It's Just A Few Hiccups

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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. A comeback for the
ages in college football, one of the great choke jobs
in modern history. Move over, Atlanta, the Golden State Warriors
of a couple of years ago. You got a company
at the dinner table. The Texas A and M football
team would like to have a bite of that steak. Welcome.

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In the beginning of the Ben Maller Show, we are
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rate quote. In radio, there's a point of demarcation where
you can tell the halves from the have nots. If
you want to know what the point of demarcation is,
to separate the good and the bad, it is holidays
like Labor Day. The good talkshow host don't work on
Labor Day. The bad talk show host get to work
on Labor Day. Hi, I'm working. This is a live show.

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This is not a best of show. This is live
original content. If you want to know how my career
in radio is going, you are experiencing sit you there
and me here. You see that again. The good talk
to your host not working today, bad talks your host
working today. That's how it works. Bad coaches, well, the

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bad coaches they currently are, I guess temporarily employed. We're
talking about for the moment. Kevin Sumlin yikes. The game
that was on Fox on Fox, and I was poking fun.
I was texting a friend of mine. We were watching
the game. Big Usil a guy, but Usi honk and

(01:51):
Usi was being roasted like a pig at a traditional
Hawaiian luau in the first half, and we were cracking
jokes for it. And I was even poking fun at
Gus Johnson because Gus Johnson was doing the cliche things
that every broadcaster does. In broadcasting sportscasting school, they teach

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you when a game is a rat kill, when a
game is a disaster, you still have to try to
sell it like the other team is going to come back. Now,
ninety nine percent of the time, there is no shocking comeback.
There's not a shocking comeback. The game ends, the team
that had the big lead wins. Everyone goes along their
merry road, and that's it. And we remember the very

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rare occurrences where this happens. But all of those things
that were said about UCLA at the time when they
were getting their doors blown off down thirty four points
were accurate statements. There were absolutely accurate statements at the
time they were stated. The Bruins in the first half
had six consecutive possessions without a first down, four of

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which ended in punts, and on top of that, they
tossed in a couple of fumbles. And it wasn't until
the late stages of the third quarter in what is
traditionally a dead zone. At that point Texas A and
M had a forty four to ten lead. You figure
the clock would run out even if Texas A and
M did nothing else, the clock was going to run out. No,

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it did not run out, and the UCLA Bruins, led
by Josh Rosen, in a stretch of what fifteen minutes
or so, really really just loaded up. Take it to
Texas A and M. Who blows a thirty four point lead.
They were strutting, they were pumping their chest out the aggies,

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and they look like fools when it was all said
and done. So that the question here and here's the
toss up question, and this is not that hard. We
don't know. This is sports radio, it's overnight sports radio.
We don't make things that difficult here. And the question
is a toss up. Is this game more about UCLA
coming back from thirty four points down or Texas A

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and M blowing the lead? And I kind of gave
us in a way. I put this on my Twitter
feed a few hours ago, and we've had hundreds and
hundreds of votes, and I am I'm like a proud
father because when I saw the responses, clearly my message
is getting out. My message is resonating with the people.
Maybe not you, but somebody else. Clearly a couple of

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people get the show. Because the responses on who is
at fault here the comeback? When why it happened? Only
twenty four percent said it was because of a UCLA
wake up that they woke up in the late third
quarter and came back. Thirty three percent blamed it on

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Kevin Sumlin, the red hot seated coach of the Aggies,
but an overwhelming forty three percent of the popular vote,
with not all precincts reporting in saying that Texas A
and M choked. That's exactly what they did. Yes, absolutely.
Now a lot of this is on Kevin Summer, but
I got a couple of observations. The better story in

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game adjustments, and the dreaded walk of shame. All of
those things apply here. Now. First of all, the better
story is almost always in the losing locker room. We
always talk about the fact that when you win, there
are a million fathers to a winner. When you're a loser,
you're an orphan. No one wants to take responsibility for you.

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Right when you're a loser, everyone's like, Ah, you're not
my problem. They're not my problem. Texas A and M
in the first half of this particular game looked more muscular.
They looked for physical, They looked like they were men
against boys. In the first half, they literally out class
out muscle the Bruins. It looked like a JV team

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versus the varsity, or even worse than that, a freshman
team versus the varsity. UCLA appeared like they had spent
the entire offseason sunbathing in Santa Monica or Malibu, and
they were not the lifting weights. It was a dejected,
broken football team, as it should be. As it should

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we had already lined up chip Kelly for the UCLA job.
We had given chip Kelly the job. He's out of
work right now. We gave the manage job, we fired Mora,
and we had given chip Kelly Jim Mora's job. And
then all they had to play the second half. All
they had to play off the string the second half
and all that. As we've talked about what happened now
the second part of this I mentioned garbage time. This

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was extended garbage time. You have a thirty four point
deficit in the late third quarter, the game's over ninety
nine point nine percent of the time, UCLA was merely
trying to save face. I don't believe for a second
that that UCLA team thought they were actually gonna win
the game. They were more about making it look good,

(06:57):
making it look a little better, better, and before you
knew they were in position to win the game. A
big tip of the cap though, to Kevin Sumlin because
his play calling, his team's play calling. The players clearly
are the ones that were actually on the field. So
the player's lack of execution led to the execution of

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the Texas A and M football team. But there is
no excuse. There is absolutely no excuse. But let's hear
Kevin Sumlin try to do the walk of shame here
himself and try to explain what the heck happened. Tell me, coach,
what happened? You don't explain it. I think it's you know,
like I told you before the season, we're not making
excuses for anything. We didn't get it done. Yeah, well

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that's that is a way of saying you sucked, right,
I mean the XS and o's in this game, Jim Moore,
the USA coaching staff made some some changes, and Texas
A and M came out. They were conservative early in
the third quarter, and they never countered the in game
adjustments of UCLA, which I believe and I don't want

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to speak and I've never played in the NFL, big
time college football, but I believe that's just basic football
one oh one, like in game adjustments the game of chess.
One coach, one side does one thing, the other team
has to adjust to it. And I always love what
Bill Belichick says about in game adjustments. He goes nuts
when people ask Belichick about the Patriots in game adjustments,
like at halftime half, No, it's halftime adjustments. I used

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to do a Football Show with it's a guy that
used to work here, Tom Looney years ago, as old
radio guy I grew up listening to. He's out of
the business now. But when I listened to Tom Looney
when I was a child, and I got to work
with him, which was a dream come true. He used
to always talk about halftime adjustment. You go on and
on about halftime adjustments. And so Bill Belichick was asked
about halftime adjustments and he went on this. For Belichick,

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it was pretty good rant. And he just said, hey, listen,
if I know there's a problem in the middle of
the second quarter, why am I gonna wait another eight
minutes to halftime to make the change. I'm I gonna
do that. If there's a problem, you make the change
at the time him you realize there's a problem. It's
not like they go to the locker room and there's
some magical wizard ball that they look at and they're like, oh,

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there's the problem. It's like Harry Potter or something. They
look at look at that there's a there's a there's
a mystery solved right there. Here's more from from Kevin
Sumlin on his team's lack of performance. What it's like
you wanted to praise him. They were gonna be the
toast of college football, most dominating first half ever. And

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then in the second half again I need answers, Coach Sublin,
with different personnel and different people playing. We know we
got a young team. We've got to put them in
in position to to to make place. And you know
we did in the first half because of our past
fresh defensively, um and ability to stop the run. You know,
we threw some balls up. You know, Josh Frozen threw

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some balls up. We should have had didn't get him
down with them. All right, So in the span this
is the great human drama of athletic competition. In the
span of about an hour and a half, Texas and
m went from pimp walking, strutting on the sideline like
they were Vince McMahon walking into a WWE event or
our buddy Connor McGregor into a news conference, right, just

(10:11):
doing the full on pimp walk. Come on, pimping, get
your tims up. And then they were on their heels
sucking their thumb. In the span of a couple of hours,
an hour and a half. I mean, there's again no excuse.
It is undefensible? Does Kevin Sumlin get fired here in
the middle of all night Texas A and M. I

(10:32):
believe they're going back tonight. Maybe not. But when they
get back to Texas, will Kevin Sumlin be the coach?
Will he make it back to college station with a job.
We are told there is no buyout clause in his contract,
meaning it's not going to cost him twenty million dollars
to get rid of Kevin Sumlin? So is this gonna
be a one game and done? Is that a fireable offense?

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What happened in that particular game to start the college
football season for Texas A and M? And you would
think that if that happened, what's gonna happen for Texas
A and M when they get into the meat and
potatoes of the Southeastern Conference schedule? The final word here
for the A and m Aggies. You gotta do. They
did the walk of shame. You heard someone doing the

(11:16):
walk of shame there. But this is certainly gonna haunt
someone even if he survives us. And Josh Rosen he
was wonderful. It was great, Yes, he was great. Four
hundred ninety one yards and four touchdowns tossed all over
the place in the first half and even in the
second half. The early part of the second half, the
Texas A and M defense was able to pretty much

(11:36):
chop up the UCLA offensive line. If Texas A and
M had only been able to keep that pressure on,
then it would not have mattered. The conversation would have
been totally different here. And plus, the way the Bruins
line played Josh Rosen is a fair statement to say
is not going to make it through the entire season,

(11:57):
that this is going to end with injury, and he's
gonna miss a big chunk of time. Josh Rosen was
some kind of injury because the protection was horrendous in
that particular matchup. All rights. Ben Maller's show on Fox
as our Labor Day Extravaganza. And let's see here Eddie's sleeping.

(12:17):
He's not here, corporate Eddie. Ralph is here, but he's
doing something. And then we've got the Coop is away.
He's got a weed convention somewhere, I think, and then
Robert does Monti's in here, and then we've got the
Danny g Look at that Danny geez over there, there's

(12:37):
a familiar face. Hello, Danny Gee. Like you said, Ben,
only the best and brightest work on the holiday. That
is true, unless that's not what you said. No, No,
I laid it all out. I said, this is a
great lesson if you want to know who's important in radio,
who the company values, who gets a lot of vacation time,
and who you know uses it all. This is a
great That's not really true though, because you could have

(13:00):
taken this day off so that the American people needed me. Oh,
Danny g there was a big college football weekend that
I must dissect. This would be like one of the
only weekends. W Yeah, I was gonna say, you barely
ever taught college football on the show because they're just
seeing it's more popular called the NFL. All right Now,
it's hard like because we come in here usually on

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a Sunday night into a Monday after the NFL. Are
we really going to look back and talk college football
and it's not nearly as popular as the NFL? Why
would we do that? So it's very tough. I'm trying
to figure out the spots we can talk college football.
It's a very difficult thing. And plus the other problem
I had with college football, and I think we'll see
this is a test. All right, this is an example. Okay,

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let me ask you this. Had they not come back, yeah,
well was the second biggest comeback ever in college football history.
Would you have led the show? I would not. No,
I would not have led the show. I would have
talked about it later. I would have talked about we
would have the show would have been a throwaway story.
Well would have been roasting UCLA in state. But if
it had continue to be a blowout. But you know,

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we're chameleons, we just adjust. Instead, the story changed, the
script flipped. But here's my argument. And I was taught
this by an old guy that did radio mostly on
the East Coast. The problem I have with college football
is this, it is a regional sport. You don't care
about teams outside your region. Like, if you're a Southeastern
Conference football fan, you generally only care about those teams.

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If you're a Pac twelve fan, you don't really care
that much about the Pac twelve. And if you're in
Big ten country and you're like Ohio State or Michigan,
you're more worried about those teams. You're not necessarily worried
about those other teams. So it's it's a problem when
you're doing broadcasting and not narrowcasting to talk too much
college football. And generally the rule has been in syndicated
radio it is a death sentence to those that talk

(14:47):
too much college football. You will not last because people
don't want to hear it in big cities like Boston,
New York, places like that. It's a problem. So I'm
just trying. I'm playing the hits here, but we are
talking collegeball right now, and I'm judging by the phone,
no one's calling, So I believe my point has been made.
Danny Gee, my point here has been made. I compelling
mallar monologue out a game that was on Fox. It

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was on Fox. You had to watch, You had drama,
you had human emotion, and pretty much zippo zero. You
see that in the fourth quarter. How many times did
Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt say chosen roses? Oh yeah?
They kept going back to that. Somebody, somebody put that
in the talking points and they just kept circling back

(15:33):
around to that. That was awesome. Ben mallow Shaw on Fox.
If you would like to be part you know the
number it is Labor Day. Are we allowed to give
up the number? On Labor Day. I don't know if
that's the rules. You're not allowed to give the number,
all right, I will not give out yea, so do
not do not call. I'm not giving out the number.
Let's see, Ralph, do you know the number? By heart? YEP,

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way to contribute, Ralph, thank you if you radio professional,
Ralph Irvan training in Sandy A go radio. It's eight
seven seven nine nine six sixty three six nine something
like that. All Right, we'll call this one snap crackle pop.
We'll get to that and we'll do it next. The
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studios and Ben Maller. For those who don't know, Ralph,
a big UCLA apologist for many years. Are you still

(16:37):
at UCLA Bruin apologist, Ralph after your years working at UCLA? No,
you're not. No, you've left that in the back. All right,
we'll get the snap crackle pop here in a moment
the people have spoken though. Ernie says, Ben, You're intestinal
fortitude and working every holiday is an inspiration to all
of us. Ernie says, by the way, I took today off.

(17:01):
So from a Darryl, who occasionally acts as a troll, says,
we do need Ben. If Big Ben took as many
days off as you guys, what the hell would we
do then? So from Darryl, So get at us on
Twitter at Ben Maller, and we have a very exciting

(17:23):
I don't want to promote too far ahead because you
probably won't be listening, but if you are listening, next hour,
we will have a Ben Maller's Show exclusive. It is
World War three spats with shots three and we will
go into places out in the cosmos, and we have
two updates. This is a fluid situation. It is still

(17:46):
developing at this late hour, and I'm still getting members
of the Mallar militia that are reporting in and I'm
trying to compile all of this and we will have
that for you coming up here in a little bit.
I look forward to it because it's going to be wonderful.
There were several things that happened. This was completely out
of my realm here. I had nothing to do with this.
I have plausible deniability. Yeah, I think formerly fun House

(18:07):
started all of this latest chapter now known as back
after this, but he still wants to meet known as
Funhouse on the show. He started it. He's the one
that threw the mall atop cocktail. And then some other
fans of the show, members of the Mallam Militia, decided, Hey,
I haven't been blocked it. Why not, and so they
wanted to get in with it. We'll give you update
coming up later. We're not right now, they snap, crackle pop.

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We take you out of that big Alabama Florida State game.
And if you had DeAndre Francois as the quarterback for
Florida State the rest of the season, you are a loser.
A terrific, gruesome injury that sucks in Atlanta. The Florida
State quarterback who goes down hobbling in a ball of

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flesh and he is out for the rest of the year.
A season ending operation pending who repair a torn patel attendant.
That sounds terrible. I don't even know where my patel
atendant is, but it sounds horrific. Sounds horrible. So that
means Florida State now after one game. Not only they
have to have the indignity of losing the Alabama, which

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I don't believes indignity, but losing the first game ever
at Florida State is always a terrible thing. So Florida
State not only loses the game, but now their lonely
hearts are going to turn to a true freshman quarterback.
At least that is what Jimbo Fisher has said. That
the he said right after the game, and we've not
gotten an update from Jimbo since that if Francois does

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miss the season, he most likely with the Seminoles will
go to a freshman named James Blackman. So he'll be
the quarterback James Blackman, who I don't know who that is. Yeah,
he's never thrown a pass in college football, either of I,
neither of I. We have that in common. James built
to throw pass. Oh yes I am. I got a
bazooka fern arm. Let's go to real talk. The call

(20:00):
are there, make way, make way, real talks coming in
faller of the year on the Ben Mablisher. He's got
his nip walk. He's coming in right now. He's got
he's got a posse with him. He's ready to go.
It's real Dard down the house. It's real dark day
in the half, it's done in the house. And oh

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oh never mind, sorry, and he refused to work today. Yeah,
the funny. The funny about this is uh and I
was gonna kick out of it. I believe the Sunday
in the Monday holiday, for those of us that do
the overnight show, it is horrific because we still have
to come back and work on Labor Day anyway, so

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I don't get it. But anyway, yes, real talk, what's
on your mind? Real talk? We haven't talked so long.
The show is doing. Checking hold on for taking bad.
I just call another interception from the Florida State quarterback
because he was checking them all over the second half.
You might a gonna give me one too. You get
an interception, you get an interception, you get everybody gets

(21:10):
an interception, everybody. I'm playing to lose. Man, Dude. If
you could ever have the worst second half of a game,
that quarterback for us, why I had him? Man, not
only the doe but interceptions. His knee gets busted the
last box minutes of the game. Dude, horrible, horrible. You
don't You don't want to end up on one of
those golf cart things when they drag you off the field.
That's not where you want to be. Did you see

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the way he got right back up after he got hurt.
It's like horrible man's Yeah, it's not a pretty situation. Yeah,
Hey Ben, dude, I had to tell you, dude, I
was just loving your show last week. You have me Roland.
When you were talking about the best fighters and you're
talking about Rocky Marciano, you immediately meditated, Daddy, what's that
movie with Eddie Murphy? H with the dudes in the barbershop? Uh,

(21:55):
you don't come into America? You was like that one
Jews got about one about Rocky Mursey. Of course, great
boxing historian that I am. I study the sweet science,
as you know, dude. If they ever do that movie again,
I want to be you like the loot, the white
guy in the barbershop and there the three barbers should
be like LeVar Ball, Sear Barkley and Steve Harvey. Because

(22:20):
I be the best movie. I would be wonderful. Well,
maybe I'll bring it up to my friend Steve Harvey
next time. I see him in the hallways here at
the Premier Networks building and the iHeart Building in the
Los Angeles. I might run in. You never know, maybe
maybe Steve Harvey's working today on Labor Day. You think
I'll see Steve when I leave here? You think I'll
see his car? Well, you do a best friend, so
you probably you know, you probably connect with each other

(22:41):
every time. Maybe I'll maybe I'll send him a text
before I leave. Quick, marry f kill Charles Barkley, Steve
Harvey and LaVar Ball? Who do you kill? Who you marry?
Who do you ask? Come on? All right, so I
all right, now let's go. Let me write this that
he's very scientific. I'll be very scientific. We have Steve Harvey,
and who else do you? Charles Barkley? Charles Barkley? A ball?

