick and Curry.
One that was not a first pick, Roberto Kevin Durant.
Kevin Durant him is a low third round pick. Another

(40:34):
pick for Roberto back to back what oh wow, nice
sleeper supper. Yeah. I will go with Andre Drummond, Andre Drummond,
that's a value pick. I Am going to take La
Marquis Aldridge, La Marcus Aldr Eddie, the back to back Eddie.

(40:56):
Let's go with Kawhi Leonard all right and Lay Griffin
you can have him. I will take Luca don Chick,
my guy, the rookie Euro for the Mavericks. He's a teenager, daddie,
he's a baby. He's a baby, all right. While you
like him? Wow? We do you think? I'm r? Kelly
Coopa Loope? Go ahead, Coopa Lope is not as impressive

(41:16):
as he once was. But I will go with Ben Simmons,
the kid that can't shoot straight. Last pick Weather with
Roberto Nikola Vucevic. A lot of big names for you.
You picked a lot of big names, big time yeah,
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So here we are. See, we did did the math.
And this was a Sunday, a week a week ago
from Sunday, so we had a full week and we

(42:24):
got through Monday, Happy Day eight, Tuesday Day nine, Wednesday
Day ten. Nowur in today eleven, and we are still
yapping about those lunatics in Louisiana. Sean Peyton emerged from
a cave. I believe he lives in a cave. Sean
Payton right there came out the whimsical Saints coach spoke

(42:47):
for the first time. He looked disheveled since New Orleans
vanished from the postseason hocus pocus presto cla. So, how
did Sean Payton, head coach in New Orleans handle his
team choke in the NFC title again, Call it what

(43:08):
it is, Call it what it is. They choked. Yeah,
they got a bad break, but they still had several
chances to win the game. They had the lead at home,
home field advantage, most intimidating home field in the NFL.
I was told they never lose with Drew Brees in
the Dome. Couldn't hold the lead. Defense better defense, couldn't

(43:31):
stop the Rams. I'm getting a field goal? Won the
coin toss. Did Drew Brees Hall of Fame quarterback fading
MVP candidate? He was at one point He's not gonna
win the MVP on Saturday. It's gonna go to Patrick Mahomes.
Did Drew Brees lead the Saints down for at least
a field goal and put pressure on the Rams offense? No, no, no, no,

(43:52):
no no. He threw an interception, a choker, but the
Saints still he can't get past this imaginary Oh we
were this great injustice. Has several chances to win the game.
It's your fault for depending on the officials too, to
make the correct call. Don't depend on part time help
to make the right call. The Rams didn't. They did not.

(44:14):
They benefit They won the game because they made the plays.
Aren't anyway. So what Peyton did was he continued his
temper tantrum. And we have some of the audio. Let's
go to the audio tape. Here is a Sean Payton
pointing out that this pain will resonate in his belly forever. Obviously,

(44:35):
their disappointments that you go through relative to your season,
and this one you know where it happened, you know,
in the postseason. And we've got to be able to
get past that, and we will. We've got good leadership
on this team. I don't know that you'd ever completely
get over it, but I think you do get past it.
There's enough resolve. I think that this time away is healthy.
And then when it starts back up again in the spring,

(44:56):
and we'll look at that calendar, you get back at
it again. Now this is going to haunt the same.
They might not even make the playoffs next year. Drew
Brees is forty years old and Tom Brady is the
only one at EAT over that age that does well.
And we saw Drew Brees fall apart at the end
of the year. I would be surprised if Breeze even
makes it through the season healthy next year. So this
is I mean, that was the end of the Saints.

(45:16):
That sound you heard when the Rams one was actually
the door closing on the Saints. That was actually the
door closing on the Saints. Here's more from Sean Payton,
and it's all about answers. He want, I want answers.
There's been these events that at times potentially changed rules.
I like the fact that I'm a part of that committee,
and certainly there'll be topics like this that are brought up.

(45:38):
The topics one thing, the solutions, the more challenging thing
that we're all looking for. Yeah, sure you have all
the answers, just like every other year in the past
where this kind of thing happened and nothing changed. Here's
more from Sean Payton, the really embarrassing coach in New Orleans,
and it's all again about Roger. You're Goodell. A conversation

(46:02):
that took place. I want information. My discussions on Monday
and Tuesday with the commissioner and with Troy were relative
to just not any type of reversal or anything like that.
It was. It was just simply the play that in
any statement or Look, there's tons of people that reach
out to you. You get a ton of text messages
and emails, and you're appreciative of all that, and then

(46:25):
you just like you just want to disappear into your
cave for a while. Well he did. He went into
a cave. You thought I was kidding when I said
he lived in a cave. You thought I was joking.
You thought I made that up. I didn't make that
he said he lived in a cave. There's anyone in
the NFL that's more humiliating it's lost more of their

(46:46):
luster than the New Orleans NFL fan. What a disgrace,
what a joke. These people are in him, just an embarrassing,
humiliating bunch of dopes. But listen to Sean Paytonier who claims,
since he lives in a cave, apparently they don't have

(47:06):
television or radio in the cave. I haven't really seen
a lot of it. Look, we've got a fantastic obviously
a great fan base that's passionate, and as difficult as
that is to happen at home, can only imagine I
think they too, like you know, like our players and
like everyone else. Eventually you never forget it, you know,
you move on from it though. Yeah, so there's something
else that Sean Payton said. He was asked how he

(47:28):
handled the loss to the NFC Championship Game, and he said,
like probably normal people, he said, I didn't come out
of my room. I ate ice cream and watched Netflix
for three days. So again he doesn't have radio or television,
but I guess they get some internet in there, some
WiFi and he watches watches Netflix. But that while it
was a funny line, it was a fashion statement that

(47:52):
he made the Saints coach. That was the talk of
the day. It stole the show. It upstaged everything else.
By the way, you know the term upstage when back
in the olden days of theater, the stages were not flat.
They were at an angle, and the people that were

(48:12):
in the back of the stage, they upstaged the actors
that were the front of the stage because they got
people in the crowd had a better view. That's why
upstage is. It's a random, stupid thing that I have
in my head. I'm sorry, but anyway, get to the
point so it's a fashion statement that Sean Payton made
that everyone's buzzing about. I just saw this and not
or heard about it, and it was mostly covered up.

(48:33):
It was mostly covered up by Sean Payton because he
had kind of a jacket over this or a sweater
over it. But Sean Payton, underneath the sweater, it looked
like he had a barstool sports Roger Goodell clown nose
shirt on it. Underneath you can see the very top
of it. And people noticed it and they're like, wait

(48:55):
a minute, I think that is the Goodell clown nose shirt.
I believe that the coach of the Saints is doing
this as he speaks out regarding his incompetence as a
coach in the NFC Champion achieve me. So I want
I want to talk about this now. The question is
did Saints coach Sean Payton troll the NFL with his shirt?

(49:17):
And after a thorough Mallard Militia investigation, had several p
ones email me this story. You gotta talk about this.
Mallard all right, calm down, I'm talking about I investigate him.
I am one hundred percent certain, not ninety nine point

(49:38):
nine hundred percent one zero zero. John Payton wore the
clown nose with Goodell. He did, he did. No IF's
ends or butts about it, No weasel words, no wiggle room,

(50:01):
none my thoughts. We've got Lebron's playbook, guzzling and mirror mirror.
Let's link this together. Now we begin with the fact
Sean Payton, you know what he's acting like with this. Hey,
I sat in the cave three days and ate ice
cream and watched Netflix. He is acting like a broken

(50:22):
hearted woman, the cliche in Hollywood, right, sitting on your
couch eating bond bonds all day and crying. That's what
he's claiming he's doing. Now, some of this was just
having fun, But how about you act like a grown up.
How about you act like a grunt up. And as
for the shirt, and I thought it was funny. I
thought it was funny, but it really is pouring bleach
on Roger Goodell. It's also not original. Remember a couple

(50:45):
of years ago when the commissioner was all chafed because
Matt Patricia, at that time the Patriots defensive guru. He
was the forefather of this. He wore the clown nose
shirt getting off the plane getting off the Patriots team plane.
He had the clown knows, the Goodell clown knows on
after the Super Bowl. He was rocketing the fact that

(51:07):
Sean Payton attempted to hide ninety seven percent of the shirt.
It's embarrassing, right, if you're gonna do this, do it
the right way. Own it, own it. He didn't do that.
Right out of Lebron James playbook. Passive aggressive behavior. It's
like I want to get back at Roger Goodell, but

(51:29):
I want to do it in secret. That's what that's
passive aggressive behavior by Sean Payton. It's like I'll deliberately
let everyone watching know that I've got this. I'll give
m a little still taste lappetizer. Like when you go
to Costco this week. You're supposed to go to Costco
because it's big super Bowl week, best samples of the
year at Costco this week, your Costco member, you should

(51:50):
know that. But Sean pays like it's like breadcrumbs. I'll
let you see the very top of the shirt. He
wants to have his cake. He wants to eat it too.
He's yeah, I want to show you that I'm trolling
the commissioner but I would like to have plausible deniability
in case I get asked about this, I'll say no,
I'll deny it now. Furthermore, Sean Payton is the perfect

(52:12):
coach for the Saints. Why he is guzzling the same
whacka doo doo juice that the fans in the Bayou
have been drinking over the last eleven days. You talk
about preaching to the choir, and President Trump ought to
send in marine helicopters to drop off meds and offer
therapy to the incoherent and unhinged Saints fan base eleven days,

(52:38):
eleven days sitting around, eating ice cream and watching Netflix. Now, again,
that was for comedic reasons, and it's fine, but let's
say that was true. What a loser attitude. I want winners.
I you can't win with him. I want winners, damn right.

(53:00):
I want people that want to win. Dah, Sean Payton
like a toddler. Somebody changes diaper? Did he changes? Did
he change his diaper? Did he maybe he had a
diaper on all three days? He didn't even go to
the bathroom. Yes, pouting, sulking, and whining, Get over, I

(53:20):
got I got no empathy for this. Bozo. As I said,
the Saints had plenty of opportunities to win the game.
And anyone that's ever played a professional sport or amateur
sport or any sport knows, if you're depending on the
officials to give you the proper call, you're the loser.
Never never put the game in the official Saints. The
Saints should have won that game against the Rams by
forty points. They had the Rams at the Pearly Gates,

(53:45):
and the Saints couldn't couldn't do it, couldn't get it done,
couldn't get her done. Now, finally Sean Payton has to
do some soul surge. I say, look at the mirror,
mirror on the wall. That's what I say. This blame
the officials. It's unbecoming. As I said, great coaches know
that you should never put a game in the hands

(54:06):
of the referees. Should never have been throwing in that situation.
It's like asking politicians to lower taxes. It's unreasonable. They're
not going to lower taxes. That's how they get their money.
Sean Payton was terrible at play call and his hissy
fit on the sidelines. There's a direct correlation causation between

(54:28):
Sean Payton losing his lunch on the sidelines and the
entire fifty three man roster imploding like he took a
plunger to a toilet and the toilets still clogged, and
it's clogged because of Sean Payton. Multiple double digit leads.
They blew, had a field goal lead the final two

(54:49):
minutes at home, couldn't hold it when the coin toss
turned the ball over some mentally weak football team. They
became unglued and the better team, the Los Angeles Rams,
won that game. And I think all of America can
appreciate that the Rams here in the Super Bowl. The
ratings are gonna be great, biggest ratings of all time
for the Super Bowl this weekend. Everyone loves the Rams.

(55:12):
Fred Dryer was in here yesterday, former Ram legend. It's
going to be tremendous, all right, Ben Malors Show on Fox,
we say hello to Edmund Dallas, Team boat really Judas,
solid goal, the guards Sea Who's rights over there? Man?
You uh? I know you've gone down this journey and

(55:34):
I'm going down and again I think Coop is even
doing something. I want to diet again. I've been been
good for a couple of weeks have not visited the
vending machine. Okay, I think the music which die that
was seven thousand different dis it's the I just you know,
counting calories, that's the you know, okay, size, that's your move,
you count caloris. It's just the I go with the classics.

