February 6, 2025 • 40 mins
Big Ben breaks down a flurry of NBA trades including the Miami Heat sending Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors, Pete Alonso staying with the New York Mets, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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the dates are Thursday show and we got trade action
the game of musical Chairs in the Nbaah. So, there
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been a gaggle of trades, and most of the people
traded you'd never heard of. You don't know who they are.
And there was one trade that stands out head and
shoulders above all the other trades. And so that'll be
the one we're going to talk about here at the beginning.
Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Buckets has gotten what he wants. What
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kind of what do he want? It's complicated, it's complicated,
but the game of musical chairs goes round and round her.
Now the music stops this afternoon. Keep in mind, for years,
the NBA trade deadline was at midnight, and then there
was one woman who convinced the NBA to change the
trade deadline. She ruined it for those of us to
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do overnight talk radio, Rachel Nichols. She ruined it, and
then she lost her job anyway. But yeah, she complained
because she had to stay up late for the trade deadline.
It was an inconvenience. So they decided to make the
trade deadline during the afternoon. But fortunately we're still getting
late night. But we used to call Woe woge bombs,
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but now Woje is hanging out in Jersey, living the
quiet life there and doing his thing. But the trade.
Get to the point, please, So we have learned, if
you did not pay attention earlier, that the Miami Heat,
Golden State Warriors and several other teams all got together
and they had a meet and greet and they agreed
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to a trade. So Jimmy Butler goes from Miami, Miami,
Miami to northern California, Golden State moving Andrew Wiggins, Dennish Shrewder,
the guy won't get to him in a second. We
talked about him yesterday. Kyle Anderson, a first round pick
and a partridge in a pear tree, all of that
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outbound from the Bay Area. And the Wiggins, we are told,
is staying in Miami for now, Andrew Wiggins, so he'll
stay there. And now Josh Richardson headed to Detroit from Miami.
There'll be a quiz on this later. Shrewder goes and
he said modern day slavery. He goes to u Utah,
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So he'll go play for the jazz. You can talk
about modern slavery in Salt Lake City and also part
of the move PJ. Tucker, who was in exile with
the people seemed the Clippers, then was traded to Utah,
but he's now going back to Miami. So and there's
other like stuff involved, like Detroit's involved. I mean, it's hard.
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It's really way too complicated. It doesn't need to be
that hard. It does not need to be that hard.
The owners in the NBA attempted to neoter the trade deadline.
We're gonna put all these different layers in it. We're
gonna get all complicated, and you gotta make seventeen teen
trades to make it happen, assuming that that would calm
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the trading frenzy. Well, spoiler alert, Yeah, it didn't work.
It didn't work. But Jimmy Buckets is the big name,
and that is the player that we're going to focus
in on, and so we'll start with that and then
work our way through the malaise. So as we discuss here,
as we discuss the question Jimmy Butler and his long
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saga where he was suspended multiple times from the heat
upset with the front office there in Miami. The saga
is now ov r. It's all over as he heads
the war so who won the trade? Who won the trade?
So I've got Lucky Charms, paleontology, and bon Jovi, and
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we will combine all of these things together and we're
going to go on a nice vacation, which is what
the Golden State Warriors will eventually be doing when they
were eliminated from the playoffs, assuming they do end up
in the playoffs, which is really hard not to make
the playoffs in the NBA. So my first thought here,
our long national nightmare is over. Jimmy Butler can stop
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playing hooky. He can end the absenteeism from his basketball
career there and get back to hooping in the Bay Area.
And he was really really annoyed with pat Riley. Oh Man,
did he hate pat Riley and so he had a
wildcat strike and it's spilled over most of this year
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off on. The Butlers played some games, but he's it's
been unhappy. He's been sulking, having a conniption fit in Miami.
He did end up with the Heat going to the
NBA Finals not once but twice, so two trips to
the NBA Finals for Jimmy Buckets, although one was during
COVID so that then count. And then three suspensions on
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his way out of South Florida, so not one, not two,
but three. Very hostile at the end there for Jimmy Buckets.
Now ask for the trade itself. Malor report card the
most important grading system that we have when it comes
to trade. So maller report card. I'm gonna give the
Warriors an A, not an A plus, just an A,
not an A plus an A. I'm gonna give the
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Heat the D. Heat get the D. Then the other
teams involved all get a C. Because I don't know
who any of these players are. And it's kind of
stupid thing like Danny Ainge continues to only run the
Utah Jazz to help other teams make trades. It's not
like they're actually getting any better the Utah Jazz. They're
just moving things around and rearranging and they're not getting
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rid of anything, and so it's just a hot mess,
just a hot mess. Now. Jimmy Butler, why, like you've
heard the show. He's one of the guys in the
NBA that I liked. I like the way that he
plays the Gusto that he plays with and all that.
So he has shown some signs of wear and tear.
He's missed more time than he had in his younger
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it is which normally happens. And you think he's still
got some fuel left at least for the short term
as he goes to play with Golden State. But now
he gets a chance to team up with Steph Curry
and Raymond Green. And how does that recipe taste? How
does that taste? Well, how does it smell? It smells
kind of like lucky charm. So there's a lot of
sugar in there. There's a lot. Maybe it's magically delicious.
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I don't know. It might not be magically delicious. We
haven't had it yet. But there's a lot of name
brand players. So there's players we've heard of that had
long careers. The smart money, though, says that this ends
up a bedraggled mess. It ends up a bedraggled mess.
Now page two, So what does Jimmy Butler provide for
Golden State that Andrew Wiggins didn't? And what does Andrew
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Wiggins do in Miami? So Jimmy Butler is the Tasmanian devil,
which is a good thing. He's a whirling dervish when
he's out on the court, which we like, We liked,
enjoy that that type of player. He hadn't been that guy,
has not been that guy with the Miami Heat much
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this year because he's been sulking, having a hissy fit,
and that's been part of the problem. But you put
him in Golden State. Now Jimmy Buckets is smiling all
the way to the bank, other than the fact that
he has to pay taxes in the People's Republic of California,
which is much different than the state of Florida. But
the maniocal perseverance paid off for for Jimmy Butler because
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he had Golden State not only trade for him, but remember,
there were reports the last couple of days that he
was unwilling to agree to a contract extension with the Warriors,
and I'm not going to do it. But yet here
he is headed to San Francisco to play for the Warriors.
He agrees to an extension worth and estimated one hundred
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and twenty one million dollars for two years of work
one hundred and twenty one men. Of course, after taxes,
that's about fifty bucks. But still one hundred and twenty
one million. He talked about the Golden Hammer, that would
be the golden hammer for sure, and the problem here,
and I mentioned that I'm not optimistic, I'm not Benny
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Brightside on this working out for Golden State. I'm curious
to see how this plays out. But I have a
pretty good idea how it's going to go for the
wars because Steve Kerr, the Golden State coach there, Steve
is doing paleontology when he's coaching the Warriors going forward,
because there's a lot of fossils. There's a lot of
fossils in modern sports lingo. If you're past the age
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of thirty three, your past year athletic prime. When you
get about thirty five, it's close to lights out. The
party's over. So Steph Curry is thirty six, turns thirty
seven later this year. You've got Draymond Green who's thirty four,
turns thirty five later this year. And you've got Jimmy
Butler who's thirty five. So you've got thirty something all
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over the place at key positions here. So that is
the last dance. That would be the last dance for
Golden State. Over the next the rest of this year,
and then next year, and that's pretty much it. That's
all you can really expect. Like they've got two options.
They've got this year and next year. If you look around,
there's teams that have really nice records, like Oklahoma City,
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but does anyone really take them seriously? Come on, no,
and you bounce, Well, there's a shot, but then you're like, well,
these guys will get hurt, but they're no back to
back games. There's no back to back games in the playoffs.
