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February 6, 2023 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about the big NBA trade that saw Kyrie Irving go from the Nets to the Mavericks, if Kyrie is worth the headache, what the lesson is for Kevin Durant, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our nam Bar one hour one
of our terrestrial radio show, a program you know. If
you missed the Fifth Hour podcast over the weekend, I
hope you'll go back and download some of that content. Friday,
we had a great conversation with one of the real
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(00:22):
Fifth Hour podcast. Also with the mailbag on Sunday, Life
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on Saturday. All that content available from over the weekend
if you missed it. Here an hour number one of
the brand spanking new terrestrial radio show. We got a trade, Grandma,
Kyrie Irving sent from Brooklyn to Dallas. How do you

(00:44):
agrade the Kyrie Irving trade? Is Kyrie Irving worth the headache?
And what is the lesson for Kevin Durant in this chapter?
Is Kevin Durant partnered up with Kyrie Irving? And now
Kyrie is out of Brooklyn on the express train. We'll
talk about all that and more here. It is our

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(02:13):
is not up, No, no, or lead this hour coming
from pro Bouncy Ball as we were given the gift
of a trade. Whoa, we got a trade in the
NBA after a about a week of uptick in chatter
a Kai re Irving, the man promoting anti Semitic beliefs online,

(02:36):
Kyrie Irving on the move. There was a bidding war
to acquire the rights to this lunatic Kyrie Irving. And
if you haven't been following along, because it was the
weekend and you we're not paying attention. Perhaps you missed it.
Don't don't work, do not work. We got your covered.
Well we've learned. The Nets have agreed. They've unloaded ky
Re Irving. He gets sent to the Dallas mav Wrecks.

(03:00):
In a big NBA transaction, Dallas will be sending someone
named Dorian Finney Smith Spencer Dinwitty, the much traveled Spencer Dinwitty,
a first round pick all the way down the line
in twenty twenty nine, and a couple of second round
draft picks go to Brooklyn in exchange for Kyrie Irving

(03:22):
and Mark Kieth Morris. That's the trade. It's done, as
Kyrie is going to Dallas. So let us discuss the question.
When you have a transaction like this, you go to
the report card right away and you say, all right,
how do you grade the Kyrie Irving trade from Brooklyn?

(03:43):
To deepen the heart of Texas, so I pull out
the Mallor report card, the number one time tested reference
on all transactions on the Mallar report card, the Dallas
Mavericks acquiring Kyrie Irving get in f The Brooklyn Nets
trading Kyrie Irving get a D. They get the D.

(04:06):
So this is the lowest I've given out on a
transaction in sometime. The Mavericks and f the Nets get
the D. I've got the fruitstand, mount Saint Helen's and vetting, vetting,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice flat earth is
what we're going to make. So Kyrie is happy there.

(04:28):
That's flat Earth. There so a on this side of
a microphone, the side I'm on here. It is a
lose lose situation. There are no winners. There are no
winners in the Kyrie Irving trade. Brooklyn gets a little
bit of a higher grade, but still a failing grade.
Why addition by subtraction, they are palpably worse in terms

(04:55):
of basketball talent with what they got in return. And
who gives a rat's ass about some draft picks in
twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty nine, Who cares about that's
relevant to the here and now. However, the good news
for the Brooklyn Nets, while they are not probably better,
they're worse talent wise, they no longer have to pay

(05:16):
all of those hidden fees the extensive baggage that Kyrie
Irving has with him and so when you when you
go to the to the fruit stand to get an
ice snack, you've got your apple, your banana, your cantelope,
your strawberry, and then you've got Kyrie, who is the
forbidden fruit at the fruit stand. You're you're not supposed

(05:39):
to take a bite of the forbidden fruit. The Mavericks
have grabbed that forbidden fruit and they want to get
all the juices, all the juices out of it. Good luck,
good luck to you. You're gonna need it now. Part B.
Here is Kyrie Irving worth the headache? Well, I'm a
bad poker player. I've revealed my hand here, of course.

