June 25, 2024 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about the Florida Panthers winning the Stanley Cup and Connor McDavid winning playoffs MVP, J.J. Redick's introductory press conference with the Lakers, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Mick Fleetwood Edition, and more!
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Sometimes the bad guys win. Welcome in the beginning of
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Don't bear the lead, mom, man, we haven't given the
lead yet. Our lead this hour from the Sunshine State
in Sunrise, Florida, that is where the big stage was
is hockey needing Connor McDavid to finish it off Edmonton's
comeback for the ages there takedown Florida take all Game seven.
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Did that happen? Were you watching? You know you were
not watching? No, you were not. Why you missed it?
Bad job by? You don't worry. We watched so you
would not have to our good mits for the day.
And you know by now that things went upside down
and topsy turvy as Sam Reinhardt and Carter Rahagy each
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scored goals in the much maligned and he deserved all
the criticism. Sergei Bobrovski twenty three saves and came up
big down the stretch. There the Panthers beat the Oilers.
Bad guys beat good guys two to one and they
win Game seven of the Stanley Cup. Franchise been around
for thirty years. They're a pack of losers and they
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finally won a Stanley Cup so let us discuss the
question the better story would have been the opposite team winning.
So the question is the Panthers avoid infamy by winning
the Stanley Coup. But what are your overall thoughts on
the series here? So we'll break it down like this.
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I've got science fiction, puffy, and capital punishment, and we'll
combine all of these things together. And we were going
to make a migrain headache, which I had the other
night for some reason. I think it was the heat
was pretty hot out here. I had migraine headache and
it was very intense. I also had a headache watching
the Oilers try to put the biscuit in the basket
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in the end of game scenario. Down by one goal.
They lost by one stinking goal, and they had they
had multiple chances to tie the game and put the
pressure back on the Panthers, but that did not happen.
So we'll break this down the good, the bad, and
the ugly for Game seven and the overall series in general.
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So the good I will be Benny Brightside. I enjoy
a good SoundBite, and the head coach of the Florida
Panthers has been very generous with silly soundbites. Paul Maurice
has been around a long time, so he won. Good
for him. Congratulations, he's got the gift for gab and
I do enjoy those that make my job more enjoyable
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by saying goofy things and putting a little razmatazz on
the English language. I enjoy that very much. In pal
Maurice has done that, and also on a human level,
I would say that this was a little bit like
an old Bill Murray movie. What about Bob? What about Bob?
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Because Bobrovsky sergei Bobrovski, who was getting absolutely cooked. We
talked about it in a previous episode of this show.
The last three games, his save percentage started with a seven.
It was so bad he had the hebe gbis there
that he was such a beaten, broken goaltender that he
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sat out practice on Sunday. They didn't even have practice
because he's so mentally weak he couldn't handle it. And
then he came back and when it mattered most at
the end of the game, he put up a wall.
There's a one save with about three minutes to go
in the game that I thought that was going to
be the breaking point where the Oilers are going to
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score the goal, but he made the save there and
he ends up a winner and infamy is forgotten. It's
like this Panther team would have been remembered forever had
they lost the series, but by winning, just another Stanley
Cup winner, they'll fade in the background. But they did
have an all time opportunity at his story by losing,
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but they don't want to be part of that. History
is only won. Fine, but Bobrovsky nursing a one goal
lead in the third period and he made the place
Now for the NHL the bad from the Stanley Cup final,
and the bad is a missed opportunity. This is a
bitter Sweet's like sweet and sour chicken. Bitter sweet here
because Connor McDavid winning the Cup and doing something had
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the Oilers won in a parallel dimension, they did win,
but doing something that hadn't happened since World War Two.
It's insane. It's insane. They had the opportunity to do
it down by one goal, they were tied one to one.
Panthers scored early and then the Oilers came back. They
tied it up, and then in the second period the
Oilers gave up a goal and that was it. But
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as for the ugly, and there's really no other way
to go around this. I'm a big believer in the
theory that if you're injured, you don't play. If you're
hurt and you play, then okay, then the results that
happened happen. You have to stand by those results. And
so I bring that up because the ugly would have
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to be Connor McDavid's wingman. It morphed into science fiction
for Leon Drycidle, the incredible shrinking man. Guys got an MVP,
he's got all these accolades. Hockey nerds love the offensive
pedigree of Leon dry Sidle. And I watched this game
and several of these games in this series, and Leon
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dry Sidle was out there skating around like he was
on a pond somewhere in Germany, and he was just
getting some exercise and getting some cardio as they say
in basketball, you know cardio in doing some skating, working
up a sweat, uh, and really not doing much of anything.
And that's it. And so that's it, see you later, goodbye.
That's by his final game. More on that later as
he will leave Edmonton go somewhere else and most likely
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a bigger locale, probably an American city, and make a
lot more money, all right now, page two here, So
they gave up the their version of the MVP where
they call it the con smythe award, the playoff MVP.
And what does Connor McDavid winning the postseason MVP for hockey,
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what does that tell us? So methinks the power brokers
meddled a little bit with this. There's no one else
really you could give it to because Bobrowski was so
terrible for three games, you can't really give him the
most Valuable Player award, although he was the favorite after
the first three games. But this was an opportunity. It's
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a missed opportunity. And the mystique. I know JJ Redick
acts to talk about aura, the aura around the comeback
and all that, and the media votes for these things.
But it was some my opinion. You can said whatever
you want, it's your opinion. There's some influence there. There
was some influence that went on. McDavid pitched goose eggs
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in game six and seven. It's an entire postseason award,
and yet he's the sixth player in the history of
the award to win on a losing team. It hadn't
happened in over twenty years. Quack quack quack. Last one
to do it was a duck. But this was the showcase,
This was the big stage here. People tuned in. The
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only people watching the college baseball game were people that
went to those schools. But for everyone else, it was
the hockey and the overall numbers were historical. McDavid led
all scores with forty two points five shy of the
record set by number ninety nine in Your Heart, but
number one in your program, Wayne Gretzky back in the
mid eighties, and he did not come out to pick
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up the award because it has cooties. So they announced
his name in the arena, but he did not come
out McDavid to pick it up. It was a participation prize.
The NHL said, here you go. You get a big
puffy sticker congratulations pure as he wanted a neon eraser.
He did not get the neon eraser. Our last word here,
so is there a bigger lesson from the curtain coming
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down on the Stanley Cup and it going to the
Florida Panthers. Is there a bigger lesson here? So yes,
there is. It is a teachable moment, and this is
the endgame. It is the endgame. I consider this series
to be capital punishment for Uncle Moe, not the Uncle
Mo that lives in Brooklyn, but momentum turn out the last.
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The party's over. I don't want to hear any of
you idiots bring this up anymore. Stop. We just witnessed
the defining moment that ends the conversation about momentum in sports.
