July 9, 2025 • 49 mins
Big Ben talks about Nikola Jokic informing the Nuggets that he doesn't plan to sign a contract extension in the offseason, the first impressions of Brewers starter Jacob Misiorowski, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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and a lot going on, a lot of moving parts here.
Now a story that is a developing story. We're gonna
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start with this. The Mile High City. There's a lot
of things moving around. The pinball machine there and pro
bouncy ball, the silly season. As yet again, we are
on the pulse of what many of you find repulsive gossip,
speculation and rumor mongering. That's right, but interesting. Wrinkle out
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of Denver. We have a mantra on this show. We
have many mantras, but one of the mantras is we
just we wake up we don't know what's going on,
and then you know, we don't even know what's going
on when we go to bed, but we wake up
and I'm like, whatever's interesting, whatever the news of the
day is, and we just talk about and so I
thought this was interesting, and I have editorial control, So
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I'm gonna I'm talking about now. Someday I'll give that
up and supermarket Steve will have editorial control. We'll talk
WNBA and then they'll turn the transmitter off and that's it.
But if you didn't hear, maybe not so multi time
Platinum MVP guy, the whole thing. Nicola Jokic, we learned
(03:28):
will not will not sign a extension with the Nuggets
this offseason. Not gonna happen. There was a standing offer
there by the Denver basketball team.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
He is not going to do it. Now, the Nugget
media is like.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Well, it's not really that big a deal because he
can make more money in a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Or actually just in a year. So just like wait,
and he is under contract.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So let us discuss though, because there were other factions,
other factions and me combatants who say, not so fast,
my friend, So let's discuss the question Nicole Jokic, we
are told, has let the Nuggets know that he does
not plan to sign a contract extension this offseason. So
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what does that signify? To get cut through the fog?
What does that signify signify to you? So I've got gatorade,
Early Bird and kneepads, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are gonna make the Gobba Ghoul.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
We're gonna make the Gobba gool. So a, what does
it signify? All right?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
This is not that deep at Sports Direct from Europe,
All Away from Europe, Ladies and gentlemen, step right up
under the big top. That's right under the big top.
The greatest show in the basketball off season is underway.
Get a glimpse. Get a glimpse. It's not for the
faint of art, but get a glimp of the Serbian sledgehammer,
(05:04):
the drama. Oh my god. Now Jokic telling the Nuggets
to go pound sand that he's not going to sign
a two hundred and twelve million dollar contract extension this offseason.
Now that has opened the floodgates. Whether you like it
or not, it's opened the floodgates. From Walla Walla, Washington,
to kalamazoo. Okay, every team that plausibly plays basketball and
(05:30):
occasionally wants to win, and they have dreams of championships,
and the whispering is underway. Could we get the joker
in the deck? Could we get the joker in the deck? Now?
The party poopers, you know who they are. Oh, they say, listen,
Nicole Yoki, he's just waiting. He's just he's gonna get
an extra eighty million dollars more if he just waits
(05:53):
a year. And really, what is a year?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Time flies? The older you get just goes by fast.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So while that is certainly popossible, that is certainly possible.
I don't dismiss that. I don't dismiss that. But he's
also ridiculous to dismiss the possibility that this is the
beginning of the end for Nikola Jokic in Denver. Remember
the owner came out said there is a scenario where
Jokic isn't going to stay in Denver. He tossed that
out unsolicited, by the way, And now just a few
(06:21):
days later, Jokic says, I ain't signing that extension. Okay.
So in the multiverse, you put everything together. In the multiverse,
no it's possible that this is a foreshock. What Nicole
Jokic did is a foreshock to a larger seismic event.
Plot thickens now regardless, the power Brokers, if you want
(06:44):
to call them that, and my favorite, the gossip hounds.
They're like bloodhounds of gossip and they're all salivating, Oh
my god, like Pavlov's dogs the sound of the dinner
bell man. Are they excited?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
He's not going anywhere today unless he wants that. But remember,
anything is possible at any time, Like the NBA could
call the Nuggets up and say, hey, we want Jokic
to play for a real team like the Clippers, and
we say we believe the conspiracy. That's how Luca ended
up with the Lakers. It's not because of some slick
GM work by Skinny Jeans Rob Polinka. It's like, well,
(07:21):
the NBA TV ratings were down, let's get Luca in La.
We'll get the ratings up. Why not? But technically, Jokic
has not one but two years left on the deal
from what we understand based on a minute long investigation,
also has a player option forget about that that will
not be activated. And the Nuggets publicly, he's the franchise,
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He's the cornerstone. Certainly is all those things. Certainly is
all those things. And Denver, seemingly to pacify Jokic, went
out and made some moves. They traded Michael Porter Jr.
For someone named Cam Johnson. We're not sure who that is.
And they added Yonis Valanusa Valentunis, who was so excited
(08:02):
about that.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
He's thinking about leaving and not even playing for the Nuggets.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But the effort was made to bolster the depth on
the Denver Nuggets, and Yokich himself had asked for more depth,
so they went out and made some.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Moves to get more depth.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Now, regardless of the math, I'm even talking about Mallard math,
I'm talking about contractual math. I'm not talking about the
Malor math, which is different. It's a version of math,
but it's not the actual math. It's the Malor math.
It's different. So Yo Kitch in my head, that little
cartoon bubble over my head. Yo Kich is filming a
Gatorade commercial for the Denver Nuggets. Make them sweat, all right,
(08:40):
He's making them sweat a little bit. Yeah, Sure, there's
a world where he gets that extra eighty million dollars
and we're all good. We are all good. Right. It
is a savvy move for a guy. He's not chasing
a championship, but guys, his little hunk of metal. Finals,
MVP three, regular season MVPs. The nugget Backers though, the
(09:02):
real Nugget back they're they're biting their fingernails a little bit.
Uh and for good reason. You know, Well, it's a
savvy business play for now. It's a business play for now.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And you know, is he gonna end up in New
York or LA or you know, the Warriors in San Francisco.
We don't know. But the whispers are only gonna get
louder louder and louder. And the vultures, those NBA vultures, Yes,
the hyenas, they're out and they're gonna get altitude sickness.
(09:35):
The recruiting is underway. I guaran efing to you that
the recruiting is underways. Hey, you know, I just talk
to Jokics, you know, go why he's having some pints
of beer watching a horse race somewhere in someplace far
far away, you know, just the centim a text, you know, Hey, yeah, Nicole.
You ever thought about coming to Milwaukee in the winter,
beautiful weather. Yes, So the circus is just getting started
(09:59):
with what I'm trying to all right now, turn the page,
page two. So to the Bay Area, the aforementioned Bay Area,
we go wild ending in the baseball game. Then we're
not talking about that right now. I'll get to that later.
But some late night musings, some late night musings, and
we're hearing now the Golden State Warriors, the Golden State
wars who would have been the San Francisco Warriors, but
(10:21):
they kept winning championships, so they decided not to change
the name. They were going to change the name of
San Francisco Warriors, which it had been, but they was
we kept winning, so we're gonna go back, you know,
keep the name Golden State Warriors. Anyway, the Golden State Warriors,
we are told have a handshake deal. Shaking your end
a handshake deal with Al Horford, late of the Boston Celtics.
(10:41):
Al Horford, late night news, Al Horford handshake deal. He
will join the roster of the Golden State Warriors. So
how do you feel about that? How do you feel
about this particular move? Al Horford with the Warriors. So
I have this on my note app, the notes app
on my When I put the word sketchy, that's what
(11:02):
I put. Because which version of Al Horford are the
Warriors going to come on down? Which version of Al
are you getting? Is he going to be locked in?
Is he going to be what he had been quite
a bit in Boston? His nickname average, Al was his nickname,
He's the average And Horford, as of twenty four hours ago,
(11:27):
was said to be debating whether or not he wanted
to go out to the West Coast, to go to
San Francisco or to a nice retirement a time share
in Boca with a tea time at three o'clock of
the afternoon. So let's not sugarcoat this. There's no need
to sugarcoat the Al Horford story. Horford has certainly been
(11:48):
more of the early bird special version of basketball player
than the stretch five specialists. The difference maker is not
that guy. Hadn't been that guy for the better part
of a couple of seasons now and in Boston, and
and sure he's had occasional moments returned to glory. He's
(12:11):
hit some corner threes, and I'm sure he'll do a
little bit of that with the Golden State Warris and
occasionally some defensive players will make a play here and there,
and and fine, but he's been around since like the
flip phone. You know, he's been in the NBA since
the flip phone was still still a popular thing.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
And so, but don't confuse a few.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Random playoff performances it looked okay on the boob tube.
Don't confuse that with some kind of renaissance career renaissance.
I do not believe this is a Benjamin and not
be like, not me but Benjamin Button type situation. Uh,
(12:53):
the the mileage has piled up there in the NBA. Again,
Horfe is not a bad player. He was never a
great player. Yeah, you're not that guy, Pal, You're not
that guy. He's just he's just kind of there. And
it does a little bit of this, a little bit
of that, but not a lot of anything. And there
was eighteen minutes a game and a couple of screens
(13:16):
here broadcasters slobbering all over him.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Sure, you know I can get a good back.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
In the day story. No, remember Al Horford back in
the day with the Atlanta Hawks when they had no
good players. But somehow I had all these all stars
made no sense?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Now, last word, we go to Los Angeles where it
was Welcome to the Club, Welcome to the Club, date
DeAndre Ayton, the next stiff for the Lakers. DeAndre Ayton
was introduced a heroes welcome. Oh boy, they have no
idea what they're getting into. So DeAndre Ayton was introduced
(13:54):
with the Lakers. His big pep rally news conference there
for DeAndre Ayton, and he talked about Luca the Super
Combination draft mates in the same draft class years ago.
