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Not exactly living up to the hype Mayweather McGregor. Round three,
The tail of the Tape, the War of Words. If
you can make it in New York City, you can
make it anywhere. What have you fail? What if you
flop when you're in Brooklyn? What happens? Then? Welcome In
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Round number three, The hype Fest Conor McGregor, Floyd Mayweather,

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Brooklyn in the house raist right Brooklyn in nous. We
had a couple of hour delay because these guys are
probably putting makeup on, knowing these two knuckleheads, and so
the Natives were restless in Brooklyn. They were not happy.
Now I was concerned that I had missed the McGregor mayweth.

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I watched the stream on the showtime feed, and I
was worried because they didn't have anything on. I was like,
oh crap, I missed it. And then I realized, no,
I hadn't missed it. I was actually early, even though
I was late, because these knuckleheads took too long to
apparently make it from wherever they were staying into Brooklyn.
So it was quite the quite the scene there, and

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if you saw it, that's great. Here are a couple
of things I observations I had right away because of
the delay. They were like fifteen thousand people or something
like that, maybe even more than that in the Barkley's Center,
the home of the iconic Brooklyn Nets, and so everything
was delayed, and then the warm up speakers come out,

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and the people wanted none of that. They didn't want
to hear they don't know these people were. They want
to hear from the head of Showtime Sports or some
local Brooklyn guy that I've never heard of. And so
the circus, though, was eventually there. The circus got there. Now,
when it finally arrived, it was a gigantic departure from

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the fun in Toronto the day before. Now, there were
several cringe worthy moments that took place, and some of
them even before the main event, like if you watched
the Showtime feed, they dragged out human beatbox Doug e
Fresh was there and I was going jay Z. I
thought jay Z would be the hip Brooklyn that all. No,

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they went Doug e Fresh Human beat Box and then
for some odd reason, and I really was hoping this
would happen. You know, sometimes your dreams do come true.
I wanted to know what Rosie Perez thought was gonna
happen in this fight. I was given that gift of
getting the boxing knowledge of actress Rosie Perez. These are

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two A listers. It was like nineteen ninety they would
be on top of their game, but unfortunately it's twenty seventeen.
So this poinning. And how about my guy Connor McGregor.
He started out and he's not my guy because's gonna lose,
But I enjoy him. In the news conference, I did
wore those tailored suits, looking sharp, right, dressed to the nines.

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The first couple of news conferences, and McGregor parades out
there does little catwalk looking like a pimp, wearing a
shirt and no shirt. Forget about that. He was shirtless.
He had like a Gucci mink coat and some Gucci
pants on. And then on the other side you got
Floyd Mayweather, who was called out by Connor McGregor for

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apparently wearing high heels. He had the boost the up.
But you're a little guy. You gotta have the boost
the up. So clearly a shot there at the rather
petite size of money Mayweather, and yet he end for
the second consecutive event in this hypefest, Floyd Mayweather providing
more props. He came out in the Irish flag and

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then made it rain. One dollar bill, you met it.
I'm gonna make it rain is what I'm gonna do.
That's what I'm gonna do, right, I'm gonna make it rain.
And he also took a selfie with McGregor in the background.
There was a bunch of other drama as well. You
had Floyd Mayweather like making a superhero like sentence. He said,

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I believe form Voltron. He says, form Voltron. And then
at that point the meat had goons of Mayweather circle
around Connor McGregor. We had all we had all this,
We had all this going back and forth. You're not
going back and forth, and so let's talk about it.

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Another question is how would you score the latest hypefest?
How do you score the first two? Very successful? How
about this one? This is not a good grade. This
is not There's three things here. Number one disappointing, Number
two mundane, and number three more theatrical. Night's off Broadway.

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You're in Brooklyn, You're not on Broadway. But number one,
Connor McGregor, it would appear at least on this night,
ran out of steam. He wasn't nearly as good. Was
it nearly as good as he had been compared to
Toronto and his appearance in Los Angeles on this world
tour in Brooklyn, and that was disappointing. And I was

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I had already given him a Netflix stand up special. Allah,
Chris Rock and the other comedians that signed big money
deals with Netflix, you got to retract that contract offer
Adam McGregor because he's he's out of material. Apparently the
charisma was still there, but he fell flat and it
just seemed like they were going through the motions. It

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was lifeless. It's like watching a Brooklyn Nets game. This
news conference between McGregor and Mayweather at one point. Now overall,
McGregor just it's like he whether it was writing, people
wrote these lines for him, or he just was tired.
I don't know what it was, but it was mundane
compared to the other tour stops. Right, his outfit was good,

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but he was clearly lacking the comedic timing that he
had had. The quick back and forth was not there,
and it was more, I would say, uncreative routine next
to the moments that we had earlier in the week.
And you know what applies here. There's something we talk

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about it from time to time. Usually involves lottery picks,
like the top pick in the NFL draft of the
NBA draft. It's called the curse of high expectations. Right,
the anticipation was oh hi, And I was planning my
day around watching the news conference looking for some entertainment.
Nothing else entertaining wise in the world of sports baseball

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games to watch. I don't care for the summer league,
so there's nothing other than watching HDTV or Family Feud
reruns with my guy Steve Harvey. So this was a
highlight of my day. And Connor McGregor's Mike game, which
was brilliant the first two news conferences. He did a

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face plan he did. It reminded me of the rock
band the cliche, the rock band that spends their entire
life waiting for that big moment they get a couple
of hits, and then the first two albums are good.
They got to come up with that third album and
their creative juices run out, and we'll see what happens
in London on Friday night they take the Red Eye

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to London. The last Dog and Pony show for a
while is in London. Now, then the second part of this.
Floyd Mayweather, on the other hand, he was not worse
than Toronto in la He was about the same. He
played the catch phrases that were pretty much tired and

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we've done with those, he repeated part of his speech
to Daniel White. You had Floyd Mayweather channeling Carattop yet again.
I've mentioned the prop comedy the Irish Flag yet again
second time, which means he probably just took it right.
He grabbed it supposedly from a fan and he just
like took it with from Toronto, got it through customs,

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the whole thing. You had the selfie with Mayweather and McGregor,
and then the climax by making it rain on stage
with one dollar bills in that great moment when Connor
McGregor that that was probably the highlight there when McGregor
said one dollar bills. I don't know we have that
or not, but it was. It was quite enjoyable. That
was quite funny, and so then money Mayweather. He made

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sure to play up the villain angle of the whole thing, right,
patting himself on the back several times for his past glory,
reminding the boxing fans in Brooklyn it seemed like again
a pro Connor McGregor crowd, although not as one sided
as in some of the other places they've been. But

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he wanted to remind all the boxing fans how much
money he has and all that. Of course, the fans
again starting to chant pay your taxes yet again. All right,
so the bottom line here, let's go to the judges scorecards.
I will go first here, since a neither fighter one
this particular round. It was even McGregor flopping with several

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of his lines, Mayweather bringing more of the same. I'm
gonna score this round of a news conference ten ten draw.
So to update my overall scorecard, I've got McGregor two Mayweather,
zero wins and one draw this week. And as I mentioned,

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we still got to go to jolly old England, London,
that is the global destination for the blow hard boxers
as they will make their final appearance, and then they
will go into hiding for the next couple of weeks
and get ready for that fight in late August. And
it certainly feels like everyone involved, everyone involved in this

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has had enough and they would like it to end
that whoever planned it, the Foreigner row was a mistake,
all right. There's some burnout syndrome involving these news conferences here, yes,
and they better hurry up and come up with something,
because that was a dud. That was a dud. Edmund

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Dallas steam Boat, Willie Form, Voltron, Arm Vultron. Okay, you
didn't see that, No, I didn't see that. Well, that
was the moment you didn't watch the news car, No
I didn't. All right, well, you can't be a judge.

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I can't have you judge this. You didn't want that's fine.
I'm I'm good, I'm I'm dying. But it was may
It wasn't very good. But Mayweather at one point said
Form Voltron and his team of steroid goons, meatheads, just
complete gym rats. We all know that type. And they formed,

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as he said, formed Vultron. They then got into like
a little scuffle with Connor McGregor. I wondered if some
of the Yeah, and I was wondering if some of
the youngsters in attendance were like what they didn't know
what that was? And I understand what. Let's askop, resident youngster. Okay, Coop,
did you do you know Vultron? Or you aware of Vultron?

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Some old cartoon? Yeah? Exactly, Yeah, sure, yeah, I think
it ended before well I don't know when Cooper was
more in nineteen eighty five, but I figured they probably
brought it back because they bring everything back, right. They
just had like a Power Rangers movie. They don't bring
radio back. We were in anywhere little what I mean
like old radio shows, you know what I mean? Like

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you the World replays like a good Ben Maller show
from like two thousand and three, play it again? You know?
Why not? These old TV shows? They they play those
over right, Like a cartoon that ended in nineteen eighty five,
they're gonna bring back and put on TV a radio
show that ended in nineteen eighty five. They don't put
those back on radio. What's up here? An early Ben

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Maller radio show? Yeah, well, there's some classic moments that
happened back in the day. And as long as I
get compensated for that, I'd be all four it royals
having their problems of the road. I'm Ben Mallack, Kansas City,
fighting for the American make Central with a white Sox stuff.
They're in Texas on this labor Days. I've decided to
put on my quick trunks. Wait. Clearly enough the highlight there,

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I don't know what that was, Mark the Cherai. You
give us a hard time. We've never done that. It
was an active sabbage. That was an actor. It was
a one of Tony Bruno who used to work here
as producers left, got fired and he decided on his
way out to f with Fox Sports Radio, and he
moved back to Chicago wherever he lived, and he was

(13:27):
re upset, and so he decided to do that. So
that was on him, and then it was also on
my friend Art Martinez, who walked away from the board
and he hit the button, walked away, and then I
was just, uh, there, could he could have read uh
anything and played it, you know what I mean, any
kind of offensive material there, and it would have played.

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Would have been powerless to stop it, exactly. I was
completely helpless. Back to the I will say this, I
see it. I had my TV on this is ra
in my house, but I had my TV on a
normal you know, network channel. Yeah, and when I turned
my TV on this afternoon when I got up, uh,
it was a like a regular news show and they

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were talking about this fight. It was not a sports show,
and they were talking about this fight and what they
were talking about. But uh yeah, that's that just shows
you where this is going right now. Yeah, it's a
big deal. People are buzzing about it. But this did
not help Dana Whites like this is gonna be the
biggest fight ever. This did not go well. Right, this

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did not go well. But there's also fatigue. I mean, okay, fine,
but it just for those in Brooklyn that we're looking
forward to it, those in attendance, and those were maybe
you didn't see the last couple in La and Toronto
and you were like, what's all this hype about it?
Let me check it out. And it was in a
prime time on the East coast, right it was. It
was a primetime I definitely agree with you though. The

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four days in a row, Hum, that's not good. Yeah,
you have a little spread it out a little bit here, Yeah,
spread it now, Danny. Did you see this, Danny? Yeah?
I did, did all right? How did you score the
news conference? Because I had a ten ten draw, I
could see how you came up with a draw. I
would give the edge slightly to Mayweather on this one.
You would give Mayweather. Yeah. It felt like the crowd

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there felt him more than the other two stops, and
it just seemed like he had a little more energy
than McGregor this time around. It seemed like he repeated
some of the stuff he'd done in Toronto, though he
was a little bit but all catchphrase things. I liked
the props and I don't know, he just he seemed
a step ahead of McGregor on this one, just slightly,
whereas McGregor chaoed him on the first two. See do

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you think they told McGregor to tone it down a
little bit like Floyd Win because he basically made oral
sex references throughout the thing. So uh, I mean he
didn't tone it down. Eddy, just his material did not work.
You know. He used that I'm half black line from
the belly button down, and I mean it's just stuff
that did not did not resonate, did not appear to

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resonate the way he thought it was going to resonate
with the crowd there, Coop, did you see this? Cooper?
Did you watch? I watched the highlights. You didn't see you?
I got you, all right, So we So that tells
me Coop didn't watch. Eddie didn't watch. Not that to
into it. Now you've seen enough, you've had enough of it.

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One thing that hearing you talk about how it must
be hard to do four in a row or well
for some boxers, it might be hard to do that
many What about radio talent? We have to work five straight?
You know these are concerts like performances. Yeah, yeah, and
that's they do. What do they do they do? Uh?
One hour of content and there's a bunch of different

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people there. We have four hours of network talk radio
right here. Four hours. We're digging trenches, Zach. We're paving
roads in the hottest day of the summer with no water,
is what we're doing. I did tell Alex, who works here,
he's becoming a vegan. Do you know he's a vegan? Really?
What a loser? I told him. I went in the back.

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Must be a woman involved with that. I don't know,
he's you know, it's ridiculous, I said, wee, will you
do that? You can't eat at any restaurants. It's such
a you can't buy food at the store. Most stores.
I guess in La there's probably a bunch of vegan
restaurants I don't even know about. But I stilln't what
an idiot. But then I went over I always go
over my move Eddie is I get water and ice,
And I always say when I get the ice, this

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is my bonus free ice. As much as I want.
iHeartMedia and Fox Sports Radio provided me as much. I
have a lifetime supply of ice. I always point that out.
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A lot of people upset with Coop the Loop over
his lack of Vultron knowledge. This has become a critical
issue among the Mallard militia. Eddie. The reaction here is
not good. I understand people are hurt. Chuck from La
Chuck how La says Vultron had some old cartoon, Cooper Loop.
It was great, a great old cartoon. It was not

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some old cartoon. It was a great old cartoon. Will now, Ben, Yes,
I'm sorry to cut you off, but Coop good news.
Vultron is on Netflix. Oh there you go. So just
go check out an episode and give us a full
report next week. Yeah, so you can form Vultron. You
can do that yourself. No, not too interested. Who knew that, Floyd?

(19:16):
If you don't watch it, maybe life changing. Yeah, that
is very soon. And he's got kids, right and his
daughter was there. Do you think he grew up watching
it or do you think he just like started watching
it more recently. It's fresh in his head right now.
Will says, would Coop like to elaborate on the Vultron take? Coof,
you want to expand on your hot take on the

(19:37):
on Vultron, You want to get into that more. I
don't think it was a hot take. I think everything
I said was accurate. I said, it's some old cartoon,
and that's that's exactly what it is. Don't you watch
some of those cartoons on on Netflix, like the thing
about the Talking horse or whatever, bo Jack Horseman. That's
a new cartoon, a great cartoon. Okay, how high do
you have to be to make it a great No,

(19:59):
it's rate on its own marriage. Yeah, but probably even
better like that. How many Cereal bowls? It's a Ben
Miller show on Fox Now. Floyd Money, Mayweather and Connor
McGregor their post PEP Rally news conferences were actually more enjoyable.
There was more stuff that came out of that than

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actually happened in the boxing room, whether the arena there
was no boxing going up, but you know what I mean,
all right, So now we'll start with Floyd maywearth Mayweather
was not happy and he went right for the jugular.
There's been a lot of chatter among the more progressive
media that Connor McGregor is a racist and that that's

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what I heard when I turned on my TV. Yeah,
a lot of racist Connor McGregor talk. And this has
become a sidebar of conversation for this fight. So Floyd
Mayweather was asked about that and he addressed racism and
Gregor and all of it. Racism still exists. When I

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Mayweather was flashy, I've been flashy for years. Famback, Y'll
notice flashy Meet Coats and y'all know I've been driving
for robbers and billies and Rose Royce over twenty years.
All this flashy stuff, I was doing it. All he's arrogant,
all he's cocky, he's this, he's that, he's unappreciative. But
then you take us the same guy that's in contact sports,

(21:29):
still my whole blue friend, and he go do it
and they praise him for the thing. We act like
we don't see, but life goes on. I believe in
treating everybody fair, how to truly believe it did give respect.
You have to give respect. He totally disrespected my family.
He's totally disrespected my daughter, and she's my family. But

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that's you know, that's my baby. Am I going to trip? No,
I still have a job to June, and I still
have didn't I think that disrespecting my daughter, disrespecting the
mother of my daughter, disrespecting black women, calling black peoples.
It's totally distrect. I have a a diverse team, a

(22:17):
diverse staff, and when I was young, I may have
said some things that I shouldn't have said when I
was young, but we live, we learned, and you don't
say those things once you get to a certain age.
It's all about broke the maturity. Um. But it's totally
disrespect today. He came out today and did it again.