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LaVar Ball? All right, well, I obviously I always obviously
marry Steve Harvey. That's a drop. Yeah, who do I
Who do I kill? I guess I gotta I mean,
I love Barkley, but I you know, my new flavor
of the moment is is LaVar Ball. I gotta, I
gotta kill Barkley. Okay, that's a drop. So what do

(23:26):
you do. What do you go do with LaVar Ball?
Then I'm gonna cuddle with him. Yeah, that's what I'm
gonna do. I do. I do a cuddle Mary Kill,
That's what I do. That's uh yes, my version of
the game. All right, say, I gotta go, thank you
real there you go? All right? Now, I went up
to three billions. Actually watched LaVar Ball's Realities Sorry on Facebook.

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It was good. The production value was great, LaVar was entertaining.
You guys are all haters. Give it a chance, all right.
It's better than a lot of the crap I see
on real television. You don't watch real television documentary. That's
why don't watch real television. Garbage, garbage. All right, it's
the Bed Mather Show on Fox Time to crank up

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the hot seat index. You will get to that here.
Ralph Urban though with the latest, Ralph, what's the latest? Well,
the biggest comeback in over a decade and the second
biggest comeback in NCAA FBS history, as UCLA came back
from thirty four points down in the third quarter. Taken
on Texas A and m af The Party is On

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at Pasadena from down forty four to ten Ucla rips
off thirty five on answered and wins at forty five
to forty four leagable. That's the UCLA Sports i MG
Sports Network now, Ralph, not to interrupt you, but wouldn't
the party be in Westwood where the school is, not

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necessarily in Pasadena where they just play the game. You know,
I'm gonna guess that they were partying at the stadium,
not where the school. It's not yet in session, no
I know, but I'm thinking, like I would think in
Westwood would be a lot of parties to them, right
when you think, no st in session, so no one's
in Westwood. It it's dormant. It's like a ghost town.
There's no one there. Like all the bars and restaurants

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in Westwood are empty right now. It would be very quiet,
all right. Continue one game in the top twenty five,
number twenty one Virginia Tech beat number twenty two West
Virginia thirty one twenty one. That was at FedEx Field,
and talking about a big choke while the Dodgers have
lost eight of nine, Ben Ralph, be nice, Ralph, don't
be a hater. They follow you six to four in

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San Diego getting ready for their postseason. I suppose what
true car? You can find out what other pole in
your area they're doing. Sandbagging's what they're doing, paid for
the same car you're looking for newer used? Is it
true car? To enjoy a more confident car buying experience.
And for the record, Ben jj Watt's fundraising now over
eighteen million dollars. He's a better He's better than you,

(25:57):
He's better than me. He's got jj Watt. He is
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a free rate quote. Yeah, and I want to point

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out watching these football games, no one tried to take
advantage of the tragedy in Houston to try to market
their products at all. I just want I want that
on the record. I did not see any companies do
heartstring marketing, and I would like to I gotta tell
you tip of the cap to every major corporation in
America because none of them tried to take advantage of
the misfortune of the people in Houston and Corpus Kit
Christie and other parts of the that region of the

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United States that have been devastated by the flooding. I
just want to be on the record. None of that happened.
No major corporations showed video of the flooding and did
that kind of thing and then put their corporate logo
at the end of it. That did not happen. I
just want to be on the record. So it's very
proud of that. We get to be hot Seat Index.
We'll get to that coming up in a moment. Right now,

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to the phones we go, and is it all off?
Is that right? Did I get it right? All off?
I think I got it right? All off? What's going on?
You got it right? It is all up? And then
I had you're absolutely right to college football is regional?
How was that the UCLA game? From start to oh
you were you? You didn't leave? Come on, I would
most people probably left right there the stuffing. I walked

(27:26):
down with two other guys. One of them left, and
first of my friend, the the the UCLA lem did
not leave, and we enjoyed a great football game. And yeah,
CC versus back twelve, and yeah, you're missing so many
things though, because it is regional, you'd have to be
there to understand a little bit more went on there.
I think as far as how hot it was at
the beginning, and now I think Texas A and M

(27:48):
had to advantage that way and when it got cooler
in the third and fourth quarter. And you say, I added,
I feel like you're feel a third linebacker get their defense.
I feel like you're out of middle. Hold on off.
Have you been running sprints? I feel like you're out
of breath. Here's everything, okay, everything's okay. Just trying to
do three things in one What are the other two
things that you're talking on a radio show? What are

(28:09):
the other two things that you're doing? Just finishing putting
gas in the car? Okay, and you're getting gas, and
so that's two things. What else are you doing? Getting
water in the car as well? It's oh really, man,
all right? So how much is gas? How much you what?
What grade of grass are you getting? I'm putting in
a low Uh it's eighty seven grade. That's a smart move.

(28:30):
You're a smart man. These idiots I work with go
for the higher grade of gas. I pointed out many
scientific studies that have shown what a fraud that is.
The car doesn't need it you get the eighty seven
grade gas, that's all you need. You save a couple
of cents per gallon. You're a smart you're a smart man.
All off. I credit you with that, and so very nice,

(28:52):
and how much faster up here? Two seventy seven a gallon? Okay, now,
now it's gonna happen, all off, as people are gonna say, oh,
it's cheaper here, and I'm I get like it's two
twenty a gallon in some place, or it's Californian's a
pretty good price, though not really well because they put
fifty cents gas tax on every gallon just about in California.

(29:12):
So anyway, all right, so you love, you love the game.
You're at the Rose Bowl. You had a wonderful time,
and you'll be back to another UCLA game later. Yes, absolutely, yeah,
all right, all right, there you go. You can watch
the Josh Rosen Show. Very nice. I thank you, Olaf,
so the Ben Maller Show on Fox. Good luck getting
the water in the car. What about the air and
the tires. I wonder if Olaf will be putting air

(29:34):
in the tires. You think he'll be doing that also,
maybe vacuum out the car while he's there. Get some
of that dirt out of the driver's cabin. No, let's
say hello to Mitchell, who used to call regularly. We
haven't talked to Mitchell in a while. He's in the
state of Ohio and he is on Fox Sports Radio.
Hello Mitchell, what's up there? Welcome Mitchell? Had who air

(29:59):
my game for you? The stump here? Well, shouldn't you
send it to me and then I can use it
on the air rather than stump Ben? Why don't I
use it? Because I I'm always looking for who am
I games that are good? Oh? Yeah, I don't really
use Twitter that much. I mean that's pretty easy. How
about email? How about email? How about email? You can
email me. I just want to get you just want

(30:19):
to do it right now. I know I can tell
by the tone of your voice you have no interest
in reaching out to me and sending me this v email.
You just want to use it on there, So go
ahead and use it. Go ahead, Okay. I am the
only president I never elected, the only president never elected. Well,
that was the what's his name? They replaced Nixon? Right, madam?

(30:41):
You're good? Yeah, what's his name? That's it? Was it? Four?
Was that who? Who was the guy? It was him? Right, yes,
gild four. Yeah, there you go, very good with name.
Thank you very much. Presidential Who am I games? Do
you riveting? Can we go back to gats talk? Mitchell?
I have presidential trivia? Do you know the last president

(31:05):
to have a presidential cow? Uh? Yes, William Howard Taff?
You're good too, Congratulations. Whoa I wasn't a Cleveland that

(31:26):
had the past band that we put a new bathtub
in the well? I was Taff got stuck in the
legend is he got stuff in the Yeah? All right,
all right, thank you? What was that for Danny? Too
much presidential talk? Is that I couldn't let that continue? Yeah?
All right? Hey, but the PAULI Wayne was? The cow

(31:49):
belonged to William Howard Taff, twenty seventh President of the
United States, also known as Miss Wayne, and it was
a Holstein cow so actually blocked better than the UCLA
offensive line in the first half. Are you sex? You
should have put a couple of Polly Wayne's out there. God,

(32:11):
they would have done a wonderful job. Would have been
a great job. Let's see your Patty Enrichmond. Is I
knew this was going to happen. Every time you bring
up the price of gas, people call up. They have
a lot to hello Patty Enrichmond, Hey man, how are
you doing? Thanks for thanking McCall man. What you got? Alright,
So I have a visual personal proof of your your

(32:37):
your my theory theory on on gas prices. All right,
So traveling through Jersey about ten fifteen years ago, eighty seven,
the eighty seven proof it was more expensive than the
mid grade? Really yes, no, no, kid, one cent to

(32:57):
two cents more than the mid grade. Why would that be?
I have no, I mean, I have no idea. I
mean it's Jersey. Who knows. You think maybe the guy
that the gas station was so high when he put
the price up that he changed the numbers around you
think that might have happened possibly? I mean no, I
mean it was. It was a common thing. My friend,

(33:19):
my friend I was traveling with. It was from Jersey,
was from Nutley, New Jersey. Uh. He pointed it out
to me before we even got there, and I sure
enough passed three or four gas stations that the uh yeah,
it was more expensive. Well you agree with me, though,
my eighty seven absolutely put eighty seven in every time
that is the way to do it. You are a

(33:40):
smart man. You are not You're doing things the right way.
You're an adult, you're grown up. You're everyone's proud of you.
Your family loves you more because you get the right
kind of gas, unlike the people I work with you
that get the higher graded gas. Ben, because we have
sports cars. If you had a high performance motor stop
if you all scam. No, if it's a high performance engine,
you passed. The scam is the middle grade. That's the scam.

(34:05):
All right, Thank you, Patty. Appreciate the Nutley, New Jersey.
You ever been to Nutley, New Jersey? Have you ever
been through there? No? When he said that, I wondered
why that would make his buddy an expert, because he
was from Nutley. A lot of good people they're in
that part of Jersey. God's Country. That's what that is,
all right. So the the hot seat in college football,

(34:27):
this is a fluid situation. And at one point Jim
Mora had skyrocket to the top of the hot seat
in college football, and then by the end of the
game he had gone off. Thoughts he'd gone up. And
now Kevin Sumlin is currently number one. He has passed
Brian Kelly of Notre Dame by as number one the

(34:49):
Coach's Hot Seat, which compiles a updated list by the
hour covering college football. And they've got someone number one
on the Hot Seed index. Brian Kelly's number two, Todd
Graham at Arizona states number three. And even with that, UCLA,
when Jim Mora only slides down to number four, he
moves down to number four, and then there's like some

(35:12):
guys we've never heard of. I was shocked at the
UNLV coach was not higher up. I thought after UNLV
lost to Howard over the weekend. We'll get to that later.
That Tony apparently, the guy's name is Tony Sanchez, the
coach at UNV. I had no idea who that was,
but he's the coach at UNV. He's only twenty second

(35:32):
on the Hot Seed Index. I would put him higher.
I would have him like fifteen. I would move him.
I'd move him up like seven spots on that time.
Now for the who am I game? This is where
we pretend to be someone else, Thus we call it
to who am I? Game? Here it is I was undrafted.
I've played for two different teams, and I've also won

(35:54):
two Super Bowls. In addition, I became the first active
NFL player to sign with the legendary Ford Modeling Agency.
Who am I? Again? I was undrafted. I've played for
two different NFL teams. I've won a couple of Super Bowls.
In addition, I became the first active player in the
NFL to sign with the legendary Ford Modeling Agency. Who

(36:19):
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(36:43):
Coming up, Mama Telly, Here's the who am I game?
I was undrafted. I've played for a couple of different teams.
I also won two Super Bowls. In addition, I became
the first NFL player, first active player to sign with
the legendary Ford Modeling Agency. Who am I? Now? I
say legendary. I'm not much into the modeling, so I

(37:04):
have no That might be just your regular modeling agency.
There might be nothing legendary about it, but I was
told it is a legendary modeling agency, the Ford Modeling Agency.
All right, so that's who am I game and the
answers coming in. Ernie is going with super Dave Osbourne
as his answer. Super Dave formerly fun House checks in
with shots. We'll have a Spats with Shots update next hour.

(37:27):
In the middle of the next hour, Ralph Fregian guest
by Cardiac Stanley, Bubba guests by the Rooster Bubba Jackson.
We have Jim Plunkett thrown out by the Palm Desert rat,
Kaden mcdown from Frank in La TJ. Hooker from James.
I see what you did there. Bubba got it right,
clearly googling bad job by you. Who else? We have

(37:50):
Matt Marion Butts is his answer, Danny G. Do you
have an answered? Danny G. Yeah, yeah, Okay, go ahead,
everyone's way now you have no answer you We're not
paying any attention. You know what, say a funny name.
That's the way the bit works. You say a funny name. Okay,
I'm gonna go, mister Edwin, I know the correct answer.

(38:17):
This guy's moving up the depth chart for the New
Orleans Patriots. Danny Amandola of the Patriots is the correct answer, Danny, Ammon,
there you go, all the bells and whistles, all the excite.
That was Ralph. Let's get to Poppy in Toronto. We'll
get to the also the MLB pick him coming up
in a moment. Hello, Poppy in Toronto. Hid Anyway, there's

(38:43):
been a lot of talk about guest talk. All right,
thank you for that. I'm good. I like you, Poppy.
That's that's one by our friend Robert. Robert, what happened there?
How did that happen? I've got like fifty billion things
going on over here, Poppy. You want to talk about
your tesla? Go for it. That sounded like the person
that was trying to date our friend, the captain. Yea,

(39:05):
the captain. Yeah, ah, let's just get to it now,
what do you say? Here we go see MLB Backham
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(39:26):
Russell with that's right, of course, yes, you do, all
right with the first pick. I've been told Robert, he
has told me in my ears that Ralph somehow has
the first pick. That means Eddie actually won last week.
All right, Ralph, you have the first pick. Go ahead,
the Pride of Notre Dame High School, John Carlos stamping. Okay,
and in for Coopers, Robert. Who you got? Robert? Jake Lamb?