He was twenty eighteen, I believe, so he was really
(14:16):
going big. He was laying it on thick. DeAndre Ayton
introduced with the Lakers, talked about playing with Luka Dancik
and it's gonna be like a video game. He said,
he's not going to take this opportunity for granted. Okay,
what say you? What say you?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
All right?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
So Ayton, I'm worried that he overdosed on hutzpah, a
lot of hutzpa, a lot of hoodspa there.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Now the video game line that was.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Great, like a video game, Oh yeah yeah, And of
course the only joystick that DeAndre Ayton has been holding
for a while, is the one controlling his own hyprial
and selective editing. If you watch the selective editing, you
will think DeAndre eat And is much better than he is.
(15:07):
The opportunity, he said, this is an opportunity that I
won't take for granted. Okay, really that is known as
being extra rich. That is extra rich coming from someone
who has been coasting along like he's on a peloton.
He's got that subscription to the peloton and he's just
(15:28):
kind of gliding through his basketball career there and but
he really did DeAndre at and though he fawned all
over Luke, it was a little uncomfortable. It's a little uncomfortable.
It was you know, talked about the cheat code thing
and once in a generation and super ripped he said,
(15:49):
he said, Lucas super ripped, glad to be on his side.
All that, I mean, everything goes everything. It was eight
and praising Luca dotcha. By the time he got done
with this news it's on YouTube, you can watch it.
By the time he got done, you would have thought
that Luka Doncik had been the person that had discovered
(16:09):
fire and that, I mean, he just like a caveman Neanderthal,
and he came up with fire Luca. Of all people
that's recorded DeAndre eight. My god, it's amazing. He went
full howk tour with the knee pads on he had.
He was going for it. He was going for it,
full tongue bath from DeAndre eight, And it was wow.
(16:32):
I thought he was describing some kind of Marvel character,
not a not a teammate, not a basketball player. What
are you doing well? The surprise of surprises for good
old DeAndre. As far as the video game, you are
not the main character of the video game. You are
not the main character of said video game. And I
(16:55):
didn't hear a lot of talk about Lebron.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Maybe I missed it from DeAndre ayt. And also does that.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Mean that they're sitting Lebron's exit up in Lakerland. I
don't know about that. We'll keep an eye on that.
But you're not the main character in the video game.
So that's the first thing. You are the non player
character NPC, as the kid say there, And you're also
the one that keeps glitching like there's a glitch there,
(17:22):
and the glitch happens when you're supposed to box somebody
out pay attention, not fall asleep on the court in
the middle of a play, the glitch happens, and the
extra special spoiler alert, the extra special spoiler alert if
this were a video game. DeAndre Ayton real close to
just being unplugged, I mean total zero in the finals
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for the Phoenix Suns. Disappeared multiple times in that series,
a winnable series against the Milwaukee Bucks goes to Portland.
Is a total turd. And he is one of those
guys it's all hat and no cattle. That sums up.
I know he's not a Texan, but that sums up
DeAndre eid So yeah, so why are things going to
(18:09):
be different over there on skid Row where the Lakers
play beautiful skid Row. So he's had talent. I'm pretty
sure that he's had the size DeAndre Aiden.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
He's lacked opportunity in his pro bouncy ball career. I said,
a lot of things handed to him that he didn't
deserve because he's taller and bigger than the other players.
So he's had a lot of good opportunities and mainly
in Phoenix with the Suns, and he used it to
serve up muffins. Yeah, they were mediocrity muffins is what
(18:47):
he's served him. Not very delicious, not a lot of
taste in those.
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So our lead this hour is from Milwaukee. Now not
your normal milk toast kind of a game in baseball.
There's some wild finishes we mentioned at the end of
last hour, the Giants winning on a three run walk
off home run by a catcher, tremendous outfield defense by
the Philadelphia Phillies. They should buy those old Tom Amanski
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videos how to Play Baseball Baseball fund Most anyway, this
is about what happened in Brewtown, big time. Pitching. You
had the old versus the new honorary All Star, that
token All Star appearance for Clayton Kershaw, for La versus
the next big thing after the next big thing. See
(21:34):
the next big thing is Paul Skeens in Pittsburgh. But
then after that, this other guy is the next week.
I think you know what I'm talking about. Maybe not so.
Jacob Miserawski, that's what we're talking about here. And he
had a tough outing his last time out against the
New York Metropolitans, but he came back with Gusto for
the brew Crew. He did allow a leadoff on run
(21:56):
to show hey, o'toni, but he ended up striking out
not one, not two, not three, and not four, not five,
not six, not seven. At eight twelve twelve helpless Dodger
batters as the Dodgers are going through a rough patch
right now and the Milwaukee Brewers, the Brew Crew defeat
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the Blue Crew seats the Brew Crew over the Blue
Crew three to one in a random game on a
Tuesday night, the NL West, leading the top team in
the National League. The Dodgers have now lost five straight
five straight games. Now, for me, the story here is
on the mat I watched this game. Now, I was
flipping around, and I watched a little bit of the
(22:38):
Red Sox game, but they're playing the Rockies. Watched some
of the Yankee game. There was a rain delay in
that one. Some of the Phillies giants, you know, they're
flipping in the background. I had the TV on when
I was getting ready for the show, and it's kind
of cool because.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I can watch random games.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
So I'm flipping around, and I did focus in on
the Brewers and the Giants because I wanted to see
this guy. I'd seen him pitch earlier the mizz and
I to see how this all went down. So what
are your impressions? What are your impressions of the Brewers
starter Jacob Mazaraski and how he did against the Dodgers
after that starts. So my observations. I've got anaconda, packing peanuts,
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and sledgehammer man. We will combine all of these things
together and we will put the biscuit in the basket.
All right, So number what I said, number, what is
this guy? Twenty three years old? If you could buy
stock in how much this cat's gonna make? Twenty three
(23:39):
years old, six foot seven, built like a coat rat
guy and not a lot of meat on the bone there.
I guess he'll fill out as he gets older. He
does have the rocket launcher in the arm there. Now
it is a small sample size, only made five stars.
Don't be a prison of a moment, Ben, But wowsers, Man,
is this guy good? Holy crap? I mean this guy
(24:00):
is really good. He throwing You talk about throwing the heat,
but he's not. Just it's people get all excited to
get a horny because he throws one hundred miles an hour. However,
he did show signs of actually knowing how to pitch,
and I'm sure the nerds will take over and make
sure you don't ever do that. Just throw it, throw
you throw hundred miles an hour, don't throw a slider.
What's the curveball? What's wrong with you? So he had
twelve strikeouts, and if the math is right on this,
(24:23):
he had seven strikeouts.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Came on the curveball. The analytics are not they're not
gonna like that.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
What is wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
He had one on a slider, one on a change up.
So nine of the twelve strikeouts. We're not on the fastball,
We're not on the fastball and so he's proven this. Listen,
he is a flamethrower and all that stuff. But on
on the Mount, he's more of like a surgeon, a
little surgeon action going out there on the Mount. So
I was saying about this and object like the Dodger.
(24:53):
I think Dodgers should get back to the World Series,
should win it unless the Astros get the trash cans
out again and all that stuff. But if Milwaukee doesn't
botch this, and there's a hot take coming, I hope
you're prepared. You might want to fasten your seat. But
there's a hot take coming. So if Milwaukee doesn't screw
this up, and I'm talking about innings limits and oh,
(25:16):
we're gonna shut them down. If an abundance of caution,
we're gonna shut them is down. Okay, this is gonna
be a magic carpet ride, is what it's gonna be.
I am Benny bright Side. I am Benny bright Side.
On Jacob Mazaski, he is fearsome, like a barracuda and lethal,
(25:40):
I said, giant anaconda on the mount. He's the kind
of a talent. Here's the hot take. If you gave
me one thousand dollars of funny money tedday, and you said,
who's got more of a chance of beating the Dodgers
on the National League side of the bracket, I would
say the Milwaukee brew is rather like the Mets or
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the Phillies or the Podres of some of the other
teams that are the top teams the nationally I would
take the Milwaukee Brewers, and here's why, all right to me,
they are more of a threat. And I'll tell you why.
We start with them. With Jacob Mizerowski. This guy has
the the Genni siquah if you will. He's got the
razzled out dazzle, he's got the or. But more importantly,
he's good, right. He just looks like he knows what
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he's doing. He's the kind of guy if he can
back that up in the plus and listen, some guys
get tight. Took his syndrome in the playoffs and they
can't get it done in big games. One of them
is named Clinton Kershaw. But assuming he's not like that,
assuming that Jacob Mizerowski is able to perform in the playoffs,
then I would drink the brew Crew cool aid. I
would put my money on Milwaukee there and they're a
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legit dark horse threat on the National League side of
the bracket to the Mighty Dodgers down the line in
October and Pat Murphy, who I kind of liked this guy,
you know, if I'm not mistaken, I was watching the
game they had. They had an in game interview on
Turner with Pat Murphy, and I'm pretty sure that he
said a bad word while there were one of the
(27:10):
Brewers enters hit a fly ball that looked like it
might be a home run, but it landed kind of
short of the warning track, and he said the S word,
which I think we should be allowed to say, but
you're not technically allowed to say the S word. So
I like that guy, Pat Murph. I know he's been
around forever as a college manager and all that stuff.