(06:01):
Not no, no, no, not in my book. The fact
that there were multiple teams allegedly bidding on Kyrie is
bonkers to me. It's absolutely bonkers. Kyrie Irving is an asset.
He's a toxic asset, is what he is. The Fact
that all of these high profile teams were seemingly jocking
if you believe the reports, to get a little piece

(06:24):
of Kyrie shows you the desperation in NBA nation. Kyrie
a gifted basketball player. Every man, woman in child knows this. However,
there's a butt, and there's a giant but dunkadunk size
butt there that he has a fatal flaw. You know it.

(06:46):
I know it. The person in the back of the
room over there, they know it. We all know it.
Right At any moment, at any moment, Kyrie can go
off half cocked and it might be something completely meaningless
that just lights the flame and we're off to the races, right,

(07:07):
We're off to the races. And the fatal flaw is
the d word dependability. He is lacking in that area.
And if Kyrie Irving showed up and played basketball without
the other nonsense, then sure the Mavericks would have easily
won this trade. But they wouldn't have been able to
get Kyrie Irving because he would not be available. You

(07:28):
would give the Mavericks a passing great if that was
the case, but that's not based in reality. Dallas gets
an f You've just acquired land rights right below Mount
Saint Helen's congratulations, and it's about to blow right. Well,
this is the basketball version, so it's Mount Kyrie. Mount
Kyrie is a volcano bubbling up with hot lava about

(07:50):
to erupt. You never know what you know until you
don't know what you don't know, and Kyrie at any
moment can use his plaque form for something that will
go boom. Just like that. It started out rather benign.
Earth is flat, it's all fun and good and all

(08:11):
that moon landing didn't happen, dinosaurs didn't exist, all those things.
And then he eventually worked his way up to the
anti Semitic propaganda that he was putting on his platform,
you know, because he's got a higher calling, and Irving
believes that he has a far bigger purpose and cause
in his life than basketball. Therefore, Mount Kyrie, which Dallas

(08:37):
now is in control of, at least for the next
few months, Mount Kyrie is a danger to everyone in
that locker room. And remember this, The Mavericks made sure
to leak to their toady's in the media that they
reached out to Jason Kidd and to Luca don Chick,
and those guys gave their blessing for Kyrie. So whatever happens, right, good,

(09:00):
batter or ugly, remember that the Mavericks made sure to
announce that Luca and Jason Kidd were like, they were
cool with it. They were cool with it. So when
things go upside down and an evolue, they will go
upside down. They chose to build a house under a
volcano that was an active volcano, and sooner or later

(09:23):
the Mavericks will enjoy the hot lava, the volcanic ash
raining down the gases that escape from that volcano, and
they will cover the entire franchise and the ring of
fire in Dallas. But hey, it'll be fun when he plays,
because he's really good, and him and Luca will be
fun to watch until he does something looney Kyrie, all right,

(09:46):
last word here, So what is the lesson? Let's go
to the other locker room, the Brooklyn locker room. What
is the lesson for Kevin Durant in this chapter? Because
I remember it was only a few years back that
Durant and Kyrie formed Voltron, So it's rather obvious here
that Durant made a tactical error When he was leaving

(10:10):
the Warriors, he was hobbling from injury, he was damaged,
but even with that, he was still a prize possession
in the NBA and could have gone to just about
any franchise he wanted to. And Durant, for reasons only
he knows, zigged when he should have zagged. And it's
not even that he shouldn't have gone to Brooklyn. It's

(10:31):
who he partnered up with. The lesson is simple, do
not hit your horse to the wrong wagon. Durant needs
to improve his vetting. Bad job by him. He could
have formed partnerships with a number of NBA players, and
he tied himself to a stick of uranium. And how
how's that working out for you? Good? You're happy with that?

