WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Belichick Boot & Darko Spark 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:01.880 Kabooms. 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:05.760 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.600 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.880 of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:15.920 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.880 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, the clearing House 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.600 of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:32.720 Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:30.600 In the air. 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:39.760 Everywhere. Well, come in to the audio dojo. It is 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:44.760 the twelfth day of January. Happy Friday, Friday Friday. It's 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:49.440 a super wild card weekend, big marketing by the NFL. 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.800 This the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler. That would be 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:57.320 me and Danny G Radio as we hang out. Because 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.279 four hours a night or not enough. We do this 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:04.800 eight days a week, eight days a week. Now you're 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.520 either in for a special treat today or this is 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.000 going to be an annoying podcast. So normally I am 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.520 joined by Danny G. But Danny's on assignment right now. 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:16.480 He is working with Covino and Rich later this afternoon. 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.479 I'm still here producing this bad Boy. 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:19.920 I'm not panicked. 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.800 You were stuck with just dear old me that would 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:25.959 be me being Ben. That's it. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.480 That's all we have is me on this podcast, and 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.360 we have a lot of ground to cover. My right 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:39.360 hand was getting a workout, a lot of ground to cover, 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.800 and we're gonna we're gonna jump right into it. As 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.839 you know, on these Friday podcasts, we try to have 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.920 a lighthearted look at things that are going on. We've 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.040 done a lot of sporty stuff the last couple of weeks, 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.960 and I think we'll continue that because the big. 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.600 News of the week, which came down. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:06.040 Yesterday, the demise of Bill Belichick, as he turned out 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:12.520 the lies the parties over Bill Belichick exiting stage left 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.799 from the Commonwealth out as coach of the Patriots after 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.480 a miserable season that saw in New England be so 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.520 bad they end up with the number three pick in 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:25.480 the NFL Draft. Now, how do I relate to the 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.560 Belichick story? Did we do monologues on the Overnight Show 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.640 a few hours ago? Yes, of course we did. But 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.280 I have an interesting spin on this and it relates 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:39.320 to the TV show. So you know that we do 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.120 the show in La Me and Looney do Benny Versus 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.160 the Penny in Los Angeles, But the show is produced 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.760 out of NBC Sports Boston. Our guy Vinnie and the 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:53.880 production team mostly is in Boston, and another big executive, 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.720 NBC John is in Philadelphia. And everyone's been great. Everyone's 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.160 been wonderful on the TV show. Could not have been 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.440 nice or very positive if not used to that from 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.120 working into radio all these years, and in the radio business, 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.920 people usually negative. So it's really cool to have all 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.760 these positive people. But it was very stressful yesterday when 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:15.079 we were recording this episode of Benny Versus the Penny, 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:21.480 the Super wild Card weekend episode, because coinciding with that 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:30.440 taping of the show was a rather massive neutron bomb 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.760 that was dropped for those that care about sports, for 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:35.880 those of us that work in the sports world, in 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.720 our little world, this was a big deal that Bill 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:43.200 Belichick had been excommunicated from. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.400 The Patriots Brona Cincinnati. 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.120 And so what this means when you work at a 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.720 TV station or radio station that covers sports, I think 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:56.360 we know what happens. You are going to blog that 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.800 to death, is what you're going to do. You are 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.840 just going to pound that story over and over and 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.040 over again. And so our friends at NBC Sports Boston, 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.360 while they were producing Benny Versus the Penny. We're doing 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.960 copious amounts of work to deal with the bed of 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:17.160 thorns that is Bill Belichick. It was a Bellachickian edition 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:21.719 of Benny Versus the Penny because everyone's running around. As 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.120 our guy Vinnie told me, he said, all hands on deck, 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:29.159 all hands on deck, and everyone was trying to present 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.440 the greatest coverage they can. They were doing reaction shows. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:38.719 They were going non stop, non stop reaction to Belichick 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:40.560 being out with the Patriots. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.760 It's a great story. It's a great story. 