February 16, 2023 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about rumors that the Falcons are interested in Lamar Jackson, Travis Kelce & Patrick Mahomes ranting about their "haters" at the parade, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and much more!
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to begin the festivities here in the overnight. The journey
through the darkness comes from the silly season of the NFL. Now,
the postseason just ended, and immediately we go to the
silly season. Never a bad time to dissect a juicy
rumor one flew into our missile defense system recently came
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across our screen here it involves Lamar Jackson. Now, if
you were to make a big board on who's going
to get the most airtime between now and when the
NFL returns in September for regular season games, it would
be a neck and neck race between Aeron Rogers and
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Lamar Jackson. But this particular amount of monologue all about
Lamar and whether or not he will find a new home.
He currently is part of the Baltimore Ravens, but probably
not for law enough. You didn't see this, and maybe not.
We've learned that a new suitor has emerged, hot and heavy,
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coming in from the top rope with the atomic elbow.
The Atlanta Falcons. They're all hot and bothered. They want
Lamar Jackson, who currently is part of the Ravens, to
come play in Atlanta. The chatter has Atlanta going all
in to bring in the former MVP bring him to Georgia.
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Jackson is expected to be fan shys tagged, and that
means at that point the Ravens will have to decide
what they want to do. It's gonna take some wheeling
and dealing to get this done. And let us discuss
the question the way too soon Maller monologue on the
future of Lamar Jackson. But Lamar Jackson being courted by
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the Falcons. Are you in or are you out on this?
So I am all in. I've got family diner, Slippery
and Big Bowl, but not the Super Bowl. And we
will combine all of these things together and we are
gonna make some Dirty Birds, is what we're gonna make.
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So a Atlanta I have no skin in the game.
I have no allegiance to the Atlanta Falcons. But that
is a franchise. That is a ghost ship. They are
lacking the wow factor. There's zombies on the NFL landscape.
You talk about a faceless franchise. The team affectionately known
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as the Dirty Birds have assembled a hodgepodge of nothingness.
As a former sportscaster said back in the day, trading
for Lamar bringing Lamar Jackson in from Baltimore would give
the owner the home depot, guy Arthur Blank, something that
he desperately wants that he crazed. Now what is that? Well,
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that would be dinner reservations at a family diner. The
diner is named Relevancy. It's Relevancy Diner. That is a
diner that the Falcons have not dined at in several years.
As the calendars keep piling up here, Atlanta would be
back in business. They'd be back on the NFL map,
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and all they have to do is acquire Lamar Jackson.
That's it easier said than done. But there would be
a little bit of buzz around the Falcons. It's part
of the package that Lamar Jackson brings. And we know
that Arthur Blank already shot his shot and he missed
when trying to get the creepy quarterback to Shaun Watson
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last season. That turned out to be a brick house.
And so now back at it again, right back to
the frying pan one more time. Now, page two. You're
gonna go thumbs up or thumbs down on Lamar Jackson's
status in Baltimore being on thin ice with the Ravens.
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So I'm going thumbs up. On this one. I got
thumbs up on this. You look at all the key indicators,
which is what we do here behind these microphones, bunker
down in the middle of the night, and all of
the key indicators and you know this, if you've paid attention,
are all pointing the same direction. Bad Blood, Baltimore. This
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is a squabble. It is a dispute, maybe a domestic
dispute if you want to go that direction. But we
have a great divide in between the Ravens and Lamar
And what is my evidence? All right now as we
understand it, the Ravens who have just been hiring different
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coaches filling out the Harbaugh staff. Some changes that were made,
including the offensive coordinator. But they interviewed a bunch of
different offensive coordinator candidates. They chose one. But they would
not guarantee the Ravens that Lamar Jackson would be the
quarterback of the team next season. Now you could say
they can't guarantee that because of injury, because of this,
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that or the other thing, but they wouldn't guarantee he'd
be on the roster next season. That is a dead giveaway.
That is a dead giveaway. Now we know that Lamar
is upset the team did not offer him the fully
guaranteed forever package that his heart desires, and Baltimore officials
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suspecting Lamar Jackson is guilty of mouthfeeas what he did
last year, And we talked about it on these airwaves
during the end of the regular season and into the postseason,
that the team determined he had a minor injury and
Lamar melked it for all it was worth. In the military,
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you would get court martial. They call it malingering if
you do what Lamar is accused of doing. But in
the NFL, nothing like that happens. Now, Is it true
that Lamar was greatly exaggerating his injury status to make
the Ravens suffer the agony of defeat without him sending
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a message across the bottle? If you will? Now? Sure?
It sure looks that way from the outside. And it
is a slippery, slippery, slippery slope because once you lose
that trust, you know what happens next day. That's right Splitsville.
So the odds are very low that they can work
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out the Ravens and Lamar Jackson a nice peace treaty.
The guys are extremely low on that. All right, So
last word here in terms of the money, money money
for Lamar Jackson. How can Lamar Jackson get a massive contract?
I'm talking bigger than Deshaun Watson, the creepy quarterback in Cleveland.
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So I've done some arithmetic on this. I've crunched the numbers.
He's got to use some kind of blunt object, a
baseball bat, a crowbar to escape from the ravens. That's
the first step. And next you have to serve up
a big bowl. I'm not talking about the Super Bowl.
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I'm talking about a big bowl of lucky charms. And
then Edivall is playing footsie under the table before leaf clover,
marshmallow delight, how ever you want to say it there,
but send those pheromones to trigger the response from a
team like the Falcons that is desperate and Lamar. There's
two ways to look at this. Right through one side
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of the equation, you can say this is a guy
that's got an MVP on his resume. All he does
is win. Lamar Jackson brings swag to your team. He's
the leader of the cool kids club. He's got some
dog in him, right, He's got some dogs, not cash,
not cass we need dogs, and he's got some dog
in him, and he increases the value of the franchise,
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so he's more than worth the money. So that's one
side of the argument. Now the other side of the
argument to play Devil's advocate with myself here. The other
side of the argument is the counter pitch would be well,
Lamar Jackson has already peaked. We've already seen the greatness
of Lamar and it's been a slow decline in recent
years and NFL teams have started to figure out the
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weak spots on how to contain him. He has not
been an effective post season player. His style of play
is that of a crash test dummy. It is not
a sustainable way to perform, so you're looking at diminishing returns.
In the last two years, Lamar has missed time in
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both seasons because of various injuries. And didn't you know,
if you combine the last two seasons Lamar Jackson's played in,
his passer rating is below ninety and he's averaging combined
a little over seven yards per pass, which is average.