(10:54):
The slim Reaper? Yeah, yeah, good job. So who does
it well? Kevin Durant did it? Or judgment? And Durant
is one of the few stars who is absolutely screwed
up the star building. Normally it works out pretty well.
Kevin Durant tied himself up with Kyrie Irving, who God
only knows what Kyrie's up to, and James Harden who

(11:15):
that didn't work out so well either, And then they
traded him to get Ben Simmons, who plays what he
wants to and not well. So you've got to question
the judgment of Kevin Durant. All of that going ker
Flewey in Brooklyn. And so now the Nets they're not
yet ready to hit eject with Kevin Durant, although teams
are lurking trying to get Durant. But the gossip is

(11:39):
that the Nets are looking to add players before the
trade deadline, which is coming up here, and then if
if they can't get anyone to pacify Kevin Durant, then
they will consider trading Kevin Durant at that particular point.
So that's where we are in the always exciting draw

(12:00):
im oh rama of today's NBA. But Kyrie Irving on
the move going to Dallas and Mark Cuban shooting his
shot for the Looney Tune of Looney Tune, the Booby
Prize of the NBA is on the move again. There's
a reason Kyrie has been bouncing all over the NBA

(12:21):
is There's several good reasons for that. All Right, is
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on rationing your Super Bowl and Pro Bowl content in

(13:51):
favor of pro bouncyball. Miles Garrett's dislocated toe during a
flag football was bigger news than the flat Earth or trade. Nah. See,
if I lead with the Pro Bowl, I'm then supporting
the flag football of the NFL, and that's eventually coming
at some point. We might all be dead, but at

(14:11):
some point there will be flag football instead of tackle football.
I'm dead by the time that happens. You probably will be,
But but it's going to happen. Eddie. That that debacle,
Oh my god, what a hot mess. I I fooked over.
I did not watch it from beginning to end. But
like I thought, maybe maybe something, something will happen here
that'll get my attention, that'll cause me to be happy

(14:34):
and excited. I didn't see it. Robert Goatman says, I
would rather have heard a malar monologue about the horrible
looking eighty for Brady movie than about the anti Semitic clown.
Justin in Cincinnati says, I, for one, do not want
to hear Mark Cuban lecture anyone anymore. Ever, again, considering
he had a sexual predator running around his front office

(14:56):
and now brings in a character from Schindler's List and
not a good one from Justin and Cincinnati, Yeah, how
about Mark? Does Kyrie know that Mark Cubans jewish? That
might upset Kyrie? He might demand not to play for
the Mavericks. Now he might have to go something that'll
upset him greatly. Affemi writes, in from the Twin Cities.
Is the number one Uber deliver guy. Uber eats the

(15:19):
livery guy in Minnesota. This guy dominates. He says ten
out of ten on the Malon Monologue, Band, Let's just say,
if Mount Kyrie doesn't explode this season, don't you think
Luca and Kyrie will win the West? That sure looks
like a super team. If Kyrie wasn't so crazy, well yeah,
if some butts were candy and nuts, the Mavericks will

(15:40):
win the championship. Rebecca, we've upset, Rebecca. She says, I
was really hoping you would start out talking about the
flag football game. Just kidding, ha ha. I can't help
but smile at that flat earth comment. There you go, Ah,
Sal listener Sal writes, and he says a plus plus
on the Mallard Monologue, I cannot wait to see what
the next Kyrie eruption looks like. Is off the court,

(16:03):
Annis will always be more entertaining then on the court,
Felix writes. In he says the seventy sixers are happy
to see Ben Simmons go doing much better without him.
Felix says, they random tossing to our conversation, Ryan, who's
hanging out in San Diego, and he says one of

(16:24):
the better masterpieces ever the Mallard monologue about crazy Kai
re irving as he is on the move. And there's
all kinds of fallout from this is that they produce
a lot of drama like a soap opera. In the NBA.
We stayed away from the NBA quite a bit. We've
mostly just talked about football. This is the rare and appropriate,

(16:48):
rare and appropriate Mallard monologue on basketball. Really the theme
of the hour about basketball. And there are a lot
of a lot of people chirping in here that the
Nets where a hell bent Joe's I, the owner of
the Nets, did not want to make Kyrie's wishes come true,

(17:08):
and that that was the goal of all this for Brooklyn.
That the Nets felt like Kyrie had fed them over
and your wish is not my command. Kyrie wanted to
play for the Lakers. He was pretty much making out
with Anthony Davis on the court. Those two I think
they would have been arrested in several Southern states for
the makeout session they had on the court after the

(17:29):
Nets and Lakers played recently, and Kyrie really wanted to
play for the Lakers and wanted to team up with Lebron,
and Lebron wanted him, but Josi, the owner, made sure
that that did not happen, and it was pretty much
anywhere but the Lakers for Kyrie Irving, and so he