(55:56):
I don't like the math on it, that's okay. I
don't like the math on that. I went to Costco today,
did I did? I have not gone yet. I was
u it was great um and they did have the
big guns out they had they had the I did
not see that. Well here's the thing. I was going
quickly through the aisles, you know, not wanting to get tempted.

(56:18):
But I did see. I did see chili. They're giving
out samples of chili. They were giving out samples of
tortilla chips with melted cheese selling and yeah, I did
pause briefly at the tortilla chips and the guacamole that
selling expense. It's delicious though. I love the way yeah,

(56:41):
and so I but I moved on. I did not
take any of the samples because you're not. I feel
like if I could go through Super Bowl Week through
Costco without getting the samples. I think, I'm I think
I'm on a good road here. No, I disagree, And
I'll tell you what. First of all, there's no calories
and Costco samples. When you go at Costco, there's no calories.
That's not true. They're calorie free. That's number one. When
I go to going a sample run, what I do?

(57:01):
I know the Costco near mean what they do when
you go in, they like they kind of there's an
entrance obviously, and they put the food on the opposite side.
So they want you to go down I call it
sample Alley. They want it's on the I don't know
what as yours, but for me, it's on the way
to the registers, yes, exactly. And so what I do
is I I go rogue. I know they want me

(57:23):
to only go down sample alle when I'm leaving, but
I walk across the costcle and I walk up sample
Alley against the flat against the jets stream. So it
takes a little longer, and I do my first sample
run that way, directly, going the opposite direction, and it
throws off the Costco sample people because they're not they're

(57:44):
not used to that that you're supposed to go down
not up and I go up. Yeah, they usually look
to their right because and then all of a sudden,
here's this big guy. They're left, whoa, that's going on here?
And that then I see everything, Eddie, and then I
know my strategy. If I want to hit something three times,
I can go for I go down the aisle and
a back around. That's my second, and then I can

(58:05):
just come down straight down the aisle and get that third.
So that's how long are you gonna be on the die?
There's two weeks you should not die, and you should
not die it Halloween week. Lastly three weeks Halloween, Thanksgiving
in super Bowl week you should not die. The rest
of the year, there's fifty or it's forty nine other
weeks you can die. Well, I was so bad Thanksgiving, Christmas,

(58:27):
New Years? Really you went? This is I gotta I
got At some point, I gotta drop the line so
I have drunk. I'm not gonna go crazy at the
super Bowl. I'm not going to a super Bowl party.
It's gonna watch it at home. It's a Malla maneuver
and I will get something tasty but not nothing crazy. Yeah,
all right. I like the fact though, that what you
did is you did not like January first, say, oh

(58:48):
those January first, I'm gonna start to diet. That's good.
I like that you picked a random day in January
to start a diet, because that's that's what you're supposed
to do, those whole New Year's resolutions and all that.
I've done it before and it doesn't work out. Now
I go to the gym. I see these all these
new people in January. How long's that last? Most of
them are gone already, but I can't see by mid February,

(59:08):
none of them will be there. They're all gone. You know.
It's the same seven people that go every morning. I
see they're there whatever, no matter what goes on. I
too went to Costco Ben you did, yes, and I
also am trying to diet, eat better. But those are
those but those are those are samples like they're just
little they're a little little taste. Yeah, there's no there's

(59:31):
no calories and samples. Uh. It was a good haul.
It was a good haul. Did not do it like me.
He did not resist temptation. He gave in Well I didn't. Okay,
So I mean I didn't go back for seconds or thirds,
but I did hit up every every table. I had
a chicken patty with avocado spread, uh, veggie patty with hummus.

(59:53):
There was all kinds of coconut clusters. Coconut clusters. That's
something I would ever eat other than a Costco sample, right,
But I will eat it at Costco. I would never
go to Costco saying I need to get some coconut clusters.
But at Costco, I'm like, oh, I'll try. And what
was what was great? Because this is a rarity at Costco.
There was also a lemonade sample stand. So to quench

(01:00:14):
your thirst. You don't always get drinks, you don't you
usual to go to. They have a water fountain you
have to go to sometimes that's what you have to
go in the back. But no such thing as dieting.
Just portion control, guys, portion control, Nah, I disagree. Just
portion control and exercise. No, here's what you do. You
intermitting fast. You go like a whole day without eating,
and then you can get a big meal. I like
to eat a nice big meal, but I have to

(01:00:36):
do that. To be able to do that, I have
to go on entire I didn't eat. I haven't eaten
since what is it Thursday. I haven't eaten since Tuesday night.
I had a meal Tuesday. I didn't eat all Wednesday.
Didn't do it. Wow, didn't have a bite to eat,
just had some water. That's it. Have a good meal
on thirst and that's it. Apparently I have a really
good meal Thursday, because apparently we're getting gifted some delicious
plan accordingly for that, cut back a little bit on

(01:00:59):
the snackage. Yeah, oh, no snackage, no snack, no snackage.
All right, Well that ends our costco sample update. Oh
the machine got upgraded. Did you guys see the vending machine?
Oh it's class I walked right by roberro didn't even
take a look. No, you didn't see it. We sing
accepting credit card now? No, Yeah, I'm so sorry. Oh

(01:01:21):
coop coop's monthly salary. Raise the prices five cents on
everything for that they did. That sucks. If you did
it like gas, If you pay like I go to
our code you pay, No, there's no cash discount, bastards.
That sucks. I'm done. We had them for a little
while though. When they yeah they had we enjoyed that.

(01:01:42):
I wish fifty cents for all they had some kind
of fun out and somebody ruined it. Yeah, I found
out some information about that. All right, we'll save it. Okay,
we'll get to it later. Look at the I'm on time,
all partially late. All right, we'll press on. Bryce Harper
and Manny Machado are not signed because of blank one.

(01:02:03):
A former baseball player who made like three hundred million
himself has a theory on that. We'll examine that, see
if it's accurate or not. We'll get to it. We'll
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America's favorite drag queen caller. Our friend Flexus is on
Fox Sports Radio. Hello Plexus. He then America. Hell, little Syracuse.

(01:03:12):
They won last night. They did graduate. They don't win
many games. No, they're very bad, right, yeah, they're terrible
unless they're really good. Yeah. But the Sabers tunk of course. Yeah,
we do a lot of Sabers talk. In fact, an
our five Filexus, it'll be all Sabers talk all the time.
Today we're dedicating all of our five. You're talking about
the Buffalo Sabers. I yeah, that's so nice of you.

(01:03:36):
I'm fighting a little cold you are. In fact, I
got some cough drops. I'm sucking out, amiss brother, and
um yeah, I'm telling you it's cold up here. Yeah.
How cold is it? It's so cold? Um, it's so
cold my brain froze. You did. Yeah, that's that's cold.

(01:03:57):
That's cold. Man. Man. I got a joke for you. Oh,
I love jokes. Lame jokes are tomorrow, though, Flexi, But
I'll give you a special pass so you can give
your joke right now. Yeah. What do you get when
you put Filexus in the freezer? What do you get
when you put America's favorite drag queen caller and the
only known drag queen caller to the Ben Maller Show

(01:04:18):
and sports radio in a freezer? I don't know a
freezer queen? All right, Felexis, are you gonna call you?
Can you hit? Can you hit the call? Flexis? We're
on the air, man or woman or whatever I mean?
Can you hit the comment? All right? So, Flexis, now,

(01:04:40):
are you gonna call tomorrow to give your five star
Felexus drag queen pick of Super Bowl fifty three? Are
you gonna do it right now? As of course? Because
you can ram it all day, you can ram it
all night. Right. Hey, I didn't meet it in that way.
Go laughing, that's not funny there. Well, they love you

(01:05:01):
in La, don't they. I don't know, they'll be in
Boston more than La. Actually, all right, because of my eries,
I'm a psychic, you know. Oh is that right, I'm
a distant relative of Flexus, of Noester Dallas. Who are
you a distant relative of? I'm just some velvets in

(01:05:22):
the New England Patriots. Now you're a distant relative of
Kenny Kingston. Sweet. Oh you don't know that a sweet
He used to get on. He was a sweet spirit
of usas that was his trademark gimmick. He was a
con guy allegedly. You know all you saying I'm a guy. No,
you're a con woman. You're not a connie guy at all. Well,
I won password last week. Yeah, I'm a big Well,

(01:05:46):
i'd have you play password every other week if you come.
Rainbow ticket, No, it's a golden ticket. It's not a rainbow.
Take it's a golden ticket when it comes to me,
it's a rainbow Okay, you're already on the air. Ye,
you're on the air. You're all I gotta thank you
for ye Bye bye. I'm telling you here it goes
for Lexus. Jay Scoop says, Bryce Harper Manny Machado are

(01:06:10):
not signed because of Costco Coconut Clusters says Roberto is right.
In a moderation exercise and exercises the key everyone's got
a diet secret, lou Or Actually it's the Colorka kids,
says Manny. Machado and Harper are not signed because of
unjustified narcissism. No, that's not it. We'll get to This

(01:06:33):
is great though. I like this. This is a weird theory.
So he caught my attention. So we'll get to that
right now, though, years any from the Geico Fox Sports
Radio studios with the lads, well tid you up didding
on last night in the NBA, as far as games
of noteware the Nuggets knocking out the Pelicans in New
Orleans one oh five ninety nine New Orleans, still without
injured and Di scruntled starring Anthony Davis for Denver, they
improved a thirty five and fifteen with win there, one

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game back of Golden State for the best record in
the Western Conference. Celtics played once again without injured star
Kyrie Irving. They still beat the Hornets one twenty six
to ninety four. Trailblazers top the Jazz one thirty two,
one oh five, Damian Leward thirty six points for Portland,
and in overtime the Timberwolves get by the Grizzlies ninety
nine ninety seven on a Carl Anthony Towns buzzer beater.
NBA News Lakers star Lebron James, who miss eighteen games

(01:07:16):
with the groying injury, was a full participant in progress Wednesday,
but he will not play in the team's next game.
It was speculator he might return to the court Thursday
night against the Clippers. That's apparently not the case. Top
twenty five College Basketball We had six ranked teams in action.
They all won wins for number ten Marquete, twelfth rank,
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you see that a guy got fired because he called
Tom Brady a known cheater. The gentleman's name is Michael Tellock.
He is a graphics operator for KVKA TV. He was

(01:07:56):
in Pittsburgh. He was Yeah, they did a story about
the Super Bowl and he faunted Tom Brady, which is,
you know, identifying a guy with a graphic as Tom Brady,
known cheater, and the station did not take kindly though
that they fired him. He said he couldn't believe he
got fired. He said it wasn't like he put Tom
Brady child molester or Tom Brady murderer. Thought it would
be funny and apparently he was not funny. To his

(01:08:19):
this a little overreaction or you unprofessional behavior by this guy. Oh,
I think it was that kid from the Science fair
that he got a job at Katie Ka that when
they did the science report about Brady being a cheater
and all that. Oh was he from Pittsburgh. I didn't
know that. No, he was, and I think he moved
get pitch. It's child labor laws. They had to let
him go. He violated child labor lots. Unfortunately, Well this
happens all the time. He does. Actually a really really

(01:08:41):
good friend of mine, we worked at Fox Sports News
back when that was around, and he faunted John Daley
like his golf score, and to be funny, he put
an drank a twelve pack. Yeah, but that was supposed
to be taken off before the show started. They forgot
to do it, and he did not get fired, though
he did get suspended. But it does happen. Yeah. Yeah,

(01:09:03):
people goofed around and then they forget to take the
funniest one. I'd forge. I mentioned I did the Boston
thing earlier, and I forgot, I'd forgotten, and then I
now I've forgotten again. But it was Kevin Demoff, the
CEO of the Rams, when the Rams were leaving Saint
Louis to go to LA and the kind of the
deal was kind of done, and it looked like the

(01:09:23):
Rams were leaving and the Chiron the graphics aid something like,
you know, Kevin Demof, CEO of the Rams, and then
it said like, uh, proven liar or something like that
was what it said. And I think that person in
Saint Louis got fired. I forget exactly what it said,
but something along those lines. They got fired. All right,

(01:09:44):
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Machado are not signed because of blank Well. According to
former New York Yankee Mark the Shara analytics. The analytics

(01:10:09):
are not good for Machado and Bryce Harper. That is
why they are unsigned. This is the latest theory that
is being spitballed by markha got some. He got some
of the biggest contracts, some of the biggest contracts in baseball,
and that boom time with the Yankees. He got a

(01:10:30):
one hundred and eighty million dollar contracts, so he knows
about big contracts. Supposedly, Manny Machado has a standing offer
from the White Sox for like around that much money.
He wants more. He wants more. Can you say that some?
I'm good. That's a weasel term. We Roberto learned the

(01:10:53):
weasel terminology. According to industry sources, the Padres have an
offer on the table to hear that. Manny Machado he
really likes parts, you know, some restaurants in San Diego,
and he's been in there with the Dodgers, so he
wants to go and live there and wants to live.

