Hour 2 - Pinstripe Palooza

Ben Maller talks about Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner having "concern" over the Dodgers' payroll, Marcus Semien getting traded to the Mets and how much of a difference he will make, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shaka Laca, it's our number to Our number two
is ready for you. And New York Yankees owner halse
Steinbrenner says he has concern over the Dodgers' payroll. How
does that one hit you? Also, do you expect Marcus
Simeon to make a big difference, a little difference, or

(00:21):
no difference at all with the Mets he was traded
over the weekend. We will discuss that. In addition to
all of that, we'll talk about the New Orleans Saints
who have brought in kicker Justin Tucker, Yes, that guy,
Justin Tucker for a workout. They haven't signed him yet.
They'll go over that. He was on the naughty list

(00:44):
by the NFL. But he's getting an opportunity at least
to work out with the New Orleans Saints. We're talking
about that as well. Here it is our number two,
a pinstripe of palooza. Welcome in the beginning of enough
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from the Bronx. What are you doing? Why would you

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do this? It's a good story, that's why. So the
Yankees are owned by the spat of the Boss, George Steinbrenner,
long gone from this mortal coil. So he gave the
team to the kids, and the Yankees are being run
on the day to day by hal Steinbrenner, who shocked
a lot of people recently when he had an interview

(03:16):
behind a paywall at the Athletic and hal Steinbrenner expressed
quote concern about the Dodgers winning back to back championships.
So did you see this? No, no, you did not, Okay,
he said, of course it's a concern, hal Steinbrenner moaned

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behind a paywall at the Athletic. He went into detail
on the Dodgers playing to their potential. That's the way
he phrased it to their potential when they needed to.
He also made an erroneous statement that the Dodgers got
healthy at the right time, which is incorrect. They were
not healthy in the World Series and they still won. Anyway.

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He said, of course, it's always a concern. Here's the
money quote. It's always a concern. How Steinbrenner said, when
you feel that one team is pulling away from the
other twenty nine or selfishly pulling away from me close
quote mean being the Yankees. So that is a good

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jumping off point. Let us discuss the question Yankees' owner
how Steinbrenner has quote concern over the Dodgers' payroll and
the fact that they've won now back to back World Series.
How does that one hit you? How does that one
hit you? So I've got Goose, Red Bull, and Iron Man,

(04:41):
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to hit the bullseye right there, bang bang,
right in the bullseye. So number on, my first thought
is boo freakin' who You've gotta be kidding me? Right?

(05:02):
I thought when I saw these quotes, I initially thought, Okay,
this has got to be like Sports Talk Berry the
Onion butt Crack Sports, one of the parody sites, one
of the gag sites that goofs sends fake stuff out.
So I read it again, and then I read it again,

(05:22):
and then another time. I went back and late, I said,
let me do that one more time, just about I
don't want to get punked here. Yeah, this hits you.
It's real. It hits you like a fifty pound cartoon
anville of Hutzba just boom right on the top of
your head of Hutsba is old man. George George George

(05:45):
George George George George Steinbrenner. He said, well, ifs and
butts were candy nuts and all that, but if Steinbrenner
was still around, it is more probable than not that
George Steinbrenner would have gone to the Winter Meetings this year,
which haven't happened yet. He would go into the Winter Meetings.
He would kick down the door and then enter like

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the kool aid man going there, and he'd sign not one,
not two, but three three All Stars out of pure
spite because the Dodgers have won back to back World Series.
He'd signed a starting pitcher, He'd signed a closer, and
he'd signed. Kyle Schwarber would yeah, yeah, he'd do it.
He'd do it. The kids not so much, not so much.