That was it. And if you still think that momentum
in sports is real, you're a jackwagon, is what you are.
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It was killed da dead on arrival. In this series.
Florida dominated the first three games of this series and
poof what happened to all their momentum? Why didn't they
keep their moment? A bad job by them? And Edmonton
was skating circles around Florida for the next three games.
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And they had that shot laid in game six in
Edmonton where the Panthers body language, I'm a big body language.
The body language was like, oh crap, we suck, you know,
we are absolutely blow And that was the body language there.
And everyone told me that Oilers had all the momentum.
No I did point out in a previous eeport to
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show that momentum does not exist. So there's no way
the Oilers could have all the momentum because it doesn't.
It doesn't. It's not snowball going downhill. It's not reality.
And so then we get to Game seven and oops
a daisy. That's exactly the way it played out. There
is no such thing as momentum. It is something that
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only exists in the abstract. It is one of those things.
Upon cross examination, when you actually look at it, the
idea of momentum falls apart, like a cheaply made suit.
It just falls apart.
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this hour from La La Land. They actually did it.
We thought maybe they would get cold feet, but they
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actually did it. The Lakers unveiled their latest head coach.
Great thing about coaching the Lakers is. If you don't
like the coach of the Lakers is wait a couple
of years. They'll be a new one. But with very
little fanfare and a lot of amusement. They did it.
They did the unimaginable. The Lakers hired a podcaster to
coach the team. Yes, he accepted the rose. Just like
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a reality TV show, a podcaster. JJ Reddick gonna hang
up the podcast game more downloads from my podcast. He's
not doing it anymore. JJ Reddick said, Yes, he accepted
the rose, and he was officially welcomed to the Purple
and Gold gang. The longtime clipper who missed every big
shot he took in the fourth quarter of games is
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now the Lakers problem. He had his introductory news conference
on Monday. He sat right next to skinny jeans Rob Polenka,
who looks beaten and broken. The years of futile Laker
rosters have done that to him, and being the caddie
to Lebron James. So they were sitting side by side,
Rob Polenka, the GM and the podcaster Reddick, who regaled
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basketball scribes with answers to a bunch of random questions.
He becomes the two twenty ninth coach, the twenty ninth
coach in franchise history. Most of those have happened within
like the last ten years. Ever since doctor Jerry Buss died,
the Lakers have gone to hell in a handbasket. No championships.
It's a disaster of a franchise. And it's a turnstyle gig.
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It's a turnstyle gig, and they've added another notch to that.
So let us discuss the question what was the vibe?
What was the vibe that JJ Reddick gave off in
his opening news conference with the Lakers. So I went
back and watched this. I didn't watch it live. I
watched the raw feed on the interweb and I checked
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it out. So I've got the big o' ranchera and
arcade and we will combine all of these things together
and we are going to make macaroni and cheese is
what we're going to make. So number JJ Reddick was
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in All Star f That is not a compliment. Some
people will take that as a compliment. You should not
take that as a compliment. That is not a compliment.
This was such a debacle. It was actually better than
I thought it was going to be and I knew
it was going to be a debacle, and I just
I was hoping. I was hoping, I was I was
going to be wrong, and I was because it was
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the kind of event where I knew this guy is
a schmuck. But you're like, there's no way. Maybe the
Lakers will wise up and say, psych, we're just kidding,
We're just that was some tricker ration. We're not actually
hiring this guy, and then they'll hire somebody else who
should they should actually hire, just just just joking around. Huh,
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jokes on you. But JJ Reddick is the same guy
he's always been. He's the big O, not Oscar Robertson.
He is obnoxious. Oh for obnoxious? Is JJ Reddick coaching
in the NBA? I realize it's a marginalized job anyway.
It's not about x's and O when you're coaching in
the NBA. That secondary. It's about likability. Much of it's
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about likability. You are the face of the franchise, and
the Lakers face of the franchise is a douchebag. That's
JJ Reddick, That's who they hired. And you also look
for the coach to have the pied piper effect. Is
that a fair thing to say? I think that is
a fair thing to say. It the pied Piper a
charismatic person that can bond together people and have them
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follow the message, whatever that message is. Motivation is a
big part of it. But Reddick is the antithesis of that.
He acts like he invented the game, like doctor James Naismith.
He invented the game, invented basketball. He put a little
peach basket up back in the day and that was that.
But there's so many high levels of toxicity with JJ Reddick,
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and we know how this story is going to end.
JJ will be jumping out of the Laker team playing
with a golden parachute, and he'll make a lot of
money and then he can go do some bad podcasting
and he'll have a lot of money coming in. The
only thing about that is you will not be able
to criticize the Lakers. The standard contracts of these professional
coaches and athletes have a non besmirching of the brand
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clauses in the contract, so that will not happen. Now,
page two, the Lakers at the Shindig. At one point,
skinny jeans. Rob Polinka boldly said that Anthony Davis had
a lot to do. He was more involved in the
hiring of JJ Reddick than Lebron James. And I'm not
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making this up. But you probably think I'm making this up.
I'm not. I'm not making this up. So lakers claim
is that Anthony Davis, the unibrow was more involved in
the hire of JJ Reddick than Lebron James. Is that
believable on any level? Is that believable? Well, not the
one I'm meant. And if you didn't give out a
hearty guffaw when you either saw that earlier or you
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heard just talk about it, there's something wrong with you.
Rob Polinka claimed with a straight face, he did not
break character. I thought he was gonna break character. I
thought he was gonna start laughing. He did not. He
claims that Lebron distance himself from the coaching search. So
riddle me this, batman. Anthony Davis is fully immersed. Lebron
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is out on an island somewhere, living the island life.
In order for us to believe that, you would have
to be living and I would have to be living
in a ranchera. The street sign saying welcome to Suckersville man,
Welcome to Suckers Like, what are we doing? Seriously, Lebron,
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let me let you in a little secret. Lebron was
literally and figuratively part of the sizzle reel for JJ
Reddick to get him the job. In my business, in radio,
you used to have to send tapes in Now you
can just email stuff. But if you want one of
these jobs, you had to send sample of your work.
It's how it works. And then they listen to it
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and say whether they like you or not, and whether
they want to go further with the process or process.
And if you're coaching and you have no resume, what
do you think? JJ Reddick? His resume was he's bad
at commentating on television. Think god, he's off that. That's
a silver lining to this. I'm gonna go ahead a
limb and say he sent audio files of the podcast
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that he does with who Lebron James come on. That
was the audition tape that was in the podcast. It's
in the podcast stupid and it worked. It worked. He
got the gig with no business getting the gig. He
got the gig because the Lakers are an embarrassment. They
have no leadership and I love every second of it.