We don't talk college baseball other than like maybe once
a year at the College World Series. But I like
this guy. And so he gave the money quote about
(27:32):
the miss. He said, he's just coming out of the
egg all arms and legs, still got gooey stuff coming
off of him. That's what he said. Just gooey stuff
sounds good, right, Gooey stuff sounds pretty good. So that
is not a diss, that is not a shot fired. Obviously,
the guy's the manager, he's an advocate for his player.
(27:53):
That's more of a warning that this is a dinosaur
that Jacob Misser Russie. The guy's a guyna sore and
he hasn't fully formed into t rex yet. It hasn't
hasn't happened now, So keep an eye. And the reason
to be optimistic, to be bullish rather than embarrashing on
the Brewers, is you figure with Jacob Mazerowski in the
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playoffs in a seven game series, the Brewers bullpens. Okay,
it's come around after a tough start. So in a
seven game series, he's gonna start two to three of
those seven. If it goes seven, I'll start three unless
he's a woos and then they'll start maybe one. But
let's say he starts two. Then you've got all star
(28:36):
Freddy Peralta, and you've got Brandon Woodriff, who's pretty pretty good.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
He's been hurt when he came back.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
So those would be your three starting pitchers, I believe,
if I'm not mistaken there in the playoffs, and so,
as the Larry David would say, that's.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Pretty deep, pretty deep.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Pretty good, I would say, pretty good. All right, Now
we pivot away from that and we go to the NFL.
We are closing in on the start of training camp.
It's not that exciting, not that exciting. But there was
some interesting commentary coming out of Jerry's world. That's right,
the obligatory mention of the Dallas Cowboys. So Dak Prescott
(29:16):
waxing poetic recently about his receiving corps in Dallas. Now,
the quote that stood out to us was what he
had to say about George Pickens. That stood out to us.
So Dak made a declaration, gave a statement, do we
have this?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I think we have this. Let's see we have the idea.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
This is Dak Prescott going on a little bit of
hyperbole on his new wide receiver, George Pickens. Take a list.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
That's two guys that want the other guy to succeed
just as much, saying it firsthand, just them two hanging
out and me the bystandard. I'll go in the house,
you know, purposely for a little bit, you know, and
just peaking at him. They love each other, they love
each other's company, they love each other's game.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
The guy that gets to get them the ball. It's
exciting as.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Hell because you can turn on ota tapes and one
of the guys the ball's in there, and the other
one's got his hands up celebrating already.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
All right. So he was talking about in that cut,
he was talking about Pickens and Ceedee Lamb. In the
cut that I want I would like to focus in on,
he said he was talking about George Pickens. He said,
you turn on that guy's tape talking about George Pickens.
He's getting separation. He's got separation even when he's not
getting the ball at times. And when he doesn't have separation,
(30:29):
he's still making the catches. Prescott said, for me, it's
about getting the ball near that guy and letting him
go be George Pickens close.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
All right, So can you unravel all of this?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Can you unravel what Dak Prescott was getting at with
the quote that I just read there, the one about
George Pickens. So I've got Dak gibberish is what I got,
Dak gibberish. That's how I that's how I unravel that quote.
I do so. He said, Pickens is open when he's
(31:05):
not open. He's catching balls when he's not catching balls.
So that must mean, using deductive reasoning that George Pickens
is a wide receiver who is actually some kind of
quantum particle. I think I think that's what he was
getting at with that with that line. Now, is he
(31:28):
both open and is covered until observed? Inquiring minds would
like to know. So this is another jem a diamond
in the rough from Dakota. Now his superpower is not
playing quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. No no, no, no, no no.
This is what dak is good at hot air. He
(31:51):
is Jerry Jones should frame this that particular quote, the
one I read about what he said about George Pickens
here and go over to the louver, because Jerry spot
on his yacht somewhere near the louver and put it
right next to the Mona Lisa. I just find the
Mona Lisa and then you put a label on top.
You can write it if you want, you can make
it professionally done. The art of the vague compliment. Dakota Prescott.
(32:16):
That's it. So dak Prescott's the kind of speaking reminds
me of in a previous generation, Derek Jeter. Derek Jeter
was like this where the fanboys would get all excited
anytime Derek Jeter talked and he's, oh, man, that was
a great quote by Derek Teeter, and I'd be like,
he didn't say anything. Dak Prescott could give a keynote
address at a company event and he can go on
(32:41):
and on about the nutritional value of packing peanuts. A
keynote address by Dak press ball packing peanuts are really
good for you and just wonderful, and the crowd would applaud.
They just wait to go, Dak, I mean outstanding, and
they would not know a single, a single thing more
(33:03):
than when they sat down to listen to what Dak
was saying. So he has really missed his calling. But
he's done playing for the Cowboys. He can become a
future White House press secretary. He's got that. That is future.
And he has mastered the quarnerback version of corporate speak.
He has done that. And the undisputed, undefeated, unchallenged heavyweight
(33:27):
champion of the world at saying absolutely nothing in a
thirty second sound bite, Dakota Prescott, He's done it yet again.
He's the guy. He could be asked what time all right,
what time is it? And he would respond, well, time
is a construct, Dak would say. And we're just we're
just trying to make the most of the moments that
(33:48):
we're given. We don't have that much of it. And
he's going on on, so it's not really that he's
dodging anything, because he's not that good at dodging sacks.
He's not dodging anything.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
He's he's just like waltzing around. You know, he's dancing.
He's got his.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Tuxedo on, he's dancing around, the cliches and all that stuff.
And yeah, we'd like a little more meat on the bone,
but we know we're not going to get that.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
And you're supposed to talk that way if you're the.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Quarterback and we like a little more spice or pepper.
There's not a lot of pepper there. It's just a
word salad and a side dish. Little basket of hot air,
little basket of hot air. All right, now, final point
to the atl we go, great airport, bad sports, Great airport,
bad sports. So the Falcons quarterback for now Kirk Cousins
(34:38):
slamming his own team.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Oh my god, did you see?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
This is all part of that Netflix show which is
out here, That quarterback thing that's out now, So Kirk
Cousins slamming the Falcons and claimed that he was missiled
his word, not my word, missile after they drafted Michael
Pennix Junior. And how does that sound to you? How
(35:05):
does that sound to you? So Cousins, for all the
flak that he gets, says he's a diminishing asset at
this particular point, he absolutely has a right to be
ticked off. Like, I don't know how you could argue
against that being dirty pool by the Falcons. I don't
know that I would use the word missile. I would
(35:25):
go stronger than that. I mean, this is the definition
of the blind side a franchise over the years. The
Falcons they cannot they couldn't spell the word stability at
the Atlanta Falcons. If you spotted in the first six
letters of the word, they'd still f it up. I mean,
they don't know what they're doing. And it does make
(35:45):
you wonder there's something going on in that water supply
in the state of Georgia there. Tommy in Atlanta might know. Listen,
he can't call because his evil boss won't let him
call anymore. But I met him a while back at
a mallor meet and greet there in the South, and
he's he listens every night to the show. He cannot
(36:06):
interact with us because he's a camera on him and
he's driving around his truck. The schmuck's over there. The
company oors were, but he knows right when it comes
to poor decision making and broken promises. The Atlanta and
Georgia's sports teams have mastered that. Now the Falcons, we'll
talk about them. So they signed Kirk Cousins and then
a couple months later drafted in the first round a quarterback.
(36:31):
Before Cousins had even played a game, they drafted a quarterback.
And so the Falcons were operating. If you go back
in the Hot Top time machine, they were operating like that.
There's some kind of bizarre like psyop thing, like a
roster confusion. And Cousins I so moving down to Atlanta,
(36:51):
he thought he was building a house, and the Falcons
are like, hey, Lisen, it's not a hot We're handing
you a sledgehammer, and we actually are doing demo. We
used to have a demo guy that would call the
show from Minnesota. We're handing you a slash jamer. We
want you to do some demo, that's it. And he
even said, like, if he had known that, he would
(37:12):
have stayed with the Vikings. He's like because they drafted
a quarterback, but he's like, I liked Minnesota, he liked
to like the people there, like the town, the whole thing,
and he just would have stayed in Minnesota rather than
go to Atlanta. So, yeah, the Falcons they did him dirty,
they did. So how does a front office though in
spin of they knew he had an injury, Like it
wasn't like a secret. They knew Cousins was hurt when
(37:33):
they signed him. But how do you go from we
believe in you, we are going to give you a
cartoon check for like one hundred and eighty million dogs?
