May 23, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Cowboys QB Dak Prescott saying that he "doesn't play for money," Roger Goodell claiming that the NFL is not actively discussing extending the season to 18 games, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, Fact or Fiction, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to our number fall and a happy
Thursday to you. This is the twenty third day of
the month of May. We'll get into football this hour.
The Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott confidently told the media that
he does not does not play for money.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Give me your reaction to that one.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Also, Roger Goodell, a commissioner, says the NFL is not
actively discussing an eighteen game schedule. However, it is a
long term goal. Do you believe they're not actively discussing that?
And Aiden O'Connell, that's a quarterback, says that he changed
his Raiders' jersey number because it was quote disrespectful to
(00:46):
Derek Carr.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
From your vantage.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Point, what do you think of that one? Protecting the
legacy of Derek Carr. We'll get to that and a
whole lot more. Have a wonderful Thursday here. It is
our number four. I am not about that action, boss,
not about that action. Welcome in the beginning of another hour.
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of Dakota. The Mouth of Dakota specifically the.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Thing we're gonna discuss right now.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
So if you didn't see this, and maybe you were
busy doing other stuff, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was very braggadocious.
He wanted you to know and me to know that
he is not letting his contract get in the way
of all of his preparations so we can lose on
wild card weekend next season. Speaking to reporters from the Cowboys'
(02:44):
training facility.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Dak Prescott said, quote, I don't play for money.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Post quote, he was asked about balancing the contract talks
with trying.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
To stay focused on light works in May.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
He's asked about that any the money quote is I
don't play for money.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
So we parsed the words here, we parsed the words
of Dak.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Prescott, and let's discuss he is a lame duck one
year left. Cowboys don't sign him, they can't franchise tag him,
he'll be free to roam around the NFL. Cowboys quarterback
Dak Prescott says again, he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Play for money. Give me your reaction.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So I've got robot, addiction, and crayon, and we'll combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a red Delicious apple. The king of all apple
apples is the red Delicious Apple. So to kick off here,
Dak Prescott, who has said similar things to this in
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the past, this is not the first time he's gone
down that road. But my reaction to Dak Prescott's comments
while he is on one hundred and sixty million dollar contract.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
This is what's known.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
As manure bagged manure and using some old fashioned ben logic.
If Dak Prescott doesn't play for money, let's assume that
he's being honest, which he's not, but that's just for
the purposes of this little exercise.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Let's assume Dak Prescott doesn't play for money.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
He's then giving the implication that he plays to win
the game. He's played seven playoff games, he's two and
five and regularly pukes in his mouth in big spots
the moment's too big. He gets tight Touki syndrome. So
he's not a winner. But he doesn't play for the money.
(04:41):
So who is the real Dak Prescott. The real Dak
Prescott is a robot. He's a robotic politician, by the book.
By the book answers from Dakota Prescott, he is canned.
I don't know how polished he is. He's definitely canned.
And if you gave Dak Prescott some true serum and
said stop speaking with a double tongue, we give you
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some truth serum and you nudge them a little bit,
he would say, I not only expect to get a
massive contract, I expect to reset the quarterback market. Because
this is the Dallas f and Cowboys. That's what it's
about And when somebody says, this is one thing I've
learned as I've gotten older in life, when somebody says
it's not about the money, it is always about the money,
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one hundred percent of the time, not ninety nine, not
ninety nine point nine, one hundred percent of the time.
When they say it's not about the money, it's about
the money. And Dak Prescott also was hyping up the
Mavericks and the Stars, the other contemporaries there in Dallas
Sports who are playing in the conference finals, and he said, quote,
(05:45):
it put more effing pressure on us, meaning the Cowboys.
Also the Rangers are the reigning World Series champions who
plan that market. And well, that's a nice sentiment and
it plays well to the electorate.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
From Dak Prescott, it's not basing any reality.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
If you look at the Christmas tree of Dallas Sports,
the Cowboys are still the star on top.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's still the Dallas Cup.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Even with the Rangers winning the World Series and the
Mavericks up one oh after beating Minnesota last night and
all that, that's just the way it.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Is, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Furthermore, we make a right turn at the schedule game,
that's right the schedule game because Commissioner Roger the Dodger
Goodell said that the NFL is not actively, not actively
discussing extending the season to the eighteen games, which is
(06:39):
what he had just said in an interview with that
YouTuber Pat McAfee a couple of days back. Goodell said,
but the league is considering a longer season, but in
a long range context. So again, keep it simple. It's
not that deep. Roger Goodell says, the National Football League
(07:03):
is not actively discussing an eighteen game schedule.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
However, that's the long term goal. Do you believe Roger Goodell?
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And the word actively is a weasel term because what
does that even mean. You know, you're passively talking about it,
you're not actively talking about You can't change it right
now anyway, you'd have to open up the collective bargaining
agreement words that should never be said the CBA to
get an extra game. From what I understand, but Roger Goodell,
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and I've seen him, I've been I've been the last
couple of Super Bowls at the media events.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I've seen Goodell. He's like a rattlesnake.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
He will lie to your face, right he will lie
to your face. The eighteen game schedule that is in
the back pocket of every owner.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
The NFL has been heading that direction for fifty years,
fifty years.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We had a TV legend from the nineteen eighties friend
of the show Fred Dreyer, who played TV's Hunter on
an old show back in the day. And Fred played
for the Rams in the seventies and the eighties and
some other teams, but with the Rams, and he was
part of the Players Association, and he said, back then
they wanted they originally went from they got to sixteen
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games in his time, they played less than that, and
then they wanted eighteen, but they settled for sixteen back
in the day. So this has always been the map.
This has always been the map. But the owners suffer
from addiction. It's the disease of more. They're constantly seeking
more revenue. It's like everyone on Wall Street, right, it's
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always we got to make the stockholders happy. We got
to make the people that are the best happy. We
got to get more and more and more and fire
more people. But you got to squeeze, squeeze that green
juice is what you got to get. Just like the
players that will be more money for the players one
extra game, though, I was told based on the television contracts,
the way everything is in the fell worth billions of
(09:02):
dollars just one they go from seventeen to eighteen games,
billions of dollars, billions of dollars like b with ben
billions in revenue. All right, lastly, we head now to
sin City. And I wanted to mention this because I
got an email from a fan of the Raiders who
actually lives in Oakland, right or I don't think he
(09:24):
lives in Oakland. He lives in northern California, but he
said this to me if he got a kick out
of it. So the Raiders quarterback, they don't really have
a start. They've got my guy Minshew, many at Gardner Minshew,
and then you've got Aidan O'Connell the incumbent.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
So Aidan O'Connell is the incumbent.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And he said that he has decided to switch his
uniform number to number twelve.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
He had been wearing number.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Four, but he switched it partly out of, wait for it,
respect for Derek Carr, the former Raider quarterback.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Say what.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Now, let me repeat that for those of you that
are a little slow. It's a full moon, it's early
in the morning. So Ain O'Connell says he changed his
Raider jersey number because it was disrespectful to Derek Carr.
From your vantage point, you're probably not a Raider fan.
But from your vantage point, what you know about Derek Carr? Right,
(10:22):
what do you think of this one? So I will
say that O'Connell is not the sharpest crayon in the box.
