July 17, 2025 • 43 mins
Big Ben talks about what is happening behind closed doors with Aaron Judge/Shohei Ohtani defenders, Bradley Beal signing with the Los Angeles Clippers over the Lakers, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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So our lead this hour is from baseball.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
But then there was no game. I know that we're
doing the post mortem on the Great Escape, the great
jail break of the All Star Game. Now we know
what happened. We were here to document it. Kyle Schwarber
the fight, and Phil was the star. He was the
first ever MVP as far as a position player to
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not get a hit in the actual All Star Game
and be named MVP. But he won the swing off.
More on that in a minute. Game was a tie
until the swing off. Now, many nice things have been written,
many nice things have been said into microphones about the
Dinger party. You always have the end to the right.
You got the end of the yang, and in this
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case it would be the Komodo dragon in the room.
And the storyline continues to be the biggest stars of
baseball getting roasted for skipping town. Now, so what did
Major League Baseball do?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Did you see this?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Were you paying attention? You were not paying attention. It's
a bad job by you. So they circled the wagons,
is what they did. Now, you always have the jock sniffers,
the fanboys. They always support the athletes no matter what.
But then you had Aaron Judge, Shoe a Otani called out,
they pulled the Great Houdini Act, and Abra kadabra.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Vanished before the thing was even over.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
They couldn't even stand out in the field in their
street clothes because they were on planes, trains, and automobiles.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
They were out of there. Now, they were not alone.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
However, when you're the faces of baseball, you're the ones
getting roasted. And both Judge and Otani bailing out of Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Like it was sheboygan before the swing off.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
So baseball media elites had run around, they were doing
damage control, trying to downplay the situation. I saw a
lot of that in the baseball conversation.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Was not that big a deal.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
It doesn't murder, it's their vacation, it's the All Star break,
you know, give them a break.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
All that a right, A lot of.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Excuse making by the people in the baseball media, the elites.
So let us discuss the question what's really happening behind
closed doors? In the story the Fiasco with Aaron Judge
and shohel Tani among the defenders, what's happening behind closed doors?
So I've got fire hydrant, storybook circus, and Churchill downs,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make ballpark nachos in a helmet,
which you have to eat quick because if you don't
eat quick, it gets all saggy and the chips are chewy,
and nobody wants chewy chips.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Nobody wants that. So a what's going on behind.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Closed doors is that it is a terrible look for
the powers that be in baseball it's a bad look
for Aaron Judge and Shoeotani, and you are the brand
ambassadors of a multi billion dollar business. Judge has a
three hundred and fifty million dollar contract with the Bronx Bombers,
Otani seven hundred million, although most of it won't be
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paid till later because the People's Republic of California. But
with the Dodgers and Otani's the international man of mystery. Now,
while technically Baseball allowed this to happen, it was scheduled.
They had it all planned out. You don't just go
down to the airport and jump on a private plane.
The logistics of that, getting the crew and the pilot
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ready to go, you have to have it all planned out.
There are limits on when planes can take off at
certain airports and whatnot. So this was all planned out
way in advance. It was, as we said, scheduled. So
now the people at Baseball have deputized the useful, well
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not really useful, they're useless, useless idiots. The people in
baseball media that are in the tank for the league,
the media one percenters, and they've said, listen, boys, you've
been deputized. You have to clean up our mess. And
they said, okay, that's right, major League Baseball opening up
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the old fire hydrant.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And what did they do.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
They started pumping out propaganda rather than call out the players.
Rather than say, hey, fellas, maybe you should just hang.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Around to the end of the game just in case.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I'm just saying it's one night, major League Baseball rolled
out the loyal media lap dogs to run interference, queue
up the deep think piece about how it's actually noble
to leave the All Star Game early give other people
the opportunity. It's just an old fashioned disinformation campaign. It's
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all spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, all of it. So
it's the same playbook you get in politics, right, just
gaslight everybody into thinking this is okay, it's okay. Spoiler alert,
spoiler y, it's not.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
It's not. It's not major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
They want the stars to play, and for the most part,
they do play in the All Star Game unless you're
onon SODO and can't even make the All Star team.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
But then Baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Also wants the star players to They want to cater
everything so they can get their nice tropical vacation. Keep
in mind, if you're a baseball player, it's kind of
like a teacher, except you get paid a lot more money.
It's worked into the scared It's literally baked into the
schedule that you're going to get three or four months
off a year.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
So I don't know what you do.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Maybe you drive a truck, maybe you work in a factory.
I do talk radio. I don't get three months off
a year. I don't get four months off for you.
Do you do you know anyone that gets three or
four months off a year to enjoy a nice downtime.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Because I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I don't get it in this job. I mean, hell,
I take a day off. You people lose your freaking mind.
You know, you send me nasty letters and correspondence on
social media. So I get that baseball is trying to
thread a needle. But the players, I don't feel bad
for the players. They live the life of Riley. They
travel in luxury, they stay at luxury hotels, and they
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get three or four months off year. It does not
seem like hardship to me to ask them to stay
to the end of the home run derby. And so
Baseball's got one foot in, they got one foot out,
and they do the hokey pokey. So Aaron Judge and
Otani cannot be participating. They can't be participating, can't be
bothered to participate in the swing off or even stick around.
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But then baseball wants the fans to stick around because
it's very important for the fan to watch.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
The entire thing.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Get all that all right, now turn the page. I
thought this next one was kind of amusing. So there's
a bit of a debate. It hasn't gained a lot
of traction yet, but the question is will Major League
Baseball keep the swing off, meaning the name swing off.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Or are they going to change that name going forward.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Now, keep in mind there will be some pushback from
the players union because Aaron Judge and Otani are getting
ripped apart for leaving early. The union agreed to this format,
so now some of their players are getting ripped because
they left early, and so in the unions going, oh,
does this mean these guys have to stay to the
end of the All Star Game? So there'll be some
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some pushback on that. But as far as the name thing,
we bring this up because of a grassroots campaign on
the socials, the term swing off is now underseas. Now
I think it's kind of a lame name. Anyway, we
were going it's just a home run derby. But the
term swing off is what baseball used. Now, why is
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it under siege? Did you consume any of this? It
turns out the internet trolls, the keyboard commandos. Ah, yes,
you know who they are, digital degenerates, some.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Of them real, some of them not.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
They are now making a lot of jokes and not
just any kind of jokes about the swing off.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
What do you think they're tying into the swing off?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That's right, Diddy jokes, Sean Ditty Combs, right, the bad boy,
bad boy. What you're gonna do, What you're gonna do
when they come for you. So Sean Combs, who famously,
we learned thanks to the high profile trial, he did
get out of most of the charges, but not all
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of them. They called it. He called it a freak off. Right,
That's why I was buying all the baby oil and
all that stuff. That has become the punchline for the
swing off. It is a Diddy style freak off. And
so you've got a lot of people at baseball who
don't get out a lot, and they're very paranoid. They
live in the matrix and in the infinite wisdom of
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some people at Major League Baseball, and they just have
nothing but anxiety, nothing but anxiety about being memed into
some kind of oblivion and all that. So there's some
chatter they're going to change the name of the swing off,
They're going to rebrand it. Now, this is right out
of the storybook circus portion of Disneyland. That's where you'll
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find the Dumbo, right, Dumbo, the flying Elephant.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
So let me get this straight.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So Baseball and the people who are in the marketing
pr part of baseball are supposedly quivering.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
If what we're hearing is right.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
They're quivering because a few degenerates made a joke about
Diddy and his party habits and compared it to Major
League Baseball and a term they used, the swing off,
which is too close to the freak off.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
So okay, So I have some.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Advice, major League Baseball. Grow a spine, right, Take the
blue pill, not that blue pill. That's what did he took.