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Yeah all right, So that's the gist of Floyd may Or.
They're total disrespect of my family and also black women.
And so McGregor responded, Now, we'll play this in a
moment here, and this is the ultimate cliffhanger. What do
you think Connor McGregor said, Because they said, hey, Connor,
I mean it was calling you a racist here, What

(23:00):
the hell is going on. We'll hear from Connor McGregor
his rebuttal to Floyd Money Mayweather. This is stuff that
did not get aired on the showtime feed from Brooklyn.
We'll get to that. We'll do it in sixty seconds,
no long commercial break. We'll hear from Connor McGregor. But
first let's find out what's trending. The Ben Malmer Show's
coming to you live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios.

(23:23):
Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on
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rate quote. And now here's Ben Maller. So Floyd Mayweather
calling out Connor McGregor and saying his total disrespect of
his family and black women and all this. McGregor then
had a chance to respond. Now I'm gonna warn you

(23:44):
get a listen very close. I know you're probably driving,
or you're doing something else. You're actually working, trying to
earn a living. I respect that we had a microphone
in Hoboken, New Jersey. It was in Hobok, Jersey's Beautiful's
right across from Manhattan, and it's great, and it was
right across from the Holland Tunnel if you know the
New York metropolitan area there just just across the halland

(24:05):
Tunnel there and Hoboken. That's where our mic was and
the McGregor news conference was in Brooklyn. So it's a
little bit of ambient noise. There's some background stuff going on,
so you gotta listen close to you. But here is
Connor McGregor responding to all of these claims that he
is a big He's like an angry bill. He's a
big racist. That doesn't really sit well with me, you

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know what I mean. I'm very demode cultured and I'm
only cultured individual. And you know, I don't know any
it was used as towards any here. I don't even
see color, you know, it's just kind of it. I
just wanted to say something. I'll have a little bit
of forward it. And of course he'm broken and let me.
In New York, they knows how BG plan rain. So

(24:49):
I just wanted to be a little bit. I just
want to play with it and address it in my
in my own little way. It's stupid and it's ridiculous,
is basicly what I was getting at all. Right, So
he said it's stupid, ridiculous. That was who was getting at?
Uh and uh he said he's a multi cultural Is
that what he said? What does that mean? That means
he has black friends? Okay? It was one of those like, oh,

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how could I be racists not black friends? Okay, I
got you? All right, Well, let's go now to the
belly of the beast. We go to New York City
and our number one P one caller from the Big
Apple is Real Talk and the caller of the year
on the Ben Mallers. So let's find out was he there?
Was he there? Did you get me a second? We'll

(25:36):
get the damn music here. I want to know if
Real Talk was at the Barkley Center. I want to
know if he was part of the festivities there in Brooklyn.
Let's find out right now. Royalty, the man, the myth,
the legend, caller of the year, Real Talk. Yeah, come on,

(26:00):
come on, ye come on yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Hello.
He's harder to understand than McGregor. Are you talking about?
What's up? I'm like, dude, Real Talk, fight doctor from
New York City, Real Talk, give me the inside, skinny.

(26:21):
What was the buzz like? What was it like? Real Talk? Uh?
Nobody cared unless you were in Brooklyn. Band. I wasn't
popping the man. I got I got something in a while.
Your calls gonna have I have a job book, So
I got a yo. I'll tell you what. McGregor was smart.
He knew, he knew better than to start apping up

(26:43):
with all those black people looking at him. He wasn't
gonna say, damp boy, I talk about reading. Then you know,
sometimes they're stupid, it's crazy. And then then you don't
say you just got stepped back. If you were got
asked trip drive in New York and we tried that,
that flicks up on my black people over there. Man.
He was smart to shut Yeah, he didn't totally shut
his mouth, real talk. He had some lines there, but

(27:04):
it was not nearly what it had been in Toronto.
It was a totally it was. It was a departure
from the money or the notorious McGregor there in Toronto.
So a no buzz at all. It's disappointing. There was
no excitement, no juice. Oh yeah, yeah, even even like
it was like on local radio, you know, so you know,
like it was like one of those side notes on

(27:24):
like Fox five or your channel eleven. Yeah, but no
one really care. Man. You know what's doing bad happens?
See crazy black people like Big Sean. You know, they
got enough to do. They would have asked it up,
you know. I remember I made a joke about calling
Big Sean a monkey, But that's not fair to the monkey.
Do I'm talking about racist? What an interesting question? You know? Yeah,

(27:48):
who's your closest black friends? My closest at some relatives
that are black. I guess that would be Uh. I
got Curtis. Yeah, I don't know if he's my friend friend,
but I out with him quite a bit of family
functions and things like that. We try to get away
from all the women and watch TV and watch sports
and so yeah, I guess him a coffee. I did

(28:16):
not know that. Is that a problems? Band's black from
the belly up? No? Yes, exactly, Yes, yes, I don't
say that now, Hot there, I don't say what you
said off here bank account? Hot there? You what's wrong

(28:38):
with you? Shame on you? Speaking the family. I want
to talk because I heard it on your podcast a
month ago. You said your dad his back when out?
Are you doing all right? You know? Oh? Yeah, yeah
my dad? Yeah, he's the same. He uh, he started
to go to the gym, but I think he goes
there for about ten minutes and then and then leaves.
But but that's good. That's at least he shows up
for ten minutes and pretend, pretends like he works out

(29:00):
and then. But now, see, I've guilted my dad because
I go. I go to the gym every day after
the show, and my dad started going, and then he
tried to get out of it. The problem is, my
dad has nothing else to do, right, He's got he's retired,
he's got nothing else. He's got no real hobbies or
anything like that. So I'm like telling him, you gotta
have a good excuse not to go to the gym
because you have nothing else going on. And so now

(29:21):
he'll like, he'll send me a text every time he
goes to the end to the gym there. So yeah,
that's beautiful. Ben, Hey Ben, your show is chicking ass.
Unfortunately called that being crappy. But we'll get well, we'll
get them back up. Puppet. By the way, before out,
this is the one year anniversary of the of the
month I bought my house. So I'm chicking ass. You're

(29:45):
you're a baller, continued success, real talk caller of the year.
There he goes, all right, yes, all right, thank you, Yes,
all right. So the Ben Maller Show on, now do
we have money Mayweather? He brought Harvard into the conversation.
I don't know we have this or not. But but

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the again, this was not on the showtime feed. This
was the post fight get together, the gaggle of reporters
that interviewed the boxers after the fight, and Mayweather was
very braggadocious about how successful he's been, and he even
referenced the fact that this fight is going to be

(30:30):
used in the Ivy League. Let's listen. This business move
that I mean right here is unbelievable. They're gonna talk
about this business move at Harvard. Keep believing what they say.
He I mean it called me every name in the book.

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He can't right, he can't bail. He can't keep believing
all that. Okay, okay, wells I'll get them doing something right.
Already made eight hundred men without no endorsing to do
And why would I come and they will? He don't. Oh,
you don't gotta know? No suit? Why would I wear
somebody else brand? Mike had to start from somewhere, because

(31:13):
had to start from somewhere, had to start from somewhere.
I'm gonna build this. I'm gonna build TNT from the
ground up. Even when a moan going and my great
grand my great grandkids is fun. We have to start
from somewhere. All right. Did he just compare himself to
the big the big chee companies? I think he did? Yeah,

(31:35):
all right, Well, what's more successful the Money Team merchandise
or like the big Baller brand, the LaVar Ball products there?
What do you think sold more? It's a tough one, right,
I mean, I bet you LaVar Ball's gotten more publicity
lately than the Money Team merchandise. I'd love to know

(31:55):
how many shoes though LaVar has sold. That would be
That would be good, That would be good. And I
want to point something out here, just for clarity. You
can make eight hundred million dollars without being able to
write or read if you're a good boxer. Right, those
are two separate things, correct. I would totally agree with that. Yet, yes,
and you have people around you that do all the
dirty work and you end up just boxing, and you

(32:19):
have permission to not have to read or write, I
don't know if you can read or write, I know,
but it was the video he couldn't read. That was
a couple of years ago. Right, he couldn't read a
book and that was a problem. And then some radio
copy that he read. That's what when viral radio station
gave him a sheet of drops and he was struggling
through those drops. Well, there was a guy that played

(32:41):
for the Dodgers years ago and they had him do
a PSA for the Boys and Girls Club and he
couldn't read that and it was just brutal. It was
so painful. Oh yeah, yeah, huh. The coach of the
Montreal Canadians when they beat my La Kings and they
stand like a final Jacques de Mares. Yeah, he was
completely illiterate. He was running the Canadians. You're later he
couldn't read, is that right? Yes? His secretary had to

(33:04):
read all of the uh you know I correspondence. I
almost think that's more impressive to make it through life
and to become successful and not disagree with you be
able to read or write. I mean that is unbelieved,
to be able to get away with hiding it for yes,
you do. I mean there's a couple of people who
have to know, right, like your wife someone has Yeah,
your secrets. Still, that's It's like dexter Manly played in

(33:26):
the NFL for a while. That's always That's always my
point of reference. I know it's an outdated reference, but
that's my point of reference because he played was very
good for the Redskins, but he couldn't I believe he
also graduated from Oklahoma State. Yeah, well, I'm just saying
you don't have to read or right to graduate from
Oklaoma States. Apparently not. But you guys, don't think he
spent this last year like getting a tutor and you

(33:47):
know when it came out, you don't you don't think
he would jump on it to be something about Don't
you think if he knew how to read, he would
like have McGregor hand him a book on stage and
start reading. Don't you think that would happen right now?
Why wouldn't he do it? You know, maybe in London
they'll hand him a book and Mayweather just start reading
it in your face, Stu, you I can do the

(34:07):
ABC's I do not like Green Eggs. All Right's Ben
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It's been away for a few nights. Time now for
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(34:32):
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(35:16):
who am I? Game? Though? I am the slugger who
has the highest k rate in baseball? I am a
human fan. If you will, who am I? That is
the question? What is the answer? Rob is going with
Jason Hayward of the Cubbies. Tilla says it's gotta be
Dodger great Pedro Guerrero, Mike from the LBC clearly cheating,

(35:38):
got it right. Bad job by you fun House who
I think had an orgasm watching that Francesi documentary. It
was a bow outlaw was his guest. Rugnet o'dore Guess
by Robbie the Mariner fan we have yes? Thrown out
by Marvin the Michigan Man. Danny Spinoza from their Buddy
the Palm Desert Rat. Here's a good name, Tuffie Rhodes

(36:00):
thrown out by Frank in La. I like that that
great opening day gumby Dave got it right, he's good
at cheating. Who else do we have? Can't read that
one on the air, Miguelson, No, don't you know? Guessed
by Mike from Fitzfield. El Nino says it's Ben's black
friend Curtis. That's the answer. No, all right, Do you

(36:22):
have an answer? Eddie? Do you have an answer? I do?
I think it's Bobby Higginson. Oh there's another good name
from the Detroit Tigers. No, no, the correct answer. He
sounds like a mobster from a good old school Hollywood
mob movie. Joey Gallo of the Rangers. He's got twenty

(36:45):
one home runs. That's the good news. The bad news
is thirty eight and a half percent of his at
bats have ended in strikeouts. It's the highest in baseball,
just ahead of Keon Broxton or the Brewers at thirty
seven point nine percent. And remember the guy last year
for the Rockies, Trevor's story that hit all those home runs.
I do remember it was really good and all him. Yeah,

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now he's striking out thirty five percent of the time.
It's not not going so well. All right, let's get
to it here we go. Let's do this, all right, Ben, Yeah,
real quick, because we're going back to the All Star Games.
The last time this happened. I'm gonna need you to
call heads or tails in the air because you tied
with Eddie and there was no way to tiebreaker. Sure,

(37:30):
I'm sure this will be on the up and up.
I'm an honest guy. All right, Heads, tails never fails.
He dropped the damn coin. You're you're the any keeper
on his head. That's the only one who team maller

(37:52):
with the wind. And don't judge me, but give me
Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees. All right, Eddie,
that's you. Marcelo Zuna. Marcelo Zuna is gone, Danny G. Goldie,
Paul gold Schmid's off the board, Coop the back to back. Oh,
exactly what I wanted. Charlie black I'm gonna go with Mike,

(38:13):
Mike Trout and Charlie black. Man's a dream coming true
right there, Danny Gee, I'm gonna give the MVP some love.
Robinson Cano, don't you know? Robbie Cano is off the board.
Eddie Nelson Cruz, All right, I'll take Jose Altuvee and
Jose Ramirez. Jose, Yes, I like my Jose's Eddie Nolan Anado, Yeah, Ronado,

(38:38):
Danny G. Justin Turner, justin time, and Coop the final
pick another Justin Justin Boor really, you picked Justin Borr.
What are he's traded today? He might not even be
in the lineup. Oh yeah, the Yankees want him. Yeah,
there's all kinds of rumors. The Marlins are gonna trade everyone.
They're gonna have a totally different team. By the next week.
Baseball's back and trays are starting to happen. The trade deadlines.

