June 12, 2024 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about the injury to Kristaps Porzingis and how much impact it will have on the Finals, Joey Chestnut getting banned from the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, Maller to the Third Degree, Queen of Hearts w/ La Reina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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buying should be and we're back at it. Are we
breaking down an NBA Finals No? No, we're not breaking
down an NBA Finals game, because there was no game
to be played. But we do go to deep in
the heart of Texas into the greater Dallas metropolitan area
that was the site of NBA Finals me Day Part two.
(02:03):
More Puffery puff the Magic Dragon was there. The biggest
development came from the Boston side of things, as they
are up two games to love in the NBA Finals. Enough,
if you did not hear, and perhaps not, perhaps not,
we learned that Chris stops porzingis that is a very
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tall human being that occasionally plays well and often doesn't
play at all. Chris stops Porzingis suffered what has been
described as a quote rare injury and it involves his
left leg and other stuff and tendons and some other stuff.
It's injury we've we've never heard of, and we've heard
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of just about every ridiculous injury you can possibly come
up with, but not the injury he suffered. So a
rare left leg injury involving tendons and what is the prognosis. Well,
the prognosis mixed messages here. The Celtics say that Porzingis
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is day to day. They issued a news release saying
that Perzingis is day to day very well could play
here on Wednesday night in game number three, but Joel
Mosula said this is a serious injury and the Celtics
are not allowing Porzingis to decide whether or not he plays. Porzingis,
for what it's worth, told reporters he said he's optimistic
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that he'll be able to play in game three. Okay,
so let us discuss the question. The Celtics Christops Porzingis,
better known as the Unicorn, has suffered what is described
as a rare leg injury. His status for the rest
of the finals is up in the air. Everywhere. How
big a deal is this? Is this the turning point?
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So I've got hang ten, roller coaster and handshake. We
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a bouncy ball, which is what they
use in pro bouncy ball. So, ah, is this the
turning point? No, this is not the turning point. You
might want to turn this into a turning point, but
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it's not the turning point in terms of winning the series.
You play to win the game. In terms of winning
the series. This is a pimple on a blue whale's stomach,
is what it is. Somewhere out there in the Pacific.
It's minuscule, is what it is. And there are people
that are conflating this with some kind of dramatic Shakespearean
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plot twist. I don't see it, and I'm never wrong
about these things. I am never wrong about these things.
Let me put a call on, hold here, hold on,
there we go, all right, but I'm never wrong. I'm
never wrong about these things. Now, given Porzingis his history,
a massive injury history, it is unlikely unlikely Celtics are
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gonna get much. Even plays as a distant relative of
Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas, Porzingis will mostly be just
a decoy if he plays in Game three. That's my anticipation.
And I am upset because we talked about doing this,
but we didn't actually do it. We were gonna play
Injury Bingo, nothing more exciting than NBA injury Bingo and
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the Unicorn we'd mentioned, which game will Porzingis get hurt.
We know he's not going to make it the entire
series without having an injury, and he couldn't even make
it all the way through two games. By the end
of game two, Snap Crackle Pop goes the serial bowl
for Porzengis and using our TikTok medical degree that we
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got online, there the unicorn tore connective tissue near the
ankle and that led to a displaced tendon. So that's
the issue. What does that mean in the big picture?
Very well, it means the Celtics are a little less,
little less imposing without Prozingis, but still much better. In fact,
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if you were to say this was a race, and
why not it's a race, the Celtics are a country
mile ahead of the Mavericks in terms of talent even
without Porzingis. Have you seen some of the Turdburgers plan
for Dallas in this series?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
So far?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
You get that loser, Kyrie Irving, that fraud who was
exposed by the way on social media. But anyway, not
a lot of people talking about that. I wonder why now.
My advice here to the Celtics without Porzingis is to
go Cowabunga dude and be surfer like hang ten as
they say, and ride the tide. Just ride the tide,
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ride the waves. And this means more opportunity for average
al Al Horford, average ol will have more opportunity here,
more minutes to put up average numbers. But the secret
sauce here has been Drew Holliday and his Doberman defense
for the Celtics and making the Dallas basketball team a
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one trick pony. Speaking of that one trick for Dallasca,
Luka doncik do you see this? Luca was listed on
the Mavericks Game three injury report hitting into Wednesday night.
Here tonight's game Game three. It's a Wednesday show as probable,
So he's listed as probable to play in Game three,
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with the only injury being a contusion to the chest,
the thoracic contusion. I believe that's how it's it anyway,
no longer a right knee spray not listed now. The
big revelation for porzingis is that he received a pain
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killing injection before game too. Fortunately, the Chargers team doctor
did not give him that so he did not have
to miss seven months or whatever, but painkilling injection before
game two to manage the intense pain, the throbbing pain,
and he is expected to get another one of those
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injections before game number three, possibly during game number three
at halftime. Sometimes they do those things at halftime. So
the Mavericks Luka Doncik getting an injection prior to game
two and likely another one before game three, what do
you make of that development? So what do you make
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of that? To him? So I've got classical drama, o
rama NBA style surf piping' hot, piping' hot right there
from the Willis Reid game years ago before mainstream media
cared about the NBA, to the Michael Jordan flu game,
which we learned during COVID was a food poisoning game,
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to the Kobe Bryant flu game, which I think was
also food poisoning. So all these these various games, and
now you can add conceivable if it goes the way
of Dallas, you would add the Luca injection perfection game
for the mav Recks, all because of a bruise. Remember,
a contusion is a fancy way to say a bruise.
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I wish I had known that when I was a kid.
It would have sounded much cooler. I I'm Mottle banged,
I got a contusion. It doesn't sound as cool when
you say I got bruise. It doesn't sound cool, right,
it sounds weak. But it is going to be a
roller coaster. All right, It's gonna be a roller coaster.
And here's why, because you're gonna have the Does he
take the shot early? Does he take the shot midway
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through the game. It's gonna be equal parts exhilarating, frightening,
and terrifying. If you care for the Mavericks. We have
a few people that listen to the show and occasionally
call in the Do I care about the Mavericks? But
the issue we see this in football. It's more of
a football thing than a basketball thing. But the effects
of the medication, the toxicity of the medication where off,
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you can only take one. So do you take it
before the game, right before tip off, and then you
come out gang busses, which is what Luca did in
Game two, or do you have to try to tough
it out, figuring Dallas is at home and you can
suck in the first half and then in the second
half you can go guns a blazing, right, So that's
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the decision. You make the call now, since the Mavericks
are at home, the smart thing would be to just
kind of figure you figure still be in the game
at halftime if you're Dallas, like the Celtic's are gonna
blow the Mavericks out. Unlikely that on the road that
the Boston basketball team will come out and just blow
the doors off the Mavericks, at least in the first half.
So you're if you're deciding between pregame and halftime, you
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would go halftime, all things being equal. It is interesting
to note, though, the official family doctor for Luca Nonchi,
I think, is it doctor Pepper? Is that truly loves
doctor Pepper? Right now? Who doesn't now the last word?
Here we hop on the coaching carousel. Round and round
and round and round, round and round and round and
(11:03):
round we go on the coaching carousel. Follow up Obligatory,
Obligatory Laker La La land Malar monologue, the historians kicked
in the nuts by a college coach Wall. This has
been playing out the last couple of days of Laker
franchise in full panic mode right now. A lot of embarrassment.