He's worried about offending Derek Carr and protecting the legacy
of Derek Carr. When are they retiring number four? Is
that gonna happen like Week seven this year? They're gonna
retire number four in Vegas. We really need to celebrate
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Derek Carr, who had a four point fifty winning percentage
with the Raiders and all those big moments in the
playoffs for Derek Carr. Wow, Aidan O'Connell showing a profound
lack of understanding on the Silver and Black because and
I'm no Raider guy, you know, I want to see
the Raiders do well because I got a friend of
(11:06):
a friend who works for the Raiders now. But switching
to number twelve by Aidan O'Connell is much more disrespectful
to Raider lore than wearing number four.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
What's my evidence? You know who wore number twelve for
the Raiders?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
How about Kenny Stabler, one of the great all time
rate Rich Gannon, who won an MVP as a Raider,
War number twelve. Rusty Hilger. If you're of a certain age,
Rusty was number twelve. Todd Barenovich, who smoked a lot
of weed back in the day when it was illegal
for the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Todd Barenovitch War number twelve.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
That's a much more meaningful number then number four. Like,
what are you doing, you dumbo? It is the Ben
Mahlor show off. You would like to be part, you
can join us. Speakeasy rules are in effect. I got
an email, So what are the speakeasy rules gonna be down? Well,
I'll be here this holiday weekend Sunday into Monday, so
(12:07):
we'll have no speakeasy rules that night. If you really
give a rat's ass about that, I don't think it's
that difficult to figure out the number point that out.
But I'll be here over the holiday weekend anyway, on
AX at Ben Mahlor, that is, at Ben mahlor.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
If you'd like to be part of the program, we
will have Puck the World with Eddie.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
We'll get to that, and who knows what else we'll
do it all.
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We will do it next.
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Boards being reset right now as we get to your calls,
one after another. Fargo pizzas Ad and O'Connell changed his
number to Ken Stabler's number out of respect to Derek Carr.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
What a jackass, What a jackass, he says.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Scrooge says, what y'all mean is we've witnessed many crimes
every other day.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
On the show, is what he says. Yes, that is.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Well, there's a lot of Eddy cheats at the games,
so that happens a lot. That's a big part of
the show, and we hear that. Unfortunately, let's go to
the phones level sale to Adam who's in Miami, Miami, Miami,
Hello Adam, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Good morning, Ben. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
If I was any better, I would be a Dolphin,
but not a Miami Dolphin because I don't trust.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Toa I can't play with me and they're not going
to stand up. Well, they they will sign them, but
they should anyway. I'm calling about pretty much until my
last hour, about the the Yankees and things like that.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, how about Steinbreanner complaining they can't keep the payroll
that high?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It's not fair.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Now, what you know, what sports fans get involved in
is winning and championships. But the truth is, because I
work twelve years in sports stadium business for different organizations,
different stadiums, what they really care about is making money.
It's not about the championships or the titles.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
So yes, if you spend more.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Money, invariably you will probably have more success, which leads
to more revenue and more relevancy. But the titles don't
really matter. And I hate to say it about your Dodgers, Ben.
You know that that fake world series.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
That World series, Jackass, that's a legit world series.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
The hardest global during a global demation.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
But that's not a legit title.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That is an absolutely that's the hardest of all time.
Baseball is designed explained. Why is everyone so stupid?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It must be a full moon, Adam, Listen, how is
baseball set up?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It is a lazy season.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
You can be bad for a month here or a
month there and it doesn't matter. The Diamondbacks got to
the World Series last year. They sucked most of the year.
The Phillies have gotten to a World Series. They weren't
very good and and you can kind of go through
the season figure things out as you go.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But when there's a.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Sixty game season, you have no time for any of that.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That is the most difficult World Series.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Got it, they got it.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I respect it, but.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It's now you don't respect it. You do not respect it.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
You did anyway. So it's what Steinbrenner is saying. And this,
this is the part I do get. If so many
teams are successful getting to the World Series and winning
with their BS payroll tactics and analytics and Yankees are
spending billions upon billions for the same results, that's an
inefficient use of money.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
For example, Miami and you're spending a thousand dollars. It's
a waste of money.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Here's the way I interpret this. Steinbrenner, the Steinbrener family.
Hel Stifer's old money, you know, he he you know
Helsteimer never did anything is life. He just took his
dad's business. That's it, that's all. You know, Fine, whatever,
good for him. He won the genetic lottery. But here's
the deal, right, they just want to they need to.
What's the way I can say this on there? They
have to suck every dollar out of the Yankees, right,
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so if they don't spend as much in the playroll, yeah,
it's not about being fiscally responsible. Well, that's more money
they can take from the team. You know, every dollar
they don't spend on the team they take. I think
the baseball teams whatted they get one hundred million, one
hundred and fifty million dollars or something right off the
top from television from National TV, and the Yankees own
their own TV network, So what are they worried about?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
What do you think of the future of the of
sports in general?
Speaker 9 (17:38):
Though?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Ben, this is a deep question because eventually there's a
point where you know, I don't want to get too political,
but the NBA thing are a lot of guaranteed contracts
in MLBATS as well, there's a point where they won't
be able to make up that money because people watch less.
The NFL is kind of to get avoid all that
because they're like gold, but eventually sports can't afford the
way it's going with all the facts. Salaries fifty million
(18:01):
for some of these NBA guys.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Now, as long as long as they find broadcast money
and television is changing a lot. But if they can
find the broadcast money, because all the money that goes
to the players is based on revenue TV revenue, so
as long as they have that, but that's not guaranteed,
and it is something that the dangerous thing is young
people are not into sports nearly as much as when
(18:25):
I was a kid, and it's like they watch highlights,
but they're not really into it.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
They're not invested into it.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
A lot of kids and baseball and these other sports
don't care because they're they're worried.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
About the corporate crowd.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
They're worried about the people that have the money, and
the kids don't have any money. They used to try
to do both. They used to try to get kids
to follow the sports. They don't really care about kids
at all. Screw them kids.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
They don't make any money.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
And I respect your opinion. The Dodgers, yes, they won legitimately,
but you know, like the Lakers NBA thing, Well, the.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Lakers was illegitimate. Yah, the Lakers was illegitimate because it
was at a resort in Orlando.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
You know, you got to look underneath the paper pretty much.
But you know, but whatever, the Dodgers are relevant.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
And the Dodgers they get forty five thousand every night minimum,
even you know, even when they don't give away a
bobblehead at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Right, thank you, thank you?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
All right, hanging up on you, we.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Go from our man Adam, we say hello to a
Dick in Dayton.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
Hello, Dick, good morning. How is everybody that's.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Been a few days, dixter? What's going on in your world?
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Well? I did something yesterday as a bargain shopper. I
stopped at good Will and I picked up a little
uku lately and it was in tune up. Pay three
dollars for it?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
What a doukule?
Speaker 8 (19:49):
How many us you got, Dick?
Speaker 9 (19:50):
I got three little ones? And then I've got my
other one, the one that you know that I had
to buy because my other one.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Broke the big Yeah, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Pretty good now now now, holistic Dick, is this little
ukulele worthy of playing at a gig? Would you play
this at a gig with the Kettering Banjo Society or
the strummers?
Speaker 9 (20:13):
The strummers? Yeah, I probably I'm going to use it
for probably jam sessions because I'm going to take my
bigger one. You know, it's got a better tone to it.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I understand now when you when you go out and
about Dick, do people probably want to take pictures with
you and they want autographs and.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
You're well known that well, because you're famous.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
You're Dick and dats thank you. Yeah, hey, I wanted
this say something. I was calling the northeast Ohio one
of the stations up there, and uh, the Indians, I
guess we're down and you know they're happening. Well, they
call them the Guardians, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah, named after a bridge. They're named after a bridge
there after.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
A bridge that's kind of get over. They changed that name,
you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but what do.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You call it What do you call the Washington football team?
What do you call them?
Speaker 9 (21:09):
Oh? You know, I don't you know. I'm just worried
about the Reds.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
And I hear you're not worried about anything other than Ohio, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
It's irrelevant. It's all about Ohio. It's about the Reds.
It's about the Guardians or Indians. It's about the Calves Browns.
