May 31, 2025 • 27 mins
Big Ben talks about Rich Paul claiming that LeBron James does NOT call the shots for the Lakers, Danica Patrick diving into her past relationship with Aaron Rodgers, the Cowboys protecting George Pickens, Maller's Mountain of Money: Lenny Kravitz Edition, and more!
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(01:58):
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is from the King James version of NBA Conversation. Several
of you reached out to me over the weekends. Did
(02:20):
you see what the quote was? Can you believe that?
Oh my god? And this is all about Rich Paul,
the Lebron James creation, Rich Paul without Lebron. Rich Paul
is hanging out somewhere in Ohio and has a regular job,
maybe a good union job, but a regular job, and
(02:41):
that's that. But now he's a gazillionaire, and I think
is he married to to the singer Adele. I don't
know they married. I don't think they're married. They're just
they're just a stupid that's all, all right. So anyway, Rich
Paul commenting on Lebron Lebron James, saying that Lebron James
is recorded to Rich Paul, Lebron James does not have
as much power as the perception is in basketball world.
(03:06):
In the basketball world there, he does not decide, does
not decide what the what is going on there the
Laker personnel moves and all that stuff. In a recent
appearance with member of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association,
Rich Eisen, the NBA agent there claiming claiming Rich Paul
(03:26):
claiming that his client has limited involvement in key front
off his decisions. So I don't even saw this or not,
maybe you missed it over the weekend. So Rich Paul
saying that the idea that Lebron James Lebron is the
unofficial GM of the Lakers. He said, that's quote false,
(03:46):
that's false, he said, that's false. So we can slice
this up a million different ways, but let us discuss
for a couple of good minutes. Here the question for
the esteem panel, what you are part of? So Rich Paul,
Lebron's age, longtime business associated, business associate friend, Rich Paul,
(04:07):
all of those things right, he's in the inner circle,
Rich Paul. He goes on the record, Rich Ball saying
that Lebron James does not run the Lakers. That's the quote,
right there? Are you buying that? Are you buying that?
So I've got fingerprints, unleaded gasoline, and groundwork, and we
(04:27):
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make the gobbaol. We're gonna make the gabba
goouls what we're gonna make all right? So number I
said number Yeah. Now the quote the great Andy Furman.
We were born at night, but not last night. So no,
(04:49):
not buying what they're selling, not buying it. Now. I
know there's a lot of people that live in Suckersville,
the low information fan that we'll say, Well, Rich Paul
said it, and if he said it must be true,
he wouldn't have said it if it's not true. So
Rich Paul said it. It's true, and about a being
bout the boom, just like that but we're not. We're
not that. Listen. Rich Paul is a guy who is
(05:12):
as far in the tank as you could possibly be
for Lebron. He is a creation of Lebron James. He
would be nothing without Lebron. And I get it. You
are beholden to Lebron. You are, and I would be too.
I would lick Lebron's toes if I had the life
Rich Paul has, I would all because of Lebron. Nothing
he did, he just happened to latches, you know what,
(05:34):
into Lebron and there you go. And so I mean,
don't kidd yourself here, come on, let's look at this objectively.
Lebron may not have the title general manager of the Lakers.
He may not have that particular title. It's just semantics.
It's all semantics. Lebron influences everything, and every man, woman
(05:56):
and child knows it. Everything, coaches, trades, rotations, all of it.
His fingerprints, Lebron's fingerprints are all over every decision that
has made. And it's been that way since he got there.
And he wouldn't have gone there if it hadn't been
that way. And that's just the way it is. Skinny jeans,
(06:18):
Rob Polenka, one of the all time great figurehead foe
general managers. I mean, if you were a Roppolok, you
wouldn't want him unning anything. Right. The guy don't know
what he's doing. Everyone knows that. But he's like, well,
he's a perfect foil. He has a pretty la, pretty boy,
kind of punchable face. Rob Polenka. So he's out there
as the GM, and he's like, he don't make any decisions.
(06:40):
He just runs it by Lebron. He's a middle manager,
Rob Polenka, What do you think, Lebron? All right, you
want that, I will make that happen. Sure. And it's
not even about being swayed, per se. It's not about
being swayed. It is the business model. That is the
business model, Lebron James, GM by proxy, g M by proxy,
(07:03):
Lebron James there without it. He literally hired the coach.
The Lakers hired the coach because the qualifications. The guy
was Lebron's podcast buddy A Rich Paul. No, Lebron's not
making DECI dude, they hired the Lebron's podcast co host
as the couch. You think we're all morons? Seriously, you
(07:28):
hired the Lakers hired a podcast guy as the coach
because he was doing a podcast with Lebron. If Lebron
had been doing a podcast with Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan
would be coaching the Lakers right now. Do you realize
how ridiculous this is? Do you understand how stupid is anything?