I'm enjoying every second of it. They're the laughing stock
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of the entire NBA. The Los Angeles Lakers, HA, they suck,
they can't. They embarrassed themselves. The embarrassments say, this is
Dan Hurley thing that Genie Buss and the Lakers flew
Dan Hurley out from Kinnectic. The only reason you would
do that is because you thought you had a deal
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to hire Dan Hurley. Otherwise you wouldn't risk the embarrassment.
But te Da, we've already been through this. We don't
need to rehash it. Oh, it's a lot of fun
to rehash. I really like rehashing the story. Boys, it fun.
So the Lakers are in scramble mode trying to pick
up the pieces of the broken windshield. There's a lot
of pieces of glass everywhere. And now the latest, if
(12:07):
you haven't heard, some NBA insiders believe that JJ Reddick,
who's believed to be the preferred choice now that Yukon's
coach has gone back to stores Connecticut Dan Hurley. So
JJ Reddick the insider crowd, there's a popular opinion by
popular people that Reddick will avoid the Lakers quote circus
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unquote after the fiasco that took place with the Yukon coach.
Does that one pass the smell test. So the good
thing about this is when you do the smell test,
I have a very large large note, so I have
the Schnazola test, the malar Schnazzola test. This take fails.
That's a failed take. Go back to take jail. That's
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a failed take. I'll tell you why. JJ Reddick. Let
me be clear, he has no business being an NBA
head coach. The guys a fraud as a broadcaster, he's unlikable.
He's got no coaching experience, so he checks none of
the boxes other than sucking the toes of Lebron James.
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Other than that, that's it, and that's all the qualifications
one needs. But aside from that, you take the job
because you're unqualified. And it's a lot of big money
under the big top. There a lot of big money
and the Lakers are desperate to save face. And so
if they hired JJ Reddick, we got pat Riley until
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we fire him in two years, well when Lebron's got
but we got pat Riley. And that handshake that is
a golden handshake. That's a special handshake. Golden handshake, big money,
big money, big money handshake.
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have baseball knocked out of a monologue. And this is
a really dramatic story. Here it comes from in many
ways the dinner table a stunner from down under. Now,
I assume you've heard by now if you're listening, but
maybe you missed it. We talked about it briefly, but
we learned early in the day on Tuesday. We learned
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early in the day on Tuesday that Major League Eating
has outlawed Joey Jaws Chestnut. Let me repeat that for
those of you in the back round. Joey Chestnut has
been banned. Chestnut is banned from participating in the twenty
twenty four Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest because he partnered
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with a rival brand of wieners and they're fake wieners.
He's selling fake wieners. So Chestnut recently signed a deal
with something called Impossible Foods, and they are apparently a rival.
I don't know how you consider them a rival because
they're not anything like a Nathan's hot Dog. In my
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and my opinion, it's a pen So they, I guess,
launched a vegan sausage, a vegan wiener who wants that now.
As a result, the people at mL have ruled that
as long as the sixteen time champion of the World,
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the hottest of the hot Dogs sixteen time champion joyceestern
as long as he has a deal with this rival brand,
it's turned out the last the parties over, he will
be persona non grata at the Midsummer Spectacle July fourth.
I wrap myself in the flag every year on July
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fourth and I watch those wieners go down, and I
love it. Every year. It's that's my routine every year.
Do a monologue about it every year. I don't know
that I will do that this year. I might not so.
Chestnut said he learned that he was banned from social media,
which is really not that shocking. Don't most people learn
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things from social media. I'll bet you that Chestnut was
made aware he could be banned. I'm guessing there was
a back and forth here they say, you know you
might be banned, and if you know, we're thinking about banning,
and then he found out on social says he has
been training intensely to defend his Yellow Mustard Belt title,
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the belt that he gets for winning that award, and
he said he was gutted, much like when he asked
to go to the bathroom after he eats all those
hot dogs and buns, and Chestnut says he does not
have a formal contract with Major League Eating or the
Nathan's Hotdog people, and he claimedging the rules. That's what
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he's saying. It is changing the rules now as it
relates to partnerships for Joey Jaws. That's his story and
he's sticking to it. So let us discuss the question
here as we talk about this, how do you process
the single greatest competitor in modern times in the Western world.
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Joey Chestnut banished from the July fourth hot Dog contest
in New York. So I've got Birmingham, Stealth, Bomber, and
hob Goblin, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a very busy,
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very busy toilet, which Joey Chestnut spends a lot of
time on when he's done with these eating contests. But
to lead off your full disclosure, I am not fair
in balanced when it comes to Joey Chestnut. I like
the guy. I've had him on my podcast. I don't
usually do a lot of interviews anymore because that requires
booking guests, and we don't do that takes effort, so
we normally just you know, just be asked, but the
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one every year I gotta get Joey Chestnut, and I
have his numbers, so it's fortunately I can get ahold
of him when I need to get a hold of him.
So I like the guy. I'm a long time you know,
I don't like anybody. I'm an admirer. I call him
the god of Gluttney, Joey Chestnut. And there's a lot
of debate in sports radio about you. It's Lebron better
is it Jordan's? And I guess it depends how old
you are. That kind of thing. There is no argument,
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none in Major league eating, zero debate. Everyone knows the
rock star, the king of Kings when it comes to this,
the most dominant athlete in my life, Joey chestnutt no
ifs ands or butts about it. Joey Chestnut. He is
head and shoulders above every one else that has done this.
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And seeing him, at least for now, sent to the
Who's Goal is bittersweet. It's bittersweet because I don't agree
with Chestnut the product he's endorsed. Who wants to eat
vegan anything? I mean, what kind of losers doing that?
Unless you've got some kind of dietary problem where you
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can't consume me. But if you can't, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I mean, that's just that's my take. And I have
vegans in my family. I look at them weird, I do.
But this one, he's like being sent to Birmingham, right,
is this said? I saw all That's this a Birmingham moment.
It's a Birmingham moment. My I remember Michael Jordan and
I'm I'm in the camp my opinion. Can't sue me
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for my opinion that the commissioner of the NBA, David
Stern shadow band Michael Jordan, sent him to the Birmingham
Barons in double A for the Chicago White Sox because
he was associating with gamblers and was gambling large amounts
of money while playing for the Chicago Bulls. And so
the NBA is like, hey, David Stern's a old school
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and you know he's dead now. But he sent to
Jordan to suspension. They made a deal not to ruin
the legacy of Jordan and they sent him to Birmingham.
But Joey Chestnutt being put on time out for a
crime that I got to I am a gambler. I
think associating with vegans is akin to associating with gambles,
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if not worse. And after a comprehensive review of the
facts that we have available, Joey chest nutt went for
the bag. What's in the back A lot of money,
a lot of dead presidents. He went for the money.
He made a high stakes financial gamble, and right now
it's not working out. He thought that the amount of
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money was so large and he was such a dominating force.
There's no way you can have this contest without Joey
Chestnut and it couldn't mess with him. Well, it's the
famous thing on the internet. F around and find out
hefter around, play stupid games, and you know when stupid
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plies is. But now, furtherm do you understand the rationale
of the Nathan's hot Dog marketing department having an issue here?
