Hour 1 - Open Relationship

Ben Maller talks about the Baltimore Ravens deciding to place the non-exclusive franchise tag on Lamar Jackson, the idea that NFL teams are colluding against Lamar Jackson, and much more!

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about the big stories of the day, and what is
your reaction to the Ravens giving the non exclusive franchise
tag to Lamar Jackson And how did you read NFL
players prominent media saying outright or implying the Ravens are

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doing Lamar Jackson dirty and our NFL teams colluding against
Lamar Jackson. We talk about all of those angles and
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a lot of peaks and valleys in the NFL silly season.
That is where our lead story to begin. The nighttime
activities here in the wee hours of the morning come
from here. The franchise Tag Day. Whoooo Oh the walls
heaviers on. Franchise Tag Day always a big event in

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my household at the Mallard Mansion. I'm sure you're a
house it's a big deal as well. Now, the massive
earth shattering revelation came from the poet's nest. Everyone pumping
the brakes. Oh my god, there's outrage. I can't by
day man, what do they do? Well? We learned that

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the rumor of days ago has now turned into reality.
It is now a fact Lamar Jackson has been given
the dreaded franchise tag, but not the normal franchise tag. No, no, no,
there's hurt feelings now because Lamar Jackson as received the
non exclusive franchise tag. And what the hell does that mean?

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In Layman's terms, it means that Lamar Jackson, as we
understand it, is now free to row home around the
NFL and negotiate, and he loose ends with a contract
he would like to sign with some other random NFL teams,
free to negociate, and at worst he will have to

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do the walk of shame back to Baltimore where in
the House on Days he won an MVP Award many
many years ago. Now and can play for a salary
of thirty two point four million, which I believe is
on the poverty line in the modern NFL if you're
a quarterback. The Ravens will have the opportunity to match

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any and all offers that Lamar Jackson gets to receive
in the free agent game, but he will if he
does come back to the Ravens, then obviously they pay
him the thirty two point four. They get him under
the contract a new contract if he signed somewhere else,
but if he leaves, then they get not one, but
two first round picks. There will be a test on

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this later. Already, the big story here that the Miami Dolphins.
Miami has a football team. The Atlanta Falcons and the
Carolina Panthers have already informed through league sources, but they
are not interested at all. And the former MVP and
man has raised some eyebrows around the NFL chatter world.

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So let us discuss the question, what is your reaction
to the Ravens giving the non exclusive franchise tag to
Lamar Jackson. So on the Mallers scale of logic, the
Mallard scale of logic one to ten, with ten being
a mensa, the Ravens, on the Mallar scale of logic,

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get an eight point five and eight point five. I've
got crayons, Hollywood, Blockbuster, and Scotus and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make some nice crow, which is what some people will
be eating when all this is done. Not Raven. They'll

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be eating crow. So number one, the Ravens get the
old tip of the cap, the wink and the knot
at the microphone. Here, these sides have been involved in
mar Jackson on one side. The Ravens on the other
have been involved in a football cold war. They have

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been ratcheting up hostilities here. Any way you slice it.
On one hand, you've got Lamar Jackson. This is the
soap opera these days of our lives drama. You've got
Lamar Jackson who's hell bent on getting the fully, fully
guaranteed contract. He is fixated on grabbing a Deshaun Watson

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like deal. Why not, unwilling to budget an inch. On
the other hand, you've got the Ravens and they've also
cast their lot in concrete iron will. They don't want
to be the idiot in the room who wants to
follow the Cleveland Browns. Is a friend of mine who's
covered the NFL for some time, points out, you don't

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want to be like the Cleveland Browns. Whatever the Browns do.
You want to go the other way. That's just the
NFL in a nutshell. So the Ravens are like, we
don't want to make the same mistake those dumb asses
in Cleveland made so that we have now reached a
Waterloo moment facing critical mask being concerned about being blown
to smithens. Here, the Ravens do get the eight point

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five on the malliscale logic because they are doing the
unorthodox thing traditionally. You've seen it. I've seen it just
paying attention here over the years. Normally what happens is
that you traditionally just keep the player under the exclusive
franchise tag. You do not want any hurt feelings. You