(01:11:14):
I don't think he wants to play. I don't think
he wants to play in San Diego. No, why not?
It's Chriss. San Diego's gay, laid back, beautiful weather every day.
Maybe rains once a year in San Diego during the
baseball season. But he's the East Coast guy. Remember how
fast he was to say goodbye to the Dodgers. But
the East Coasts said goodbye to him, right, the East
Coasts said, we don't like him. Yes, let him go
sign with the Marlins them, let him play in Miami.
All right, so be Mallars show and all that if

(01:11:36):
we press on. So that that is what to Shara
is trying to say. I don't believe there's collusion. I don't.
I don't, And how are you gonna prove collusion? Like
I think it's just if you're offering somebody two hundred
million or one hundred and eighty million, they're trying to
get three hundred million, it's not collusion. It's a financial disagreement. Yeah,
all right, let's go to Pat in treport Who's next

(01:11:59):
on Fox wors Radio? Hello, Pat, hey Ben, how are
you doing? Welcome Pat? Talk to me. What's on your mind? Oh? Well,
I mean the Super Bowl entrant into the Super Bowl,
the Rams, who were basically placed there by the NFL.
I mean they didn't earn their way in. I mean,
well they did. Actually, they came back from two double

(01:12:21):
digit leads. They were down a field goal in the
final two minutes. They drove down the field against the
better defense in a hostile environment, pit of vipers in
New Orleans where no one ever wins, and the Saints
defense was helpless to stop them from getting in field
goal range. Then the Saints and overtime got the ball first.
Did Drew Brees pull Tom Brady and lead the Saints

(01:12:42):
down for a game winning touchdown? No, no, he didn't.
He turned the ball over. So the Rams absolutely deserved
to win that game. The better team won the game,
and the Saints actions since the game our verification that
they are a bunch of losers and they deserved to.
Look they would they would have lost by three touchdowns
in the Super Bowl. This defeat is pouting attitude that Saints. Well,

(01:13:03):
let me remind you a few things. Saints led the
Rams thirty five to fourteen in the regular season. Yeah,
the game, they didn't. They didn't with it. They they
the Rams came back. The game was tied with six
thirty to go in the game. The Rams came back
just like they came back against the Saints in the
NFC Championship game. The Saints can't close the due and

(01:13:26):
the and the and the Saints won thirty five. Yes,
yes they did, that is correct, But the game was
tied with it was six minutes to go in the game.
Keep you keep acting like the Rams did anything to
win the game. They did, they did. They made amazing
plays later while the Saints were sucking their thumb on
the sidelines. We got robbed, We got robbed. The Rams

(01:13:49):
went out there and won the game. They deserved it.
They played with my cheese moo. The Saints did. The
amazing play the Rams made was committed double foul. If
the NFL refused the call, he would have ended the
Rams season. Well, I agree, I think the NFL should
have called the illegal face mask penalty that could have

(01:14:09):
ended Jared Goff's career on the previous play when the
Rams had the ball. Of course, you don't have a
problem with that non call because that benefited the New
Orleans Saints, and so that call you're okay with not
being made. Or when the play clock went to zero
and the Saints were allowed to run a play, you're
okay with that, or on that final play when two

(01:14:30):
Saints lightman committed penalties, including holding before Drew Brees through
the ball, you're okay with those not being called, because that,
of course helps the Saints out. You're a phony. Just
admit it right now, you're phony. You're such a But
you're such a clown that you let a Rams defensive
back commit intentional double fouls and mock the NFL out. Yes, yes,

(01:14:53):
because the Saints deserved If you apparently you've never played
sports on any level. But if you allow an officials call,
if you're depending on officials call, you're a loser and
you deserve to lose. I am so happy to Saints.
I have a smile. I have a Cheshire cat smile
on my face. I am so happy the Saint's lost.
Who can count on here years and there's never been

(01:15:18):
such a terrible call. They've been bad calls every couple
of years in the NFL. It's not the worst call
of all time. You know why it's not the worst
call of all time because the Saints still had two
opportunities to win the game, and they were pouted and sulky.
The worst calls when the game ends and the game's
over and you have no chance to come back. Saint's
had two, they had the lead. That Saints had the lead.

(01:15:39):
How about to play some defense, play some defense, play defense,
D fens, D fence. It wasn't over. It wasn't over.
You know, I wasn't over. It wasn't called. You don't
depend on the referees. Yeah, how much time would have
been laughed when the Saints got three down? How about?

(01:16:01):
How about? How about if Sean Payton would have done
the right thing and run the playout, then the Rams
would had fifty seconds? What do you pass it for?
He should paint should be fired. If I'm the owner
of the Saints, why would you pass in that situation?
What a dumb coach? The guys that ought to be
fired is Roger Goodell. Oh no, Godell did a great job.
This is the first thing Goodell has done right. I
love this great commissioner, Roger Goodell. I loved it. He

(01:16:24):
was wonderful. No, he's great. I love him. I think
he's wonderful. I'm really turning. It's a complete load of crap.
My opinions turned around on Goodell now after this, Yeah,
he's going all right, thank you? Who is that Shirley?
Good job by the NFL. We are so lucky as
a country. You don't have to wash the guillotine on him.

(01:16:46):
Pouty faced Saints, What a bunch of losers. I'm so
happy they're not in the Super Ain't they great? Can
we all celebrate? Yes? Better team, the Rams, star power,
Todd Gurley, Jared Sean mcvagh. He's a star, not a
bunch of potty losers like the Saints who depend on
the referees losers. All right, So Ben Mallers show time.

(01:17:07):
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It's Ben Maller and we will have Mallett of the
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the who am I game? I hold the record for
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am My game? Earlier, bat job by me Right, here's

(01:18:09):
the instant tribute jedn it right stupid. I was shocked
by Eddie's diet red I was amazing. You know I'm
actually helping your diet. Eddie blank blank holds the record
for the most consecutive Super Bowl wins as a player.
As a player, that is the question. What is the answer?
Henley's going with Chef Boyard is his answer? A mad

(01:18:30):
was shot. Guests by Jim Bob Greasy from Captain Cliche,
Tammy Brady from Ivanson, The Quickie Martin Orlando. Let's see
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(01:18:55):
lot of Chef Boyard answers. We have a sergeant Joe
Friday from Harry Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie?
Uh Dion Sanderson sanders all right, though it is incorrect,
The correct answer Ken Norton Junior, Ken Norton Junior. Now,
no team has ever won three Super Bowls in a row,
but Ken Norton Junior did. He won two with the Cowboys,

(01:19:16):
and then he went off to the forty nine ers
and they won again in San Francisco. So Ken Norton
Junior is the answer. All right, here we go, let's
do it's how about that? To the third degree? This
is one big band gets grill and the Kouga loop
been adding more drama to the Lakers situation or reports
that Kyrie Irving is interested in a reunion with Lebron

(01:19:40):
Does this worry you as a Celtics suck up? I
don't need the laugh track weather with Robert Listen. It
doesn't worry me at all. I Hey, I take these
NBA rumors with a grand assault ninety nine percent of them,
or make believe it's creative writing. Nobody breaks down regular
season NBA games talks about them. So to create a story,

(01:20:02):
you have these fairy tales about these players joining forces,
and most of them don't happen. Right, drives eyeballs online
and beat Danny Ainge. He knows what to do if
he has to investigate. If Kyrie Irving is conspiring with
an enemy team, then if I'm Danny Ainge, I say fine,
I'll trade your ass. I'll get rid of you. And

(01:20:23):
Celtics are fine either with Kyrie or without him. They were.
They got to the Eastern Conference finals. He didn't play
in the postseason. They got to the Eastern Finals without him.
All right. Next and during the Super Bowl press conferences
on Tuesday, Sean McVay vowed to get Todd Gurley more
involved during the game. Ben, how important do you think
a successful game for Girly is for the Rams. I'm

(01:20:43):
gonna blow you away with this. It is not important
at all. Number one, the objective is to score more
points than the damn Patriots. It becomes you know, the
arithmetic on this becomes harder. If Girly's not a super
nova like he was against the Cowboys. If girl is
more like he played against the Saints, which was on
an exercise bike, that's problematic, but other people have to

(01:21:04):
pick it up. CJ. Anderson, He's got to be the
butterball Turkey going through that Patriots defense. The key for
La is the renaissance of the Rams defense and Dama
Kansu and Aaron Donald together that is what will drive
the Rams win the championship. All right, next now, reports
yesterday out of Miami said that the Dolphins are planning
on tanking next season, but we also heard that the

(01:21:26):
Redskins don't expect Alex Smith at all in twenty nineteen.
Should the Redskins be tanking? No, you know I feel
about tanking. I hate Tanky taking blows. I don't endorse
snake oil, and that is a scam, is what it is.
The hardest thing to do is to build a winning
environment where you have accountability and expectation of success. And

(01:21:49):
when you tank, you get all of that, you go
away to the depths of the Cleveland Browns of hell.
So no, it's not open heart surgery. Tank King encourages
bad things that stay with franchises. No, no, Now, how
do we do cool? Benny passes? That is a what a.

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There were eight games in the NBA that were played

(01:22:55):
last night, eight of them and no one in sports
talk radio. We'll talk about any of those eight games
and break them down, and most of them were not
that good. Portland played Utah that was a blowout. Sacramento
destroyed Atlanta. The Celtics took Charlotte to the woodshed in
the second half. Mavericks took down the Knickerbockers by a gazillion.

(01:23:20):
It was only only one or two close games the
entire out of eight in the NBA. So, but as
I've maintained, it's it's more about what could happen, not
what is happening, and not what has happened. It's what
could happen. And it's endless in NBA circles, the rumor orama.
In the NBA Golden State, they've already won the title.

(01:23:40):
It's just a matter of flipping the days on the calendar.
If you're in jail, you know what I'm talking about.
You have to x off the days, as the cliche
goes in the movie. And then eventually Steph Curry, Kevin
Durant and that's right, DeMarcus Cousins will have rings and
a trophy and they'll have a parade. And that's just
the NBA mainstream media has gone back to their national pastime,

(01:24:04):
which is, how can we make the pathetic Lakers grade again? Right?
The Lakers have the same record as the Sacramento Kings.
Let me repeat that because I know I'm on overnight. So,
and there's this polar vortex which is still going on
over much of the country, likely where you are. The

(01:24:27):
Lakers who added Lebron James to the roster this year,
are sitting close to the All Star break with the
same identical record as the Sacramento Kings. We are fifty
two games in to the NBA season now, he said, well,

(01:24:49):
he's still a lot of time left, and that's not wrong.
But the Lakers have played more than half their games.
They played sixty three percent by the time they're done
Thursday night, sixty three percent of their schedule. And they
have the same record as Sacramento. And yet these kool
aid drinking lemmings are They all grew up fans of

(01:25:09):
Kobe Bryant. They love Kobe and Shack back in the day,
and now they're all adults and they're working in the media,
and how can we make the Lakers great again? They've
taken Donald Trump's campaign slogan make America great Again, and
they've just twisted it around. How can we make the
Lakers great again? This has been going on for years,
and I laugh, I get a belly laugh, and I

(01:25:31):
have that cheshire cat smile when I think about the
names that have come up here over the years. Now,
the latest rumor this week you probably we talked about,
you heard about it. We'll have more in this later
involving the Uni Brow. Now this is not about the
UNI bow directly Anthony Davis, but it is tied to him.

