Hour 2 - The Rich Get Richer

Ben Maller talks about the LA Rams signing of LB Bobby Wagner and how it has lead to complaints from scorned fans, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our Nameber two, our number two
of our radio show. Half the NFL wanted him, but
only one team could win the sweep stakes for former
Seahawk linebacker Bobby Wagner, and he chose the reigning Super

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Bowl champs, and that led to a flurry of indignation.
People very upset complaints, raining down, scorn fans, the Rams
getting Bobby Wagner. Is it criminal or commendable? We'll discuss
right now in our number two. Here it is Wag

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the Dog. Well, come man, the beginning of another hour
of the Ben Mathers Show. We are together in the
air everywhere as we publish or parish, coast to coast,
border to border and beyond. On the mast and strat
epherically powerful microphones of F s R emanating life from

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the stand. Not kazakistaner, who's Bakistan, It's Mallerstan the Fox
Sports Radio Studios at a secret location somewhere deep in
the Northwood. So Wag the Dog on the move or
lead this hour coming from the transaction wire of pro

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football and another name brand player changing teams. Now we
know that this is not a massive name because it's
a defensive player, and by rule, we generally avoid talking
about defensive players. But longtime Seattle Seak linebacker Bobby Wagner

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in demand. Where's he going? Where's he headed? He might
have missed this, might have skipped under your radar. Maybe
you don't know the winner of the Bobby Wagner Sweepstakes
the Los Angeles Rams. You can ram it all day,
you can ram it all night, as Wagner is headed

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to LA on a reported five year, fifty million dollars deal.
Athough NFL contracts are make believe. They're never what they
appear to be. It's all about the guaranteed money. So
it's likely that Bobby Wagner is just stopping through with
the Rams for a year, maybe two years tops. We
typically do ignore defensive players. If you're a regular listen

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to the show. However, this is the rare and appropriate exception. Now,
why is that you might be figured, Oh, this is
you're a RAM fan? No, my inbox was filled with anger,
raw emotion. And when you have the raw emotion of

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people having their feathers ruffled because of a move of
a linebacker in his thirties, that gets your attention. So
among the other phrases that were used. It's not fair
the rich get richer. The Rams are cheating. They're cheating.

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I don't know how, but they're cheating. We need to
stop the super team. It's bad for football. All the
good players go to the glamour teams. Blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Right, So let
us just the question on this the La Rams La
Rams getting Bobby Wagner criminal or commendable. So the answer

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on this one, it is praise worthy. It is commendable.
It is praise worthy. So I've got Otto f roe Weather,
Donald Duck, and cast Iron Skillet and we will combine
all of these things together, and that would be the
foundation of this Mallard monologue. So number one, what the

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Rams have been able to do is both wonderful and
out of the orthodoxy of the NFL. I love it.
It's made so many people uncomfortable. There is a tremendous
amount of resentment towards the Rams. They are the envy
of Ellague. Is not just because they're the reigning Super

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Bowl champions and these other teams that cry poverty. We
can't do it. It's the salary cap, the boogeyman, the boogeyman,
watch out for the boogeyman salary cap. And they go
on and on, and they talk about sticking to their
core principles. You've got a door through the draft, that's
the way to do it. Here the Rams are and

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they go on supermarket sweep and they get who they
want and they shop till they drop the Rams. So
this latest move is worthy of calm dan and nation.
It's wonderful, right, it's wonderful. The Rams lost von Miller
and that was a blow. Now they've replaced von Miller

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with a player who's better. He's younger and will be
more productive, different kind of a player, but will be
more productive with the Rams than von Miller will be
in Buffalo. The Rams front office, led by that less
neat f Pecks. He is found with the people around
him sliced bread. And it's very similar to slice bread,

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because you know that phrase, the best thing since sliced bread.
The reaction the Rams have gotten to what they have
done the last couple of years is very similar to
the reaction that Otto f Roewedder got. He's from Davenport, Iowa,
and the Rams have been met with similar resistance that
he got. Now you probably don't know who that is

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unless you've studied food history. But Otto invented the first
bread slicing machine over a hundred years ago, and at
that time Americans did not want sliced bread. Slice bread.
Let me find out where it comes from. I just
told you a guy in Davenport, Iowa. Otto from Davenport, Iowa.
But people didn't like slice bread. They like to cut

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their own bread. They also thought it looked sloppy. And
we got you writers who have said it and done
it off. Slice bread, damn right. They said it was
kind of gross slice bread. And so they liked their
bread and neat was it neat? And they complain, They said,
we don't watch your slice bread and machine. We don't
need it, and go stale faster and all that. Just