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.000 Depending on how old you are, we likely will not 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:50.000 ever see a coach have a run like Belichick. This 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:54.279 usually happens once every couple of generations, So that would 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:59.240 mean we would skip a generation and we'll have a decade, 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.560 a couple of day where there's really nothing like this 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.120 on the table, and then eventually somebody will come along 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.440 who is a little hoggler right now, little. 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.080 Kid or maybe hasn't even been born yet, who. 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.960 Will hold the stage and have the reins of a 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.840 dominant NFL team. But for those of us that are 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.640 around my age, this is it. This is like the 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.359 last great NFL coach and it just is a weird 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.880 Quinkie dink that we happen to be doing the TV 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:31.120 show at the same time that all that went down, 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:35.600 And exciting news for Benny versus the Penny. Not only 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.320 did it continue into the plus we qualified for the playoffs, 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:42.919 which is exciting because they could have just dumped the 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.680 show at the end of the regular season and said 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.839 that's it, you're good. We did the regular season and 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.440 there's not as many games to pick in the playoffs. 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:55.080 And there's also the issue of we do one show 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.800 a week, which is actually three shows, but it is 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:04.839 weekend program. The TV show airs on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.360 That would be the week. So if you have Wildcard 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.960 games on Saturday and games on Sunday and then games 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.600 on Monday, by the time the show airs on Sunday, 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.640 there might only be one game left to break down. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:21.920 So what do you do. 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:27.479 So the fine executives that NBC Regional Sports Networks said, Okay, 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.039 we'll do the show on Thursday. We'll then release it 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.520 to the affiliates on Thursday night, the same day that 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.680 we record the show, and allow them to start playing 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.240 it on Thursday. But everyone's been very cool. The show 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.920 is still going to air a number of times on Friday, 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:46.400 which is today and Saturday and then Sunday. In fact, 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.120 I looked at the schedule. We will be on SNY 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:54.320 in New York, our weekly timeslot that we've had all 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:59.120 football season, eleven thirty am in the Big Apple on 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:04.960 SNY on Sunday and today tonight, a couple of showings 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:09.159 on NBC Sports Boston, assuming we don't get bumped for 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.120 more Belichick coverage. But we were on at seven thirty 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.760 tonight primetime and nine o'clock. I love the seven to 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.360 thirty slot on NBC Sports Boston. Here's why, cause there'll 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.800 be some people that are creatures a habit that just 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.720 assume the Celtics who play they usually play. The Celtics 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:26.960 usually play on Friday, so maybe they'll turn on NBC 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.280 Sports Boston thinking they're gonna get the Celtics and they'll 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.960 get my fat ass with Looney Tunes breaking down the game. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.120 So that's tonight seven thirty and then at nine o'clock 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.560 an encore showing. We're on in Philly night if you're 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:41.000 listening in the Delaware Valley at eleven thirty, you can 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.400 watch that on NBC Sports Philadelphia. Chicago got a ten 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.480 to thirty time slot tonight on NBC Sports Chicago, and 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.320 in the Bay Area they love Benny versus Depending on 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:52.600 NBC Sports Bay Area. 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.800 We've got three showings. That's pretty cool. 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.880 San Francisco here we come three pm, nine pm, and 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:04.840 eleven thirty pm. And we're also on NBC Sports California, 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.040 which is home the Sacramento Kings at eight o'clock tonight, 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.240 in a couple of showings on Saturday in the La 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:15.160 market on sn Why but I have a voice in 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.080 my head, and the voices is Danny G. It's like, Hey, 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.600 I know I'm not here, but you moron. Just tell 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:25.240 people to check their local TV listings. And so I 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.640 probably should have done that, but I just gave most 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.080 of the schedule, at least for today. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.079 So I guess I'm not good at this, but that 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.960 I just wanted to mention now. 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:39.239 I wanted to turn the page for a second and 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:44.439 spend at least a couple of minutes acknowledging a tip 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:49.319 of the headphones. So if you listen to the radio show, 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.400 you know it was. Last week has been kind of 0:08:52.400 --> 0:09:00.880 tough because my beloved dog Bella has has checked out 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.160 of this mortal coil. Bye Bye Bella. We're gonna call 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:09.120 this and I didn't post any photos on social media. 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:13.160 I really want the purpose of Bye Bye Bella. I 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:18.160 wanted to thank you. A number of you reached out 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:22.520 to me, and it's always wonderful when. 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.479 People that you know. I know some of you because. 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.360 You've interacted with me, whether you're a character on the 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.280 show or you're a show contributor. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:31.439 In one way or another, I know you a little. