1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:06,199 Speaker 1: Show podcast. 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It's 13 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: mister Rogers neighborhood. Yet again, on a sleepy early April day, 14 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 1: we were given the gift of a l classico el 15 00:00:54,840 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: classical story. Woke up to a flur of text messages, 16 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: Hey you hear about this? And so I say, well, 17 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just waking up. I don't hear 18 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: about How could I have heard about it? Wake me 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 1: up and tell me. And then I went back to bed. 20 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: So there was a the story came out. It wasn't 21 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: even a mystery team that was knocking on Aaron Rodgers door. No, no, no, no, no, 22 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: out of you saw that. You might not have seen it. 23 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: You don't pay attention. I don't know. So this report 24 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 1: claimed that the Broncos, yes those Denver Broncos that were 25 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:36,559 Speaker 1: a win away of getting to the Super Bowl, were 26 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,759 Speaker 1: all horny to get some Aaron Rodgers. They were interested 27 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: in Aaron Rodgers, bringing him in for a visit. Now 28 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 1: I'm serious. 29 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 3: This got reported, This got reported, Yes, I know, it's crazy. 30 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 3: Blogger Mike Florio, the Wokester Mike Florio Pro Football Talk 31 00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 3: claimed that the Broncos were concerned that the currents starter 32 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 3: Bo Nicks will not fully be back one hundred percent 33 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 3: when the season starts. Now, this story, which many believe 34 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 3: was greatly exaggerated. The floodgates opened up, and the flag 35 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 3: is up and we're off to the races here. So 36 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 3: bounced all over the echo chamber, all over the echo chamber. 37 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 3: There several longtime Denver beat writers, not that. 38 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: Beat writers know everything, but they were cleming on it 39 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: is zero once said, zero percent chance that this happens. 40 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 1: The Broncos pursuing Aaron Rodgers. So this of course led 41 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: to a dog pile people piling on the credibility or 42 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 1: lack thereof, of the blog Pro Football Talk. So that 43 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the 44 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: question does blogger Mike Florio deserve to be mocked and 45 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: ridiculed for seemingly reporting with a straight face that the 46 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 1: Broncos Broncos wanted Aaron Rodgers to come visit. All right, 47 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,480 Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got Southwest, deep Fried 48 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: and Burger King, and we're gonna put all of these 49 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 1: things together and we are going to be sold a 50 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: bill of goods, much like Mike Florio was apparently sold 51 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: the bill of goods. All right, So this is a 52 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: first of all, it's great story. It's hilarious on so 53 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,959 Speaker 1: many levels. It's almost as good as when Adam Schefter 54 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: reported the Browns were interested in Condaleza Rice. You remember 55 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: that that was so good that wasn't even April Fool's Day. 56 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: So we are stupefied is the word I we use 57 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: the word stupefied. We are stupefied by the sheer, unadulterated 58 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: incompetence in many fashion facets of the sports media industrial complex. 59 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: And all that is great. So Mike Florio, who's been 60 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: doing this a long time. In fact, when I started 61 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: my website Benmallar dot com, I don't have anymore, but 62 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: years ago, and I did gossip stuff blogging. Florio was 63 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: part of. He was part of a group that had 64 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 1: several people. It was like multiple people that were running 65 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 1: these sports blogs had basketball, football, baseball, and hockey, and 66 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: they dumped all the other ones and Floryo kind of 67 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 1: went on his own, I remember correctly, and just started 68 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: doing the football thing and obviously made a career out 69 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 1: of it. Makes a lot of money. All that good 70 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: for him. So this one, though, is great. Mike Florio 71 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: ready to board a Southwest Airlines flight because he certainly 72 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: he wants that want to get away fair that they 73 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 1: had for so long. I want to get away, my god. 74 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: At least he lives in West Virginia, so he is 75 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: kind of away from everything at that point. Here, this 76 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: is a banana cream pie. Right to the face, right 77 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 1: to the shnas is what this is Florio walking aroun round. 78 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: I imagine his West Virginia home out there in the 79 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: boondocks with a giant red foam nose and clown makeup. 80 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: Because clearly he forgot the date. It's April first, well 81 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: not still April first in the West, but it's April segment. 