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like to thank a certain NBA player from providing us
the opportunity to not have to break down the Otto

(01:08):
Porter trade or the Harrison Barnes trade, or wait a minute, no, no,
the Zach Randolph trade who was part of the Harrison
Barnes to poy they had a lot of crap, a
lot of crap flying around in the NBA but we
have the gift of a player melting down. We go
to the oracle. Why do we go to the or

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We go to the oracle not to talk about a
terrifically bad NBA game, because the a classic Spurs. I
don't we don't need to. We don't need to play
our guys against Golden State. We're not gonna win anyway.
And so sure enough the Pop Warriors to send it, ah, well,
we won't play our guys, and they didn't. They didn't
play their guys. They rested a bunch of people and

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they lost by I think eight thousand points. I think
they lost eight by eight thousand points. I believe that
is accurate. I might be off the Spurs and the
Golden State Warriors, but that was all the lead up
to the eruption. And I like the eruption because the
eruption is where it's at. That's where talk radio is.

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And we're referring to Kevin Durant. Now, if you've not
been listening here, you've not heard the amazing, stunning audio Durant.
This is tremendous. Now, he's had some meltdowns. Durant over
the years has had some situations that have not gone

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well for him. That he has been very upset at times.
But lately Durant has had radio silence. I've always been
bothered by the term radio silence. It's a military term.
I don't like it because if you have silence on radio,
you're usually doing something really bad. You know, if the

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the VU meter is not moving, then somebody has completely
screwed things up. But Urrant lately has let's just say,
not been very talking. There's been a couple of reports
out that have connected Kevin Durant very much to the
New York Knickerbockers. That that is some saying a done
deal that Durant this summer is signing with the New

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York Knicks. It is finito done. Skis. He's already made
his mind up. He's in a New York state of mind.
And we know the way the NBA media works. The
way the NBA media works is that no one reads.
No one wants to talk about what actually happens in
the games. They always want to talk about what may
happen in free agents. And so we have this tsunami

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of stories. Right. It starts out and gets in the
one person writes something on some blog behind a paywall,
it's no one reads. And then somebody who somehow is
a free password to that pay website, they then get that,
and then they regurgitate it and it gets tossed around
like a team hand in a hurricane, and it's it's
going all over the plays. Well, Kevin Durant ended his

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brief radio silence and decided he had had enough and
he wanted to go after the members of the media
who were clearly spreading falsehoods. At least he wants you
to believe their falsehoods. Of all these rumors of him
going to the New York Knicks. Listen to Kevin and
now keep in mind it's a nowere on radio. He's

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wearing a Chicago White Sox in no one has worn
a Chicago White Sox hat since like Frank Thomas left
the White Sox right and Robin Ventura. It's been a
long time, but here is it hasn't been trending. Man,
here's Kevin Durant about to explode in rage. He's not

(04:46):
happy the Slim Reaper. Listen to him, complaining, complaining, complaining,
all these Knicks rumors. He's had enough. I have nothing
to do with the Knicks. I don't know who traded porzingis.
They got nothing to do with me. I'm trying to
play bad basketball. Y'all come in here every day, asked
me about free agency, asked my teammates, my coaches, who
rile up the fans about it? Let us play basketball.

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That's all I'm saying. And now when I don't want
to talk to y'all, it's a problem with me. Come on, man,
grow up, grow up. You're the one that's got burner
accounts on Twitter? Grow up? The hell you doing? Very emotion?
You can feel with despair, right, you can feel the
despair in Kevin Durant's voice. But he's not done. No, no, no,

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he's just he's just warming up. He was more from Durant.
He has now turned his attention again. He's got the
tank barrel pointed at the media, and he is ready
to unlock. Bro. I come in here and go to
work every day. I don't cause no problems. I play
the right way. I try to play the right way.
I try to be the best player. I canna be

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every possession. What's the problem? What am I doing to?
You're we're talking? So who are you? Why do I
got to talk to you. Tell me, is that gonna
help me do my job better? Nah? I didn't feel
like talking, all right, I know there's more Coop, There's
got to be more here. I heard there's about three

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minute audio a package of Durant sound. But that's a
little bit of it, and hopefully we'll get some more
here to play in a minute. But there are actually
rules of engagement. The NBA has all kinds of memos
they send out and mandates about a lot of it's
for social media, but there are media availabilities. The NBA
has a media website which I am off and on

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that supplies all kinds of statistics and information and factoids
about the NBA, and it's part of it is actually
part of your job. You might not like that part
of your job, but it is part of your job.
And clearly Durant does like to me that believe he's
being disingenuous. I know it's an inconvenience for Kevin Durant.

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He gets annoyed, he gets frustrated, and clearly he's aggravated
with the way the media is covering his story. But
again I go back to my point here. The first
thing that pops into my head when I hear this,
is that clearly there's some truth to this that Durant
told someone something thinking it was off the record, thinking

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that he had talked to someone and it would not
come back and be egg on his face and he
would have to answer these questions. So he felt like
he's he center to me like a guy whose trust
had been violated by a guy in the media. And
so he decided that I would like to get back

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at the media because you guys, I said something off
the record. It then got put out there kind of
on the record, and that has displeased Kevin Durant and
led to him being provoked. And here we are at
the point of ignition. You know, there's that point of
you watch those videos on YouTube and you can see

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the moment the explosion takes place. You have a combustible situation.
Kevin Durant is a combustible person, and you go from
that combustible situation and then you see the point where
fly and the irritation turns to fire and raige, and
that that is what Durant is. Now, are we have

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more here? Here's more from Kevin Durant. There was a
back and forth with the media, and listen to Durant.
The Bay Area media there, the people that cover the Warriors,
the fanboys in the media there. Listen to Durant. He
is not happy with you, Warrior reporters. He's very angry.
You've obviously been around the noise for so long as
it's bothering you. More of this year? Is it louder

(08:44):
this year? It is unnecessary. You gotta do Ethan Strauss,
who coming here, and that's the guy that's the dope
give his whole opinion on stuff. And it seem like
it's coming from me and he just walking around here,
don't talk to nobody, just walking here and surveying there,
something like that. And now y'all pollin on me because
I don't want to talk to you about that. Yeah,

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some hostility there from from Kevin Durant. Not happy too,
all right? So where are we at with this? All right?
Where are we at here? Do you believe the story
that Kevin Durant has already decided to go to the
New York Knickerbockers and this is a done deal. It's
in the books. He's just planning after string with the

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Golden State Warriors. And he is going to Gotham. He
is going to be the Savior, and that's how it's
gonna work. Here's what I think happened. I got a
theory on this, all right. My theory is that a
as I said, Kevin Durant clearly said something off the record,
there was a conversation and the bubble of trust was violated.

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And because the bubble of trust was violated, you got
this kind of emotional reaction, this hostility towards the media.
I mean, I remember years ago we were here and
there was this big fight between the Indiana Pacers and
the Detroit Pistons. It was the greatest night of radio
I've ever done. It was five hours. The show was

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five hours at that point, and it was five hours
of Sbruder film style coverage. And we called it Malice
at the Palace. That was the name of it. But
this is malice at the media by Kevin Durant. He
has now a vendetta and you know this a lot
of bitterness and I love the tussle. I love the

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touch because you cannot win the battle, right, you cannot
win the battle. There's a lot of listeners, a lot
of cool a drinkers and people that like to give
bubble bass to star athletes because they're good at putting
the ball in the hoop. And those people will cheerlead
for Kevin Durant and think that this is perfectly acceptable
and you know, way to go, and they will throw

(10:58):
on the evil media and all this stuff. But in
the end, ultimately, the media is going to win this battle.
And also let's not discount the fact that Kevin Durant
is continuing to be irrational. He is an unhinged whack
job when it comes to this stuff. The very business

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model of the NBA is to have trades talked about,
not even that some of them happen. Most of them don't.
Like ninety nine percent of trade rumors don't actually happen,
But all of them create conversation, even the most absurd ones,
even the most nutball trade theories that get tossed around

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that are completely untrue, insane, cockamaining nonsense that gets tossed down.
In the end, people like to hear about it. I
like to read about it. No one's clicking on a
story to read about a game, you know, story that
was for example, the Warriors played as I said, they
play San Antonio. It was not a game and Warriors

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onety one to one or two, and that led to
this explosion by by Kevin Red. Alright, so what happens next?
What happens next? Well, Durant, he will calm down. I
assume he's not going to continue this, although you know
therapy does help. I don't know what he's got going on,
maybe some meds, a combination of both, but he'll come.

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That's very emotional, very heated. Right now, was hysterical, and
he will get back and he'll be his usual snappy self.
And he is a whimsical person. You cannot trust Kevin
dur even if Durant for you know, he could wake
up on trade deadline day and say, I am I
want to be a nick. He is such an unpredictable person.

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This is such a so many variables, and you can't,
you know, can't. He could sign with the Clippers. He
could stay in Golden State and sign for another year.
He could go back to Oklahoma City because he remembers
when he played softball in Oklahoma City with those kids
in Oklahoma It's like I want to go back there
and I want to live that life again. Or maybe
he wakes up and says, you know, I really don't

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like America. I want to go to Canada because I
don't like the politics in Americas. I want to play
with the raptors. Now you can do. There's endless possibilities here.
It's ever changing, It's ever changed. All right, we will
press on. It is the Ben Mallers Show on Fox.
We say hello to Edmund Dallas, Team Boat, Willie Judas,

(13:34):
Solid gold Garcia. Where does Kevin Durant rank on the
Ben Maller Big Board of Professional Athlete babies? Well as
intention for number one? Well, I still got Lebron number one. Okay,
I have Lebron brought the man purse, so I have
Lebron ahead of Duran. Now they all have rabbity ears.

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They all have rabbit ears. See the thing about Lebron
is he's insulated more. He's got his yes guys in
the media, his cheerleaders in the media that will spend
any mistake that Lebron makes. He can sit on the bench,
you know, five seats away from his teammates, and they'll
say he's being a leader by not sitting with the
rest of his team. You know, they'll go on they'll spend.
So he's got a lot of guys that are doing

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the lifting for him. Durant doesn't have that. That's a
flaw for Durant. But I think I got Lebron ahead
of Durant. But it's close, and that'll annoy Durant even more.
It's going to annoy him more because he's gonna like,
wait a minute, I want to be I would like
to be number one. I want to be outstanding at
being a pussy willow and a prima donna and all

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this stuff. But the Durant burner account, though, has got
to get him pretty high up there. Y Yeah, but no, no, no,
man purse and you think that's a good look. You
are so insulated. No, no, he does. That's what I'm saying.
He is so insulated that no one around him, Hey, Lebron,

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that's really embarrassing. What are you doing? There's no one
in Lebron's posse that will tell him that's a bad look. Durant,
I don't get he's like, he's like a solo guy.
I don't think he's got a lot of a lot
of guys in his group there. Maybe I'm wrong, No,
I disagree well, you're saying that, Roberto because you're a Laker. No, No, Dan,

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you're saying that. Duran said, I just want to play
basketball and go home like he's a little kid playing
on a Saturday reg league. Come on, man, all right,
we'll take some calls on this if you want. You
know the number, and this is still out the number. Well,
we've had a really good week of show so far.
Why would I screw it up? Why would I were
in rarefied air Eddie. The podcast numbers are up. People

(15:45):
like fewer calls. They like us just sitting here and dancing.
It's like a hooting nanny in here. We just talk
and every once in a while we take a call
some I was just telling Coop the other day. You
know it is like a hooting name. Yeah. Here, it's
an underrated word, hooting n Yeah. I like to bring
in something else. Well, you're you know you're you're dirty
mind person, I dare you. I like there's certain words

(16:07):
a hooting nanny, ramshackle, horn, swoggle this. I like these words.
These are fun words. They make it more interesting than
using the usual boring words that everyone else uses. All right,
so if you know the number, you feel free to
call and you can join our hooting nannny boys. It fun, man,
oh man, because I'm so happy. I was so excited
when I started seeing the messages on social media that

(16:30):
Durant had ranted. I didn't see it live as it happened,
but when I saw the outcry of oh my god,
did you see Durant what Durant did? I was like, Oh,
that's great. We don't have to sit here and talk
about John Doe being traded for Jane Doe, which was
most of the trades in the NBA. Not that I

(16:50):
didn't want to do a deep dive on Stanley Johnson
going to the Bucks for Thawn Maker back to the Pistons.
I mean, I could do a whole hour on that. Ah,
but I've not. Don't ask me about that again. Yes,
that's right that he learned that in Austin, Texas, Eddie,
he learned how to speak like that in all that's
the King's English. Hey, when you make twenty million dollars

(17:11):
a year, you can do whatever that's outstanding. You know
what I'm saying. I hear you. Yeah, I hope that
that's just just wonderful. All right, we'll press on. We
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I feel like I've maxed out on that at Ben Mallard.
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(17:32):
of the guys that used to work here Eddie back
in the old days. They got like Russian bots and
they have like a bunch of fake followers. Yeah, I
can do that. I'm too cheap to pay for him though.
That's the problem. Somebody wants to buy him for me.
I'll take fake followers. I don't care, all right anyway, Uh,
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prepared and delivered without favor. Boom, that's what he said. Eddie.
By the way, I found not done. I got more. Yeah, no,
I found out that. Uh you know, I didn't know
much about my Anset Street on my mom's side of
the family. Oh you did that, DNA? I did? Yeah?
England really yeah? Odd, I know there are a lot

(21:09):
of garcias in England. Well that side is that, that's
the that's a wild okay, that's so the other side
the other side really? Yeah? Do you like fish and chips?
Well I had them when I was over in London. Yeah,
but do you like them? Though, because that's a traditional dish.
If yeah, you've got racist, that's not what I didn't
play that. I mean play a racist drop that. That's

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like the chips. The chips very much. Yes, the fish
is just potatoes fishes, but anything frieda is. I would
even eat fish if it's fried and covered in tartars.
There it was. You know, it's not good for you.
Might as well just eat a sneak or something. Anyways,
shout out to all my peeps in England. There you go.
That's Eddie's way to get curry favor with his friends
in London. So the big story here is a meltdown

(21:55):
the human drama, remember that, Eddie, the human drama of
sports complet competition exactly. We're getting some of that. We
get a lot of that in the NBA. We get
more of that from interviews than we do from the
actual game, which is I don't know if that's good
or not, but that's the way that so Kevin Durant
had to melt down for us. Yeah, I mean, let

(22:16):
they tell you. I was so worried I was gonna
have to do a deep dive on thawn Maker. I
was genuinely concerned. I said, Wow, I really should start
with the NBA. And I was like, does anyone care
about Otto Porter or Thawn Maker or Harrison Barnes or
any of that. I was like, no, but we played
the audio. But the highlights are. You gotta find this
for yourself. But the highlights are. I have nothing to

(22:36):
do with the Knicks. I don't know who traded persons.
I got nothing to do with that. That was, but
I sent it like blind Scott a little bit. That was.
That was the first one. And then he says to
the media, I don't trust none of y'all, and then
we don't trust you either. Yeah, I don't trust He's
a little weasel to two Way Street exactly. Tough guy,

(22:57):
little tough guy over there. It's too bad the New
York Post and the Daily News have put the paper
to bed, because that would have been a wonderful headline.
There's no way this makes the back page for the
Post of the Daily News. It cannot. Tabloids in New
York have already been put to bed. But man, all right,
no crying in basketball. I promise we're gonna get to that.
And someone who is gonna end a streak of not

(23:20):
being on in the first hour of the show. He's
about to be on. He doesn't. I think he knows it. Well,
it's those are the rules, Eddie. That guy that drives
all the way over to Chatsworth in southern California every night,
he gifted this to that guy. We'll get to that.
We'll do it all a big night here. A lot
of stuff going on, but right now we get shot
caught up on much of that and more we bring in.