(39:48):
Jake Lamb is off the board. I will go with
let's see here, Josh Donaldson, Danny who you got? He's
been ranking big Ben Jose Ramirez? You got Jose Ramirez,
he has been one more. Danny g George Springer, George
Springers off the board. I hope he doesn't do well,
but I'll take him anyway. J D. Martinez, Robert quickly
jumpan scope, Ralph, who you got? Back to back? Paul

(40:09):
Goldschmidt Morrison, all right, back to you, Robert Nelson, Cruz,
Nelson Cruz. I'm going to go with let's see here,
how about Manny Machado And with the final pick on
the MLB pick him Danny G Radio He's gonna end
the d back street, Chris Taylor. There you go. You
got with the Dodger. That's what. Sometimes you're the windshield,

(40:32):
sometimes you're the bug. Right now, the Dodgers are the bug.
It's not going so well. Welcome in the beginning of
another hour. It's the Ben Maller Show. We are in
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(40:54):
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Back at it again, and this being the final Sunday
into a Monday. Without NFL regular season football, we won't
have many opportunities to talk too much Major League Baseball

(41:15):
on a Sunday into a Monday. The NFL is number one,
so we will take advantage of this, this being labor
Day and the fact my bosses are not laboring and
not around and we can squeeze in some hot baseball talk.
But unlike your fears, don't worry, this will not be boring,
This will not be dull. We will attempt to make

(41:35):
this somewhat relevant, somewhat interesting. Yes, that's how we are
going to do it. And we know the story here.
The Dodgers have stubbed their toe on the road to history,
spent the better part of the last three months as
a wrecking ball, destroying everything that came in their path,
and the Dodgers have been slapped around her the last

(41:57):
week and a half. They lost another game against the Ores,
but a lackluster showing in San Diego, and the Dodgers
suffering the indignity and shame of losing three out of
four to the Friars. Yikes. Now, overall, the Dodgers have
lost eight of their last nine, and they're clearly in
a bad patch of the regular season schedule. So I

(42:19):
wanted to talk about this. I've not shied away. I
have been waiting for someone to call up and to
challenge me with the Dodgers, and no one has done it.
Got a bunch of cowards apparently that I don't want
to call up here and talk about it. So finally
I will take the initiative. I will be the grown
up here and I will talk about what's going on
with the Dodgers. So the question is rather simple, as

(42:42):
most of these things are. How should Dave Roberts feel
about the suddenly scuffling Los Angeles Dodgers that he is guiding.
He's the skipper of the Dodgers. Now, clearly this is
not great right now, but overall, I have three thoughts
on this. It is a net positive, just a hiccup,

(43:06):
and still the gold standard. Those are the three things. Now.
First of all, we'll start with this. A few weeks ago,
when the Dodgers were tossing opponents into the wood chipper
one after another, like chopping down trees, I was told
that they could not win the World Series. And this
was repeated to me, this mantra, Ben, They're not going
to win the World Series. Why because they were winning

(43:28):
too much. At that time, the Dodgers were tracking to
be the all time greatest team in baseball history. They
were on pace to shatter the all time wins record,
and I was told by the trolls, They're better off losing, Ben,
they should lose some games, everyone telling me this, idiot
after idiot lining up to tell me that they needed

(43:50):
to lose. So here we are. Now, we're in early September,
first week of the month of September, and guess what,
the Dodgers are losing some games. So this is clearly
a net positive for the chances of the Los Angeles
Dodgers winning the championship at professional baseball, coming off the

(44:12):
couple of months there where they were as hot as
a flame, and now the way they're playing late. So now, personally,
if it was me, I would have enjoyed the one
hundred and seventeen wins. I guess I'm gonna have to
settle for like one hundred and five or one hundred
and seven wins. I'm gonna have to deal with that,
all the indignity of that, having to only win one
hundred and five games, That is a small consolation prize.

(44:35):
What is going to be a wonderful ending, a glorious ending,
and the journey is also a lot of fun as well. Now,
the second part of this, considering the fact that it's baseball,
not brain surgery, the remedy for the Dodgers is to
simply get better starting pitching. Right. Dodgers have the names,

(44:56):
they've got the guys that have done it, but they
haven't done it lately. Alice Wood came back on Sunday.
He went six innings of baseball, allowing four runs, seven hits,
and just an average to below average performance, I would
say below average. And that adds to the trend that
the Dodgers their last nine games in this bad funk
where they've lost eight or their last nine the Dodgers

(45:17):
have an ERA of almost eight and a whip walks hits,
innings pitched of one point eight three. That is more
reminiscent of the doormats of baseball, the Phillies, the Giants,
or the team they were playing there, the Padres, than
is what the Dodgers have been doing. The Dominos clearly
are falling in the wrong direction. I would also like

(45:39):
to give Curtis Grandison some smelling salts. The man's a
human fan at the plate. The Granny Man has done
pretty much nothing but occasionally hit a home run and
strike out. He is the modern day version of like
the old school Robbie or kind of like Aaron Judge
has been at times for the Yankees. In the second
half with the Dodgers, Granders in the former Metropolitan is

(46:02):
batting barely over one hundred, barely over one hundred in
fifty three at bats. He's got four home runs in
nineteen strikeouts, so he's striking out almost half the time
with the Dodgers. And the Dodgers have forty days, forty
days and forty nights, so they begin the National League postseason.

(46:23):
That's when the nld as will start forty days from today.
So if they are playing like this in forty days,
then we got some let's hear from Dave Robbers. Dave,
you get paid a lot of money to come up
with answers. Explain to the people. Is there panic in
the city. I can assure you that this won't break us.

(46:44):
You know, when you're the team that we are and
you've had this season that we have had, teams are
gonna want to go out there and play well against you.
So your essentially going to get the best of every team.
And that's what's supposed to happen. So it's up to
us to go out there and answer answered the bell.
So I haven't played great the last ten days, but
I can assure you once we get home, we got

(47:06):
Arizona again and you'll see a much better team. Well,
I thought this would break the Dodgers. I was sure
their will was going to be broken. I thought they
were just gonna give up and raise the white flag
and that's it. Dave Roberts has assured me that it
is not going to appen. But again, double down on
the point. There are forty days left until the regular season,

(47:26):
and I learned a lesson years ago with the cheating Cardinals.
I think it was like the was it the O
six Cardinals that were horrific and they were terrible right
up until the end of the regular season, and then
they ended up winning the World Series. They flipped the script.
It's we always talk about the fact that you know,
it doesn't necessarily matter how great you're playing at any

(47:48):
given time. Now, you'd rather be the team playing great
because it helps your confidence. But we have seen plenty
of examples of teams that have not been playing all
that well and then crank up the old motor and
they find it. They find it the crapshoot that is
the postseason. But it was not all bad news. Cody
Bellinger setting the Dodgers rookie record for home runs. He

(48:11):
at number thirty six eracing Mike Piazza's name off the
Dodger rookie record for home runs. And I liked that.
And the reason I liked that is because Mike Piazza
not only is a Hall of Famer, he hates the Dodgers.
He talked about holding the grudge my man Piazza ever
since they traded him twenty years ago. Almost he was

(48:32):
playing a game of chicken he wanted to stay with
the Dodgers. He was living by the beach. He loved
that la. He never want to go anywhere else. You
want to be a Dodger for life. But he also
wanted to get paid a ton of money, and the
Dodger ownership at that time would not pay him. They
don't want to give him the money because he was
a catcher. They didn't think he could play another position.
They didn't think he would last as a catcher, so
they didn't want to pay him. So it was a
game of chicken. Piazza thought that he would win. The

(48:54):
Dodgers said, well, screw you, and they ended up trading him.
And the legend is Piazza went on and he was
spent a week with the Marlins, and he went to
the Mets, and he ended up in the Hall of Fame.
But he has not let that go. And so now
he's his records are being raced by Bellinger, some of
his accomplishments are being like the Dodgers have invited him
back many many times. To my knowledge, he has never

(49:16):
come back to Dodger Stadium. All right, the final word
on this, Like all of the teams in baseball that
are scuffling the Dodgers right now in this moment was
I watched a bunch of the games over the weekend.
The Dodgers look lethargic, lifeless. They appear to be playing
like zombies. It's a fat. It's not a trend. It's

(49:38):
a fat. It's a September hiccup is what it is.
You drink too much carbonated, a carbonated breverge, you get
a hiccup. That's what happens Dodgers, a little hiccup. The
Dodgers will find that intensity, that sense of urgency. They've
got forty days to do it. And you would much
rather have the Dodger roster than any other team in

(49:59):
baseball going into the postseason. And even with losing eight
of their last nine, the Dodgers still have a sizeable advantage,
a nine game lead over the Astros for the top
record in baseball. So I'm trying to say, is they're
in a good spot. They're in a really good spot.
All Right's Ben Mallers Show on Fox. It is a

(50:20):
Labor day and we will have later this hour a
Ben Mallers Show exclusive, a Spats with Shots update. This
is a developing situation unplanned over the Labor Day weekend,
started by our friend the Caller, formerly known as fun House,
the Listener He's never called the Listener, formerly known as
fun House. He started this and the ball got rolling

(50:43):
and other members of the Mallard militia picked up on it.
Eddie Corporate, Eddie's away. We've got Ralph who's in here.
I don't know what the hell he's doing. The st
got him, and then the Cooper loops away. We got
Robert Dasmani's in here. There's rob we're very excited to
be here. And Danny g Rady full Raider paraphernalia. That's right.
Because NFL season starts this Thursday. We got a game week.

(51:07):
We got a game week in. We got game action, Ben, Yes,
what this is like Christmas in September. We got for
the next all the way through the first week of February, right,
we got football activity. We got some kind of game
action in the NFL all the way through. We got
that to look forward to. Last week drafted a fantasy

(51:29):
football team and have to remind myself to set the
lineup before Thursday and when that game, when we kick
off the season, there's there's nothing like it. I mean
the weekends. It makes the week go faster, it makes
your life better. It does not your team sucks well
team beginning of the season. We all have hope, all

(51:51):
of us. My quarterback for you, Jared Goff. I'm lucky
when he can tie his shoes and walk out and
get in the huddle the right way. That's an accomplishment,
very exciting. Although the Rams will beat the Colts, I'll
be one and all. They will have the best record
in the NFL, tied for the best record. That is
the five star gay run tape. That gay run tape.

(52:15):
And in fact, if you look at that line with Andrew,
luck out Colts. They've been a three to three and
a half point favorite all off season, right three to
three and a half point favorite. The Rams are now
a three point favorite. The script has been flipped with
the odds makers. They've the Rams have now ended up
favorite name. If only you guys could play every single

(52:36):
team that has an injured starting team. Here's the problem though,
now that the Rams are favorite, I might have to
go the other way with the Colts. I liked the
Rams when they were three point home dogs. I don't
know if I liked the Rams in that particular situation
when they're actually favorite at home even though it's only
three points. So all right, Ben, and he's speaking of fantasy.
Roberts in a fantasy he's in with all these producers.
They have a fantasy. Are you in there? Is that

(52:57):
the one you're in? Danny was a no, No, you're
actually I'm the general manager for my Tinderroni's fantasy football
team at her job. So you know, and you've talked
about on the air before, Ben Howard, family and friends
think that they have the golden ticket because yeah, well
so and so works at Fox, so I'm gonna win.
Well maybe maybe not. You gotta sell it, Danny. You

(53:20):
gotta have LaVar ball level confidence that you know more
than anyone else, that you are smarter than everyone else. Well,
I will say this. I helped her draft Tom Brady
as her quarterback. You did yep, okay, and got her
some great wide receivers, a couple of good running backs,
and your Rams as her defense. What was Aaron Where's

(53:40):
Aaron Donald? Where's Aaron Donald? Has anyone seen Aaron Donald?
It was the only reason I was paying attention to
the Rams during the preseason two. Yeah, okay, well the Rams,
who I don't know what the maybe they got Boy
Wonder as their coach there? All right, So but Roberts,
how many producers are in this? Robert, you're in for justin?
How many guys are in this? There's tent Is Coop

(54:03):
in this. I don't know if Cooper. It's more of
the editors than Yeah, it's mainly all the editors. And
what does everyone put it? Like three hundred dollars in?
Is that how it works? If we made that kind
of money, we probably would. But I think it's a
twenty dollars twenty dollars friendly league. Gess a friendly league? Yeah,
so a twenty dollars buy in? And is it top
three get money, top all winner, take all? What is he?
I believe everyone agreed on top three get money, top

(54:26):
three get money? Okay, And it's just like an online
thing I'm trying. I'm supposed to draft a player right now,
and I have no idea who to choose. Really, Okay, Now,
what what round are the draft? Are you doing the draft? Actually? Like?
What round are you in? Round nine? You're round nice?
And so I need I'm thinking about a wide receiver
and I'm looking at Probably I got the Pierre Guard

(54:47):
song is probably gonna thirty seconds. If you want to
throw a name out there, I'll choose whoever you want.
If he's available, Willie Flipper Anderson I like, but he's
not popping up, he's not available. Willie sneed but he's first. No,
that's none, that's naked. I get nothing. All right, all right,
So the Ben Maller Show, if I will take your
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(55:11):
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and Ben Maller. We'll have a Ben Mallers show exclusive.

(55:54):
No one else has this spats with Shafts. If you've
been a regular, you know someone about this. If you've
listened off and on over the last couple of years,
it has gone on. Now for three years, this has
gone on. It is insane. We have been side by
side with the Captain of the USS Enterprise, our little

(56:15):
radio show in the overnight. We'll get to that coming
up here in a moment. Some phone calls though, first,
and we will say hello to Darren, who's in Washington,
DC on Fox Sports Radio. Hello Darren, Hi, Hi Darren.
How old are you? Who? Twelve years old? Look at you?
I believed. What are you doing up at this hour? Darren?

(56:37):
Calling you? That's a good point. You are calling me.
I asked you a question, you gave me an answer,
all right, And your parents don't care that you're up
all night? That's good? All right? What's on your mind? Darren? Um?
So I'm not going I'm asking to try a Jorge Columbia.
Oh you're in Oh you're in Vancouver, BC. Oh. See

(57:00):
Robert thinks that Vancouver, BC is Washington, d C. See, yes, Mike,
would you like to apply for a job, Darren? Do
you know the difference between Vancouver and Washington? Do you
know the difference, Robert? This guy's twelve years old, Robert,
he knows the difference between difference BC and DC. His
folk connection wasn't that great all the way up there

(57:22):
in Canada? So I can understand exactly what he was saying,
Darren at age twelve, who's your favorite radio guy? Yes?
I am a hero to the youth of America. Where's
your is your dad Canadian? Your dad's not around there.
Your dad's Ralph. Stay out of this. Ralph kids don't

(57:42):
like you. They're scared of you. Ralph kids like me
Uncle Ben. All right, So, Darren, what did you want
to talk Let's have a man conversation, mena, what did
you want to talk about? Yes? THEO was McGregor fight. Yes?
Now did you watch that fight? Yes? I watch? You did?

(58:02):
All right? And what did you think I saw? It was? Okay? Yeah,
it's fine, nothing spectacular. It was not spectacular at all.
All right, what's on your mind? Now? I must move on.
I need to know what's on your mind? Though I
was thinking they can do the great Russef versus call
him acgregor na. I see now you're talking. Now you've

(58:24):
got my attention, Russef. Now do you how often do
you watch Russef perform every tea to night? Every act's
right exactly now, Russef, the Bulgarian hero to the masses
in the US and Canada and a friend of the show.
Do you know that he called our show? You know that, right,
that's what you're asking me about Rusef. You know he's

(58:45):
a friend of the show, and he listened to the show,
and now he's he's had a successful career in professionalizing.
I'm all for it. I would endorse that. In fact,
I would like to not only see that happen, I
am willing to be part of the posse when Russef
makes his way to the ring, I will be right
there with him and we can go out to the
ring together, and I think it would be just wonderful.
I think that would be great. Let's make that happen.

(59:07):
In fact, I'll send him a message. I'll say, hey, listen,
rus seven, I'm gonna say Darren. Twelve year old Darren
in Vancouver wants to see this happen, Make it happen.
All right, I thank you, I gotta go, thank you,
go good luck in school? There he goes Darren in Vancouver,
which if you look at a map and then you
look at Washington, DC, very similar. All right, Now, I

(59:28):
want to take you on a journey in time and
space with a cultural icon, James T. Kirk, better known
as Captain of the USS Enterprise in the beloved Star
Trek franchise, part of pop culture not only in America,
in Canada and Mexico and beyond the world. The world

(59:51):
with Captain Kirk part of Star Trek, well a few
years back. I don't do I need to give the
whole beginning, the origines of this, or can I just
give up thirty second synopsis? I'll give you the brief synopsis.
So we had a guy named Fred Dryer, friend of
the show, who played TJ. Not he played not that

(01:00:13):
he was shat Yeah it was. It was t J.
Hooker with Shatner. Yes, And then your boy played Hunter
played Hunter. So he came on the show a few times,
and we should have him on again. It's been a
couple of years, but he happened to be friends with
William Shatterer, and so they would tweet each other all
the time. And then Fred Dryer, because he's my my guy,
would also mention me and he'd include me in the conversations. Anyway.
William Shatner would respond to me, and so then I

(01:00:35):
would respond to him, and we'd have these brief conversations.
We got along very well, and then all of a sudden,
like Steve Harvey, now, all of a sudden, we had
a falling out. And the thing that I asked him,
which I think is really the most offensive thing you
can ask another human being, I said, hey, shats, who
do you like in the Stanley Cup Final and at
that time it was the Blackhawks against the Lightning, so

(01:00:57):
it's a few years ago, and Shatner just went off
on me. He ended up blocking me. It was a
block party anyway, and so a bunch of guys from
the Mallard militia they got my back. It was a
call to arms for the militia and it was it
was social media warfare, and Shatner ended up blocking pretty
much everybody. So so I forgot about it. I moved on.

(01:01:19):
I was done, and we moved on from that. And
then a year later, Danny G. I think it was said, hey,
you know, it's Schattner's birthday, and so why don't we
have a listener send a happy birthday message to Shatner.
And we figured time and moved on. He'd probably forgotten
about us, and so sure enough, a couple of listeners
wished William Shatner a happy birthday. He started blocking them.

