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Hello and welcome. It's

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our number

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four. We are not riding

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the pine in our four. We're in

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the starting lineup on this NFL

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Draft Thursday. And speaking of the NFL

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Draft, which is tonight. Caleb Williams

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on the Original Recipe Mallory Podcast, Caleb

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Williams is being compared

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to pop legend Prince.

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You know a guy from Minnesota. Yeah, what

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does that even mean? The

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Cowboys, that's a football team. They

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met with free agent running back Zeke

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Elliott about a reunion. Why would they

0:35

get married again? And

0:37

where are you at on the media covering

0:40

this year's draft avoiding negative

0:43

stories about draft prospects.

0:46

One of the prominent NFL media

0:48

people calling out other media people

0:50

for their coverage of the draft. We'll

0:53

talk about all that and more right now.

0:55

Have a wonderful draft day here.

0:58

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Mall Man, play the hits. It's the NFL

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Draft tonight. I'm

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told that's a big deal. We've spent a lot of

2:13

very valuable talk radio real estate

2:16

over the last couple of months, disate,

2:19

dissecting, dissecting the draft

2:21

like it's a frog in a school

2:24

lab, breaking it apart. Right,

2:27

use the elbow now to get through the draft using the

2:29

power elbow. It's

2:32

it's the launching pad, right, launching pad

2:34

in Detroit, and the drafts on

2:36

the launching pad ready for takeoff.

2:40

The Chicago Bears are

2:43

on the clock. Will they Hibernate. Will they get to pick

2:45

in they have the number one overall

2:47

pick. You might have heard about that. It is said

2:49

to be in the gambling market, a stone cold

2:52

lock that they will

2:54

take Caleb Williams with the

2:56

number I

3:03

thought it didn't work overall pick. It's

3:05

also being reported widely that Jayden Daniels

3:08

will be the number two pick, quarterback

3:10

from LSU. That means the action. We'll

3:13

start at number three with the new England football

3:15

team. Do they keep the pick?

3:18

Do they take the third ranked quarterback

3:21

in the draft. Do they draft some offensive lineman

3:23

you've never heard of, some fat guy. Do they take

3:25

a wide receiver? What do they do? We'll

3:28

find out. So that's where the drama is supposed to begin.

3:30

Now I mentioned Caleb Williams the number one pick. This

3:33

comes after a scathing report about

3:35

Caleb Williams and what many people

3:37

in the NFL think of his football future.

3:40

So if you didn't see this one, maybe

3:42

it did not end up on your radar. A former

3:45

NFL scout told

3:47

a football scribe that Caleb

3:50

Williams quote

3:52

scares close

3:55

quote a lot of teams with one

3:57

GM comparing the

4:00

former Oklahoma and University of Southern

4:02

California quarterback to deceased

4:06

music legend Prince. Are

4:09

you old enough to remember Prince? Maybe you're not.

4:11

I don't know.

4:11

His music still gets played. So

4:14

this is what I want to talk to about. The question Caleb

4:17

Williams being compared by a random,

4:19

anonymous NFLGM to

4:22

pop legend Prince. What

4:25

does that even mean?

4:27

Like?

4:27

What does that even mean? So I've got

4:29

Corvette superficially

4:31

and Pollyanna, and

4:34

we'll throw all of those things together

4:36

and we are going to make snake oil, which

4:40

is often what you can buy

4:42

in the NFL draft. You can find snake

4:44

oil. So to kick

4:46

off, Kayleb. Williams is a

4:49

loved or hated guy. There's no middle

4:51

ground. You either think Caleb Williams is amazing

4:55

or you think he's going to be an epic disaster.

4:57

The proof obviously is in the pudding or

5:00

in the play. But Caleb Williams

5:02

has been described by some as a football savant,

5:06

and some of those same people say he's the football sapon.

5:10

He can't be trusted. You can't trust Caleb

5:12

Williams. The reason he is

5:14

so polarizing he does not follow the orthodoxy

5:17

of the NFL. You see all these stories,

5:19

and yes, some of them are probably just bull crap

5:22

because people are just angry,

5:25

but not all of them. He's eccentric.

5:28

He's got the pink fingernails, the pink

5:30

lipstick, he's got the pink phone

5:32

case. He goes to Tokyo when

5:34

he's supposed to be working out. Of

5:37

course, we should point out just because you're unique

5:40

does not mean you're useful.