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Here's Eddie. Well, we are still counting down to the
NBA trade deadline Thursday, three pm Eastern. A lot of
minor deals, but nothing major went down in the NBA
on Wednesday, So let's get to the on the court action.
On Wednesday night, it was the Bucks beating the Wizards
one forty eight one twenty nine, as Milwaukee improves its
league best record of forty and thirteen, led by Jannistatokumpo,
who had forty three points. The Warriors are the top

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team in the West now thirty eight and fifteen. They
had no trouble beating Leage Spurs one forty one to one,
O two rockets down the Kings one twenty seven, one
on one. James Harden goes for thirty six points twenty
eight straight games down for him with thirty or more. Meanwhile,
Sacramento drops a game and at back of the Clippers
in the race of the final playoffs spot in the West,
Nets over the Nuggets one thirty five, one thirty and
the Pelicans still without Angel but injured into scrinel string.

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Anthony Davis still beat the Bulls in Chicago one twenty
five to one. Twenty college basketball highest ranked team in
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But it looks like Anthony Davis is not going to
be trading for the dead mood. But will there be
any big names move before the deadline? I don't know.
Marc Gasol of the Grizzlies. I guess if you consider
him a big name, did not to travel with a
team player that's big, So maybe he'll get moved. Will

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we see any legitimate big names move? Do you think
before the day? Well, what you would consider a big name? No? There,
But there are two top ten players on the money
list in the NBA that I believe will be traded today,
and they'll be traded for each other. And that would
be Mike Conley, teammate of Marc Gasol, going to Toronto

(25:31):
in a blockbuster trade. Eddie, this is gonna be the
whole block is gonna be blown up because Mike Conley
to Toronto and a massive deal involving Kyle Lowry. You
know Mike Conley is the ninth highest paid player in
the NBA. I did not know. Kyle Lowry's the seventh
highest paid player in the NBA. Two of the top
ten on the money list in the NBA and they

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could be traded for each other. Oh how exciting would that? Bady?
Oh my god, I can't, I can't contain myself. I'm
so I'm sure Yea, the whole show, the whole show
will be all about that and I want you to
know now tomorrow I'm doing double duty on our Thursday
show into Friday. This is our Wednesday and the Thursday,

(26:13):
and I will be very fair when I'm on after
the Lakers Celtic game. When I do the moonlighting gig,
I will not take any potshots the Lakers at all.
That will not because that would be inappropriate to do that.
You know, I wouldn't dance on anyone's grave. I would
certainly not do that because that would be wrong and
I would not want to be that type of person anyway.
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Not only Durant had his meltdown, but we have Harrison
Barnes who was traded by the Dallas Mavericks. Now, the
reason people are upset about this the trade happened while

(26:59):
Harrison Barnes was playing in uniform. He was on the
court and wod dropped the bomb a wog bombing run
while the Mavericks were playing the hornets. And so we
had this very unique situation which has happened sometimes recently
in recent years since social media became a thing, where

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Harrison Barnes became the newest member of the Sacramento Kings.
He was traded by the Mavericks during the game, and
he was still on the Mavericks bench while he was
being dispatched out of Dallas. And people are very upset
complaining now leading the charge with his bugle. Who do
you think's leading the charge here complaining about the Mavericks

(27:42):
trading Harrison Barnes. Who do you think it is. I'll
give you a clue. He likes to wear a man purse.
Who yeah, yeah, that's right. Lebron James. Lebron James has
chimed in, of course, rather than worry about his teammates
not not sitting near him because he's got cooties, he
wants to trade them all. Lebron. Here's what Lebron had

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to say. He posted this on social media shortly after
the Mavericks trade with Sacramento. He said, so, let me
guess this is cool, Lebron said, because they had to
do what was best for the franchise, right, traded this
man while he was literally playing in the game and
had zero idea. By the way, that's incorrect, though, fact

(28:27):
check Lebron a minute, Lebron, seriously, I agree. Lebron went on.
He said, I'm not knocking who traded him, because it's
a business and you have to do what you feel
what's best. I think he's I think he missed a
word there. I think he used the wrong word. I'm
reading it verbatim here, Eddie, I'm not exact. He said

(28:48):
that this is the line, you have to do what
you feel what's best. That doesn't seem to make a
lot of sense, but Lebron said, I just want this
narrative to start to get real change, and not when
a player wants to be traded or leaves a franchise.
Eddy Davis uh I added that, Eddie, that was my addition.

(29:09):
He didn't say that. Lebron said, not when a player
wants to be traded or leaves a franchise, that he's
a selfish, ungrateful player. But when they trade you, release
wave cut, etcetera, etcetera, it's best for them. I'm okay
with both, honestly, truly, I am just call a spade
a spade. He said, but he used the spade Emogi Eddie.

(29:32):
He was just letting off some steed. No, I'm serious,
I don't understand what's what's the problem with this. I
don't have a problem with you. I'm glad to Harrison.
And by the way, Lebron's wrong because Harrison barnes agent
said that they were aware a trade was in the
works and he was likely going to be traded. He
did not. He was not blindsided, and he handled it fine.
I remember, remember the Mets almost traded Wilmer. Flores cried

(29:56):
because those evil fans on Long Eye Island in Queens
where they were at the Mets game and they were
they were shouting things to Wilmer, You're going to the Brewers.
You've been traded to the Brewers. And Wilmer starts crying.
During the game while playing shortstop against the Padres, he
starts crying, and it turned out the trade didn't happen.

(30:19):
It was that that fell apart. But yeah, it's kind
of like Harrison Barnes even stayed on the bench after
he was trade. He had the option to leave, and
he's so yeah, yeah, it's good. I know. People just
looking for stuff to be upset about listen. I work
in radio. We get fired a lot. I'll probably get
fired again once they listen to the show, I won't

(30:40):
be around. And and I've been fired several different ways.
I've been fired in the boss's office. I was part
of a mass execution where they brought everyone in. It
was like a gas chamber situation. I've been part of this.
So I've been part of of these things. You know
what I've learned from being fired different ways. There's no
good way to be fired. Because you're fired, you're out
of work. I think this is that one really pissed

(31:03):
me up. He dropped the guillotine on him. I am
still bitter. I lost her. I worked. I was doing
a morning shift at a radio station. I hate that shift.
Morning's terrible. Now. I would do it because they make
a lot of money, but I hate those hours. I'm
more of a night person than a morning person. I'd
rather stay up all night than get up early. That's
just how I'm wired. I'm nocturnal. That's why they called
me the nocturnal Colonel. I didn't come up with that.

(31:25):
They can't. But but but but anyway, So I got fired
on a Friday morning, but I had actually been fired
on a Tuesday, because actually it was it was a Monday.
The decision was made on Monday. They cut the severance check,
which wasn't much on a Tuesday. It then sat on
the desk until Friday, and they made you know, they

(31:48):
had me work the rest of the week and then
they I could have won. I could have slept in Eddy.
They wanted to squeeze every bit of toothpaste out of
that tube. Yeah, and I don't. I'm not upset with Harrison.
Harrison Barnes is making twenty three million dollars. He's okay,
twenty three point six million. There's a Beverly Hills and Sacramento,
just like there is in Dallas and every other city.
He'll be all right, let's go to weed Man hippies.

(32:09):
He's cashing the golden ticket. He's our version. He's our
version of Wog breaking NBA news from the weed Man.
Ha ha, cool quock hour. Now that well, they don't know.

(32:32):
I can. I can have a lot of personal issues,
though I'm not gonna do with my personal issues here.
I want to introduce the cool quo. What I'm doing
here now, man, I know you don't understand how this works.
I've tried to explain to you, weed man, we have
more listeners the hour that we usually put you on.

(32:54):
We have more people listening than we do right now live,
but you'd rather be on this. It's very bizarre to me.
I'm supid. Then I agree with you. I call you,
I call you two o'clock. I'm going every second row
on and that's not now. I mean now you missed

(33:16):
the other youmorrow, I'll be indorsed in tomorrow. Alrighty hallelujahdi.
The guy's got a point. We man's got a point.
The bron James, you're showing of humanity that he don't

(33:41):
blocks as kids. And if you don't like what the
blocks look like, you knock them down and you build
me blocks. Okay, So that's why if you gave, If
you get married and you don't like your wife, you
just kick the brocks and you start all that. Your
new wife. Hi Lisa, Hi Lisa, she's not talking. I

(34:06):
don't believe she might be sleeping. She might be sleeping together.
The para is that your imaginary friend Lisa, that's your imagine. Yeah,
say three years here together and then you live in
you live in different states, yea miles away from each other.
What are you talking about? How they sometimes you need

(34:28):
a break. And how long is this break lasted? Weed Man?
How long have you seven? Two? That's a lot. Well,
that's a long break. The point is you have stayed
with me to you called the rough patch. You can
be privately to Steep that I was okay and I

(34:51):
won't be sever for that. All right, Well good, I'm
glad and you need to get your your rest. Weed Man.
You sound ill? Still you can? I can? I think
you got my sickness. I'm here, but I showed up.
I showed up here, that's right, and then I'll be
here for toxifiction. You're gonna be here to stay out
of the entire show. So you're gonna stay here for
the entire show. And your point was, Lebron, you used

(35:14):
a building block analogy that Lebron jazz. Humanity has to
knock down the building block sets. Civilization is so stupid.
We have to be happy. Happiness, our personal happiness is
the most important thing. You ever have to be nice
to each other. You know I owned the points thought

(35:37):
I was the thing I didn't want that you know
why I said to God, I can't. My life can't
be about saying the woman the old lady said that
nickel was dirty. She didn't want that nickel, And I'm like,
this cannot be my life. Is it true that you

(35:58):
drink duff beer? Is that true weed Man that you're
drinking duff beer. I'm telling you he's krusty, the clown
meets the comic bookstore guy in the Simpsons is what
he is. That's what weed Man has become. Well press on.
It is the Ben Mallards Show. Big Night Gossip. Oh,

(36:22):
I love the gossip. Not a lot of stuff actually happening,
but we got gossip, and we love the gossip because
that's how we operate. We'll take more of your calls
if you would like to be part. The number. I
can't give out that. That's why I'm not giving umber.
Almost gave out the number. That was almost a mistake
by me, But I caught myself. I caught myself before
that fatal mistake. If you're giving out the number. Time
now for the who Am I? Game? We're gonna have

(36:42):
the NHL pucking. But here's the who Am I? Game?
With thirty one points? The other night for the Clippers
guard Lou Williams. He's now got twenty five career games
with thirty or more posts off the bench. Sweet Lou Williams,
he could be traded today. I don't know. I'm the
only player that has more are such games in NBA history? Again,
Lou Williams, Sweet Lou, the clips the People's team twenty

(37:05):
five games in his career with thirty or more points
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(37:49):
I game? Sweet Lou clips? He had a thirty one
point game this week. Lou Williams Now has twenty five
career games with thirty or more points off the bench.
I am the only player that has more such games
in NBA history. Who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer? Ed from Spokane is going with
lamar Odom before he started smoking crack. That's not nice, said,

(38:11):
how dare you? Weedman's depends the other that's the little
troller or who else do we have? Moses Malone guess
by Gumby, Dave Diamond, Dallas Page from Rob in Vegas.
Mister nice guys going with bugs Bunny Mike from the
LBC doesn't know his basketball. You suck at these games, Mike.
He's going with Jamal Crawford. That's his answer. Let's see, Jay,

(38:33):
I'm not gonna say Captain Kirk's name on the air.
I'm not gonna do that bad job by you. Jay
Scoops going mid game, Harrison Barnes, Eddie, do you have
an answer? Ed? Yes, it's the microwave. Vinnie Johnson Is
that Vinnie Johnson is now? That is incorrect. Jiggy Star
of a previous Newbie Nights going air Bud. That's also wrong.
The correct answer Ricky Pierce. He was good back in

(38:56):
the day many years ago. That's fifty years since he played.
But Ricky Pierce play with the Bucks. You play with
the old Seattle Sonics also, I believe he did. He
bounced around a little bit. All right, let's get to it.
Here we go. It's time now for the n h
L puck them. It's hockey season somewhere, so let's do it,
Cooper Loop. We don't have a lot of time to play,
grab ass, So who is going first? Here? We have

(39:17):
a ton of time, more time than we usually do
do not. That is a lot. I am closing in on.
You're closing in, but I'm in the league behind. The
only reason you won is because Popovich is a weasel
and the Spurs are a bunch of pussy willows and
they sat my guy a LaMarcus algy. Anyway, all right,

(39:39):
let's get to it, Coop. You have the first pick,
two skaters and a goalie. It's the n h L
puck them. I'm told this is hockey. Oh crap, ha
go ahead, Cooper up, hurry up, Coop, I'm gonna go
hurry up, tough guy, close it on me. Come on, Cope,
I'm gonna go in hurry up, Cindy Crozi. Wow, alright, Eddie,

(40:01):
he's not even playing. Hey, let's go go with it.
You're such a you're such a party pooper. Go with
Johnny Good, Johnny Hockey, Johnny Hockey. Alrighty is off the board.
I'm gonna go with the key to Kouter off of
the Tampa Bay Lightning, Ropert Jiff Skinner, alright, one more,
Roberto Sean Carterier whatever is that? Alright, King's English. I

(40:24):
am going gonna go with Nathan McKinnon of the Avalanche. Eddie,
I'm gonna take Patrick Kane with Chicago bar. Are you
gonna have him coop the back to back? This should
be fun. Hurry I didn't even know it's gonna be
NHL puck. I'm still gonna win, Mark, Andre and Connor McDavid.
All right, Eddie, Carter Hart, I'm gonna go with Andre
Vasilevsky of a Lightning and Robert two Curtis McKinley, I

(40:49):
think that's his name. I just Nathan. I picked Nathan McKinnon.
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rate quote. Well, Kevin Durant cried, side sniff snorted, and
pointed his finger while wearing a Chicago White Sox game hat.
As you know, Durant is the starting left fielder for

(41:56):
the White Sox. They picked him up. They did not
sign Manny Machado, they did not sign Bryce Harbert with
the White Sox did inc Kevin Durant to a surprising
free agent contract, and he exploded, We're gonna get to
that in a minute, because when anytime I hear dysfunction junction,
my favorite intersection is dysfunction junction. I love it. So

(42:20):
we'll get to that. Also, more on Lebron. People are
now saying, what are you doing Lebron? We already said
what are you doing? Lebron? But he's entered into this.
There's a lot of angst. There's a lot of anxiety
in the NBA. It is trade deadline day. We will
be sleeping because we work overnights. But if you're a
podcast listener, you can listen to this and find out

(42:42):
how accurate we are. Of course we're always right, distant,
relatively great, nosdamas. Everything's gonna go down down this afternoon,
three o'clock eastern noon in the West, the NBA trade deadline,
and unlike Baseball where they have the waiver deadline, the
non waiver deadline, this is it. This is all you
got one trade deadline in the NBA. But I wanted

(43:02):
to go over to football for a second because there's
a story that caught my attention. We have the gift
in football of malicious gossip, which is a good gift.
Some muckraking going on. It involves Antonio Brown. Now, this
is a story we talked about a little bit the
other day, but there's new developments in it and I

(43:23):
want to get you up to speed if you've not
been following the very much like Kevin Durant, loose soul,
a whimsical person. The Steeler wide receiver Antonio Brown. He
apparently is in some boiling hot water here, not because
of his trade demands, but an NFL spokesman confirming that

(43:46):
the National Football League is quote looking into the Antonio
Brown domestic incident that happened within the last couple of
weeks early actually it's late January in Florida. Very talented
Miami sports talk shows. We have a mutual friend, this guy,
Andy Slayter, who's a talk show host in Miami. He's

