July 28, 2017 • 57 mins
Big Ben talks about another opportunity for Colin Kaepernick, the idea that Cam Newton can change, Maller to the 3rd Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, Benny's Balderdash, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
Fox Sports Radio. It's been about twenty four hours, a
little more than that, and the story was Joe Flacco
is hurt down, goes flacout, the Baltimore quarterback, the elite
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quarterback of the Ravens going down. The initial reports were
no big deal, no big deal. He'll be out for
a week and maybe two weeks. It's a minor disc
problem in his back. He tweaked it while working out,
which we all kind of laughed at Joe Flacco busting
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iron in the gym. But anyway, so that was the story.
And now in less than a little bit over a day,
the Ravens have gone from Flacco's out for like a
week too. Now they are kicking the tires on the
most polarizing man in the sports world. Now, if you've
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been hiding somewhere and you have not been paying attention,
it's a bad job by you. But it's a good
job by you because that's why you're here. The Ravens
have said they will not rule out, which is great
on the fence wordage right. Will not rule out because
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there are very few things in life you can rule out.
The Ravens said they would not rule out signing Colin
Kaepernick with Joe Flacco out for this very brief amount
of time with a phantom back injury, so again wouldn't
rule out. And that is all it took. And strike
up the band. Everyone's circle around, round and round and
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round we go, and let's talk about because everyone got
all worked up here. People that have been campaigning for
Colin Kaepernick, they had an orgasm. They were so excited
the idea that he could go to Baltimore. A John
Harball apparently thinks that Colin Kafer said this before that
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he thinks that Kaepernick's gonna play in the NFL this year,
though he would not say that the Ravens are signing him.
So the question here is this, what do we do
make of a lot of speculation that the Ravens are
going down an avenue that many people don't want to
go down, the Kaepernick avenue, at least, a public flirtation
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with the most toxic player in the sport. Now, my
reaction to this a classic weather balloon and what appears
to be a calculated mistake by Baltimore. And we'll start
with the fact that John Horball beloved Ravens coach by
some of my friends in the Baltimore media. What he's
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doing now is taking a page out of Pete Carroll's
playboo from Seattle. You know what I'm talking about here.
Carol brought in Kaepernick for a meeting, a get together
chit chat with the Seahawks, but they didn't sign him.
Why not because the Seahawks backed away. Public sentiment was
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not in their favor. They put the test out there.
They brought Kaepernick in although no one saw photos of
him in Seattle, and then he left and new now
signing of Kaepernick, Well, the Ravens are doing the same thing.
They are attempting to gauge community sentiment and whether or
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not this will cause any kind of a riffle with
the community, the football fan community. So this is a
weather balloon situation. They're trying to get a sense of
what the temperature is among the football fans. And from
what we've been told, the early reaction has been old
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overwhelmingly negative. Friend of the show and beloved media mabn
in Baltimore Sports with Coleman. He has been doing radio
in Baltimore for a long time and he passes on
that the early reaction, the pulse of the people, and
he's on the pulse of the people in Baltimore has
not been good. That has not been good, and that
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this is not something where the people are overwhelmingly lining
up to open the door to bring kaeperni again and
a Colin Kaepernick has been put on a pedestal by
a group of people that share his beliefs, the anti
police belief the anti military beliefs that Kaepernick stands for.
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Those people have campaigned for him to get a job.
It's a grassroots social media campaign. And there's this clear
point of demarcation because you've got on one side of
the aisle those types that really don't watch football. There,
casual observer, they're not really into football, but they're all in.
They're completely invested in Kaepernick. They don't really know how
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much about him, but they're like, I like the idea
of this guy being a rebel and a maverick, and
I want this guy in the NFL. And then on
the other side of the aisle, you have just like
regular football fans who don't worship the ground that Kaepernick
walks on, that have not put him on that pedestal.
It's an interesting town, Baltimore. Say, it's an odd spot
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because you got a huge military presence in that area
and both active and retired. I read that they were
four hundred thousand veterans of the United States Armed Forces
that mostly live in the Baltimore area and the surrounding
counties around Baltimore. Now that doesn't mean just because you're
a veteran that you're against Kaepernick, but I would say
most are. And not to mention the fact that you've
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got the military basis in Maryland and not that far
within driving distance of where the Ravens play their games.
So now, in addition to all that, as we app
here on Fox Sports Radio, it would be a calculated
mistake to bring Colin kaepricking just as a football player, right,
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And I've heard the argument a lot. Well, Ryan Mallett sucks,
so does Colin Kaepernick. In fact, Ryan Mallett, if you
weigh everything, you gotta include everything year Ryan Mallett. When
you factor in the carry on baggage that Kaepernick brings
with him, malice better. I'd rather have Ryan Mallett. They
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both have a lot of problems. There are many weaknesses
in Kaepernick's game. We've chronicled them. People want to overlook them,
they want to forget about them, they want to pretend
they didn't happen. But he was a quarterback that got
worse as games won along last year. In the second
half of games, he was terrible. Defenses figured him out,
didn't might not figured him out early in games last
year with the Niners, but by the second half he
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was brewed. He had a quarterback raiding Kaepernick in the
second half of games of seventy and you gotta think
the Niners were behind. The only won two games. They
were behind in pretty much every game, so you figure
the defense will go soft, your numbers should be better
in the second half. But that was not the case.
He was the twenty ninth ranked quarterback last year among
all qualified qbs in the second half. And it's been
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the case. As we've said all along, he was a
one hit wonder. He was a one hit wonder. He
got off to this amazing start and then it's been
a nosedive ever since then. And there's also the other
factor of ego being involved here. Let me ask you
a question. You think that Colin Kaepernick would be willing
to try out for Peanuts as a backup with the
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Baltimore Ravens. Maybe he will. I would bet against that, though,
I'm gonna bet that he says that's below me. I am.
I am a messiah here, I am a very important person.
I cannot be bothered with having to try out. Yeah,
that's my position. Is now the last observation. The one
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thing that the Colin Kaepernick marching in Chowder society cannot
seem to grasp is the damage done by Kaepernick and
his disciples, the people that have followed him in the NFL.
There was a poll that was just released that says
twenty six percent of people who have watched less NFL
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games because of Kaepernick related protest. So, Paul, you're looking
up yourself from JD. Power, and whether you believe that
or not, that that seems pretty high. One in four
people so upset with the national anthem protests led by
Kaepernick and his movement anti police, anti military, anti government,
that people are watching less football. I mean, the feedback
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I've gotten is in line with that. The people that
have emailed the show and called into the show has
been overwhelming anti Kaepernick. It's not even closer. But let's
say that number, it's not right. Let's say the number
is actually fifteen percent. Let's say the numbers only fifteen minute.
Let's say it's five percent. You run the business, you
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are now in charge of the business. You have an
employee that is hurting your bottom line by five percent?
You okay with that? You're good with that. What if
it's fifteen percent? What if it's twenty five percent? Remember,
the NFL is a television show. It's reality TV. That's
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what the NFL is. They're telling reality TV. How do
you handle that? How do you handle that? Do you
just ignore it? Well, it's not true. How do you
do it? What do you what do you do in
that spot? There's I think we can all agree there
is a fallout to this. And the question asked me,
as is he worth the trouble? And if the Ravens
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do add Kaepernick, that will add to their rich legacy.
They can put a statue of him right next to
the Ray Lewis statue. Ray the one that was he
paid off the victims families in that killing in Atlanta.
Give him a statue there. They could give Kaepernick a statue.
Why not? All right? It's the Ben Maller show on Fox.
If you would like to be part, you can give
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all right, so Ben Malier. Now the Ravens have added
a quarterback, but that has not ended the Kaepernick conversation.
They have added someone by the name of David Olson,
who I don't even know. Do you know David Olsen?
Is that Danny g Have you ever heard of David Olson?
Never heard of him? No, he never heard of him.
He played in the Champions Indoor Football a league. Oh yeah, yeah, no,
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no never. All right, anyway, but that doesn't end the
Kaepernick conversation because the argument movie, if Waco is out
longer than the Kaepernick crowd will come back and they
will say, no, no, no, no, no, we gotta go
back to this guy. We gotta go back to this guy.
When can the whole Kaepernick thing just be retired? Let's
see here, I'm gonna go. He's gotta miss this year.
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If he misses an entire year, then it'll go away. Yeah,
but it it really won't go away until after next
training camp, I would say, because he can still come
back if you miss a year, but it's not gonna
be near. The noise is not gonna be as loud
as it is right now. But David Olsen has joined
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the Ravens. Does that mean the well in the halosect Now?
Does that mean that the Ravens listen to the people
in Baltimore that we're contacting the radio stations there and
the social media blowback? Is that? Is that why they
went with some guy I've never heard of, David Olson,
one of the Olsen brothers. Well as we know on
this show, the teams always listen to talk radio in
their city. That's how they make most of their roster
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moves exactly. And I have been consulting. I'm glad you
brought that up now. Because we have a national platform,
I am able to consult all teams. I am an
advisor to all of these teams, every single one of them.
They value by impact that my words here are very
important to them. Hanging on everything now, Eddie's not here.
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God only knows why. Man gets a lot of vacation time.
We have Ralph is in here somewhere allegedly who hates
our show. Now, Ralph, actually what he did is he
came in here and he taped everything and he's down
the street. In my sixth four there is some of
his work from earlier and he's actually at home. But
don't tell anybody. Do not tell anyone that raps at
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home because he'll get in trouble with management if the
management types find out that he's not here. So does
this mean we're not going to get in depth update
coverage on Winnipeg with their contrial, controversial finish over Montreal
forty one to forty Did you see that was the
ball carrier down with those seconds, those last couple of
seconds remaining on the clock, I demand answers, So Blue
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bombers over the Alouettes. That should should have been your lead.
You buried it. I know. Well, we didn't get the
CFL guy on yesterday because we had to get to
Felexis and the other Yahoo's that called up, so we
couldn't get him on the point. But now he has
something really exciting too. Yeah, you know he's gonna say
the CFL guys gonna ca well, that was my pick
of the week, but you didn't get me on. I
gave you a winner of that game, and you should
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have gotten me on the CFL pick of the Week.
You bad job by you. I know also, I know
how this is gonna go down. I know how this
is gonna go down. By the way, what the hell's
going on here? I come in. We got a bank
of televisions and C SPAN two is on one of
my TVs right in front of me. What the f
is going on? This is a sports talk radio station. Now,
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I know Jason and Mike harm and the guys that
are on before me, they don't watch any sports. They
got every pop culture you know, t you know, old
nineteen eighties and nineties movies on. There's no sports here,
there's no I understand that. But C SPAN. What is harmon?
Breaking down the political process? He wants to see if
that healthcare bill I guess didn't pass. Is that what
he's worried about. I mean, I know there's nothing going
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on in sports, but we got can we find something?
I C SPAN? If I want to go to sleep,
I'll look at C SPAN and c SPAN two, not
even c SPAN one. I got C Span two on there.