5:43

I learned when I was a kid that I was unique,

5:45

just like every other kid in the elementary

5:47

school. But enter the

5:49

Prince reference into the chat,

5:52

and that has ruffled a

5:54

few feathers. However, I believe

5:57

it's accurate when

5:59

dull cry right Prince battled

6:02

if you remember his early career. And I'm

6:04

certainly not a music guy, but I remember reading

6:07

about this in a thing called the newspaper a

6:09

million years ago. But Prince battled

6:11

Warner Brothers Records, and

6:13

I used to work when

6:16

I around this time. I was working in a

6:18

building in Burbank right

6:20

across from Warner Brothers studios at the radio

6:22

station in La Here, and

6:25

in the bottom floor of the building

6:27

was Warner Brothers Records. So I

6:29

used to see a lot of these people,

6:32

and it worked out well because a lot of the acts

6:34

would go up to the Kiss FM,

6:36

which was still a big top forty

6:38

radio station, and would go up there and

6:41

then you know, do the whole thing. But the point

6:44

is in this time, Prince was battling

6:46

Warner brother Records in the in the mid nineties

6:48

or so, and you

6:50

know, he had become a big deal in the eighties, but in the nineties

6:53

he was upset. He's the record company,

6:55

if I remember correct, the record company was demanding

6:57

that he only released one album

7:00

a year because they could only market one

7:02

album a year, and he was

7:04

it like he was like in his day, like

7:07

Taylor Swift. You know, Taylor Swift these days makes a lot

7:10

of music, tons of me, but he

7:12

made a lot of music Princes, and so he always wanted to release

7:14

and he'd make two albums in one year, and he wanted to release

7:16

him and they're like, nah, I can't do that. And

7:19

so I remember he had written like slave

7:22

on on his on his face

7:24

and changed his name to some goofy name

7:26

and protest and all that. But in

7:28

the NFL's like, well, this is what he's gonna do. He's

7:30

gonna got this Caleb Williams, he's gonna be like

7:32

Prince. He's gonna write things on his face and

7:34

he's gonna protest. And the

7:36

hardliners in the NFL, let

7:39

me break this down to you. If you're a Prince fan, all right,

7:41

they're concerned that Caleb

7:43

Williams is going to get into his

7:46

Uh, you know, he's gonna get a lot of money, like diamonds

7:48

and pearls, right, little diamonds and pearls in the NFL.

7:51

He's gonna throw on his raspberry beret

7:54

and he's gonna drive away his little red Corvette

7:56

and there'll be a purple rainstorm as he drives

7:58

away. If he's good,

8:01

guys like Yapemi and Eugene who listened

8:03

to the show in Chicago will be running

8:05

out to buy whatever whatever

8:08

pink item he's wearing. He

8:11

will be called Kookie and the life of

8:13

the party, a trailblazer. If

8:15

he blows, he's a troublemaker.

8:18

And why didn't the Bears listen to

8:20

all the warning signs they should have known? All

8:22

right? Furthermore, we go to Dallas.

8:25

Why because the Cowboys

8:27

the day before the NFL Draft

8:31

met with running back Zeke

8:34

Elliott probably

8:36

never heard of him. Will

8:38

there be a reunion? Why?

8:41

Here's the question, why would

8:44

either side want to get married

8:46

again? Zeke Elliott and the Cowboys.

8:50

Superficially it actually does

8:52

work. It is a

8:55

pseudo splashy move that

8:57

Jerry Jones needs to add some one

9:01

you've heard if the Cowboys are likely going to draft

9:03

some offensive lineman that doesn't move the needle,

9:06

and so you get a name brand player who

9:09

happens to be unemployed. We

9:12

know the backstory. We know that Zeke

9:14

hung out in Jerry's world for a long

9:16

time and put up a lot of yards and all that,

9:18

and then fell off the map

9:20

with the Patriots a last

9:23

season. But it's not like job opportunities

9:25

are springing up at

9:27

this point.

9:28

Zeke.

9:28

If the Cowboys don't sign him,

9:31

he should just go to Express pros and try to find

9:33

a job somewhere else. And

9:35

the problem for the Cowboys is they already got rid of him

9:37

once because they said that he was too old

9:40

and not worth the money. There was too much

9:42

tread, not enough left on the tires. Too

9:44

much tread had been worn away. And

9:46

if you look at the

9:48

the advanced numbers, the comps

9:51

which they use in insurance. The comps Zeke

9:53

Elliott has crossed the rubicon. Running

9:56

Backs, as a rule of thumb, with very

9:59

few exceptions, have a limited shelf life.