(44:07):
also friends with Marlin's Man, and I'm a friend of
Marlin's man, so we have a mutual friend. But Andy
Slayter does some good work. I've never met him, but
he does a good job. And he investigated this. He
obtained a copy of the incident report from the police
in Miami on what happened with Antonio Brown, and it
gives us some intel. Now, keep in mind, usually these

(44:29):
things end up on TMZ first, or they end up
in the hands of one of the big media companies.
Andy Slater is just a hard work and talk show
host in Miami, and he got his hands on it.
So what's in the incident report? Well, it says the
mother of Antonio Brown's daughter went to Brown's home in
Hollywood floor try to get a little bit of money

(44:51):
to reimburse a haircut for the child. Now let's stop
right there. How much does a haircut? Cause? What are
we looking at? Like? I get a haircut fifteen bucks most,
at the most fifteen bucks. Yeah, well, Roberto gets a
buzz cut, so he doesn't pay anything, and I wouldn't

(45:13):
be against that. I don't have much hair uptop anyway,
so I might as well just do that. But I
usually get about fifteen. I am getting screwed in the equation.
But how much could this hair could have been? Like?
Did the mom say, all right, I got the kid's haircut.
It's seven hundred dollars for the haircut for a little
girl's haircut, seven hundred. I don't know. I don't know
that part of it. But anyway, the report contained the

(45:34):
incident report continued, So the woman tried to get reimbursed
for the haircut. Brown of course said no, why would
I do that. The woman then attempted to impede the
progress of Antonio Brown. We know how quick Antonio Brown is.
We know in the open field, Antonio Brown can outrun
defensive backs. And he was trying to leave his home
and according to the incident report from the police, Brown

(45:56):
was stopped not by a defensive back, not by a safety,
but by this woman, the baby mama drama mother of
one of his children. He then attempted to bull rush
the woman, apparently invading you know, the woman was invading
his personal space, so he used what is described as
a two hand push technique, which knocked the woman to

(46:19):
the ground. The woman later refusing to complete the victim
AFFI David with the police. So nothing actually happened as
far as Antonio Brown getting charged, police say, it's still
open to investigation. So that part of the story, I
would say is mostly benign, right, mostly benign. I'll walk
you through why I feel that way. Now, the question

(46:41):
is how will these allegations impact his situation Antonio Brown,
and he wants supposedly to be traded. This is another
backbreaking incident. Now my views on this, You've got Robert Muller,
playmakers and bridges, and we combine all these things will
line them up like Dominoes now number one. This is

(47:04):
likely nothing based on what I read this guy Andy
Slater got the incident report the way I read it,
this is nothing. But in the NFL it's something police
didn't file. There were no charges filed. The woman involved
admitted that she made herself into a human wall to
stop Antonio Brown from leaving his residence after being asked,

(47:27):
and then she refused, as I said, to leave his doorway.
That's the way the story is being told. That's one
side of the story. This was not apparently a ray
Rice Haymaker to the woman in the elevator. That's not
what happened. Now. We don't know if there's any video,
but the woman in question here was right up in

(47:51):
the grill of Antonio Brown, and she was very aggressive,
demanding the money and all that, and clearly not a
boy Scott in this. I mean, the rules of society
have been set up. Even when a woman is entering
your space and she has decided to be a pain
in the behind, you are generally, in modern society, not

(48:13):
allowed to touch her at all. You can say that's
not fair, you can say that's not right, but that's
the way society has set things up. And so even
if she was the aggressor and she hit all of
your buttons, and I'm sure now women don't do that.
Women do not hit men's buttons. That does not generally happen.
They do not know exactly how to get under your skin.

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Women have not mastered that skill. I don't think they
have at all. So I don't I don't want to
accuse this of being the case, but just you know,
maybe by chance she had annoyed and gotten under the
skin of Antonio Brown. But again, those are the laws
of society. I didn't make them, but those are the laws.
There are places where those laws do not apply, and

(48:54):
you can smack away, but that's not where we live,
and so you have to follow the laws of mind
in society that you live in. There is no evidence
of a flash knockdown like ray Rice. As I said,
I would think that the police would do something if
that had been the case, but who knows, you know,
he can't assume that. So that hasn't happened yet. And

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the reason this is a big deal of though, is
because the NFL is involved. They live in their own
ecosystem and their own bubble, and the Keystone cops get
in here, and I'm talking about the police, the real police.
I'm talking about the fake police, the fake investigative arm
of the NFL. And they get involved in this and
they're gonna meddle and they're not real law enforcement. They're fake.

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This is where Roger Goodell brings in his version of
the Robert Muller Special Counsel to investigate. Except the NFL
does not have subpoena power to properly investigate, and they
will not I think they're good to do this. They
will not copy Harvey Levin and pay for dirt like
TMZ does on the athletes. So this is a headache

(50:07):
for Antonio Brown because you never know what the NFL
is going to come up with. Now. The second thing,
real quick, nobody denies that Antonio Brown from the football
standpoint tremendously. Give. I've said from the beginning, he's not
getting traded this offseason. It's the carry on baggage that
is going to keep him in Pittsburgh. He can't afford,

(50:29):
apparently to pay the excess baggage fees, and the Steelers
don't want to pay because every time you get one
of those extra bags it's in fifty seventy five bucks.
You don't want to pay that. So he's like, yeah,
I'm not doing it. Screw you, all right. So a
lot of carry on bagge. Another red flag for teams
that are considering trading for Antonio Brown, because even though

(50:49):
I look at this and say, there's no way the
NFL can suspend Antonio Brown for this incident alone, the
NFL looks at this, suspend him, suspend him. And so
there's this cloud that's gonna be hanging over Brown until
the NFL investigation ends, which should be sometime in twenty
twenty one by the time this all ends, and Antonio

(51:10):
he either has really bad luck, which is possible, or
he's unstudy. He's all over the place. He can't he
can't get his footing underneath him. He's temperamental, and he's
a knucklehead. He has become you know what Antonio Brown is.
I got the perfect thing for this. He has become
a walking, talking cliche of all of the bad stereotypes

(51:31):
of professional athletes, like all of the stereotypes that guys
can playing about. Oh I'm not like that, We're not
like that. That's how the used to be back in today,
Antonio Brown is living all of those stereotypes. And it's
like a TV show from from years ago called Playmakers.
I don't know if you saw. It was only on
for one season on the Four Letter, and the NFL

(51:53):
was so upset about that show that they put the
kabash on it. They put the kill switch on it
after one season because they threatened to pull NFL games
off ESPN if they continue to broadcast Playmakers. Why because
it touched a nerve. The show was about a mythical
football team, the Panthers, I believe they were called. And

(52:16):
in the show, if you didn't watch, either because you
were too young or you just didn't watch it, it
was a fictional pro football team. I was the Cougars,
Actually not the Cougars are coming. The Cougars are coming.
And so it was. It was over the top drama
about the cd underbelly of professional sports. There were stories
about diva players, constant drug use, womanizing, parties with hookers,

(52:41):
the whole thing, right, the whole, the whole deal. And
Antonio Brown, what the life that he's living? Some of
it is right out of that show, right out of
that show. What is my evidence that Antonio Brown is
living the real life version of Playmakers. Uber talented player,
transcendent talent. He has been accused in the last couple

(53:02):
of years of quitting on his team, getting into a
rhubarb in the locker room with Ben Roethlisberger. We know
he's very flamboyant on and off the field. The lifestyle.
He's gone Hollywood. He was the mass singer the first
episode of Fox's breakout hit, The mass Singer. He was
on that. He wears for coats, he bleaches his mustache.

(53:25):
I'm not done. How about the car collection? Now? I
like a nice car. And Tony o'brown's got a Phantom
Rolls Royce, a Ferrari. He's got six cars worth four
million dollars. And these aren't cars like Jay Leno who
used to host the Tonight Show. He over in to

(53:45):
Luca Lake. He has like a warehouse where he has
his cars and he very rarely drives the cars. And
Tony o'brown he's driving around Pittsburgh going one hundred miles
an hour. I mean, I guess if you're gonna have
a Phantom Rolls Royce, who are Ferrari? What's the point
of having that? If you're not going to see how
fast they can go. But I mean, he's got the
full pack, he's got all that he's I believe he's single.

(54:08):
I know he's got five kids, four sons, one daughter.
He's got a lot of baby mama drama. He's got
a lot of baby mama drama. And he's doing this
tightrope walk with legal issues. Remember this is just the
latest episode. Last year he had a hissy fit at
a condo building in Miami and is allegedly someone who

(54:29):
tossed items out of a fourteenth floor condo building and
some kid almost got hit. Or I suppose they scared
the kid, or they're just trying to get money. Either way,
there was a lawsuit a file. So all Antonio Brown
needs now is to go out and buy one of
those pet tigers or a crocodile or something like that.
You know, that's the next step, right, go out and

(54:51):
get yourself a pet alligator or a tiger or some
of those big giant snakes. Yeah, that's that's the next layer.
And maybe he's already done it. I don't know, all right,
the final point here, So what happens next? What happens next? Well,
is their video. I don't believe there is this was
that a private residence in Hollywood, Florida. If there was video,

(55:14):
would TMZ get their hands on it? Will other women
come forward and claim that Antonio Brown has been rough
and tumbled with them? Does the alleged victim in this
case who recanted her story do a one eighty or
in this case, I guess it would be a three
sixty right as you starting, yeah, it would be a
three to sixty and and go so, well, no, I've
changed my mind again he actually did this and pop

(55:36):
up on Good Morning America on a sit down interview. So,
and the other issue for Antonio Brown is you are
guilty until proven innocent. That is the way society has
set things up in the social media age. And then
you are still guilty in the court of social media
even when you're proved innocent. So this is gonna follow

(55:57):
Brown around, and you've the NFL's got that option four
six games suspension, which increases the odds that the Steelers
are going to have Antonio Brown part of their team.
You'd think that no one's going to trade a first
round or a second round pick for a player that
could be suspended that should have the trade value tumble.

(56:19):
And we know Pittsburgh. I've been to Pittsburgh before. It's
a fine city and a lot of bridges. In fact,
when I used to do this show on the weekends
called the Blitz, I forget who I worked with, but
we used to say one of the fun facts when
we'd give a pirate score was that Pittsburgh has more
bridges than any other city like in the world, So
many bridges. And Tonio Brown's trying to burn all of

(56:41):
those bridges. He's got his flamethrower and a canister of gasoline.
All right, spend Malors show on Fox. We sailo to
Edmund Dallas steamboat really Judas solid gold Garcia. So the
NBA stuff, Eddie, just to get you kind of caught
up here for those that are late to the party,
those are a lot of big deals. Well now I'm

(57:04):
Kevin Durant told the media to grow up. He had
a temper tantrum because the rumors he's going to the Knicks.
Lebron James had a temper tantrum. He's upset because Harrison
Barnes Lebron now runs the Mavericks. Harrison Barnes was traded
during a Maverick Hornets game, and that offended Lebron. Of course,
Lebron doesn't have a problem trying to trade all of
his teammates. You know, he's okay with that. But yeah,

(57:24):
he's upset. He's trying to defend he has. He's shown
more defense for a Dallas Maverick now Sacramento King than
any of his teammates, which is odd. That's not What
else do we have here? What other stuff? There's rumors
of big trades, Eddie, Big trades that could happen here.
A lot of smoke, no fire power, gasol, Eddie. Could
be trade spurs, Eddie. Here's a weasel term, Eddie. The

(57:47):
Spurs are quote working hard to trade. You think they're
up right now trying to trade, don't you know? I
don't think so. Oh it's hard, it's too hard. Are
How about this one, Eddie? The Lakers are quote running
low on hope, on the Anthony Davis or where they

(58:07):
becoming atheists? What are they doing here? They're they're running
low on hope. They're losing the faith. They're not gonna
believe in religion anymore. Uh, It's just that's insane. I
can go. I mean, there's a bunch of this stuff,
Mark Kel. Folks could be traded by the Sixers today.
Eddie could the weasel word. And then again he may not,

(58:31):
may not, may not, most likely won't be traded, probably not,
probably not. But they're all fun to talk about. All
Right's a Ben Malla's show, and so a lot of
a lot of stuff going on. Yeah, weed Man says
he just found out that his fault. We will lose
weed Man as a caller. I believe his phone service,
if I've read this white will be shut off in

(58:52):
a few days. So I'm pretty sure that will end
or at least put a hiatus on weed Man calling
the show, and that will end his job if the
phone is shut off. Correct. Here folks everywhere rejoicing right
praying for him not to come up with the money
to pay his phone bill. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, yeah,

(59:16):
here you go. It's bloody awesome. That's right. Oh that's good.
I like, that's authentic Australian. That's Perth, Australia right there,
that's what that is. And if you're from Australia and
you just want to prank Coop, just keep calling. He
cannot recognize the dialect, the local dialect in Australia. Cooper
Loops admitted that the way the Australian voice sounds to

(59:36):
the American ear, it all sounds the same. And so
if you call up and you just keep calling up
and you use a different name, you will get on
the air every time because Cooper loop does not know
the Australian. Yeah, that's when the great one hit. Wonders
there in NFL history, remember that having We did shows

(59:57):
about it. We did monologues about that guy. Do you remember,
of course? And bound higher but it's bouncing the ball.
Actually the ball was bouncier off that guy. If I remember, Yeah,
Jared Jared Hayne, right, I think that was his I
think he got in trouble for like sexual assault or

(01:00:18):
something like that. He's doing something. He was a big star,
and that one happened in NFL. What's that it? Actually?
I don't think. Did it happen while he was in
the NFL? I don't know. Maybe he did, I don't
think so. Do you think it was when he was
back in Australia? Yeah, okay, yeah, I don't. I just
remember reading it many many French Ribs. Nice job bringing
up was the playmakers? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you?

(01:00:39):
Did I not come on? Eddie's that not Anthonio Brown.
He's living that life. The best part about the whole
thing is that truth is stranger than fiction. The threal
things that NFL players have done and will do is
still better and more incredible than what was on that show. Yeah,
it's yeah, that's show and the real quick Man. Yeah,

(01:01:01):
all right. We will press on and on and on
and on. We'll take your calls. And I see here
there's a certain guy from Maine, Eddie. This guy a
bone to pick with me. There's a guy in Maine
that's very upset with me, so I know he has
some things to complain about. We'll get to that. And
also a setback for the social media mob. We'll get
to that as well, and we'll do it next. Be

(01:01:21):
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(01:02:07):
Fox Sports Radio studios. It's Ben mall That tough personal
news is the Clippers have won the trade deadline, getting
rid of Tobias Harris for four draft picks. And that
is the big news. Eddie. That is it. No, you
can say no all you want. Eddie. His dream girl
apparently is engaged. Oh that's Hollywood. That stuff doesn't last, Eddie.

(01:02:27):
Come on, that's what he said. Yeah, I think that's
what he's banking on. It's an a moral cesspool ed
even if it doesn't matter. Right, come on, please, all right,
let's go to the phones. We go to Maine and
here he is Whoopee Pie Blair, a local star in Maine.
He calls every radio show across the country. You must

(01:02:48):
have satellite TV, Blair. But I love that of that
So you approve, you approve of that drop. You're okay
because some of the other drops you don't like, but
you like that one. I love that one. Yeah, okay,

(01:03:09):
How can we how can we help you? Because because um,
you cut the New England Patriots six super Bowl rings
three straight and they beat well, they didn't win three
straight and have done nothing but three shut that is

(01:03:40):
that is a shutout using Blair math, that is a shutout.
You're stupid. One you did congratulations? It was it a
wet fart or a clean fart? What kind of high one?
What kind say that? I say? It was a hi
Blair one? Yeah. I was on the radio in New York.