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Why it's old family money. They inherited the cash machine.
This is the golden goose. You don't want to give
away any of the golden eggs any more than you
have to when you have a golden goose. So they
talk about fiscal responsibility, the New York Yankees talking about

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fiscal responsibility. Does it get any's anier than that? Come on, now,
we're not at the dentist office here. We're not doing
some dental hygiene. It's the damn New York Yankees. And
you're going down that avenue. You should never go down
that avenue. Cry me the Hudson River howl, all right,

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or even the East River. The Dodgers spend and spend
and spend. Some of the Yankees they should spend the
same amount. The Yankees have a choke hold on the
Japanese market. They've got tokyo covered in Dodger blue. It's
a haze of Dodger blue and all that stuff. However,
what a concept the Yankees. The Dodgers are what the

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Yankees used to be when the old man owned the team.
That's the same thing is Dodgers. That the Yankees never
had Japan, even though they had some Japanese players, they
never owned Tokyo the way the Dodgers own it. So
there's you're in a fork in the road the way
I look at it. If you're the Yankees here to
fork in the road, you can you can either stop

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whining and figure it out how to beat the Dodgers,
or you can do what losers do and complain and
boo hooooo, it's not fair, yea. Just like that the Mets.
They've entered the chet. The Mets were the only team
in the top seven in payroll that didn't make the playoffs.

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And to that, I say good, I say good, you
spend big, you should be rewarded with the playoff spot.
Why would we celebrate? And this is the thing that
blows me away. And I've known this job a long time,
and I've taken a lot of calls from people that
love cheap bosses. I can't stand cheap bosses. They drive

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me nuts. Okay, I can't stand them. I want to
work for someone that spoils their employees. I want to
work for someone that takes care of their employees. That
would be teams like the Dodgers and the Mets, and
teams like the Phillies that spend a lot of money.
That's why I want to reform you people. You want
to work for the tightwad owner. That's who you want

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to work for. So I don't get it. I don't
understand why you would want to work for that person.
But you celebrate cheapness. You romanticize the minor league system.
I prospect, you go on and on and on. So
why should we celebrate and some excise I'll listen. You
explain to me why we should celebrate the penny pinching

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tight wad owners in sports like this is not a
coupon clipping contest. It should not be a coupon clipping contest.
It should not be that. And as the ratings have
shown here in the World Series that the Dodgers being
the bad guys, gotta have a folk gu I gotta
have a bad guy. The Dodgers are the bad guys,

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and that's good. Bad is good. The Dodgers are the
bad guys in every league needs a villain, and right
now that's the Dodgers, and they lean to it into it.
Dave Roberts after winning the series against the Milwaukee Brewers,
when he got up to the and said, let's ruin baseball.
He's leaning into the heel character for the Dodgers. They

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got Shohio Tani and Yoshinobu ya'm Amoto and Moki Betts
and Freddie Freeman, all these guys. They're the nWo of MLB,
is what they are, the Dodgers at this point. And
you don't beat them by moaning behind a paywall on
the athletic website there. You beat them by matching the
energy you have, the money you can flex around, the

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money and all that stuff. And Hal's out here wringing
his hands and complaining like he's worried about the price
of gasoline and the amount you're paying for eggs, eggs
and milk. He's very concerned about all that. So be
more like your dad. Be more like your father and
less like the guy you've been. And the payroll isn't

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the problem. The payroll is not the problem here. It
is not. The mindset is. And Hal did take a shot.
There was a subtle shot at Brian Cashman and the
players that he's brought in when Holstein Ian Brenners said,
they've played to their potential when they needed to, which
is a sign of Hey, the Yankees haven't played to
their potential when they needed to. So it's a little

(11:08):
subtle shot, a little nuance, a lot of you don't
even get it, but that's what he said. That's what
he said. So I thought that was that was interesting.
It's capitalism in cleats is what it is, and I'm
fine with it. The Dodgers are predators. The Yankees are.
They kind of sound like prey is what they sound like?
All right now, Page two two Queens. We go sit
in the New York metropolitan area and we go across

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the way. There was a big trade that happened over
the weekend. Nobody paid attention to it because of the NFL.
We mentioned it briefly in passing in a previous episode
of the show Well, the Mets made a decision to
trade a fan favorite, Brandon Nimo is Bye Bye. They
traded his ass for Marcus Simeon over the weekend, the

(11:52):
Rangers the team getting Brandon Nemo and the New York
mexicoll A choir Marcus Simeon in the trade. So that
was the deal. David Sterns, the general manager of the
New York Metropolitans, addressed all this. He said that last year,
talking about the Mets last year, he said last year
wasn't good enough and running it back with the exact