(01:25:53):
Some big headlines this week all over social media saying
that Clay Thompson love to play for the Lakers if
they got Anthony Davis, and there were some other conditions,
some minutia in there, but that part didn't get reported.
So I want to talk about this is the Klay
Thompson rumor which has been making the rounds here. What

(01:26:13):
are the chances the Lakers get Klay Thompson this offseason.
I am gonna sit the OZ and I think i'll
be I'm gonna be fair. This one thing I am
is fair. When you want fairness and broadcasting, you come
to me. I'm gonna go high. I'm gonna be listening.

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I'm not a hater. I'm gonna go high for the Lake.
I believe I've factored everything in. I've investigated this. The
Lakers have zero percent chance of getting Klay Thompson. I'm
gonna go zero and in fact, zero point zero zero
point zero zero point zero zero zero zero zero zero
to infinity this offseason. Now, if you're not a gambler,

(01:26:54):
that is infinity and beyond is what that is. What
I've just done is infinity and beyond. Now my views,
you've got the fine print, Russia in bots and the
laundry list, and we'll tie all this together. Hey, Clay
Thompson would be a dufus to leave the Golden State Warriors.
That we can start with that. The Warriors would also
be stooges. I don't know which one of the three

(01:27:16):
stooges to let Klay Thompson leave. Not that Clay Thompson
individually would be great. I don't believe he would. He's
an ensemble character. Clay Thompson's an ensemble character who doesn't
dribble all that much, and I see him miss a
lot of shots. But once a month he'll go nutso
and hit like seven or eight three point shots in

(01:27:37):
a row and he'll single handedly win a game because
of his shooting. So, but he's in a perfect situation
in Golden State. He would be exposed on a team
where he's asked to do more than the Golden State Warriors.
But that's a different come He's in that situation in
Golden State. And they added the Marcus Cousins. They now
again have assembled the Harlem Globe trotters. Everyone else's the

(01:28:00):
Washington generals. And it's just more of this disillusioned nonsense
that is being spread by the Laker historians who I
want to get the Lakers great again. Like most rumors,
it's got a bunch of caveats and a bunch of
weasel words. This one, if you read the headline, Clay

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Thompson could have interest in Lakers if they land in.
Anthony Davis could. If you could be rich, if you
win the lottery or marry a hedge fund or trust fund, baby,
you could be rich. You'd be a kingpin. But giving

(01:28:44):
the one peddling the garbage a way to backpedal out
of this, look at the Woade had a lot of
this reporting, and I like wod I did work with
Woade years ago. The Warriors, It says, war your star,
Klay Thompson attension will be on the Lakers attention, So

(01:29:07):
weasel the word the weasel word, there's attention. But he
also said if they have Anthony Indias, nobody reads the
fine print. What is the the minutia here of this story?
It gets it gets all watered down. It stated that
if the Warriors do not offer Clay Thompson a max

(01:29:28):
contract this summer, then the Lakers will have his attention.
What about the other teams that went off from a
ton of money? This is example three thousand, four hundred
and eighty nine of headline readers turn dreamers. Now part
B of this. There are so many double agents in

(01:29:48):
the media who are in the I'm in the tank
for the Lakers crowd. As I've pointed out, these confidants
are like Russian bots. They're flooding, flooding the world with
these amazing scenarios. Fairy Tales talked earlier about Roger Goodell

(01:30:08):
is gonna be a Pollyanna at the State of the
NFL address. The same theme applies here when it comes
to the woe begone NBA team. I was told early
on in my career when you're when you're doing good
sports talk radio, there's a balance between selling fear and hope.
But there's no balance here. When you talk about the

(01:30:30):
Lakers and the coverage they get, it's all hope, no fear,
it's all hope, it's all all hope. It's nauseating, absolutely nauseating.
I think we all agree on that now. They blindly
do the bidding of creating these scenarios, these nirvana like
scenarios that will of course cripple the rest of the

(01:30:52):
NBA and the Lakers will be great. It's not. It's
the opposite of robin Hood. Essentially. What is the Lakers
are one of the rich franchises and they have to
rob from the poor franchises to help the rich franchise
the Purple and Gold. Now, fortunately most of them blow up,
most of them are just made up nonsense, and the Lakers,

(01:31:13):
they continue continue to do things. It's kind of like
putting a hand grenade, like pulling the pin and tossing
in someone's lap. Most of these rumors, it's gonna end poorly.
It's not gonna end well for the person that gets
the hand grenade on their lap. Now, the last word,
Lebron James is a Laker. So the belief is that
this is proof the tides are a change. Now, keep

(01:31:37):
in mind, as we've talked about quite a bit here,
this is Lebron James past his prime. This is injury
prone Lebron James who's missed almost thirty six percent of
the Lakers season, even if he plays every game, the
rest of the season, he will still have missed twenty
one percent. But of the games the Lakers have played,
he's not gonna play Thursday Night against the good Ship Clip.

(01:31:57):
He's scared of the Clippers proof otherwise he play. And
so Lebron is gonna miss that game. And that's game
number eighteen he's gonna have missed, which is thirty six
percent of the season. And it is a pipe dream.
But I add Clay Thompson's name to a laundry list

(01:32:19):
of saviors. Now I've kept track. I'm sure I miss some,
and if I missed any, I want you to fact
check me, and I want you to tell me so
I can add these names to my laundry list. These
are actual names that Laker historians were convinced over the
last five years. We're going to come to Los Angeles
to save the sorrowful Lakers. Russell Westbrook. He's from LA.

(01:32:42):
He wants to go home. He's not happy in Oklahoma City.
Here's the one We'll go way back. Kevin Love. Kevin Love,
he served up more double doubles than in and out
when he was in Minnesota, meaningless stats, stuffing on a
bad Wolves team and Kevin Love. You see LA, why
not Kevin Love is gonna come to the Lakers. Then

(01:33:07):
it was Kevin Durant. Now Kevin Durant did leave Oklahoma City.
You know which NBA team He would not even take
a meeting with the Lakers didn't want any part of him.
Then it was Paul George. Magic Johnson went on television
and broke NBA by laws, one of the dirtiest, seediest

(01:33:27):
acts I've ever seen on Jimmy Kimmel. He tarnished his
entire reputation. Magic Johnson on television with tampering to get
Paul George. Paul George signed a contract extension with Oklahoma City.
The Lakers didn't have enough to get Paul George. I'm
not done. How about Kawhi Leonard. Kawhi Leonard's uncle's gonna

(01:33:51):
get him on the Lakers, wants to come back to LA.
He's currently sitting in on two Aero can That's only
a partial list. At one point, we go way back
before Carmelo Anthony fell out of favor. There were people
are Carmelo's gonna leave the Knicks and come to the Lakers.

(01:34:14):
He's gonna do it. It's gonna happen. I'm telling you
it's going to happen. It's kind of like the weather patterns.
Oftentimes these things are predictable in places like Hawaii where
it's eighty two degrees and Kawaii every day, and then
the low gets down to about you know, maybe sixty
seven or something like that. Uh, parts of the year.

(01:34:36):
But it's the same thing. He's lather, rinse and repeat.
It is the Ben Maller Show on Fox. We say
hello to Edmund Dallas steam boat Willie Cudes solid Gold
guar seas right over there. Yeah, I kind of feel
like I'm I'm Switzerland when it comes to the NBA.
Here you've got you've got the Clipper fan boy hosting

(01:35:00):
the show, and then the dynamic duel. You got the
dynamic duel of purple and gold on the other side
here with with Roverto and with Coop Delupe. So I
but I agree with you, though, Man, I could stopped
right there. I mean, it was as soon as the
Anthony Davis stuff happened, then I understand why and I
understand why you have to talk about it. But he's
just like, oh my God, had another name to the

(01:35:21):
list of these coming to the Lakers. He's coming to
the Lakers. Yes, one of them did work out, and
it was a pretty big one. In Lebron James past
his prime and he didn't go to play for bad.
That was his his backup plan was the basketball thing.
His main job, as he's proven because he's been over
the Warner Brothers lot was Hollywood. Lebron James, now, I know,
I know you had Would you admit, would you admit

(01:35:42):
that he's injury prone? No, I would not admit. You
would not admit, not right now. You would not admit
because again, you don't watch about it. If you anybody
to watch his basketball would say at this point, Lebron James,
since he this is the most ridiculous thing that you're
about to say, that that you're about to spew out
of your mouth. That's not Cooper right there? Injury prone?
Do you know what the definition of that is? Ben?

(01:36:04):
Since he crossed out of his athletic prime, I'm the one.
How many how many injuries has he suffered in his career?
I'm not I'm talking about this year. He came to one,
So how can he be prone to injuries? Let me see,
this is all right, So cool, let's see some mathis

(01:36:26):
so he's been I'm only worried about I forget what
he did in Cleveland. He was good in Cleveland. I'm
talking as a Laker, the Laker experienced. The Lakers are
gonna play game number fifty two on Tuesday, Thursday Night.
Thursday Night, Billy Crystal is gonna call the game with
Ralph Lawler on the Clipper broadcast, which I'm really excited,
of course, because they need ratings somehow, So I won't

(01:36:47):
be watching. Played well with Billy in a tendency the
other day, it was nice. I won't be able to
hear it because I'll be, of course, you know, doing
some moonlighting in Boston. But I'll try to kiss somebody
as much as I can in the commercial breaks. But so,
that'll be game number fifty two. Lebron since he joined
the Lakers has missed eighteen of the games they play.
This will be game number fifty two. So that is

(01:37:08):
thirty four point six percent of his entire Laker career.
He's missed with injury, thirty four point six of his
entire LA It still doesn't make him injury prony. It
doesn't guess it does. And if you don't understand English,
as sure as a Laker, he's injury prone. He's he's
missed over over thirty four percent of his time. One
injury does not make you injury prone. Now, if he

(01:37:30):
gets hurt again when he comes back, then exactly, or
it doesn't even matter the amount of time that he's missed.
If if he had missed the same exact amount of time,
but it was two separate injuries, then I would say, yeah,
sure he's injury prone, but one injury does not make
you injury prone. I think the man's growing fell off.
I'm worried as your balls might have fallen off Lebron's basketball.