Do you understand the rationale? So I understand it. We're
in the advertising business. Radio is all about advertising. Otherwise
we're doing commercial free radio, and have you ever ever
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heard public radio? My god, does it suck. So we
actually have advertisers here, God love them. So we do advertising.
And I get it on that from that perspective. But
somebody should have been a grown up in the room
and said, let's do a deep dive on what is
going to happen if we end up going public with this,
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like what is going to happen here? And on the surface,
it makes sense because the people are upset. They're like,
I understand you spent a lot of money to sponsor
this hot dog eating contest. You're the title sponsor, and
why spend the amount of money, the wad of cash
on this event if Joey Chestnut is going to be
flying around in a stealth bomber advertising competitor and while
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you're the one paying the bill, Like, I don't I
don't get that. I understand why you miss it. But
that said, when you when you walk all the way
through this and there's a possibility this is all conspiracy.
It's all being done for idiots like me to talk
about it. Well, I took the bait. But assuming that's
not the case, Murphy's law, right, Murphy's law, this ends
up backfiring for the Nathan's people because the Vegan Wiener brand,
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the Vegan Wieners are getting millions and millions of impressions
and getting online clout and free advertised free marketing, and
there they're non meat dogs. So a non meat dog,
how is that a competitor to a wonderfully delicious meat dog.
It's not right, and it's always odd to me, and
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no one's been able to explain this to me. And
I don't get. I'd like to know if you're a vegan,
whatever floats you, but not for me. But I don't
get why. I have people that I ear my circle
like are hardline vegetarians and vegans, and I think it's
disgusting to eat animals and all that stuff. I think
those people are very odd. But if you tell me,
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on one hand that eating a hot dog or a
steak or a nice juicy cheeseburger is disgusting and that
I'm a Neanderthal and a caveman because I eat meat,
But then on the other hand, you want stuff that
tastes just like meat, Like what is the point of that?
So aren't you like a fake Neanderthal? Aren't you a
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fake caveman? Ogre? Why would you The reason meats delicious
and you want the taste of meat, but you have
you know, you feel bad because the animals die, But
you gotta look at where you're on the food chain
because you could end up being eaten by something else. Now,
last thing here is Joey Chestnut going to torment the
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Nathan's Hot Dog contest. Now we are in the camp
that believe there is a path to salvation. There is
a pardon that could come down here. But if that
does not happen, if these are hardliners at Nathan's, hardline
wiener people. If that's the case, if the big Big Sausage,
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all right, if Big Sausage does not let down here
and this is the way it goes, Joey Chestnut will
become a hob goblin. He is going to spook, just
like the spook Major League eining. We're talking Wilt Chamberlain.
The equivalent of one hundred points in a game in Hershey,
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Pennsylvania is seventy six dogs and buns in ten minutes.
Seventy six dogs and buns twenty twenty one. I saw it.
I witnessed it. I was watching, and that remains the
unbeatable record. That's the one hundred points in Major leading
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seventy six. He took the fork from Kobayashi and he
ate it. He devoured it. Is what he did. Chestnut
is a real life version. As a kid, there was
a cartoon character, and he's the real life version of
Porky Pig. And that's all, folks, a real life version,
right Captain America. This guy is such a stud. Do
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you remember a couple of years ago, some loser thug,
some vegan thug, tried to interrupt the hot dog eating
cought and what in Chestnut? Do you remember what he did?
He went, Captain America. Is what Joey Chestnut did, some
loser thug protester. He took him in a chuck out
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in the coppet and he's still won. He ate sixty
three dogs and buns while taking a vegan protester down.
That's Joey Chestnut. Now, I know he's gone to the
dark side with the vegan thing, but you gotta let
him in. You gotta let him in, and then make sure,
if you're Nathan's, you have him eat all of those
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hot dogs and say, hey, here's Joey chestnutt he just
ate sixty five of our hot dogs, you losers.
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Go, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go. Her degree at this that's right, truck
and Joe Hill, It's happening kolo.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Through sixty seven games this season, Aaron Judge has better
numbers in almost every category than he did during his
twenty twenty two AL MVP season, Ben, would you put
money on Judge to win his second MVP award?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well, he's clearly the favorite. He's the pace car in
the AL MVP race. However, he is injury prone, and
that is why I would be reluctant to bet a
lot of money on Aaron Judge because he misses a
lot of time. It's hard to win the MVP when
you run into a wall at Dodger Stadium and your
togo's sideways and you can't play or whatever. Now he's
got a big lead, but it's not an insurmountable lead.
The Baltimore Orioles are pretty pretty good. This guy Gunner Henderson,
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he's a real gunner in Baltimore. He's been great. And
another dark horse candidate is Bobby Witt, who's been a
royal stud in Kansas City. Although you know he's way behind,
but it's not over. But Aaron Judge is ahead. He's
got Juan Soto who's also a candidate next.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
The Packers had a young, unproven group of receivers heading
into last season, but the group rose to the challenge
and green Bay found success. Despite that, none of the
young guys really stood out as a true number one receiver.
Jordan Love spoke on that Monday and said, I don't
think you have to have a number one receiver Ben
Is he right?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
No, Listen, he's you do need someone who's out in front.
And Jordan loves being diplomatic and all this. The answer
is green Bay has a number one receiver. It's elementary,
my dear Watson, Christian Watson, who maybe I'm biased. We
had him on the podcast, the green Bay Wide Receiver.
He's the man. And like Romeo Dobbs and Jaden Read
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and these other guys are they're Jags, they're they're compared
to Watson. So he's the number one guy. Although he
was injured last year and they didn't exactly they didn't
sing from the same song sheet there between Love and Watson,
but he was great with Rogers of the year.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Before next, Drod Mayo spoke with the media about the
reconfigured kickoff formation this season, and he admitted that the
best move for teams would probably just to be kick
the ball out of the end zone and let their
opponents start to drive from the thirty ben Do you
think that most teams are gonna take that approach?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, here's what I think, Coop. This is a June
NFL storyline where people are obsessing about this. Yeah. I know,
they say every yard matters and all that, and that's
why every yard counts. However, if you have a halfway
decent defense, going from the twenty five yard line to
the thirty yard line should not matter that much. The
thing that drives me crazy is the paralysis of analys
(31:00):
is that we are spending wasting time on these this
particular story. I'm not that interested. I hope we I
want more kickoff for tunes. That's an exciting point. How
did we do that?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Is a one you.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Can put on. I won Colllexis, I won Plexis.
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Speaker 7 (31:51):
That's right, it's time for the Queen of Hearts here
on the Benmeller Show.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah all right, you got a lot of questions here
are paired?
Speaker 7 (32:00):
They told you?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah all right. Kathy in Madison, longtime member of the
Malle Militia Beautiful Madison, Wisconsins. She says she wants helpful
tips for older people who haven't dated in a long time.
So I guess she's looking to get back in the game.
She wants to be in the game.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Oh my gosh, I love old person love, okay, because
a lot of people think they're down and out when
they get old, but it's just not the case. You
still have the same drive as you did. You're still
capable of dating and falling in love. I mean, you
just got to get back out there. Don't be afraid.