(17:51):
ends up going to the Dallas Mavericks instead, and that
led to a cryptic message from woe is me? Make
it all about me? Lebron James. Do you see this? Yeah,
so Lebron James reacting to the transaction of the day,

(18:14):
and of course he just can't come out and say, man,
I'm disappointed that. Over the weekend, Lebron was asked whether
Kyrie Irving, if you went to the Lakers, would make
them a championship, legit championship contender, and he responded with
three letters, one word, three letters, duh is what he responded. Well, now, Lebron,
cryptic king added again, he posts a cryptic social media

(18:36):
message after Kyrie Irving is traded to the Mavericks, and
he put three words making him the victim, because you know,
we live in the age this is the last like
five six years. If you're a victim, you're like the king.
People love you. If you're the victim, and so Lebron James,
being the king playing the victim here said, maybe it's me.

(18:57):
Maybe it's me. Booo oh, Lebron James, maybe hits me.
What a sob story, absolute sob story. So said, Oh,
poor Lebron, get him a therapy dog right now. Maybe
it's me. First of all, the Lakers are their offer
was it was dreadful the mat The Mavericks didn't give

(19:19):
up much to get Kyrie in this trade, either a
couple of second round picks in some first round pick
down the line. But it's not like the Lakers had
a much better offer on the table, right. I mean,
the teams that wanted and we're willing to play ball
with Kyrie were the Sons, who didn't exactly have a
ton to throw in. A washed up Chris Paul allegedly

(19:39):
was part of their package of players that they were
willing to trade. So you had Chris Paul, who can't
play anymore, he's done, and some other spare parts and
draft picks the Mavericks with Spencer Denwidie who never really
could play, and and these draft picks a couple of
second round picks the Clippers, supposedly, thank god, they didn't
get Kyrie. They were, they were involved, but like, no,

(20:01):
it's not like the Lakers had so much better of
an offer. It was all slop. And so if it's
all slop, if you're the Nets and you want to
get rid of this guy Kyrie, you trade him to
Dallas and let him go hang out in Texas with
the Mavericks and see how that goes. Rather than take
the Laker trash, you'll take the Mavericks trash. You'll take
Dorian Finney Smith whoever that is, and Spencer Dinwid he

(20:22):
used to play with the Nets back in the day.
And you'll see if you can figure it out. All right,
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(20:42):
part of the show. Anthony and Anaheim says, you gotta
say it right, mallor mav Rex, No I did did
point it out? Did point it out? Brian writes, and
he says a flat earth or Kyrie would have been
much better off in Laker purple and gold in La
will you say that because you're a Laker Hawk, Bryan,
you say that about all the players that don't end

(21:03):
up with the Lakers. Kenneth Wright Sin says, hopefully Mark
Cuban uses Kyrie on Shark tank highest ratings ever? Move over, mash.
Kenneth says, what would Kyrie be selling? What would he
be pitching on Shark tank Like? What item? I don't
even want to know. I can only imagine what Kyrie
will be pitching on Shark Tankers, Probably something I don't

(21:26):
want to have anything to do with. Be sure to
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(22:11):
you get your podcast from. And at the Pro Bowl
flag football game, it was the NFC over the AFC three.
I asked Coop and Roberto, passionate NFL fans like you
and me, did you watch the Pro Bowl? There was
an enthusiastic no from both of them. I did not

(22:32):
watch it as well. I tried to find a box
score for this, could not find one. So well, there
were three games eddither way they gazy. There was like,
I don't want to. I don't need to work that
hard to figure out how the story. I know there's
like ten minute halves in each. It was I couldn't
keep track of it. And I was like, well, I
wasn't really locked to every second of it, but it

(22:53):
was painful. It was agony. Yeah, So anyway, they had
a big crowd though, that's what I heard, by thousand people.
Are they giving tickets out or were people paying? That
we were talking about that. I asked Roberto was it
at Allegian and he said yes. I'm like, well, how
was the attendency? Said it would look packed. I'm like,
my god, are people paying good money for this? He

(23:13):
said he didn't know, and I don't know yet. You know,
you're in Vegas, fought plane tickets and hotels and all that.
You're like, give it a shot. What the heck? Why not?
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(23:55):
the lead. My man, look at the Laker fans crying
about not getting a guy just to make the playoffs. Playoffs.
The mighty have fallen, The mighty have fallen. What else
do you have? Page down? Page down? Shane and de
moyne says, Kyrie is more toxic than the ooze that
turned turtles into ninja turtles. He says, that's that's wild.