Seven is the baseline number. Lamar Jackson's at seven point
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two yards per pass, and you look at all the
bumps and all the bruises that have piled on up,
and so which side is gonna win? Which argument is
more compelling the way I've seen business go in the
NFL in recent years. It's the first part of the
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art comment that Lamar Jackson brings credibility and the wow
factor and all that to your team that ends up
winning out. And as Bruce Arians used to stay in Tampa,
no risk it, no biscuit. So some woe begone franchise
will be like, oh, you know what I'm gonna do.
We're gonna throw caution the wind and here we go,
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So our lead this hour coming from the rollicking good
time that was had by all in Cansas City, the
city of champions for pro football, recently the Super Bowl,
fifty seven victors celebrating in a grand hooting Nanny. Now
these things are broadcast on television and maybe you have
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a chance to watch it. Maybe not, I don't know.
Just over three years after their last celebratory parade, the
Chiefs back at it there downtown Kansas City area and
they memorialized they're big win in the Big Game. Now,
on Wednesday, you had hundreds of thousands of people. And
I've seen different estimates. They always estimate a lot of
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extra people that are actually there. But I mean, this
was a good sized crowd. I saw several photos and
video clips of how many people were there, and it
was packed. It was a sea of people. Wearing red
and gold and celebrating in Unison right near the Union Station,
which is where the NFL Draft is going to be
held coming up in April. And so the team was there,
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they had the parade, the whole thing. Everyone all gust up,
all excited. So Patrick Mahomes, he's celebrated. He had a
w w E title belt on. You had the starting
offensive line where shirts commemorating the fact that they did
not allow a sack to the Philadelphia Eagles. You had
the GM Brett Veach and and Patrick Mahomes Mahomie make
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references to mocking the rebuild season. In fact, I think
we have some audio will play from Patrick Mahomes coming
up in Admitte and Travis Kelsey he went on a rand.
Travis Kelsey was like always happens at these things. People
were throwing alcohol around, and Travis Kelsey made sure to
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partake in the Nectar of the Gods. But he went
on another rant about the haters. Travis Kelsey. Fact, let's
play that audio right now. Here's Travis Kelsey and he's
ranting and raving about all of those people you know
who you are, who didn't believe in the Chiefs. The
haters were saying the Chiefs were done. If you knew
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the Chiefs, we're gonna win the division. Let me hear
you say, hell yeah, nah oh, thank you. Okay uh.
That sounded like Joey in Nashville that called up last hour.
It's kind of like the other guy, Joey. All right,
so let us discuss the question. Travis Kelsey, you heard
part of the rant there about the haters doubting the Chiefs.
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What is your position on this? So I've got evangelizing,
Eureka and cherry pick, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a nice,
big partee, which is what they had on Wednesday there
in Kansas City. So Number one, these championship parades, I
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say it every time we do a monologue about a
championship parade are like religious revivals, their pep rallies. Travis Kelsey,
who over the last year or so has become a
character of himself, standard issue meathead NFL player, doubling down
on the hat raid speech. Right, He's done this a
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couple of times during the playoffs. Nobody thought we could
do it. Nobody believes in us. Blah, blah blah blah
blah blah blah. He's got a bright future in professional
wrestling as he was Travis Kelsey evangelizing, practicing the what
we call the illusionary effect. Now you know what the
illusionary effect is, right, It's a real phenomena. It is
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well established and extensively studied in cognitive science. It is
known as what we call it illusionary truth effect. And
what does that mean in Layman's terms? I'm glad you guys.
So with Layman's terms, it means that if you hear
or read something repeatedly, you are more likely to think
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that is true, even when it is not true. So
if Travis Kelsey, every time he's interviewed says nobody thought
we could do it, oh, you haters out there, then
people will have eventually believe that as the gospel and
the haters doubting on the chiefs. So I hate to
be the bearer of bad news. Never let the truth
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get in the way of a good story. But Kansas
City was the betting favorite to win the AFC West
in twenty twenty two. Is that true or false? That's true.
Kansas City had the third best odds to win the
Super Bowl. Is that true or false? That's true? In
the playoffs, Kansas City was favorite against Jacksonville and Cincinnati.
Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. How about the
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fact they opened up a favorite in the Super Bowl?
They ended up a very small one and a half
to two point underdog in the Super Bowl? Is that correct? Yes,
I'm nodding my head. Yes. So well, you talk about
the oppression of the Kansas City Chiefs and no one
believing in them. The most important indicator that you are
valuable and that you are someone that people believe in
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is the gambling market. And the gambling market said you're
the team to be in the division. You've got the
third best odds to win the Super Bowl out of
thirty two teams, and you were favored in two of
the playoff games, and you opened a favorite in the
third playoff game that you play all right now, page two.
So Kansas City's underdog mentality is blank Fill in the blank.
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So I'm gonna go first. The word I have is manufactured?
Is the word I have? It is manufactured. This is
the gasoline that drives the engine of sport. If you
want to know how all of this works, and you're
gonna have your mind blown. I'm gonna I'm gonna ask
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you right now to do something, and I want you
to check back in a couple of weeks. As you
are watching sports, as you are listening to sports, I
want you to start paying attention to the number of
times you hear an athlete or a team or a
coach say, nobody believe did us when they play that
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card from the bottom of the deck. I want you
just to pay attention now. I had a Eureka moment
not that long ago, the age of Enlightenment, when I realized,
wait a minute, every time I hear an athlete interviewed
after a game, it's like they didn't think we could
do it. And when they win a championship, even when
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they're favored to win, you didn't think I could do this.
So I had the great awakeness. I realized that one
hundred percent of the time athletes and teams who accomplish anything,
anything at all, their default position is proving the doubters wrong,
literally and figuratively. Every sports profile, every documentary about sports
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that I've watched includes the doubter that you couldn't get
it done person right. Every athlete is pretty much used
the same script. It's the same story, it's a different
version of the same story. You counted me out and
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I proved, I proved the world I could still get
it done using that underdog mentality as a chip on
the shoulder. It's all the rage. And what that means
is the naysayer is the most important person in this
whole dynamic of sport because it is the critic that
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is the one who ignites the inner fire of the athlete.
And without the critic, based on all of these interviews
and all of these people in sports, the athlete would
not compete if it was not for someone that didn't
believe in the athlete. They would not compete without skepticism,
even if it's contrived, nobody would be able to function.
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And watching Kansas City and Travis Kelsey talk about doubters
and didn't believe in us, it was reminiscent of the
Georgia Bulldogs who won the national championship in college football
not that long ago, and they did the same thing.
Like Georgia was one of the favorites before the year,
they were the team to beat and they won. And
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Kirby Smart talked about how nobody thought we could do it.