There's other people your age who also want to date,
So get rid of that preconceived notion that you're too old.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
You're not.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
No.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
I have heard, Lorena that you get to those retirement
homes and it's like, uh, listen, since city's going on
at a lot of ro don't know if it's romance,
temporary romance. Yeah, they're going for it.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
There's quagmires on every corner inside of those homes.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
And I have been told for boys, if you make
it long enough, you probably won't because men die before women.
But the old man in the retirement very popular. I
don't know that's sure or not, but I've heard that
from some of the older guys that have listened. Sho
ferg Dog says, how big of an age gap is
acceptable for dating? Should I just go by the half
(33:19):
your age minus seven year rule?
Speaker 7 (33:28):
I've never heard.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
You just made that up, that's why.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
You Yes, Okay, well let me just give you an example.
My parents were twenty years apart, so that's that's a
pretty big gap.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah, that's pretty large.
Speaker 7 (33:40):
Yeah, I think I think you know, whatever works for
you works for you.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Oh you got don't you have to say that because
that's what you that's what you know.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
Too close to being a minor, because that's gross to me.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Yeah, all right, let's see here. Oh, here's here's a
great love question from JD and Boston. He works out
at the garden there he says, what is your opinion
on AI? Are you scared of it? Do you love it?
Or a bit of both? And why? Very good romance question.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Yeah, well, you know that AI dating show that Coop
was talking about right where they're getting AI robots involved.
So AI is definitely in the chat game right now.
You could date and fall in love with the robot.
I think it's terrifying. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I'm upset because when I would have been great, I
would have gotten like diplomas all over the place of
AI to cheat with. Oh my god, I had we
had to go to the store and buy these things
called cliff notes to cheat, or I had to sit
behind the smart kid in school and rip them off.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
But yeah, it's brilliant. But I think it also might
be our demise one day. We'll see.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Well, well, find other ways to meet our demise. Let's
say a looad to Tyson in Saint Louis, who's on
the phones for Lorena, the Queen of Hearts Alo Tyson, welcome.
Speaker 8 (34:52):
Oh there, miss Lona, mister Lee, your morning producer there
is looking for love, any chance of being him? Are
you giving him a chance and or anything you can
do to help him out?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Well?
Speaker 7 (35:04):
I'm already his work wife, So.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
I think that's w what what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
WHOA? This is devast heady this but he also farts
on you, so I mean that's bs. Who do you who?
Do you share your food with him? So I thought
putting Loraina on the spot here, Loraina, do you have
to work husbands? Is that?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
What you have here?
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Is my thing?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Anyway? Do you think this is leader lapper Jonas Knox
pretending to be Tyson from.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Saying I don't know, but I'm upset after this this segment?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Now, wow, we're having we have problems, devastations get all right, Well,
thank you, I'll hang up on you. Well, here's an
important question problem King Rory wants to know. He says,
uh is using a toy my my my woman equivalent
of eating hot dog? Is what? That's what he said?
Speaker 7 (36:04):
I don't know, toy on your woman the same as
eating a vegan hot dog.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Well, it's a that's it. That's his question. I just read.
I'm just reading the question, all right. I was just
making Sorr mad. Mad Jack wants to know, boy, these
guys are going third rail mom man. Uh, he wants
to know about different to add on items to the
bedroom like whipped cream edible undies and what yes.
Speaker 7 (36:30):
Play around?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Do all that you can? Why not?
Speaker 7 (36:32):
You're about to play. It's supposed to be fun. How
fun with it?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
They taste good though, you know that's gonna taste.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
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Speaker 1 (37:02):
Anyway we go. Let's welcome to Marca. Tessa's for password.
We say hello to Marco, who called in right away
from Charlotte. Hello, Marco, what's going on man? Welcome in here?
You ready to play password?
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Let's do it all right?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
And what you got going on there in Charlotte? Marco?
Speaker 8 (37:20):
Uh, just chilling at the house. Far is You're ready
for work?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Okay, starting your day? Very cool? Hold on sec up early?
And who do you want to partner up with? Marco?
You got me Ben, Eddie Coop or Lorena? Ah, I'll
partner with Lorena, all right, Lorena, you're in all right.
He's very exciting. She's got a look of this man
her face. But that's fine. I know nobody ever partners
(37:44):
though I know, I don't know why. All right, hold on,
sect Marco. Darren is in Bakersfield. Hello, Darren, how's everything
in Bakersfield?
Speaker 8 (37:54):
Hot?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yeah, that's what I want you to know. We closed
down the Bakersfield Place that minorly baseball on Bakersfield for
one hundred years. They invited us to throw out the
first pitch, close the whole franchise down. They went out
of business. Getting they hired gag On. That was their
first mistake. Now he's retired in Florida eating the Early
Bird Special. Anyway, all right, Darren, what do you got
(38:16):
going on in baker Show? Do you working? What are
you got going on?
Speaker 8 (38:19):
I'm retired?
Speaker 7 (38:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Very cool? All right, well listen, love the police. We
support the police on the show. All right, let's who
do you want to partner with? You got me Ben
Eddie or Koble Loop?
Speaker 5 (38:30):
All right?
Speaker 1 (38:31):
You going down, Loreta, you gotta loft. You're gonna lose. Cheat? No,
I don't cheat. I don't need to cheat. All right,
let's play. We have a list of words. Marco picking
number one to ten, please, sir, Let's get started. Eight
number eight Loraina number eight, number eight, all right, gander? Wow,
(38:59):
all right? Mark, Oh go ahead, good luck, buddy.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
What.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Gander?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Yes? No, by audience, go ahead there, Yes, Marco, you
picked her? You picked her? Oh no, you even to
play the game. This doesn't it's a word game. And
she gave you a clue and you were trying to
find the word. We're both we're all looking for the
same word, and she's giving you what is supposed to
(39:28):
be a cinnamon cinnamon or cinnamon? Yes, is the word?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Look?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Oh close, all right, how about you get one guy, Darren,
let's go with examination. Oh look, we're drowning over here, Eddie,
we're drowning. I go ahead there, lay.
Speaker 7 (40:00):
Not investigate, yeah, discover.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
No, no, what the hell you going? Well sort it out.
The word we were looking for was research. We were
looking for research, all right, Darren. Pick a number one
to ten but not eight, Darren, please number seven? All right,
a sneaker. Yeah, we got the late The good guys
(40:26):
have the lad Good job, Deren, good job. All right,
go ahead, Lorena, you're back up. Actually, Marco, pick a
number one to ten but not seven and not eight?
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Three?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Number three? All right? Something? Yeah, Lorena knows a lot
about what you are bad at this game.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
She said that freak has nothing to do with sports.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Lorena, let's I know freak. Yeah no, she picked number three.
The word let's try, how about overreact? How about that
it's one word.
Speaker 7 (41:13):
Come on, come on, all right, hurry up, Larada, last Jervis,
don't get nervous, nervous? Uh?
Speaker 1 (41:24):
All right now. The word we were looking for was panic. Marco,
you learned a lesson there. You won, Darren, you won
the King of Password, Eddie. I've got mor wains and
anyone that password
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buying should be and we're back at it. Are we
breaking down an NBA Finals No? No, we're not breaking
down an NBA Finals game, because there was no game
to be played. But we do go to deep in
the heart of Texas into the greater Dallas metropolitan area
that was the site of NBA Finals me Day Part two.