(24:22):
Anthony and Anaheim says, when I hear the Mallard Show
say Spencer Dinwitty. All I think of is a huge dorc. Yeah,
that's a tough last name and first name, like Spencer Dinwitty.
That combination there. You gotta think like in elementary school kids.
Kids are vicious anyway, but he probably got picked on
so much. Hey, din Witty, I'm hunting Witty. I'm gonna

(24:44):
admit something without admitting something. Uh. When I saw a
picture of him, I was surprised. What do you mean
by that, Eddie? What just is? He has an interesting name? Yeah,
he's been around for a while, I know, but you know,
I'm I don't I don't partake, so I understand. Yeah,
it's not what you expected Eddie Witty to look like that.

(25:06):
I pictured a Spencer didn't Witty. My mind, it didn't
look like that guy. Yeah, but you know, hey, okay,
you thought he would have like like a kind of
a how would you think? How do you think he
would look at You want to get a different, different
racist pocket protector possibly maybe something like that, you know,
fair complexion, no comment, All right, racist take some phone

(25:31):
calls here and any meany miney moll. Let's say hello
to Andre who's in the Commonwealth teaching the next generation,
and he's up late because he's got school I think
in them, but maybe not though I don't know, because
the bad weather. Hello Andre, welcome from the Commonwealth. Hey
do Ben, thanks for taking a call. Yeah, we we

(25:52):
had some some tough weather out this way, you know,
a dip down into the Arctic blast that came through.
We didn't have too much wind though yesterday, but it
wasn't the teams and now you know, with the modern conditions,
it bounced back up to the forties today. So yeah,
it's some tough weather. Has to get the power nap.
And that's why I'm up to be with you at
this point in time. And I can't. I can't think

(26:13):
of a better day. Listen, our friend there, mister Mark Cuban,
he put all his eggs in one basket, I think
with his show Shark Tank, you know, and all those
financial people he's supposed to learn not to do this, Okay,
but I can't comprehend it for the life of me. Listen, Ben,
you got Luca Dontrich, who's an egocentric eccentric. You got
Kyrie Irving. Okay, he's not even he's on his own

(26:36):
separate stratuspate fear in terms of the egotism. Okay and
Mark Cuban is going to bet that himself and then
Jason Kidd are like these strengalis. They're going to be
able to mystically and magically get these two guys to
play together in the second half of a season to
make a serious playoff run and get them back to
the Western Conference finals where they broke through last year,
and possibly to the NBA Finals. And that's what's going

(26:58):
to convince Kyrie Irving to stay because Ben, you and
I both know if it doesn't go swimmingly and have
that result, Kyrie Irving is out of there after this year.
And there's no two ways about. The Brooklyn Nets absolutely
positively won this trade. Spencer didn't what He's gonna come
back to Brooklyn under the leadership of jacqu vaugh who
was there when he was there before, under the effective

(27:21):
leadership by the way of Kenny Atkinson, who's killing with
Golden State. They're down this year. I get that, but
Kenny Atkinson's a good coach, He'll do well. And Steve
kurrytires he's going to provide stability that team. With everybody
showing up to work every day and being together. I
think the Brooklyn Nets are going to be competitive. No,
they're not going to win the East because you have
what does that mean competitive? They're already competitive. What are

(27:41):
you doing? Andre? Come on now, you're hedging your Benser
Spencer Dinwiddie this second? What are you doing? You're upselling
Spencer Dinwiddie. Why are you doing that? Why? Because he
was outstanding, He's going to be outside outstanding. He's an
isolation player x he's not Kyrie Irving. But the consistency

(28:02):
of that kind of nap are you taking over? What
kind of power nap are you taking to say say
these amazing things? Are you related to Spencer den Witty?
And somehow like I don't understand, I'm confused by this
Ben On paper, it doesn't blow you away, But I'm
just telling you the Brooklyn Nets with continuity will be.