You don't have to worry about that. But we'll see,
we'll see what happens. And eventually the Warriors will get
to the point where, like in twenty twenty seven, they'll
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be seeing if they can track down Speedy Claxton and
Jason Richardson and Baron Davis and see if Mike Montgomery
wants to coach and all that, you know, because they'll
be back to those early two thousands Warriors that were
just god awful, just horrible. Now, as for Miami, Andrew Wiggins,
not a star, not a star, supposed to be a star,
not a star, not a star, not a headline star.
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Certainly not that he's like a high end supporting actor
is what Andrew Wiggins is in the Heat now. What
it is is this bam Adabaio and Tyler Heroes team
for the time being until pat Riley can convince someone
else to head down to Florida and play for the
Heat and be the headliner. But for now it's bam
Adebayo and Tyler hero and so Andrew Wiggins will play
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alongside those guys and they're the main actors. And that's
it all right now, last word before picking up Jimmy Butler,
there was a hot Detroit rumor bouncing all around the
pinball machine of the sports take that the Golden State
Warriors were solely focused on bringing in the Slim Reaper.
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They wanted the Slim Reaper to return, They wanted a
do over, and that was the talk in the early
part of the day on Wednesday, was that Kevin Durant
was in talks, so the Sons were trying to get
him to come back and all that. Now we're told
that it got to the point where KD was contacted
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by intermediaries and Kevin Durant in form of the Warriors,
no moss, I'm good. I would rather fall on top
of a cactus, then play another game with Raymond Green.
That's essentially what he's saying. He didn't say that, and so,
but that's what he's implying because he has no desire.
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He had no desire for a reunion to go back
to the Bay and go down memory lane, back to
the glory days of the Golden State, where so Durant
is like, I don't want any part of that. So
then the Suns are like, all right, well, keep your
your old ass, and then the Warriors pivoted and they
went out and they made the deal to get Jimmy Butther.
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So it's kind of like the the Bon Jovie tune
Burning Bridges. It's like Kevin Durant and Draymond Green, whatever happened,
There is a there there. It's not that there's not
a there there. There is a there there. And it's
real like if you're Durant and you're stuck on a
team going nowhere in the Suns. Granted, Golden State's not
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exactly a bowl of cherries, but you figure you got
a better shot there than you have in Arizona. But
you'd rather stay with your suck bag teammates in the
Suns than go play for the Warriors because there were
some bridges that were burned. Obviously in that Loggerheads relationship
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with Traymond Green, it's personal. So the trade deadline is
still a few hours away, and so it's possible this
could all change and Durant ends up being relocated. Does
not seem like that is going to happen. He does
not have a no trade clause, so they could send
him to Siberia.
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So our lead this hour, our lead, this hours from
the game of free agency, the game of free agency
baseball style. We'll get back to basketball. Trade deadline is
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later today. We have had a gaggle of trades, a
yahoo of trades, but with days to go, pitchers and
catchers start reporting today's February sixth. Pitchers and catchers start
reporting February ninth, So three days away from show up
to worktime, and Pee Alonzo is no longer unemployed. He
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has found a new home. Pee Alonzo free agent slugger
long with the Mets. And it turns out the new
home is the old home. Assume you know by now,
but maybe not. We learned that slugger Pee Alonzo late
in the night agreeing to a two year contract for
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fifty four million fifty four million from the Mets, and
that ends the elongated free agency, a return engagement shows
added to the polar Bear experience for the New York Mets,
and they're still working on the DOCU sign so it's
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not done, done done. Pending of physical includes an opt out. Now,
I always say pending of physical because you could get
a Carlos Correa cheating a whole situation. Remember Korea years
ago signed with the Giants and then failed the physical,
signed with the Mets, failed the physical, and then he
ended up with Minnesota where he's just a failure. So anyway,
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Alonzo is not done done, but it's almost done. He's
gonna go back to the Mets and he will make
thirty million this year and then he can hit the
eject button and opt out of the contract. So let
us discuss the question Pete Alonso going back to the Metropolitans,
what does that signal to you? So I'm gonna go
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first my observations. I have post malone, MACHETI and goodie bag,
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But we don't have one, so number, I said number
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the owner medal. After a minutes long Mallor investigation, the
owner of the New York Mets, Stephen Cohen, a fanboy,
intervened for better or worse, Steve Cohen is why Peter
Alonzo is back with the New York Mets. The front office,
the handpicked executive that the Mets owner hired, determined that
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Peter Alonso is a diminishing asset, that he's not gonna
get better, He's only gonna get worse. And the talk
said ended. That was the story that was being tossed
out there, that the conversations were over and Alonzo was
not going to play for the Mets again. All but
O and then we do a one A and now
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we're back with Peter Alonzo with the Mets. So for
that to happen, either the general manager of the Mets
had a come to Jesus moment or he had a
come to the owner's moment. And that was the great metamorphosis.
That was the great change that took place. Right, nothing
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else makes any sense, Nothing else makes any sense. Alonzo
was offered a seven year contract by the Mets last year,
turned it down. He was supposedly offered a seventy some
million dollar contract a couple months ago, he turned that down,
and now he ends up with a two year contract
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for fifty four million, which is really only a one
year contract for thirty million. The math ain't mathing. You
do the mal or math on that it doesn't look
good for Peter Alonzo, but yet he's back. So that
likely means that Steve con massaged Pete Alonzo's ego and
convinced the front office, his own front office to take
a lone back and Pete Alonso. The reason he did
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this is because he was playing the tune from post Malone.
No options, had no option, no good options. There were
options for the polar Bear, but not good option, like
if you believe the scuttle, but the streets talking around
baseball and the streets in baseball saying that the Toronto
Blue Jays were there, they had a standing offer, the
Cincinnati Reds had some interest, and then suck back teams
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like the Angels and the Higantes also had interest in
Pee Alonzo. So well, I can go to one of
those teams and then play one year and then opt
back in, or I could go to the Mets and
play one year and then do it again all over
and so he chose to go to the Mets, which
is actually a smart move. The Mets figure to win
the National League East, or at very worst be a
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wild card team. They're not going to win anything in
the playoffs, because we all know the Doyers own the
National League. But the Mets will be in playoff games
and Pete Alonzo will have opportunities on the big stage
to hit home runs. He's not getting any younger, though,
that's the problem. And baseball's run by a bunch of Poindexters,
and that is an issue that Peter Alonzo will not
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be able to overcome. But at least in theory, if
he goes out in twenty twenty five Alonzo for the
Mets and hits fifty home runs and drives in one
hundred and forty runs, and you say, okay, there's something there.
There's something there, and somebody will take a shot on him,
and so that's it. But the polar Bear, Now, how
weird is it. He was the face of the Mets
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for so many years and now he goes back there
and he's the third wheel. Peet Alonzo is number three
number three, got Juan Soto who's signed for the forever
contract and he's got more money than the gross domestic
product of several small countries. And then you've got Francisco
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Lindor who's also got ridiculous amounts of money. And then
peet Alonzo slides, and then who knows if he's even
number three on the Mets, he might be even lower
than that. And so we'll do this all over again.
Pete Alonzo will opt out of his contract. He gets
hurt or has a terrible year, he'll opt out of
his contract and try to find a new team. In
twenty twenty six, Now, page two, we go to the NFL,
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the National Football League, where the Cleveland Browns blow and
they have one good player. They have one player that's
head and shoulders everyone else. Miles Garrett. Remember when he
went four against the Steelers years ago and he threw
the helmet down like he was throwing the hammer down. Anyway,
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Miles Garrett spoke publicly for the first time since announcing
I am done in Cleveland. I don't want to play
any any more games here. I'm out. So he spoke
of the radio row where all the free loading media
elites hang out there in New Orleans and Miles Garrett
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saying that he and the Browns organization on are not
aligned on the future. Thank you, Captain obvious. Okay, we
couldn't figured that one out. He mentioned Miles Garrett the
word trajectory, meaning the trajectory of the Browns franchise, which
is kind of like when you fire a rocket up
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like those old remember those old I better announce you'd
be the old space shuttles. They are the old Space
Shuttle if you're old enough formever, so they'd shoot the
Space Shuttle up. They had those booster rockets, and then
assuming that the Space Shuttle didn't explode, the booster rockets
would come off the Space Shuttle and fall back down
into the ocean. And so if you think of the Browns,
they're like, not the Space Shuttle going out to outer space,
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They're like the booster rockets falling back down to the ocean.