The quarterback also went on a rant. All right, final point.
So let's go back to Patrick Mahomes and he got
up on the dais there. He got on the microphone
at the rally in Kansas City at the Chiefs parade,
and Patrick Mahomes talked about what this season was supposed
to be for the Chiefs. Let's go to the audio
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tape before we starved this season, the nc West said
we were rebuilding. I'll be honest with y'all. Were rebuilding
means and are rebuilding. You were world champs. Yeah, yeah,
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So there you heard it. Mahomes said, boy, he's enjoying himself.
Good for him. Why not good once? But Patrick Mahomes
saying that the Chiefs were supposed to be in a
rebuilding year, does that make any sense to anyone? Maybe
in the back of the room. There's somebody in the
back of larum that no. Yeah. So this is again
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classic cherry picking. It's a cherry picking situation. It's a
one sided argument. All of this because Tyreek Hill was
traded to the Dolphins because the Chiefs didn't want to
pay him and they didn't want to finagle with the salary.
Cap and so they ended up trading Tyreek to Miami
for some draft picks, and that left a void on
the depth chart. So Kansas City filled the blank spot
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on their Bingo card with quantity over quality they want.
For quantity over quality, they got Marquez Valdez, Scantling, lad
A Green Bay and jew Juice Smith Schuster, the TikTok
boy from the Steelers. And those guys are jags. They're
just a guy times too. So that was a downgrade.
And there's like one or two random people in the
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serengetti of sports talk that doubted the Chiefs. And because
of that, they said it was a rebuilding here. And
who exactly is the spokesperson for the AFC West. Do
we know who that person is? Because Mahomes said the
AFC West said it was a rebuilding year. So I
would like to interview on my podcast the spokesperson for
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the AFC West. Can you please give me his number?
I would like to call him up or text him
to see if I canet him on the phone or
her whoever? All right, now, all of that aside, right,
rebuilding was not something that was on the table, right,
That was not something reshuffling the deck is a way
you could describe what happened in Kansas City. But other
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than a few hot take maestros who were serving up
Carolina reapers spicy hot takes, the Chiefs, as long as
they have Patrick Mahomes and he's in working order, are
not going to rebuild. There's no The term rebuild is
a shyster term anywhere. It's a con man term. Rebuild.
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You don't see that anywhere else. You don't see that
in any major corporation. Right, Like if Southwest Airlines had
a terrible month of December, right, they had all kinds
of trout problems, did they say they're gonna rebuild the
airlines and said, well, we're gonna gonna start over, get
some developmental pilots and hopefully we'll figure it out. No,
you gotta figure things out. As you know, Andy Reid
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is not a mince meat coach on the sidelines. This
whole debate is for gazing, right, It's ridiculous. It's worthy
of a migraine headache, is what it's worthy of. So no,
the Chiefs, we're never rebuilding. And as Travis Kelsey I know,
who're repeating the seven thousand more times the doubters, the haters,
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put a sock in it. How about that, put a
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How about that? To the third degree? This is one
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big ban gets Graill the Coop now loop. The Chargers
are currently in a bad salary cap situation, and there
are some that believe the team will There's some that
believe the team will cut or try to trade Keenan
Allen to deal with some of those cap issues. Bend
you think Allen has done in LA well, I am
a salary cap truther, so I believe you can figure
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out how to finagle the salary cap to keep Keenan Allen.
But that's not what the charges they're gonna do. He
meets all of the criteria to be a salary dump.
He turns thirty one years old in April. Most wide
receivers don't age well, certainly not guys that play like
Keenan Allen. He's been battered and beaten throughout his career.
He missed seven games last season. He's had hamstring issues,
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other problems. And so though the word on the street
is the Chargers are either gonna get rid of Khalil
Mack or Keenan Allen, Khalil Mack had a better year,
So I say they get rid of Keenan Allen. He's gone,
and a team like the Bears of the Falcons would
love to have him next. Former Steeler safety Ryan Clark
told TMZ the other day that Patrick Mahomes is already
the third best quarterback of all time. Ben how far
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off is he? Well, that's a great hot take. That's
like you're gonna win a gold medal the hot take
Olympics with that take, For Ryan Clark, and if Ryan
Clark said it, then there's no other argument that needs
to be made. Now the top twour Tom Brady and
Joe Montana. After that, it's wide open. Depends on how
old you are. Maybe you're a Dan Marino fan, or
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a Bret Farve guy or who who knows what? But
Mahomes is in the running, He's not there yet. Next,
the Milwaukee Bucks are on eleven game winning streak and
are closing in on the Celtics for the number one
seed in the East. The Greek Freak downplayed in and said,
it doesn't matter what seed the Bucks get. Bensie right, Yes,
it doesn't matter anymore. Golden State was a number three
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seed last year. The Bucks were I think a number
two seed when they won. It doesn't matter what seed
you are anymore in the NBA. How do we do
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might regret asking people to send in questions for Monty,
but we'll start off because there's a bunch of creepsters.
Yeah uh, let's start off with an easy one here
from furg Dog. All right, this is Fergie. This is
for everybody on the crew. Is it worth the weight
to toast pop tarts or would you rather just eat
them as is? Oh, I'm a toaster. I like to
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toast it. I like and now you can't obviously the
pop tart. I've not had one in a long time.
But I enjoyed a nice that that strawberry filling in
the middle of the pop tart when it's warm, I
and the frosting a little saft from the warmness. I'm
all about it. So I go toast it. I agree
with Ben, I'm going to toast it. Yeah, go home, good,
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take by you exactly? Do you do you enjoy any
other other than strawberry? No, I mean, I'll have it.
But strawberry was the best one. That was the one
they sold the most. If that was like their default
was strawberry, right had they had grape? They had what
were some of the other the like cinnamon one, yeah, yeah, yeah,
cinnamon one, cinnamon cinnamons, like right up there with strawberries
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the tops. But then they had um, the wild strawberry
pop tarts. Those ones were good that it was like
purple with the with the blue squiggers. Yeah, those were good. Yeah,
it was the last time you had a pop tart years.
I know, I'm years last week right now? Man? Sounds
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good though, I kind of want one. No, no, they're great, so, uh,
I don't We didn't get to roberta berta dot about
your daughter. Do you toast them? Do you? Or do
you just not eat pop tarts? Wow? Life starts come
on breakfast man. My mom was like, oh, come on,
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what about the trash with Uh? I do think it
is worth the weight to toast the pop tarts. They
are infinitely better toasted, and it's not even even have
to wait that long. Like I toast my bait Eagles
that like the on the number four setting because I
liked them, you know, a little bit darker. But pop
parts do you only need just a slight, slight little
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browning on the edges and you're good to go. So
like thrown in the two two and a half, shut
up for Berto, we already did your answers. Next week,
I'm cooking with Bilberto how to make the perfect pop
part next week for me. But yeah, there's some flavors
that you don't really need to toast, like the cinnamon ones.