10:01

They generally fade past fifteen

10:04

hundred touches. That's rushes and catches

10:06

combined. Fifteen hundred. That is

10:08

the point of no return, the

10:11

point of demarcation. And

10:13

at this point Zeke Elliott is at

10:16

twenty four hundred plus touches. He's

10:19

become a plodding full

10:21

back, clunky running back,

10:24

that kind of guy. Now,

10:26

one other point here. If you look at the Cowboys

10:29

depth chart, which I do not advise you

10:31

looking at, it's not really plump

10:33

with great running backs. They have someone named Royce Freeman.

10:37

They have Deuce Vaughan. They got

10:39

the Deuce and then some other guy I've never heard

10:41

of, and then that's it. That's

10:44

what they have, all right. Last thing here we

10:46

head to the analyst chair Fox

10:50

Sports, Pete Schrager. I used to know hi

10:52

when he did stuff for Fox sports dot com. Back

10:54

and he's a big football muckety

10:56

muck does sidelines. Does he's

10:59

to do that morning show canceled? I guess they might

11:01

bring it back there that NFL Cotton

11:03

Candy morning show. So Pete Schrager recently

11:06

did some podcast interview. He was questioned

11:09

why NFL reporters insist

11:13

on on their covers

11:15

of the draft being rainbows

11:17

and lollipops, and

11:19

he went on this rant and

11:22

he was complaining about the way the draft

11:24

is covered. You'll see the draft denied. Every prospect

11:27

enter the draft, he said, was class President Treger

11:30

ranted, he said, you won't hear a negative

11:32

thing about any of these players on

11:35

night one. Tonight's Night one of the NFL

11:37

Draft. You don't hear it anymore. So

11:40

where are you at on the football

11:42

media establishment, the industrial

11:45

complex of football. The people

11:47

that are supposed to have the inside

11:50

scoop, the inside skiddy,

11:52

they're the ones that you know, the chariot

11:54

awaits because they have all the connections and

11:56

they refuse to report anything negative.

12:00

So I'll use the word farcical.

12:03

I think this whole thing is farcical. We

12:06

mentioned in a previous hour. If you didn't hear it, try

12:08

the podcast. We broke down

12:10

the twenty twenty draft. Twenty

12:12

twenty draft, less than five percent,

12:15

in fact, less than three percent of

12:17

the player's draft that have made a first team All

12:19

Pro. So the success rate

12:21

of real dominance is less than five

12:23

percent. But you're not allowed

12:26

to say the quiet part out loud about

12:29

character issues. And

12:31

this is one of those things that's changed in my

12:33

life time. I don't know how old you are, that's

12:36

none of my business. But for years

12:39

when I was watching the draft and the lead up to draft,

12:41

it was like, this guy's a bad character guy. He's got a red

12:43

mark next to his name, locker

12:45

room cancer, uncoachable,

12:49

forgets the playbook, trouble

12:51

maker, more likely to end

12:54

up in handcuffs than

12:56

the end zone, a lazy

12:58

flaccid. These are all terms

13:01

that were used in the past about players

13:03

that were drafted coach killer.

13:07

Have you heard any of those terms used

13:10

now? A couple of things are possible. A

13:12

it's possible that every single

13:15

player that's going to be drafted tonight

13:18

is mother Teresa. There's

13:20

not a single bad apple in

13:22

the bunch. They're all great, none

13:25

of them do anything bad, none

13:27

of them do anything bad. Or

13:32

it's being left on the cutting room floor.

13:34

What do you think is the most likely scenario?

13:37

I think we know all right, those terms

13:40

the negative get muted, the

13:43

Paulyanna principle takes

13:45

over. You don't talk

13:47

about sex, drugs, rock and roll, guns, all

13:49

that. No, everything is sugarcoated

13:51

and purified for public consumption.

13:53

It's the NFL Draft and no

13:56

one is going to suck, no

13:59

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14:21

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14:23

a fashion update from the

14:26

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14:28

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14:30

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14:32

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14:37

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lot of reaction to ask Ben,

16:44

and it really is a shame

16:46

how many people are doing

16:48

the wrong thing with the grocery cart.

16:51

And you need a guy. I

16:53

got a guy. My guy is super Market

16:55

Seve. He's my guy, and he

16:57

is the person that has informed

16:59

me that it is rude to

17:02

put the cart back. I also saw there's a few people

17:04

that kind of get it. There's a lot of people that think they're

17:06

on the right side of history, and they're not. They're

17:09

not part of it. But there's there's a

17:12

few people. Yeah, I heard the same thing, same

17:14

exact thing, absolutely,

17:19

and Mark the Walker in Rochester

17:21

says I'm blessed that Rochester is the home

17:23

of Wegmans, which employs

17:25

helping hands whose sole job

17:27

is to manage carts. That's right. See,

17:30

I'm looking out for other people. You're selfish.