(01:37:52):
I'm worried about that. Hope it might be something to
worry about, my lover balls. Roberto said that he'll be
he'll be sure to help Lebron if he needs any
help over they'll take care of himself whatever Lebron needs. No,
nah na, right, let's let's go to the phones. And
of course I'm I'm doing that monologue. Well, looking across

(01:38:12):
the glass and Roberto's got his Lakers sweatshirt on. You
took your Laker hat off, and yeah, this is no
surprise there. Used to be a guy forget his name,
he's dead to me who worked on this show, who
wore all Lakers staff and Raiders staff and all that,
and uh, there you go. It's like they said, all right,
whoever works with mallor has to wear this material. And

(01:38:34):
here we are always put his raider hat on that
Los Angeles Raider hat on a super Bowl champion, by
the way, in Los Angeles until Sunday. Let's go to
Tammy in Montana. Hello Tammy, the lovely Tammy Montana. She's
a goddess. Hello Tammy. I forget about that, Hey, Ben, So,

(01:38:57):
I just wanted to say that I loved the other
with Roberto Um. I think you should mention that the
best way to stay warm in the polar vortex or
or anywhere is to have more sacks. So and it's
also a good workout tip. A good workout tip, more sex,
more calories burned. Right now, I did the math Tammy

(01:39:17):
on how many calories you will burn when you listen
to the show. But how many do you burn when
you're doing that other activity. Well, it depends on how
how active you wild and crazy and how many times
I understand, I understand I got you interesting. Yeah, so
you'll you'll have to do your own research on that.
But when I was younger, I really wanted to do

(01:39:38):
a lot of research, and nobody would help you in research. Unfortunately,
I have a one man band there, you know what
I'm saying. Yeah, well, now you have a beautiful wife
that I'm sure enjoys your presence so occasionally. Now, well,
well you need to work on that bad. I have
a great No, I have a great I think about
my life tim, I'm married. I've been married for a
few years now, and I don't We don't sleep in

(01:39:58):
the same bed most of the because I'm here overnight's
doing the show. It's an amazing setup that we have. Yeah,
so what are you saying you can only have sex
at night? You can have sex at any time then,
but no, we are on opposite schedules. It's hard. You
gotta be in the same rooms, you know. That's yeah general.
I know there's some new virtual reality, but usually you
have to be in the same room. That's normally how

(01:40:18):
that works. Anyway, I think I think you should put
some effort into it. You'll you'll make it happen. So yeah, um, now,
because I'm I'm a little triggered, and I want to
support Gronkowski. I'm going to make sixty nine a priority position.
All right, when you watch the game, see whoever's wearing

(01:40:39):
that number, and you'll get you know, you have a
your own Super Bowl drinking pool. So I will. And
a couple more things. I'm sorry. I just wanted to
let the militia know that Jason in Windsor is doing
a little better. He's finally home from the hospital. Oh good.
And now yeah, and now we need to free file
Axis from his facility. And last thing. Then it's like,

(01:41:00):
this is like that old this is like that old
show the eight Team. We're trying to break these guys
out of facilities so we can get them home. And
it's wonderful. Alexis is. There is work in progress to
get him into an assisted living department, but it's taken
a little while. Right here, I think it would be
good luck for the RAM if you do your nickname

(01:41:20):
role call. I'm sorry, Eddie, No, no, don't apologize. You
know what, You're right. I have deprived the men, women
and children of America of the nickname role call. It's
a bad job by me. I will get to that.
Thank you, Tammy. I appreciate it. There you go, the
Great Tammy in Montana. And as you know, if you're
a regular, listen to the show. My claim to fame nicknames.
I don't make a lot of money. I don't have

(01:41:41):
a coveted time slot, but I am known for my nicknames.
We'll get to the rundown in a moment, and we
will certainly do that. We'll take your calls to eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine
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(01:42:43):
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(01:43:05):
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(01:43:26):
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(01:44:10):
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(01:44:55):
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(01:45:18):
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You didn't mention my name, and you forgot about the
who am I game? You dope that's from Ed and Spokane,

(01:45:39):
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I'm never saying your name on the air again. Ed,
You're done, done, done done. Ernie the great opponiss has
been after last week's a bombination of the ask Ben segment,
can we get bonus covers tonight? Well, in fairness, Coop
wasn't here the guy that none of these other producers

(01:46:00):
ever listened to our show. They come in here, they
hate working overnights. They go to bed like at nine o'clock.
So he didn't. He's not listen to the show. So,
I mean the guy was in a bad spot. I
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Bow yeah yeah. Apple Jack says, four days before the

(01:46:25):
super Bowl and you're talking about basketball, why, I'll tell
you why. Because it's more interesting than the Rams and
the Patriots right now. And I'm not a show for
the NFL. I don't have to do a bunch of
interviews with guys doing commercials. At the end of it,
I can talk about what's interesting that Again, I don't
have to sit there and beat a dead horse with

(01:46:45):
the super Bowl. If there's something to talk about, we'll
talk about it. And there's a Mexican. We need Randy
to call more often. He was on hold the other
day but he hung up. I will press on, we do.
But next two, Yeah, all right, we'll get to this
is this is weed Man's gonna like that. He's the
only one that's gonna like this. Hacked by weave Man.

(01:47:07):
We'll get to that. Also, Mallard to the third degree.
We'll get some bonus. Mallard to the third not Mallard
to the third degree. Ask Ben, that's it. I got
the bits all mixed up. You know why I got
no sleep? All right, well, we'll move on. We'll get
to all that right now. Though, here's Eddie with the ladies.
Let's teat you can up in some games. A note
from last night in the NBA where the Nuggets top
the Pelicans one oh five ninety nine. New Orleans. Still

(01:47:28):
playing without injured and disgruntled star Anthony Davis Denver now
thirty five and fifteen on the year, they are one
game pack of Golden State for the best record in
the West. Celtics without the injured Kyrie Irving still beat
the Hornets easily one twenty six, two ninety four, Trailblazers
top the Jazz one thirty nine, one oh five. Damian
Lillard thirty six points for Portland, and the Timberwolves edge
of the Grizzlies in overtime ninety nine ninety seven on
a Carl Anthony Towns buzzer beater. In NBA news, Laker

(01:47:51):
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was a full participant in practice Wednesday, but is not
gonna play in the team's next game, and was speculations
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all you have to do. That's all you have to do.
Our friend Andrea Virgo and service, she is the one.
She's got her star charts out. She does the birth charts,
sports astrology, the whole thing, she says. Lebron James has
Saturn transits to his son in Capricorn rules. The skeletal

(01:49:38):
structure can be problematic. There you go, it's in the stars.
She says, on a happier note that she will check
in from Berkeley on our next show to share her
super Bowl sports astrology. Let's say hello to weed Man,
hippie who's doing the Full Mallard Marathon. He's in Miami, Miami.

(01:50:00):
I love you, weed Man. I tease. I have such
a funny telling you. I teased hacked by weed Man.
Have you hacked the Twitter account of jose Canseco? Have
you hacked the Twitter account of jose Can Saco As Lisa,

(01:50:22):
we saw jose Canseco on Ocean's Drive, but I didn't
even see him because he was with Miss Universe, his wife,
and I was just looking at Hall. I didn't even
see him. He successionally, Why didn't you say something, Jose Canseco.
I said, what are you talking about? He said? She says,

(01:50:42):
I said, I'm looking at the girl. That is such
a weed man move. So Jose Canseco set this out.
I'm convinced that this is something you've said on my
show and on our show. Uh. Conseco said, aliens have
been trying to teach us how to time travel, but
first we have to change our body composition, which we

(01:51:04):
are not willing to do. We have tried with animals
and it has failed. I'm from out of space. My
I was adopted. Look from my birth plarnts. I'm like
Superman from cryptars sound by the kids. I'm telling you, Dan,

(01:51:25):
I'm not from Earth. I'm telling you. Is that? What
is that? What young weed man would say? Okay, listen
to how funny this is. I spend How many tweets
did I tweet to you today? Way too many. I'm surprised.
I'm surprised they didn't shut your Twitter account down. I

(01:51:45):
raised here all day pouring hydrogen peroxide. No no, no,
no no, don't do that to me. No, don't do
that to me. I'm seeping into my brain. I don't
do me like that. We man, No, I said, if

(01:52:07):
you have an earache, it's not anymore. All right, then
you're done it. Don't put anymore in Okay, my goodness. Wait? Waitmen,
you don't take medical advice from an overnight sports talk shows.
What the hell's wrong with you? I know I'm insane.
I know I'm insane. I spend my time. I am

(01:52:31):
an example. Maybe I'm insanity, but I spend my life
for these few minutes in the magic radio box. All right,
let's get to ask Ben. Here we go, Ask Ben,
your questions are answered the magic radio box. Now time
for Yeah, ask Twitter your questions on Twitter? Not all right,

(01:52:55):
let's do it. Here we go. We pass the mic
over to the coop oh loop An. We're gonna start
with a question for you. Right, I'm excited. It's a
good question. So if you want, we can. We can
have everybody answer, but they directed it only to you.
Of course. That's from Derek on Facebook. De Ben, if
you were arrested with no explanation, what would your friends
and family assume you had done? Uh? That's a good question.

(01:53:18):
Trying to think what do they think? Uh? I mean,
I don't know, steal something? Maybe I get I don't
know I'm leptot cheat on his taxes or something. Yeah, yeah,
like I could do that. Yeah, games and ship you'll
tell the i RS. Yeah, yeah, that's a good question.
I don't I don't know. I mean, my goal, one

(01:53:39):
of my goals is trying to stay out of jail.
So I would say nothing. But I guess if you
had taxes, probably good or stealing from Uncle Sam? What
about you, Eddie? As I would say road rage incident.
I'm usually a pretty mellow, nice guy, but yeah, I
will say things and do things when people are idiots
on the freeway that I normally would never do. So

(01:54:01):
I'm gonna go with road rage ins then that's not bad.
But I've learned, though, is the power of the hidden
bird is very I hide it, but I will drive
by with a smile on my face and double birds
below what you can't see, and I'll feel really good.
I'll feel really good one to do that. What about
your bird? If you were to get arrested, what would
your wife and your lovely daughter think you had done?

(01:54:22):
Probably I gotta in a fight at some gamers and
then got to fight at a raider game. Yeah all right,
what about you? Coople? If you get arrested, what would
be stealing some food from the buffets? No, it would
it would definitely they would assume it'ld be marijuana. That's
like an old take though. Now in California, well you
still can't mean I saw you see that story drive there.

(01:54:45):
They're lowering the tax on weed in California because it's
cheaper to buy it from your local dealer than it
is from the state. I did not hear this. They're
talking about lowering the tax because they're talking about it.
It's not it's politicians. It takes forever. But yeah, yeah,
they apparently they thought they were gonna make more money,
and like people are like, well, my local weed dealer's cheaper,
so I'm not gonna spend the money with the stay

(01:55:08):
and so like, well wait a minute, we'll lower the
tax on it. We'll make more money. So anyway, interesting,
all right, So Ashman, we'll do another one real quick.
This is this is for everyone as well. This is
from Troy on Facebook. It's a morbid question. He warns.
If you had to lose one of your senses, which
would it be, and why smell? I'd be okay without
my sense to smell. Because I mean, you smells a

(01:55:29):
skunk or you'd take, you know, a really nasty fart
or something like that. I'd be okay with not smelling that,
be all right. Now. You'd also not smell cinnamon rolls
when they come out of the oven. You wouldn't be
able to smell that. You wouldn't be able to smell
the really good stuff, but the bad stuff you wouldn't
have to smell anymore. So I'd like this. I'm on
my own fart sometimes mark tape and go all right,
thank you? Yes, what about you, Eddie? Will you? What sense?

(01:55:52):
Would you? It has to be smell because the other
ones are too too great. Taaste and feel and sight
and sound. You gotta go, you gotta go. Yeah, does
a roverto know all the senses? You know all the senses.
It's a smell. Let go smell, all right? Just copying
off my work? You're cheating off my work? There, you No,
I mean that's that's the only right answer. Yeah, all right,

(01:56:12):
fair enough. Although sometimes when I hear we'ed men talk,
I think my hearing maybe tomorrow, Yeah, I'm sorry, okay,
we'll press off a past to the cause. Keep the
questions coming in. It's asked Ben as the iconic sports
care or not sportscaster. He was a newsman years ago,
Larry King said when I used to watch him as
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(01:56:34):
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(01:57:17):
All right, Ben, another question for you, all right, this
is from Matt on Facebook. Ben, what would make you
more upset seeing Danny g in the photo with Deshaun
or a photo of him with William Shatner. Well, both
are equally offensive. Both have blocked me on Twitter. But
considering Shatner is like one hundred and thirty years old,

(01:57:39):
the what he did, I'm not gonna even say that
person's name because to me, that's blasphemy. That's one of
the eight deadly words. So, but but Danny did was treasonous,
is what it was. It was an active disrespect for
all I did with Danny. I don't know that we
can ever patch up our relationship, So I think he
has crossed the rubicon. Next, all right, question is from

(01:58:01):
Justin and Cincinnati. Hi, Justin, I hope you freeze your
ass off. He he wants to know that if you
were sentenced to death, how would you go out for everyone?
If I to choose my own death, Well, if you
were sentenced to death, so it has to be some
form of okay, so one of the usual. Yeah, um,

(01:58:24):
so what do we have? We have the electric chair,
we have lethal injection, and we have firing squad. Am
I missing any hanging hanging? Yeah? I don't know. I
want to leave a good corpse behind. I want to
leave a nice looking corpse. Uh. Everyone says lethal injection,
but I'm guessing that hurts at the end anyway, right,
I mean, might as well go out with a bang,

(01:58:45):
maybe a firing squad unique. Aren't there only a couple
of states that have the firing squad? Yeah, yeah, it's
very rarely. Utah, Yeah, I think you're right, Texas. I
don't know electric chair. Just to be different, I'll go
firing squad. Any what about you? I'm trying to you know,
what's quicker? Just get it over with? Hanging? Wouldn't hanging

(01:59:06):
be the quickest? Well not if not, if your neck
doesn't doesn't break on the drop. Yeah, okay, I guess
I gotta go with the old, boring lethal injection. Oh
come on, and I use firing squad. That's unique, Robert,
to go with the hanging. Hanging? Yeah, that's fun. Why Yeah,
that's old school, that's barbaric, that's primitive, is what that is?

