May 16, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about his favorite part of the NFL schedule release, whether or not Greg Olsen got a raw deal from FOX Sports, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, Fact or Fiction, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.
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day of May, this Thursday, and I'm gonna do it.
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It's low hanging fruit. I'll do it. I'm not that interested,
but I'll do it. I'm doing it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
What is your favorite part of NFL schedule release day?
Try to keep it together? Total geeked them, right, total
geeked them. I get it, I understand. Also, did Greg
Olsen get a raw deal from Fox Sports? Travis Kelcey said,
Greg Olsen got a raw deal. Kevin O'Connell, that's a
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football coach, says the Vikings have no concerns over Justin
Jefferson's contracts problem.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
If you want to call it that.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
He has one year left and then he's free to
roam around the NFL. Do you believe the Viking coach.
We'll get to all of that and much more. Right now.
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on your phone.
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It is low hanging fruit, which is the most delicious fruit.
Is that time of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
The NFL schedule has been released, Release the Hounds.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And the Hounds have been released. Very exciting for some
of you.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
All week we have been getting little weeks, a match
up here, a match up there, But now we have.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
The full Monty, the Full Monty.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Did you consume any of this content? Does this interest
you at all? I know my guy Eddie's very interested
in the Perhaps you missed it though, Patrick Mahomes and
Consau City trying for their third consecutive Super Bowl. They'll
kick off the season as the traditional Super Bowl champ
on Thursday, Thursday September fifth, hosting Lamar Jackson and the
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Ravens now Monday Night Football's.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Opener, that is four days later, on September ninth, we'll.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Have Aaron Rogers, assuming he makes it through that game,
and he will play the NFL's runner up, the forty
nine Ers. So there's a lot to unpack if you're inclined.
This is what we're gonna talk about for a few
minutes anyway. So the question I'm gonna I'm gonna be
Benny Brightside, what is your favorite part of the NFL
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schedule release?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
What's your favorite part?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So I've got bike Shedding, Buzz light Year, and fruit
Loops and we will combine all of these things together
and we'll play the blame game is what we're going
to play.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
So to kick off here, I find it amusing, I
think that's the right word.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I find it amusing that so many people obsess with
the matchups when we have known since the NFL season ended,
who's playing who. We didn't know the dates, but we
knew who you're going to play. If you're in Kansas City,
for example, you know you're going to play the AFC
West team, so that boom.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's a lot of the games.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And then you also know in the rotation who you're
going to play, and based on the standings those other
games that.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Are added in. You just to know the dates, okay.
And I get it.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
If you're worried about having to play the Bills in
Buffalo or the Dolphins in Miami early in the year
when it's really hot in September the Bills in December
when it's snowing, that's an issue. Okay, I understand that.
I get that part of it. But everyone's going to
play the same number of games, right, And if you're
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planning a vacation, like Andie plans his vacation during the
NFL season, he leaves the show to go to an
NFL game every year, and so, okay, fine, But to
spend valuable time obsessing and worrying about the breakdown of
games is myopic madness, is what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Is just myopic madness.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
And I get that much of what we do is
rather frivolous. In the big picture, we're here talking about
overpaid athletes and sports teams that price gouge us as fans,
right and just nickel and dimas like the NFL with
all these streaming services.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's absurd. So it's understandable. I guess is the word.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
But nevertheless, worrying about your team schedule is next level
bike shedding. That is a term the law of triviality,
focusing on a minor issue.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Again, everyone's going.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
To play seventeen games. Most will be on Sunday. You
might have one or two on Thursday or Monday. The
Chiefs have a game on Wednesday and also a game
on Friday. But they're they're abnormal, They're an outlier. My
favorite part is the confession because the NFL schedule release.
I've been doing this a long time as a confessional.
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Who are the cool kids and who's got the cooties?
Just like elementary school, the win and win and winner
chicken dinner of the popularity contest. That would be the Jets,
forty nine Ers, and Cowboys. They all have six primetime
games now New York who actually plays in New Jersey?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
They stand out. I don't know, if you saw this
or not.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Television loves Aaron Rodgers and they're betting that Rogers is.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Going to stay healthy. Now look at the schedule.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
The Jets have the most primetime games during the first
eleven weeks of the season in NFL history.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Now only that they sucked last year.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
They have six primetime games in the first eleven weeks
of the NFL schedule. The Jets, you know who their
backup quarterback is, Tyrod Taylor. We could be seeing a
lot of Tyrod Taylor in primetime games.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Remember they also, I believe the NFL, unless they change
the rule, they're not allowed to flex out games the
beginning part of the year.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So you're stuck with the Jets.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You're gonna get the Jets now close behind the forty
nine Ers, Jets and Cowboys with six primetime games.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
The other cool teams the.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Chiefs, Bills, Packers, Lions, Ben Gals, Ravens, Eagles, Dolphins, and Rams.
They all five primetime matchups, so they're getting a lot
of attention. Now those teams are our top, But what
about the other ones? What about the crumble bums? That
would be the Colts, the Patriots, the Cardinals, and the Titans.
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They only have one one primetime game all season one. Now,
the parasite of parasites of the NFL, You're Carolina Panthers,
who have as many primetime games as you and I
have zero bumpkiss none.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Of course, they have.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Had the worst record in the NFL, back to back
and belly to belly, So they're not sexy and they're
not interesting other than when the owner fires the coach
every six games. That's somewhat interesting, but that doesn't necessarily
rise to the level of compelling television. Now, furthermore, broadcasting
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drama O rama. Broadcasting drama O rama. We're gonna call
this one Travis Kelsey, who has a fledgling podcast, and
he is going to host a game show and a
bunch of other crap because he happens to be hanging
out with a very famous woman. So Travis Kelsey is
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standing up for Greg Olsen. A lot of bleeding heart
bloggers writing about Greg Olsen, who has been demoted.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Greg Olsen demoted, is no.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Longer, no longer top NFL analyst Tom Brady replaced him.
Speaking on his fledgling podcast, Travis Kelsey said, quote.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
They kind of did him dirty. Over there at Fox.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Olson, according to what I read, took a seven million
dollar pay cut. He was making ten million dollars and
now he's gonna make like three million. So did Greg
Olsen get a raw deal? According to Travis Kelsey, he did.
Did he get a raw deal being demoted on the
NFL on Fox broadcast team? So I'm gonna shake my
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head no on this. There's two ways to look at this.
There's the way of looking at it like he got screwed,
and there's a way of looking at it. He had
no business being a number one broadcaster and they gave
him a great opportunity. And fine, he did an okay job,
but he should have never had the opportunity. So my
answer is no. Travis Kelcey also is a biased witness.
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He's best he's with Olson. Olsen knew the deal, he
knew that Brady was supposed to take over right away,
and Brady threw a curveball from what I understand, at
the Fox executives and said, no, I'm a diva and
I need a sabbatical because God for I go broadcast
games and have half the week off every week. Greg
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Olsen in this situation was a buzz light Year band aid.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Fox had a boom boo.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Tom Brady zigged when he was supposed to zact he
wasn't gonna do the games, and Greg Olsen was given
a great mitzvah. He had temporary solution like a little
bandage with a buzz Lightyear cartoon on it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And I get that some people thought Olsen was good.
I thought he was fine.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I didn't think this was the second coming of Charles
Barkley or the reincarnation of John Madden.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I didn't get that vibe.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And I will also point out that while it is
true that nobody tunes in for broadcasters, and that was
proven by Greg Olsen, and when Fox did a Cowboy game,
people watched and they had the highest rated game, And
when they didn't do a Cowboy game, it was fifty
to fifty people tuned in for the matchup. The thing
that was told to me by someone that works in
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television that the audience doesn't matter for broadcasters other than
Charles Barkley and a few others. John Madden, you could argue.