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like the Rams, it won't last. The Rams just can't last.
They're gonna be in salary cap hell for years to come.
So we fast forward, and so, just like slice bread,
people are upset. We hazard to guess the RAMS strategy,
though ultimately will be impersonated Garrold take, it's gonna be

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a person. And if it's not people have done something
tremendously wrong. Why it's working. It's working now. Secondly, in
terms of the salary cap, specifically the ramifications of that.
If you're Jerry Jones with the Cowboys, you should say,

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who's in charge of the rams salary cap? Let me
hire that guy, Let me bring that guy in. But
it's kosher, it's above board, it's legit. As we have
preached behind the bully pulpit here at Fox Sports Radio,
the secret sauce for the Rams, it's a little bit
of Sean McVay and a whole lot of beancounters, those

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certified public accountants. They have found every single trap door,
every workaround imaginable. They figured it out. The salary cap
is a myth. It's myth. I'm a salary cap truther.
Using Nald Duck's advice. Carl Banks was a football player

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for the Giants, But there was another Carl Banks who
was a cartoonist for Disney, and he's the one that
is credited with the quote, work smarter, not harder. And
the Rams have been able to finagle the numbers to
move a decimal point from here over there, and by

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doing that they have gotten the desired results that they won.
And so whether it's restructuring a contract, turning salaries and
roster bonuses and assigning bonuses adding those voidable years, it's
a bit of sorcery, but it's all allowed. Anyone else
could be doing is the Green Bay Packers could be
doing this. The Now Orleans Saints, who are supposedly in

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salary cap jail. They're in the gulag of salary captain.
Because it doesn't hurt that Sean McVay is great and
he's wonderful, and sit here and kiss his ass if
you want. But there's also a factor. Guys want to
live in La Bobby Wagoners from southern California's from the
England Empire, so I was told. So it's odd to me, though,

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these guys want to play for the Rams because the
taxes are insane in California. Los Angeles is a mess
with homeless everywhere, traffics, out of control, smog, all of that.
But there's a sense that if you make enough money,
those problems don't exist. Behind the big walls and the
mansions and the hills and all that. That's for the
commoners that have to deal with all that stuff. But

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the more money you got, you don't necessarily do it.
I don't know how you get around traffic though, I
don't know how you get around that and some of
the other factors. Now final points, So does Bobby wagon
Let's get down to brass tax here. Does Bobby Wagner
have any gasoline left in the tank? He's gonna be
thirty two years old, thirty two this next season, so

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he's at the end of his last athletic prime. But
I'm not in my head. Yes, I'm not in my head.
Yes that he does have some gas left in the tank.
Wagner is akin to a cast iron skillet. A cast
iron skillet. I've gotten into cooking. I'm not like cooking
with Roberto, but I got into cooking a little bit
last couple of years. It's a hobby I do on
the weekends. So cast iron skillets are one of the

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items that actually get better with age. The more you
use it, the more you use it, season and all
that gets better. Bobby Wagner up until this point has
been that guy. He's that guy. There is a reason
that half of the NFL teams were doing the mating
dance to try to get Bobby Wagner on their team.
He is qualified, certified and a bona fide future Hall

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of Famer from his days in Seattle. Have not anything
with the Rams yet, but he's going to the Hall
of Fame. Six time first Team All Pro, All Decade
team check check check check, and last season which doesn't
guarantee anything, just tells you what he has done, not
what he's going to do in Seattle. Hundred and seventy
one hundred and seventy combined tackles, that is the most

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in his ten year career last season on a dog
Food Seahawk team, and ninety three tackles solo. That's the
second most solo tackles in Bobby Wagner's career. Now, the
reason for that is because Seattle blew and so there
were more opportunities to make tackles because the offense wasn't
getting it done, so the defense was on the field

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more so. In theory, Bobby Wagner's numbers should go down
with the Rams because they actually have a competent offense
and therefore the defense will not be on the field
as much. But the Ram defense is now set up
like a nice wedding cake, a nice big layered wedding cake.
You've got the foundation layer is Aaron Donald. Now that's
the most important layer of the cake. The Aaron Donald layer.

