September 14, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Deion Sanders seemingly shutting the door on coaching in the NFL, a Bills reporter apologizing about their hot mic rant about Stefon Diggs, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name Bert to here an
hour number two prim time Dion riding high in the
month of September. Has Dion Sanders though slammed the door
shut on ever coaching in the National Football League? Also,
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how did you score? The Buffalo Bill's team reporter calling
out Stefawn Diggs and then apologizing when she realized that
somebody actually heard what she had to say. Also, would
this benching be considered an indictment of Chase Claypool with
the Bears the wide receiver about to be benched. We'll
talk about all that and more right now here. It
is our number two x nay on the NFLA huh, well,
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come in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
Malor Show.
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Speaker 1 (01:37):
If you stay with us this hour, We'll have Mallard
of the Third Degree coming up a little bit later.
Also throughout the night here we got the Mallard Riddle
of the Day. Next hour, ask Ben, a somewhat popular
portion of the show that'll be coming up an hour three,
and we've got Factor Fiction Puck the World later on.
But we begin this hour in the prime villa Casa
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Dion as Deon Sanders continues to move the needle. Who
could have seen this coming? Deon Sanders, the Colorado Buffaloes,
people spending hours in online to buy tickets. I thought
everyone bought tickets online, but people waiting a long time
to get access to Deon Sanders.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
There.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The Colorado football team more popular than the Broncos at
this point. They are filling the content plate yet again.
If you have not heard the latest more chatter over
the last couple of days about Dion Sanders going to
the NFL and all that, But let me give you
the thumbnail recap on what we believe is Dion's latest
(02:39):
response the Fox Sports college football Guru, you can't miss,
you can't mess with someone who's a guru, you can't.
So Joel Klatt is his name, and college football takes
are his game. He says that Dion Sanders is not
interested at all in coaching in the National Football League
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because he is so focused. He's got a laser pointer
on being a mentor to the college kids. He's doing
it for the children. So the quote was, this is
from Joel Clatt college football guru, that Dion said he's
not going to the NFL. He doesn't want to coach
in the NFL. He told me Joel klattz said that
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point blank in my face. He stated he believes, according
to the quote, that his role. Dion's role is as
a mentor. He loves coaching kids and this is where
he feels at home and he believes that that is
his ministry to coach kids there in college. So let
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us discuss the question. That's a pretty strong quote. Has
Dion Sanders now slammed the door shut on coaching in
the NFL based on what he told Joel Clatt So
I'm gonna go first. I am shaking my head. No
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all right, no, no, no, no, no. Now I've got
Stevie Ray Vaughn, candid camera, and Dinghy and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make extra frosting on top of the cake. My
favorite part of the cake to frosting. It's just pure
sugar and just butter and sugar is just wonderful. Anyway,
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So my first thought here number why we don't doubt
that coach Prime did tell Joel Clatt that statement. We're
not accusing Joel Clatt of being a liar. I've never
met Joel Clatt, but he seems like a pretty good guy.
I don't know. In the past, Dion Sanders has made
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similar comments going back to his jays in Jackson Jackson State.
Regardless of that he is a head football coach. So
my default position, what does that mean? My default position
from years of being a gas bag and having to
parse the words of coaches, Dion Sanders will lie right
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to your face. There's a clinical term that the media
has come up with and fans have come up with
for coaches when they talk. It's called coach speak. It's
coded verbal gymnastics is what it is, which includes, as
we said, lying right to your face, right, lie right
to your face and you're not under oath when you're
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talking to a radio show or TV show or some
internet hacked NFL teams are going to test the hypothesis
that Dion Sanders does not want to coach in their league,
because right now, Dion is hotter than a firecracker. Everyone's
talking about Dion and the nfls and the entertainment business,
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and Dion's not even playing anymore. Obviously, he's an old dude,
but people love him. They are like the NFL's It's
like Stevie ray Vaughn, the classic there Love Struck Baby,
the NFL's love Struck with Coach Prime. So my belief
is that if the stage is big enough, Dion Sanders
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can announce that God told him to coach in the
NFL right, or is something along those lines, or he
had some kind of sign from a higher power, and
then he can open up his own ministry for young
men troubled young men in the NFL can have his
own halfway house somewhere in Jerry's world. Do you think
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if the Cowboys were to fire mccarth. Let's say they
lose a playoff game like they usually do, and they
win all these regular season games and then vanished in
the playoffs. McCarthy gets let go and Jerry Jones calls
Dion's sanders up, ring ring, Hey, Dion, how would you
like to coach the Dallas Cowboys? Does Deonce know to that?
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I don't think you would. I think he'd coach the
Atlanta Falcons, another one of his old teams, if the
Falcons came calling at the end of the year. All right, now,
page two, we went from the Buffalo's to good Old
Buffalo and the NFL version the Buffalo Bills had a
rather interesting story bouncing around. If you saw this one
or not, it's pretty funny. So there was a news
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conference and a Buffalo Bill's reporter is currently in the
soup and has some explaining to do. A team hired
employee hired to put flowers around the Bill's facility and
acid wash everything, make it all nice and pretty. So
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this Bill's reporter is caught talking trash about Stefan Diggs
without realizing that she was caught on microphone and people
could hear everything she was saying. Now, the money quote
on this was quote there's no control over Stefan Diggs.
Dude's gonna do what he wants to do. He'll look
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in my face and say, F you. That's how he
treats everybody close. Quote talking trash. God, so good? God?
Is this good? Right in my veins? Put it right
in my veins? I love this story. Wowsers. Now that
quote went viral in the Buffalo Bill's Mafia and around
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the NFL, As is usually the case, Guys like Andy
the comic book guy who listens to the show and
Bill's Mafia and others immediately ran to defense Stefon Diggs,
and this led to some people also criticizing Stefan Diggs.
More and the team reporter issued a wordy social media
mia culpa, so how did you score the Buffalo Bill's report,
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apologizing over her unhinged Stefan Diggs rant, So, I give
this the date. I give it a D, not an F,
but I give it a D. Now this is what's
called forced. I believe the textbook definition of this is forced.
Now I have no inside of information, but my gut
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tells me that text messages were exchanged, and you better
apologize or we're gonna fire your ass and hire someone
else here to put fluff out about the Buffalo Bills
as a general rule of thumb, and this is all encompassing.
We believe the initial statement over the clarification ninety nine
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point nine percent of the time. And so this was
a candid camera moment. Did you know the old TV
show Candid Camera, which was a classic in early television,
was originally a radio show. It was called Candid Microphone.
True story. You can look it up anyway. So this
lady who your name, it's not really important. Nobody else
who she is, but she spoke candidly about Stefan Dicks
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and then publicly she tried to unring the bell, is
what she tried to do. Of course, the damage you'd
been done. She's on the payroll for the Buffalo football team,
and they expect they expect you to handle yourself with
a certain kind of decorum. So if she did not apologize,
even if she with her apology, it's like access denied
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in the future. This is what's known as friendly fire.