Is that?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Well?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
No, Lebron doesn't really make these decisions. I mean, so
you've got players who have gone on the record saying, well,
I wasn't I wouldn't getting a playtime, so I went
I didn't go to the coach. I went to Lebron
to get more playtime. I went to Lebron. You get
more play time. Oh my god. But he doesn't run
the Lakers. It doesn't run the Lakers, just like it's
(08:06):
it's just another quinkid like Scott Foster when he officiates
an NBA playoff game where the team is trailing in
a series. You know, ninety percent of the time that
team that's trailing ends up winning. But it's just a coincidence.
It's just weird. It's just one of those weird things
about life. That's it. Now Page two to the Gossip World.
(08:27):
You know, I'm a sucker for that world. So Danica Patrick,
we used to play a great game on this show,
which lap will Danica rekin Man. Was that a fun
game and we always had winners. We always had winners.
She would wreck ninety five percent of the races. It was.
It was wonderful anyway, So Dannic and Patrick now washed up.
(08:47):
Former athlete. She recently opened up on the Sage steel
Show It Must to Be a Podcast describing her relationship
with NFL legend and Rogers. She described it as quote
emotionally abusive. She said the breakup was the most painful
(09:08):
experience of her life. So what is your reaction to
people are bringing this up? So Steelers can't sign Aaron
Rodgers now because this is some baggage and this is
a mess and alls. So this is I would file
this one based on the information I have as an
unnecessary airing of dirty laundry and a personal grievance. That's
(09:33):
where I have this one filed based on the information
that I have. Now, listen, she's obviously free to speak
and do whatever she wants there. But let's not pretend
that there was not ulterior motives by throwing this out here,
that there's ulterior motives here by Danica Patrick, because it
does add unleaded gasoline on top of the inferno is
(09:55):
what it does here. And Danik, she didn't just say
that it's painful. She said emotionally abusive, very dramatic. There's
some people think that very seriously. Right. I would argue though,
that most relationships that end there's some kind of emotional
trauma that happens. Otherwise you just stay together, right, otherwise
(10:15):
you just stay together. And she does this randomly on
a podcast years after Rogers was with Danik. That's a
long time ago, and that's been many, many years since
they were together. So why now maybe just to clear
the air, right, clear the air, or or to get
a little publicity, you know, your little publicity out there
(10:35):
that was really talking about Danic and Patrick these days
she's irrelevant. So and it's just the latest in a
long winding road if you keep track of the gossip
here Rogers, he's had some issues the public figure Aaron
Rodgers and relationships, the family drama, well documented drama with
(10:59):
former teammate Check coaches Check. So the one common denominator
is the drama. That's the one common denominator of the drama.
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(12:34):
star will fill up the content kitty. And yet again
here we are holiday weekend and Jetta. Yeah. Oops it
happened again. Oops, it happened again. Some more chatter about
the relationship between wide receiver George Pickens, who was decommissioned
(12:57):
thrown overboard by the Pittsburgh Steam and how he fits
in with Cowboys in Dallas, the X Steeler pass catcher
now part of Jerry's universe, and how's that going. Well,
I hadn't played a game yet, so it's fine. I
hadn't played a game yet. Everything's great. They are planting
stories in the media that he's been a model teammate,
(13:19):
everything is wonderful, blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah.
There was one a dendum to this that I thought
is worthy of some talk, and I don't know if
you saw it or not. It happened recently. The word
on the street out of the Dallas area is that
not only is Dak Prescott planning on helping out here,
(13:40):
but Jerry Jones. That Dak Prescott and Jerry Jones both
are going to shield George Pickens from the criticism but wait,
there's more. Okay, So that's fine. You expect them to
help out. There's been some chatter that they're even going
to calling on the media in Dallas to back off
(14:03):
criticism of George Pickens to allow him to grow to
blossom like a flower. So let us discuss the question, right,
How does the Cowboys plan to protect wide receiver George
Pickens sound to you?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
So?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I've got handholding, lobster, and flight school, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to drive away in a station wagon. Now, they when
the last time they made a station wagon? They don't
make those anyway. I haven't made those in thirty years
at least. Why did they stop making the station wagon?
(14:42):
Would anyone buy the station wagon if they had? I
know it was replaced by the minivan, but and then
the suv. But if they had the station wagon, I
know those people collect them. Why don't they make him
any things that make you go anyway? To get to
the point, how does the Cowboys plan to protect wide
receive George Pickings sound to you?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
So?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Number? I said, Number Jerry Jones has decided to use
a carbon copy. Now I would say he would have
used a laser printer to recreate this, but it's Jerry,
so he's using a carbon copy of Cowboy Season gone by.