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do not want to allow the player. They even talk
to other teams. But Baltimore is like, screw that, We're
gonna take the crayons out. We're gonna color outside the lins.
We're gonna let the market set the price. They're gambling,
and I'm a gambler. I like gambling. They're gambling the
Ravens that the pot of gold at the end of

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the rainbow will not be there. Now. They have some
kind of intel that we don't have. Who knows, but
they're betting that Lamar Jackson is not going to get
what he thinks he's going to get, and therefore he
will either take the franchise tag or or Lamar will
work out some kind of kind track and say I

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will stay in Baltimore. Page two here, how do you
read the room with former some current NFL players and
media types who cover the NFL saying or implying the
Ravens are screwing with Lamar Jackson and this is a
terrible thing. You know what's going on. And my reaction

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to that, some of you use the word sabotage for
Lamar Jackson. This whole reporting smells moldy to me. It's rancid,
and I spotted this from a mile away. I realize
I'm not that sharp, but every once in a while,
every once in a while, you get something. And what

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we have witnessed over the last few hours is a
manipulation situation. And I will argue till to the hills
that that is what's going on. I'll tell you why
Lamar Jackson does not have a traditional agent. We know
the story. You paid attention to this. The matriarch of
the Jackson family is calling the shots. Mama Jackson is

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the one in charge. She is the de facto agent,
and by the same token, she is getting counsel from
the Players Association. Is it true that this is manufactured
over the top reaction planted by reps from the NFL

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Players Association. Could this pearl clutching be specifically targeted for
these social media playground If I didn't know any better,
I'd say that this has been carefully orchestrated, much like
a script and a Hollywood blockbuster, in effort to impress

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the knuckle dragging, low information, mindless fan swaying the undecided voters,
winning hearts, minds, and souls. Could it be just between
me and you? Could it be that members of the
Players Association are using selected useful idiots in the media too.

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If they deputize these people to spread their side of
the story, some would say misinformation. Is it also true
that not one but two prominent NFL Twitter aggregators sent
out almost the identical talking points memo repeating NFL Player

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Association propaganda roughly thirty minutes apart. Now they're either guilty
of plagiarism or just regurgitating talking points the Players Association.
They got invested interest, and I understand why they would
go to those lengths if they did indeed do this.

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If Lamar Jackson finds pay dirt, if he hits the
oil overs. It swings the pendulum all the way in
the direction of all future star quarterbacks getting fully guaranteed contracts.
We're off to the races, all right. Final point, so
our NFL teams colluding against Lamar Jackson. That's the big

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memo that's going around here. The nflpa's freaking out. They're
losing their mind. So I am ambivalent on this. We
have talked about collusion issues many times over the years,
and it is almost impossible, impossible to prove collusion right.
The idea that every team needs to be bidding on

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Lamar Jackson, I find that far fett well. The first
point is that there's several teams that have no opportunity
to bid on Lamar anyway because they don't have first
round pick. You gotta have a first round pick the
next two years, So like the Rams, the forty nine ers,
teams like that, even if they wanted Lamar Jackson could
not sign him because they don't have the promper draft picks.

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But if you read the fine print, you've got a
quarterback who was an MVP twenty nineteen, it's not twenty
twenty three. Since then, Lamar Jackson has been battered bruised
and completely beaten. He's missed about twenty something percent of
the games. His passing numbers have been that of a
baseline quarterback. The numbers passing or lukewarm. You toss in

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the fully guaranteed money, the holy grail for many of
these dopey NFL teams, the first round draft picks, and
you have what you have here, It is understandable that
you would at least be cautious. And we understand that
they're saying gamesmanship is going on, clouding of the room.
The Falcons, Panthers, and Dolphins have all supposedly said they're

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not interested. And I am surprised by Atlanta. Atlanta made
a lot of sense. They got an owner who tried
to get the creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson last year and
swung and missed, and they still need a quarterback in Georgia.
That would have made sense. Now. Regardless, many are looking