The reason professional sports teams love their web reporters is
because they are in the tank. They love it and
because of the internet being so big over the years
here it's gotten bigger and bigger. The biggest thing in
the world right now there's been an entire generation that
has grown up embracing only positivity. If anyone's negative, you're
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just a hater man, what's wrong with you? And so
the teams they realize this, and so they hire people
who are just total cheerleaders, raw rob, the whole thing
for the hometown team, nothing ever critical. And and so
when you when you go outside of that that orthodoxy,
it becomes a problem. And so here's another example of
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how phony these team reporters are because on the record,
she's out there starting a bubble bath for Stefon Diggs.
But off the record, when she doesn't think her words
are going to be published, there's no control over Diggs. Now,
what she said into that microphone, not realizing she was
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being recorded, that is what's known as the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth. What she said after that
bull crap. All right, now, final port, Let's go to
Chicago quickly. I haven't heard from a lot of Bears
fans this week. Boy, I was getting inundated. What's wrong?
Why are you ripping the Bears? Shame on you?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I killed the Bears still on the TV show last week.
I ripped apart the Bear Bay. Wait The Bears have
a wide receiver name Chase Claypool. Might have heard about him.
He's a relatively high draft pick played with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He is in danger right now of being benched. Now
why would he be benched? Is there someone better on
the bench? No, there's no one better on the bench,
(12:15):
at least talent. Why he is in danger of being benched?
He was such a dog with fleas against the Green
Bay Packers last weekend that some of the clips went viral.
The Bears have a head coach, not a good one,
Nat Eberflus, who gave a strong clue that Claypool will
be listed as inactive Now. The Bears go to Tampa
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on a sultry, warm afternoon in Florida there this weekend.
But the main problem el Mattador, Olay ole Ole, olay
Mattador boxing or matter of blocking. He would have been
better if he was a matter of boxing, but anyway,
it was just terrible blocking. So would this benching be
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considered an indictment of Chase Claypool if he doesn't end
up getting benched? And I am nodding my head passionately, yes,
not only not only for Claypool, but also the entire
Chicago Bears franchise. He fought very arrogantly that they had
such a great culture, they were building such a great
(13:19):
culture in Chicago that even though this guy stunk in Pittsburgh,
that it would be all different. He just needed to
change the scenery. And Mike Tomlin I went back and
I looked at my notes as I remember talking about
Claypool with the Steelers, and indeed I was right. Tomlin
got Tomlin benched Claypool. He got so upset with Claypool
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over his Shenanigans that he benched him in Pittsburgh. And
then that led to a trade and the Bears, I
don't think they ever thought they were getting a steel
I think they traded I believe, like a first round
pick or close to it to get Claypool. But they
had this whole mindset, We're gonna fix this guy. They
didn't read the fine print. This is a cautionary tale.
The guy's got a great skill set, doesn't seem to care.
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He does not have a passion for pigskin. And right now,
Chase Claypool, if you get benched by the Chicago Bears,
you're as a football player, your career is sitting on
a dingy with a broken down motor. You're just kind
of floating around in the harbor. The old lazy daisy
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apathetic apparently is the issue. That the highlights of him
not even trying to block are outstanding, a professional football player,
just great. Did he think the cameras would not catch
him not trying to block? Did he think that maybe
they would just ignore him? Apparently? So it is the
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That's my man.
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Speaker 1 (16:08):
It's Ben Malor, a toasty Dion Sanders malland monolog. Thank you, Dion, hallelujah,
good for content filling the content machine here in the
late night hours. Dion Sanders and Colorado Football will deon
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stay at Colorado. He says he's not going to the NFL.
We talked about that. You believe him. I don't really
believe him. If the right job comes along, everyone's got
their price. I've always believed that everyone's got their price,
whatever it is, and it's been proven. We're fed up
as human beings. Like we say, we won't do certain things,
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but if the price is right, come on down. You
pretty much do anything. Midnight Walker writes in says Neon
Dion says, it's all about the kids questions about the
nfl are moot, But in this world we all know
Cash is king. Coach Prime will absolutely take the loot.
Midnight Walker from Syracuse. E Rocker commenting on that Chase
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Claypool story as he's about to be benched for being
a sluggard, e Rocker says, doesn't matter the year, the
fact still remains, the Bears still suck. Green Bay Packer
fan E Rocker Ferdcat writes and says, Ben, do you
have any thoughts on Max Scherzer getting injured again? Should
Ranger fans have any hope he'll pitch through the pain
(17:35):
if they make the plus Well, you know that's a
leading question for a cat. But I will address Max
Scherzer in a later hour of the show. We will
get to Max Scherzer at some point ariek in Minnesota,
right since, says B plus on the Mala monologue on
Prime Time, and Claypool and says Pool looked a lot
like the Vikings offensive line blocking this past weekend. There
(17:59):
you go, and the once know my thought on Baker Mayfield.
We are going to address the Baker midfield story because
there's a story out of Tampa that the Vikings were
so inept on defense that by halftime, the Buccaneers had
figured out all of their calls, so they knew in
the second half what exactly they were going to do
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on defense. They were fully aware of that. A head
News rights and says C minus on the Coach Prime monologue.
There's no reason for Dion to go to the NFL
anytime soon. As long as the college gravy train is
going great guns. He's saving that move for much much
later on. I don't know, but that we know. Dion,
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like many successful people in life, has a very good
level of self esteem. He's a very happy person, and
he's proven himself correct. He is also in his mid
field fifty nine coach until you're seventy, but that's not guaranteed.
And the window of opportunity. You gotta remember that that
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cliche you had to strike while the iron's hot, Well,
the iron can't get much hotter than it is right now.
For Dion Sanders. At some point, Colorado's gonna lose, and
they'll probably lose a bunch of games. Now, they're gonna
win more than they were supposed to going into the year.
They already got a couple wins. They only have to
win like three more games to go over the expectation.
But Coach Prime, this is the year, right because this
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is the year I was talking about. You blah blah blah.
You're all over the place, and if you end up
losing a bunch of games at the end of the year,
it obviously changes the dynamic a whole lot. A whole
lot I was talking in our production meetings. Is kind
of off the grid a little bit. But I've been
fascinated by the cyber hacking story out of Vegas, involving
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the big hotels there in Vegas. There's two big companies
that run Vegas, Caesar's Entertainment and MGM Resorts. And we
learned that Caesar's paid millions of dollars. They had a
ransom in ransom because they had There was a cyber attack.
There was some video I think this was MGM this
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week that showed all of their slot machines, all those
digital slot machines were shut down. People couldn't get into
the hotel rooms, couldn't pay for their hotel rooms because
of hackers. And it's just wild that the way they
apparently did it according to some of the reports I
(20:35):
was reading these stories about what they did is like
Bloomberg said that the wanted Caesar's. They they used this
rather unassuming plan where they posed as a company employee,
contacted the IT help desk to get the password changed.