(39:02):
July thirty. First, we got action on the trading market.
The swap Meet of baseball is underway. We will discuss
welcome in the beginning of another hour. It's the Ben
Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere the vast
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(39:23):
Sports Radio studios. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent
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com for a free rate quote. It's the annual rummage
sale of the Major League Baseball season. It begins right
about now because we got a trade. Now we'll get

(39:43):
back to the Mayweather McGregor battle Royale in a moment.
But the Chicago Cubs wheeling and dealing. Theo Epstein who
said last week, Remember theo Epstein said last week that
the Cubs did not need to a trade to turn
things around. He said that, and he's a liar. He's

(40:06):
a liar. Now, what's my evidence. Love, The Cubs just
made a trade. They made a deal for a starting
pitcher and someone who's been established and had some good
years in the major leagues. He claimed, though Epstein, that
the cure for the Cubs was in the locker room.
We knew right away. I had my Dakota ring out
and we knew that was just some Pinocchio action. It

(40:30):
was bogus. And the Dakota Ring is never wrong. It
is never wrong, the Dakota Ring. And so the Chicago
Cubs acquired left handed starting pitcher Jose Quintana from the
White Sox for a gaggle of highly rated suspects. It's
the first big trade of the season twenty seventy some

(40:53):
minor trades, this would qualify as a decent size trade,
a mid level trade. And so we'll talk about this briefly.
The question is how would you grade a trade? When
a trade happens, you have to give a grade. It's required.
If you go to sportscasting class, they tell you you
must give a grade. All right, So the Cubs have
acquired a left handed starting pitcher, Jose Quintana from the

(41:16):
White Sox. I would give the Cubs. I'm gonna give
them a D on this, and I'm gonna give the
White Sox a C minus. And the reason why A Quintana,
the starting pitcher, is above average, but he's not great.
The Cubs needed to shake things up. They're clearly stuck

(41:40):
in this hangover from last October, the World Series and
all that they've played a lot of energy list baseball
and dealing minor leaguers. You're not trading anyone from the
big league roster for a starting pitcher. Does not address
the elephant in the room. Theo Epstein should have the
courage to trade one of the underperforming regulars from the

(42:04):
twenty sixteen World Series team. Now that you do that,
that works as a shot of caffeine right to kind
of jump start the rudderless Cubs team right now. Quintana,
he's the pride of Columbia and he's not bad. It's
just not a shake up. Trade the guts. Twenty eight

(42:24):
years old, he's left handed, and he pitched pretty well
the last month. His earn run average with the White
Sox was good. And you figure moving over to the
National League with the designated hitter gone back in the
American League, he should be all right. He's gonna start
on Sunday, Quintana for the Cubs, so he'll get an
opportunity to pitch there. It doesn't address the bigger issue. Though.

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The Cubs need some battery ascid, they need something to
shake it up. This doesn't shake it up right. So
for that respect, I give this on its own a D. Now,
if the Cub's making another move, and they likely will,
then that changes it. But at this point, my knee
jerk reaction is that that's not a major, major improvement

(43:09):
that I'll give that a D. In fact, the Cubs
have several pitchers who have better numbers than Jose Quintana
right now on their staff that they're still going to
send out there every fifth day. And from the White
Sox perspective, the other side of this, they get a
bunch of minor leaguers and for them they're being celebrated
right on the baseball flea market. When teams hold and

(43:33):
everything must go liquidation sale. The team that acquires the
quote unquote blue chip minor league players is always celebrates
universal baseball pundits, and I've been a baseball fan a
long time, I'm sure you've seen the same thing. They love,
the false hope of potential. Right For example, one of

(43:56):
the players the Cubs sent over a Crosstown to the
White Sox that's got him Menez, is said to be
one of the top rated prospects in baseball. As we
often point out here that a prospect is just a
suspect until proven otherwise, and let's see the return on
investment at the major league level. I don't want to
hear how great all these guys were in Double A

(44:18):
or Triple A. I want to see them actually get
hits and perform at the major league level, and then
I'll be like, Okay, you're right, that guy can play.
It is the easiest thing to do. You can always
sell the fact that this guy is going to be
really good in two years or three years. People always
buy it. That's why teams continue to do it, because

(44:39):
you know you can get the suckers to buy it.
And the last thing on this particular trade, some cub fans,
at least I don't have too many Cup fans that listen,
but I want in particularly, it was all upset, all right,
can't believe we unloaded our model league system, blah blah
blah blah blah. Guys sent me an email annoyed, but
he wanted me to rip the Cubs. I rip the
Cups the trade, but not because they gave up minor

(45:01):
league players. And my response is to stop. You're coming
to the wrong place. If you want that kind of conversation,
I will I will remind the person that sent that letter.
You know who you are a very valuable lesson and
the lesson and I learned this not when I was
a kid. It took a few years, and I know

(45:22):
it now. Draft picks and prospects are a renewable resource.
They are renewable. Do not fall in love with a
lottery ticket, You fall in love with the pile of cash.
Do you understand most of these minor league players will

(45:42):
not make it. Every year there is a new crop
of players in baseball that are harvested and celebrated, and
people dream about how great they're going to be in
the major leagues, and so you're able to replenish the
cups have a bunch of other minor league players that
are highly rated. All so this is not a poor

(46:03):
trade because you gave up some minor league players. Baseball America,
which is the main resource that is used to rank
minor leaguers. I know there's some other places now, but
they come out several times a year with new rankings
on where players are, and some go up, some go down.
It is insignificant to worry about trading an unproven minor

(46:24):
league It is some are gonna make it. Most won
In fact, I've given the numbers before, but if you
look at the data and you go back and crunch
the numbers, approximately two out of every five, about thirty
eight percent of position players drafted among the top one
hundred will reach the major leagues and play at least
one hundred games. So it's thirty eight percent. It's pretty

(46:46):
good high percentage. But of those that play a hundred games,
how many of those will actually be impact players? And
if you look at the entire draft, according to a
recent study, out of all the players that were drafted
in a period of ten years, seventeen point two percent
of all players drafted actually made it to the major leagues.

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That's one in six minor league players making it to
the major leagues. And of those seventeen percent that made it,
most of them either got a cup of coffee or
were only there briefly. And yeah, there were some good players,
and there were some great players, but the overall majority,
if you're gonna play the numbers game, is in favor

(47:30):
of trading the young player. It is so the Ben
Maller Show on Fox Now, the Tim Tebow story cut
my attention that everyone's all buzzed and excited because Tim,
I say everyone, that's my colleagues in the media. Tebow
has now hit in eleven consecutive minor league games. He

(47:51):
had a walkoff home run and Tebow there was video
all over the internet there the Mets a triple or
a single, a team single, a team in Ports Saint Lucy.
They get a walkoff hit by Tim Tebow. And I
read somewhere that it's the longest Major League Baseball hitting

(48:12):
streak by a met this season, or the longest by
a Met this season is eleven. So Tebow's in the
minor leagues has reached eleven. So I want to play
a game, all right, I don't want everyone involved in this.
We are now going to predict the date that Tim
Tebow gets called up to Double l A, not the
Major LAGS. You can't call Tim Tebow up from a

(48:35):
ball from the Saint Lucy Mets. You can't call Tebo
from the Saint Lucy Mets to the Mets. But you
got to move them to Double A. The next step
is to bingham Binghamton, the rumble Ponies of Binghamton. That's
their nickname, Eddie the rumble Ponies. It's good nickname. Rumble.
I believe that's their nickname, the Binghamton rumble Ponies. Okay,

(49:00):
saddle up, saddle up for fun, Eddie with a nice
rumble pony. Who wouldn't Is that like one of those
mechanical bulls? What that is on a Friday night when
you want to go out and you're like, oh, get
a couple of a couple of pops. I'll get on there.
All right. So let's pick the date now, right now

(49:21):
to start. It's July fourteenth. Remember the call up date
for minor leaguers is that last month of the baseball season,
so we still have some time. You know, I am
I am looking at the Binghamton Rumble Pony's schedule, okay,
and I am going to predict when this is gonna happen.
I am going to predict that Tim Tebow will be

(49:43):
called up to double A Binghamton on a Thursday August seventeenth. Thursday,
August seventeenth. And the reason I'm doing that, Eddie, you
know why, I have no idea why Because Binghamton starting
a long homestand and makes sense, right, they got they

(50:07):
got a homestand starting on August eighteenth, and they go
through the twenty third at home. So there's like a
that's a decent sized minor league homestand so I'm gonna
go with that because that that would give him like
three weeks in Double A and then he can get
called up when the calendar flips to September. He can
then get called up the season. The minor league season

(50:27):
ends anyway in early September. So uh, I'm going on
that's my date. I'm going in August seventeen. Do you
want to pick a day, Daddie. Well, clearly you put
a lot of thoughts I have. Yes, you've put a
lot of work into this. I have not. Okay, I
just found out about this, and so I will pick
for no other reason than you know, it seems nice
and nice and tidy. August, the first Augustus days and

(50:52):
they aren't home. My my Rumba Ponies play Trenton, so
I'll be that's a big riv ay when Trenton and
the Binghamton get together. It's because Trenton's the Yankees Double
A team. There. What about you, Danny, you went out
on this. Now, Yeah, we gotta remember these dates. Now.
We can't forget about this, Eddie said August. We will
never forget that, Eddie said August first. I said, August seventeenth,

(51:15):
What say you? Where are they at on August? Let's
see Friday the eleventh, they are at Akron and that's
h they have a double header. That's a double header
and Akron it's a road game, double header. You have
five to thirty game. I gotta have a makeup date
also in there. Nice, I like that double the attendance.

(51:36):
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with Friday the eleven.
All right, so we got Friday eleventh. Coop, you went
in on this the Tim Tebow pool. When he gets
called up to double a the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, he said,
he's on eleven game history right now, right, yes, all right, see,
I predict that that history going to fifteen, okay, And
I think he's gonna hit a couple couple more home runs,

(51:57):
all right, And I think it's gonna happen in two weeks.
Been two weeks, yep. I'm gonna I'm gonna go with
the twenty eighth. Oh really, he didn't even make it
to the end of the month with the Saint Lucy Mets.
So the twenty eighth they're at home the twenty they
play New Hampshire. It's a good game, yea. They want
to they want to get this uh, this Tebow train rolling. Yeah,

(52:17):
because you gotta get him a double A if you're
the Mets. But it's embarrassing enough. They're gonna call him
up to the major League because you gotta get him
up to double A to at least have a chance
to sell those tickets in September when the Mets are
seven thousand games out in the Nation League Geese exactly.
And they'll want to get him back in time so
that he can play with Thor because it'll be like,
you know, an ancient god and then like the son

(52:40):
of God both on the field. Tebow could be Jesus.
I mean, he's Baseball's Jesus. I know that he is.
He's uh, he's a savior. What he iss? All right?
So the Ben Mallers Show on Fox will take your
phone calls and if you'd like to be part, you

(53:01):
know the number, give us a buzz. We're also on
Twitter at Ben mallor that is at Ben Maller. And
before we pause for the cause, as they say, is
there anything going on between Dana White and the guy
at Showtime, like Dana White said he thinks that Showtime

(53:23):
shut off Connor McGregor's mike. He said some other things
about Showtime, he derogatory things. And this led to the
typical moody media move when somebody says something, what do
you do as a media guy? You go to the
other person. Do you hear what they said about you?
And so the media went and then to Steven Espinoza
of Showtime to get his reaction to Dana White's criticism,

(53:49):
and the guy from Showtime admitted, now that his patience
is getting thinner, what is he gonna do? Like? I
don't and what's what's he gonna call off the fight
or banned Dana White from being there? Mean, what does
that even mean? I don't I don't get it. And
as far as the whole racism angle, if Floyd Mayweather

(54:11):
truly believes in his heart that Connor McGregor is a racist,
he shouldn't fight him. White give him one hundred million dollars.
If Mayweather really believes that that McGregor is this big
racist guy. When that's if that's his opinion, they don't
hand McGregor the biggest paycheck of his life and give
him a hundred million dollars. It's insanity to do that.
He cares more about the money he's gonna get, which

(54:33):
he apparently needs. Form vultron Eddie form Vultron. It's the
Ben Maller Show. Your phone calls, the whole thing and
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(55:18):
coming up in a couple of minutes, We'll have asked yes,
you know, asked been. We'll have asked been. That was yesterday.
I'll do it again. You do it again if you
want third degree of third degree coming up with a
couple of what you do if you let's do ask Benny.
You want to ask Ben again, We'll do ask I'll
find Yeah, all right, everyone loves asked Ben. Let's go
to Frank in San Antonio, who's on Fox Sports Radio.

(55:39):
What's going on? Franky, Ben? Come on, let's not talk
about Tim Teble. He plays like a nine year old girl.
Rachel is on Fox Sports Radio. Hello, Rachel one, come
all and step onto the Ben Maller Summer roller Coaster
ride going up. It's been down and all around the

(56:01):
wild wild of sports, the stuff that dreams are made of. Well,
thank you, Rachel. It's very kind of you to say that,
very nice, and I'm sure that that'll be in an
open maybe next week we'll put that in an open. Well, Ben,
I mean, you make the night every night. I mean,
if it wouldn't for your show, what will we do?
You know? Now, let me ask you. I was planning

(56:22):
on doing a Mallard or the third degree, but I
think we should just do an ask Ben. You think
we should just do ask Ben? What do you mean?
That sounds good? It sounds good. I'll see there's a
vote by Rachel to just do ask Ben and to
blow off the third degree and not do it. Your
show is much more entertaining than the the McGregor Mayweather conference.
I mean it's have you seen any of this have

(56:43):
you been watching? Yeah? Some of it, some of it
you know, yeah, whatever you can understand. But today's wasn't
as great. No, it was not. It was I was lacking.
The comedic value was a lot missing. They like they
ran out of gas on the Mallard of Meter of Entertainment,

(57:04):
the Mallard Meter of Entertainment. I would give this. I'll
give it a four. I think that's high. I give
it a four because I liked the when Mayweather made
it rain and the voltron line saved it. Without the
voultron line, I don't think I would even give it
a four. I would give it like a two. The
voltron pushed it up to a four. But like the

(57:25):
Toronto one was at ten, the LA was like an eight.
So I would give it an eight on Monday or
Tuesday rather a ten in Toronto, and then I would
give this a four. Well, I think you hit right on. Well,
thank you, Rachel. I appreciate it all right, take care
of the lovely race. She'll checking in from southern California.
Then you made a small air at the very beginning

(57:47):
of her call. You were speaking over some of her
lines and sorry, imaging Department's gonna have a clear we
pick promos. We can do a pickup. We'll do a
pickup in the middle. She said, the roller coaster ride
of the summer, which is like poetry right in that poetry.
That's wonderful. So the Ben Maller Show on Fox and

(58:13):
I mentioned this earlier. This was the big teas here
and an involved rocket science, a confusing rocket scientist. Now,
what the hell does that mean? What the hell does
that mean? This is involving one Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge,
the Yankee rookie won the home run derby and apparently

(58:35):
Aaron Judge is so powerful, so amazing that when he
hit a home run off the roof, it defied the
NASA calculations. This is amazing, adding to the legend of
Aaron jow This is what we call myth guildy and

(58:58):
so I don't give you the whole story here, but uh,
some engineers from NASA, when they put the whole roof
together for the Marlin Stadium, they did all the numbers,
they crunched all the numbers, and they wanted to see
how high the roof would have to be so it
would in no way interfere with a ball hit and play.