(02:03):
More Puffery puff the Magic Dragon was there. The biggest
development came from the Boston side of things, as they
are up two games to love in the NBA Finals. Enough,
if you did not hear, and perhaps not, perhaps not,
we learned that Chris stops porzingis that is a very
(02:25):
tall human being that occasionally plays well and often doesn't
play at all. Chris stops Porzingis suffered what has been
described as a quote rare injury and it involves his
left leg and other stuff and tendons and some other stuff.
It's injury we've we've never heard of, and we've heard
(02:48):
of just about every ridiculous injury you can possibly come
up with, but not the injury he suffered. So a
rare left leg injury involving tendons and what is the prognosis. Well,
the prognosis mixed messages here. The Celtics say that Porzingis
(03:09):
is day to day. They issued a news release saying
that Perzingis is day to day very well could play
here on Wednesday night in game number three, but Joel
Mosula said this is a serious injury and the Celtics
are not allowing Porzingis to decide whether or not he plays. Porzingis,
for what it's worth, told reporters he said he's optimistic
(03:32):
that he'll be able to play in game three. Okay,
so let us discuss the question. The Celtics Christops Porzingis,
better known as the Unicorn, has suffered what is described
as a rare leg injury. His status for the rest
of the finals is up in the air. Everywhere. How
big a deal is this? Is this the turning point?
(03:54):
So I've got hang ten, roller coaster and handshake. We
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a bouncy ball, which is what they
use in pro bouncy ball. So, ah, is this the
turning point? No, this is not the turning point. You
might want to turn this into a turning point, but
(04:15):
it's not the turning point in terms of winning the series.
You play to win the game. In terms of winning
the series. This is a pimple on a blue whale's stomach,
is what it is. Somewhere out there in the Pacific.
It's minuscule, is what it is. And there are people
that are conflating this with some kind of dramatic Shakespearean
(04:37):
plot twist. I don't see it, and I'm never wrong
about these things. I am never wrong about these things.
Let me put a call on, hold here, hold on,
there we go, all right, but I'm never wrong. I'm
never wrong about these things. Now, given Porzingis his history,
a massive injury history, it is unlikely unlikely Celtics are
(04:59):
gonna get much. Even plays as a distant relative of
Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas, Porzingis will mostly be just
a decoy if he plays in Game three. That's my anticipation.
And I am upset because we talked about doing this,
but we didn't actually do it. We were gonna play
Injury Bingo, nothing more exciting than NBA injury Bingo and
(05:22):
the Unicorn we'd mentioned, which game will Porzingis get hurt.
We know he's not going to make it the entire
series without having an injury, and he couldn't even make
it all the way through two games. By the end
of game two, Snap Crackle Pop goes the serial bowl
for Porzengis and using our TikTok medical degree that we
(05:45):
got online, there the unicorn tore connective tissue near the
ankle and that led to a displaced tendon. So that's
the issue. What does that mean in the big picture?
Very well, it means the Celtics are a little less,
little less imposing without Prozingis, but still much better. In fact,
(06:10):
if you were to say this was a race, and
why not it's a race, the Celtics are a country
mile ahead of the Mavericks in terms of talent even
without Porzingis. Have you seen some of the Turdburgers plan
for Dallas in this series?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
So far?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
You get that loser, Kyrie Irving, that fraud who was
exposed by the way on social media. But anyway, not
a lot of people talking about that. I wonder why now.
My advice here to the Celtics without Porzingis is to
go Cowabunga dude and be surfer like hang ten as
they say, and ride the tide. Just ride the tide,
(06:44):
ride the waves. And this means more opportunity for average
al Al Horford, average ol will have more opportunity here,
more minutes to put up average numbers. But the secret
sauce here has been Drew Holliday and his Doberman defense
for the Celtics and making the Dallas basketball team a
(07:05):
one trick pony. Speaking of that one trick for Dallasca,
Luka doncik do you see this? Luca was listed on
the Mavericks Game three injury report hitting into Wednesday night.
Here tonight's game Game three. It's a Wednesday show as probable,
So he's listed as probable to play in Game three,
(07:26):
with the only injury being a contusion to the chest,
the thoracic contusion. I believe that's how it's it anyway,
no longer a right knee spray not listed now. The
big revelation for porzingis is that he received a pain
(07:46):
killing injection before game too. Fortunately, the Chargers team doctor
did not give him that so he did not have
to miss seven months or whatever, but painkilling injection before
game two to manage the intense pain, the throbbing pain,
and he is expected to get another one of those
(08:06):
injections before game number three, possibly during game number three
at halftime. Sometimes they do those things at halftime. So
the Mavericks Luka Doncik getting an injection prior to game
two and likely another one before game three, what do
you make of that development? So what do you make
(08:28):
of that? To him? So I've got classical drama, o
rama NBA style surf piping' hot, piping' hot right there
from the Willis Reid game years ago before mainstream media
cared about the NBA, to the Michael Jordan flu game,
which we learned during COVID was a food poisoning game,
(08:50):
to the Kobe Bryant flu game, which I think was
also food poisoning. So all these these various games, and
now you can add conceivable if it goes the way
of Dallas, you would add the Luca injection perfection game
for the mav Recks, all because of a bruise. Remember,
a contusion is a fancy way to say a bruise.
(09:11):
I wish I had known that when I was a kid.
It would have sounded much cooler. I I'm Mottle banged,
I got a contusion. It doesn't sound as cool when
you say I got bruise. It doesn't sound cool, right,
it sounds weak. But it is going to be a
roller coaster. All right, It's gonna be a roller coaster.
And here's why, because you're gonna have the Does he
take the shot early? Does he take the shot midway
(09:33):
through the game. It's gonna be equal parts exhilarating, frightening,
and terrifying. If you care for the Mavericks. We have
a few people that listen to the show and occasionally
call in the Do I care about the Mavericks? But
the issue we see this in football. It's more of
a football thing than a basketball thing. But the effects
of the medication, the toxicity of the medication where off,
(09:56):
you can only take one. So do you take it
before the game, right before tip off, and then you
come out gang busses, which is what Luca did in
Game two, or do you have to try to tough
it out, figuring Dallas is at home and you can
suck in the first half and then in the second
half you can go guns a blazing, right, So that's
(10:18):
the decision. You make the call now, since the Mavericks
are at home, the smart thing would be to just
kind of figure you figure still be in the game
at halftime if you're Dallas, like the Celtic's are gonna
blow the Mavericks out. Unlikely that on the road that
the Boston basketball team will come out and just blow
the doors off the Mavericks, at least in the first half.
So you're if you're deciding between pregame and halftime, you
(10:42):
would go halftime, all things being equal. It is interesting
to note, though, the official family doctor for Luca Nonchi,
I think, is it doctor Pepper? Is that truly loves
doctor Pepper? Right now? Who doesn't now the last word?
Here we hop on the coaching carousel. Round and round
and round and round, round and round and round and
(11:03):
round we go on the coaching carousel. Follow up Obligatory,
Obligatory Laker La La land Malar monologue, the historians kicked
in the nuts by a college coach Wall. This has
been playing out the last couple of days of Laker
franchise in full panic mode right now. A lot of embarrassment.
