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Are not out, not out at all.
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Containment, So we'll keep an eye on all that. But our lead, you're here for the sports, and we are here to give you the sports. It's Sporty Malor our lead from Tampa. That was the site that was the site of the made for TV Sunday Night Prime Time match up Jade and Daniels and the Commanders popping in for a visit the baker Mayfield Bucks, the opponent first playoff game for Jayden Daniels popping his cherry, and there was to recall and collins Worth. They had the call on the Peacock. I don't know if you were engaged in this game or not. Maybe you don't really give a rats ass about either one of these teams.
Don't worry. We watched so you would not have to.
Jade Danis running for a critical first down and that set things up and allowed Washington to run the clock down and set up a game winning field goal opportunity for Zanganza's thirty seven yard field goal attempt for zan Gonzalez and.
He donked it.
He doinked it off the right, upright, and it still went in. The kick went in. That football went through anyway, despite jinking off the upright. As time expired, turnout the last the parties over on the Buccaneers. They did not fire the cannons as the Commanders win the NFC Wild Card game on Sunday night, the franchisees first playoff win in six nine and forty five days, but who's counting. Joe Gibbs was the head coach of a team known as the Redskins. Yes, they were known as the Redskins the last time they won a playoff game. And now the team with the dopey name Commanders will face the number one overall seat, the Detroit Lyons in the divisional round. The better story is in the losing locker room. So that is where we are going to focus. In the losing locker room. Let's start with the quarterback. If you saw the game, you know why we're starting with the quarterback. So where did things go wrong for Baker Mayfields Buccaneers?
Where did things go wrong here?
So I've got vending machine, Peter Principal, and sleep score, and we will combine all of these things together and we are going to make a nice cigar. You can get really good cigars. Tony Bruno used to work here, and Tony could say, you go to Tampa and they have those great Cuban cigars in Tampa. See that's where you get them from right there, all right. So A sometimes when you kind of process everything going on in the certain segment of the sports world, sometimes the questions are easy. The answers are hard. Other times the questions are hard, the answers are easy. But this time the questions and the answers are simple, the real ones. No. If you watched the Sunday night game, the script flipped in the fourth quarter. Baker Mayfield played relatively well for the Tampa Bay office. Wasn't great, wasn't great, but relatively well. However, he did the thing you can't do at the time. You cannot do it. He went to the vending machine and he got a candy bar. It was a butter finger because Baker Mayfield. As we have said for many, many years, most games are lost, they're not won. And this is a classic example. As the Buccaneers were set up, the Bucks defense had forced the team formerly known as the Redskins to turn the ball over on downs. They got the ball back deep inside their own territory, they picked up a first down, Mike Evans picked up a first down. So now they're starting to matriculate the ball down the field these day. They feel pretty good at that point Tampa Bay and they're nursing a four point lead. So at that point, you get a field goal, you're up by a touchdown, you're You're not going to lose, most likely unless the Commanders come down, score a touchdown, go for two at that point, and then it happened.
Then it happened. Baker Mayfield had a.
He had a cough, He coughed up the football, He botched an element stree play a handoff the wide receiver Jalen McMillan, simple basic football play. If you're a professional quarterback making tons of money, you should be able to make that play. Every single time the ball ended up on the grass, the Commanders, the linebacker former ram and see Bobby Wagner jumped on it, fumble fumble Ruski he jumped right on top of it, and four plays later, touchdown Washington and the script had been flipped. It was rewritten. The game was not lost at that point, but it set things going the other direction.
Now, a lot of you say, what moment, moment? What bucks at all?
The momentum There's no such thing as momentum, you dummies, does not exist. But Baker Mayfield does get a nice dunce cap for that mistake. There at the end, here's Baker explaining the thing that went wrong. At the time it went wrong.
Take a listen there's some dumb stuff today that across the team.
So it's uh yeah, it's gonna wear on me for a while.
The first one all.