82 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: You know, the story came out April first. Clearly Florio 83 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 1: did not check the app store. He needed a bug 84 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 1: fix for his brain. This is the equivalent in putting 85 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: this out there as the akin to walking face first 86 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: into a sliding glass door like that. That's not good, 87 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 1: that's not This smells like a false flag. It does 88 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 1: in the cartoon bubble in my head. Aaron Rodgers or 89 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 1: someone associated where Rogers planted the story and then sat 90 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:01,719 Speaker 1: back and watched as this thing's started bouncing around here. 91 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: And of course you said, well, why would you want 92 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: to go to Denver? If he wants to play, he 93 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: can go to Pittsburgh and have the key to the 94 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 1: Perogi factory. So it makes no sense. And Florio, Mike 95 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:18,039 Speaker 1: Floria essentially got ha ha from like Nelson of the 96 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: Simpsons right there, and just great, he got the big 97 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: gulp for gullibility, big time. And it's just great, just 98 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 1: absolutely great. And the only thing about it, too is 99 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: I imagine at some point Aaron Rodgers, will you go 100 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: play grab ass with his buddy with the blogger there 101 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 1: not blogger the podcaster guy Joe Rogan in Austin. They'll 102 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: drink some ayahuasca and they'll say, oh yeah, I like 103 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: this story and the city it wrote it. What a moron. 104 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: He didn't even check the date. 105 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 2: All right. 106 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: Meanwhile, to the Zebras we go. We go to the 107 00:06:55,600 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: Zebras where the NFL players are sociation has come out 108 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 1: in support shockingly of the mbattled officials. Yeah, we're getting 109 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: close to a deadline here next month where the NFL 110 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: will say bye bye to the referees and bringing a 111 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: bunch of replacement scab officials. And so the players union 112 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 1: issued a statement of support for the officials. The NFL 113 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 1: has started to compile a list, not a big board, 114 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: a list of officials, and a lot of them low 115 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: level college officials who are going to get the gig 116 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: of a lifetime, the gig you mentioned. You're doing some 117 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: backwater officiating and you get a call, Hey, how would 118 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: you like the ref an NFL game? Are you freaking 119 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: kidding me? Stop busting my balls? Why are you busting 120 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: my balls? No, it's real, really, So that's where that's going. 121 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: They're gonna start training them less than a month from now, 122 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: the beginning of May May first, and the existing agreement 123 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: between the officials and the NFL will end May thirty first. 124 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: So take that with a grain assault the question would 125 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: the NFL Would the NFL be endangering player self because 126 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: that was one of the arguments the players union made 127 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 1: that we need our beloved officials. You're risking the health 128 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: of our players. Hello, yeah, okay, so that was the argument. 129 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:35,319 Speaker 1: So would the NFL be endangering player safety with scab officials? 130 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: So I'm giving this one SIDEI now that's my resigning. 131 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:43,079 Speaker 1: I give his side. The NFLPA is sounding the alarm. 132 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 3: Player safety play out of an abundance of caution, player safety. 133 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: All that crap. It's like there Paul Revere riding through 134 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 1: the village. The scabs are coming, The scabs are coming. 135 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: Gime on, this is so stupid. Anyway, I'm not buying it. 136 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: I am not not even there. I'm not even ever say. 137 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: Let me tell you why. Now I can't explained why 138 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: because I've got the mile long CBS receipts, you know, 139 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: those that extra care thing where they give you the 140 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: really long receipts and all. Yeah, so I've got that. 141 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 1: Let's roll out the Hot Tub Time Machine. This is 142 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 1: not my first talk show. I've been here for a 143 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: few years, and I recall in this very chair was 144 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: actually out this door, and then you go down a 145 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: small hall and then you make a right, and then 146 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: from there you go and make a quick left, and 147 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: then you go in that studio and that's where that's 148 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:40,079 Speaker 1: where we did these rants. But it was all the 149 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: way back. We'll set the Hot Tub Time Machine to 150 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: twenty twelve. There was a referee lockout. Oh my god, yes, 151 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: it happened fourteen years ago. I was a child, I 152 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: was a little kid. I came in. I was in 153 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: fourth grade and I came in and I talked about this. 154 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: Do you remember the circus? You do, okay, good? You 155 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: remember the replacement referees stumbling and bumbling out there on 156 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: the field like they just got off a red eye 157 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 1: from Perth, Australia with no coffee. And yet we had 158 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: the legendary, as it was called at the time, the 159 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: fail Mary in Seattle in a primetime game, A call 160 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,559 Speaker 1: so atrocious I believe it got its own Netflix docu series. 161 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: It was that bad. Nevertheless, the plot twist, here's the 162 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,680 Speaker 1: plot twist. Let me give you the plot twist. Okay, 163 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: we had scab officials. We did not have an injury 164 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 1: apocalypse didn't happen. Didn't happen. There was no doomsday scenario, no, 165 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: no spike in the carnage. And so this argument, and 166 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,559 Speaker 1: I say, well, you don't support replacement scab officials. I 167 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 1: get it. But here's the thing. It's not player safety. 168 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 1: That's the wrong argument, because that is a deep fried 169 00:10:54,920 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: red herring HOGI wrapped in a smoke screen, dipped in propaganda, sauce, 170 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: a nice side of saucy propaganda. That's what that is. Football. 