Take the other blue pill and unplug. Right, every time
you bend to the trolls, you hand.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Them the blueprint. You should not do that. Right. In fact,
when you.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Bow down to the trolls. What you do is you
allow them to redraw your lines. Right, that's not feedback.
That's sabotage, is what that is. And so the play
here is to ignore.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Them, right, just ignore them.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Now again, I think the name is rather stupid. But
you don't change it because it's that it's got a
connection to ditty. Okay, that's not why you change it, right,
you don't all of a sudden said, well, wait a minute,
those keyboard com are attacking us. We need to do no,
I mean, just you don't need to worry about that. Okay,
just unplug, turn off the Wi Fi. You're good, all right, now,
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last word, we now check the report card. That's right,
the report card. So the Major League Baseball All Star
Game drew an average of seven point two million men, women,
and children. That was on Fox, So it was actually down.
The ratings were down three percent from last year. However,
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the ratings continue side by side among all the other
All Star events. It is the most watched All Star
game within the boundaries of the industrial complex of North
American sport. So question, what do the ratings show you
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about Baseball's.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
All Star Game?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Like, what do they show you about Baseball's All Star Game.
So I'll go first, I'll go, and you can chime
in later. So they continue actually going in the wrong direction.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
They were down from last year, which I believe was
down from the year before, which was down from the.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Year before that.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The claim to fame, as we mentioned, is being head
and shoulders above the other sports Basketball, NFL and NHL,
and so that's what they're they're talking about. The Baseball
assures us that listen, we are the most watched all
Star event, and so this is a big deal. And
it's kind of like going down to Churchill Downs and
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bragging you are the tallest jockey or you are the
fattest jockey at Churchill Downs.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Right now, the NBA All Star Game is unwatchable.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Pooh, all right, the NFL Pro Bowl was so bad
they got rid of it. Now they play water balloon
toss and tic tac toe and that drew four point
seven I think they both drew about the same rating,
four point seven millions. So baseball, which is plausibly still
a game when the guys aren't running off to the airport. Uh,
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the the amount of people watching higher higher. So yes,
Major League Baseball, congratulations you win the All Star ratings race,
but it's really a win by default, is right. It
is like it's like a it's like saying I won
the beauty pageant, but nobody else showed up, Like everyone
else forgot it.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Was that day.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It was I was on a Saturday. They thought it
was on a Sunday. So I showed up on Saturday.
And since no nobody else showed up, I am the
beauty queen, right. Major League Baseball's All Star Game. It's
it's's something about it here where you know what it's.
It's on a giant Swan inflatable, one of those floaty things,
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you know, And in summer here you're in the pool
and you can buy from from Walmart those giant Swan inflatables,
and you just kind of laying there and you're having
a drink and you're never going anywhere, a really going
you kinda you're not treading water because you're you're in
the giant Swan inflatable, but you're not really doing much
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that pool. By the way, you used to be out
in the ocean. You were out in the ocean, but
now it's just a pool. Now it's just a pool.
This particular appointments. That's where they are, so you know,
that's the reality of the situation.
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We have some.
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Movement on the High Speed Sports Wire NBA player on
the Move sharpshooter Bradley Beal.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
We talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
It had been a rumor. Well it is now fact.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Bradley Beal and the Phoenix basketball team agreed to a
massive buyout the two years two years remaining on his
Contractveal giving back thirteen point nine million.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
He will still walk.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Away with about ninety six million dollars give or take
prior to taxes. So he's got a lot of dough
coming his way. But he gives up thirteen point nine
million that the Phoenix basketball team owed him, and that
allows the Suns financial flexibility, which of course is code
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for you. We think you blow and we want someone
else there on our roster. Now he's already found a
new employer. Bradley Beal has already found a new employer.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Did you see this? Maybe not?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Maybe you tuned out. Now we are told that Bradley
Beal who everybody wanted. For some reason, everybody wanted Bradley Beal,
and he has signed a two year, eleven million dollar
deal with the Clippers. Peez going to the Clippers that
includes a player option after he clears waivers. So let
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us discuss the question, does this Bradley Beal signing does
it move the needle for the Clippers. So I've got
Spanish Vegas, Lounge Act and Tropicana and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich of PB and
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J is what we're gonna make. So my first point here,
number why I said number wa Yeah, Femi loves when
we do that. So Bradley Beal is a Clipper? Does
that move the needle?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Was the question?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And listen, I'm gonna I'm not gonna talk in hyperbole.
It moves the needle absolutely about an inch. It moves
it about an inch the Clippers. Maybe you draw a
little bit of blood there, like the same thing applies, right.
There is enough talent there, there's a championship roster. Until
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Kawhi Leonard Strain's a nostril, then what happens. But we
are pragmatic on this one, Like I don't love the player.
He's got to prove that he's not just a stat
bandito and a guy that put up numbers in DC
on morbidly bad Washington teams. And he's got to prove
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he can actually put up some numbers on a good team.
He hasn't done it yet. Had a couple of opportunities
the Suns were supposed to be good.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
He didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
And I use the word pragmatic. I think that's the
proper word. Let's be clear, this is a low risk,
high reward move. If Bradley Beal is just half the
player he had been with the old Washington Bullets or Wizards. Uh,
that's fine.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
He's not the savior. I mean, he is a risk.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
He's made out of glass and he's like a glass cannon,
and you know he's got all kinds of issues going
into TSA right, sets off soft tissue alarms.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
And all that.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But Bradley Beal is owed more cash than the GDP
of many small island nations out there. It's insane, ninety
plus million dollars. But that's the Sun's problem. That ain't
my problem, it's not your problem. And for the Clippers,
he chose the Clippers, right. Bradley Beal had options. You
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believe the chatter there were double digit playoff worthy teams
that all flirted played foot see with Bradley Beal, double
digit teams and he picked in the and he picked
the people's team.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
And so let that marinate.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I know Rick Oh is having a tough time dealing
with and there's a lot of other people that are.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I don't understand why would anyone would pick the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
But Bradley Beal saw something and with Steve Balmers essentially
running a rehab clinic or down trodden basketball players, and
sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't, but they've had a
whole host the players come through. Ben Simmons was on
the team at the end of last year. Russell west
Brick was there. And the difference here, and maybe it's
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pure delusion and all that, but Balmer has so much
money he was able to use a laser printer and
chat GPT and quietly bring back the famous Spanish explorer
Ponstelyon as the trainer. So if anyone can unlock Bradley Beal,
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it is Ponstelllyone, the new lead trainer of the Clippers,
and Bial he's still trying to find that fountain of youth.
He's not that old, but his body looks old and
all that stuff. And so the Clippers have this really
good cryo chamber, I'm sure. And it's just another former
All star mercenary who goes to the Clippers. Now, page two,
let's get into the nitty gritty here. What do you say,
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why did Bradley Beal reject the Lakers? Lakers they were
all horny to get Bradley Beal over there in Lakerland
and he said no. He joined the Clips. So why
would you go to the people's team when Lebron is
out to get you. So this is more direct evidence
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that the Lakers, who people at one time described as
the jewel of basketball royalty. That's why they wear purple Erican.
So the Lakers, but they are a team right now
of not a lot of status. Right, players mostly politely decline. Right.
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It's like when you're kind of weird, uncle invites you
to dinner and I don't really want to see my uncle.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I'm not going to go to dinner with my uncle. Like,
guy's a loser.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Bradley Beal had again ten twelve playoff teams that were
texting him and calling him, and then the dust settles
and he picked Kawhi Leonard and the Beard James Harden.