What's up with that? Hang on, there's pogo stick racing
on FS one. I'm gonna get that out. Ye get
me two of the screens for you. I want some
guys chopping wood. You remember those shows that used to
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be on in the middle of the night, those strong
man contests, Those were great shows. That was all that
was fun. Just bring a giant redwood and just chop
it down and carry it on your back. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weeknights
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the Hard Radio app One of the best
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things about this time of the year, there's a lot
of puffery in NFL training camp coaches, very braggadocious. If
you go back and listen to the podcast from a
couple of days ago, we went over our favorite cliches
and catchphrases this time of the year, and it's all
the smoke screen. It's very deceptive. There's this facade that
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has put up, and it's fun to poke holes in
a lot of this, and for example, the Carolina Panther,
the best laid plans of mice and football coaches. A
couple of weeks ago we talked about this. I think
it was a couple of weeks ago. The story was
going around that Ron rivera had decided very openly along
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with some other people in Carolina, that the plan for
Cam Newton was going to change, that they had to
cut down on Cam Newton being exposed to big hits.
He just could not run as much. A lot of
noise out about Cam Newton and whether he would run
or not run. And Ron river was very open about
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it in the fact that they were gonna change things
up and they were gonna have Cam Newton go to
the pocket more. Well, how did that work out? It's
very early in the training camp process or process and
Cam Newton, cam Newton going over the top to attempt
to put the kabash on any of this what he
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believes clearly is mean spirited rhetoric, and Cam Newton going
to a jungle reference to describe his thoughts on trying
to keep him from running the football stand certain things
like that's my age, you're gonna expect a lion out
to roar. You don't expect a lion not to roar.
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You do not, you do not so you heard it
right there. Now we have more, we have more audio,
as they say, and as Warner Wolf would say, let's
go to the audio tape. Here's Cam Newton talking about
how you gotta compare me to other quarterbacks. You can't,
you can't put me separate from these other guys. I
couldn't imagine talking to Brady or talking to Aaron or
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talking to you Matt Brown and Breeze and say hey,
you got stay in the pocket all day like that?
Do you think that Cam Newton and Aaron Rodgers are
in that kind of relationship? Aaron? I Like, he just
drops all these names. How many of those guys is
he actually like acquaintances with? You know what I mean?
Like seriously, I mean Ceciria, Like, does he have all
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of their phone numbers? Is there like a quarterback club
where these guys all get together and they have heartfelt
meetings and Matt Ryan and Cam Newton and Aaron Rodgers
and Tom Brady get together and they break red. I'm
gonna go knowing that I do like how he just
dropped the names. It's great. Reminded me of a guy
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who who used to work here, our friend to Pat O'Brien,
who was legendary, legendary for that and a big fan
of our show right up until the point he was
no longer a big fan of our show. But we
like Pat anyway. So Cam had more to say. But wait,
there's more, and he again doubled down, now tripling down
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on the fact that his skills as a football player,
the advantage that he has, the asset that he provides
involves his legs. In my career, over the whole body
of work, the things that has put me at an
advantage most times is having that ability to run. All right, Yeah,
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does he realize that Carolina Football team's mascot's a panther,
not a lion? All right? Anyway, let's talk about It's
not a question here. What's the big takeaway from Cam
Newton saying I'm gonna run the ball when I want
to run the ball. What's the big takeaway from this?
First of all, it's acre. It shows great amounts of stubbornness,
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which I respect because I'm stubborn, And it's also reality.
It's all of those three things. Hey, Cam Newton's advantage,
as he detailed there, is, in fact, his ability to
run the football the fact that he's bigger and stronger
than many defensive players gives him a gigantic advantage in
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the open field. I am not surprised that Kim Newton
is pushing back on this, since Cam likes to use
these quotes referring to animals. I've got another one. A
zebra does not change his stripes Cam Newton, as we
talked about when this first popped up a while back,
even if Carolina said, do not run the ball, they
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said not on a You know what human nature is,
and when you're you're pressed into something, instinct takes over,
and Cam Newton's instinct is gonna be, Hey, I've run
my entire career, I'm gonna run now. When the pocket collapses,
Cam Newton's rather than just throw the ball away, He's
gonna try to run and pick up some yardage. And
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so that's where we are with is. But Cam Newton,
the up and down career he has had, the highlights
have been as a running billy. He's accurate from that
position he's taken and beat Ron Rivera can circumvent Cam
Newton to a point. Right. The Panthers, if they really
really want, can focus more on the short passing game
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and the always popular bubble screens, the drop off passes,
and that would make Carolina's coach Ron Rivera. I guess
he would be the lion Tamer if he's able to
run those plays and Cam Newton can't run as much.
Is that? Of course the caveat to all of this.
As you know from watching football, Cam Newton could always
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go and just audible at the line of scrimmage and say, hey,
I'm a lion, let me roar right like that, and
then he'll run out there and do whatever the hell
he wants to the line of scrimmage and change the play.
So it is not surprising that he is showing big,
massive spoonfuls of stubbornness. Cam Newton is living proof that
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when the legend becomes the fact, he go with the legend.
We use that line a lot. The evidence here is
he's just given you massive amounts of bravado and swagger.
And yet Andy Dalton, the much maligned, criticized Andy Dalton
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Cincinnati Bengals quarterback, has essentially the same career passing numbers
in many areas as Cam Newton. In some he's better.
The red rifle does not get to sell you high
end yogurt. He does not. And he's not nearly as
popular as our man, Cam and who was a marketing dream, right,
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marketing dream Cam Newton, He's got the style. The whole
thing upsets a lot of people. So the last thing
on this year, Cam Newton as a dual threat quarterback.
If he was only judged by his passing pedigree, he
would be fighting for a starting job in the NFL.
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Is that fair or not fair? I say it's fair
Cam Newton. You know the percentage of passes he completed
last year was fifty two point ninety. Did you know
that fifty two point nine last season? You know where
that ranked among regular quarterbacks in the NFL. I'll tell
you that was the worst completion percentage, not second worst,
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not third worst, not fourth worst. That was at the bottom.
That was the Browns of completion percentage among regular quarterbacks
last year. That's the reality. Cam Newton is not going
to have a twenty year career in the NFL. He's
got to ride this thing out as long as his
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legs are underneath him and he can still handle the
beating he's gonna get when he gets trucked. Every so often,
but it's unrealistic to expect this kind of radical transformation.
It's just it's it's not something that's likely to happen here.
And it's ironic because for all the puffery and the
bravado and the showmanship, which I am not against from
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Cam Newton, I'm not. I'm not against. I like players
that have a little style to the game. But remember
the signature play of Cam Newton's crew. If I said,
what is the one play that defines Cam Newtony guys
wont an MVP award? What's the one player that finds
this guy? Super Bowl fum ball? He didn't jump on it?
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Right super Bowl, He's fumbles the ball against the Broncos,
games still in reach, doesn't jump on it. That's the
defining moment of Cam Newton's career right now, That's the
one that stands out, and it does involve toughness and
perceived machiesemo and not jumping on the ball. It's the
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Ben Mallers Show on Fox on Fox, and if you
would like to be part, you can give us a
buzz right now. This is a very eclectic type of program,
certainly is. And we'll take your phone calls, and there's
other stuff going on outside of the NFL. For example,
for example, I very excited, very excited the trade deadline.
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This is our last I guess it's not a last
show because we'll be on Sunday night into Monday, but
it's our next to last show before the trade deadline
in baseball, and there's all kinds of speculation about who's
gonna get traded and who's not gonna get traded, and
the rumor mill is cranking up. Ken Rosenthal, the Big
Fox Sports MLB insider, claiming now that you Darvish is
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going to be traded. Apparently the Rangers did watch the
game against the Marlins last night and realize they give
up ten runs, so we gotta get rid of this guy.
The Yankees trying to get Sonny Grad and suppose of
the Dodgers are gonna get somebody. Yeah, did you see
Alex Verdugo not in the OKC lineup last night? And
Yadiyar Alvarez who not listed as today's starter for Tulsa?
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Big news, Big news because both minor leaguers, both of
those Dodgers suspects are rumored trade pieces. Train them all,
trade them all, I want a championship. Trade them all.
I don't care about trade them. You know why, because
next year there's a draft. You can replace him. You
can replace him with somebody else. The Dodgers have seven
thousand outfielders. They need to get another starting pitcher. They
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need to get a playoff a guy that can pitch
in the playoffs, a guy they have confidence in in
the postseason. And Kershaw's gonna come back. Kershaw will be
back in that rotation before the playoffs come around. But
they got to get another guy. I'm concerned that Alex
Wood's gonna vomit here the last couple of weeks of
the season. I'm worried about that. It's been great all year.
He had a bad start last time out against Atlanta,
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and I'm concerned. So you gotta cover yourself because he
could end up in the bullpen. It's possible. I was
started out the year. I think eleven and Oh could
be in the bullpen. So Eddie is away. We do
not know where Eddie is. We have no idea. And
the cool thing about my staff is like Eddie didn't
really mention anything. He just doesn't show up. He's like,
I guess it was a scheduled scheduled data. Good communication.
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We have very good communication here on the Ben Mallor Show. Yeah,
but we have a g filling in straight from the hood.
That's right, you know. He told us famously a few
months back, Ralph h I was going to get to
that famously that he has a street credit card. Is
that right? Yeah? He's he like the muscle cruising down
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the street in six four. Not manning his battle position though,
when he's supposed to be like a good good guy
in radio, is supposed to be your battle position. His
bedtime is TENVM. He came in prior to the show
and he taped all the pieces that you hear on
the show. I gotta tell you, as a talk shows,
you feel really good when someone that you kind of
need part of the show is walking by you in
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the hallway. Makes you feel very confident in the people
that you're working with. It does. It's very It's uplifting,
you know. It's like talking about somebody in the La
la la la. They walked down the halls. Great, it's wonderful.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weeknights at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio app. Rachel in
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Mona Bellow in southern California is on Fox Sports Radio.
Hello Rachel, Hey, don't play that. Then we interrupt this
call for the following report. Houston, The Mallor Friendship one
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and Danny g ready for go mission spanning the globe.
In are in the sports world, to go where no
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We have lift off. Come on, Ben, how long did
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it take for you to write that script? Listen, Rachel
is our She's actually running the imaging department here at
the iHeart Media building. All of that, see Rachel. Now,
the great thing with the imaging departments, they spent you know,
they spent about five minutes on those opens. But this
this will be that. They'll just play that and that'll
be the open for the show. That's all we need. Rachel. Well,
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you know what, Ben, it comes from the heart. Yeah. Well,
thank you, you're very You're very Ben. I mean, the
impossible is happening. The Dodgers are going to overcome all
their problems. Yeah, that's right, all those injured, most injuries
in baseball. Dave Roberts is the manager of the Year
again in the National League. Ben the Dodgers are going
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to overcome all their problems. The impossible is no longer impossible.
That is correct, That is absolutely correct. Now, Rachel, I
would like you to give advice to some other callers
who stink. We have a lot of bad cars. I
would like you to give advice to some of these
other callers on how to be better like you. Well,
the advice is follow your heart, say what's on your mind,
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and try not to hurt other people exactly, and you
do it very well. Rachel and I. We will be
there together, Rachel, when the Dodgers win the World Championship
down Figure Roll Avenue in LA, when they have a
big rally Dodger Stadium going through downtown. It'll be wonderful,
all right, Thank you, Rachel. Great Rachel and Manabella another
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outstanding call. What what are the chances now? Seriously, she's
in the lead right now for female Call of the Year.