They got the password changed, and then they were able
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to get in there and get all the sensitive data.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Hey, Ben, I have some questions for you.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yes I was Sam, Yes, great, I was Sam.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Yes I was all pertains to this story.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Okay, good.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
So I saw fifteen million dollars. Was that paid in
ransom or is that actually like stolen from the coffers.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah? So from what I'm told, the initial demand for Caesars.
I don't know about MGM, but the initial demand for
Caesars was thirty million, but they only paid about fifteen
million so they paid only about fifty But is there
really any way to avoid.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
This though, Well, these ransomware attacks happen. It's it's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
They will.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
They will attack like school.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Districts, they attack police, they attack fire utility, city utilities,
all kinds of things, people, things that are just helping
people live there. But my point is like, there's really
no way to fully protect yourself if you because people
have passwords to log in, and so somebody's gonna lose
their password and then what are you gonna do. You're
gonna you're gonna call somebody up and say I need
a new password. You'll send an email and they can
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fish and copy your email.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
That's why at iHeart, where we work, they're constantly testing us,
sending us phony phishing emails so that we don't get duped.
So we're training, we have a trained eye.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Well Ben is immune from that because he never checks
his company.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I don't. I will never be part of a scam
with iHeart because I stopped the day I stopped it.
I remember the exact day. It was January twentieth of nine.
That was the last day I checked my email for
the company. Never again. I will never again check the email. Ben.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
So I saw another thing where like a guy walked
up to a like a cash window or a chip
window at one of these places, and it's like, give
me forty million dollars. Did you see that? Like he
was just some guy walked up and I think he was.
I don't even know if he was connected to this.
But Bill Krackenberger, who's like, who does a weekend gambling
show for us at Foxworthy. Old Bill Krackenberger, great guy.
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He sent sent me in a couple of people in
a text thread this story and it was rather fascinating.
I think the guy was just a you know, a
crank or something. And I don't know, but it is.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Did he get the money? I don't think so he
did not. They did not give him. I don't uh.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
I think he was apprehended and yeah, so but yeah,
you know, we might at some point in our lives,
you know, we talk about AI and the threat at
poses to like society and taking jobs or maybe taking
over the world. At some point, you know, we have
just as good a reason to maybe slow the brakes
on AI as we do with putting everything online. We
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might go back to a point where we literally just
write things down on paper and then it goes into
a cabinet and.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Then it's locked up.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Bring back coin slot machines.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, ye see that's the third rail woman. But they, yeah,
a lot of a lot of the politicians want to
go with paperless society money. I agree with you works
in something. I'm a dinosaur, but I kind of like
actually having like physical money, which you can also counterfeit
and all that, but it's a little less agonizing than
when you take over MGM and Caesar's.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Can get all I mean, Doc Kotsk or Earcoots can
you're robbing MGM blind.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And the thing about this is I've read, you know,
I said, read about it, and a lot of it's
not like major some of these people work for governments
like foreign enemies, you know, enemy governments. But some of
these people are just like on their own, like oh yeah,
you know, small time players, and they're people to hijack
these major companies's.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
And then there they can't be prosecuted or found unless
that you work with the government of that of that
country to find these people because they're often some you know,
distant land.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, and then they get paid ready to get paid
in like crypto stuff, so it's hard.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
You can't also don't need too much skill because it's
you know, it's it's social engineering.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
All you have to do is be able to look
up somebody's Facebook page or whatever, find the most basic
information about them, and then use that to get their
password reset.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah. No, for sure, I mean, and it's really it's
pretty easy to figure out on company emails. It's normally
the first initial in the last name at a lot
of places, right, and that's normally how they do it.
So it's not that hard to figure out company emails
if you know what the anyway the addresses. That's an
interesting story in say what doesn't affect sports, but these
are big gambling companies that have casinos and sports books,
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and so it does involve sports.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
You can't place any sports bets right now at MGM.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, think about that. It's insane.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
So they've already lost millions and they're losing millions more
because they cannot take in that revenue.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah. So if you think these are the same hackers
that got the fifteen million from Caesar's and now they're
doing the NBA, absolutely so they probably want more at
least fifteen million man crazy.
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Speaker 3 (26:10):
This from the NBA. We've talked about this the other day,
but Kevin Porter Junior of the Houston Rockets involved in
that ugly incident where he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend h
and there are reports now Old Sham's reporting that the
Houston Rockets are looking to trade him. I'll bet they
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are looking to I'm like, where's the Julio Arias Dodgers
want to trade him? Story? Who the hell is going
to trade for this guy? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
The guy's facing a felony assault charge for strangulation. Let's
acquire and we'll put him on billboards. I mean, bring
the kids, bring the women, Come on everyone, you come
on down.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yeah, I mean, what the hell they're looking here? They're
looking to trail I bet they are. I bet they're
looking to trade him.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Who was looking to get him? Is my question? Like
they'd like to trade him to I don't know, uh
is Stan Bull or something. They'd like to trade him
for a couple of Kansas soup and yeah, good luck,
good luck trading him. I'm sure that'll that'll be easy. Right,
Maybe the Dodgers will trade their guy, Kevin Porter Pitch.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Maybe, Like I don't see those stories in this story.
I'm just like, yeah, I bet they are looking to
trade him. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Robert kraftah, Robert Craft tried to trade Aaron Hernandez but
unable to trade him.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Because a story.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Okay, Christen, but it was unfortunate. Yeah, all right, It
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dot com. So let's go to the old country. Ala come.
Alabama football roll tied. He rolled over against Texas, always
surprising when Alabama loses with Nick Saban as the coach.
He did not play well. Alabama has been ripped apart
for that performance. Also, one of the Alabama players seemed
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very excited after the game with the amount of views
he was getting on social media. Many people found that distasteful.
How could you do that? You're playing Tusco looser? Yeah,
I got you don't play in Seattle or where so anyway,
people are upset and Nick Saban addressed the criticism and
he gave it the old country approach. I loved what
(28:40):
Nick Saban had to say. And I want you to
sit back and listen. Listen to Nick Saban here as
he addresses the critics of the Crimson tide as I
believe he dotted the eye, he nailed it. Listen.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
I talked to the players about internal standard versus external noise,
and you know, I think that we didn't play great.
So you know, people get upset that we get criticized,
But why wouldn't we get criticized if we don't play well.
I mean people call me in and say, hey man,
this guy's a jerk for you know, saying this about you. No,
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he really isn't. I mean, it's right, we didn't play good.
I'm responsible for that. So we did all these things
on offense that I just talked about at him up well,
I mean, I'm responsible for that. So, I mean, in
the real world, when you don't perform and you don't produce,
you probably get criticized, sometimes get penalized. Some people lose
(29:36):
their job when they don't perform well. You know, that's
maybe even worse than losing a game. When you can't
feed your family and your children and all that make
your house payment, I guess that's that's worse. So I
don't really know what the noise is. I haven't listened
to one talk radio show, I haven't read one newspaper.
