April 7, 2023 • 44 mins
Big Ben talks about Sergio Garcia getting upset with the media at The Masters for their questions about LIV Golf, a former Cardinals GM explaining Kyler Murray's shortcomings, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and more!
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the rare and appropriate obligatory golf monologue. We do a
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couple of these a year. It's one of four weekends
during the calendar that we are allowed to discuss the
sport outside of some kind of large controversy when golf
is fair game in our sports radio domain. So we
take you to Augusta National Golf Club. I've never been there.
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We had a listener, a very kind listener who invited
me to go to Augusta. Lives right near there and
listens to the podcast pretty much every day religiously, but
I've been unable to make it. I don't know if
the offer is still there. But that was the scene
Augusta National, the eighty seventh Masters, the chase for the
green jacket. Now you never get two worked up over
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the opening round. Leader doesn't really matter that much because
who cares, So we won't waste our time with that.
There is an interesting story we go where the stories
of the day take us out of the Masters in Georgia,
and this one involves an angry golfer right there. That's
a wonderful building block to a talk radio top. When
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you have someone who's angry, that's good radio. So after
moving two under through eight holes on Thursday, Sergeyo Garcia,
he's stumbled, any bumble, the live golfer not living his
best life here as he had not one, not two,
not three, how about four bogies. Now, if you're not
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a golf person, that sucks. He finished with an opening
round seventy four. It sucks if you're a professional. If
you're an amateur golfer, probably not so much. But it
blows when you're a big time golfer. So right now,
if you look around and up and down, you will
see that Sergio Garcia is in a tie with Tiger Woods,
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which used to be a big deal back in the
day when you were tied with Tiger Woods. But he's
tied with Tiger and eight other golfers or seven other
golfers for fifty fourth place, which I'm not a golf guy.
I don't believe that's particularly great. I don't want to be
be critical, but I think that's not good. And if
my computer like mind is right, that's nine shots behind
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the co leaders, which do include Brooks, Keepka and some
other random people. But don't bear the lead, my man,
all right, we're not gonna bear the lead. Sergio Garcia
got into it with the hard hitting golf media. When
you think of sports media and the ones that are
attack dogs, you think of golf, well maybe with their
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tach dogs. There are their tack poodles. But nonetheless, so
if you if you didn't see this, you didn't hear
about this, buckle up, buckaroo, you might have missed it.
So let me give you the blow by blow on this.
Sergio Garcia angrily pushing back because he was asked about
how normal, how normal it felt to be back at
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the Mash. It's kind of a big deal, right that
the live golfers, the defectors who crossed over to take
that Saudi money, and now they're all back together with
the people they left behind from the PGA tour, and
people are curious how this is all going to go
down and what kind of stuff's actually taking place behind
the scenes. So Sergio Garcia was asked about that. He
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did not like the line of questioning. When asked about
how normal it felt to return to the Masters, he
believed the question was live golf related instead of about
the state of his golf game. So what did he do?
He started punching back. Second, as Warner Wolf would say,
let's go the audio tape. How normal does it feel
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coming back here? I'm playing and just comes to training
the game and totally normal, guys, you get you guys
need to stop it. I mean, you guys are making
a big deal out of these and it's you, guys,
Yes it is. I mean I've had nothing but great
things from every single player that I've talked to, So
just please stop it and just talk about the masters.
And then, you know, I think actually in defense, I
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think actually was thinking it's this. You haven't had as
many reps as sometimes you normally would. How did you
feel coming playing this golf course? Because no, I don't
think amend that, but I did. I did play one, two, three, four,
I played five tournaments coming in here, so it's pretty good.
He might say, well, that's not that. No, it is
for golf. Oh my god, this is a party, foul,
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This is a party. Am I wrong? I don't think
I'm wrong. I don't think I'm making too much of this.
I don't think I'm embellishing this. All right, So let
us discuss the question what stood out we just played
the audio. What's suit out to you the most from this?
Sergio Garcia interaction with the hard hit and golf media.
So I've got New York State, reptile, arsonist, and beehive,
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and we'll tie all of these things together. We're gonna
ring the bell and we'll begin with this now analyzing
this breakdown, and I did a frame by frame analysis
because I have no life, and this is uncomplicated. If
you are a reasonable human being, you know, and I
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know that Sergio Garcia is genuinely bothered by what he
has done, the perception of him publicly, and he is
upset and he let it show. He let it show.
He's bothered by his defection to live golf. He took
the money. Most of us would do the same thing,
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but he in it and people are goofing on him.
He's had many months to prepare for the Masters, not
just on the course in Augusta, but also all the
trimmings that come with it. He's won the Masters before,
Sergio Garcia, he knows all about it dealing with the media.
He's a seasoned Veneran, which makes this all the more telling.
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Sergio Garcia knew that this line of questioning was coming.
Did he keep his composure, did he give a poised
stoic response, I'm shaking my head. No. Instead, he morphed
into the official New York state reptile, the common snapping turtle.
He became a snapping turtle. He was unsettled. He got
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upset really over nothing when you think about it, which
means it's something. When you get upset over nothing, there's something.
And so Sergio wants you to know that everyone is
totally cool, that no one has a problem with the
defense hectors who crossed over from the PGA Tour to
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the Live Golf tour period hardstop, even though we have,
as the Jets coach would say, the receipts on several
prominent PGA golfers that have taken shots at the Live
Golf defectors. But I digress now page two. Where did
Sergio Garcia screw up in this response? That we played?
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So he slipped into a trap door, is what he did.
Out The plan originally was to change the narrative. And
when I went framed by frame under the Mallard microscope.
In Sergio Garcia's head, he thought of himself as a firefighter,
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a heroic firefighter dropping buckets of water on an inferno,
and the inferno was a loaded question, but instead instead
of dropping buckets of water, he did the opposite. Those
buckets were mislabeled. They were filled with kerosene. You see,
Sergio Garcia worked as an arsonist, holding up his blowtorch
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with the kerosene, and he started a out of control
wildfire on day one of the Masters. You see, this
story is front page news. It's the story of stories
that we're talking about from the Masters, because nobody really
gets all worked up about who's leading after round one.
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You're looking for something else. This is it. This is
the meat on the bone, and it's not just a
chicken wing has already been picked apart. There's a lot
of meat right there. And so he got Sergio Garcia,
a guy we've heard of who's won the Master, shooting
from the hip, getting burned, major backfire, and so he
has now created something out of nothing. Rather than just
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give your standard non answer answer, which is something all
these guys learn how to do from the time they
become professionals, Garcia he took a biology. Sergio Garcia took
a bite out of the cheese. Now, last word here,
was Sergio Garcia right or wrong to take umbrage with
being asked about the live angle to the masters. So
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on my scorecard when I scribbled down, I wrote incorrect,
So not right or wrong, incorrect. It's absolutely a story,
and it said single largest development in the history of golf,
certainly in my lifetime, in the modern era of sport.
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The PEG eight Tour was caught off guard. They were unprepared,
they were blindsided. They were taking their afternoon nap and
in the blink of an eye, relatively speaking, we have
seen a laundry list of the biggest of the big
names relocating, taking the bag of Saudi oil money and
dipping in there. They're doing the belly whopper in these
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sud Sovereign Wealth Fund, which is bankrolling this hostile takeover.
And it's been been said in the movies that love
is the bread of life. You might have heard that
love the bread of life, but money is the honey.
And these live golfers are swimming and they're doing the
backstroke in a beehive of delicious, fresh honey. It's crazy,
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and how how do we process what's going one? You
got to imagine the guys on the PGA Tour that
either weren't invited or talk. We're talked out of going
to the live tour? Are are angry? That would be
a natural human reaction. Now, how do we see all
this playing out? The blowback, the fallout, all that. Anytime
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you involve the halves and the have nots, even though
everyone's got a lot of money. If you're a professional golfer,
you're not poor, but there's different tax brackets and it
creates extra job. So if you ever took a journalism
class or a media class when you're in school, If
you're in school, now you know how this works. A
reporter asked a question, you can ask any question you
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want as a reporter. The person being asked the question,
the interview e can then have several options that they've
got several pass to go down there to fork in
the road. They can decide whether or not they want
to choose to answer the question or not the options
on the table. If you're being asked a question, you're
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ever interviewed, you can either go with evasion. You can
evade to answer the question. You can play dodgeball. You
can change the subject and so I don't talk about
something totally different and just not actually answer the question.
