Ben Maller: Un Tamed

Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
The results are in a survey of INK five thousand
companies shows the top barriers to growth. It's taking finance
too long to close the books, so slow to launch
new products. We need to hire good people and keep them.
Too many disconnected systems. I can't see what's happening in
my business. Sounds like they've outgrown their business and financial
management systems. Quick books and spreadsheets work fine at the start,

(00:22):
but now it takes twice the effort to get things
done and you can't get accurate answers. You should know
the number one system for growing companies, NetSuite from Oracle.
NetSuite is the one system that tracks and manages revenue,
cash flow, hr, inventory projects, even e commerce for every industry.
Now you can run your business from a dashboard on

(00:44):
your phone. That's why thousands of companies use NetSuite. It's
the only system you need to run your business. Go
to NetSuite dot com slash fast to get your free
guide called Crushing the five Barriers to Growth. That's NetSuite
dot Com slash Fast. He's back the much anticipated Schmoozefest

(01:08):
for the Raiders. John Gruden is in the NFL again,
and he is in peak form. His BS game is
as good as it gets. Welcome in the beginning of
the Ben Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere
the vast Fox Sports Radio network, emanating live from the

(01:28):
Geico Fox Sports Radio studios. Fifteen minutes could save you
fifteen percent or more on your car insurance. Just visit
Geico dot com for a free rate quote. There's several angles,
several ways we can can go around and things to
talk about, but the one that that resonates with me
at this particular moment because I spent about forty five

(01:50):
minutes watching on the replay on YouTube, so I could
go back and watch stuff again. The Raider news conference,
with much pomp and circumstance, John Gruden was reintroduced as
the coach of the Raiders. He's like, we've had I
believe I forget the name of the president. We had
one president that there's only been one in the history

(02:11):
of the country that was elected president, did not get reelected,
and then eventually later on became president again. That's like
John Gruden r. John Gruden laughed, and then he came
back and now he's he's there again. He said, he
said he never wanted to leave, never wanted to leave.
Excited to be back, and he was selling. He was
laying it on thick. John Gruden, I never wanted to

(02:34):
leave the Raiders. I never thought i'd be back. But
here I am, and I'm ready to get to work. Yeah,
oh good, get to work. Your next game is in
about eight months, so work your ass off there. You
get a lot of time. You got a lot of time.
He said. There were four major reasons he came back
to coaching. There's really four major reasons I am here

(02:55):
coaching today, all right. Number One, I love football, really.
I love the players that play it, love the preparation,
I love the journey. I love football, But I love
the city of Oakland. I had a son here, some
of my great memories of life for in Oakland, and
I want to give them two of the best years
of football that I can possibly help deliver. I love
the Raiders. The brand is global. Everywhere I went as

(03:18):
a Monday night football analyst, the Raider nation would come
out of the ground. I love the Raiders most of all,
I love to win, and I'm gonna do everything I can.
No guarantees, no promises, but I want to win. All right,
so we learned he liked football. Shocking of football. Coach
likes football. He loves Oakland, but only for two years.
After two years, he no longer loves Oakland. Then he

(03:40):
loves Las Vegas. And he'll talk about how he had
many great trips to Vegas when he was younger. And
he loves gambling and booze and hookers and drugs, and
he can't wait to get to Vegas. He loves the
seed underbelly of Vegas. He likes when you go like
a couple of blocks off the strip and it's sodom
and gomorrah. That's what he likes. That's the part of
Vegas that John Gruden and uh and the Raider thing.

(04:02):
You know, come on, you know you can say the
global brand and all that. Raiders have not been great
for many years. It loves to win. Who doesn't love
to win. But then he wouldn't guarantee it. You get
one hundred million bucks, you gotta guarantee something. You gotta
guarantee something. No promises, He wouldn't make any promises. He
did say, though, John Gruden that much like a good gambler.

(04:26):
It's like a Vegas term here when you when you
look at what John Gruden is committed to, what he's
what he's looking to do here. What are you looking
to do here, John Gruden? I feel this is the
thing to do. This is what I want to do.
This is the organization that I want to be a
part of. Good and I'm all in at one time.
This is something that I feel deeply strongly about and um,
I'm gonna do everything I can to put the Raiders

(04:47):
back on track. We go all in every day on
this show, unless we don't have to do it because
it time restraints, but we typically go all in. So
I went all in on the Portland Trailblazers, Thank you
very much. They were underdogs on the road. They one
straight up, So thank you for that. You can send
me taste that money you want on that pick. Thank
you for that. Jerk yourself away. So we'll get into