171 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 1: We keep getting told there's a gladiator sport. It's a 172 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,559 Speaker 1: sport of gladiators and bumper cars at one hundred miles 173 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 1: per hour, all that stuff. So the danger is then 174 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 1: baked into the cake. It's inside the cake. The size, 175 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: the speed, the torque to force, all that stuff. And 176 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: so it doesn't matter whether the official a just hired 177 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: from foot locker or has ten years on the job. 178 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. It really doesn't in that regard. And 179 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: so let's be real here. The regular referees miss a 180 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 1: bunch of calls, it happens. That's a human element. So 181 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: it's not about player safety. Say you shouldn't use replacements, 182 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 1: and that's not right and all that stuff. It's always 183 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: about the money. The NFL's plenty of money. The owners 184 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:52,719 Speaker 1: off they can pay the give the officials whatever they 185 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: want financially. There's some other stuff involved if you read 186 00:11:57,280 --> 00:11:59,560 Speaker 1: and listen between the words, there's some other stuff involved 187 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 1: in this, but it's not the money thing. NFL owners 188 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,439 Speaker 1: so as we've said a million times, like Mexican drug 189 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: lords they have, they're like El Chopo back in the day. 190 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 1: They're just bearing money. They don't know what to do 191 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: with all the money. They got so much money. All right, 192 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 1: last word, here to Bloomington, Indiana we go where Hoosier 193 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: Bill has a Cheshire cat smile from ear to ear. 194 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: So all thirty two NFL teams, we were told, ran 195 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:30,479 Speaker 1: up the expense account and sent scouts to Indiana Hoosier's 196 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: pro day. That's something that's never happened in my lifetime. 197 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: Normally they had to pay for scouts to show to 198 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: Hoosier's pro day because they had no business scouts being 199 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 1: there anyway. There were a bunch of media freeloaders that 200 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: were there as well. Credentialed media most came to see 201 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: the player that is the de facto top pick in 202 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: the draft later this month, Fernando Mendoza workout. You know 203 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: my position on Mendoza, if you've listened to previous shows, 204 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:07,199 Speaker 1: this has a high chance of being a tremendous, tremendous debacle, 205 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 1: real debacle. And so, of course, with one hundred media 206 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: paid to be there, the story is that Fernando Mendoza 207 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: was just clowing, clowing. Reports of his performance just freaking amazing. 208 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: Mendoza threw fifty six passes, fifty six passes roughly. He 209 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: threw short passes, he threw deep passes, he threw medium, 210 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: medium range, all of them all over the field, right 211 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: and targeted receivers to the left, to the right, over 212 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: the middle. Oh my god, it's like he's throwing against air. 213 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:47,199 Speaker 1: It's so amazing shocking. I also threw in the run. Wow. Okay, 214 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: So question. Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza had what reports say 215 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 1: was a sparkling pro day getting ready for the NFL Draft. 216 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: So how much does that even matter? How much does 217 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: that even matter? That is the question. So this was 218 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 1: a game of charades in Bloomington, it was, and this 219 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 1: has become over the last ten to fifteen years. It's 220 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: become a legend building workshop. That's what it is, a 221 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: legend building workshop, the hype machine giving out all kinds 222 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: of propaganda. I would say, more propaganda than state run media. 223 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: It's just over the top, right over the top. And 224 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 1: from what we're told, Tom Brady's raiders, they've already made 225 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 1: their minds up. They made their minds up, but prior 226 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: to the pro day, this is their guy. They got 227 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 1: their man, and that's it. And they're going to consummate 228 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: the relationship at the first pick in the NFL Draft 229 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 1: and that's going to be that. And so this entire circus, 230 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 1: if you were there for Fernando Mendoza, was a bunch 231 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: of malarkey, is what that was. And so the Pigskin 232 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: scribes always focus on the good, the positive. As talk 233 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: show host, we focus on the negative, right we do? Yes, 234 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: I know it's shocking. Don't bury the lead, my man, don't. 235 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: I would try not to bury the lead. I just 236 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: try to the football scribes avoid the bad, just ignore, 237 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: just ignore the bad. Is it true that Fernanda Mendos 238 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: had several throws several throws that were of amateur hour 239 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 1: and not up to NFL standards while playing against air. Yes, 240 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: overthrowing a receiver that had to dive to catch the 241 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 1: ball but didn't catch it. Throwing multiple bounce passes like 242 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: a point guard in the NBA. Yeah, bounce seat, bounce seat, 243 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:51,680 Speaker 1: bounce heat just like that. So in general, my position 244 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 1: on pro Day has been consistent. It is akin to 245 00:15:55,200 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 1: a Burger King commercial for a whopper. You ever see 246 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: these scores? I got the whopper looks like the most 247 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: amazing burger you could possibly put in your mouth. It's 248 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 1: just yes, it's all food stylists and lighting and they 249 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: I've seen some of the tricks. They undercook the patties 250 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: to look nice and plump, and they paint little grill 251 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: marks on the burgers so it looks like they were 252 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: perfectly grilled, and then they puff up the sesame. I 253 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: heard thet seed buns. They use all kinds of tricks, 254 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: but they like tweezers and glue and all that stuff. 