(15:23):
And you might remember the famous stories that are part
of Internet lore that Dez Bryant famously had a babysitter.
He was on the knucklehead spectrum and so in an
effort to fully monetize, fully monetize his performance. The legend
of the Internet is Jerry Jones hired a round the
(15:43):
clock babysitter to keep des Bryant's nose clean. Now, whether
that's true or not is open for debate. However, it
is not open for debate that Jerry Jones will do
whatever he has to do in terms of taking a
diminished asset, trying to get that diminished asset, squeeze some
extra toothpaste out of the tube beer, and it sounds
(16:07):
like things are not that extreme with George Pickens and
h Nevertheless, I would file the information that we have.
I would file this under the overprotective handholding category, like, like,
what are we doing? Like Jerry Jones and Dak Prescott,
how's this gonna work? Like they're gonna play big brother here,
(16:30):
and uh, they're gonna like put up what they're gonna
put up a human firewall around George Pickens locker. Spoiler alert,
spoiler alert. It ain't gonna work, dude, It's not gonna work.
This is the the NFL. You're not on the playground
at elementary school. You're not doing recess, you're not on
the swing set, You're you're not playing hopscotch, you're not
playing you know whatever. You just it's not gonna work.
(16:52):
You play for the Dallas Cowboy. The Steelers have a
lot of media. The Steelers are a high profile profile team.
They have a national following the Dallas Cowboys. They make
the Steelers seem like they're a Canadian Football League team
the way the amount of attention that they get and
you're living under the microscope, and especially a guy like
George Pickens, who you know, if you're covering the Cowboys
(17:15):
and you want to get a story George pickketts, who
are you gonna call? You call George Pickens up. He's
very emotional, right, he's unpredictable. Uh, but he's unpredictable in
a way where he's predictable, where you know he's at
any moment. It's Uh, it's the fuse is going to
reach the end and then cap boom with with Pickens.
(17:36):
So hey, I'm in it, good talk radio. I'm excited
about this and I will enjoy all the efforts made
by Dak Prescott and uh, what's that that puppet coach
Schottenheimer's kid? And then who shouldn't be the coach? And
then Jerry Jones? So why not all right now? Page two,
page number two to the schedule we go? Always a
(18:00):
fun topic. Now Joe Burrow. Somewhat recently, Joe Burrow got
on the bully pulpit and complained, complain, complain, complain, complain.
Did you you remember the complaints? So he was upset
because the Bengals don't get to play international games. He
wants to play international games. The main complaint, though, he
(18:22):
was grumbling about the Cincinnati football team having to play
prime time yet again in Baltimore. Fourth straight season, fourth
straight season, the Bengals will play a primetime game against
their blood rival the Ravens. There in front of sports
with Coleman in Baltimore. So the NFL vice president of
(18:46):
broadcast planning, how much do you think that job pays?
How much has that been? Three? Four hundred thousand. How
much is that job? Pick? So the guy's name Mike North.
When I think of Mike North, I think a proud Chicagoan,
a Hall of Fame, Lifetime Achievement award winning radio man
Mike North. But this is Mike North, the NFL vice
(19:08):
president of Broadcasting and Planning, who told the state funded
Team website that the message from Joe Burrow has been received,
even if it did not change anything this year. The
empty suit for the NFL said, when trends like that emerge,
we probably have to adjust at some point. Close quote. Okay,
(19:35):
so the NFL admitting it quote probably has to adjust
following Joe Burrow's complaints about the schedule. What is your
reaction to this news? So this is the rare, the rare,
very rare confession. It is a confession. Uh. And it's
a multi billion dollar entity, the NFL. And here and
(20:01):
what are they doing? They are doing something truly remarkable.
They're confessing, They're admitting they're gonna change. This is not good.
Well's sort of right. And having documented for many, many
years behind these microphones of Fox Sports Radio and other places,
but mostly Fox Sports Radio, having documented the NFL, you
(20:22):
know how rare it is for the NFL to ever
admit they f anything up at any point. There is
a better chance of going out on a dingy out
in the Atlantic and catching a blue lobster. There's a
better chance of that happening, right one in two million,
or something like that. Joe Burrow made the simple observation,
(20:44):
very simple, that the NFL current scheduling model there's a glitch,
and the Bengals are not a glamour team. The NFL
worries about the teams that get big ratings. The Bengals
don't get big ratings. The Cowboys get ratings, the Steelers,
the usual suspects who have national followings get ratings. The
Bengals don't. They don't get bad ratings. But they're they're
(21:05):
not moving the wrecking ball around in the in that department.