That one's good either way. Fun fact, the pop part
did not exist before the nineteen sixties. How about that.
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It's not that long ago in the big picture, right,
Think about people in the eighteen hundreds, no pop tarts,
seventeen hundreds, no pop parts. The Bronze Age, they didn't
have the pop part. Only since the nineteen sixties did
the world get the pop tart, that delicious pastry. All right,
what is next year? Where do we have? All right, mango, Alex.
I believe it probably had this at some point during
you know, the last several years. But he wants to
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know for everybody, what's the first time that you had
an alcoholic beverage. I was at a family reunion and
one of my cousins thought it would be funny to
give the fat round kid a beer, and so, yeah,
I was in Actually I was. It was in Phoenix
at a family event that we had, and that's when
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when that happened, Monsey, what about you? Months? I think
I was about twenty years old and my brother came
home with his friends at like three in the morning.
My parents were out of town, and it was my
first time drinking, and he got me drunk off Crown Royal.
Until this day, I've never touched it again. Yep, that
was the most you moved through school at all that. Yeah,
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I was playing sports and I was in club and like,
I just never came around to it. So I was
about two shoes, I guess. So, guys, I guess I
was with the wild child monster breaking hearts at those parties.
Let's let's just keep it at that. I was a
good girl. Let's keep it at that now. Roberto, I
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think in his bottle when he was Yeah, when I
was like when I was like eight years old or nine,
we went to Mexico and my my uncle had uncle
gave us like a shot of tequila and I took
it like a champ eight or nine. Yeah, like nine
years old. And then I woke up in the middle
of the nine and my my cousin was blowing chunks.
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And that's what my cousin. He doesn't drink at all.
It never has drank, doesn't drink. I'm total opposite. Yeah,
it was. But the first beer was like around twelve
years old. Well you would at least wait, yeahs oh,
got you all right? What about you, Coop? I think
it was senior year, um, senior year, yea of high school. Yeah,
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and a female friend of mine was over and hanging
out and we stole my dad's bottle of jim Bean.
Did your dad find out about that? Um? I mean
he doesn't really drink either something. I think somebody like
gave it to him and so he just there, you know.
So did you do the thing some kids do where
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they fill it back up with like waters? Yeah? No,
I mean that would have been kind of obvious because
jim beam is yeah, not water colored but fair point. Yeah,
I got you, all right? Why don't we pause with
the cost youer while? Have another big block is ask Ben?
Your questions are answers covering all the bases, alcohol, pop tarts,
(34:25):
you name it. We got you covered. Ask Ben rolls on.
We'll get to it. Keep the questions coming in hashtag
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Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Coop, what do we have here? On?
Ask Ben and friends? All right, let's see what what
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are we gonna do here? Down page? This is the
law of unintended consequences, Coop, because you wanted this and
now it's here. That's true. Yeah, um, we'll do We'll
do this one, okay show joean Okinawa wants to everybody,
what what's your go to karaoke song? Well, as you know,
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I'm a king of karaoke. I'm very upset they closed
Dimples in Burbank where I used to I used to
work right across the street there from Dimples and love
that place. But no, I don't uptown girl or something
like that. I don't know. I haven't done karaoke in years,
so i'd be the wrong person, asked Manti. You seem
like a karaoke type of woman. Yeah. Do you have
a karaoke song that you like there? It depends on
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how my night is going. Sometimes I go to a
Snoop Dog It ain't no fun, definitely, And if it's
more of a PG place, I'll rob you know, sweet Caroline?
Why not? What about build Me Up? Buttercup? That's a
good one. One. Yeah, all right, Roberto, what about you, Kerrie?
I can see Roberto. Yeah, you in the hallways. Man.
(35:48):
You don't need you don't need a karaoke machine. But
the one I'm always seeing, always in Spanish always yeah, Yeah,
he's like the Mexican Sinatra is Yeah, usually he was
a different this that's your move. Yeah, go to Bonda.
Are there any good karaoke bars in Tijuana? Oh, I'm
(36:09):
sure there is. Yeah, but you have not been to
any of those. I've been different, you go to different,
different shows. Yeah, I understand. I do not do karaoke.
I'm not a karaoke person, but if I if I
were to do karaoke, I would probably do let me guess, akey,
breaky Heart, No No. Your song by Elton John all
(36:34):
right can be like a Ring of Fire Johnny Cash
or something like that. But anyway, moving on, it is
asked Ben, your questions, our answers for the rest of
the hour as we spiral down the rabbit hole. Okay,
this is a this is a good one, and I
just I had it from out here we go. Daniel
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is the one who asked this. Daniel, Uh, would you
rather marry a porn star or have every animal actively
hate you? I don't want to speak out of class here,
but didn't Paul George mary Well, I don't think she
was a porn like a stripper. Stripper. Yeah, yeah, that's
not that's the little different. But if every animal hated
(37:18):
you though, I know right, Like, go out for a walk,
you get eaten by a mountain lion. I think you
gotta go porn star. I think you gotta make the move.
I think that's the way to go. Monsey, what about you? Months, Yeah,
I think you're right. You're not giving me many options here.
I guess I'm marrying a porn star. There you go.
That's a drop. We're bird. Please, I gotta go with
(37:40):
the porn star. Also, I don't want my dogs hating
a porn star, a trained professional exactly. These are these
are like all stars, These porn stars unbelievable. Still, they
can do things that the human, the normal human being
cannot do. Right, Coop, you go porn all Oh? Absolutely,
(38:02):
I love animals. That was my heart. All right, what
is next? It's ash Man your questions alread answers. All right,
I guess I'm oh have Joe Joe on Twitter wants
to know has anybody actually had a breakfast pizza before? No?
I don't eat breakfast, so I've never no nobody I
(38:23):
mean like eat my pizza. No no, no, no, like
like on that egg and and like sausage or whatever,
like a breakfast pizza egg on the pizza no I
have actually in Vegas. It's yes, it's great and it's fantastic.
You like all food coop. You're not a really good
person to pretty much everything's like. Very few things you
(38:46):
don't like.
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through the darkness comes from the silly season of the NFL. Now,
the postseason just ended, and immediately we go to the
silly season. Never a bad time to dissect a juicy
rumor one flew into our missile defense system recently came
(01:48):
across our screen here it involves Lamar Jackson. Now, if
you were to make a big board on who's going
to get the most airtime between now and when the
NFL returns in September for regular season games, it would
be a neck and neck race between Aeron Rogers and
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Lamar Jackson. But this particular amount of monologue all about
Lamar and whether or not he will find a new home.