Year that happened on so obviously timing of if not great, getting backed up, defense had just done a hell of a job getting us the ball. Another fourth down stop and stay unfortunate that falls on me.
All right.
Now, the other storyline here for the Buccaneers, what are the chances that Todd Bowles is out as coach of the Bucks? They made the Playoffously, you can't get rid of coach when they make the playoffs. Well, you gotta fired Todd Bowles, but can you encourage him to step aside? So I'm gonna set the malarodds that Todd Bowles is out dun Skies as coach in Tampa Bay. I'm gonna set the odds Mallard sports Book gods at plus two twenty five. That implies a thirty percent chance. Another way to look at this in baseball, it's a three hundred hitter. In baseball, you have a three hundred hitter, you're feeling pretty good. You're gonna get a base hit. Now, it doesn't get a hit all the time. Seven of ten times you don't get a hit, but three hundred batting average. That's where I am. There has been a grassroots movement to have Todd Bowles step aside to retire to get some ceremonial position in the Buccaneers organization. Now, remember the Bucks did this with their last head coach. They kind of forced him out to retire, and so there is a precedent there. The critics have pointed out they do not like to Todd Bowles is from the old country, that he's not one of these new new coaches. He's a throwback, no nonsense type guy and a product of the Peter principle where he has been promoted because he was on the previous coaching staff. He's been promoted until he's reached the highest level of incompetence there and he's remained there, and then you have the Komodo dragon in the room. The clock management issues. Bulls botched the clock multiple times in the wild card game. It was a dereliction of duties clock management. At the end of the first half the Buccaneers Todd Bowles led over ten seconds run off the clock. The Bucks had reached the ends of the red zone, so they only had seventeen seconds by the time they called the time out. Now he got bailed out by his team because they ended up scoring a touchdown. So if you get bailed out, people like, well, it doesn't matter, I scored a touchdown anyway, Okay, fine, But he did the same thing in the second half of the game. Jaden Daniels and the team formerly known as the Redskins were trying to milk the clock. Was kind of obvious that their goal was to, at least in a tie game, either kick the game winning field goal or at worst go to overtime to run out the clock. Milk it like it's a cow. And that was the plan, but they got help from Todd Bowles, who screwed that up. He was ab twose yet again when it came to the clock and Balls let more than ten seconds run off the clock there as well, and the Washington football team did end up getting that field goal with a couple seconds left. Tampa never got their hands on the ball again and lost out as time ran out. Let's see, I want to get the second bite here from Balls this year. The second when he's Todd Bulls and he's talking about the future and what things are looking like for Tampa Bay going forward. Here's Todd Bowles on that.
Great court group going forward, very optimistic about those guys. Just got to keep people healthy, add to it and clean up some spots, and I think we'll be fine.
Keep in mind, no one stays healthy all the time, no one stays out. I mean, you're not gonna announce I'm leaving right after the game. This is something that will come out in the coming days. We'll see in the Todd Bowles. I like Todd Bowles. He's an interesting cat, so I don't think he's a great coach. I think he's a nice dudent and that I think he's entertaining. So that's all I care about. I have no skin in the game.
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I got nothing right all weekend on the TV show until Monday night, and so there was a little salvation from Monday Night football, the last leg of wild Card weekend. That is our lead from the Valley of the Sun, not La La Land, No, the Valley of that's not. For only the second time in NFL history, a neutral site playoff game playoffs now last time there was a neutral site. The only other time there was a neutral site playoff game, the owner of the Boston Redskins moved the game because because he was planning on moving the franchise to Washington, DC. He moved it to New York because he wanted to get out of Boston. This because of the wildfires. The Rams chased out of LA that fire, Tornado. The Wins back here we do the show from LA. The Wins are back and the Rams spent the weekend at part of it anyway, in the Greater Phoenix. There at Glendale, Arizona Wild Card Showdown with the Vikings, Troy Aikman, Joe Buck, they were there. I don't know you watched it or not. Maybe you were not watching, watching something else going on. I have no idea, but we do know that we watched the game and Matthew Stafford throwing not one, but two two touchdown passes, and the Rams, the La Rams, the team that won the NFC West, taking on a fourteen win Viking team. The Rams defense of all things disemboweled the Vikings sacking Sam Doronald not once, not twice, not three times, not four, not five, not six, not seven, notin eight, how about nine an NFL playoff record tying nine times, many of those out of the generosity of Sam Donald being completely incompetent, devoid of the ability to succeed at the quarterback position at a big spot.