And you're more of a Browns fan than a Bengals fan.
But you will watch the Bengals, but you love the
Browns more.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
Right, But the thing of it is Ben Eddie and everybody.
This is ridiculous. The Reds need help. I mean, this
is pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
What do you recommend? If the Reds are listening right.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Now, Dick, they should be their manager?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Who's that?
Speaker 9 (21:47):
Peter Edward Road?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
What that is a great idea? That is Mike Eddie.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
I could have never pretured that.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Put that on the Socials, Dick, and Dayton wants Rose
back as Red's manager. That would be amazing if they
can do that. And he's who cares if he's banned
from baseball? Right, Dick, he's prof and Rose he's the
all Charlie Hustle come on.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
These guys aren't hustling.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Yeah, well listen, I know you got another calls.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Have a great day, all right, bye bye?
Speaker 8 (22:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
There he goes Dick and Date Mosello to Dan in Georgia,
and Dan has hung up.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Dan has said bye bye.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
He knew he couldn't follow Dick.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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Speaker 8 (22:35):
Have you talked about this Tom Brady quote from commissioner.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Roger Goodell about the Raiders?
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Yeah right, yeah, no I have not so.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Speaking to reporters at the league's spring meeting, commission Rodger
Goodell says progress is being made on Tom Brady owning
a piece of the Raiders, but issues remain.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Oh yeah, the issues of the owners don't want him
broadcasting games and owning the Rats.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
Ah well those are the issues. Huh yeah, interest.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Cannot do it.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
Why what's the big deal?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Because they had these production meetings before games, Eddie and
the coaches spill their guts and the players spill their
guts about strategy, and the owners are so paranoid they
think Tom Brady is going to take that information and
help the raiders out and their teams are going to
be in a competitive disadvantage.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
Do you think they spill their guts in those meetings
with those guys.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
They do.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Actually, I've heard that they tell them exactly what their
plan is and they all play grab ass. And I'll
tell you why they do that, Eddie, because they all
want to get jobs in television, and they think those
guys are going to help them get jobs in television
if they need those jobs in television, and it works
out looking all of them.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Sean Payton was a coach, he's back being a coach.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
He was a broadcaster, Peyton Manning doing TV and the
I mean a bunch of these gets Tony Romo, they
all end up in broadcasting.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Have you heard the Arrington John Madden's story that he
has told on the air.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I don't think i've heard that one.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Good it's a good one, he said.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
He was.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
You know, they were having one of those meetings before
a game and John Madden was talking to him, asking
him some questions, and he asked him, what do you
It's something about what do you think your chances are
winning the Super Bowl? And LeVar being the positive guy
that he said that he is. He answered that he
thought they had a chance of winning the Super Bowl,
and John Madden laughed at him and said, if you
guys are in the super Bowl, I will bungee jump
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out of the Goodyear Blimp.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
At halftime.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
LeVar said he was very offended by that, but he
said that ultimately John Madden was right, they had no
chance of.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Going to the super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Oh that's great, I bet you.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
They don't act like that anymore though, like Madden, Madden
was an original, Like they're like that at all.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
But who knows. I'm not in those meetings.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
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Speaker 2 (24:59):
We need a little fun, Let's have some fun. What
do you say here, malor fun? Fact?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yes, the Baltimore Orioles have been swept for the first
time in one hundred and six regular season series, losing
to the Saint Louis Cardinals, and they got way back
one hundred and six times, the Cardinals ending the Orioles
streak without being swept, longest streak in baseball since the
(25:26):
nineteen forties. Since the nineteen forties. Saint Louis Cardinals Baltimore
was last swept prior to this week. They were last
swept way back in twenty twenty two. I barely remember
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
That was the last time it happened.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
So the Orioles went one hundred and six games without
messing up an entire series. But that's not a hockey story.
So let's get the hockey right now here.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Week go with Eddie fuck the world.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
All right, thank you Badley. Second round of the Stanley
Cup playoffs are in the ball. The Conference finals just
getting started. Will tell you how we got to our
final four. The number one seed in the East, the
President Trophy winning New York Rangers first team into the
conference finals. They eliminated the Carolina Hurricanes four games to two.
In the deciding game of the series, the Rangers were
down three to one going into the third period on
the road, and then New York Chris Kreider became a hero.
(26:19):
Three straight goals for the natural hat trick, d rally
of the team and clinch the series. Crider became just
the third player in NHL history to score three third
period goals, including a series clincher, joining Jay Ginsel and
some guy never heard of from like the twenties. He's
also the first Ranger player with three goals in a
playoff period, joining Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky is the
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only other players to do that. So the Rangers onto
the Eastern Conference Finals. In the West the number one
seed the Dallas Stars. They advanced, feeding the Colinde Avalanche
in six games, four games to two. They won the
deciding game six two on a double overtime on a
Matt Dushane Golie is a former first round pick of
Colorado Stars. Go three to nothing, or should say, they
won all three games in Den against the top home
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team in the regular season.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
Colorado Avalanche star and likely.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
League MVP Nathan McKinnon held the two goals and three
assists in these six games.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
Florida Panthers eliminated the Boston Bruins four games to two.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
A lot of controversies in this series and it all
went against Boston. Game two, Bruins lost their captain and
key player Bat Marshan when he got sucker punch to
the face by Sam Bennett. He didn't play the next
two games. Bennett somehow did not get suspended, and then
in Game four, he pushed the Bruins defense, went into
Boston goalie Jeremy Swim and then scored the game time goal.
They eventually go on to win that game as well.
Somehow that goal was allowed to stand after video review.
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Boston could not overcome those moments that win against him,
and that meant that Florida would move on to face
the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference Finals. Final
team to advance in that Final four was the Evonton Others.
They got by the Canucks three to two in a
Game seven in Vancouver. Knucks did not have their number
one goalie and vezn the trophy finalist stature Denco due
to injury for the entire series, and then they lost
(27:55):
their top scorer, Brock Besser for the designing Game seven
due to.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
A blood clot issue.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
Or there's what by starts Connor McDavid and Leon dry
Sidle McDavid twenty four points so far in the playoffs,
driy sitles got twenty one and defenseman Evan Bouchard's twenty
points of the most buy an NHL defenseman in the
history of the league through the first two rounds of
the postseason. So the Oilers will face the Dallas Stars
in the Western Conference Finals. So last night it was
Game one of the East Finals, Panthers shutting out the
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Rangers in New York three nothing, Sergey Mabrowski twenty three
saves in the shutout, so Florida with a one oer
series lead, and then Game one of the Western Conference
Finals comes up tonight in Dallas with the Stars hosting
the Oilers. Lots of coaching news. Toronto Maple Leaves hired
Craig Buruba as their next head coach. Here replaces the
fired Sheldon Keith Brube as most recently head coach of
the Saint Lois Bluesy guided him their only Stanley Cup
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title back in twenty eighteen. Takes over an underachieving Mayple
Leafs team that's looking for its first Stanley Cup title
since nineteen sixty seven. Carolina Hurricanes resigned their coach Rod
Brindamore and his staff to multi year extensions. He's a
former captain of their two thousand six Stanley Cup winning team.
He's guided the Hurricanes to six straight playoff appearances to
it is in the Conference finals, but yet to reach
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act on the Cup final. New Jersey Devils hired former
Leaf said coach Sheldon Keeve to be there next day
coaching gets a four year deal. Got to the Mayple
leice to the playoffs five straight years, but they only
made it out of the first round once, and the
LA Kings removed the interim tag from head coach at
Jim Hiller.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
He gets dealt an I'll be.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Sleeping, I'll be sleeping.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Yeah, okay, But he took over for the Fire Tom
McClelland at the end of the year they went twenty
one to twelve and one under him. They did lose
in the first round of the playoffs. This is his
first full time NHL head coaching job. We still have
head coaching vacancies in Seattle, San Jose and Winnipeg.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
And that is your puck the World report that.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Did you mention the words of Don Sweeney the Bruins
GM who said we are going to be aggressive. No,
it is off season. What does that even mean be aggressive.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
What are they going to like when they eat and
they go on vacation.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
I would guess that means they're going to spend money,
But I'm not really sure if they have.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
Money to spend.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
But how do they not have money there?