But even that, I wonder how many people I tune
in for Barkley. But I think I'm abnormal. I don't
know how many other people tune in anyway. The people
that buy ad time, which are the most important people,
more important people than me and more important people than you.
The people that are in the ad community in Madison
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Avenue that have their parties in the Hamptons. They're the
ones that like to schmooze with the broadcasters and they
liked the big name Tom Brady is gonna make a
bunch of money here, and part of his responsibility is
to go play grab ass with the advertisers. That's part
of the deal. And so Charles Barkley missed an assigned
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I'll give you an xample. Barkley missed an assignment this
week because he went to the TNT up front in
Manhattan where all the advertising people show up and decide
where they're going to buy spots commercials, and Barkley that
was such an important thing for Turner that Barkley missed
work to go kiss the ass of the broad to
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the people by at time on broadcasts. All right, last
thing we head now to mean this sort to the
Twin Cities. That is where Viking coach Kevin O'Connell recently
did an interview and said that he has no concerns,
no concerns about Justin Jefferson's contract.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
He said, everything's going to work, get worked out.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Jefferson is due I think almost nineteen point seven million,
that's almost twenty nineteen point seven million on his.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Fifth year option.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
He is scheduled, though, to become free from contractual obligations
in twenty twenty five. So again coach Kevin O'Connell saying
the Vikings have no concerns.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Over Justin Jefferson's contract. Do you believe him? No.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I was told by someone that is much smarter than
me that a deal is not a deal until the
deal is ratified and signed. And until then you can
say you're gonna get a deal, you can promise they're
gonna get a deal, but until you have the DOCU sign,
it's not a deal. And he's saying there is nothing
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to see here, but O'Connell, what he's really doing is
channeling the beloved Fruit Loops mascot Toucan Sam, parroting the
company line. Okay, that's what he's saying. He's parroting the
company line, just like Toucan Sam from Fruit Loops. And
I would say, do not count your wide receiver until
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they hatch the contract. And the reality is, I look
at the Vikings here and that team could go any direction.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That is a helter skelter situation.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
In Minnesota because Kirk Cousins ain't walking back through that door,
and if he does, he's wearing a Falcon logo on
his helmet. Justin Jefferson at the start of the year
will likely be playing with Sam Darnold. At some point
JJ McCarthy will take over, who passed the ball about
eight times a game. Again, they hid the quarterback and
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yet he was able to hornswoggle and bamboozle these NFL
teams that he was a top fifteen pick in the draft.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So if things go back, if.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Donald plays like Sam Donald and starts seeing ghosts and
JAJ McCarthy can't play, how much you want to bet
Jefferson has a conniption fit and all of a sudden
he starts skating on thin ice there he doesn't want
to play. He's like, wait a minute. Then the Vikings
have to have crisis management.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Like what do we do?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
And there is a history in Minnesota with different executives
of trading Randy Moss to the Raiders and Stefan Diggs
to Buffalo. That's kind of what they do. That's kind
of their thing there. That's how they operate. It is
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We'll get to that in a little bit.
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Also we'll have Punk the World with Eddie gar see you.
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We'll get to that and we will do it.
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Speaker 1 (16:22):
We do get mail.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
It's delivered by the Pony Express, and every once in
a while we actually see the mail. I mentioned a
few days ago Spaccoli, our buddy in Chapel Hill who
showed up the Mallard meet and greet.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
We've met him.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
He brought donuts in, but Spaccoli sent me a very
cool smokey the bear hat the other day.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I want to thank him again. And we got a box,
mystery box. What's in the box?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Yes we did. I just went in and uh yeah
and uh looked at these things that were sent to us, Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Right, kind, But we were not one hundred percent sure
who sent them. We think it was romy not Jim Rome,
but Romey who sent them in, but there was no
name on the box, so we don't know for sure
that it was him. But somebody very kind sent to
us a nice collection of high end flashlights. So when
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the big one hits, Eddie will be good, will be good.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Right, I'm not even kidding about this. My wife is
going to be incredibly excited. She loves to prepare for disasters.
We have an earthquake earth quick kit in the garage.
It's got extra fo everything.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, I just waiting for the big one. Yeah. So
this is very and these are rechargeable, which is great.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
You don't have to worry about the batteries, right, But
what if you don't charge them and then something bad happens,
you're kind of screwed, right, probably so, but that's.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Cool the battery.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
My wife's going to be thrilled about this. He's gonna
love this. One of these flashlights, I mean, is about
the size of a baseball bat. You could do some
damage if you need to with somebody.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, and there's a light up beanie. Did you see
that eddie? Light up beanie?
Speaker 5 (18:00):
I saw?
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Is that the one you want?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Ben?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
I saw the headgear?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Head gear? Oh yeah, there's a head gear.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I think I already have a head gear and I
don't need a beanie really. Probably I go with the
big one.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I think probably the big one, but I don't know
what's that. The nobody can see this, so what's the
point of There's.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Four of the big ones, four of the little white ones,
and then two of the beanies and two of the
head lamps. But the beanie also has a light in it,
so if your ears get cold and you're really blind, it's.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I gotta tell you, rane, I'd feel very masculine wearing
the beanie.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I'm sure you'd.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's a very masculine thing to wear.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Is a beanie with a light to where to bed
if you'd like?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, I don't know. I want to wear the beanie
to bed. But I get you're very cold in La.
It gets very cold in the winter. My god, it
gets down to like sixty two degrees.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
It's ridiculously cold. So anyway, I'll.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Thank you to we think romy but whoever sent that,
we thank you. Take some calls here in a seck
resetting my board. But we have the creepy the creepy
quarterback making creepy news yet again. Deshaun Watson. Deshaun Watson
got a giant tattoo.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
What do you think the tattoo was? Do you see this, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
No, he got of these giant tattoo, which is fine
if you're a tattoo person.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I'm not. That's not my thing. But whatever floats your both,
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
So this is such a big tattoo that it popped
up on TMZ.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
They say that he spent.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
A total of nine hours to get the tattoo. You
want to take a guess what the tattoo was.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Of, Eddie, I'm gonna go h Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Giant back tattoo, massage table, massage table, his dog.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
A portrait of his dog.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
No, you're all wrong.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Deshaun Watson got a giant back tattoo that took nine hours.
Of his girlfriend's face, not his wife's face, girl face stopping.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Yeah, he has a wife and a girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Well, no, he didn't have a wife. He has a Yeah,
I don't know. He has a girlfriend who's not his wife.
But that's I guess you got to do that when
you're you know, got twenty massage therapist and you're in
the happy baby yoga pos on the scene.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Did you rather get the giant tattoo like he did
or the giant diamond ring like Kobe did?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
For?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yes, Kobe went with the flying for some dark clouds
right now and then had the the ring.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Remember that? Yeah, I go ring. I gotta tell you,
I go more of the ring. What about you?
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
You go giant tattoo?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
I mean, if I could afford it, I'd go ring.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, the giant tattoos are very expensive.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Also not as expensive as a giant diamond ring.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Well, how much is it?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Really high end tattoo that takes hours and hours and
hours to do?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Is that well, I don't even know how much that
would be. Is that that's thousands of dollars? Is that
how much that is? But if you have a high
end massage therapist, is it more than that? I don't know.