(05:09):
all this now. John Gruden formally announced his offensive coordinator,
his defensive coordinator, special teams coordinator. All had me very
excited about it. Greg Olsen's going to run the offense.
That's a very creative hire. Unless it's not. Of course,
we know Gruden's going to run the offense. Paul Gunther
is the defensive coordinator, the former Bengal assistant coach. But
the question is this, what was the big takeaway? Now,

(05:32):
I'm going to assume you have a job. I'm going
to assume that you don't have an extra hour to
either listen or watch the John Gruden news conference. I'm
also going to make a leap that you're not a
Raider fan. I know we have a lot of Raider
fans that listen to the show. We thank you for that,
But I would also believe that the majority of people
are not Raider fans that listen to the show. So

(05:55):
my big takeaway from John Gruden's news conference. I got
a couple of thoughts here. I've got revival, motivational speaker,
and Pinocchio at the same time, and I'll tie all
these things together. Number One, this was a spectacle. It
was like a high school pep rally combined with the
religious revival, is what it was. That was the way

(06:17):
I would describe it. Here, you had the sizzle reel
of John Gruden highlights with news reports whether John Gruden
was going to come back or not. That started out.
You had Mark Davis who wore a tie did not
appear to have any spaghetti stains on his jacket or
his tie. He was he dressed up. Last time he

(06:37):
got that dressed up was what I don't know, bar
mits for or something like that. Back of the day.
Is he married, I don't know if he's is Mark
Davis Mary, I don't think he's anyway. He was all
dressed to the nines. He was ready to go. You
had that, and John Gruden won the day. I am
willing to admit that John Gruden won the day and
much less I suspected if you'd watched this. If you're

(07:00):
in the tank for the raiders, are ready. By the
time that was done, you wanted to run through a
brick wall, you were ready to do that. You were ready.
He's like a motivational speaker, and Tony Robbins like I
would say, you know, unleash the power within. I was
waiting for John Gruden to say that. I am convinced

(07:21):
if you had had a big, big bucket of hot coals,
that Mark Davis, at least I don't know about the
other people, don't about Reggie McKenzie. If Mark Davis would
have walked on fire over hot coals, there had John
Gruden said, we should do that. Yeah, you had the pomp,
the circumstance, all that, and he certainly won the day,

(07:44):
as I said, But is he actually gonna win when
he becomes the coach of the Raiders. Now the second
point here. John Gruden said he and Reggie McKenzie, the executive,
the one that's supposed to pick the players, are going
to work together to improve the roster, that it'll be
a collaborative of effort to add players to writers. Now
do you believe John Gruden? There is no real collaborative effort.

(08:10):
And the reason I say that is, ultimately someone has
to make the final decision. If John Gruden wants player
X and Reggie McKenzie doesn't want player X, and they're
going back and forth on this, ultimately one of them
is going to win. That ultimate person will be John Gruden.
And I've got one hundred million reasons why, And just

(08:31):
don't ask him about it. Don't ask him about the contract.
John Gruden turned into Pinocchio when he was asked about
his record setting contract. He said, this is great. You
gotta plausible deniability. He says he isn't really sure what
the terms of the contract are when asked point blank

(08:52):
whether he was getting the money, and just so you know,
I'm not lying here and I'm not making this up
for you. And it sounds like something to gas bag with,
say on the radio. Here's John Gruden that exchange with
the reporter when he was asked about his contract. I
don't really know the terms. All I know is this
year I'm gonna be coaching in Oakland, and next year
I'm gonna be coaching in Oakland, and I want to

(09:12):
help deliver the best football team we can for the
people here in Oakland. And how long I stay here
will be determined by how well we playing. Yeah, you
know what that is the word for that is deflection,
is what that is. That was a classic. That was
a Belichickian deflection by John Gruden. His nose was growing.

(09:34):
He became Pinocchio right there in front of your eyes.
Now A Gruden went from the highest paid NFL broadcast
or at least at the ESPN. I think it was
the highest pid honor talent at the entire network. I
don't think anybody at the four letter made more money
than John Gruden. So he knew how to kiss the
right took us in Bristol, Connecticut. So Gruden was the
highest PID guy there and now he's going to get

(09:55):
more guaranteed money than any active NFL player. But wait,
there's more in corporate America. I saw this on Bloomberg.
John Gruden the ten million dollars that he is going
to make, Now that's a lot of money, and he's
the highest paid NFL guy. Suppose l Belichick, I guess
makes more according to due report over the weekend. But

(10:16):
John Gruden a ten million dollars salary. If you go
to the Fortune five hundred, the S and P five hundred,
where would John Gruden rank among the CEOs on the
S and P five hundred, you got an answer that
would make John Gruden the three hundred and sixtieth highest
paid CEO in the SMP five hundred. So the lesson

(10:38):
there is you might think it's pretty cool to grow
up and be a football coach, but if your ultimate
goal is amazing wealth and riches and bags of gold coins,
you ought to study business because if you can get
to that level where you're the CEO of a big company,
you're gonna make a lot more than the highest paid
coach or one of the highest paid coaches in the NFL.