He took the clips. Now, meanwhile, Acrosstown at the Church
of Lebron, like the Church of Lebron, the pews are
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getting pretty empty over there. In terms of the new
players added, the Lakers are now the equivalent of that
fading Vegas lounge act.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know, It's funny when I'm driving around on the
weekends with the wife and we drive by the Indian
casinos and we see the bands that are performing and
the comedians.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I always say, well, you're.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
At that point in your career where you're now doing
you're doing the casinos circuit at the Indian casinos. You've
now reached that point, right, It's like a Vegas residency.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
In this case, it's more like a Vegas.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Lounge act where you're running out of encores and all
that and oxygen and just a bad Vegas lounge act.
But even the Hookah Luca, even his fat ass, can't
save the Lakers on this one.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Luka Doncik could not close the deal with Lebron all right.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Bradley Beal rejected Luke, and Lebron didn't even hesitate. He
could have taken the exit right there at Figure Row,
gotten down to skid Row where the Lakers play, waring
that purple and gold and rubbed elbows with Lebron and
Luca every night. He didn't do it. Why did he
do it? Well, the Lakers aren't cool, they don't matter.
They're mostly a hospice for fading fading stars and all.
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That's like a retirement villa, nice retirement villa and all
the Lakers they're kind of becoming like the Knicks. I
haven't won a championship since Kobe. They are all about
the marketing and that's about it.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Good marketing.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I'll give him credit on that. They talk to talk,
they don't walk the walk. And Bradley Beal, he was
at a fork in the road. At a fork in
the road, which direction am I going to go? Bradley
Beal saw the future and he had two la options
and he said, I want to go in the hood
in Inglewood where the Clippers play, and I don't want
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to go to skid Row, And so he chose the top,
the team that has a pulse. Now, a lot of
things have to go right for the Clippers to win
the championship, but for any team to win the championship,
a lot of things have to go right.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I believe in the multiverse, the Mallard multiverse, and in
the Mallard multiverse, there is a dimension where Kawhi Leonard
stays healthy and James Harden doesn't take two games off
in the playoffs, and Bradley Beal turns out to be
the player that he had been in Washington and can.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Do it on a good team.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
And all of a sudden, you got the ras Mataz right,
you got the Razzle Dazzle now final point. So we
turn the page now to gambling. Now, as you know,
I enjoyed, I enjoy gambling. I'm not a degenerate. I
enjoy gamb as the FEDS continue to poke and prod
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at this particular point with the prop bet shenanigans going on. Now,
this is a baseball story. It's a basketball stories. It
affects pretty much everything, everything in professional sports and in
college sports.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
But we're going to talk about the basketball part of it.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Because Commissioner Adam Silver, the half man, half alien. What
planet does the lizard person Adam Silver come from? So
Adam Silver broke his silence about the NBA and the
betting scandal, saying that the league is not not shutting
down gambling. They're not getting out of the gambling business
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because they have a few bad actors, is essentially what
he implied. So where is your brain wave on this one,
Adam Silver? Who did address the issue, And it's like, well,
that's pretty much said, just a couple of bad actors.
So I turned to the Mallor Rosetta Stone for guidance.
The Mallow Rosetta Stone never wrong, and it translated what
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Adam Silver said. It said, yes, we know, gambling is
somewhat compromising the underbelly of our business, the credibility of
our sport, and for some eroding the trust of a
percentage of fans, and those are our customers. And it
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may even be influencing many more bets.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Than we would like to admit.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
However, as they say at Tropicana, the juice, my.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Friends, is worth the squeeze. And here's why.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Because the gambling money is a pot of gold, and
the house always wins. The house does not lose. Right now,
you say, well, sometimes the house loses, but in the
end they always win.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
And if you're just getting money.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
From gambling and you're not the ones either taking the
money you're putting the bets down, you always So let's
be very clear. The NBA isn't just tolerating gambling. It's
now intertwined in the business of basketball. Gambling companies sponsor
the broadcast and I don't have an issue with it.
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But it's just the way it is. It's not going away.
They don't ad space on the court and some of
these gymnasiums they even have official partnerships with the league. Now,
the referees, they don't have any gambling logos on the shirts.
I know Tim Donnie, he probably wishes he did have one,
but you know it, just don't worry about that, right,
I'm sure the algorithm is somehow working on that. And
(30:18):
by the way, the implication that it's just a few
bad actors, that is a phrase that you always use
when you're in the soup.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
You always use it.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Remember I mentioned Tim Donnie, when Tim Donnie he was
involved in that. I think it was not just a
few bad actors. I think it was a lone wolf.
That was the one they used, the lone wolf. But
we hear that phrase a few bad actors in Wall Street, politics, big.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Pharma, all of those things.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
And it's never they never say it's systemic. They never
want to say it's systemic. It's never the structure of
the foundation. It's just some cosmetic thing. It's just a
rogue ref over here. It's a crooked coach over there.
It's some player that you had some kind of weird
thing on his phone. He's got a got a code
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and he started a gambling account. It's never ever the leagues, Faull,
have you noticed that? Have you noticed it's never leaves
the sports leagues. They love to brag about how they
monitor these these gambling places, and they do.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
There's a lot of checks and balances.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
And the main reason there's a lot of checking balances
is not because of the leagues. It's because the people
that run the gambling houses have skin in the game,
right they. As I've been told, I got some friends
that have listened to the show who are in that
business in the gambling world, work at sports books and whatnot.
They've told me kind of how it works and what
they look for and what things set off alarm bells.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
And of course now everything's it's a lot easier.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Now with AI and monitoring things and Big Brother watching
and everything being done on the phones and all that.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
But as I understand it, you know, what do I know?
But as I.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Understand it, the main reason these guys get caught is because.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Of two things.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Loose lips and they can't control themselves if they stop chatting.
Because these guys they love to brag. Gamblers love the brag.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
We need more.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
If you're an introvert, you don't brag, right, you just
kind of keep to yourself.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
It's extroverts who are like.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Hey, I got this guy in the Cleveland Guardians and
he's in the tank, all right, So they love the
brag about how I got this guy he's gonna throw
a ball on a prop bet and then we're gonna
win the prop bet. Or I got this basketball player
for the Miami Heat and he's gonna miss this many
shots and.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
All that stuff, So they love the brat. That's the
first problem.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
The second problem is they simply bet too much, and
because they try to get the quick.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Score right, they want that quick score.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
If you just bet a nominal amount, it does not
raise red flax.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Like there was a guy, the.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Most famous example recently, this Gibebroni on that he was
on Toronto Raptors. Right, so he's playing for the Toronto
Raptors and he ends up getting caught. But the main
reason he got caught he talked about it. Right, the
loose lips sent gambling ships. The other problem was people
were betting ridiculous amounts of money because he was telling
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people and they were telling other people. They were betting
massive amounts of money. Like it's an obvious reflect You
don't need AI, you don't need some kind of supercomputer
to know if some nobody on the Toronto Raptors is
getting more action than Lebron James on a prop. Chances
are there's some funny business going on. I'm just saying, right,
(33:41):
And so that's the thing. These guys are always looking
for the big payday. But there is a world where
you don't tell anybody and you kind of keep it
on the down low, and you bet a nomenal amount
and you win every single time that person takes the court.
You don't win a lot, but you win a little
and it adds up. It's study gains. But these losers, they.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Won't even do that.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
They have to go for the big score, and that's
how they end up getting caught, and they will continue
to get caught because of human nature and they people
can't help themselves. They want that big payday. They want
We all try to find a.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Short cut in anything.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
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Speaker 6 (34:32):
So it seems that Randy Moss is making the rounds
this time. In a radio interview, Moss was asked where
he'd rank Tyreek Hill in the pantheon of receivers, Moss said,
he's nowhere all time, but top five in today's game.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Ben, is that harsh? No, that's reality. Listen, that's the
way it is.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
I mean, it has been amazing wide receivers in NFL history,
and Tyreek Hill's a good player in this generation. He's
got some really solid numbers and all that, but he's
not as good as Isaac Bruce or mar Arvan Harrison
or I mean there's a bunch of them from the
old school days, Calvin Johnson, Chris Carter, I can go
on and on, Tim Brown, Larry Fitzgerald, and Jerry Rice
(35:09):
the greatest of all time too, not close next.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Auburn coach ch You Freeze said at SEC Media Day on
Tuesday that he truly believes that Auburn will be in
the mix for the College football playoff. Ben, Auburn has
an eleven and fourteen record in two years under Freeze.