I have been focusing one hundred percent of my time
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on the next team that we play, the last thing
that we played, and what we need to do to
fix that. And I think all the players would be
better served, and everybody in the organization wouldn't be better
served if they all did that, because what somebody else
thinks really doesn't matter. It's all about what you do
and how you respond to what you need to do
so that you have a chance to be successful in
the future.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
All Right, thanks, okay, thank you. I like ices organization. Okay,
thank you. Not a university, it's an organization. But he's
absolutely right. This is great because I didn't like the
part he doesn't listen to talk radio or.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I guess I'll just put it nicely and pass on
the opportunity to get involved in talk radio.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I like that he's still throwing out newspapers too, you know,
he's old like that'll never happen again with the next
generation of coaches. It's I don't go on TikTok or
whatever's next after that. And I don't know. We're under pressure,
but I don't go I try to separate myself from
that whatever, you know, instant, yeah, exactly. Don't want to
go down that chute. No no, no, no, that's a trash.
(31:00):
Don't want any part of that trash. No new, new new,
no no no. Speaking of Alabama, there was another funny
story about Alabama. So they they had the team you know,
this is a food faux paw. Alabama plays USF this
week and they made a small miscalculation the catering department
(31:20):
at Alabama as the players had a big team dinner
there the Alabama football players after they lost to Texas,
and the team chowed down in the very opulent cafeteria
there on alligator and they ate the entire alligator. Like
they put the whole alligator. They laid it on the
(31:43):
dead alligator. There was a live they laid the whole
thing and they cooked it and it looked like, you know,
three hundred pound alligant something like that. They ate the
whole gator right there, the whole thing. The problem is
they're not playing the Florida Gators. They're playing USF, which
I believe their mascot is a bull, So like, shouldn't
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you have just had a giant bull? Maybe they did
that with Texas though, but it was it's pretty funny,
like people like, what are you doing? You know, your dummies,
don't you eat a gator? Which is fine, but you're
not playing the Gators. They said, come on, how much
you think that costs. How much does it cost to
buy a three hundred pound gator like that? I don't
know if it's that big. It looked pretty big. Hard
(32:28):
to tell because it was already a bunch of the
flesh had been eaten, so it's hard to tell how
big it originally was. But it looked like a full
size gator. Damn alligator bit my hand. Oh my god. Yeah,
that's actually sound of our friend from Alabama, Van the
one legged Bama man. Damn alligator. Yeah, he had an alligator,
bye his leg off and then he ate the alligator.
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had less than one hundred passing yards. Joe Burrow did
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(33:14):
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they've only been three times that a quarterbacks thrown thirty
or more passes and had less than one hundred passing.
It's very difficult to do that. Joe Burrow did in
Cleveland over the weekend. Blank was the last quarterback before
Joe Burrow to do it. That's the question. If you're
wondering about the alligator story. I got a guy wild
(34:43):
Eye Southern Boy formerly known as Sir scratch offf who
says it costs about one thousand or twelve hundred bucks
for a big gator. If you want to need a
big gator, you're good to go. Who do we have you?
Let's see any answers that Aaron Rodgers guests by Andy
the Stefan Diggs guy or the comic book guy, Bubby
Bristol from Hobby Bobby. That's his answer. Jim Thorpe tossed
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out by Chipping the Qes Captain hook from Jimmy from Maine,
Mark Herman from Steve the misplaced San Diegan, Antonio mcdce
guessed by Sane of des Moines. Page now, Chris Leak
there's a good name from truck or Joe Launchpad mcquack
from Rory. That's his answer. Josh Young guessed by Robbie
(35:27):
the Mariner fan Paige down page down. This guy says
Splenda says, Hey, I sent my answer to your company email.
Check your email. No, I'm not checking my email. I
don't even know how to check my email. I have
to every time I log in. I log you once
a year because I have to do some company training,
and I have to like reset my password because they
only last bably certain amount of time. Who else do
(35:50):
we have? Brody Croyle from Greg the Real Estate Mogul
in Baltimore. Skeletor from Scotty and Rhode Island, Tom Tupa
guessed by Rob in Minnesota, Paige down Mark in Santa
Monica going fran Tarkington as his answer, Blaine Gabbert from
Matt the Warrior Raider fan. I think that might be
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of my influences in radio, the late great Jim Healy,
who would have turned one hundred years old. I loved
his radio show when I was a kid. Big fan
of the Jim Healey radio Show. Eddie, do you have
an answer? Eddie?
Speaker 3 (36:25):
I'm gonna go with former Green Bay Packers legend Anthony
Dilwig's good name.
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But that's not the good answer, Eddie. The correct answer
went in doubt, throw Sam Donald's name out. He was
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With the Jets, it's maller.
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How about that?
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Speaker 5 (36:56):
Bill Simmons has guaranteed that the Knicks will land either
Donovan Mitchell, Giannis and Tetakumpo or Joel m Beid within
one year's time. What do you think about that?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
All right? So I agree. You follow the migration of
NBA stars and they normally go to Los Angeles or Miami.
That's like with a few exceptions. But the NBA would
love for the Knicks to get somebody who's a name,
like a big star. They don't have that. They got
a couple of good players, they don't have a big
time star. Donovan Mitchell is the one that I think
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is gonna end up in New York. He almost ended
up there a couple years ago, went to Cleveland instead.
And New York has been knocking on the door the
last couple of years in the Eastern Conference playoffs. They've
been lurking like a snake in the grass. And to
make that next big leap, you gotta get a start.
That's the way it works in that business to move
up the Eastern Conference standings and make a run in
the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Next, Tiki Barber criticized Brian Daball for sitting as starters
throughout the preseason. And how much of a factor do
you think that made in the matchup?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
It's minuscule. It's fun to pick on the coach, but
ninety eight percent of NFL team rested their starters. Pittsburgh
played their starters and they sucked also against the forty
nine ers, So it's a it's a league wide decision
though out of an abundance of caution to not play
the starters. The issue I had with the Giants getting
punched in the mouth early and then getting in the
fetal position that that does not bode well for Brian Dable.
(38:17):
That's that's a quitting attitude the Giants had that was terrible.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Next, yesterday you mentioned how Brandon Nyuk said that brock
Purty plays with swagger. Have you bought into brock Purdy yet?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yeah? So I like the brock Purty story. I actually
I picked Pittsburgh last week, but I like the Brock
Sturdy brock Purty story. I'm not one hundred percent soul
that's sustainable. But he's been great. He and Kyle Shanahan
have been on the same wavelength and they're they're finishing
each other's sentences and all that. But you see how
he responds after he has a couple of bad performances,
(38:50):
which he will have at some point. There it is
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Hello and welcome. It's our name Bert to here an
hour number two prim time Dion riding high in the
month of September. Has Dion Sanders though slammed the door
shut on ever coaching in the National Football League? Also,
(00:21):
how did you score? The Buffalo Bill's team reporter calling
out Stefawn Diggs and then apologizing when she realized that
somebody actually heard what she had to say. Also, would
this benching be considered an indictment of Chase Claypool with
the Bears the wide receiver about to be benched. We'll
talk about all that and more right now here. It
is our number two x nay on the NFLA huh, well,
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If you stay with us this hour, We'll have Mallard
of the Third Degree coming up a little bit later.