They don't get to give a list of things that
can and can't be asked. That's one thing you can't do. Otherwise,
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the interview e can just ask themselves questions. And some
of these bozos would probably like that. Now. I will
tell you that later on in that same interview that test,
the interview with Sergio Garcia, he did evade, and he
did a evade when asked about the something called the
DP World Tour arbitration that they won against the Live
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Golf Tour. That to explain that in layman's terms, as
I understand it, a court in the UK upheld what
was the former European Tours ability to sanction to punish
players who violated and breached the agreements to leave to
go to the live events. So the Live Golf lost that,
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and Sergio Garcia said that he didn't know about it.
He played dumb. He said, he doesn't pay attention to
the news. You'd think if that was your business, you'd
pay attention. I work in radio. I'm aware of what's
going on in my business. I think you'd be aware.
Whatever you do for a living. Your truck driver, you
probably know what's going on in that business. And if
you're whatever you're doing you're you're aware of your industry,
but he says, of course, we know that's a lie.
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At that point he chose to lie, and then when
he was asked by the reporter said well, you know,
how about tomorrow we'll ask you about it. And Sergio
essentially said that he wasn't interested in learning more about
the story. He said, quote, I probably won't catch up
on it. He did, he did admit, so there's a
little bit of honesty. Be sure to catch live editions
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One of the great stories of the last year from
the NFL has now been proven true. Wait till you
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gonna some little talk here. Our lead coming from the NFL.
As mentioned now, if you listen to this show on
a regular basis, you know during football season, one of
our favorite punching bags is a it's a small bag
out of Arizona and a story that had us absolutely
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flabbergast due the last NFL season, and it has come
back around yet again. The amount of money handed to
Kyler Murray the stunning move. I think you'd agree. Kyler
a flawed quarterback and a lot of issues in the
locker room. And we're not even in the locker room.
We're aware of that. It's a backwards franchise, the Cardinals,
and this is what teams like that do. The man
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who forked over that money has already lost his job.
He's out, and now he's spilling the tea about his
former quarterback. You didn't hear this, you didn't see it?
Perhaps not now we were tipped off to this and
then we found the audio. We heard that the former
Cardinals general manager, Steve Kime is his game. His name
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bad football teams, that's his game. GM in Arizona for
a number of years survived multiple head coaches. Steve Kim,
and he doubled down on a claim that one of
the Cardinals offensive lineman had recently made that Kyler Murray
needs to grow up a little bit. That needs to
grow up a little bit. Now, speaking on the fledgling
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something called the green Light podcast. I don't know what
that is. I've never heard of it, but somebody named
Chris Long, I've heard of him. He's got it. So
one of the three point nine million podcasts in the world.
This is the Cardinals general metor Steve Kim, who agreed
with the offensive lineman for the Cardinals, said that tackle
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Kelvin Beecham, what he said recently about Murray needing to
grow up a little bit was spot on. As Warner
Wolf would say, let's go to the audio tape. You know,
I think he still needs to grow and it's again,
it's not slanting towards his character. He's not a bad guy.
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He's a really good kid, has a good smile and
has a nice way about him. Um, I think it's
like anything. Guys have to continue to learn what it's
going to take to be great. You know, does does
he know what Peyton Manning and Tom Brady know knows
what it takes to be great? No? Um, does he work?
He does work. I think it's just that side of
the game, the film study, the attention to detail part
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that he can continue to prove upon, and I think
he will because Kyler is a proud guy man. He
doesn't want to he doesn't want to lose, and he
doesn't want to let people down. So all right, so
that was Heath come woof oofa. All right, so let
us discuss the question. Are these Kyler Murray issues a
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superficial problem or are they deeper? So they cut to
the bone, that's how deep they go. I've got kosher
gasline and ear muffs, and we'll put all of these
things in the box. What's in the box? To Mala monologue?
So number one, consider this another bad day for the
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little fella, the quarterback in Arizona, Kyler Murray. He has
been hit with more shrapnel and you could argue this
is friendly fire. This was the GM that drafted him
and gave him the forever contract, the generational wealth. As
a senior fellow at the Mallard Institute of Fact Checkers,
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I looked at these comments made by Steve Kim and
the meat of the matter, there were no lies detected.
You see, Steve Kim is the guy that knows all
of the secrets of Kyler Murder. As we mentioned, he
drafted him. He wrote up the contract, the Doomsday contract,
the poison pill contract, so he would know time. Believe,
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played in the NFL, worked as a GIGM not now,
but for years, and he's lived the life. He's lived
the life former Cardinals GM Steve Kim, who issued what
I consider a compliment HOGI or a compliment sandwich depending
on where you are now. The compliment began slice of
bread and then in the middle was the criticism, and
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then it was followed by another compliment. So that's the
compliment HOGI, compliment sandwich combination, which is really I know,
when I go into a meeting and if my boss
gives me a compliment, I know I'm waiting. I'm like, Okay,
he got that out of the way. What's he really
here for? What are we really here? What's the criticism.
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But the compliment was such a backhanded compliment. He's like, well,
Kyler's not a bad guy. He's a good kid. He's
he's got a good smile. He should be selling some
kind of dental stuff. He should be doing a be
a mouth model. There's something along those lines. But nonetheless,
so tune out the niceties because who cares about that.
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Steve Kime is substantiating the internet rumors. He is not fake.
It's not fake. He is taking out the rubber stamp
and he is rubber stamping them as certified kosher. They
are kosher. That's why the Cardinals GM placed a homework
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clause in Kyler Murray's contract. He knew, he knew what
was going he knows the issue. Tried to get a
little bit of insurance in the deal. What did Kyler
Murray do? Kyler called it disrespectful. The team caved in
like a Jenga tower. And by the way, it is
not slanderer. It's not defamation if it's true. Ask any lawyer.
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They'll tell you that it's not slander. It's not defamation
if it's true. Wouser's this is a body blow, body
blow to the solar plexus. It's a small solar plexus,
but it's a solar plexus of alligator arms. Murray. Now,
page two, How big a problem? How big a problem
is Kyler Murray for the Cardinals. So this is not
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a glitch. It's not just a small thing. It's not
a little pimple that a goal away. Based on a
thorough review of the available data. On the Mallards scale
of trouble one to five, with five being the most
trouble from a football standpoint, Kyler Murray is a fifteen
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on the Mallards scale of trouble. He is a ginormous problem.
He ain't my problem. I don't have any dog in
the fight or bird in the fight. In this case,
we're talking about a broken gas line. You know that
that hissing sound and the smell of rotten eggs. That's
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Kyler Murray. That's the quarterback of the card The quarterback
is supposed to be. Maybe I'm wrong on this, I
just do the Overnight show, but I believe the quarterback
is supposed to lead by example, be the lead by
example guy first one in, last one out. We hear
that all the time. Blah blah blah, blah blah blah
blah blah blah. It's become hooky cliche. At the draft,
those guys are coach on the field. What Kyler Murray,
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according to his former GM who drafted him and signed
him to the forever contract, doesn't do the little things.
He doesn't which is appropriate considering his stature. But film
study don't need it attention to detail. Are you kidding?
This is a guy who cuts corners. That's the implication.
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That is the implication. He goes through the motions. He
has flake tendencies. You ever had that coworker that doesn't
do their job? It shows up laid, It doesn't have
a who wants Nobody wants to work with a person
like that. If you have flake tendencies, or if you're
in a relationship with someone and you're like, oh, you're
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all hot and heavy and oh it's wonderful, but then
you notice that they they say stuff and they don't
follow through. Who wants that? Remember when your parents taught you,
and maybe it wasn't your parent, was your grandpa, your grandma,
you're a or uncle, your cousin, some of your family
taught you when you were growing up. It's the little
things that lead to big things. Right. I heard that
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when I was a kid. My mom told me about that,
And I bet you somebody told me told you about that.