How long of a leashed do you think he has?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Well, Auburn has very passionate boosters and they have a
lot of money and if Nick Saban wants to come back,
not that he would go to Auburn, right, he would
never go to Auburn. But no, he's not long and
I like you Freeze. I think he knows what he's doing.
But you know they're not a contender. And I don't
buy it. You got to show me something and they
haven't shown me anything in the last couple years.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
Next, Victor wembin Yama said over the weekend that it
is is his dream to spend his entire career with
the San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
Do you think Wemby seems like the one team your
whole career type?
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Oh? I don't.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
That's that's Wemby, the Parisian prodigy speaking at the age
of twenty one. Let's see what Wemby says when he's
twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, he'll be singing a
different song. Now, there have been guys that have stayed
in San Antonio.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
I don't. I would bet against it. In the modern game,
How did we do? You passed?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (36:21):
I won't another one.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Put her on the bard purg Dolf put her on
the forward Furgate.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Puur on.
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Speaker 1 (36:40):
It's now time for time for Honry. Henry Hurry, ask
bad Twitter said.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Us your questions on Twitter now.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
And way we go.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Time now for ask Man.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour,
and now over to Kooper Loop for the reading of
the questions those that have submitted questions using the hashtag
ask Ben.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
All right, we are going to start off with a
question from ferm dog Hi Ferg. He wants to know
did you eat a hot dog on National hot Dog Day?
Speaker 4 (37:19):
He did you know? And I did not. I did
not know it was National hot Dog Day.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
I did eat a hot dog the other day, though
we do have some dogs.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
I got him.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
There's a kind of a costco that I get. We
always have him in the house. And yeah, I did
have one this week. I don't normally eat hot dogs
rare and appropriate. It was actually during the All Star Game.
I had a hot dog during the All Star Game,
so this week I had one, but not on the day.
And Lorena, I think you did the hot dog Tour,
is that correct? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (37:47):
I was hoping to get more hot dogs down than
I did. But I went to two different places today.
I had one chili cheese dog from the Wiener Schnitzer
and I had I don't know what kind of dog
from the doghouse, but that was amazing. That was an
you dog.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
In many ways, you are the glazzy gobbler. Yeah, that's
what you are today.
Speaker 7 (38:06):
Indeed, all right.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Cooper Loop, did you gorge on any on any hot dogs?
Speaker 4 (38:13):
If I could talk, that would help, But I did not.
I did not. All right, when's the last time you
ate a hot dog?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
It's a good Fourth of July was just not a
few days, you know, No, it was.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
It was actually when I was at the World Series
of Poker in Vegas, they were selling twelve dollars hot dogs.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Twelve dollars hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Oh my god, yep, I'd rather fast.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
All right, what's next? What do we have here?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
JT the Wingman, Hi je I met him. This guy's
been to like almost all the Mallard meat greets we've
done other than Vancouver.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
He wants to know what is a better summer drink,
lemonade or Sweet Slash iced tea.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Yeah, I'm team lemonade.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
I don't mind in Arnold Palmer, which is where you
combine both, obviously, but I go lemonade. A nice lemonade
with the proper trueger ratio with everything is the way
to go. It's one of my favorite drinks. And really
like when I'm out, like I I'll if I if
I Usually I just drink water, but if I'm gonna
cheat a little bit, I'll have lemonade.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
What about you, Reina?
Speaker 7 (39:13):
Oh yeah, lemonade all day. I like it, a little
bit on the tart side to the fresh.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Sure the better, more sugar coop.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
Absolutely lemonade.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Take that all you people believease trash iced team.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
And the only iced tee I like is the musician.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
He's old.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
Next all right, donkey sausage, Hi, donkey. You would like
to know how often do you change the sheets on
your bed?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Well, I'm married, so every week we change the sheets.
If I was single, maybe once a month, you know,
back when I was single, Florina, Well.
Speaker 7 (39:51):
I have sheets under my sheets under my two comforters,
so I mostly just wash my upper comforters and never
touch my sheets. I don't go out low. I even
just use a throw blanket.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
You do the top layer you wash?
Speaker 7 (40:05):
Yeah, like I washed my comfort and then I use
a throw blanket on.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
What about the could you sleep on a sofa or something?
Speaker 7 (40:11):
No, I just have a lot of layers of blankets.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Are you living in Alaska and flying down for the
show or.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
What is I don't know from Siberia. You live in
l A. There's no al right?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Cool? Uh?
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Not as often as probably should. Uh, that's I'd probably
say it's it's probably around, you know, once every few
three to four weeks.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Okay, yeah, I usually once a week. Well wash, I
actually wash Moxie.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
My my dog Maxia.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
She lays on a on a blanket we put on
the sofa, so we have to wash that a lot more.
Speaker 6 (40:52):
Yeh.
Speaker 7 (40:53):
See it's different if you have animals too.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
Yeah, yeah, it's a problem. Uh.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
The king rory hy rory. He would to know which
is better liquid soap or bar soap?
Speaker 1 (41:05):
What's the context like in the shower you're talking about
like washing your hands? Like? He doesn't he doesn't say,
he did not specify. I'm team liquid. I'm team liquid.
And if you if you share a bathroom with somebody
the bar soap, you know, do you really want to
share bar soap with someone else.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (41:24):
You never know where they put the bar.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Exactly, and they may play hide and seek with the bar.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
You don't want that. So I'm team Liquid. I love
the Liquid Loraina.
Speaker 7 (41:33):
Same but for different reasons. I feel like the bar
soap makes me stiff, like it really like, my skin
gets all hard and I can't move it, the same
as if I use like a moisturizing Well, aren't.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
You supposed to rub some on your arm or whatever
and then take rub a lot on one part of
your arm and then from there move.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
It around your body. Isn't that usually how it works? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (41:51):
But with the bar soap, as soon as you rinse
it off, your skin's all like it's like almost like
the rubbery.
Speaker 7 (41:57):
Yeah, it's sweet.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Yeah, So no iris for you. It's ask Ben Koopa.
You're so your team like, yes, what is next? To
ask Ben? Your questions are answers for the rest of
the hour.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
There sheree blows, we say, what's next?
Speaker 6 (42:12):
Well, so out the alien o piner hi Alf.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
I've never met him. I got to meet him.
Speaker 6 (42:17):
He's asking this and I need to address the question.
He says, are you all in for Uno being introduced
to casino gambling in Vegas. Now, yeah, this story went around.
It's not bogus.
Speaker 7 (42:32):
Kind of bogus.
Speaker 6 (42:33):
Well, it's they're bringing it to one like the Palms casino,
and it's like an UNO social club. You're not like
there's not actual Uno on the casino floor and all
the you know casinos.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Oh okay, and we'll move on. Can they put scrabble
in there? I think i'd win somebody at scrabble?
Speaker 4 (42:51):
Can you do that?
Speaker 1 (42:52):
No?
Speaker 6 (42:54):
I never know, could happen?
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Yeah, I did lose though. I've lost a couple of games.
I've lost my bad you touch it scrabble, which is
very upsetting. Are they're just ask man? There we go,
thank you, good job by you.