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to make an example out of the story. Both sides
are locked in their ways. We have a major kerfluffle
which is taking place here. We're talking about a Scotus
of football situation. The Supreme Court of the United States
of the NFL Lamar Jackson is a tipping point, and

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this is going to set future contract precedent. If he
gets what his heart desires, then it's over for the
owners that because Deshaun Watson has seen as an outlier
at this point, an abnormality from a dumb franchise, the
Cleveland Browns, which are the laughing stock of the NFL

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year after year, and they were guilty of insubordination with
giving that contract out. So the exception does not make
the rule. But if you have Lamar getting paid, it's
no longer just an exception. If Lamar Jackson gets fully
guaranteed money, it now becomes NFL precedent and that will
serve as the authoritative rule in the future and similar cases. Now,

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some have said that there is a grand conspiracy from
not only the NFL, but the agent community, the community
of representatives of NFL players, that it's they have a
vested interest in Lamar not getting paid. I totally buy
that one, because there's one thing I know from people
that are agents that they despise, and that is when

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people don't hire agents. They don't like that. And if
Lamar is able to pull this off and get paid,
the big bag of dead presidents and what he wants
that makes them look like absolute jackasses. So they don't
want him to get that either. And so we'll see

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what happens in the coming days and coming. But all
it takes is one right, And that's the thing about
these things. All it takes is one idiot. Deshaun Watson
found an idiot last year in Cleveland. There are thirty
two teams. The Browns are out and several other teams
have no chance. But all he needs is one moron
in the room. Find the moron in the room if
you're Lamar Jackson, and you will get paid. It is

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It's Ben Maller and we begin this block of the
Ben Mallerer We started out talking about Lamar Jackson who
got the restricted franchise, to people freaking out. I can't
believe it. Oh my god, it's not fair. Oh yeah, yeah,

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the Ravens and I'm not a Ravens guy. I've goofed
on the Ravens a lot over the years, but everyone
loves to celebrate the Ravens and how they're always one
of the better teams in the NFL, and they're a
contender year after year. They very rarely blow, and they
have decided this is the best path for Lamar Jackson.
So are the Ravens all of a sudden the idiots

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right now the Burner account right Sin says nice monologue Benjamin, like,
totally agree if it smells like a duck and quacks
like a duck. But if you don't mind, I would
like to add my sleazy politician speech to the militia.
If I'm elected, we will have more paid holidays off
ice cream at pizza and a lifetime ban on Poppy.

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That Poppy will be banned for life. That's from the
Burner account. He is referring to the online vote only
on the Twitter page. It is wide open, and even
though some of the different categories appear to be lopsided,
that is not the case because we'll get more people
voting here at the last minute, and these things can

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flip and then we'll get real controversy like we got
with Surfer Todd the Comedian. It was upset with J. Scoop,
And there are people that are possessed with this skill
of just micro analyzing these things, and they obsessed with

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these type of deals. I'm not like that, but I'm
not one of the nominees trying to win the first
round of The Ben Maller Show's Social Media Contributor of
the Year. And the categories right now, You've got Rob
in Vegas, your Feeme Goatman, Rob Shane, and Demoine. In
one category, You've got the Coope bracket, which has Matt

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the Warrior, Intera's Fan, Late Night drug Tester, Eugene in Chicago.
Stevie Meatballs is in that category. I've been told by
people who emailed me that they voted for Stevie Meatballs
just because they think it's a funny name. Wild Card
Brackett as Chris in Des Moines, Robbie the Mariner fan,
Emmett the Blind Seahawk fan, Milkman Mike. That's the most

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competitive category is the wild card bracket. There are there's
very very close Roberto's Brackett has alf the Alien Opiner,
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Tim mcdarby, double O Mexican in
that category, the Mallard bracket. We've got moving man, Matt

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Mister nice guy, furg Dog, Mallard prop guy is that
carries some heavy hitters there, and the Eddie Brackett has
his bestie, the guy that graced the show with a
six months suspension, Justin and Cincinnati the Burner accounts in
that one. He says that he will have extra holidays
and all that donkey sausage, and the great Just Josh