(01:04:03):
I heard about that. Our friend fun House recorded it,
and you call house. He must be having a fun
House with one super Bowl on Super Bowl ring with
the Jet Yeah. So why did you now? WFN is
the first twenty four hours sports radio station in the country.
They started the twenty four The guy on that station, yeah,

(01:04:26):
he has one super Bowl ring with him because he's
a Jets fan. Why why? Why? What? Was the guy's
name on WFN that you called you put my finger
on my mouth. I want to go to the toilet
and vomit because the Jets and the Steelers suck so

(01:04:48):
bad like the Patriot But Blair, what was the name
of the guy that hosted the show? Oh, he's telling
you to shut up, shut your shut your piehole. Bad teams,
don't you. My line was getting really tangled. Eddie Eddie,
let me talk too real quick. Yeah, please do hijacking

(01:05:09):
the show, Eddie Eddie. Um, so you like the La Kings,
you like the UM What's see Steelers? But do you
like the Raiders? No? I don't like the Raiders. Player Okay,
So you just like the Steelers and you like the
La Kings or any of those. Well, I know the
Steelers have what six Super Bowl rings, so just as

(01:05:33):
many as the UM Patriots have. Right, that's correct. So
you're you're right there with the Patriots. But how many
times have they even matched up in the Super Bowl
with the Patriots? Not very many? Right, No, I don't
think they've ever met in the Super Bowl. Yeah, this
is the same the name. I got two questions. But

(01:05:55):
what was the name of the guy What was the
name of the guy you called into on fam What
was his name? I don't know? Actually, okay, that's number
one and then number two. What is the name of
the Rams defensive tackle? Oh? Is it? Um? I know
his number ninety nine? Now that's Aaron Donald. What's the

(01:06:16):
other guy's name though, Shoosh, shoosh the guy from Yes,
from Miami. Shush, yes, in con Shush, that's the guy's name. Shush.
He shushed me on Twitter. Let me let me talk
about let me talk about your Rams. Yeah again, it

(01:06:37):
was a shutout. Blair was a shutout in the Super Bowl?
Is that what you said? It was been? What girly? Girly?
Are you playing out? He would have been better off
if he had Probably he wasn't even hurt. Maybe he's dying.
I don't know. Maybe they're lying. Maybe he's got some illness.
Your coach is so young? Why would you even benjam
be such a good coach over there? Oh? You like

(01:06:59):
you like Shot McVeagh. Are you the same eight? How old?
How old are you Blair? Really? Oh? So you're a
little younger than Sean McVay in five years. Are you
gonna be coaching in the NFL, because Sean McVay, at
age thirty three, is coaching in the NFL. No, I
would rather coach for the Patriots. Really Yeah, Okay, belichiplace

(01:07:22):
replace Beli. You already said one more thing, and now
you're doing another one more thing. Call me a night player.
I got seven hours of radio. I'm sure we'll spend
a lot of time talking. And boy, that was a
good call. Yeah, tremendous. We've got to get that drop
of him describing in Domican his name in Domican shush?

(01:07:45):
Is that better or worse? He on the fan show
he called him sushi. I think this is funnier shush,
just funnier. That is a funnier thing in Domican shushi.
The Patriots shushed him, all right, press on. We got
Mallard to the third degree a little bit later. We're

(01:08:05):
mildly late, so let's get you caught up on everything
from the Geico studios. Here's Eddie. Well, we're counted down
at the NBA trade deadline comes up on Thursday at
three pm Eastern. There were some minor deals on Monday,
where should say Wednesday, but we're not going to really
get into those right now. Let's get onto the courts
where the Bucks beat the Wizards one forty eight to one.
Twenty nine. Milwaukee, led by Janniskopo with forty three points.

(01:08:26):
Zay improved to forty and thirteen on the year. Warriors
is the best team in the West to thirty eight
and fifteen. They knocked off the Spurs easily one forty
one to one. Oh two Rockets over the Kings one
twenty seven to one on one. James Harden goes for
thirty six points in the win. That's twenty eight consecutive
games with thirty or more points. NAT's knock off the
Nuggets one thirty five, one thirty and the Pelicans beat
the Bulls one twenty five to one. Twenty college basketball,

(01:08:48):
we had number six Navada beating Colorado State ninety eight
to eighty two. Wolf Packer twenty two and one on
the year, they were the highest ranked team in action.
Also wins for number fourteen Villanova, nineteenth ranked Wisconsin, number
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(01:09:09):
enjoy more confident car buying experience. We're still waiting, then,
for Bryce Harper to sign with someone. I'm hanging on
the edge of my seat. A list of teams that
he's meeting with has grown now. Of course, he met
with the Washington Nationals, his old team, the Dodgers, the Padres,
the White Sox, Phillies, the Dodgers got a pock and
now the San Francisco Giants. He could be this met

(01:09:31):
with Bryce Harper. He could be the San Francisco treat.
He could be. He would become the Mike Trout of
the Bay Area, irrelevant, putting up great numbers, and the
Giants still be in last place or next to the
last place. I'm fine with him going to Giant. Let
him sign with the handicap the Giants. If he signs
a TA I think he's gonna sign a one year contract.

(01:09:53):
I think the play here for Bryce Harper is to
sign a one year contract and hope that baseball changes
in a year and then there'll be more money. But
it's not gonna change, though, yeah, I could might change.
Need more money out there, if it depends on the
this is a word you're never supposed to say. I
was told by this old guy I used to listen
to on the radio, and then I did a show

(01:10:14):
with him, You're never supposed to say these words on
the air. Collective Bargaining Agreement. You're never supposed to say
those words because that's a bad thing. And so I'm
sorry to say that. But depending on the CBA, depending
on that, maybe teams will spend more money. All right,
So it's spout showing all that from the Geico studios.
Blah blah blah blah blah. We love Geico, Geico, Geico, Geico,

(01:10:36):
Geo Geico. By the way, Coop Chris legally blind Chris
has pointed out that the ZIP or postal code for Perth,
Washington is six thousand Sydney. The postal code is twenty
two seven four five run and it's uh what ninety
four in Perth. Network degree in computers in Perth is

(01:10:59):
ninety I don't know what that means. I have no idea.
Let's go to let's see you. Let's go to Jay Scoop,
winner of the Mallard Talent Show, The Ben Mallory better,
I'd host the show, but I wouldn't be Ben Mallards
damn right, because you'd have one of those daytime shows.
There is Jay Scoop from the Seattle area. What's going on,

(01:11:20):
Jay Scoop? Well, first of all, I gotta say my
girlfriend's asleep and Fireball Whiskey's my best friends, so I
have to apologize for that. But yeah, I needed to
make a comparison to the call of Caller of the
Year contestants. I mean, there's a lot of good callers,

(01:11:40):
but basically most people out there probably would agree that
Blair and Maine and Randy and Norman are I've got
to be the front runners. And I really see a
trend that's similar to the Heisman Trophy race, like Blair
and Maine was killing it like all year, kind of
like Ta Tagovailoa, which give me credit for being pronounced.

(01:12:01):
I'm on my fireball here? Now, can you say the
name of the Greek freak? Can you announce the name
of the Greek freat wall on fireball? Okay? Here we
got the key is you got to do it fast
night close Jannis? Now is it more of a d
even though it doesn't look like there's a d it's

(01:12:22):
a Denta coumbo that Mexican. Yeah, how do you know,
ver Borough? You don't know. You have not seen his
DNA report. Maybe he's got Mexican blood in there. I
don't know, Yes, Jay Scoop, so how can we help you?
But anyway, so you believe that Randy and Norman is
closing in fast with his lady Tyler Murray, like he's

(01:12:44):
rolling in and he's gonna steal it. But that said,
that last call in Domican sh I don't know, Maybe
that's gonna go against what I was thinking. So I
say that was a hit for Blair, right. He also
announced that he called the guy on WFN and doesn't
know the name of the guy that he just called into.

(01:13:05):
That was pretty good too. I like that the Tony Page,
who's been a talk showst in New York for like
thirty years, he doesn't know who he is. So I
liked that. It's all good, exactly exactly. Yeah. Now I'm
throwing my shout out there as defending champ of a
talent chill contest. I know that the next one would
be coming up somewhere here in the next couple of months.
But I know Inca Tera was the extra judge last time.

(01:13:28):
I'm throwing my hat in the ring. If you guys want,
I could help out and be the extra judge. Oh,
Inca was so good though, and you were such a
great performer. You think you want to go one and done.
You don't want to go for the repeat performance there,
So I'm letting you guys make the call. Okay, if
you want me to try to go for two, I'll
go for two. If you want me to judge, I'll judge.
I'm throwing it up. You guys, Well, you won't remember

(01:13:49):
this anyway. Once you sober up, you won't remember this
phone call at all. So we can tell you one
thing right now, and then we can change later on.
And you know that's how we work, all right, think,
don't go anywhere, Ja school and stay right there. Okay,
don't leave your house, Jay School. Okay, all right, there
he goes. That was a Bouncier segment of radio. It's

(01:14:09):
what that was. That was Bouncier, Bouncier, bouncier, bouncier, bouncy
Are you listening, Randy? Now? You shut up? Randy, Bouncier bouncier,
bouncier bouncier. A lot of reaction to Blair in Maine.
Mister nice guy says, Whoopie Pie Blair is a little biach.
That's what he has to say there. Chris in Houston
says hearing Blair in Maine Talk Sports set my life

(01:14:31):
back ten years from Chris all Right legally blind. Christopher
very active on Twitter is Whoopie Pie Blair was so
much better with the news with Blair. Come on, Ben,
bring his back, bring his bring this back. Oh you
wanted me to throw to Oh yeah, he wanted me

(01:14:52):
to do a Marcel and have Whoopie Pie Blair. I could. Yeah,
I should have done that. I can't do that every
day though. I can't do that every day because that
becomes problematic, you understand. I mean once in a Scooby
Dooby Doo. That's my new best friend Marcel on Twitter. Yeah,
looks just like he said. Yeah, what are you getting

(01:15:14):
at there, Eddie? What are you racist? What are you
talking about? What's wrong with him doing Scooby Doo in personations?
Not a thing? I love it? Yeah, yeah, absolutely, you're
saying he didn't look like you thought he would look
at it. It It looks exactly like I thought he would him.
Uh yeah, I'm saying that. Okay, it's the magic radio box.
Absolutely the magic radio box. We'll press on. We will

(01:15:36):
get to Mallard of the third degree. Here is the
inch to Tribua in honor of Jay Scoop. Jannis A.
Denta Coombo is on pace to be the fourth player
since the nineteen seventy three seventy fourth season, and the
first that the first year that blocks and steals were
official stats, to have a season averaging twenty five plus points,
ten plus rebounds, five plus assists and a block and

(01:15:59):
a steal. Again, Jannis Dentacumbo is on pace to be
just the fourth player since the nineteen seventy three seventy
fourth season to have a season averaging twenty five plus points,
ten plus rebounds, five plus assists, and a block in
a steal. Blank is the only active player to have

(01:16:22):
done it. There's one other player in the NBA that's
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eleven hours and some change away from the trade deadline.

(01:17:06):
It's very exciting. I feel like Ryan Seacrest here or
our friend across the hall, mister Harvey. It's New Year's Eve, Eddie.
There's going to be explosive going off. It's oh, it's
so exciting. Yeah, boy, is this big, Eddie? Oh my god?
All right, anyway, here we go. Here's the answer. Tribute
Yannis at Denta Kumbo. I am now that I learned

(01:17:28):
how to say his name, I'm now trying to find
ways to work his name into the show. He had
a big game last night. Jannis at Denta. Coumbo is
on pace to be the fourth player to average twenty
five plus points, ten plus rebounds, five plus assists and
a block and a steel Blank is the only active
player to have actually done it over the course of
a whole season. Filling the blank, the answers coming in.

(01:17:51):
Rod is going with tiny Archerbald. That's Nate tiny Archerbald. Rod,
the ambassador of Bakersfield Lazy Casey in Minnesota, was going
with Morris Buttermaker, Lonzo's balls from Jay's Scoop. He's drunk
Fireball Roberts from the Little Troller. Who else do we
have here? Dolf Shays from Bourbon, Dean Tobias Harris, biac

(01:18:17):
Ass from Il Guapo, Charles Oakley tossed out by Robin Minnesota.
Who else? Vince Carter from polyde Mario Elie from just
Josh Lebron, James from Mike in the LBC. That's over
two from Mike. You get nothing. You are shut out, Eddie.
Do you have an answer? Yes, the answer is Bobby Surah.
Bobby Surah, good name though correct answer. DeMarcus Cousins. DeMarcus

(01:18:44):
Cousins of your Golden State Wars. He did it back
in Nolans in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen. The others two
have done it, Kareem Abdul Jabbar in the seventies and
Larry Bird for the Celtics in the nineteen eighties. It's mallar.
How about that? To the third degree? This is one

(01:19:05):
big band gets grilled as the snow comes down on
I thirty five, a blinding snowstorm in Iowa. My friend
Jay's driving around Iowa listening on fourteen sixty in des
Moines or what do you call it, Roberto des Moines,
des Moines, Yes, all right, Coola, little Mallard to the
third degree here, Well, Ben, the little meltdown earlier tonight

(01:19:26):
changes this answer a little bit. Yeah, maybe perhaps, But
there was a report earlier on Tuesday before all that
that apparently Kevin Durant to the Knicks was quote never
felt more real. Yeah. Now on the Mallard scale of probability,
what are the chances that he ends up there? All right?
So I'm not gonna change my position is that is
a plus three hundred proposition. I'm still saying it's only
twenty five percent. Right, We saw Durant melt down tonight

(01:19:52):
the Knicks media. First of all, the fact that Durant
can't handle the Warriors media, the Knick media is a
different animal. They will just row Kevin Durant. And just
because the Knickerbockers have money doesn't mean that they're going
to end up getting the players that they want. And
James Dolan is the mastermind of dysfunction. So Durant is
a whimsical guy. I could see him, as I said earlier,

(01:20:13):
staying in Golden State, going to the Clippers, going back
to Oklahoma City. He's unpredictable. I'm only going twenty five
percent to the Knicks next. Now. Another report on Tuesday
said that they are at least eight teams that are
interested in Bryce Harper. It's a lie, bam. We know
who the favorites are. But do you have any dark
horses that you think have a realistic shot. Well, no,
I don't think he wants to play in Philadelphia. I

(01:20:34):
think the one takeaway I've gotten from this is Bryce
Harper would rather play for a bad West Coast team
than a good team in Philadelphia. Otherwise he would have
signed with the Phillies, which is a great kick to
the nuts for those animals in the Delaware Valley, shout
out the robs who love Philadelphia. But no, I mean
I would say the Podre I don't think. I think
the Podres are just doing this for Window Josey. But

(01:20:55):
Bryce Harper, if he really does not want to play
in Philadelphia, then he would have to pick between the
Giants and pot Race. And that's what If the Dodgers
are out of it, that's what That's where we're at,
all right, next, but it's never too early to look
ahead to next football season. Which non playoff team from
this season do you think we'll have the best turnaround
next year? All Right? So the easy answer on this
is the Packers and Steelers because of Aaron Rodgers and

(01:21:15):
Ben Roethlisberger. I'm not gonna pick those teams. I got
two in the NFC. I've got the Vikings in the Bucks.
Last play schedule for the Bucks. I like Mike Zimmer
with the Vikings. And then the AFC. Keep an eye
on the Browns because and also Jacksonville. I would say
those teams, if Jacksonville gets the right quarterback, can be
right back in the pluffs. There we go, Cooper Loop

(01:21:35):
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(01:22:19):
your car insurance. Just visit Geiko dot com for a
free ut quote. Sometimes we come in here and we're
on overnight, so there's not that much stuff going on.
It does not happen all the time when we get
a lot of activity. The last couple of days have
been pretty good. I'm not gonna the last couple of

(01:22:39):
days have been solid. We've had stuff going on. We
had the blockbuster, jaw dropping, stunning hijacking of the NBA
by the Clippers yesterday, just bamboozling the Philadelphia seventy six ers.
For a guy that's gonna be gone anyway in a
few months. In Tobias Harris, that is you talk about

(01:23:01):
a combustible situation in Philadelphia. They got four guys that
all think their number one options. That always works out well,
that always goes very well. Absolutely, So we've got we've
got that. Kevin Durant had a meltdown. We play a
clip of Durant. Durant called out the media, says, I
don't trust none of you all after being silent. He's

(01:23:23):
upset because of a story which claimed he is already
decided he wants to play for the Knicks next year.
That touched a nerve and so Durant wanted to blow
some steam off and he went on a rant and
he was very upset with the media. Very come, bro,
I come in and go to work every day. I
don't cause no problems. I played it right way. I

(01:23:45):
try to play it right way. I try to be
the best player I can be at every possession. What's
the problem? What am I doing here? What I'm talking? So?
Who are you? Why do I got to talk to you?
Tell me that is that gonna help me do my
job better? Nah? I didn't for light talking. You know,

(01:24:06):
this reminds me of an interaction I had, ironically in
the Chicago White Sox clubhouse many years ago, when I
was a reporter and the late great Biff Elliott, the
brother of Winn Elliott. You don't know who that he's either,
but these old the early days of radio. This guy
Wyn Elliott was a big sportscaster in New York and
his brother was Biff Elliott. And when I first started,
Biff was an old guy, and I loved learning from Biff.