That's the Cleveland Browns right there. That's the trajectory. And
so Garrett said he had some conversations with the Highers
up and all that stuff. So the part of the
story which is interesting here that really is the meat
on the bone don't bear the lead, my man, heart,
I'm not gonna bear the lead. So the part of
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the story, which I believe makes good talk radio is
that Miles Garrett said that he consulted with who about
asking for a trade Lebron James ding ding ding ding
ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. Yes,
Miles Garrett said, when contemplating whether or not to leave Cleveland,
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he had a hearty conversation with Lebron James, who left
Cleveland not once, but twice, left the cadavers in the
middle of the night, and they said they Miles Garrett said,
they had to talk about what that would be like
and whatnot. Now Cleveland's Miles Garrett says he consulted with
Lebron James before demanding a trade in an exit off
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ramp from Cleveland. How do you rule on this one?
How do you rule on this one? So after a
very brief deliberation, bad luck, bad job by Miles Garrett.
Now he's honest. That's fine. You can give an a
for honesty. But this is something that did not need
to be said. And the people, and I don't live
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in Cleveland, we're on the radio there and I am
from what I understand of my friends from Ohisle. The
Cleveland sports fan was sympathetic. They had empathy for Miles Garrett.
That the Browns, they know, are like the thing you
see in the toilet when you take a number two.
So they understand that. But now that you've added Lebron
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into the chat, now you're losing goodwill. That's taking a machete, right,
taking a machete and cutting deep. That's a deep cut
with the machete. And we get the fact that Miles
Garrett is part of Clutch Sports, which is a shadow
organization by Lebron James allegedly where Lebron can control much
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of the sports world and he bankrolls that, and you know,
one of his buddies runs it, and so I get
all that. Nevertheless, that is a body blow, body blow,
body blow to the Cleveland sports fan. So Miles Garrett
by announcing that he became less less of a of
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someone you can pull for. I'm using the right words here,
but you know what I'm saying. You feel me on that,
all right? Anyway, Lebron, who fancies himself mister Ohio when
he showed up to the game in Atlanta, when Ohio
State played in the National Championship Game, and here he
is conspiring to help another star Ohio athlete leave the
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state of Ohio giving him advice. Man, it doesn't seem
very cool. It doesn't seem neat you know. Now, Ultimately
it's the Browns incompetence than Deshaun Watson's inability to play,
and the Browns being married to Deshaun Watson that will
do this. But it does not help the situation. Does
not help the situation that this is how it went down,
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all right, final point. So quickly, the NFL Players Association
has announced that quote no one, No one wants to
play eighteen games. Roger Goodell has said that the plan
is eventually to play eighteen games with the Players Association
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says no one wants to play eighteen games. So where
does that leave Roger Goodell, the big shot over there
at the union says nobody wants to play eighteen games.
So it's not CarMax. It's all about haggling. This is
all about haggling, and the union says that because they
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want concessions, and the union is wrong. The NFL Players
Associations said, Wow, nobody wants to play eighteen games. That's
a lie. I'll tell you people that want eighteen games.
The owners of the NFL won eighteen games. Check. Television
wants eighteen games of regular season football. Check. Advertisers of
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tell television and radio want eighteen game regular seasons. Check check.
The vast majority of fans want eighteen games in the
regular season, and seventeen now they play seventeen now. That
was always a temporary place, that was just a stopover.
They went from sixteen. You go to seventeen for a
couple of years, and then eventually you go to eighteen
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because you don't want to have an odd number of games.
Nobody else does that. It's always an even number. That way,
you can have a five hundred team that's always an
even number. And they're playing seventeen now, and that's that's
just short term. That's not long term. And so the
way this is gonna work, and they just want the union,
they're gonna get it. They want the goodie bag. What's
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in the bag? The goodie bag? Another quote from the
Godfather movies, right, the greatest movie for quotes of all time.
Just got to grease the poms. Roger Gidels has got
to grease the palms of the players. Give the players
an extra bye week, check more time off from practice.
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We know the players don't like the practice, so check check.
That means the games will suck more. But that's fine,
We'll get the extra game. Just sweeten the pot. Just
sweeten the pot a little more money. You know, the
anifl's got so much money. It's like their drug lords
from Mexico. They got to bury money in the ground.
They don't have to do with all the money. They
got so much money. And so ultimately, the way this
will work, you'll have two exhibition games, you'll have eighteen
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regular season games and two bye weeks, so it'll be
a twenty two week preseason slash regular season. And that's
that boom. There you go. And you can even have
the Super Bowl on President's Day weekend, so everyone has
the Monday off so they can stop complaining and they
can hang out and get completely shlocked, completely hammered on
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that Sunday and not have to go to work on Monday. Now,
keep in mind Fred Dreyer, who's a friend of the show,
and he was an NFL player and an actor in Hollywood,
and he's a buddy of mine, and he's in here.
Several times. We should have Fred back in reach out
to Fred, but Fred told us, he said, listen, he
was playing in the nineteen seventies, in the eighties, and
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Fred Dreyer said, even back then, this goes back to
the Pete Roselle days of the NFL. You don't even
know who that is, probably, but they wanted a twenty
game season back then. And at that time, I believe
they were playing like fourteen games. I think neither twelve.
I think it was fourteen. You know, college was ten.
I mean the NFL was fourteen, and then they went
to sixteen games. But even back then, they were like,
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let's get to twenty, and we like twenty.
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Speaker 5 (30:49):
In a recent interview, Kirk Cousins revealed that he was
injured in Week ten and continued to play through the
injury before he was benched. Now, Ben, I know the
Falcons said that they're happy to have him as a backup,
but many think a clean break is gonna happen. Where
do you think Cousins ends up next season?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, so that both New York teams don't have a quarterback,
so the Giants and Jets right there. The Raiders don't
have a quarterback, The Steelers don't have a quarterback. The
Tennessee Titans, so I would say the Raiders. It doesn't
sound like Russell Wilson wants to go back and hang
out with Pete Carroll. There's some tension there. We'll see
if that's true or not. So I'm gonna go Raiders
and Jets at the very top for Kirk Cousins, who
(31:27):
got I believe ninety million for fourteen games. Tremendous job
by him. Right next now.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
It's been known that the Pelicans have been shopping Zion
Williamson for weeks.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
They got rid of brandon Ingram.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Do you think they'll be able to move Zion in
the needs the last few hours?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
No? No, he will stay there, which is great for
the people that run restaurants in New Orleans. He'll be
hanging out there enjoying all the gumbo, the begnets, and
all the wonderful food. No, he's he's not. They're married
to Zion, they're handcuffed design. He's not being traded neck.
Not today.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Next Kurk Shilling revealed if you were to ever be
enshrined in the Hall of Fame, that he would want
a Diamondbacks cap on his plaque.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
Yeah, Ben, will he ever make it?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Well? When I think of when I think of Shilling,
rather I think of either the Red Sox or the
Diamondbacks the Bloody Saw game, which was catch up when
he pitched for the Red Sox. But he was really
good with Arizona and he's one of these guys that
played for a gazillion different teams. I don't have a
problem with him if he should be in the Hall
of Fame. He's not gonna get in the Hall of
Fame because the woke sports writers won't put him in
(32:27):
because of politics. But I don't have a problem with
him as a Diamondback.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
How do you do you fail? It wasn't ketchup? There
you go, it was ketchup Dog, Doug Mirabelly. The catcher
said it was ketchup Dog Mirabelly. Doug Mirabelly.