So in a moment, a rare moment of clarity or
perhaps confusion, the NFL responded, And of course they use
the word probably, which is a weasel word, corporate speak
for we might change something. We're not guaranteeing it. We probably,
(21:27):
we might, we might not. Probably. Yeah, it's leaning that direction.
And so like Joe Burrow, he's onto something. So probably
I probably will help you move your sofa. I might not,
but probably I.
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Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Not? Welcome into our contests. We have Kevin in Ithaca. Hello, Kevin,
good morning, Good morning, Kevin. You ready to play?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Okay, man of many words confidence, All right, hold on,
say Kevin, who do you want to partner up with? Kevin?
Lorena would be good, but ye'll go with Coop Coop
oh man. And we have who do we have? Patrick
(22:35):
in South Carolina? Hello? Patrick, Welcome, good morning.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, how's it going?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Welcome? Good to have you. He wanted to partner up
with the Raina on this, Yes, yeah, go ahead, all right,
He's not going to partner up with the Why not?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Because Lorena doesn't know who any of these people are.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
All well, apparently you're stuck with me. Okayurry up, hurry up.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
All right, gentlemen. This is the Lenny Kravitz edition of
Mallards Amount of Money. He turned sixty one years old
on Monday. The categories are it ain't over till it's over,
Are you gonna go my way? Fly away? And again? Kevin,
you were on first, which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Fly away?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Fly away? All right? And Patrick? You got it ain't
over till it's over. Are you going to go my way?
Or again?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
It's not ever till ever.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
It's not over till it's over all right, it ain't
over the Yeah, it ain't over all right, Kevin, I
need the first and last name of the athlete in
order to get points. We have fly away here. These
athletes retired in their prime. Are you ready, Kevin?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
All right?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Forty five seconds begin. He was a quarterback for the
Indianapolis Colts. He had a really big beard. What's that true,
lu Yes, that's right.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
This guy's nickname was Megatron for the Lions. Yes, this
guy was the best running back of all time for
the Lions. Yes, that's correct. This guy was one of
the best football players of all time. He played for
the Browns.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
This guy was one of the best left handed pictures
of all time. Played for the Dodgers. He's Jewish. Yes,
this guy's a ringer, all right. This guy is a linebacker,
was a linebacker for the forty nine ers. He retired early.
He just made it into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I am no, wow, I guess he's not a ringer.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
There's Patrick Willis.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Oh bad. That's pathetic, dude. This guy's embarrassing. One sixty alright,
all right, Patrick, here we go, let's do it. Here
we go. H he picked fly away. We know you
picked over. It's over right. These athletes were involved in
some of the greatest comebacks of all time. Are you ready? Patrick?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Okay, you sound very confident. Forty five seconds on the clock.
Here we go. Greatest comeback here in Super Bowl history
by the Patriots quarterback who retired. He's on TV now. Yes,
the point guard for the Indiana Pacers. He's having a
big playoff run. Here is last Yes, yes, big Poppy
for the Red Sox, the designated hitter all his great
(25:18):
Red sport. Yes, running back. His last name is like
a chef or something like that. In the NFL, he's
playing currently for I don't know who. He's played for,
the Vikings, a bunch of different teams. No. Buffalo Bill's
backup quarterback led one of the great comebacks of all
time out of Maryland back in the nineties. Back up
(25:38):
to Jim Kelly now Toronto blue Jay second basement played
for the Orioles. He spit a loogie and sixty. Those
were terrible clues, man, those were great clues. No, they
were not running back. They'd like a chef Dalvin Cook.
Come on, Bill's quarterback that had a great comeback? Is
it fins? Let's go, It's all good. We do again?
(25:58):
All right, Patrick, we have what do we have?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
We have?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Are you gonna go my way or again?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Let's do again.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Okay, these athletes have all won multiple MVPs forty five
seconds of the clock. We're on our way. Go basketball player.
This guy slept with twenty thousand women. He's scored one
hundred points in an NBA game. Oh okay, third baseman
for the Phillies at five hundred home runs seventies and eighties.
(26:30):
All right, how about his greatest Baltimore cult quarterback of
all time? All right, we'll take that. So what's his name?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Now?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You know that's he said his name? No he didn't.
Orioles shortstop all time consecutive game record, Patrick, did you
give up?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I've given up I'm sorry, I'm white flat.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Oh Man, Patrick, you don't give up. I mean, what
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (27:03):
That's just just your clues are so bad.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
He couldn't work with it anything. Scored one hundred points
and let me again slut with twenty thousand women, Get
jock Kevin Wick should have been anybody who has to
sloped with twenty thousand women and scored one hundred points
in an NBA game, that's like seven hundred people have
done that. Come on,
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Radio, setting the record straight, well their version of the record.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Benmahler Show.