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.959 But there are people that I have no idea who 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:35.840 they are, who are just fans of the show and 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.120 they love dogs and pets, and they sent me a 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.280 nice message and it's very kind, and you didn't have 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.560 to do that, and I appreciate it, and thank you. 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:51.040 I loved being Bella's companion and enjoying my dog's time. 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.319 And she was so amazing when we first got her 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.679 and for years, but she got old and it's one 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.800 of those things that for me, the reason this was 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.079 very traumatic, But there was two reasons. I love the dog, 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.240 and then number two is I had never actually been 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.400 the adult in the room in something like this. It 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.120 had always been someone else. I've had a bunch of 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.760 dogs my mom. We had a dog named Oliver. There 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:16.760 was a dog named Corny when I was a little kid, 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.720 and so I've always been a dog guy, you know, 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.240 who let the dogs out. That's my thing, that's my jam, 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:26.600 the dogs. All about the dogs. And so with that 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.840 being said, dogs live, they don't live as long as us. 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:30.800 We all know that you probably had this happen to you, 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.920 and so when the time has come to say bye 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.560 bye to the dog, it has always been someone else 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:43.440 that I have been detached from the reality of having 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.320 to be there when the. 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:47.080 Pet goes away. 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.520 And it was a little different with Bella because she 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:53.440 has been pretty ill for a while. Me and the wife, 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.240 we've kind of been saying to each other off and 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.840 on for the past I don't know how long exactly, 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.480 it's been, maybe a year, probably a little less than that, 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.720 but it has been a case where bell has kind 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:10.200 of been in hospice, doggy hospice, and we knew that 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.520 this time was coming, so we had plenty of time. 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:13.120 To prepare for It. 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.440 Doesn't mean that you're like excited when it happens and 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:20.880 all that, but Bella she got attacked by a coyote about. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:21.360 Three years ago. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.880 I think it was in fact three almost three years exactly, 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:26.480 and it was in the middle of the night I 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.480 was doing the show. Was during COVID, kind of the 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.079 tail end of COVID. I was doing the show from 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:37.920 the home studio and the belarue the Belaruski went out 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:44.040 to get busy, and a coyote thought, that's dinner. Not 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.280 a big dinner. It's a small dinner. I'm on a diet, 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.040 but it's a dinner, and so the coyote went out 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.600 to attack attack Bella, and she was a bit pretty good. 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.080 I mean, there was a big chunk of her that 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.720 was gone, and we were freaking out. 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.680 She was freaking out, and we took her, spent thousands 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:03.760 of dos to get her fixed up and all of that, 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.320 and it was successful. She lived several more years, but 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.520 she was never really the same after that. And I 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.240 don't know that that's directly related to that attack. Maybe 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.400 it was just the whole thing, all of it together. 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:18.600 And she started slowing down. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.600 A little bit more, a little bit more, as dogs 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.120 do as they get older, and it got to the 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:24.719 point where she. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.000 Kind of just wanted to be by herself, and dogs 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.320 are all about companionship, and I know you let him 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.400 roam around and whatnot. Maybe you have a backyard, maybe 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.080 you take them to the dog park, you let him 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:39.120 roam around. But ultimately, if the dog doesn't want anything 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.240 to do with you, that generally is a bad sign. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.000 That's generally a bad soie. I don't want to speak 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.720 for all dogs, but what the hell why not? And 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.280 so it's been that way for a while. Bella's been there, 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.120 We've been feeding her. She pretty much has been unable 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.959 to control the bodily function. Anyways, I don't want to 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.439 get in too deep, but I just wanted. 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.400 To thank you, many of some I didn't even expect 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.120 to hear from because you're known as douchebags on the show. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.559 You know who you are, and you still reach them, 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.400 so so thank I appreciate that. 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.880 Now to turn away from that and I want to 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:16.760 get back to the funt on this podcast, we like 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.960 to highlight some of the more as any things that 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.559 have happened now this week on the show, we were 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.360 given the gift of great audio. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.800 And when you work in a radio show, you need 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.360 great audio. You need it. It's all you have is audio. 