The Rams win.
Twenty seven to nine, the final and the Monday Night NFC Wildcard game. They've been playing these Monday Night wild Card games for a few years now, and every one of them has sucked. None of them have been good. And the Rams winning year leaving, of course because of the devastation of the wildfire.
So they go to Arizona.
They win the game, rookie Jared Verse returning a fumble fifty seven yards the scoop and score for the Rams, who ended up boat racing the Purple people eaters. You know why, because you can ram it all day, and you can ram it all night. The Rams are in to the divisional round and they have a date in the land of the Tasty Cake and the cheese steak and all that. So let us discuss the question, what is your opinion. Let's get right to the villain for the Minnesota Vikings. What is your opinion of Sam Donald's performance to end the Viking season, not only on the wild card game, but also the Week eight team member. The Vikings had a shot here. The Vikings had a big time chance to get the number one overall scene, number one overall see in the NFC, and they lost that game. So was your opinion of Sam Donald's performance to end the Viking season. I've got fingerlakes, typewriter, and elevator, and we will combine all of these things together, and we'll tell you the wheels and the bus go round end round. The wheels on the bus go round end round, and that bus is going to take Sam Donald out of Minnesota. He's gonna go on a bus and they're gonna drive his ass out of Minnesota. After that performance, Now, Sam Donald had one of the eight smoking mirror seasons in the history of the NFL. You could argue, considering how good he actually is as a quarterback, this was the greatest smoking mirror season in NFL history. There were people who claimed to be knowledgeable football people that were campaigning for that guy to be the MVP.
Of the end of it. Well, Sam Donald should be conversation.
My fat ass, Sam, are you kidding me?
You talk about premature We sell pills for that on the radio. My god.
And then when the lights are the brightest, like Donald had a chance to prove people like me wrong. He had an opportunity to go out there and shove it down my throat. And instead of the Rams defense shoved the football down his throat. God, you talk about the double whammy, the double whammy for Sam Dalk. Not only flop sweed he had that, he then had stage fright on top of the flopsweaedr he had those sweaty palms, the whole thing. No ifs ands or buts about it. Now, the quarterback apologies, who's on his vault? Played the fat guys? Played the fat guys. Yeah, they're gonna come up with all these excuses. Yes, the Vikings had injuries on their offensive line. Welcome to modern football. Welcome to the way the NFL has played a ragtag offensive. Stop to stop with that nonsense. Okay, Sam Donald was visited by his imaginary friend. And when I was a kid, I had an imaginary friend named Bob. Sam Donald's imaginary friend is a boogeyman, a literal boogeyman. Visit Sam Donald in these spots. He closed the season like he was at Finger Lakes Racetrack in New York.
He was Zippy Chippy. Do you know who Zippy Chippy is? Are you aware?