Speaker 8 (29:56):
Well, there's a salary cap in Boston, I know, and
everywhere else.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I saw that The first round of fan voting is
now done.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
Did you mention that fan voting for the YETI for
the for the Utah team?
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Yeah? I did not.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
How's it going? We don't know. They didn't announce I
didn't see it. If they did announce it, I did
not see.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
No.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
I did not hear that they've announced it anything.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
No, they but they closed the voting. The first round
of fan voting is done. So now we'll move on
to round two.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
We need the Yetti don't to announce what the remaining
names are.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, they have to say, yeah, of course they will
have another Well, they're gonna have another vote, but ultimately
it's the team. They're gonna have like two or three
rounds of voting and then the owner is gonna decide.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
They're gonna limit it to like the final two, and
then the owner is gonna decide.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Suppose that's what I heard.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
M M, Well, we all know what we've voted for.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
It's all yety, all yety all the time. You give
us five minutes, we'll give you the YETI we need.
Or venom venom, that's not stupid.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It's now that's venom. You can can kill you, Eddie.
Venom can kill you.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
I can. But that's a stupid name for hockey team.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, Alfie Alien Pinter says, Please note, Ben, it's okay
for Eddie dimension the Final four.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
When referring to hockey, he says, alf was very impressed.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
He listened to I did a show earlier on Wednesday
afternoon in LA and I was forced to talk hockey
for a segment, and he was very impressed.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
He was very impressed with that.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Here's a message, Ben, this is Fat Daddy Bellflower. The
Dodgers need to bring back helmet Weekend. That will get
all the kids back in the groove. They're too hell
bent on doing bobbleheads that are made from China and
they are worthless. Bring back helmet Weekend, says Fat Daddy.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Well, that'll change everything. That'll change everything. The helmet.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
Do they still sell like those? You know? Says thing.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I don't know, but boy, we have fond memories, don't
we eddy? Oh yeah, all those.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
They have not I think they have nachos like that
big thing at Dodger Stadium this year when I was
out there at the one game I went to, they
have a Korean fried chicken bucket, which is very popular.
But it's like thirty five bucks and it's a layer
of chicken and then a bunch of fries.
Speaker 10 (32:13):
It's waffle fries and uh oh you've seen it, yes,
and well Dodgers, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There was
a guy who was eating it when I was there,
and I was like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
You got the bucket or chicken.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
And then and then like three minutes later like that, yeah,
something like that. And then like three minutes later he's
over there like oh, hot, hot, hot, Like his mouth
is on fire because it is spicy.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
You did not get it.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
I don't like spicy stuff now. I don't want to
be I don't like when my nose starts to run
when I'm eating.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I don't know. That's maybe the guy just didn't handle spice.
Maybe that no he's a big man.
Speaker 10 (32:46):
Most big men can handle a little bit of.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Spice, not all, not all. Yeah, that is spicy.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
The ha's a spicy meatball or a piece of chicken.
It is the Ben Mather Show. As we are rolling, rolling,
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Speaker 1 (33:54):
Please trans a bit of fidius.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Let's face some raw facts on the Ben Maller Show.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Hey, let's get to it. Fact poor fiction time. Listen
closely to all three stories. Figure out which of the
three is not completely true. Part of it is bogus.
The whole thing is bogus in terms of the show.
In context of the show. Let's welcome into our celebrity
panel of judges. I believe the Power couple is still
on their European vacation.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Good for them.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
So we'll say good morning to Butch, who's in Germany.
Auto bon Butch, Good morning, Butcher? I guess is it
morning there?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
What time is it in Germany this morning?
Speaker 8 (34:39):
Are we looking at it?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Okay? I'm doing middays? All right? How's live treating you? Butch?
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Good?
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Right?
Speaker 8 (34:50):
Need to stop speaking raining? All right?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I don't have that problem. Hold on, say buddy the
great Butch. We have Kelly and Nashville. Hell, hello, Kelly.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Hi, then donut Kelly. Her heart's in Seattle, but her
bodies in Nashville.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
That's correct, Yes, that is correct.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Are you gonna go back to Seattle at some point.
Are you gonna stay in Nashville?
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Once?
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Well, here's the thing is, once my son turns eighteen
and goes to college, I have the ability.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
To go back.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Okay, all right, you wait for that.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
I got you.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
All right, very good, hold on set Kelly, and you're
to go back to the city northwest.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
We have Daniel, the Chamber of Commerce guy from Fort
Wayne who moved because he had terrible neighbors.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Hello Daniel, for the last time this school year.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Good morning for the north side of Fort Wayne.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Is that right the last time?
Speaker 8 (35:42):
Huh? Interesting?
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Well, I'll call back in August when school you're convenced again, right,
start crossings again.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
All right, we're gonna lose you for the rest of
the summer. Huh all right, yeah, that's a bummer. All right,
we'll talk to you today next year.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
And Hollowing James.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Hello, Hollowing James James in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who keeps calling
back because he has no friends. Correct, dollar James, because
you're my only friend.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Oh, how lucky man.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
I only understand him because he is now man.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Wow, you're on the good medication today. Holy Yams. All right,
let's get the shut up. Let's get to the stories.
Here we go, my friend, well yeah, Story number one
hash it out NASCAR making headlines. Earlier this week, we
had a throwdown at the track. Ricky Stanhouse Junior took
a swing at Kyle Busch cause quite a kerfluffle. Now
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TMZ has learned celebrity boxing has offered to put the
wheels in motion for a boxing match between these two drivers.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
That story number one.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Story number two a viral moment on TNT, Charles Barkley
claimed he he told Anthony Edwards he was going back
to Minnesota. I hadn't been there in thirty nearly thirty years,
Edwards told Barkley, bring you ass back. The State of
Minnesota has adopted that. The Tourism agency has used that
(37:09):
in their marketing for the state of Minnesota. And story
number three. The Great Kobayashi, the original dominating competitive eater
before Joey chestnutt six time winner of the Nathan's Hot
Dog Eating Contest. He has his retirement this week, and
as a result of that, the Mayor of New York City,
Eric Adams, announced the city will be revealing a Kobyashi
(37:30):
statue out on Cony Island to honor the man that
put the competitive eating domination on the map there mainstream, Kobyashi.
Those are the three stories. One of them is not
completely true. So figure out which of the three is
not true? Hello, Butch one two or three? Butch two
(37:51):
number two?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
All right? What about you Kelly in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I'm going with number one, number one.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
And d Daniel last time. We'll talk to him for months.
Daniel and Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce. Daniel number one,
number one on Halloween.
Speaker 9 (38:09):
James number one here one.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Oh my god, he son, so, oh my, well, you're
all wrong everyone, He is wrong. It's the Kobyashi story.
He did retire, But there are no plans for a
statue of Kobyashi.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
On Coney Island. Oh who knows. Maybe they'll put one
out there. But that was the bogus story there. Kobyashi,
though man aleegend in the Eating game.
Hello, and welcome to our number fall and a happy
Thursday to you. This is the twenty third day of
the month of May. We'll get into football this hour.
The Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott confidently told the media that
he does not does not play for money.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Give me your reaction to that one.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Also, Roger Goodell, a commissioner, says the NFL is not
actively discussing an eighteen game schedule. However, it is a
long term goal. Do you believe they're not actively discussing that?