(01:01:39):
He started blocking all of them. You're a block. It
was a block party, and so, okay, that was fun.
We did a couple of shows on that. We forgot
about it. We moved on. Our lives were you know,
we're professionals. We got we're not retired like Bill Shatner.
You know, we're not in our one hundred and twenty.
We got still out of work, and so we forgot
about Shatner. And then over the weekend, our friend, the

(01:02:01):
caller formerly known his fun house, reaches out to William
Shatner and and says, very simply, he said, mister Shattner,
would you be kind enough to unblock my friend Ben Maller.
I'm sure he meant no disrespect, And then he said
olive branch with a question mark, which I think it
is a very polite way of asking William Shatner. He

(01:02:21):
was not offensive in any way A fun House was
was very nice. He was direct, he was classy, he
was all of that. By the way, fun House was
able to do this because he was forced to start
a new account, all right, but noneless, so he was
able to reach out to William Shatterer. And Shattner responded,
and he responded in a in a way that I

(01:02:42):
thought was rather polite, unless it wasn't. With one word
he said, no, no is what he's exactly But not
only that I am told, but my sources in high
places that He then turned on fun House and and
he questioned his fandom of our show. Shatner questioned, what

(01:03:06):
a super fan fun Houses. I know we're not as
big as FRANCESSA in his world, but he likes our show.
He's been very loyal to us over the last however
long he's been listening. And he said, Shatner says to him,
I could tell how much of a fan you are.
I think you mixed up fan with the word troll
is what's then? Maybe that was about Shattner, maybe he

(01:03:27):
was maybe it was about Shattering. But but nonetheless, so
they had a back and forth there and so Shatner
called fun House a troll and there were some other
guys that then piled on and they were going at
it with Shatner and some of them ended up getting blocked.
I understand, And we have an update. It has continued.
This happened on Saturday. It is now continued on to

(01:03:51):
Sunday into Monday. Shatner is added again with our show,
and he has responded again about our radio program. So
we will give you the latest on that. You're listening
to the Ben Maller Show on Fox. We'll get to that,
and also we're gonna have Mallard to the third degree. Well,
let's get the latest and Ralph Irban Ralph, Well, thank

(01:04:12):
you very much. Ben. Bad news for Florida State as
their sophomore quarterback DeAndre Francois we'll miss the rest of
the season. He has a battella tendon injury and we'll
undergo surgery for that. One game in the top twenty
five of the college football number twenty two Virginia Tech.
He number twenty two West Virginia twenty four at FedEx Field.

(01:04:34):
Of course, the more exciting game UCLA coming back from
thirty four points down in the third quarter. They beat
Texas A and M forty five forty four on the Diamonds.
The Dodgers lost again eight of nine as they fall
in San Diego six to four. Arizona won their tenth straight,
beating Colorado five one, Milwaukee just a half game back

(01:04:57):
outside of the wild Card as Domingo Santana hit two
home runs and the Brewers take out Washington at seven
to two. Atlanta five to one winner over the Cubs.
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you have for me? Ralph? Well? A decision on Ezekiel

(01:05:19):
Elliot's appeal is expected as soon as today. He's getting railroaded.
If the suspension is upheld. There's a temporary restraining order
hearing on Tuesday. Nice will Zeke play this week? Do
you think the judge will be wearing his favorite Ezekiel
Elliott jersey when he's in the courtroom. You think that'll
be happenings in Texas? Very well? Possible? Yeah, all right,
and cowboy underwear and the whole thing and a cowboy hat.

(01:05:41):
Jerry Jones will make sure to get him a luxury
box at the upcoming Cowboy game with the Giants. Yes,
a right, it's the Ben Maller Show on Fox on Fox.
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Visit geigo dot com for a free rate quote. So
the follow up to this, we mentioned Funhouse had his interaction.
I got reports from at least three members of the
militia that were blocked from Shatner over the weekend and
then just a few hours ago, within the last couple
of hours, the account which is this you, Danny g Rodeo?

(01:06:27):
Is that your account? Danny? Is that you? Oh? Mine
is Danny G Radio? Okay, very similar. I'm confused by that.
But Danny's account, I guess it isn't. I guess they're
paying tribute to you. Dan. I feel like on your show,
that's when you officially make it. You know you have arrived. Yes,
So the Janny g Rodeo account reached out to William

(01:06:49):
Shatner and they took a screenshot and they sent it
to me and I appreciate it. Says this is from
the Danny g Rodeo account. William Shatner. You are extremely smart,
mister Shatner, which is why blocking Ben Maller would be
the smartest decision you've ever made. And then they put
the cool emoji. That's that makes it special because the
cool emoji was there. Well, Shatner responded and very calm,

(01:07:12):
as always. One thing about Bill Shatner is he never
lets the emotion get to him. He does not let me.
He's as cool as a cucumber, as that old line goes.
So what did William Shatner say? He responded, quote for
the last time, Comma, F that clown done? Check please?

(01:07:40):
Now what do you think the F stands for? I mean,
he didn't finish that, just F that clown. I couldn't
imagine what that means. You don't think that Bill Shatner,
a legendary pop culture icon in America eighty six years old,
would try to use the F word that we all know,
the universal F word, the four letters. And you don't
think that t J Hooker TV's t J Hooker would

(01:08:03):
do that to me? Do you free? I mean, there's
no way right, come on now? So is that a
violation of the Twitter rules? Can we get Shatner blocked?
Is there any way that we can look into that?
Because I believe that is those that's hurtful language. I'm
a delicate little flower and I've been triggered. I have
been triggered by this. I need help, is what I need.

(01:08:26):
So I'm guessing Shatton is probably going to sleep now.
I can't check because he's blocked me, so I cannot
check on this. But that's that's the latest on these
spats with shots updates. So a lot of guys say
that they don't really feel they're part of the show
until they've been blocked by William Shatter. That once you've
been blocked by Shatner, that's like a man card for
the Ben Mallish and even women. Min Shatters even blocked women.

(01:08:48):
He doesn't care you know you get about your body parts,
your private parts, He'll block you. Two ladies. Yes, you
look like a big fat clown. Thank you very much.
I'm honored because everyone loves clowns. Right, LaVar balls a clown,
people love him. Barkley's a clown, people love him. I'll
be a clown. Sign me up. My name is Ben Maller,
and I am a circus clown. Bows out of the clown.

(01:09:09):
That's me. All right, Let's go to Clifford real quick.
We're gonna get to the third degree in a second,
Robert says, shaking in his boots. Are He's so excited
for the third degree. It's the highlight of his day.
Robert is really excited. He's not looking at a map
to see where Vancouver and Washington are. Let's Clifford, the Clifford.
What's going on? Man? Yes, sat Bernard, dude, Clifford the

(01:09:30):
big red Dog. He doesn't say big red dog on
my screen. It just says Clifford. Okay, hey, Ben, I
you really interrupted Ralph during his first trending report. He
usually don't do that, even with Andie G. I'm wondering
why he did that, but anyway, because I hate him,
that's why. Okay, Hey, just like pro basketball players take

(01:09:52):
days off, everybody has to take days off. You guys
are in a constant championship run. So that's why even
you know, you take days off, Eddie Cooper. Everybody needs
a day off, right because they have to save themselves
to get a ring. Get that bling right? Are we
saving Eddie and Coop for the playoffs? It was this

(01:10:15):
a scheduled time out? Is yes, you constant championship run. Well,
that's right, and the playoffs do start now for sports
radio with the NFL season, that's our postseason. The NFL
regular season in playoffs is our postseason. That's true. Okay,
And I think they should fire Summoning tomorrow. How about already?
How about last night? They should have fired them forget

(01:10:36):
about it now? Okay, and the Charges are going to
beat the Raiders twice, Danny, Sorry, right there you go.
I go ahead, get some dog food in the ball
for you. Go away. Some real big trash talk there
by Clifford. All right, let's get to it. Here we go.
It's how about that to the third degree? This is

(01:10:58):
one big Ben gets Grail. All right, let's do a
third degree time and we welcome in in for the
Cooper loop. Robert does Robert, who'd you draft? By the way,
in the ninth round, I ended up taking pr Garson really. Yeah,
we'd have been a great pick five years ago. Yeah, yeah,
I know. Okay. Eric Roberts, the other producer here at

(01:11:18):
Fox Sports Radio, he was pretty upset that I took him.
If you get a hot tub time machine and you
can get the Pierre Garson of five years ago, you'll
be good. I mean, he does play for the forty
nine ers. That's a that's a tough spot. Really banking
on Brian Hoyer this year, although they will be down
A lawyer's good in garbage time. So maybe all right,
what do we got? All right? So last week, Ben,
the mega trade between the Celtics and the Cavaliers finally happened,

(01:11:40):
sending Kyrie Irving to Boston exchange for flurry of players,
but most notably Isaiah Thomas. I would say more gaggle
of players a gag like the word gaggle. I prefer flurry.
Okay we Unfortunately, Thomas's injury seems to be more serious
than anyone predicted, and reports surface this weekend that he
could be out until twenty eighteen, meaning he would miss
the first few months of the regular season. So my

(01:12:01):
question for you, Ben, Yes, how worried should Cavaliers fans, Well,
I know you bring this up. We've talked a lot
about Isaiah Thomas and his body parts. It's very difficult
to talk about another man's body parts here on the show,
but we've done that. And I would use the Patent
and Mallers scale of panic one to ten, ten being
nuclear fallout. I'm gonna give this a two. I'm only
going to and I'll tell you why. Hey, Lebron James,

(01:12:24):
we saw Lebron show his distaste for the regular season
in recent years. It's a nuisance and typically the NBA
season doesn't get going until Christmas. Anyway, he tossed in
the fact the Cavaliers motor is spotty during the regular season.
They don't really get going until April. And you can
understand my position and be in the modern NBA parlance,

(01:12:47):
this will be a positive for Cleveland Isaiah Thomas. Let's
say he comes back January second, the Cavaliers have a game.
I believe they play Portland. Isaiah Thomas miss forty three
percent of the regular season schedule. That's thirty six games.
That says seems assuming he's back, Daniels say he'll stay

(01:13:09):
out of the wear and tear the boogeyman that all
NBA players fear. And as long as Isaiah Thomas is
back being something close to the Isaiah Thomas he was
in Boston by early April when the playoffs start, the
Cavaliers have nothing to worry about. So that's why I'm
going with it too. All right, next, all right, Ben, Yes,

(01:13:30):
just when we thought we would have gotten rid of
brock Oswader for good in the NFL, he somehow found
a way to sneak back onto an NFL team. The
Denver Broncos agreed to a one year deal with brock
Oswader yesterday. I have only brock Oswader had kneeled, he
would not be in the NFL right now. But he
did not kneel, so he's back in the NFL exactly.
So that got a lot of reactions from throughout the league,

(01:13:50):
most of them being, you know, poking fun at the
two parties involved. So my question for you who should
be more embarrassed, Osswader or the Broncos. Yeah, this is
more bewildering. Bewildering and baffling, if you will. Those are
big words at this time of the night for the Broncos,
specifically for John Elway right, it is bewildering for John Elway.
The reason Elway first of all watched brock Oswiler firsthand

(01:14:13):
trained and groomed him as Peyton Manning's replacement. We know
the story right, And in the middle of the transition
of power from Peyton Manning to Brock Osweiler gets out
bid Elway by the Texans, who then gave Oswiler thirty
seven million dollars. So now brock Osweiler goes out, does
a face plant with not one, but two different franchises,

(01:14:35):
and is welcomed back with open arms. In Denver, he
went out and it's like letting your child go out
and they end up in the streets and they get
arrested a bunch of times, and they come back home.
That's what Elways done. He's like, well, he's my child.
He's out there, he's not doing well. I'll bring him
back in. And secondly, the Broncos went out and replaced Oswader.

(01:14:56):
They got Paxton Lynch, and he was supposed to be
the guy and always hurt, and that was supposed to
be the guy that counter the loss of Broncos Wilder,
only to watch a Lynch flop and when he did play. Now,
as I mentioned, he's hurt. But this is a desperate situation.
It could have a happy ending if the Broncos new
coaching staff can somehow mask the many weaknesses in Osweiler's

(01:15:21):
herky jerky delivery. But Denver's defense has to be as
big as they were a couple years ago. It does
not appear that they're tracking that way. So this is
a questionable decision. It is baffling by the Broncos. I
put it on Elway next. So the last question we
got for you. We see this like Kirk Cousins and
the Redskins always had like a tenuous relationship, but it

(01:15:42):
seems like he's gotten better because the Redskins have provided
Kirk Cousins with his own QB nook. No, thank god. Yeah,
So Kirk Cousins, can you get that at an Ikea
a QB nook? I mean, I'm pretty sure it's just
a plywood and paint and they just put it in
a corner based on the photo, maybe home Depot or
Lowe's possibly like a lows job to me? Maybe Walmart?

(01:16:02):
What about Walmart? Oh, I don't know, is Walmart that
like intense about you know, on Walmart dot com you
can get just about any I need to investigate this
anything Maide in China you can get well. Kirk Cousins,
after he posted the photo, he said that it feels
he feels like a kid on Christmas with his own
QB nooks. So it got us thinking, what was your
favorite work related purchase or gift. Well, as you know, Robert,

(01:16:25):
working in radio, we don't need a lot of gadgets
and gizmos. We don't. It's pretty basic. Here at the
global headquarters of the Mallard Militia, my home office, I
have a few a few things that I love very much,
much like Kirk Cousins. We'll start with this my domain, right,
my space. I have a bubble in the madness of
life where all the creativity the innovation get together. It's

(01:16:50):
if creativity and innovation had a baby, that would be
where they had the baby. Right. Hot sports takes are
born minute by minute in that location. It comes complete
with It's got a big desk, giant chair, got a
TV in there, all the games, high speed internet. I
got a couple of fans on the hot days to
cool me off, one behind me, one in front of me.

(01:17:11):
So I've got dual fan action. I'm a dual threat
fan guy in that particular room, and one hundred and
fifteen degrees I turned the fans on. That's pretty much it.
Not any other bells and whistles, gadgets and gizmos, all
right there. It is Mallard of the third degree, Robert,
how didn't we do? Sorry? Ben, but you failed a winner.

(01:17:32):
Cooper would have been excited for us while that is
a win. No, he's not excited. He was very happy
when os while they went away. That's a lie. He
texted me saying, thank god I'm off Sunday. I was
going to pepper. I was going to grill him because
he said a lot of nasty things. It's kind of
like when there's a relationship that ends with your best
friend and you then trashed the girlfriend, say oh she
was you know, you know what, she was no good

(01:17:54):
for she's a and just trasher, and then like a
week later they're back together like crap. It's pretty much
what Coop did with broadcastwell, although this was a year later.
Time now for the Insta Tribua. With the fifty three
man rosters out in the NFL, they've been pretty much
set now game week. In the NFL, eleven quarterbacks this

(01:18:14):
season are going to make sixteen million dollars or more.
Name the only NFL team that has two two of
the sixteen quarterbacks making sixteen million dollars or more on
their active roster. That's the insta tribua answer. Next, there's
a whirlwind of excitement going on around our show reddit page.
Search our subreddit at Ben Maller's show and get the

(01:18:36):
latest authentic listener generated content about the Mallard Militia. Now,
let's get back to the lunacy and the Geico Fox
Sports Radio studios. Here's Ben Maller. We will attempt to
go all in coming up in a moment. Here's the
instant Tribua. The rosters now set. Fifty three man rosters
mostly set here for the start of the regular season.

(01:18:57):
In the NFL, eleven quarterbacks this year are gonna make
sixteen million dollars or more. Name the only NFL team
that has not one, but two quarterbacks that are gonna
rock in that much money. That's the question. What's the answer?
The Ostrich checks in with Todd Marijuanovich as his answer.

(01:19:18):
Who else do we have here. Ben Roethlisberger and Terry
Bradshaw guest by the Rooster cannot read that one. On
the air, Jake Cutler and Ryan Tannehill guest by Eric
Robbie's going with the Vikings. Jonathan says, it's the Chiefs.
All right, what say you, Danny g Ben? This one's easy.
Trevor Harris and Ryan Lindley of the Ottawa Redblack That

(01:19:40):
is correct. That's offensive to me, the Red Blacks. But no,
it's actually wrong. The correct answers. The Chicago Bears with
Mitchell Trubisky and Mike Glennon's gonna make more than Aaron Rodgers,
Tom Brady, Matt Ryan, Drew Brees and Russell Wilson. Let's
go all in real quickly. It's Ben Mahler and he's going, oh,

(01:20:07):
all it is our tribute to sports wagering. And we
start a new week and we're gonna win. Why because
we're winners. The hottest team in baseball is the Cleveland Indians.
I'm going chalk here. They're playing the White Sox and
James Shields. This is minus two fifty, but it's an
easy win. Ralph, who you got quickly? Tennessee Georgia check
fifty five and a half. I'll take the under, Danny Gee,

(01:20:29):
Big Ben d bags at the Dodgers the over under
seven and a half. This is gonna be a slug fest.
I'm taking the over all, Right, Robert, you gotta pick
for me. I got the Angels on the over come on.
You really are feeling it? Yeah? How long you've been
an Angel fan? Robert? Actually my entire life? Really are
you a Broncos fan? Also, don't answer that, I don't

(01:20:50):
want to know. The tide has shifted involving Ezekiel. Elliott
has now been a ground swell of support coming over
to the Mallard position. And could this be the case?
Could this be the one that does major damage to
the NFL's disciplinary wing. We'll find out, we'll talk about it.