255 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 1: So it's it's all scripted reality, just like pro DA. 256 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: It's scripted reality. It's familiar turf. It's not going against 257 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 1: any defensive players there's no pass rush or anything like that. 258 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 1: And in the real world. My experience with Burger king 259 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: is you get the dry burger, which I don't mind 260 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: other people complain about that. It does not look esthetically 261 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:54,359 Speaker 1: pleasing when you get it, and the buns normally smashed 262 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: up and it's like lukewarm. The toppings are not particularly good. 263 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: Special effects make it look solid. 264 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meler 265 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on 266 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio Appy. 267 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 1: It's me Rob Parker. 268 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 4: Check out my weekly MLB podcast, Inside the Parker, for 269 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 4: twenty two minutes of pipeing hop baseball talk, featuring the 270 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:26,119 Speaker 4: biggest names of newsmakers in the sport. Whether you believe 271 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 4: in analytics or the I test, We've got all the 272 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 4: bases covered. New episodes drop every Thursday, so do yourself 273 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:37,240 Speaker 4: a favor and listen to Inside the Parker with Rob 274 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 4: Parker on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. 275 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:45,439 Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from rehab. Now. If 276 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: there's any show on radio that has more experts on rehab, 277 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 1: I can't think of it. This show is at the 278 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:55,360 Speaker 1: very top. In fact, there's a requirement to call the show. 279 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: You've had to go to rehab at least three or 280 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: four times to call in the show. Unless that's not true. 281 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the rehab clinic. 282 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 1: As we have a Pooka Pooka update Star wide receiver. 283 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: The next big contract in the NFL will likely go 284 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 1: to this guy. If you've not heard, perhaps not, we 285 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: have learned that La Rams wide receiver Pooka Nakola has 286 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: checked himself in into a rehab facility after he was 287 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: accused of going full vampire and biting a woman while 288 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: drunk on New Year's Eve. His attorney confirming that his 289 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: client has checked himself into a luxury treatment center in 290 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: of course Malibu. Where else Malibu? Why not? All right? So, 291 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:54,119 Speaker 1: Nikola's lawyer said the rehab is because of a combination 292 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 1: of stories that y'all he told the New York Post 293 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: y'all must be from Texas have run is certainly a 294 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 1: contributing factor. Now the attorney is positioning this as Puka 295 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 1: going to rehab before he got sued. We'll get more 296 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,400 Speaker 1: into that later on. That's a good jumping out point. 297 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question, what do you see as 298 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: the driving force behind RAMS wide receiver, Puka Nakua and 299 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 1: his trip to a Malibu rehab, a holistic Malibu rehab. 300 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: So I've got NASA, where's Waldo and Rocket Fizz, and 301 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together, and we 302 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: are gonna make an alphabet soup is what we're gonna make. ABC. 303 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: That's right, ABC. So number, I said number, all right, 304 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: So we call it the Malibu Mirage, the Malamu Mirage. 305 00:19:55,160 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: So Pooka Nakua entering the NFL's Witness Protect spa and resort. 306 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 1: It is not a desert oasis. No, no, no, no, 307 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 1: it is a Malibu oasis. And now don't get this twisted. 308 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,160 Speaker 1: Do not whatever you do, do not get this twisted. 309 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 1: This is not about healing. It's not about healing. It's 310 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 1: about image laundering, not money laundering. Image laundering. It's the 311 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,640 Speaker 1: oldest trick in the Houdini Magic Set. If you open 312 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:29,880 Speaker 1: up the Houdini Magic Set, you get the hidden ball trick. 313 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: You got that, you've got the card, the deck of 314 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:36,640 Speaker 1: cards that's in there, and then you've got this. It's 315 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: right next to the I take full responsibility talking point 316 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 1: and that's not who I am. Those of course very popular. 317 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 1: This is coordinated Puka going to the holistic rehab, much 318 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:56,920 Speaker 1: like a NASA launch is coordinated countdown, countdown to contract 319 00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 1: extension team minus clean image, clean image. Yeah, so you 320 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: go to the holistic rehab, you sit by the mighty 321 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: big blue Pacific Ocean. Now it's gonna be tough for Pooka. 