Would we agree on that that? Rachel and Manabello is
right now? In the lead. I'm I'm thinking I'm going bigger.
How about caller of the Year? Is she not in
the running for caller of the year? Rachel Almanabello, she's
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gotta be real. Talks a tough a tough nut to
crack there because he's number one. But I gotta tell you, Rachel,
she's outstanding and she's real. She's a real person. I
love it. It's just that I look forward to her calls.
What do you mean she's real? You have her reading
off a script, no script at all. That was from
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the heart. She didn't sound like she was reading to
me at all. It's wrong with you. Don't you have
faith in Rachel? You gonna lie about her? Fox Sports
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To the third degree? This is one big band gets
grilled and it is Mallard to the third degree. As
we put the bow on the week, we put the
baby to be final third degree of this week of radio,
and we bring in the coop d Loop. Reports say
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that the Texans have been blown away by the progress
of Deshaun Watson. Now, the Texans were legit playoff team
last season with spotty quarterback play to say the least. However,
Watson isn't set in stone as the starter with Tom
Savage also in the mix. Ben, do you expect improvement
from the Texans this year or a step back? Yeah,
I'm not. I'm not taking the medicine that the Texans
(31:31):
are given out about Deshaun Watson, who we had a
little twitter beef a few months back. I'm not gonna
gonna put the savior title on Deshaun Watson yet. At first,
the first thing is this last year. If you go
back and look at some of the quotes about this
time of the year, the Houston Texans brass who was
they were essentially throwing rose pedals at brock Osweiler. He
(31:56):
looks great. We're really optimistic. We think he's gonna solve
our quarterback problems. How'd that work out? Now he's playing
plausibly for the Cleveland Browns. There's just words, people, They're
just words, and I love words. All I have is words.
There's no photos here. I do radio. All we have
his words. But actions matter in this particular respect. I
(32:19):
believe if Deshaun Watson goes out and actually, you know,
has success in real games, we got something. We got something.
But let's not anoint Deshaun Watson the new Dak Prescott
among the rookie class here. I'm not buying it. And secondly,
there is little evidence that Houston will be much different
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this year than they have been in recent years. They
look to be about a nine or ten win team
again that is going to continue to be inconsistent. The
Titans have certainly closed the talent gap at certain certain positions.
Texans are still more talented, but it's close. The cults
are dysfunctional, and the Jags are more worried about their
(33:00):
European vacation every year. So the Texans are not not
going to be much better, but I don't believe it'll
be much worse next now. There was a report Wednesday
that quoted some assistant coaches around the NFL who expect
Tom Brady to quote dramatically age this season and that
it will be highly noticeable. Ben, do you think that
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the end of the road will come suddenly for Brady
or will it be a gradual decline? My guys in
Boston aren't gonna like this. But the reality is that
Tom Brady, any reasonable person will tell you the way
this is going to go down. For Brady, It's gonna
be like a pratfall in a vaudeville comedy act. The
floor is going to open up and Tom Brady is
gonna get swallowed up. And that'll be that. The million
(33:44):
dollar question is when is it going to be this year?
Is it gonna be next year? But it's not up
for debate. When the end comes, it will be a massive,
massive decline. And what's my reason for saying that you
go by past results. They don't always care and tea
(34:04):
future results, but they give you a pretty good idea.
And if you look at the history of the top
quarterbacks in the NFL, statistically, it is a rapid decline.
It's a sudden and rapid decline. It's it's not a
soft landing. You lose your footing and you fall off
a cliff. If you look at the last generation of
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star quarterbacks that have ended their careers without a devastating injury,
they've all followed the same pattern. Your boy, Peyton Manning
is last year nine touchdowns, seventeen interceptions. Brent Farve last
year with the Vikings eleven touchdowns, nineteen interceptions, Dan Marino
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way back with the Dolphins twelve touchdowns, seventeen seventeen interceptions,
and go on and on. Here beat the real question,
I think this is the better question about the Patriots
is when that time comes, and let's say it happens
in Week six, all of a sudden, you can tell
Brady's got nothing left. Is Bill Belichick ruthless enough? Is
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he cold blooded enough to bench Tom Brady in the
middle of the season. If Belichick determines that the clock
has gone up and that's it, the alarm's buzzing and
Brady can't get it done anymore, and then flip around
and go with Jimmy Garoppolo. Now that's the story to
keep an eye. And I do believe that Belichick is
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the type of person with the hoodie that he would
do that. That Brady is greatest Brady's men, as wonderful
as Brady has has been for the Patriots. If he
all of a sudden can't get it done and he
starts acting his age, then that's it. They'll pull him
and they'll put Garoppolo in there. Next. Bear's Jim Ryan
Pace announced on Tuesday that Mike Glennon will be starting
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be the starting quarterback for Chicago, while number two pick
Mitchell Trubisky will back him up. Now, do you expect
this nation to last through till the start of the
regular season? Yeah, I would say that the plan here
for the Bears, it would appear to be from John
Fox to spoon feed Mitch Drubisky. That is a mistake,
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so I'm not buying it. My advice to the Bears,
and I do give advice on the radio here. That's
what I do. I'm a consultant, highly paid consultant. Number one.
I've always been, as you know, coop baptism by fire.
That is what I like with my quarterbacks. I was
upset the Rams last year didn't start Jared Goff and
they finally played him and we realized he sucks. But
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the only way you know for sure a guy stinks
or can play is by actually, you know, getting him
on the field. You don't learn and you don't get
better from holding a clipboard. You learn from getting reps,
rolling up your sleeves and get in there and getting
your hands dirty and having some failure and having some success.
And Mitch Drubisky he needs reps. He started thirteen games
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at North Carolina. That didn't stop the Bears from trading
up to get him. How do you get better? How
do you develop? You develop by playing. And the second
thing here Chicago. I know they gave Glenn in a
promise that he would start the year as the quarterback,
and they feel like they're married to that and they
have to start him at the start at the beginning
of the regular season. But I would think that, knowing
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how Chicago is, the Natives will demand that Mitch Trubisky
end up playing and playing pretty early. I would think
certainly by mid season. The latest, the latest that Trubisky
would start would be in week ten, and that would
be against the Packers. I looked at the schedule. That's
after a bye and then the Packers have a bunch
(37:41):
of home games. I think three of their four games
after that bye week are at home. But I would
I would start him to begin. If Trubisky, assuming that
he can tie his own shoelaces, chew bubble gum, and
walk at the same time, I would give him the
starting job. What's the point Mike glenn is not gonna
be there two years from now, Beatrbisky won't be either.
But you gotta find out what you got there. It
(38:03):
is Mallard of the third degree? How did we do?
Benny pass? This edition? That's sweeter. Be sure to catch
live editions of The Ben Mallers Show weeknights at two
am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio in
the iHeart Radio app Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame Week?
(38:25):
Blame Week too? It's Big Band's lame joke of the week.
All right, let's do it here. We are Big Band's
lame jokes of the week. These are actual jokes sent
in by actual listeners like yourself. And the way this
will work, I will read the joke. I will then
bounce the joke off Danny g Radio. He'll be doing
(38:46):
double duty this week. I will bounce the joke off Danny.
He will bounce it back to me, and then Danny
will also decide whether the jokes are you sure? Ben?
Because in our air here in the studio when that
open was playing, yeah, Ralph said, guys, I'm ready. Do
you want to give him a shot? Ralph sir, we'll
(39:09):
try it. For the first half of the joke, all right,
we'll give it a shot. We'll give up your game up,
step your game up, Ralph. All right, I was impressed,
Ralph that you were able to work in the Burbank
Rec League Softball score in a national update. I like that.
That was good you requested I deliver. Yeah, solid, I'm
sure the affiliate in Appleton, Wisconsin is very happy about that.
All right, so then I'll bounce the joke off Danny
(39:31):
ge and then they will. Danny will play this if
it's funny, he'll play this if it's not funny, and
he'll play this if it's on the fence. Well, I'm married.
My wife likes to dress up. She right an oldie.
But goodie, ye for the app Why don't you play
any of the Eddie drops? How come he's not here
(39:51):
play his drops? Yeah, we gotta represent you. Coop has
his offensive jokes of the week. Batting lead off. We
start out with serious shaw on Sirius Sean, welcome to
the show. You're batting lead off? All right, First, before
I say the joke, I'd like to say thanks to
Ralph for stepping in for my friend Eddie. Absolutely do
(40:12):
you think you think Eddie's really your friend. You know,
I'm more of your friend. You like me, you like
me more than Eddie? Come on, I like everybody. No, no, no, no, no,
I'm better than Eddie. I don't really like Eddie that much.
All right, what's your joke, Sean? All right? How do
you communicate with a fish? How do you communicate with
(40:33):
the vision? I don't know. You drop it a line,
Thank you, Sean. Alright, have a good week. There you go, serious, Sean.
Here's here's a joke, just submitted. Breaking news. Bartolo Cologne
has been traded. Ralph, Bartolo Cologne has been traded. Yeah,
(40:56):
Chad says he's just been traded to the lard Lads
of the Burbank Correct League Softball. Uh well. Amazon founder
Jeff vizos I believe that's MP announced it became the
richest man in the world for a few hours on Thursday.
Ralph okay, richest man in the World's always a good thing.
(41:16):
He's now guaranteed a roster spot with the Dodgers. It's
from Mike. Thank you for that, Mike. What do cowboy
players refer to as an off season? What do cowboy
players refer to as an offseason? Parole from p one
just Josh representing Cincinnati. Well, two men were arrested for
(41:41):
stealing a calendar. Do you hear about that, Ralph? Two
men arrested for stealing a calendar I had not. Yeah,
they both got six months like that, I could have
been an eighteen month calendar. Oh, come on, leave a
toss rout please? What does Justin Cooper drink when he's sick?
(42:04):
What does Justin Cooper drink when he is sick? Herbal tea?
I would have gone with kombucca tea. But anyway, that
was eloy I believe since that when they coop, what
do you got for me? Coop? Yeah? Ben? Did you
hear that Walmart is selling a new decoration this fall
for Halloween that you can hang from your doorframe? No, no,
(42:24):
I didn't hear that. Yeah, it's called the lead Singer Cool.
All right, Well here's one that'll cheer you up. Justin Cooper.
Ralph was devastated. He had his weed seized. His weed
was seized? Don't know? Yeah, he was disjointed. Save Big
(42:49):
Ben's lame jokes of the week. Stee, do I want
to read that one on the air. Well, this week
we found out our military spends eighty four million on
a rectile dysfunction and pills eighty four million. Complaints have
been coming in about the lack of downtime. I'm married,
my wife likes to dress up. The guy from Bieber
(43:12):
dam Well. Kid Rock has announced he's seriously considering a
run for the US Senate in twenty eighteen. Senator kid
Rock Bartolo Coloone says he hasn't seriously considered running since
nineteen ninety eight. That was from Dave. Thank you, Dave.