(01:21:11):
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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(01:21:32):
com or a free rate quote. We'll get to the
plight of the cowboy running back in a moment. We
know there was a record setting comeback one stinking point away,
nearly matching the NCAA record for big time college football
last Division one, we don't pay attention to the other divisions.
A thirty four point comeback for UCLA at the Rose

(01:21:54):
Bowl last night a few hours ago in a game
that was on Fox. It was on Fox the football
program from College Station. They got some explaining to do it.
I know there were injuries that were part of this
and all that, but you should be able to play
without a quarterback and still win when you have a
forty four to ten lead late in the third quarter.

(01:22:17):
But Texas m did not win. Now, no, no, no,
The offensive line didn't do much the defensive line second
half after dominating the game of the first half. So
Ucla with a ridiculous win. And we went from firing
Jim Mora to then firing Kevin Sumlin in the span
of two halves. So that's the story there. Meanwhile, in

(01:22:39):
the NFL, there has been another plot twist, as we
mentioned in the Ezekiel Elliott soap opera with the National
Football League, and it was revealed some new information over
this long holiday weekend which continues into Labor Day, and
it involves the Cowboys position on this. And if you've
not been paying close attention because you weren't working and

(01:23:01):
you have family and things that you'd like to do
other than just pay attention to this nonsense, I'll fill
you in. Maybe you missed it. So Jerry Jones and
his many minions who work for him, they have universally
locked together and the position has been this that the
team is neutral, they are neutral observers. That's the Cowboys

(01:23:22):
position with Ezekiel Elli. Well, we know that wasn't likely true,
and it turns out that's not the case. The general council.
You know, you're a big corporation and a conglomerate when
you have a general council. The Ben Maller Show and
the Maller Militia do not have a general council. We
don't have that. But Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys

(01:23:43):
slightly a bigger deal than our show, and so they
have a general counsel, which is this guy, Jason Cullen,
and he's the one that submitted an affidavit chronicling the damage,
the harm that this suspension is going to cause the
Cowboys with Zeke Elliott out. The statement took a shot

(01:24:04):
at the NFL's investigative arm, specifically in the new documents
that were revealed over the weekend. The Cowboys General Council
pointed out that he observed the infamous testimony we talked
about at the end of last week of Kia Roberts,
the NFL's director of investigations. This is the smoking gun

(01:24:24):
in the Ezekiel Elliott case. This could be the death
blow to the NFL because this woman testified she's the
head of the NFL's the director of investigations for the NFL,
She's in charge of that, and she's the one that
testified she had credibility concerns about the accuser of Ezekiel Elliott,
if you've forgot, And she also went on to say

(01:24:46):
that she did not believe that the you look at
all the evidence here that there was enough to issue
discipline of Ezekiel Elliott, director of investigations for the NFL,
well the Dallas Cowboys in this affid David, they point
out all of that, like on the record, right on
a legal record. They point out all this. They point

(01:25:07):
out that I got a quote right here, Miss Roberts
testified that she was not invited to communicate her views
directly the Commissioner Goodell or to the four advisors from
whom he sought guidance regarding this particular case. That's it,
that's the smoking gun. So let's talk about it. Now.
The NFL's denying it. What did you think they were

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gonna say? They're denying it. Now, Roberts was not invited
to the meeting with Roger Goodell, and so let's talk
about that part of it again. And the cowboys role
in this. There are some who are pointing fingers at
the cowboys and saying this is a nightmare because the
cowboys are breaking ranks, they're going rogue, They're doing the

(01:25:49):
thing you're not supposed to do. So the question have
the cowboys crossed the line in there on the record,
support on legal papers, support of Ezekiel Elliott. Now my
position on this is no. I have a couple of
thoughts here, stand by your man. That's number one, public
and private sloppy and this being the new norm. All

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of that, and we'll begin with the fact that Jerry
Jones committed way back to Ezekiel Elli. He locked in
his position now, he wanted Ezekiel Elliott to be part
of the Cowboys. Of course he does. He's got an
a vested interest in the Cowboys. Jerry's even though his
face is not getting any older, the rest of him
is getting older. And so he'd like to see the
Cowboys win a Super Bowl again before he's eating out

(01:26:35):
of a straw. So he'd like to see that, and
this year would be a great opportunity for that to happen. Right,
you know that. We know that, and it's the stand
by your man technique that most bosses do not follow
these days. They generally cower when there's any kind of

(01:26:55):
pushback against an employee. But Jerry Jones because of the
value of Ezekiel Elliott. We know that Jerry Jones doesn't
value all of his players. Ask Lucky Whitehead about that.
We know he picks and chooses who's valuable in this
most people do. But in this case, Ezekiel Elliot's very valuable.
But Jerry's also taken a distinct public and private position. Publicly,

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Jerry is like the United Nations, right, can't we all
get along? Coming? Privately, Jerry Jones and the underlings of
the cowboys are doing everything they can to support Ezekiel Elliot,
much like a good sleazy politician. Jerry Jones knows the
importance of holding two positions in an issue which is polarizing.

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This is polarizing because it involves alleged the domestic violence.
And again I challenge you to go look at the
public files that's are available in Columbus, Ohio on the
main incident that was involved in this particular case. And
Jerry Jones knows the public and private position are important
because it's polarizing. So the public position is completely separate

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from the private position. Publicly, as I said, he's Switzerland,
he's neutral. Privately he's all in. He's in the tank
with Ezekiel Elliott. Now, in addition to that, as we
have highlighted on our little radio program in the middle
of the night, there are so many holes in this

(01:28:23):
Ezekiel Elliott case. It's kind of like Texas A and
M in the second half against Josh Rosen. There are
that many holes there. I mean, they have just completely
they're in retreat mode at this particular point. The NFL's
investigation appears to have done sloppy and incomplete work Roger
Goodell and his team have apparently entered this with an

(01:28:46):
outcome that was predetermined. They had decided prior to going in.
And if you dissect the evidence from the public records
again they're available online Columbus, Ohio, and the timeline of
events took place to witness statements, you would be puzzled
how we got to this point. And don't tell me

(01:29:07):
that he's getting six games for pulling his shirt up
and showing boobies. I don't believe that Ezekiel is getting
a six games suspension for that. I don't buy it.
And the last observation, if you look at the Patriots
defense back with the manifesto sent out by Bob Craft
after Tom Brady and the whole deflation of football scandal

(01:29:30):
and the questions about his innocence and whatnot. The Cowboys
legal counsel, what they're doing here, this is just following
in lockstep with what the Patriots did. It's the new
norm there. In fact, they're trying to be a little different.
They're trying to should win. I know the Patriots, the Patriots.
Bob Kraft similarly took a public in private position and

(01:29:51):
I list I like it. The NFL melodrama is good
for business. It never ends, and we'll see another plot
twist here, likely, I would say on two Tuesday. Although
the speculation as it could come down on Labor Day,
which would be great to drive content on our labor
day into the day after Labor day show. So I'm
all for the investigative arm doing that if they would like.

(01:30:12):
All right's Ben Maller's show on Fox. We are here.
This is not a best of situation where you are
laboring away over the red hot microphone, the VU meter,
and a bunch of very expensive radio equipment. Only the
best of the best here right. Our production meeting, Danny
G how would you describe our production meeting when we
get together there and we try to get everything ready

(01:30:34):
for the show. We have a think tank and we
go over all our ideas and all that awkward. Yeah,
Danny had a little bit of an issue with the
mouse for one of the computers. You're trying to You're
trying to move things around, right, Danny, which I think
most people have an old school computer, which we have

(01:30:55):
here a lot of old school computers. You were trying
to even move the mouse here. Yeah, Now, p one
regular listeners of the Ben Mallor Show. They've heard you
mention a former tech producer you used to have work
on the show where when there would be any sort
of issue, he would blame it on profit. Yeah, profit dude,
the next gen computer system and he'd say that would
he used to say profit froze, that was Jerry and

(01:31:17):
my profit dude. He put his arms in the air
like this dude, he'd put his arms up like the
police were in front of him. I don't know profit dude. Now,
I know just casual listeners might think we're just kind
of kicking back with iced tea and our feet up
on the console. It's a holiday. Nobody works on holiday.
But you know, America, our responsibilities here at Fox Sports

(01:31:37):
Radio Network band Yeah, can't even begin to list all
the different you know, responsibilities, A lot of checks that
you have to go you have to go off and
every box has to be checked. So before the show starts,
I have to sit there and build what they called
stop what they call stop sets. So I'm going through
the commercial log and I'm and I'm building this, and

(01:31:57):
I'm moving this and I'm moving that. But the problem
when the mouse is not working as you can't build Jack. Yeah.
So I was getting frustrated. To me, being a great
co worker, I said, let me help my man out.
Danny G's getting frustrated here. I want to help my out.
So I was sitting in the number two chair over
there in the production room, and I saw next to
me there was a mouse pad. So I thought, you

(01:32:19):
know what, no one's using this computer. Why don't I
help my man out. Danny G, who worked so hard
for our show. He's here on labor day, and I'll
give him this mouse pad. That'll be an olive branch,
and he'll be good. He'll get his work done, we'll
get the show ready. So then I went over and
I grabbed I reach over and I grabbed the mouse pad. Right,
I reach over the table, I grabbed the mouse pad.

(01:32:40):
I pick up the mouse pad. Danny, what is what
is wrong with the mouse pad? I pick it up.
I'm holding it in the air to hand it to you.
And what do you notice? I noticed that it looks
like YADDI are Molina earlier in the baseball the mouse
is yeah, it stuck, yeah, the bad So what happened

(01:33:01):
is somebody at the company, so you know those old
school mouse pads have like this goo. It's like a
jelly It's like a jelly goo, which is where you
put your wrist on it, you know, and it's you're
never supposed to pop it open because it's jelly goo,
and you're never supposed to touch it. But you gotta
do like the smell test, and you gotta do like
look for a little goog. Well, some college graduate who's
a genius who works at our company at iHeartMedia, decided,

(01:33:24):
you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna pop it open.
I want to see what that goose like. I want
to see what that gelatinous goo is like. So they
popped it open, and so the goose started gushing out.
At this point most people would do what they would
throw it out right, say okay, we're good, we're done.
Not here, no, no, no no. That has been over there,
and the gou has been slowly dripping out of the

(01:33:47):
mouse pad and it's all over the place. But ben
closer inspection, somebody, it looks like somebody did try to
fix it by putting a piece of paper. Yeah, over
that's like a little piece of tea. Your paper would
stop the gelot and his goo from coming out. That's great,
and that person works in network radio. Whoever did that,

(01:34:09):
that is a network radio professional. That is their solution there,
just like mcgiver, right, just like you get the duct
tape and the pocket knife and all that are. It's
the Ben Maller Show on Fox. To the phones we go,
and I believe this is Angry Bill. Let's find out
if it is indeed Angry Bill and he is on
Fox Sports Radio. There it is Angry Bill checking in.

(01:34:33):
We got so much to talk about, but I gotta,
I gotta. I didn't here until tonight. You know about Nutley,
New Jersey. That's where I girl, What do you know about?
That explains a lot to you. Are you are actually
from Nutley, New Jersey? No, you're making that up? No
you know, No, No, I'm not. I had the best
pizza place in the entire world. The Bellat Pizza was

(01:34:55):
called give Pizza in the world. All right, Well, I
I have not. I've not spent much time. I've driven
through there a couple of times, but I have not
spent much time. My brother lives in New York, as
you know, and I go back there quite a bit
and occasionally we we go on little journeys through Pennsylvania,
New Jersey. Well, would you go to Nutley, New Jersey
for what? I don't remember why, I just remember. The

(01:35:16):
reason I remember it is because I laughed at the
name Nutley. I thought it was hilarious. I said, there's
a real city named Nutley. It wasn't nuts Nutslee, New Jersey.
It was Nutley. No, I understand that it was Nutley,
but it got my attention because I thought it was
hilarious that that was a real city. And I thought

(01:35:36):
it was a goof, but it was real. Well, it
was Well, we got a lot to catch up on,
benber Like, I gotta ask you this question. I need
an honest answer, and I can handle the truth. Okay,
I need an honest answer. How do you fly all
the way to Hawaii? So I listened to the little
things you fly toy had of course two or three bucks,
and you get a hotel room with no air conditioning.
Tell me what that's all about. Ben, Well, I'm glad

(01:35:58):
you're thinking on that. Well, you know, I was. I
was out of the planning process on some of that.
Uh and uh. I was told that it was a
better deal. I was told it was a better ring,
saved a couple of money. It's a better deal, saved
a couple of bucks. I've also advised missus Maller that
if we ever do go back to Hawaii, if there

(01:36:19):
is no air conditioning, I will swim back to California.
That I will not. Yeah, that's some good thinking. The
other thing I'm disappointed about is I can't believe you
didn't call me up and asking the babysit Bella. You
would kill the dog. I know you. You you would
kill you. You would have. You would have started a
shit sue fighting ring with angry. You'd be like Michael vel.

(01:36:43):
I would have said, that dog back pregnant. Wow, all right,
thank you? Are you done? Are you gooding? No? I'll
catch up on you later. I can't wait. Boy, the continuation.
That's a teaser, right there, more of angry Bill's got
a murder gotta go? Yeah? Exactly how appropriate is it?

(01:37:05):
He's from Nutley, New Jersey. We were, I believe were.
It's near Newark if I remember correctly, And I don't
recall why exactly we were going there either, because why
the hell would you go go to Newark? We were there
for some reason and It's one of those times. See
some cities you just don't they're not memorable. But when
you see a sign this say, is you know, welcome

(01:37:25):
to Nutley, Like that's pretty funny, nuts exactly exactly, all right,
So Ben Maller Show on Fox, what does the Fox say?
We'll get to that. We'll do it next. The Ben
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(01:37:49):
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go Fox Sports Radio Studios, the one the only Ben Maller.
Some of the members of the Mallard Militia pointing out
that they believe Angry Bill did come from Nutsville, New Jersey.

(01:38:13):
So Ernie Nut's Nutley, New Jersey sounds like Nutsville, but
really clearly that's where the nuts do come from. And
did they kick Angry Bill out of Nutley, New Jerseys?
That would happen. All right, Let's say hello, let's go
to the phones. We'll have a what did the Fox say?
Update get to that coming up? Here in a moment,

(01:38:34):
the captain, not Captain Kirk though, this is just the captain.
In southern California, he played the Ben Mallard dating game
while back. Hello Captain, Hey Benny, how are you doing? Buddy? Captain?
If I was any better, if you were doing any better,
let me finish, you would hold on. If you were

(01:38:55):
doing any better, you'd be in Nutsville, New Jersey. That's Nutley,
New Jersey. It's not Nutling, you know. I think it's nutty,
New Jerseys. That's where that's where you live. No, sir,
you're boring me. What's on your mind? Oh? Come on,

(01:39:16):
let's all right. So let's talk sc UCLA ball real quick. Okay,
that's You're the pulse of the people. You know exactly
what people. The guy, the guy driving around Richmond right
now is like, I really want to hear about that.
That's what That's what I'm dying to hear about. Yes,
give me give me some u c L a USC
football talk. Yes, I love the sarcasm, not a I'm

(01:39:41):
being totally legitimate. There's a guy right now in Jackson,
Mississippi that's dying to get a USC football update. Close
games and both very scary, mainly for me Number four SC.
I'm a huge SC fan and my voice is lost
right now. Well, it was a it's heartening that Sam

(01:40:01):
Darnold did not get a touchdown pass and that USC
had to fight in the fourth quarter to beat an
opponent that you would assume Western Western Michigan, that USC
at the Coliseum in LA would win by a couple
of touchdowns that at least and not have to worry
about in the fourth quarters. Three sixty two seven. Then

(01:40:26):
they had to play the game. Three. Then they had
to play the game. And I don't I don't believe
that Sam Darnold's not worried about how this interrupts his
Heisman campaign and all that. I don't believe that, and
forget them. I don't care about that. I don't care
about Oh stop. USC wants him to win the Heisman.
I guarantee you that the people at the program wanted

(01:40:46):
to win. Reggie Butch wanted to win the Heisman. But
did he win? Nah? He did, he did, and then
he had to give it back. Yeah for a guy,
all right, I gotta I gotta thank you happen. Can
we play the dating game next time? To improve your
call please can tonight? No? Thank you? Sounds like the

(01:41:07):
captain's been dating Margarita, you know, possible? Yeah, all right,
let's say hello. Uh is it Rohan in Vancouver? Who's
on Fox Sports Radio? Hello? Rohan? Hi, Hey you're on
the radio. Um? Yeah, So, I was just gonna say,

(01:41:30):
how I think the Patriots when Tom Brady retires, are
going to be like the Broncos. Yeah. Why you gotta
talk trash like that? Rohan? Why you gotta get on
the radio and talk trash? Man? What's wrong with you?
Because you get the Patriots? You want patriotic good? Oh,

(01:41:53):
these guys, all right, this is a tag team situation here?
Is that you? Who's your buddy over there? Rohan? Is
that the guy that called last Hour? I think so, Ben,
You are officially a top forty station. Djan tell you,
this is the this is the next generation. This is
the next generation. You can poo poo this and say no, no,

(01:42:15):
I don't want to hear the kids, but these are
the this is the the group in the next generation,
the next wave. I love when young people listening to
sports three. I wasn't saying it because the age. I
just meant because it's the same callers asking you if
it's time to call in yet for the you know,
the concert tickets. Oh that's right. Would you like to
win concert tickets? Me? Yeah? Yeah? How old are you? Thirteen? Yeah?