322 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 1: He does not eat vegetables. And this is a blow 323 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: to the anti vegetable caucus. And that anti vegetable caucus 324 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: includes Al Michael's Puka Nakua and yours. Truly, we are 325 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,440 Speaker 1: anti vegetable. And if you go to a holistic retreat, 326 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 1: you're going to be given cucumber water, whether you want 327 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,880 Speaker 1: it or not. You're gonna be given that. You're also 328 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: gonna get avocado toast. You're gonna get avocado toast. Smoke 329 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 1: salmon as well, on of course a begel smoke salmon begel. 330 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: You'll get that. And then suddenly, poof, just like that, 331 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 1: you are rebranded from hazard in the headlines, hazard in 332 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:56,880 Speaker 1: the headlines to misunderstood artisan, just like that. And that's 333 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: not just bending the rules. It's not bending the rules here. 334 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 1: That is or agami is what that is? Right? 335 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 2: That is? 336 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:04,879 Speaker 1: I mean you're taking a piece of paper and twisting 337 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: that thing up and it's looks like a bird. Is 338 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: it a plane? I don't know. So we're not playing checkers. 339 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: It's chess, you know, that whole thing. And the rams 340 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 1: are watching the ownership. Stan Kronkey's watching, the lawyers are 341 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: watching the possible court date, which is not who knows 342 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: if it's ever going to get the court that's also 343 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: out there. And so the contract Faerry is watching with 344 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: forty plus million dollars aav average annual value over forty 345 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: million dollars that pook A gonna set the record, was 346 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 1: on track, on track to set the record for the 347 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,880 Speaker 1: highest average annual value per year. You're gonna get the bag. 348 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:51,920 Speaker 1: So the contract Ferry is hovering over so far like 349 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,679 Speaker 1: a drone, and you think the money just shows up 350 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 1: like that. And if you're starring in Byte Club, I 351 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know about that. Now, Pooka does 352 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: have a great opportunity if he plays his cards right here, 353 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 1: they can bring back the Vampire Diaries and he would 354 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: have a role in the reboot of The Vampire Diaries. 355 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 1: Here and I want to point out also that we 356 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,119 Speaker 1: said this the night the story came out with the 357 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: Pooka Nakua story, this one accusation is a spark. We 358 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,200 Speaker 1: have not gotten a wildfire. Very important, we have not 359 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:33,359 Speaker 1: gotten a wildfire. And with Deshaun Watson, when this his 360 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: story came out a couple of years ago, it was like, 361 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 1: well he came out denied the one accusation, and then 362 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: it was another one, and another one, and another one 363 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,159 Speaker 1: bites the dust, and another one and another one and 364 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: all that stuff. We have not seen a girl gang 365 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: feeding TMZ's inbox with credible accusations against Pooka Nakoula. However, 366 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: in the NFL, oftentimes a single spark turns into a 367 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 1: five alarm inferno and it happens real quick. And so 368 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 1: Nikoua's he's trying to hit the reset button here has 369 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,879 Speaker 1: a lot of money on the line. Is people writing 370 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 1: his coattails trying to get that money, and so it's 371 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: rehab holistic reputation, the old switcheroo. There go to Malibu 372 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 1: and yeah, so going to sell the hardship angle for 373 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 1: Puka at a Malibu rehab where they charge eight thousand 374 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: dollars a month and you go there and just kind 375 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 1: of hang out and knock yourself out, all right, now, 376 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,360 Speaker 1: keeping the theme of the hour, because there's nothing better 377 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: than talking about rehab on talk radio. It's fascinating. So 378 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 1: Tiger Woods, Yeah, another big, big couple of months here 379 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:51,680 Speaker 1: for rehabs. So Tiger Woods turned down shockingly the Ryder 380 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: Cup cappency. I don't know why. I guess he must 381 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: be busy flipping cars. So he's going to step away 382 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:03,159 Speaker 1: from all golf activity, will not participate in the Masters. 383 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,199 Speaker 1: In fact, he will not even be in the country 384 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: as a Florida judge has rubber stamped, rubber stamped a 385 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: motion to allow Tiger Woods to vacate the United States 386 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: of America and he's going to seek treatment. According to 387 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 1: Tiger's well compensated attorney, the attorney asking the judge that 388 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 1: Tiger Woods be allowed to travel outside the country for 389 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: comprehensive inpatient treatment. The lawyer said that the recommendation from 390 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: Tiger Woods doctor winkin whatever was doctor's Doc Mike, I 391 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: don't know anyway, or Doc Dan, maybe Doc Dan from Minnesota. 392 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:45,159 Speaker 1: So Tiger Woods doctor has recommended based on the quote 393 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 1: complex clinical presentation and the urgent need for a level 394 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: of care that cannot safely be or effectively be done 395 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: within the United States, as Tiger's privacy has been repeatedly compromised. 396 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: So the judge bought this bull crap, and so Tiger's 397 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,720 Speaker 1: going to go abroad? Will he be followed by a 398 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 1: Netflix docu crew to have a docu series Tiger goes 399 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:18,479 Speaker 1: to rehab a four part Netflix special? Yeah, all right, 400 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 1: So question will Tiger Woods successfully avoid the paparazzo while 401 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 1: overseas getting some rehab a right? So if you think, okay, 402 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,880 Speaker 1: if you think Tiger Woods is going to vanish into 403 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 1: the French mist like a phantom, I have a pump 404 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 1: and dump crypto. I would like you to buy all 405 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 1: of it. I want you to buy all of it place. 