But this thing, you got to look this up, man,
this is wild. Now he has the NFL logo. There
he's got he's.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Got a lot going on. There's a lot going on
on that back, a lot of a lot of different
stuff there. But there's the girlfriend. Now, how awkward's gonna
be if they don't if they don't get married and
they break up, and then he's going to go. I
assume he'll be seeing someone else. That'd be a little
a little tough, right, a little.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Bit now, Yeah, I mean it seems like a very
bad idea. But then again, he's you know, not like
he makes the greatest decisions in the world either.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
As the Queen of Hearts.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
It says that if you get a tattoo of the person,
either their face or their name, it is bad luck.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
All right, Well, he knows a thing or two about
bad luck. Not financially, though, financially is quite the back. Yeah,
you're seeing it now, you're looking.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
At the back.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Goodness, there's yeah, there's there's no there's no real.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
It's all tat too. There is nothing left there.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
And I do I do credit him putting the NFL logo.
The amount of money he's stealing from the NFL, I
would put the logo of the NFL on my back all,
I was a tattoo person.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Is that her on the left there on the like
the left scapula.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I'm looking at a photo. Of course. The story that
I see has her in a bikini.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Oh, he's got Martin Luther King on there. That's that's uh.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah, MLK had had some fun too.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I think she's on I read a book apparently had
a good time too.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I I read he's.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
What's that MLK has got a baseball cap on it
says I have a dream on it.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That was branding. Yet MLK was branding. He had a
gift shop, and.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
I never saw a baseball cap on that's something.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah, you know, he was trying to move product and
he was an influencer on social media before it exists.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
And he's got these weird looking doll kind of things
in the middle there. I don't know what the hell
that is.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, I'm not sure what that is. And there's also
him that's the street kind of the street sign. That's
where he kind of grew up.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I guess, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I don't know where where he grew up. Legendary. I
think the legendary is underneath the girlfriend.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
And then one of the weird dolls in the middle.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It looks like one.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Of them is wearing Mickey mouse pants, but then it's
not Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
They're like em things.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
I'm pretty sure we don't know m elephants.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
I still don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
It's got I see it forever strong thing.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
He looks like he has the L on his right
arm from Lavernon Shirley.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Doesn't look like an L on his right arm.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
I'm sure that's exactly what that is.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yes, is there the globe below? Martin Luther King? Is
there the globe there?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
It's like a globe, not a well done globe, but
there's a globe an astronaut he likes out of space.
Who knew Deshaun Watson likes out of space? We've got
is that? Is that like a leaf of weed at
the bottom there?
Speaker 8 (24:03):
That's that's a that's a snowflake, it says Watson on it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
So yeah, it's a wats.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
I looked like, okay, and then he's got like championship
rings from I guess it's Clemson days.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
Because there's another snowflake up. There's two more snow for
three more snowflakes.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Oh they all have names on them, be trick and
is it?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It looks like yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
And then there's a Forever Strong I don't know what
that is there on the and there's a diamond with
four four four on.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
The This is bad news for the Cleveland Browns. I'll
tell you why. There's no room for him to put
a championship ring from the NFL.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
You can't win one now because he'said he'd have he
spent too much money on these other.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Tattoos saving the front. I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Shouldn't he have been practicing any What was he doing
getting tattoos all off season?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
My god?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Do you think he got a deal? I bet you
he got a deal. He's like, listen, I'm gonna promote
this tattoo guy.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Oh you know what.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
You know what else he's got. There's that bottom right Popeye?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Let me check bottom right? Oh, you're right? Is that
pop pop by the Sailor?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Man?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I fundy is too old. It's too young for Popeye? Popeyes?
Are are? We were pop Eye.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
People even before us? Really?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
But yeah, yeah, I mean watched the reruns, but.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
I'm guessing that's his mom up there in the top right.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, I think so. Probably I thought that was his
girlfriend at first. Oh not with the money he's got.
Oh but he's a lovely lady. My apologies store. Anyway,
Can I bring up a fun fact?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Man?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yes? Fun fun fun fact? Be fun fact?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
All right.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
So now I don't think you've mentioned this story at all,
because because why would you. But it kind of broke
when you were on vacation.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
So you saw that I was on assignmonkoop, I had
a family event.
Speaker 8 (25:50):
Yes, uh, you saw that Glenn big Baby Davis got
sentenced to forty months in jail.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, I did see that.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
So here's the fun fact.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Okay, he actually went to one of the local poker
games that I go to. Oh yes, right, Like it
was about i'd say maybe about five or six months ago.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Okay, yeah, Well he'll be.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Playing a different kind of poker for the next couple
of years. That's fine.
Speaker 8 (26:21):
And I don't know, I don't know if I'm like
breaking trust by saying this, but I'm not like dropping.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Any like, you know, he need a lot of money here.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
So from what he comes in, he's like, what's he's like,
what's the max buy in? And they said, oh, you
can buy into whatever. Like the biggest stack on the
table right now is when in which it's usually like
a you know, a couple to a few thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
At these games.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Yeah, and then you bought in for three hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Oh that's it. Okay? Does he run out of money?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Doesn't he get a pension?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
He played in the NBA a pretty long time. He
played with the Clippers when he was washed up. But yeah,
how's he?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I mean, he's going to be a little baby when
he gets out on a longer, big baby.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
Well that's why I saw that he talked to TMZ
and said he was planning on like getting yoked in prison.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh okay, well shouldn't he just eat a lot of
you're allowed? From what I'm not an expert. We had
a lot of boys that have been in prison that
are fans of the show. And you guys in prison
when you get out, let me.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Know, but can't. From what I understand, if you have money,
you can buy extra food, like better quality food.
Speaker 8 (27:28):
Oh yeah, what's that? What's that call? It's like a
commissary is that what that's.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Calling Like, that's the actual term. But yeah, there's something
like that. We can get extra food.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
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When I was in South Carolina, there was a there
was a golf tournament in Myrtle Beach that was going on.
I did not watch a second of it, but it
was it was happening. It is the Ben Mallard Show.
As we are rolling, rolling, rolling through the over now
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and we pucked the world with Eddie Garcia, mister hockey.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Eddie bars All right, thank you Ben. In the first
round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, who saw five
of the eight series wrap up in five games or less.
Now that we're a pair of game sevens. That kind
of saved what was a lackluster first round. However, the
second round is still going on and we haven't yet
to have a team advance into the conference finals. All
four series are going at least six games. We've got
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the Oilers and Canucks. They're tied at to to only
two Canadian teams still remaining in the playoffs. They've alternated
wins and each game has been decided by one goal.
Story of this series has been goaltending. Due to injuries,
the top two goalies for Vancouver are out. They've had
to turn to rookie Artist Shelops, who has held his
own so far. I Meanwhile, the Oilers bench there still
artier Stuart Skinner. They turned it back up Calvin Pickard
(29:02):
in Game four. He got the win in his first
career playoffs start, and now again it's the best of
three game six in Vancouver on Thursday. Rangers lead the
Hurricanes three games to two. Game six coming up Thursday
in North Carolina, New York. The President's Trophy winners with
the top record in the regular season, the number one
seed in the East had won seven in a row,
and we're on the verge of a second straight series sweep,
but Carolina has rebounded. They've won the last two games
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to stay alive. Stars lead the Avalanche three games to two,
color winning last night to stay alive and force a
game six back in Denver. Avalanche going the rest of
the way, though without their leading goal scorer, Valerry Nashuskin
suspended without pay for a minimum of six months after
violating the terms of the league's Players Assistance Program that
he was in. He had nine goals in eight games
this postseason, tied with Zach Hyman of the Oilers for
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the most of this postseason. A last, but not least,
we have the Panthers leading the Bruins three games to two.