(01:59:29):
My own fart sometimes public hanging? Right? All right? What
about blindfold or no blindfold? Ben? Well, I don't want
to scare the children, so I'm blindfold. Okay, you know
what about you? Cool loop? I do want to scare
the children. I want to dream, so i'd go, I'd
go electric chair, foaming at the mouth, burning. Yeah, and

(01:59:53):
you'd eat like seventeen hours worth of food before, so
it'd be even worse. Foodless smell chicken and waffles from Yes,
all right, that's lovely. Happy Yeah, happy Thursday. Yeah, that's great. Okay,
let's keep it going. It's asked, Ben, Your questions are
answers for the rest of the hour. These are actual

(02:00:14):
questions from listeners like yourself. Real quick, Ben, I want
to shame the people on Twitter. Good. Usually that's where
I get most of the questions from week sauce. This week,
I'm getting them all from Facebook. Okay, but real quick,
I will ask you this one. It says from Dan
in Facebook. For the longest time, you're drawn out. Intros
for Eddie always ended with a heavy emphasis, with you

(02:00:35):
practically shouting Garcia. Then it suddenly ended and you just
say it normally. How come? Why did this change come about?
Did Eddie object to your tone? Uh? No, not at all.
I watched Manny Machado play for the Dodgers. I said
he's going to get a big contract. I want to
be like Machado will be lazy, and so I'm I'm
going half ass and that's what I chose to do.
There's no reason for it. I mean, you want me

(02:00:56):
to do again, Garcia. Oh all right, let's do this
one from from Opie on Twitter. I don't know who that.
Don't sound excited about it. Ben, You've been nominated for
the twenty twenty president election presidential election. I have been
in many elections with Doc Mike as the vice presidential candidate.

(02:01:19):
You have to pick one. Who would be your running mate?
Whoopy Pie Blair or weed Man? All right, well, listen,
both are great. Uh. Weed Man, I believe has more
of a national following. Whoopy Pie Blair is a huge
star in Vermont, Maine, New hamp to his community. Yeah. Like,
I could get the whole weed vote with weed Man.

(02:01:40):
You know, I could get the whole true vote. So
I think I'd go with weed Man. He'd be mine.
He's so excited to hear you say that, So gasmick
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this is a group asked Ben question from Will Peg
Will I Will. How cold of a temperature do you

(02:02:02):
think you can handle without complaining? I don't know. I
was in Stanford, Connecticut during a snowstorm and I thought
I'll walk the three blocks in my hotel room from
the restaurant I was at, and I froze my ass
off after half a block. So I like to complain.
I'd complain about anything. I don't know. I go, I've
been in weather down to like ten degrees, so I
guess that's my baseline. Anything. What about you, Eddie, I

(02:02:25):
haven't been in a lot of cold weather. I'll say,
you know, something in the twenties, I'll definitely complain about.
I've been in that lot. What about your burder? Yeah,
twenty degrees, ten degrees, Coopa loop sixty. Anything below sixty,
I'm complaining. It's fifty eight outside. Yeah, it's called panic.
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(02:03:29):
great quote. We will get to the latest ramblings involving
someone that does not know how to trim his eyebrows
in a moment. But first, the super Bowl apparently is
going to be played this weekend. Now, I somehow did
not get invited to the super Bowl, so it's just
a rumor. But I believe the Rams and Patriots are

(02:03:51):
going to play this week. That's what people tell me.
In A lot of my colleagues are enjoying a nice
vacation on the company dime, and I'm very happy for them.
I'm very happy for them that they're having a good time.
I'm excited about I am not bitter at all. I
am not jealous at all. No, I am holding down
the fort and I am happy to report to senior management.

(02:04:14):
The building has not moved. No. People try to steal it. Actually,
a couple days ago, somebody try to steal the iHeart
building here and I have been able to lock it down.
So I am doing my job, but I'm doing so.
I bringing up the Super Bowl because the Patriots and
Rams practice for the first time. Well that's worthy of
a whole mallar monologue. Right, eighty eight minute practice in

(02:04:37):
helmets and shells for the Patriots. Big Now, the Patriots
practiced at the Georgia Tech indoor practice facility. It's real
close to where the team is staying in downtown Atlanta. Now,
the reason I bring this part up, the fact that
the Patriots practiced indoors, is what Bill Belichick said as

(02:04:57):
to why the Patriots show to practice indoors. They also
practiced last week in Foxborough indoors. Here's what Bill Belichick said. Now,
what do you think he said? Do you think Belichick said,
we're gonna practice indoors because we're playing indoors. That's a b.
We're practicing indoors because we don't want someone to steal

(02:05:18):
our plays or see no comment. It was it was
kind of b. It was kind to be Belichick. Here's
the quote as to why the Patriots practiced indoors on Wednesday.
He said there are twenty stories skyscrapers surrounding the field.
Belichick looked around him, amused, I don't think we can

(02:05:40):
have a public practice out here. Close quote from from
Bill Belichick. How awesome is that? Now? It was proven
incorrect those scandalous reports the last time the Patriots and
Rams played in the Super Bowl, where the guy for
the Boston Harrold, who now works at WEI, reported that

(02:06:02):
the Patriots were recording Rams practice. But there's still Ram paranoia.
Marshall Falk to this day needs therapy. I heard because
of that. So you have Phil Belichick. Is he just
goofing on the Rams? Is that what he's doing? He said?
The quote was there are twenty stories skyscrapers surrounding the field.
The Belichick said of Atlanta, I don't think we're gonna

(02:06:24):
have a public practice out there. Just great, just absolutely,
And you want to take you I'm gonna ask you
a question a little bit about I'm gonna circle back
around to Patriot practice, but I got some other stuff
to get do. Are you cool with that? All right?
So big headlines all this week about the unibrow. Once
his declaration his decree came down that he wants out

(02:06:45):
of New Orleans, and he of course became persona nin
grod not welcome anymore. The Pelicans removed Anthony Davis from
their their sizzle reel. Oh that's a blow. That a
blow like, oh man, And they're all kinds of different. Reports.
Take all of these with just a grain assaut, all

(02:07:09):
of them big headlines that the New Orleans Pelicans are
about to get a quote, monster offer from the Lakers,
a monster offer from the Lake. Well, then reports came
down that the Pelicans have quote no interest in dealing
Anthony Davis to the Lakers, which is the right answer.

(02:07:33):
The question is does that make sense? Yes with a
capital why yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, one hundred percent,
one hundred percent. All right, this is what we've been
saying and barking in the night here and evangelizing about.
Now my thoughts on this. You've got the sloth, tough love,
and ping pong, those three things and we'll tie them together.

(02:07:57):
Now my theory on what del demp should do. First
of all, I would have fired delve dems, right, I
would have done that. It's nice that they took Anthony
Davis off their sizzle real intro video. That's fine, but
Del Demps is a not a very good GM. I'm
being polite. I could say something nasty. He's not a

(02:08:17):
very good GM. So they I'm fine, listen, I would
have gotten rid of them. They apparently gonna keep delve
Demps as the the general manager. So he's the one
making the decision. So I advised him to go on
Wikipedia and study the sloth. Right, look at the great
Molasses flood in Boston back in the day. Study that
slow and easy. Right, you should be slower than a

(02:08:39):
snail traveling through peanut butter. If you're the Pelicans at
this particular point, you should be slower than dirt. You
know you? How do you? How do you see? Just
dirt move? Yeah? In an earthquake, right, pond water, you
should move as fast as pond water. Del dems has
something which is very important. Do you know what it is?

(02:09:05):
He's got the power? He said, well, no, no, no,
he has no power. Anthony Davis said he wants to
be traded, and people say he only wants to play
for lake. How do the Pelicans have power? Let me explain, right,
Anthony Davis made a fatal mistake. I don't know about
your job, but in my job, every couple of years
or every year, depending on the contract I signed, I'm

(02:09:25):
in a negotiation. And when you're in a contract negotiation,
I don't have an agent. I had an agent. That
guy did nothing for me. I've had a couple of agents.
They were terrible. So I handle my business myself. But
in a negotiation, the person that gives gives the request
of what they want. For example, if you had a

(02:09:48):
contract negotiation and it was how much money you wanted
to get paid, and I've been in these over the years,
you go in to negotiate a contract, your boss is
going to say, Okay, what do you want. The moment
you reveal what you want, the boss then has an
advantage because he knows what you want, and now he

(02:10:10):
knows that I don't have to give you that. I'm
gonna give you something less, but that's what you want.
I'm not going to go that high. I'll go a
little lower. So yeah, you know, they tell you we're
gonna ask for the moon and all, but in this case,
how does that equate. Let me explain, Anthony Davis made
the fatal mistake because he revealed his hand. His cards
are on the table. Not many people assume this anyway,

(02:10:32):
But now the Pelicans have been removed as the bad guy.
Anthony Davis is the bad guy in the eyes of
the deranged New Orleans sports fan. He's the bad guy
because he doesn't want to play in their city. He
doesn't want to be part of their community anymore. He
doesn't want to hang out at Pat O'Brien's on Bourbon

(02:10:55):
Street and doesn't want to take part in Marty Gras.
He wants to go to some other city and play
their city. So screw him, so the Pelicans. In that respect,
you get rid of a franchise player, and normally you
just get roasted for that. But in this case, Anthony
Davis has given his blessing. Blessing you said, all right,
get out of here, go away, all right. Now. Second

(02:11:17):
thing here, the tough love you do not reward bad behavior.
You know, there's a rumor going around, a conspiracy theory
that Greg Popovich pop media love him even though he's
a douche to the media. But Popovitch told Del Demps
they have a relationship. They go back years, not to
trade Anthony Davis to the Lakers. No, I don't know

(02:11:41):
that I believe that, but it just it would be
really bad basketball business to do that, to trade Anthony
Davis to the Laker. It's rewarding bad behavior. When you're
a parent and you raise a child, you cannot reward

(02:12:01):
bad behavior. Because you do that, you are then encouraging
more bad behavior because they're you're pushing. You've got to
set limits, right, I guess at guardrails if you will.
I hate that term, but they use it a lot
these days. You've got to sit there and the Uni brow.
If he's a free agent, so I want to play
for the Lakers, that's fine, whatever, a big deal, but
make the Uni brow uncomfortable. Right. And you also have

(02:12:25):
this thing called the Jolly Green Giant in Boston with
all these young, burgeoning stars, and you want to get
blue chip talent. You you're trading supposedly a franchise player,
a transcendent player, and you should get a franchise player
or someone who's on the cusp of being a franchise

(02:12:47):
player in return. If you're New Orleans and the Lakers.
What they have done here is they've got a roster.
It's kind of like a story that Vince Scully told
me years ago, but she didn't think I'd work that
into this monologue. But many, many years ago. We're going
way back, and I was very lucky to have a