He currently is part of the Baltimore Ravens, but probably
not for law enough. You didn't see this, and maybe not.
We've learned that a new suitor has emerged, hot and heavy,
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coming in from the top rope with the atomic elbow.
The Atlanta Falcons. They're all hot and bothered. They want
Lamar Jackson, who currently is part of the Ravens, to
come play in Atlanta. The chatter has Atlanta going all
in to bring in the former MVP bring him to Georgia.
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Jackson is expected to be fan shys tagged, and that
means at that point the Ravens will have to decide
what they want to do. It's gonna take some wheeling
and dealing to get this done. And let us discuss
the question the way too soon Maller monologue on the
future of Lamar Jackson. But Lamar Jackson being courted by
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the Falcons. Are you in or are you out on this?
So I am all in. I've got family diner, Slippery
and Big Bowl, but not the Super Bowl. And we
will combine all of these things together and we are
gonna make some Dirty Birds, is what we're gonna make.
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So a Atlanta I have no skin in the game.
I have no allegiance to the Atlanta Falcons. But that
is a franchise. That is a ghost ship. They are
lacking the wow factor. There's zombies on the NFL landscape.
You talk about a faceless franchise. The team affectionately known
(04:04):
as the Dirty Birds have assembled a hodgepodge of nothingness.
As a former sportscaster said back in the day, trading
for Lamar bringing Lamar Jackson in from Baltimore would give
the owner the home depot, guy Arthur Blank, something that
he desperately wants that he crazed. Now what is that? Well,
(04:25):
that would be dinner reservations at a family diner. The
diner is named Relevancy. It's Relevancy Diner. That is a
diner that the Falcons have not dined at in several years.
As the calendars keep piling up here, Atlanta would be
back in business. They'd be back on the NFL map,
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and all they have to do is acquire Lamar Jackson.
That's it easier said than done. But there would be
a little bit of buzz around the Falcons. It's part
of the package that Lamar Jackson brings. And we know
that Arthur Blank already shot his shot and he missed
when trying to get the creepy quarterback to Shaun Watson
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last season. That turned out to be a brick house.
And so now back at it again, right back to
the frying pan one more time. Now, page two. You're
gonna go thumbs up or thumbs down on Lamar Jackson's
status in Baltimore being on thin ice with the Ravens.
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So I'm going thumbs up. On this one. I got
thumbs up on this. You look at all the key indicators,
which is what we do here behind these microphones, bunker
down in the middle of the night, and all of
the key indicators and you know this, if you've paid attention,
are all pointing the same direction. Bad Blood, Baltimore. This
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is a squabble. It is a dispute, maybe a domestic
dispute if you want to go that direction. But we
have a great divide in between the Ravens and Lamar
And what is my evidence? All right now as we
understand it, the Ravens who have just been hiring different
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coaches filling out the Harbaugh staff. Some changes that were made,
including the offensive coordinator. But they interviewed a bunch of
different offensive coordinator candidates. They chose one. But they would
not guarantee the Ravens that Lamar Jackson would be the
quarterback of the team next season. Now you could say
they can't guarantee that because of injury, because of this,
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that or the other thing, but they wouldn't guarantee he'd
be on the roster next season. That is a dead giveaway.
That is a dead giveaway. Now we know that Lamar
is upset the team did not offer him the fully
guaranteed forever package that his heart desires, and Baltimore officials
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suspecting Lamar Jackson is guilty of mouthfeeas what he did
last year, And we talked about it on these airwaves
during the end of the regular season and into the postseason,
that the team determined he had a minor injury and
Lamar melked it for all it was worth. In the military,
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you would get court martial. They call it malingering if
you do what Lamar is accused of doing. But in
the NFL, nothing like that happens. Now, Is it true
that Lamar was greatly exaggerating his injury status to make
the Ravens suffer the agony of defeat without him sending
(07:42):
a message across the bottle? If you will? Now? Sure?
It sure looks that way from the outside. And it
is a slippery, slippery, slippery slope because once you lose
that trust, you know what happens next day. That's right Splitsville.
So the odds are very low that they can work
(08:06):
out the Ravens and Lamar Jackson a nice peace treaty.
The guys are extremely low on that. All right, So
last word here in terms of the money, money money
for Lamar Jackson. How can Lamar Jackson get a massive contract?
I'm talking bigger than Deshaun Watson, the creepy quarterback in Cleveland.
(08:27):
So I've done some arithmetic on this. I've crunched the numbers.
He's got to use some kind of blunt object, a
baseball bat, a crowbar to escape from the ravens. That's
the first step. And next you have to serve up
a big bowl. I'm not talking about the Super Bowl.
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I'm talking about a big bowl of lucky charms. And
then Edivall is playing footsie under the table before leaf clover,
marshmallow delight, how ever you want to say it there,
but send those pheromones to trigger the response from a
team like the Falcons that is desperate and Lamar. There's
two ways to look at this. Right through one side
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of the equation, you can say this is a guy
that's got an MVP on his resume. All he does
is win. Lamar Jackson brings swag to your team. He's
the leader of the cool kids club. He's got some
dog in him, right, He's got some dogs, not cash,
not cass we need dogs, and he's got some dog
in him, and he increases the value of the franchise,
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so he's more than worth the money. So that's one
side of the argument. Now the other side of the
argument to play Devil's advocate with myself here. The other
side of the argument is the counter pitch would be well,
Lamar Jackson has already peaked. We've already seen the greatness
of Lamar and it's been a slow decline in recent
years and NFL teams have started to figure out the
(09:55):
weak spots on how to contain him. He has not
been an effective post season player. His style of play
is that of a crash test dummy. It is not
a sustainable way to perform, so you're looking at diminishing returns.
In the last two years, Lamar has missed time in
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both seasons because of various injuries. And didn't you know,
if you combine the last two seasons Lamar Jackson's played in,
his passer rating is below ninety and he's averaging combined
a little over seven yards per pass, which is average.
Seven is the baseline number. Lamar Jackson's at seven point
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two yards per pass, and you look at all the
bumps and all the bruises that have piled on up,
and so which side is gonna win? Which argument is
more compelling the way I've seen business go in the
NFL in recent years. It's the first part of the
(10:59):
art comment that Lamar Jackson brings credibility and the wow
factor and all that to your team that ends up
winning out. And as Bruce Arians used to stay in Tampa,
no risk it, no biscuit. So some woe begone franchise
will be like, oh, you know what I'm gonna do.