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I've been waiting my entire life for this incompetence, and
here it is, and I hope it never ends up.
Genie Buss owns the team forever and ever and ever.
She has no idea what she's doing. It's just wonderful.
But Reddick did say he has been excommunicated, he said
from the content space, so there will be no podcast.
He said he's done with podcasting for now. Check back
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in about a year and a half, and once he
gets whacked, the pod will return. Now, final point, So
let's take a look at the wide angle lens here,
not the micro the macro wide angle lens. What does
JJ reddicks higher do for the Laker franchise. So he
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my perspective is he's like an arcade game Cubert back
in the day of this thing called the Q rating,
And the Q rating is what you're judged on in
terms of popularity, right, how highly regarded you are they
called the Q rating. How highly regarded you are. The
higher your Q score, the better that is, right, And
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Reddick is unlikable, he's pompous, he's unreasonable, and he scores
very high on what I call the S score. The
Schmuck score very high on that. The Q score not
so much. The Q score not so much. Now. My
favorite moment of this was a retick representing the Brian,
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the Laker Brian. He was asked what miscommunications about himself
he's looking forward to dispelling now that he earned a
job he did not was given a job he did
not earn coaching the Lakers, and JJ mumbled and stumbled
and mumbled over the answer, and he then said part
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of the engagement farming industry, talking about him being part
of the engagement farming industry, as he said, which is
an a whole way of saying podcasting before saying, I
really don't have a great answer for your question, because
I don't I really don't give an is what he said.
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But I said the word f because I have some
decorum and I get in trouble. Well, actually probably wouldn't
anymore if I said their force, but Reddick said it.
So I've come to one conclusion, and one conclusion only
The Lakers just don't give a damn. They know the
team's gonna suck, so they thought, well, let's try something different.
We'll hire Reddick. He can't coach, we'll put him out
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there and Lebron'll be happy, and you know, they can
do some great podcasts when Lebron retires in a year
and a half or whatever, and we'll draft Bronni James
and we'll be on our way and we'll just live
the heal life. Will be like professional wrestler Joink, the
clown from back in the day. I know, if sands
or butts about it, that's just the way it's going
to be. Lebron is closing in on the Big four
to oh, which is okay in real life, but in
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athletics that's not that great. And Anthony Davis is made
of glass. Good luck, good luck, what a mess. I'll
be here to document and chronicle all of it. It
would be a miracle for the Lakers when thirty five
games with JJ Reddick as the coach next season.
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Here we go, Here we go, here about to the
third degree.
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This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Koupo Loup, an NFL insider reporter over the weekend, claimed
that Aidan O'Connell quote probably has a slight edge over
Gardner Minshew in the Raiders quarterback competition, Ben, do you
think the Raiders would actually start O'Connell over Minshew.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, there's a dimension where Aidan O'Connell would start. I'm
a minshewe guy, I'm minshew mania, And it seems to
be there's a disconnect between some people with the Raiders
front office that thought Aidan O'Connell stinks. Some of the
coaching staff likes his moxie, and so that's the first thing. Secondly,
this is unlike Pittsburg where they've already given the job
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to Russell Wilson, Like this is actually a legitimate training
camp battle. If Gardner Minshew outplays Aidan O'Connell, he'll be
the starter for the Raiders. Next.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
A recent report says that the Mavericks are looking to
trade Jeremy Grant to trade for Jeremy Grant to the
Trail Blazers. But do you think Grant would be an
impact player for Dallas.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Well, I don't get the Jeremy Grant thing, like he's
the Blazers are a debacle and I know he's been
around for a few years and bounced around the NBA
and all that, but I mean, he's okay. You don't
know you're on a bad team. You're on a terrible
team in Portland, and you don't know what you're gonna
do in a good environment. I know he was on
the Nuggets a couple of years ago. They were pretty good.
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But no, your Lakers want Jeremy Grant too. I do
not expect him to be an impact player if he
is relocated, and he should be traded, and there should
be a bunch of trades because tut up. It's I
know Coop's excited. He doesn't like to talk about us
in the air, but Coop loves the NBA Draft. He
is so freaking excited about it. He's been bouncing off.
How many mock drafts have you done, Coop? Like three? Yeah,
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it's a lot, all right.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Next, Aaron Judge told a reporter that he has no
plans to ever particse debit in the Home Run Derby again,
unless it's in New York. Ben, what's your position on
Judge's attitude towards the Derby.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
The attitude of someone that got paid a lifetime contract
by the New York Yankees and is only worried about
the New York fans. But I was raised, and maybe
I was wrong. Maybe I'm in the wrong. I was raised.
The All Star Game is to grow the sport that
it's not about you, it's about the fans. The fans
want to see Aaron Judge, Paul Bunyan go up there
and hit moonshots in the home run derby. But he's like, Hey,
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I got a lot of money, I don't need to
bother doing it, and I'll only do it for the
fans in New York, And so screw you. If you're
in Kansas City or Saint Louis or Seattle or wherever,
how do we do cope? You pass the sea win
in the wind Cup, just like the Oilers should have
been in the wind Collar.
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Hello?
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Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
Probably not.
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Let's walk home in arkanitestas we have Nick in Montana,
Big Sky Country. Hello, Nick, Oh boy, Nick's actually his phone,
He's actually connected to a moose. All Right, there we go, Nick,
my bad, sorry going, I'm gonna slap you around. How
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dare you not have a working phone in Montana?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Bad?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
All right? Never do that again, Never ever do that again?
All right? Nick? Tell the people listening in beaver Dam
who have friends in Punk Satadi? Who knows someone in
Rancho Cucamonga. What you do for a living?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
There, Nick Bartender?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Nick the Bartender here he is unbelievable. All right, Nick,
who do you want to partner up with on the game?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Oh? I get first? Take Big Ben first?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Good job. Ben Ben thinks that's a good idea. Hold
on a second, you're gonna play our game, Nick the Bartender,
and we have Oh boy. Dave in New York, Upstate
New York. Hello Dave, Hey Ben.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I figured you would have me up because you're scared
of me. But I'm glad you man up.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Why would I be scared of you?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Because I beat you the last time?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Did you cheated? You didn't win? Nobody counts that as
a win. And why do you keep calling your game
show hoard? Get a life? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (28:40):
I know?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Have a life?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Well, go buy one on the internet. His life is
being you in the games. I'm gonna ruin your entire week.
I'm gonna kick your ass up and down the radio dial. Dave,
that's an old school radio turn.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
You're stayed on the air. That's the cuff word.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Oh yeah, you schmuck. I'll say whatever I want on
the air.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Well, you're back to being a normal bet.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
All right, Dan? So you you and Coop? Yes, that's
the team, you and Coop.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, I think you'll cause we won last night.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Okay, what the categories here?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I could turn on my mic, I would help.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
All right.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
You like that guy Nick in Montana.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
This is Mallard's Mountain of Money, the Mick Fleetwood edition.