And Aiden O'Connell, that's a quarterback, says that he changed
his Raiders' jersey number because it was quote disrespectful to
(00:46):
Derek Carr.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
From your vantage.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Point, what do you think of that one? Protecting the
legacy of Derek Carr. We'll get to that and a
whole lot more. Have a wonderful Thursday here. It is
our number four. I am not about that action, boss,
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Lead this hour footboard and that means quarterback controversy involving money,
Jerry's World dateline, Jerry's World off season workouts continue to
fill the sports talk radio content machine, and the Mouth
of Dakota. The Mouth of Dakota specifically the.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Thing we're gonna discuss right now.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
So if you didn't see this, and maybe you were
busy doing other stuff, Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was very braggadocious.
He wanted you to know and me to know that
he is not letting his contract get in the way
of all of his preparations so we can lose on
wild card weekend next season. Speaking to reporters from the Cowboys'
(02:44):
training facility.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Dak Prescott said, quote, I don't play for money.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Post quote, he was asked about balancing the contract talks
with trying.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
To stay focused on light works in May.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
He's asked about that any the money quote is I
don't play for money.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
So we parsed the words here, we parsed the words
of Dak.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Prescott, and let's discuss he is a lame duck one
year left. Cowboys don't sign him, they can't franchise tag him,
he'll be free to roam around the NFL. Cowboys quarterback
Dak Prescott says again, he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Play for money. Give me your reaction.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
So I've got robot, addiction, and crayon, and we'll combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a red Delicious apple. The king of all apple
apples is the red Delicious Apple. So to kick off here,
Dak Prescott, who has said similar things to this in
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the past, this is not the first time he's gone
down that road. But my reaction to Dak Prescott's comments
while he is on one hundred and sixty million dollar contract.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
This is what's known.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
As manure bagged manure and using some old fashioned ben logic.
If Dak Prescott doesn't play for money, let's assume that
he's being honest, which he's not, but that's just for
the purposes of this little exercise.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Let's assume Dak Prescott doesn't play for money.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
He's then giving the implication that he plays to win
the game. He's played seven playoff games, he's two and
five and regularly pukes in his mouth in big spots
the moment's too big. He gets tight Touki syndrome. So
he's not a winner. But he doesn't play for the money.
(04:41):
So who is the real Dak Prescott. The real Dak
Prescott is a robot. He's a robotic politician, by the book.
By the book answers from Dakota Prescott, he is canned.
I don't know how polished he is. He's definitely canned.
And if you gave Dak Prescott some true serum and
said stop speaking with a double tongue, we give you
(05:04):
some truth serum and you nudge them a little bit,
he would say, I not only expect to get a
massive contract, I expect to reset the quarterback market. Because
this is the Dallas f and Cowboys. That's what it's
about And when somebody says, this is one thing I've
learned as I've gotten older in life, when somebody says
it's not about the money, it is always about the money,
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one hundred percent of the time, not ninety nine, not
ninety nine point nine, one hundred percent of the time.
When they say it's not about the money, it's about
the money. And Dak Prescott also was hyping up the
Mavericks and the Stars, the other contemporaries there in Dallas
Sports who are playing in the conference finals, and he said, quote,
(05:45):
it put more effing pressure on us, meaning the Cowboys.
Also the Rangers are the reigning World Series champions who
plan that market. And well, that's a nice sentiment and
it plays well to the electorate.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
From Dak Prescott, it's not basing any reality.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
If you look at the Christmas tree of Dallas Sports,
the Cowboys are still the star on top.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
That's still the Dallas Cup.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Even with the Rangers winning the World Series and the
Mavericks up one oh after beating Minnesota last night and
all that, that's just the way it.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Is, all right.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Furthermore, we make a right turn at the schedule game,
that's right the schedule game because Commissioner Roger the Dodger
Goodell said that the NFL is not actively, not actively
discussing extending the season to the eighteen games, which is
(06:39):
what he had just said in an interview with that
YouTuber Pat McAfee a couple of days back. Goodell said,
but the league is considering a longer season, but in
a long range context. So again, keep it simple. It's
not that deep. Roger Goodell says, the National Football League
(07:03):
is not actively discussing an eighteen game schedule.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
However, that's the long term goal. Do you believe Roger Goodell?
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
And the word actively is a weasel term because what
does that even mean. You know, you're passively talking about it,
you're not actively talking about You can't change it right
now anyway, you'd have to open up the collective bargaining
agreement words that should never be said the CBA to
get an extra game. From what I understand, but Roger Goodell,
(07:37):
and I've seen him, I've been I've been the last
couple of Super Bowls at the media events.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I've seen Goodell. He's like a rattlesnake.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
He will lie to your face, right he will lie
to your face. The eighteen game schedule that is in
the back pocket of every owner.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
The NFL has been heading that direction for fifty years,
fifty years.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
We had a TV legend from the nineteen eighties friend
of the show Fred Dreyer, who played TV's Hunter on
an old show back in the day. And Fred played
for the Rams in the seventies and the eighties and
some other teams, but with the Rams, and he was
part of the Players Association, and he said, back then
they wanted they originally went from they got to sixteen
(08:19):
games in his time, they played less than that, and
then they wanted eighteen, but they settled for sixteen back
in the day. So this has always been the map.
This has always been the map. But the owners suffer
from addiction. It's the disease of more. They're constantly seeking
more revenue. It's like everyone on Wall Street, right, it's
(08:40):
always we got to make the stockholders happy. We got
to make the people that are the best happy. We
got to get more and more and more and fire
more people. But you got to squeeze, squeeze that green
juice is what you got to get. Just like the
players that will be more money for the players one
extra game, though, I was told based on the television contracts,
the way everything is in the fell worth billions of
(09:02):
dollars just one they go from seventeen to eighteen games,
billions of dollars, billions of dollars like b with ben
billions in revenue. All right, lastly, we head now to
sin City. And I wanted to mention this because I
got an email from a fan of the Raiders who
actually lives in Oakland, right or I don't think he
(09:24):
lives in Oakland. He lives in northern California, but he
said this to me if he got a kick out
of it. So the Raiders quarterback, they don't really have
a start. They've got my guy Minshew, many at Gardner Minshew,
and then you've got Aidan O'Connell the incumbent.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
So Aidan O'Connell is the incumbent.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
And he said that he has decided to switch his
uniform number to number twelve.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
He had been wearing number.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Four, but he switched it partly out of, wait for it,
respect for Derek Carr, the former Raider quarterback.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Say what.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Now, let me repeat that for those of you that
are a little slow. It's a full moon, it's early
in the morning. So Ain O'Connell says he changed his
Raider jersey number because it was disrespectful to Derek Carr.
From your vantage point, you're probably not a Raider fan.
But from your vantage point, what you know about Derek Carr? Right,
(10:22):
what do you think of this one? So I will
say that O'Connell is not the sharpest crayon in the box.
He's worried about offending Derek Carr and protecting the legacy
of Derek Carr. When are they retiring number four? Is
that gonna happen like Week seven this year? They're gonna
retire number four in Vegas. We really need to celebrate
(10:46):
Derek Carr, who had a four point fifty winning percentage
with the Raiders and all those big moments in the
playoffs for Derek Carr. Wow, Aidan O'Connell showing a profound
lack of understanding on the Silver and Black because and
I'm no Raider guy, you know, I want to see
the Raiders do well because I got a friend of
(11:06):
a friend who works for the Raiders now. But switching
to number twelve by Aidan O'Connell is much more disrespectful
to Raider lore than wearing number four.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
What's my evidence? You know who wore number twelve for
the Raiders?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
How about Kenny Stabler, one of the great all time
rate Rich Gannon, who won an MVP as a Raider,
War number twelve. Rusty Hilger. If you're of a certain age,
Rusty was number twelve. Todd Barenovich, who smoked a lot
of weed back in the day when it was illegal
for the Raiders.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Todd Barenovitch War number twelve.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
That's a much more meaningful number then number four. Like,
what are you doing, you dumbo? It is the Ben
Mahlor show off. You would like to be part, you
can join us. Speakeasy rules are in effect. I got
an email, So what are the speakeasy rules gonna be down? Well,
I'll be here this holiday weekend Sunday into Monday, so
(12:07):
we'll have no speakeasy rules that night. If you really
give a rat's ass about that, I don't think it's
that difficult to figure out the number point that out.