How do you go from that to we're hedging our
bets like you're some kind of shady blackjack dealer guy
in Atlantic. Like it's very odd. It's very odd, and
(37:54):
it's mouthfeas it's I would say, and it's worked out,
then we don't know if it's worked out.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Neither of us know whether Michael Pennix Junior is good
or not.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Now you wow, Cousins is a good And the argument
is Cousins is done and maybe that will be true.
He will be playing for someone other than the Falcons though,
whether he gets traded now or training camp or early
in the season before the trade deadline, obviously, but that
is the kind of organizational dysfunction signing a quarterback then
(38:25):
drafting a quarterback. It's like the Cleveland Browns. It makes
them look like they know what they're doing, the Cleveland Browns.
And so that was totally a slap right across the
schnaz for Kirk Cousins. And you know, it was even
like more of like the atomic elbow to the schnaz
is what that was there. And so again the Falcons
(38:45):
they burned a hundred and was it one hundred and
eighty million I believe was the number an investment with
Kirk Cousins. And they treated him like a some kind
of scratch off ticket, that sir scratch off as in
Arkansas and just kind of hoping it pays.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
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Speaker 1 (39:14):
That gets Grail good.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
So the Chiefs requested an extension from the state of
Kansas on their offer to build a team a new
stadium if they move over to the Kansas side of
Kansas City, and they were granted that extension until June
of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 7 (39:27):
The team will have to.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
Decide if they want to play in a renovated Arrowhead
in Missouri or a new domed stadium in Kansas.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Which do you think they'll go with them? Well, I
don't understand what the hull of I thought Arrowhead was
cool because I it's nostalgia when I was a kid.
I went there last November. That was really great experience
because I grew up watching games at arrow at big games.
But Kansas is like literally down the street. The road,
one of the roads in Kansas City goes right through
Missouri and Kansas. So to me, it doesn't matter. But
(39:54):
I think they I think eventually they'll just build a
domeme in Kansas. I think that's where to go next.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
Patrick Mahomes made a recent podcast appearance where he said
that he thinks this is the deepest group of weapons
that he has had around him on the Chiefs Ben.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Do you think that's true. I feel like he says
this every other year. Mahomes, how about to be determined.
I'll see, I'll believe it when these guys get through
training camp not hurt.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
Next Raiders under Mark Davis was reflecting on his father
on what would have been his ninety sixth birthday. He said,
IL loved Vegas and would love seeing the Raiders where
they are now. You wanted to say that Vegas is
the sports and entertainment capital of the world.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Ben, Is he right? Well? Al would have loved the
fact that Vegas bent over and gave the Raiders everything
they wanted, but in terms of market size, it would
have been better if they stayed in La It's a
bigger marketing. So there it is, malardly third degree.
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You heard the man It's Tom for love here on
the Ben Mallor Show. And I know we had fourth
of July last week, and I really really hope got
all you men did not blow off your woman's favorite hand. Okay,
you got to keep the good hand. What's the good
hand which everyone to share better with?
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Okay? All right, I got you? All right? So we
have questions, Laurie. This is an actual the first snail
mail question we've gotten. This is from Dan and Dan
is a incarcerated listener. He is sent from the federal
prison in Pennsylvania. Finding love in prison is fine? Well
(41:48):
that was what was about. He says, how do you again?
Ben and Crewe hope all as well have a question
for Loraina's love advice Queen of Hearts segment. He says,
as you know, I'm incarcerated and lonely. I'll be out
in a couple of years. It says, I'm not that
good looking, but I have a good sense of humor
and I am good at sex, or so my cellmate
(42:08):
tells me. I'll just kidding, he says. He says, is
is my criminal history going to be a deal breaker
or a turn on to the ladies? That's from Dan.
Speaker 8 (42:18):
You know a lot of women actually like men who
have been in jail. It shows that you're tough and rough.
Maybe they like that you could defend them in a way, right, Yeah,
I know a.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Lot of women actually really like that.
Speaker 8 (42:30):
And if you have a good personality, you can always
get a girl.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Well Dan's from Chicago's the Illinois a Cubs fan, and
so yeah, Dan, I would lean into that. I would say, whatever,
whatever your strengths are in life, you gotta lean if
you're tall, leaning in the fact you're tall.
Speaker 8 (42:44):
And that they have an eating site for convicts too,
Oh yeah, you should.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
You should totally get on that. There aren't there women
that love dudes in jail. Yes, it's a thing. Who
knew that would be a turn on?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Something?
Speaker 8 (42:56):
Even like to get pregnant while you're in jail.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Really, I don't know about that. Conjugal visits. Yeah, well
there you go. There you get hooked up right there?
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
JT the wee Man rights and he says, with sports
in the low Tide season, what is a good show
for me to binge with my special lady?
Speaker 8 (43:14):
Oh White Lotus was really fun for me and my
friend to binge watch this year.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
But it depends on what you guys like.
Speaker 7 (43:21):
If you like comedies, oh.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
God, to watch poop cruise. I watched that. I did
watch that.
Speaker 7 (43:27):
That was really good. Made me want to go on
a cruise.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Still really yeah, I had the opposite reaction.
Speaker 7 (43:34):
You're lying, I don't want to.
Speaker 8 (43:35):
Yeah, but they have so much bottomless food as long
as nothing catches on fire.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Yeah, well it's fine until the ship breaks down.
Speaker 8 (43:42):
And you know what, cruises are good for romance. And
they also have singles cruises that you can do where
you can go and find lovers. O. Yes, get that
bottomless drink package. Everyone will be having a good time.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Donkey Sawss rights and he says, what can I do
when my mate always steals the covers and the sheets
in our bed?
Speaker 8 (44:02):
Okay, you have a couple of different options here. You
can either sleep in your own bed. You could violently
kick them out of the bed.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
You can steal all the blankets back.
Speaker 8 (44:13):
Over and roll up like a burrito. Or you can
each have your own blankets on the bed. I know
a lot of couples that do that.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Yeah. No, I think the move here because I do.
I am involved with a woman who steals blankets, So
I think what you have to do is add an
extra blanket a side on the side of the bed,
and then when she steals the blankets, you pull out
the mystery blanket so she will have thought she stole
all the blankets, but you have an extra blanket on
the side that she doesn't know about. Ah, look at that,
yeah blanket. Eileen writes in says favorite show you've seen
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at the Pantagious themeter. Have you been to the pantaso
you have?
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And it's always going to be hands down wicked wicked. Yeah,
I say that like four times now.
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Shannon Moi writes in on Queen of Hearts hashtag Queen
of Hearts. If I'm an adult with a job and
I ask my customers how to do my job, am
I failing at work? Says Shanon the Moine. No, it
means you want to do a better job, right, I
think somebody?
Speaker 7 (45:04):
Do you want me to do my job?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (45:07):
All right?
Speaker 1 (45:07):
We a BPEP. We don't have time. He wanted to.
He was worried about the friend zone. But we're all
worried about the friends all is. Don't go in it,
try to avoid it at all. Stay away, stay away.
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welcome in our concessus. We have Anie, Meenie, Miney, Moe.
Mark on the north end. Hello, Mark, welcome, good to
talk to you. Mark. Who do you want to partner
up with on password?
Speaker 2 (46:06):
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Speaker 1 (46:08):
That's right, we're ready to win it. Mark, all right,
very good. And we have Mike the Leprechaun. Hello, Mike
the Leprechaun. Good morning. Let me play with her.
Speaker 5 (46:18):
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Speaker 1 (46:23):
The rain is apparently sick. All right, you're right away
into terror.
Speaker 5 (46:28):
It's into terror.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
He's a terror. He gave me a bad score on
the MALAFLUSA, so that was bad, all right, And it's
not about you how dare you? Let's play the game.
You have another contestant play the game? No, Mark, pick
a number one to ten. Please, we're in this to
win it. Marc has passed number one, number one. All right,
(46:52):
let's go with that.
Speaker 7 (46:54):
How about.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Barber hair dresser.
Speaker 7 (47:02):
No, uh, let's go with Mike. You heard Ben's clue.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Leave me out of this. I didn't. Good, go ahead,
he said, Barbara. I didn't say that.
Speaker 7 (47:16):
He did.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
I didn't.
Speaker 7 (47:17):
That was that was Ben's clue.
Speaker 6 (47:18):
Mike, my clue for you is facence barber.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
Face f a ce face face. Okay, Razor. No, how
about Mark Trim, Yeah, there you go. All right, we're
on the boards. Get all right, and Michael eprek im
picking number two to ten? Please number two? Go ahead there?
Speaker 7 (47:50):
All right, Mike, let's go with gossip, got the scandal.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
No, let's go with tabloid. Yeah, all right, good, jump
by you. Mark. You are burying the little leprechaun. All right,
well he's the world's talles levery. We're back. All right. Well,
(48:18):
we're back at it. Three to three to ten? Please
Mark pick a number three, number three? All right, I
just do one, two and three? Uh, all right, let's
go with how about terrace, terrace.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Balcony?
Speaker 7 (48:40):
All right, Mike, let's try deck.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Yeah, the board, Well you're not all right, pick another number. Number.
We're out of time, actually number four.
Speaker 7 (48:52):
We have number four.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
All right, we don't.
Speaker 7 (48:54):
Let's go with uh, let's go with surf.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
Is this a malam militia backward?
Speaker 7 (49:01):
A little surf to surf?