That These insignificant things that pop up right that you neglect,
like skipping film study to play Call of Duty all
night long, those are the things that cause problems. More importantly,
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if you're you're just consistent, You've give an honest day's work.
You do what you're supposed to do the Code of
the West. Do what you're supposed to do, keep your
head down, good work habits. You're going to be successful,
as successful as you can possibly be. Now, when you
don't do that and you do a half ass job,
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the opposite happens. You at least give yourself a better
chance to succeed. Nothing is guaranteed, but you show ambition.
And the way I read the room here, if my
starting quarterback doesn't do the attention to details and film study,
it's it. You're not you're not locked in, you're not committed.
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Tell me you're not into it without telling me you're
not into. You like the money and you're like the
stardom that comes from it, But that's it. That is
a person that doesn't have a fire in their belly.
They are lacking the A word, as we said, ambition.
And Kyler Murray talks the talk, he doesn't walk the walk.
He's one of those guys that doesn't walk the walk. Now,
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final point, So, based on these latest comments, what can
the Cardinals do to fix Kyler Murray? There'll be all
kinds of talk. I've already read some of it from
people around that team that the Cardinals are gonna start
fiddling with Kyler's work routine, his study habits. They'll tinker
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and they'll modify things. Mainstream streamline, round the streamline, what's
going on. I'll believe it when it happens. I believe
that is all for show. That the horse, the stallion
is already out of the barn running across the prairie
and Arizona. They did something that pretty much guarantees this
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will not work. I in my entire life, I've never
known anyone that does what they're supposed to do after
they win the lottery or after they get the big contract.
I work in radio. I've I've had friends of mine
people who worked with in radio have made a ton
of money, maybe most of them in television. But if
you don't change your habits before you get the money,
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the forever money, that's done. Kyler Murray has been empowered.
He's got one hundred and eighty nine point five million
reasons to keep his earmuffs on and stay in that
gaming chair and say screw you go pound sand with
a rubber mallet. That is how much guaranteed money he
has got one hundred and eighty nine million dollars without
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doing the proper film study and attention to detail cementing
dark days in Arizona. They are going through a nuclear
period of time there. He got paid and the franchise
ended up getting played. At this point, it is a
salvage and recovery mission. How many head coaches will be
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on Kyler's scoreboard as the coach killer when they keep
rotating coaches in to try to get something, squeeze something
out of the tube something. Kyler Murray will miss a
large chunk, if not all, of the twenty twenty three
season as he comes back from an acl injury. So
imagine how stiff he is going to be when he
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eventually plays football again. All those late night video game
tournaments are grueling. It'll be crippling, sitting in that gamer
chair with the headphones on and on Twitch and that
and that's that's not an easy life. And then to
have to go back to being a professional athlete. Are
you joking? Be sure to catch it. I've editions of
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How about that to the third degree? This is one
big fan gets grill. Cam Newton has released another video
and he is now saying that he is willing to
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be a backup, but only behind certain quarterbacks which he
listed or whom he listed. Ben, do you think Cam
can get a backup job? Yes, but not in the NFL.
I think Cam Newton could get a job at the
NFL network and bring a little pinash to television. Imagine
those designer lids from the haberd Ashery on television with
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a Good Times role. Be wonderful. I just don't say
Cam Newton has been progressively worse ever since he won
the MVP Award, and I don't see a scenario where
someone's gonna bring him. There's always the possibility you got
a friend, but outside of a friend hiring you based
on just his numbers and performance, no next. Rob Gronkowski
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appeared on a podcast Wednesday morning when he was asked
to comment on reports that Bill Belichick tried shopping Mac
Jones this offseason. Gronk called the reports fake news, Ben,
what do you think? No, this is a game of
samandis Gronkowski is not plugged in with the Patriots. Let
me explain why. I know he's a legend with the Patriots,
but let's be real, he's a big goofball. Gronkowski is
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not involved in the inner workings and what's going on
in Foxboro. He's just not. I don't believe that for
a seconds more. The dirt bikes or whatever he's ind
that that story was either leaked from the Patriots because
they wanted a trade mac Jones, or from mac jones
camp because they were hoping for a trade. Either way,
mac jones name was absolutely floated around the rumor mill.
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We're actually gonna address this a little bit more later,
but the Patriots have to decide. They have one more
year to decide where they want to pick up the
fifth year option, and mac Jones right now has been
a bus next. Tim Hardaway Senior did an interview this
week where he discussed the collapse of the Mavericks. He
pointed to the trade and said, what isn't broken doesn't
need to be fixed. Ben, do you think the MAVs
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would still be in a playoff spot had they not
made the trade for Kyrie. Yes, now they still might
get in that fugazi playing term. But but but Kyrie Irving
is as bestess. He looks harmless. It's like help as
best as Originally was a helpful thing. People thought it
was great, and then later on they realized that those
microscopic fibers getting your lungs and cause all kinds of
long term problems. Mark Cuban, what a mess, What a mess.
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And now he's going to try to keep him because
you traded for him? And how awkward is this for
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in Miami, Everyone's favorite. Hello Lisa, Hi, Lisa Hi there?
Oh there. She is the lovely lead, the dynamic duo. Boy.
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You two, you two love birds amazing at least I
can only imagine how many hours you two spend on
the phone together. It's it's unbelievable, all right, let's get
to it. Big Ben's Lamb jokes of the week. Are
you ready? Eddie as well? Here we go. Why can't
Lizzo get on a cruise ship? I don't know why. Well,
she's so large she needs a barge surfer. Todd the
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comedian said that one in. Didn't you hear that Lizzo
bought brought her pants to be dry clean? Yeah? Yeah,
I didn't hear that. Yeah she did, and the dry
clear told Lizzo, sorry, we don't do curtains. That's what
they said. That's Buck from Boston who said that Mark's
killing it on the side on the laugh track. Did
you hear that Lizzo has a favorite sports team? No?
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I did, none? Yeah, yeah, yeah, she does the Nuggets.
She likes like and she also she also likes the
Angels too because she loves trout so that as well.
And she's like the Angels of a long time. She
also enjoyed Salmon, so she liked it. She's like the
Angels like twenty years. Oh boy, that was from Brendan
from Boston that the previous joke was bucked from Boston.
So back to back Boston jokes. Why is Lizzo always
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comped in Vegas. I don't know why, because she's a whale, Eddie.
They comped the whales in Vegas. Eddie. That's Ekan Rosville, Minnesota.
Did you hear that, Lizzo? Have you found your teeth?
By the way we'd man, no, no, all right? Have
you left your your your little place there in Miami
this week? Did you go anywhere? Uh? Really not really
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think I know. Did you hear that Lizzo had a
guest appearance on the latest episode of The Mandalorian I
did not very exciting news. She was cast as the
death Star. So there's that. That's a time from Fullerton.
Did you hear that there's a person with a bigger
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mouth than Lizzo? Oh? Really, who's that? Yeah, sir scratch
off ed he was just on the air. That's Eric
in Kansas who said that one in what's Lizzo's least
favorite way to warm up her voice before a concert?
I don't know, singing scales. Not a fan, Eddie, not
a fan. That's from our friend Eric again in Kansas,
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who's back in a big way, one of the great
joke riders. He's been off for a while, but he's
back and he says he's doing well, which is good.
He's been fighting a good fight. Did you hear that
Lizzo fired her maid her putting too much starch in
the bedsheets? I did not hear that. Yeah, she also
fired her chef Eddy for not putting enough starch in
the mac and cheese. So Gordon in Tacomo that one.
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What do you call Sofi stadium during a Lizzo concert?
I don't know, so fat stadium, that's the name. How
about that? You like that joke? We bed? Yeah? All right, Coop,
you got any jokes over there, Coop, I do not. Okay,
why would Lizzo be a good manager at a sperm bank? Oh?
I don't know. Why would that? Well, according to Alex
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the Cynical, she specializes in load management. So I don't.