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Speaker 5 (33:10):
Hour, Google all right, this is a question from I
forty ian Hi Ian. He would like to know. Do
you believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
No. Now, when I first got into media, everyone at
these games. I went to all the older sports writers.
They were obsessed with the Kennedy assassination. I've not been
to the place in Dallas where the shooting happened. I
need to get there and check it out. But no,
I don't not think he acted alone. I thought Trump
(33:41):
was going to let everyone know what happened. Didn't he
say he was going to release the files on the Yeah,
when's that supposed to happen?
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Yeah, you don't believe him. He's lying. I mean, I
just I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
I think he'd rather do that than tell us that
there's little goblins out there living in the ocean. No,
I do not think he acted alone. Is that for
everyone or for me?
Speaker 6 (34:00):
It didn't specify it. Okay, I know nothing about it.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I was I was like, before you explained your answer,
I was wanting to see if, like Loreina knew who
Lee Harvey Oswald was.
Speaker 7 (34:11):
Oh, but I was thinking Lori Harvey and Steve Harvey
all together.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yes, did I? Somebody somebody said Steve Harvey's like his
kids going to be in Playboy.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Yes, she's the first Playboy cover model.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Of the new Oh it is back.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Playboy's back.
Speaker 7 (34:27):
Yeah, for the first time in what six years?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Wow, I'm sure Steve's very proud. All right.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
No, I do not believe he acted alone. All right?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
What is next? What do we have here? Where are
we at?
Speaker 6 (34:37):
We have a question from the King Rory.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Hi, King Rory.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
He would like to know.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Have you ever sneaked into an event without the proper clearance?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yes, when I was, when I was growing up in
the I think the statue of limitations is out. But
when I was growing up I used to collect the
autographs out and lived in Orange County. So you go
out the big A in Anaheim and we as kids,
we were in high high school. We figured out we
couldn't afford to go to a lot of the games,
even though the tickets were a lot cheaper money was
(35:05):
I didn't have as much money. So we figured out
there was a After the Rams, they renovated the standing
for the Rams, there were some back door play in
the very back of the big A where employees would
walk out. The doors would lock, but if you stood
on the side of the doors they would You couldn't
open them from the outside, but if you stood while
the employee walked out, you could quickly get in the
(35:27):
door and walk in the Big A and no one
would ever find you.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
These days, did have somebody posted up right there to
make sure I would I would be sent to Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
But but back then, it yeah, we did it many times.
It was great. We even snuck in. I remember I
snuck in the Yankees were taking batting practice and they
like Don Mattingly, Dave Winfield, the Yankees is very cool.
But yeah, Lorrain, I ever sneak.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
In anywhere, No, I don't think I have.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
And even the movies, not even like an extra movie
at the movie theater. I did do that one everyone
does that right.
Speaker 7 (35:54):
Maybe hop I did it down here with my friend.
Uh and the theaters down here is so big though
the ones in Oregon, you can't do it. We're in
my hometown. It's just one one alway.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
So Coop says that doesn't count it. I mean, I
guess it does. I don't know if mine counts as
an event either.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (36:10):
But I used to sneak into six Flags Magic Mountain.
You did.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
That's impressive.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
So what you would do is they used to I
don't know if this is still because I haven't been
in years, but it used to be you go in
and if you wanted to leave the park, they would
give you a handstamp. Yeah, and then you just showed
the stamp when you walk back in. And so we
would have a friend that had a pass go in,
get the handstamp, immediately cover their hand with their other
hand to keep it like moist, and then just do
(36:35):
like a little transfer.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
Yeah, even though it was not a nile.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Even even though it wasn't facing the right way, the
person checking the stamp, they weren't really looking.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
They're just checking the sea if you've got.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Yeah, exactly. So we did that plenty times Oh, that's awesome.
That's great, right, what's next year is ask man? Your
questions are answers for the rest of the hour. Ferg
Dog would like to tie Fergie. Do you use the
side of a fork to cut home all of your food?
Or you a knife guy?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yeah, I'm a knife guy. I feel more masculine. I
feel like I have more testosterone in my body when
I use a knife. And I actually I like a
really hearty knife, you know. I like a knife that
could just carve up uh, you know, the rotting flesh
of an animal. Uh, So I like a knife. I
don't really even use the fork sideways as much at all.
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 7 (37:22):
Yeah, I never used silverware. Ben, I'm just all hands
all the time.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
You're a total neanderthal. She's a cable man.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Yes, it's terrible from Rosco's well dunking it in syrup.
She's from Oregon, so she's part you know, Bigfoot.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
You know. There it goes how Bigfoot does being sarcastic.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
You're right, I do eat with my.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
Lena.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Come on, I am definitely a side of the fork guy.
I only get a knife if I'm like eating steak
in it. Then I have to use a knife.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
I like a steak, and I also like I do
I make a Philly cheese steak on the weekends, I'll
be I'll make one for the for the weekend, but
I'll cut it in half. But I don't cut down
the middle. I cut at an angle because it feels
We've talked about this bore, but it feels better. It
feels like you're getting Yeah, it feels like you're getting
more in each bite and then.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
You can gradually put more and more in your mouth too.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Okay, that's a drop, all right? What is next year?
Speaker 6 (38:21):
What do we o?
Speaker 5 (38:22):
G art Puffin would like to know my art Puffin,
If you could participate in one historical event, what would
it be?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Hmm, historical event?
Speaker 6 (38:33):
I'm sure to thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Well. In sports are just like in life in general.
I think if I could be on the moon to
see if you know, because there's people that think they
didn't actually have it, like, that would be kind of cool,
Like you're standing out there on the moon, they're bouncing around.
I think that would be pretty neat. What about you, Lorrena.
Speaker 7 (38:53):
I don't know why one of the assassinations came to
my head.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
Which one participate in that historical event.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Well, that's what a romantic man cool.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Yours is pretty good, Ben, Actually I'm a little like regretful.
But the one that I had in my head was Woodstock.
Oh yeah, I think it would be cool to have
been at Woodstock. That's what they just call a Saturday
these days in LA. But back then, come on, what's
next to ask?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Ben? Your questions are answers?
Speaker 5 (39:24):
All right, I have to do another question from the
king Rory because this is a good one. I like
this all right. When washing the dishes by hand, do
you wear gloves or no?
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Nah? No, I do it. I do it raw, I
raw dog it. I use my hands, uhina.
Speaker 7 (39:42):
Yeah, I usually don't wear gloves. Yeah, I hate it
when the sponge smells bad.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Now I do use I use gloves when i'm like
like making chicken and beef ready for a cook, but
not when I'm doing the dishes. Coop.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Now see, mine's kind of a combo answer here. I
do not use gloves. My wife does. She's all about
the gloves. I hate the glove.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, my wife's the same way.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
But I also hate when the sponge smells bad and
then makes your hands smell bad. So I when when
I wash the dishes, I have my own little like
you know, sponge like cool thing and it's got to
handle it.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
And like, all right, yes, quickly, what we got time
for one more? What do we got here to ask? Ben?
Your questions are answered?
Speaker 6 (40:22):
Let's see what is Noop's.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Scrambling right now, he's in scramble moment.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
What accent or impression do you do really well? Noah
in Austin, mister Burns, I do, mister Burns.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
I do that. Lorena, I have a.
Speaker 7 (40:35):
Really good English accent.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
Bed cooper a pool a pool, But you can't do
that anymore. No, it's canceled now, yeah, yeah, they canceled
him
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the game of musical Chairs in the Nbaah. So, there
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been a gaggle of trades, and most of the people
traded you'd never heard of. You don't know who they are.
And there was one trade that stands out head and
shoulders above all the other trades. And so that'll be
the one we're going to talk about here at the beginning.
Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Buckets has gotten what he wants. What
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kind of what do he want? It's complicated, it's complicated,
but the game of musical chairs goes round and round her.