(12:14):
same group wasn't the right thing to do. He then
put it out at Marcus Semeon balances our lineup from
the right side, which is something we were seeking to do.
Close quote a right. Let's jump off on that point
question for the esteem panel, do you expect Marcus Simeon
to make a big difference, a little difference or no

(12:36):
difference in compared to Brandon Nimo for the twenty twenty
five vintage of the New York Mets. So the arrow
on this one, after a minutes long Mallard deliberation, the
arrow on this trade it is pointing towards a little difference,
just a little tick, little tick, that's all. That's all.
Not much, not much at at best, and we know

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best means as good as all the rest. Getting the
twenty twenty Marcus Simeon, you're not getting that guy. He's
not that guy. Pal, He's thirty five years old now,
been around the block, it's been around the block more
than the mailman, our buddy in Nebraska now delivering the mail,
listening to the podcast, and not just that on like
a double shift, like a mailman on a double shift,
doing that kind of thing. Three straight seasons. If you

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look at the law of diminishing returns, three straight years
home runs, down doubles, down runs, batted in down down, down, down, down,
down down, downtown, down down down. Now he's headed to
the back nine of his career and he's now a
New York Meg. Congratulations, a lot of milds. He's a journeyman,

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productive player. Still a journeyman player. Productive. Yeah, it's been productive.
And it's like that. He's a jumper cable, Marcus Simon,
a jumper cable that barely sparks, barely sparks. And we
categorize this transaction as a red bull trade, says a
bull trade. It's not about baseball. It's about caffeine. It's

(14:06):
about caffeine here. It's corporate adderall for the New York
Mets that they had to do something to shake it up.
This is a wake up call. So wake up call
to the well paid New York Mets clubhouse guys got comfy.
That's the argument the Mets front office is making that
they underachieved. And when you underachieve and you're very happy

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with underachieving, you go out there and you make a
move that screams. And this move screams nobody is safe
with the Mets other than Juan Soto who's got the
forever contract, but everyone else so right, Brandon Nimmo was
the sacrifice and he was the lamb. He was the lamb,
that's what he was, and so they sent him out
the pasture. Now think he's from Wyoming, so I guess

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he's cool with going to the Rangers and all that.
And clubhouse accountability is now a thing for the New
York Mets. And this is the message. You trade more
than and it's just more than a baseball trade. It's
like it just is. That is a move that said, well,
on theory, they wanted just a right handed bat. Okay,
they want to balance the lineup. Blah blah blah blah blah.

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It's not about balancing the lineup. You're really naive if
you think it's about balancing the lineup. This is about
balancing the ego and keeping all of that stuff in check.
This isn't a remodel. It's not a remodel. It's a
rearranging the furniture before company comes over. You know, like
you have your relative, especially this week right with Thanksgiving,

(15:34):
people visiting family, and you come into town and like, oh,
your house is really neat. Well that's because they just
spent an hour and a half cleaning the house before
you showed up. Or if you have people coming in
from your in laws or your family come, they come over,
they clean up. Let's clean this thing up. Man, Come on,
we got to clean it up. Is what we got
to do. And that's how it works. So will Simeon

(15:57):
help the Mets a little? I mean he's going to
help the Mets a little bit, but it's more about
the noise. You're trying to change the noise in the substance.
Wake up call. Not a cure. Not a cure, certainly
for the Mets. All right, now, final point. We go
to New Orleans. We go to New Orleans. Well, Kellen Moore,

(16:18):
that's a head coach. I bet you didn't know Kellen
Moore a head coach, right, probably didn't know that. Well,
Kellen Moore, the head coach of the football team in
New Orleans. Obviously not a good Let me just do
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All right, we're good for another twenty minutes. Okay, that's outstanding.
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It's absolutely great. Anyway, all right, Big Time Network Radio. Anyway,
Kellen Moore, that's the back to the point. Kellen Moore,
the coach of the Saints, defending the team's decision to
have the the tarnished creepy kicker Justin Tucker in for

(17:04):
a tryout. Yep, that Justin Tucker, thirty six years old.
Big fan of the the Robin Tug massage, A big
fan of that. Who isn't. But he got accused of
a bunch of massage therapist accused him of being a
touchy feely and all that got sued. No criminal charges,
nothing criminal. Eight different Baltimore area massage parlors. They got