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who was our roving reporter. It took him a while,
but he did get there, and we thank Just Josh.
We're going above and beyond the call of duty as
our roaming gumshoe reporter on the streets of Cincinnati in
the rich neighborhood where Joe Mixon lives in and he
showed up. The police had left all the TV morning

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news shows. They had their trucks outside Joe Mixon's house,
but he did give us the report there at the
end of the show yesterday, Jason the Diamond Man right
since says another great opening. I agree that with the
opening of our number one, it makes zero sense why
so many teams say we are against Lamar. You think

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they want to run up You would think they would
want to run up the price. So he says, all right, well,
we will take some calls coming up here in a moment,
and if you'd like to be part, you can join us.
And the lines are open for let's go to the
phones right now and we'll say hello to Blind Scott,
who's on the north end of Boston and he is

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up next. Hello, blind Scott. I sit down when I pin. Hey,
I was, I was going over these brackets. We got
the Old white Man bracket, that Teddy's bracket. It's kind
of like prison rules here. Then we got Roberto's brackets,
the Mexican bracket, the Mexicans all together in that bracket. Hey.
And then hey, one other thing too. We got the
Buston Bruins here. They're gonna play fifteen games in twenty

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five days coming up starting Thursday. The best team in
the NHL. They're gonna make the run table table all
the way through the playoffs. It's the best team ever here.
I'm like the Celtics, whoop. And you know, the Sultan
been playing really badly. But another thing too, with the
Los Angeles Kid and Kings did. I can't believe they
did Jonathan Quick like that to all he's given back
to the organization. They just dumped him right on the streets.

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That goes to show you the Los Angeles Kings are
not a real franchise. They're a tourist trap. They don't
have real fans. People just go there to get their
face on the Hollywood screen screen. Their fans are idiots
who use their toe to block pucks, you know what
I mean, in front of a puck, and they would
like that. Bride Scott, you're an old hockey player, right,
you know, back in your day before you lost your vision,

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you were a hockey player and you know that guy's
a college hockey but you know not to put your
bow in front. Yeah, Blind Scott was a different life. Yeah,
I played at university. I was a big hockey start
of my my, my, my town that I played hockey
for Sandwich High School. It's in the state finals right
now in Massachusetts. Second year in a row. What high school?

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Sandwich High School? You went to Sandwich High School? Yeah, Sandwich.
What was your mascot? It's a whole night, yeah, fresh
to make the first they team. I was a stud
that was back before this guy's the Al Bundy of
Sandwich High School Eddie Sandwich High School High. I had

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four touchdowns in one game one. That's right again? That awesome? Now,
Blind Scott, are you concerned that you're not going to
win Caller of the Year. You are a You're a
nominee for the most coveted award. You've won this in
the past, the Genie and Medford Caller of the Year Award.
You are one of the finalists on there. Are you
concerned that you might not win this year? I kind

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of saw who's on there. It's like, um, it's kind
of like the brain damage ward at the hospital. So
I think, like, I'm the top I'll be the top
winner there. You know, some of those people don't even
know what day is. One guy, he's one guy you
could just institutionalize right now. Jed who fled? You know
that guy? He doesn't even know what's up, what's down.
He lives in Florida. You know what I'm saying, I'm

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a true representative of the struggle amongst the human kind.
You know what I'm saying. I deserve the award. I
feel bad for these people we lost this year, like
Jay Scoop and beer drinking Bryan. You know, then what's
us anymore? And I gotta win it for them, you
know what I'm saying. I gotta pet the true hero.
And one other thing too. When I played on an
outside team in hockey too, I was one of the

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best players in the States. I played against you know
NHL players I was. I played defensive. These should call
me the one man recan crew. I used to wait
people out and wreckham I was. I was a pretty
good hawsed player. Met Eddie, should have a one on
one matchup at a meeting great or something. That's a
great idea. All right, I gotta go. I can't get