Now the music stops this afternoon. Keep in mind, for years,
the NBA trade deadline was at midnight, and then there
was one woman who convinced the NBA to change the
trade deadline. She ruined it for those of us to
(02:34):
do overnight talk radio, Rachel Nichols. She ruined it, and
then she lost her job anyway. But yeah, she complained
because she had to stay up late for the trade deadline.
It was an inconvenience. So they decided to make the
trade deadline during the afternoon. But fortunately we're still getting
late night. But we used to call Woe woge bombs,
(02:55):
but now Woje is hanging out in Jersey, living the
quiet life there and doing his thing. But the trade.
Get to the point, please, So we have learned, if
you did not pay attention earlier, that the Miami Heat,
Golden State Warriors and several other teams all got together
and they had a meet and greet and they agreed
(03:15):
to a trade. So Jimmy Butler goes from Miami, Miami,
Miami to northern California, Golden State moving Andrew Wiggins, Dennish Shrewder,
the guy won't get to him in a second. We
talked about him yesterday. Kyle Anderson, a first round pick
and a partridge in a pear tree, all of that
(03:38):
outbound from the Bay Area. And the Wiggins, we are told,
is staying in Miami for now, Andrew Wiggins, so he'll
stay there. And now Josh Richardson headed to Detroit from Miami.
There'll be a quiz on this later. Shrewder goes and
he said modern day slavery. He goes to u Utah,
(04:01):
So he'll go play for the jazz. You can talk
about modern slavery in Salt Lake City and also part
of the move PJ. Tucker, who was in exile with
the people seemed the Clippers, then was traded to Utah,
but he's now going back to Miami. So and there's
other like stuff involved, like Detroit's involved. I mean, it's hard.
(04:22):
It's really way too complicated. It doesn't need to be
that hard. It does not need to be that hard.
The owners in the NBA attempted to neoter the trade deadline.
We're gonna put all these different layers in it. We're
gonna get all complicated, and you gotta make seventeen teen
trades to make it happen, assuming that that would calm
(04:45):
the trading frenzy. Well, spoiler alert, Yeah, it didn't work.
It didn't work. But Jimmy Buckets is the big name,
and that is the player that we're going to focus
in on, and so we'll start with that and then
work our way through the malaise. So as we discuss here,
as we discuss the question Jimmy Butler and his long
(05:07):
saga where he was suspended multiple times from the heat
upset with the front office there in Miami. The saga
is now ov r. It's all over as he heads
the war so who won the trade? Who won the trade?
So I've got Lucky Charms, paleontology, and bon Jovi, and
(05:31):
we will combine all of these things together and we're
going to go on a nice vacation, which is what
the Golden State Warriors will eventually be doing when they
were eliminated from the playoffs, assuming they do end up
in the playoffs, which is really hard not to make
the playoffs in the NBA. So my first thought here,
our long national nightmare is over. Jimmy Butler can stop
(05:54):
playing hooky. He can end the absenteeism from his basketball
career there and get back to hooping in the Bay Area.
And he was really really annoyed with pat Riley. Oh Man,
did he hate pat Riley and so he had a
wildcat strike and it's spilled over most of this year
(06:14):
off on. The Butlers played some games, but he's it's
been unhappy. He's been sulking, having a conniption fit in Miami.
He did end up with the Heat going to the
NBA Finals not once but twice, so two trips to
the NBA Finals for Jimmy Buckets, although one was during
COVID so that then count. And then three suspensions on
(06:37):
his way out of South Florida, so not one, not two,
but three. Very hostile at the end there for Jimmy Buckets.
Now ask for the trade itself. Malor report card the
most important grading system that we have when it comes
to trade. So maller report card. I'm gonna give the
Warriors an A, not an A plus, just an A,
not an A plus an A. I'm gonna give the
(06:59):
Heat the D. Heat get the D. Then the other
teams involved all get a C. Because I don't know
who any of these players are. And it's kind of
stupid thing like Danny Ainge continues to only run the
Utah Jazz to help other teams make trades. It's not
like they're actually getting any better the Utah Jazz. They're
just moving things around and rearranging and they're not getting
(07:20):
rid of anything, and so it's just a hot mess,
just a hot mess. Now. Jimmy Butler, why, like you've
heard the show. He's one of the guys in the
NBA that I liked. I like the way that he
plays the Gusto that he plays with and all that.
So he has shown some signs of wear and tear.
He's missed more time than he had in his younger
(07:41):
it is which normally happens. And you think he's still
got some fuel left at least for the short term
as he goes to play with Golden State. But now
he gets a chance to team up with Steph Curry
and Raymond Green. And how does that recipe taste? How
does that taste? Well, how does it smell? It smells
kind of like lucky charm. So there's a lot of
sugar in there. There's a lot. Maybe it's magically delicious.
(08:03):
I don't know. It might not be magically delicious. We
haven't had it yet. But there's a lot of name
brand players. So there's players we've heard of that had
long careers. The smart money, though, says that this ends
up a bedraggled mess. It ends up a bedraggled mess.
Now page two, So what does Jimmy Butler provide for
Golden State that Andrew Wiggins didn't? And what does Andrew
(08:24):
Wiggins do in Miami? So Jimmy Butler is the Tasmanian devil,
which is a good thing. He's a whirling dervish when
he's out on the court, which we like, We liked,
enjoy that that type of player. He hadn't been that guy,
has not been that guy with the Miami Heat much
(08:46):
this year because he's been sulking, having a hissy fit,
and that's been part of the problem. But you put
him in Golden State. Now Jimmy Buckets is smiling all
the way to the bank, other than the fact that
he has to pay taxes in the People's Republic of California,
which is much different than the state of Florida. But
the maniocal perseverance paid off for for Jimmy Butler because
(09:08):
he had Golden State not only trade for him, but remember,
there were reports the last couple of days that he
was unwilling to agree to a contract extension with the Warriors,
and I'm not going to do it. But yet here
he is headed to San Francisco to play for the Warriors.
He agrees to an extension worth and estimated one hundred
(09:28):
and twenty one million dollars for two years of work
one hundred and twenty one men. Of course, after taxes,
that's about fifty bucks. But still one hundred and twenty
one million. He talked about the Golden Hammer, that would
be the golden hammer for sure, and the problem here,
and I mentioned that I'm not optimistic, I'm not Benny
(09:49):
Brightside on this working out for Golden State. I'm curious
to see how this plays out. But I have a
pretty good idea how it's going to go for the
wars because Steve Kerr, the Golden State coach there, Steve
is doing paleontology when he's coaching the Warriors going forward,
because there's a lot of fossils. There's a lot of
fossils in modern sports lingo. If you're past the age
(10:12):
of thirty three, your past year athletic prime. When you
get about thirty five, it's close to lights out. The
party's over. So Steph Curry is thirty six, turns thirty
seven later this year. You've got Draymond Green who's thirty four,
turns thirty five later this year. And you've got Jimmy
Butler who's thirty five. So you've got thirty something all
(10:35):
over the place at key positions here. So that is
the last dance. That would be the last dance for
Golden State. Over the next the rest of this year,
and then next year, and that's pretty much it. That's
all you can really expect. Like they've got two options.
They've got this year and next year. If you look around,
there's teams that have really nice records, like Oklahoma City,
(10:57):
but does anyone really take them seriously? Come on, no,
and you bounce, Well, there's a shot, but then you're like, well,
these guys will get hurt, but they're no back to
back games. There's no back to back games in the playoffs.
You don't have to worry about that. But we'll see,
we'll see what happens. And eventually the Warriors will get
to the point where, like in twenty twenty seven, they'll
(11:19):
be seeing if they can track down Speedy Claxton and
Jason Richardson and Baron Davis and see if Mike Montgomery
wants to coach and all that, you know, because they'll
be back to those early two thousands Warriors that were
just god awful, just horrible. Now, as for Miami, Andrew Wiggins,
not a star, not a star, supposed to be a star,
not a star, not a star, not a headline star.