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You a little frosting on top. Then you got the
Bobby Wagner layer, all pro middle linebacker guy Bobby Wagner.
And then at the very top, the top layer of
the cake, you've got Jalen Ramsey, an elite defensive back.
So you have an elite player on every line on
the Rams defense now one elite player, and so that

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takes the focus and allows players that are not as
good in theory to perform above their skill level because
the focus, if you're on the defensive line, you're like,
we're gonna stop Aaron don't know, we gonna stop Bobby Wagner.
Then after that, what about Jalen Ramsey? And so babing
by the boom is how that works for the Rams.

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Of course, that's only on a depth chart looking at
how things should go. Unfortunately, they still have to play
the games. But they won last year, and people eliminated
the Rams when they had that three game losing streak
in the middle of the year and said there's no
way it's gonna work. My favorite part of last year
was when Troy Aikman. I think this is why he
lost his gig at Fox, when he said the super

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Team will never work for the Rams, and it did so.
I think that was such a sin that he had
to run off to Monday Night Football after that. All
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He told me off the year in the production meeting
he stead of be recreating the Will Smith Chris rockins
in it and Roberto will be playing Chris Rock. So
Coop is going to slap Roberto in that segment. That's
what he told me. Yeah, they'll be violence. It's on Roberto.
You could take a slap from Coop. Oh yeah, yeah,
no problem, right, yeah, yeah, he wouldn't even affect you.

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I'm saying you wouldn't blink, Roberto, what does that mean?
I'm just saying, you guys got into a rule bar.
If you were Will Smith, did you volunteer to be
the the receiver of the slap, then well he wants
to go ahead slap me right now? Go ahead. Yeah. See,
I didn't even feel it. I didn't even feel it, Coop,

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you understand I did not flinch, did not flinch at
all anyway. So we began this hour ranting about Bobby
Wagner was not planning on doing that. You might think
I'm lying, but I'm not. I just love the reaction.
Who knows. I don't know. Bobby Wagner is gonna be
thirty two. I think it'll be fine with the Rams.

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There's this idea though, Oh my god, Bobby Wagner, it's
gonna be amazing. There's no guarantee is gonna be great.
I like to move. I'd rather have Bobby Wagner than
not have Bobby Wagner. Milkman Mike Write says this great
second Hour monologue band. Although Carl Manks may have said
work harder, not smarter, it was Apollo Creed that said

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it best be a thinker, not a stinker. He points out. Andrea,
friend of Joe and Rhode Island, the Sports Sorceress is
happy new Moon. In aries from the Sports Sorceress, I
feel like that was a shot at Joe and Rhode Island.
She's trying to needle that guy at Joe. Help him

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out there, Keith writes in Keith in the Bay, the
weed Benefactor, the weed God says, did the Rams sell
their souls to hopefully win for the better part of
a decade? Or the Cleveland brass Well, I'm going Cleveland
on that without a doubt. DeShawn Watson, what are you doing?

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What are you doing? Even if you win, it's dirty.
Even if you win, it's dirty. What are we doing? All?
Let's go the phones and let's say hello to Hayes
in Minnesota, a Benny Award winner. Hello, Hayes in Minnesota.
Hey are going tonight? Congratulations Hayes? Are you able to listen?

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The other night you were honored by the Mallard Militia.
I did not know. Sorry, you did not listen, Hayes?
How dare you? You have been named the Rookie caller
of the Year. Congratulations, Hayes. Wow, Wow, thank you, thank you.
I don't have many trophies in life, but I'm gonna

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take that. Would you like to thank anyone, Hayes, anyone
you want to thank or your accomplishment. I want to
thank you. I want to thank Coop. I want to
thank Diego and Diego who that's right? Who else? Those
are the three names? I know, that's right. It's me,

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that's right. Look great? Is that me? Or you Diego?
Stoop together? That's you know. You know. I try to
call earlier, but it sounded like the phone was a
little busy. I'm sorry about that. We had to call,
and I apologize. I'll try to do worse next time. No, no,

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no problem at all. Um. So what was on my
mind is, you know, it's a bad look for the
NFL that all these guys are gathering to play for
one LA team. That's why we're having, you know, NBA
problems because all the guys want to play in one team.

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And you know this is not a good look. As
you were talking about it, Hey, that's a bad takecase.
And I don't want sporty calls. Are you doing a
sporty call? He's that we're doing that, we're doing sporty
calls with you. That you're not a sporty call guy.
You're not a sporty call guy. And look at the
Lakers record, look at the Clippers record in the NBA,
and tell me that everyone's going to the LA to
play the Minnesota Timberwolves have a better record than both

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LA teams right now. So yeah, I did not know that.
I did not know that. Have you not watched any
of the games? I don't know. I last time I
watched was Kevin Garnett when he was playing here. All right,

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well that's at least he didn't say when I understand
what's funny about that? Coach? Well, Eddie hasn't watched since
the nineteen eighties with the short shorts. You know, wow,
wow wow. Hey, let me ask you guys that, Yeah,
Diego would like to say something. Go ahead the eggo.
No no no, I was saying, Diego hasn't watched the game since.