Zippy Chippy is considered the worst racehorse of all time, raced one hundred times and lost all one hundred races, many of them down the stretch, faded down the stretch. In fact, this is actually about twenty years ago, give or take, but Zippy Chippy is considered by many in the horse racing business as the modern definition of fading down the stretch. You just say Zippy Chippy and that's it. Darnald played the Lions for the number one seed in the entire NFC. They would have had the bye week, they would have the Vikings would have been in the divisional round. I didn't have to short up so number one seed, then the Rams in a playoff game to advance to the divisional round. In those games, obviously, Minnesota goes zero to two. Darnald had a sixty six point four passer rating. He was sacked eleven times through an interception fumbled and generally looked like he had never picked up a football in his life prior to these games, completely flummixed by pressure, not only defensive pressure, but just the pressure of the moment. Anxiety, self doubt set in. All that now, turning the page on that wide angle lens, wide angle lens, any thoughts do we have any thoughts here on Minnesota coach Kevin O'Connell's getting absolutely slayed for his approach to the wildcard game. So many thoughts on his approach. The Minnesota mindset going into the wild card game, So the Viking coach treated this like it was election night and not all precincts had reported in so the election was not over. But yet O'Connell roughly midway through the third quarter threw in the sponge. He was sitting at the typewriter and he typed up a concession speech. That's the only plausible explanation for the way the Minnesota Vikings approached this game.
There was no sense of urgency. It's do or die, it's win or that's it.
You've got to come out with an amazing hocus pocus ending to that game. You got to hope that Matthew Stafford rides the vomit comet. Since your guy's riding the vomit comet, and you can get back in the game. In Minnesota, conceded defeat very rarely Do you see that?
Very rarely?
Reminded me of the Pittsburgh Steelers over the weekend. They look like they were just content to lose the game against Baltimore. And here's Minnesota. There no effort all. They won fourteen games and that is one of the great modern miracles. They're running the ball on offense down multiple scores.
La la, la la. What are you doing?
Like, I'm sitting on my fat ass. I even I know you can't be doing that. You've got to hurry up. The game is getting away from you. Time is of the essence and that is how you and I'm like and obviously like the Rams and the game. So I was happy for the Rams. Who I was like, that's a competitor, that's how you you compete if you're the Minnesota Vikings, And why'd you waste the money flying out to Arizona to play the game?
To play like that? But there needs to be a Netflix.
Docu series done on how Sam Donald was able to navigate a fourteen win season for the Minnesota Vikings. Now, why should be Benny bright side here? For a second, don't tell anybody it be Benny Bright's side. So why should Viking fans actually be happy that Sam Donald played like this? Why should they be happy with his suck bag playoff performance by Sam Donald? So this is this is going to be very deep. It's going to cut very deep here. Yet it's not that deep at the same time. So it's deep, but not that deep because the agony of defeat. But the chances of ever seeing Sam Donald in a Viking uniform the only way you'll see that is if you watch highlights of this season.
That's it. Right.
So, because your front office realized and they didn't get bullied into signing Donald, Durings and we had talked about it a couple times.
We had mentioned it in Malard monologues.
There were people saying that Viking should sign Sam Donald, and we said at the time that clearly the Viking front office did not believe that this was real. It was all an hallucination. What Sam Donald was doing. It was wish upon a star type stuff. And sure enough, in the end that theory proved correct. It was fake. It was phony. Sam Listen. Donald's a good guy. I guess, I don't know. He's a total frog though. He absolutely was able to bamboozle the NFL during the regular season. And the reason you should be happy if you're a Viking fan is you're not handcuffed to Sam Donald. You didn't give him another couple of years on his contract. He's free to roam around the NFL. Donald, by rough estimates, has cost himself using malor math here anywhere between eighty five and one hundred and.
Twenty million dollars.
You think you had a bad couple weeks at work, Sam Donald just went out there with the entire football world watching all over and he vomited. Projectile vomited all over the field, not once, twice project kle vomit from Sam Darnald. He calls himself like hundred and twenty million dollars. There is no team in the NFL that can sell Sam Dnald to their fan base.
He's he is a guy.
Even he plays well during the regular season, you know in the end how the story is going to go. You know the ending, you know the ending. That's the real Sam Darnell. All right, not last word on the other side, the winners locker room. Let's focus in on the Rams here. So who is the biggest winner? Who are the biggest winners for the Rams?
All right?