(59:22):
And so they did a long study. They looked at
air density, they looked at the temperatures in Miami, the
climate and all that and all the different things that
are required, all the ingredients that would form the outcome, right,
and they put all of this into the numbers from
from NASA, and then they came up with an algorithm,
which is a big word, right, an algorithm, and they determined, well,

(59:46):
here's how far up the roof would have to be,
and if based on the possible batted ball flight path
using this advanced metrics, there is no way that a
baseball in play we'll be able to hit the room.
And so the Marlins they put this study through Major

(01:00:10):
League Baseball's corporate office, the whole thing, and Aaron Judge
in the home run Derby did the thing that NASA
said could not be done. Yes, could not be done,
Judge in the home run Derby. The Marlins estimated that
the ball in particular here cleared one girder and smashed

(01:00:36):
against another at its peak. Aaron Judge's baseball was about
one hundred and seventy feet in deep left center field,
seventeen stories high, taller than those skyscrapers in Manhattan. This

(01:00:58):
is the legend of one erring Judge. I would like
to put this in the book of legends. This is
not some kind of urban myth. No, no, no no, no, no no, no.
This is bigger than that. This is massive. You understand
what a big thing this is for the Yankee rookie unreal.

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It's all about that myth making, years of research, brains
of the world's smartest engineers. They all got together and
they used the power of NASA and a New York Yankee.
It's not trigonometry, no, it's other stuff. But a New
York Yankee was able to screw that up by hitting

(01:01:42):
the roof in Miami. How much of that should we believe?
By the way, I mean, that's the true story, Like
the story it came from of Tom Verducci those the
Fox Games. He was at the All Star Game. How
much that should we believe? Though, I'm I believe every
word of it. He was Fresno State, and people that

(01:02:03):
go to that school do great thing. Well, not Tom Verducci,
but Aaron Judge, Did you follow him when he was
at Fresno State? Did you a big fan of his?
Had no idea? He had no idea? Who was there?
All right? When's the last time you went to a
Fresno State baseball game? Oh? Boy, it's probably been maybe
like five years. Yeah. What's the highest you could hit

(01:02:23):
a baseball? Because Aaron Judge went seventeen stories, one story,
one story. If I had a metal bat and a
golf ball, I could hit it higher than seventeen stories.
I don't believe that I could with golf ball. Were
they golf ball in metal bat? Now, you should not
do that. It's wrong. You could kill someone. Do not
attempt that at home. But if I did attempt it

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with the proper safety harness, safety harness, well people protected.
You know. I don't want anyone die. If Danny was
pitching and I would hit a line drive back at him,
he would be dead. Dead man. Pitching be tragedy, absolutely horrible. No,
I have fox like reflexes. Really alright, I'd let it

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hit the second baseman. Now, Danny, after seeing Ben throw
a baseball in Bakersfield, what are your what are your
level of confidence that he could actually hit a baseball hard.
I'm an athlete. Ben seems like he would be a
great knuckleball pitcher. Well, I've often pointed out that ball
was was dancing like a butter. It's not I was
not a knuckleball. That was not and it was a shot.
It looks fastball. Listen, Danny, Danny, you are you are

(01:03:30):
no one. It looks you hit the damn backstop, Danny. Well,
he did throw it hard, though. Who was who was
the star of major League Big Ben? Yes, it was
wild thing. Yeah. Now he's now he's not doing so well.
You got to bring up old stuff. He shot like

(01:03:52):
a star and he came down like a rump winning.
That's the Ben Mallar Show on Fox. When we have
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We get mail on the Ben Maller show, and uh,
nice note arrived about two weeks ago, and I just
found my bag from Corey B in case remember him, Eddie.

(01:04:36):
He's the guy that went away for a whilest. I
believe he's still in carcer rated. I actually don't remember
Corey being Casey, but anyway, he sent he sent a message.
I got another message from Joey B. Oh, Joey B.
Excuse me, it was Joey B. This one was from Joey.
Joey be sure, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah. Well Joey

(01:04:58):
sends these nice little postcar and he sent a drawing.
He wrote this the day after we had the prison radio.
Remember when the guys were calling up only people that
he committed crimes were calling in. Yes, of course, and
it was great radio. And we have a lot of
x cons that listen to the show and I love that.
And they've gone many of them on the straight and narrow.

(01:05:19):
And this guy, Joey B in KC. He sent the
note and he's listening in an incarcerated facility there and
he said in the facility that he's at, many of
the conversations are the same where the guys trying to
one up each other with the crimes they've committed in prison,
like they try to no, no, no, my crime was

(01:05:41):
better than your crime, and so it's that's pretty funny.
So thanks to Joey Joey b a lot of reaction
to that Aaron Judge story that he has defied NASA
by hitting the roof in Miami, and people they don't
like this. Enzo said, clearly they were using mal her math,

(01:06:01):
he said. Robbie the Mariner fan wants to know if
the scientists assumed that the baseball and use would be juiced,
because they obviously are, That's what he said. And then
mister nice guy, I wanted to know what type of
masking agent we think that Aaron Judge is using. Now,

(01:06:24):
people from Fresno don't do that. Attila says, I guess
it's safe to say that those rockets scientists miss judge
the powers of Vultron. I'm not a numbers guy, but
that doesn't seem to add up. Anthony says, never trust NASA. Bend.
When I was a kid, they said they would walk
on Mars soon. I'm forty now, fam Anthem, Well, Anthony,

(01:06:49):
we're around the same age. I remember when I was
a kid, and there was this teacher that they were
going to send out the outer space, this female teacher.
It's a big deal. And everyone every elementary school in
America watch this space shuttle launched. It was a big deal. Eddie.
I know I watched it too. Damn thing blew up.
Do you know how my elementary school one of the
teachers who was a runner up was on our campus.

(01:07:12):
Really yeah, I imagine how that must feel. Geez yikes.
All right, I'm that positive note. Let's find out. I
have no idea where you know we're gonna ask Ben,
are we gonna do Mallard to the third degree. I
have no idea. Let's find out here. I'm gonna find
out with you together. I have no idea. Surprise it degree.

(01:07:33):
This is one big Ben gets grilled. It's third degree.
Time for the final day of the week of the
Ben Mallor Show, we bring in the coop Dello that
Tony Romo hasn't even started his broadcasting career yet. But
he's not true. He did golf. He's already spewing some

(01:07:55):
hot takes. Romo was praising forty nine Ers head coach
Kyle Shanahan, saying that he has a special ability when
it comes to offense that is only rivaled by Building
Belichick's ability on defense. Ben do you think that Shanahan
is that special? Well, special depends on your definition of
the word special. I've never put Kyle Shanahan in that category.

(01:08:15):
This sounds like some hyperboley to me. And I like Romo.
I'm a Romo fan as a player, but who knows
how he was going to be as a broadcaster. But
this is not a good sign ballwashing. Kyle Shanahan, who
many people believe the only reason he's got a career
is because of his daddy. His daddy hooked him up
with all these gigs along the way. I believe he
started at UCLA when a former Bronco was the coach,

(01:08:38):
Carl Durrell, and then he kept getting jobs based on
people his dad knew, which is hey, great, my dad
didn't know anybody. I still got a job in radio anyway. Listen,
a couple of thoughts. Number One, Kyle Shanahan has been
an offensive coordinator for nine seasons in the NFL. The
report card does not indicate mensa. It does not. Shanahan

(01:09:01):
has guided teams that have mostly finished between seventeenth and
twenty seventh in points. I don't care about yards. I'm
not a yards guy. I care about points. I've followed
teams that just move the ball between the twenties and
they don't get any points. That doesn't do anything for me,
all right, So I don't worry about that. And number two,

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Coaching is a wonderful profession, but players matter more, and
Kyle Shanahan is not going to have a very good roster.
The Niners are gonna stink. And that's one of the
reasons that Shanahan was able to finagle a thirty six
million dollar contract out of the Niners. So clearly they

(01:09:43):
believe that Kyle Shanahan is some kind of offensive savior
for the forty nine ers. I am not sold, and
I would say good luck, because he'll be coaching Brian
Hoyer and Matt Barkley. And I will agree with Tony
Romo coop. If the forty nine is finish in the
top fifteen in offense this year with that slop at quarterback,

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then I will say, yes, Kyle Shanahan is an offensive savant.
I'm not buying that the Niners won't be any higher
than twenty fifth, so I'll go no next. Former Packers
Pro Bowl receiver Greg Jennings retired from football a couple
of years back, but now finds himself as an analyst.
On FS one on Tuesday, he took some shots to

(01:10:27):
his former head coach Mike McCarthy. He said, quote, if
we had a lead, our issue wasn't the defense. Our
issue was Mike McCarthy. Ben McCarthy has been the Packers
head coach for over ten years. Now. Do you think
things are getting a bit stale? Yeah, I would agree
with Greg Jennis. It certainly felt like that in the
first half of last NFL season, and it's been that

(01:10:49):
way for a couple of years there. I'll go even further,
like the Packer franchise, they need a jolt, and there's
still a playoff team and then you know they're there.
They're on the postseason, but there's something missing. And my
thought on Green Bay is this, the Packers are like
a college team and they're trying to play by NFL rules,

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but following a college philosophy, they don't make many trades,
they don't sign big money free agents, so it's pretty
much I'm gonna draft a player I'm gonna hope that
that player turns out to be a good player, and
that's it. And you get picked by Green Bay, you
do your time in Wisconsin, you maybe live over in Appleton,

(01:11:34):
and you graduate and then you go play for somebody else.
But it's not like the Packers have several ways to
bring in players. There's pretty much one way. And that's
an issue. And be green Bay has been I think
the word is unstudy, unstudy rather inconsistent. They've there's something

(01:11:55):
lacking there, right, there's something lacking, and they've been able
to overcome a lot of that spiritless football because of
Aaron Rodgers. They've been able to pick it up. A
little baby flips the switch and brings this revival. Green
Bay won the Super Bowl in twenty ten. They went
four and oh but I looked it up. If you
go outside of that season, which apparently is an aberration.

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Right outside of that, Mike McCarthy is six and eight
in the postseason, it's got a losing record, not that great. Next.
Over the course of the last year, daily fantasy sites
have been locked in a battle with state governments over
whether or not their sights constitute gambling. Now in order
to bolster their efforts. Fan Duel and DraftKings had planned

(01:12:38):
to join forces and merge companies. Well, the law stepped
in again as the FTEC has challenged the merge, calling
it a monopoly. So after the news, FanDuel is backed
out of the merger, Ben, do you think that fantasy,
that daily Fantasy is in danger? No, no, I don't listen.
Daily fantasy is wonderful. It's not in danger. First of all,
Fan Duel they've been a sponsor here. They're not currently

(01:13:01):
sponsoring our show right now, but we've played in these leagues.
I've enjoyed it a lot. I've had a great time.
I not just someone that does the commercial and doesn't
actually use the product. I still believe that I have
an account over at fan Duel, and I'll start playing
again when the NFL season comes around. I'll be playing
weekly Fantasy Football, or I guess daily Fantasy Football. But

(01:13:24):
but there's a huge Secondly, there's a huge passion. I mean,
you're talking about thirty three million people that play fantasy
sports in America, and eight percent of those people play
daily fantasy a competition. So that's like two and a
half million customers for fan Duel and DraftKings. They've They've

(01:13:47):
done very well. The problem is the cost of advertising,
the infrastructure costs. But the business model of fan Duel
and DraftKings is a good one, and I'm actually happy
they're not murder. I don't like the big merger because
generally the one that gets screwed is the customer most

(01:14:07):
of the time, and so I'm actually I'm happy about that.
And now maybe they'll work it out, they'll get back
together and give it another run and combine DraftKings and FanDuel.
But I'm not upset by this at all, and I
believe there is a market for it. They made money.
I think they made more than many people thought they
would make, and there's more money to be made right there.

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It is Mallard of the third degree. How did we do? Ben?
You passed this edition? That's who whatever. We'll see how
creative you are. I like the more creative instant trivias.
And here we go. Time for the instant trivia. When
the New York Mets suffered a blackout at Chase Stadium

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on one night back in the nineteen seventies, what object
did some of the Mets players use to entertain the
fans during the black out again Mets blackout at Chase
Stadium back in the nineteen seventies. What object did the
Mets players use to entertain the crowd that was at

(01:15:11):
that particular game. That's the instant trivia of the answer. Next,
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(01:15:31):
We got Baseball Action Yo on Friday, so we'll get
to that Baseballs coming back. Here's the instant trivia. When
the Mets suffered a blackout at Chase Stadium in the
nineteen seventies, What object did the Mets players use to
entertain the fans? That's the question. What's the answer? Robin
Vegas is going with inflatable dolls. Ivanson said, He says,

(01:15:54):
well lit joints they used. Will's going with glow sticks.
Mooch says these nuts as what they used. Dave says
a giant tampon was brought out flaming Bats guests by
the Majestic maniac Josh had laser pointer, which is I
like that? That's good? Absolutely? Who else? A slipping slide

(01:16:17):
guest by Danny the Dodger fan glowing the dark Frisbee
from Will Mike said they played imaginary baseball with no ball.
That's Mike from the LBC. Howdy Duty Dog guests by
the Rooster. These are some good guesses here. We can't
get to all of them. A pet rock from mister
nice guy. What say you, Eddie, I'm gonna say. Flaming batons.

(01:16:38):
Flaming batons, all right, that's good as well. Incorrect incorrect
though it was a Mets Cubs game in nineteen seventy seven.
They had a power outage at Chase Stadium. The Mets
players then went out to the parking lot and drove
their cars onto the field to entertain the crowd. Yeah,

(01:17:00):
that was entertainment in nineteen seventy seven. That was That
was entertainment. Well, when you drove a car onto the
field even today, right, if the players, all of a sudden,
the whole Mariner team went out and got their cars
and drove around Safeco Field, that would be interesting. Yes, mild, No, no,
come on, that's not entertaining doing a WHEELI at second base.

(01:17:24):
If you are having trouble making it through news conferences,
how are you gonna make it through a fight. Well,
Connor McGregor, who was so entertaining, so engaging, is admitting
now that there's a few issues your problems with Day
three of the World Tour stop in Brooklyn, Face plant

(01:17:47):
in Brooklyn. Welcome in the beginning of another hour. It's
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Geico dot com for a free rate quote. News conference
circuit will end in London today in Mayweather and McGregor
likely on a plane right now, still flying, although they
I should have landed by about now, but the big
flop PERU in New York, the World Tour stopping, and

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Connor McGregor was not nearly as entertaining. And now the
tables have been turned. Here they are the people pointing
fingers at McGregor that he is the he's the bad guy,
he's the racist, and he's got the issue, and McGregor
had no real comeback. He'd been very entertaining the spectacle
that has been this world tour, but it did not

(01:18:54):
take place last night in Brooklyn, McGregor admitting backstage that
what appeared to be the truth was indeed the truth.
He's not He's not sugarcoating this. He pointed out that
he is. He said, quote kind of just zonked out,
that's the quote. McGregor said that he was just chilling

(01:19:16):
on the chair, flexing, hoping somebody would get me in
a nice shot with the coat, the mink coat that
he was or the fur coat, whatever the hell it
was that he was wearing in Brooklyn. He also claimed
Connor McGregor that he went out and got that coat
before the news coms, like he stopped out on Fifth Avenue.