I don't even know what that means, Eddie, that's Alex
the Cynical joke, not my joke. Well, big news. I
don't know if you heard this one, Eddie, that Lizzo
wanted to play first base for the Minnesota Twins. You know,
she's from Minnesota and she wanted to play first base
for the joy I was unaware of that. Yeah, she
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decided against it though, after she found out there was
no pizza pie in the pizza box basis, she was
upset by that that. You know, those new basses three
Long Shot from La Mesa, California sent that one in
down San Diego away. What do Lizzo and the Cubs
have in common? I don't know what do Lizzo when
the Cubs have in common? They are both going to
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be under five hundred this year. That's the goal for
Lizzo anyway. All right, it is the balance show lame
jokes a week. Why does Lizzo take bread or take
bread to the San Francico Giants games? Why does she
do that? I don't know why. Well, she's hoping to
get her some Sean jelly. That's that picture, Eddie the
jelly guy. That's hill Billy Mike, who sent that one in.
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What do you call it when Lizzo swims at a
nude beach? Oh gosh, I don't know. What do you
call that? Fat dipping? You call it fat? That's Chip.
That's Chip from Maine, who got very upset with me
because I did not give him the proper name recognition.
You gotta make sure you put your name in your
every joke. When you send the jokes in that way,
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it's there's less of a chance of me screwing up.
Do you understand what I'm saying? All right? And nothing yet, Coop, No,
no funny jokes, nothing, don't nobody tell anything. I'll send
you a couple cook this button I say here, so
maybe he probably won't use these, but what the hell?
All right? Now, let's we got the weed Man roast.
You're ready, weed Man, Let's do it. Weed Man's been
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calling the show for many, many years. He used to
be a regular caller. Now we have to call him
to get him on the air. He hates our show.
He only has done one day a week. He doesn't
even listen to our show anymore. But he's on anyway,
Here we go. What does spring cleaning mean to weed Man? Hippie?
I don't know what What does that mean to him?
Sweeping out his cardboard box eddie, that's what he calls
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spring cleaning. What do you get when you cross Doc
Mike with Lizzo? Oh? I don't know what do you get?
A Wizzo is what you get? That's Tony d. He's
in Key West from Salisbury, mass As another one from
Tony d What do you get when you cross Doc
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Mike with weed Man Hippie? I don't know what do
you get? You get peed Man Hippie's what you get? Eddie?
Of course, was what was weed Man most upset about
when he broke up with Lisa? I don't know what
was he wants to say about. Well, it turns out
Lisa actually got joint. Custody was devastating too to weed Man.
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He really loves that joint. How ugly and smelly is
weed Man hippie? I don't know how how ugly and
smelly is he? Well, he's so ugly that when Lizzo
smelled and looked at him, it was the only time
that she ran away from the buffet table Eddie. How
amazing is that? John and Young sent not a fan
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of that joke? I see all right. What is weed
Man Hippi's least favorite dessert? I don't know what is
his least favorite dessert? No bake brownies. That's some chip
in Maine. Did you hear weed Man got a job? No?
I didn't. People are now paying him to stay away
from them, So it's a it's a little bit of
a chance. That's Alex the cynical. Why did weed Man
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Hippie grow up a Pirates fan? I don't know why
he loved Dave Cash he won won Eric again? What
attract them? What attracted Lisa the weed Man? I don't
know what was the attraction? Well I don't know either,
but it sure wasn't his smile. Eddy, It was definitely
not his smile. That's hill Billie w who sent that
one in? Why is weed Man clostrophobic? I don't know why,
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because he feels boxed in at home, Eddie? He feels
boxed in at home. That's Ekan Rosoe, Minnesota. Last one,
Did you hear Poppy and weed Man Hippy are going
to do a podcast series together? I did not. Yes,
it's called Broke and Broker the show. That's from Tom
from Fullerton. Hey. Be sure to catch live editions of
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The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
pm Pacific. We have the Coop Scoop on entertainment right now,
Cooper Loop. You want to enlighten us with entertainment news.
Hooray for Holly Would, hooray for Holly Would. Here's the
Coobal Loop. Thank you, Ben. Yes cool, you're welcome. Thanks
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for saying thank you. Of course we're gonna start off.
I'm gonna start off in the theaters with a couple
of movies that are already out. In fact, today was
it was weird week this week because these movies premiered
on Wednesday. Uh so that's why I kind of kind
of missed it last week. Oh it's Easter weekend. That's
because they Okay, yeah, that's it's probably why I Butter
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weekend kids a lot of kids on spring break. And right, yeah, well,
two big movies, two movies that I'm excited about. One
of them. I've already seen the Super Mario Brothers movie.
I did. I did go and see that. The scale
of goodness one to ten? What did it get? I
am going to give it and eight point five? That good? Yes,
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So listen, it's not like it's not like them. It's
like a great film with you know, a super compelling story.
It's pretty basic, but the nostalgia factor is through the
roof and the movie is just filled with you know,
Easter eggs. And if you grew up a gamer or
a fan of Nintendo at all, I think you're gonna
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love the movie. It's I mean, I was a big
you know, Super Nintendo Player, Nintendo sixty four. I was
all about you know, Mario and and all that stuff.
And It's and Donkey Kong and it's a great it's
it's it's fun. It's a very fun movie in my opinion.
Just think Coop, twenty years from now, they'll be making movies,
nostalgic movies about TikTok Instagram. That's happening. It's gonna happen.
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Twenty years from now, they'll be doing it. All the
other people who are in like you're their their teens
or twenties now, when they're in their forties will be
watching Instagram and TikTok movies. Well that sounds awful. It
sounds terrible. Yeah, I hope I'm dead by that point.
Um So then, uh, we also have Air. That's right there.
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I'm a fan of Air. The movie Air, the Nike movie.
Oh yeah, is that worth my time? Have you seen that?
I have not seen it yet. I will be seeing it,
Jordan movie. Yes, I will be seeing it this weekend.
That it is. It is directed by Ben Affleck, who
also stars in the movie as uh, what is that
guy's name? Phil Knight? Thank you. Phil Knight. Um, Matt
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Damon Jason Bateman are also in the in the movie,
and it's getting great reviews. Uh so I am excited
to see that it is stified. Friends. Do you know
who is playing Michael Jordan? I do not, No one, No,
Michael Jordan is not in the movie or a Michael
Jordan character. Really, yeah, how can you? I don't know.
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I thought that was very odd as well. They should
ad Michael B. Jordan played Michael Jordan. That would have
been great Jordan and Jordan. I'm shocked. You know who
Michael B. Jordan is, to be honest, Well, we we
had to. We had to tell him. Oh yeah, it was.
It was during the previous entertainment I am plugged in Hollywood.
I'm a maid man. Oh wow, yeah. Interesting looking at
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the cast here and uh did they just talk about
about Jordan's yea, his parents parents? Yeah? Uh it was
Alfree Alphree Woodard playing his mom. Is that right, Viola Davis? Yes?
In fact, I did read that that was the one
demand that Michael Jordan had was that Viola Davis play
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his mother. Chris Tucker and Marlon Wayans are in the
movie as well. Interesting all right. Yeah, anyway, I will
see that this weekend and I'll probably report back to
you next week. But I am. I'm super excited about that.
And moving on one last thing. We have a new
comedy on Hulu. Uh it is getting good reviews. That
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is called Tiny Beautiful Things and The Kyler Murray's Story.
Huh uh. It is a it's a mini series that
stars Catherine Hahn, who I like a lot. She Uh,
you appreciate her work, Yes, she's good, she's skilled. She well, yeah,
she's she's an older actress, but you know, like a
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fine line older actress. Oh, yes, in my opinion, I
don't know. I just find her. Did you ever under sexy?
Did you ever see one division? I did not. She's
very good in that. Okay, yeah, she's because she's great
and everything she's in. She plays a She takes a
new job as an advice columnist just as her own
life begins falling apart and hilarity is sues. Yes, and
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the rare and appropriate obligatory golf monologue. We do a
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couple of these a year. It's one of four weekends
during the calendar that we are allowed to discuss the
sport outside of some kind of large controversy when golf
is fair game in our sports radio domain. So we
take you to Augusta National Golf Club. I've never been there.