(28:23):
They got Ben Simmons, who's who's he was afraid to
take a shot outside the paint. You've got him. You've
got the rant who's kind of he's really good, but
who knows if he wants to stay there, if he's happy,
And you got a bunch of guys. You just got
a bunch of guys around them. That's it. You're right there,
you're right. The lead of this whole deal is Mark Cuban.

(28:44):
I don't understand it. You're gonna prove to be the
stupid money at the table. Kyrie will not resign after
this goes south because you're not making out of the west.
Thanks for the time, Ben, All right, there he goes
Andre from the Commonwealth, Spencer Dinwinne. It was he played
for four or five teams. He's bounced all over the NBA,
and that's fine. He's made made a good amount of

(29:04):
money as a guy on a roster who gets some
playing time. He plays a decent amount and all that,
and it's great, plays about thirty minutes a game or so,
and and that's his thing. But geez, come on now.
The gambling market, which always overreacts when a name player
gets traded. There's an immediate upswing, and the gambling market

(29:25):
tries to cash in on that because they know people
react to the headlines on the social media websites and
on television. You see these highlights of Kyrie irving. People
get all excited and oh, the Dallas Mavericks are now
going to win, and so the updated odds the gambling

(29:47):
market overreacting to the Kyrie Irving trade. Dallas's title odds
the title odds before before trading for Kyrie Irving, we're
plus three thousand. After acquiring Kyrie Irving they are at
plus twelve hundred, So a large jump jumpity jump for

(30:13):
the Dallas Mavericks based on the title odds. Now to
give you perspective on that, if you're not familiar with
the the numbers plus three thousand, which is what the
Mavericks were prior to the Kyrie Irving trade, that implies
about a three percent chance, a little over three percent
chance of winning the championship. Now, after the Kyrie Irving

(30:37):
trade their plus twelve hundred, so that jumps up to
about eight percent. So it's Kyrie is worth five percent
based on the line movement, which is just not based
in reality because of all the baggage that Kyrie has.
That's the reality of the situation, all right. It is

(30:57):
the Bannet Mallards show. This portion of the Men the
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we'll go back to the phones and who do we

(31:18):
have your any meany mighty mall. Let's pick a caller
by their name. Let's go to Luca, who's in the
Bay area. Hello, Louca, welcome, Yeah, heavyweight you are? How
you doing? Hey, what's going on with? What's going on?

(31:41):
I'm just talking to do a microphone here. Let's see
natural natural thing that people do. They just speak into
a microphone and then it gets blasted out into these
large transmitters and oh man, hey, thank you guys, thank you,
thank you, thank you guys, thank you more. What can

(32:10):
we do for you here? Luca? You called up here.
You're on the stage. The spotlight is on you, Luca.
Everyone's dying to hear what you have to say. So
you're laughing history. This is very important. Yeah. Are you
getting snakes right right now? You're nervous right now? Oh no,
I'm good. I mean just keeping the wheel. It's hard man,

(32:32):
sound good, hurt you know what what are you? What
are you talking about? Rock hard no, I don't sound
sound good. Alright, Well, that's a fun thank you for
the phone call. That was tremendous content is a big

(32:53):
call from San Francisco right there, Luca. Wouldn't it be
the worst call ever? That was? That was at the
top five? Was called? That was? That was a tough one.
You think it's one of those things like where he
was listening to himself in the background and he was

(33:15):
just like, what's going on there? It might have been
that maybe he just wanted to call up and he
didn't really have anything to say, and he just thought
he'd get on the air and then it would come
to him and he'd have something to say. He didn't
have any to say. He laughed a little bit. Yeah,
I started talking about something hurting. I don't know what
he was saying. I was trying to figure it out.
I thought maybe you guys knew what he was saying.