(17:28):
a lot of massage Parlors in Baltimore, and this happened.
Last incident happened in twenty sixteen, so it's been about
a decade. About a decade since all this went down. Anyway,
he was suspended. NFL investigated and they suspended him after
a probe for ten games. Justin Tucker and he was

(17:51):
released by the Ravens back in May after thirteen seasons
in Baltimore. Answering questions from sports with Cole and they
claimed it was a football decision at the time. So
the question why on earth would the New Orleans Saints
be taking a look at Justin Tucker at this point

(18:14):
would make it make sense. He's thirty six years old.
There's a lot of baggage there, so why even bother
going down this lane if you're the Saints. Well, the
Saints have officially if you didn't know this by now,
they have officially hit the rock Bottom buffet, the rock
Bottom off. They serve dirt, they serve little pebbles and
it's really delicious, just absolutely. Yeah, they're six feet under

(18:38):
the Saints franchise, all of New Orleans is under, but
this season they're on hospice care. So congratulations on that
and this is the team as the lights go out
on the season. Yet again, they're turning over every stone
at that rock bottom buffet, every stone, even the slimy ones.

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They're doing all of that. And it's not about the
moral compass. I always loving people. Oh it's about the morality. No,
it's not. They tell you a lot of slogans. The
NFL is very good at slogans, and they're very good
about giving the illusion that they care about certain things.
But I've learned over the years that they don't. They
talk to talk, they don't walk the walk. The NFL.

(19:20):
It's like, let's just give out some pins. We'll do
We'll just put messages here and there, and dumb people
like messages, so we'll just go with the messages and
that's that, and that will appease the dumb people. But
they're really the Saints are back to be in the
eights in more ways than one. Right, they're desperate. They're
rummaging through the NFL's bargain bin at this point. Welcome

(19:44):
to the National Football League. And the greatest quote of
all time about this topic of conversation from a brief
Fox Sports radio employee. They hired him for the NFL
draft a couple of times. He's more known as the
Cardinals general manager Steve Kaime, who famously said, if Hannibal
Lecter could run a four to four, the NFL would
call it an eating disorder, is what they would call

(20:06):
it for Hannibal Lecter. Uh, there is that so and
that really sums up the entire NFL in one quote.
Like it or not. Football. The game of football is
a bottom line business, and the Saints need atom bottom lines.
They need a field goal kicker. And they figured, no
one's watching our games anyway, We'll bring this guy in

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and if he's kickers can kick till their mid forties,
you can play another ten years. Justin Tucker in a
dome in New Orleans, although he was slipping last year.
So it's really simple. It's not that hard. If guy
makes the kick teams hold their nose. They signed the
paperwork and all that. And there's some really good massage
parlors in New Orleans, I've heard. I've not been to

(20:49):
any of them, but I've heard they're really good. There's
a lot of debauchery in New Orleans and yeah, yeah, yeah,
that really good time there for Justin Tucker. Yeah, yeah,
a lot. So it is performance over principles and all
that stuff. This cover your nose signed, the DOCU sign
and that's it. And for the NFL, they always go in.

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The Saints will do the same thing. They use the
Iron Man playbook is what they do, deflect and absorb.
And here's what they're gonna say. They signed Tucker. They
haven't sign him yet, but they if the Saints signed
Justin Tucker, it's going to be Listen, we did our
due diligence, we believe in second chances. We're focused on football,

(21:31):
and they'll do what about is him? Well, what about
Deshaun Watson? What he did was worse than Justin Tucker.
And Deshaun Watson's one of the highest paid players in
the NFL, has got guaranteed money's on the Cleveland Browns.
You know he's worse. So that's what about is? What
about him? What about this guy? So the Saints aren't
really interviewing Justin Tucker, They're interviewing their own desperation, and

(21:52):
they figure they can get away with it because again,
who's watching the Saints. The Saints go marching into irrelevancy
and they got no quarterback they got no star players there.
It's a faceless franchise, it really is. Well, it's a
Ben maler Shaw which is not a faceless franchise. If
you would like to be part you want to comment
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(22:12):
began that Mallard monologue with hal Steinbrenner getting a little
testy with the the Dodgers winning back to back World
series and it's wild that Yankee owner, a New York
Yankee owner, would have concern over the Dodgers' payroll. That

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is Bonker's is what that is. But we gave you
the quote eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight
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We get the call in a minute, lot, I see
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know if we have that. There are a few of
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(25:13):
Hey Ben.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
I love you and Lorena and Coop and I wish
everybody a happy Thanksgiving. And that's first.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
All right, We'll very kind of you, wead man to
do that. Will you be hanging out with Lisa for Thanksgiving?