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We had a listener, a very kind listener who invited
me to go to Augusta. Lives right near there and
listens to the podcast pretty much every day religiously, but
I've been unable to make it. I don't know if
the offer is still there. But that was the scene
Augusta National, the eighty seventh Masters, the chase for the
green jacket. Now you never get two worked up over
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the opening round. Leader doesn't really matter that much because
who cares, So we won't waste our time with that.
There is an interesting story we go where the stories
of the day take us out of the Masters in Georgia,
and this one involves an angry golfer right there. That's
a wonderful building block to a talk radio top. When
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you have someone who's angry, that's good radio. So after
moving two under through eight holes on Thursday, Sergeyo Garcia,
he's stumbled, any bumble, the live golfer not living his
best life here as he had not one, not two,
not three, how about four bogies. Now, if you're not
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a golf person, that sucks. He finished with an opening
round seventy four. It sucks if you're a professional. If
you're an amateur golfer, probably not so much. But it
blows when you're a big time golfer. So right now,
if you look around and up and down, you will
see that Sergio Garcia is in a tie with Tiger Woods,
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which used to be a big deal back in the
day when you were tied with Tiger Woods. But he's
tied with Tiger and eight other golfers or seven other
golfers for fifty fourth place, which I'm not a golf guy.
I don't believe that's particularly great. I don't want to be
be critical, but I think that's not good. And if
my computer like mind is right, that's nine shots behind
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the co leaders, which do include Brooks, Keepka and some
other random people. But don't bear the lead, my man,
all right, we're not gonna bear the lead. Sergio Garcia
got into it with the hard hitting golf media. When
you think of sports media and the ones that are
attack dogs, you think of golf, well maybe with their
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tach dogs. There are their tack poodles. But nonetheless, so
if you if you didn't see this, you didn't hear
about this, buckle up, buckaroo, you might have missed it.
So let me give you the blow by blow on this.
Sergio Garcia angrily pushing back because he was asked about
how normal, how normal it felt to be back at
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the Mash. It's kind of a big deal, right that
the live golfers, the defectors who crossed over to take
that Saudi money, and now they're all back together with
the people they left behind from the PGA tour, and
people are curious how this is all going to go
down and what kind of stuff's actually taking place behind
the scenes. So Sergio Garcia was asked about that. He
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did not like the line of questioning. When asked about
how normal it felt to return to the Masters, he
believed the question was live golf related instead of about
the state of his golf game. So what did he do?
He started punching back. Second, as Warner Wolf would say,
let's go the audio tape. How normal does it feel
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coming back here? I'm playing and just comes to training
the game and totally normal, guys, you get you guys
need to stop it. I mean, you guys are making
a big deal out of these and it's you, guys,
Yes it is. I mean I've had nothing but great
things from every single player that I've talked to, So
just please stop it and just talk about the masters.
And then, you know, I think actually in defense, I
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think actually was thinking it's this. You haven't had as
many reps as sometimes you normally would. How did you
feel coming playing this golf course? Because no, I don't
think amend that, but I did. I did play one, two, three, four,
I played five tournaments coming in here, so it's pretty good.
He might say, well, that's not that. No, it is
for golf. Oh my god, this is a party, foul,
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This is a party. Am I wrong? I don't think
I'm wrong. I don't think I'm making too much of this.
I don't think I'm embellishing this. All right, So let
us discuss the question what stood out we just played
the audio. What's suit out to you the most from this?
Sergio Garcia interaction with the hard hit and golf media.
So I've got New York State, reptile, arsonist, and beehive,
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and we'll tie all of these things together. We're gonna
ring the bell and we'll begin with this now analyzing
this breakdown, and I did a frame by frame analysis
because I have no life, and this is uncomplicated. If
you are a reasonable human being, you know, and I
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know that Sergio Garcia is genuinely bothered by what he
has done, the perception of him publicly, and he is
upset and he let it show. He let it show.
He's bothered by his defection to live golf. He took
the money. Most of us would do the same thing,
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but he in it and people are goofing on him.
He's had many months to prepare for the Masters, not
just on the course in Augusta, but also all the
trimmings that come with it. He's won the Masters before,
Sergio Garcia, he knows all about it dealing with the media.
He's a seasoned Veneran, which makes this all the more telling.
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Sergio Garcia knew that this line of questioning was coming.
Did he keep his composure, did he give a poised
stoic response, I'm shaking my head. No. Instead, he morphed
into the official New York state reptile, the common snapping turtle.
He became a snapping turtle. He was unsettled. He got
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upset really over nothing when you think about it, which
means it's something. When you get upset over nothing, there's something.
And so Sergio wants you to know that everyone is
totally cool, that no one has a problem with the
defense hectors who crossed over from the PGA Tour to
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the Live Golf tour period hardstop, even though we have,
as the Jets coach would say, the receipts on several
prominent PGA golfers that have taken shots at the Live
Golf defectors. But I digress now page two. Where did
Sergio Garcia screw up in this response? That we played?
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So he slipped into a trap door, is what he did.
Out The plan originally was to change the narrative. And
when I went framed by frame under the Mallard microscope.
In Sergio Garcia's head, he thought of himself as a firefighter,
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a heroic firefighter dropping buckets of water on an inferno,
and the inferno was a loaded question, but instead instead
of dropping buckets of water, he did the opposite. Those
buckets were mislabeled. They were filled with kerosene. You see,
Sergio Garcia worked as an arsonist, holding up his blowtorch
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with the kerosene, and he started a out of control
wildfire on day one of the Masters. You see, this
story is front page news. It's the story of stories
that we're talking about from the Masters, because nobody really
gets all worked up about who's leading after round one.
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You're looking for something else. This is it. This is
the meat on the bone, and it's not just a
chicken wing has already been picked apart. There's a lot
of meat right there. And so he got Sergio Garcia,
a guy we've heard of who's won the Master, shooting
from the hip, getting burned, major backfire, and so he
has now created something out of nothing. Rather than just
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give your standard non answer answer, which is something all
these guys learn how to do from the time they
become professionals, Garcia he took a biology. Sergio Garcia took
a bite out of the cheese. Now, last word here,
was Sergio Garcia right or wrong to take umbrage with
being asked about the live angle to the masters. So
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on my scorecard when I scribbled down, I wrote incorrect,
So not right or wrong, incorrect. It's absolutely a story,
and it said single largest development in the history of golf,
certainly in my lifetime, in the modern era of sport.
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The PEG eight Tour was caught off guard. They were unprepared,
they were blindsided. They were taking their afternoon nap and
in the blink of an eye, relatively speaking, we have
seen a laundry list of the biggest of the big
names relocating, taking the bag of Saudi oil money and
dipping in there. They're doing the belly whopper in these
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sud Sovereign Wealth Fund, which is bankrolling this hostile takeover.
And it's been been said in the movies that love
is the bread of life. You might have heard that
love the bread of life, but money is the honey.
And these live golfers are swimming and they're doing the
backstroke in a beehive of delicious, fresh honey. It's crazy,
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and how how do we process what's going one? You
got to imagine the guys on the PGA Tour that
either weren't invited or talk. We're talked out of going
to the live tour? Are are angry? That would be
a natural human reaction. Now, how do we see all
this playing out? The blowback, the fallout, all that. Anytime
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you involve the halves and the have nots, even though
everyone's got a lot of money. If you're a professional golfer,
you're not poor, but there's different tax brackets and it
creates extra job. So if you ever took a journalism
class or a media class when you're in school, If
you're in school, now you know how this works. A
reporter asked a question, you can ask any question you
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want as a reporter. The person being asked the question,
the interview e can then have several options that they've
got several pass to go down there to fork in
the road. They can decide whether or not they want
to choose to answer the question or not the options
on the table. If you're being asked a question, you're
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ever interviewed, you can either go with evasion. You can
evade to answer the question. You can play dodgeball. You
can change the subject and so I don't talk about
something totally different and just not actually answer the question.