But I'll be here over the holiday weekend anyway, on
AX at Ben Mahlor, that is, at Ben mahlor.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
If you'd like to be part of the program, we
will have Puck the World with Eddie.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
We'll get to that, and who knows what else we'll
do it all.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
We will do it next.
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Speaker 2 (13:55):
We'll take your calls.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Boards being reset right now as we get to your calls,
one after another. Fargo pizzas Ad and O'Connell changed his
number to Ken Stabler's number out of respect to Derek Carr.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
What a jackass, What a jackass, he says.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Scrooge says, what y'all mean is we've witnessed many crimes
every other day.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
On the show, is what he says. Yes, that is.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Well, there's a lot of Eddy cheats at the games,
so that happens a lot. That's a big part of
the show, and we hear that. Unfortunately, let's go to
the phones level sale to Adam who's in Miami, Miami, Miami,
Hello Adam, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Good morning, Ben. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
If I was any better, I would be a Dolphin,
but not a Miami Dolphin because I don't trust.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Toa I can't play with me and they're not going
to stand up. Well, they they will sign them, but
they should anyway. I'm calling about pretty much until my
last hour, about the the Yankees and things like that.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, how about Steinbreanner complaining they can't keep the payroll
that high?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
It's not fair.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Now, what you know, what sports fans get involved in
is winning and championships. But the truth is, because I
work twelve years in sports stadium business for different organizations,
different stadiums, what they really care about is making money.
It's not about the championships or the titles.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
So yes, if you spend more.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Money, invariably you will probably have more success, which leads
to more revenue and more relevancy. But the titles don't
really matter. And I hate to say it about your Dodgers, Ben.
You know that that fake world series.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
That World series, Jackass, that's a legit world series.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
The hardest global during a global demation.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
But that's not a legit title.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That is an absolutely that's the hardest of all time.
Baseball is designed explained. Why is everyone so stupid?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It must be a full moon, Adam, Listen, how is
baseball set up?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It is a lazy season.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
You can be bad for a month here or a
month there and it doesn't matter. The Diamondbacks got to
the World Series last year. They sucked most of the year.
The Phillies have gotten to a World Series. They weren't
very good and and you can kind of go through
the season figure things out as you go.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But when there's a.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Sixty game season, you have no time for any of that.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
That is the most difficult World Series.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Got it, they got it.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I respect it, but.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It's now you don't respect it. You do not respect it.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
You did anyway. So it's what Steinbrenner is saying. And this,
this is the part I do get. If so many
teams are successful getting to the World Series and winning
with their BS payroll tactics and analytics and Yankees are
spending billions upon billions for the same results, that's an
inefficient use of money.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
For example, Miami and you're spending a thousand dollars. It's
a waste of money.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Here's the way I interpret this. Steinbrenner, the Steinbrener family.
Hel Stifer's old money, you know, he he you know
Helsteimer never did anything is life. He just took his
dad's business. That's it, that's all. You know, Fine, whatever,
good for him. He won the genetic lottery. But here's
the deal, right, they just want to they need to.
What's the way I can say this on there? They
have to suck every dollar out of the Yankees, right,
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so if they don't spend as much in the playroll, yeah,
it's not about being fiscally responsible. Well, that's more money
they can take from the team. You know, every dollar
they don't spend on the team they take. I think
the baseball teams whatted they get one hundred million, one
hundred and fifty million dollars or something right off the
top from television from National TV, and the Yankees own
their own TV network, So what are they worried about?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
What do you think of the future of the of
sports in general?
Speaker 9 (17:38):
Though?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Ben, this is a deep question because eventually there's a
point where you know, I don't want to get too political,
but the NBA thing are a lot of guaranteed contracts
in MLBATS as well, there's a point where they won't
be able to make up that money because people watch less.
The NFL is kind of to get avoid all that
because they're like gold, but eventually sports can't afford the
way it's going with all the facts. Salaries fifty million
(18:01):
for some of these NBA guys.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Now, as long as long as they find broadcast money
and television is changing a lot. But if they can
find the broadcast money, because all the money that goes
to the players is based on revenue TV revenue, so
as long as they have that, but that's not guaranteed,
and it is something that the dangerous thing is young
people are not into sports nearly as much as when
(18:25):
I was a kid, and it's like they watch highlights,
but they're not really into it.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
They're not invested into it.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
A lot of kids and baseball and these other sports
don't care because they're they're worried.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
About the corporate crowd.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
They're worried about the people that have the money, and
the kids don't have any money. They used to try
to do both. They used to try to get kids
to follow the sports. They don't really care about kids
at all. Screw them kids.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
They don't make any money.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
And I respect your opinion. The Dodgers, yes, they won legitimately,
but you know, like the Lakers NBA thing, Well, the.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Lakers was illegitimate. Yah, the Lakers was illegitimate because it
was at a resort in Orlando.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
You know, you got to look underneath the paper pretty much.
But you know, but whatever, the Dodgers are relevant.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
And the Dodgers they get forty five thousand every night minimum,
even you know, even when they don't give away a
bobblehead at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Right, thank you, thank you?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
All right, hanging up on you, we.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Go from our man Adam, we say hello to a
Dick in Dayton.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
Hello, Dick, good morning. How is everybody that's.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Been a few days, dixter? What's going on in your world?
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Well? I did something yesterday as a bargain shopper. I
stopped at good Will and I picked up a little
uku lately and it was in tune up. Pay three
dollars for it?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
What a doukule?
Speaker 8 (19:49):
How many us you got, Dick?
Speaker 9 (19:50):
I got three little ones? And then I've got my
other one, the one that you know that I had
to buy because my other one.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Broke the big Yeah, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Pretty good now now now, holistic Dick, is this little
ukulele worthy of playing at a gig? Would you play
this at a gig with the Kettering Banjo Society or
the strummers?
Speaker 9 (20:13):
The strummers? Yeah, I probably I'm going to use it
for probably jam sessions because I'm going to take my
bigger one. You know, it's got a better tone to it.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I understand now when you when you go out and
about Dick, do people probably want to take pictures with
you and they want autographs and.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
You're well known that well, because you're famous.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
You're Dick and dats thank you. Yeah, hey, I wanted
this say something. I was calling the northeast Ohio one
of the stations up there, and uh, the Indians, I
guess we're down and you know they're happening. Well, they
call them the Guardians, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah, named after a bridge. They're named after a bridge
there after.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
A bridge that's kind of get over. They changed that name,
you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but what do.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
You call it What do you call the Washington football team?
What do you call them?
Speaker 9 (21:09):
Oh? You know, I don't you know. I'm just worried
about the Reds.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
And I hear you're not worried about anything other than Ohio, Ohio.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
It's irrelevant. It's all about Ohio. It's about the Reds.
It's about the Guardians or Indians. It's about the Calves Browns.
And you're more of a Browns fan than a Bengals fan.
But you will watch the Bengals, but you love the
Browns more.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
Right, But the thing of it is Ben Eddie and everybody.