I'm enjoying every second of it. They're the laughing stock
(11:25):
of the entire NBA. The Los Angeles Lakers, HA, they suck,
they can't. They embarrassed themselves. The embarrassments say, this is
Dan Hurley thing that Genie Buss and the Lakers flew
Dan Hurley out from Kinnectic. The only reason you would
do that is because you thought you had a deal
(11:45):
to hire Dan Hurley. Otherwise you wouldn't risk the embarrassment.
But te Da, we've already been through this. We don't
need to rehash it. Oh, it's a lot of fun
to rehash. I really like rehashing the story. Boys, it fun.
So the Lakers are in scramble mode trying to pick
up the pieces of the broken windshield. There's a lot
of pieces of glass everywhere. And now the latest, if
(12:07):
you haven't heard, some NBA insiders believe that JJ Reddick,
who's believed to be the preferred choice now that Yukon's
coach has gone back to stores Connecticut Dan Hurley. So
JJ Reddick the insider crowd, there's a popular opinion by
popular people that Reddick will avoid the Lakers quote circus
(12:28):
unquote after the fiasco that took place with the Yukon coach.
Does that one pass the smell test. So the good
thing about this is when you do the smell test,
I have a very large large note, so I have
the Schnazola test, the malar Schnazzola test. This take fails.
That's a failed take. Go back to take jail. That's
(12:51):
a failed take. I'll tell you why. JJ Reddick. Let
me be clear, he has no business being an NBA
head coach. The guys a fraud as a broadcaster, he's unlikable.
He's got no coaching experience, so he checks none of
the boxes other than sucking the toes of Lebron James.
(13:12):
Other than that, that's it, and that's all the qualifications
one needs. But aside from that, you take the job
because you're unqualified. And it's a lot of big money
under the big top. There a lot of big money
and the Lakers are desperate to save face. And so
if they hired JJ Reddick, we got pat Riley until
(13:33):
we fire him in two years, well when Lebron's got
but we got pat Riley. And that handshake that is
a golden handshake. That's a special handshake. Golden handshake, big money,
big money, big money handshake.
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have baseball knocked out of a monologue. And this is
a really dramatic story. Here it comes from in many
ways the dinner table a stunner from down under. Now,
I assume you've heard by now if you're listening, but
maybe you missed it. We talked about it briefly, but
we learned early in the day on Tuesday. We learned
(16:25):
early in the day on Tuesday that Major League Eating
has outlawed Joey Jaws Chestnut. Let me repeat that for
those of you in the back round. Joey Chestnut has
been banned. Chestnut is banned from participating in the twenty
twenty four Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest because he partnered
(16:47):
with a rival brand of wieners and they're fake wieners.
He's selling fake wieners. So Chestnut recently signed a deal
with something called Impossible Foods, and they are apparently a rival.
I don't know how you consider them a rival because
they're not anything like a Nathan's hot Dog. In my
(17:11):
and my opinion, it's a pen So they, I guess,
launched a vegan sausage, a vegan wiener who wants that now.
As a result, the people at mL have ruled that
as long as the sixteen time champion of the World,
(17:36):
the hottest of the hot Dogs sixteen time champion joyceestern
as long as he has a deal with this rival brand,
it's turned out the last the parties over, he will
be persona non grata at the Midsummer Spectacle July fourth.
I wrap myself in the flag every year on July
(17:57):
fourth and I watch those wieners go down, and I
love it. Every year. It's that's my routine every year.
Do a monologue about it every year. I don't know
that I will do that this year. I might not so.
Chestnut said he learned that he was banned from social media,
which is really not that shocking. Don't most people learn
(18:18):
things from social media. I'll bet you that Chestnut was
made aware he could be banned. I'm guessing there was
a back and forth here they say, you know you
might be banned, and if you know, we're thinking about banning,
and then he found out on social says he has
been training intensely to defend his Yellow Mustard Belt title,
(18:40):
the belt that he gets for winning that award, and
he said he was gutted, much like when he asked
to go to the bathroom after he eats all those
hot dogs and buns, and Chestnut says he does not
have a formal contract with Major League Eating or the
Nathan's Hotdog people, and he claimedging the rules. That's what
(19:01):
he's saying. It is changing the rules now as it
relates to partnerships for Joey Jaws. That's his story and
he's sticking to it. So let us discuss the question
here as we talk about this, how do you process
the single greatest competitor in modern times in the Western world.
(19:22):
Joey Chestnut banished from the July fourth hot Dog contest
in New York. So I've got Birmingham, Stealth, Bomber, and
hob Goblin, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a very busy,
(19:44):
very busy toilet, which Joey Chestnut spends a lot of
time on when he's done with these eating contests. But
to lead off your full disclosure, I am not fair
in balanced when it comes to Joey Chestnut. I like
the guy. I've had him on my podcast. I don't
usually do a lot of interviews anymore because that requires
booking guests, and we don't do that takes effort, so
we normally just you know, just be asked, but the
(20:06):
one every year I gotta get Joey Chestnut, and I
have his numbers, so it's fortunately I can get ahold
of him when I need to get a hold of him.
So I like the guy. I'm a long time you know,
I don't like anybody. I'm an admirer. I call him
the god of Gluttney, Joey Chestnut. And there's a lot
of debate in sports radio about you. It's Lebron better
is it Jordan's? And I guess it depends how old
you are. That kind of thing. There is no argument,
(20:30):
none in Major league eating, zero debate. Everyone knows the
rock star, the king of Kings when it comes to this,
the most dominant athlete in my life, Joey chestnutt no
ifs ands or butts about it. Joey Chestnut. He is
head and shoulders above every one else that has done this.
(20:54):
And seeing him, at least for now, sent to the
Who's Goal is bittersweet. It's bittersweet because I don't agree
with Chestnut the product he's endorsed. Who wants to eat
vegan anything? I mean, what kind of losers doing that?
Unless you've got some kind of dietary problem where you
(21:15):
can't consume me. But if you can't, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I mean, that's just that's my take. And I have
vegans in my family. I look at them weird, I do.
But this one, he's like being sent to Birmingham, right,
is this said? I saw all That's this a Birmingham moment.
It's a Birmingham moment. My I remember Michael Jordan and
I'm I'm in the camp my opinion. Can't sue me
(21:38):
for my opinion that the commissioner of the NBA, David
Stern shadow band Michael Jordan, sent him to the Birmingham
Barons in double A for the Chicago White Sox because
he was associating with gamblers and was gambling large amounts
of money while playing for the Chicago Bulls. And so
the NBA is like, hey, David Stern's a old school
(22:00):
and you know he's dead now. But he sent to
Jordan to suspension. They made a deal not to ruin
the legacy of Jordan and they sent him to Birmingham.
But Joey Chestnutt being put on time out for a
crime that I got to I am a gambler. I
think associating with vegans is akin to associating with gambles,
(22:22):
if not worse. And after a comprehensive review of the
facts that we have available, Joey chest nutt went for
the bag. What's in the back A lot of money,
a lot of dead presidents. He went for the money.
He made a high stakes financial gamble, and right now
it's not working out. He thought that the amount of
(22:43):
money was so large and he was such a dominating force.
There's no way you can have this contest without Joey
Chestnut and it couldn't mess with him. Well, it's the
famous thing on the internet. F around and find out
hefter around, play stupid games, and you know when stupid
(23:03):
plies is. But now, furtherm do you understand the rationale
of the Nathan's hot Dog marketing department having an issue here?