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We are in the air everywhere in Khotes, you and
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It's always the power of dreams, absolutely coast to coast,
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to the basketball if you want to talk about that.
At Indiana twenty point lead second quarter, blew the game
as they had tight spinters. Tight took his syndrome there
(01:58):
in the fourth quarter and the lead melted away, and
so the extender gets it done again. He's said, well,
it's just a coincidence, but always Scott Foster, almost always
Scott Foster out there again. So our lead this hour, though,
is from the King James version of NBA Conversation. Several
of you reached out to me over the weekends. Did
(02:20):
you see what the quote was? Can you believe that?
Oh my god? And this is all about Rich Paul,
the Lebron James creation, Rich Paul without Lebron. Rich Paul
is hanging out somewhere in Ohio and has a regular job,
maybe a good union job, but a regular job, and
(02:41):
that's that. But now he's a gazillionaire, and I think
is he married to to the singer Adele. I don't
know they married. I don't think they're married. They're just
they're just a stupid that's all, all right. So anyway, Rich
Paul commenting on Lebron Lebron James, saying that Lebron James
is recorded to Rich Paul, Lebron James does not have
as much power as the perception is in basketball world.
(03:06):
In the basketball world there, he does not decide, does
not decide what the what is going on there the
Laker personnel moves and all that stuff. In a recent
appearance with member of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association,
Rich Eisen, the NBA agent there claiming claiming Rich Paul
(03:26):
claiming that his client has limited involvement in key front
off his decisions. So I don't even saw this or not,
maybe you missed it over the weekend. So Rich Paul
saying that the idea that Lebron James Lebron is the
unofficial GM of the Lakers. He said, that's quote false,
(03:46):
that's false, he said, that's false. So we can slice
this up a million different ways, but let us discuss
for a couple of good minutes. Here the question for
the esteem panel, what you are part of? So Rich Paul,
Lebron's age, longtime business associated, business associate friend, Rich Paul,
(04:07):
all of those things right, he's in the inner circle,
Rich Paul. He goes on the record, Rich Ball saying
that Lebron James does not run the Lakers. That's the quote,
right there? Are you buying that? Are you buying that?
So I've got fingerprints, unleaded gasoline, and groundwork, and we
(04:27):
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make the gobbaol. We're gonna make the gabba
goouls what we're gonna make all right? So number I
said number Yeah. Now the quote the great Andy Furman.
We were born at night, but not last night. So no,
(04:49):
not buying what they're selling, not buying it. Now. I
know there's a lot of people that live in Suckersville,
the low information fan that we'll say, Well, Rich Paul
said it, and if he said it must be true,
he wouldn't have said it if it's not true. So
Rich Paul said it. It's true, and about a being
bout the boom, just like that but we're not. We're
not that. Listen. Rich Paul is a guy who is
(05:12):
as far in the tank as you could possibly be
for Lebron. He is a creation of Lebron James. He
would be nothing without Lebron. And I get it. You
are beholden to Lebron. You are, and I would be too.
I would lick Lebron's toes if I had the life
Rich Paul has, I would all because of Lebron. Nothing
he did, he just happened to latches, you know what,
(05:34):
into Lebron and there you go. And so I mean,
don't kidd yourself here, come on, let's look at this objectively.
Lebron may not have the title general manager of the Lakers.
He may not have that particular title. It's just semantics.
It's all semantics. Lebron influences everything, and every man, woman
(05:56):
and child knows it. Everything, coaches, trades, rotations, all of it.
His fingerprints, Lebron's fingerprints are all over every decision that
has made. And it's been that way since he got there.
And he wouldn't have gone there if it hadn't been
that way. And that's just the way it is. Skinny jeans,
(06:18):
Rob Polenka, one of the all time great figurehead foe
general managers. I mean, if you were a Roppolok, you
wouldn't want him unning anything. Right. The guy don't know
what he's doing. Everyone knows that. But he's like, well,
he's a perfect foil. He has a pretty la, pretty boy,
kind of punchable face. Rob Polenka. So he's out there
as the GM, and he's like, he don't make any decisions.
(06:40):
He just runs it by Lebron. He's a middle manager,
Rob Polenka, What do you think, Lebron? All right, you
want that, I will make that happen. Sure. And it's
not even about being swayed, per se. It's not about
being swayed. It is the business model. That is the
business model, Lebron James, GM by proxy, g M by proxy,
(07:03):
Lebron James there without it. He literally hired the coach.
The Lakers hired the coach because the qualifications. The guy
was Lebron's podcast buddy A Rich Paul. No, Lebron's not
making DECI dude, they hired the Lebron's podcast co host
as the couch. You think we're all morons? Seriously, you
(07:28):
hired the Lakers hired a podcast guy as the coach
because he was doing a podcast with Lebron. If Lebron
had been doing a podcast with Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan
would be coaching the Lakers right now. Do you realize
how ridiculous this is? Do you understand how stupid is anything?