Uh he turned seventy seven years old on Monday, Okay,
seley Wood mac fame of course, yes, uh Nick. Categories
are albatross, a man of the world, never going back again?
Or uh, seven wonders?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Okay, which one you want? Nick Dugget, Oh what, I don't.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Think seven wonders? Okay, seven wonders? And then Dave, how
about you? You've got albatross, Men.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Of the brook.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yeah, we're gonna go never go back.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Never going back again? All right? Like you never going
back into the wind column.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Ah, that's stupid.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
All everyone's do not hang up, or you're off the gate.
Do not hang up, Nick the bartender in Montana, Dave,
what do you do for a living? Dave?
Speaker 3 (30:26):
I told you the first time I called. I'm just able.
Right there you go, So you're not You're not the greatest.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Probably, Remember Eddie, Eddie has no idea who you are.
Eddie hates you off here. He can't stand you. Whyse
he talks trash about you all the time, Dave. He says,
how annoying you? Good? Good for you?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Hold on, it's Mallard's mountain of money in its entirety.
For the rest of the hour, it's going to be
a beatdown. Now, you're not supposed to beat up people
that are on this same disability, but it's radio, so
I'm allowed to, right, Lorraine, I could beat him up.
I mean, he's crow to break you cheaters. All right,
we'll get to that. And Kuk knows he's gonna lose.
He's got no chance. We'll get to it. We'll do
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it next.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
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Speaker 1 (31:27):
And right to the game we go. Let's welcome into
our contestant. We have Nick in Montana and Dave.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Oh Dave.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, I mean you got no Dave's got no chance. Nick. Right,
you're a professional bartender. What kind of drink would you?
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
All right? Yeah, I'm not trying to cheat that. You
gotta lose. You're a loser, Dave. I'm pointing that out
right now. You all right, Nick, we're up first here.
We picked you picked seven wonders. Correct, all right? These
athletes all ward number seven will put forty five seconds
on the clock. We need first and last name of you, ready.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Nick, first and last?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yes? Yeah? All right, A right, We're on our way.
A quarterback for the Broncos in the eighties and early nineties,
won the Super Bowl a couple of times. Yes, quarterback
for the Steelers, won a Super Bowl their last. Yes,
puppy killer for the Atlanta Falcons. Quarterback in Atlanta and
play with the Eagles as well. Quarterback for the Falcons.
(32:30):
He killed dogs. Dog killer oh oh, Vick was his first.
Michael Yes, Syracuse star played for the Denver Nuggets in
the NBA. A friend of Lebron was in that Lebron
draft with Dwayne Wade. All right, Yankees center field the
number seven not not the Disney Mouse legend, and Yeanks
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move on, move on, all right? Quarterback of the car
My god, I don't know that you can have.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
A better including that Mickey Mouse was not Mickey Mouse
was not the answer.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
But Mickey Mantle was.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Okay, I'm astic.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
He's on the spectrum. Co down, Mickey Mantle and Carmelo Anthony.
You did not get you were sixty points? All right?
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Next, okay, Dave, we have never going back again. You're
you're there, right, Davey.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
All right?
Speaker 5 (33:32):
These athletes did not leave their teams on good terms.
Don't choke, Dave, forty five seconds.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Don't choke.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Let's begin, all right. This guy thinks the Earth is flat.
He just lost for the Mavericks. Yes, this guy was
a wide receiver for the Steelers. He quit in the
middle of a Tampa Bay Bucks game. Yes, uh, this
guy is an analyst, but he used to play for
the Yankees, the Mariners, the the Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yes uh.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
This guy had one of the best one handed catches
of all time for the Giants wide receiver. Yes, indeed,
let's go with Jewish second basement for the Rangers.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
He went to the Tigers. Be all right.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
This guy was a point guard for the Warriors. He
was also on the Clippers. He had a beard.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
No, not that impressive. I'm still enough to give him the.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Those are not good clues. I gave you not a
Disney mouse, all right. And the Baron Davis was an
all time legend.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Ian Kinsler and Baron Davis are the ones who do
not get right one hundred points, Ben has sixty. You
were back up? Nick? Do you want I stopped talking?
You moron? Shut your mouth up? Nick? Do you want
Albatross or Man of the World?
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Man of the world?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
All right, you're a bartender in Montella. You're not a
man of the world. All right, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
These athletes have all played international forty five seconds begin
all right.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Larry Bird's rival played for the Lakers in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Can't ricat it. I'm sorry?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Fuck got well? That was an honest response. Ls Are
you hung up?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Baddy?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
The guy in a blaze of gloriat It was like
SpaceX going out of space. He dropped an F bomb
and then dropped the phone. Nick, I think he might
be on the spectrum. I think he wasn't kidding yety.
(36:03):
I think he's the only bartender on the spectrum in Montana.
How lucky are we? Did he calls our show? Oh
shut up, you got a life. I don't know about that.
You lose that Dave.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
We've got, We've got albatross. These athletes had some of
the worst contracts of all time. H forty five seconds,
let's begin, slugger for the Cardinals, he went to the
Angels for ten years. Yes, that's right. Quarterback for the Bears.
He smoked cigarettes mcma no, no, no, he later came back.
(36:46):
He was on the Broncos, and then he went to
the Bears and then the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Coward yes s colwort Uh.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
This guy called the timeout when he didn't have any
for the Michigan fab five O god, yeah, worst rookie
quarterback of all time for the Raiders. He liked purple drink.
That's right, Agent zero for the Wizards.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I'm not impressed. This is not impressive. Yes, let's you
didn't get that.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
I want to see if you would have got it
stolen three times. I want to see if you would
have got this three times stolen base leader for the
Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
He went to the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Yeah, do your victory dance.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
How about.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Quarterback for the Broncos. He sucked, and then he went
to the Texans. They gave him a ton of money
for who knows why.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yeah, listen, not embarrassed at all, star not impressed. That's embarrassing, Dave.
That's pathetic. And you are somebody you who's you claimed
to be handicapped. You beat up somebody who's also handicapped.
He's on the spectrum. Nick, So you just beat up
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an autistic guy. What is it? I don't know what
the word is. I can't even I don't even know
what you hear him anymore? A monster disabled challenge? I
don't know. You just beat up an autistic man, and
I'm calling the cops on your ass, Dave. But you're
going to You're going to. You just took a shot
(38:27):
and an autistic bartender from Montana. How impressive is that?
The guy hung up? Yeah, you're a jerk, that's my excuse.