(02:13:08):
meal with Vince Gully and he told it. We were
in New York, the Dodgers were playing the Mets, and
he told a story about how when he was a
kid there was a sanitation strike in New York and
it was just horrific. Trash was piling up. It smelled
and trash. It smells in New York anyway because of
the trash, but just imagine them, not the sanitation department

(02:13:30):
in New York not picking up the trash. What a
nightmare that. And so Vin told the story about you know,
it wasn't on telling. He was just off of me
and a couple other people. He told the story when
he was a kid. People it was around Christmas time.
It was cold in New York, and they were trying
to get rid of their garbage. And so what people
did was they'd get these big boxes for like, you know,

(02:13:51):
the piece of sofa or something in your house, and
they'd fill it with garbage and they'd wrap it with
Christmas paper and put a bow on it, and they'd
leave it out in front of their house and people
would come steal the garbage thinking they were getting a
nice item. That's essentially what Magic Johnson and Lebron James

(02:14:11):
are trying to do with the Lakers. They're packaging garbage
and trying to sell it to the rest of the teams.
They have no assets, they have generic talent. None of
their young players have blossomed. They have not They don't
have a burgeoning franchise player the trade and so now
we're at a crossroads. We're facing this waterloo moment where

(02:14:32):
Anthony Davis might that's a weazel word, might not play
again this season in New Orleans, that he might have
played his last game. And he you know, listen, he
usually is he's a misters soft that he's a ten man.
He goes on sabbatical every year. It's what he's done
in his career. But there's a good chance if the
trade deadlines February seven, so we're almost this is the

(02:14:54):
last day of January. He got one one day to
get through and then we're in February. Next week, right
next week is the trade deadline, February seven, and so
the gossip coming from the Great Mark Stein, former junior
college guy in Orange County. Not a saddleback. Well, he
did actually go to saddleback briefly, so he's a fellow

(02:15:15):
saddleback goucho, the Great Mark Stein. We used to kid
about that back in the day anyway. All right, So
the point is Davis could be put on time out
for the rest of the season to protect him because
the Pelicans know he is made of glass. He is
made out of glass, and they are worried he's going

(02:15:38):
to go snap, crackle pop and then they won't be
able to trade. It is the Ben Maler Show on Fox.
We say hello to Edmund Dallas steam boat Willie shoot
this solid gold Garcia. I know you've been doing the
Mallor marathon yesterday and today. I'll do it today your
extra show there in Boston for the big met That's right, clearly, yes,

(02:16:02):
What's what's been the big topic in in that area?
Are they as excited as some of the Laker fans
here thinking that Anthony James is gonna come here? They
are they thinking he's definitely gonna go to Boston or No,
it's been all Patriots all the time, which makes it
very awkward, Eddie, very awkward for me. But that's that's
what it's been. I haven't spent time on on this.

(02:16:22):
I guess maybe tonight I'll do a little bit. Maybe
tonight I'll take some calls from some Yeah, he's just
all about the pay. It's guys just want to bust
my balls because I like they know I like the rams,
and they just want to goof on me. Although one
guy on the Cape, it is such a I'm offended
by that as it happen as an honorary Bostonian. I'm
offended by though. Yeah, no guy call, they call you Mala.

(02:16:46):
No guy calling on the Cape. He's a big fan
of showed he and he I forget the guy's name.
I apologize, but he compared me to Belichick and he
dropped he dropped your name, he dropped Roberto and Coopa
Loop's name. And he's comparing you to a haul, the
same coach. That's pretty good. Yeah, But then he was disingenuous.
He said, because my wins in the game shows. And
I told him, I said, I've never You're right, Well,

(02:17:09):
I've said I've never been caught cheating. Eddie has been
caught cheating. It's been proving you're a cheater. That's oh
my god, that is the complete opposite of the time. No, no,
it's not opposite of the facts. The long time listeners
know that great cheating scandal of seventeen and you think
we've forgotten about it because it's nineteen now, Eddie, I've
not forgotten. I don't know what cheating is, Eddie Carcon

(02:17:30):
all right, really? So oh okay, oh you want what now?
He's gonna hit and run after that now, But there's
only one person on the show who has been independently
proven to be a cheater. That's right, all right, all right?
So anyway, so Patriots practiced performance. They played a few
up tempo plays and they they had music piped into

(02:17:51):
the Georgia Tech indoor practices. No, no, no, this is
the music game, Eddie. You make the call now. It
is a guns in Roses song? Which guns and you know?
Do you know guns and Roses? Okay, which guns in
Roses song was playing during Patriot practice. Well, I'm gonna
guess Welcome to the jungle. You think welcome to the jungle?

(02:18:13):
Anyone else disagree with that? Yeah? I just played that
today too. Welcome to the jungle, all right, Coop? You
agree with that? Yeah? No, it was Sweet Child of Mine.
It was Sweet Child of Night. You're all wrong, you're
all really there's several louder songs that they should be playing.

(02:18:34):
I don't disagree, but that's what they played they chose.
According to a pool report from some pro football writer
whoever was there, they said, how would you like to
be that person documenting every dopey thing the Patriots do? It?
Practice took a bowl movement, then they walked over and
they vomited. And then I assume he got paid for it.
So I guess say hello to oh let's going out

(02:19:01):
to Whoopie Pipelaer. I was gonna put Whoopy a pipe
Blair on the Boston Show, but he hung up like
a coward. How dare you? Here's a big Eagles fan,
fly Eagles fly. I'm not an Eagles fan. I'm a
Patriot fan. You're a fraud. I'm not a fraud. You're
a fraud. Stop saying I'm not a fraud. How am

(02:19:22):
I fraud? You're not a fraud. I'm not a fraud.
Explain explain yourself. I can't. I can't. I don't even
know what. I love you, Blair. You're my fan. You're
watching Blair. You're a frauds are a fraud? Now what

(02:19:43):
do you think fraud means? What do you think the definition?
Like you? No? I guess he doesn't know what you think.
I'm a band wag NERD do you think that? Yeah?
Fraud Malard is now a band wag ner. Now you're
an impossible you know you are. You're an impostor. You're
an impostor, you're a masquerader. You're Charlatan the fight song?

(02:20:12):
What am I? Blair? Say it again? Say it again?
Blair fraud? Anyways, I was calling to tell you, yeah,
be hey Blair, Blair, Blair? Where's all your family? Where's
all your family? From? Blair? Does this matter? I love her? Now?

(02:20:36):
You hate your family? You hate you have? Where did
you go to school? You're a fraud for the Patriot? Well,
your mom's a bad mom. What do you want from me?
All right? I mean what do you want me to say?
Hang up on your patriots? Patriot? Stay with me, Blair.

(02:20:59):
Pretend you're on the Morning Jab. Pretend you're on the
Morning Jab. Fly Eagles Fly Fly to victory. I'm ready
to go all nothing more needs to be said. No,

(02:21:36):
right there. You know I'm a middle aged man now, Eddie,
and I'm doing this right there screaming like a lunatic
and Blair learn me. Oh that is that is just
just wonderful. We'll have Puck the World with Eddie. We'll
get to that and we will do it next. Be

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(02:22:42):
giving her opinion on that. I thought I would, I guess,
but you know, I think that like maybe even before
the playoffs even started. The referees, Roger Goodale, the NFL,
whoever decided they didn't want that. You know, the games
have a lot of like taking tact penalties or whatever
called it, basically won the games and signed on the
seams abilities and all that, And even if they, you know,

(02:23:06):
did say something like that, they would probably have to say,
you know, they didn't want to. Yeah, Mitchell, have you
been running a marathon? I feel like you're out of breath, Mitchell,
is everything okay? Yeah? I was in the middle of
the passing a couple of papers. All right, I collect
your breath. I don't want you to have a heart attack.
I've had that happen. I don't want you to be
cardiac Stanley, all right, I want you to be okay.

(02:23:30):
All right, I'll put you I'll put you on the hold.
I'm worried about you. Calm down, Mitchell. That reminds me
of the time I I walked out of the uh
the update studio here, I'm sorry whatever studio. It's called
an updates training studio. I went into the kitchen and

(02:23:53):
uh forgot it was the top of the hour, so
I had just split back in here to do the report,
and I was totally out of breath. Oh that's fine,
And people were messaging me, are you okay? I'm worried
about you? What was going on there? I was like,
oh God, what an idiot. Yeah, I've had similar I one.

(02:24:13):
Very rarely am I ever even close to being late.
But one time there was a highway HP broke the
highway a highway patrol and they did a traffic break
and I was I was boxed in and I couldn't
get off the road. And I got here like literally
thirty seconds. I parked thirty seconds before I had just
started talking on the radio. I parked the car. I

(02:24:34):
don't even lock the doors. I sprint into the radio
station and I made it, but I was completely gassed.
I had nothing. So if I remember, this was years ago,
but I think if I remember correctly, what I did
was I said, let's just enjoy what dead air sounds like.
And I just I just stopped. You didn't have your

(02:24:57):
your your engineer place some music ors, Let's see what
would it sound like if I wasn't here. Let's go
to Cowboy John Brad in Windsor, Ontario. How cold is
it cowboy in Windsor. I believe it's minus twenty three celsius,
which is minus nine fahrenheit. A beautiful chamber of commerce day,

(02:25:20):
Yes it is. What would have been Jackie Robinson's hundredth birthday,
Artie Banks's eighty eighth birthday, and Carol Channings ninety eight
earlier this month, and I'm still leaving, yeah, I know.
And Nolan Ryan seventy two. My Boyfred Rebay would have
been six is sixty eight or will be tomorrow? And

(02:25:42):
your boy why is her? He's one of my old
high school but oh good, okay, let's see. Gene Hackman
was eighty nine yesterday, and women Uman was a sixty
on the twenty sixth and fifty fifty seven years ago.
Yesterday was the will Lead does aerial troop accident in

(02:26:05):
Detroit which killed as a goal yesterday. Um how this
Tea Gandhi was assassinated by an Hindrew extremist. And I'll
talk to you people in February bronze by all right,
there he goes cowboy John Red with another days and
death's birthdays, and yes, you always like when you go

(02:26:29):
down the list and you're like Michelangelo would be seven
hundred years old, right, but he died unfortunately, a very
tragic death by Michelangelo. We will press on. We're gonna
have Puck the world with Eddie. We also have Factor fiction.
You want to be one of our judges, Well, we'll
see if Mitchell's still alive. We'll get him some oxygen
right now, though, let's get the latest and he Eddie

(02:26:49):
well been great news. Is a quick way you could
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games and note Nuggets over the Pale oh five to
ninety nine New Orleans, still without injured star and disgruntled
star Anthony Davis. Denver, with that win is now thirty
five and fifteen on the year, one game back of
Golden State for the best record in the Western Conference.