So the obvious one is Sean McVay, who will get another bouquet of flowers? The winning is coach in Ram history already and with all the built in distractions. And I heard from some Charger fans over the weekend, Well, the reason of the Chargers lost to the Texas is because the fires at LA. That's why they lost. They were distracted. Well, the Rams all live in La, right, They're dealing with us everyone else who has work. We have our job here. We do the show from LA. The whole place is on fire around here, but we we come in here, we do the show. There's a show to be done, right, So you look at that. And the Rams went out there. They could have easily folded like the Chargers did that pathetic performance by Jim Harbaugh's team. But instead, under McVeigh, the Rams went out there. They didn't use the wildfires as an excuse. The game was moved. They went out there, they won the game. Another winner would be Chris Schuler. Now, if you watch the game on Monday night, there was a lot of slobbery, slapper, slap, slabber during the broadcast from Aikman and Buck for Chris Schuler. So, Chris Shuel is the defensive coordinator of the Rams, and he is in the Otis elevator, the Otis elevator.
And the elevator is going up, up, up and away it is.
It's going up up in a way, the La defense swarming Minnesota like Locus. And if the Rams end up compete already this point that he's moved up a couple of notches Shuler. But assuming they don't completely fall apart against Philadelphia next week, you look ahead here, and as a distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of Nostradinas, it is not hard to imagine a set of circumstances where the Miami Dolphins in twenty twenty five go out there and drown. And so Mike McDaniel's ass is grass. He's out. Dolphins need a new coach.
All of a.
Sudden, Hey, let's go back down memory lane, get all those old Dolphin fans all horny, and bring in Don Shula's grandson, Chris Shuler. Yeah, and the fact that Justin Jefferson, the greatest receiver in the NFL.
Justin Jefferson was just a guy. What was that?
Five catches fifty eight yards for Justin Jefferson. Now can the Rams win in Philide? It's a tricky little dance. Yes, they can win in Philadelphia. They're not favorite. These teams played back in week twelve and Sakwan Barkley put the Rams defense in a body bag.
He gouged them.
I went for two fifty five, two hundred and fifty five yards rushing in that game. But that was then, right, that was back in week twelve.
This is now. Obviously it's not gonna be the same situation.
The Rams. The way I look at the Rams are playing with house money. They're a soft West Coast team going to a cold weather environment to a team in Philadelphia that already kicked their ass. So they're playing with house money. They'll be sizeable dogs in this game. The pressure is on Nick Sirianni and the Eagles in that spot, and we have seen teams with that kind of pressure.
They chowk. They chowk. How sweet would that be? Be?
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I need I need here one more person eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox Man Well in Guardena.
Would you like to play?
Man?
Well?
Or do you want to you want to get on the air right now? What do you want to do here?
I'll play Man?
You know what's all right?
Hold on?
Say?
Do we we have Manuel? We have Kelly in the Nashville is gonna play Manuel? Who do you want to partner up with?
Man?
Well?
You got me Ben? Or the kupolou Man.
I'm gonna go with you again?
Man?
All right?
Good?
Last time I kind of underachieved.
All right, hold on a seck.
You're gonna play and Kelly in Nashville Slash Iowa.
Hello, Kelly Man formerly known as Donut Kelly.
But she's out of the donut game now, she's now in the baby making game at this point, that's the.
Game she's in, right, Wow? Okay? Yeah, I mean I don't know. Am I wrong? I don't know everything? All right? Everything good?
Yes?
Nothing?
Yeah?
No?
Everything straight?
Ben, I'm good. I don't want to jinx anything. Everything all right? No, stupid questions just stupid.
Yes, all right, you will team up with Cooper Loop coop one of the categories quickly so we can set all of this up here. We'll have a lot of time to play the game. Let the game breathe a little bit, be a lot of fun. Cannot wait for the game.
All right?
This is Malard's Mountain of Money, the Liam Hemsworth edition. Oh he turned. I think it was thirty five. I have seventy one written here, and that's not accurate.
I'm pretty sure he's not even the little knowledge I have, Coop, he's not seventy one.