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Don't bear the lead, mom, man, we haven't given the
lead yet. Our lead this hour from the Sunshine State
in Sunrise, Florida, that is where the big stage was
is hockey needing Connor McDavid to finish it off Edmonton's
comeback for the ages there takedown Florida take all Game seven.
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Did that happen? Were you watching? You know you were
not watching? No, you were not. Why you missed it?
Bad job by? You don't worry. We watched so you
would not have to our good mits for the day.
And you know by now that things went upside down
and topsy turvy as Sam Reinhardt and Carter Rahagy each
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scored goals in the much maligned and he deserved all
the criticism. Sergei Bobrovski twenty three saves and came up
big down the stretch. There the Panthers beat the Oilers.
Bad guys beat good guys two to one and they
win Game seven of the Stanley Cup. Franchise been around
for thirty years. They're a pack of losers and they
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finally won a Stanley Cup so let us discuss the
question the better story would have been the opposite team winning.
So the question is the Panthers avoid infamy by winning
the Stanley Coup. But what are your overall thoughts on
the series here? So we'll break it down like this.
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I've got science fiction, puffy, and capital punishment, and we'll
combine all of these things together. And we were going
to make a migrain headache, which I had the other
night for some reason. I think it was the heat
was pretty hot out here. I had migraine headache and
it was very intense. I also had a headache watching
the Oilers try to put the biscuit in the basket
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in the end of game scenario. Down by one goal.
They lost by one stinking goal, and they had they
had multiple chances to tie the game and put the
pressure back on the Panthers, but that did not happen.
So we'll break this down the good, the bad, and
the ugly for Game seven and the overall series in general.
(03:52):
So the good I will be Benny Brightside. I enjoy
a good SoundBite, and the head coach of the Florida
Panthers has been very generous with silly soundbites. Paul Maurice
has been around a long time, so he won. Good
for him. Congratulations, he's got the gift for gab and
I do enjoy those that make my job more enjoyable
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by saying goofy things and putting a little razmatazz on
the English language. I enjoy that very much. In pal
Maurice has done that, and also on a human level,
I would say that this was a little bit like
an old Bill Murray movie. What about Bob? What about Bob?
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Because Bobrovsky sergei Bobrovski, who was getting absolutely cooked. We
talked about it in a previous episode of this show.
The last three games, his save percentage started with a seven.
It was so bad he had the hebe gbis there
that he was such a beaten, broken goaltender that he
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sat out practice on Sunday. They didn't even have practice
because he's so mentally weak he couldn't handle it. And
then he came back and when it mattered most at
the end of the game, he put up a wall.
There's a one save with about three minutes to go
in the game that I thought that was going to
be the breaking point where the Oilers are going to
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score the goal, but he made the save there and
he ends up a winner and infamy is forgotten. It's
like this Panther team would have been remembered forever had
they lost the series, but by winning, just another Stanley
Cup winner, they'll fade in the background. But they did
have an all time opportunity at his story by losing,
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but they don't want to be part of that. History
is only won. Fine, but Bobrovsky nursing a one goal
lead in the third period and he made the place
Now for the NHL the bad from the Stanley Cup final,
and the bad is a missed opportunity. This is a
bitter Sweet's like sweet and sour chicken. Bitter sweet here
because Connor McDavid winning the Cup and doing something had
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the Oilers won in a parallel dimension, they did win,
but doing something that hadn't happened since World War Two.
It's insane. It's insane. They had the opportunity to do
it down by one goal, they were tied one to one.
Panthers scored early and then the Oilers came back. They
tied it up, and then in the second period the
Oilers gave up a goal and that was it. But
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as for the ugly, and there's really no other way
to go around this. I'm a big believer in the
theory that if you're injured, you don't play. If you're
hurt and you play, then okay, then the results that
happened happen. You have to stand by those results. And
so I bring that up because the ugly would have
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to be Connor McDavid's wingman. It morphed into science fiction
for Leon Drycidle, the incredible shrinking man. Guys got an MVP,
he's got all these accolades. Hockey nerds love the offensive
pedigree of Leon dry Sidle. And I watched this game
and several of these games in this series, and Leon
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dry Sidle was out there skating around like he was
on a pond somewhere in Germany, and he was just
getting some exercise and getting some cardio as they say
in basketball, you know cardio in doing some skating, working
up a sweat, uh, and really not doing much of anything.
And that's it. And so that's it, see you later, goodbye.
That's by his final game. More on that later as
he will leave Edmonton go somewhere else and most likely
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a bigger locale, probably an American city, and make a
lot more money, all right now, page two here, So
they gave up the their version of the MVP where
they call it the con smythe award, the playoff MVP.
And what does Connor McDavid winning the postseason MVP for hockey,
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what does that tell us? So methinks the power brokers
meddled a little bit with this. There's no one else
really you could give it to because Bobrowski was so
terrible for three games, you can't really give him the
most Valuable Player award, although he was the favorite after
the first three games. But this was an opportunity. It's
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a missed opportunity. And the mystique. I know JJ Redick
acts to talk about aura, the aura around the comeback
and all that, and the media votes for these things.
But it was some my opinion. You can said whatever
you want, it's your opinion. There's some influence there. There
was some influence that went on. McDavid pitched goose eggs
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in game six and seven. It's an entire postseason award,
and yet he's the sixth player in the history of
the award to win on a losing team. It hadn't
happened in over twenty years. Quack quack quack. Last one
to do it was a duck. But this was the showcase,
This was the big stage here. People tuned in. The
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only people watching the college baseball game were people that
went to those schools. But for everyone else, it was
the hockey and the overall numbers were historical. McDavid led
all scores with forty two points five shy of the
record set by number ninety nine in Your Heart, but
number one in your program, Wayne Gretzky back in the
mid eighties, and he did not come out to pick
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up the award because it has cooties. So they announced
his name in the arena, but he did not come
out McDavid to pick it up. It was a participation prize.
The NHL said, here you go. You get a big
puffy sticker congratulations pure as he wanted a neon eraser.
He did not get the neon eraser. Our last word here,
so is there a bigger lesson from the curtain coming
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down on the Stanley Cup and it going to the
Florida Panthers. Is there a bigger lesson here? So yes,
there is. It is a teachable moment, and this is
the endgame. It is the endgame. I consider this series
to be capital punishment for Uncle Moe, not the Uncle
Mo that lives in Brooklyn, but momentum turn out the last.
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The party's over. I don't want to hear any of
you idiots bring this up anymore. Stop. We just witnessed
the defining moment that ends the conversation about momentum in sports.
That was it. And if you still think that momentum
in sports is real, you're a jackwagon, is what you are.
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It was killed da dead on arrival. In this series.
Florida dominated the first three games of this series and
poof what happened to all their momentum? Why didn't they
keep their moment? A bad job by them? And Edmonton
was skating circles around Florida for the next three games.