(01:42:45):
Who's your favorite band? I don't have a favorite bane
no band? You know? Well, he doesn't have the music
gene like me, he doesn't. You're not a music what megoes? Migoes?
What the ELL's that? I don't know what that is? Oh?
They are hip hop? Are they? Unless they're not? All right?
Do you like the NFL more than the CFL? What's

(01:43:07):
your deal? Yeah? NFL? Why is that? You're a bad Canadian?
What's wrong with you? Uh? I just like the Atlanta Falcons. Atlanta.
It's very random. You're about as far away from Atlanta
as you could possibly be. Why why would you be
in Atlanta? Falcon? But why don't you? It's the Seahawks.
You could probably go to a Seahawk game. You could
drive down to Seattle. It's close enough, geographically desirable. Why

(01:43:29):
would you be a Falcon fan? Are you being a
front Are you being a front runner? No? No No? No,
I'm from Atlanta? Are you from him? All right? All right?
That's fine. All right, that's an odd switch, but I'm
sure there's a great reason for it, and thank you.
Hey it's the kitty corner on the Ben Mall Show.
I like to listen. I'm not against it. On the
old Weekend show, when my bosses I knew they'd never

(01:43:51):
heard the show, we used to just take kid calls
because that's the only cause we would get. It's like,
you know, ten year olds that would call the show
was great and must have been fascinating radio. Yes, got
me to the peak of broadcasting. Look at me now,
I've reached the very top working on Labor Day. But no,
a lot of those guys still listen, Danny, you pooh
pooh that. But those guys, those ten year olds twenty
years ago, not thirty, in the prime demographic right there,

(01:44:15):
dominating sports radio, and their calls are just as good today.
Still suck as callers, but they still listen, and that's
all I care about. They're loyal to this show and
that's very important. We will get to what the fox,
what did the fox say? Or what does the fox say?
Get it right? Stupid. We will also have the instant
AdviceLine unscreened radio. You listen to the Ben Maller Show

(01:44:37):
on Fox. Where can you get to all that? But first,
Ralph Irvin in for Eddie with the latest Ralph, thank
you very much. Ben. You know the hottest team in
Major League Baseball right now? Let me guess, is it
the Dodgers? It is not. It is damn Cleveland Indians.
They've won eleven straight and be Detroit on Sunday eleven
to one running away. Now with the Central Division, the Yankees.

(01:44:58):
It helps Rolf that they play Ashmallows in their division.
It helps like San Diego. Well, the Dodgers have to
play the Rockies and the Diamondbacks. And I know you
claim to be a baseball guy, Ralph, and if you
look at the wild cards standings in the National League,
both those teams will be playoff teams, and San Diego
is not. It doesn't matter that Diamondbacks and Rockies are

(01:45:21):
both playoff teams and they're in the same division as
the Dodgers. You want to fight a step outside right now,
me and you after I'm done here. Because the Yankees
were nine two winners over Boston, New York with four
home runs Aaron Judge with his thirty eighth the Red
Sox lead the American League East by three and a half.
In the National League, Atlanta five one win over the Cubs,

(01:45:43):
Maxfield with his major league debut, he gets to win
Milwaukee a seven two winner over Washington, the Brewers three
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(01:46:04):
And UCLA came back from thirty four points in the
third quarter. They beat Texas A and M forty five
forty four. And since we're talking to advice, Ben, Yeah,
what advice can you have for Texas A and M fans.
I know that you suffered through the Clippers taking a
set with Houston in twenty fifteen. Yeah, here's what I
would tell them. Oh, Ben was there at that game too.

(01:46:26):
Stop you were a man. I've never seen you so upset.
I was professional, I was fine. I came here like
a good broadcaster. I did my job, doing your job.
Don't try to manipulate this story, Danny Gee, what's wrong
with you? And Lesten you gotta own it. You're embarrassed.

(01:46:46):
You've got a lot of shame. It's a humiliation Situation's mortifying,
demoralizing and disheartening. And the team, aren't you put? At
thirty four point lead? Kind almost as bad as a Ralph?
What's trending that it's terrible? So the Ben Maller Show

(01:47:07):
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(01:47:27):
excited about this. The instant AdviceLine who needs our advice?
I think we kind of revealed who needs our advice
here a moment ago. We'll get to that in a moment,
But first the line. It was from a from a song.
What does the fox say? A while back? And at
the Baylor football game? Did you see the video went
viral if you were not paying attention, forget about Baylor

(01:47:50):
losing the game. There's a about a thirty second clip,
I would say, of a fox running through the bleachers
in Wake, Texas as it looks like it's before the
game as Baylor is getting ready to play some college
football and lose to Liberty, which is a whole different conversation.

(01:48:11):
But maybe they were distracted by the fox as it
scampered around the bleachers where women at I don't know,
but the fox was in the bleachers at Baylor's season
opening game. And why do I find that more interesting
than the blow? I sat at my phone and watched
for like seven to eight minutes. I kept watching the loop.

(01:48:33):
It's like a ten second clip, and I kept watching
it over and over again of the fox, Like I
have a lot of questions. I don't know how the
fox obviously got into the stadium. Was the fox living
in the stadium. Maybe the fox had been living There's
been no football there for a while. Maybe the fox
was living in the stadium, and then these mean people,
these human beings came in there. And you want to

(01:48:53):
take a bet that when Pete's office opens up, probably
not today because it's Labor Day, they'll try to take
advantage of this and get some publicity out of it.
The animal rights guys will be involved in this. They'll
be sending a memo out and it'll be all kinds
of meetings they're gonna have to take place because of
the fox. I'm gonna go yes, And does the fox talk?
What does the fox say? I would like to know.

(01:49:15):
I would like to And if you were sitting in
the stands at a college football game and a fox
ran by, you would you would there there be any
level of concern? It looks like a small, little baby fox.
I think I could take it. I think I could
handle it. I would not be concerned about the fox here.
I think my dog Bella is bigger than the fox,
and my dog Bella is pretty smart. But I think
I would be Okay. There's a father and a son

(01:49:38):
sitting there. Look, there's a fox running by as I'm
getting ready to watch a football game. How exciting is that?
Do you see this at any other state? I guess
in college football you probably do, because there's a lot
of stadiums in rural situations. But in the NFL, how
often do you see a fox? You see squirrels and
things like that, but you don't often see foxes. All right,
on Fox, it's the Ben Maller Show on Fox. You

(01:49:59):
know what time it is? Yes? Absolutely? Hey, you sports
figure guy, or girl here when you talking to son,
here some instant advice. Hold that thought. No one's paid
attention to me for ten whole seconds. And if you
don't like it, and oh, here we go. It's the
instant advice line on screen radio. Your wisdom, your knowledge,

(01:50:22):
your nuance is needed. It is required. You must help
out your fellow man, give them some knowledge. Here. You
are the expert. You are savvy, you are talented, so
you can call up right now and give advice. Who
needs our advice? This is so simple. Some weeks we
go back and forth, we have meetings and try to

(01:50:44):
figure out who it is. But it's pretty simple. This
is basic. This week, when you have a team blow
a thirty four point lead in the late stages of
the third quarter, you don't we don't have to be
innovators here and be over the top creative. Your advice
to Kevin Sumlin, the head coach for now at Texas

(01:51:07):
and m after blowing a thirty four point lead at
the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on a Sunday night
on Fox against UCLA. Your advice to Kevin Sumlin, you're
live on the air. When you hear my voice, we'll
take as many calls as we can. It is essential
that you get right to the point. Please, and you

(01:51:31):
can give your advice. You're the deep sinker, you're the
deep thinker. You can give your wisdom right now. You're
the expert. Here we go. We'll start out with line one.
It is the instant advice line on the Ben Maller
Show on Fox. Kevin Sumlin, What is your advice to
Kevin Sumlin? Twenty one thirty three? Oh, I see that's
he changed it up the Bible verse guy. He's been

(01:51:52):
doing that for the last couple of weeks. Line two,
you are an ex advice to Kevin Sumlin, the Texas
and M coach for now blew a thirty four point
lead to U c LA. Don't choke on your mate?
Are you jerk yourself awake? All thank you? Just put
a T shirt with that on it. Line that's all millions.
Line three, Hell, okay, don't choke on your meat. Line three,

(01:52:14):
go Texas fell off their horse just like William Shatner.
Well that's a shot. That's all right though. I like that.
It's a good cheap shot. He told me that he
called me an f and clown. Didn't he call me
an F and clown. William Shatner, a guy I watched
as a child growing up because he's a million years
old on the USS Enterprise called me an F and clown.

(01:52:36):
Line four, Hello, Line four, Line force, Not there, We're
going to line five. You're listening to Fox Sports Radios
instant advice. Line line five, we're giving advice to Kevin Sumlin,
the Texas A and M coach on how to recover
from a thirty four point blown lead. Ben, My best
advice is don't put goo all over your mouth pad. Yeah,

(01:52:59):
that's pretty good. Advise that to more people if you
have a mousepad. Line six, go yes, Ben. I would
look Kevin sumone square in the eye and say on yourself,
and Kevin Sumlin would say, who who is that? I
don't know who that is? Line one, Hello, line one,

(01:53:21):
you are on the radio. Your advice to Kevin Sumlin
coach Sumlin, Texas and am blew a thirty four point lead?
How do they recover? Take the advice of Tom Loony.
All right, thank you. He doesn't give advice, not good advice,
certainly not real estate advice. I would I would imagine
his football advice is also lacking random. Line I can't imagine.

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Oh that's cowboy John brad and Windsor Ontario, a good Canadian.
Not sure that's exactly that will all make him feel
better clearly. Line six, Hello, line six, you gotta call
oh Tom? All right? Stop that please, it's repetitive. We've
already heard that. Line one. Your advice to Kevin Sumlin.

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You're on Fox Sports Radio. Has Team blew a thirty
four point lead, called Johnny Manzel. He's got hookers in cocaine.
That's right. Now, take your mind off everything. Keep you
going to many calls as we can't keep calling. You
had a busy signal. Keep calling. Line two, Hello, line too.
Your advice to Kevin Sumlin, I would tell him to

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call Doc Rivers Clippers. Yeah, I know who Doc Rivers is.
I'm aware of him. Thank you for that. Who's Doc Rivers?
I know that Clippers are set? Who? This is wonderful?
All right, let's go where were we? Line three? Hello,
line three, Yeah, you should be asking for advice for

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the Dodgers because they peak two te oh no, no,
the Dodgers. You told me you are you more ran?
You told me they had to lose some games. Now
they're losing game, and now they peaked him soon. Guess
which finger I'm holding up to quote Bill Shatner, You're
an f and clown? How about that jerk? Line four? Hello,

(01:55:09):
line four? Kevin Sumlin needs to kick his quarterback in
the n which is the other thought of it took us? Oh? Really,
I didn't know that was the other side. I know
the took is because my my grandfather spoke Yiddish when
I was a kid, so I learned a little Yiddish,
all the bad words I learned? What a mention? Line five? Hello?
Line five? I don't know why I keep clout on

(01:55:29):
the show. Is it a hockey season? You? Oh? God,
I love it. I love it all right? Here we go.
Let's go to line six. Hello, line six? Never heard
of him? Never heard of him? All right? Kevin Sumlin,
the Texas A and M coach. Never a thirty four
point lead? Is his team did? How do they recover

(01:55:50):
your advice? Brison ty Casey? Oh it's oh that was
Kelby jump? Yeah? What happened to Crimson tie Casey? That's
a good one. He totally left us in the dust there,
Crimson tide Casey. I don't know what happened to line one. Hello,
line one, you are he was a kid caller years ago. Hello,
line one, Hey, they should make him walk back to

(01:56:11):
Texas while repeating Ben Maller's nickname. Yeah, all forty one
of my glorious nicknames. No one else has forty one nicknames.
No one that's capital punished in radio other than me.
That is a great I will have to have the
reading of the nicknames later. We'll do a couple more.
Line number two. You are next line to your advice

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to Kevin Sumlin. He should try tampering for better players
like the Lakers. Yeah, that's right, team tamper, cheat, tears, cheats, cheats, yes, sorrow.
Do one more and only one more, and let's go
see Robert. You pick it. You're in for the Cooper loop?
And who do you have here? The last call? If

(01:56:53):
it's good, I'll take credit. If not, I will blame you. Hello,
this is where you turning, Mike Gon Robin number five,
I didn't know all right? Line fun guy, my God's money,
Mike button. Line five. You are the final call on
the instead vice line for Kevin Sumlin. Your advice please

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get yourself a nine year old girl is angry bell
the famous line, well, how ironic is this, Danny? We
actually have I just have been sent as. We have
breaking news reports out of a Texas A and M.
A regent for Texas A and M, Tony Busby has

(01:57:37):
called publicly for coach Kevin Sumlin's removal from Texas A
and M. So it is starting now, it actually started
a while ago, but a prominent Houston attorney who happens
to be a Texas A and M regent is calling
for Kevin Sumlin to be removed as the head coach

(01:58:00):
Texas A and M. We'll have more on that developing story.
Will Kevin Summon make it through labor day as the
head coach at Texas A and M. It is shaky ground,
shaky ground he is on. All right, we'll call this
one doubling down. We'll get to that. We'll do it next.

(01:58:24):
Known as the most unique show on sports radio, the
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Studios and Ben Maller. Well, we've heard a lot in
the last week or so of prominent people, wealthy people

(01:58:47):
that have donated money to the people in Houston that
are suffering from the effects of the flooding and Hurricane Harvey. Well,
James Harden said over the Labor Day weekend he is
going to donate one million dollars. Just great, wonderful. I'm
not gonna talk about that. I want to talk about
instead James Harden doubling down on a statement which he

(01:59:09):
has no control over. Harden telling a fan that he
is going to be a Rocket for life. Now, this
is not a cause. I know he's got the contract
extension and he's going to going to make a ton
of money with the Rockets. He got these Supermax contract extension,
which is a wonderful extension the Supermax. He's gonna be

(01:59:30):
ridiculously rich and all that, and but likely never have
to play again. He signs the four year Supermax extension,
So Harden is going to cash in two hundred and
twenty eight million dollars. But if he wants to keep
playing after that contract, my point is this that he
most likely is gonna have to go somewhere else unless

(01:59:51):
the Rockets are gonna give him the Kobe Bryant package
where they just drag him around like the Lakers dragged
Kobe Bryant around when he couldn't play anymore. At the
end of his career. If Harden wants to continue to
play basketball, he's probably gonna have to go to another team. Now.
I get what he's saying, right, He'll he'll always be
associated with the Rockets, and he'll come back to the
Rockets and they'll make him a goodwill ambassador and all that.