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Although he didn't buy it. He indicated that he got
the coat based on some kind of transaction. We have that.
All right, let's let's listen to Connor mcgreg I'm gonna
dude up. Somebody come up and snubbed me walking around
this place like I own it. I don't give up

(01:20:01):
how hot it is outside. I'm still wearing Hey, weasel,
tell those times and conditioning up the tam tams. We
look at Paul up here tonight. Yeah all right, and
that that was a little taste of Connor McGregor who

(01:20:22):
said he had gotten that coat on Fifth Avenue. Oh
he didn't say bought it. I believe there was some
trade that was involved, like he had to promote the
people that provided him the coat and then he wore
it and then that's that's how that went down. But
the McGregor admitting that he is not on his game,
he is wearing down mentally, mentally and physically. The whole

(01:20:46):
thing that the travelings too much, not handling very well.
And we'll see what they do on Friday in London
and the race angle summer pointing. And I've I've heard
this multiple people that this is the the Mayweather teams
come back because in a war of words, Connor McGregor

(01:21:07):
cannot go, cannot be beaten. Although he wasn't great, it
was a draw. I scored a draw the news conference
that was on Thursday. But if you go word for word,
then Mayweather's screwed. He is done. So now they decided,
all right, let's attack McGregor as a racist, and that's

(01:21:29):
gotten a lot of attention, has gotten a lot of play.
All right's Ben Maller's show on Fox. I meanwhile, Las Vegas.
I'm gonna pivot here for a second. Vegas would really
like to thank a certain group of baseball fans, a
special bunch, and I'm talking about you, the Cub fan

(01:21:49):
right now, For years, there has been a tradition unlike
any other, and it involves a pilgrimage to Las Vegas
and a couple of bucks on the lovable, lovable losers,
the Chicago Cubs. They can finally win the World Series.
And for many, many years, these people have been flushing

(01:22:13):
money down the toilet. Right, Cubs don't ever win. They
finally won. That's a year after your Cub World Series ticket. Well,
now the Cubs of the Champions won the World Series,
and the continuing tradition of Cub fans wasting money has

(01:22:33):
somehow managed to succeed even with them winning the World Series. Now,
how is this possible? How is this possible? You might
have missed this. I will explain to you how it's possible.
We learned this week that the sports books in Vegas,
even though the Cubs won and they had a huge
liability have actually benefited from the fact that not a

(01:22:59):
couple thousands of Chicago cub fans had a winning ticket.
They won their World Series bet, and they decided to
not cash their winning ticket. Why now. The theory is
these people wanted to keep the winning ticket as a memento.

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When you win a bet in Vegas, if you've ever
done it, you know the drill at a sports book.
You have to give them the ticket, they give you
the cash, they keep the ticket. I'm not joking here,
I'm not This is not It sounds ridiculous, right, and
you want to bet and you don't collect the money.
But it's apparently gone on from what we're reading here,
and I want to I want to talk about this now.

(01:23:42):
The way it works at most casinos. It's different everywhere,
but yeah, between one hundred and eighty days and six
months after an event has gone final to cash out right,
meaning if you were if you want to bet today
it's mid July, you could go depending on where you go,
like mid December, and you gotta get your money or

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else that's it and the ticket is void at that
particular point. So how much money do you think has
been left on the table we're talking about into the
deep six figures, likely millions. We don't have a accurate
accounting from all the casinos. There's been not been an

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audit done, but it's it's certainly into the six figures
and likely into the high six figures, if not into
the millions. The question is this, what do you make
of the cubby fans passing on money they won? They
won the damn World Series and they decided I don't

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want the money. Now, I got a couple of thoughts.
The first one's obviously it's the same thought you had, illogical, right,
and then the other one is unnecessarily sappy. We'll start
with this. Hey, if you are going to place a wager,
even if it's a ten dollar wager, you go back

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and you cash the ticket in the end. You know
what you do. If you don't do that, you make
me and every other degenerate gambler look like a dope,
all right. By you not cashing the ticket, you make
us all look stupid. Now, of course we're stupid because
we're gamblers, but at least most of us have the

(01:25:31):
human dignity to cash the damn ticket. We're not that dumb.
I don't care if you're a terse and I'm One
of the arguments I heard was, well, a lot of
these people were out of towners and they were just
passing through and they've been back to Vegas. You can
mail the ticket in and get your money. The casino

(01:25:52):
makes plenty of dough from dopes who don't win, right,
and you don't need You don't need them take a picture, right.
I read it one of the hotel books. Thirty percent
of those that won, thirty percent did not cash the ticket.

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It's a lot of money. It's illogical, and it's also
foolish at the same time. Now, second part, I completely
understand wanting to remember. I get that. You know, I
have some mementos and things like that in my office
that I've picked up over the years, but none of
them are winning slips from Vegas that we're not cash.

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I'm not a Cubs fan, you're a Cup fan. Congratulation
team won the World Series. Who mementos are funny, You
put those in your man cave. People put together all
kinds of things, ticket stabs, you collect a bag of
dirt from Wrigley Field, whatever it is. But this is
the point of demarcation. You have gone too far to

(01:26:56):
keep a winning World Series ticket is unnecessarily sappy. You
don't no money left behind, no money left behind. But
you let the house win and they didn't win, and
you let him win. Anyway, they lost and you let

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him win. Now, I'll tell you what should have happened,
not what did happen. For most of these people, it
should have happened. You take a picture. Everyone's got a
professional camera on their phone. You got a smartphone. You
take that picture. You make a copy of it if
you want, and you can make with a photo, you
can recreate it, and you can frame it. You then

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send the original ticket via certified mail and you send
it to the casino. You get your money back. That's
the way you do. But you don't. You don't sit
there and keep the ticket. I mean, it's ridiculous, it's insane. Anyway,
So the Betman a show on Fox. You're not a

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gambler much, Eddie, Right, you don't really bet that much,
Edmund Dallas steamboat, Willie, No, I'm not too much. When
I go to Vegas, I will, But other than that,
I don't care. But if you if you have a
winning ticket, like if you bet on Fresno State to
win the I don't know, the NCAA Men's basketball tournament.
Somehow they amazingly did. Would you cash the ticket or
keep the ticket? I would cash the ticket. But if

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it was just you know, like the Cubs winning the
World Series, I can't imagine that the odds on that
were great. If it wasn't a you know, a significant payday,
I could see keeping it as a as a souvenir coop.
Would you like to educate Edmund? No, this is ridiculous.
Take a picture of yourself holding the winning ticket and

(01:28:46):
frame that exactly. Get your money, and then you guys
are you know, you guys are gambleholocks. I mean, it's
just common sense. It's kind You're gonna lose most of
your bets. Anyway. What would you win if you bet
twenty bucks and the Cubs in the world I don't know.
It depends what they put. They weren't they were favored
in the World Series. Favorite year, I don't know. It

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wasn't much. Yeah, it wasn't much, but it would be
in the year that they won the World It's not
it's his you know, what's you take a photo you've
got the ticket. You take a photo of the same thing,
the same thing, not the same You know what you do?
You take a photo, you get your cup memory, you
go down to a framing shop, you get that thing framed.

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No one's gonna know. It's in a damn frame, Eddie.
No one's gonna know. No one would now, no one
would know. And the person that comes over your house
is wait a minute, that's a photo. That's not the
original gambling slip. He's a dope and that person should
be kicked out of your house anyway. You're you're so,
I mean, Eddie, why did you gambling etiquette? Eddie? Me

(01:29:49):
and Coop know we've got Vegas credit cards. Why why
why would you even bet on it if you don't
want the money. Exactly, you would need the money because
if you win in the Cubs and that was the
one time they won the World Series in your lifetime,

(01:30:11):
that's a cool soupnir to have. Yes, you take a picture,
it's not the same thing. The picture of it is
not the same thing. Here's what I do. Side by,
It's like saying, if I had the ticket stub of
the game winning World Series game that I attended, instead
of keeping it, I would just take a picture of it. No, No,
that's completely different. That's like going to the game. That's
the ticket stub. In this case, it's like, what did

(01:30:32):
you do? You walked into the sports book and you're like, man,
I'm gonna place a bet on the Cubs because this
would make a really good souvenir. No, you went in
there thinking I'm gonna place a bet on the Cubs
because I want to make some money. But you're not
gonna make that much money. It much money you make
every dollar count settie because right need any penny. You

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don't bet. You guys, don't leave money. I mean, I
understand both sides of it, but it reminds me of
storage wars, because you know, it's what a multi billion
dollars industry in our country, storage units, and they the experts, say,
take a picture of the things inside the unit that
means something to you and then get rid of the stuff. Yeah.
So I understand both sides. If you want a souvenir,

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save the front page of the of the paper that day, Yeah,
favorite website, whatever it might be. But here's what I
would do. I would take a photo of me holding
the gambling slip. And then the next photo in the
in the picture frame would be me holding the money,
holding your fifty dollars, big deal box. Who cares you understand?
You don't have the right. I do understand. You take

(01:31:37):
that fifty dollars. If it's a significant amount of money,
then of course you take the fifty dollars. You go
to the roulette table, you bet on black, and then
you'd flush it all down the treat idea that becomes
one hundred dollars. No, it does, it becomes nothing. Then
go back to the sports book, you bet a five
team part that hundred dollars. Now you feel stupid, now
coop listening to this. Now you've got thus idiots. And

(01:31:58):
then you go back to the rule tab you put
those thousands of dollars before. You keep doubling your money. Yet,
Eddie Sucker, money makes money. Parlays are the smartest bet.
You should never never allow your children to bet parlays.
Your bad parent if your children's bet parlays. I kind

(01:32:20):
of like how punk rock Eddie is on this, because
anti establishment money is the root of all evil. Bet
is not it makes the world get it twisted. If
it was significant I'm cashing the ticket, but twenty bucks?
Who cares? How much? Eddie? Would it have to be
more than there were? Some of these bets were for
six hundred dollars. Some of the wagers were that were

(01:32:40):
not cash. Okay, I will agree with you in that case.
I'm saying the decent amount of money cash the ticket.
The bet was six hundred dollars, the payout was thousands. Okay,
I'm with you on that day. But if it's just
a you know, twenty bucks, fifty bucks something like that,
then I would keep the ticket, all right. Yeah, So
the Ben Maller showing Fox, our buddy Bartolo colon Own

(01:33:00):
made his I think it was his first triple a
start for the Twins. How'd that go? Not good? He
gave up four runs pitching where was he was pitching
for the Rochester Red Wings against the Lehigh Valley Iron
Pigs in beautiful Allantown, pa Eddie, nice? That's right? That

(01:33:22):
Really bad news for Bartolo is the spread as nice
as the major league level. Even worse news is he
has to end up paying for all the minor leaguears
to eat. But he went. He struck out five, which
is good. But he gave up four hits and four
runs in three and two thirds in He's I think
he's ready to pitch for the Twins. I think the
Twins is ready to be called up to the Mets,

(01:33:44):
and he's ready to pitch for the Twins. Yeah, we
need to see t Bow. All right. I'm all choked.
I know. Is there something in the air here? By
the way, my nose was running? What's going it smells?
I smelled like like air freshener in the What was
going on? Did any one us kind of like air
freshmen or something? No? Did you? Did you go to
the restroom? They have that automatic spray in the restroom.

(01:34:08):
I don't know. I don't know. Some some smell, which
apparently I'm allergic to, is causing my nose to run here.
I don't know what the hell was going on? All right? Anyway, boy,
first world problems. So the Ben Maller Show on. Fuck, well,
you're doing a radio show. It's a pint of the ass.
It is working in a coal mine here. Yeah, we
are again paving roads. The hottest day of the summer.
We are paving roads. We'll call this one easy money.

(01:34:30):
We'll get to that and we'll do it next. Ben
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(01:34:50):
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(01:35:11):
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(01:35:32):
Geico Fox Sports Radio studios. It's Ben Maller, Big Ben
in the air everywhere for you. Well that Big Ben's
lame jokes of the week coming up in a couple
of minutes from now. We have a follow up to
a story that was an Internet rumor, which apparently is
It's not a rumor. It was accurate remember that story

(01:35:52):
about Shady McCoy and he had made a huge bet
on the Golden State Warriors, the veteran running back who's
bounced around the National Football League and places like Philadelphia
and Buffalo, and Shady McCoy had put a two hundred
thousand dollars wager on the Golden State Warriors to win

(01:36:12):
the NBA champion Get well, now we have learned that
he has cash that ticket. He just did it last week.
He waited until last week. He walked into the sports
book at Planning Hollywood, and he walked out with an
extra sixty two thousand dollars. He won sixty two thousand,

(01:36:32):
five hundred dollars risking two hundred thousand that the Warriors
were gonna win the NBA Championship. They were the big
favorite there. That's a pretty good way to make sixty
two thousand dollars, though, I mean, it's probably not the
most ethical way to make sixty two thousand dollars, but
it's away. That's a year's salarist, more than a year
salary for a lot of people. And he did it

(01:36:53):
right there in one wage. Of course, you got to
have two hundred thousand dollars to put up to make
that happen. Let's go to Abba the Golden Tiger, who's
on Fox Sports Radio in Richmond. Hello, Abba Golden Tiger. Oh,
I'm sorry, excuse me. It's a bad job by me.

(01:37:14):
What's on your mind? I just wanted to say, I'm
not impressed with the U with all the talk, because
there's all hyped to get one hundred dollars out of me,
and I really don't see any point, uh in this fight,
to be honest with you, is because I don't think
it's gonna be much of a fight. So so i'd

(01:37:36):
be mad because one hundred dollars in the end and
around and then I'm not gonna think about how great
a fight it was. I'm gonna think about I've lost
my money. And there's actually a fantasy game better than
Fan Duel that a lot of people are not even
familiar with. Have you ever heard a fire fan? I
have not no what it is. You play sports Live
as it actually happens. All the problems is on your phone.

(01:38:00):
When they get it to a computer, I think it's
going to take off, so you watch it. Let's let's
just take your favorite team. Okay, let's just say the Clippers.
You're watching the Clippers. I'm watching the Clippers. I get Okay,
so I'm watching the game and they're probably winning by
like thirty, right, and they're blowing them out Golden Tigers,
and yeah, and so you make predictions during the commercial breaks,

(01:38:23):
like okay, well, Chris Paul scored ten points in the
next five minutes, I'll bet no on that. Yeah, I'll
bet no on that. And then you get point you
get point values, and then you when when the commercials over,
you come back and see. However, it's it's like real,
real time wagering that kind of thing. Yeah, well, well

(01:38:43):
it's not really gambling that they had to get over that.
Get prizes, You get prizes and stuff instead of instead
of money. Now going Golden Tiger. How much fun is
it going to be when when the US finally allows
gambling real sports wager and you can make those same
wagers and you actually can bet like five bucks or
ten bucks and make some money. That's that's the next frontier.