Is that?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Well?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
No, Lebron doesn't really make these decisions. I mean, so
you've got players who have gone on the record saying, well,
I wasn't I wouldn't getting a playtime, so I went
I didn't go to the coach. I went to Lebron
to get more playtime. I went to Lebron. You get
more play time. Oh my god. But he doesn't run
the Lakers. It doesn't run the Lakers, just like it's
(08:06):
it's just another quinkid like Scott Foster when he officiates
an NBA playoff game where the team is trailing in
a series. You know, ninety percent of the time that
team that's trailing ends up winning. But it's just a coincidence.
It's just weird. It's just one of those weird things
about life. That's it. Now Page two to the Gossip World.
(08:27):
You know, I'm a sucker for that world. So Danica Patrick,
we used to play a great game on this show,
which lap will Danica rekin Man. Was that a fun
game and we always had winners. We always had winners.
She would wreck ninety five percent of the races. It was.
It was wonderful anyway, So Dannic and Patrick now washed up.
(08:47):
Former athlete. She recently opened up on the Sage steel
Show It Must to Be a Podcast describing her relationship
with NFL legend and Rogers. She described it as quote
emotionally abusive. She said the breakup was the most painful
(09:08):
experience of her life. So what is your reaction to
people are bringing this up? So Steelers can't sign Aaron
Rodgers now because this is some baggage and this is
a mess and alls. So this is I would file
this one based on the information I have as an
unnecessary airing of dirty laundry and a personal grievance. That's
(09:33):
where I have this one filed based on the information
that I have. Now, listen, she's obviously free to speak
and do whatever she wants there. But let's not pretend
that there was not ulterior motives by throwing this out here,
that there's ulterior motives here by Danica Patrick, because it
does add unleaded gasoline on top of the inferno is
(09:55):
what it does here. And Danik, she didn't just say
that it's painful. She said emotionally abusive, very dramatic. There's
some people think that very seriously. Right. I would argue though,
that most relationships that end there's some kind of emotional
trauma that happens. Otherwise you just stay together, right, otherwise
(10:15):
you just stay together. And she does this randomly on
a podcast years after Rogers was with Danik. That's a
long time ago, and that's been many, many years since
they were together. So why now maybe just to clear
the air, right, clear the air, or or to get
a little publicity, you know, your little publicity out there
(10:35):
that was really talking about Danic and Patrick these days
she's irrelevant. So and it's just the latest in a
long winding road if you keep track of the gossip
here Rogers, he's had some issues the public figure Aaron
Rodgers and relationships, the family drama, well documented drama with
(10:59):
former teammate Check coaches Check. So the one common denominator
is the drama. That's the one common denominator of the drama.
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star will fill up the content kitty. And yet again
here we are holiday weekend and Jetta. Yeah. Oops it
happened again. Oops, it happened again. Some more chatter about
the relationship between wide receiver George Pickens, who was decommissioned
(12:57):
thrown overboard by the Pittsburgh Steam and how he fits
in with Cowboys in Dallas, the X Steeler pass catcher
now part of Jerry's universe, and how's that going. Well,
I hadn't played a game yet, so it's fine. I
hadn't played a game yet. Everything's great. They are planting
stories in the media that he's been a model teammate,
(13:19):
everything is wonderful, blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah.
There was one a dendum to this that I thought
is worthy of some talk, and I don't know if
you saw it or not. It happened recently. The word
on the street out of the Dallas area is that
not only is Dak Prescott planning on helping out here,
(13:40):
but Jerry Jones. That Dak Prescott and Jerry Jones both
are going to shield George Pickens from the criticism but wait,
there's more. Okay, So that's fine. You expect them to
help out. There's been some chatter that they're even going
to calling on the media in Dallas to back off
(14:03):
criticism of George Pickens to allow him to grow to
blossom like a flower. So let us discuss the question, right,
How does the Cowboys plan to protect wide receiver George
Pickens sound to you?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
So?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I've got handholding, lobster, and flight school, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to drive away in a station wagon. Now, they when
the last time they made a station wagon? They don't
make those anyway. I haven't made those in thirty years
at least. Why did they stop making the station wagon?
(14:42):
Would anyone buy the station wagon if they had? I
know it was replaced by the minivan, but and then
the suv. But if they had the station wagon, I
know those people collect them. Why don't they make him
any things that make you go anyway? To get to
the point, how does the Cowboys plan to protect wide
receive George Pickings sound to you?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
So?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Number? I said, Number Jerry Jones has decided to use
a carbon copy. Now I would say he would have
used a laser printer to recreate this, but it's Jerry,
so he's using a carbon copy of Cowboy Season gone by.