All right, let's pause with the calls at more Big
Bang's Lame Jokes of the Week. Coops told me he's
(43:34):
got some other offensive jokes. We'll get to all that
and we'll do it next. Let's get right back to
us Big Bang's lame Jokes of the Week. These are
all jokes submitted by listeners like yourself. We thank you
for that. You keep the bit going. Send your jokes
Kire of the Ben Mallers Show Ben Mallers Show at
gmail dot com. Put jokes on the headline. Let's get
back to it. A Florida man robbed a bank, stripped naked,
(43:59):
and ran down the street throwing stolen money. About that
route ran down the street naked throwing money. Yeah, police
are still looking for Ryan Tannehill from Jay. Thank you
for that. Jay. Cooke zero is sadly coming to an
end in August. It's rebranding itself Coke zero sugar. Coke
(44:23):
zero sugar, not a problem for Josh Hamilton since he
likes his coke bitter anyway, Kurt from Earth, never make
jokes about that bad job by you, Kurt? What did
Bartolo Cologne bring to the salsa dancing class? What did
Bartolo coloone bring to the salsa dancing class? Tortilla chips?
(44:46):
Of course, Yeah, of course, why not? I don't know,
maybe some macho cheese, That's what Kurt said. I didn't
send Justin Cooper smoked weed with a couple of cows
near a police station. Smoking weed with I was near
a police station. The stakes were very high. Coope, you
got anything, Coop? A lot of people like to make
(45:08):
jokes about you got anything for me? I do do
you hear the score of the Egypt versus Ethiopia soccer game? No?
I missed that I missed. Yeah, Egypt eight Ethiopia didn't Coop,
benc It's a bad job, all right, let's move on
(45:29):
from that. An uber driver was attacked last week and
never saw it coming. A blind attack on an uber
driver that came from the blind side. I'm sorry. Well,
I'm married. My wife likes the dress upright, you pull?
You pulled an eddie there, that's a bad job by you. Well,
here's one from Nick. Have you heard about former Mississippi
(45:50):
football coach you Freeze and that escort scandal? Big story
this last week? You Freeze the escort scandal? Yeah? Well
I can't really blame him. Can you imagine being married
to missus freeze m that's from Nick. Nick sent that
one in how do you watch Nascar without a TV?
(46:17):
How do you watch Nascar without a TV? You flush
a bag of M and m's down the toilet. Oh yeah,
(46:38):
thank you for that, Jeff. All right, well, media are
outraged Ralph that the Pentagon has spent eighty four million
a year on viagra. Eighty four million, eighty four millionaire
year on viagra. Yeah. Again, it turns out I think
we use this one. Did we use this one already?
(46:58):
Soldiers are really stand up guys that we use that
one already? Similar? It was similar, It was like the
same damn thing. All right, let's see you all right,
got a couple more you come on? Anything else? Cooper,
You're done? You're out? Yeah? Are you're out again? With
Hugh Freeze? All miss Coach? Hugh Freeze forced to resign
after making a one minute phone call to an escort. Right,
(47:20):
big news. Yes. Yes. In a related note, Bartolo Cologne
has yet to retire after a twenty minute phone call
to Papa John's I have from Gordon in Tacoma. Thank you. Right,
here's the closer. Here we go. What's the difference between
(47:41):
the Cooper Loop and Christian McCaffrey. What is the difference?
Coop does not sit out Bowl games. That's from just
Josh p One and Cincinnati. Thank you, Josh and Big
Band's lame jokes of Louis. Be sure to catch live
edition so the Ben Maller Show weeknights at two am
(48:02):
Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
iHeartRadio app. All right, let's get to it. Here we go.
It's the Coop Scoop on Entertainment direct from Hollywood, Coop
dot Loop inside Entertainment. All right, Ben, Now, first thing
I need to do is mentioned a TV show that
(48:23):
I had completely overlooked last week. It was kind of Coop,
don't say that. You don't want to. You don't want
to start by saying you overlook something. Can you let
me speak trying to help you out, Cooper, No, it
doesn't help. I was getting worse when if you would
have just waited like half a second, I would have
explained it wasn't so much overlooked as they didn't really
(48:44):
announce it. It just kind of came out. It's a
new show on Netflix, new original series. I'm already already
ten episodes in. It's called Ozark okay, and it's it's
kind of a it's called the Ozarks. Yes, well, I
mean it's not about the Ozarks, but it takes place
in the Ozarks. It was kind of a coincidence that
that old caller that you had. But it's a it's
(49:07):
kind of a spin on Breaking Bad. It's stars Jason Bateman,
who you normally know from you know, comedic roles. This
is Netflix. Yes, uh yeah, he's a Jason Bateman from
Arrested Development fame, but this is a much more serious role. Now,
if you remember Breaking Bad, this is how I'm gonna
tell you and it's not really a spoiler. Instead of
the chemistry teacher that ends up cooking meth, he's the
(49:32):
financial advisor that ends up cleaning money for the cartel.
Oh some more honest situation kind of. Yeah. Yeah, but
it's a it's a very interesting show and I would
recommend checking it out now. Also coming out this week
in fact today, actually on HBO at eleven thirty PM,
a late late start. It's a new twelve episode anthology series.
(49:57):
It's called Room one oh FOURD. It's set in a
single motel room where a different story with a different
set of characters and actors takes place each week. It
looks interesting, cheesy, it could It could go either way.
I'm gonna suck the fact that it's premiering at eleven thirty.
You're probably right, Ben say, there's not a lot of
confidence in that show. Probably not. But it is on
(50:21):
HBO and HBO doesn't swing and miss very often. Well,
you don't remember the swings and the misses, but they're true.
Then premiering this Sunday on Comedy Central, adults swim now, yeah,
our cartoon network adults whim Excuse me, uh, I don't
watch the show. But I've been told thousands of times
(50:44):
by everybody on Twitter, my friends in real life, everybody
to start watching this show, so I might give it
a go. But you don't think this is real life,
coup you said, your friends in real life. You don't
think the radio friends, not internet life. I've never I've
never met you know, the most of the Twitter people,
except for the select few that happened to show up
at at the shakers Field or here or here, yes,
(51:05):
in the studio Rick and Morty, the third season of
Rick and Morty from here. Never heard of it. It's
a cartoon and that is a quick coop scoop. All right,
thank you very much, the Cooper loop inside Hollywood. What
you need to know, what you don't need to know,
and what you need to know right now is this.
That's what you need to know, and now it's just
(51:25):
what you've been waiting for. It's Ben's balder dash. What
the hell is this? Formerly known as something we're not
allowed to say? Hit it all right, let's do it.
It's balder dash time. Man. The field looks like this.
We've got our combatants ready to go on this week's
bald to Dash. Bobby in La Hello, Bobby. You ready
to go? Bobby? Yes, how's it going? All right? Good Bobby?
(51:49):
Welcome in. What do you do for a living? Bobby? Okay? Good?
So am I all right? Very good? Hold on to
Seck Bobby, and you will be going against Mike in Oregon?
Not him? Oh ohur defending champion. I'm sorry, excuse me,
I did not see his name there? Hello, Enzo? What's
going on? Big Ben? Enzo is back or defending champion?
(52:12):
The man that ruined Cooper Loop's chance to win five
dollars on a previous episode of The Ben Mallor Show
on a newby Night A couple newby nights ago. All right, Enzo,
you ready to go? Yeah, I'm fired up? Sound fired up? Okay,
here we go. You got the Benny's balled out? Yeah,
you're on the air, Bobby. Oh my god, can Bobby?
(52:32):
Can you hear me? Bobby? Let me try something, hold
on a sec. Apparently the patch systems messed up? Bobby?
Are you there? All right? Apparently again the bottom bank.
It's always the bottom bank, every weeks, the bottom bank.
All right, y'all? All right, Bobby and Enzo, here we go.
Let's do this, guys, Category number one is coop. Is
(52:55):
that the name of the category? Yeah? All right, it
was written by Anthony and Anaheim. By the way, it's
titled dead ass Mo. Yeah, we'll call it the Kardashian category,
Category two, baby Bronze, and category three. You own this pile?
All right, Endzo, you're our champ. Where do you want
to go? The Kardashian category? All right, Kardashian category for
(53:20):
two hundred. It's all about players who dated our Kardashian
Your name is your buzzer, gentleman. Here we go. This
former NBA champ and six Man of the Year in
twenty eleven almost died of a drug overdose and borrowed him. Yes, correct,
four hundred dollars. This former Heisman winner and Super Bowl correct,
(53:45):
six hundred dollars. This NBA champ was the most recent
victim of the Kardashian curse when he did not show up. Bobby, uh,
don't curse. But who is it? It's a um um
um um five four three two one, All right, end Zoe.
(54:08):
You want to steal a pass? All right? We're looking
for Tristan Thompson. Tristin Thompson. Okay, eight hundred dollars. This
forty sixth overall pick in the twenty fourteen NBA Draft
by the Wizards is currently on his third year in
Los Angeles. He played two years at the University of
(54:29):
Tulsa and one at Missouri. He was shacked up with
Kendall Jenner place for the Lakers. Oh boy, Bobby, it
was our um. Oh boy, Bobby, You're so close, Bobby,
I can It's on the tip of your tongue. I
(54:52):
don't know his last name, j Jordan h oh Man.
Come on, spit it out. You're almost half Yeah, all right,
you got it. You did it. Eight hundred bucks for Bobby.
We'll close out the Kardashian category for a thousand. Despite
(55:12):
his Kardashian connection, this athlete has lasted thirteen years in
the NBA IS and is currently with the Atlanta Hawks.
His real fame thought game from the fact that he
married Kim Kardashian live on TV before Kanye West. And Oh,
I think Enzo got an Enzo. I'll use a lifeline,
Danny ge. All right, dannyg it's kind of a snake,
(55:36):
but the Enzo's a veteran. We all felt bad for
this dude. Chris Humphries. You want to go with that, Zo, Yeah,
that's correct, Chris Humphries. All right, Endzo quick, we gotta
do another category. We got baby bronze or you own
this pile? You own this pile? All right? Everyone in
this category has owned a major sports franchise for two
(55:57):
hundred dollars, nicknamed the Boss, this I owner Enzoe no
nicknamed the Boss. This iconic owner won seven World Series
in the time his team had built into baseball's first
billion dollars franchise. Anybody, all right, how soon we forget?
(56:20):
All right? George Steinbrenner was who we were looking for.
George Steinbrenner four hundred dollars. When he was alive, you
could find him with hot women or playing poker. After
his death, his children took over and of not being
able to match his success in the NBA. Zoe, there
you go. That's Serry though. Yeah, Jerry always had a
(56:42):
harem of women around him when I'd see him at
the Forum back in the day and at Staples Center,
and they were very young, all right. I kept him young,
I guess six hundred dollars. This former AFL commissioner is
considered one of the greatest and zaniest and craziest NFL
owners of all time. Bobby though, Bobby, Yeah, Davis is right,
(57:09):
I'm the writers. Alright, let's pause for the cause here, Coop,
what do we got we the score wise Bobby and Enzo.
It's not it's not quite enough, all right. Yes, Enzo
has eighteen hundred, Bobby has eight hundred. All right, we're
gonna end it right here, guys. But thank you both.
The Bobby, I hope you continue to do nothing. Okay,
(57:30):
thank you. I'll do it for you. I do it
for me. I I envy you. You get to do nothing. Uh.