They don't get to give a list of things that
can and can't be asked. That's one thing you can't do. Otherwise,
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the interview e can just ask themselves questions. And some
of these bozos would probably like that. Now. I will
tell you that later on in that same interview that test,
the interview with Sergio Garcia, he did evade, and he
did a evade when asked about the something called the
DP World Tour arbitration that they won against the Live
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Golf Tour. That to explain that in layman's terms, as
I understand it, a court in the UK upheld what
was the former European Tours ability to sanction to punish
players who violated and breached the agreements to leave to
go to the live events. So the Live Golf lost that,
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and Sergio Garcia said that he didn't know about it.
He played dumb. He said, he doesn't pay attention to
the news. You'd think if that was your business, you'd
pay attention. I work in radio. I'm aware of what's
going on in my business. I think you'd be aware.
Whatever you do for a living. Your truck driver, you
probably know what's going on in that business. And if
you're whatever you're doing you're you're aware of your industry,
but he says, of course, we know that's a lie.
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At that point he chose to lie, and then when
he was asked by the reporter said well, you know,
how about tomorrow we'll ask you about it. And Sergio
essentially said that he wasn't interested in learning more about
the story. He said, quote, I probably won't catch up
on it. He did, he did admit, so there's a
little bit of honesty. Be sure to catch live editions
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As mentioned now, if you listen to this show on
a regular basis, you know during football season, one of
our favorite punching bags is a it's a small bag
out of Arizona and a story that had us absolutely
(15:44):
flabbergast due the last NFL season, and it has come
back around yet again. The amount of money handed to
Kyler Murray the stunning move. I think you'd agree. Kyler
a flawed quarterback and a lot of issues in the
locker room. And we're not even in the locker room.
We're aware of that. It's a backwards franchise, the Cardinals,
and this is what teams like that do. The man
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who forked over that money has already lost his job.
He's out, and now he's spilling the tea about his
former quarterback. You didn't hear this, you didn't see it?
Perhaps not now we were tipped off to this and
then we found the audio. We heard that the former
Cardinals general manager, Steve Kime is his game. His name
(16:31):
bad football teams, that's his game. GM in Arizona for
a number of years survived multiple head coaches. Steve Kim,
and he doubled down on a claim that one of
the Cardinals offensive lineman had recently made that Kyler Murray
needs to grow up a little bit. That needs to
grow up a little bit. Now, speaking on the fledgling
(16:54):
something called the green Light podcast. I don't know what
that is. I've never heard of it, but somebody named
Chris Long, I've heard of him. He's got it. So
one of the three point nine million podcasts in the world.
This is the Cardinals general metor Steve Kim, who agreed
with the offensive lineman for the Cardinals, said that tackle
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Kelvin Beecham, what he said recently about Murray needing to
grow up a little bit was spot on. As Warner
Wolf would say, let's go to the audio tape. You know,
I think he still needs to grow and it's again,
it's not slanting towards his character. He's not a bad guy.
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He's a really good kid, has a good smile and
has a nice way about him. Um, I think it's
like anything. Guys have to continue to learn what it's
going to take to be great. You know, does does
he know what Peyton Manning and Tom Brady know knows
what it takes to be great? No? Um, does he work?
He does work. I think it's just that side of
the game, the film study, the attention to detail part
(18:02):
that he can continue to prove upon, and I think
he will because Kyler is a proud guy man. He
doesn't want to he doesn't want to lose, and he
doesn't want to let people down. So all right, so
that was Heath come woof oofa. All right, so let
us discuss the question. Are these Kyler Murray issues a
(18:22):
superficial problem or are they deeper? So they cut to
the bone, that's how deep they go. I've got kosher
gasline and ear muffs, and we'll put all of these
things in the box. What's in the box? To Mala monologue?
So number one, consider this another bad day for the
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little fella, the quarterback in Arizona, Kyler Murray. He has
been hit with more shrapnel and you could argue this
is friendly fire. This was the GM that drafted him
and gave him the forever contract, the generational wealth. As
a senior fellow at the Mallard Institute of Fact Checkers,
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I looked at these comments made by Steve Kim and
the meat of the matter, there were no lies detected.
You see, Steve Kim is the guy that knows all
of the secrets of Kyler Murder. As we mentioned, he
drafted him. He wrote up the contract, the Doomsday contract,
the poison pill contract, so he would know time. Believe,
(19:41):
played in the NFL, worked as a GIGM not now,
but for years, and he's lived the life. He's lived
the life former Cardinals GM Steve Kim, who issued what
I consider a compliment HOGI or a compliment sandwich depending
on where you are now. The compliment began slice of
bread and then in the middle was the criticism, and
(20:04):
then it was followed by another compliment. So that's the
compliment HOGI, compliment sandwich combination, which is really I know,
when I go into a meeting and if my boss
gives me a compliment, I know I'm waiting. I'm like, Okay,
he got that out of the way. What's he really
here for? What are we really here? What's the criticism.
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But the compliment was such a backhanded compliment. He's like, well,
Kyler's not a bad guy. He's a good kid. He's
he's got a good smile. He should be selling some
kind of dental stuff. He should be doing a be
a mouth model. There's something along those lines. But nonetheless,
so tune out the niceties because who cares about that.
(20:46):
Steve Kime is substantiating the internet rumors. He is not fake.
It's not fake. He is taking out the rubber stamp
and he is rubber stamping them as certified kosher. They
are kosher. That's why the Cardinals GM placed a homework
(21:08):
clause in Kyler Murray's contract. He knew, he knew what
was going he knows the issue. Tried to get a
little bit of insurance in the deal. What did Kyler
Murray do? Kyler called it disrespectful. The team caved in
like a Jenga tower. And by the way, it is
not slanderer. It's not defamation if it's true. Ask any lawyer.
(21:32):
They'll tell you that it's not slander. It's not defamation
if it's true. Wouser's this is a body blow, body
blow to the solar plexus. It's a small solar plexus,
but it's a solar plexus of alligator arms. Murray. Now,
page two, How big a problem? How big a problem
is Kyler Murray for the Cardinals. So this is not
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a glitch. It's not just a small thing. It's not
a little pimple that a goal away. Based on a
thorough review of the available data. On the Mallards scale
of trouble one to five, with five being the most
trouble from a football standpoint, Kyler Murray is a fifteen
(22:18):
on the Mallards scale of trouble. He is a ginormous problem.
He ain't my problem. I don't have any dog in
the fight or bird in the fight. In this case,
we're talking about a broken gas line. You know that
that hissing sound and the smell of rotten eggs. That's
(22:40):
Kyler Murray. That's the quarterback of the card The quarterback
is supposed to be. Maybe I'm wrong on this, I
just do the Overnight show, but I believe the quarterback
is supposed to lead by example, be the lead by
example guy first one in, last one out. We hear
that all the time. Blah blah blah, blah blah blah
blah blah blah. It's become hooky cliche. At the draft,
those guys are coach on the field. What Kyler Murray,
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according to his former GM who drafted him and signed
him to the forever contract, doesn't do the little things.
He doesn't which is appropriate considering his stature. But film
study don't need it attention to detail. Are you kidding?
This is a guy who cuts corners. That's the implication.
(23:25):
That is the implication. He goes through the motions. He
has flake tendencies. You ever had that coworker that doesn't
do their job? It shows up laid, It doesn't have
a who wants Nobody wants to work with a person
like that. If you have flake tendencies, or if you're
in a relationship with someone and you're like, oh, you're
(23:45):
all hot and heavy and oh it's wonderful, but then
you notice that they they say stuff and they don't
follow through. Who wants that? Remember when your parents taught you,
and maybe it wasn't your parent, was your grandpa, your grandma,
you're a or uncle, your cousin, some of your family
taught you when you were growing up. It's the little
things that lead to big things. Right. I heard that
(24:07):
when I was a kid. My mom told me about that,
And I bet you somebody told me told you about that.
That These insignificant things that pop up right that you neglect,
like skipping film study to play Call of Duty all
night long, those are the things that cause problems. More importantly,
(24:28):
if you're you're just consistent, You've give an honest day's work.
You do what you're supposed to do the Code of
the West. Do what you're supposed to do, keep your
head down, good work habits. You're going to be successful,
as successful as you can possibly be. Now, when you
don't do that and you do a half ass job,
(24:50):
the opposite happens. You at least give yourself a better
chance to succeed. Nothing is guaranteed, but you show ambition.