(15:23):
And you might remember the famous stories that are part
of Internet lore that Dez Bryant famously had a babysitter.
He was on the knucklehead spectrum and so in an
effort to fully monetize, fully monetize his performance. The legend
of the Internet is Jerry Jones hired a round the
(15:43):
clock babysitter to keep des Bryant's nose clean. Now, whether
that's true or not is open for debate. However, it
is not open for debate that Jerry Jones will do
whatever he has to do in terms of taking a
diminished asset, trying to get that diminished asset, squeeze some
extra toothpaste out of the tube beer, and it sounds
(16:07):
like things are not that extreme with George Pickens and
h Nevertheless, I would file the information that we have.
I would file this under the overprotective handholding category, like, like,
what are we doing? Like Jerry Jones and Dak Prescott,
how's this gonna work? Like they're gonna play big brother here,
(16:30):
and uh, they're gonna like put up what they're gonna
put up a human firewall around George Pickens locker. Spoiler alert,
spoiler alert. It ain't gonna work, dude, It's not gonna work.
This is the the NFL. You're not on the playground
at elementary school. You're not doing recess, you're not on
the swing set, You're you're not playing hopscotch, you're not
playing you know whatever. You just it's not gonna work.
(16:52):
You play for the Dallas Cowboy. The Steelers have a
lot of media. The Steelers are a high profile profile team.
They have a national following the Dallas Cowboys. They make
the Steelers seem like they're a Canadian Football League team
the way the amount of attention that they get and
you're living under the microscope, and especially a guy like
George Pickens, who you know, if you're covering the Cowboys
(17:15):
and you want to get a story George pickketts, who
are you gonna call? You call George Pickens up. He's
very emotional, right, he's unpredictable. Uh, but he's unpredictable in
a way where he's predictable, where you know he's at
any moment. It's Uh, it's the fuse is going to
reach the end and then cap boom with with Pickens.
(17:36):
So hey, I'm in it, good talk radio. I'm excited
about this and I will enjoy all the efforts made
by Dak Prescott and uh, what's that that puppet coach
Schottenheimer's kid? And then who shouldn't be the coach? And
then Jerry Jones? So why not all right now? Page two,
page number two to the schedule we go? Always a
(18:00):
fun topic. Now Joe Burrow. Somewhat recently, Joe Burrow got
on the bully pulpit and complained, complain, complain, complain, complain.
Did you you remember the complaints? So he was upset
because the Bengals don't get to play international games. He
wants to play international games. The main complaint, though, he
(18:22):
was grumbling about the Cincinnati football team having to play
prime time yet again in Baltimore. Fourth straight season, fourth
straight season, the Bengals will play a primetime game against
their blood rival the Ravens. There in front of sports
with Coleman in Baltimore. So the NFL vice president of
(18:46):
broadcast planning, how much do you think that job pays?
How much has that been? Three? Four hundred thousand. How
much is that job? Pick? So the guy's name Mike North.
When I think of Mike North, I think a proud Chicagoan,
a Hall of Fame, Lifetime Achievement award winning radio man
Mike North. But this is Mike North, the NFL vice
(19:08):
president of Broadcasting and Planning, who told the state funded
Team website that the message from Joe Burrow has been received,
even if it did not change anything this year. The
empty suit for the NFL said, when trends like that emerge,
we probably have to adjust at some point. Close quote. Okay,
(19:35):
so the NFL admitting it quote probably has to adjust
following Joe Burrow's complaints about the schedule. What is your
reaction to this news? So this is the rare, the rare,
very rare confession. It is a confession. Uh. And it's
a multi billion dollar entity, the NFL. And here and
(20:01):
what are they doing? They are doing something truly remarkable.
They're confessing, They're admitting they're gonna change. This is not good.
Well's sort of right. And having documented for many, many
years behind these microphones of Fox Sports Radio and other places,
but mostly Fox Sports Radio, having documented the NFL, you
(20:22):
know how rare it is for the NFL to ever
admit they f anything up at any point. There is
a better chance of going out on a dingy out
in the Atlantic and catching a blue lobster. There's a
better chance of that happening, right one in two million,
or something like that. Joe Burrow made the simple observation,
(20:44):
very simple, that the NFL current scheduling model there's a glitch,
and the Bengals are not a glamour team. The NFL
worries about the teams that get big ratings. The Bengals
don't get big ratings. The Cowboys get ratings, the Steelers,
the usual suspects who have national followings get ratings. The
Bengals don't. They don't get bad ratings. But they're they're
(21:05):
not moving the wrecking ball around in the in that department.