We're gonna throw caution the wind and here we go,
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Lamar Jackson. That's the way to do it. Be sure
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So our lead this hour coming from the rollicking good
time that was had by all in Cansas City, the
city of champions for pro football, recently the Super Bowl,
fifty seven victors celebrating in a grand hooting Nanny. Now
these things are broadcast on television and maybe you have
(12:54):
a chance to watch it. Maybe not, I don't know.
Just over three years after their last celebratory parade, the
Chiefs back at it there downtown Kansas City area and
they memorialized they're big win in the Big Game. Now,
on Wednesday, you had hundreds of thousands of people. And
I've seen different estimates. They always estimate a lot of
(13:17):
extra people that are actually there. But I mean, this
was a good sized crowd. I saw several photos and
video clips of how many people were there, and it
was packed. It was a sea of people. Wearing red
and gold and celebrating in Unison right near the Union Station,
which is where the NFL Draft is going to be
held coming up in April. And so the team was there,
(13:38):
they had the parade, the whole thing. Everyone all gust up,
all excited. So Patrick Mahomes, he's celebrated. He had a
w w E title belt on. You had the starting
offensive line where shirts commemorating the fact that they did
not allow a sack to the Philadelphia Eagles. You had
the GM Brett Veach and and Patrick Mahomes Mahomie make
(14:03):
references to mocking the rebuild season. In fact, I think
we have some audio will play from Patrick Mahomes coming
up in Admitte and Travis Kelsey he went on a rand.
Travis Kelsey was like always happens at these things. People
were throwing alcohol around, and Travis Kelsey made sure to
(14:24):
partake in the Nectar of the Gods. But he went
on another rant about the haters. Travis Kelsey. Fact, let's
play that audio right now. Here's Travis Kelsey and he's
ranting and raving about all of those people you know
who you are, who didn't believe in the Chiefs. The
haters were saying the Chiefs were done. If you knew
(14:48):
the Chiefs, we're gonna win the division. Let me hear
you say, hell yeah, nah oh, thank you. Okay uh.
That sounded like Joey in Nashville that called up last hour.
It's kind of like the other guy, Joey. All right,
so let us discuss the question. Travis Kelsey, you heard
part of the rant there about the haters doubting the Chiefs.
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What is your position on this? So I've got evangelizing,
Eureka and cherry pick, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a nice,
big partee, which is what they had on Wednesday there
in Kansas City. So Number one, these championship parades, I
(15:41):
say it every time we do a monologue about a
championship parade are like religious revivals, their pep rallies. Travis Kelsey,
who over the last year or so has become a
character of himself, standard issue meathead NFL player, doubling down
on the hat raid speech. Right, He's done this a
(16:05):
couple of times during the playoffs. Nobody thought we could
do it. Nobody believes in us. Blah, blah blah blah
blah blah blah. He's got a bright future in professional
wrestling as he was Travis Kelsey evangelizing, practicing the what
we call the illusionary effect. Now you know what the
illusionary effect is, right, It's a real phenomena. It is
(16:27):
well established and extensively studied in cognitive science. It is
known as what we call it illusionary truth effect. And
what does that mean in Layman's terms? I'm glad you guys.
So with Layman's terms, it means that if you hear
or read something repeatedly, you are more likely to think
(16:48):
that is true, even when it is not true. So
if Travis Kelsey, every time he's interviewed says nobody thought
we could do it, oh, you haters out there, then
people will have eventually believe that as the gospel and
the haters doubting on the chiefs. So I hate to
be the bearer of bad news. Never let the truth
(17:09):
get in the way of a good story. But Kansas
City was the betting favorite to win the AFC West
in twenty twenty two. Is that true or false? That's true.
Kansas City had the third best odds to win the
Super Bowl. Is that true or false? That's true? In
the playoffs, Kansas City was favorite against Jacksonville and Cincinnati.
Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. How about the
(17:32):
fact they opened up a favorite in the Super Bowl?
They ended up a very small one and a half
to two point underdog in the Super Bowl? Is that correct? Yes,
I'm nodding my head. Yes. So well, you talk about
the oppression of the Kansas City Chiefs and no one
believing in them. The most important indicator that you are
valuable and that you are someone that people believe in
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is the gambling market. And the gambling market said you're
the team to be in the division. You've got the
third best odds to win the Super Bowl out of
thirty two teams, and you were favored in two of
the playoff games, and you opened a favorite in the
third playoff game that you play all right now, page two.
So Kansas City's underdog mentality is blank Fill in the blank.
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So I'm gonna go first. The word I have is manufactured?
Is the word I have? It is manufactured. This is
the gasoline that drives the engine of sport. If you
want to know how all of this works, and you're
gonna have your mind blown. I'm gonna I'm gonna ask
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you right now to do something, and I want you
to check back in a couple of weeks. As you
are watching sports, as you are listening to sports, I
want you to start paying attention to the number of
times you hear an athlete or a team or a
coach say, nobody believe did us when they play that
(19:01):
card from the bottom of the deck. I want you
just to pay attention now. I had a Eureka moment
not that long ago, the age of Enlightenment, when I realized,
wait a minute, every time I hear an athlete interviewed
after a game, it's like they didn't think we could
do it. And when they win a championship, even when
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they're favored to win, you didn't think I could do this.
So I had the great awakeness. I realized that one
hundred percent of the time athletes and teams who accomplish anything,
anything at all, their default position is proving the doubters wrong,
literally and figuratively. Every sports profile, every documentary about sports
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that I've watched includes the doubter that you couldn't get
it done person right. Every athlete is pretty much used
the same script. It's the same story, it's a different
version of the same story. You counted me out and
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I proved, I proved the world I could still get
it done using that underdog mentality as a chip on
the shoulder. It's all the rage. And what that means
is the naysayer is the most important person in this
whole dynamic of sport because it is the critic that
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is the one who ignites the inner fire of the athlete.
And without the critic, based on all of these interviews
and all of these people in sports, the athlete would
not compete if it was not for someone that didn't
believe in the athlete. They would not compete without skepticism,
even if it's contrived, nobody would be able to function.
(20:54):
And watching Kansas City and Travis Kelsey talk about doubters
and didn't believe in us, it was reminiscent of the
Georgia Bulldogs who won the national championship in college football
not that long ago, and they did the same thing.
Like Georgia was one of the favorites before the year,
they were the team to beat and they won. And
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Kirby Smart talked about how nobody thought we could do it.
The quarterback also went on a rant. All right, final point.