(11:42):
Certainly not that he's like a high end supporting actor
is what Andrew Wiggins is in the Heat now. What
it is is this bam Adabaio and Tyler Heroes team
for the time being until pat Riley can convince someone
else to head down to Florida and play for the
Heat and be the headliner. But for now it's bam
Adebayo and Tyler hero and so Andrew Wiggins will play
(12:05):
alongside those guys and they're the main actors. And that's
it all right now, last word before picking up Jimmy Butler,
there was a hot Detroit rumor bouncing all around the
pinball machine of the sports take that the Golden State
Warriors were solely focused on bringing in the Slim Reaper.
(12:27):
They wanted the Slim Reaper to return, They wanted a
do over, and that was the talk in the early
part of the day on Wednesday, was that Kevin Durant
was in talks, so the Sons were trying to get
him to come back and all that. Now we're told
that it got to the point where KD was contacted
(12:49):
by intermediaries and Kevin Durant in form of the Warriors,
no moss, I'm good. I would rather fall on top
of a cactus, then play another game with Raymond Green.
That's essentially what he's saying. He didn't say that, and so,
but that's what he's implying because he has no desire.
(13:12):
He had no desire for a reunion to go back
to the Bay and go down memory lane, back to
the glory days of the Golden State, where so Durant
is like, I don't want any part of that. So
then the Suns are like, all right, well, keep your
your old ass, and then the Warriors pivoted and they
went out and they made the deal to get Jimmy Butther.
(13:32):
So it's kind of like the the Bon Jovie tune
Burning Bridges. It's like Kevin Durant and Draymond Green, whatever happened,
There is a there there. It's not that there's not
a there there. There is a there there. And it's
real like if you're Durant and you're stuck on a
team going nowhere in the Suns. Granted, Golden State's not
(13:54):
exactly a bowl of cherries, but you figure you got
a better shot there than you have in Arizona. But
you'd rather stay with your suck bag teammates in the
Suns than go play for the Warriors because there were
some bridges that were burned. Obviously in that Loggerheads relationship
(14:15):
with Traymond Green, it's personal. So the trade deadline is
still a few hours away, and so it's possible this
could all change and Durant ends up being relocated. Does
not seem like that is going to happen. He does
not have a no trade clause, so they could send
him to Siberia.
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baseball style. We'll get back to basketball. Trade deadline is
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later today. We have had a gaggle of trades, a
yahoo of trades, but with days to go, pitchers and
catchers start reporting today's February sixth. Pitchers and catchers start
reporting February ninth, So three days away from show up
to worktime, and Pee Alonzo is no longer unemployed. He
(16:27):
has found a new home. Pee Alonzo free agent slugger
long with the Mets. And it turns out the new
home is the old home. Assume you know by now,
but maybe not. We learned that slugger Pee Alonzo late
in the night agreeing to a two year contract for
(16:47):
fifty four million fifty four million from the Mets, and
that ends the elongated free agency, a return engagement shows
added to the polar Bear experience for the New York Mets,
and they're still working on the DOCU sign so it's
(17:08):
not done, done done. Pending of physical includes an opt out. Now,
I always say pending of physical because you could get
a Carlos Correa cheating a whole situation. Remember Korea years
ago signed with the Giants and then failed the physical,
signed with the Mets, failed the physical, and then he
ended up with Minnesota where he's just a failure. So anyway,
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Alonzo is not done done, but it's almost done. He's
gonna go back to the Mets and he will make
thirty million this year and then he can hit the
eject button and opt out of the contract. So let
us discuss the question Pete Alonso going back to the Metropolitans,
what does that signal to you? So I'm gonna go
(17:49):
first my observations. I have post malone, MACHETI and goodie bag,
and we will combine all of these things together and
welcome you to our new app. You can hit that
button right there. We don't actually have an app, but
if we did, we'd tell you to use our app.
But we don't have one, so number, I said number
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the owner medal. After a minutes long Mallor investigation, the
owner of the New York Mets, Stephen Cohen, a fanboy,
intervened for better or worse, Steve Cohen is why Peter
Alonzo is back with the New York Mets. The front office,
the handpicked executive that the Mets owner hired, determined that
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Peter Alonso is a diminishing asset, that he's not gonna
get better, He's only gonna get worse. And the talk
said ended. That was the story that was being tossed
out there, that the conversations were over and Alonzo was
not going to play for the Mets again. All but
O and then we do a one A and now
(19:00):
we're back with Peter Alonzo with the Mets. So for
that to happen, either the general manager of the Mets
had a come to Jesus moment or he had a
come to the owner's moment. And that was the great metamorphosis.
That was the great change that took place. Right, nothing
(19:21):
else makes any sense, Nothing else makes any sense. Alonzo
was offered a seven year contract by the Mets last year,
turned it down. He was supposedly offered a seventy some
million dollar contract a couple months ago, he turned that down,
and now he ends up with a two year contract
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for fifty four million, which is really only a one
year contract for thirty million. The math ain't mathing. You
do the mal or math on that it doesn't look
good for Peter Alonzo, but yet he's back. So that
likely means that Steve con massaged Pete Alonzo's ego and
convinced the front office, his own front office to take
a lone back and Pete Alonso. The reason he did
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this is because he was playing the tune from post Malone.
No options, had no option, no good options. There were
options for the polar Bear, but not good option, like
if you believe the scuttle, but the streets talking around
baseball and the streets in baseball saying that the Toronto
Blue Jays were there, they had a standing offer, the
Cincinnati Reds had some interest, and then suck back teams
(20:25):
like the Angels and the Higantes also had interest in
Pee Alonzo. So well, I can go to one of
those teams and then play one year and then opt
back in, or I could go to the Mets and
play one year and then do it again all over
and so he chose to go to the Mets, which
is actually a smart move. The Mets figure to win
the National League East, or at very worst be a
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wild card team. They're not going to win anything in
the playoffs, because we all know the Doyers own the
National League. But the Mets will be in playoff games
and Pete Alonzo will have opportunities on the big stage
to hit home runs. He's not getting any younger, though,
that's the problem. And baseball's run by a bunch of Poindexters,
and that is an issue that Peter Alonzo will not
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be able to overcome. But at least in theory, if
he goes out in twenty twenty five Alonzo for the
Mets and hits fifty home runs and drives in one
hundred and forty runs, and you say, okay, there's something there.
There's something there, and somebody will take a shot on him,
and so that's it. But the polar Bear, Now, how
weird is it. He was the face of the Mets
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for so many years and now he goes back there
and he's the third wheel. Peet Alonzo is number three
number three, got Juan Soto who's signed for the forever
contract and he's got more money than the gross domestic
product of several small countries. And then you've got Francisco
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Lindor who's also got ridiculous amounts of money. And then
peet Alonzo slides, and then who knows if he's even
number three on the Mets, he might be even lower
than that. And so we'll do this all over again.
Pete Alonzo will opt out of his contract. He gets
hurt or has a terrible year, he'll opt out of
his contract and try to find a new team. In
twenty twenty six, Now, page two, we go to the NFL,
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the National Football League, where the Cleveland Browns blow and
they have one good player. They have one player that's
head and shoulders everyone else. Miles Garrett. Remember when he
went four against the Steelers years ago and he threw
the helmet down like he was throwing the hammer down. Anyway,
(22:30):
Miles Garrett spoke publicly for the first time since announcing
I am done in Cleveland. I don't want to play
any any more games here. I'm out. So he spoke
of the radio row where all the free loading media
elites hang out there in New Orleans and Miles Garrett
(22:50):
saying that he and the Browns organization on are not
aligned on the future. Thank you, Captain obvious. Okay, we
couldn't figured that one out. He mentioned Miles Garrett the
word trajectory, meaning the trajectory of the Browns franchise, which
is kind of like when you fire a rocket up
(23:13):
like those old remember those old I better announce you'd
be the old space shuttles. They are the old Space
Shuttle if you're old enough formever, so they'd shoot the
Space Shuttle up. They had those booster rockets, and then
assuming that the Space Shuttle didn't explode, the booster rockets
would come off the Space Shuttle and fall back down
into the ocean. And so if you think of the Browns,
they're like, not the Space Shuttle going out to outer space,
(23:35):
They're like the booster rockets falling back down to the ocean.