17:33

If you put your cart back, you are selfish.

17:35

If you put your card, you are wrong.

17:37

One hundred percent of it. I want someone

17:39

to be employed at that grocery

17:42

store, and you don't.

17:44

You know someone who is extremely rare

17:46

that grocery stores employ someone that.

17:48

You're not an expert, Eddie, You're not an expert.

17:51

I have an expert. Eddie, you're not an expert.

17:53

You're not all

17:56

the time.

17:56

I see here, here's screwge, he says. I've had

17:58

employees tell me that don't they don't

18:00

like customers bringing carts back because

18:02

it takes the cart people's job away.

18:05

There aren't there's no such thing as those people.

18:07

You are making this up and you live in a

18:09

bubble. There's a whole world.

18:11

How about mister nice guy who says, I've been in the grocery

18:13

business since the eighties, nobody has

18:15

ever lost their job because customers put

18:17

their carts back again.

18:18

He's a liar. He's in a bubble. He's a

18:21

liar.

18:21

He's a liar. Yeah, the guy who didn't even

18:23

like this works in the business.

18:25

My guy works in the business. He's been a business longer.

18:28

Let's talk to him.

18:30

Go ahead.

18:31

What I used to work in a bakery at Sherms,

18:33

and I know the cart boys right

18:36

like. They were the same people who bag the groceries.

18:38

So they'd help the little old ladies go out to the cars,

18:41

and then they would take their time outside

18:43

and breathe some fresh air.

18:45

Exactly, collect the carts.

18:47

No one wants to be inside.

18:49

Stop it. Let's

18:53

get a little you should

18:55

get a raised. Finally,

18:59

all these years, five years I've worked here.

19:01

Finally, Oh she's a fraud. Oh

19:03

she's so good.

19:05

Exactly, she's she's new.

19:07

She's the greatest employee of all time, right

19:09

there, right there. Unbelievable, all

19:12

these I wait and wait for this. Anyway,

19:14

let's go to the phones. We'll say hello to Whoopee

19:16

Pie Blair, who also

19:19

does not return the cart at the grocery

19:21

store. Hello, whoopy Pie Blair. No

19:25

you don't. Of

19:28

course he does, because he's a decent human being.

19:31

I've met him. He's not the kind of guy that does

19:33

that. No I do. I

19:36

do. You're the kind of guy that would steal the

19:38

grocery cart and take it away. That's you're that

19:40

guy.

19:40

No, I mostly I do.

19:43

You said mostly. You didn't say all the time. You

19:45

said mostly mostly so a weasel term

19:48

that means you don't do it all the time. So some

19:50

of the time you're on the right side of history.

19:53

But but, but.

19:54

But but but but

20:00

you're a fraud. You're a bigger fraud.

20:02

You're a fraud.

20:04

You're the most giant fraud of all time.

20:07

You're a bully. You're a bleeping

20:09

fraud. I like

20:10

that.

20:11

Like you're an e fing

20:14

fraud. How about that?

20:15

I like to I like to say one word on

20:17

the radio, but I'm not gonna say it because.

20:19

Better don't say.

20:22

Don't say it will hang up on you.

20:24

Don't say it.

20:27

Hey, but guess what, the cheat The Astros

20:30

are doing just fine, aren't they?

20:32

Oh they're terrible.

20:34

It's so I need to remind

20:36

me. Next week we're talking all this basketball and

20:38

the draft, But next week I need

20:41

to do a full We should do

20:43

like a funeral for the Astros.

20:45

We should bury the Astros on this show.

20:47

Next, the guy that used to call it

20:50

all the time about Astro.

20:52

I know I love that guy.

20:55

No, you didn't love that guy. Stop, but you didn't

20:57

love that guy.

21:00

No, No, I didn't ban him. He went to the day

21:02

shift, the dreaded day shift. But the Astros

21:05

are seven and eighteen. They are two

21:07

games behind the Oakland A's that

21:09

are not even trying to win the Athletics,

21:12

they're trying to lose. And

21:14

the Asstros have

21:17

a worse record in fact, in all the

21:19

professional base I'm not done. I

21:21

am not done. In all the professional baseball.

21:24

There are just three teams that have a worse record

21:26

than the Astros, The Rockies,

21:28

Marlins on the White Sox. That's it. That's

21:31

the list.