This is ridiculous. The Reds need help. I mean, this
is pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
What do you recommend? If the Reds are listening right.
Speaker 9 (21:43):
Now, Dick, they should be their manager?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Who's that?
Speaker 9 (21:47):
Peter Edward Road?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
What that is a great idea? That is Mike Eddie.
Speaker 8 (21:55):
I could have never pretured that.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Put that on the Socials, Dick, and Dayton wants Rose
back as Red's manager. That would be amazing if they
can do that. And he's who cares if he's banned
from baseball? Right, Dick, he's prof and Rose he's the
all Charlie Hustle come on.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
These guys aren't hustling.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
Yeah, well listen, I know you got another calls.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Have a great day, all right, bye bye?
Speaker 8 (22:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
There he goes Dick and Date Mosello to Dan in Georgia,
and Dan has hung up.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Dan has said bye bye.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
He knew he couldn't follow Dick.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Have you talked about this Tom Brady quote from commissioner.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Roger Goodell about the Raiders?
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Yeah right, yeah, no I have not so.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Speaking to reporters at the league's spring meeting, commission Rodger
Goodell says progress is being made on Tom Brady owning
a piece of the Raiders, but issues remain.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Oh yeah, the issues of the owners don't want him
broadcasting games and owning the Rats.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
Ah well those are the issues. Huh yeah, interest.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Cannot do it.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
Why what's the big deal?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Because they had these production meetings before games, Eddie and
the coaches spill their guts and the players spill their
guts about strategy, and the owners are so paranoid they
think Tom Brady is going to take that information and
help the raiders out and their teams are going to
be in a competitive disadvantage.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
Do you think they spill their guts in those meetings
with those guys.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
They do.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Actually, I've heard that they tell them exactly what their
plan is and they all play grab ass. And I'll
tell you why they do that, Eddie, because they all
want to get jobs in television, and they think those
guys are going to help them get jobs in television
if they need those jobs in television, and it works
out looking all of them.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Sean Payton was a coach, he's back being a coach.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
He was a broadcaster, Peyton Manning doing TV and the
I mean a bunch of these gets Tony Romo, they
all end up in broadcasting.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Have you heard the Arrington John Madden's story that he
has told on the air.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I don't think i've heard that one.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Good it's a good one, he said.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
He was.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
You know, they were having one of those meetings before
a game and John Madden was talking to him, asking
him some questions, and he asked him, what do you
It's something about what do you think your chances are
winning the Super Bowl? And LeVar being the positive guy
that he said that he is. He answered that he
thought they had a chance of winning the Super Bowl,
and John Madden laughed at him and said, if you
guys are in the super Bowl, I will bungee jump
(24:19):
out of the Goodyear Blimp.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
At halftime.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
LeVar said he was very offended by that, but he
said that ultimately John Madden was right, they had no
chance of.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
Going to the super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Oh that's great, I bet you.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
They don't act like that anymore though, like Madden, Madden
was an original, Like they're like that at all.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
But who knows. I'm not in those meetings.
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Speaker 2 (24:59):
We need a little fun, Let's have some fun. What
do you say here, malor fun? Fact?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yes, the Baltimore Orioles have been swept for the first
time in one hundred and six regular season series, losing
to the Saint Louis Cardinals, and they got way back
one hundred and six times, the Cardinals ending the Orioles
streak without being swept, longest streak in baseball since the
(25:26):
nineteen forties. Since the nineteen forties. Saint Louis Cardinals Baltimore
was last swept prior to this week. They were last
swept way back in twenty twenty two. I barely remember
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
That was the last time it happened.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
So the Orioles went one hundred and six games without
messing up an entire series. But that's not a hockey story.
So let's get the hockey right now here.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Week go with Eddie fuck the world.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
All right, thank you Badley. Second round of the Stanley
Cup playoffs are in the ball. The Conference finals just
getting started. Will tell you how we got to our
final four. The number one seed in the East, the
President Trophy winning New York Rangers first team into the
conference finals. They eliminated the Carolina Hurricanes four games to two.
In the deciding game of the series, the Rangers were
down three to one going into the third period on
the road, and then New York Chris Kreider became a hero.
(26:19):
Three straight goals for the natural hat trick, d rally
of the team and clinch the series. Crider became just
the third player in NHL history to score three third
period goals, including a series clincher, joining Jay Ginsel and
some guy never heard of from like the twenties. He's
also the first Ranger player with three goals in a
playoff period, joining Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky is the
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only other players to do that. So the Rangers onto
the Eastern Conference Finals. In the West the number one
seed the Dallas Stars. They advanced, feeding the Colinde Avalanche
in six games, four games to two. They won the
deciding game six two on a double overtime on a
Matt Dushane Golie is a former first round pick of
Colorado Stars. Go three to nothing, or should say, they
won all three games in Den against the top home
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team in the regular season.
Speaker 8 (27:02):
Colorado Avalanche star and likely.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
League MVP Nathan McKinnon held the two goals and three
assists in these six games.
Speaker 8 (27:10):
Florida Panthers eliminated the Boston Bruins four games to two.
Speaker 7 (27:12):
A lot of controversies in this series and it all
went against Boston. Game two, Bruins lost their captain and
key player Bat Marshan when he got sucker punch to
the face by Sam Bennett. He didn't play the next
two games. Bennett somehow did not get suspended, and then
in Game four, he pushed the Bruins defense, went into
Boston goalie Jeremy Swim and then scored the game time goal.
They eventually go on to win that game as well.
Somehow that goal was allowed to stand after video review.
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Boston could not overcome those moments that win against him,
and that meant that Florida would move on to face
the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference Finals. Final
team to advance in that Final four was the Evonton Others.
They got by the Canucks three to two in a
Game seven in Vancouver. Knucks did not have their number
one goalie and vezn the trophy finalist stature Denco due
to injury for the entire series, and then they lost
(27:55):
their top scorer, Brock Besser for the designing Game seven
due to.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
A blood clot issue.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
Or there's what by starts Connor McDavid and Leon dry
Sidle McDavid twenty four points so far in the playoffs,
driy sitles got twenty one and defenseman Evan Bouchard's twenty
points of the most buy an NHL defenseman in the
history of the league through the first two rounds of
the postseason. So the Oilers will face the Dallas Stars
in the Western Conference Finals. So last night it was
Game one of the East Finals, Panthers shutting out the
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Rangers in New York three nothing, Sergey Mabrowski twenty three
saves in the shutout, so Florida with a one oer
series lead, and then Game one of the Western Conference
Finals comes up tonight in Dallas with the Stars hosting
the Oilers. Lots of coaching news. Toronto Maple Leaves hired
Craig Buruba as their next head coach. Here replaces the
fired Sheldon Keith Brube as most recently head coach of
the Saint Lois Bluesy guided him their only Stanley Cup
(28:41):
title back in twenty eighteen. Takes over an underachieving Mayple
Leafs team that's looking for its first Stanley Cup title
since nineteen sixty seven. Carolina Hurricanes resigned their coach Rod
Brindamore and his staff to multi year extensions. He's a
former captain of their two thousand six Stanley Cup winning team.
He's guided the Hurricanes to six straight playoff appearances to
it is in the Conference finals, but yet to reach
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act on the Cup final. New Jersey Devils hired former
Leaf said coach Sheldon Keeve to be there next day
coaching gets a four year deal. Got to the Mayple
leice to the playoffs five straight years, but they only
made it out of the first round once, and the
LA Kings removed the interim tag from head coach at
Jim Hiller.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
He gets dealt an I'll be.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Sleeping, I'll be sleeping.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
Yeah, okay, But he took over for the Fire Tom
McClelland at the end of the year they went twenty
one to twelve and one under him. They did lose
in the first round of the playoffs. This is his
first full time NHL head coaching job. We still have
head coaching vacancies in Seattle, San Jose and Winnipeg.