(02:27:10):
Celtics over the Hornets one twenty six two ninety four
was the trail leaders beating in Jazz one thirty two
one oh five. Damian Lollard thirty six points for Portland
over time of the Timberwolves to edge the Grizzlies ninety
nin ninety seven. Carl Anthony Towns ends the game and
wins the game with a shot at the buzzer. In
ot NBA News, Lakers star Lebron James, who was missed
eighteen games with the growing injury, was a full participant
in practice Wednesday, but he will not play in the

(02:27:32):
team's next game. It was speculator he might return to
the court throughs the night against the Clippers, but that's
not gonna happen. Tom twenty five College basketball, six ranked
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(02:27:53):
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All right, very good, thank you, Eddie. I appreciate that.
I'm told I missed a golden ticket. Does that mean

(02:28:15):
the golden tickets? He's just to keep the golden thing? Yeah. Really,
I gotta let Joe in San Antonio keep his golden ticket.
That's smuck, Joe. You get to keep your golden ticket, Joe,
I gotta keep you know. Sorry, Thank you, Ben. That
sounds fair, Very gracious of you. I'm a great I'm
a gracious person. Yeah you are. Yeah, just a couple

(02:28:37):
us to real quick things. Number one. I really enjoyed
that Hunter friend of the show yesterday because it gave
us all a treat that gave us a little taste
of human Ben. You know, calm, collected, intelligent. What do
you want me to attack Fred Dryer? What did you
I mean? He's got a gun, he's a television he's

(02:29:01):
comblem out here. No, it's disingenuous though. He's being as
smart as you aren't. You aren't a loud tonxious scotty
yellow at everybody radio pan. Yeah, that's sincere. Yeah, that's
very sincerity, backhanded, I guess. Yeah. And one last thing

(02:29:22):
something you failed to mention the last week. I think
it was uh with a last road victory. Okay, he's
gonna spurs propaganda. I don't want to hear spurs proper.
I don't want to hear about pop. I'm good. It
was a pathetic performance. So I go the rest of
my life without hearing about pop. I'm okay. We did

(02:29:43):
get a good pop drop though from yesterday? Right we
took did we take the phoenix thing off? That? Did
we have that? It was a pathetic performance. No, No,
we need to flat with more than that. That's all
we have. He went on for like fifteen seconds. Oh, Roberto,
we need the full I'll get the farll right. That's

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Eddie with another edition of Puck the World. Well, Ben,

(02:30:49):
the second half of the NHL season is underway after
this past weekend's beginning to the second half. Yeah, yeah,
a little bit, yeah, because teams have this mandatory bye
week that they negotiators blame Lebron. Okay, maybe it's Lebron's fault.
Speaking of that All Star Game, if you didn't know,
Sidney Crosby was the MVP of this year's All Star Game,

(02:31:11):
had a four goal, four assist day as the Metropolitan
Division beat the Central Division ten to five. Now, coming
out of the All Star break, the defending Stanley Cup
champion Washington Capitals are struggling. They've lost seven in a
row and despite the fact that they're superstar alex and
Or Vetchigan is leaving the NHL with thirty seven goals.
NHL trade deadline coming up on February the twenty fifty.
Two biggest names that could be moved are both from

(02:31:31):
the same team, two time Vesna Trophy winning Goldie Sergey
Babrovski and forward r Timmy Panaerin. Both of the Columbas
Blue Jackets have indicated they are not going to resign
with the team and they are free agents after the season.
Blue Jackets, I think they should be shut down like
Anthony Davis, not allowed to play. Well. They either going
to play or get traded, and that's the question. But
the Blue Jackets right now are a playoff teams, so
they're they're in a bit of a quagmire there do

(02:31:54):
they get rid of two of their better players? Stuck
it up and really yeah. There was one significant trade
this past week, the Toronto Maplelieves acquiring defenseman Jake Muzzin
from our Los Angeles Kings for a first round pick
and two prospects. NHL and NHL Players Association have begun
prelimary talks ahead of the next collective bargaining agreement, and
the leaders from both sides expressed optimism they can avoid

(02:32:16):
another work stoppage. NHL has only had three work stoppages
during Gary Betman's twenty five year Rain as commissioner. That's nothing. No, no, no,
no no. NHL also announcing that the Nashville Predators will
play in Dallas against the Stars at the Cotton Bowl
in the Winter Classic coming up in twenty twenty on
New Year's Day. And the other outdoor game next year
will be the La Kings at the Colorado Avalanche. That's

(02:32:38):
the Stadium series game on February fifteenth. That'll be at
the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. And that
is your puck the World report. You didn't mention the Bishop.
It's a bad job by you. The Bishop. Yeah, the
great Ben Bishop, my favorite goaltender. He had thirty safe
shutout Buffalo. His personal winning streak Eddie eleven games. Again,

(02:33:00):
it's the sabers second longest active windstreak against any team.
And he's famous for her having diarrhea a Stanley Cup finals. No,
that did not happen. Die die diarrhea. Yeah, we got
the famous drop out of you for that. That was
a I was fake news. That was the Spats with
Shats Stanley Cup Final, was it not? Wasn't that from

(02:33:21):
that year they all run together. I think that might
have been the year I asked him a Canadian, I
asked who he liked in the Stanley Cup finals, and
he went checkmate and blocked me, and we got the
last laugh. Because to this day he's haunted. Yeah we
got you, old dude, Yeah we got you. I'm worse
than the cling on because what I am? Yeah you should.

(02:33:41):
You should be more afraid of me than the cling on.
All right, let's get to its first timmer Betty White. Wow, Oh,
let's get to the let's get to I'm not answering
that they can get thrown off. All right, let's move
hit the damn open, all right, team, is it fact fiction?

(02:34:03):
Let's face some raw fact on the Ben Maller Show.
All right, let's stew it. Here we go. It is
time for fact or fiction. Mister nice guy says, I
didn't realize how much I missed Cowboys segment. You better
not lose it again. You know what that is, mister
nice guy, nostalgia. You're going nostalgia for the old days
with with Cowboys Corner. And I love Colvin and he's

(02:34:25):
free to call it. We can make this Cowboy Corner segment.
He's free to call on everyone the reason we stopped
doing it is because he stopped calling. That's why we
stopped doing it. Starts calling again, we'll do it again.
Factor fiction. We got a celebrity panel of Judge is
the best and the brightest all over the place, and

(02:34:47):
we say hello to the Power couple. They are preparing
their home. They're gonna Actually, the Pirates are so poor
that some of the players will be staying with Leslie
and Jack the Judge. They'll hosting half the Pirate team
for dinner. Hello, Leslie. But and wouldn't they be eating

(02:35:08):
well too? Here? They might win a few more games
if they're on the Leslie and Jack the Judge died.
Now does Jack ever go out and have a cheat meal?
Does he ever go out and eat something really bad? No? No, no, no,
not that you know of. You know, Oh, that's that's true.
But no, he's a fairly honest guy. Well, he's a judge,
he's Jack. Yeah, of course you better be honest. He

(02:35:29):
might be in the line at Burger King right there though,
you don't know, he might be a burger Yeah, all right,
everything good though. Other than that, everything all right. But
we want you to come on down. I know you've
been saying that for how many year? I gotta get there? Now?
Who who is the family picking? I think I know
we've talked about this. In the super Bowl. You'll be
watching and you'll be pulling for blank. Well, it won't

(02:35:50):
be the Patriots. That's right. You can ram it all day,
you can ram it all night. That is absolutely correct.
Enjoyed the game, leslie. You'll be eating a lot of
vegan snacks for the game, right, absolutely, all right, chowing down,
all right, nuts and oats. All right, very good. Hold
on a second, and we have let's see if Mitchell's alive. Mitchell.

(02:36:13):
Have you recovered? Mitchell? Ye, I'm still all right. You
want to be one of our judges? Yeah? Sure, sound
excited about that. Mitchell always wears his emotions on his sleeve.
He does. Oh okay, let's say hello to Rob in Vegas. Hello, Rob,
Good evening, Ben. I got a real quick question for you.

(02:36:34):
Does Jason and Ottawa look you in the eyes when
he's licking your toes? Rooster is in Minnesota? Hello, Rooster?
Hey there, Ben? So yeah, the current UH temperature in
Coon Rapids, Minnesota is twenty four negative degrees. So you

(02:36:55):
are in You're in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. That's where you live,
right outside Many Pull And just just for you, the
du point is minus twenty nine. Wow. I love hearing
the du point. I'm all about the due point. Yeah, absolutely,
not DuPont du point like the due point point. Yeah,
that's right. Absolutely. All right, hold on, Rooster, big fan

(02:37:16):
of yours, Rooster, hold on barbecuing Lenn the worst caller
in North America. For he's had that tile for a while.
Others have challenged him. He's still the king. Hello, barbecuing
Len only North America. Boy, it sounds like I need
to start calling more to take over the world. No, don't,

(02:37:37):
please don't, no, no, please don't do that. Yeah, I
don't do that. Although you did give me some good
advice on how to make a rip off cooling fan,
which I've not done yet, but I like the idea
of it. When we get to the summer it's hot,
I like that. Yeah, when you get down Benny's bunker.
I only do that in December because I'm mandated by management.

(02:37:58):
Otherwise I would not go to Benny's and my wife
mandates that. Awesome, So all right, hold on a second
barbecuing Lynn and we got the weed Man in Miami.
Hello weed Man, hippie, I'm on the campaign trail. Ben.
We're gonna You're going to be pleasant, So don't worry

(02:38:23):
about the fact that we're good telling people. Everybody's gonna
be rich. Everybody's gonna be happy and free to follow
what they love like high. I know, but I think,
oh but I think Bernie Sanders already tried that. He
didn't win last you know, last week. Alright, alright, we'll
get the factor fiction. Those are the judges. Doesn't get

(02:38:45):
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(02:39:05):
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wouldn't turn on back to fact or fiction. That's a problem.

(02:39:28):
It's problem and talk radio. They told me, the first
thing you do is you turn your Micaela. Then you
start talking. That's the second thing you do. You start talking.
We ever judges that we already met them, and we
said a load of them. Here are the three stories.
Figure out which of the three is not true, separating
fiction from fact. Story Number one, the donut makeover Los
Angeles rams Or in the super Bowl in La Landmark

(02:39:52):
Randy's Donuts in the hood in Inglewood. It's got a
giant brown donut statue on top of the the billy.
He's been in a bunch of movies. They film a
lot of shows there. Well, it's no longer just your
boring brown donut. Non They got a makeover, a Ram's
makeover because you ram that donut all day, and you

(02:40:12):
can ram that donut all night. That's right. I really
don't know why I said. I really have no idea
why I said. Anyway, there's no need to mark tape
coop the makeover Blue and Cold. It's sponsored by Nike

(02:40:34):
Gear or somebody or I don't know, maybe the old
thing up. Story number two. If you think this nonsense
with the NFC Championship game has died down, think again.
My nightmares have become reality. A production company's trying to
cash you. In fact, an Academy Award winning documentary. The
people that made the documentary Icarus. Is that how you say?

(02:40:54):
I think that's it? Yes, yeah, all right. Anyway, they're
planning a new documentary early stages of development, a documentary
about how the NFL got it wrong in these Saints
for Him's game. I will not be watching that other
than the goofunding. Story number three. If you can't afford
the Super Bowl, you can't afford Vegas, the iconic Caesar's Palace,

(02:41:17):
a sports book. I've spent many a day there over
the years, charging a minimum get in price a hundred
and twenty bucks to sit in the bleacher section Super
Bowl Sunday at the sports book, almost four hundred, actually
almost five hundred dollars for the lower level seating, eight
hundred forty dollars for VIP seating in the Las Vegas

(02:41:38):
Desert to watch the game on TV. They also provide
in seat food service. You know what I'll do. I'll
get into Jora pizzas. What I'll do I don't need that.
I'll make my own pizza. All that's story number three?
Which of these three stories he's not true? Let's go
get the donut makeover, the investigated Reporter documentary on the

(02:42:00):
NFC title game, and these super book super expensive Leslie?
Which of these stories is it? You're one, two or three?
Leslie three? Number three? Thanks, have a great weekend, Leslie.
Ben all right, thank you? Mitchell one, two or three? Mitchell, Hey, Ben,
you U should give me a golden take us. I
can tell you why to say it's weren't screwed. It's
an argument I haven't heard all week, but it's the

(02:42:20):
best argument out there. All Right, you don't have an answer.
Let's go to Rob in Vegas one, two or three? Rob,
So I'm gonna go with number two. Ben, all right,
thank you for not ripping Jason in Ottawa again. Let's
go to the rooster in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. Rooster. All right,
Ben going number one today? Number one, donut makeover, barbecuing,

(02:42:44):
Len one two or three? Len? All right, I'm offended
by that. How dare you and Weed man calling number
one dollar. The podcast podcast, keep preaching God, don't stop.
All right, thank you even No, I don't think we
had a winner, did we. I don't think we had

(02:43:05):
a winner. They had one whoever, the whoever guests Second
Robin Vegas, Robin Vegas. Yes, number two, Yeah, number two documentary.
I gotta go.