21:33

Yeah, Ben, what about your Dodgers? Can

21:35

I can I hurry? Oh yeah for

21:37

your Dodgers. Oh yeah, now

21:39

they're back.

21:40

The Dodgers. Are they beat up on the they

21:42

beat up on the natitude They're back.

21:45

Yeah, Okay, it's

21:48

just one team they're beating up on in the

21:50

Nationals, right, did you hear?

21:52

The a Holes have the other twenty eighth and earn

21:54

run average this year. The Astros

21:56

twenty eighth and in earn run average and

21:58

their twentieth and run score. They're terrible

22:01

every facet of the game. I've been

22:03

waiting since twenty seventeen for this.

22:07

Let me ask you one thing, Ben, What

22:10

about those Red Sox that are sucking

22:12

so bad that I thought would win the road series?

22:16

Well, they they did play well and they didn't

22:18

play well. Well, they didn't play well yesterday.

22:20

Actually, but they they average.

22:22

That's what they were supposed to be.

22:23

They're not.

22:24

They're they're mediocre team. They're right in the middle.

22:27

They're closelogists.

22:29

What's that they're terrible. They'll play the good

22:31

one game, they'll have a shutout, eight nothing and

22:34

today it they'll probably lose.

22:35

Well, it appears they only so far they've played

22:37

well on the road and not well at home, so

22:39

that they could.

22:40

I know another thing I'd like to

22:42

bring up to you, and it's NHL right

22:44

now. I did not think

22:46

that the Bruins were going to

22:49

win last night in Toronto.

22:51

I thought the maple Leaves were going to win

22:53

that game. I really did.

22:55

Well, you're a negative than it shocked.

22:58

I'm picking maple Leaves though, in that series.

23:01

Are you are you? Are you a horse? Are

23:03

you a horse racing guy?

23:04

By the way, Yeah, I like

23:06

horse you like.

23:08

Betting the ponies?

23:09

Right, I would,

23:12

but my mom don't want me to go

23:14

to a horse and.

23:15

Want you to game. I'm

23:20

trying to do a commercial. Mar Marcel I

23:23

called the Marcelf because Marcelf Listen.

23:27

I thought it was Marcelf. I

23:29

know, Blair, listen, I called you by the I called you by

23:31

right. But here Thoroughbred racing has a

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ever heard of? That you ever heard of? That you

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23:53

to visit that right now?

23:54

Yes, Blair, sure,

23:58

yep.

23:59

I don't believe. You don't sound very convincing.

24:01

Do you like harness racing? Can

24:03

I ask you?

24:04

Do you I've never been to a horse race,

24:06

I've never I've been to the track a bunch I've been to, you

24:08

know here in La Santa Nita, but I've never

24:10

seen a harness race.

24:12

Yeah, I don't. I'm not into it either. I'm

24:14

into like where they sit on the saddle on

24:17

top of the horse. They have the you know what I

24:19

mean?

24:19

They sit.

24:22

Kind of yeah, Blair,

24:25

Blair, could you win the Kentucky Derby? If you raced

24:28

against horses? Could you win?

24:31

I don't know, man, I don't know.

24:32

I think I bet on you. I bet

24:35

on you.

24:35

It'd be tough because those horses

24:37

are going pretty fast.

24:39

Yeah, but they racing. They're

24:41

just they don't realize they're racing. They're being

24:43

with so.

24:44

They you know what I do? You know what I do? I

24:46

go to this horse that racing place.

24:49

All these guys are betting on their horses,

24:51

and I don't bet, but I just sit down

24:53

in this place and I drink soda for

24:56

a dollar. It's really cool.

24:58

Well, you're quite the rebel. You know that's

25:00

going to get a lot of ladies are impressed by that Blair.

25:02

They like a man that sits there and drinks a

25:04

soda pop while watching the races.

25:06

All right, I gotta go, Yeah, I love it.

25:08

Okay, thank you, I hanging up on you. Go away, sorry,

25:11

Claire. For some reason, I had Marcel in my head

25:13

for a second, because it sounds like something you morsel

25:15

usually do.

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It is the Ben Malor Show. As we

25:24

continue on in our

25:26

industry, it is a big

25:29

day. It's a big day. The

25:32

question that I have is will Eddie be

25:35

here? Because sometimes Eddie does not show up

25:37

to the show on Draft night because there's a party.

25:39

He goes to what will you be here tonight

25:42

for the draft?

25:42

Eddy?

25:43

Are you going to be here? Will you be at Disneyland?

25:45

You miss? That's how you got the nickname steamboat

25:47

Willie.