And the way I read the room here, if my
starting quarterback doesn't do the attention to details and film study,
it's it. You're not you're not locked in, you're not committed.
(25:10):
Tell me you're not into it without telling me you're
not into. You like the money and you're like the
stardom that comes from it, But that's it. That is
a person that doesn't have a fire in their belly.
They are lacking the A word, as we said, ambition.
And Kyler Murray talks the talk, he doesn't walk the walk.
He's one of those guys that doesn't walk the walk. Now,
(25:32):
final point, So, based on these latest comments, what can
the Cardinals do to fix Kyler Murray? There'll be all
kinds of talk. I've already read some of it from
people around that team that the Cardinals are gonna start
fiddling with Kyler's work routine, his study habits. They'll tinker
(25:53):
and they'll modify things. Mainstream streamline, round the streamline, what's
going on. I'll believe it when it happens. I believe
that is all for show. That the horse, the stallion
is already out of the barn running across the prairie
and Arizona. They did something that pretty much guarantees this
(26:14):
will not work. I in my entire life, I've never
known anyone that does what they're supposed to do after
they win the lottery or after they get the big contract.
I work in radio. I've I've had friends of mine
people who worked with in radio have made a ton
of money, maybe most of them in television. But if
you don't change your habits before you get the money,
(26:36):
the forever money, that's done. Kyler Murray has been empowered.
He's got one hundred and eighty nine point five million
reasons to keep his earmuffs on and stay in that
gaming chair and say screw you go pound sand with
a rubber mallet. That is how much guaranteed money he
has got one hundred and eighty nine million dollars without
(27:00):
doing the proper film study and attention to detail cementing
dark days in Arizona. They are going through a nuclear
period of time there. He got paid and the franchise
ended up getting played. At this point, it is a
salvage and recovery mission. How many head coaches will be
(27:21):
on Kyler's scoreboard as the coach killer when they keep
rotating coaches in to try to get something, squeeze something
out of the tube something. Kyler Murray will miss a
large chunk, if not all, of the twenty twenty three
season as he comes back from an acl injury. So
imagine how stiff he is going to be when he
(27:42):
eventually plays football again. All those late night video game
tournaments are grueling. It'll be crippling, sitting in that gamer
chair with the headphones on and on Twitch and that
and that's that's not an easy life. And then to
have to go back to being a professional athlete. Are
you joking? Be sure to catch it. I've editions of
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(28:03):
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How about that to the third degree? This is one
big fan gets grill. Cam Newton has released another video
and he is now saying that he is willing to
(28:48):
be a backup, but only behind certain quarterbacks which he
listed or whom he listed. Ben, do you think Cam
can get a backup job? Yes, but not in the NFL.
I think Cam Newton could get a job at the
NFL network and bring a little pinash to television. Imagine
those designer lids from the haberd Ashery on television with
(29:09):
a Good Times role. Be wonderful. I just don't say
Cam Newton has been progressively worse ever since he won
the MVP Award, and I don't see a scenario where
someone's gonna bring him. There's always the possibility you got
a friend, but outside of a friend hiring you based
on just his numbers and performance, no next. Rob Gronkowski
(29:30):
appeared on a podcast Wednesday morning when he was asked
to comment on reports that Bill Belichick tried shopping Mac
Jones this offseason. Gronk called the reports fake news, Ben,
what do you think? No, this is a game of
samandis Gronkowski is not plugged in with the Patriots. Let
me explain why. I know he's a legend with the Patriots,
but let's be real, he's a big goofball. Gronkowski is
(29:53):
not involved in the inner workings and what's going on
in Foxboro. He's just not. I don't believe that for
a seconds more. The dirt bikes or whatever he's ind
that that story was either leaked from the Patriots because
they wanted a trade mac Jones, or from mac jones
camp because they were hoping for a trade. Either way,
mac jones name was absolutely floated around the rumor mill.
(30:14):
We're actually gonna address this a little bit more later,
but the Patriots have to decide. They have one more
year to decide where they want to pick up the
fifth year option, and mac Jones right now has been
a bus next. Tim Hardaway Senior did an interview this
week where he discussed the collapse of the Mavericks. He
pointed to the trade and said, what isn't broken doesn't
need to be fixed. Ben, do you think the MAVs
(30:35):
would still be in a playoff spot had they not
made the trade for Kyrie. Yes, now they still might
get in that fugazi playing term. But but but Kyrie Irving
is as bestess. He looks harmless. It's like help as
best as Originally was a helpful thing. People thought it
was great, and then later on they realized that those
microscopic fibers getting your lungs and cause all kinds of
long term problems. Mark Cuban, what a mess, What a mess.
(30:57):
And now he's going to try to keep him because
you traded for him? And how awkward is this for
Tim Hardaway's kid? How did we down he pass? This edition?
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Who's there? Blame Week? Blame Week two. It's Big Band's
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dot Com. Is Weedman There, weed Man Hippy, our friend
in Miami, Everyone's favorite. Hello Lisa, Hi, Lisa Hi there?
Oh there. She is the lovely lead, the dynamic duo. Boy.
(32:02):
You two, you two love birds amazing at least I
can only imagine how many hours you two spend on
the phone together. It's it's unbelievable, all right, let's get
to it. Big Ben's Lamb jokes of the week. Are
you ready? Eddie as well? Here we go. Why can't
Lizzo get on a cruise ship? I don't know why. Well,
she's so large she needs a barge surfer. Todd the
(32:28):
comedian said that one in. Didn't you hear that Lizzo
bought brought her pants to be dry clean? Yeah? Yeah,
I didn't hear that. Yeah she did, and the dry
clear told Lizzo, sorry, we don't do curtains. That's what
they said. That's Buck from Boston who said that Mark's
killing it on the side on the laugh track. Did
you hear that Lizzo has a favorite sports team? No?
(32:51):
I did, none? Yeah, yeah, yeah, she does the Nuggets.
She likes like and she also she also likes the
Angels too because she loves trout so that as well.
And she's like the Angels of a long time. She
also enjoyed Salmon, so she liked it. She's like the
Angels like twenty years. Oh boy, that was from Brendan
from Boston that the previous joke was bucked from Boston.
So back to back Boston jokes. Why is Lizzo always
(33:14):
comped in Vegas. I don't know why, because she's a whale, Eddie.
They comped the whales in Vegas. Eddie. That's Ekan Rosville, Minnesota.
Did you hear that, Lizzo? Have you found your teeth?
By the way we'd man, no, no, all right? Have
you left your your your little place there in Miami
this week? Did you go anywhere? Uh? Really not really
(33:39):
think I know. Did you hear that Lizzo had a
guest appearance on the latest episode of The Mandalorian I
did not very exciting news. She was cast as the
death Star. So there's that. That's a time from Fullerton.
Did you hear that there's a person with a bigger
(34:00):
mouth than Lizzo? Oh? Really, who's that? Yeah, sir scratch
off ed he was just on the air. That's Eric
in Kansas who said that one in what's Lizzo's least
favorite way to warm up her voice before a concert?
I don't know, singing scales. Not a fan, Eddie, not
a fan. That's from our friend Eric again in Kansas,
(34:24):
who's back in a big way, one of the great
joke riders. He's been off for a while, but he's
back and he says he's doing well, which is good.
He's been fighting a good fight. Did you hear that
Lizzo fired her maid her putting too much starch in
the bedsheets? I did not hear that. Yeah, she also
fired her chef Eddy for not putting enough starch in
the mac and cheese. So Gordon in Tacomo that one.
(34:48):
What do you call Sofi stadium during a Lizzo concert?
I don't know, so fat stadium, that's the name. How
about that? You like that joke? We bed? Yeah? All right, Coop,
you got any jokes over there, Coop, I do not. Okay,
why would Lizzo be a good manager at a sperm bank? Oh?
I don't know. Why would that? Well, according to Alex
(35:10):
the Cynical, she specializes in load management. So I don't.