This game has been contentious and controversial the series, I
should say Game three, Boston captain and agitated Brad marshand
punched in the face by Floridas Sam Bennon on a
play that most though was just a routine hit. The
reverse angle, though showed. The next day the video came
out that Bennett intentionally punched him in the face and
(30:07):
injured Marshan. He hasn't played since Game four. Then Bennett
was who wasn't suspended, center of controversy when he scored
the tying goal after he pushed Boston's Charlie Coyle into
Bruins goalie Jared my Swinman and then put in the
loose buck that's supposed to be ill leegual, but for
some reason the war room in Toronto upheld the call
in the ice of a good goal and the Panthers
go on to win at three to two. Game six
(30:28):
coming up on Friday in Boston, and Marshann maybe back
in the lineup for the Bruins in that one. In
related news, Bruins general manager Don sweeneyel the press conference
in response to the controversy officiating in the series, called
for the league to have game officials or the league's
Supervisor of Officials made available after games to explain why
calls were made during the game. And finally, we still
(30:49):
have coaching vacancies to be filled in New Jersey, Seattle,
San Jose, Winnipeg and Toronto. Craig Marube, former Sale Cup
winning coaches Saint Louis, has interviewed for the Leafs, Devils,
Jets and Senator's job. And Todd McClellan, the former LA
Kings coaches, apparently interviewed for the Toronto job as well,
and that is your puck the World reports Eddie.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Also, a TV station in Utah has conducted their own
poll trying to figure out what the name of the
Utah hockey team is.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
So they've asked to vote. They they had an initial
They had an initial round of voting. They eliminated the names.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Frost, Powder Hockey Club, Cariboo, Glaciers, Canyons, Freeze, Squall, Ice, Blast, High, Venom.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I actually like venom.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I think that'd be kind of cool and funny because
Utah you don't think of venom. But the top two,
yeah are Utah No, that's wrong, Utah Mammoth, Utah Mammoth
and Utah Yeddie.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, those are the top two. Ye, which TV station
polling is accurate? Now?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
When can we vote? I want to I'm not from Utah.
I am allowed to vote, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
I think you can vote now? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Really?
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
You can vote.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
It's online, can send the link out. You can vote
for I think three or four different names, but you
can only vote one time.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
I can't believe this is happening.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
It's gonna happen in a jersey from the Fried Daddy.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I think he's gonna send you dy somebody said I
said I would buy her you go all right, Yeah,
you're getting shoes from that woman basketball player.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
From what you buy me?
Speaker 7 (32:24):
The Caitlin Clarks.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah, the Caitlin Clarks.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Fridaddy, Yeah, yeah, he was the one who sent us
the tasty cakes.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Right yeah, Lorraina, Have you ever gotten this much free
crap working in radio?
Speaker 7 (32:35):
No?
Speaker 5 (32:36):
No, it's one of the perks of the overnight Lorango.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
People usually just get free radio t shirts.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Now they stop making those years ago. I have a
closet full of them, but they don't even make those.
We used to get fat Fox Sports radio swag.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
We don't make that anymore because they all end up
a good will.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Rob Parker though he's an he knows guy. Rob can
hook you up. He'll get you the swag.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
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Speaker 5 (34:02):
On the Mellor Show.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Then the way we go on Factor Fiction. We have
a celebrity panel of judges that will form together for
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Speaker 5 (34:16):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Then we say hello to the power couple back from
their European vacation, Leslie and Jack the judge.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Hello, Leslie, good.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Then I mean sure, that's right.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
How was it everything fun? You have a good time
down there in France. Wonderful, wonderful. All right? Have you
been there before? Was this your first trip? Yes, a
number of times.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
And boy are they getting ready for the Olympics in Paris.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I heard they're cleaning up.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
They're cleaning up the water around there, right the dirty
river there, they're cleaning up, and.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
They're also putting up outdoor arenas all over the place.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
All right, your tax dollars at work if you're in France.
All right, but I'm glad you had a good time.
I'm gonna have to there's someday my wife's gonna drag
me there, Leslie, so I'm gonna.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Have to go.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Hold on, it's so wonderful, all right. Milkman Mike is
in Colorado. Hello, milkman Mike, Hey.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Good morning. The Nuggets are one step closer to getting
back to that championship.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yep, nugget propaganda from Milkman Mike. Yeah, hold on, buddy.
We have Daniel in Fort Wayne. Hello, Daniel, Good morning, Ben.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
How are we doing.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
If I was any better, I would have to move
because my neighbors were a holes.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
But I did not.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
That is you, and that's you that had to do it. Yes,
all right, buddy, you are the may the Chamber of
Commerce guy from Fort Wayne. We have Blind Scott from
the North end of Boston. Hello, Blind Scott.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Hey, the Nuggets sucked.
Speaker 9 (35:44):
There's the reason why they only won fifty five games
this year. Hey, Denver sucks. Who they call it Menver
because all men were there. It's like a huge sausage party.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
Twenty four seven. They're a turble team.
Speaker 9 (35:55):
I don't ever think they make the finals. The Celtics
are gonna sweep everybody. They're running the table of the
best NBA team.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
You're warming up.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
You're warming up for the octagon when this.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
If the Celtics get to the finals, we'll decide it's
Celtic fan versus whoever is in the West. If that's
the matchup. All right, Scott, hold on, buddy, and we
have day we have We always said hello to Dany.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
We have Strip Club John. Is he there? Does he
want to be part of this?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Hello? Strip Club John from Cleveland where the Cadavers met
their demise.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Yes, it was a depressing man at the club last night.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Well, that could be good for you. If guys are depressed,
they might spend a little more money on the end.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Well, well, you know, regard if you know the one
thing you have the strip club, if you're happy, you're
spending money. If you're said you're spending money, that is true.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, that's true. All right?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Hold on, you just to want apathy, you know you
don't have me. Uh you probably hate asexual people strip
club John right, because they're not good for business.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yeah, all right, hold on a sex three stories? Figure
out which the three is not true.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Story number one Shaquille O'Neil getting into the candy game Shack,
recently revealing to the tabloids there they'll be releasing his
own line of gummies called Shack Delicious, Excel Gummies, Peach
Berry Punch Orange, all of flavored gummies shaped like Shaq's head,
unless that's not true.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
And Caitlin Clark Fever Can You Catch It?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
A movie chron chronically Kaitlin Clark's rise to start him
currently in development in Hollywood. The movie titled Game Changer,
has not cast Caitlin Clark's character yet, but will start
Jane Lynch.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
As Iowa coach Lisa Bludder I believe is her.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Name, And story number three True Crime Meets the NFL,
a documentary in the works, a story of infamous Chiefs
fan Chiefs of Holic, the guy going around robbing banks
to buy tickets and whatnot. The documentary called Chiefs of Hollock,
a wolf in Chiefs clothing, will tell the story of
the Xavier Babador who rose to nationwide fame. He rubbed
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eleven banks in seven states. Those are the three stories.
Which of them is not true?
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Them?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Is one of them is not true? Can you separate
fiction from fact? Let's go to power couple Leslie one
Tour three, Leslie one. All right, milk thank you, milkman.
Mike one Tour three, Milkman.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
You know, Blind Scott is gonna be like the Celtics.
He's gonna come up shortage number three.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
All right, Blind Scott, one Tour three, Scotty.
Speaker 9 (38:22):
Hey, milkman, I'm gonna milk your team so bad.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
All right, you're right, Daniel in four way? What's the answer?
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Daniel in celebrats our nice wedding anniversary No.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Two?
Speaker 2 (38:33):
It is number two, Sorry strip club John, Blind Scott
the number two, number two
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our numberf Crispy Critter, the original recipe our four
as we are sky high with joy on this sixteenth
day of May, this Thursday, and I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's low hanging fruit. I'll do it. I'm not that interested,
but I'll do it. I'm doing it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
What is your favorite part of NFL schedule release day?