(01:39:07):
It'd be. It'd be great. Yeah, it's coming. It's gonna know.
The Supreme Court is looking into it, and if they
decide the way they should make this a state's right
issue and make the state, state by state state decide
whether they want to have gambling or not. That's what
they should do on sports. So but the problem with
that is a lot of folks would be betting their

(01:39:28):
house and their rent. And yeah, but you have a
lottery right now. It's like alcohol. You gotta be sensible. Well, yeah,
of course you do, but you you can. Forty four
states have I think lottery and any of casinos. It's
either any casinos, a lottery or Native American what the
hell are called? Uh? And and so they're all over it.
It's gambling everywhere. Right now. You're in Richmond. How far

(01:39:51):
away are you from a casino right now? Uh? Not
very far, exactly right. And that's where most big cities
there's a casino, a nearby casino you can go wager at.
And so yeah, if you can lose the money there,
just like they can't betting on sports anyway, I thank you.
The Golden Tiger sounds like he's not going to buy

(01:40:12):
the fight. Sounds like he's not down for the fight.
It's the Ben Maller Show on Fox. We've got Big
Bend's lame jokes of the Week. We'll take more phone
calls as well. And guess who Floyd and Mayweather says
could be attending his fight in August. Big name, big
name could be there in attendance in Las Vegas. We'll

(01:40:34):
reveal that name. We'll get to that. We'll do it
in sixty seconds. No long commercial break. But first let's
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This is a guyco dot com and get a free
rate quote. And now here's Ben Maller. Guy named Potter

(01:40:56):
brings up a good point. Shady McCoy should have just
kept that ticket as a souvenir for the Golden State
war Is winning the championship. Why not get that framed
nice memento, give the ticket back. He had lost the ticket.
He has no proof that he won the two hundred dollars,
the sixty five thousand dollars betting on the Golden State Warriors.

(01:41:18):
All right, spend Maller's shaw on Fox. Will Floyd Mayweather
says that his fight is such a big deal against
Connor mcgarer, how big is it? He claims that Barack Obama,
a former president United States, may be there. There's been
rumors that Donald Trump could attend, although Dana White says
that Trump's not going to be there because of the

(01:41:39):
amount of security that would be required to have a
president there. I say that Trump and Obama should both
show up and they should have a wrestling match prior
to the fight. Right, make this the complete and total spectacle.
You got Obama, you got Trump, and you put them
on the undercard prior to Mayweather McGregor. Mayweather also claimed

(01:42:05):
that he had to change his phone number. He said
because so many, he told TMZ, so many people want
to get free tickets. I had to change my number.
Do we believe that's actually the case? Floyd Mayweer seems
like the kind of guys. There's the famous people. These
athletes change their number all the time, So every six

(01:42:25):
months they changed their number. They gotta be a step
ahead of people. And Mayweather might just have changed his
number to be a step ahead of the irs, you know,
trying to trying to get some money from him. So
might have just said, Hey, I need to move up
a little bit. Let's say hello to Steve in the OC.
We'll get the big Ben's lame jokes in a moment,

(01:42:46):
the lame jokes of the week. What's going on, Steve
Benn And you're absolutely you're you're you're absolutely off the mark,
my friend. I gotta agree with Eddie. It's a matter
of value, man, what are you talking What are you
talking about? I'm talking about gambling and and and the
fact that if you've got a winning ticket, you cash it. Yeah,
I agree with Eddie's adope. And you're a dope for

(01:43:08):
agreeing with Eddie. What's a sensible argument, man, Yes, I'm
gonna tell you. Man. And when somebody says, you wager,
even if it's ten bucks, and I'll give you a
thirty bucks in exchange for that ten bucks, I'm not
leaving the thirty bucks because of a printed ticket that
I want to put in a frame. Spoken like an
addicted no. No, spoken like someone that understands the value

(01:43:30):
of money. Ten bucks. Come on, that's just not have
a sentimental bone in his body. Yeah, you take a
I said, take a picture and put it in a frame.
That's your sentimental, sappy cornball nonsense. Don't be ridiculous. Now see,
I'm not being Steve, I'm not being ridicuoud. I'm one

(01:43:52):
hundred percent serious. You're telling me that you're perfectly fine
with the casino Dandy. They said they did an audit,
they up, the numbers were wrong at one of the
shops in Vegas. They went back and had to do
it a second time. They couldn't believe there were so
many idiotic people that did not cash winning tickets, Ben, Ben,

(01:44:12):
that only props up because that's about numbers. But we're
talking about small gambling ten twenty bucks here there. Eddie's
completely right. You do you do? You do understand the
most of the most of the gamblers are the small gamblers.
There's not They're not all whales. Most of the people
that but bets are small time players. This is true.

(01:44:32):
But you know your argument breaks down, Ben to what
profit the large casinos get on small gamblers. What Eddie's saying,
and what I'm saying is is if you're I don't
care about the casino, I care about my ten or
twenty dollars that I laid down and now I got
a ticket A pitcher isn't the same as the reason.
It's exactly the same. It's the ticket. You can you

(01:44:54):
can go down and get it recreated with a laser
printer if you want, all right, you can you can
recreate the thing exactly the same. Stupid, It's not stupid,
he's ridiculous. Yeah, Steve, I want you to go play
in the lottery. He's only costs you a dollar. And
then when you win three hundred million, don't catch it

(01:45:15):
because you gotta. Let's only cost him a dollar. It's
his argument. He's only worried about the money he risked.
He's not worried about to win. So therefore, if you
win the powerball and you win a twenty million, it
only but he only costs him a dollar. Ready, isn't
it coolue to have that framed that you could stupid? No,
it's not. It's very stupid. It's smart. It is good.

(01:45:38):
It's not what those people did who wanted it leads
us into this knock knock, who's there blame week? Blame
Week two. It's Big Bend's lame joke of the week.
All right, here we go, Big Ben's lame jokes of
the week. The best singer is the best one liners
of the week, and we do it right now, Right now,

(01:45:58):
let's welcome in the man that bats. Leadoff on Big
Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week from Southern California in
Parts unknown. Serious Sean, Hello, serious, Sean, Hey Ben, I'm
watching this movie Airplane as I do this right now.
That's a new movie. That's a that's a classic new movie. Yes,

(01:46:21):
they read one from the eighties. Yeah, that's like nineteen eighty.
That's from not from the that's like nineteen eighty. I
think that movie came out. Yeah, and then the sequel
is an eighty two I scoons. Okay, there you go.
That's back in the Stone Age. Very nice, all right,
very good, kitching up on the classics series, Sean. Yeah, okay,
do you have a joke to lead us off with? Yeah?

(01:46:41):
I got a good one. Um, Why are false teeth
like stars? Why are false teeth like stars? I don't know,
because they both only come out at night. Okay, I

(01:47:04):
think this is the point. I should read the disclaimer.
Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week occasionally contain odd
language which may be unsuitable for children. It shouldn't be
listening to the radio right now anyway. Look what time
it is my god, unusual humor like you just heard,
which may be unsuitable for some adults, advanced nuance, which
could be something that is just over your head. If

(01:47:25):
you lack the funny bone. This is a it's an issue.
So if you're easily offended, we love you, but this
is not for you. It's not for you, So it
turned the volume down for a few minutes, give us
about twenty minutes or so. We don't want you to
be triggered and go into a ball of rage over
a stupid joke you hear on the radio. Because Coop's
got some offensive jokes. He'll be in here in a minute.

(01:47:47):
I'll read the joke, I will bounce it off Eddie
the punch line assassin, who will bounce the ball back
to me. I will then give you the punch line.
At that particular point, Danny G will chime in. If
a joke is funny, you'll hear this. If it's not funny,
you'll hear this. And every once in a while, I
could go either way, and then this will be played.

(01:48:08):
This doesn't have the number one station anymore, is it.
That guy was a good one. And then we got
Coop with his offensive jokes. Everyone ready, yes, all right,
Big Ben's lame jokes? What lasted twenty seconds and made
millions of women mad? Twenty seconds? Millions of women mad?
I don't know, Ben, what was that last Thursday's Ben

(01:48:28):
Maller Show podcast? That was from hervan? He says he's
been listening since twenty oh five and he's heard like
eleven thousand hours of the show. That was pretty good.
I like that and apparently not a big fan of
the twenty second version of the podcast. Here we Go Sleeping.
A sleeping woman was startled as a mountain lion jumped

(01:48:51):
through a glass window under her bed. Eddie. That would
startle most people. Yeah, and the police believe that the
lion was simply looking for a cougar. The cougars are coming.
The cougars are coming. No laugh, nothing, just all right? Uh.
Pit Bull, also known as Mister three oh five, has

(01:49:14):
announced that he is joining Jeb Bush in a bid
for the Marlins. Eddie. Oh that's great news, Yeah, he
told Major League Baseball pit Bull give me everything, my
Manny and fort Ladder Dales. Big Ben's lame jokes of
the week. What does Coop call a tree with no limbs?

(01:49:35):
What does Coop call a tree with no limbs? Ben Smokable,
Josh the jokester sent that one in. Coop, you got
a joke for us to lead off? What do you got? Yeah?
I got one for you. Ben. Do you know that
Danny g Ones dated a dental hygienist? No, I didn't know.
I don't know a lot about the past that Danny
g No. Yeah, she had the whitest teeth he ever

(01:49:56):
came across. Oh really wow, Oh she's a dental hygienis.
Of course, I completely makes sense. All right. Did you
know that you can now download the best of the
Ben Mallers Show podcast, Eddie, No, I didn't know that. Yeah.
Those consist of the commercials that are cut out from
the regular podcast, as from hill Billy Mike, who sent

(01:50:22):
that one in. Uh see, I don't know how want
to that one in the air, all right. Kevin Durant
was furious with Teyton Manning over a joke about joining
the Warriors. Yeah. I saw the look on his face.
He didn't all look happy. Yeah. Later it was revealed
the reason why, apparently Durant forgot to pack his funny
bone we left Oklahoma, This doesn't not the number one
station anymore? Is it? Jay by the Bay? Thank you

(01:50:47):
for that, Jay. Here's an oldie, Buddy Goody. I don't
remember who sent this Win. What do you call a
woman on her period having a good day? I don't know, Ben.
What do you call a woman having her period on
a good day? A happy cramper? Alright, it's not funny.

(01:51:07):
How dare you a record breaking super suk record breaking
super soker can blast water for up to up to
two hundred and seventy two miles an hour. Eddie, that's
quite a super soaker. Yeah, it's almost as fast as
Sheldon Richardson can drive Tony in Jersey. Remember Eddie, he

(01:51:27):
got busted? Was it a couple of years ago? It's
going like one hundred and forty with his kid in
the back. Yes, I do remember anything else? Cooper, you
want to wait a little bit? I got one. What
do you What do you get when you see a
topless blonde rubbing lotion on a topless brunette? I don't
know your camera. All right, let's pause for a cause

(01:51:56):
on that note, and we'll regroup. Yes, all right, we'll
regroup and we will have the rest of Big Bend's
lame jokes of the week, the best of the best.
We'll get to that, We'll do it. It's been said
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(01:52:18):
the Guy Coo Fox Sports Radio Studios, It's Ben Maller.
We gotta get back to it. It's Big Band's lame
jokes of the week. Right to it we go. Nevada
is currently facing a recreational marijuana shortage. Jetty Oh Coop's
been making a lot of visits there lately, and a
related note, Coop the Loop had a state of emergency

(01:52:38):
last Friday night for the same thing. Nick Nick in Colorado,
How is the Ben Maller Podcast like a pack of
hot dogs? I don't know. How is the Ben Maller
Show podcast like a pack of hot dogs? Bartolo Cologne
could finish both in twenty seconds. That's from Josh. Yeah,

(01:53:04):
that was pretty good. We got some good ones, though.
We gotta fly. We're going to slow here. Why did
Floyd Mayweather take Connor McGregor's fu pinstripe suit as a compliment.
I don't know why did he take it as a
con can't read body language? That's Kurt, Kurt from Earth.
What do you got, Coop? What's the difference between a
pregnant lady and a light bulb? I don't know. You

(01:53:28):
can unscrew a light bulb? Oh, come on, bad, This
doesn't have the number one station anymore, is it? No?
That's from I'm There are reports out of Atlanta that
the reason Bartolo Cologne was let go was actually because
of PDS. Again it old performance Nancy drug No no,
no profession ending donuts. That was some Scott in Oakland.

(01:53:55):
Good job by you, Scott. Well, it turns out Belgian
Eddie eat more French Fries per capita than any other
European country. Is that right? Yes? In a related note,
Andy Reid is moving Chiefs training camp to Belgium. What

(01:54:17):
do you What do you get when Mark the full
name guy and weed man Hippie show up for a sleepover? Oh?
Good guy, a nightmare? No bedbugs? Josh the Josh, the jokester.
He should have his own segment. He's so good at
this all right, Big Bend's lame jokes of the week.
Well Kid Rock announced his candidacy for the US Senate

(01:54:38):
this weekend. Yeah Rock said his campaign will last all
summer long. Jeez from Manny, He's he's the same one
that sent that dopey joke about pit Bull. Was that
your your closer? Cooper? You done after that? Yeah? That
was your clothes? All right? We got a couple more.
About seven percent of all the potatoes grown up the

(01:55:00):
United States are turned into McDonald's French fry. God bless him.
I love those French fry. The other ninety three percent
go to Bartolo clones house. All right. Cardinals coach Bruce
Arians believed as a kid that drinking paint made him
harder to tackle. That is crazy, isn't that crazy? Yeah?
He actually grew up in a fishing village named Sherwin Williams.