So let's go back to Patrick Mahomes and he got
up on the dais there. He got on the microphone
at the rally in Kansas City at the Chiefs parade,
and Patrick Mahomes talked about what this season was supposed
to be for the Chiefs. Let's go to the audio
(21:36):
tape before we starved this season, the nc West said
we were rebuilding. I'll be honest with y'all. Were rebuilding
means and are rebuilding. You were world champs. Yeah, yeah,
(21:58):
So there you heard it. Mahomes said, boy, he's enjoying himself.
Good for him. Why not good once? But Patrick Mahomes
saying that the Chiefs were supposed to be in a
rebuilding year, does that make any sense to anyone? Maybe
in the back of the room. There's somebody in the
back of larum that no. Yeah. So this is again
(22:19):
classic cherry picking. It's a cherry picking situation. It's a
one sided argument. All of this because Tyreek Hill was
traded to the Dolphins because the Chiefs didn't want to
pay him and they didn't want to finagle with the salary.
Cap and so they ended up trading Tyreek to Miami
for some draft picks, and that left a void on
the depth chart. So Kansas City filled the blank spot
(22:42):
on their Bingo card with quantity over quality they want.
For quantity over quality, they got Marquez Valdez, Scantling, lad
A Green Bay and jew Juice Smith Schuster, the TikTok
boy from the Steelers. And those guys are jags. They're
just a guy times too. So that was a downgrade.
And there's like one or two random people in the
(23:05):
serengetti of sports talk that doubted the Chiefs. And because
of that, they said it was a rebuilding here. And
who exactly is the spokesperson for the AFC West. Do
we know who that person is? Because Mahomes said the
AFC West said it was a rebuilding year. So I
would like to interview on my podcast the spokesperson for
(23:28):
the AFC West. Can you please give me his number?
I would like to call him up or text him
to see if I canet him on the phone or
her whoever? All right, now, all of that aside, right,
rebuilding was not something that was on the table, right,
That was not something reshuffling the deck is a way
you could describe what happened in Kansas City. But other
(23:49):
than a few hot take maestros who were serving up
Carolina reapers spicy hot takes, the Chiefs, as long as
they have Patrick Mahomes and he's in working order, are
not going to rebuild. There's no The term rebuild is
a shyster term anywhere. It's a con man term. Rebuild.
(24:12):
You don't see that anywhere else. You don't see that
in any major corporation. Right, Like if Southwest Airlines had
a terrible month of December, right, they had all kinds
of trout problems, did they say they're gonna rebuild the
airlines and said, well, we're gonna gonna start over, get
some developmental pilots and hopefully we'll figure it out. No,
you gotta figure things out. As you know, Andy Reid
(24:33):
is not a mince meat coach on the sidelines. This
whole debate is for gazing, right, It's ridiculous. It's worthy
of a migraine headache, is what it's worthy of. So no,
the Chiefs, we're never rebuilding. And as Travis Kelsey I know,
who're repeating the seven thousand more times the doubters, the haters,
(24:53):
put a sock in it. How about that, put a
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big ban gets Graill the Coop now loop. The Chargers
are currently in a bad salary cap situation, and there
are some that believe the team will There's some that
believe the team will cut or try to trade Keenan
Allen to deal with some of those cap issues. Bend
you think Allen has done in LA well, I am
a salary cap truther, so I believe you can figure
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out how to finagle the salary cap to keep Keenan Allen.
But that's not what the charges they're gonna do. He
meets all of the criteria to be a salary dump.
He turns thirty one years old in April. Most wide
receivers don't age well, certainly not guys that play like
Keenan Allen. He's been battered and beaten throughout his career.
He missed seven games last season. He's had hamstring issues,
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other problems. And so though the word on the street
is the Chargers are either gonna get rid of Khalil
Mack or Keenan Allen, Khalil Mack had a better year,
So I say they get rid of Keenan Allen. He's gone,
and a team like the Bears of the Falcons would
love to have him next. Former Steeler safety Ryan Clark
told TMZ the other day that Patrick Mahomes is already
the third best quarterback of all time. Ben how far
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off is he? Well, that's a great hot take. That's
like you're gonna win a gold medal the hot take
Olympics with that take, For Ryan Clark, and if Ryan
Clark said it, then there's no other argument that needs
to be made. Now the top twour Tom Brady and
Joe Montana. After that, it's wide open. Depends on how
old you are. Maybe you're a Dan Marino fan, or
(27:06):
a Bret Farve guy or who who knows what? But
Mahomes is in the running, He's not there yet. Next,
the Milwaukee Bucks are on eleven game winning streak and
are closing in on the Celtics for the number one
seed in the East. The Greek Freak downplayed in and said,
it doesn't matter what seed the Bucks get. Bensie right, Yes,
it doesn't matter anymore. Golden State was a number three
(27:26):
seed last year. The Bucks were I think a number
two seed when they won. It doesn't matter what seed
you are anymore in the NBA. How do we do
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Life's treating you pretty well there, all right, man oh man,
all right, Coop, yes, Coop, go ahead, Coop, be reading
up the questions here for ask Ben. Frank Um, I
(28:53):
might regret asking people to send in questions for Monty,
but we'll start off because there's a bunch of creepsters.
Yeah uh, let's start off with an easy one here
from furg Dog. All right, this is Fergie. This is
for everybody on the crew. Is it worth the weight
to toast pop tarts or would you rather just eat
them as is? Oh, I'm a toaster. I like to
(29:17):
toast it. I like and now you can't obviously the
pop tart. I've not had one in a long time.
But I enjoyed a nice that that strawberry filling in
the middle of the pop tart when it's warm, I
and the frosting a little saft from the warmness. I'm
all about it. So I go toast it. I agree
with Ben, I'm going to toast it. Yeah, go home, good,
(29:39):
take by you exactly? Do you do you enjoy any
other other than strawberry? No, I mean, I'll have it.
But strawberry was the best one. That was the one
they sold the most. If that was like their default
was strawberry, right had they had grape? They had what
were some of the other the like cinnamon one, yeah, yeah, yeah,
cinnamon one, cinnamon cinnamons, like right up there with strawberries
(30:03):
the tops. But then they had um, the wild strawberry
pop tarts. Those ones were good that it was like
purple with the with the blue squiggers. Yeah, those were good. Yeah,
it was the last time you had a pop tart years.