(02:00:13):
I understand that. But to say there's only he's gonna
be Houston for life for the Rockets for life, you
don't control that. It's the NBA. You can end up
on a on another team. Everything's great right now. But
the Rockets, let's say this doesn't work out. They got
an aging Chris Paul, a brittle Chris Paul as their
point guard. That was their big pick up. And if
Chris Paul does what he's done in recent years, gets hurt,

(02:00:33):
misses a bunch of time, and under achieves in the postseason,
and suddenly that'll affect James Harden's standing as well. All rights.
Ben Maler's show on Fox and Again, the story, which
is developing a prominent member of a regent from Texas
A and M. A big high falutint lawyer calling for

(02:00:56):
the removal of Kevin Sumlin as the coach. A M
regent calling for someone to be removed. Well, I'm sure
this will be a fluid situation. Throughout the day. We'll
find out how much juice this particular region has at
A and M. There's not much that can be said
when you blow a thirty four point lead, but Kevin

(02:01:16):
Sumlin saying we didn't get it done as coach as well,
let me be fired today? Is it gonna be a
labored day house cleaning in Texas A and M. There
are calls from college station to get rid of the
an M coach following the game against UCLA. We will
discuss welcome in the beginning of another hour. It's the

(02:01:41):
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and the host of the most, Kevin Sumlin, ends up
being the talk of college football at the beginning of
the second half against UCLA, the most dominating half of
football of anyone all weekend. And now he's in the
torture chamber as the hot seat, getting cranked up for
the A and M coach as Josh Rosen. And you

(02:02:25):
see LA come back and the late third quarter down
thirty four points, it's the second largest comeback in NCAA
Division One history, A M up forty four to ten,
and they end up gagging away in the game. They
lose in the final seconds. Josh Rosen the game winning

(02:02:46):
touchdown passed with forty three seconds left in the football game.
So here's where we are. Now, here's the latest. In
the overnight hours, we have learned a prominent regent at
Texas AM, a big money lawyer, has come out and
called for the removal of Kevin Sumlin following the game.

(02:03:10):
The quote, and this is from the Houston Chronicle. I
was the only regent last year who expressed grave concern
with coach Sumlin. We expect more and he is calling
for someone to be removed as the coach. But is
this going to be a lone wolf situation or are
there going to be more people? I would think there

(02:03:32):
would be more boosters and whatnot that will call also
for someone to get out. Will commerheads prevail? We will
find out in the coming days and weeks, probably just
the coming day. I would think if someone's gonna get fired,
you would think he's going to be removed today, right
a labor day house cleaning for Texas A and M.

(02:03:54):
Because you gotta get on with your schedule and whatnot.
You got to prepare for future opponents and all that.
So if you're going to make a coaching change and
the twelfth man is going to get a new head coach,
then you were likely going to do it today, I
would think. And Texas A and M, you look at
their schedule, do you even need a coach? They're playing

(02:04:14):
Nichols in their next game. I believe that's the next opponent.
Do you need a head coach for that? I don't
think you do. I think you're okay, all right, ju
Ben Maller's show on Fox. Do I believe that Kevin
Sumlin will be fired today? I will say the odds
are sixty forty. Someone's out. I think there's a sixty
percent chance that someone's out. And I'll tell you why.

(02:04:36):
First of all, someone from what we're told, does not
have a buyout, meaning you don't have to ride a
massive check to get rid of them. If that's accurate.
The information that is out there that someone's buyout is
now over, it's expired. If that's true, there's nothing financially
holding back a M from getting rid of someone. And

(02:04:59):
we know that, head college football coach, you're living in
the fish bowl. And a couple of years ago, Kevin
Sumlin was the chosen one, right, he was going to
be an NFL coach. In fact, I had him the room.
I was ruminating that someone would end up in the
NFL back in the Johnny manziel heyday. And now now
there is self doubt. Now now there is a lot

(02:05:21):
of uneasiness, shall we say, and uncertainty around the Texas
A and M football program. But if you're going to
get rid of a coach, if you've decided it's it's
kind of a tough spot. First week of the year, right,
and you're you've got a bunch of games coming up
that are winnable games, right, I mean, the next couple
of games are our cupcase. You got the raging Cajuns

(02:05:45):
of Louisiana, Lafayette after Nichols, so Texas A and M's like,
you're gonna win the next couple of games. And then
they go into the SEC schedule and they've got Arkansas,
South Carolina and Alabama. Bam bam bam. Line them up
in a row. All three of those games our home.
They're in college stations. So they've got three games in
a row which are at home, but they're playing SEC opponents.

(02:06:07):
So if you're afraid, if you're a booster and you're
afraid that someone's gonna outlast this, are you gonna wait
until after the Alabama game as you get a reprieve,
is what I'm trying to say. I still say there's
a sixty forty chance that he's out, but it's not
eighty twenty or ninety to ten that someone is removed.
Ben Mallas show on FCTION to me, while I want

(02:06:28):
to pivot away from college football and go over to
the NFL, there was a transaction, a lot of transactions right.
It was a pink slipped weekend as rosters were chopped down,
the practice squads are being formed, and the fifty three
man rosters are being locked in for the beginning of
the regular season, and there were for a few minor traits,

(02:06:51):
a few minor deals that took place over the week,
and one stood out from the rest for me, and
it was Bill Belichick deciding to set Jacoby Brissette free
and saying goodbye, see later, we're gonna You're gonna let
you go to another team. We're done with you a
third string quarterback. And we don't usually get that excited

(02:07:14):
about third string quarterbacks. But New England sent Brissette to
the Colts and they got Philip Dorset, who's been mostly
a bust in Indianapolis, a formerly highly touted wide receiver,
aren't they all who has not lived up to the hype.
Another prospect who has been a suspect rather who was

(02:07:36):
supposed to be a prospect, but he has been a
suspect until proven otherwise. And so that part of the trade.
That's the nuts and bolts of it. But it's what
Indianapolis did after the deal that caught my attention. That
caught my attention. Now, if you miss this because you
were doing stuff over the weekend, you weren't paying close attention.
This is where I fill in the gaps here. The

(02:07:58):
Colts pr department sent out a press release celebrating the trade. Specifically,
there's one line that stood out among all the rest
that's in the actual release from the Indianapolis Colts. It
says that the six foot four, two hundred and thirty
five pound Brissette twenty four is coming off perhaps one

(02:08:21):
of the greatest preseason performances by a quarterback in NFL history.
That's the quote. How about that for a nice introduction
to a new team, a new employer that sounds like
someone that works at our company used to work at
our company. I don't know if they still do. Whenever
someone would get hired from outside the company, that this

(02:08:42):
particular person would just like a Rolodex, run down the
resume of all the call letters of the radio stations
this person would work for, and we'd get a kick
out of it because most of the people that got
hired were terrible, but they had great resumes. And Jacoby
Brissette in this particular case, I don't know if he's
gonna be terrible or not, but he certainly fell out

(02:09:03):
of favor because the logic is, if Tom Brady, if
this is Brady's last year, which some are convinced that
this is Brady's last year. I'm not. I do believe
that Brady's gonna fall off the cliff when he's when
it's over, it's going to It's not going to be
a slow decline. It's going to be a cliff situation.
That is my position on this. I don't believe Brady's
going to be able to dodge what Peyton Manning couldn't

(02:09:25):
dodge when he fell off the cliff, or Brett Farve
or a list of other quarterbacks at the end who
just sucked it could not get it done anymore. But
that's a different conversation. But so if he is gone
Brady after this year, I don't think he is, but
other people do. You could have Garoppolo and Brissette as

(02:09:45):
you're one two punch of quarterback. Belichick decided not to
do it. The question is how do you feel about
the Colts pr though trumpeting Jacobe Brissette and his preseason
prows again they said, one of the greatest preseason performances
by a quarterback in history. Of course, they threw in
perhaps now a couple of thoughts on this as it's puffery,

(02:10:13):
it's it's Andrew luck insurance, it's people with grumpy face syndrome,
and it's also standard operating procedure. So it's all of
those things. We'll start with the fact that obviously the
Colts practiced the ancient art of puffery. And I always
get a kick at people that are triggered by puffery.
And we see that a lot people just can't handle.

(02:10:34):
It's certain people not wire that way to accept it.
Jacoby Brissette had a fine performance against the against the Giants.
I believe it was in the Patriots exhibition lass Indianapolis
decided that let's let's dress it up a little bit,
let's embellish, enhance things. How would anyone know? Let me
ask you this, how would anyone know if that was

(02:10:56):
one of the great preseason performances of modern history. I
challenge you to go on the internet, right, and everything's
on the internet. You can find anything you want on
the internet. But how can you find someone who's a
preseason historian? Like who is someone studying the exhibition season
the NFL. I don't think you can find a practice

(02:11:19):
football history. You have better luck finding skeletons of Bigfoot
or like a low cowary cheese steak or something like that.
I mean, and that tastes good. You have a better
chance of finding that than a true history in a
preseason football they don't exist. And plus the Colts themselves
covered there took us because they added a weasel word

(02:11:44):
when they were talking about the trade. That they added
the weasel word perhaps, which is a classic weasel word,
perhaps as a distant cousin of could. It's also related
to may and almost, etc. Etc. Et cetera. If you
look at your big board of weazel words, it's right there.
So Brissette is Andrew luck insurance the Patriots. Let's here

(02:12:06):
from Bill Belichick though, because there's another side of the story.
Here's Bill Belichick, who will give his thoughts, his side
the Patriots position on Brissette being trade. We went into
the decision to trade Jacobe it or was it a
top of them of it all? Especially given some of

(02:12:27):
the toughness and some of the things that Trevy showed
you last year the rookie. If you want to get something,
we had our microphone over in Cape Cod. We put
our mic out there. We thought it would look good
and wow, was that a mister microphone that we used
in Cape Cod To record that only the best audio

(02:12:48):
here on Fox Sports. Ready, we spare no expense. You
don't really expect the microphone to be anywhere near Bill
Belichick's mouth? Do you? Can you understand Belichick even when
the mic is bright in front of his grill? No,
but it might be more enjoyable to listen to if
you're driving around. I'm just throwing that out there, But
all right, just to put the bow on this, listen.

(02:13:08):
There's a lot of layers to it. But Jacoby Brissetts
in a much better situation here. He is also a
better option than Scott Tolzine. Now, does that mean the
Colts are gonna start Jacoby Brissette against the Rams? Very unlikely.
But if Tolzine sucks at halftime, is there a good
possibility that Brissette could play the second half? Absolutely? If

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he's assume he's going to be part of the roster
and be in uniform, then absolutely. He's Andrew Luck insurance
and he doesn't make too much money, so it's pennies
on the dollar by NFL standards, So that's good. And
as far as the press release thing, those that have
grumpy face syndrome, the guys with the stick up where

(02:13:51):
the sun don't shine. You know what I'm talking about here,
the Colts. This is how they do things. The Colts
were peppered with low blows and people going crazy and
all that. My reaction, I thought it was hilarious when
I saw that. I thought that was funny. And if
you're at the point in your life where you're so
intense about football that you're annoyed by things like this,

(02:14:13):
I mean, it's ridiculous. Just see a therapist or something
like that. And the last thing, Jim Ersay has always
enjoyed hyperbole. This is what he does. His team has
done a lot of for the Colts. It's standard operating procedure.
This is much more palatable to me than the practice
of the Colts hanging up participation banners, which is what

(02:14:37):
they did. Remember the infamous AFC finalist banner that Jim
RSA's team put up after losing by almost forty points
for the Patriots in the I believe it was the
twenty fifteen AFC title game. So yeah, if you want
to say one of the greatest preseason performances, perhaps, why not?
All right? S Benn Maller's show on Fox and it's
labor day, so not everyone is laboring. Get Daddy's away,

(02:15:01):
Ralphson here, Robert is in for the Cooper Loop, and
Danny g Radio is in the house. Yes, he is
here hanging out with man. I just wanted to come
somewhere where there was air conditioning and no smoke in
my nostrils. Yeah. This is fire season, right, dang fire
near where you live. Yeah, I'm right at the base
of those foothills that have been blazoned since Friday. And

(02:15:26):
I got out of dodge, so I leave on Saturday, right,
I'm like, okay, obviously can't breathe this air. It was
just black billowy everywhere in my neighborhood. So I went
to Big Bear and so it's, you know, fun day
with my girl. And but then all of a sudden
Saturday night, we're like, what does that smell? That there
was all this smoke. There's a fire in Beaumont near

(02:15:49):
San Bernardino, and so that area got all inundated with smoke.
You got you got double way, Yeah, following me around.
It's not just here. Like my brother was driving through
Montana and he said, a bunch of fires on I Yes,
someone said there was a big fire in Idaho. Yeah,
and then he drove through down to Oregon and he

(02:16:11):
was in Medford, Oregon and he said there were huge
fires in Medford, Oregon driving through Medford, Oregon. So yeah,
I talked to Jeanie and Medford last week. She's not
doing well, but Jeanie told me that she's having problems
with the fires. There's a lot of smoke in the
air in Medford. Garlic. Yeah, Carl, I would not go
outside and just uh snort garlic. That's what I have.

(02:16:34):
My advice is, And if you listen to advice from
a guy on the radio, and then you deserve whatever
happens to you. Right well, they tell you the air
is not safe to breathe. So if you live right
where the fire is, then I think you're like, Okay,
you're gonna give me hotel money? Like what do I
do with that information? Just don't breathe? Yea, you don't
need to breathe. Breathing's overrated. Please, thank god. Everyone stopped

(02:16:56):
breathing at some point. The outcome is generally not good,
all Right's Ben maller Shaw on Fox will take a
bunch of these phone calls here also the odd man
outcoming up later in the hour. You protest, I protest.
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Now back to the gig Fox Sports Radio Studios, and
here he is, Ben Maller. That was me during the
World Cup. I am I'm mister soccer football football. Hey,

(02:17:39):
you know we only have When's the next World Cup?
Is twenty eighteen? Right on Fox. The World Cup is
going to be back June eighth, June eighth, Friday, June eighth,
two hundred and seventy seven days from today. The FIFA
World Cup in Russia, which I believe it'll be playing

(02:18:00):
the games while we're on the air. Oh le leo,
leo L. They sing that in Russia a lot. It's
that's Russian. Actually I learned that watching Russian soccer. Wonderful. Yes,
is it going to be a glorious time? Cannot wait
the twenty eighteen World Cup. What did I read online
that if you if you have a kid now, I

(02:18:23):
think that is the time right on this there's a
certain period of time where if you knock up your
woman then the kid will be born around the time
of the World Cup? Was it now or is it?
Has it already passed? And then they said they were
trying to figure out on the internet. One of the
places I was looking this month is it? So it
is this month? So if you if you have a child,

(02:18:43):
a spawn in the oven, the kid will pop out
and then you can take leave to be with the child,
wink wink, and then just watch the World Cup. But
I'm not that into the World Cup, so I'm good now.
My friends tell me it's never a good time to
have a kid. There's never a time. That's just that's it. Yeah,
all right. The big story here Kevin Sumlin is he out?