406 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 1: Come on. We have built a global economy, a global 407 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,920 Speaker 1: economy in the age of social media, and the currency 408 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,400 Speaker 1: is tipped off, as in, Hey, I know something, I'm 409 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,920 Speaker 1: gonna make some money on this to go viral and 410 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna make my cash. You honestly think 411 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 1: a fifty thousand dollars bounty from the Daily Mail in 412 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:14,400 Speaker 1: London or New York post is page six or TMZ 413 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: is going to turn a picturesque, just beautiful French chateau 414 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 1: into a high stakes game of where's Waldo? Come, of 415 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: course that's going to happen. It's going to turn into 416 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,159 Speaker 1: a where's Waldo game at the French chateau and the 417 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:35,639 Speaker 1: French Riviera rehab clinic. As it's just a I believe 418 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: a charade. I'm going with charade here. It's theatrical. It's 419 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 1: highly produced, is what it is here in stage for 420 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 1: the gullible, and the gullible always love this. They can't 421 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 1: get enough of it. Every waiter, every bell hop, every masseuse, 422 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 1: all of these people from Pari out to the suburbs 423 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 1: and beyond will be on the prowl. Money man of money. Yep, 424 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: money man of money. Yeah. Money doesn't talk. It screams. 425 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: It always screams. We know that that's the case. 426 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 3: Here. 427 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: Imagine Tiger sitting in his chateaux looking out at the 428 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: French Riviera. He feels like he's protected, surrounded by a 429 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:18,119 Speaker 1: wall of the Claire's and chocolate moose and just settling 430 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: in there and he's safe behind the wall of desserts 431 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 1: and wrong. No, the apaparazzo are like heat seeking missiles, 432 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,640 Speaker 1: is what they're like there. They don't care about your crembroulet. 433 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,880 Speaker 1: They're not worried about that. Okay, they're not. I care 434 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,360 Speaker 1: about the payday and not the candy bar pay day. 435 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: Not the candy bar pay day. To think that Tiger 436 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: will avoid the lens when everyone's walking around with a 437 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: high definition camera, even the guys with the Obama phones 438 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 1: they have that, come on, and Tiger is just another mark, 439 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 1: just another mark on the board. You grab your popcorn, 440 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 1: get your popcorn now, But of that popcorn because the 441 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: private retreat is about to become public viewing. All right. 442 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 1: Now back to the NFL. Final point. Back to the NFL. 443 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: To Houston we go where the owner, cal McNair, another 444 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 1: second generation ownership group. Dad made the money and he's 445 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 1: as big as Stumblebum, as Mark Davis or the second 446 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: generation owners anyway. So cal McNair threw his support around CJ. Stroud, 447 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 1: the disgruntled When I say disgruntled, his play, he's making 448 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 1: everyone disgruntled quarterback there in Texas. McNair telling the media 449 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: in Houston, quote, we're totally behind him meeting c J. 450 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 1: Stroud he's totally bought into being our quarterback and all 451 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: that entails. Really, we all want to get better every year. 452 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 1: The Texans bloviating owners said, he's doing that. He's doing that. 453 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: Everyone is doing that. Everyone's getting better. Okay, didn't look 454 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: like he got better in the playoffs. 455 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 5: What do I know? 456 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 1: Question? We know the fl the fluffer nutter from the 457 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: owner here, Cal McNair. The question how much confidence do 458 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 1: the Texans really have in c J. Stroud? We know 459 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 1: what they said, but how much confidence do they have? All? 460 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:14,800 Speaker 3: Right? 461 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 1: So the whole thing with CJ. Stroud it stinks. Not 462 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 1: just a little smell kind of from a distance, Not 463 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 1: that kind of stink. No, I'm talking about a full 464 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: on stink. I'm talking about the Grand Central Fish Market 465 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,760 Speaker 1: in July on a rare, really blistering hot day, that 466 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 1: kind of smell. Now, you watch the tape, you listen 467 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 1: to the games on the radio and all that stuff. 468 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 2: C J. 469 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 1: Stroud he had the false opening, came on like Gamebusters, right, 470 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 1: it was like some kind of foodoo bugaloo. How good 471 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 1: he was as a rookie and he was an absolute warhead. 