(01:55:24):
This isn't not the number one station anymore, is it?
Dare you? How dare you? All right? I got the clothes.
You want to hear the closer? You want to hear it?
If it's good? All right? Here we go from Josh,
so you know it's good. How does no condom Carl
like his eggs in the morning? I don't know Ben,
how does no condom Carl like his eggs in the
morning fertilized Big Ben's lame jokes of the week of

(01:55:51):
all nice A lot of jokes this week. It's a
little slow last week because of the Fourth of July.
But if you want to be part of our joke
riding team, we don't guarantee the joke will be on
the air. If we like it, we have time, we'll
get to it. We'll put it on the radio show.
Like these guys that sent their jokes in. Send it
to care of the Ben Maller Show. Ben Mallers Show
at gmail dot com. It's Ben Mallers Show at gmail

(01:56:13):
dot com. And you can also bitch, complain, wine, moan.
I get a lot of that as well from people
that like to send me long manifestos. Mainly I got
a lot of letters from Mark the full name Guy.
He sent me one about Tom Sawyer. Do you think
I want to read a letter about Tom Sawyer from
Mark the full Name Guy? No. It is the story
that keeps on giving, and also the National Football League

(01:56:36):
and one of the lamest excuses ever used by an
NFL player. It continues to resonate to this day. Welcome
in the beginning of another hour. It's the Ben Mallers Show.
We are in the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports
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(01:56:58):
Fifteen minutes could save you five team percent or more
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a free rate quote. Rather than breakdown a Summer League
basketball game or a week performance between Connor McGregor and
Floyd Mayweather. Mayweather did make it rain in Brooklyn, but

(01:57:19):
Connor McGregor admitted he was worn out that that was
a lame. We'll see if they do better in London.
That'll be later today. But we got NFL goodies now.
Training camp starts on the nineteenth for select NFL teams,
so we are five days away, five days away from
rookies reporting a training camp for some NFL teams. Now,

(01:57:40):
remember the Viking receiver who claimed he got drunk on
kombucha t We talked a lot about this story. We
had a lot of reaction to it. People seemed interested
in it. We have an update on the kombuchat saga.
Mike Zimmer. Mike Zimmer, the Grizzled coach of the Minnesota Vikings,

(01:58:02):
who's had a million I operations, has informed Michael Floyd,
the guy that was drinking the tea, that he will
be released if the Vikings determined that he was lying
about his kombocha t defense in that drinking case from

(01:58:23):
this past summer, couple of months ago. So I wanted
to talk about this now in case you forgot he
had been sentenced. Floyd was playing for the Cardinals. He
got sentenced the house arrest for duy. He was passed
out of it was in Scottsdale, and then, of course
what happens to everyone when they get a DUI. Floyd

(01:58:44):
ended up playing for the Patriots and they won the
Super Bowl, but he promptly failed three self administered breathalyzer
tests last this was actually last month. I thought was
a couple of months ago. Was last month. And at
the time Michael Floyd, he claimed, Listen, I did not drink.
Did not happen. This is all bad luck. I consumed

(01:59:05):
too much kombuc It's my problem. It's one of the
great bogus stories of modern times. And the question I
have is this, do you believe that Mike Zimmer is
actually gonna cut Michael Floyd if they can find out

(01:59:25):
that he was lying about the kombucca. Now, my answer,
and I'll go first, My answer is no, No, this
is simply spinned by Zimmer and it's pretty obvious that
he's just blowing smoke. And the reason why is this
will begin with the fact that the Viking franchise ran
and circled to defend Floyd. The CEO of the Minnesota

(01:59:50):
Vikings sent a heartfelt letter to a judge in Arizona
backing up Floyd's version of events. Michael Floyd signed a
sworn affid Avid as well, saying that he was encouraged
to drink the KBC buy the Vikings. There was a
health drink and he was encouraged to drinking. Of course,

(02:00:12):
this doesn't pass the smell test, as we pointed out
when all this was going down. But the story goes
that Floyd was watching movies with Vikings tight End and
teammate back at Notre Dame Kyle Rudolph the Red Nose
tight End, drinking some unrefrigerated kombucca, and he purchased this
and he didn't get it from the Vikings. He got

(02:00:33):
this at whole foods, so he gave them a plug
and then all of a sudden, his alcohol levels blood
alcohol levels spiked up. Now, based on science, we'd said
this at the time, we'll repeat it here. Based on science,
this was a ridiculous claim. Now, Kambucci does contain trace

(02:00:53):
amounts of alcohol, but Floyd, based on his weight, would
have had to have consumed so many bottles of this
kombuchat in a very short window of time that he
likely would have died before he would have gotten to
that blood alcohol level. People seemingly overlooking that the judge

(02:01:14):
gave him a bit of a pass, sentencing him to
a one extra day. I believe in his sentence, But
the second part of this, Michael Floyd is not going
to be released over this. I don't believe Zimmer. I
don't think Congress is going to get involved and hold
special hearings to investigate the usage of kombuchat in America

(02:01:34):
involving the Viking receiver. That's not going to happen in reality,
outside of Floyd having a come to Jesus moment, right,
come to Jesus moment and saying, you know, I lied,
I was drinking something else. It doesn't matter unless he
fails another alcohol test, which could happen, or gets caught

(02:01:56):
driving under the influence. Again. That's it now that said
Michael Floyd better performed. The Vikings. They don't start veteran
training camp until I think it's July twenty sixth, So
if Floyd sucks, he'll get released. It won't be released
because he won't be released because of this, but there's
gonna be zero tolerance if he can't play. And remember,

(02:02:18):
the NFL is going to suspend Floyd a minimum of
two games, so he's already behind the eight ball to
start his run with the Vikings. The last observation here,
I continue to be stunned. I saw when I saw
Zimmer talking about this. I was stunned how many people
who seemingly are smart people bought into the kombucha t defense.

(02:02:41):
Very simple, you know, as a defense attorney, to get
a certain number of people on a journy. I am
shocked that anyone is convicted of a crime if there
are enough people that called our radio show and send
us messages on social media and via email and all
that on the Internet that completely bought Michael Floyd's story.

(02:03:04):
How does anyone get convicted on a jury trial. Michael
Floyd might as well have said he had been kidnapped
and forced against his will to drink liquor like moonshine.
I mean, that would have been more believable than the
Kombucca tim again, the mount he would have had to
have consumed. All right, spend lea Shaw on factional I Meanwhile,

(02:03:25):
speaking of the NFL, how about the coach of the
Cincinnati Bengals. You see what Marvin Lewis was up to.
Marvin Lewis was fawning all over Joe Mixon, punching Joe
the new Bengal running back. Now, Marvin Lewis said that
his talent, Joe mixons down, he's in a rookie now,

(02:03:46):
second round pick in Cincinnati. Marvin Lewis claimed that Joe
Mixon's talent is off the charts. He was gushing like
Mixon was his child, going on on here over the
former Oklahoma running back. Lewis was landed on thing he's big,
he's fast, he can catch him, and ron he's smart

(02:04:10):
and he's only twenty. I mean, just sucking the toes
of Joe Mixon. He went on and on there he
went always so smart, He's as smart as a whip,
which is an old guy saying, isn't it When you're
saying as smart as a whip? That's an old guy saying.
And according to Marvin Lewis, the Bengal coach, he had
to remind everybody with the team, he has to remind

(02:04:32):
all the coaches that Joe Mixon's only twenty, right, and
he's only twenty going on and on here now. Lewis
also insisted as the Bengals get started to get set
to start their upcoming season, Lewis insisting that the Bengals
did a tremendous amount of due diligence, background research, and

(02:04:54):
they vetted everything with Joe Mixon off the field and
said they had no red flags at all. Of course,
Mixon punched the woman there that was I don't think
his girlfriend, but punched her anyway, and that that was
the the viral video that hit the internet. The incident

(02:05:15):
happened in twenty fourteen, but it didn't hit the internet
until later than that. And so so Mixon is in
for what it's supposed to be a big time role
with the Cincinnati Bengals, and we'll see I mean, there's
much like Michael Floyd doesn't have a lot of wiggle room,
Joe Mixon does not have a lot of wiggle room

(02:05:36):
with the Cincinnati Bengals. So what do we make of
all this? What do we make of the fawning over
Joe Mixon. Well, to lead off with, Marvin Lewis is
building up the legend, the myth of Joe Mixon, much
like the article we talked about, the story which is
going around that Aaron Judge defied NASA by hitting the

(02:05:59):
room at the stadium in Miami. That they when they
built the stadium the Marlins play in, they used at
the smartest minds out there, right, smartest minds out there,
people from NASA, and they determined that a baseball could
not hit the roof of the stadium in play in Miami.

(02:06:20):
And then Aaron Judge did it. And so now they're
like they're building up the mythology about Aaron Judge. Well,
in the NFL, Marvin Lewis, that's what he's doing, you
know that, right, He's building the myth the facade, and
it doesn't matter who cares what he does. In July.
Can you perform in NFL games? And I would think

(02:06:41):
there's going to be a rude introduction. Now, I absolutely
endorse Joe Mixon getting another opportunity in the NFL, but
let's not make him out to be the next Emmett
Smith or Marshall Falk is yet to play a game
in the NFL. And furthermore, Joe Mixon is in the

(02:07:02):
best worst situation he could possibly be in. And what
the hell does that mean. I'll tell you Cincinnati is
a great spot for Joe Mixon because he's going to
get a baptism by fire. There's not gonna be a
long line he's gonna have to wait in to get
playing time. Some teams don't play young players, young running backs.

(02:07:24):
By all accounts, the evidence we have, the anecdotal evidence,
is that Joe Mixon is gonna get a lot of
playing them and could even start for the Bengals. And
if he really just blows everyone away, he'll be in
the rotation and get a big lee amount of playing them.
So that's all good. That's all good, And the Bengals

(02:07:44):
still have a lot of talent and they should help
Joe Mixon succeed. And Andy Dalton's a pretty good regular
season quarterback. But there's bad stuff, you know. That's the
best part. The worst part is the fact that the
Bengal have been known as a franchise that endorses their

(02:08:05):
player's psychotic behavior in NFL history. If you go through
all the coaches in the NFL, you're not going to
find many coaches who have been bigger enablers than Marvin Lewis.
I mean, that's kind of the Bengals reputation. It's been
that way for a long time. They've they've had a

(02:08:26):
period where that they didn't get many players in trouble,
but pac Man Jones has been there for a good run.
And so Joe Mixon is a neophight who's going to
be learning how to be an NFL player, and he's
trying to suck the wisdom from veteran players like pac
Man Jones. All right, it's the Ben Maller Show on Fox,

(02:08:49):
The Ben Maller Show on Fox. If you would like
to be part, you can join us. You know the number.
We're also on Twitter at Ben Maller. That's at Ben Maller.
And you know that it is a mixed bag in
the world of sports. When someone named Scott Perry agreeing
to a deal to run the Knicks front office. Scott

(02:09:13):
Perry's I don't know who that is either. Apparently he
worked for the Sacramento Kings. But if this had happened
on a day when there was a lot of baseball activity,
you would not have heard about this. This wouldn't have
even been a footnote. But the fact that Scott Perry
is going to be the new puppet, the new sock
puppet for James Dolan and run the Knicks front office

(02:09:33):
getting a lot of play. And I also saw speaking
in the NBA, the rumor djore that the Indiana Pacers
tried to trade Paul George to the Golden State Warriors.
Did you see that, Eddie? Did you see the the
rumor that that WOJ dropped a wog bomb? Yeah, apparently
he did an interview with Paul George and threw that

(02:09:55):
out there, and I guess Paul George confirmed that that
was that was offered, but the Warrior said no, Which
my question to you is why why would to trade
Clay Thompson? So what Clay Thompson be a better They
wouldn't be a better team with Paul George and Clay Thompson.
Clay Clay Thompson's a better fit for the Warriors than
Paul George would be. I would rather George a better

(02:10:18):
player than Clay Thompson. He wouldn't be a better player
with the Warriors. Clay Thompson's a better fit for the
Warriors than Paul George. That's just they have guys they
could shoot the ball from the outside. I just I again,
I'm talking to you, love Paul George. Where did you
go to college? Again? President? Exact? Okay, I'm I'm being serious.
I throw that out. No, I'm being serious. Yeah, you
you love you like Paul George. I think he's okay.

(02:10:41):
But if i'm if I'm the Warriors, I just think
he's a better player than Clay Thompson. I don't get
rid of Clay Thompson. He's gonna leave eventually. That'll be
the guy they get rid of. Right, They're gonna keep
Draymond Green and Steph Curry and they'll get rid of eventually.
But I I'm gonna hold off. I want to win
another championship with Clay Thompson, and maybe another two championships,

(02:11:02):
and then I'll worry about what I'm gonna do after that,
I wouldn't again. I'm just keeping this at it's basic level.
To me, he's a better player. I would rather have
Paul George than Klay Thompson. He's a better player. Again,
you know, he'd be in a tougher conference in the
in the West if you put him. You know, he's
obviously gonna be playing with better players too, if you
playing with better players. But he would be like the

(02:11:24):
fourth option on that particular, the third or fourth depending
a Curry Durrain. I guess he'd be the third option
behind those guys. But I I'd rather have Clay Thompson.
I think Warriors did the smart thing, not making that trick.
But you disagree, all right, So Ben Maller Shaw on
Fox will take your phone calls the whole thing and
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(02:11:48):
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(02:12:11):
from Maine wants to know if I will invite Steve
Harvey to co host the show. Maybe, you know, might
I think we'll be hanging out in the hallways here.
I don't know if we'll be doing the shows, but
I have been hard for Steve to co host the show.
When Ben's fired for talking to Steve Harvey. No, no, no, no,
Steve humanitarian. He's a renaissance man. He's everyone's game show

(02:12:35):
host and talk show host. And I can't wait. I'm
very excited that he's gonna work just across the hall
from me. Another legend. I thought, well, when I worked
with Pat O'Brien, I thought I can't get better than that.
But now Steve Harvey's gonna be here. It's just amazing.
Mister nice guy, says Clay Thompson put up thirty seven
points in a quarter, sixty in three quarters. Enough said,

(02:12:57):
and Matt says, I want to one hundred and ten percent,
not one hundred, Eddie, one hundred ten agree with Ben.
I would much rather have Clay Thompson Paul George is
grossly overrated. So Matt I know. If Matt said it,
it must be true. Matt. Matt runs the war, he
is his part owner of the team. He knows what's

(02:13:17):
going on. Let's say, hello, now, where shall we go?
How about Dave, who's in La on Fox Sports Radio? Hello, Dave? Hey,
what's up? Ben? Hey, Dave you're on the radio. Talk
to me. Ben. First of all, I think everybody around you,
Coop and and Eddie you're right about everything. I think
they just need to really back to you and support

(02:13:40):
you more. And instead of trying to play the opposition
time welcome sir. You are you are correct? You obviously
get what's going on here. You know every night is
ambush Ben night on the show. Something on your face? Dave, No, no, no, no, no,
See look at that. They're so upset, Dave that you
said the right thing. Neither gonna but your you. He

(02:14:03):
Coop Coop would mean to me on Twitter. I didn't
bring it up when I got before, when I got screened.
Whoa what did he do? Dude? What did Coop? I
want to know here because if Coop's being rude to listeners,
I need to know about it. Well, he called me
a suck up, Ben, but it was arguably the best
day of my life. Were you were you being a
suck up? I mean, I guess, but I was just

(02:14:27):
agreeing with your point because you're worrying about everything. Oh oh,
he gets Please if this, if this phone calls any indication,
then yes, obviously he was being a suck up. That's
that's Dave's m o. This is a I believe this
is a masterpiece. I don't know what you're talking about.
We haven't accomplished anything, but I liked Dave Davison, I
kind of guy. You know what, Dave, I'm gonna give
you a golden ticket. You get a golden ticket, Dave. Congratulations, congratulation.

(02:14:50):
I just saw this white thing flying at my face.
It's this calls like a mona Lisa. It's perfect. You
got a you got a golden ticket, golden ticket. I
mean I was. I was on hold for an hour
and it was it was a breeze. I got to
listen to you. You know what, you get two golden tickets,
two golden tickets for two. That's the proper response. You

(02:15:13):
look fat clown. Yeah. I was actually on hold for
an hour and a half. And you know what, he
didn't complain about it. He didn't bitch about it. He
gets an extra golden taket. You get two golden tickets, Dave.
I appreciate that service. All right, Well, thank you all.
That's respect. You see that Eddie's guy's a great caller
right there. We need more. We need more callers like

(02:15:35):
Dave and Rachel. That's what we need. We need more. Absolutely, no, no,
that was an elite call right there. Dave's my early
favorite for caller of the year. He could dethrone the
champion from New York Real talk. All right, let's say
hello to no condom Carl. Who's next on Fox Sports Radio?