Yes, thirty thirty five, that's the correct age.
Yeah, even I know that, Coop. You didn't get that one past me.
The categories are Neighbors, the Hunger Games, Empire State, and isn't it romantic?
Hmm?
Manuel, you run first? Which category?
No? No man between Shane Kelly and the baby Mallard baby.
They have to kick first?
Oh DeFore, I see that? Interesting?
Kelly? Which category would you like? All right?
All right? And what about you?
Manuel, Bennie Pick He didn't hear the category.
I wasn't listening.
Neighbors the Hunger Games or Empire State?
Well, me and Bannie have both been sat bastards in our time, so we're going to go a hunger games, all.
Right, Hunger games. It is very good.
Everyone hold on there, no one hang up. Everyone stay there and we'll have that'll be the matchup. Manuel in Guardiana Kelly in Nashville. By the way, do not do not forget. We love Express bro don't have the right team on the court. Express Employment Professionals can help from contract placements to full time hires.
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We'll get to that. We will do it next.
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And a way we go.
Now, Manuel was on the air first, but he deferred, So I believe Donut, Kelly and Coop, you guys are gonna go first. I think that's what do you wanted? Interesting waited till the second half. He's like, Hey, I'll defer the kickoff to the second half. I don't want the ball to start the That's fine.
We can do that. You ready, Kelly, Yeah, I'm ready. All right, we have Isn't it romantic? These these athletes all married their high school sweethearts. Okay, forty five seconds on the clock, let's begin. Quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs, tadla Hols. Yes, this guy won a Super Bowl with the Ravens. He's super old. Now quarterback in the NFL. He's He was with the Browns last year. I think he was with the Colts this year, but he won j Yes.
Uh.
This guy was the closure for the Yankees. The Sandman.
Oh god, we'll skip it.
It is not got one of the best regular season pitchers of all time for the Dodgers. He's still on the Dodgers right now. It's a bad coo coop. Oh wow, he's terrible in the postseason. He has long blonde hairps shrowning. Right, Oh my god. All right, white ride receiver.
For the Wow.
Alright, well you did it pretty well. I was impressed. He got thirty points solid. He did not know who Mariano Rivera is.
Oh, Clayton Kershaw? Interesting? All right, we're up man.
Well you excited here, man, Well, and Guardina another opportunity you picked the Hunger Games. These athletes are all at the end of their career, still looking for that elusive ring.
Are you ready?
I'm ready and I love Kelly and I love Shane.
Okay, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock. We're on our way go. He was benched a quarterback of the Falcons this season. Yes, guard Lob City Clippers. He's on the Spurs now, but he's washed up. Point guard Chris Paul Yes, guard for the Toronto Raptors. He's played for Sie Antonio. He's bounced around from LA's.
The LA guy along time.
Yes, last player to win an MVP Award for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He's an outfielder he's back with the Pirates. We'll played with the Yeah.
First name? All right?
How about this tight end from UCLA. He's played nineteen seasons in the NFL. He was on the Bears this year played in Jacksonville. First name is like a car. Yes, center center for the.
Wow.
All right, Andrew McCutcheon was Lawrence McCutcheon. You're dating yourself, Lawrence McCutcheon. Holy crap.
Yeah, yeah, still got one Andy.
Right there? Yeah, Coop, you're right in the game.
All right, Kelly. Would you like uh the would you like neighbors or Empire State.
I'm gonna go Empire State.
Okay. Uh These athletes are all from New York. Born in New York. Okay, forty five seconds on the clock.
Let's begin.
He was the leading rusher in the NFL for the Eagles. Yes, he's a boxer. That bit somebody's ear off. Oh he just fought I get fifty years old. Okay. This guy was a slugger for the Yankees. He was married to j Lo.
Uh aleg Yes, yes, Alec Yes.
This guy was a basketball player for the Lakers. He almost died in a whorehouse.
Oh wow, all right, it could be so many people. Yeah, so many guys are almost Yeah.