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Speaker 4 (02:16):
So our lead this hour is from baseball.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
But then there was no game. I know that we're
doing the post mortem on the Great Escape, the great
jail break of the All Star Game. Now we know
what happened. We were here to document it. Kyle Schwarber
the fight, and Phil was the star. He was the
first ever MVP as far as a position player to
(02:40):
not get a hit in the actual All Star Game
and be named MVP. But he won the swing off.
More on that in a minute. Game was a tie
until the swing off. Now, many nice things have been written,
many nice things have been said into microphones about the
Dinger party. You always have the end to the right.
You got the end of the yang, and in this
(03:02):
case it would be the Komodo dragon in the room.
And the storyline continues to be the biggest stars of
baseball getting roasted for skipping town. Now, so what did
Major League Baseball do?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Did you see this?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Were you paying attention? You were not paying attention. It's
a bad job by you. So they circled the wagons,
is what they did. Now, you always have the jock sniffers,
the fanboys. They always support the athletes no matter what.
But then you had Aaron Judge, Shoe a Otani called out,
they pulled the Great Houdini Act, and Abra kadabra.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Vanished before the thing was even over.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
They couldn't even stand out in the field in their
street clothes because they were on planes, trains, and automobiles.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
They were out of there. Now, they were not alone.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
However, when you're the faces of baseball, you're the ones
getting roasted. And both Judge and Otani bailing out of Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Like it was sheboygan before the swing off.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
So baseball media elites had run around, they were doing
damage control, trying to downplay the situation. I saw a
lot of that in the baseball conversation.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Was not that big a deal.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
It doesn't murder, it's their vacation, it's the All Star break,
you know, give them a break.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
All that a right, A lot of.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Excuse making by the people in the baseball media, the elites.
So let us discuss the question what's really happening behind
closed doors? In the story the Fiasco with Aaron Judge
and shohel Tani among the defenders, what's happening behind closed doors?
So I've got fire hydrant, storybook circus, and Churchill downs,
(04:50):
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make ballpark nachos in a helmet,
which you have to eat quick because if you don't
eat quick, it gets all saggy and the chips are chewy,
and nobody wants chewy chips.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Nobody wants that. So a what's going on behind.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Closed doors is that it is a terrible look for
the powers that be in baseball it's a bad look
for Aaron Judge and Shoeotani, and you are the brand
ambassadors of a multi billion dollar business. Judge has a
three hundred and fifty million dollar contract with the Bronx Bombers,
Otani seven hundred million, although most of it won't be
(05:29):
paid till later because the People's Republic of California. But
with the Dodgers and Otani's the international man of mystery. Now,
while technically Baseball allowed this to happen, it was scheduled.
They had it all planned out. You don't just go
down to the airport and jump on a private plane.
The logistics of that, getting the crew and the pilot
(05:50):
ready to go, you have to have it all planned out.
There are limits on when planes can take off at
certain airports and whatnot. So this was all planned out
way in advance. It was, as we said, scheduled. So
now the people at Baseball have deputized the useful, well
(06:10):
not really useful, they're useless, useless idiots. The people in
baseball media that are in the tank for the league,
the media one percenters, and they've said, listen, boys, you've
been deputized. You have to clean up our mess. And
they said, okay, that's right, major League Baseball opening up
(06:32):
the old fire hydrant.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And what did they do.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
They started pumping out propaganda rather than call out the players.
Rather than say, hey, fellas, maybe you should just hang.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Around to the end of the game just in case.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I'm just saying it's one night, major League Baseball rolled
out the loyal media lap dogs to run interference, queue
up the deep think piece about how it's actually noble
to leave the All Star Game early give other people
the opportunity. It's just an old fashioned disinformation campaign. It's
(07:06):
all spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, all of it. So
it's the same playbook you get in politics, right, just
gaslight everybody into thinking this is okay, it's okay. Spoiler alert,
spoiler y, it's not.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
It's not. It's not major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
They want the stars to play, and for the most part,
they do play in the All Star Game unless you're
onon SODO and can't even make the All Star team.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
But then Baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Also wants the star players to They want to cater
everything so they can get their nice tropical vacation. Keep
in mind, if you're a baseball player, it's kind of
like a teacher, except you get paid a lot more money.
It's worked into the scared It's literally baked into the
schedule that you're going to get three or four months
off a year.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
So I don't know what you do.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Maybe you drive a truck, maybe you work in a factory.
I do talk radio. I don't get three months off
a year. I don't get four months off for you.
Do you do you know anyone that gets three or
four months off a year to enjoy a nice downtime.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Because I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I don't get it in this job. I mean, hell,
I take a day off. You people lose your freaking mind.
You know, you send me nasty letters and correspondence on
social media. So I get that baseball is trying to
thread a needle. But the players, I don't feel bad
for the players. They live the life of Riley. They
travel in luxury, they stay at luxury hotels, and they
(08:31):
get three or four months off year. It does not
seem like hardship to me to ask them to stay
to the end of the home run derby. And so
Baseball's got one foot in, they got one foot out,
and they do the hokey pokey. So Aaron Judge and
Otani cannot be participating. They can't be participating, can't be
bothered to participate in the swing off or even stick around.
(08:53):
But then baseball wants the fans to stick around because
it's very important for the fan to watch.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
The entire thing.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Get all that all right, now turn the page. I
thought this next one was kind of amusing. So there's
a bit of a debate. It hasn't gained a lot
of traction yet, but the question is will Major League
Baseball keep the swing off, meaning the name swing off.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Or are they going to change that name going forward.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Now, keep in mind there will be some pushback from
the players union because Aaron Judge and Otani are getting
ripped apart for leaving early. The union agreed to this format,
so now some of their players are getting ripped because
they left early, and so in the unions going, oh,
does this mean these guys have to stay to the
end of the All Star Game? So there'll be some
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some pushback on that. But as far as the name thing,
we bring this up because of a grassroots campaign on
the socials, the term swing off is now underseas. Now
I think it's kind of a lame name. Anyway, we
were going it's just a home run derby. But the
term swing off is what baseball used. Now, why is
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it under siege? Did you consume any of this? It
turns out the internet trolls, the keyboard commandos. Ah, yes,
you know who they are, digital degenerates, some.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Of them real, some of them not.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
They are now making a lot of jokes and not
just any kind of jokes about the swing off.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
What do you think they're tying into the swing off?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That's right, Diddy jokes, Sean Ditty Combs, right, the bad boy,
bad boy. What you're gonna do, What you're gonna do
when they come for you. So Sean Combs, who famously,
we learned thanks to the high profile trial, he did
get out of most of the charges, but not all
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of them. They called it. He called it a freak off. Right,
That's why I was buying all the baby oil and
all that stuff. That has become the punchline for the
swing off. It is a Diddy style freak off. And
so you've got a lot of people at baseball who
don't get out a lot, and they're very paranoid. They
live in the matrix and in the infinite wisdom of
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some people at Major League Baseball, and they just have
nothing but anxiety, nothing but anxiety about being memed into
some kind of oblivion and all that. So there's some
chatter they're going to change the name of the swing off,
They're going to rebrand it. Now, this is right out
of the storybook circus portion of Disneyland. That's where you'll
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find the Dumbo, right, Dumbo, the flying Elephant.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
So let me get this straight.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So Baseball and the people who are in the marketing
pr part of baseball are supposedly quivering.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
If what we're hearing is right.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
They're quivering because a few degenerates made a joke about
Diddy and his party habits and compared it to Major
League Baseball and a term they used, the swing off,
which is too close to the freak off.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
So okay, So I have some.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Advice, major League Baseball. Grow a spine, right, Take the
blue pill, not that blue pill. That's what did he took.