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Uh yeah, I'm sorry about that. Hey, man, I apologize.
How do you say your name? I'm sorry if I
butchered it. I am Roberto Loberto, I'm sorry, and I'm
Eddie Eddie that's right. Yeah, they have very distinctive voices.
You can tell yeh so heyes, are you still working
at this the funeral home? Yes? Yes, that's why I

(19:59):
try to call. Couple of hours ago. Um, I have
a sprained shoulder, so I was taking a three or
four hour break. I was looking at the Arby's menu
for the past two hours and two hours is the
menu that It's like a piece of art. You have

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to analyze it. You have to look at it from
different sides. You have to flip the pages on the
Arby's menu. Yeah, what do you decide? What choices? Did you?
Did you whittle it down? When I look at the menu,
I try to whittle it down to a couple of
items there. I know, I know. I agree, Um, it's
just for probably dinner tomorrow night. I don't have time
to cook. Well, you're busy cleaning bodies. Why would you

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have time to cook there? Yeah, So the Arby's, I
know they have like healthy stuff salads, and they have
the different salads and whatnot and some healthy signals. But
I go with the roast beef. When you go, I
don't even know it's actually roast beef, but I go
with the roast beef. That's what I go. Wow, they
still have those curly fries. Last time I ate at
Arbies a long time ago, they had the great curly fries. Yeah. Well,

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you know we I'm part of Samoan, So diabetes is
and you shouldn't be eating at Arby's. Know what are
you doing? You know? Once in a while, I eat it,
you know. So what I wanted to the last thing
I wanted that was on my mind was why do

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you think Rogers we signed with the Packers when he
had a lot of good offers somewhere else. Can you
guys talk about that? You know? Well, I'll give you
the answer. That's a great question, and I'm willing to
give you the answer right now. You prepare? Are you
sitting down for the the answer? Yes, I would give
you the answer. All right, here, righteous down, here we go.
The reason Aaron Rodgers to turn to get bag one sentence,

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three years, one hundred fifty million dollars. Boom done. That's it.
That's the answer. Chut ching, chut ching. He's the highest
paid quarterback that would be. Of course, he got technically
topped by Deshaun Watson in total money, but still at
the time he signed one hundred and fifty million dollars
contract game Wrong Teeth Game with forty point eight million

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signing bonus and the highest average annual salary at the
time in NFL. Alright, I gotta go a heady, thank you,
Go go check out the Army's menu. Hey, sounds like
one of those guys that everyone hates when they get
in line at the fast food place and they're they're
waiting online and the person that can't decide what they
want at the at the menu board and you just

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order order something anything. Keep the line moving, Keep the
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but maybe not. Did you see that Mets ace, Jacob,

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that's it, Jacob the groby he shouldered tightness, Adie right tightness,
snap crackle pop, as you mentioned, slat de Fitch opening
day against the Nashvilles. But two times Cy Young Award
winner all of the second half of the season last
year with an elbow injury. So who could have seen
this comment time? Who could have seen it? Yeah? Ah, man,

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that's not good Eddie, No, that's not New York Mets.
And you know Schurtz is getting up there in age. Also,
you look at the shoulder injury. Is that a sign
of things to come? Just saying you go on those
medical websites you look at like web md and these
different things, and you type in shoulder injury, shoulder tightness

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and what that can lead to. Of course that's weasel terminology.
I see in the future of Jacob de Graham. I
see X rays, MRI's CT scans, all that crap Bowlder,
All right, Ben Maller's show on Fox as we press

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on chopping down the overnight hours. I also saw Eddie's Pirates.
Some fans are upset Eddie that there's talk of them
trading Brian Reddolds. Would you be devastated as a Pirate fan, Eddie?
Brian Reynolds is straighty. That'll do win the Pirates if
they don't have Brian Reynolds this year. No, yeah, okay,

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I agree with you. But what is that? It makes
no sense of train Bright to Terry. Brian Reynolds makes sense.
What what pirates? Man? Let me ask you this, what
do the Pirates do that makes sense? Nothing? Exactly. They're
a complete dumpster fire. Great and support that team, man. Really,
it's like, come on, beautiful. I tell my buddy in