Speaker 8 (29:36):
And that is your puck the World report that.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Did you mention the words of Don Sweeney the Bruins
GM who said we are going to be aggressive. No,
it is off season. What does that even mean be aggressive.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
What are they going to like when they eat and
they go on vacation.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
I would guess that means they're going to spend money,
But I'm not really sure if they have.
Speaker 8 (29:54):
Money to spend.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
But how do they not have money there?
Speaker 8 (29:56):
Well, there's a salary cap in Boston, I know, and
everywhere else.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I saw that The first round of fan voting is
now done.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
Did you mention that fan voting for the YETI for
the for the Utah team?
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Yeah? I did not.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
How's it going? We don't know. They didn't announce I
didn't see it. If they did announce it, I did
not see.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
No.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
I did not hear that they've announced it anything.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
No, they but they closed the voting. The first round
of fan voting is done. So now we'll move on
to round two.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
We need the Yetti don't to announce what the remaining
names are.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, they have to say, yeah, of course they will
have another Well, they're gonna have another vote, but ultimately
it's the team. They're gonna have like two or three
rounds of voting and then the owner is gonna decide.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
They're gonna limit it to like the final two, and
then the owner is gonna decide.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Suppose that's what I heard.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
M M, Well, we all know what we've voted for.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
It's all yety, all yety all the time. You give
us five minutes, we'll give you the YETI we need.
Or venom venom, that's not stupid.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It's now that's venom. You can can kill you, Eddie.
Venom can kill you.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
I can. But that's a stupid name for hockey team.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Yeah, Alfie Alien Pinter says, Please note, Ben, it's okay
for Eddie dimension the Final four.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
When referring to hockey, he says, alf was very impressed.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
He listened to I did a show earlier on Wednesday
afternoon in LA and I was forced to talk hockey
for a segment, and he was very impressed.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
He was very impressed with that.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Here's a message, Ben, this is Fat Daddy Bellflower. The
Dodgers need to bring back helmet Weekend. That will get
all the kids back in the groove. They're too hell
bent on doing bobbleheads that are made from China and
they are worthless. Bring back helmet Weekend, says Fat Daddy.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Well, that'll change everything. That'll change everything. The helmet.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
Do they still sell like those? You know? Says thing.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I don't know, but boy, we have fond memories, don't
we eddy? Oh yeah, all those.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
They have not I think they have nachos like that
big thing at Dodger Stadium this year when I was
out there at the one game I went to, they
have a Korean fried chicken bucket, which is very popular.
But it's like thirty five bucks and it's a layer
of chicken and then a bunch of fries.
Speaker 10 (32:13):
It's waffle fries and uh oh you've seen it, yes,
and well Dodgers, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There was
a guy who was eating it when I was there,
and I was like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
You got the bucket or chicken.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
And then and then like three minutes later like that, yeah,
something like that. And then like three minutes later he's
over there like oh, hot, hot, hot, Like his mouth
is on fire because it is spicy.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
You did not get it.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
I don't like spicy stuff now. I don't want to
be I don't like when my nose starts to run
when I'm eating.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I don't know. That's maybe the guy just didn't handle spice.
Maybe that no he's a big man.
Speaker 10 (32:46):
Most big men can handle a little bit of.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Spice, not all, not all. Yeah, that is spicy.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
The ha's a spicy meatball or a piece of chicken.
It is the Ben Mather Show. As we are rolling, rolling,
rolling on through the over nine hours, and we have
a bit coming up, which means I'll give out the
number A factor fiction.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I need some judges eight.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
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nine six six.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
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Speaker 1 (33:12):
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We will do it next.
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Speaker 8 (33:52):
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Speaker 1 (33:54):
Please trans a bit of fidius.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Let's face some raw facts on the Ben Maller Show.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Hey, let's get to it. Fact poor fiction time. Listen
closely to all three stories. Figure out which of the
three is not completely true. Part of it is bogus.
The whole thing is bogus in terms of the show.
In context of the show. Let's welcome into our celebrity
panel of judges. I believe the Power couple is still
on their European vacation.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Good for them.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
So we'll say good morning to Butch, who's in Germany.
Auto bon Butch, Good morning, Butcher? I guess is it
morning there?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
What time is it in Germany this morning?
Speaker 8 (34:39):
Are we looking at it?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Okay? I'm doing middays? All right? How's live treating you? Butch?
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Good?
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Right?
Speaker 8 (34:50):
Need to stop speaking raining? All right?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I don't have that problem. Hold on, say buddy the
great Butch. We have Kelly and Nashville. Hell, hello, Kelly.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Hi, then donut Kelly. Her heart's in Seattle, but her
bodies in Nashville.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
That's correct, Yes, that is correct.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Are you gonna go back to Seattle at some point.
Are you gonna stay in Nashville?
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Once?
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Well, here's the thing is, once my son turns eighteen
and goes to college, I have the ability.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
To go back.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Okay, all right, you wait for that.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
I got you.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
All right, very good, hold on set Kelly, and you're
to go back to the city northwest.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
We have Daniel, the Chamber of Commerce guy from Fort
Wayne who moved because he had terrible neighbors.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Hello Daniel, for the last time this school year.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Good morning for the north side of Fort Wayne.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Is that right the last time?
Speaker 8 (35:42):
Huh? Interesting?
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Well, I'll call back in August when school you're convenced again, right,
start crossings again.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
All right, we're gonna lose you for the rest of
the summer. Huh all right, yeah, that's a bummer. All right,
we'll talk to you today next year.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
And Hollowing James.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Hello, Hollowing James James in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who keeps calling
back because he has no friends. Correct, dollar James, because
you're my only friend.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Oh, how lucky man.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
I only understand him because he is now man.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Wow, you're on the good medication today. Holy Yams. All right,
let's get the shut up. Let's get to the stories.
Here we go, my friend, well yeah, Story number one
hash it out NASCAR making headlines. Earlier this week, we
had a throwdown at the track. Ricky Stanhouse Junior took
a swing at Kyle Busch cause quite a kerfluffle. Now
(36:39):
TMZ has learned celebrity boxing has offered to put the
wheels in motion for a boxing match between these two drivers.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
That story number one.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Story number two a viral moment on TNT, Charles Barkley
claimed he he told Anthony Edwards he was going back
to Minnesota. I hadn't been there in thirty nearly thirty years,
Edwards told Barkley, bring you ass back. The State of
Minnesota has adopted that. The Tourism agency has used that
(37:09):
in their marketing for the state of Minnesota. And story
number three. The Great Kobayashi, the original dominating competitive eater
before Joey chestnutt six time winner of the Nathan's Hot
Dog Eating Contest. He has his retirement this week, and
as a result of that, the Mayor of New York City,
Eric Adams, announced the city will be revealing a Kobyashi
(37:30):
statue out on Cony Island to honor the man that
put the competitive eating domination on the map there mainstream, Kobyashi.
Those are the three stories. One of them is not
completely true. So figure out which of the three is
not true? Hello, Butch one two or three? Butch two
(37:51):
number two?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
All right? What about you Kelly in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I'm going with number one, number one.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
And d Daniel last time. We'll talk to him for months.
Daniel and Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce. Daniel number one,
number one on Halloween.
Speaker 9 (38:09):
James number one here one.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Oh my god, he son, so, oh my, well, you're
all wrong everyone, He is wrong. It's the Kobyashi story.
He did retire, But there are no plans for a
statue of Kobyashi.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
On Coney Island. Oh who knows. Maybe they'll put one
out there. But that was the bogus story there. Kobyashi,
though man aleegend in the Eating game.
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