Take the other blue pill and unplug. Right, every time
you bend to the trolls, you hand.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Them the blueprint. You should not do that. Right. In fact,
when you.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Bow down to the trolls. What you do is you
allow them to redraw your lines. Right, that's not feedback.
That's sabotage, is what that is. And so the play
here is to ignore.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Them, right, just ignore them.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Now again, I think the name is rather stupid. But
you don't change it because it's that it's got a
connection to ditty. Okay, that's not why you change it, right,
you don't all of a sudden said, well, wait a minute,
those keyboard com are attacking us. We need to do no,
I mean, just you don't need to worry about that. Okay,
just unplug, turn off the Wi Fi. You're good, all right, now,
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last word, we now check the report card. That's right,
the report card. So the Major League Baseball All Star
Game drew an average of seven point two million men, women,
and children. That was on Fox, So it was actually down.
The ratings were down three percent from last year. However,
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the ratings continue side by side among all the other
All Star events. It is the most watched All Star
game within the boundaries of the industrial complex of North
American sport. So question, what do the ratings show you
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about Baseball's.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
All Star Game?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Like, what do they show you about Baseball's All Star Game.
So I'll go first, I'll go, and you can chime
in later. So they continue actually going in the wrong direction.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
They were down from last year, which I believe was
down from the year before, which was down from the.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Year before that.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The claim to fame, as we mentioned, is being head
and shoulders above the other sports Basketball, NFL and NHL,
and so that's what they're they're talking about. The Baseball
assures us that listen, we are the most watched all
Star event, and so this is a big deal. And
it's kind of like going down to Churchill Downs and
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bragging you are the tallest jockey or you are the
fattest jockey at Churchill Downs.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Right now, the NBA All Star Game is unwatchable.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Pooh, all right, the NFL Pro Bowl was so bad
they got rid of it. Now they play water balloon
toss and tic tac toe and that drew four point
seven I think they both drew about the same rating,
four point seven millions. So baseball, which is plausibly still
a game when the guys aren't running off to the airport. Uh,
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the the amount of people watching higher higher. So yes,
Major League Baseball, congratulations you win the All Star ratings race,
but it's really a win by default, is right. It
is like it's like a it's like saying I won
the beauty pageant, but nobody else showed up, Like everyone
else forgot it.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Was that day.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It was I was on a Saturday. They thought it
was on a Sunday. So I showed up on Saturday.
And since no nobody else showed up, I am the
beauty queen, right. Major League Baseball's All Star Game. It's
it's's something about it here where you know what it's.
It's on a giant Swan inflatable, one of those floaty things,
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you know, And in summer here you're in the pool
and you can buy from from Walmart those giant Swan inflatables,
and you just kind of laying there and you're having
a drink and you're never going anywhere, a really going
you kinda you're not treading water because you're you're in
the giant Swan inflatable, but you're not really doing much
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that pool. By the way, you used to be out
in the ocean. You were out in the ocean, but
now it's just a pool. Now it's just a pool.
This particular appointments. That's where they are, so you know,
that's the reality of the situation.
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Movement on the High Speed Sports Wire NBA player on
the Move sharpshooter Bradley Beal.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
We talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
It had been a rumor. Well it is now fact.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Bradley Beal and the Phoenix basketball team agreed to a
massive buyout the two years two years remaining on his
Contractveal giving back thirteen point nine million.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
He will still walk.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Away with about ninety six million dollars give or take
prior to taxes. So he's got a lot of dough
coming his way. But he gives up thirteen point nine
million that the Phoenix basketball team owed him, and that
allows the Suns financial flexibility, which of course is code
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for you. We think you blow and we want someone
else there on our roster. Now he's already found a
new employer. Bradley Beal has already found a new employer.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Did you see this? Maybe not?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Maybe you tuned out. Now we are told that Bradley
Beal who everybody wanted. For some reason, everybody wanted Bradley Beal,
and he has signed a two year, eleven million dollar
deal with the Clippers. Peez going to the Clippers that
includes a player option after he clears waivers. So let
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us discuss the question, does this Bradley Beal signing does
it move the needle for the Clippers. So I've got
Spanish Vegas, Lounge Act and Tropicana and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich of PB and
(20:21):
J is what we're gonna make. So my first point here,
number why I said number wa Yeah, Femi loves when
we do that. So Bradley Beal is a Clipper? Does
that move the needle?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Was the question?
Speaker 1 (20:39):
And listen, I'm gonna I'm not gonna talk in hyperbole.
It moves the needle absolutely about an inch. It moves
it about an inch the Clippers. Maybe you draw a
little bit of blood there, like the same thing applies, right.
There is enough talent there, there's a championship roster. Until
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Kawhi Leonard Strain's a nostril, then what happens. But we
are pragmatic on this one, Like I don't love the player.
He's got to prove that he's not just a stat
bandito and a guy that put up numbers in DC
on morbidly bad Washington teams. And he's got to prove
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he can actually put up some numbers on a good team.
He hasn't done it yet. Had a couple of opportunities
the Suns were supposed to be good.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
He didn't do it.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
And I use the word pragmatic. I think that's the
proper word. Let's be clear, this is a low risk,
high reward move. If Bradley Beal is just half the
player he had been with the old Washington Bullets or Wizards. Uh,
that's fine.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
He's not the savior. I mean, he is a risk.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
He's made out of glass and he's like a glass cannon,
and you know he's got all kinds of issues going
into TSA right, sets off soft tissue alarms.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
And all that.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But Bradley Beal is owed more cash than the GDP
of many small island nations out there. It's insane, ninety
plus million dollars. But that's the Sun's problem. That ain't
my problem, it's not your problem. And for the Clippers,
he chose the Clippers, right. Bradley Beal had options. You
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believe the chatter there were double digit playoff worthy teams
that all flirted played foot see with Bradley Beal, double
digit teams and he picked in the and he picked
the people's team.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
And so let that marinate.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I know Rick Oh is having a tough time dealing
with and there's a lot of other people that are.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I don't understand why would anyone would pick the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
But Bradley Beal saw something and with Steve Balmers essentially
running a rehab clinic or down trodden basketball players, and
sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't, but they've had a
whole host the players come through. Ben Simmons was on
the team at the end of last year. Russell west
Brick was there. And the difference here, and maybe it's
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pure delusion and all that, but Balmer has so much
money he was able to use a laser printer and
chat GPT and quietly bring back the famous Spanish explorer
Ponstelyon as the trainer. So if anyone can unlock Bradley Beal,
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it is Ponstelllyone, the new lead trainer of the Clippers,
and Bial he's still trying to find that fountain of youth.
He's not that old, but his body looks old and
all that stuff. And so the Clippers have this really
good cryo chamber, I'm sure. And it's just another former
All star mercenary who goes to the Clippers. Now, page two,
let's get into the nitty gritty here. What do you say,
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why did Bradley Beal reject the Lakers? Lakers they were
all horny to get Bradley Beal over there in Lakerland
and he said no. He joined the Clips. So why
would you go to the people's team when Lebron is
out to get you. So this is more direct evidence
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that the Lakers, who people at one time described as
the jewel of basketball royalty. That's why they wear purple Erican.
So the Lakers, but they are a team right now
of not a lot of status. Right, players mostly politely decline. Right.
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It's like when you're kind of weird, uncle invites you
to dinner and I don't really want to see my uncle.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I'm not going to go to dinner with my uncle. Like,
guy's a loser.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Bradley Beal had again ten twelve playoff teams that were
texting him and calling him, and then the dust settles
and he picked Kawhi Leonard and the Beard James Harden.