And Enzo, good luck to you. You win again. You
get another Golden
This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
Fox Sports Radio. It's been about twenty four hours, a
little more than that, and the story was Joe Flacco
is hurt down, goes flacout, the Baltimore quarterback, the elite
(00:21):
quarterback of the Ravens going down. The initial reports were
no big deal, no big deal. He'll be out for
a week and maybe two weeks. It's a minor disc
problem in his back. He tweaked it while working out,
which we all kind of laughed at Joe Flacco busting
(00:41):
iron in the gym. But anyway, so that was the story.
And now in less than a little bit over a day,
the Ravens have gone from Flacco's out for like a
week too. Now they are kicking the tires on the
most polarizing man in the sports world. Now, if you've
(01:01):
been hiding somewhere and you have not been paying attention,
it's a bad job by you. But it's a good
job by you because that's why you're here. The Ravens
have said they will not rule out, which is great
on the fence wordage right. Will not rule out because
(01:21):
there are very few things in life you can rule out.
The Ravens said they would not rule out signing Colin
Kaepernick with Joe Flacco out for this very brief amount
of time with a phantom back injury, so again wouldn't
rule out. And that is all it took. And strike
up the band. Everyone's circle around, round and round and
(01:44):
round we go, and let's talk about because everyone got
all worked up here. People that have been campaigning for
Colin Kaepernick, they had an orgasm. They were so excited
the idea that he could go to Baltimore. A John
Harball apparently thinks that Colin Kafer said this before that
(02:05):
he thinks that Kaepernick's gonna play in the NFL this year,
though he would not say that the Ravens are signing him.
So the question here is this, what do we do
make of a lot of speculation that the Ravens are
going down an avenue that many people don't want to
go down, the Kaepernick avenue, at least, a public flirtation
(02:32):
with the most toxic player in the sport. Now, my
reaction to this a classic weather balloon and what appears
to be a calculated mistake by Baltimore. And we'll start
with the fact that John Horball beloved Ravens coach by
some of my friends in the Baltimore media. What he's
(02:54):
doing now is taking a page out of Pete Carroll's
playboo from Seattle. You know what I'm talking about here.
Carol brought in Kaepernick for a meeting, a get together
chit chat with the Seahawks, but they didn't sign him.
Why not because the Seahawks backed away. Public sentiment was
(03:18):
not in their favor. They put the test out there.
They brought Kaepernick in although no one saw photos of
him in Seattle, and then he left and new now
signing of Kaepernick, Well, the Ravens are doing the same thing.
They are attempting to gauge community sentiment and whether or
(03:38):
not this will cause any kind of a riffle with
the community, the football fan community. So this is a
weather balloon situation. They're trying to get a sense of
what the temperature is among the football fans. And from
what we've been told, the early reaction has been old
(04:00):
overwhelmingly negative. Friend of the show and beloved media mabn
in Baltimore Sports with Coleman. He has been doing radio
in Baltimore for a long time and he passes on
that the early reaction, the pulse of the people, and
he's on the pulse of the people in Baltimore has
not been good. That has not been good, and that
(04:24):
this is not something where the people are overwhelmingly lining
up to open the door to bring kaeperni again and
a Colin Kaepernick has been put on a pedestal by
a group of people that share his beliefs, the anti
police belief the anti military beliefs that Kaepernick stands for.
(04:44):
Those people have campaigned for him to get a job.
It's a grassroots social media campaign. And there's this clear
point of demarcation because you've got on one side of
the aisle those types that really don't watch football. There,
casual observer, they're not really into football, but they're all in.
They're completely invested in Kaepernick. They don't really know how
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much about him, but they're like, I like the idea
of this guy being a rebel and a maverick, and
I want this guy in the NFL. And then on
the other side of the aisle, you have just like
regular football fans who don't worship the ground that Kaepernick
walks on, that have not put him on that pedestal.
It's an interesting town, Baltimore. Say, it's an odd spot
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because you got a huge military presence in that area
and both active and retired. I read that they were
four hundred thousand veterans of the United States Armed Forces
that mostly live in the Baltimore area and the surrounding
counties around Baltimore. Now that doesn't mean just because you're
a veteran that you're against Kaepernick, but I would say
most are. And not to mention the fact that you've
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got the military basis in Maryland and not that far
within driving distance of where the Ravens play their games.
So now, in addition to all that, as we app
here on Fox Sports Radio, it would be a calculated
mistake to bring Colin kaepricking just as a football player, right,
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And I've heard the argument a lot. Well, Ryan Mallett sucks,
so does Colin Kaepernick. In fact, Ryan Mallett, if you
weigh everything, you gotta include everything year Ryan Mallett. When
you factor in the carry on baggage that Kaepernick brings
with him, malice better. I'd rather have Ryan Mallett. They
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both have a lot of problems. There are many weaknesses
in Kaepernick's game. We've chronicled them. People want to overlook them,
they want to forget about them, they want to pretend
they didn't happen. But he was a quarterback that got
worse as games won along last year. In the second
half of games, he was terrible. Defenses figured him out,
didn't might not figured him out early in games last
year with the Niners, but by the second half he
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was brewed. He had a quarterback raiding Kaepernick in the
second half of games of seventy and you gotta think
the Niners were behind. The only won two games. They
were behind in pretty much every game, so you figure
the defense will go soft, your numbers should be better
in the second half. But that was not the case.
He was the twenty ninth ranked quarterback last year among
all qualified qbs in the second half. And it's been
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the case. As we've said all along, he was a
one hit wonder. He was a one hit wonder. He
got off to this amazing start and then it's been
a nosedive ever since then. And there's also the other
factor of ego being involved here. Let me ask you
a question. You think that Colin Kaepernick would be willing
to try out for Peanuts as a backup with the
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Baltimore Ravens. Maybe he will. I would bet against that, though,
I'm gonna bet that he says that's below me. I am.
I am a messiah here, I am a very important person.
I cannot be bothered with having to try out. Yeah,
that's my position. Is now the last observation. The one
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thing that the Colin Kaepernick marching in Chowder society cannot
seem to grasp is the damage done by Kaepernick and
his disciples, the people that have followed him in the NFL.
There was a poll that was just released that says
twenty six percent of people who have watched less NFL
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games because of Kaepernick related protest. So, Paul, you're looking
up yourself from JD. Power, and whether you believe that
or not, that that seems pretty high. One in four
people so upset with the national anthem protests led by
Kaepernick and his movement anti police, anti military, anti government,
that people are watching less football. I mean, the feedback
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I've gotten is in line with that. The people that
have emailed the show and called into the show has
been overwhelming anti Kaepernick. It's not even closer. But let's
say that number, it's not right. Let's say the number
is actually fifteen percent. Let's say the numbers only fifteen minute.
Let's say it's five percent. You run the business, you
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are now in charge of the business. You have an
employee that is hurting your bottom line by five percent?
You okay with that? You're good with that. What if
it's fifteen percent? What if it's twenty five percent? Remember,
the NFL is a television show. It's reality TV. That's
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what the NFL is. They're telling reality TV. How do
you handle that? How do you handle that? Do you
just ignore it? Well, it's not true. How do you
do it? What do you what do you do in
that spot? There's I think we can all agree there
is a fallout to this. And the question asked me,
as is he worth the trouble? And if the Ravens
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do add Kaepernick, that will add to their rich legacy.
They can put a statue of him right next to
the Ray Lewis statue. Ray the one that was he
paid off the victims families in that killing in Atlanta.
Give him a statue there. They could give Kaepernick a statue.
Why not? All right? It's the Ben Maller show on Fox.
If you would like to be part, you can give
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all right, so Ben Malier. Now the Ravens have added
a quarterback, but that has not ended the Kaepernick conversation.
They have added someone by the name of David Olson,
who I don't even know. Do you know David Olsen?
Is that Danny g Have you ever heard of David Olson?
Never heard of him? No, he never heard of him.
He played in the Champions Indoor Football a league. Oh yeah, yeah, no,
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no never. All right, anyway, but that doesn't end the
Kaepernick conversation because the argument movie, if Waco is out
longer than the Kaepernick crowd will come back and they
will say, no, no, no, no, no, we gotta go
back to this guy. We gotta go back to this guy.
When can the whole Kaepernick thing just be retired? Let's
see here, I'm gonna go. He's gotta miss this year.
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If he misses an entire year, then it'll go away. Yeah,
but it it really won't go away until after next
training camp, I would say, because he can still come
back if you miss a year, but it's not gonna
be near. The noise is not gonna be as loud
as it is right now. But David Olsen has joined
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the Ravens. Does that mean the well in the halosect Now?
Does that mean that the Ravens listen to the people
in Baltimore that we're contacting the radio stations there and
the social media blowback? Is that? Is that why they
went with some guy I've never heard of, David Olson,
one of the Olsen brothers. Well as we know on
this show, the teams always listen to talk radio in
their city. That's how they make most of their roster
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moves exactly. And I have been consulting. I'm glad you
brought that up now. Because we have a national platform,
I am able to consult all teams. I am an
advisor to all of these teams, every single one of them.
They value by impact that my words here are very
important to them. Hanging on everything now, Eddie's not here.
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God only knows why. Man gets a lot of vacation time.
We have Ralph is in here somewhere allegedly who hates
our show. Now, Ralph, actually what he did is he
came in here and he taped everything and he's down
the street. In my sixth four there is some of
his work from earlier and he's actually at home. But
don't tell anybody. Do not tell anyone that raps at
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home because he'll get in trouble with management if the
management types find out that he's not here. So does
this mean we're not going to get in depth update
coverage on Winnipeg with their contrial, controversial finish over Montreal
forty one to forty Did you see that was the
ball carrier down with those seconds, those last couple of
seconds remaining on the clock, I demand answers, So Blue
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bombers over the Alouettes. That should should have been your lead.
You buried it. I know. Well, we didn't get the
CFL guy on yesterday because we had to get to
Felexis and the other Yahoo's that called up, so we
couldn't get him on the point. But now he has
something really exciting too. Yeah, you know he's gonna say
the CFL guys gonna ca well, that was my pick
of the week, but you didn't get me on. I
gave you a winner of that game, and you should
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have gotten me on the CFL pick of the Week.
You bad job by you. I know also, I know
how this is gonna go down. I know how this
is gonna go down. By the way, what the hell's
going on here? I come in. We got a bank
of televisions and C SPAN two is on one of
my TVs right in front of me. What the f
is going on? This is a sports talk radio station. Now,
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I know Jason and Mike harm and the guys that
are on before me, they don't watch any sports. They
got every pop culture you know, t you know, old
nineteen eighties and nineties movies on. There's no sports here,
there's no I understand that. But C SPAN. What is harmon?
Breaking down the political process? He wants to see if
that healthcare bill I guess didn't pass. Is that what
he's worried about. I mean, I know there's nothing going
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on in sports, but we got can we find something?
I C SPAN? If I want to go to sleep,
I'll look at C SPAN and c SPAN two, not
even c SPAN one. I got C Span two on there.