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And they had that shot laid in game six in
Edmonton where the Panthers body language, I'm a big body language.
The body language was like, oh crap, we suck, you know,
we are absolutely blow And that was the body language there.
And everyone told me that Oilers had all the momentum.
No I did point out in a previous eeport to
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show that momentum does not exist. So there's no way
the Oilers could have all the momentum because it doesn't.
It doesn't. It's not snowball going downhill. It's not reality.
And so then we get to Game seven and oops
a daisy. That's exactly the way it played out. There
is no such thing as momentum. It is something that
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only exists in the abstract. It is one of those things.
Upon cross examination, when you actually look at it, the
idea of momentum falls apart, like a cheaply made suit.
It just falls apart.
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Exciting News. Exciting News, The last episode of the JJ
Reddick podcast popped up Welcome in the beginning of another
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this hour from La La Land. They actually did it.
We thought maybe they would get cold feet, but they
(13:45):
actually did it. The Lakers unveiled their latest head coach.
Great thing about coaching the Lakers is. If you don't
like the coach of the Lakers is wait a couple
of years. They'll be a new one. But with very
little fanfare and a lot of amusement. They did it.
They did the unimaginable. The Lakers hired a podcaster to
coach the team. Yes, he accepted the rose. Just like
(14:09):
a reality TV show, a podcaster. JJ Reddick gonna hang
up the podcast game more downloads from my podcast. He's
not doing it anymore. JJ Reddick said, Yes, he accepted
the rose, and he was officially welcomed to the Purple
and Gold gang. The longtime clipper who missed every big
shot he took in the fourth quarter of games is
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now the Lakers problem. He had his introductory news conference
on Monday. He sat right next to skinny jeans Rob Polenka,
who looks beaten and broken. The years of futile Laker
rosters have done that to him, and being the caddie
to Lebron James. So they were sitting side by side,
Rob Polenka, the GM and the podcaster Reddick, who regaled
(14:55):
basketball scribes with answers to a bunch of random questions.
He becomes the two twenty ninth coach, the twenty ninth
coach in franchise history. Most of those have happened within
like the last ten years. Ever since doctor Jerry Buss died,
the Lakers have gone to hell in a handbasket. No championships.
It's a disaster of a franchise. And it's a turnstyle gig.
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It's a turnstyle gig, and they've added another notch to that.
So let us discuss the question what was the vibe?
What was the vibe that JJ Reddick gave off in
his opening news conference with the Lakers. So I went
back and watched this. I didn't watch it live. I
watched the raw feed on the interweb and I checked
(15:37):
it out. So I've got the big o' ranchera and
arcade and we will combine all of these things together
and we are going to make macaroni and cheese is
what we're going to make. So number JJ Reddick was
(15:58):
in All Star f That is not a compliment. Some
people will take that as a compliment. You should not
take that as a compliment. That is not a compliment.
This was such a debacle. It was actually better than
I thought it was going to be and I knew
it was going to be a debacle, and I just
I was hoping. I was hoping, I was I was
going to be wrong, and I was because it was
(16:21):
the kind of event where I knew this guy is
a schmuck. But you're like, there's no way. Maybe the
Lakers will wise up and say, psych, we're just kidding,
We're just that was some tricker ration. We're not actually
hiring this guy, and then they'll hire somebody else who
should they should actually hire, just just just joking around. Huh,
(16:41):
jokes on you. But JJ Reddick is the same guy
he's always been. He's the big O, not Oscar Robertson.
He is obnoxious. Oh for obnoxious? Is JJ Reddick coaching
in the NBA? I realize it's a marginalized job anyway.
It's not about x's and O when you're coaching in
the NBA. That secondary. It's about likability. Much of it's
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about likability. You are the face of the franchise, and
the Lakers face of the franchise is a douchebag. That's
JJ Reddick, That's who they hired. And you also look
for the coach to have the pied piper effect. Is
that a fair thing to say? I think that is
a fair thing to say. It the pied Piper a
charismatic person that can bond together people and have them
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follow the message, whatever that message is. Motivation is a
big part of it. But Reddick is the antithesis of that.
He acts like he invented the game, like doctor James Naismith.
He invented the game, invented basketball. He put a little
peach basket up back in the day and that was that.
But there's so many high levels of toxicity with JJ Reddick,
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and we know how this story is going to end.
JJ will be jumping out of the Laker team playing
with a golden parachute, and he'll make a lot of
money and then he can go do some bad podcasting
and he'll have a lot of money coming in. The
only thing about that is you will not be able
to criticize the Lakers. The standard contracts of these professional
coaches and athletes have a non besmirching of the brand
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clauses in the contract, so that will not happen. Now,
page two, the Lakers at the Shindig. At one point,
skinny jeans. Rob Polinka boldly said that Anthony Davis had
a lot to do. He was more involved in the
hiring of JJ Reddick than Lebron James. And I'm not
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making this up. But you probably think I'm making this up.
I'm not. I'm not making this up. So lakers claim
is that Anthony Davis, the unibrow was more involved in
the hire of JJ Reddick than Lebron James. Is that
believable on any level? Is that believable? Well, not the
one I'm meant. And if you didn't give out a
hearty guffaw when you either saw that earlier or you
(18:59):
heard just talk about it, there's something wrong with you.
Rob Polinka claimed with a straight face, he did not
break character. I thought he was gonna break character. I
thought he was gonna start laughing. He did not. He
claims that Lebron distance himself from the coaching search. So
riddle me this, batman. Anthony Davis is fully immersed. Lebron
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is out on an island somewhere, living the island life.
In order for us to believe that, you would have
to be living and I would have to be living
in a ranchera. The street sign saying welcome to Suckersville man,
Welcome to Suckers Like, what are we doing? Seriously, Lebron,
(19:47):
let me let you in a little secret. Lebron was
literally and figuratively part of the sizzle reel for JJ
Reddick to get him the job. In my business, in radio,
you used to have to send tapes in Now you
can just email stuff. But if you want one of
these jobs, you had to send sample of your work.
It's how it works. And then they listen to it
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and say whether they like you or not, and whether
they want to go further with the process or process.
And if you're coaching and you have no resume, what
do you think? JJ Reddick? His resume was he's bad
at commentating on television. Think god, he's off that. That's
a silver lining to this. I'm gonna go ahead a
limb and say he sent audio files of the podcast
(20:29):
that he does with who Lebron James come on. That
was the audition tape that was in the podcast. It's
in the podcast stupid and it worked. It worked. He
got the gig with no business getting the gig. He
got the gig because the Lakers are an embarrassment. They
have no leadership and I love every second of it.
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I've been waiting my entire life for this incompetence, and
here it is, and I hope it never ends up.
Genie Buss owns the team forever and ever and ever.