Speaker 4 (25:30):
Wouldn't that be wonderful? I really wish I would. Yeah,
but I'm here for She's in New York and it's.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Terrible, terrible, terrible. Would you relocate, Weed Man, would you
move back to New York? You're a native Landed.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
I wish I wish I had enough money that she
could come here and see.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
You know, you don't even want to go You don't
even want to go back to New York.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
No, No, I like warm weather. I turn handle winter anymore.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Okay are you saying? You gone soft?

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Weed?

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Man's that you said? Billy?

Speaker 4 (26:03):
Absolutely years ago? I was never able to handle with them.
And I love it in Florida, and I loved that
We're coming into winter time right now and it's so
warm and beautiful Florange.

Speaker 5 (26:14):
Great.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Yeah, all right, all right, well, we have some people
want to ask you questions here. This is exciting. We man,
you're fired up, are you?

Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yeah? So I want everybody to know I want to
help change the world and help your lives be better.
Everything that can possibly do do that?

Speaker 1 (26:35):
And how are you gonna how are you gonna do that?
We then, what are you gonna do to help people?

Speaker 4 (26:38):
What do you we over to change the world?

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Change the world?

Speaker 4 (26:43):
Okay by giving this information right here on your overnight
radio sports talk show.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Okay, change all right? All right, all right enough, Andy
in Lino Lakes Minnesota, writes, and he says, a a
weed man, have you ever slept on a waterbed or
just slept in a puddle? Watson say, I've slept on

(27:11):
both as very different. Do you remember that the waterbeds
aren't really a thing anymore that there were like that
was a long time.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
Remember water that was like in the early eighties.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, it's a long I don't did they even make
waterbeds anymore?

Speaker 2 (27:28):
I think the.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Proper question was have you ever woken up in a puddle? Oh?
Is that you know what?

Speaker 4 (27:35):
I have slept on the street on hardboard, not fully
underneath an overhang where rain and that's happened in the
puddle at some point during the night. That's how that
happened a lot of times.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah, okay, have you have you ever have you ever
needed a diaper? Weed man? Have you No, you've never
needed a type? Right, just asking, just just for informational purposes.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
We man, of course jokes, and we're do and we're
doing jokes on pay night.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah that's right.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Uh surprising, But you're going to say we're going to
be off.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
I like you said, we are going to just Josh
from Cincinnati writes in he says, what was your first
job as a teenager? And what was your first ride?
And do not say police car? That's from just.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
I was Santa Claus. I owned a toy stop.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
It you were Santa?

Speaker 4 (28:37):
I was?

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Did you play Santa at the toy store in Manhattan?
Did you do the s anything?

Speaker 4 (28:43):
No?

Speaker 5 (28:43):
No, no, you didn't.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
I owned a toy store. My family owns a toy
store in Queens, New York, and I was like Santa Claus.
I stayed behind the register all day, all through Christmas
and our business times like that last right before Christmas.
Toys is an amazing place to work and be around people.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Where was the Where was the toy store in what
part of Manhattan? I was in Queen's Okay, Queens, New York.
I got you, all right, Freddy, I know all you're
repeating yourself, Freddie writes, and he says, weed man, what's
a life lesson you learned that you can tell your

(29:30):
younger self, ask a weed man, M how about this?
Don't invest in the stock market before it crashes. Would
that be some well the whole? But we we've benefited,

(29:52):
Like if the stock market hadn't crashed, you'd still do
you ever think and I believe in the multiverse. Do
you believe in the multiverse? Weed? Man? Are you all right?
So there is a dimension where you didn't invest all
your money the way that you did and none of
that Amazon dot com, whatever, whatever, whatever the case. But