(02:19:05):
Is he in? At Texas An there's only one region
that's gone on the record, and he says his vote
is to remove Kevin Sumlin as coach. Took nineteen minutes
to blow a thirty four point lead against UCLA, and
that is what they would like. At least one region
here is calling for the head of Kevin Sumlin and

(02:19:27):
he's gonna have to face the music here and you
got to own it, right, You got to own it.
And accountability does matter. But you look at the schedule
and even if Somelin survives today, you've got winnable games
in the next couple. But then you've got three in
a row, Arkansas, South Carolina and Alabama. Now they're all

(02:19:47):
at home. They're all home games. But is Texas am
I'm gonna come out of that three and all? Are
they gonna be sitting here the next five games? Five
and all? They got Alabama, They're gonna be an Alabama
other way the way they played defense in the second half.
Coma James is in Memphis on Fox Sports Radio. Hello James,

(02:20:09):
Oh is this bathtop? James? And you had to talk
to you about two or three years. Last time we
talked with was with Mabee had a fut uh we
fut uh pack Ye. Where have you been? James? I
was wondering what happened here? Oh man, I've been uh
ten different states. I've been spreading the word I mean
different Huh. You're all over it. But you're back in

(02:20:32):
Memphis now you're back with you back in Memphis, but
I was a California last Uh August said, uh, yeah,
you should have you should have come by James. Now,
for those that don't know James, you are arguably the
longest listener to the show. You you were listening to
the old Ben and Dave show in LA when I
started right, big, big, Yeah I did. I had. I
had a boxing match with uh this, Uh, one of

(02:20:54):
those uh this attacks that I forgot about it. He
was stood the tree at that time. But that was
fifty two and I backed it by the first role.
Really is that right? Look at that fun factor by James.
I had no idea and you know, now seventy one,
but next one, next month, I'd be seventy two, but
a lot to do. I'm seventy one and have a

(02:21:14):
lot of funks right now. Look and you rhyme, you
got rhymes, you got bars, do a lot of rides.
I've makeuse a lot of money off for poetraits. If
you drink, why you mess up it by If you
drink gin you can't win. If you drink beer, you're
showing your years. If you drink blacker, you're off your rocker.
If you drink rum, you're pretty dumb. If it's smoke dope,
you've long your hope. If it's smoke there of water,
the police will be on you. If you lie, you're

(02:21:36):
miss having in the sky. If you're curse and hell,
you with thirst. If you miss a PCP right for
robally hard to see. Our local sex will put you
the wreck. If you smoke cigarette, you have many regrets.
If you mess with a love for peals, you have
many heels. If your brain wow, and the last wasn't one.
If you mess with more, if you're messed with crack,

(02:21:59):
you wind upon your back. If you're missing about somebody's
husband and wife, you might get a gun on a knife. Wow.
Life experience from James. It's almost as bad as your nickname. No,
it's not. That was wonderful, James. I you gotta call
me more often, James. I need this kind of commentary. Well,
I'm going to call you a more offen, another station
act the call of a Morten. Because I'm back. I'm back,

(02:22:21):
all right, Well, thank god you're back. America's night National
Nightmare is over. Sports talk radio can go on now.
Because bathtub James, who's in his bathtub? He calls us
from his bathtub. Right they call you sometime then the
man's naked. Look at you. Listen, you're listening to a
naked man right here. Listen to that where you're bathing suiting,

(02:22:44):
but I got a running suit on now, Oh you're
a running suit. I got you. All right, Well listen, James,
you begin you don't think someone's gonna be fired. You
think he'll be okay. Yeah, I'm in top shape. I
tell you. You know, it's amazing. That's it's amazing him
in top shape. I'm seventy one. And look at that
I see in your hearing is great. Yes, all right, well,

(02:23:04):
thank you, James, I love you brother. Be good, James,
you're the good. You're a good man. He's been with
me a long time, James Ben speaking many states he's
been in speaking of being around seventy years old. I
know that Cowboy usually does our death shout outs. But
you may have noticed I played one Steely Dan song
per hour because Walter Becker, they're a co founder of
Steely Dan, passed away yesterday on Sunday. Another music Yeah,

(02:23:28):
another rock legend gone. How many people? How many people
do you think when they hear Steely Dan. Think it's
just one person. I know. I think most people know
it's a band. There's some people that don't know that.
You'd be surprised. You would be surprised. O oh, just
because the name Dan. Who's Dan from Steely Dan? What's

(02:23:49):
that guy? All right? You don't see to the Ben
Mather Show on Fox will get to you. Protest, I protest.
Also the odd Man Out if you would like to
play the odd Man Out. Call now. Operators are standing
by Roberts sitting there. He's waiting. He needs a contestant
for the odd Man Out. We will get to that,
all of it in just a bit. Here's a call

(02:24:11):
right now. Ralph Irvine though, is giving me the evil eye,
and he will tell you the latest. What's the latest, Ralph?
It's not an evil eye. Then it's a sad one
for Florida State, as their sophomore quarterback DeAndre francois we'll
miss the rest of the season. He's gonna have surgery
on an injured to Patel attendant. That happened late in
the game Saturday night with Alabama. Speaking of late in

(02:24:35):
the game, well that's what UCLA took the lead for
the first time make it the second time. They led
three nothing, then they fell behind by thirty four points,
came back to beat Texas A and M forty four
on the top twenty five, number twenty one Virginia Tech
A thirty one twenty four winner over number twenty two Virginia.

(02:24:55):
With True Car, you can find out what other people
in your area paid for the same car you're looking
four newer used. Is it True Car to enjoy or
more confident car buying experience? Ben? Yeah, yeah, Ralph? What, yes,
I'm here. I stepped out for a second of I'm back.
Are you doing okay? Well, I'm working on Labor Day.
Everyone else is off. Well, I mean the Dodgers haven't

(02:25:18):
worked for like ten days and nine game lead over
everyone else. Take the next two weeks off this, they'll
be fine. Eight of nine games they lost to San
Diego three or four. Called building up a big fat
lead is what it's called, Ralph. You don't none of
your teams know about that. I don't have any teams.
Oh stop? Oh yeah, mister neutral, Ralph. I hate everybody. Yeah,

(02:25:41):
and everyone hates you, Ralph. At least your work here.
I know. That's how I learned that from you. Really,
I'm honitored. I taught you something that's great. Are you done?
Is that it? Are you? Yeah? It's one of a
little shot at the Dodgers at the end, you thought
that would be good. I just want to make sure
you're okay. I'm fine. I don't work for the Dodgers anymore.
I have nothing. I have no allegiance. I know you

(02:26:03):
don't even get a paycheck to suffer the way you do. No, Listen,
I didn't watch every game in San Diego. Was college
football stuff going on over the weekend. So I'm good.
You know who's also good? That would be dick In Dayton,
who's on Fox Sports Radio. He's a superhero and he's
on Fox Sports. Hello, dick In Dayton. Happy Labor Day,

(02:26:26):
Fox Sports. Ben's Happy Labor Day. I thought I shock
you today, Ben, How are you gonna shock me? What
are you gonna do? No? I said, I'm gonna call
my buddy on Labor Day? I always are you? You
normally call me on holiday? It's holiday, Dick, Yeah, it's
a holiday. Hey, Ben, Now what do you know about

(02:26:48):
Labor Day? Well? I know one thing they uh, they
need lead to today and I want to tell you
yesterday was my day. One of the older man saw
me in the lot and he says, are you Dick,
And I said yeah, and he says, well, I want
to go in and tell the manager that I hear

(02:27:08):
you wanted to Ben Malor show and Dick, thanks for
all your work. It was then that's great. Well you
have given out the address of the store, so you
have announced in the past exactly where you work. I
know there's a couple of locations in the Dayton area,

(02:27:28):
but you're you're a great pr They should give you
a raise. You do more a free advertising for lows
on the radio, Dick, than anyone else. And also I
just wanted to tell you our band played at Clifton
Opera House but he was a little bit chilly and
we got our email from our from our director. Is

(02:27:50):
one of the best shows and he says, thank you
Dick from Dayton for a great show. You make people happy.
You see what you do? You make people happy. They
loved around you. They get everyone wants to be around
the Indians. They can't stop. They just keep going on
and on. What do you think Indians dodging World Series?

(02:28:11):
Is that what you're looking at? Right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know, I think so, I really do. You're not
gonna well, you are gonna be sad because the Dodgers
are gonna win, you know, yeah yeah, All right now,
I want you on the record. I don't think they
can stop the Dodgers. All right. You're a smart man,
You're very smart. All right now, Dick and Dayton, here
we go on the record. I don't know if we'll

(02:28:31):
talk to you. Haven't called his offense, so I don't
know if i'll talk to you again this week. I
want your five star prediction. How many wins for the
Cleveland Browns this year? Dick and Dayton go five? Five
wins for the Browns five, and the Cincinnati Bengals will win?
How many games on the record five star pick from
Dick and Dayton eight and eight average average for the Bengals.

(02:28:57):
All we'll have a great labor day. Don't labor too hard,
Dick and Dayton, Okay, have a good day. Call later
this week. We'll play the game. Bye bye, bye bye.
There he goes the famous Dick in day always nice.
First labor day was what eighteen eighty two? I believe
first labor always a fun fact every labor day. We
say the first Labor Day with eighteen eighty two. It

(02:29:18):
didn't become a national holiday for years later. Blah blah,
blah blah blah. All right, let's get to it. Here
we go. Hey, Maller, Militia, you think you can spot
a mistake? Teams didn't won an championship Lakers difference, He's clippers.
Wait a minute, that's not right. See if you can
spot the one that doesn't belong during odd Man Out
on the Ben Maller Show. All right, let's do it

(02:29:40):
a see odd man Out. Let's see if I know
he didn't call for this, but no condom, Carl, I
want to give you a chance at a golden ticket.
Would you like to have a chance to win a
golden ticket? I would be just honored them. All right,
you've been on hold for a while. I know these
are very meaningful. They have no monetary value, but they
have a very im portant value on our show. So's

(02:30:02):
you can tell he's hard at work there, and I'm
gonna have to pull over to the side of the
road so I can really concentrate. No kind who we're
delaying the labor of no condom Carl he right now
is in the boondocks of Massachusetts. All right, let's do it.
The odd man out for Carl Golden ticket on the line.
You gotta get three of these right, and we have

(02:30:24):
the fifty fifty you can use one time. Well, we'll
eliminate two answers and make it a fifty fifty possibility.
You also have a lifeline, so it's ridiculously easy, and
here we go. Question number one. These backup quarterbacks were
once drafted in the first round. You gotta figure out
the one that does not belong. These backup quarterbacks were
drafted in the first round. We have eight Nick Foles,

(02:30:48):
b Mark Sanchez, ce Blaine Gabbert, and d Paxton Lynch.
Oh kay, well, I would say let's go with the
first one there. All right, Nick Foles. You're gonna go
with Nick Foles? Is it? Nick Foles? Let's find out
that is correct. Good job by you. Nick Foles is

(02:31:13):
a backup quarterback back with the Philip Delphi Eagles. They's
been injured, but I believe he's still the backup quarterback
in Philadelphia. A. You got that one right, correct, You're
on your way. Question number two for no condom Carl
Golden Ticket online. These wide receivers had less than ten
receiving touchdowns last season. We're looking for the one that

(02:31:34):
did not that had more than ten receiving touchdowns. A.
Brandon Cooks, B. Alan Hearns, C. Ted Gin and d A. J. Green.
Oh God, God, is not one of the options. God,

(02:31:54):
God had more than ten receiving touchdowns. Let's go. You're
gonna go with a Jay Green of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Is it AJ Green? No? Yeah, that didn't work out
because AJ Green had some injury issues. Yea last year.

(02:32:15):
That that cuts down the touchdown numbers are did not
get that one, right. We move on to question number three.
You gotta get two more, right, No condom, Carl Golden
Ticket on the line. Here we go. These quarterbacks had
at least three rushing touchdowns last season, so we're looking
for the one that did not have at least three
rushing touchdowns last season. A. Aaron Rodgers, B Andrew luck Ce,

(02:32:40):
Blake Bortles and d Alex Smith. Oh God, you couldn't
put in the quarterback. I know. Huh um, yes, no
one's heard of Aaron Rodgers. That is correct. No, no, no, no,
it's just the ones I knew didn't rush. Okay, okay's flustered.

(02:33:01):
I can tell you're flustered right now. I am, I am.
You're gonna go. You should use your fifty fires, your
fifty fifty of you. Okay, Let's let's go with the fifty,
all right. The fifty fifty is either a Aaron Rodgers
or be Andrew Luck. I'd say Aaron Rodgers because I
don't see him running. I is, from what I've seen,

(02:33:22):
he doesn't run the way. Um, we'll go with Rogers,
all right? Now, Carl, are you sure you want to
do that? What was the other choice? Andrew Luck? Yeah, Okay,
let me see if I can have a little luck
with this one. We'll go with Well, you've given a choice. Well,

(02:33:43):
you want to go with Rogers, you said Rodgers though
you're Kickers. No, I want to I want to want
to change it. I realized the error of my ways.
All right, and now you want Andrew Lack? You sure
you want Andrew? You don't want to go back to Rogers?
All right, but I'm gonna I'm gonna I feel well,
you know you're gonna kick yourself if it's Aaron Rodgers though,
you know, so what's your final answer? Um? Um, so

(02:34:09):
you're going with Andrew Luck? All right? Is it? Is it?
Andrew Luck? Yeah? MASL calls, Oh my god, Uh it's
a great a com Yes, you got it. I don't
know how you got that right, it's amazing. Yes, Andrew Luck,
who was also hurt most of last year quite a bit,
missed a big chunk of time. All right, question number four.
You get this one right, you win the game, no
condom of car, you get the golden ticket. You go

(02:34:31):
your direction, we go our direction. We're good and here
you listen can play along as well against the odd
man out. We're looking for the one that does not
belong and here we go. These NFL teams were perfect
from for extra points last year. They did not miss
an extra point last season. All right, there you go,

(02:34:52):
point after touchdown. These teams were perfect. We're looking for
the one that is incorrect. Yes, yes, that's right. A
the Dallas cow Boys be the Atlanta Falcons see Pittsburgh
Steelers and DV Los Angeles Rams. Okay, Ben, I'm okay,

(02:35:13):
you know Ben, I'm gonna pull my lifeline on this one.
Oh that's a dirty trick. Okay, all right, where do
you want to go? Here? Ralph or Danny g or Robert.
I'm gonna have to go with Danny because the other
two guys, I don't know him well enough. I know
Danny's expertiseous. You just disrespected the other guys. That's fine, okay,

(02:35:35):
all right, Robert wanted some airtime. You know, Robert's over here,
said what about me? I never get airtime. It's kind
of a shot in the dark bend. But the boy
wonder caller you had on earlier was an Atlanta Falcons fan.
Remember I do remember that. Yeah, so I'm in his honor.
I'm gonna say Atlanta, all right, condom, no condom, Carl,

(02:35:56):
howlet's call you condom for short condom? Do you want
to go with the Falcon is their condom? Do you
want to go somewhere else? I can't hear what you said.
I didn't hear the beginning of that. I have the
confidence that Danny's not gonna let you down. Well, you
want a confident condom. You don't want a condom that
breaks and all that. So I'm gonna go He's gonna

(02:36:17):
go with Bees in Atlanta. That's so that is a winner.
No condom Car, the Atlanta Falcons. Correct, good job by you,
and that means that means you know what you get, Yeah, tickets,
use it wisely, Use it wisely. I will, and this

(02:36:38):
has made my labor day. All right, they're very good.
You are a loyal minion. You have supported us. So
good luck and there you go. No condom Carl, the
winner of his own personal golden ticket. We'll get to
cowboys corner and do you protest? I protest? We'll get
to all that. We'll do it next. The Ben Mallers

(02:37:03):
Show has been called the most unique show on sports radio.
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(02:37:29):
You protest? I protest? I don't know. Do we have
the clip of my man Gus Johnson trying to pronounce
the name of the Arizona Cardinal Safety. Do we get
that at all? Robert? Do we have that? I don't
putting you on the spot here, but there was a
there was a Cooper Loop like moment there during the
Fox broadcast. And as a fellow broadcaster who has attempted

(02:37:52):
to say many names that I should not pronounce, I
always enjoy when a big time broadcaster I cannot pronounce
the name now, Tyron Matthew is the name that Gus
Johnson was trying to pronounce, otherwise known as the honey
Badger back when he was in college. Although he doesn't
want to be called that anymore anyway, Let's just say

(02:38:15):
Gus Johnson had a very difficult time, very very difficult
time trying to pronounce that name, and I enjoyed it.
And I didn't catch it actually on the live broadcast,
but thank god for the Internet in social media, they
kept replaying it over and over and over again. It
was it was a little tough, a little tough there
for Gus Johnson to try to pronounce that name. So well,

(02:38:38):
we're efforting to get that audio. I'm sure we will
get that soon enough. Let's say hello to Lend the
barbecuing man who is in Washington. Hello, Land, Hey, what's
going on? Then stay away from that meat. You don't
want to choke on the wrong vein. Hold on saying, man,
we got the audio. Land let's go to the audio.

(02:39:00):
Here's my man, Gus Johnson. We love him and we've
all had moments like this, and this was his moment again,
trying to pronounce the honey badger's name. It's like his
Draca parison stafmer Lsu playmaker Tyrone Mattou Matau. He said,

(02:39:28):
lt play, I said, Mattoe. We played again. I want
to hear it again. This is great, all right, this
is good. It keeps me from the protest story too,
which I know you guys don't want to do. All right,
played again, go ahead and play his Draca parison stafmer
Lsu playmaker Tyrone Mato Matau. He did, Mattou. Of course,

(02:39:53):
to be fair, I've done the same thing. But I
don't think I butchered to that beat. I don't see
my movies. I'll just call him the honey batter as
I I just call him. I don't even attempt to
say it. But he did. He went for it, so
that was great. All right. Let's say hello to oh Paul. Hello,
Paul awake? You think Paul's awake at the hospital there
in four load of you. You're a good man, Paul,

(02:40:17):
Well not because you stay up on now, will you
listen to the show, Paul? How many wins for the
Dolphins this year? Paul been ten? Paul, that medication's doing
stuff to you. Man, Jay Cutler is your quarterback? What's
wrong with you? You know the Dolphins aren't winning eleven
games this year, although you do get two with the
Jets and two with the Bills, so that should be
four wins? Right? And run about we played that. We

(02:40:41):
don't play any run about the Chargers? What about the chart?
I don't have the schedule in from me. Let's say
hell on a cowboy, John Brad windsor on Arry y'all
for a quick hello two year Eastern daylight time on Monday,
September four, twenty seventeen. Happy Labor Day and bye bye

(02:41:02):
Kevin Sun one and Dodgers remember nineteen fifty one speaking
people tomorrow morning were fine? There he goes out, kicked
the coverage. I hear Clay Travis is in. He's working,
and how about that? You know why it's college football season?
This is his time, this is his wheelhouse right here.
He's warming up in the Fox Sports Radio Open

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