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.360 You don't have pictures, just have audience. You need the audio. 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.240 And if you listen every night, you probably know where 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.840 I'm going with this. I'm gonna call this one the 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.600 dark O Delight, someone I had never heard of. I 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:49.360 had no idea who this person was, and he gave 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:55.520 me smiles. This person made me enjoy a night of 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.000 radio and so I'm grateful for that. We are talking 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:03.720 about dark oh Ryakovic, the head coach of the Toronto 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.240 pro bouncy ball team. And so before I break this 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.120 down to the Bruner film style frame by frame, I want 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:16.559 to play you a chunk of this legendary news conference 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:24.560 after the Toronto Raptors played the Los Angeles slash Minneapolis Lakers. 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.120 What is still wrong with the Clippers? 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.680 The Toronto Raptors were just led to the slaughter by 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.800 the referees. It was they didn't even try to hide it. 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:39.240 It's clear bias and embarrassing level of bias where the 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.200 officials were working as guardian angels to help Lebron. 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:44.720 That's crap. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.880 Been over a decade since the game had been this 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.640 lopside in the foul shot to sparity. So anyway, that's 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.960 the setup and moments after Toronto lost. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:57.520 The game, the prime loser. 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:03.440 The head coach of the Raptors, dark Go Ryakovic, got 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.440 up to the desk and let's go to the audio tape, 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.040 take all this and enjoy this. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:14.120 That's that's that's outrageous. What happened tonight. This is completely bias. 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.280 This is shame. Shame for the referee, shame for the 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.720 league to allow this. Twenty three free throws for them 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.880 and we get two free throws in the fourth quarter, 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:29.560 Like how to play the game. I understand respect for 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.240 all stars and all that, but we have. 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:32.840 Star players on our team as well. 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:37.200 How's possible a Scattie Barnes, who is all Star caliber 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.080 player in this league. He goes every single time to 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.720 the rim with fours and trying to get get to 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:43.600 the rim. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.920 Without flopping and and not trying to get foul calls. 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.280 He gets two three throws for the whole game. How 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:51.040 is that possible? 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.600 How are you gonna explain it to me if that's 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.120 If that's the case, just let us know so we 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:56.240 don't show up for the game. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:57.280 Just give them a win. 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.960 But that was not fair tonight, and this is not 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.360 hippening first time for us. Scottie Barnes is gonna be 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.920 old started, he's gonna be the face of this league. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.920 And what's hippening going here? During whole season, I've been 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.440 calding you back. It's a complete crap. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.920 Wow, I still like it. 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.800 I'm not gonna lie. I still like it. I enjoy it. 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.040 I'm a fan. I'm a fan. 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:23.840 Of this. 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.880 So the highlight, there's a couple of drops that we 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.840 got on this. The one right there he says, it's 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:35.200 a complete crap. Darko's from Serbia and it's a complete 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:36.760 crap crap. 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.560 That is wonderful. That is so good. 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:46.280 And when he said what happened tonight, this is completely bs. 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:47.760 This is shame. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:53.720 This is shame, solid solid, that's a solid sound bite. 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.080 That is a solid bite. And the one that which 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:58.520 I loved, I actually got to know an argument. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.440 If you listen to the show this week, we talked 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:01.840 about this. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.200 There was a bit of a disagreement between myself, Eddie 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.040 and Cooper. These guys don't think any of these things 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:11.040 are that good, and I like, no, no, this is great. 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:16.280 The one that I loved though he came completely out 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:21.280 of cuckoo land. Here's a head coach of the Toronto Raptors, 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:27.280 Darko Ryakovic, and he says, Scottie Barnes is gonna be 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.040 an All Star, He's gonna be the face of the league. 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:36.240 Scottie Barnes. Scottie Barnes, He's gonna be old Stott. He's 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:36.760 gonna be the. 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:41.720 Face of this league. Scotty bleeping Barns. It's like you 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.200 gotta be I mean, come on, he's a nice player, 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:47.160 but he's not He's not anywhere close to that level. 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.960 And maybe he becomes an All Star by chance, but 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:55.520 basically face of the NBA in Canada. So where does 0:17:56.480 --> 0:18:01.639 the Darko Raptors coach rank? It's and I don't I 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:03.640 don't do this. This is not a list. It's big board. 