That's the Cleveland Browns right there. That's the trajectory. And
so Garrett said he had some conversations with the Highers
up and all that stuff. So the part of the
story which is interesting here that really is the meat
on the bone don't bear the lead, my man, heart,
I'm not gonna bear the lead. So the part of
(23:56):
the story, which I believe makes good talk radio is
that Miles Garrett said that he consulted with who about
asking for a trade Lebron James ding ding ding ding
ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. Yes,
Miles Garrett said, when contemplating whether or not to leave Cleveland,
(24:21):
he had a hearty conversation with Lebron James, who left
Cleveland not once, but twice, left the cadavers in the
middle of the night, and they said they Miles Garrett said,
they had to talk about what that would be like
and whatnot. Now Cleveland's Miles Garrett says he consulted with
Lebron James before demanding a trade in an exit off
(24:45):
ramp from Cleveland. How do you rule on this one?
How do you rule on this one? So after a
very brief deliberation, bad luck, bad job by Miles Garrett.
Now he's honest. That's fine. You can give an a
for honesty. But this is something that did not need
to be said. And the people, and I don't live
(25:07):
in Cleveland, we're on the radio there and I am
from what I understand of my friends from Ohisle. The
Cleveland sports fan was sympathetic. They had empathy for Miles Garrett.
That the Browns, they know, are like the thing you
see in the toilet when you take a number two.
So they understand that. But now that you've added Lebron
(25:31):
into the chat, now you're losing goodwill. That's taking a machete, right,
taking a machete and cutting deep. That's a deep cut
with the machete. And we get the fact that Miles
Garrett is part of Clutch Sports, which is a shadow
organization by Lebron James allegedly where Lebron can control much
(25:54):
of the sports world and he bankrolls that, and you know,
one of his buddies runs it, and so I get
all that. Nevertheless, that is a body blow, body blow,
body blow to the Cleveland sports fan. So Miles Garrett
by announcing that he became less less of a of
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someone you can pull for. I'm using the right words here,
but you know what I'm saying. You feel me on that,
all right? Anyway, Lebron, who fancies himself mister Ohio when
he showed up to the game in Atlanta, when Ohio
State played in the National Championship Game, and here he
is conspiring to help another star Ohio athlete leave the
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state of Ohio giving him advice. Man, it doesn't seem
very cool. It doesn't seem neat you know. Now, Ultimately
it's the Browns incompetence than Deshaun Watson's inability to play,
and the Browns being married to Deshaun Watson that will
do this. But it does not help the situation. Does
not help the situation that this is how it went down,
(26:56):
all right, final point. So quickly, the NFL Players Association
has announced that quote no one, No one wants to
play eighteen games. Roger Goodell has said that the plan
is eventually to play eighteen games with the Players Association
(27:17):
says no one wants to play eighteen games. So where
does that leave Roger Goodell, the big shot over there
at the union says nobody wants to play eighteen games.
So it's not CarMax. It's all about haggling. This is
all about haggling, and the union says that because they
(27:37):
want concessions, and the union is wrong. The NFL Players
Associations said, Wow, nobody wants to play eighteen games. That's
a lie. I'll tell you people that want eighteen games.
The owners of the NFL won eighteen games. Check. Television
wants eighteen games of regular season football. Check. Advertisers of
(27:59):
tell television and radio want eighteen game regular seasons. Check check.
The vast majority of fans want eighteen games in the
regular season, and seventeen now they play seventeen now. That
was always a temporary place, that was just a stopover.
They went from sixteen. You go to seventeen for a
couple of years, and then eventually you go to eighteen
(28:20):
because you don't want to have an odd number of games.
Nobody else does that. It's always an even number. That way,
you can have a five hundred team that's always an
even number. And they're playing seventeen now, and that's that's
just short term. That's not long term. And so the
way this is gonna work, and they just want the union,
they're gonna get it. They want the goodie bag. What's
(28:42):
in the bag? The goodie bag? Another quote from the
Godfather movies, right, the greatest movie for quotes of all time.
Just got to grease the poms. Roger Gidels has got
to grease the palms of the players. Give the players
an extra bye week, check more time off from practice.
(29:02):
We know the players don't like the practice, so check check.
That means the games will suck more. But that's fine,
We'll get the extra game. Just sweeten the pot. Just
sweeten the pot a little more money. You know, the
anifl's got so much money. It's like their drug lords
from Mexico. They got to bury money in the ground.
They don't have to do with all the money. They
got so much money. And so ultimately, the way this
will work, you'll have two exhibition games, you'll have eighteen
(29:27):
regular season games and two bye weeks, so it'll be
a twenty two week preseason slash regular season. And that's
that boom. There you go. And you can even have
the Super Bowl on President's Day weekend, so everyone has
the Monday off so they can stop complaining and they
can hang out and get completely shlocked, completely hammered on
(29:49):
that Sunday and not have to go to work on Monday. Now,
keep in mind Fred Dreyer, who's a friend of the show,
and he was an NFL player and an actor in Hollywood,
and he's a buddy of mine, and he's in here.
Several times. We should have Fred back in reach out
to Fred, but Fred told us, he said, listen, he
was playing in the nineteen seventies, in the eighties, and
(30:10):
Fred Dreyer said, even back then, this goes back to
the Pete Roselle days of the NFL. You don't even
know who that is, probably, but they wanted a twenty
game season back then. And at that time, I believe
they were playing like fourteen games. I think neither twelve.
I think it was fourteen. You know, college was ten.
I mean the NFL was fourteen, and then they went
to sixteen games. But even back then, they were like,
(30:31):
let's get to twenty, and we like twenty.
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To the third degree?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
This is one big Ben gets great approval.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
In a recent interview, Kirk Cousins revealed that he was
injured in Week ten and continued to play through the
injury before he was benched. Now, Ben, I know the
Falcons said that they're happy to have him as a backup,
but many think a clean break is gonna happen. Where
do you think Cousins ends up next season?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, so that both New York teams don't have a quarterback,
so the Giants and Jets right there. The Raiders don't
have a quarterback, The Steelers don't have a quarterback. The
Tennessee Titans, so I would say the Raiders. It doesn't
sound like Russell Wilson wants to go back and hang
out with Pete Carroll. There's some tension there. We'll see
if that's true or not. So I'm gonna go Raiders
and Jets at the very top for Kirk Cousins, who
(31:27):
got I believe ninety million for fourteen games. Tremendous job
by him. Right next now.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
It's been known that the Pelicans have been shopping Zion
Williamson for weeks.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
They got rid of brandon Ingram.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Do you think they'll be able to move Zion in
the needs the last few hours?
Speaker 1 (31:40):
No? No, he will stay there, which is great for
the people that run restaurants in New Orleans. He'll be
hanging out there enjoying all the gumbo, the begnets, and
all the wonderful food. No, he's he's not. They're married
to Zion, they're handcuffed design. He's not being traded neck.
Not today.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Next Kurk Shilling revealed if you were to ever be
enshrined in the Hall of Fame, that he would want
a Diamondbacks cap on his plaque.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
Yeah, Ben, will he ever make it?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Well? When I think of when I think of Shilling,
rather I think of either the Red Sox or the
Diamondbacks the Bloody Saw game, which was catch up when
he pitched for the Red Sox. But he was really
good with Arizona and he's one of these guys that
played for a gazillion different teams. I don't have a
problem with him if he should be in the Hall
of Fame. He's not gonna get in the Hall of
Fame because the woke sports writers won't put him in
(32:27):
because of politics. But I don't have a problem with
him as a Diamondback.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
How do you do you fail? It wasn't ketchup? There
you go, it was ketchup Dog, Doug Mirabelly. The catcher
said it was ketchup Dog Mirabelly. Doug Mirabelly.