472 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 1: And turns out that now that we've got several years, 473 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 1: a couple of years after that rookie season, and it 474 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,040 Speaker 1: was actually a trip to Rocket Fizz, Soda Pop and 475 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 1: candy shop. And the warhead was a candy version, not 476 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 1: the nuclear kind. It was just a candy warhead, tardy, 477 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 1: fruity flavored quarterback that seems to explode in big moments 478 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:25,239 Speaker 1: and right upon contact, just call boom, just like that. Now, 479 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 1: Stroud had a terrible second year as the twenty fifth 480 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: rank quarterback in the NFL. He followed that up by 481 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 1: becoming the twenty ninth ranked quarterback in the NFL. And 482 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 1: then you have the snuffleufogus in the room playoffs. As 483 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 1: Donnie Brosco said back in the day, forget about it. 484 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,840 Speaker 1: Forget about it. He had a first class ticket CJ. 485 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 1: Strout of the Texans on the vomit comet in the 486 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 1: playoffs right there, and that that was a bakery with 487 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:05,120 Speaker 1: a special on turnovers, fresh giveaways every five minutes. Come 488 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,760 Speaker 1: on down, and the Texans, they're all in. C J. 489 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,960 Speaker 1: Stroud had the worst postseason in NFL history for a 490 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 1: player that played multiple games, and they're all in. Please, 491 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,880 Speaker 1: we all know it's a results based industry, and you 492 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 1: either produce or you get replaced, as simple as that. 493 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 1: And right now, right now, CJ. Stroud's producing extra strength anxiety, 494 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: all right, and Houston will pick up the fifth year option, 495 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,800 Speaker 1: and I'll do them monologue and I'll kill them. I'll 496 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 1: char broil the text like what are you doing? They'll 497 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 1: do it. I would be stunned if they would not 498 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 1: pick that up. They're gonna pick up the fifth year option. 499 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,080 Speaker 1: The reason they're gonna do it is because they're scaredy cats. 500 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,440 Speaker 1: They're scaredy cats. They're scared to admit that they might 501 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: have hitched their wagon to the wrong horse. And it's 502 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,719 Speaker 1: a problem. And it's also FOMO. These guys benefit from FOMO. 503 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 1: The biggest thing going in sports today is FOMO. There's 504 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,760 Speaker 1: a bunch of these plays in baseball that haven't done 505 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: anything in the big leagues and they're getting massive eight 506 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 1: year contracts because of FOMO. That these teams are so 507 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,840 Speaker 1: parent or they have so so much low self esteem 508 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,560 Speaker 1: in baseball, they're so worried, like any of these guys 509 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:17,800 Speaker 1: turn out to be good, they're just gonna go to 510 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 1: the Dodgers of the Yankees, or the Red Sox or 511 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 1: the Cubs or something like that. So these small market, 512 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 1: small minded teams, they give all these guys eight year 513 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,960 Speaker 1: contracts worth fifty million, one hundred million dollars and they 514 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,920 Speaker 1: haven't proven anything. It's FOMO and CJ. Stroud's going to 515 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 1: get another year of fifth year option because of FOMO. 516 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 1: It's not confidence. You don't have any confidence in CJ. Stroud. 517 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,959 Speaker 1: This is crossing your fingers and hoping that nobody notices 518 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:42,479 Speaker 1: the stench. 519 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,040 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller 520 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,120 Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. 521 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we Go. 522 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 6: A couple of weeks ago, it seemed like Russell Wilson 523 00:33:58,080 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 6: might get signed by the Chiefs, but instead they went 524 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,000 Speaker 6: with Justin Fields. Now it's being reported that there is 525 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,000 Speaker 6: quote no market for Russell Wilson. Ben, do you think 526 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 6: mister unlimited goes unsigned? 527 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,239 Speaker 1: Well, it would take like five quarterbacks getting into a 528 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 1: clown car accident for him to g assigned. At this point, 529 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,359 Speaker 1: there will be injuries and so he's on that short list. 530 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,040 Speaker 1: It doesn't look good. It sounds like the Raiders want 531 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,319 Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, not Russell Wilson. That's the only available job 532 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,360 Speaker 1: unless Aaron Rodgers goes away next. 533 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,040 Speaker 6: Ben Roethlisberger spoke on a recent podcast and said about 534 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,440 Speaker 6: the Baltimore Ravens, I think that their window is closed. 535 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,080 Speaker 5: I should say it's closing. Yeah, Bet, is their window 536 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:31,960 Speaker 5: closing or closed? 537 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,520 Speaker 1: It's closing. Lamar Jackson did not look as good last year. 538 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 1: He's been hurt recently. They have a new coach. It's 539 00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: not closed, it's they're at a fork in the road. 540 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 1: The Ravens are not. They're not a stock that you buy, 541 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,640 Speaker 1: you don't sell it. They just kind of hold on 542 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:49,439 Speaker 1: to it at this point. 543 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,040 Speaker 6: Next and only as second year coaching, the Rocket Tea 544 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 6: Odoka led the team to the first Division title and 545 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,800 Speaker 6: six years and then the second seed in the Western Conference. 546 00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,240 Speaker 6: Then they got bounced in the first round the summer, 547 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,760 Speaker 6: saying a first round exit this year could constant Doka 548 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 6: his job. Do you think they'd pull the plug on 549 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:04,600 Speaker 6: him that quick? 550 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,239 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go no. He is considered one of the 551 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 1: better coaches in the NBA. The Rockets changed the ingredients. 