(01:24:29):
Biff was like a character actor in Hollywood. And then
because his brother was this Winn Elliott, this old New
York sportscaster, Biff Elliott then got to become a figure
in the media and got to cover games and stuff
like that, and it was it was cool, and I
hung out with him ALOI became a friend, and he
kind of taught me some things about life and stuff.
And but we were in the White Sox locker room.

(01:24:50):
This is years ago, and the White Sox had a
fire sale. They were in contention, and they traded away
a couple of their key pictures. And this is a
long time ago, and we had to get some audio
in the locker room, and there used to be this
guy for the White Sox named Ozzie Gien who was
a very rambunctious, outspoken, loudmouth shortstop in those days for

(01:25:17):
the White Sox. He later became the manager of the
White Sox and then pledged his allegiance to the the Fidel
Castro and that was hit for him in baseball with
the Marlins. But anyway, Ozzygien, we tried to get some
audio from ozzygam mean Biff, and he then went on
a rant much like Durant all these years later about
how he didn't want to talk to the media. Screw
you guys. He kept cursing, and in those days we

(01:25:39):
didn't have digital editing where you could just edit out
the bleeps. You had to go back and take a
razor blade out and cut. It was a big pain
in the ass. And his main contention was he didn't
like the media and he was upset. And so my
friend Biff, very kind of petite, older man, fragile seniors,

(01:26:00):
stood right in front of Ozzy again as he's spitting profanity,
and said, do you know my name? I'm not the media,
I'm Biff Elliott. What's your problem? With me and Ozzy
again was so taken aback by that that he uh,
he calmed down a little bit and he actually answered

(01:26:22):
a couple of questions. And I remember that because Durana,
your media, media, well, the media is a lot of
things like look at me. The media is a bunch
of fanboy bloggers. The media is a bunch of TV
ten dolls that put makeup on and big fat gas
bags and blowhards like myself and radio. So it's a
lot of different things than the meta. Anyway, that's the web.

(01:26:43):
More on the durant Ram and as far as any
big transactions, we are monitoring the wire and the wire
for NBA trades are the woge bombing runs and as
of right now, I mean he can click refresh here, no,
no woge bombing runs. None. Last bomb was four hours ago.

(01:27:06):
What about Shams? Maybe Shams has dropped a bomb five
hours ago. So that's it. We've got nothing in the
last four or five hours. We're keep an eye now
all changes coming. Players are upset about the trade deadline,
and there's a lot of drama there. We have had
aftershocks all day and all night from baseball. Now words

(01:27:27):
started coming out yesterday we talked about it a little bit.
It started reverberating around the echo chamber of baseball conversation.
Big changes being discussed, nothing official. If you listen to
the show in a previous edition, you heard us mention it.
We briefly talked about it in passing, you might have
missed it. So the Commissioner, Rob Manford and the guardians

(01:27:51):
of Major League Baseball are involved in intense negotiation with
the players Union about a number of dramatic changes that
could momentously transform many of the long standing traditions of
baseball that go back to the late eighteen hundreds. We're
talking about baseball starting like the eighteen eighties. This is

(01:28:14):
a lot of real estate. We're talking about a lot
of real estate and baseball. One of their selling points
has always been that they sell the sport the same way. Essentially,
it's been forever and ever and ever. There's not that
much change. So some of the changes include a three
batter minimum for pitchers, a universal designated hitter shout out
National League, a single trade deadline before the All Star break,

(01:28:37):
twenty second pitch clock, which sounds like that's going to happen,
a twenty six man roster instead of a twenty five
man roster, but a cap on how many pitchers you
can have, no more than twelve. There's also talk of
a relegation in the draft, which means teams have actually
win have an advantage and you penalize teams that lose.

(01:29:00):
There's also talk about lowering the mound. There's all kinds
of different things out there, allowing two sport amateur athletes
to sign big contracts. I wonder why they came up
with that rule. Could it have been a mighty mouse
quarterback from Oklahoma that might have inspired that? Possibly? Now,
all of these are in the embryo stage. The proposal

(01:29:22):
doesn't mean they're going to blossom into actual rules. So
let's work through this now. I want to talk about
it with you. The question is what do you make
of these many proposals to change the very landscape in
Major League Baseball? And now I have my thoughts on this.
You've got so food, micromanaging, and the horse and buggy,

(01:29:43):
and we will link all these together. Now, Hey, I
want to focus on the three batter minium for pictures
because I feel like this is the most controversial out
of all these things. For years, I have been the
guy on the radio evangelizing and screaming and shouting that
base ball needs to stay pretty much the same, that
you don't need these changes, you don't. But then I

(01:30:06):
had a come to Jesus meeting. I actually had to
come to Jesus meetings that happened in recent years. I
will walk you through these. It all began in early
April when the Tampa Bay Rays started throwing out bullpen
games in the regular season. That got my attention. The

(01:30:27):
Oakland A's did it. There were other teams, but those
were the two biggest guilty parties, treating games in April,
May and June like extended spring training game. Now, that
was bad and I preached against that. The A's then
did it in the playoffs. But the final tipping point

(01:30:48):
for me, the Waterloo moment, and maybe you were like me,
that pushed me into radical hardball hippie Land was Game
five of the National League Divisional Series at Chavez Ravine.
I was a witness. I was a witness. I remember

(01:31:09):
because it was an early start and I didn't get
any sleep because I was doing the show and it
was a pin of the ass. But I was there
and that was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back,
that converted me to the dark side as an advocate
of change in baseball. That little weasel, that Craig Counsel
who started left hander Wade Miley using him for one

(01:31:33):
bloody batter before replacing him with Brandon Woodruffe against the
Los Angeles Dodgers. Now, the Brewers lost that game. It
was closed. Most playoff games are, and they've lost. At
that very moment, I said, from that day forward, I
am done. So we have become here. I am an

(01:31:54):
advocate of the three battermentum absolutely and called to Craig
council rule. Now, baseball has said for a long time
they need more offense, and I don't know how you
can disagree with that. Why does baseball need more offense?
You know what offense is. Offense is soul food. Offense
is when you're a middle aged person and you have
a meal you had when you were nine years old

(01:32:16):
that your mom used to make for you, your favorite meal.
Now it brings it back to a time in your
life where man, I loved it. People talk about it offense,
They post about it on social media, and more importantly,
they watch more event on television and you can resist this.
And people have resisted this, and they've said, no, no,
that's not the case. But it's human nature. You know

(01:32:37):
what defense is. Defense is processed, bland, flavorless food. It's
a plate of vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower that you
put in a microwave when you're single and you have
no money. That's what that is. It's boring. Pitching in
the offense is fun, f you and we like fun. Right,

(01:33:03):
come on now part B of this. Let's rewrite the
strategy of the game. All right, let's rewrite You have
an abuse of power Mike row managing on steroids. Now,
the yabut crowd says, well, it would only affect nine
percent of pitching changes. I saw that stat somewhere. Why
would you change a rule because of nine percent? I disagree.

(01:33:26):
If it only affects nine percent of pitching changes, then
just simply close the loophole. It's not going to affect
ninety one percent of the game. Who cares? Why the
pushback and for all the blustering talk of the damage,
taking managerial strategy out of the game would cause I

(01:33:46):
don't buy this. I'll tell you why I like baseball.
I'm I remember many great moments in baseball, and not
a single one of those moments I flashed back on
and say, boy, I love that double switch man. That
was a great decision to put that pinch hitter up there.
Not a single one. Not one. So tell me how

(01:34:08):
this is going to affect the love of baseball because
managerial strategy goes out the window. Ninety nine percent of
managers in today's game of baseball are brainless robots. They
are hired to deal mostly with the media. They are
the chief happiness officer in the clubhouse, have their players

(01:34:29):
wear pajamas on road trips, and give them positive quotations
in the locker room. Now, what's my evidence on this.
The lineups are set by many of these teams based
on algorithms that look at patterns of data that have happened,
which don't tell you what's going to Happen's kind of
like investing on the stock market solely based on past data,

(01:34:53):
but that doesn't guarantee future results. You got skippers who
are pencil pushers simply follow the script of the walks
in the front office. There's no room for the human element.
It's almost all gone. It's paint by numbers, it's robotic.
That is the world of data driven front offices. Now

(01:35:16):
you can't completely change that, but you can certainly make
it harder and move the goalposts and make them have
to adjust their supercomputers. Now, the last thing here, these
changes to the sport of baseball, we're obviously leaked intentional.
The commissioner, Rob Manford knows that he is going to

(01:35:36):
get a tremendous amount of pushback from the base the
baseball sentimental crab, the historians, the horse and buggy people.
Or they're still upset. These people, the horse and buggy
crowd of baseball. They're still upset about previous changes like
night baseball, television, broadcast, radio broadcast, batting helmets, players wearing cups.

(01:36:01):
They romanticize the days when players would share the gloves.
The shortstop when he would run in, he'd throw his
glove down and the other shortstop would use the same glove. Blasphemy.
Now all of this is a balloon, a trial balloon,
a weather balloon. They're testing to see how far they
can push the limits in baseball. Now, I will say

(01:36:22):
one final thing here, In addition to my other final thing.
Baseball can be a beacon of change if they can
own if they only do one thing here, implement the
rule that penalizes habitual losers. You don't reward pathetic franchises
like the Astros and Cubs who have won the World

(01:36:43):
Series in recent years by systematically cheating, essentially tanking. You
don't reward that. I love this. I can't tell you
enough how much I love this idea of penalizing teams
that lose every year. That is something that they got
right in Europe with their soccer and their sports relegation.

(01:37:06):
Now that's you can't have relegation in the US. Is
the system's not set up that way. The current system
encourages teams to lose because you get better, you get cheaper, etc.
Imagine an educational system in which students were rewarded for
getting failing grades on tests. That's essentially what we have

(01:37:28):
in baseball and basketball and even football. The Raiders and
Cardinals in the NFL were horrific, and they now have
the number one and number two pick. That shouldn't be
that way. I'd give them the last pick in the draft.
I'd give you know, we would have the first pick.
The Patriots would have the first pick in the draft,
all right, Spim Malas show on Fox, and the Ramps

(01:37:50):
would have the number two pick. We say hello to
Edmund Dallas, Steamboat, Willie Judas, solid gold, Darcy. I don't know,
maybe Roberto is also as a big a baseball fan
as you are, but I think you're probably the biggest
baseball thank you would say that. Have you over the years,
have you also grown weary of baseball? Now? You know what

(01:38:13):
what I mean? Look, in life, we've got, you know,
phones where everything is information in an instant and things
are more fast paced. And you know, I can't even
sit at a stop a stoplight anymore without having to
get on my phone because I don't waste you know,
ten seconds of my time or whatever. So if you
have as a baseball fan, have you found that you
agree now with The pace has got to quick enough.

(01:38:34):
We've got to make these changes of action. I don't
need to watch ten minutes of a game with nothing,
no ball in play or anything like that. That drives
me nuts. But yeah, I mean the thing about baseball,
I don't have to watch every pitch of a game
like I can. I'm usually flipping around anyway, watching say
you want more actionably, you're for the shift? What's that? Yeah,
I know how to cheat the shift. Doesn't need to

(01:38:55):
go away because I know how to beat the shift.
Like I don't need to see more action. Definitely, you
eliminate the these radical shifts that they have. Yeah, how
about if you just hit the ball the other way
like they did for a long time in baseball. They
used to hit the ball the other way. Talk to
some of those guys. Even, I've had these conversations with
Rick Monday, who is a Dodger broadcaster and played for

(01:39:18):
a long time. The first ever pick in the Major
League Baseball Draft Rick Monday. Yes, the first year they
had the draft, Rick Monday was the number one pick.
But anyway, he's pointed this out to he. When you played,
he hit the ball, they choked up on the bat
with two strikes. You hit the ball the other way.
You you stepped out of the box, you saw where
the defensive players were, and then you in your head,
this is gonna blow you away, Eddie. You strategically attempted

(01:39:41):
to put the ball in play. Apparently it's so much
harder now. Twenty thirty forty years later, it's impossible now
that they're throwing one hundred and eighty miles an hour.
Now in baseball, you can have the launch angle now, man,
you can be screw your launch angle. Yep, I agree
with you on that. All right? You anything else you'd
like to see? Robot you don't like the dash, you

(01:40:02):
have a problem with that. But yeah, there's more more
strategy involved in the last in league again, can you
tell me a memory of strategy? The only time I
recall a strategy situation where I vaguely remember it was
the Red Sox and Yankees and the Aaron Boone game

(01:40:23):
where he hit the home run Grady Little And remember
he took out was it Pedro Martine? He left him in.
That's where he left him in. I remember that, Yeah,
And that's about it. So anyway, all right, so Ben
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(01:40:45):
Is it? Is it still ten hours? I think we're
ten hours, ten hours and forty minutes or something like
that away from the hours till eight becomes a laker.
I've warned that later. Yeah, there's a new theory out
on that. Anthony Davis, Laker, Pelican dynamic. I like this.
We'll get to some of that. And again, you want
to hit us up on Twitter, you are more than

(01:41:06):
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(01:42:10):
It's Ben Maller. We will have asked, Ben, I gotta
put some grease on these microphone stands. Man. The mic
actually fell off right before the show. It did that?
Sounds good? I saw that, yeah, yeah, So it's a
network radio show here, Eddie. And moments before the show,
I'm trying to put the mic on. Harmon wasn't here.