(30:13):
the point is that there's a world where we don't
ever are past, don't cross that you don't end up
in the situation you're in. And who knows. Maybe I
would have ended up doing a daytime show or something
like that and I would have never come across you
because those daytime people don't take calls. No, I'm just
saying the multi And there's a dimension where you the
toy store blew up and then you became online because
when you did it there was no internet, and you

(30:35):
sold toys online. He became really wealthy and you lived
out in the Hampton's right, the whole thing. We'd man,
there's that dimension.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
Of course there is. I think my best wife is
living in that world right now.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, And then there's the dimension you're living in, which
is a little different. You're in Hollywood, Florida, You've got
your Obama phone and the.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
Right the second though, I'm in a room all by myself.
I have replaced myself.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Good, all right, Scrooge rights in. It's ask a weed man,
our friend Billy from Miami who was in Hollywood, Florida.
Now Scrooge rights and says, hey, weed man, could you
outsmoke Willie Nelson?

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Yes, I've been doing you all day?

Speaker 1 (31:28):
All right. Several people have sent in and asked questions.
Weed Man, Rob the goat man, I'll use his. But
there's a bunch of these people that have been emailing
me as well. They say, hey, how's the email? The
people say they want to send you some money? Did
were you able to send an email address? Up?

Speaker 4 (31:45):
An email address is shut up? I have to change
the spelling of how this. I'll do it.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Okay. So the answer is you have not done it yet, Dad,
that's the answer, right, you have not. There is not
any email address. No one can send you anything at all.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
I really appreciate. I appreciate the thoughts. I really and
I love everybody this year. I want you. I want
your wives to be great.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Yes, all right, Well let's go. Let's take a call. Well,
this is a legend. Jy Dot in Utah. He's come
to several mallord meet and greets we've done over the years.
The Great jay Dot. He's a little lives a little
north of Salt Lake. You live in that famous part,
j Dot? Right? You what's that show I'm thinking of
that's out You told me about it when we were
you came to the meet and what's the name of it?

(32:38):
Jay Dot? Jada Jada?

Speaker 5 (32:43):
Hey, j.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
I think he stepped away. That's for you mind. He's
working the day shift. Weed man, may you fell asleep?
That's too bad. What's where's that place in Utah where
they have like the the Supernatural? Uh, just the very
popular show that's on TV. I forget the name of
it though. It's like an old old show. No, it's
on right now. It's like a like a lot of weird.

(33:09):
It's north. It's like I don't know if it's UFOs
or it's like the Native American land there that's kind
of like sacred land. But this apparently is the weird
stuff that goes on there. No, nothing he was telling
me about. He like lives in that area. Anyway.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
I want to see I want to see where the
aliens are. I want movies from the air.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Well interesting, you should bring that up. Mike sent me
an email. He says, is weed Man a lizard person?
Weed Man? Are you a lizard person? You're not well?
Isn't that something a lizard person would say if you
asked them if they're a lizard person, they would say
they would deny it, wouldn't they.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
Do you think you have a metal lizard person?

Speaker 1 (33:50):
I probably have. I probably have met a lizard person.
I would think, all right, let's take another call here.
It's a bit more.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
Common than we think.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yeah, let's say hello to well. Hopefully this goes better.
This guy was very rude to you, weed Man. I
think he's going to apologize right now, Blind Scott, will
you please apologize? Blind Scott? You're on with weed Man, hippie.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
I thought we were friends. Let's not forget last try No, No,
we're friends.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
We man. It's Ben. You know, Ben does this crap?

Speaker 4 (34:19):
He leaves me?

Speaker 1 (34:20):
No, No, don't don't blame No, don't blame me. I
had nothing new with this.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Don't let me talk.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
No, you're looking. I don't have to let you talk.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
So can I talk? Hello? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Hey, what's that pleasure?

Speaker 5 (34:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, No Ben, he just left me on
hold the whole show. You know, there's a lot of
bad calls on the show. I'm trying to do a
call that fits in to the show, you know, So
he puts me on it with you. At the end
of the show. All my buddies are in Boston are listening.
They work in radio. Weed Man. You know, they don't
really like hippies that much. They make jokes. They're punk rockers,
you know. So I got a hippie waiting on hold.