He took the clips. Now, meanwhile, Acrosstown at the Church
of Lebron, like the Church of Lebron, the pews are
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getting pretty empty over there. In terms of the new
players added, the Lakers are now the equivalent of that
fading Vegas lounge act.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know, It's funny when I'm driving around on the
weekends with the wife and we drive by the Indian
casinos and we see the bands that are performing and
the comedians.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I always say, well, you're.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
At that point in your career where you're now doing
you're doing the casinos circuit at the Indian casinos. You've
now reached that point, right, It's like a Vegas residency.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
In this case, it's more like a Vegas.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Lounge act where you're running out of encores and all
that and oxygen and just a bad Vegas lounge act.
But even the Hookah Luca, even his fat ass, can't
save the Lakers on this one.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Luka Doncik could not close the deal with Lebron all right.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Bradley Beal rejected Luke, and Lebron didn't even hesitate. He
could have taken the exit right there at Figure Row,
gotten down to skid Row where the Lakers play, waring
that purple and gold and rubbed elbows with Lebron and
Luca every night. He didn't do it. Why did he
do it? Well, the Lakers aren't cool, they don't matter.
They're mostly a hospice for fading fading stars and all.
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That's like a retirement villa, nice retirement villa and all
the Lakers they're kind of becoming like the Knicks. I
haven't won a championship since Kobe. They are all about
the marketing and that's about it.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Good marketing.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I'll give him credit on that. They talk to talk,
they don't walk the walk. And Bradley Beal, he was
at a fork in the road. At a fork in
the road, which direction am I going to go? Bradley
Beal saw the future and he had two la options
and he said, I want to go in the hood
in Inglewood where the Clippers play, and I don't want
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to go to skid Row, And so he chose the top,
the team that has a pulse. Now, a lot of
things have to go right for the Clippers to win
the championship, but for any team to win the championship,
a lot of things have to go right.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I believe in the multiverse, the Mallard multiverse, and in
the Mallard multiverse, there is a dimension where Kawhi Leonard
stays healthy and James Harden doesn't take two games off
in the playoffs, and Bradley Beal turns out to be
the player that he had been in Washington and can.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Do it on a good team.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
And all of a sudden, you got the ras Mataz right,
you got the Razzle Dazzle now final point. So we
turn the page now to gambling. Now, as you know,
I enjoyed, I enjoy gambling. I'm not a degenerate. I
enjoy gamb as the FEDS continue to poke and prod
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at this particular point with the prop bet shenanigans going on. Now,
this is a baseball story. It's a basketball stories. It
affects pretty much everything, everything in professional sports and in
college sports.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
But we're going to talk about the basketball part of it.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Because Commissioner Adam Silver, the half man, half alien. What
planet does the lizard person Adam Silver come from? So
Adam Silver broke his silence about the NBA and the
betting scandal, saying that the league is not not shutting
down gambling. They're not getting out of the gambling business
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because they have a few bad actors, is essentially what
he implied. So where is your brain wave on this one,
Adam Silver? Who did address the issue, And it's like, well,
that's pretty much said, just a couple of bad actors.
So I turned to the Mallor Rosetta Stone for guidance.
The Mallow Rosetta Stone never wrong, and it translated what
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Adam Silver said. It said, yes, we know, gambling is
somewhat compromising the underbelly of our business, the credibility of
our sport, and for some eroding the trust of a
percentage of fans, and those are our customers. And it
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may even be influencing many more bets.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Than we would like to admit.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
However, as they say at Tropicana, the juice, my.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Friends, is worth the squeeze. And here's why.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Because the gambling money is a pot of gold, and
the house always wins. The house does not lose. Right now,
you say, well, sometimes the house loses, but in the
end they always win.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
And if you're just getting money.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
From gambling and you're not the ones either taking the
money you're putting the bets down, you always So let's
be very clear. The NBA isn't just tolerating gambling. It's
now intertwined in the business of basketball. Gambling companies sponsor
the broadcast and I don't have an issue with it.
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But it's just the way it is. It's not going away.
They don't ad space on the court and some of
these gymnasiums they even have official partnerships with the league. Now,
the referees, they don't have any gambling logos on the shirts.
I know Tim Donnie, he probably wishes he did have one,
but you know it, just don't worry about that, right,
I'm sure the algorithm is somehow working on that. And
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by the way, the implication that it's just a few
bad actors, that is a phrase that you always use
when you're in the soup.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
You always use it.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Remember I mentioned Tim Donnie, when Tim Donnie he was
involved in that. I think it was not just a
few bad actors. I think it was a lone wolf.
That was the one they used, the lone wolf. But
we hear that phrase a few bad actors in Wall Street, politics, big.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Pharma, all of those things.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
And it's never they never say it's systemic. They never
want to say it's systemic. It's never the structure of
the foundation. It's just some cosmetic thing. It's just a
rogue ref over here. It's a crooked coach over there.
It's some player that you had some kind of weird
thing on his phone. He's got a got a code
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and he started a gambling account. It's never ever the leagues, Faull,
have you noticed that? Have you noticed it's never leaves
the sports leagues. They love to brag about how they
monitor these these gambling places, and they do.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
There's a lot of checks and balances.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
And the main reason there's a lot of checking balances
is not because of the leagues. It's because the people
that run the gambling houses have skin in the game,
right they. As I've been told, I got some friends
that have listened to the show who are in that
business in the gambling world, work at sports books and whatnot.
They've told me kind of how it works and what
they look for and what things set off alarm bells.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
And of course now everything's it's a lot easier.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Now with AI and monitoring things and Big Brother watching
and everything being done on the phones and all that.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
But as I understand it, you know, what do I know?
But as I.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Understand it, the main reason these guys get caught is because.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Of two things.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Loose lips and they can't control themselves if they stop chatting.
Because these guys they love to brag. Gamblers love the brag.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
We need more.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
If you're an introvert, you don't brag, right, you just
kind of keep to yourself.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
It's extroverts who are like.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Hey, I got this guy in the Cleveland Guardians and
he's in the tank, all right, So they love the
brag about how I got this guy he's gonna throw
a ball on a prop bet and then we're gonna
win the prop bet. Or I got this basketball player
for the Miami Heat and he's gonna miss this many
shots and.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
All that stuff, So they love the brat. That's the
first problem.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
The second problem is they simply bet too much, and
because they try to get the quick.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Score right, they want that quick score.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
If you just bet a nominal amount, it does not
raise red flax.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Like there was a guy, the.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Most famous example recently, this Gibebroni on that he was
on Toronto Raptors. Right, so he's playing for the Toronto
Raptors and he ends up getting caught. But the main
reason he got caught he talked about it. Right, the
loose lips sent gambling ships. The other problem was people
were betting ridiculous amounts of money because he was telling
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people and they were telling other people. They were betting
massive amounts of money. Like it's an obvious reflect You
don't need AI, you don't need some kind of supercomputer
to know if some nobody on the Toronto Raptors is
getting more action than Lebron James on a prop. Chances
are there's some funny business going on. I'm just saying, right,
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And so that's the thing. These guys are always looking
for the big payday. But there is a world where
you don't tell anybody and you kind of keep it
on the down low, and you bet a nomenal amount
and you win every single time that person takes the court.
You don't win a lot, but you win a little
and it adds up. It's study gains. But these losers, they.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Won't even do that.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
They have to go for the big score, and that's
how they end up getting caught, and they will continue
to get caught because of human nature and they people
can't help themselves. They want that big payday. They want
We all try to find a.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Short cut in anything.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
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the third degree, this is one big event gets grilled.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
So it seems that Randy Moss is making the rounds
this time. In a radio interview, Moss was asked where
he'd rank Tyreek Hill in the pantheon of receivers, Moss said,
he's nowhere all time, but top five in today's game.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Ben, is that harsh? No, that's reality. Listen, that's the
way it is.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
I mean, it has been amazing wide receivers in NFL history,
and Tyreek Hill's a good player in this generation. He's
got some really solid numbers and all that, but he's
not as good as Isaac Bruce or mar Arvan Harrison
or I mean there's a bunch of them from the
old school days, Calvin Johnson, Chris Carter, I can go
on and on, Tim Brown, Larry Fitzgerald, and Jerry Rice
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the greatest of all time too, not close next.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Auburn coach ch You Freeze said at SEC Media Day on
Tuesday that he truly believes that Auburn will be in
the mix for the College football playoff. Ben, Auburn has
an eleven and fourteen record in two years under Freeze.