I know, I'm years last week right now? Man? Sounds
(30:27):
good though, I kind of want one. No, no, they're great, so, uh,
I don't We didn't get to roberta berta dot about
your daughter. Do you toast them? Do you? Or do
you just not eat pop tarts? Wow? Life starts come
on breakfast man. My mom was like, oh, come on,
(30:47):
what about the trash with Uh? I do think it
is worth the weight to toast the pop tarts. They
are infinitely better toasted, and it's not even even have
to wait that long. Like I toast my bait Eagles
that like the on the number four setting because I
liked them, you know, a little bit darker. But pop
parts do you only need just a slight, slight little
(31:08):
browning on the edges and you're good to go. So
like thrown in the two two and a half, shut
up for Berto, we already did your answers. Next week,
I'm cooking with Bilberto how to make the perfect pop
part next week for me. But yeah, there's some flavors
that you don't really need to toast, like the cinnamon ones.
That one's good either way. Fun fact, the pop part
did not exist before the nineteen sixties. How about that.
(31:31):
It's not that long ago in the big picture, right,
Think about people in the eighteen hundreds, no pop tarts,
seventeen hundreds, no pop parts. The Bronze Age, they didn't
have the pop part. Only since the nineteen sixties did
the world get the pop tart, that delicious pastry. All right,
what is next year? Where do we have? All right, mango, Alex.
I believe it probably had this at some point during
you know, the last several years. But he wants to
(31:53):
know for everybody, what's the first time that you had
an alcoholic beverage. I was at a family reunion and
one of my cousins thought it would be funny to
give the fat round kid a beer, and so, yeah,
I was in Actually I was. It was in Phoenix
at a family event that we had, and that's when
(32:16):
when that happened, Monsey, what about you? Months? I think
I was about twenty years old and my brother came
home with his friends at like three in the morning.
My parents were out of town, and it was my
first time drinking, and he got me drunk off Crown Royal.
Until this day, I've never touched it again. Yep, that
was the most you moved through school at all that. Yeah,
(32:37):
I was playing sports and I was in club and like,
I just never came around to it. So I was
about two shoes, I guess. So, guys, I guess I
was with the wild child monster breaking hearts at those parties.
Let's let's just keep it at that. I was a
good girl. Let's keep it at that now. Roberto, I
(32:58):
think in his bottle when he was Yeah, when I
was like when I was like eight years old or nine,
we went to Mexico and my my uncle had uncle
gave us like a shot of tequila and I took
it like a champ eight or nine. Yeah, like nine
years old. And then I woke up in the middle
of the nine and my my cousin was blowing chunks.
(33:21):
And that's what my cousin. He doesn't drink at all.
It never has drank, doesn't drink. I'm total opposite. Yeah,
it was. But the first beer was like around twelve
years old. Well you would at least wait, yeahs oh,
got you all right? What about you, Coop? I think
it was senior year, um, senior year, yea of high school. Yeah,
(33:42):
and a female friend of mine was over and hanging
out and we stole my dad's bottle of jim Bean.
Did your dad find out about that? Um? I mean
he doesn't really drink either something. I think somebody like
gave it to him and so he just there, you know.
So did you do the thing some kids do where
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they fill it back up with like waters? Yeah? No,
I mean that would have been kind of obvious because
jim beam is yeah, not water colored but fair point. Yeah,
I got you, all right? Why don't we pause with
the cost youer while? Have another big block is ask Ben?
Your questions are answers covering all the bases, alcohol, pop tarts,
(34:25):
you name it. We got you covered. Ask Ben rolls on.
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Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Coop, what do we have here? On?
Ask Ben and friends? All right, let's see what what
(34:46):
are we gonna do here? Down page? This is the
law of unintended consequences, Coop, because you wanted this and
now it's here. That's true. Yeah, um, we'll do We'll
do this one, okay show joean Okinawa wants to everybody,
what what's your go to karaoke song? Well, as you know,
(35:06):
I'm a king of karaoke. I'm very upset they closed
Dimples in Burbank where I used to I used to
work right across the street there from Dimples and love
that place. But no, I don't uptown girl or something
like that. I don't know. I haven't done karaoke in years,
so i'd be the wrong person, asked Manti. You seem
like a karaoke type of woman. Yeah. Do you have
a karaoke song that you like there? It depends on
(35:27):
how my night is going. Sometimes I go to a
Snoop Dog It ain't no fun, definitely, And if it's
more of a PG place, I'll rob you know, sweet Caroline?
Why not? What about build Me Up? Buttercup? That's a
good one. One. Yeah, all right, Roberto, what about you, Kerrie?
I can see Roberto. Yeah, you in the hallways. Man.
(35:48):
You don't need you don't need a karaoke machine. But
the one I'm always seeing, always in Spanish always yeah, Yeah,
he's like the Mexican Sinatra is Yeah, usually he was
a different this that's your move. Yeah, go to Bonda.
Are there any good karaoke bars in Tijuana? Oh, I'm
(36:09):
sure there is. Yeah, but you have not been to
any of those. I've been different, you go to different,
different shows. Yeah, I understand. I do not do karaoke.
I'm not a karaoke person, but if I if I
were to do karaoke, I would probably do let me guess, akey,
breaky Heart, No No. Your song by Elton John all
(36:34):
right can be like a Ring of Fire Johnny Cash
or something like that. But anyway, moving on, it is
asked Ben, your questions, our answers for the rest of
the hour as we spiral down the rabbit hole. Okay,
this is a this is a good one, and I
just I had it from out here we go. Daniel
(36:55):
is the one who asked this. Daniel, Uh, would you
rather marry a porn star or have every animal actively
hate you? I don't want to speak out of class here,
but didn't Paul George mary Well, I don't think she
was a porn like a stripper. Stripper. Yeah, yeah, that's
not that's the little different. But if every animal hated
(37:18):
you though, I know right, Like, go out for a walk,
you get eaten by a mountain lion. I think you
gotta go porn star. I think you gotta make the move.
I think that's the way to go. Monsey, what about you? Months, Yeah,
I think you're right. You're not giving me many options here.
I guess I'm marrying a porn star. There you go.
That's a drop. We're bird. Please, I gotta go with
(37:40):
the porn star. Also, I don't want my dogs hating
a porn star, a trained professional exactly. These are these
are like all stars, These porn stars unbelievable. Still, they
can do things that the human, the normal human being
cannot do. Right, Coop, you go porn all Oh? Absolutely,
(38:02):
I love animals. That was my heart. All right, what
is next? It's ash Man your questions alread answers. All right,
I guess I'm oh have Joe Joe on Twitter wants
to know has anybody actually had a breakfast pizza before? No?
I don't eat breakfast, so I've never no nobody I
(38:23):
mean like eat my pizza. No no, no, no, like
like on that egg and and like sausage or whatever,
like a breakfast pizza egg on the pizza no I
have actually in Vegas. It's yes, it's great and it's fantastic.
You like all food coop. You're not a really good
person to pretty much everything's like. Very few things you
(38:46):
don't like.
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