She has no idea what she's doing. It's just wonderful.
But Reddick did say he has been excommunicated, he said
from the content space, so there will be no podcast.
He said he's done with podcasting for now. Check back
(21:13):
in about a year and a half, and once he
gets whacked, the pod will return. Now, final point, So
let's take a look at the wide angle lens here,
not the micro the macro wide angle lens. What does
JJ reddicks higher do for the Laker franchise. So he
(21:35):
my perspective is he's like an arcade game Cubert back
in the day of this thing called the Q rating,
And the Q rating is what you're judged on in
terms of popularity, right, how highly regarded you are they
called the Q rating. How highly regarded you are. The
higher your Q score, the better that is, right, And
(21:57):
Reddick is unlikable, he's pompous, he's unreasonable, and he scores
very high on what I call the S score. The
Schmuck score very high on that. The Q score not
so much. The Q score not so much. Now. My
favorite moment of this was a retick representing the Brian,
(22:20):
the Laker Brian. He was asked what miscommunications about himself
he's looking forward to dispelling now that he earned a
job he did not was given a job he did
not earn coaching the Lakers, and JJ mumbled and stumbled
and mumbled over the answer, and he then said part
(22:41):
of the engagement farming industry, talking about him being part
of the engagement farming industry, as he said, which is
an a whole way of saying podcasting before saying, I
really don't have a great answer for your question, because
I don't I really don't give an is what he said.
(23:02):
But I said the word f because I have some
decorum and I get in trouble. Well, actually probably wouldn't
anymore if I said their force, but Reddick said it.
So I've come to one conclusion, and one conclusion only
The Lakers just don't give a damn. They know the
team's gonna suck, so they thought, well, let's try something different.
We'll hire Reddick. He can't coach, we'll put him out
(23:24):
there and Lebron'll be happy, and you know, they can
do some great podcasts when Lebron retires in a year
and a half or whatever, and we'll draft Bronni James
and we'll be on our way and we'll just live
the heal life. Will be like professional wrestler Joink, the
clown from back in the day. I know, if sands
or butts about it, that's just the way it's going
to be. Lebron is closing in on the Big four
to oh, which is okay in real life, but in
(23:45):
athletics that's not that great. And Anthony Davis is made
of glass. Good luck, good luck, what a mess. I'll
be here to document and chronicle all of it. It
would be a miracle for the Lakers when thirty five
games with JJ Reddick as the coach next season.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Here we go, Here we go, here about to the
third degree.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Koupo Loup, an NFL insider reporter over the weekend, claimed
that Aidan O'Connell quote probably has a slight edge over
Gardner Minshew in the Raiders quarterback competition, Ben, do you
think the Raiders would actually start O'Connell over Minshew.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, there's a dimension where Aidan O'Connell would start. I'm
a minshewe guy, I'm minshew mania, And it seems to
be there's a disconnect between some people with the Raiders
front office that thought Aidan O'Connell stinks. Some of the
coaching staff likes his moxie, and so that's the first thing. Secondly,
this is unlike Pittsburg where they've already given the job
(24:53):
to Russell Wilson, Like this is actually a legitimate training
camp battle. If Gardner Minshew outplays Aidan O'Connell, he'll be
the starter for the Raiders. Next.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
A recent report says that the Mavericks are looking to
trade Jeremy Grant to trade for Jeremy Grant to the
Trail Blazers. But do you think Grant would be an
impact player for Dallas.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Well, I don't get the Jeremy Grant thing, like he's
the Blazers are a debacle and I know he's been
around for a few years and bounced around the NBA
and all that, but I mean, he's okay. You don't
know you're on a bad team. You're on a terrible
team in Portland, and you don't know what you're gonna
do in a good environment. I know he was on
the Nuggets a couple of years ago. They were pretty good.
(25:31):
But no, your Lakers want Jeremy Grant too. I do
not expect him to be an impact player if he
is relocated, and he should be traded, and there should
be a bunch of trades because tut up. It's I
know Coop's excited. He doesn't like to talk about us
in the air, but Coop loves the NBA Draft. He
is so freaking excited about it. He's been bouncing off.
How many mock drafts have you done, Coop? Like three? Yeah,
(25:55):
it's a lot, all right.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Next, Aaron Judge told a reporter that he has no
plans to ever particse debit in the Home Run Derby again,
unless it's in New York. Ben, what's your position on
Judge's attitude towards the Derby.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
The attitude of someone that got paid a lifetime contract
by the New York Yankees and is only worried about
the New York fans. But I was raised, and maybe
I was wrong. Maybe I'm in the wrong. I was raised.
The All Star Game is to grow the sport that
it's not about you, it's about the fans. The fans
want to see Aaron Judge, Paul Bunyan go up there
and hit moonshots in the home run derby. But he's like, Hey,
(26:28):
I got a lot of money, I don't need to
bother doing it, and I'll only do it for the
fans in New York, And so screw you. If you're
in Kansas City or Saint Louis or Seattle or wherever,
how do we do cope? You pass the sea win
in the wind Cup, just like the Oilers should have
been in the wind Collar.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
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listen live. Go now, who Malor's Mountain of Money?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Let's walk home in arkanitestas we have Nick in Montana,
Big Sky Country. Hello, Nick, Oh boy, Nick's actually his phone,
He's actually connected to a moose. All Right, there we go, Nick,
my bad, sorry going, I'm gonna slap you around. How
(27:29):
dare you not have a working phone in Montana?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Bad?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
All right? Never do that again, Never ever do that again?
All right? Nick? Tell the people listening in beaver Dam
who have friends in Punk Satadi? Who knows someone in
Rancho Cucamonga. What you do for a living?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
There, Nick Bartender?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Nick the Bartender here he is unbelievable. All right, Nick,
who do you want to partner up with on the game?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Oh? I get first? Take Big Ben first?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Good job. Ben Ben thinks that's a good idea. Hold
on a second, you're gonna play our game, Nick the Bartender,
and we have Oh boy. Dave in New York, Upstate
New York. Hello Dave, Hey Ben.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I figured you would have me up because you're scared
of me. But I'm glad you man up.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Why would I be scared of you?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Because I beat you the last time?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Did you cheated? You didn't win? Nobody counts that as
a win. And why do you keep calling your game
show hoard? Get a life? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (28:40):
I know?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Have a life?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Well, go buy one on the internet. His life is
being you in the games. I'm gonna ruin your entire week.
I'm gonna kick your ass up and down the radio dial. Dave,
that's an old school radio turn.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
You're stayed on the air. That's the cuff word.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Oh yeah, you schmuck. I'll say whatever I want on
the air.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Well, you're back to being a normal bet.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
All right, Dan? So you you and Coop? Yes, that's
the team, you and Coop.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, I think you'll cause we won last night.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Okay, what the categories here?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I could turn on my mic, I would help.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
All right.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
You like that guy Nick in Montana.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
This is Mallard's Mountain of Money, the Mick Fleetwood edition.