Try to keep it together? Total geeked them, right, total
geeked them. I get it, I understand. Also, did Greg
Olsen get a raw deal from Fox Sports? Travis Kelcey said,
Greg Olsen got a raw deal. Kevin O'Connell, that's a
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football coach, says the Vikings have no concerns over Justin
Jefferson's contracts problem.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
If you want to call it that.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
He has one year left and then he's free to
roam around the NFL. Do you believe the Viking coach.
We'll get to all of that and much more. Right now.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We have a wonderful Thursday.
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Speaker 1 (02:15):
It is low hanging fruit, which is the most delicious fruit.
Is that time of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
The NFL schedule has been released, Release the Hounds.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
And the Hounds have been released. Very exciting for some
of you.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
All week we have been getting little weeks, a match
up here, a match up there, But now we have.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
The full Monty, the Full Monty.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Did you consume any of this content? Does this interest
you at all? I know my guy Eddie's very interested
in the Perhaps you missed it though, Patrick Mahomes and
Consau City trying for their third consecutive Super Bowl. They'll
kick off the season as the traditional Super Bowl champ
on Thursday, Thursday September fifth, hosting Lamar Jackson and the
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Ravens now Monday Night Football's.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Opener, that is four days later, on September ninth, we'll.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Have Aaron Rogers, assuming he makes it through that game,
and he will play the NFL's runner up, the forty
nine Ers. So there's a lot to unpack if you're inclined.
This is what we're gonna talk about for a few
minutes anyway. So the question I'm gonna I'm gonna be
Benny Brightside, what is your favorite part of the NFL
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schedule release?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
What's your favorite part?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
So I've got bike Shedding, Buzz light Year, and fruit
Loops and we will combine all of these things together
and we'll play the blame game is what we're going
to play.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
So to kick off here, I find it amusing, I
think that's the right word.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I find it amusing that so many people obsess with
the matchups when we have known since the NFL season ended,
who's playing who. We didn't know the dates, but we
knew who you're going to play. If you're in Kansas City,
for example, you know you're going to play the AFC
West team, so that boom.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's a lot of the games.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And then you also know in the rotation who you're
going to play, and based on the standings those other
games that.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Are added in. You just to know the dates, okay.
And I get it.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
If you're worried about having to play the Bills in
Buffalo or the Dolphins in Miami early in the year
when it's really hot in September the Bills in December
when it's snowing, that's an issue. Okay, I understand that.
I get that part of it. But everyone's going to
play the same number of games, right, And if you're
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planning a vacation, like Andie plans his vacation during the
NFL season, he leaves the show to go to an
NFL game every year, and so, okay, fine, But to
spend valuable time obsessing and worrying about the breakdown of
games is myopic madness, is what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Is just myopic madness.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
And I get that much of what we do is
rather frivolous. In the big picture, we're here talking about
overpaid athletes and sports teams that price gouge us as fans,
right and just nickel and dimas like the NFL with
all these streaming services.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
It's absurd. So it's understandable. I guess is the word.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
But nevertheless, worrying about your team schedule is next level
bike shedding. That is a term the law of triviality,
focusing on a minor issue.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Again, everyone's going.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
To play seventeen games. Most will be on Sunday. You
might have one or two on Thursday or Monday. The
Chiefs have a game on Wednesday and also a game
on Friday. But they're they're abnormal, They're an outlier. My
favorite part is the confession because the NFL schedule release.
I've been doing this a long time as a confessional.
(06:01):
Who are the cool kids and who's got the cooties?
Just like elementary school, the win and win and winner
chicken dinner of the popularity contest. That would be the Jets,
forty nine Ers, and Cowboys. They all have six primetime
games now New York who actually plays in New Jersey?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
They stand out. I don't know, if you saw this
or not.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Television loves Aaron Rodgers and they're betting that Rogers is.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Going to stay healthy. Now look at the schedule.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
The Jets have the most primetime games during the first
eleven weeks of the season in NFL history.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Now only that they sucked last year.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
They have six primetime games in the first eleven weeks
of the NFL schedule. The Jets, you know who their
backup quarterback is, Tyrod Taylor. We could be seeing a
lot of Tyrod Taylor in primetime games.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Remember they also, I believe the NFL, unless they change
the rule, they're not allowed to flex out games the
beginning part of the year.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So you're stuck with the Jets.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You're gonna get the Jets now close behind the forty
nine Ers, Jets and Cowboys with six primetime games.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
The other cool teams the.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Chiefs, Bills, Packers, Lions, Ben Gals, Ravens, Eagles, Dolphins, and Rams.
They all five primetime matchups, so they're getting a lot
of attention. Now those teams are our top, But what
about the other ones? What about the crumble bums? That
would be the Colts, the Patriots, the Cardinals, and the Titans.
(07:30):
They only have one one primetime game all season one. Now,
the parasite of parasites of the NFL, You're Carolina Panthers,
who have as many primetime games as you and I
have zero bumpkiss none.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Of course, they have.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Had the worst record in the NFL, back to back
and belly to belly, So they're not sexy and they're
not interesting other than when the owner fires the coach
every six games. That's somewhat interesting, but that doesn't necessarily
rise to the level of compelling television. Now, furthermore, broadcasting
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drama O rama. Broadcasting drama O rama. We're gonna call
this one Travis Kelsey, who has a fledgling podcast, and
he is going to host a game show and a
bunch of other crap because he happens to be hanging
out with a very famous woman. So Travis Kelsey is
(08:34):
standing up for Greg Olsen. A lot of bleeding heart
bloggers writing about Greg Olsen, who has been demoted.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Greg Olsen demoted, is no.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Longer, no longer top NFL analyst Tom Brady replaced him.
Speaking on his fledgling podcast, Travis Kelsey said, quote.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
They kind of did him dirty. Over there at Fox.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Olson, according to what I read, took a seven million
dollar pay cut. He was making ten million dollars and
now he's gonna make like three million. So did Greg
Olsen get a raw deal? According to Travis Kelsey, he did.
Did he get a raw deal being demoted on the
NFL on Fox broadcast team? So I'm gonna shake my
(09:19):
head no on this. There's two ways to look at this.
There's the way of looking at it like he got screwed,
and there's a way of looking at it. He had
no business being a number one broadcaster and they gave
him a great opportunity. And fine, he did an okay job,
but he should have never had the opportunity. So my
answer is no. Travis Kelcey also is a biased witness.
(09:42):
He's best he's with Olson. Olsen knew the deal, he
knew that Brady was supposed to take over right away,
and Brady threw a curveball from what I understand, at
the Fox executives and said, no, I'm a diva and
I need a sabbatical because God for I go broadcast
games and have half the week off every week. Greg
(10:04):
Olsen in this situation was a buzz light Year band aid.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Fox had a boom boo.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Tom Brady zigged when he was supposed to zact he
wasn't gonna do the games, and Greg Olsen was given
a great mitzvah. He had temporary solution like a little
bandage with a buzz Lightyear cartoon on it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
And I get that some people thought Olsen was good.
I thought he was fine.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I didn't think this was the second coming of Charles
Barkley or the reincarnation of John Madden.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I didn't get that vibe.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And I will also point out that while it is
true that nobody tunes in for broadcasters, and that was
proven by Greg Olsen, and when Fox did a Cowboy game,
people watched and they had the highest rated game, And
when they didn't do a Cowboy game, it was fifty
to fifty people tuned in for the matchup. The thing
that was told to me by someone that works in
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television that the audience doesn't matter for broadcasters other than
Charles Barkley and a few others. John Madden, you could argue.