Do you understand the rationale? So I understand it. We're
in the advertising business. Radio is all about advertising. Otherwise
we're doing commercial free radio, and have you ever ever
(23:23):
heard public radio? My god, does it suck. So we
actually have advertisers here, God love them. So we do advertising.
And I get it on that from that perspective. But
somebody should have been a grown up in the room
and said, let's do a deep dive on what is
going to happen if we end up going public with this,
(23:45):
like what is going to happen here? And on the surface,
it makes sense because the people are upset. They're like,
I understand you spent a lot of money to sponsor
this hot dog eating contest. You're the title sponsor, and
why spend the amount of money, the wad of cash
on this event if Joey Chestnut is going to be
flying around in a stealth bomber advertising competitor and while
(24:10):
you're the one paying the bill, Like, I don't I
don't get that. I understand why you miss it. But
that said, when you when you walk all the way
through this and there's a possibility this is all conspiracy.
It's all being done for idiots like me to talk
about it. Well, I took the bait. But assuming that's
not the case, Murphy's law, right, Murphy's law, this ends
up backfiring for the Nathan's people because the Vegan Wiener brand,
(24:37):
the Vegan Wieners are getting millions and millions of impressions
and getting online clout and free advertised free marketing, and
there they're non meat dogs. So a non meat dog,
how is that a competitor to a wonderfully delicious meat dog.
It's not right, and it's always odd to me, and
(24:59):
no one's been able to explain this to me. And
I don't get. I'd like to know if you're a vegan,
whatever floats you, but not for me. But I don't
get why. I have people that I ear my circle
like are hardline vegetarians and vegans, and I think it's
disgusting to eat animals and all that stuff. I think
those people are very odd. But if you tell me,
(25:21):
on one hand that eating a hot dog or a
steak or a nice juicy cheeseburger is disgusting and that
I'm a Neanderthal and a caveman because I eat meat,
But then on the other hand, you want stuff that
tastes just like meat, Like what is the point of that?
So aren't you like a fake Neanderthal? Aren't you a
(25:44):
fake caveman? Ogre? Why would you The reason meats delicious
and you want the taste of meat, but you have
you know, you feel bad because the animals die, But
you gotta look at where you're on the food chain
because you could end up being eaten by something else. Now,
last thing here is Joey Chestnut going to torment the
(26:06):
Nathan's Hot Dog contest. Now we are in the camp
that believe there is a path to salvation. There is
a pardon that could come down here. But if that
does not happen, if these are hardliners at Nathan's, hardline
wiener people. If that's the case, if the big Big Sausage,
(26:28):
all right, if Big Sausage does not let down here
and this is the way it goes, Joey Chestnut will
become a hob goblin. He is going to spook, just
like the spook Major League eining. We're talking Wilt Chamberlain.
The equivalent of one hundred points in a game in Hershey,
(26:51):
Pennsylvania is seventy six dogs and buns in ten minutes.
Seventy six dogs and buns twenty twenty one. I saw it.
I witnessed it. I was watching, and that remains the
unbeatable record. That's the one hundred points in Major leading
(27:11):
seventy six. He took the fork from Kobayashi and he
ate it. He devoured it. Is what he did. Chestnut
is a real life version. As a kid, there was
a cartoon character, and he's the real life version of
Porky Pig. And that's all, folks, a real life version,
right Captain America. This guy is such a stud. Do
(27:33):
you remember a couple of years ago, some loser thug,
some vegan thug, tried to interrupt the hot dog eating
cought and what in Chestnut? Do you remember what he did?
He went, Captain America. Is what Joey Chestnut did, some
loser thug protester. He took him in a chuck out
(27:53):
in the coppet and he's still won. He ate sixty
three dogs and buns while taking a vegan protester down.
That's Joey Chestnut. Now, I know he's gone to the
dark side with the vegan thing, but you gotta let
him in. You gotta let him in, and then make sure,
if you're Nathan's, you have him eat all of those
(28:15):
hot dogs and say, hey, here's Joey chestnutt he just
ate sixty five of our hot dogs, you losers.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
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Speaker 1 (28:29):
Go, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go. Her degree at this that's right, truck
and Joe Hill, It's happening kolo.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Through sixty seven games this season, Aaron Judge has better
numbers in almost every category than he did during his
twenty twenty two AL MVP season, Ben, would you put
money on Judge to win his second MVP award?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well, he's clearly the favorite. He's the pace car in
the AL MVP race. However, he is injury prone, and
that is why I would be reluctant to bet a
lot of money on Aaron Judge because he misses a
lot of time. It's hard to win the MVP when
you run into a wall at Dodger Stadium and your
togo's sideways and you can't play or whatever. Now he's
got a big lead, but it's not an insurmountable lead.
The Baltimore Orioles are pretty pretty good. This guy Gunner Henderson,
(29:14):
he's a real gunner in Baltimore. He's been great. And
another dark horse candidate is Bobby Witt, who's been a
royal stud in Kansas City. Although you know he's way behind,
but it's not over. But Aaron Judge is ahead. He's
got Juan Soto who's also a candidate next.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
The Packers had a young, unproven group of receivers heading
into last season, but the group rose to the challenge
and green Bay found success. Despite that, none of the
young guys really stood out as a true number one receiver.
Jordan Love spoke on that Monday and said, I don't
think you have to have a number one receiver Ben
Is he right?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
No, Listen, he's you do need someone who's out in front.
And Jordan loves being diplomatic and all this. The answer
is green Bay has a number one receiver. It's elementary,
my dear Watson, Christian Watson, who maybe I'm biased. We
had him on the podcast, the green Bay Wide Receiver.
He's the man. And like Romeo Dobbs and Jaden Read
(30:07):
and these other guys are they're Jags, they're they're compared
to Watson. So he's the number one guy. Although he
was injured last year and they didn't exactly they didn't
sing from the same song sheet there between Love and Watson,
but he was great with Rogers of the year.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Before next, Drod Mayo spoke with the media about the
reconfigured kickoff formation this season, and he admitted that the
best move for teams would probably just to be kick
the ball out of the end zone and let their
opponents start to drive from the thirty ben Do you
think that most teams are gonna take that approach?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, here's what I think, Coop. This is a June
NFL storyline where people are obsessing about this. Yeah. I know,
they say every yard matters and all that, and that's
why every yard counts. However, if you have a halfway
decent defense, going from the twenty five yard line to
the thirty yard line should not matter that much. The
thing that drives me crazy is the paralysis of analys
(31:00):
is that we are spending wasting time on these this
particular story. I'm not that interested. I hope we I
want more kickoff for tunes. That's an exciting point. How
did we do that?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Is a one you.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
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Speaker 7 (31:51):
That's right, it's time for the Queen of Hearts here
on the Benmeller Show.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah all right, you got a lot of questions here
are paired?
Speaker 7 (32:00):
They told you?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah all right. Kathy in Madison, longtime member of the
Malle Militia Beautiful Madison, Wisconsins. She says she wants helpful
tips for older people who haven't dated in a long time.
So I guess she's looking to get back in the game.
She wants to be in the game.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Oh my gosh, I love old person love, okay, because
a lot of people think they're down and out when
they get old, but it's just not the case. You
still have the same drive as you did. You're still
capable of dating and falling in love. I mean, you
just got to get back out there. Don't be afraid.