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Is he gonna say something? You're gonna take so much time? No,
the word was wave. We win mark on the north end.
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and a lot going on, a lot of moving parts here.
Now a story that is a developing story. We're gonna
(02:21):
start with this. The Mile High City. There's a lot
of things moving around. The pinball machine there and pro
bouncy ball, the silly season. As yet again, we are
on the pulse of what many of you find repulsive gossip,
speculation and rumor mongering. That's right, but interesting. Wrinkle out
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of Denver. We have a mantra on this show. We
have many mantras, but one of the mantras is we
just we wake up we don't know what's going on,
and then you know, we don't even know what's going
on when we go to bed, but we wake up
and I'm like, whatever's interesting, whatever the news of the
day is, and we just talk about and so I
thought this was interesting, and I have editorial control, So
(03:07):
I'm gonna I'm talking about now. Someday I'll give that
up and supermarket Steve will have editorial control. We'll talk
WNBA and then they'll turn the transmitter off and that's it.
But if you didn't hear, maybe not so multi time
Platinum MVP guy, the whole thing. Nicola Jokic, we learned
(03:28):
will not will not sign a extension with the Nuggets
this offseason. Not gonna happen. There was a standing offer
there by the Denver basketball team.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
He is not going to do it. Now, the Nugget
media is like.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Well, it's not really that big a deal because he
can make more money in a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Or actually just in a year. So just like wait,
and he is under contract.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So let us discuss though, because there were other factions,
other factions and me combatants who say, not so fast,
my friend, So let's discuss the question Nicole Jokic, we
are told, has let the Nuggets know that he does
not plan to sign a contract extension this offseason. So
(04:16):
what does that signify? To get cut through the fog?
What does that signify signify to you? So I've got gatorade,
Early Bird and kneepads, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are gonna make the Gobba Ghoul.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
We're gonna make the Gobba gool. So a, what does
it signify? All right?
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the drama. Oh my god. Now Jokic telling the Nuggets
to go pound sand that he's not going to sign
a two hundred and twelve million dollar contract extension this offseason.
Now that has opened the floodgates. Whether you like it
or not, it's opened the floodgates. From Walla Walla, Washington,
to kalamazoo. Okay, every team that plausibly plays basketball and
(05:30):
occasionally wants to win, and they have dreams of championships,
and the whispering is underway. Could we get the joker
in the deck? Could we get the joker in the deck? Now?
The party poopers, you know who they are. Oh, they say, listen,
Nicole Yoki, he's just waiting. He's just he's gonna get
an extra eighty million dollars more if he just waits
(05:53):
a year. And really, what is a year?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Time flies? The older you get just goes by fast.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So while that is certainly popossible, that is certainly possible.
I don't dismiss that. I don't dismiss that. But he's
also ridiculous to dismiss the possibility that this is the
beginning of the end for Nikola Jokic in Denver. Remember
the owner came out said there is a scenario where
Jokic isn't going to stay in Denver. He tossed that
out unsolicited, by the way, And now just a few
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days later, Jokic says, I ain't signing that extension. Okay.
So in the multiverse, you put everything together. In the multiverse,
no it's possible that this is a foreshock. What Nicole
Jokic did is a foreshock to a larger seismic event.
Plot thickens now regardless, the power Brokers, if you want
(06:44):
to call them that, and my favorite, the gossip hounds.
They're like bloodhounds of gossip and they're all salivating, Oh
my god, like Pavlov's dogs the sound of the dinner
bell man. Are they excited?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
He's not going anywhere today unless he wants that. But remember,
anything is possible at any time, Like the NBA could
call the Nuggets up and say, hey, we want Jokic
to play for a real team like the Clippers, and
we say we believe the conspiracy. That's how Luca ended
up with the Lakers. It's not because of some slick
GM work by Skinny Jeans Rob Polinka. It's like, well,
(07:21):
the NBA TV ratings were down, let's get Luca in La.
We'll get the ratings up. Why not? But technically, Jokic
has not one but two years left on the deal
from what we understand based on a minute long investigation,
also has a player option forget about that that will
not be activated. And the Nuggets publicly, he's the franchise,
(07:42):
He's the cornerstone. Certainly is all those things. Certainly is
all those things. And Denver, seemingly to pacify Jokic, went
out and made some moves. They traded Michael Porter Jr.
For someone named Cam Johnson. We're not sure who that is.
And they added Yonis Valanusa Valentunis, who was so excited
(08:02):
about that.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
He's thinking about leaving and not even playing for the Nuggets.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
But the effort was made to bolster the depth on
the Denver Nuggets, and Yokich himself had asked for more depth,
so they went out and made some.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Moves to get more depth.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Now, regardless of the math, I'm even talking about Mallard math,
I'm talking about contractual math. I'm not talking about the
Malor math, which is different. It's a version of math,
but it's not the actual math. It's the Malor math.
It's different. So Yo Kitch in my head, that little
cartoon bubble over my head. Yo Kich is filming a
Gatorade commercial for the Denver Nuggets. Make them sweat, all right,
(08:40):
He's making them sweat a little bit. Yeah, Sure, there's
a world where he gets that extra eighty million dollars
and we're all good. We are all good. Right. It
is a savvy move for a guy. He's not chasing
a championship, but guys, his little hunk of metal. Finals,
MVP three, regular season MVPs. The nugget Backers though, the
(09:02):
real Nugget back they're they're biting their fingernails a little bit.
Uh and for good reason. You know, Well, it's a
savvy business play for now. It's a business play for now.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
And you know, is he gonna end up in New
York or LA or you know, the Warriors in San Francisco.
We don't know. But the whispers are only gonna get
louder louder and louder. And the vultures, those NBA vultures, Yes,
the hyenas, they're out and they're gonna get altitude sickness.
(09:35):
The recruiting is underway. I guaran efing to you that
the recruiting is underways. Hey, you know, I just talk
to Jokics, you know, go why he's having some pints
of beer watching a horse race somewhere in someplace far
far away, you know, just the centim a text, you know, Hey, yeah, Nicole.
You ever thought about coming to Milwaukee in the winter,
beautiful weather. Yes, So the circus is just getting started
(09:59):
with what I'm trying to all right now, turn the page,
page two. So to the Bay Area, the aforementioned Bay Area,
we go wild ending in the baseball game. Then we're
not talking about that right now. I'll get to that later.
But some late night musings, some late night musings, and
we're hearing now the Golden State Warriors, the Golden State
wars who would have been the San Francisco Warriors, but
(10:21):
they kept winning championships, so they decided not to change
the name. They were going to change the name of
San Francisco Warriors, which it had been, but they was
we kept winning, so we're gonna go back, you know,
keep the name Golden State Warriors. Anyway, the Golden State Warriors,
we are told have a handshake deal. Shaking your end
a handshake deal with Al Horford, late of the Boston Celtics.
(10:41):
Al Horford, late night news, Al Horford handshake deal. He
will join the roster of the Golden State Warriors. So
how do you feel about that? How do you feel
about this particular move? Al Horford with the Warriors. So
I have this on my note app, the notes app
on my When I put the word sketchy, that's what
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I put. Because which version of Al Horford are the
Warriors going to come on down? Which version of Al
are you getting? Is he going to be locked in?
Is he going to be what he had been quite
a bit in Boston? His nickname average, Al was his nickname,
He's the average And Horford, as of twenty four hours ago,
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was said to be debating whether or not he wanted
to go out to the West Coast, to go to
San Francisco or to a nice retirement a time share
in Boca with a tea time at three o'clock of
the afternoon. So let's not sugarcoat this. There's no need
to sugarcoat the Al Horford story. Horford has certainly been
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more of the early bird special version of basketball player
than the stretch five specialists. The difference maker is not
that guy. Hadn't been that guy for the better part
of a couple of seasons now and in Boston, and
and sure he's had occasional moments returned to glory. He's
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hit some corner threes, and I'm sure he'll do a
little bit of that with the Golden State Warris and
occasionally some defensive players will make a play here and there,
and and fine, but he's been around since like the
flip phone. You know, he's been in the NBA since
the flip phone was still still a popular thing.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
And so, but don't confuse a few.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Random playoff performances it looked okay on the boob tube.
Don't confuse that with some kind of renaissance career renaissance.
I do not believe this is a Benjamin and not
be like, not me but Benjamin Button type situation. Uh,
(12:53):
the the mileage has piled up there in the NBA. Again,
Horfe is not a bad player. He was never a
great player. Yeah, you're not that guy, Pal, You're not
that guy. He's just he's just kind of there. And
it does a little bit of this, a little bit
of that, but not a lot of anything. And there
was eighteen minutes a game and a couple of screens
(13:16):
here broadcasters slobbering all over him.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Sure, you know I can get a good back.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
In the day story. No, remember Al Horford back in
the day with the Atlanta Hawks when they had no
good players. But somehow I had all these all stars
made no sense?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
All right?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Now, last word, we go to Los Angeles where it
was Welcome to the Club, Welcome to the Club, date
DeAndre Ayton, the next stiff for the Lakers. DeAndre Ayton
was introduced a heroes welcome. Oh boy, they have no
idea what they're getting into. So DeAndre Ayton was introduced
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with the Lakers. His big pep rally news conference there
for DeAndre Ayton, and he talked about Luca the Super
Combination draft mates in the same draft class years ago.