But even that, I wonder how many people I tune
in for Barkley. But I think I'm abnormal. I don't
know how many other people tune in anyway. The people
that buy ad time, which are the most important people,
more important people than me and more important people than you.
The people that are in the ad community in Madison
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Avenue that have their parties in the Hamptons. They're the
ones that like to schmooze with the broadcasters and they
liked the big name Tom Brady is gonna make a
bunch of money here, and part of his responsibility is
to go play grab ass with the advertisers. That's part
of the deal. And so Charles Barkley missed an assigned
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I'll give you an xample. Barkley missed an assignment this
week because he went to the TNT up front in
Manhattan where all the advertising people show up and decide
where they're going to buy spots commercials, and Barkley that
was such an important thing for Turner that Barkley missed
work to go kiss the ass of the broad to
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the people by at time on broadcasts. All right, last
thing we head now to mean this sort to the
Twin Cities. That is where Viking coach Kevin O'Connell recently
did an interview and said that he has no concerns,
no concerns about Justin Jefferson's contract.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
He said, everything's going to work, get worked out.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Jefferson is due I think almost nineteen point seven million,
that's almost twenty nineteen point seven million on his.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Fifth year option.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
He is scheduled, though, to become free from contractual obligations
in twenty twenty five. So again coach Kevin O'Connell saying
the Vikings have no concerns.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Over Justin Jefferson's contract. Do you believe him? No.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I was told by someone that is much smarter than
me that a deal is not a deal until the
deal is ratified and signed. And until then you can
say you're gonna get a deal, you can promise they're
gonna get a deal, but until you have the DOCU sign,
it's not a deal. And he's saying there is nothing
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to see here, but O'Connell, what he's really doing is
channeling the beloved Fruit Loops mascot Toucan Sam, parroting the
company line. Okay, that's what he's saying. He's parroting the
company line, just like Toucan Sam from Fruit Loops. And
I would say, do not count your wide receiver until
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they hatch the contract. And the reality is, I look
at the Vikings here and that team could go any direction.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
That is a helter skelter situation.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
In Minnesota because Kirk Cousins ain't walking back through that door,
and if he does, he's wearing a Falcon logo on
his helmet. Justin Jefferson at the start of the year
will likely be playing with Sam Darnold. At some point
JJ McCarthy will take over, who passed the ball about
eight times a game. Again, they hid the quarterback and
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yet he was able to hornswoggle and bamboozle these NFL
teams that he was a top fifteen pick in the draft.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So if things go back, if.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Donald plays like Sam Donald and starts seeing ghosts and
JAJ McCarthy can't play, how much you want to bet
Jefferson has a conniption fit and all of a sudden
he starts skating on thin ice there he doesn't want
to play. He's like, wait a minute. Then the Vikings
have to have crisis management.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Like what do we do?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
And there is a history in Minnesota with different executives
of trading Randy Moss to the Raiders and Stefan Diggs
to Buffalo. That's kind of what they do. That's kind
of their thing there. That's how they operate. It is
the Ben Malor Show. That is how we operate in
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We'll get to that in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Also we'll have Punk the World with Eddie gar see you.
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We'll get to that and we will do it.
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Speaker 1 (16:22):
We do get mail.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
It's delivered by the Pony Express, and every once in
a while we actually see the mail. I mentioned a
few days ago Spaccoli, our buddy in Chapel Hill who
showed up the Mallard meet and greet.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
We've met him.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
He brought donuts in, but Spaccoli sent me a very
cool smokey the bear hat the other day.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I want to thank him again. And we got a box,
mystery box. What's in the box?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Yes we did. I just went in and uh yeah
and uh looked at these things that were sent to us, Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Right, kind, But we were not one hundred percent sure
who sent them. We think it was romy not Jim Rome,
but Romey who sent them in, but there was no
name on the box, so we don't know for sure
that it was him. But somebody very kind sent to
us a nice collection of high end flashlights. So when
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the big one hits, Eddie will be good, will be good.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Right, I'm not even kidding about this. My wife is
going to be incredibly excited. She loves to prepare for disasters.
We have an earthquake earth quick kit in the garage.
It's got extra fo everything.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, I just waiting for the big one. Yeah. So
this is very and these are rechargeable, which is great.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
You don't have to worry about the batteries, right, But
what if you don't charge them and then something bad happens,
you're kind of screwed, right, probably so, but that's.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Cool the battery.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
My wife's going to be thrilled about this. He's gonna
love this. One of these flashlights, I mean, is about
the size of a baseball bat. You could do some
damage if you need to with somebody.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, and there's a light up beanie. Did you see
that eddie? Light up beanie?
Speaker 5 (18:00):
I saw?
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Is that the one you want?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Ben?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
I saw the headgear?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Head gear? Oh yeah, there's a head gear.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I think I already have a head gear and I
don't need a beanie really. Probably I go with the
big one.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I think probably the big one, but I don't know
what's that. The nobody can see this, so what's the
point of There's.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Four of the big ones, four of the little white ones,
and then two of the beanies and two of the
head lamps. But the beanie also has a light in it,
so if your ears get cold and you're really blind, it's.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I gotta tell you, rane, I'd feel very masculine wearing
the beanie.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I'm sure you'd.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's a very masculine thing to wear.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Is a beanie with a light to where to bed
if you'd like?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, I don't know. I want to wear the beanie
to bed. But I get you're very cold in La.
It gets very cold in the winter. My god, it
gets down to like sixty two degrees.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
It's ridiculously cold. So anyway, I'll.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Thank you to we think romy but whoever sent that,
we thank you. Take some calls here in a seck
resetting my board. But we have the creepy the creepy
quarterback making creepy news yet again. Deshaun Watson. Deshaun Watson
got a giant tattoo.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
What do you think the tattoo was? Do you see this, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
No, he got of these giant tattoo, which is fine
if you're a tattoo person.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I'm not. That's not my thing. But whatever floats your both,
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
So this is such a big tattoo that it popped
up on TMZ.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
They say that he spent.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
A total of nine hours to get the tattoo. You
want to take a guess what the tattoo was.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Of, Eddie, I'm gonna go h Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Giant back tattoo, massage table, massage table, his dog.
Speaker 8 (19:48):
A portrait of his dog.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
No, you're all wrong.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Deshaun Watson got a giant back tattoo that took nine hours.
Of his girlfriend's face, not his wife's face, girl face stopping.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Yeah, he has a wife and a girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Well, no, he didn't have a wife. He has a Yeah,
I don't know. He has a girlfriend who's not his wife.
But that's I guess you got to do that when
you're you know, got twenty massage therapist and you're in
the happy baby yoga pos on the scene.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Did you rather get the giant tattoo like he did
or the giant diamond ring like Kobe did?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
For?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yes, Kobe went with the flying for some dark clouds
right now and then had the the ring.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Remember that? Yeah, I go ring. I gotta tell you,
I go more of the ring. What about you?
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
You go giant tattoo?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
I mean, if I could afford it, I'd go ring.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, the giant tattoos are very expensive.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Also not as expensive as a giant diamond ring.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Well, how much is it?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Really high end tattoo that takes hours and hours and
hours to do?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Is that well, I don't even know how much that
would be. Is that that's thousands of dollars? Is that
how much that is? But if you have a high
end massage therapist, is it more than that? I don't know.