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Pittsburgh all the time, do not take your kids. I
know it's a nice day and it's been cold and
you want to go out and have a nice thing.
Go to the park with your kids, not the ballpark,
just the regular old park. Bridges that team your money. Now,
he does any he goes anyway, He doesn't listen to me.
There you go. It's a pirate fan and you do

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have to put your foot that now, Me and Roberto
know that. Or Diego we the other Diego. It's Diego
and Diego. It's right, right, but we know Roberto. When
Frank mccour i did it two years boycott of the Dodgers,
Man Baseball freaked out Bud Seeley, who was the commissioner.
He and I was, I was going to thirty games
a year before that, Eddie. Look, Roberto, I know your

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passion for the azul as our friend Victor Brick would say,
and news Eddie, who was going to Dodger games. It's like,
that's that's two years two years hard, that's I mean, wow,
major major get on the Fifth Hour podcast, Jacob Brick
into the podcast Don't Joe we Go to listen? Are

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you gonna smoke a bull at him? The greatest Big
we Go part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association,
Vic Jacobs my favorite. When I was a kid, Vic
was doing TV and Fresno okay, and with a mullet
and throwing a foam brick at the camera. Who in
the hell is this guy? So but my head of

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his time, Eddie. At that time, we we when we
were kids, Eddie, everyone was button up on TV. There
was no joking. It was very serious to be untell.
He was one of those guys. He would capture your
attention for like a week, and then you'd be like
tired of and then he would go somewhere else. No,
he worked everywhere he is. He bounced the place, but
he didn't. He tells the whole story about how he
got his break in television on the podcast. It's my

(27:18):
favorite of Vic. And you know this, like there's supposedly
no cheering in the press bottle and Vic would show
up with like a La Kobe hit a game winner.
Vic rushed the cord and hug This is supposed to
be a media met Vick was out there before any Hugo,

(27:40):
before any of the Lakers day and I was at
that game. They were playing, I think the Phoenix Suns
and the Laker PR guy lost. He just yelled at
Victor Someset, what are you doing? You can't? Can you imagine?
It was so funny. But my favorite Vic story, and

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we actually talked about it on the fifth our podcast,
was when there was a mini riot after the Lakers
won their tied against the Pacers, and I was doing
local radio and we sent Vic as our roaming reporter
through the riot, and the rioters loved him. They were
chanting his name is, they were burning stuff. Oh it

(28:23):
was so funny. Yeah, I love me and Vico. Way
back Vic it was it was great. So he's going
through some stuff, so it's great to add mon catch up.
And the other thing about Vic that when people see
what he looks like if you google him. Vic Jacobs
Victor Brick Jacobs. He graduated Eddie from an IVY League school. White,
he went to an He went to Cornell. Yes, yes,

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the guys weren't ponchos hugging Kobe Bryant on the court
at Laker games. He went to a to an IVY
League school. It's just a fascinating life and career for
Victi Bricks. Anyway, he'll be on the podcast. We will
have Mallard to the third degree, look at the clock
on time, malabar the clock four of the clock, possibly
all about the clock, so i' malar get to that.

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Wow wow bro. Unfortunately we will not be able to
shift it for ratings purposes. But here's the Insta Trivia,
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one of only three players since the ABA NBA merger
to have at least thirty points, thirty rebounds, and five

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assists in a game, joining Kareem Abdul Jabbar Kevin Love
as well. So Blank is one of only three players
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record at least thirty points, thirty rebounds, and five assists
in a game. He joins Kareem abdul Jabbar and Kevin Love.
Fill in the blank, that's the Insta trivia. The answer next,

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overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It is a militarized
placed there just south of the equator in the Central
Indian Ocean. Oh, I'm looking at it right now. Looks
looks beautiful. Named after you. Yeah, here's the instant trivia.
Blank is one of only three players since the ABA

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NBA merger to record at least thirty points, thirty rebounds,
five assists in the game, joining a Kareem Abdul Jabbar
and Kevin Love. That is the question, what is the answer,
and a bunch of answers flowing in As you might
imagine Elvin Hayes guessed by Polyde. The real Martin at

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the Airport. Endeavor's going with the Great Dick Felt, former
Patriot defensive back. Who else do we have? A lou
Redwood from Milkman, Mike and Colorado of the Flint Tropics
Legend fur Dogs going with Vic the Brick. He better
have a high coup for the fifth hour Late night
drug Tester are going with Lawrence Funderburke Assist selection. Rob