(33:37):
I don't know what he was saying, no idea, I
have no concept to what he was saying. Craziness. All right, Well,
no need to take another call after that right now.
So we have the who am I? Game? We'll likely
have some time for calls after that. At eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. Here's the who am I? Game?
And we'll go right to it. So the Eagles Hassan Reddick,

(33:58):
he had nineteen and half sacks this season, still going
with the super Bowl. That includes the postseason son Reddick
is tied with me for the most sacks for any
player in their first season with a new team in
NFL history. Again, Hassan Reddick of the Eagles, nineteen and
a half sacks this year that includes the playoffs. Reddick

(34:20):
is tied with me for the most sacks of any
player in their first season with a new team in
NFL history. Who am I? That is the question? The answer.
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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Ben maller Berg, dog writes and he says, Hey, Ben,
you should have kept that Luca guy in the air
as long as possible. That was a great call, Anthony,
and Anaheim says that Luca was worse than when we

(35:26):
interviewed the kid for the Hawaiian Little League World Series
team years ago. It's a bad take by you, Anthony,
that kid from the Hawaiian Little League team that hit
the Grand Slam and was the picture by far worse
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(35:49):
discount by combining your motorcycle, RV, boat, ATV and more
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Progressive dot Com. Time now for the who Am game
as we lead up does Superbo Sunday. Hassan Reddick has
nineteen and a half sacks this season that includes playoff performance.

(36:12):
Reddick tied with me for the most sacks for any
player in their first season with a new team in
NFL history. Who am I? That is the question? What
is the answer? Johnny Slick writes, and he says Monty
Python is the way to go. Chip in the Queues
checks in with Dwight Freeney as his selection. Jared Allen

(36:33):
guests by Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Merlin Olsen guests by
Sean in the Valley of the Sun, Shane in Des Moines, Iowa,
going with former Avalanche goaltender Patrick Waugh as his answer.
Bubba Smith from Larry d that's his selection. Who else

(36:54):
do we have? Page down, page down, a lot of
Bubba Smith? That was guessed by double O Mexican and
Sandy Ego Spencer Dinwoodie from Johnny James. That's his answer.
Al Horboski from Sean in Portland. Matt the Warrior Railways
fan updating the picture of Mark Cuban walking into the
Maverick facility. Big John Studd guests by Jason in Rocky

(37:19):
Mount for Jenia. Who else do we have? Justin in Cincinnati,
says jadevon Clowney. It's a good photo there of Clowney
looking pretty sharp there. Who else do we have? Yaffeemi
from Chicago checks in with Carlos Santana his commercials better
than the Well, okay, well let's leave it at that.
Who else do we have? Page down? Page down? Don Cherry,

(37:41):
the birthday boy who turned eighty nine on Sunday guests
by Alf the Alien Opiner Benito says it's Boba Booie.
That that's the answer. Lyle Alzado from jeff in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Robbie the Mariner fan says, this is what Eddie thinks
Spencer Dinwoody is supposed to look like. Yeah, that's probably
about right. That's what Eddie had in his head. Is

(38:03):
Spencer Dinwoodie or Maguel on Fire? Also with a different
photo of Spencer Dinwoodie Beyonce Knowles guess by Bengal fan
Brian that's his answer. A lot of different Spencer Dinwoody
photos being submitted. Chris in de Moine going with the
iconic former San Diego Charger running back Marion Butts, one

(38:23):
of the all time great names in NFL history. Mallard
prop guy says the answer is Deshaun Watson, and then
he points out, I think talking about a different type
of sack that is actually correct on that Mallard prop guy,
The One Man Gang Guess by Rob in Vegas, Red
Phillips from Tortilla Man, Tony brock Lessner from the Goatman

(38:46):
Rob in Iowa. Tom Looney Guess by the real Martin Eddie.
Do you have an answer? This is very important here
by the way, that Looney commercial is getting a ton
of run. I see that thing all the time. I'm
gonna go agat paid for it, though I don't think so. Wow,
he got a one time fee on that boy. Let's
go with former Packers and Buffalo Bill's legend Bryce Pop.

(39:09):
Bryce Pop goes the answer no, that does incorrect any
The correct answer the Great Shack Barrett, who left the
Broncos to go to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers back in
twenty nineteen, and so Hassan Reddick is tied with Shaq
Barrett for the most sacks with a new team.
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