So in a moment, a rare moment of clarity or
perhaps confusion, the NFL responded, And of course they use
the word probably, which is a weasel word, corporate speak
for we might change something. We're not guaranteeing it. We probably,
(21:27):
we might, we might not. Probably. Yeah, it's leaning that direction.
And so like Joe Burrow, he's onto something. So probably
I probably will help you move your sofa. I might not,
but probably I.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Will be sure to catch live editions of the Ben
Mallor Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably?
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Not? Welcome into our contests. We have Kevin in Ithaca. Hello, Kevin,
good morning, Good morning, Kevin. You ready to play?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Okay, man of many words confidence, All right, hold on,
say Kevin, who do you want to partner up with? Kevin?
Lorena would be good, but ye'll go with Coop Coop
oh man. And we have who do we have? Patrick
(22:35):
in South Carolina? Hello? Patrick, Welcome, good morning.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, how's it going?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Welcome? Good to have you. He wanted to partner up
with the Raina on this, Yes, yeah, go ahead, all right,
He's not going to partner up with the Why not?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Because Lorena doesn't know who any of these people are.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
All well, apparently you're stuck with me. Okayurry up, hurry up.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
All right, gentlemen. This is the Lenny Kravitz edition of
Mallards Amount of Money. He turned sixty one years old
on Monday. The categories are it ain't over till it's over,
Are you gonna go my way? Fly away? And again? Kevin,
you were on first, which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Fly away?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Fly away? All right? And Patrick? You got it ain't
over till it's over. Are you going to go my way?
Or again?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
It's not ever till ever.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
It's not over till it's over all right, it ain't
over the Yeah, it ain't over all right, Kevin, I
need the first and last name of the athlete in
order to get points. We have fly away here. These
athletes retired in their prime. Are you ready, Kevin?
Speaker 1 (23:45):
All right?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Forty five seconds begin. He was a quarterback for the
Indianapolis Colts. He had a really big beard. What's that true,
lu Yes, that's right.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
This guy's nickname was Megatron for the Lions. Yes, this
guy was the best running back of all time for
the Lions. Yes, that's correct. This guy was one of
the best football players of all time. He played for
the Browns.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
This guy was one of the best left handed pictures
of all time. Played for the Dodgers. He's Jewish. Yes,
this guy's a ringer, all right. This guy is a linebacker,
was a linebacker for the forty nine ers. He retired early.
He just made it into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I am no, wow, I guess he's not a ringer.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
There's Patrick Willis.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Oh bad. That's pathetic, dude. This guy's embarrassing. One sixty alright,
all right, Patrick, here we go, let's do it. Here
we go. H he picked fly away. We know you
picked over. It's over right. These athletes were involved in
some of the greatest comebacks of all time. Are you ready? Patrick?
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Okay, you sound very confident. Forty five seconds on the clock.
Here we go. Greatest comeback here in Super Bowl history
by the Patriots quarterback who retired. He's on TV now. Yes,
the point guard for the Indiana Pacers. He's having a
big playoff run. Here is last Yes, yes, big Poppy
for the Red Sox, the designated hitter all his great
(25:18):
Red sport. Yes, running back. His last name is like
a chef or something like that. In the NFL, he's
playing currently for I don't know who. He's played for,
the Vikings, a bunch of different teams. No. Buffalo Bill's
backup quarterback led one of the great comebacks of all
time out of Maryland back in the nineties. Back up
(25:38):
to Jim Kelly now Toronto blue Jay second basement played
for the Orioles. He spit a loogie and sixty. Those
were terrible clues, man, those were great clues. No, they
were not running back. They'd like a chef Dalvin Cook.
Come on, Bill's quarterback that had a great comeback? Is
it fins? Let's go, It's all good. We do again?
(25:58):
All right, Patrick, we have what do we have?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
We have?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Are you gonna go my way or again?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Let's do again.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Okay, these athletes have all won multiple MVPs forty five
seconds of the clock. We're on our way. Go basketball player.
This guy slept with twenty thousand women. He's scored one
hundred points in an NBA game. Oh okay, third baseman
for the Phillies at five hundred home runs seventies and eighties.
(26:30):
All right, how about his greatest Baltimore cult quarterback of
all time? All right, we'll take that. So what's his name?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Now?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You know that's he said his name? No he didn't.
Orioles shortstop all time consecutive game record, Patrick, did you
give up?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I've given up I'm sorry, I'm white flat.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Oh Man, Patrick, you don't give up. I mean, what
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (27:03):
That's just just your clues are so bad.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
He couldn't work with it anything. Scored one hundred points
and let me again slut with twenty thousand women, Get
jock Kevin Wick should have been anybody who has to
sloped with twenty thousand women and scored one hundred points
in an NBA game, that's like seven hundred people have
done that. Come on,
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