(34:56):
It's like I need to make friends. It's like, boom,
here's weed Man. I didn't put me on earlier. I
got to do a good call. I have no choice.
Weed Man's here. I gotta start dunking on, weed Man.
What else am I going to do? Ben's putting you
on for eight minutes here, dude, you know I.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
Only get thirty seconds.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
Why do you get forty minutes a week?

Speaker 4 (35:15):
I don't have.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
I knew that he's jealous of your celebrity, weed Man,
that you've become a star on the show and blind Scott.
He wants us to do ask a blind guy start crying, dude,
how about how about this? I'll make it. I'll make
a deal with you on Thanksgiving, like into Black Friday,
do you want to do ask a blind guy?

Speaker 5 (35:38):
Yeah, I would. I mean I'm appropriate, I'm appropriate on
the radio.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
You have I had to block your email. You said
you threaten, no threat on the radio. Okay, I have
a better idea. What's that we can do? Like blind
Scott c into the future, so he gives like people's horoscopes. No,
I kind of like ask a blind guy. I think
that would be a funny.

Speaker 5 (35:59):
Beads a terrible thing to ben that I wish I
never said they were awful, Like I would try to
get under his skin on purpose.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yes, I tried. I actually tried to write back, I'm
such a loser. I'm such an idiot. I tried to
give him good advice, and he just got meaner and
more vicious and more horific.

Speaker 5 (36:17):
The advice was but at one point, like his show
was going, he didn't get his show, and it affected
me like it may put me in.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
It affected me more than you. All right, all right,
all right, you're both gardens. Weed Man, thank you so much,
tremendous advice. As always, we'll see you on lame Jokes
later this week. Yes, I love you, all right, the
great weed man if man. All right, turn out for
the instat Trivia. Carolinas Bryce Young has five interceptions this

(36:47):
year against the Blitz, tied with Joe Flacco and Blank
for the most in the NFL. That's the Insta Tributa
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(37:29):
Back to it ton now for the payoff on the
Insta Trivia. Carolina's Bryce Young has five interceptions against the
Blitz this season. That is tied with Joe Flacco and
Blank for the most in the NFL this year. Alfielliano
Pinter says, lizardman, hippie, who else we have? Pitch down
Weed man Hippie from Mallard prop guy. We've got classy

(37:52):
Freddie Blassi from Bobby and Florida Elvis Gerbachees by Eileen
in San Francisco. What say you, Lorraine, steamboat Willie.

Speaker 6 (38:00):
Correct answer is Sam Darnald of No stradinas is Seahawks,
Sam Darnld, Sam Jarnald third degree.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
This is gets great.

Speaker 7 (38:17):
Ravens have won five games in a row and somehow
find themselves back in first place in the AFC North
with a two time MVP at the helm. Are the
Ravens a team we have to look out for?

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Uh, They're not going to the super Bowl, They're They're
definitely gonna be a playoff team, I would say at
this point, but Lamar's actually not even played all that well.
I would say the Ravens are a team that will
be a playoff team. But Lamar sucks in the playoffs.
He's dinged up seemingly every week. So big picture, no next.

Speaker 7 (38:47):
Former Browns player Lee Boughten, whoever that is, spoke with
TMZ this weekend that said, now is the perfect time
for the cleaf, for the Cleveland Browns to move on
from Kevin Stefanski.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah, and that they should replace him with Dion Sanders.
What are your thoughts?

Speaker 7 (38:59):
Man?

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Has this guy seen Colorado play football this year? Like?
What are we doing here? Colorado's terrible? So I don't
I love Dion. It'd be good talk radio. I'd love
it as a talk show host. But he doesn't deserve
to be promoted the way he's done, the job he's
doing in Colorado.

Speaker 7 (39:14):
Next seems every day we get a new report that
another team is interested in trading for Anthony Davis. If
you had to take a guess on where he ends up,
where would that be?

Speaker 1 (39:22):
How many stays in Texas and goes to the Spurs.
They like injured players in San Antonio? Why not I
see him going across the state over to San Antonio. No,
the Bulls, No, the Knicks. Knicks, then I'll buy the Knicks.
How do we do? He passes? That's a winner player
on the phone.

Speaker 5 (39:39):
I won the game. I won the game.