I don't even know what that means, Eddie, that's Alex
the Cynical joke, not my joke. Well, big news. I
don't know if you heard this one, Eddie, that Lizzo
wanted to play first base for the Minnesota Twins. You know,
she's from Minnesota and she wanted to play first base
for the joy I was unaware of that. Yeah, she
(35:31):
decided against it though, after she found out there was
no pizza pie in the pizza box basis, she was
upset by that that. You know, those new basses three
Long Shot from La Mesa, California sent that one in
down San Diego away. What do Lizzo and the Cubs
have in common? I don't know what do Lizzo when
the Cubs have in common? They are both going to
(35:52):
be under five hundred this year. That's the goal for
Lizzo anyway. All right, it is the balance show lame
jokes a week. Why does Lizzo take bread or take
bread to the San Francico Giants games? Why does she
do that? I don't know why. Well, she's hoping to
get her some Sean jelly. That's that picture, Eddie the
jelly guy. That's hill Billy Mike, who sent that one in.
(36:15):
What do you call it when Lizzo swims at a
nude beach? Oh gosh, I don't know. What do you
call that? Fat dipping? You call it fat? That's Chip.
That's Chip from Maine, who got very upset with me
because I did not give him the proper name recognition.
You gotta make sure you put your name in your
every joke. When you send the jokes in that way,
(36:36):
it's there's less of a chance of me screwing up.
Do you understand what I'm saying? All right? And nothing yet, Coop, No,
no funny jokes, nothing, don't nobody tell anything. I'll send
you a couple cook this button I say here, so
maybe he probably won't use these, but what the hell?
All right? Now, let's we got the weed Man roast.
You're ready, weed Man, Let's do it. Weed Man's been
(36:57):
calling the show for many, many years. He used to
be a regular caller. Now we have to call him
to get him on the air. He hates our show.
He only has done one day a week. He doesn't
even listen to our show anymore. But he's on anyway,
Here we go. What does spring cleaning mean to weed Man? Hippie?
I don't know what What does that mean to him?
Sweeping out his cardboard box eddie, that's what he calls
(37:20):
spring cleaning. What do you get when you cross Doc
Mike with Lizzo? Oh? I don't know what do you get?
A Wizzo is what you get? That's Tony d. He's
in Key West from Salisbury, mass As another one from
Tony d What do you get when you cross Doc
(37:41):
Mike with weed Man Hippie? I don't know what do
you get? You get peed Man Hippie's what you get? Eddie?
Of course, was what was weed Man most upset about
when he broke up with Lisa? I don't know what
was he wants to say about. Well, it turns out
Lisa actually got joint. Custody was devastating too to weed Man.
(38:03):
He really loves that joint. How ugly and smelly is
weed Man hippie? I don't know how how ugly and
smelly is he? Well, he's so ugly that when Lizzo
smelled and looked at him, it was the only time
that she ran away from the buffet table Eddie. How
amazing is that? John and Young sent not a fan
(38:26):
of that joke? I see all right. What is weed
Man Hippi's least favorite dessert? I don't know what is
his least favorite dessert? No bake brownies. That's some chip
in Maine. Did you hear weed Man got a job? No?
I didn't. People are now paying him to stay away
from them, So it's a it's a little bit of
a chance. That's Alex the cynical. Why did weed Man
(38:49):
Hippie grow up a Pirates fan? I don't know why
he loved Dave Cash he won won Eric again? What
attract them? What attracted Lisa the weed Man? I don't
know what was the attraction? Well I don't know either,
but it sure wasn't his smile. Eddy, It was definitely
not his smile. That's hill Billie w who sent that
one in? Why is weed Man clostrophobic? I don't know why,
(39:13):
because he feels boxed in at home, Eddie? He feels
boxed in at home. That's Ekan Rosoe, Minnesota. Last one,
Did you hear Poppy and weed Man Hippy are going
to do a podcast series together? I did not. Yes,
it's called Broke and Broker the show. That's from Tom
from Fullerton. Hey. Be sure to catch live editions of
(39:35):
The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
pm Pacific. We have the Coop Scoop on entertainment right now,
Cooper Loop. You want to enlighten us with entertainment news.
Hooray for Holly Would, hooray for Holly Would. Here's the
Coobal Loop. Thank you, Ben. Yes cool, you're welcome. Thanks
(39:55):
for saying thank you. Of course we're gonna start off.
I'm gonna start off in the theaters with a couple
of movies that are already out. In fact, today was
it was weird week this week because these movies premiered
on Wednesday. Uh so that's why I kind of kind
of missed it last week. Oh it's Easter weekend. That's
because they Okay, yeah, that's it's probably why I Butter
(40:15):
weekend kids a lot of kids on spring break. And right, yeah, well,
two big movies, two movies that I'm excited about. One
of them. I've already seen the Super Mario Brothers movie.
I did. I did go and see that. The scale
of goodness one to ten? What did it get? I
am going to give it and eight point five? That good? Yes,
(40:39):
So listen, it's not like it's not like them. It's
like a great film with you know, a super compelling story.
It's pretty basic, but the nostalgia factor is through the
roof and the movie is just filled with you know,
Easter eggs. And if you grew up a gamer or
a fan of Nintendo at all, I think you're gonna
(41:02):
love the movie. It's I mean, I was a big
you know, Super Nintendo Player, Nintendo sixty four. I was
all about you know, Mario and and all that stuff.
And It's and Donkey Kong and it's a great it's
it's it's fun. It's a very fun movie in my opinion.
Just think Coop, twenty years from now, they'll be making movies,
nostalgic movies about TikTok Instagram. That's happening. It's gonna happen.
(41:25):
Twenty years from now, they'll be doing it. All the
other people who are in like you're their their teens
or twenties now, when they're in their forties will be
watching Instagram and TikTok movies. Well that sounds awful. It
sounds terrible. Yeah, I hope I'm dead by that point.
Um So then, uh, we also have Air. That's right there.
(41:48):
I'm a fan of Air. The movie Air, the Nike movie.
Oh yeah, is that worth my time? Have you seen that?
I have not seen it yet. I will be seeing it,
Jordan movie. Yes, I will be seeing it this weekend.
That it is. It is directed by Ben Affleck, who
also stars in the movie as uh, what is that
guy's name? Phil Knight? Thank you. Phil Knight. Um, Matt
(42:10):
Damon Jason Bateman are also in the in the movie,
and it's getting great reviews. Uh so I am excited
to see that it is stified. Friends. Do you know
who is playing Michael Jordan? I do not, No one, No,
Michael Jordan is not in the movie or a Michael
Jordan character. Really, yeah, how can you? I don't know.
(42:33):
I thought that was very odd as well. They should
ad Michael B. Jordan played Michael Jordan. That would have
been great Jordan and Jordan. I'm shocked. You know who
Michael B. Jordan is, to be honest, Well, we we
had to. We had to tell him. Oh yeah, it was.
It was during the previous entertainment I am plugged in Hollywood.
I'm a maid man. Oh wow, yeah. Interesting looking at
(42:56):
the cast here and uh did they just talk about
about Jordan's yea, his parents parents? Yeah? Uh it was
Alfree Alphree Woodard playing his mom. Is that right, Viola Davis? Yes?
In fact, I did read that that was the one
demand that Michael Jordan had was that Viola Davis play
(43:17):
his mother. Chris Tucker and Marlon Wayans are in the
movie as well. Interesting all right. Yeah, anyway, I will
see that this weekend and I'll probably report back to
you next week. But I am. I'm super excited about that.
And moving on one last thing. We have a new
comedy on Hulu. Uh it is getting good reviews. That
(43:38):
is called Tiny Beautiful Things and The Kyler Murray's Story.
Huh uh. It is a it's a mini series that
stars Catherine Hahn, who I like a lot. She Uh,
you appreciate her work, Yes, she's good, she's skilled. She well, yeah,
she's she's an older actress, but you know, like a
(43:58):
fine line older actress. Oh, yes, in my opinion, I
don't know. I just find her. Did you ever under sexy?
Did you ever see one division? I did not. She's
very good in that. Okay, yeah, she's because she's great
and everything she's in. She plays a She takes a
new job as an advice columnist just as her own
life begins falling apart and hilarity is sues. Yes, and
(44:21):
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