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who doesn't Who doesn't want to see a blind guyant
skates in blind Scott he would have his his dog
with him. A right, so you have Dylan and he'd
beyond skates and be awesome. Would Dylan beyond skates as well? Yeah,
little Doggie skates would be great. Sat on the toilet
with a plunger in at the other day Sandwich High School,

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the whole big world out there, Eddie. Anyway, we'll have
potty talk. I can't wait for this story. I've been
waiting all day for this little hot potty talk on
the radio. But right now, let's get over to these
sporting news desk and games of note Garcia to get
your cut up on everything going on in the overnight.
A lot of basketball games. Ben, Have you ever plugged

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the headphones in and then went to crack the mic
and they had left the volume up so loud? Oh?
Is that what happened on the top of the God,
I wonder what happened. I thought maybe you were off
your medication. It found it. It sounded very entertaining. Though
I was listening. It was like it was a pause
and he came back and there's a pause a game
is Yeah, apparently legally death my god, not too far away.

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It happens to all of us, Eddie, I'm right there. Yeah,
and I didn't start out that way. Everyone gets into
radio and we all have well most of us have
the same experience. You just start turning up the audio
a little bit more in your headphones, and then when
you've done this for twenty years or something like that,
you need a hearing. It's like deep boiling frog. Yeah,

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but it's true. Listen, Rush Limbaugh the greatest of them
all time. He didn't he need like major here yet,
like ear major ear problems. Yeah, I believe that's Casey. Yeah.
I think he could barely hear it all by the
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news from the NFL Woody Johnson's Prize if It Jet
flew to California from New York to meet Jets Eddy.

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They took the Aaron Rodgers. The Jets took the private
jet to meet with Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay
Packers given the Jets permission to speak with Rogers Camario.
I thought Rogers was. I thought he had moved to
to a Nashville rightway. He bought property in Nashville. I

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guess he hasn't moved there he was. I'm sure he
has multiple properties. Yeah, so I guess Rodgers is that's
uh yeah, yeah, yeah, I believe. I believe he's hanging
out in southern California and Calabas Yeah, Calabasas, Calabasas where.
I don't think it's the same thing. Robertos thought it

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was somewhere else. Oh no, where's the Camarillo Airport. I
don't know. I've never never been to the camera. I
think it's in southern California. Yeah, I thought I thought
so too. Is that uh point was it Point Magoo out? There?
Is that that area? Yeah? Yeah? There you go. The

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Channel Islands, Eddie, off the coast of California. There's the
Channel Islands, right love the Channel Islands. Yeah, all right,
thank you? For that, Eddie. It is the Bannet Mallers Show.
As we continue on, we'll get to the potty talk
of the day. We look forward to that. We will
take calls. It has one runway, by the way, what

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is that? Right? Yes, there's no confusion on which one
to land. Add I think that's like the val That's
like the the Vannai's airport, right, I don't think that's
a it's it serves privately operated general aviation and executive
aircraft yea, with no commercial service. Yeah, it's like the
Vanney's airport. You imagine you're the owner of the jets
with your head coach, your coordinate and you're flying into

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that airport like that's that's okay. What the hell? And Rogers,
I guess he greeted them at the airport. One of
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Toilets one hundred and sixty toilets got off three times?

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Ever number toilets and girls. We do not want people
waiting your life. We want to get back to their
damn seats. Yeah, who is that? Not the perfect owner?
Is this man not a genius? Eleven hundred and sixty
toilets and urinals eleven hundred three times? As he said

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the NBA average, there will be no better craphouse than
the Clipper Arena. It's wonderful. What a brilliant guy this
guy is. What did you don't want people lined up?
And you spend a lot of money on tickets. A
lot of people don't go to games very often, and
it's a special treat when you're able to go to
a game and get there. And this guy is taking

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care of the fan. This guy is a fan friendly owner.
And every other NBA fan wishes they had Steve Ballmer
as their owner. And get dunk. He's the Clipper guy.
He's the Clipper owner. What a bravo, bravo for him.
I loved it, yelling about urnals and toilets, and it's

(32:51):
just great. It's absolutely great, and that dumps the arena
formerly owned Staples Center in downtown LA, which is black,
the proper number of toilets and urinals and so a
great job. Another wonderful move by the owner of the Clippers,
Steve Ballmer. Can we play that again. Listen, this is
this is why this owner is better than your owner.