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It's now time for time for horry Wait ask bad
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Speaker 2 (32:58):
Us your questions on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
It's asked Ben and friends and over to the Koogleloo
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Speaker 5 (33:10):
Hour, Google all right, this is a question from I
forty ian Hi Ian. He would like to know. Do
you believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
No. Now, when I first got into media, everyone at
these games. I went to all the older sports writers.
They were obsessed with the Kennedy assassination. I've not been
to the place in Dallas where the shooting happened. I
need to get there and check it out. But no,
I don't not think he acted alone. I thought Trump
(33:41):
was going to let everyone know what happened. Didn't he
say he was going to release the files on the Yeah,
when's that supposed to happen?
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Yeah, you don't believe him. He's lying. I mean, I
just I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
I think he'd rather do that than tell us that
there's little goblins out there living in the ocean. No,
I do not think he acted alone. Is that for
everyone or for me?
Speaker 6 (34:00):
It didn't specify it. Okay, I know nothing about it.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I was I was like, before you explained your answer,
I was wanting to see if, like Loreina knew who
Lee Harvey Oswald was.
Speaker 7 (34:11):
Oh, but I was thinking Lori Harvey and Steve Harvey
all together.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yes, did I? Somebody somebody said Steve Harvey's like his
kids going to be in Playboy.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Yes, she's the first Playboy cover model.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Of the new Oh it is back.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Playboy's back.
Speaker 7 (34:27):
Yeah, for the first time in what six years?
Speaker 6 (34:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Wow, I'm sure Steve's very proud. All right.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
No, I do not believe he acted alone. All right?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
What is next? What do we have here? Where are
we at?
Speaker 6 (34:37):
We have a question from the King Rory.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Hi, King Rory.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
He would like to know.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Have you ever sneaked into an event without the proper clearance?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yes, when I was, when I was growing up in
the I think the statue of limitations is out. But
when I was growing up I used to collect the
autographs out and lived in Orange County. So you go
out the big A in Anaheim and we as kids,
we were in high high school. We figured out we
couldn't afford to go to a lot of the games,
even though the tickets were a lot cheaper money was
(35:05):
I didn't have as much money. So we figured out
there was a After the Rams, they renovated the standing
for the Rams, there were some back door play in
the very back of the big A where employees would
walk out. The doors would lock, but if you stood
on the side of the doors they would You couldn't
open them from the outside, but if you stood while
the employee walked out, you could quickly get in the
(35:27):
door and walk in the Big A and no one
would ever find you.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
These days, did have somebody posted up right there to
make sure I would I would be sent to Guantanamo Bay.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
But but back then, it yeah, we did it many times.
It was great. We even snuck in. I remember I
snuck in the Yankees were taking batting practice and they
like Don Mattingly, Dave Winfield, the Yankees is very cool.
But yeah, Lorrain, I ever sneak.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
In anywhere, No, I don't think I have.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
And even the movies, not even like an extra movie
at the movie theater. I did do that one everyone
does that right.
Speaker 7 (35:54):
Maybe hop I did it down here with my friend.
Uh and the theaters down here is so big though
the ones in Oregon, you can't do it. We're in
my hometown. It's just one one alway.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
So Coop says that doesn't count it. I mean, I
guess it does. I don't know if mine counts as
an event either.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
What's that?
Speaker 6 (36:10):
But I used to sneak into six Flags Magic Mountain.
You did.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
That's impressive.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
So what you would do is they used to I
don't know if this is still because I haven't been
in years, but it used to be you go in
and if you wanted to leave the park, they would
give you a handstamp. Yeah, and then you just showed
the stamp when you walk back in. And so we
would have a friend that had a pass go in,
get the handstamp, immediately cover their hand with their other
hand to keep it like moist, and then just do
(36:35):
like a little transfer.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
Yeah, even though it was not a nile.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Even even though it wasn't facing the right way, the
person checking the stamp, they weren't really looking.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
They're just checking the sea if you've got.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Yeah, exactly. So we did that plenty times Oh, that's awesome.
That's great, right, what's next year is ask man? Your
questions are answers for the rest of the hour. Ferg
Dog would like to tie Fergie. Do you use the
side of a fork to cut home all of your food?
Or you a knife guy?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yeah, I'm a knife guy. I feel more masculine. I
feel like I have more testosterone in my body when
I use a knife. And I actually I like a
really hearty knife, you know. I like a knife that
could just carve up uh, you know, the rotting flesh
of an animal. Uh, So I like a knife. I
don't really even use the fork sideways as much at all.
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 7 (37:22):
Yeah, I never used silverware. Ben, I'm just all hands
all the time.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
You're a total neanderthal. She's a cable man.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Yes, it's terrible from Rosco's well dunking it in syrup.
She's from Oregon, so she's part you know, Bigfoot.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
You know. There it goes how Bigfoot does being sarcastic.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
You're right, I do eat with my.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
Lena.
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Come on, I am definitely a side of the fork guy.
I only get a knife if I'm like eating steak
in it. Then I have to use a knife.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
I like a steak, and I also like I do
I make a Philly cheese steak on the weekends, I'll
be I'll make one for the for the weekend, but
I'll cut it in half. But I don't cut down
the middle. I cut at an angle because it feels
We've talked about this bore, but it feels better. It
feels like you're getting Yeah, it feels like you're getting
more in each bite and then.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
You can gradually put more and more in your mouth too.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Okay, that's a drop, all right? What is next year?
Speaker 6 (38:21):
What do we o?
Speaker 5 (38:22):
G art Puffin would like to know my art Puffin,
If you could participate in one historical event, what would
it be?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Hmm, historical event?
Speaker 6 (38:33):
I'm sure to thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Well. In sports are just like in life in general.
I think if I could be on the moon to
see if you know, because there's people that think they
didn't actually have it, like, that would be kind of cool,
Like you're standing out there on the moon, they're bouncing around.
I think that would be pretty neat. What about you, Lorrena.
Speaker 7 (38:53):
I don't know why one of the assassinations came to
my head.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
Which one participate in that historical event.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Well, that's what a romantic man cool.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Yours is pretty good, Ben, Actually I'm a little like regretful.
But the one that I had in my head was Woodstock.
Oh yeah, I think it would be cool to have
been at Woodstock. That's what they just call a Saturday
these days in LA. But back then, come on, what's
next to ask?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Ben? Your questions are answers?
Speaker 5 (39:24):
All right, I have to do another question from the
king Rory because this is a good one. I like
this all right. When washing the dishes by hand, do
you wear gloves or no?
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Nah? No, I do it. I do it raw, I
raw dog it. I use my hands, uhina.
Speaker 7 (39:42):
Yeah, I usually don't wear gloves. Yeah, I hate it
when the sponge smells bad.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Now I do use I use gloves when i'm like
like making chicken and beef ready for a cook, but
not when I'm doing the dishes. Coop.
Speaker 5 (39:55):
Now see, mine's kind of a combo answer here. I
do not use gloves. My wife does. She's all about
the gloves. I hate the glove.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, my wife's the same way.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
But I also hate when the sponge smells bad and
then makes your hands smell bad. So I when when
I wash the dishes, I have my own little like
you know, sponge like cool thing and it's got to
handle it.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
And like, all right, yes, quickly, what we got time
for one more? What do we got here to ask? Ben?
Your questions are answered?
Speaker 6 (40:22):
Let's see what is Noop's.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Scrambling right now, he's in scramble moment.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
What accent or impression do you do really well? Noah
in Austin, mister Burns, I do, mister Burns.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
I do that. Lorena, I have a.
Speaker 7 (40:35):
Really good English accent.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
Bed cooper a pool a pool, But you can't do
that anymore. No, it's canceled now, yeah, yeah, they canceled
him
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