(02:15:57):
Good morning? Then go on second, Ben Win. I'm sorry
I had to get this bad taste out of my
mouth because I have to say this and it's really
all a terrible Uh you're right then, yeah, right again,

(02:16:19):
this is the greatest segment. Yes, a bad taste then,
because I don't want anyone rubbing them to me. Those
balls are perfect And I would turn a bedding ticket
in in a heartbeat because he's right about this. He's
only got eleven kids and he listen, Hey, but The

(02:16:41):
thing is is the the the accounts that these casinos
have their money in, their daily interstaring accounts. So they're
going to earn interest on my money that is staying
in their bank. And there's not a thing in the
world that I'd want to give them any more money
than I have to. Exactly, Carl, and now you unlike

(02:17:02):
if him a golden ticket too, bed Eddie, that's not
the kind of show that I do. I don't know
if she's telling, but Carl, Now, unlike Antonio Crimardi, you
can remember all your kids names. Yes, you know all
your kids' names. I know their names, their birthdays. Uh, yeah,
you know all that fun stuff all r Yeah, just
give us the first name, your last name. So yeah,

(02:17:24):
let's see all eleven. Do we every music for this?
It's gonna take a while. We need music bed for this.
We will get to the coop scoop on entertainment. Gonna
time shift at a couple of minutes, but we will
get to that. Go ahead, there, here we go. This
is no condom. Carl's kids, all eleven of them, Joanne
Lenni and carry Ann Glenn, Michael, Amber, Heather Xabia, Harve Heer,

(02:17:46):
Vanesta and oh no, no, I got here. You know what,

(02:18:08):
you get a golden ticket for forgetting your kids' days.
That made the take to my mouth a little more tolerable.
I appreciate it, all right, Thank you again. Carl is

(02:18:31):
a big night for Carl gets a golden ticket, he
forgets his kids names, and he was the closer on
Lame Jokes of the Week by Josh. That's uh. This
is like the hour and a half of Carl went
so fascinating. The other ones too. He was I thought
he was gonna nail it right away, right, all of
a sudden, he just he dropped. He dropped it all right,

(02:18:52):
spend mallow Shaw on Fox. We'll get to the coop
scoop on entertainment and one of the greatest pranks in
the history of pranks went down in the National Football League.
We will give you the details on that. We'll get
to it all in sixty seconds no long commercial break.
But first let's find out what's trending the Ben Mallard
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(02:19:14):
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a second or two away from the Coop Scoop on entertainment.
But I've heard from this guy, weed Man Hippie calling.
And you see remember weed Man Hippie used to call

(02:19:35):
the show back in the day. I thought I thought
it was gonna be our all star correspondent, but didn't
call in this week until now I think he's he there. Women,
that's not love you. You survived because this connection may
not be good. No, I can't hear you, know I can't.

(02:19:58):
You really can't hear me. No, I really can't hear. Hello,
Hey Ben, Ben, the old far game was great, Ben. Yes,
this is a new microphone. I don't know how to listen, Ben,
What the hell is going on here? What are you doing?
What are you? Nassa? Nassa tried to build the ceiling

(02:20:23):
that Aaron Judge couldn't hit a Bill from couldn't hit
the ball at him, and he last it. Listen. Who
doesn't know who the real superman is? He doesn't? Who
does Coop think the real Superman is Christopher? Believe Ben?
The real Superman is Joy Reeves. In the nineteen fifty

(02:20:46):
nine half curious because that's because you're old. Man. That's
it depends how old you are, we man, it depends
how old you are if you're I agree with Coop.
Coop's right. I agree with Coop on it. Coops the hood,
I know, so you should trust his opinion. He's like,
how many movies have you been? And he's been in movies.

(02:21:06):
You should trust him. Yeah, you want to hear that.
You want to hear the Coop Scoop on entertainment right now,
don't you. Let's find out right now, let's bring in
the superhero of the Coop Scoop on Entertainment, the latest
and the greatest from Hollywood, and that means the Cooper

(02:21:28):
Loop direct from Hollywood, all right, Ben? Yeah, So I
just wanted to say that I watched all four episodes
of the four part documentary series I told you about
last week, The Defiant Ones, about the relationship between Doctor
Dre and Jimmy Iveen, and it was extremely fascinating. I

(02:21:48):
would suggest if you are a fan of music at all,
and it doesn't even have to be rap music, if
he be shoot off Benny, Ben, this was documentary style,
so you would love it. I like documentary. I could
watch the most boring topic documentary style like it. If
you appreciate any music at all, definitely check this out
if you have you know, HBO Go or HBO Now
or any of those streaming services. Now moving over to

(02:22:12):
the silver screen, the silver screen. Sorry weed man, we're
onto the silver screen. Yes. Now coming out this weekend
is War for the Planet of the Apes. It is
the final movie in the New Planet of the Apes
trilogy and I am very excited about that. The first
two movies I thought were great, and check that out
this weekend. Now moving over to television, premiering today on Netflix,

(02:22:37):
Ben is a documentary that I will actually check out. Now.
The subject matter doesn't sound like the most exciting thing,
but it's fascinating and if you care about the planet,
you'll check it out. It's called Chasing Coral and it's
about how the coral reathing. I don't care about the planet. Wow,
It's it's about how the well, you know, it's about Coop.

(02:23:01):
I want you to know that I have solar panels
on the Mallard mansion. Look, it's basically it's about global warming,
and so I'm sure that you don't believe in that
to save money. Yeah, well that is, but yeah, it's
it's about the coral reef and how they're they're dying

(02:23:21):
off because the you know, the water is getting warmer.
Was the last time you went like snorkeling? I would
have to say probably about eight years ago. Yeah, I
went snorkeling last weekend. I liked the environment more than
you went last weekend. I'm a better person than you. Yeah.
Lover's Cove Cataline. You should go there. It's amazing. Oh nice, serious, right,
it's awesome, best snorkeling around. Did you go there with Rachel? No,

(02:23:46):
my wife on for it? Yes? Yeah, not Rachel? Yes,
all right now. Also, I should mention that premiering this
coming Tuesday on Netflix July eighteenth, it will be the
first Star Wars movie to come to Netflix. Rogue one,
a Star Wars story will be on there. So if
he never had a chance to check it out, or
if you've only seen it once, go ahead and watch

(02:24:07):
it again on Netflix. All right, awesome? And finally, the
most important thing the monkey story this weekend. It's the
only thing that matters in the world of entertainment. Game
of Thrones returns to HBO Sunday night on HBO. Check
it out Game of Thrones. You didn't see that story,
you know, remember the monkey photo? Did you see that story? Coop?

(02:24:29):
There's this, yeah, the selfie, the monkey selfe. There's this
wildlife photographer who took this amazing photo of a monkey
or he didn't take it, and well, yeah, the monkey.
But he is being sued by PETA there argues photos
like seven years old and they're arguing that the monkey
is the actual owner of the photo. And this guy

(02:24:50):
Eddie has gone bankrupt, he says, because he's had to
spend all his money on the lawsuit being sued by PETA. No, uh,
what the hell is the monkey? You're gonna do with
all that money? The monkey's gonna do. But not wonderful.
That's what a great world we live in, just every
nut job. Yeah, it's just wonderful. All right. We gotta

(02:25:12):
get to Baldadash. So now do we have our contestants
lined up for Baldadesh? Are we get We have our
defending champ. We have refending champ. All right, So if
you want, I'll just kill some time here as we
get a challenger and can call right now. Probably need
to give it the number if you want, like a
brand new contest. I don't give out the number. I
don't give out I'm gonna sit here eight seven seven
ninety nine five. I don't do that. I don't That's

(02:25:33):
not my area. Heyd you see that guy got stuck.
I was behind a ATM machine. That was a good story.
I saw the internet today. You see that Eddie guy
got That guy got locked in an ATM machine in
Texas and was passing notes through the ATM machine. I'm
stuck in here. Help me get out. Is it true

(02:25:53):
that if you dial in your pass code backwards it
alerts the authorities? No? I read that on the interne. No,
that is not true. And I'm sure the guy on
online four would would be a good You want to play,
all right, we're gonna have them play. That's fine. Let's
get well. I imagine getting stuck behind an ATM machine. Boy?
What what? How much errors back there? Could you die?

(02:26:14):
Imagine being stuck and dying behind an ATM machine. Anyway,
let's get to it. Here we go, and now it's
just what you've been waiting for. It's Ben's balderdash. What
the hell is this? Formerly known as something we're not
allowed to say. All right, let's do it. Here we go.
It is Benny's balderdash. Thanks to Anthony and Anaheim. We

(02:26:36):
wrote this week's board and writes most of our board
every week. If you want to be part of it,
you want to write questions for Baldaash, send them care
of the Ben Maller's Show Ben Maller's Show at gmail
dot com. And let's get to it right now. Are
depending champion is Kevin in Columbus? Allo, Kevin? How are

(02:26:56):
you doing? Man? Kevin? If I was any better, I
would be sleeping, but I'm not. I'm working. I don't
mind working. He's just good to have a job. All right,
Hold on, Kevin, you're a defending champ trying to win
it again. We are gonna go four or five here?
What do you wanna do? Coop doesn't there? Well, I
don't think five's ever played before. All right, let's try five.
Then we'll give five a shot on line five. Eric

(02:27:18):
in Portland, Maine, Hello, Eric, Hi, big Ben? How you doing?
I've ever played before? All right? Yes, this is exciting.
We got a new guy. We got a new guy
to play fresh meat. All right, Eric, you're going against
Kevin and Columbus. He's pretty good. He's pretty good. What
do you what do you do for living? Eric? I
do this in that? All right, you're unemployee. Okay, yeah,

(02:27:38):
very good. Let's go. Here we go. The categories are
category number one bastard categories about players who have had
babies outside their marriage. Well, that's quite the category. Category
number two, you own this pile. Everyone in this category
has owned a major sports franchise. And category number three

(02:27:59):
is being town. These athletes signed with a Boston team
as free agents. All right, Kevin, you get to pick
the first category. Question values for two, four, six, eight
and a thousand. Oh, start with mastard. All right, we'll
start with that again. Your name is your buzzer. Guys,
you each get one lifeline. Good luck. We're on our way.

(02:28:20):
This Knicks player is having a rough year. It recently
came out that he had impregnated a stripper. Kevin, Kevin
Carmelo anthem. That is correct. Always full of energy and excitement.
He's a walking cup of java. All right, about four
hundred dollars. Here we go. This three time NBA champ

(02:28:41):
claims he was on a break when his future wife
actress Gabrielle Union. Kevin Wade? What was his first name?
Should we give it to him? Yeah? Who? Eric? Nah,
I'll give it to him, d way, Dwayne Wade is correct?

(02:29:02):
There he got this, uh apparently a side check sidepiece
got pregnant there from d Wade? About that? Believe I
was six hundred dollars. This NBA clown wasn't married yet,
but he was engaged to music artist Iggy Azalea when
he knocked up his ex girlfriend. He was recently signed

(02:29:23):
by the Golden State. Kevin again, Yeah, Nick Young Swaggy
Pea with the p P. All right, eight hundred dollars.
Here we go. This former undrafted running back and four
time Pro bowler was married when he got a twenty
year old. The woman pregnant the former Texan and Dolphin

(02:29:46):
running back Eric, Is I hear his name? Eric? Is
that Tom Brady? He definitely impregnated someone. I remember him
being an undrafted running back remember that? Yes? I remember
undrafted running back Tom Brady. Before he got to the
Patris he played with the Texas and Dolfins. No, Kevin,
you want to steal Kevin? Now? All right? It's Arian Foster.

(02:30:11):
Arian Foster. All right, thousand dollars will close out this category.
This World Series champ in nineteen ninety nine National League
MVP would go on to knock up a Hooters waitress
during spring training while married. By the way, his number
ten has been retired by the Atlanta Braves. Eric, Eric, again,

(02:30:33):
it's not Tom Brady. Eric, Yes, Chipper Jones, Yeah, you
got that one, right, Chipper Jones, Chipper Jones, it is.
We'll do a couple more here we go. You own
the pile or Beantown? Eric, what do you want? I'll
go with Beantown? All right. This all star forward is
set to reunite with his head coach from Butler where

(02:30:56):
he went? Eric, who's in first? That's tough? Alright? Eric, Yeah,
you gotta right Gordon to Hayward shut up? Four hundred dollars.
This This former Charger and Dolphin came out of retirement
to play for the Patriots in twenty Eric, thank you,

(02:31:18):
right again, six hundred dollars. This former Indian turned down
one hundred and nineteen million dollars before scoring. Eric Ramirez,
why's on fire? Does have a geographical advantage to this category?
All right? Eight hundred dollars. This two times Super Bowl
champ left San Diego in twenty three and never looked back,

(02:31:40):
becoming the first NFL player with thirty sacks. And Eric
Eric Rodney Harrison. Wow, all right, we'll close out this category.
This picture who looks like our horse pitch Game seven
of the World Series is rookie season, winning the game
for the Angels and then eventually s Eric Oh's name.

(02:32:06):
This could make your break, Eric, Kevin, Eric's got first chance?
Eric five four three two. You did the biggest teeth ever.
I can't think. No, no, that's not John la all right, Kevin,
you want to steal Kevin Lackey, Yes, right, John Lackey. Yeah,

(02:32:27):
all right, everyone hold down. Let's see we have enough
for Final Balda Dash. Coop. What is the score here?
What do we got? Wow? That was a thousand point turnaround.
Kevin now with twenty two hundred and Eric with twelve hundred.
All right, so we will have Final Balda Dash or no?
Yes you want? Yes? All right? The categories I like
to play is the category. We'll get to that. We'll

(02:32:48):
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ball to Dash. We got Kevin our defending champion Columbus, Ohio,
and Eric in Portland, Maine, and it comes down to this,

(02:33:08):
the final ballo Dash category I'd like to play and
we'll tell you that Kevin is he's got twenty two
hundred dollars and Eric trying to catch him with twelve hundred,
twelve hundred dollars. And here we go. There are three
players in NFL history to start over two hundred eighty games.
Number three is Jerry Rice. Number two is Bruce Matthews,

(02:33:30):
who is number one. Eric trying to catch trying to
catch this guy. He wagered all twelve hundred dollars and
his answer was Tom Brady. That's his answer. Kevin our
champ wagered six hundred dollars and his answer was Brett Farve.

(02:33:51):
The correct answer Brett Farve. And that means Kevin wins
again and he gets another Golden takea. He gets another
one just like that. I love the fact that Eric
answered Tom Brady multiple times to questions. That's out standing us.
Good job by all involved, thanks to Anthony and Anaheim.
So they passed out flyers in Vegas saying come down here.

(02:34:14):
There's a job recruitment for the Raiders and people. Over
seven hundred people showed up to the Las Vegas Stadium
board meeting looking for work. Yeah, there was one problem,
no job fairs people. The police were there trying to

(02:34:37):
hold people by. That's one of the great pranks of
all time, Eddie. It's pretty solid. I mean past somebody
passed out flyers there on the strip. I guess I
would assume right, they passed him up, put them on
people's cars and stuff and over to get over to
get seven hundred people to do anything, right, I mean,
that's unbelievable that that worked. Is that a crime though?

(02:34:58):
Did it was a crime committed? Is that illegal to
do that? How do you find out who did it?
It's probably on Facebook, these dopes on Instagram. Look, I'm
the one that did it. Out kicked the coverage warming up.
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