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in Minnesota checks in with Wilt Chamberlain, Matt the Laker
Charger Angel fan. Well that's a change. Ac Green is
the answer, he says Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield going
with Connie Hawkins unless it is not. Robin Vegas checks
in with Stone Cold Steve Austin, brad and Montana giving

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us Spencer Dinwiddie the Militia. Twitter King says Barney the
Dinosaurs the way to Go Donkey Sausage. Very upset that
they were not nominated for Social Media Influence of the Year.
Jealous of Justin and Cincinnati. They give us Greg the
Hammer Valentine as the answer. Ron's Roadie says Sean Kemp.

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Wally in Florida gives us Charles Barkley. Shot in Portland
says Keith Van Horne and Nick in wisconstant going with
the Greek freak Eddie. Do you have an answer, Eddie?
Of course I have an answered. What a silly question?
The answer is former Washington Bullets legend Jeff ruland great
Jeff Rolling big burly white duty. No, that's incorrect, Eddie
Alfaerono Piner said it was Pigston prognosticator Roscoe the pair

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remember Roscoe the Paraday. That's another great legend on the
show with David there, drove all the way to Boston
from Florida to meet me. That's incorrect. The correct answer
if I say this man's nickname, Eddie, you should get
it right. The chief, Oh, Robert Parrish. Yeah, Robert Bridge.
But now with the Celtics, with the Golden State Warriors,
Robert Perish, one of three players sits the merger to

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have thirty, thirty and five minimum. Those numbers. It's maller
how about that? To the third degree. This is one
big band gets grill whop dal loop. New Dolphins head
coach Mike McDaniel was talking to the media when he
revealed that he plans to use Tyreek kill in the
same way that he used Deebo Samuel when he was

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the offensive coordinator for the forty nine ers. Ben, do
you think Hill can handle that type of role. Yeah,
of course, Like Tyreek Hill is, he's a different kind
of player. They're not the same. They're not one of
the Saydebo Samuel is a different type of receiver. But
they're both elite playmakers. And so the whole job of
the coach is to get the ball in the hands
of the playmakers and let them do it. They're supposed

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to be great at and so any chance you can
get to give Tyreek an opportunity to break a play open,
that's it. And as a gambler and just an observer
of football, I think we all understand this watching football
over the years, that most games in the NFL are
sided by one score. So all it takes is one
or two explosive plays from Tyreek Hill to shift a
loss to a win for the Dolphins or vice versa

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if he doesn't make those plays next. I was revealed
during a recent podcast interview that Jason Tatum told Joel
Embiide that he better win MVP this year because next
year it's his. Ben, do you think Tatum is at
an MVP level. Well, lately he has been like he's
got his stock is on the rise. He's really impressed me.
Over the last couple of months. The Celtics and j

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General have been swashbuckling their way through the Eastern Conference,
and they changed coaches and like, who's this stiff coaching
the team? Now, boy, they're not very good, But now
they've been great. They've been they've been putting up numbers
that that Celtic team with the Big three back in
the I think it was twenty eight that team put up.
They've been wondering what the problem for Tatum is he

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got to do with the entire season. Can't have a
bad month and he's gonna get a lot of good
pr being in Boston. The media will hype him up.
But he's on the right track. Next, John Marks, a
radio host in Philadelphia, made a bet that if the
Phillies winned all this season, he will get a back
tattoo of Bryce Harper's face. Now been I know, Daniel
Ge he got a tattoo from some sort of radio bet.

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Have you ever been involved in such bet? Would you
be involved in such a bat? Oh? God, no, I was.
I was scarred. When I was doing stuff in Boston.
Mikey Adams, who hosted a nighttime showing Boston great guy,
radio guy Mikey Adams, he lost two bets. He had
a tattoo of the Orlando Magic and the Yankee logo
on his took is and pulled his pants down in
the studio and showed me. And I was disgusted. But

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I was the worst. So no, I'm not really a
tattoo guy anyway. If I was into tattoos, i'd be
all about like Danny's kind of into tattoos anyway. So
it's okay for that. But I've done the paper bag
on the head thing, Coop. I've done that. I've done
other cheesy radio bits. I was once part of a
radio station that sat a one of our update anchors
on a billboard for like a week as a bit.

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But anyway, there it is Mallard to the third degree.
How Dad wait down? He passed this edition that's put
it on four and one this week.