He was twenty eighteen, I believe, so he was really
(14:16):
going big. He was laying it on thick. DeAndre Ayton
introduced with the Lakers, talked about playing with Luka Dancik
and it's gonna be like a video game. He said,
he's not going to take this opportunity for granted. Okay,
what say you? What say you?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
All right?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
So Ayton, I'm worried that he overdosed on hutzpah, a
lot of hutzpa, a lot of hoodspa there.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Now the video game line that was.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Great, like a video game, Oh yeah yeah, And of
course the only joystick that DeAndre Ayton has been holding
for a while, is the one controlling his own hyprial
and selective editing. If you watch the selective editing, you
will think DeAndre eat And is much better than he is.
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The opportunity, he said, this is an opportunity that I
won't take for granted. Okay, really that is known as
being extra rich. That is extra rich coming from someone
who has been coasting along like he's on a peloton.
He's got that subscription to the peloton and he's just
(15:28):
kind of gliding through his basketball career there and but
he really did DeAndre at and though he fawned all
over Luke, it was a little uncomfortable. It's a little uncomfortable.
It was you know, talked about the cheat code thing
and once in a generation and super ripped he said,
(15:49):
he said, Lucas super ripped, glad to be on his side.
All that, I mean, everything goes everything. It was eight
and praising Luca dotcha. By the time he got done
with this news it's on YouTube, you can watch it.
By the time he got done, you would have thought
that Luka Doncik had been the person that had discovered
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fire and that, I mean, he just like a caveman Neanderthal,
and he came up with fire Luca. Of all people
that's recorded DeAndre eight. My god, it's amazing. He went
full howk tour with the knee pads on he had.
He was going for it. He was going for it,
full tongue bath from DeAndre eight, And it was wow.
(16:32):
I thought he was describing some kind of Marvel character,
not a not a teammate, not a basketball player. What
are you doing well? The surprise of surprises for good
old DeAndre. As far as the video game, you are
not the main character of the video game. You are
not the main character of said video game. And I
(16:55):
didn't hear a lot of talk about Lebron.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Maybe I missed it from DeAndre ayt. And also does that.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Mean that they're sitting Lebron's exit up in Lakerland. I
don't know about that. We'll keep an eye on that.
But you're not the main character in the video game.
So that's the first thing. You are the non player
character NPC, as the kid say there, And you're also
the one that keeps glitching like there's a glitch there,
(17:22):
and the glitch happens when you're supposed to box somebody
out pay attention, not fall asleep on the court in
the middle of a play, the glitch happens, and the
extra special spoiler alert, the extra special spoiler alert if
this were a video game. DeAndre Ayton real close to
just being unplugged, I mean total zero in the finals
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for the Phoenix Suns. Disappeared multiple times in that series,
a winnable series against the Milwaukee Bucks goes to Portland.
Is a total turd. And he is one of those
guys it's all hat and no cattle. That sums up.
I know he's not a Texan, but that sums up
DeAndre eid So yeah, so why are things going to
(18:09):
be different over there on skid Row where the Lakers
play beautiful skid Row. So he's had talent. I'm pretty
sure that he's had the size DeAndre Aiden.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
He's lacked opportunity in his pro bouncy ball career. I said,
a lot of things handed to him that he didn't
deserve because he's taller and bigger than the other players.
So he's had a lot of good opportunities and mainly
in Phoenix with the Suns, and he used it to
serve up muffins. Yeah, they were mediocrity muffins is what
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he's served him. Not very delicious, not a lot of
taste in those.
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So our lead this hour is from Milwaukee. Now not
your normal milk toast kind of a game in baseball.
There's some wild finishes we mentioned at the end of
last hour, the Giants winning on a three run walk
off home run by a catcher, tremendous outfield defense by
the Philadelphia Phillies. They should buy those old Tom Amanski
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videos how to Play Baseball Baseball fund Most anyway, this
is about what happened in Brewtown, big time. Pitching. You
had the old versus the new honorary All Star, that
token All Star appearance for Clayton Kershaw, for La versus
the next big thing after the next big thing. See
(21:34):
the next big thing is Paul Skeens in Pittsburgh. But
then after that, this other guy is the next week.
I think you know what I'm talking about. Maybe not so.
Jacob Miserawski, that's what we're talking about here. And he
had a tough outing his last time out against the
New York Metropolitans, but he came back with Gusto for
the brew Crew. He did allow a leadoff on run
(21:56):
to show hey, o'toni, but he ended up striking out
not one, not two, not three, and not four, not five,
not six, not seven. At eight twelve twelve helpless Dodger
batters as the Dodgers are going through a rough patch
right now and the Milwaukee Brewers, the Brew Crew defeat
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the Blue Crew seats the Brew Crew over the Blue
Crew three to one in a random game on a
Tuesday night, the NL West, leading the top team in
the National League. The Dodgers have now lost five straight
five straight games. Now, for me, the story here is
on the mat I watched this game. Now, I was
flipping around, and I watched a little bit of the
(22:38):
Red Sox game, but they're playing the Rockies. Watched some
of the Yankee game. There was a rain delay in
that one. Some of the Phillies giants, you know, they're
flipping in the background. I had the TV on when
I was getting ready for the show, and it's kind
of cool because.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I can watch random games.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
So I'm flipping around, and I did focus in on
the Brewers and the Giants because I wanted to see
this guy. I'd seen him pitch earlier the mizz and
I to see how this all went down. So what
are your impressions? What are your impressions of the Brewers
starter Jacob Mazaraski and how he did against the Dodgers
after that starts. So my observations. I've got anaconda, packing peanuts,
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and sledgehammer man. We will combine all of these things
together and we will put the biscuit in the basket.
All right, So number what I said, number, what is
this guy? Twenty three years old? If you could buy
stock in how much this cat's gonna make? Twenty three
(23:39):
years old, six foot seven, built like a coat rat
guy and not a lot of meat on the bone there.
I guess he'll fill out as he gets older. He
does have the rocket launcher in the arm there. Now
it is a small sample size, only made five stars.
Don't be a prison of a moment, Ben, But wowsers, Man,
is this guy good? Holy crap? I mean this guy
(24:00):
is really good. He throwing You talk about throwing the heat,
but he's not. Just it's people get all excited to
get a horny because he throws one hundred miles an hour. However,
he did show signs of actually knowing how to pitch,
and I'm sure the nerds will take over and make
sure you don't ever do that. Just throw it, throw
you throw hundred miles an hour, don't throw a slider.
What's the curveball? What's wrong with you? So he had
twelve strikeouts, and if the math is right on this,
(24:23):
he had seven strikeouts.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Came on the curveball. The analytics are not they're not
gonna like that.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
What is wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
He had one on a slider, one on a change up.
So nine of the twelve strikeouts. We're not on the fastball,
We're not on the fastball and so he's proven this. Listen,
he is a flamethrower and all that stuff. But on
on the Mount, he's more of like a surgeon, a
little surgeon action going out there on the Mount. So
I was saying about this and object like the Dodger.
(24:53):
I think Dodgers should get back to the World Series,
should win it unless the Astros get the trash cans
out again and all that stuff. But if Milwaukee doesn't
botch this, and there's a hot take coming, I hope
you're prepared. You might want to fasten your seat. But
there's a hot take coming. So if Milwaukee doesn't screw
this up, and I'm talking about innings limits and oh,
(25:16):
we're gonna shut them down. If an abundance of caution,
we're gonna shut them is down. Okay, this is gonna
be a magic carpet ride, is what it's gonna be.
I am Benny bright Side. I am Benny bright Side.
On Jacob Mazaski, he is fearsome, like a barracuda and lethal,
(25:40):
I said, giant anaconda on the mount. He's the kind
of a talent. Here's the hot take. If you gave
me one thousand dollars of funny money tedday, and you said,
who's got more of a chance of beating the Dodgers
on the National League side of the bracket, I would
say the Milwaukee brew is rather like the Mets or
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the Phillies or the Podres of some of the other
teams that are the top teams the nationally I would
take the Milwaukee Brewers, and here's why, all right to me,
they are more of a threat. And I'll tell you why.
We start with them. With Jacob Mizerowski. This guy has
the the Genni siquah if you will. He's got the
razzled out dazzle, he's got the or. But more importantly,
he's good, right. He just looks like he knows what
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he's doing. He's the kind of guy if he can
back that up in the plus and listen, some guys
get tight. Took his syndrome in the playoffs and they
can't get it done in big games. One of them
is named Clinton Kershaw. But assuming he's not like that,
assuming that Jacob Mizerowski is able to perform in the playoffs,
then I would drink the brew Crew cool aid. I
would put my money on Milwaukee there and they're a
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legit dark horse threat on the National League side of
the bracket to the Mighty Dodgers down the line in
October and Pat Murphy, who I kind of liked this guy,
you know, if I'm not mistaken, I was watching the
game they had. They had an in game interview on
Turner with Pat Murphy, and I'm pretty sure that he
said a bad word while there were one of the
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Brewers enters hit a fly ball that looked like it
might be a home run, but it landed kind of
short of the warning track, and he said the S word,
which I think we should be allowed to say, but
you're not technically allowed to say the S word. So
I like that guy, Pat Murph. I know he's been
around forever as a college manager and all that stuff.