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.199 It's big Ben's big board. And it's just off the 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:08.200 top of my head. I've compared nothing. I have compiled enough. 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.919 It's gonna fly by the seat of my pants. So 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:16.080 is it in the category of a Dennis Green where 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.240 if you want to crowd them, then crown their ass. 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.240 If you want to crown them, then crown their ass. No, 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.360 it's not that, certainly not that is it. 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:34.080 Mike Tomlin going on a rant about the Steelers and 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.120 you know, Mojoe and all that stuff. 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.240 We want them to be fat and sassy and spoiled. 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:44.560 It is our job, fat and sassy and spoiled. It's 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:45.040 our job. 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.879 Is it that? No, it's not that. It's not that. 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:53.240 It's not Jim Mora saying that was a disgraceful performance, 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:54.720 or we couldn't do Diddley Pooh. 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:56.919 We just got our ass totally kicked. 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:02.040 We couldn't do Diddley pooh offensively. This is more in line. 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.440 This darko thing is more in line. If you remember, 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.919 during the baseball playoffs, there was a guy named aj 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:13.479 Minter of the Atlanta baseball team, and the Braves had 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.400 a big comeback in the playoffs, and they asked him 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:17.480 how were. 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:18.320 You able to come back? 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:24.199 And aj Minter said three words, heart and nuts. What 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.080 kind of nuts do you like, Martha pe nuts? 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:27.280 What do you enjoy? 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:31.239 There's richardal nuts, that's what. 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:33.600 And that's a great bite. Heart and nuts, I said on. 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:35.119 The radio show, and I believe this to be true, 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:39.040 that it's more of a David Fizdale type thing where 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.360 Fizzdale hounded the table looking at the box score and said. 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:46.760 Take that for data, Take that for data. And walked off. 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.240 So it's more like that, or maybe a buzz Williams 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:53.600 back when he was at Marquette saying the Butcher, the Baker, 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:55.840 the candlestick Maker, The Butcher, the. 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:57.879 Baker, the candlestick Maker. 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:02.720 Which we played years, years and years ago. It's in 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.879 that category. But I enjoyed it. I didn't expect it. 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.360 I'd put the baby to bed, I'd put the show 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:10.560 to bed. I actually had the Laker game on that night, 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.399 and I thought, well, this seems like an obscene amount 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.640 of foul shots, but that's just a typical Laker game. 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:17.160 The officials often are biased and help them out. 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:20.040 Ben sucks, so I thought. 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:21.840 Well, that's probably just that's just the way. I wasn't 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:22.760 paying that close attention. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:26.720 It was on the background, like background TV, and then 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:29.080 next thing I know, I was like this, this popped 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:34.359 up on our radar. I was like, whoa Wausers, zoom, bam, 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:38.440 all that stuff, like, that's really good. That's really good 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.240 audio from a guy that I had never heard that 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:44.719 I had never heard of. Time now for the Dish 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:46.800 of the Day. It's a new feature, the Dish of 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:50.679 the Day, Dish all the day, Dish, all the day. Now, 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:54.040 the reason we're doing dish of today is because randomly 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:59.280 I mentioned Salisbury College. Now that's not the dish of day, 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:05.200 but the reason I mentioned Salisbury College is because of. 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:07.600 The reality, the stork reality. 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:12.320 We were talking about mister Quinn, medicine man, defensive coordinator, 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.920 Dan Quinn of the Dallas football team, Dallas Calvin's, and 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.720 we did a monologue about Pete Carroll and Dan Quinn 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:23.520 is certainly the betting favorite to go back and replace 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:26.720 Pete Carroll in Seattle, and he went to Salisbury College. 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:28.840 So I used that as one of my three things, 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:30.960 and these monologues, I usually do three little things and 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:34.080 try to tie them all together and make them make sense. 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:37.840 So Salisbury College in Maryland. And then I was like, 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:40.639 wait a minute, is that Salisbury's steak? Is that the 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:42.480 same thing? And I was like, well, that's not really 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:44.800 the same thing. And then I was like, where did 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:48.600 Salisbury steak come from? Is it named after something related 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.919 to this part of Maryland? No, So then I did 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:54.800 a little deep dive and the dish of the day 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:59.240 is Salisbury's steak. I haven't had one of these Salisbury 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:01.520 steaks since I was as a kid. But it is 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:04.919 actually named after a person, not a city, not a college, 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:05.879 just named after a person. 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:06.720 James H. 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:11.120 Salisbury. He was a physician back in the eighteen hundreds. 0:22:11.520 --> 0:22:14.720 He was a chemist and he was an advocate. He 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:16.679