Also throughout the night here we got the Mallard Riddle
of the Day. Next hour, ask Ben, a somewhat popular
portion of the show that'll be coming up an hour three,
and we've got Factor Fiction Puck the World later on.
But we begin this hour in the prime villa Casa
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Dion as Deon Sanders continues to move the needle. Who
could have seen this coming? Deon Sanders, the Colorado Buffaloes,
people spending hours in online to buy tickets. I thought
everyone bought tickets online, but people waiting a long time
to get access to Deon Sanders.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
There.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The Colorado football team more popular than the Broncos at
this point. They are filling the content plate yet again.
If you have not heard the latest more chatter over
the last couple of days about Dion Sanders going to
the NFL and all that, But let me give you
the thumbnail recap on what we believe is Dion's latest
(02:39):
response the Fox Sports college football Guru, you can't miss,
you can't mess with someone who's a guru, you can't.
So Joel Klatt is his name, and college football takes
are his game. He says that Dion Sanders is not
interested at all in coaching in the National Football League
(03:03):
because he is so focused. He's got a laser pointer
on being a mentor to the college kids. He's doing
it for the children. So the quote was, this is
from Joel Clatt college football guru, that Dion said he's
not going to the NFL. He doesn't want to coach
in the NFL. He told me Joel klattz said that
(03:25):
point blank in my face. He stated he believes, according
to the quote, that his role. Dion's role is as
a mentor. He loves coaching kids and this is where
he feels at home and he believes that that is
his ministry to coach kids there in college. So let
(03:45):
us discuss the question. That's a pretty strong quote. Has
Dion Sanders now slammed the door shut on coaching in
the NFL based on what he told Joel Clatt So
I'm gonna go first. I am shaking my head. No
(04:06):
all right, no, no, no, no, no. Now I've got
Stevie Ray Vaughn, candid camera, and Dinghy and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make extra frosting on top of the cake. My
favorite part of the cake to frosting. It's just pure
sugar and just butter and sugar is just wonderful. Anyway,
(04:30):
So my first thought here number why we don't doubt
that coach Prime did tell Joel Clatt that statement. We're
not accusing Joel Clatt of being a liar. I've never
met Joel Clatt, but he seems like a pretty good guy.
I don't know. In the past, Dion Sanders has made
(04:53):
similar comments going back to his jays in Jackson Jackson State.
Regardless of that he is a head football coach. So
my default position, what does that mean? My default position
from years of being a gas bag and having to
parse the words of coaches, Dion Sanders will lie right
(05:15):
to your face. There's a clinical term that the media
has come up with and fans have come up with
for coaches when they talk. It's called coach speak. It's
coded verbal gymnastics is what it is, which includes, as
we said, lying right to your face, right, lie right
to your face and you're not under oath when you're
(05:38):
talking to a radio show or TV show or some
internet hacked NFL teams are going to test the hypothesis
that Dion Sanders does not want to coach in their league,
because right now, Dion is hotter than a firecracker. Everyone's
talking about Dion and the nfls and the entertainment business,
(06:00):
and Dion's not even playing anymore. Obviously, he's an old dude,
but people love him. They are like the NFL's It's
like Stevie ray Vaughn, the classic there Love Struck Baby,
the NFL's love Struck with Coach Prime. So my belief
is that if the stage is big enough, Dion Sanders
(06:23):
can announce that God told him to coach in the
NFL right, or is something along those lines, or he
had some kind of sign from a higher power, and
then he can open up his own ministry for young
men troubled young men in the NFL can have his
own halfway house somewhere in Jerry's world. Do you think
(06:45):
if the Cowboys were to fire mccarth. Let's say they
lose a playoff game like they usually do, and they
win all these regular season games and then vanished in
the playoffs. McCarthy gets let go and Jerry Jones calls
Dion's sanders up, ring ring, Hey, Dion, how would you
like to coach the Dallas Cowboys? Does Deonce know to that?
(07:10):
I don't think you would. I think he'd coach the
Atlanta Falcons, another one of his old teams, if the
Falcons came calling at the end of the year. All right, now,
page two, we went from the Buffalo's to good Old
Buffalo and the NFL version the Buffalo Bills had a
rather interesting story bouncing around. If you saw this one
or not, it's pretty funny. So there was a news
(07:32):
conference and a Buffalo Bill's reporter is currently in the
soup and has some explaining to do. A team hired
employee hired to put flowers around the Bill's facility and
acid wash everything, make it all nice and pretty. So
(07:52):
this Bill's reporter is caught talking trash about Stefan Diggs
without realizing that she was caught on microphone and people
could hear everything she was saying. Now, the money quote
on this was quote there's no control over Stefan Diggs.
Dude's gonna do what he wants to do. He'll look
(08:14):
in my face and say, F you. That's how he
treats everybody close. Quote talking trash. God, so good? God?
Is this good? Right in my veins? Put it right
in my veins? I love this story. Wowsers. Now that
quote went viral in the Buffalo Bill's Mafia and around
(08:36):
the NFL, As is usually the case, Guys like Andy
the comic book guy who listens to the show and
Bill's Mafia and others immediately ran to defense Stefon Diggs,
and this led to some people also criticizing Stefan Diggs.
More and the team reporter issued a wordy social media
mia culpa, so how did you score the Buffalo Bill's report,
(09:00):
apologizing over her unhinged Stefan Diggs rant, So, I give
this the date. I give it a D, not an F,
but I give it a D. Now this is what's
called forced. I believe the textbook definition of this is forced.
Now I have no inside of information, but my gut
(09:21):
tells me that text messages were exchanged, and you better
apologize or we're gonna fire your ass and hire someone
else here to put fluff out about the Buffalo Bills
as a general rule of thumb, and this is all encompassing.
We believe the initial statement over the clarification ninety nine
(09:43):
point nine percent of the time. And so this was
a candid camera moment. Did you know the old TV
show Candid Camera, which was a classic in early television,
was originally a radio show. It was called Candid Microphone.
True story. You can look it up anyway. So this
lady who your name, it's not really important. Nobody else
who she is, but she spoke candidly about Stefan Dicks
(10:06):
and then publicly she tried to unring the bell, is
what she tried to do. Of course, the damage you'd
been done. She's on the payroll for the Buffalo football team,
and they expect they expect you to handle yourself with
a certain kind of decorum. So if she did not apologize,
even if she with her apology, it's like access denied
(10:28):
in the future. This is what's known as friendly fire.
The reason professional sports teams love their web reporters is
because they are in the tank. They love it and
because of the internet being so big over the years
here it's gotten bigger and bigger. The biggest thing in
the world right now there's been an entire generation that
has grown up embracing only positivity. If anyone's negative, you're
(10:53):
just a hater man, what's wrong with you? And so
the teams they realize this, and so they hire people
who are just total cheerleaders, raw rob, the whole thing
for the hometown team, nothing ever critical. And and so
when you when you go outside of that that orthodoxy,
it becomes a problem. And so here's another example of
(11:14):
how phony these team reporters are because on the record,
she's out there starting a bubble bath for Stefon Diggs.