25:47

Yeah, because you went to the shocking

25:50

news. What's that edding?

25:51

The Los Angeles Chargers with

25:56

Jim Harbonaugh.

25:57

Could you gam all this excitement?

25:59

Yeah?

26:00

Not holding an official draft party? Really,

26:02

that's it. I can't believe that.

26:04

Why are they not doing that?

26:05

I don't know who.

26:07

I'm

26:09

just I'm shocked by that that they would not have an official

26:12

draft party.

26:12

It's an opportunity. The Chargers have a top

26:14

ten pick in the draft, so because

26:17

they stunk last year, you would think they would want

26:19

to rejoice.

26:20

Yeah, so that we've had We've been in Disneyland,

26:23

the Queen Mary Santa Monica Peer. They always

26:26

have like these, you know, these big

26:28

official draft parties. They're not having

26:30

one, so.

26:31

Sorry, you're gonna have to show up to work tomorrow.

26:33

Yeah, my wife, My wife is going to one. But

26:36

it's not it's not like the official one. It's just like a fan

26:38

one, you know, like a fan club one. So

26:41

I won't be here.

26:42

It is not needed because it's just the

26:45

commoners go to that.

26:46

Yeah, so I will be here.

26:47

Yeah, okay, all right, Eddie will be We'll

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Draft. It was out standing.

28:01

He said that if Hannibal Lecter

28:04

ran a four point four, we'd probably

28:06

diagnose it as an eating disorder.

28:10

That's a great quote. Let's get

28:12

over to Eddie right now. He's all joned

28:14

up. His favorite hockey team won a game they weren't

28:16

supposed to win. Even fuck flower

28:19

with Eddie Gerse.

28:20

All right, thank you man. The NHL Playoffs are

28:23

underway. Every series has had at least two

28:25

games so far. We'll start in the East, where

28:27

the President's Trophy winners, The New York Rangers

28:29

have a two zero series advantage over the Washington Capitols

28:32

who just squeaked into the playoffs on the second

28:34

to last day of the season. Capitol Star in future

28:36

Hall of Famer Alexander Rovechkin, has one shot

28:38

on goal in the first two games of this series.

28:40

Which now shifts to Decei.

28:42

So looks like the number one seed in the East

28:44

of New York Rangers looking good to move on. Different story

28:46

out west where the number one seed, the Dallas Stars,

28:49

are down to nothing against the defending Stanley

28:51

Cup champion Vegas goal tonight. So Vegas has

28:53

had a lot of health issues this year, so they just were

28:56

squeaking into the playoffs. But some of that

28:58

was by design. The captain Mark

29:00

Stone stuffered a lacerated splained before the trade

29:02

deadline that allowed them to put him on long

29:05

term aged reserve. It took his salary

29:07

off the books and they were allowed to add three players

29:09

for the postseason. Stone was supposed

29:11

to be out for a large portion of the playoffs, but oh look,

29:13

he was back for Game one of the playoffs

29:16

and he scored a.

29:16

Goal for Vegas.

29:18

That is some serious games

29:21

on behalf of the Vegas Golden Knights also

29:23

out Western National Predators a wildcard team like

29:26

Vegas, they're tied up in one to one in their series

29:28

against the Pacific Division champion Vancouver

29:30

Canucks. They split the first two games in Western

29:32

Canada. Now shifting to Nashville,

29:35

Vancouver will not have their number one goalie Thatcher

29:37

Demco outed definitely with an undisclosed

29:39

injury miss Game two a Canucks loss, and

29:41

he's going to be out for Friday's Game three and possibly

29:44

longer. Carolina Hurricanes with a two zero series

29:46

lead over with the New York Islanders in a series that is

29:48

now shifting to Long Island. New York had

29:50

a big opportunity to get the split in game

29:52

number two. They had a three to nothing lead but

29:54

couldn't hold it, and they saw the Hurricanes

29:57

score two goals in nine seconds tied it. Then

29:59

that was the game winner. Rallied in the third period

30:01

for the big win. Really good battle for

30:03

the Sunshine State. The Florida Panthers

30:05

taking on the Tampa Bay Lightning.

30:07

Two games.

30:08

They've both been one goal games, but Florida's

30:10

won both of them. They've got the two zero series lead as

30:12

the series now shifts to Tampa

30:14

Bay. The game two went overtime

30:17

and Carter Verhegy scored the overtime game

30:19

winner. That's his fifth career overtime

30:21

game winning goal in the playoffs. Only Joe Sakic

30:24

and Maurice Rockett Richard have more.