Uh he turned seventy seven years old on Monday, Okay,
seley Wood mac fame of course, yes, uh Nick. Categories
are albatross, a man of the world, never going back again?
Or uh, seven wonders?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Okay, which one you want? Nick Dugget, Oh what, I don't.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Think seven wonders? Okay, seven wonders? And then Dave, how
about you? You've got albatross, Men.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Of the brook.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Yeah, we're gonna go never go back.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Never going back again? All right? Like you never going
back into the wind column.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Ah, that's stupid.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
All everyone's do not hang up, or you're off the gate.
Do not hang up, Nick the bartender in Montana, Dave,
what do you do for a living? Dave?
Speaker 3 (30:26):
I told you the first time I called. I'm just able.
Right there you go, So you're not You're not the greatest.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Probably, Remember Eddie, Eddie has no idea who you are.
Eddie hates you off here. He can't stand you. Whyse
he talks trash about you all the time, Dave. He says,
how annoying you? Good? Good for you?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Hold on, it's Mallard's mountain of money in its entirety.
For the rest of the hour, it's going to be
a beatdown. Now, you're not supposed to beat up people
that are on this same disability, but it's radio, so
I'm allowed to, right, Lorraine, I could beat him up.
I mean, he's crow to break you cheaters. All right,
we'll get to that. And Kuk knows he's gonna lose.
He's got no chance. We'll get to it. We'll do
(31:14):
it next.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
And right to the game we go. Let's welcome into
our contestant. We have Nick in Montana and Dave.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Oh Dave.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, I mean you got no Dave's got no chance. Nick. Right,
you're a professional bartender. What kind of drink would you?
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (31:44):
All right? Yeah, I'm not trying to cheat that. You
gotta lose. You're a loser, Dave. I'm pointing that out
right now. You all right, Nick, we're up first here.
We picked you picked seven wonders. Correct, all right? These
athletes all ward number seven will put forty five seconds
on the clock. We need first and last name of you, ready.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Nick, first and last?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yes? Yeah? All right, A right, We're on our way.
A quarterback for the Broncos in the eighties and early nineties,
won the Super Bowl a couple of times. Yes, quarterback
for the Steelers, won a Super Bowl their last. Yes,
puppy killer for the Atlanta Falcons. Quarterback in Atlanta and
play with the Eagles as well. Quarterback for the Falcons.
(32:30):
He killed dogs. Dog killer oh oh, Vick was his first.
Michael Yes, Syracuse star played for the Denver Nuggets in
the NBA. A friend of Lebron was in that Lebron
draft with Dwayne Wade. All right, Yankees center field the
number seven not not the Disney Mouse legend, and Yeanks
(32:51):
move on, move on, all right? Quarterback of the car
My god, I don't know that you can have.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
A better including that Mickey Mouse was not Mickey Mouse
was not the answer.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
But Mickey Mantle was.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Okay, I'm astic.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
He's on the spectrum. Co down, Mickey Mantle and Carmelo Anthony.
You did not get you were sixty points? All right?
Speaker 5 (33:23):
Next, okay, Dave, we have never going back again. You're
you're there, right, Davey.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
All right?
Speaker 5 (33:32):
These athletes did not leave their teams on good terms.
Don't choke, Dave, forty five seconds.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Don't choke.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Let's begin, all right. This guy thinks the Earth is flat.
He just lost for the Mavericks. Yes, this guy was
a wide receiver for the Steelers. He quit in the
middle of a Tampa Bay Bucks game. Yes, uh, this
guy is an analyst, but he used to play for
the Yankees, the Mariners, the the Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yes uh.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
This guy had one of the best one handed catches
of all time for the Giants wide receiver. Yes, indeed,
let's go with Jewish second basement for the Rangers.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
He went to the Tigers. Be all right.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
This guy was a point guard for the Warriors. He
was also on the Clippers. He had a beard.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
No, not that impressive. I'm still enough to give him the.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Those are not good clues. I gave you not a
Disney mouse, all right. And the Baron Davis was an
all time legend.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Ian Kinsler and Baron Davis are the ones who do
not get right one hundred points, Ben has sixty. You
were back up? Nick? Do you want I stopped talking?
You moron? Shut your mouth up? Nick? Do you want
Albatross or Man of the World?
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Man of the world?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
All right, you're a bartender in Montella. You're not a
man of the world. All right, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
These athletes have all played international forty five seconds begin
all right.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Larry Bird's rival played for the Lakers in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Can't ricat it. I'm sorry?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Fuck got well? That was an honest response. Ls Are
you hung up?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Baddy?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
The guy in a blaze of gloriat It was like
SpaceX going out of space. He dropped an F bomb
and then dropped the phone. Nick, I think he might
be on the spectrum. I think he wasn't kidding yety.
(36:03):
I think he's the only bartender on the spectrum in Montana.
How lucky are we? Did he calls our show? Oh
shut up, you got a life. I don't know about that.
You lose that Dave.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
We've got, We've got albatross. These athletes had some of
the worst contracts of all time. H forty five seconds,
let's begin, slugger for the Cardinals, he went to the
Angels for ten years. Yes, that's right. Quarterback for the Bears.
He smoked cigarettes mcma no, no, no, he later came back.
(36:46):
He was on the Broncos, and then he went to
the Bears and then the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Coward yes s colwort Uh.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
This guy called the timeout when he didn't have any
for the Michigan fab five O god, yeah, worst rookie
quarterback of all time for the Raiders. He liked purple drink.
That's right, Agent zero for the Wizards.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I'm not impressed. This is not impressive. Yes, let's you
didn't get that.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
I want to see if you would have got it
stolen three times. I want to see if you would
have got this three times stolen base leader for the
Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
He went to the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Yeah, do your victory dance.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
How about.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Quarterback for the Broncos. He sucked, and then he went
to the Texans. They gave him a ton of money
for who knows why.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yeah, listen, not embarrassed at all, star not impressed. That's embarrassing, Dave.
That's pathetic. And you are somebody you who's you claimed
to be handicapped. You beat up somebody who's also handicapped.
He's on the spectrum. Nick, So you just beat up
(38:03):
an autistic guy. What is it? I don't know what
the word is. I can't even I don't even know
what you hear him anymore? A monster disabled challenge? I
don't know. You just beat up an autistic man, and
I'm calling the cops on your ass, Dave. But you're
going to You're going to. You just took a shot
(38:27):
and an autistic bartender from Montana. How impressive is that?
The guy hung up? Yeah, you're a jerk, that's my excuse.
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