We don't talk college baseball other than like maybe once
a year at the College World Series. But I like
this guy. And so he gave the money quote about
(27:32):
the miss. He said, he's just coming out of the
egg all arms and legs, still got gooey stuff coming
off of him. That's what he said. Just gooey stuff
sounds good, right, Gooey stuff sounds pretty good. So that
is not a diss, that is not a shot fired. Obviously,
the guy's the manager, he's an advocate for his player.
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That's more of a warning that this is a dinosaur
that Jacob Misser Russie. The guy's a guyna sore and
he hasn't fully formed into t rex yet. It hasn't
hasn't happened now, So keep an eye. And the reason
to be optimistic, to be bullish rather than embarrashing on
the Brewers, is you figure with Jacob Mazerowski in the
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playoffs in a seven game series, the Brewers bullpens. Okay,
it's come around after a tough start. So in a
seven game series, he's gonna start two to three of
those seven. If it goes seven, I'll start three unless
he's a woos and then they'll start maybe one. But
let's say he starts two. Then you've got all star
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Freddy Peralta, and you've got Brandon Woodriff, who's pretty pretty good.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
He's been hurt when he came back.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
So those would be your three starting pitchers, I believe,
if I'm not mistaken there in the playoffs, and so,
as the Larry David would say, that's.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Pretty deep, pretty deep.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Pretty good, I would say, pretty good. All right, Now
we pivot away from that and we go to the NFL.
We are closing in on the start of training camp.
It's not that exciting, not that exciting. But there was
some interesting commentary coming out of Jerry's world. That's right,
the obligatory mention of the Dallas Cowboys. So Dak Prescott
(29:16):
waxing poetic recently about his receiving corps in Dallas. Now,
the quote that stood out to us was what he
had to say about George Pickens. That stood out to us.
So Dak made a declaration, gave a statement, do we
have this?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I think we have this. Let's see we have the idea.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
This is Dak Prescott going on a little bit of
hyperbole on his new wide receiver, George Pickens. Take a list.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
That's two guys that want the other guy to succeed
just as much, saying it firsthand, just them two hanging
out and me the bystandard. I'll go in the house,
you know, purposely for a little bit, you know, and
just peaking at him. They love each other, they love
each other's company, they love each other's game.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
The guy that gets to get them the ball. It's
exciting as.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Hell because you can turn on ota tapes and one
of the guys the ball's in there, and the other
one's got his hands up celebrating already.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
All right. So he was talking about in that cut,
he was talking about Pickens and Ceedee Lamb. In the
cut that I want I would like to focus in on,
he said he was talking about George Pickens. He said,
you turn on that guy's tape talking about George Pickens.
He's getting separation. He's got separation even when he's not
getting the ball at times. And when he doesn't have separation,
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he's still making the catches. Prescott said, for me, it's
about getting the ball near that guy and letting him
go be George Pickens close.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
All right, So can you unravel all of this?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Can you unravel what Dak Prescott was getting at with
the quote that I just read there, the one about
George Pickens. So I've got Dak gibberish is what I got,
Dak gibberish. That's how I that's how I unravel that quote.
I do so. He said, Pickens is open when he's
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not open. He's catching balls when he's not catching balls.
So that must mean, using deductive reasoning that George Pickens
is a wide receiver who is actually some kind of
quantum particle. I think I think that's what he was
getting at with that with that line. Now, is he
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both open and is covered until observed? Inquiring minds would
like to know. So this is another jem a diamond
in the rough from Dakota. Now his superpower is not
playing quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. No no, no, no, no no.
This is what dak is good at hot air. He
(31:51):
is Jerry Jones should frame this that particular quote, the
one I read about what he said about George Pickens
here and go over to the louver, because Jerry spot
on his yacht somewhere near the louver and put it
right next to the Mona Lisa. I just find the
Mona Lisa and then you put a label on top.
You can write it if you want, you can make
it professionally done. The art of the vague compliment. Dakota Prescott.
(32:16):
That's it. So dak Prescott's the kind of speaking reminds
me of in a previous generation, Derek Jeter. Derek Jeter
was like this where the fanboys would get all excited
anytime Derek Jeter talked and he's, oh, man, that was
a great quote by Derek Teeter, and I'd be like,
he didn't say anything. Dak Prescott could give a keynote
address at a company event and he can go on
(32:41):
and on about the nutritional value of packing peanuts. A
keynote address by Dak press ball packing peanuts are really
good for you and just wonderful, and the crowd would applaud.
They just wait to go, Dak, I mean outstanding, and
they would not know a single, a single thing more
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than when they sat down to listen to what Dak
was saying. So he has really missed his calling. But
he's done playing for the Cowboys. He can become a
future White House press secretary. He's got that. That is future.
And he has mastered the quarnerback version of corporate speak.
He has done that. And the undisputed, undefeated, unchallenged heavyweight
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champion of the world at saying absolutely nothing in a
thirty second sound bite, Dakota Prescott, He's done it yet again.
He's the guy. He could be asked what time all right,
what time is it? And he would respond, well, time
is a construct, Dak would say. And we're just we're
just trying to make the most of the moments that
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we're given. We don't have that much of it. And
he's going on on, so it's not really that he's
dodging anything, because he's not that good at dodging sacks.
He's not dodging anything.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
He's he's just like waltzing around. You know, he's dancing.
He's got his.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Tuxedo on, he's dancing around, the cliches and all that stuff.
And yeah, we'd like a little more meat on the bone,
but we know we're not going to get that.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
And you're supposed to talk that way if you're the.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Quarterback and we like a little more spice or pepper.
There's not a lot of pepper there. It's just a
word salad and a side dish. Little basket of hot air,
little basket of hot air. All right, now, final point
to the atl we go, great airport, bad sports, Great airport,
bad sports. So the Falcons quarterback for now Kirk Cousins
(34:38):
slamming his own team.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Oh my god, did you see?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
This is all part of that Netflix show which is
out here, That quarterback thing that's out now, So Kirk
Cousins slamming the Falcons and claimed that he was missiled
his word, not my word, missile after they drafted Michael
Pennix Junior. And how does that sound to you? How
(35:05):
does that sound to you? So Cousins, for all the
flak that he gets, says he's a diminishing asset at
this particular point, he absolutely has a right to be
ticked off. Like, I don't know how you could argue
against that being dirty pool by the Falcons. I don't
know that I would use the word missile. I would
(35:25):
go stronger than that. I mean, this is the definition
of the blind side a franchise over the years. The
Falcons they cannot they couldn't spell the word stability at
the Atlanta Falcons. If you spotted in the first six
letters of the word, they'd still f it up. I mean,
they don't know what they're doing. And it does make
(35:45):
you wonder there's something going on in that water supply
in the state of Georgia there. Tommy in Atlanta might know. Listen,
he can't call because his evil boss won't let him
call anymore. But I met him a while back at
a mallor meet and greet there in the South, and
he's he listens every night to the show. He cannot
(36:06):
interact with us because he's a camera on him and
he's driving around his truck. The schmuck's over there. The
company oors were, but he knows right when it comes
to poor decision making and broken promises. The Atlanta and
Georgia's sports teams have mastered that. Now the Falcons, we'll
talk about them. So they signed Kirk Cousins and then
a couple months later drafted in the first round a quarterback.
(36:31):
Before Cousins had even played a game, they drafted a quarterback.
And so the Falcons were operating. If you go back
in the Hot Top time machine, they were operating like that.
There's some kind of bizarre like psyop thing, like a
roster confusion. And Cousins I so moving down to Atlanta,
(36:51):
he thought he was building a house, and the Falcons
are like, hey, Lisen, it's not a hot We're handing
you a sledgehammer, and we actually are doing demo. We
used to have a demo guy that would call the
show from Minnesota. We're handing you a slash jamer. We
want you to do some demo, that's it. And he
even said, like, if he had known that, he would
(37:12):
have stayed with the Vikings. He's like because they drafted
a quarterback, but he's like, I liked Minnesota, he liked
to like the people there, like the town, the whole thing,
and he just would have stayed in Minnesota rather than
go to Atlanta. So, yeah, the Falcons they did him dirty,
they did. So how does a front office though in
spin of they knew he had an injury, Like it
wasn't like a secret. They knew Cousins was hurt when
(37:33):
they signed him. But how do you go from we
believe in you, we are going to give you a
cartoon check for like one hundred and eighty million dogs?
How do you go from that to we're hedging our
bets like you're some kind of shady blackjack dealer guy
in Atlantic. Like it's very odd. It's very odd, and
(37:54):
it's mouthfeas it's I would say, and it's worked out,
then we don't know if it's worked out.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Neither of us know whether Michael Pennix Junior is good
or not.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Now you wow, Cousins is a good And the argument
is Cousins is done and maybe that will be true.
He will be playing for someone other than the Falcons though,
whether he gets traded now or training camp or early
in the season before the trade deadline, obviously, but that
is the kind of organizational dysfunction signing a quarterback then
(38:25):
drafting a quarterback. It's like the Cleveland Browns. It makes
them look like they know what they're doing, the Cleveland Browns.