30:26

They're both Hall of famers. Carteriver Hay not a Hall

30:28

of Famer.

30:29

You're still playing it. You can't be in the Hall of Fame, or you're

30:31

still.

30:31

He's not going to the Hall of Fame.

30:33

You don't know that.

30:34

I do know that.

30:36

Don't written story yet, Eddie.

30:38

He's just a Jets and Avalanche tied

30:40

at one one as this series now shifts to Colorado

30:43

is a series opener was a wild win,

30:45

with Winnipeg getting a seven to six win. Abs

30:47

came back to win Game two. Jets goalie

30:49

Connor Hellibuck the front rudder win the well.

30:52

He's got a good name, but he's not playing good a good game

30:55

right now. He might best regular

30:57

season goalie, but he's allowed ten goals

30:59

in two games so far. And our

31:01

only battle of Original six teams,

31:03

that would be the Bruins against the Maple

31:05

Leafs, and Boston has.

31:07

The more annoying than Original six fan base.

31:09

I like it two to one.

31:11

Boston has the lead.

31:12

They split in Boston, but the leaf

31:15

star Austin Matthews, who had sixty nine

31:17

goals the regular season, scored the game winner.

31:19

But then the Bruins last night came back one game three.

31:21

Captain Bradmarshan, who everybody hates

31:23

but he's really good fifty fifth career playoff

31:26

goal, tying Cam Neely for the most all

31:28

time.

31:28

In Bruin's history. He just likes licking people.

31:30

No, they hate him.

31:32

Toronto has played the first three

31:34

games without one of their top players, William Neelander,

31:36

who was out injured. Last but not least,

31:38

the Kings and Oilers, meeting for the third

31:40

straight year in the playoffs, series tied one one

31:42

after LA's overtime win last night. First

31:44

game in Edmonton, the Oilers rolled seven to

31:46

four. Conor McDavid five assists, teammate

31:49

Zach Hyman with the only hat trick so far

31:51

this postseason.

31:51

But again this.

31:52

Series is tied at one one. We

31:54

had a coach hired and a coach fired this week.

31:56

The San Jose Sharks fire coach David Quinn

31:58

after two seasons. Sharks end

32:00

of the year with the worst record in the NHL, but they were gonna

32:02

suck anyways, I don't know what they were expecting. And the

32:05

Buffalo Sabers have brought back Lindy

32:07

Ruff as our head coach.

32:08

The sixty four. Are you serious?

32:10

He led the Sabers to their only.

32:12

Eddie, he was coaching when I covered

32:14

hockey. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Holy crap.

32:16

He's the only coach that.

32:18

Got him to the Stanley Cup Finals back in nineteen

32:20

ninety nine.

32:21

Oh my god.

32:22

He was fired by the Devils this year.

32:24

Yes, while he's back, he's back.

32:27

The team's missed the playoffs thirteen straight

32:29

years, which is show record. And

32:31

finally, the former Arizona Counties and

32:33

now yet to be named Utah team arrived

32:35

in Salt Lake City yesterday to meet with fans

32:37

and take a tour of the facilities. Twelve

32:39

thousand Forward fans showed up at the Delta Center

32:42

to welcome the team, and they claim they

32:44

have the twenty nine thousand season ticket

32:46

deposits.

32:47

You buried the lead, Eddie, you buried the lead.

32:49

I gotta clean up your work. Oh, I'm sure this is

32:51

gonna be good, Eddie. This is

32:53

good. This is better than any you just said. I died.

32:55

I hold in my hand the

32:58

holy grail for every NHL

33:01

fan. I have the

33:03

list of the eight finalists

33:05

that will be in the bracket for the

33:08

new NHL team in Utah. Are

33:10

you ready?

33:10

Wee there?

33:15

No, there's some other good ones though. There's some

33:17

other good ones.

33:19

Pagetti, so it's got.

33:20

Now we want the Jetties because that's cool. Obomba

33:22

will snow man. Here are the other ones. Utah

33:24

Ice that's gonna lame, Tall

33:26

Mammoth. I don't like that one on. I like

33:28

these next couple you Tah Venom.

33:31

That'd be kind of cool. When you think venom,

33:33

you think people from Utah, Utah Fury

33:37

Blizzard. How about the blizzard. You could have

33:39

the blizzard against the avalanche. That

33:41

would be amazing. This other one, this

33:43

is the other one I like, if it's not Yeti's I want this next

33:45

one Utah Outlaws.

33:50

That is so good because I don't know. Yes,

33:53

there's a lot of really mean people in Utah. It's

33:56

like the rime in Utah.