Well you did well there, Coop.
You got another fifty points, so that's.
You're up to eighty. Wow. We could not get Mike.
Wow.
I'm Kelly, I know, I.
Know Lorena knew that one.
Wow.
Yeah, if Lorena knows it now, that's not good. You don't know.
I have been pregnant before, Kelly. It's called pregnancy brand.
Are you using the pregnancy Excuse my brain? My brain is rough right now.
It's mush okay, not allowed back on the game shows?
You know how many more months? Is the kid in the oven? For? How many one? Once? We gotta wait? I don't know anyway again, August oh Man missed the Game Shows all year? Well Man, Matt Well, would you like to run up the score?
Man?
You know we would.
We loved him, but we got you.
Okay.
The only category leftist neighbors. These athletes grew up near their eventual pro team. We'll put forty five seconds on the clock. We did the first and last name.
We're on our way.
The pride of Akron, Ohio. He's playing for the Lakers. Game Yes, Cincinnati, Charlie Hustle, the greatest hitter. Yes, Chicago bulls guard. He's just just announce I'm gonna have his number retired. No, no, Chicago bulls guard. I'm gonna have his number retired. He his last name is like a flower. No, all right, Yes, defensive star for the Lions. He's missed most of this year out of Michigan. He's injured right now, out for the Detroit Lions. Uh, how about this Chicago Bears defensive player first name. Similarly, we'll call her from Dayton, Ohio. Legend from yes, cheating cheating asteroids on the Padres right now, starting pitcher for the Padres.
What's that?
No, it's a Joe Muskrove was on the cheating a holes back in twenty seventeen. S.
Yes, all right, well we we won going away a domination situation. You did not get an eight Hutchinson.
I know I know their.
Damn last names.
I don't know their first Well, either way, it doesn't matter. We limited the first name ability. We still won the game. That's all that matters here. You beat a pregnant woman. How do you feel?
Congratulations like that? I know, I know, I know.
All right, thank you Manwell, there's a Manuel and Kelly, let's say hello to have time to take called. Jed who fled is in the Sunshine State. Hello, Jed who fled? Hell?
I thought Manuel Fromouth, Alabama. The way you said he's being a pregnant ones, I mean.
That's lame jokes are what jokes are on Friday.
Lame jokes are on top of you, dude, and they're just they're just rooted.
Oh yeah, you know what's on top of you. The cops. They're on top of you right now. They're coming to get you.
I hope tell you.
I wish they'd get violid.
Oh my god.
Hey Jerome and Charleston, you got issues, man, you got issues Philadelphia Freedom. I don't think they won't that you want to be associated with that at all? Like that is not the reference when you're talking about football game team going to tracking up Philadelphia versus Day for next week matcha. What's the background, Kelpy, your freedom football player? Is they like hero stuff? I'm not saying nothing negative. Hey, Briskie's a good person. You look at me, you good look at balance. Even Why why did you get you d block?
What do you complain? You can plain?
You can plain when I talk. I'm not talking. I'm allowing you a monologue. It's a jetu fled monologue. You are so ungrateful? You what is and it's not?
Listen? Is this the C block? This is we don't.
We got rid of the D block. We don't have the D block anymore. We got rid of the D. All we have is the seed.
What did the what did the chickens say? A chicken chicken mar clothing downs? Like?
Okay?
Is that you're you're limited, there's a supply chain, shortage of material.
Give me your best bight cartoon.
Laugh.
No, I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm a profeton. I'm a grown man. I'm an adult. I'm a voice in the night here.
I can't be doing that.
Why did you need to say? It's five times? As you're a grown man, as an adult.
You're out of You're out of material. That's all. That's all. That's it. That's all, folks, that's all folks. That's all, folks.
Can you hang Can you hang up on yourself now? Please do the right thing. Hang up on yourself.
I'm hanging up on Yeah, there you go. It's another classic moment on The Ben Mather Show.