But this thing, you got to look this up, man,
this is wild. Now he has the NFL logo. There
he's got he's.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Got a lot going on. There's a lot going on
on that back, a lot of a lot of different
stuff there. But there's the girlfriend. Now, how awkward's gonna
be if they don't if they don't get married and
they break up, and then he's going to go. I
assume he'll be seeing someone else. That'd be a little
a little tough, right, a little.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Bit now, Yeah, I mean it seems like a very
bad idea. But then again, he's you know, not like
he makes the greatest decisions in the world either.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
As the Queen of Hearts.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
It says that if you get a tattoo of the person,
either their face or their name, it is bad luck.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
All right, Well, he knows a thing or two about
bad luck. Not financially, though, financially is quite the back. Yeah,
you're seeing it now, you're looking.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
At the back.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Goodness, there's yeah, there's there's no there's no real.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
It's all tat too. There is nothing left there.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
And I do I do credit him putting the NFL logo.
The amount of money he's stealing from the NFL, I
would put the logo of the NFL on my back all,
I was a tattoo person.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Is that her on the left there on the like
the left scapula.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I'm looking at a photo. Of course. The story that
I see has her in a bikini.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Oh, he's got Martin Luther King on there. That's that's uh.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah, MLK had had some fun too.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I think she's on I read a book apparently had
a good time too.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I I read he's.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
What's that MLK has got a baseball cap on it
says I have a dream on it.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That was branding. Yet MLK was branding. He had a
gift shop, and.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
I never saw a baseball cap on that's something.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah, you know, he was trying to move product and
he was an influencer on social media before it exists.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
And he's got these weird looking doll kind of things
in the middle there. I don't know what the hell
that is.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, I'm not sure what that is. And there's also
him that's the street kind of the street sign. That's
where he kind of grew up.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I guess, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I don't know where where he grew up. Legendary. I
think the legendary is underneath the girlfriend.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
And then one of the weird dolls in the middle.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It looks like one.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Of them is wearing Mickey mouse pants, but then it's
not Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
They're like em things.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
I'm pretty sure we don't know m elephants.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
I still don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
It's got I see it forever strong thing.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
He looks like he has the L on his right
arm from Lavernon Shirley.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Doesn't look like an L on his right arm.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
I'm sure that's exactly what that is.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Yes, is there the globe below? Martin Luther King? Is
there the globe there?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
It's like a globe, not a well done globe, but
there's a globe an astronaut he likes out of space.
Who knew Deshaun Watson likes out of space? We've got
is that? Is that like a leaf of weed at
the bottom there?
Speaker 8 (24:03):
That's that's a that's a snowflake, it says Watson on it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
So yeah, it's a wats.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
I looked like, okay, and then he's got like championship
rings from I guess it's Clemson days.
Speaker 8 (24:13):
Because there's another snowflake up. There's two more snow for
three more snowflakes.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Oh they all have names on them, be trick and
is it?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It looks like yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
And then there's a Forever Strong I don't know what
that is there on the and there's a diamond with
four four four on.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
The This is bad news for the Cleveland Browns. I'll
tell you why. There's no room for him to put
a championship ring from the NFL.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
You can't win one now because he'said he'd have he
spent too much money on these other.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Tattoos saving the front. I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Shouldn't he have been practicing any What was he doing
getting tattoos all off season?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
My god?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Do you think he got a deal? I bet you
he got a deal. He's like, listen, I'm gonna promote
this tattoo guy.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Oh for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Oh you know what.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
You know what else he's got. There's that bottom right Popeye?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Let me check bottom right? Oh, you're right? Is that
pop pop by the Sailor?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Man?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I fundy is too old. It's too young for Popeye? Popeyes?
Are are? We were pop Eye.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
People even before us? Really?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
But yeah, yeah, I mean watched the reruns, but.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
I'm guessing that's his mom up there in the top right.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yeah, I think so. Probably I thought that was his
girlfriend at first. Oh not with the money he's got.
Oh but he's a lovely lady. My apologies store. Anyway,
Can I bring up a fun fact?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Man?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yes? Fun fun fun fact? Be fun fact?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
All right.
Speaker 8 (25:40):
So now I don't think you've mentioned this story at all,
because because why would you. But it kind of broke
when you were on vacation.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
So you saw that I was on assignmonkoop, I had
a family event.
Speaker 8 (25:50):
Yes, uh, you saw that Glenn big Baby Davis got
sentenced to forty months in jail.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, I did see that.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
So here's the fun fact.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Okay, he actually went to one of the local poker
games that I go to. Oh yes, right, Like it
was about i'd say maybe about five or six months ago.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Okay, yeah, Well he'll be.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Playing a different kind of poker for the next couple
of years. That's fine.
Speaker 8 (26:21):
And I don't know, I don't know if I'm like
breaking trust by saying this, but I'm not like dropping.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Any like, you know, he need a lot of money here.
Speaker 8 (26:29):
So from what he comes in, he's like, what's he's like,
what's the max buy in? And they said, oh, you
can buy into whatever. Like the biggest stack on the
table right now is when in which it's usually like
a you know, a couple to a few thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
At these games.
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Yeah, and then you bought in for three hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Oh that's it. Okay? Does he run out of money?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Doesn't he get a pension?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
He played in the NBA a pretty long time. He
played with the Clippers when he was washed up. But yeah,
how's he?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I mean, he's going to be a little baby when
he gets out on a longer, big baby.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
Well that's why I saw that he talked to TMZ
and said he was planning on like getting yoked in prison.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh okay, well shouldn't he just eat a lot of
you're allowed? From what I'm not an expert. We had
a lot of boys that have been in prison that
are fans of the show. And you guys in prison
when you get out, let me.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Know, but can't. From what I understand, if you have money,
you can buy extra food, like better quality food.
Speaker 8 (27:28):
Oh yeah, what's that? What's that call? It's like a
commissary is that what that's.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Calling Like, that's the actual term. But yeah, there's something
like that. We can get extra food.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
When I was in South Carolina, there was a there
was a golf tournament in Myrtle Beach that was going on.
I did not watch a second of it, but it
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and we pucked the world with Eddie Garcia, mister hockey.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Eddie bars All right, thank you Ben. In the first
round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, who saw five
of the eight series wrap up in five games or less.
Now that we're a pair of game sevens. That kind
of saved what was a lackluster first round. However, the
second round is still going on and we haven't yet
to have a team advance into the conference finals. All
four series are going at least six games. We've got
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the Oilers and Canucks. They're tied at to to only
two Canadian teams still remaining in the playoffs. They've alternated
wins and each game has been decided by one goal.
Story of this series has been goaltending. Due to injuries,
the top two goalies for Vancouver are out. They've had
to turn to rookie Artist Shelops, who has held his
own so far. I Meanwhile, the Oilers bench there still
artier Stuart Skinner. They turned it back up Calvin Pickard
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in Game four. He got the win in his first
career playoffs start, and now again it's the best of
three game six in Vancouver on Thursday. Rangers lead the
Hurricanes three games to two. Game six coming up Thursday
in North Carolina, New York. The President's Trophy winners with
the top record in the regular season, the number one
seed in the East had won seven in a row,
and we're on the verge of a second straight series sweep,
but Carolina has rebounded. They've won the last two games
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to stay alive. Stars lead the Avalanche three games to two,
color winning last night to stay alive and force a
game six back in Denver. Avalanche going the rest of
the way, though without their leading goal scorer, Valerry Nashuskin
suspended without pay for a minimum of six months after
violating the terms of the league's Players Assistance Program that
he was in. He had nine goals in eight games
this postseason, tied with Zach Hyman of the Oilers for
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the most of this postseason. A last, but not least,
we have the Panthers leading the Bruins three games to two.