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Listen to this. Toilets on hundred sixty toilets got off. Yeah,
we do not want people waiting your life. We wanted
to get back to their damn seats. That's right. And
when he says so, he's not talking like porta pots.

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These aren't those crappy porta potis. These are wonderful toilets,
is what these are, and just just absolutely great. I
love to hear it. So if you go there, you've
got constipation and yeah, you have Mina Zuma's revenge at
a Clipper game. In a couple of years, when they
opened this new arena, you will have the number one

(33:55):
powder room, the comfort station. After watching the team play
in the playoffs, you'll most likely need it. Well, listen,
at least they'll be in the playoffs I'm very nice
if you to acknowledge that, Cooper Loop, and I know
you're jealous, I'm sure you'll show up over there. You'll
check out that arena. You'll go there. You say you won't,
but you'll be there. You'll be taking it out, You'll

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be taking a whiz in one of those urinals. You'll
be enjoying the fruits of Steve Bomber's money. You will.
Lakers are one of the hottest teams in the NBA
right now? What Lakers are one of the hottest teams
in the NBA right now? Okay, no, no real cares.
Let's go to the Texas Trucker. Actually a whole on tech.

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We don't have time for the Texas Trucker right now.
Hold on Texas Trucker. Will I blame Cooper Loop for
interrupting my mojo? But here's the who am my game?
Here we go? Who am I game? We'll go to
hockey because that's what I found a hockey question here
it is the Washington Capitals. Alex Ovechkin, he's a comrade.

(34:56):
Alex Ovechkin scored his first career goal against somebody named
Phoenix Copley of the Kings. The other night, the one
hundred sixty ninth different goaltender he has scored against in
his career. Only two players in NHL history have tallied
goals against more goaltenders. You've got Yarmer, Yager who is

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at the very top, and me again. Alex Ovechkin scored
his first goal against a guy for the King's named
Phoenix Copley, the one hundred and sixty ninth different goaltender
he has scored against in his career. Only two players
in NHL history have had more goals against different goaltenders
than Ovechkin. That's Yarmer, Yager and me. Who am I

(35:39):
the answer? I'll tell you. We'll get to that. We'll
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Progressive dot com. And here's the question. The Capital's Alex
Ovechkin recently scored his first career goal again his Phoenix
Copley Copley Whatever of the Kings. He one hundred and
sixty ninth different goaltender he has scored against in his career.
Only two players in NHL history of talied Moore against

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different goaltenders, yarm Or Yager and me. Yager has the
all time record, and I am in second. Who am I?
That is the question. What's the answer? Rob the Goatman
going with Robbie the Mariner fan as his answer. The
TV critic writes in and says Max Reid is the answer.

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The Kopa. Who else do we have? Page down, page down,
Clay Davis from the Burner account of Eddie Garcia. We've
got Yosemite Sam from The Cowboy Killer. That's his answer,
Ron Jeremy guess by Bean Bootmaker Bob page down, page

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Dann Ron Karkoweiss, the great hockey player for the Chicago
White Sox in the eighties from mister nice Guy, The
smartest Man in La Steve Baumer guest by Ferg Dog
Great answer there for Way to Go, Gordon Bombay from
Milkman Mike page down, page down. Jay Scoop says the

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late Jay Scoop is the answer. Alf going with Joe
the Plumber as his answer. Tony Coup Coach from Sean
in Portland, Darren Poopa from Chris in Des Moines. Lucky
Luciano guess by Gridiron's study. Do you have an answer?

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Eddie Yes, former oiler and King Hall of Famer Yari Curry.
Yarry Curry is zach correct. No, Eddie is not good.
Patrick Marlowe is the answer. Passion Marlowe one hundred and
seventy seven different goal CA