But off the record, when she doesn't think her words
are going to be published, there's no control over Diggs. Now,
what she said into that microphone, not realizing she was
(11:35):
being recorded, that is what's known as the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth. What she said after that
bull crap. All right, now, final port, Let's go to
Chicago quickly. I haven't heard from a lot of Bears
fans this week. Boy, I was getting inundated. What's wrong?
Why are you ripping the Bears? Shame on you?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I killed the Bears still on the TV show last week.
I ripped apart the Bear Bay. Wait The Bears have
a wide receiver name Chase Claypool. Might have heard about him.
He's a relatively high draft pick played with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He is in danger right now of being benched. Now
why would he be benched? Is there someone better on
the bench? No, there's no one better on the bench,
(12:15):
at least talent. Why he is in danger of being benched?
He was such a dog with fleas against the Green
Bay Packers last weekend that some of the clips went viral.
The Bears have a head coach, not a good one,
Nat Eberflus, who gave a strong clue that Claypool will
be listed as inactive Now. The Bears go to Tampa
(12:37):
on a sultry, warm afternoon in Florida there this weekend.
But the main problem el Mattador, Olay ole Ole, olay
Mattador boxing or matter of blocking. He would have been
better if he was a matter of boxing, but anyway,
it was just terrible blocking. So would this benching be
(12:58):
considered an indictment of Chase Claypool if he doesn't end
up getting benched? And I am nodding my head passionately, yes,
not only not only for Claypool, but also the entire
Chicago Bears franchise. He fought very arrogantly that they had
such a great culture, they were building such a great
(13:19):
culture in Chicago that even though this guy stunk in Pittsburgh,
that it would be all different. He just needed to
change the scenery. And Mike Tomlin I went back and
I looked at my notes as I remember talking about
Claypool with the Steelers, and indeed I was right. Tomlin
got Tomlin benched Claypool. He got so upset with Claypool
(13:39):
over his Shenanigans that he benched him in Pittsburgh. And
then that led to a trade and the Bears, I
don't think they ever thought they were getting a steel
I think they traded I believe, like a first round
pick or close to it to get Claypool. But they
had this whole mindset, We're gonna fix this guy. They
didn't read the fine print. This is a cautionary tale.
The guy's got a great skill set, doesn't seem to care.
(14:00):
He does not have a passion for pigskin. And right now,
Chase Claypool, if you get benched by the Chicago Bears,
you're as a football player, your career is sitting on
a dingy with a broken down motor. You're just kind
of floating around in the harbor. The old lazy daisy
(14:21):
apathetic apparently is the issue. That the highlights of him
not even trying to block are outstanding, a professional football player,
just great. Did he think the cameras would not catch
him not trying to block? Did he think that maybe
they would just ignore him? Apparently? So it is the
Ben Malor Show. You want to come in on that,
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Speaker 1 (16:08):
It's Ben Malor, a toasty Dion Sanders malland monolog. Thank you, Dion, hallelujah,
good for content filling the content machine here in the
late night hours. Dion Sanders and Colorado Football will deon
(16:29):
stay at Colorado. He says he's not going to the NFL.
We talked about that. You believe him. I don't really
believe him. If the right job comes along, everyone's got
their price. I've always believed that everyone's got their price,
whatever it is, and it's been proven. We're fed up
as human beings. Like we say, we won't do certain things,
(16:49):
but if the price is right, come on down. You
pretty much do anything. Midnight Walker writes in says Neon
Dion says, it's all about the kids questions about the
nfl are moot, But in this world we all know
Cash is king. Coach Prime will absolutely take the loot.
Midnight Walker from Syracuse. E Rocker commenting on that Chase
(17:13):
Claypool story as he's about to be benched for being
a sluggard, e Rocker says, doesn't matter the year, the
fact still remains, the Bears still suck. Green Bay Packer
fan E Rocker Ferdcat writes and says, Ben, do you
have any thoughts on Max Scherzer getting injured again? Should
Ranger fans have any hope he'll pitch through the pain
(17:35):
if they make the plus Well, you know that's a
leading question for a cat. But I will address Max
Scherzer in a later hour of the show. We will
get to Max Scherzer at some point ariek in Minnesota,
right since, says B plus on the Mala monologue on
Prime Time, and Claypool and says Pool looked a lot
like the Vikings offensive line blocking this past weekend. There
(17:59):
you go, and the once know my thought on Baker Mayfield.
We are going to address the Baker midfield story because
there's a story out of Tampa that the Vikings were
so inept on defense that by halftime, the Buccaneers had
figured out all of their calls, so they knew in
the second half what exactly they were going to do
(18:23):
on defense. They were fully aware of that. A head
News rights and says C minus on the Coach Prime monologue.
There's no reason for Dion to go to the NFL
anytime soon. As long as the college gravy train is
going great guns. He's saving that move for much much
later on. I don't know, but that we know. Dion,
(18:46):
like many successful people in life, has a very good
level of self esteem. He's a very happy person, and
he's proven himself correct. He is also in his mid
field fifty nine coach until you're seventy, but that's not guaranteed.
And the window of opportunity. You gotta remember that that
(19:07):
cliche you had to strike while the iron's hot, Well,
the iron can't get much hotter than it is right now.
For Dion Sanders. At some point, Colorado's gonna lose, and
they'll probably lose a bunch of games. Now, they're gonna
win more than they were supposed to going into the year.
They already got a couple wins. They only have to
win like three more games to go over the expectation.
But Coach Prime, this is the year, right because this
(19:28):
is the year I was talking about. You blah blah blah.
You're all over the place, and if you end up
losing a bunch of games at the end of the year,
it obviously changes the dynamic a whole lot. A whole
lot I was talking in our production meetings. Is kind
of off the grid a little bit. But I've been
fascinated by the cyber hacking story out of Vegas, involving
(19:52):
the big hotels there in Vegas. There's two big companies
that run Vegas, Caesar's Entertainment and MGM Resorts. And we
learned that Caesar's paid millions of dollars. They had a
ransom in ransom because they had There was a cyber attack.
There was some video I think this was MGM this
(20:14):
week that showed all of their slot machines, all those
digital slot machines were shut down. People couldn't get into
the hotel rooms, couldn't pay for their hotel rooms because
of hackers. And it's just wild that the way they
apparently did it according to some of the reports I
(20:35):
was reading these stories about what they did is like
Bloomberg said that the wanted Caesar's. They they used this
rather unassuming plan where they posed as a company employee,
contacted the IT help desk to get the password changed.
They got the password changed, and then they were able
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to get in there and get all the sensitive data.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Hey, Ben, I have some questions for you.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yes I was Sam, Yes, great, I was Sam.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Yes I was all pertains to this story.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Okay, good.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
So I saw fifteen million dollars. Was that paid in
ransom or is that actually like stolen from the coffers.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah? So from what I'm told, the initial demand for Caesars.