(01:42:33):
Who was in for harmon? Aaron Torres. I guess I
don't know. He was in here and he used this
mic and he must have as a gag. He must
have decided, let's mess with Mallard. Let's move the microphone
round and round and round and round like a Merry
go round. And the mic fell off. Oh no, all
I did. When I came in here. I have a

(01:42:53):
mic condom that I put on because I spit a
lot and I like to practice safe talking with the microphone.
So I put the condom on and then I say spit,
and you can't hear the spit because he said the
microphone had this green thing, and so I put it
on and as I'm putting it on, the whole thing
fell off. It was like that time Wan Gonzalez came
back from the d L in Minnesota with the I

(01:43:15):
think he was with the Indians and he hit a
groundball he ran to first and his junk fell off,
and nomar Garcia part I had the same problem. But anyway,
so I was trying to fix it and we're I'm
looking at the clock, We're running into a brick wall,
and Jason's kind of standing there watching, kind of telling
me what to do, and it wasn't working. And so
then finally, in an act of goodwill, Jason Smith offered

(01:43:37):
his assistance to help put the mic back on. So
to answer the question how many people does it take
to screw in a microphone at Fox Sports Radio, the
answers too. The answer is too, that's how many two
talk show hosts can put the microphone back the way
it works? We have asked Ben coming up in a
couple of minutes, let's go to Blind Scott, Who's next

(01:43:58):
on Fox Sports Radio? Hello blind Scott in Boston, the
North End where they fight on the streets that when
I pay, Yeah, it was crazy. I was. I was
that fight video came out. I was. She went to
the bud said where is that? Like, go that's that's
right in front of your apartment. Uh, you know I
wasn't home at that time. Though. I went to the parade,
but I not by choice. I had to protect my friends.
She had like a hair appointment. Man, these parades are

(01:44:20):
at a control. I don't know how much they cost
the city. But between the trash and the morons, and
you know, they should have the parade in Foxboro. I
got an illness, like from stand up all night that
night after the super Bowl. You know you got some
of the biggest morons. I calling you show that guy Randy,
he goes my two ex wives. Imagine the women that
married that guy. Oh, geez, Musa, that must be a

(01:44:42):
real beauty. You know what I mean. I can't believe
three Prannings already here. You know, Uh, they got truck Day.
The truck left summary. Do they have truck Day at
Dodger Stadium. They brought like twenty five cases of bubble
cum I don't even think that's enough. Bubble coum. You
know what I mean? You were you were talking about
Grady Little earlier. I wonder if that guy's still life.
He wasn't a bad coach, but you know, John and

(01:45:04):
Henry came in and uh he put the ask him
this one Henry guy, he's another loser. Two he has
like three wives, two three x wives. Imagine that guy
who who haven't married. Okay, that must be so boring.
You know, he's crunches the numbers all the time. I
was checking out his hedge fund. They went from like
he was managing like a couple of billion dollars and
then it went down to hundred million. I wonder what
happened to all the money? You know? You know, uh, well,

(01:45:26):
the most impoort listen to the show are the mothers
out there, because without the mothers, that'd be no other listeners.
And you don't even have any mothers call the show anymore.
You know, we don't have any ladies called the show anymore.
We're really lacking someone to cause well, we do a
female caller here, but Tammy and Montana don't even call anymore.
Would Chase Mallway Pete and Pittsburgh don't call anymore. I
I you know, entered Twitter like five years when I

(01:45:47):
realized that everybody on the show is their own politician.
You could see some of these political tweets, seeds moron
send out. I mean, were at the biggest bunch of
loads of stuff this show. My favorite guy on the
show is Eddie because he's the most normal guy. I mean,
I hate to say it, but he's the most down
to earth, the normal guy, and I think you gotta
get him on your boss and show do a little
hockey thing when the hockey playoffs come. You know, I love,

(01:46:09):
I love listen the show, but the I mean the
college is just terble. The show. You gotta canceled. If
any awards, it's a bunch of cry basow you want
to get awards, shocking blind scut Yeah, you don't even
you don't need the raidings. You're you're the best open
night show out of anybody in the market right now.
I mean, there's no competition. It hands it's hands down.
We don't need this stupid award show. It takes me.

(01:46:31):
You only work two hours and forty three minutes to night.
I'm trying to coneclate. How much that is an hour?
You know what I mean? So are you vacating your
nomination for Color of the Year. Yeah, yeah, I don't
even Yeah, so you do not You are saying you
do not want to be a candidate for Call of
the Yeah, no, no, I don't have to be on that.
I don't need that. I'm already anna started already. I'm
gonna starting my own mind, in my own head, you know. Yeah,
I gotta I gotta win this lawsuit this month and

(01:46:52):
then pay my taxes. And I want to buy a
householf on like co Hasted or hang them on the harbor.
You know what I mean. I don't need this stupid
fenny of what's even though I loved, I love understand
you know what I mean, Absolutely no question about all right,
Well thank you, Blind Sky said, ye, you're in a
really good mood. You sound very happy. And there's no

(01:47:14):
women call the show. Everyone's political and suck. Eddie is
the only normal person on the show. Yeah, yeah, good
thing to say about Eddie. That's good. Yeah, big fan
of Eddie's worked there. All right, thank you boys, big
Ben Mallab, thank well the Birdman's brother. You gotta check
this out. Have you seen the photo of the Miami

(01:47:35):
Hurricanes newest football player. He's a punter. The guy looks
like Birdman. Remember the basketball player Birdman, Chris Anderson. Yeah,
he had He was the fully tattooed man like all
the way up. And this guy, I think he's from Australia.
I think he's from Australia. He is six foot four,
two hundred and fifteen pounds. You got to see the

(01:47:56):
photo of him, Eddie. He looks like he's he's about forty.
Just type in like Miami Hurricanes punter. It's all you
have to do, okay, and you will find this guy.
And you got to look at the photo which is
going around of this guy. It's unbelievable at it. You
can't you can't miss. It's insane. He's from Australia. It's

(01:48:16):
Lewis Headley is the guy's name. Oh my god. He
looks like he's about fifty. Yeah, right, at least thirty something.
His listed age did you see what his age is?
Twenty four? He wor he was in a biker gang.
Uh he was a truck driver. He worked in a factory.

(01:48:38):
Uh yeah, twenty four that's what they said. He's twenty
four years old and he's wearing number ninety four. You
guy like that as a punter? Yeah, he certainly. It
looks like a character, to say the least. God like
that guy can't be There's no way, right, No, he's
got to be in his thirty chack this out he

(01:48:58):
it says, his chances of make you know, living playing
Australian rules football, we're fading. So he found employment in construction,
now that I believe. He worked as an unscaffolding across
his home country and would spend a week home, then
fly out somewhere in the desert to spend a month working.
So it's like a long shoreman. I got a lot
of tattoos, all right, Spen Malors show on Fox. We

(01:49:20):
got ask Ben coming up here in a little bit
with Tix. Some more calls as well. Right now though
from the Geico studios here years Eddie. All right, let's
start with NBA action as we countdown of the trade
deadline coming up Thursday at three pm Eastern. Not any
significant deals really on Wednesday, so let's get on the
court where the Bucks beat the Wizards one forty eight
to one. Twenty nine Milwaukee now a league best forty
and thirteen Yannaskopo with forty three points in the win.

(01:49:43):
Warriors are the top team in the West at thirty
eight and fifteen. They beat the Spurs easily one forty
one to one. H two Rockets over the Kings one
twenty seven, one oh one. James Harden goes for thirty
six points in the win. That's his twenty eighth consecutive
game scoring thirty or more points nets over the Nuggets
one thirty eight, one thirty and the Pelicans, still with
out the injured Anthony Davis, beat the Bulls one twenty
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(01:50:06):
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(01:50:28):
the NFL season has come to a close with a
super Bowl last week. But there is of course news
on some of the new leagues that are coming up now.
The XFL is still a few years away, but they
announced that Bob Stoop's gonna be the head coach and
GM of the x FL franchise in Dallas. That's official
or just a report that's expected? Is the world expected?

(01:50:53):
And I don't know if you saw this, but the
aa F is kicking off this weekend. The Alliance of
American Football. I've been trying to contain, will be uh,
will be excited. I know you are in waiting my
entire life. When I was gonna name any of the
teams that are gonna be when I was a little boy, Eddie,
I dreamed, I dreamed someday I could watch AFF football, Eddie.

(01:51:18):
There are eight teams the Alliance. New York have you know?
They do not, they do not know. The Chicago have
a team. So the three biggest cities don't have to.
So they're going small market. They're going media market. What
are they doing? Well, They're going mostly they're going with
markets that don't have an NFL franchise, which makes sense. Uh.
Eastern Conference, you've got the Birmingham Iron a lot of

(01:51:42):
iron workers in Birmingham. The Memphis express Men have an
Express remember the Memphis team in the XFL. The Maniacs
people are very very offended by that. The Orlando Apollos.
The Apollos isn't the Apollo Theater in New York. Yes
it is, I believe. And the Atlanta Legends Atlanta for
some reason, he probably so it is. And the Western

(01:52:04):
Conference you've got the Arizona hot Shots and mocking fire
forest fight it actually is. It is about forest fight. Yeah,
they've got like a fireman kind of motif going on that.
The Salt Lakes Stallions stall Stallions, Salt Lake Stallions Stallions
in Salt Lake. I've been through Salt Lake once. I
didn't really see. You've got the San Antonio Commanders. Is

(01:52:30):
that a way of mocking the Alamo? Is that how
they're mocking I think it is Alamo inspired? Ye? And
and last but not least, the San Diego Fleet. The
Fleet yeah coached by yeah, but yeah, but Mike Martz
really yeah good. They do have some recognizable head coaches.
Should they paying on one of these coaches? I don't know.

(01:52:51):
Mike Singletary is coaching the Memphis team. Uh, Dennis Ericson
is coaching the Salt Lake and Rick Neuheisel is coaching
the Arizona A team. Steve Spurry is coaching the Orlando team.
These leagues are perfect. I'll tell you why. Because the
NFL does not consider them a threat. Right, They don't
consider alliance you're playing at the same time, fact doesn't.

(01:53:12):
Don't they have a deal with the NFL network to
carry some of those games. I think they do it.
I did not know that. I think the Alliance of
American Football does. And the XFL is not really a
threat anyway. So you, oh, you're right. They do CBS,
NFL Network and Turner. That tells you that they're not
a threat because they're like, oh, I we'll put the
games on. We need programming. Rather than show some NFL
films video from nineteen seventy two, We'll put this on.

(01:53:34):
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Fox Sports Radio Studios, It's Ben Maller. It's now time

(01:54:22):
four time four ask bed Twitter. Send us your questions
on Twitter now on this NBA trade deadline day, what
better than talking about trades us talking about us? Cooblo
by pass the microphone to you. The days is yours
for questions from listening. All right, Ben, We're gonna start

(01:54:44):
off with a question for you, all right, Thank god.
This is from Georgia Boy on George Your Boy. What
was your first impression of weed Man when he first
called the show? I thought it was fake, did not
believe he was real. I thought I was being bamboozled.
I was convinced that no one could be that crazy.
He called up at first as Billy from South Beach,

(01:55:04):
and he told me right away that he had been
listening to me for ten years. He was homeless in Miami.
And this seems so illogical to me. I said, this
guy is such a nut job. There's no way this
guy can be real. And sure enough, he's a real person.
It's a complete psycho. I love him, but he's a
real person. Yeah, that's the first time he called and
I was convinced, No, that's not a real person. We're

(01:55:25):
we're getting head all right. Next, all right, been another
question for you, Back to back and belly to belly.
This is from Trucker Joe on Twitter. Hi truck Joe,
But if you had the choice to die on live
radio or die on live TV, what would you choose? Well,
if you're gonna you want to die in a media,
you die on television, right, it's much more memorable radio.

(01:55:46):
You could pretend like you're dying and you could be
acting in all that stuffy Radio is my love and
all that stuff. I guess if I do radio long enough,
maybe I will die on the air. But uh yeah,
if you had to choose, do you do television? I
think that's kind of more visual shock jock, a shock
value thing. All right, next, all right, this is a
question for everyone, A very good This is from Adam

(01:56:08):
on Facebook. A miracle whip or mayonnaise? Yeah, I'm old school.
I like the Mayo, I don't love the male. I
don't go out of my way for the mayo. Again,
I don't when I'm eating mayonnaise, I don't think of
what mayonnaise is. I just eat it. So and I've
never had a Mayo and peanut butter jelly, not mayo

(01:56:29):
mayo and peanut butter sandwich. I've heard some people eat that.
I've not, but I picked Mao Eddie. I've never had
miracle whip, so um, no party. Mom you know didn't
didn't buy that, and uh so I never. My mom
was alt the need to give it a try. It's
got a good name, I guess, but my mom was
a male woman too. Yeah, no one's ever said, man,

(01:56:50):
you gotta try that miracle whip. No one's ever said
that's exactly so it's easy. I don't know. I don't
know what I'm missing or I'm missing nothing. I don't know.
I never tried it. Robert never had the miracle whip,
had the cool whip, the way I could eat a
whole container a cool whip and having shame in my game?

(01:57:11):
Would it not make you sick though? No? No, I
well now it might. But one of my younger days,
my bigger yas. Yeah, when we were kids would eat
like colored sugar that came, Yeah, feel fine, great? What
about you coop? A miracle whip is trash, strong words,
it's hard. Yeah, and and not not just any mayo.

(01:57:31):
It has to be best foods Mayo. That's it. Yeah,
nothing else? Can you for us who have not had
the pleasure of miracle whip, can you describe what the
difference is? Uh, it's I don't know. It's is it
like healthier than mayonnaise? But it just tastes cross. It's
it's the marketings. Yeah, it's it's not good. It's like
butter margarine, That's what I was gonna say. Yeah right, yeah,

(01:57:54):
all right, keep it going to ask Ben. Your questions
are answers. I know this is mystifying, is it all right?
This is for the entire crew. This is from Ernie
on Twitter? What song would you sing on the masks
singer on Fox? And what animal head would you wear?
I would sing Johnny Cash Ring of Fire, and I
would I would wear a very large rhinoceros head, is

(01:58:18):
what I would wear. What about you, Eddie? What you
should wear? Like a bullhead? Like as well? That's true,
I could do that. You know what would be funny?
Is that King Baby thing in New Orleans? That would
be good Cross brought branding. Yeah, yeah, what would you wear?
What song would you do? Eddie? Oh gosh, I don't know.
You don't know. There's no song that pops into your head,
no classic song, not really sexy Lady or something like that.

(01:58:43):
Sexy Lady. How does that go? I'm not doing you, No,
I'm not. I'm not just asking. I don't know what
that is. Sexy lady. You guys mark tape. I don't
know what that is. Sexy lady. Guy? Do you guys
know that song? I don't. Yeah, all right, you have nothing.
I would wear a lion head because I'm king Eddie.
How about that? Yeah? All right, what about you? ROBERTA

(01:59:08):
gotta be a system of a down song. Maybe uh
dear dance and let's see what I wearab I'll probably
just wear some barro h. I guess seen the show. No,
that would be one of those oversized some bars. It
would be like the old Cosby show he covers his

(01:59:29):
whole head. It'll be Yeah. I was gonna say something racist.
I'm not gonna say the fact that you don't know
the Gangham had. Remember that that viral song Hey sexy lady.
You don't know that Gangham style. Gangham style, Yeah, from
a few years ago. Well it's not called sexy lady,
it was. His line was, hey sexy lady, remember I

(01:59:52):
know that. I know it, idiot. Go ahead. What I
would do? I would do your song by Elton John,
and I would wear a horse head in the style
of BoJack Horseman. You're hero, It is asked, Ben, these
are actual questions by actual listeners like yourself. And we'll

(02:00:16):
keep it going. The train keeps going down the tracks.
What's next? All right? I like this question. This is
from Gerald on Facebook. If you could bring it's for everyone.
By the way, if you could bring back a store
from the dead, which one would it be? Oh? Story, whoa,
Let's see. Well that's I'm trying to think. What would
be flashback when I was a kid. I love toys

(02:00:37):
r us that's gone now, but that was just here,
like a year or two year ago. You know what
I used to love. My mom clearly trying to get
me to be as fat as I could. She took
me to a Hostess warehouse store. Oh yes, I had
one of those. Yes, Oh my god, Eddie for a
fat kid, that was porn. That was amazing. I'd walk

(02:00:57):
in there. Every wall filled with ding dong in twinkies
and ho ho oh my god, and those apple pies
with the sugar. Oh I like and I still remember
the smell when I would go in there. Oh. If
they could bring back those Hostess stores, I'm all about it.
What about you, Eddie? Oh, I would bring back Circuit
City that yeah, yeah, but they have like best buys.