How long of a leashed do you think he has?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Well, Auburn has very passionate boosters and they have a
lot of money and if Nick Saban wants to come back,
not that he would go to Auburn, right, he would
never go to Auburn. But no, he's not long and
I like you Freeze. I think he knows what he's doing.
But you know they're not a contender. And I don't
buy it. You got to show me something and they
haven't shown me anything in the last couple years.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
Next, Victor wembin Yama said over the weekend that it
is is his dream to spend his entire career with
the San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
Do you think Wemby seems like the one team your
whole career type?
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Oh? I don't.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
That's that's Wemby, the Parisian prodigy speaking at the age
of twenty one. Let's see what Wemby says when he's
twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, he'll be singing a
different song. Now, there have been guys that have stayed
in San Antonio.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
I don't. I would bet against it. In the modern game,
How did we do? You passed?
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (36:21):
I won't another one.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Put her on the bard purg Dolf put her on
the forward Furgate.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Puur on.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
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Speaker 1 (36:40):
It's now time for time for Honry. Henry Hurry, ask
bad Twitter said.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Us your questions on Twitter now.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
And way we go.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Time now for ask Man.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour,
and now over to Kooper Loop for the reading of
the questions those that have submitted questions using the hashtag
ask Ben.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
All right, we are going to start off with a
question from ferm dog Hi Ferg. He wants to know
did you eat a hot dog on National hot Dog Day?
Speaker 4 (37:19):
He did you know? And I did not. I did
not know it was National hot Dog Day.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
I did eat a hot dog the other day, though
we do have some dogs.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
I got him.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
There's a kind of a costco that I get. We
always have him in the house. And yeah, I did
have one this week. I don't normally eat hot dogs
rare and appropriate. It was actually during the All Star Game.
I had a hot dog during the All Star Game,
so this week I had one, but not on the day.
And Lorena, I think you did the hot dog Tour,
is that correct? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (37:47):
I was hoping to get more hot dogs down than
I did. But I went to two different places today.
I had one chili cheese dog from the Wiener Schnitzer
and I had I don't know what kind of dog
from the doghouse, but that was amazing. That was an
you dog.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
In many ways, you are the glazzy gobbler. Yeah, that's
what you are today.
Speaker 7 (38:06):
Indeed, all right.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Cooper Loop, did you gorge on any on any hot dogs?
Speaker 4 (38:13):
If I could talk, that would help, But I did not.
I did not. All right, when's the last time you
ate a hot dog?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
It's a good Fourth of July was just not a
few days, you know, No, it was.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
It was actually when I was at the World Series
of Poker in Vegas, they were selling twelve dollars hot dogs.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Twelve dollars hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Oh my god, yep, I'd rather fast.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
All right, what's next? What do we have here?
Speaker 1 (38:37):
JT the Wingman, Hi je I met him. This guy's
been to like almost all the Mallard meat greets we've
done other than Vancouver.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
He wants to know what is a better summer drink,
lemonade or Sweet Slash iced tea.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Yeah, I'm team lemonade.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
I don't mind in Arnold Palmer, which is where you
combine both, obviously, but I go lemonade. A nice lemonade
with the proper trueger ratio with everything is the way
to go. It's one of my favorite drinks. And really
like when I'm out, like I I'll if I if
I Usually I just drink water, but if I'm gonna
cheat a little bit, I'll have lemonade.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
What about you, Reina?
Speaker 7 (39:13):
Oh yeah, lemonade all day. I like it, a little
bit on the tart side to the fresh.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Sure the better, more sugar coop.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
Absolutely lemonade.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Take that all you people believease trash iced team.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
And the only iced tee I like is the musician.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
He's old.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
Next all right, donkey sausage, Hi, donkey. You would like
to know how often do you change the sheets on
your bed?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Well, I'm married, so every week we change the sheets.
If I was single, maybe once a month, you know,
back when I was single, Florina, Well.
Speaker 7 (39:51):
I have sheets under my sheets under my two comforters,
so I mostly just wash my upper comforters and never
touch my sheets. I don't go out low. I even
just use a throw blanket.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
You do the top layer you wash?
Speaker 7 (40:05):
Yeah, like I washed my comfort and then I use
a throw blanket on.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
What about the could you sleep on a sofa or something?
Speaker 7 (40:11):
No, I just have a lot of layers of blankets.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Are you living in Alaska and flying down for the
show or.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
What is I don't know from Siberia. You live in
l A. There's no al right?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Cool? Uh?
Speaker 6 (40:27):
Not as often as probably should. Uh, that's I'd probably
say it's it's probably around, you know, once every few
three to four weeks.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Okay, yeah, I usually once a week. Well wash, I
actually wash Moxie.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
My my dog Maxia.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
She lays on a on a blanket we put on
the sofa, so we have to wash that a lot more.
Speaker 6 (40:52):
Yeh.
Speaker 7 (40:53):
See it's different if you have animals too.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
Yeah, yeah, it's a problem. Uh.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
The king rory hy rory. He would to know which
is better liquid soap or bar soap?
Speaker 1 (41:05):
What's the context like in the shower you're talking about
like washing your hands? Like? He doesn't he doesn't say,
he did not specify. I'm team liquid. I'm team liquid.
And if you if you share a bathroom with somebody
the bar soap, you know, do you really want to
share bar soap with someone else.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (41:24):
You never know where they put the bar.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Exactly, and they may play hide and seek with the bar.
Speaker 4 (41:29):
You don't want that. So I'm team Liquid. I love
the Liquid Loraina.
Speaker 7 (41:33):
Same but for different reasons. I feel like the bar
soap makes me stiff, like it really like, my skin
gets all hard and I can't move it, the same
as if I use like a moisturizing Well, aren't.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
You supposed to rub some on your arm or whatever
and then take rub a lot on one part of
your arm and then from there move.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
It around your body. Isn't that usually how it works? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (41:51):
But with the bar soap, as soon as you rinse
it off, your skin's all like it's like almost like
the rubbery.
Speaker 7 (41:57):
Yeah, it's sweet.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Yeah, So no iris for you. It's ask Ben Koopa.
You're so your team like, yes, what is next? To
ask Ben? Your questions are answers for the rest of
the hour.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
There sheree blows, we say, what's next?
Speaker 6 (42:12):
Well, so out the alien o piner hi Alf.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
I've never met him. I got to meet him.
Speaker 6 (42:17):
He's asking this and I need to address the question.
He says, are you all in for Uno being introduced
to casino gambling in Vegas. Now, yeah, this story went around.
It's not bogus.
Speaker 7 (42:32):
Kind of bogus.
Speaker 6 (42:33):
Well, it's they're bringing it to one like the Palms casino,
and it's like an UNO social club. You're not like
there's not actual Uno on the casino floor and all
the you know casinos.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Oh okay, and we'll move on. Can they put scrabble
in there? I think i'd win somebody at scrabble?
Speaker 4 (42:51):
Can you do that?
Speaker 1 (42:52):
No?
Speaker 6 (42:54):
I never know, could happen?
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Yeah, I did lose though. I've lost a couple of games.
I've lost my bad you touch it scrabble, which is
very upsetting. Are they're just ask man? There we go,
thank you, good job by you.
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