I don't know about MGM, but the initial demand for
Caesars was thirty million, but they only paid about fifteen
million so they paid only about fifty But is there
really any way to avoid.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
This though, Well, these ransomware attacks happen. It's it's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
They will.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
They will attack like school.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Districts, they attack police, they attack fire utility, city utilities,
all kinds of things, people, things that are just helping
people live there. But my point is like, there's really
no way to fully protect yourself if you because people
have passwords to log in, and so somebody's gonna lose
their password and then what are you gonna do. You're
gonna you're gonna call somebody up and say I need
a new password. You'll send an email and they can
(21:56):
fish and copy your email.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
That's why at iHeart, where we work, they're constantly testing us,
sending us phony phishing emails so that we don't get duped.
So we're training, we have a trained eye.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Well Ben is immune from that because he never checks
his company.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I don't. I will never be part of a scam
with iHeart because I stopped the day I stopped it.
I remember the exact day. It was January twentieth of nine.
That was the last day I checked my email for
the company. Never again. I will never again check the email. Ben.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
So I saw another thing where like a guy walked
up to a like a cash window or a chip
window at one of these places, and it's like, give
me forty million dollars. Did you see that? Like he
was just some guy walked up and I think he was.
I don't even know if he was connected to this.
But Bill Krackenberger, who's like, who does a weekend gambling
show for us at Foxworthy. Old Bill Krackenberger, great guy.
(22:49):
He sent sent me in a couple of people in
a text thread this story and it was rather fascinating.
I think the guy was just a you know, a
crank or something. And I don't know, but it is.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Did he get the money? I don't think so he
did not. They did not give him. I don't uh.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
I think he was apprehended and yeah, so but yeah,
you know, we might at some point in our lives,
you know, we talk about AI and the threat at
poses to like society and taking jobs or maybe taking
over the world. At some point, you know, we have
just as good a reason to maybe slow the brakes
on AI as we do with putting everything online. We
(23:23):
might go back to a point where we literally just
write things down on paper and then it goes into
a cabinet and.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Then it's locked up.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Bring back coin slot machines.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah, ye see that's the third rail woman. But they, yeah,
a lot of a lot of the politicians want to
go with paperless society money. I agree with you works
in something. I'm a dinosaur, but I kind of like
actually having like physical money, which you can also counterfeit
and all that, but it's a little less agonizing than
when you take over MGM and Caesar's.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Can get all I mean, Doc Kotsk or Earcoots can
you're robbing MGM blind.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
And the thing about this is I've read, you know,
I said, read about it, and a lot of it's
not like major some of these people work for governments
like foreign enemies, you know, enemy governments. But some of
these people are just like on their own, like oh yeah,
you know, small time players, and they're people to hijack
these major companies's.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
And then there they can't be prosecuted or found unless
that you work with the government of that of that
country to find these people because they're often some you know,
distant land.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah, and then they get paid ready to get paid
in like crypto stuff, so it's hard.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
You can't also don't need too much skill because it's
you know, it's it's social engineering.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
All you have to do is be able to look
up somebody's Facebook page or whatever, find the most basic
information about them, and then use that to get their
password reset.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah. No, for sure, I mean, and it's really it's
pretty easy to figure out on company emails. It's normally
the first initial in the last name at a lot
of places, right, and that's normally how they do it.
So it's not that hard to figure out company emails
if you know what the anyway the addresses. That's an
interesting story in say what doesn't affect sports, but these
are big gambling companies that have casinos and sports books,
(25:08):
and so it does involve sports.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
You can't place any sports bets right now at MGM.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, think about that. It's insane.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
So they've already lost millions and they're losing millions more
because they cannot take in that revenue.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah. So if you think these are the same hackers
that got the fifteen million from Caesar's and now they're
doing the NBA, absolutely so they probably want more at
least fifteen million man crazy.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
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Speaker 3 (26:10):
This from the NBA. We've talked about this the other day,
but Kevin Porter Junior of the Houston Rockets involved in
that ugly incident where he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend h
and there are reports now Old Sham's reporting that the
Houston Rockets are looking to trade him. I'll bet they
(26:32):
are looking to I'm like, where's the Julio Arias Dodgers
want to trade him? Story? Who the hell is going
to trade for this guy? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
The guy's facing a felony assault charge for strangulation. Let's
acquire and we'll put him on billboards. I mean, bring
the kids, bring the women, Come on everyone, you come
on down.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Yeah, I mean, what the hell they're looking here? They're
looking to trail I bet they are. I bet they're
looking to trade him.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Who was looking to get him? Is my question? Like
they'd like to trade him to I don't know, uh
is Stan Bull or something. They'd like to trade him
for a couple of Kansas soup and yeah, good luck,
good luck trading him. I'm sure that'll that'll be easy. Right,
Maybe the Dodgers will trade their guy, Kevin Porter Pitch.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Maybe, Like I don't see those stories in this story.
I'm just like, yeah, I bet they are looking to
trade him. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Robert kraftah, Robert Craft tried to trade Aaron Hernandez but
unable to trade him.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Because a story.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Okay, Christen, but it was unfortunate. Yeah, all right, It
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dot com. So let's go to the old country. Ala come.
Alabama football roll tied. He rolled over against Texas, always
surprising when Alabama loses with Nick Saban as the coach.
He did not play well. Alabama has been ripped apart
for that performance. Also, one of the Alabama players seemed
(28:17):
very excited after the game with the amount of views
he was getting on social media. Many people found that distasteful.
How could you do that? You're playing Tusco looser? Yeah,
I got you don't play in Seattle or where so anyway,
people are upset and Nick Saban addressed the criticism and
he gave it the old country approach. I loved what
(28:40):
Nick Saban had to say. And I want you to
sit back and listen. Listen to Nick Saban here as
he addresses the critics of the Crimson tide as I
believe he dotted the eye, he nailed it. Listen.
Speaker 7 (28:54):
I talked to the players about internal standard versus external noise,
and you know, I think that we didn't play great.
So you know, people get upset that we get criticized,
But why wouldn't we get criticized if we don't play well.
I mean people call me in and say, hey man,
this guy's a jerk for you know, saying this about you. No,
(29:15):
he really isn't. I mean, it's right, we didn't play good.
I'm responsible for that. So we did all these things
on offense that I just talked about at him up well,
I mean, I'm responsible for that. So, I mean, in
the real world, when you don't perform and you don't produce,
you probably get criticized, sometimes get penalized. Some people lose
(29:36):
their job when they don't perform well. You know, that's
maybe even worse than losing a game. When you can't
feed your family and your children and all that make
your house payment, I guess that's that's worse. So I
don't really know what the noise is. I haven't listened
to one talk radio show, I haven't read one newspaper.