And so that was totally a slap right across the
schnaz for Kirk Cousins. And you know, it was even
like more of like the atomic elbow to the schnaz
is what that was there. And so again the Falcons
(38:45):
they burned a hundred and was it one hundred and
eighty million I believe was the number an investment with
Kirk Cousins. And they treated him like a some kind
of scratch off ticket, that sir scratch off as in
Arkansas and just kind of hoping it pays.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
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Speaker 1 (39:14):
That gets Grail good.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
So the Chiefs requested an extension from the state of
Kansas on their offer to build a team a new
stadium if they move over to the Kansas side of
Kansas City, and they were granted that extension until June
of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 7 (39:27):
The team will have to.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
Decide if they want to play in a renovated Arrowhead
in Missouri or a new domed stadium in Kansas.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Which do you think they'll go with them? Well, I
don't understand what the hull of I thought Arrowhead was
cool because I it's nostalgia when I was a kid.
I went there last November. That was really great experience
because I grew up watching games at arrow at big games.
But Kansas is like literally down the street. The road,
one of the roads in Kansas City goes right through
Missouri and Kansas. So to me, it doesn't matter. But
(39:54):
I think they I think eventually they'll just build a
domeme in Kansas. I think that's where to go next.
Speaker 6 (39:58):
Patrick Mahomes made a recent podcast appearance where he said
that he thinks this is the deepest group of weapons
that he has had around him on the Chiefs Ben.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Do you think that's true. I feel like he says
this every other year. Mahomes, how about to be determined.
I'll see, I'll believe it when these guys get through
training camp not hurt.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
Next Raiders under Mark Davis was reflecting on his father
on what would have been his ninety sixth birthday. He said,
IL loved Vegas and would love seeing the Raiders where
they are now. You wanted to say that Vegas is
the sports and entertainment capital of the world.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Ben, Is he right? Well? Al would have loved the
fact that Vegas bent over and gave the Raiders everything
they wanted, but in terms of market size, it would
have been better if they stayed in La It's a
bigger marketing. So there it is, malardly third degree.
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Buzz with Lilrain, and tennin Clean Up Hearts Going to
help you.
Speaker 7 (41:02):
Dear Rye, dear Rye, to night, dear right tonight.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Dear r.
Speaker 8 (41:09):
You heard the man It's Tom for love here on
the Ben Mallor Show. And I know we had fourth
of July last week, and I really really hope got
all you men did not blow off your woman's favorite hand. Okay,
you got to keep the good hand. What's the good
hand which everyone to share better with?
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Okay? All right, I got you? All right? So we
have questions, Laurie. This is an actual the first snail
mail question we've gotten. This is from Dan and Dan
is a incarcerated listener. He is sent from the federal
prison in Pennsylvania. Finding love in prison is fine? Well
(41:48):
that was what was about. He says, how do you again?
Ben and Crewe hope all as well have a question
for Loraina's love advice Queen of Hearts segment. He says,
as you know, I'm incarcerated and lonely. I'll be out
in a couple of years. It says, I'm not that
good looking, but I have a good sense of humor
and I am good at sex, or so my cellmate
(42:08):
tells me. I'll just kidding, he says. He says, is
is my criminal history going to be a deal breaker
or a turn on to the ladies? That's from Dan.
Speaker 8 (42:18):
You know a lot of women actually like men who
have been in jail. It shows that you're tough and rough.
Maybe they like that you could defend them in a way, right, Yeah,
I know a.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Lot of women actually really like that.
Speaker 8 (42:30):
And if you have a good personality, you can always
get a girl.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Well Dan's from Chicago's the Illinois a Cubs fan, and
so yeah, Dan, I would lean into that. I would say, whatever,
whatever your strengths are in life, you gotta lean if
you're tall, leaning in the fact you're tall.
Speaker 8 (42:44):
And that they have an eating site for convicts too,
Oh yeah, you should.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
You should totally get on that. There aren't there women
that love dudes in jail. Yes, it's a thing. Who
knew that would be a turn on?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Something?
Speaker 8 (42:56):
Even like to get pregnant while you're in jail.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
Really, I don't know about that. Conjugal visits. Yeah, well
there you go. There you get hooked up right there?
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
JT the wee Man rights and he says, with sports
in the low Tide season, what is a good show
for me to binge with my special lady?
Speaker 8 (43:14):
Oh White Lotus was really fun for me and my
friend to binge watch this year.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
But it depends on what you guys like.
Speaker 7 (43:21):
If you like comedies, oh.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
God, to watch poop cruise. I watched that. I did
watch that.
Speaker 7 (43:27):
That was really good. Made me want to go on
a cruise.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Still really yeah, I had the opposite reaction.
Speaker 7 (43:34):
You're lying, I don't want to.
Speaker 8 (43:35):
Yeah, but they have so much bottomless food as long
as nothing catches on fire.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Yeah, well it's fine until the ship breaks down.
Speaker 8 (43:42):
And you know what, cruises are good for romance. And
they also have singles cruises that you can do where
you can go and find lovers. O. Yes, get that
bottomless drink package. Everyone will be having a good time.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Donkey Sawss rights and he says, what can I do
when my mate always steals the covers and the sheets
in our bed?
Speaker 8 (44:02):
Okay, you have a couple of different options here. You
can either sleep in your own bed. You could violently
kick them out of the bed.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
You can steal all the blankets back.
Speaker 8 (44:13):
Over and roll up like a burrito. Or you can
each have your own blankets on the bed. I know
a lot of couples that do that.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Yeah. No, I think the move here because I do.
I am involved with a woman who steals blankets, So
I think what you have to do is add an
extra blanket a side on the side of the bed,
and then when she steals the blankets, you pull out
the mystery blanket so she will have thought she stole
all the blankets, but you have an extra blanket on
the side that she doesn't know about. Ah, look at that,
yeah blanket. Eileen writes in says favorite show you've seen
(44:43):
at the Pantagious themeter. Have you been to the pantaso
you have?
Speaker 8 (44:46):
And it's always going to be hands down wicked wicked. Yeah,
I say that like four times now.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Shannon Moi writes in on Queen of Hearts hashtag Queen
of Hearts. If I'm an adult with a job and
I ask my customers how to do my job, am
I failing at work? Says Shanon the Moine. No, it
means you want to do a better job, right, I
think somebody?
Speaker 7 (45:04):
Do you want me to do my job?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (45:07):
All right?
Speaker 1 (45:07):
We a BPEP. We don't have time. He wanted to.
He was worried about the friend zone. But we're all
worried about the friends all is. Don't go in it,
try to avoid it at all. Stay away, stay away.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention
to everyone, and the password is password, you idiot, password
the word Game of the stars.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Here's Ben Meler. All right, let's do it. Let's play
password and this portion of the Ben Maler show me
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(45:53):
welcome in our concessus. We have Anie, Meenie, Miney, Moe.
Mark on the north end. Hello, Mark, welcome, good to
talk to you. Mark. Who do you want to partner
up with on password?
Speaker 2 (46:06):
Don't fix it?
Speaker 1 (46:08):
That's right, we're ready to win it. Mark, all right,
very good. And we have Mike the Leprechaun. Hello, Mike
the Leprechaun. Good morning. Let me play with her.
Speaker 5 (46:18):
And ye.
Speaker 7 (46:22):
I'm sick o.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
The rain is apparently sick. All right, you're right away
into terror.
Speaker 5 (46:28):
It's into terror.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
He's a terror. He gave me a bad score on
the MALAFLUSA, so that was bad, all right, And it's
not about you how dare you? Let's play the game.
You have another contestant play the game? No, Mark, pick
a number one to ten. Please, we're in this to
win it. Marc has passed number one, number one. All right,
(46:52):
let's go with that.
Speaker 7 (46:54):
How about.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Barber hair dresser.
Speaker 7 (47:02):
No, uh, let's go with Mike. You heard Ben's clue.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Leave me out of this. I didn't. Good, go ahead,
he said, Barbara. I didn't say that.
Speaker 7 (47:16):
He did.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
I didn't.
Speaker 7 (47:17):
That was that was Ben's clue.
Speaker 6 (47:18):
Mike, my clue for you is facence barber.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
Face f a ce face face. Okay, Razor. No, how
about Mark Trim, Yeah, there you go. All right, we're
on the boards. Get all right, and Michael eprek im
picking number two to ten? Please number two? Go ahead there?
Speaker 7 (47:50):
All right, Mike, let's go with gossip, got the scandal.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
No, let's go with tabloid. Yeah, all right, good, jump
by you. Mark. You are burying the little leprechaun. All right,
well he's the world's talles levery. We're back. All right. Well,
(48:18):
we're back at it. Three to three to ten? Please
Mark pick a number three, number three? All right, I
just do one, two and three? Uh, all right, let's
go with how about terrace, terrace.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Balcony?
Speaker 7 (48:40):
All right, Mike, let's try deck.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Yeah, the board, Well you're not all right, pick another number. Number.
We're out of time, actually number four.
Speaker 7 (48:52):
We have number four.
Speaker 3 (48:53):
All right, we don't.
Speaker 7 (48:54):
Let's go with uh, let's go with surf.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
Is this a malam militia backward?
Speaker 7 (49:01):
A little surf to surf?
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Is he gonna say something? You're gonna take so much time? No,
the word was wave. We win mark on the north end.
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