(02:01:17):
The more the merrier, Okay, Robert too, I don't us
consider a store but block Blockbuster Video On Friday Friday nights. Man,
it was popping at that vah just but you know,
like the top movies. The people that worked at the
store would put those in the back. They only had
like two copies and they were never available. What about you,

(02:01:37):
Robert actually a Cooper. I just head Rubbert. I'm gonna
have to uh, I'm gonna have to concur with that.
I'd i'd bring back Blockbusters. Sometimes I want to watch
a specific movie. Red Box only has like the latest movies.
It's like when when where do you Where do you go?
Where do you go? You go to? The dark Web
is where you go. All those movies are in the dark.
I know, but sometimes I don't want to like that

(02:01:59):
time down all that stuff. What's that? Remember they have
other movies in the dark. Webon what kind of movies
they have on the Fox Sports Radio has the best

(02:02:20):
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deadline gamesmanship apparently taking place or is it welcome? In
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We are in the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports
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(02:02:45):
your car insurance. Just visit Geico dot com for a
free rate quote. A story that has hijacked the NBA
trade deadline is a player that is not going to
be rated today. It is not Lebron James. It is
Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant went on a rant. Not the

(02:03:09):
greatest rant I've ever heard. They've been better, but it's
pretty good. It's a solid rant. I'd give Durant on
the Mallard scale of rant one to ten, with ten
being perfection, which is Lee Io. Yeah, the old cub manager.
Eighty five percent of the world's work and the other
fifteen percent come out here. It's a playground for the
blank blanks. That's the perfect rant. We're the wink in

(02:03:30):
a nod, the Jim Moore but not the playoff rant.
Not the playoff ring, all right, that's small potato. The
Jim Moore rant that I love was the Diadley Pooh
we couldn't do Diddley boo. I love that just the
fact that he uses the word Diddley pooh, it's a
great work. And I worked with more here. He used

(02:03:50):
to work here in the early days of Fox Sports Radio.
And I love the game playoffs. But anyway, so so
Duran went, I want to give you a little time.
Let's play a little taste of this Roberto, the new
audience that joins us here, and what we'd like to
think in our heads as the morning drive hour. It
might not be for you, but for us, we're considering
this early morning drive. You're trying to get a jump
on the traffic. But Durant was upset. Now let me

(02:04:13):
set this up. The Warriors had just won a game
by thirty eight points. Check that thirty nine points over
the San Antonio Spurs, who played their C squad in Oakland.
But Durant, who had been very quiet, taken a vow
of silence. In recent days. He had not spoken with
the Beat writers because of a report that said that

(02:04:36):
he had already decided to go play for the New
York Knicks, and the report cryptically put a message out
that Chris stops porzingis the reason he was traded from
the Knickerbockers was because the Knicks had gotten message from
someone around Durant. This is thrown out there that that

(02:04:58):
Durant had given the indication he was going to go
play in New York. That's where he's headed after the season. Well,
so Durant's been very quiet. He's quiet no more. I
have nothing to do with the Knicks. I don't know
who traded porzingis. They got nothing to do with me.
I'm trying to play basketball. Y'all come here every day,

(02:05:20):
asked me about free agency, asked my teammates, my coaches,
who rile up the fans about it. Let us play basketball.
That's all I'm saying. And now when I don't want
to talk to y'alls a problem with me, come on, man,
grow up? Yeah, grow up. Very reminiscent of Lebron James.
Remember he said do better. Remember he told the media

(02:05:40):
to do better. He was upset with their questions. That
was during the NBA Finals last year. I think that's
all is that when he grabbed his man person walked
off his murse. I think it might have been so
Durant had the hissy fit, which I was enjoyable. It
happened right before the show. It saved me from breaking
down the Thawn maker trade, which is what we were

(02:06:02):
going to start with. I didn't have to do that,
And nothing's happened in the overnight as far as that,
and we've had that. We had Lebron James who was
complaining this is great. This is where Lebron talking about
being tone deaf. Lebron is the definition of tone. There
is a upheaval in the Laker locker room because Lebron James,

(02:06:24):
who's the GM, is trying to trade everyone on the
team to get Anthony Davis. So the players are upset.
They don't want to leave LA and they're like, what
the hell, man, I thought we were all together. I
thought you were a leader. So they're upset. But Lebron
comes out defending a player who got traded in Harrison Barnes,

(02:06:45):
and he took a shot at the way the Mavericks
did it, saying that Barnes was he intimated, blindsided by
the trade. Because the trade went down, Walt Barnes was
on the court, Woads dropped a bomb, he went on
a bombing run while the Mavericks were playing the Hornets
and Harrison barn people were saying, hey, whoad Barnes is

(02:07:05):
on the court, I don't think he's been traded. He
had been trade the Sacramento and and so then they
sat out the fourth court and Lebron went on a
rant about that. He went on his Instagram page and
he sounded off on the mid game trade in this
business of basketball, and it's okay for teams to trade

(02:07:28):
players during games, but players can't demand a trade. That's
what that's my takeaway, which is clearly a message again
to Anthony Davis. That is a coded message to Anthony Davis,
stand your ground, you and a brow I will save
you King James's That's essentially what we're saying. Very public

(02:07:51):
message in Code MB in World War two. It wasn't
one of the things that ended World War Two. The
fact that they were able to break the code, right,
that's very important in any kind of combat, you have
to break the code. Lebron sent a code out, I've
broken the code. I've got my secret Dacoda ring on
right now. Now, speaking of Lebron James, there's a conspiracy

(02:08:13):
theory about his dealings with the New Orleans Pelicans. Now,
the expectation is that Anthony Davis is not going to
be traded today. That is the anticipation and expectation that
Davis will stay put in purgatory in the Twilight Zone
of New Orleans, which could lead to litigation, possibly talking

(02:08:35):
about that in another show. But there's rumors that Anthony
Davis is going to somehow with the Union strong arm
the Pelicans to play him. There's a sentiment the Pelicans
are not going to play miss It's so bizarre. We're
in a world now where the Pelicans, because Davis is
a little bit of a mister softie, they can't. It
would actually be the right move not to plan, but

(02:08:56):
it's wrong on so many different levels. Anyway, get to
the point, a right, So the point is the new
theory that's being passed around the mainstream basketball media is
that the Pelicans never intended to trade with the Lakers,
and that the reason that this has all gone down

(02:09:16):
the way it's gone the Pelicans kind of flirting a
little bit about I will listen, what are the Lakers
have to offer, and upping the annie to the point
where Lebron James offered everyone on the team and they
would even throw in they'd loan Genie Bus for a
few months if Anthony Davis would come to the Lakers. Well,
the theory is that this was an intentional act of

(02:09:39):
wait for it, sabotage by the New Orleans Pelicans that
day again never intended to trade with the Lakers, and
that all of this was wind dull dressing in an
attempt to screw the Laker roster and these mental midgets

(02:10:00):
to play for the Lakers. And if that was the case,
well clearly it has worked. So the question what are
the odds that this report is accurate? What are the
odds that the New Orleans Pelicans intentionally sabotaged trade talks
with the Lakers, knowing at the very beginning they were
not going to trade for any of the garbage on
the Laker roster. I'm gonna set the odds on this

(02:10:23):
at minus three hundred. I buy this. This is very plausible.
I believe there's a seventy five percent chance, and I
think I'm going low. I believe I'm going low. I
think it's much higher than that, but I'm gonna set
I'm being conservative at seventy five percent. Now, my thoughts
on this, you have the venom Gandhi and the octopus.

(02:10:44):
How can you possibly connect Venom Gandhi? A very peaceful
man and the octopus we will attempt all right. Now,
first of all, what has been the knock on the
New Orleans Pelicans front office? Well, Del Demp's is a dope,
but the Pelikins are being run by the football guys, right,
we've heard that the Pelicans. It's a hybrid with the

(02:11:06):
New Orleans Saints, and the Saints GM's involved, and it's
an ensemble cast. But they're football people. They're not basketball people.
A bunch of meathead football guys. And so we've got
I like to call it healthy venom, but it's venom.
It's definitely venom. And you have very openly Lebron James,

(02:11:33):
Magic Johnson and that dirty wink on Jimmy Kimmel. But
that was not about this. This is about a different
NBA player. But you have a collusion transfusion from Lakerland.
They have been dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, rotten scoundrels in
all of this. And essentially what the Lakers have done

(02:11:53):
with Lebron James and Lebron's advocates, his surrogates who happens
to be an agent, what he has been able to
do here is take a wrecking ball to the New
Orleans Pelicans franchise and they promise you something. There's a
chance that this activity by Lebron James could lead to

(02:12:14):
a franchise relocation. The New Orleans Pelicans are not married
long term to New Orleans. There is a possibility within
the next three years that the New Orleans Pelicans relocate.
They leave the NBA's left New Orleans before. The Jazz
used to be in New Orleans a million years ago,
before we were all alive, and they could leave that

(02:12:36):
market again. Whether that means that the Pelicans go to
Seattle and become the Sonics again, or whether that means
they go to some other town. They're not guaranteed to
be in New Orleans. And this is the kind of
move where Anthony Davis becomes a renegade and says, I
don't want to be here anymore. Trade me becomes a

(02:12:57):
bad actor. This is the kind of move that could
lead the spiral of doom where the franchise relocations. Now.
The second thing here the power struggle, and it's certainly
believable that the Pelicans would try to get some revenge
right sabotage caught what you want? All is fair in

(02:13:18):
love and the NBA. It does bring up the words
of the great Gandhi an eye for an eye, and
everyone is blunt right. So the Pelicans are like, Hey,
you tried to screw us over and you tried to
take a wrecking ball to our franchise. So you know
what we're gonna do. We are going to get your

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franchise to destroy itself from the inside. Because all the
players now are upset with Lebron James and they're fighting
with each other, and so there's absolutely resentment. It's not
just in New Orleans, it's all over the NBA. The
fact that the Lakers have been able to go run
rough shot. It hasn't worked. They haven't won, they sucked.
They're not a playoff team right now. They just lost

(02:14:00):
by forty two to a team without Victor Oladipo. But
that resentment, that angst, there's people that are punch drunk
right now. And the fact that the Lakers have gone
fast and loose with the rules and they thought they
could get away with it and they kind of did
right because they haven't been really punished that much by
the league office. It's the best laid plans of Mice

(02:14:24):
and Lebron and in this case. So far it hasn't worked.
Now the last point here the UNIBRO brainwashed, possibly so
possibly so easily influenced. You can blame him. You know
who else is to blame Adam Silver. I have called

(02:14:46):
him the doormat. I have called him spineless. He really
is an octopus. You know why he's an octopus. There
are no bones in an octopus. You know that, there's
no like we have bones and most animals have. There's
no bone structure an octopus. So Adam Silver is sitting
by and watching all of this go on and really

(02:15:07):
doing nothing, really doing nothing. He's just a independent, neutral
observer when he's the commissioner of the NBA. He's the
commissioner of the NBA, and he's pretty much doing nothing.
It's the Ben Mallers Show on Fox. We say hello
to Edmund Dallas. Steamboat Willie do this solid gold guard.

(02:15:34):
See right over there, he's sitting down swear continuing to
count the nine hours forty four minutes or so from
right now. Now that's on the on the podcast, it'll
already have happened if you're listening at a certain time.
But on the live show, as we are recording our
podcast nine hours and forty four minutes now. You mentioned

(02:15:55):
earlier in the show about you know, checking the woes
Twitter accounts, Wode bomb, they're all, you know, sleeping their
wonderful beds right now and taking that. But do you
think he sleeps much during this trade deadline? Or is he? Uh?
Does he? Is he? Like, you know what, I make
the news. I don't need to be monitoring everything. Good question, though,

(02:16:16):
he's kind of concerned because this little pissant Shams man,
that guy, he's he's all over there. He's trying to
up he's trying to up woade his game. So yeah,
you wonder if they have an agreement like Shams and
WoDES to embargo any trades until like seven in the
morning or something like that, so they Shams is the
one who broke that Kawhi trade, remember Late Night? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,

(02:16:38):
I know from being around Woads a little bit years
ago that he always like his phone volume is turned
all the way up. It's one of those things where
he sleeps, but it's one of those things where he
kind of sleeps with half an eye open, you know
what I'm saying, Like just in case, just in case,
the phone starts buzzing, and he gets a text from
some executive saying, Hey, we're trading this guy. How about
the Mavericks though? Was you think that was the Mavericks

(02:16:59):
or the agent that text WoDES during the game to
let him know that the trade was going down, that
Harrison Barnes was getting traded. I I don't know, I'll
come out. I guess eventually it'll come out. I guess
I go agent. I think the agent might Yeah. Maybe.
But a lot of these teams want to curry favor
with guys like Woges because they think they'll get like
the boomerang effect, It'll come back to them and they'll

(02:17:21):
get some good stuff out of it, like Wode will
tell him some dirt that he's here. Is that how
it works? Let's like, yeah, that's what I've heard. Although
I also know for a fact I've talked to enough
of these guys over the years. Not Woag per se,
but a lot of these trade rumors that are tossed around.
I know in baseball the way they used to do it,
the clubhouse guys in season I was I'm friends with

(02:17:43):
a lot of these guys over these I love those guys.
They know all the dirt, They know where all the
bodies are buried. The clubhouse guys, they know everything. Back
in the nineties, they who was on the roids, who
wasn't on the roids, who was womanizing, who was and
they knew everything. Do they travel with these guys, they live,
they eat with them, the whole thing. But what what
happened is the general manager would call the clubhouse guy,
the equipment guy, and say, all right, we let's say

(02:18:05):
it's baseball and it's in season like last year. The
GM of the Dodgers would call the clubhouse guy and say, hey,
we might make a trade with Bryce Harper. Have a
jersey ready for Bryce Harper just in case the trade
goes down that way. He's prepared. You're prepared. I don't
want you to be surprised by this. And then the

(02:18:25):
person in the clubhouse would maybe or maybe not send
a message to I don't know, Bob Nightingale or somebody
like that, and wallah, there you go, Walla, do you
like hocus pocus better? I could use hocus pocus, I
don't know, let me hear it. Hocus pocus. There you go? Yeah,

(02:18:45):
I like Walla? How about this presto. There you go.
It's pretty good. Like presto. Presto is a good magic word.
Would you rank that ahead of abracadabra, abracadabra number one?
No presto. Okay, I gotta go to this guy, Tim.
Tim's been complaining. He's in Cincinnati, Eddie, he's complaining. He

(02:19:07):
believes the show blows because we have not taken his
call and he's been on. So he's gonna make the
show good again. Tim and Cincinnati. Hello, Tim, I never
said that. I never said you so well, I use
creative license to embellish what you said, but I got
a version of what you say. But what I was

(02:19:27):
trying to say is like you haven't said anything yet,
you haven't been on the air, but now you're on
the man, try go ahead, go ahead, bad But you
know you you were talking about that. Where is Bryce
Hopper gonna sign? And the Reds? You know, the Reds
are the only team that are doing anything this top season.
You know, like, oh, you're pumping. This guy's pumping his

(02:19:49):
chest out at he's got red fever. This guy over there,
he's excited. He's the one. Yes, he's Cincinnati Reds Baseball
he is fired up for the for the Reds. The Reds.
One more thing, one more thing. You only said one thing,
one more thing you put on a hole for seventeen hours.
One more thing. You should have like eight more things.
Oh yeah, I went to the Lakers game. Oh you

(02:20:12):
were there? Were you one of the guys heckling? That
was awesome? I love that. That was great heckling. Like
I wasn't one heckling, But why not? You should have been.
You should have lied and said you were the one
that started it. No, No, I wasn't, but uh yeah,
I would say who, tell me how? Who started it?