This game has been contentious and controversial the series, I
should say Game three, Boston captain and agitated Brad marshand
punched in the face by Floridas Sam Bennon on a
play that most though was just a routine hit. The
reverse angle, though showed. The next day the video came
out that Bennett intentionally punched him in the face and
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injured Marshan. He hasn't played since Game four. Then Bennett
was who wasn't suspended, center of controversy when he scored
the tying goal after he pushed Boston's Charlie Coyle into
Bruins goalie Jared my Swinman and then put in the
loose buck that's supposed to be ill leegual, but for
some reason the war room in Toronto upheld the call
in the ice of a good goal and the Panthers
go on to win at three to two. Game six
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coming up on Friday in Boston, and Marshann maybe back
in the lineup for the Bruins in that one. In
related news, Bruins general manager Don sweeneyel the press conference
in response to the controversy officiating in the series, called
for the league to have game officials or the league's
Supervisor of Officials made available after games to explain why
calls were made during the game. And finally, we still
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have coaching vacancies to be filled in New Jersey, Seattle,
San Jose, Winnipeg and Toronto. Craig Marube, former Sale Cup
winning coaches Saint Louis, has interviewed for the Leafs, Devils,
Jets and Senator's job. And Todd McClellan, the former LA
Kings coaches, apparently interviewed for the Toronto job as well,
and that is your puck the World reports Eddie.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Also, a TV station in Utah has conducted their own
poll trying to figure out what the name of the
Utah hockey team is.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
So they've asked to vote. They they had an initial
They had an initial round of voting. They eliminated the names.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Frost, Powder Hockey Club, Cariboo, Glaciers, Canyons, Freeze, Squall, Ice, Blast, High, Venom.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
I actually like venom.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I think that'd be kind of cool and funny because
Utah you don't think of venom. But the top two,
yeah are Utah No, that's wrong, Utah Mammoth, Utah Mammoth
and Utah Yeddie.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, those are the top two. Ye, which TV station
polling is accurate? Now?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
When can we vote? I want to I'm not from Utah.
I am allowed to vote, Eddie.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
I think you can vote now? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Really?
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
You can vote.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
It's online, can send the link out. You can vote
for I think three or four different names, but you
can only vote one time.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
I can't believe this is happening.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
It's gonna happen in a jersey from the Fried Daddy.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I think he's gonna send you dy somebody said I
said I would buy her you go all right, Yeah,
you're getting shoes from that woman basketball player.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
From what you buy me?
Speaker 7 (32:24):
The Caitlin Clarks.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah, the Caitlin Clarks.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Fridaddy, Yeah, yeah, he was the one who sent us
the tasty cakes.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Right yeah, Lorraina, Have you ever gotten this much free
crap working in radio?
Speaker 7 (32:35):
No?
Speaker 5 (32:36):
No, it's one of the perks of the overnight Lorango.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
People usually just get free radio t shirts.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Now they stop making those years ago. I have a
closet full of them, but they don't even make those.
We used to get fat Fox Sports radio swag.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
We don't make that anymore because they all end up
a good will.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Rob Parker though he's an he knows guy. Rob can
hook you up. He'll get you the swag.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Straight ahead, we are going to half whether you like
it or not, we are going to have Factor fiction.
If you'd like to be one of our celebrity panelists,
you can call it right now eight seven seven ninety
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Speaker 3 (33:15):
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Speaker 1 (33:52):
Please transmitter media. Is it fact for fiction? Let's face
some raw facts.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
On the Mellor Show.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Then the way we go on Factor Fiction. We have
a celebrity panel of judges that will form together for
an amazing voltron like experiences.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Then we say hello to the power couple back from
their European vacation, Leslie and Jack the judge.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Hello, Leslie, good.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Then I mean sure, that's right.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
How was it everything fun? You have a good time
down there in France. Wonderful, wonderful. All right? Have you
been there before? Was this your first trip? Yes, a
number of times.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
And boy are they getting ready for the Olympics in Paris.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I heard they're cleaning up.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
They're cleaning up the water around there, right the dirty
river there, they're cleaning up, and.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
They're also putting up outdoor arenas all over the place.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
All right, your tax dollars at work if you're in France.
All right, but I'm glad you had a good time.
I'm gonna have to there's someday my wife's gonna drag
me there, Leslie, so I'm gonna.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
Have to go.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Hold on, it's so wonderful, all right. Milkman Mike is
in Colorado. Hello, milkman Mike, Hey.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Good morning. The Nuggets are one step closer to getting
back to that championship.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yep, nugget propaganda from Milkman Mike. Yeah, hold on, buddy.
We have Daniel in Fort Wayne. Hello, Daniel, Good morning, Ben.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
How are we doing.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
If I was any better, I would have to move
because my neighbors were a holes.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
But I did not.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
That is you, and that's you that had to do it. Yes,
all right, buddy, you are the may the Chamber of
Commerce guy from Fort Wayne. We have Blind Scott from
the North end of Boston. Hello, Blind Scott.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Hey, the Nuggets sucked.
Speaker 9 (35:44):
There's the reason why they only won fifty five games
this year. Hey, Denver sucks. Who they call it Menver
because all men were there. It's like a huge sausage party.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
Twenty four seven. They're a turble team.
Speaker 9 (35:55):
I don't ever think they make the finals. The Celtics
are gonna sweep everybody. They're running the table of the
best NBA team.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
You're warming up.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
You're warming up for the octagon when this.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
If the Celtics get to the finals, we'll decide it's
Celtic fan versus whoever is in the West. If that's
the matchup. All right, Scott, hold on, buddy, and we
have day we have We always said hello to Dany.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
We have Strip Club John. Is he there? Does he
want to be part of this?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Hello? Strip Club John from Cleveland where the Cadavers met
their demise.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Yes, it was a depressing man at the club last night.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Well, that could be good for you. If guys are depressed,
they might spend a little more money on the end.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Well, well, you know, regard if you know the one
thing you have the strip club, if you're happy, you're
spending money. If you're said you're spending money, that is true.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah, that's true. All right?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Hold on, you just to want apathy, you know you
don't have me. Uh you probably hate asexual people strip
club John right, because they're not good for business.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yeah, all right, hold on a sex three stories? Figure
out which the three is not true.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Story number one Shaquille O'Neil getting into the candy game Shack,
recently revealing to the tabloids there they'll be releasing his
own line of gummies called Shack Delicious, Excel Gummies, Peach
Berry Punch Orange, all of flavored gummies shaped like Shaq's head,
unless that's not true.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
And Caitlin Clark Fever Can You Catch It?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
A movie chron chronically Kaitlin Clark's rise to start him
currently in development in Hollywood. The movie titled Game Changer,
has not cast Caitlin Clark's character yet, but will start
Jane Lynch.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
As Iowa coach Lisa Bludder I believe is her.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Name, And story number three True Crime Meets the NFL,
a documentary in the works, a story of infamous Chiefs
fan Chiefs of Holic, the guy going around robbing banks
to buy tickets and whatnot. The documentary called Chiefs of Hollock,
a wolf in Chiefs clothing, will tell the story of
the Xavier Babador who rose to nationwide fame. He rubbed
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eleven banks in seven states. Those are the three stories.
Which of them is not true?
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Them?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Is one of them is not true? Can you separate
fiction from fact? Let's go to power couple Leslie one
Tour three, Leslie one. All right, milk thank you, milkman.
Mike one Tour three, Milkman.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
You know, Blind Scott is gonna be like the Celtics.
He's gonna come up shortage number three.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
All right, Blind Scott, one Tour three, Scotty.
Speaker 9 (38:22):
Hey, milkman, I'm gonna milk your team so bad.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
All right, you're right, Daniel in four way? What's the answer?
Speaker 6 (38:28):
Daniel in celebrats our nice wedding anniversary No.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
No.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Two?
Speaker 2 (38:33):
It is number two, Sorry strip club John, Blind Scott
the number two, number two
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