I have been focusing one hundred percent of my time
(29:58):
on the next team that we play, the last thing
that we played, and what we need to do to
fix that. And I think all the players would be
better served, and everybody in the organization wouldn't be better
served if they all did that, because what somebody else
thinks really doesn't matter. It's all about what you do
and how you respond to what you need to do
so that you have a chance to be successful in
the future.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
All Right, thanks, okay, thank you. I like ices organization. Okay,
thank you. Not a university, it's an organization. But he's
absolutely right. This is great because I didn't like the
part he doesn't listen to talk radio or.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I guess I'll just put it nicely and pass on
the opportunity to get involved in talk radio.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I like that he's still throwing out newspapers too, you know,
he's old like that'll never happen again with the next
generation of coaches. It's I don't go on TikTok or
whatever's next after that. And I don't know. We're under pressure,
but I don't go I try to separate myself from
that whatever, you know, instant, yeah, exactly. Don't want to
go down that chute. No no, no, no, that's a trash.
(31:00):
Don't want any part of that trash. No new, new new,
no no no. Speaking of Alabama, there was another funny
story about Alabama. So they they had the team you know,
this is a food faux paw. Alabama plays USF this
week and they made a small miscalculation the catering department
(31:20):
at Alabama as the players had a big team dinner
there the Alabama football players after they lost to Texas,
and the team chowed down in the very opulent cafeteria
there on alligator and they ate the entire alligator. Like
they put the whole alligator. They laid it on the
(31:43):
dead alligator. There was a live they laid the whole
thing and they cooked it and it looked like, you know,
three hundred pound alligant something like that. They ate the
whole gator right there, the whole thing. The problem is
they're not playing the Florida Gators. They're playing USF, which
I believe their mascot is a bull, So like, shouldn't
(32:06):
you have just had a giant bull? Maybe they did
that with Texas though, but it was it's pretty funny,
like people like, what are you doing? You know, your dummies,
don't you eat a gator? Which is fine, but you're
not playing the Gators. They said, come on, how much
you think that costs. How much does it cost to
buy a three hundred pound gator like that? I don't
know if it's that big. It looked pretty big. Hard
(32:28):
to tell because it was already a bunch of the
flesh had been eaten, so it's hard to tell how
big it originally was. But it looked like a full
size gator. Damn alligator bit my hand. Oh my god. Yeah,
that's actually sound of our friend from Alabama, Van the
one legged Bama man. Damn alligator. Yeah, he had an alligator,
bye his leg off and then he ate the alligator.
(32:52):
We'll get to Mallard to the third degree. But time
now for the instad trivia. Here is the intwo trivia.
In the last decade there there have been just three
times that a quarterback through thirty or more passes and
had less than one hundred passing yards. Joe Burrow did
it somehow against the Browns over the weekend. Blank was
the last quarterback to do it before Joe Burrow. That's
(33:14):
the Insta trivia. The answer. We'll get to it. We'll
do it next.
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they've only been three times that a quarterbacks thrown thirty
or more passes and had less than one hundred passing.
It's very difficult to do that. Joe Burrow did in
Cleveland over the weekend. Blank was the last quarterback before
Joe Burrow to do it. That's the question. If you're
wondering about the alligator story. I got a guy wild
(34:43):
Eye Southern Boy formerly known as Sir scratch offf who
says it costs about one thousand or twelve hundred bucks
for a big gator. If you want to need a
big gator, you're good to go. Who do we have you?
Let's see any answers that Aaron Rodgers guests by Andy
the Stefan Diggs guy or the comic book guy, Bubby
Bristol from Hobby Bobby. That's his answer. Jim Thorpe tossed
(35:03):
out by Chipping the Qes Captain hook from Jimmy from Maine,
Mark Herman from Steve the misplaced San Diegan, Antonio mcdce
guessed by Sane of des Moines. Page now, Chris Leak
there's a good name from truck or Joe Launchpad mcquack
from Rory. That's his answer. Josh Young guessed by Robbie
(35:27):
the Mariner fan Paige down page down. This guy says
Splenda says, Hey, I sent my answer to your company email.
Check your email. No, I'm not checking my email. I
don't even know how to check my email. I have
to every time I log in. I log you once
a year because I have to do some company training,
and I have to like reset my password because they
only last bably certain amount of time. Who else do
(35:50):
we have? Brody Croyle from Greg the Real Estate Mogul
in Baltimore. Skeletor from Scotty and Rhode Island, Tom Tupa
guessed by Rob in Minnesota, Paige down Mark in Santa
Monica going fran Tarkington as his answer, Blaine Gabbert from
Matt the Warrior Raider fan. I think that might be
(36:11):
the wrong photo. And Mason and Hunting Beach is one
of my influences in radio, the late great Jim Healy,
who would have turned one hundred years old. I loved
his radio show when I was a kid. Big fan
of the Jim Healey radio Show. Eddie, do you have
an answer? Eddie?
Speaker 3 (36:25):
I'm gonna go with former Green Bay Packers legend Anthony
Dilwig's good name.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
But that's not the good answer, Eddie. The correct answer
went in doubt, throw Sam Donald's name out. He was
seeing go Sam Darnold back in twenty nineteen against the Patriots.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
With the Jets, it's maller.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (36:47):
To the third degree, this is one big fan gets
Kraill the coop Daloup.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
Bill Simmons has guaranteed that the Knicks will land either
Donovan Mitchell, Giannis and Tetakumpo or Joel m Beid within
one year's time. What do you think about that?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
All right? So I agree. You follow the migration of
NBA stars and they normally go to Los Angeles or Miami.
That's like with a few exceptions. But the NBA would
love for the Knicks to get somebody who's a name,
like a big star. They don't have that. They got
a couple of good players, they don't have a big
time star. Donovan Mitchell is the one that I think
(37:27):
is gonna end up in New York. He almost ended
up there a couple years ago, went to Cleveland instead.
And New York has been knocking on the door the
last couple of years in the Eastern Conference playoffs. They've
been lurking like a snake in the grass. And to
make that next big leap, you gotta get a start.
That's the way it works in that business to move
up the Eastern Conference standings and make a run in
the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Next, Tiki Barber criticized Brian Daball for sitting as starters
throughout the preseason. And how much of a factor do
you think that made in the matchup?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
It's minuscule. It's fun to pick on the coach, but
ninety eight percent of NFL team rested their starters. Pittsburgh
played their starters and they sucked also against the forty
nine ers, So it's a it's a league wide decision
though out of an abundance of caution to not play
the starters. The issue I had with the Giants getting
punched in the mouth early and then getting in the
fetal position that that does not bode well for Brian Dable.
(38:17):
That's that's a quitting attitude the Giants had that was terrible.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Next, yesterday you mentioned how Brandon Nyuk said that brock
Purty plays with swagger. Have you bought into brock Purdy yet?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yeah? So I like the brock Purty story. I actually
I picked Pittsburgh last week, but I like the Brock
Sturdy brock Purty story. I'm not one hundred percent soul
that's sustainable. But he's been great. He and Kyle Shanahan
have been on the same wavelength and they're they're finishing
each other's sentences and all that. But you see how
he responds after he has a couple of bad performances,
(38:50):
which he will have at some point. There it is
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