(02:20:33):
Was like one guy that started it? Lebron, I was
gonna trade you the people behind the who they started it?
And then it just went off from there. But that
was cool, man, You were part of an historic not
that was one of the great nights of heckling I've
seen in ten years, fifteen years in the NBA. That
was awesome. But yeah, from a you know, Cincinnati, you

(02:20:55):
know you, Uh, it's an hour and a half drive
to indianpos. So like that's so that's your local question.
That's you. If you want to see the NBA, you'd
make make the drive exact. I got but uh, let
me we we on this show. We love h I
believe Peg will be great. Uh, he's a he'll you know,

(02:21:17):
he'll blow up a couple of times during the year
and he'll cause problems, but he'll hit by thirty five forty.
I'd be shocked with me didn't hit thirty five forty
home runs. Plays American Ballpark. He loves. He plays with
an energy and enthusiasm, a swagger. Uh, he's fun to watch.
He's entertaining in baseball. I'm all about puea guy. Listen.
He sucked in the World Series, but you don't have

(02:21:38):
to worry about that. The Reds aren't going in the
World Series, so you're good. All right? Take you, Tim,
You see I took I took a backhanded shot there
at the end. You see that that justin the Cincinnati No, no, no,
what was that? It was? Tim? Oh? Tim? Yeah? All right,
we've got let's just say the magic Twitter machine has
blown up in a certain NBA player's face. We'll get

(02:22:00):
to that and we will do it, and your phone
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my new favorite Laker? You ask, I'll tell you not

(02:22:43):
because he's a former Clipper, although I have a special
place in my heart for former clippers and what a
great clipper he was. Reggie Bullock. Well, this week the
Lakers lost by forty two points. They acquired Reggie Bullock
in a trade from the Detroit Pistons, and then people
went back and looked at some of the things Reggie
Bullock had said in the past and found out that

(02:23:05):
he had goofed on Lebron James on Twitter. Here are
some of the tweets Lebron James or Reggie Bullocks sent
out about Lebron James. Somebody had sent him a message
a few years back. Lebron James MVP number three and
four years and Reggie Bullock responded by saying, still no
rings because at that time Lebron had not one. And

(02:23:27):
then later on, about a year later, Reggie Bullocks said,
I did not ask for the Lebron bandwagon, is what
he said. Sick Burn's great. I like this guy. I
like you know what. He is a trojan horse. Reggie
Bullock is a trojan horse. We will ruin the entire

(02:23:49):
locker room. Chris in Houston, who fell for a fake
Kyrie Irving Instagram account, Hello Chris and Houston. Oh he's
not paying attention. He's doing He's talking to someone else.
He said, I'm talking. Are you talking to me? I
can't hear You're big time in me. I'm speaking Pune. No,

(02:24:12):
you sound like you're in the Gulf of Mexico. I
can't hear you at there we go loud and proud
about No, I take the headphones off. You know that? Cheap,
hey bear, I gotta joke for you. What is Sham's woes?
And uh stn say to each other if we can,
I don't know all eyes only Daby. Everybody guys on them. Man,

(02:24:37):
I'm telling this is crazy. This is crazy. How about
that great Lakers transaction you just talked about Reggie Buck
with Lebron promised when he agreed to be the GM
of the Lakers that they would make big changes. And
he doesn't get much bigger than a Reggie Buck. I
would like to thank Kevin Kevin Kevin Durant for the
sound bite. I will have fun on my show. Look

(02:24:57):
at you. It's all about you. I love how you work.
He's plug in here. I look at you now. Ben.
I am a photas there yours. Now. When I become famous,
I will give you a shout out. You know you
are well. No, no, when you be I know how
this works. You're gonna become famous. It could be more
successful than me, which is not hard. I'm the overnight guy,
and then you'll forget about I can't forget about the
great Ben Mallet man. All right, all right, you taught

(02:25:18):
me everything. Being aren't there like seven they're like seventeen
sports stations in Houston. You should be on what you
should be on our station or one of the stations
in Houston. My God, No, it's only like two. No,
there's more. There's more than one. Yeah, it was like
it was like five. What are you talking about? But Ben,

(02:25:41):
I was so happy. I was laughing. I mean, did
you see how the Lakers were just hating on Lebron?
They just found out that Lebron just showed his true color.
It was it was great. I kept looking back. I
was I was hoping the Pacers would win by fifty.
They only won by forty two. But that's good. You
know that's a good forty two point win. No, brandon
Ingram crowed in the car right what that would show

(02:26:06):
that he cared? I don't know. I don't know. That
would be the more emotion than he shows on the court.
So I don't know that he I gotta tell you. Then,
that's a good trade by the Clippers. Thank yourself up
for the future. Appreciate that. But the near future. This
is not a long term situation. This is the near future.
I can put up with three months of bad basketball
for three years of great basketball. I can, Chris, we

(02:26:29):
can't kire you all the way up there now. Laker historians,
the Laker his stories always want to hate. How about
they draft great players. For one, how about they not
pass up on players and get these old slas and
have to deal with all this. Look at Sacramento, look
at that point guard. Didn't you have a chance to
draft the Aaron Fox? Well, yeah, I mean look at

(02:26:51):
look at this year. Jerry West drafted shay Gilgas Alexander,
who's already better than Linz old Ball. And Shay Gilghas
Alexander was like the twelfth or thirteenth pick in the
draft and Lonzo Ball was the second pick. I know
it was a different year, but still, I mean, you
found a better guy later in the draft than the
Lakers had with their point guard. And the other thing

(02:27:12):
about the Lakers, I've noticed this in this last like
ten years stretch, like no young players blossom with the Lakers.
They don't because they don't have any patients now patients
there man. And Plus, if you don't have any identity
to your team and you're depending on a nineteen year
old or to actually lead your team to the playoffs,
it's not gonna happen. These kids are leaders, they haven't
grown up. And you know, the Lakers with their stick.

(02:27:34):
You know, I'm glad that the Western Conference finally caught
onto the Lakers stick that snatching players off other teams
because they can't draft their own players. How about to
do something for your own for once? Exactly. Yeah. Good.
The NBA not Adam Silver, but the rest of the
league appears to grow up. Now. I could change my
opinion if Anthony Davis has traded to the Lakers by
three o'clock this afternoon, I will change my opinion. But

(02:27:55):
as I speak right now, good job by the NBA,
good job by the other team, And I'm gonna I'm
gonna leave you with this band. Noah, it's gonna be
so funny. If this trade doesn't go through. How the
Lake is gonna have to patch a game and they
play tonight in Boston. Either way they're screwed. Either they
trade half the team or the team shows up to

(02:28:16):
Boston to play Kyrie Irving in the Celtics. I can't wait,
and I got seven hours to night. I'll be on.
I hope Lebron's listening. And when you see the Celtics player,
young guys are so good. Holly is so good? Do
you see Ingram and Kuzman? I have better numbers and
Jason Tatum or Jayleen Brown. The only difference is something

(02:28:39):
are you trying to sell there? The only difference is
that the Celtics have better veteran players around them and
better coaching. Really exactly, so you're saying Kyrie Irving is
better than Lebron James. Is that what you're saying? They
have other than Lebron James, but they have better, a
better team. They have a better, better team or the
other great players on the Celtics other than Kyrie Irving?

(02:29:00):
Who are they? They have better? They have better veteran
players around them. They don't have to they don't have
to carry the load for their team. Well, I know
Lebron's worried about load management. I know that's a big
thing with the Lakers. A. Jalen Brown's averaging twelve points
a game. Yeah, it was supposed to be in a
superstar He's not superstar. Yeah. If you just if you
just pass it on stats, you say, well, Weussell Westbrooks,
the greatest player in the history of the MS, takes

(02:29:21):
the Tatum, leaves the Celtics and goes to the because
he's not gonna do anything. You don't know that he's
another duke player. Those guys, are all garbage. Didn't lead
the Celtics to the Eastern Finals Game seven last year?
What exactly is brandon we brandon Ingram led the Lakers
to Eastern Like you just said, go to weed. You
just said to yourself the Eastern Conference. Well, how could
he lead them to the Western Finals? They play in

(02:29:42):
the Eastern Conferences? Garbage? Last year was garbage. There are
four really good teams in the East this year, and
are there four really good teams in the West. I
don't know a stop challenge me, man, you got Cowboy's corner. Well,
coming up in a little bit, we'll also have factor fish.
I guess we'll push that back. We will definitely push

(02:30:04):
that back. We'll get to all that. But again, let
the record show Roberto's hot take of the day that
the Laker young players are better than the Celtic players
because they have better stats. All right, tell, very good,
We'll press on. All right, now, here's Eddie and great news.
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pm Eastern Time. On the court, last Nday, Eddie, Today's Thursday.
Yes it is thank you for that. Yeah. On the court,
we had the Bucks beating the Wizards one forty eight
to one twenty nine. Milwaukee now forty and thirteen on
the year, best record in the NBA, honest, attentive coopo.
With forty three points in their latest win, Warriors are

(02:30:45):
the top team in the Westday get their thirty eighth
to win of the year thirty eight and fifteen after
rolling over the Spurs one forty one to one oh two.
Rockets beat the Kings one twenty seven to one oh one.
James Harden thirty six points for Houston twenty eighth consecutive
game of thirty or more points. Now knock off the
Nuggets one thirty five, one thirty and the Pelicans, still
without Anthony Davis, beat the Bulls one twenty five to
one twenty College basketball number six now that our winner

(02:31:08):
over Colorado State ninety eight to eighty two. The Wolfpacker
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(02:31:52):
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the cow forty for the Chargers in the seventies, committed

(02:34:45):
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(02:35:28):
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accident in nineteen sixty two. That's cowboys corner. By the way, Roberto,
you're getting killed, man, you are getting roasted here. Adams says,
I guess since Roberto said all duke players are trash,
that must mean brandon Ingram is trash. All right. It's
a good line by Adam. And Mike upset also that

(02:35:51):
you say these Celtics play in the East and said
you should remind him that the Lakers got destroyed by
the Pacers, who also play in the East. So it's
all good. Let's stick with it. Let's stick with it.
The Celtics players are overrated. Got a great coaching, Yeah,
I got a great coach. Okay, no, as Bett Stevens,

(02:36:12):
I don't canonize anyone. You know that it's a good coach. Yeah,
all right. I don't think coaching matters that much in
the NBA, be honest, you though, I don't. I think
it's more the players that run the whole thing, especially
with your Lakers. All right, we are going to have
a rambunctious edition of fact or Fiction. Three stunningly, amazingly

(02:36:36):
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(02:37:17):
bit Offedios. Is it fact for fiction? Let's face some
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do it. Here we go Factor Fiction time. Three stories.
They all sound kind of true. You have to figure
out which one is the fake story. We say hello

(02:37:37):
to our judges, the Power Couple in Brandon and Florida,
Leslie and Jack the Judge. Hello, Leslie, Hello Ben. Great
to hear your voice as always. Top of the morning, Leslie.
Are you ready for the NBA trade deadline? Oh? Yes,
nothing else on my mind today. I don't want you
and Jack the Judge to get two worked up because
this is gonna There's gonna be a lot of movement today. Okay,

(02:37:58):
you guys gotta stay calm way Well, we'll try. We're all,
but we'll try. Now, you're not old. What are you
talking about. You're young. You're heaving, you're golfing, you're going
to the gym, you're doing all kinds of absolutely absolutely
living on living life. Maright, hold on, I say, Leslie,
there she goes. We have Radio Rich the courmulsion of
Callers and Wheeling, West Virginia. Yeah, hello, Riche what me

(02:38:21):
getting on? Second? That's all unusual. They had on Monday
night you had at the Buster Schwantz named Justin and
Cincinnati call In and Eddie or told Coop suck It,
told Eddie the show Weed man Hippie has been on
hold the entire show. Hello weed Man, I love you.

(02:38:47):
Marcel in Brooklyn, Hello Marcel, my new favorite caller. Good morning.
Hashtag Mala Mortalia is finally here for me. Wait wait,
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(02:39:07):
that's Mallar Militia. Oh hashtag Mueller Militia. You got a
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me Scooby Dooby Doo anytime. And now Maller Militia. That's

(02:39:29):
right there you go. All right, that's the most it's
ever been. Butchered. Rico in Denver, Hello Rico, Hey, thank
god you didn't play any DJ quick tonight, because I
know you've never had a forty ounce in your lifetime.
You don't understand back in the day, I would eat
forty ounce steaks twice a day. What do you talk?
All right? Okay, no problem, not a raging alcoholic like

(02:39:51):
you are, but you know that's how we roll here.
No problem a barbecue and Layne, one of the all
time worst callers in show history. Hello, barbecueing ln one
of I know you're the worst. I'm winning the title
my year worst caller of the year. I don't know man,

(02:40:13):
Marcel Man. I've a love hate relationship with Marcel. Why
I'm gonna get Blind Scott to promote me? You're gonna
hire him as your PR guy? Yeah, Blind Scott, he
had been my PR guy. I think he's upset with me.
He would when I did the Boston shows and I'm
on tonight in Boston. He would always promote those little
extra shows. I haven't heard as much lately. I think
he's offended with me. I don't know what happened, all right,

(02:40:34):
whole honest set. We gotta get to the damn game,
all right, real quick. These are the three stories. Figure
out which of the three is not true, separating fiction
from facts. Story Number one People Magazine. He might be
familiar their most famous issue, best known for most Beautiful
People in the World. It turns out no one in
the world of sports has ever been in number one

(02:40:56):
on that list of beautiful people. The twenty nineteen she
was being prepared according to TMZ Sean McVay. He's not
gonna be number one, but he will be appearing somewhere
in the top ten, according to TMZ. Story number two,
Dion Sanders Prime Time trying to make a couple of
bucks via FaceTime video chat. You can Primetime. You can

(02:41:19):
chat with Dion Sanders for five minutes for a price,
charging one hundred and thirty dollars. Has he gone bankrupt?
All right? Story number three newspaper Love Tom Brady, he's
at it again, The TB Times. You've been doing this
over recent years and on Instagram. He again came out
with an issue of the newspaper TB Times. The front

(02:41:41):
page features a cartoon of a crocodile holding the Lombardi
Trophy while stiff harming a golden ram. All right, which
of these is not true? Leslie? One, two or three? Leslie,
I'm gonna go with number one. All right, you'd be safe.
Have a good weekend, Thank you, Leslie? All right? Say
out to Jack Radio Rich one two or three? All right?

(02:42:01):
Thank you? Rich weed Man one two or three? Two time? Yeah,
you're jealous of Primetime. Weed Man is like I could
do that. You could spend for five minutes. I'll charge
you fifty bucks. Marcel is in Brooklyn, Marcel one two
or three. Marcel, Oh, that's one. I like you a

(02:42:24):
big fan calling earlier. Hold On Rico drunk, Rico one
two or three, Rico, I'm gonna say the Tom Brady,
Tom Brady the last one, and Barbecue Lynn one two
or three one. All right, fake story was one mcvay's story.
That was the bogus story. Number one, Murder Gotta Go

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