552 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,680 Speaker 1: They added Kevin Durant. They screwed up the recipe. I 553 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,800 Speaker 1: say they're gonna keep him for another year. How do 554 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,960 Speaker 1: we do he passes. That is they way put on him? 555 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 1: I got the game? 556 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:18,000 Speaker 5: Oh my god? 557 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:18,799 Speaker 1: What the guy? 558 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 559 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,600 Speaker 2: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio 560 00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:30,800 Speaker 2: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to 561 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:31,560 Speaker 2: listen live. 562 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 1: It's now time for time for honey, Honey, Honey, Wait, 563 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,960 Speaker 1: ask bad Twitter, send us your questions on Twitter. Now, 564 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,120 Speaker 1: all let's go do it, kobolo. Here we go the 565 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,799 Speaker 1: reading of the questions on Ask Ben. Your questions are 566 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,600 Speaker 1: answers hashtag ask Ben and no way we go. 567 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:52,640 Speaker 6: All right, So, I don't know if he's rebranding here, 568 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,080 Speaker 6: but Robin Coco Beach form rob in the three two one? 569 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:56,760 Speaker 1: Interesting? 570 00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,440 Speaker 6: Yeah, Ben, he wants to know Ben and Crewe. Did 571 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,439 Speaker 6: you watch the Space Shuttle launches when they were aired 572 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:01,799 Speaker 6: on TV? 573 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:08,600 Speaker 1: Yes, I'm of the generation that we all went to 574 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,080 Speaker 1: school and they had a teacher that went to space 575 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 1: and she blew up in the Space Shuttle. We were 576 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:18,320 Speaker 1: all watching. Oh, we were watching a child? Yeah I was. 577 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,080 Speaker 5: But did you watch Artemis two yesterday or No? 578 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,440 Speaker 1: I didn't watch that. I was sleeping. No, I loved it. 579 00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by that. I wanted to go see the 580 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:27,880 Speaker 1: goblins out in space. Lorena. 581 00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,560 Speaker 6: No I did not, cool, Nope, I did not. All right, 582 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:34,480 Speaker 6: we's sleeping all right. Here is a question from the 583 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:38,320 Speaker 6: King Rory, Hi, Rory. When having guests over, do you 584 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 6: ask them to take their shoes off? 585 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,160 Speaker 1: I do not ask them. They often do because when 586 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,000 Speaker 1: you come into the Malor mansion, you see a bunch 587 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,040 Speaker 1: of shoes, so it's kind of obvious. You don't have 588 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,839 Speaker 1: to tell people because it's obvious the shoes near the door. 589 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 1: You know, I live in an Asian household. That's what happens, so. 590 00:36:55,120 --> 00:37:01,560 Speaker 5: You know, no, you're Asian, Yes, go ahead of right. 591 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,360 Speaker 7: Yeah, No, no, I do not, although I do appreciate 592 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 7: it because if you really think about how dirty our 593 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,200 Speaker 7: shoes are, it's disgusting. 594 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,879 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's good and walk them barefoot whatever, they're cool. 595 00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,680 Speaker 1: I never have, but I am going to. 596 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:17,080 Speaker 4: Now. 597 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,239 Speaker 5: Just got a new rug the other the other day. 598 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, and that thing clean, they're really Yeah, but you 599 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,440 Speaker 1: gotta rent like a cleaner, like a grocery. 600 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:28,920 Speaker 5: Old rug was so bad we just just threw it away. 601 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:30,600 Speaker 5: About a new one and now no more, No more 602 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:31,319 Speaker 5: shoes on the rug. 603 00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,080 Speaker 1: That'll last about three weeks. Next, what do we got? 604 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,480 Speaker 5: Donkey Sausage would like to know how many pillows do 605 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:37,040 Speaker 5: you sleep with? 606 00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,400 Speaker 1: So this is a very controversial topic. I did a 607 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,759 Speaker 1: podcast bout this, so I had we used to do 608 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,799 Speaker 1: commercials for sleep number. I wish they'd come back as 609 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,560 Speaker 1: an advertiser. And they sent me the greatest pillow I've 610 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,320 Speaker 1: ever had, And I love that pillow and I that 611 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,359 Speaker 1: was my go to pillow. It was like perfect size. 612 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,640 Speaker 1: I'm a side sleeper and it was perfect and they 613 00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:58,279 Speaker 1: don't make it anymore. So I tried to buy, but 614 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,640 Speaker 1: I have like I'm usually a two pillow guy. I 615 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,480 Speaker 1: got the one pillow which is like my elbow wrapped 616 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,640 Speaker 1: around it, and then I got one other pillow, so too, Lorrena. 617 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,840 Speaker 7: I have three legitimate pillows, all varying in s firmness. 618 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,200 Speaker 7: I have a soft, medium and a hard and then 619 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:18,520 Speaker 7: I have about seventeen squash mellows on my back, varying 620 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:19,319 Speaker 7: sizes as. 621 00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,360 Speaker 5: Well, small, medium, extra, small, large, jumbo. 622 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,240 Speaker 1: But yeah, I actually it almost looks like a pool 623 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:26,759 Speaker 1: around me. 624 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:28,320 Speaker 7: Of a pillows. 625 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,960 Speaker 5: So she has lots of pillows. Yes, cool take away? 626 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:31,840 Speaker 1: What are we looking at it? 627 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,640 Speaker 6: I finally got a good pillow for the first time 628 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:36,320 Speaker 6: in my life. And that's it, just one pillow. 629 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,320 Speaker 1: Pill Yeah, when you have one proper pillow and I 630 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,000 Speaker 1: have multiple, but I have one's my good. Yeah. 631 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:44,040 Speaker 5: Why was that so short? 632 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,840 Speaker 1: I don't know. I blame that guy from Ohio.