There's other people your age who also want to date,
So get rid of that preconceived notion that you're too old.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
You're not.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
No.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
I have heard, Lorena that you get to those retirement
homes and it's like, uh, listen, since city's going on
at a lot of ro don't know if it's romance,
temporary romance. Yeah, they're going for it.
Speaker 7 (32:55):
There's quagmires on every corner inside of those homes.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
And I have been told for boys, if you make
it long enough, you probably won't because men die before women.
But the old man in the retirement very popular. I
don't know that's sure or not, but I've heard that
from some of the older guys that have listened. Sho
ferg Dog says, how big of an age gap is
acceptable for dating? Should I just go by the half
(33:19):
your age minus seven year rule?
Speaker 7 (33:28):
I've never heard.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
You just made that up, that's why.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
You Yes, Okay, well let me just give you an example.
My parents were twenty years apart, so that's that's a
pretty big gap.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah, that's pretty large.
Speaker 7 (33:40):
Yeah, I think I think you know, whatever works for
you works for you.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Oh you got don't you have to say that because
that's what you that's what you know.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
Too close to being a minor, because that's gross to me.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Yeah, all right, let's see here. Oh, here's here's a
great love question from JD and Boston. He works out
at the garden there he says, what is your opinion
on AI? Are you scared of it? Do you love it?
Or a bit of both? And why? Very good romance question.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
Yeah, well, you know that AI dating show that Coop
was talking about right where they're getting AI robots involved.
So AI is definitely in the chat game right now.
You could date and fall in love with the robot.
I think it's terrifying. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I'm upset because when I would have been great, I
would have gotten like diplomas all over the place of
AI to cheat with. Oh my god, I had we
had to go to the store and buy these things
called cliff notes to cheat, or I had to sit
behind the smart kid in school and rip them off.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
But yeah, it's brilliant. But I think it also might
be our demise one day. We'll see.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Well, well, find other ways to meet our demise. Let's
say a looad to Tyson in Saint Louis, who's on
the phones for Lorena, the Queen of Hearts Alo Tyson, welcome.
Speaker 8 (34:52):
Oh there, miss Lona, mister Lee, your morning producer there
is looking for love, any chance of being him? Are
you giving him a chance and or anything you can
do to help him out?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Well?
Speaker 7 (35:04):
I'm already his work wife, So.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
I think that's w what what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
WHOA? This is devast heady this but he also farts
on you, so I mean that's bs. Who do you who?
Do you share your food with him? So I thought
putting Loraina on the spot here, Loraina, do you have
to work husbands? Is that?
Speaker 3 (35:29):
What you have here?
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Is my thing?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Anyway? Do you think this is leader lapper Jonas Knox
pretending to be Tyson from.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Saying I don't know, but I'm upset after this this segment?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Now, wow, we're having we have problems, devastations get all right, Well,
thank you, I'll hang up on you. Well, here's an
important question problem King Rory wants to know. He says,
uh is using a toy my my my woman equivalent
of eating hot dog? Is what? That's what he said?
Speaker 7 (36:04):
I don't know, toy on your woman the same as
eating a vegan hot dog.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Well, it's a that's it. That's his question. I just read.
I'm just reading the question, all right. I was just
making Sorr mad. Mad Jack wants to know, boy, these
guys are going third rail mom man. Uh, he wants
to know about different to add on items to the
bedroom like whipped cream edible undies and what yes.
Speaker 7 (36:30):
Play around?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Do all that you can? Why not?
Speaker 7 (36:32):
You're about to play. It's supposed to be fun. How
fun with it?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
They taste good though, you know that's gonna taste.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password is password, you idiot? Password the word
game of the star. Here's Ben Meler.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Anyway we go. Let's welcome to Marca. Tessa's for password.
We say hello to Marco, who called in right away
from Charlotte. Hello, Marco, what's going on man? Welcome in here?
You ready to play password?
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Let's do it all right?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
And what you got going on there in Charlotte? Marco?
Speaker 8 (37:20):
Uh, just chilling at the house. Far is You're ready
for work?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Okay, starting your day? Very cool? Hold on sec up early?
And who do you want to partner up with? Marco?
You got me Ben, Eddie Coop or Lorena? Ah, I'll
partner with Lorena, all right, Lorena, you're in all right.
He's very exciting. She's got a look of this man
her face. But that's fine. I know nobody ever partners
(37:44):
though I know, I don't know why. All right, hold on,
sect Marco. Darren is in Bakersfield. Hello, Darren, how's everything
in Bakersfield?
Speaker 8 (37:54):
Hot?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yeah, that's what I want you to know. We closed
down the Bakersfield Place that minorly baseball on Bakersfield for
one hundred years. They invited us to throw out the
first pitch, close the whole franchise down. They went out
of business. Getting they hired gag On. That was their
first mistake. Now he's retired in Florida eating the Early
Bird Special. Anyway, all right, Darren, what do you got
(38:16):
going on in baker Show? Do you working? What are
you got going on?
Speaker 8 (38:19):
I'm retired?
Speaker 7 (38:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Very cool? All right, well listen, love the police. We
support the police on the show. All right, let's who
do you want to partner with? You got me Ben
Eddie or Koble Loop?
Speaker 5 (38:30):
All right?
Speaker 1 (38:31):
You going down, Loreta, you gotta loft. You're gonna lose. Cheat? No,
I don't cheat. I don't need to cheat. All right,
let's play. We have a list of words. Marco picking
number one to ten, please, sir, Let's get started. Eight
number eight Loraina number eight, number eight, all right, gander? Wow,
(38:59):
all right? Mark, Oh go ahead, good luck, buddy.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
What.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Gander?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Yes? No, by audience, go ahead there, Yes, Marco, you
picked her? You picked her? Oh no, you even to
play the game. This doesn't it's a word game. And
she gave you a clue and you were trying to
find the word. We're both we're all looking for the
same word, and she's giving you what is supposed to
(39:28):
be a cinnamon cinnamon or cinnamon? Yes, is the word?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Look?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Oh close, all right, how about you get one guy, Darren,
let's go with examination. Oh look, we're drowning over here, Eddie,
we're drowning. I go ahead there, lay.
Speaker 7 (40:00):
Not investigate, yeah, discover.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
No, no, what the hell you going? Well sort it out.
The word we were looking for was research. We were
looking for research, all right, Darren. Pick a number one
to ten but not eight, Darren, please number seven? All right,
a sneaker. Yeah, we got the late The good guys
(40:26):
have the lad Good job, Deren, good job. All right,
go ahead, Lorena, you're back up. Actually, Marco, pick a
number one to ten but not seven and not eight?
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Three?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Number three? All right? Something? Yeah, Lorena knows a lot
about what you are bad at this game.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
She said that freak has nothing to do with sports.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Lorena, let's I know freak. Yeah no, she picked number three.
The word let's try, how about overreact? How about that
it's one word.
Speaker 7 (41:13):
Come on, come on, all right, hurry up, Larada, last Jervis,
don't get nervous, nervous? Uh?
Speaker 1 (41:24):
All right now. The word we were looking for was panic. Marco,
you learned a lesson there. You won, Darren, you won
the King of Password, Eddie. I've got mor wains and
anyone that password
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