What's up with that? Hang on, there's pogo stick racing
on FS one. I'm gonna get that out. Ye get
me two of the screens for you. I want some
guys chopping wood. You remember those shows that used to
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be on in the middle of the night, those strong
man contests, Those were great shows. That was all that
was fun. Just bring a giant redwood and just chop
it down and carry it on your back. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weeknights
at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Radio and the Hard Radio app One of the best
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things about this time of the year, there's a lot
of puffery in NFL training camp coaches, very braggadocious. If
you go back and listen to the podcast from a
couple of days ago, we went over our favorite cliches
and catchphrases this time of the year, and it's all
the smoke screen. It's very deceptive. There's this facade that
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has put up, and it's fun to poke holes in
a lot of this, and for example, the Carolina Panther,
the best laid plans of mice and football coaches. A
couple of weeks ago we talked about this. I think
it was a couple of weeks ago. The story was
going around that Ron rivera had decided very openly along
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with some other people in Carolina, that the plan for
Cam Newton was going to change, that they had to
cut down on Cam Newton being exposed to big hits.
He just could not run as much. A lot of
noise out about Cam Newton and whether he would run
or not run. And Ron river was very open about
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it in the fact that they were gonna change things
up and they were gonna have Cam Newton go to
the pocket more. Well, how did that work out? It's
very early in the training camp process or process and
Cam Newton, cam Newton going over the top to attempt
to put the kabash on any of this what he
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believes clearly is mean spirited rhetoric, and Cam Newton going
to a jungle reference to describe his thoughts on trying
to keep him from running the football stand certain things
like that's my age, you're gonna expect a lion out
to roar. You don't expect a lion not to roar.
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You do not, you do not so you heard it
right there. Now we have more, we have more audio,
as they say, and as Warner Wolf would say, let's
go to the audio tape. Here's Cam Newton talking about
how you gotta compare me to other quarterbacks. You can't,
you can't put me separate from these other guys. I
couldn't imagine talking to Brady or talking to Aaron or
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talking to you Matt Brown and Breeze and say hey,
you got stay in the pocket all day like that?
Do you think that Cam Newton and Aaron Rodgers are
in that kind of relationship? Aaron? I Like, he just
drops all these names. How many of those guys is
he actually like acquaintances with? You know what I mean?
Like seriously, I mean Ceciria, Like, does he have all
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of their phone numbers? Is there like a quarterback club
where these guys all get together and they have heartfelt
meetings and Matt Ryan and Cam Newton and Aaron Rodgers
and Tom Brady get together and they break red. I'm
gonna go knowing that I do like how he just
dropped the names. It's great. Reminded me of a guy
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who who used to work here, our friend to Pat O'Brien,
who was legendary, legendary for that and a big fan
of our show right up until the point he was
no longer a big fan of our show. But we
like Pat anyway. So Cam had more to say. But wait,
there's more, and he again doubled down, now tripling down
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on the fact that his skills as a football player,
the advantage that he has, the asset that he provides
involves his legs. In my career, over the whole body
of work, the things that has put me at an
advantage most times is having that ability to run. All right, Yeah,
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does he realize that Carolina Football team's mascot's a panther,
not a lion? All right? Anyway, let's talk about It's
not a question here. What's the big takeaway from Cam
Newton saying I'm gonna run the ball when I want
to run the ball. What's the big takeaway from this?
First of all, it's acre. It shows great amounts of stubbornness,
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which I respect because I'm stubborn, And it's also reality.
It's all of those three things. Hey, Cam Newton's advantage,
as he detailed there, is, in fact, his ability to
run the football the fact that he's bigger and stronger
than many defensive players gives him a gigantic advantage in
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the open field. I am not surprised that Kim Newton
is pushing back on this, since Cam likes to use
these quotes referring to animals. I've got another one. A
zebra does not change his stripes Cam Newton, as we
talked about when this first popped up a while back,
even if Carolina said, do not run the ball, they
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said not on a You know what human nature is,
and when you're you're pressed into something, instinct takes over,
and Cam Newton's instinct is gonna be, Hey, I've run
my entire career, I'm gonna run now. When the pocket collapses,
Cam Newton's rather than just throw the ball away, He's
gonna try to run and pick up some yardage. And
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so that's where we are with is. But Cam Newton,
the up and down career he has had, the highlights
have been as a running billy. He's accurate from that
position he's taken and beat Ron Rivera can circumvent Cam
Newton to a point. Right. The Panthers, if they really
really want, can focus more on the short passing game
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and the always popular bubble screens, the drop off passes,
and that would make Carolina's coach Ron Rivera. I guess
he would be the lion Tamer if he's able to
run those plays and Cam Newton can't run as much.
Is that? Of course the caveat to all of this.
As you know from watching football, Cam Newton could always
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go and just audible at the line of scrimmage and say, hey,
I'm a lion, let me roar right like that, and
then he'll run out there and do whatever the hell
he wants to the line of scrimmage and change the play.
So it is not surprising that he is showing big,
massive spoonfuls of stubbornness. Cam Newton is living proof that
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when the legend becomes the fact, he go with the legend.
We use that line a lot. The evidence here is
he's just given you massive amounts of bravado and swagger.
And yet Andy Dalton, the much maligned, criticized Andy Dalton
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Cincinnati Bengals quarterback, has essentially the same career passing numbers
in many areas as Cam Newton. In some he's better.
The red rifle does not get to sell you high
end yogurt. He does not. And he's not nearly as
popular as our man, Cam and who was a marketing dream, right,
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marketing dream Cam Newton, He's got the style. The whole
thing upsets a lot of people. So the last thing
on this year, Cam Newton as a dual threat quarterback.
If he was only judged by his passing pedigree, he
would be fighting for a starting job in the NFL.
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Is that fair or not fair? I say it's fair
Cam Newton. You know the percentage of passes he completed
last year was fifty two point ninety. Did you know
that fifty two point nine last season? You know where
that ranked among regular quarterbacks in the NFL. I'll tell
you that was the worst completion percentage, not second worst,
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not third worst, not fourth worst. That was at the bottom.
That was the Browns of completion percentage among regular quarterbacks
last year. That's the reality. Cam Newton is not going
to have a twenty year career in the NFL. He's
got to ride this thing out as long as his
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legs are underneath him and he can still handle the
beating he's gonna get when he gets trucked. Every so often,
but it's unrealistic to expect this kind of radical transformation.
It's just it's it's not something that's likely to happen here.
And it's ironic because for all the puffery and the
bravado and the showmanship, which I am not against from
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Cam Newton, I'm not. I'm not against. I like players
that have a little style to the game. But remember
the signature play of Cam Newton's crew. If I said,
what is the one play that defines Cam Newtony guys
wont an MVP award? What's the one player that finds
this guy? Super Bowl fum ball? He didn't jump on it?
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Right super Bowl, He's fumbles the ball against the Broncos,
games still in reach, doesn't jump on it. That's the
defining moment of Cam Newton's career right now, That's the
one that stands out, and it does involve toughness and
perceived machiesemo and not jumping on the ball. It's the
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Ben Mallers Show on Fox on Fox, and if you
would like to be part, you can give us a
buzz right now. This is a very eclectic type of program,
certainly is. And we'll take your phone calls, and there's
other stuff going on outside of the NFL. For example,
for example, I very excited, very excited the trade deadline.
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This is our last I guess it's not a last
show because we'll be on Sunday night into Monday, but
it's our next to last show before the trade deadline
in baseball, and there's all kinds of speculation about who's
gonna get traded and who's not gonna get traded, and
the rumor mill is cranking up. Ken Rosenthal, the Big
Fox Sports MLB insider, claiming now that you Darvish is
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going to be traded. Apparently the Rangers did watch the
game against the Marlins last night and realize they give
up ten runs, so we gotta get rid of this guy.
The Yankees trying to get Sonny Grad and suppose of
the Dodgers are gonna get somebody. Yeah, did you see
Alex Verdugo not in the OKC lineup last night? And
Yadiyar Alvarez who not listed as today's starter for Tulsa?
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Big news, Big news because both minor leaguers, both of
those Dodgers suspects are rumored trade pieces. Train them all,
trade them all, I want a championship. Trade them all.
I don't care about trade them. You know why, because
next year there's a draft. You can replace him. You
can replace him with somebody else. The Dodgers have seven
thousand outfielders. They need to get another starting pitcher. They
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need to get a playoff a guy that can pitch
in the playoffs, a guy they have confidence in in
the postseason. And Kershaw's gonna come back. Kershaw will be
back in that rotation before the playoffs come around. But
they got to get another guy. I'm concerned that Alex
Wood's gonna vomit here the last couple of weeks of
the season. I'm worried about that. It's been great all year.
He had a bad start last time out against Atlanta,
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and I'm concerned. So you gotta cover yourself because he
could end up in the bullpen. It's possible. I was
started out the year. I think eleven and Oh could
be in the bullpen. So Eddie is away. We do
not know where Eddie is. We have no idea. And
the cool thing about my staff is like Eddie didn't
really mention anything. He just doesn't show up. He's like,
I guess it was a scheduled scheduled data. Good communication.
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We have very good communication here on the Ben Mallor Show. Yeah,
but we have a g filling in straight from the hood.
That's right, you know. He told us famously a few
months back, Ralph h I was going to get to
that famously that he has a street credit card. Is
that right? Yeah? He's he like the muscle cruising down
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the street in six four. Not manning his battle position though,
when he's supposed to be like a good good guy
in radio, is supposed to be your battle position. His
bedtime is TENVM. He came in prior to the show
and he taped all the pieces that you hear on
the show. I gotta tell you, as a talk shows,
you feel really good when someone that you kind of
need part of the show is walking by you in
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the hallway. Makes you feel very confident in the people
that you're working with. It does. It's very It's uplifting,
you know. It's like talking about somebody in the La
la la la. They walked down the halls. Great, it's wonderful.
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Show weeknights at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Mona Bellow in southern California is on Fox Sports Radio.
Hello Rachel, Hey, don't play that. Then we interrupt this
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We have lift off. Come on, Ben, how long did
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it take for you to write that script? Listen, Rachel
is our She's actually running the imaging department here at
the iHeart Media building. All of that, see Rachel. Now,
the great thing with the imaging departments, they spent you know,
they spent about five minutes on those opens. But this
this will be that. They'll just play that and that'll
be the open for the show. That's all we need. Rachel. Well,
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you know what, Ben, it comes from the heart. Yeah. Well,
thank you, you're very You're very Ben. I mean, the
impossible is happening. The Dodgers are going to overcome all
their problems. Yeah, that's right, all those injured, most injuries
in baseball. Dave Roberts is the manager of the Year
again in the National League. Ben the Dodgers are going
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to overcome all their problems. The impossible is no longer impossible.
That is correct, That is absolutely correct. Now, Rachel, I
would like you to give advice to some other callers
who stink. We have a lot of bad cars. I
would like you to give advice to some of these
other callers on how to be better like you. Well,
the advice is follow your heart, say what's on your mind,
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and try not to hurt other people exactly, and you
do it very well. Rachel and I. We will be
there together, Rachel, when the Dodgers win the World Championship
down Figure Roll Avenue in LA, when they have a
big rally Dodger Stadium going through downtown. It'll be wonderful,
all right, Thank you, Rachel. Great Rachel and Manabella another
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outstanding call. What what are the chances now? Seriously, she's
in the lead right now for female Call of the Year.