33:57

It's like the Mavericks.

33:58

That's not let me tell you people in Utah

34:00

are violent. And how about the other one

34:03

is the Utah Hockey.

34:04

Club or it's Yeti's

34:06

or nothing.

34:07

No YETI I'd be fine with Venom. Yeah,

34:11

YETI I think they should go yet He's

34:13

not Yetti because or

34:15

they should go Yetty not yet he's because they trademark

34:17

Yetti's. But I think YETI would be fine.

34:19

Venom is okay because that's kind of cool. Outlaws

34:23

I'm okay with, although that would be like the

34:25

Vegas Outlaws, not the

34:28

they could you know anyway?

34:30

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35:31

Is it fact or fiction? Let's face

35:33

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35:36

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35:38

to it. Here we go. So our friend

35:40

Elianas, she's back by where she says spent and

35:43

ninety eight days since the National

35:45

Weather Service issued a blizzard

35:48

warning for Salt Lake, so they're named them the Blizzard.

35:50

Probably not a good idea. Let's welcome in our

35:52

judges. Let's say hello to Leslie along with Jackie

35:54

Judge. Hello, Leslie, Good.

35:57

Morning, Ben, great show as

35:59

always, thank you.

36:00

The power couple with less than

36:02

jack the Judge, movers and shakers. They run

36:04

the social scene and Braden to Florida.

36:06

Right, well, only at Pool three.

36:09

Only at Pool three, not the other, not the

36:11

other pools. There's a lot of pool now, I

36:14

got you, all right? Hold on, hold on, szech Leslie.

36:16

We have Milkman Mike in Colorado. Hello,

36:18

Milkman Mike.

36:20

Good morning, mister and miss in America and all

36:22

the kids to see news class Marshall

36:25

caught with his parents down with paward

36:27

on folk call.

36:28

Oh wow, believable,

36:31

shocking. Dawn is in

36:33

Indiana. Hello, don Hello,

36:36

come, welcome, good morning, Welcome.

36:38

You're one of our judges. Welcome to the

36:40

show. You ready to be a good judge? Yet?

36:42

Yes I am. I'm freedom in Indiana's thirty

36:45

degrees?

36:45

Oh my god, thirty it's April? What it's on? Late

36:48

April? What is a thirty degrees? Ridiculous?

36:51

All right, very good, Well, hold on a second. I think that's

36:53

all we have time for. Unfortunately, so that'll

36:56

be. That'll be that All right,

36:58

here we go, Let's get right to it here. Three stories.

37:00

Figure out which the three isn't true. Story Number one

37:04

Burke to the Rescue all pro sentader Matt

37:06

Burke being heild a hero after this

37:08

week after he saved his neighbor from an

37:10

alligator attack. Brooke was spending time his

37:13

home in Naples, floorid. He noticed his neighbor

37:15

on the ground struggling the freest leg

37:18

from a gator, got upstruck

37:20

the ran over with his truck, and

37:22

he ran it over with his truck, I should say, all right.

37:25

Story number two Pete

37:27

Rose roast well

37:29

for years. Pete Rose has been known to have

37:33

goof on people and poke fun

37:35

and whatnot. And the signing of Baseball's

37:38

well. At one of the autographs signings, he said he

37:40

signed a ball. Sorry, I've been on baseball. And

37:44

also tani otani is sorry.

37:46

Also I wish I had an interpreter. That

37:49

is story number two. Story number

37:51

three, Oh

37:54

Jays Simpson's estate in

37:57

the news here. Apparently

38:00

the people looking at money make

38:02

their own money off OJ's death. One man is

38:04

auctioning off him since Bank of America business

38:07

account card. He paid seventy

38:09

four seventy dollars for it on eBay

38:11

last summer. He hopes to cash you now since

38:14

OJ has gone to

38:16

the Great beyond. All right, those

38:18

are the three stories. Figure out which of three is not

38:20

true, separating fiction from back. Leslie

38:23

one, two or three? Leslie, I

38:26

gotta go with three, all

38:28

right, have a great time. It's not thirty degrees in

38:31

Florida. I think you're you're in good shape there,

38:34

milkman, Mike one to or three. Milkman.

38:37

Let's go for number three as well.

38:39

A cheating Don

38:42

in that nice Chili Weather one tour three

38:44

Don number

38:46

two, all right you and

38:49

good news you're all wrong. Number

38:52

one number in

38:54

the fake story this week. Yeah it wasn't.

38:57

It wasn't Matt Burke. He didn't do that.