Would we agree on that that? Rachel and Manabello is
right now? In the lead. I'm I'm thinking I'm going bigger.
How about caller of the Year? Is she not in
the running for caller of the year? Rachel Almanabello, she's
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gotta be real. Talks a tough a tough nut to
crack there because he's number one. But I gotta tell you, Rachel,
she's outstanding and she's real. She's a real person. I
love it. It's just that I look forward to her calls.
What do you mean she's real? You have her reading
off a script, no script at all. That was from
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the heart. She didn't sound like she was reading to
me at all. It's wrong with you. Don't you have
faith in Rachel? You gonna lie about her? Fox Sports
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To the third degree? This is one big band gets
grilled and it is Mallard to the third degree. As
we put the bow on the week, we put the
baby to be final third degree of this week of radio,
and we bring in the coop d Loop. Reports say
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that the Texans have been blown away by the progress
of Deshaun Watson. Now, the Texans were legit playoff team
last season with spotty quarterback play to say the least. However,
Watson isn't set in stone as the starter with Tom
Savage also in the mix. Ben, do you expect improvement
from the Texans this year or a step back? Yeah,
I'm not. I'm not taking the medicine that the Texans
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are given out about Deshaun Watson, who we had a
little twitter beef a few months back. I'm not gonna
gonna put the savior title on Deshaun Watson yet. At first,
the first thing is this last year. If you go
back and look at some of the quotes about this
time of the year, the Houston Texans brass who was
they were essentially throwing rose pedals at brock Osweiler. He
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looks great. We're really optimistic. We think he's gonna solve
our quarterback problems. How'd that work out? Now he's playing
plausibly for the Cleveland Browns. There's just words, people, They're
just words, and I love words. All I have is words.
There's no photos here. I do radio. All we have
his words. But actions matter in this particular respect. I
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believe if Deshaun Watson goes out and actually, you know,
has success in real games, we got something. We got something.
But let's not anoint Deshaun Watson the new Dak Prescott
among the rookie class here. I'm not buying it. And secondly,
there is little evidence that Houston will be much different
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this year than they have been in recent years. They
look to be about a nine or ten win team
again that is going to continue to be inconsistent. The
Titans have certainly closed the talent gap at certain certain positions.
Texans are still more talented, but it's close. The cults
are dysfunctional, and the Jags are more worried about their
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European vacation every year. So the Texans are not not
going to be much better, but I don't believe it'll
be much worse next now. There was a report Wednesday
that quoted some assistant coaches around the NFL who expect
Tom Brady to quote dramatically age this season and that
it will be highly noticeable. Ben, do you think that
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the end of the road will come suddenly for Brady
or will it be a gradual decline? My guys in
Boston aren't gonna like this. But the reality is that
Tom Brady, any reasonable person will tell you the way
this is going to go down. For Brady, It's gonna
be like a pratfall in a vaudeville comedy act. The
floor is going to open up and Tom Brady is
gonna get swallowed up. And that'll be that. The million
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dollar question is when is it going to be this year?
Is it gonna be next year? But it's not up
for debate. When the end comes, it will be a massive,
massive decline. And what's my reason for saying that you
go by past results. They don't always care and tea
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future results, but they give you a pretty good idea.
And if you look at the history of the top
quarterbacks in the NFL, statistically, it is a rapid decline.
It's a sudden and rapid decline. It's it's not a
soft landing. You lose your footing and you fall off
a cliff. If you look at the last generation of
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star quarterbacks that have ended their careers without a devastating injury,
they've all followed the same pattern. Your boy, Peyton Manning
is last year nine touchdowns, seventeen interceptions. Brent Farve last
year with the Vikings eleven touchdowns, nineteen interceptions, Dan Marino
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way back with the Dolphins twelve touchdowns, seventeen seventeen interceptions,
and go on and on. Here beat the real question,
I think this is the better question about the Patriots
is when that time comes, and let's say it happens
in Week six, all of a sudden, you can tell
Brady's got nothing left. Is Bill Belichick ruthless enough? Is
(35:09):
he cold blooded enough to bench Tom Brady in the
middle of the season. If Belichick determines that the clock
has gone up and that's it, the alarm's buzzing and
Brady can't get it done anymore, and then flip around
and go with Jimmy Garoppolo. Now that's the story to
keep an eye. And I do believe that Belichick is
(35:30):
the type of person with the hoodie that he would
do that. That Brady is greatest Brady's men, as wonderful
as Brady has has been for the Patriots. If he
all of a sudden can't get it done and he
starts acting his age, then that's it. They'll pull him
and they'll put Garoppolo in there. Next. Bear's Jim Ryan
Pace announced on Tuesday that Mike Glennon will be starting
(35:52):
be the starting quarterback for Chicago, while number two pick
Mitchell Trubisky will back him up. Now, do you expect
this nation to last through till the start of the
regular season? Yeah, I would say that the plan here
for the Bears, it would appear to be from John
Fox to spoon feed Mitch Drubisky. That is a mistake,
(36:14):
so I'm not buying it. My advice to the Bears,
and I do give advice on the radio here. That's
what I do. I'm a consultant, highly paid consultant. Number one.
I've always been, as you know, coop baptism by fire.
That is what I like with my quarterbacks. I was
upset the Rams last year didn't start Jared Goff and
they finally played him and we realized he sucks. But
(36:36):
the only way you know for sure a guy stinks
or can play is by actually, you know, getting him
on the field. You don't learn and you don't get
better from holding a clipboard. You learn from getting reps,
rolling up your sleeves and get in there and getting
your hands dirty and having some failure and having some success.
And Mitch Drubisky he needs reps. He started thirteen games
(36:59):
at North Carolina. That didn't stop the Bears from trading
up to get him. How do you get better? How
do you develop? You develop by playing. And the second
thing here Chicago. I know they gave Glenn in a
promise that he would start the year as the quarterback,
and they feel like they're married to that and they
have to start him at the start at the beginning
of the regular season. But I would think that, knowing
(37:21):
how Chicago is, the Natives will demand that Mitch Trubisky
end up playing and playing pretty early. I would think
certainly by mid season. The latest, the latest that Trubisky
would start would be in week ten, and that would
be against the Packers. I looked at the schedule. That's
after a bye and then the Packers have a bunch
(37:41):
of home games. I think three of their four games
after that bye week are at home. But I would
I would start him to begin. If Trubisky, assuming that
he can tie his own shoelaces, chew bubble gum, and
walk at the same time, I would give him the
starting job. What's the point Mike glenn is not gonna
be there two years from now, Beatrbisky won't be either.
But you gotta find out what you got there. It
(38:03):
is Mallard of the third degree? How did we do?
Benny pass? This edition? That's sweeter. Be sure to catch
live editions of The Ben Mallers Show weeknights at two
am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio in
the iHeart Radio app Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame Week?
(38:25):
Blame Week too? It's Big Band's lame joke of the week.
All right, let's do it here. We are Big Band's
lame jokes of the week. These are actual jokes sent
in by actual listeners like yourself. And the way this
will work, I will read the joke. I will then
bounce the joke off Danny g Radio. He'll be doing
(38:46):
double duty this week. I will bounce the joke off Danny.
He will bounce it back to me, and then Danny
will also decide whether the jokes are you sure? Ben?
Because in our air here in the studio when that
open was playing, yeah, Ralph said, guys, I'm ready. Do
you want to give him a shot? Ralph sir, we'll
(39:09):
try it. For the first half of the joke, all right,
we'll give it a shot. We'll give up your game up,
step your game up, Ralph. All right, I was impressed,
Ralph that you were able to work in the Burbank
Rec League Softball score in a national update. I like that.
That was good you requested I deliver. Yeah, solid, I'm
sure the affiliate in Appleton, Wisconsin is very happy about that.
All right, so then I'll bounce the joke off Danny
(39:31):
ge and then they will. Danny will play this if
it's funny, he'll play this if it's not funny, and
he'll play this if it's on the fence. Well, I'm married.
My wife likes to dress up. She right an oldie.
But goodie, ye for the app Why don't you play
any of the Eddie drops? How come he's not here
(39:51):
play his drops? Yeah, we gotta represent you. Coop has
his offensive jokes of the week. Batting lead off. We
start out with serious shaw on Sirius Sean, welcome to
the show. You're batting lead off? All right, First, before
I say the joke, I'd like to say thanks to
Ralph for stepping in for my friend Eddie. Absolutely do
(40:12):
you think you think Eddie's really your friend. You know,
I'm more of your friend. You like me, you like
me more than Eddie? Come on, I like everybody. No, no, no, no, no,
I'm better than Eddie. I don't really like Eddie that much.
All right, what's your joke, Sean? All right? How do
you communicate with a fish? How do you communicate with
(40:33):
the vision? I don't know. You drop it a line,
Thank you, Sean. Alright, have a good week. There you go, serious, Sean.
Here's here's a joke, just submitted. Breaking news. Bartolo Cologne
has been traded. Ralph, Bartolo Cologne has been traded. Yeah,
(40:56):
Chad says he's just been traded to the lard Lads
of the Burbank Correct League Softball. Uh well. Amazon founder
Jeff vizos I believe that's MP announced it became the
richest man in the world for a few hours on Thursday.
Ralph okay, richest man in the World's always a good thing.
(41:16):
He's now guaranteed a roster spot with the Dodgers. It's
from Mike. Thank you for that, Mike. What do cowboy
players refer to as an off season? What do cowboy
players refer to as an offseason? Parole from p one
just Josh representing Cincinnati. Well, two men were arrested for
(41:41):
stealing a calendar. Do you hear about that, Ralph? Two
men arrested for stealing a calendar I had not. Yeah,
they both got six months like that, I could have
been an eighteen month calendar. Oh, come on, leave a
toss rout please? What does Justin Cooper drink when he's sick?
(42:04):
What does Justin Cooper drink when he is sick? Herbal tea?
I would have gone with kombucca tea. But anyway, that
was eloy I believe since that when they coop, what
do you got for me? Coop? Yeah? Ben? Did you
hear that Walmart is selling a new decoration this fall
for Halloween that you can hang from your doorframe? No, no,
(42:24):
I didn't hear that. Yeah, it's called the lead Singer Cool.
All right, Well here's one that'll cheer you up. Justin Cooper.
Ralph was devastated. He had his weed seized. His weed
was seized? Don't know? Yeah, he was disjointed. Save Big
(42:49):
Ben's lame jokes of the week. Stee, do I want
to read that one on the air. Well, this week
we found out our military spends eighty four million on
a rectile dysfunction and pills eighty four million. Complaints have
been coming in about the lack of downtime. I'm married,
my wife likes to dress up. The guy from Bieber
(43:12):
dam Well. Kid Rock has announced he's seriously considering a
run for the US Senate in twenty eighteen. Senator kid
Rock Bartolo Coloone says he hasn't seriously considered running since
nineteen ninety eight. That was from Dave. Thank you, Dave.
All right, let's pause with the calls at more Big
Bang's Lame Jokes of the Week. Coops told me he's
(43:34):
got some other offensive jokes. We'll get to all that
and we'll do it next. Let's get right back to
us Big Bang's lame Jokes of the Week. These are
all jokes submitted by listeners like yourself. We thank you
for that. You keep the bit going. Send your jokes
Kire of the Ben Mallers Show Ben Mallers Show at
gmail dot com. Put jokes on the headline. Let's get
back to it. A Florida man robbed a bank, stripped naked,
(43:59):
and ran down the street throwing stolen money. About that
route ran down the street naked throwing money. Yeah, police
are still looking for Ryan Tannehill from Jay. Thank you
for that. Jay. Cooke zero is sadly coming to an
end in August. It's rebranding itself Coke zero sugar. Coke
(44:23):
zero sugar, not a problem for Josh Hamilton since he
likes his coke bitter anyway, Kurt from Earth, never make
jokes about that bad job by you, Kurt? What did
Bartolo Cologne bring to the salsa dancing class? What did
Bartolo coloone bring to the salsa dancing class? Tortilla chips?
(44:46):
Of course, Yeah, of course, why not? I don't know,
maybe some macho cheese, That's what Kurt said. I didn't
send Justin Cooper smoked weed with a couple of cows
near a police station. Smoking weed with I was near
a police station. The stakes were very high. Coope, you
got anything, Coop? A lot of people like to make
(45:08):
jokes about you got anything for me? I do do
you hear the score of the Egypt versus Ethiopia soccer game? No?
I missed that I missed. Yeah, Egypt eight Ethiopia didn't Coop,
benc It's a bad job, all right, let's move on
(45:29):
from that. An uber driver was attacked last week and
never saw it coming. A blind attack on an uber
driver that came from the blind side. I'm sorry. Well,
I'm married. My wife likes the dress upright, you pull?
You pulled an eddie there, that's a bad job by you. Well,
here's one from Nick. Have you heard about former Mississippi
(45:50):
football coach you Freeze and that escort scandal? Big story
this last week? You Freeze the escort scandal? Yeah? Well
I can't really blame him. Can you imagine being married
to missus freeze m that's from Nick. Nick sent that
one in how do you watch Nascar without a TV?
(46:17):
How do you watch Nascar without a TV? You flush
a bag of M and m's down the toilet. Oh yeah,
(46:38):
thank you for that, Jeff. All right, well, media are
outraged Ralph that the Pentagon has spent eighty four million
a year on viagra. Eighty four million, eighty four millionaire
year on viagra. Yeah. Again, it turns out I think
we use this one. Did we use this one already?
(46:58):
Soldiers are really stand up guys that we use that
one already? Similar? It was similar, It was like the
same damn thing. All right, let's see you all right,
got a couple more you come on? Anything else? Cooper,
You're done? You're out? Yeah? Are you're out again? With
Hugh Freeze? All miss Coach? Hugh Freeze forced to resign
after making a one minute phone call to an escort. Right,
(47:20):
big news. Yes. Yes. In a related note, Bartolo Cologne
has yet to retire after a twenty minute phone call
to Papa John's I have from Gordon in Tacoma. Thank you. Right,
here's the closer. Here we go. What's the difference between
(47:41):
the Cooper Loop and Christian McCaffrey. What is the difference?
Coop does not sit out Bowl games. That's from just
Josh p One and Cincinnati. Thank you, Josh and Big
Band's lame jokes of Louis. Be sure to catch live
edition so the Ben Maller Show weeknights at two am
(48:02):
Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the
iHeartRadio app. All right, let's get to it. Here we go.
It's the Coop Scoop on Entertainment direct from Hollywood, Coop
dot Loop inside Entertainment. All right, Ben, Now, first thing
I need to do is mentioned a TV show that
(48:23):
I had completely overlooked last week. It was kind of Coop,
don't say that. You don't want to. You don't want
to start by saying you overlook something. Can you let
me speak trying to help you out, Cooper, No, it
doesn't help. I was getting worse when if you would
have just waited like half a second, I would have
explained it wasn't so much overlooked as they didn't really
(48:44):
announce it. It just kind of came out. It's a
new show on Netflix, new original series. I'm already already
ten episodes in. It's called Ozark okay, and it's it's
kind of a it's called the Ozarks. Yes, well, I
mean it's not about the Ozarks, but it takes place
in the Ozarks. It was kind of a coincidence that
that old caller that you had. But it's a it's
(49:07):
kind of a spin on Breaking Bad. It's stars Jason Bateman,
who you normally know from you know, comedic roles. This
is Netflix. Yes, uh yeah, he's a Jason Bateman from
Arrested Development fame, but this is a much more serious role. Now,
if you remember Breaking Bad, this is how I'm gonna
tell you and it's not really a spoiler. Instead of
the chemistry teacher that ends up cooking meth, he's the
(49:32):
financial advisor that ends up cleaning money for the cartel.
Oh some more honest situation kind of. Yeah. Yeah, but
it's a it's a very interesting show and I would
recommend checking it out now. Also coming out this week
in fact today, actually on HBO at eleven thirty PM,
a late late start. It's a new twelve episode anthology series.
(49:57):
It's called Room one oh FOURD. It's set in a
single motel room where a different story with a different
set of characters and actors takes place each week. It
looks interesting, cheesy, it could It could go either way.
I'm gonna suck the fact that it's premiering at eleven thirty.
You're probably right, Ben say, there's not a lot of
confidence in that show. Probably not. But it is on
(50:21):
HBO and HBO doesn't swing and miss very often. Well,
you don't remember the swings and the misses, but they're true.
Then premiering this Sunday on Comedy Central, adults swim now, yeah,
our cartoon network adults whim Excuse me, uh, I don't
watch the show. But I've been told thousands of times
(50:44):
by everybody on Twitter, my friends in real life, everybody
to start watching this show, so I might give it
a go. But you don't think this is real life,
coup you said, your friends in real life. You don't
think the radio friends, not internet life. I've never I've
never met you know, the most of the Twitter people,
except for the select few that happened to show up
at at the shakers Field or here or here, yes,
(51:05):
in the studio Rick and Morty, the third season of
Rick and Morty from here. Never heard of it. It's
a cartoon and that is a quick coop scoop. All right,
thank you very much, the Cooper loop inside Hollywood. What
you need to know, what you don't need to know,
and what you need to know right now is this.
That's what you need to know, and now it's just
(51:25):
what you've been waiting for. It's Ben's balder dash. What
the hell is this? Formerly known as something we're not
allowed to say? Hit it all right, let's do it.
It's balder dash time. Man. The field looks like this.
We've got our combatants ready to go on this week's
bald to Dash. Bobby in La Hello, Bobby. You ready
to go? Bobby? Yes, how's it going? All right? Good Bobby?
(51:49):
Welcome in. What do you do for a living? Bobby? Okay? Good?
So am I all right? Very good? Hold on to
Seck Bobby, and you will be going against Mike in Oregon?
Not him? Oh ohur defending champion. I'm sorry, excuse me,
I did not see his name there? Hello, Enzo? What's
going on? Big Ben? Enzo is back or defending champion?
(52:12):
The man that ruined Cooper Loop's chance to win five
dollars on a previous episode of The Ben Mallor Show
on a newby Night A couple newby nights ago. All right, Enzo,
you ready to go? Yeah, I'm fired up? Sound fired up? Okay,
here we go. You got the Benny's balled out? Yeah,
you're on the air, Bobby. Oh my god, can Bobby?
(52:32):
Can you hear me? Bobby? Let me try something, hold
on a sec. Apparently the patch systems messed up? Bobby?
Are you there? All right? Apparently again the bottom bank.
It's always the bottom bank, every weeks, the bottom bank.
All right, y'all? All right, Bobby and Enzo, here we go.
Let's do this, guys, Category number one is coop. Is
(52:55):
that the name of the category? Yeah? All right, it
was written by Anthony and Anaheim. By the way, it's
titled dead ass Mo. Yeah, we'll call it the Kardashian category,
Category two, baby Bronze, and category three. You own this pile?
All right, Endzo, you're our champ. Where do you want
to go? The Kardashian category? All right, Kardashian category for
(53:20):
two hundred. It's all about players who dated our Kardashian
Your name is your buzzer, gentleman. Here we go. This
former NBA champ and six Man of the Year in
twenty eleven almost died of a drug overdose and borrowed him. Yes, correct,
four hundred dollars. This former Heisman winner and Super Bowl correct,
(53:45):
six hundred dollars. This NBA champ was the most recent
victim of the Kardashian curse when he did not show up. Bobby, uh,
don't curse. But who is it? It's a um um
um um five four three two one, All right, end Zoe.
(54:08):
You want to steal a pass? All right? We're looking
for Tristan Thompson. Tristin Thompson. Okay, eight hundred dollars. This
forty sixth overall pick in the twenty fourteen NBA Draft
by the Wizards is currently on his third year in
Los Angeles. He played two years at the University of
(54:29):
Tulsa and one at Missouri. He was shacked up with
Kendall Jenner place for the Lakers. Oh boy, Bobby, it
was our um. Oh boy, Bobby, You're so close, Bobby,
I can It's on the tip of your tongue. I
(54:52):
don't know his last name, j Jordan h oh Man.
Come on, spit it out. You're almost half Yeah, all right,
you got it. You did it. Eight hundred bucks for Bobby.
We'll close out the Kardashian category for a thousand. Despite
(55:12):
his Kardashian connection, this athlete has lasted thirteen years in
the NBA IS and is currently with the Atlanta Hawks.
His real fame thought game from the fact that he
married Kim Kardashian live on TV before Kanye West. And Oh,
I think Enzo got an Enzo. I'll use a lifeline,
Danny ge. All right, dannyg it's kind of a snake,
(55:36):
but the Enzo's a veteran. We all felt bad for
this dude. Chris Humphries. You want to go with that, Zo, Yeah,
that's correct, Chris Humphries. All right, Endzo quick, we gotta
do another category. We got baby bronze or you own
this pile? You own this pile? All right? Everyone in
this category has owned a major sports franchise for two
(55:57):
hundred dollars, nicknamed the Boss, this I owner Enzoe no
nicknamed the Boss. This iconic owner won seven World Series
in the time his team had built into baseball's first
billion dollars franchise. Anybody, all right, how soon we forget?
(56:20):
All right? George Steinbrenner was who we were looking for.
George Steinbrenner four hundred dollars. When he was alive, you
could find him with hot women or playing poker. After
his death, his children took over and of not being
able to match his success in the NBA. Zoe, there
you go. That's Serry though. Yeah, Jerry always had a
(56:42):
harem of women around him when I'd see him at
the Forum back in the day and at Staples Center,
and they were very young, all right. I kept him young,
I guess six hundred dollars. This former AFL commissioner is
considered one of the greatest and zaniest and craziest NFL
owners of all time. Bobby though, Bobby, Yeah, Davis is right,
(57:09):
I'm the writers. Alright, let's pause for the cause here, Coop,
what do we got we the score wise Bobby and Enzo.
It's not it's not quite enough, all right. Yes, Enzo
has eighteen hundred, Bobby has eight hundred. All right, we're
gonna end it right here, guys. But thank you both.
The Bobby, I hope you continue to do nothing. Okay,
(57:30):
thank you. I'll do it for you. I do it
for me. I I envy you. You get to do nothing. Uh.
And Enzo, good luck to you. You win again. You
get another Golden
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