(11:00):
And John it's gonna be a family affair because I
saw Deuce. He's the big roided guy up with the Redskins.
He was working for his uncle Jay. He's gonna join
his dad as the Raiders strength coach, strength coach, so
he's coming over there. Now. The last thing any good spectacle, right,
any good spectacle, is it's always fun to talk about him.
The right, it's good for business. We as much as

(11:23):
I believe this is going to be a hot mess
ultimately as far as wins and losses, it doesn't change
the fact that we need interesting things to talk about.
So for that, I am grateful, And I'd like to
thank John Gruden because ween lose or draw, and there's
really no such thing. Ask players don't even know they
have ties. But John Gruden, right, this is good. It's

(11:44):
gonna be great for content here. And we got one
of the great drops of all time from Mark Davis
at the very beginning of this. The Raider owner was
so excited they had the sizzle real going there, and
Mark Davis dropped this doozy Raider Nation. This is a
big fin deal. Now, Danny, I know you don't listen

(12:09):
to me. And you guys do your own thing. And
we have like different shows here, and you know, I
try to do a show a certain way. You guys
try to do your own show. But I would like
to have that as a drop. I think that would
be a fun drop to have. I think that would
be great. I know that might be asking for too much,
but I think we should have that. I think that
should be a drop on the show. Now, the key
to all of this for John Gruden is one guy,
Derek Carr. If he's good, that's a big fan deal.

(12:34):
This guy was the favorite to win the MVP Award
a couple of years ago, and he was serving up
dog food all of last season for the Raiders. Gruden's
gonna call the play, so he's the de facto offensive coordinator.
I know they hired Greg Olsen to be the offensive coordinator,
but he'll just be the fall guy. Gruden's the one
calling the plays. That's the most important thing. So is
Derek Carr damage goods? What's the deal? Here's John Gruden

(12:56):
on the man he was hired to save. He has
a great arm talent, he's athletic, he's got natural leadership, skills,
he's in his prime, he's healthy now. I think he's
got a huge upside with Greg Olson and the system
that we're gonna put in place is going to demand
a lot from him, and I think that's what's gonna
unlock the greatness in him. Very very excited to have
him as our quarterback. Didn't that sound like some random

(13:19):
generic NFL draft analysis from John? Can we play that again?
Let's play that again, because just imagine it's like late April.
It's late April, it's the NFL Draft and Josh Rosen
has just been drafted by the Cleveland Browns too much
to his dismay, and John Gruten's on the four later
he's breaking down the pick. He has a great armed talent,

(13:40):
he's athletic, he's got natural leadership skills. He's young, he's
in his prime, he's healthy now. I think he's got
a huge upside with Greg Olson and the system that
we're gonna put in place is going to demand a
lot from him, and I think that's what's gonna unlock
the greatness in him, Very very excited to have him
as our quarterback. If you take the Greg Olsen part
out that we'll work for anybody, like the beginning of that,

(14:01):
you could just play for anybody anyway. So Ben Mallows show,
we are rolling on here as we get started and
we say hello to Edmund Dallas steam boat, Willie Garcia.
It's a big f and deal Eddie, I know, big
and deal, especially for for Danny g our Man over there,
a big Raider fan. Although it is a big deal

(14:23):
not wearing a Raider at tonight on this big night
for the Raider. I call him out. I call him
out in the hallway. So what's what's up with the Raiders?
I wear Raiders on me every day twenty four seven.
I know, but I thought for sure you'd have representing
the Raiders tonight. Well, yesterday was our Tuesday show. So
did you notice I had my Khalil Max jersey on yesterday? No?

(14:44):
I did not notice that. Yeah, so he you can't
wear Raider here two days in a row. As I
what you're saying, Danny. In Danny's defense that the Lakers
don't win very often, so when they win, he's got
to wear Laker stuff. So he's wearing Laker stuff because
they you know, when they win. It's a big das
Now Will will John Grew finally get to meet Marshawn Lynch.
He said in his press conference that, uh, you know,

(15:04):
as a member of the media, he'd always requested to
talk to mars Shawn in those production meetings, and he
never would show up. So we'll see if you show well,
we'll even be on the team next or maybe you
won't get to meet Marshall. If I'm John Gruden, the
first move I make is Marshawn, you are fired. Get
your ass out of here. That's my that's my introductory.
You know, meet and greet mars Shawn's an honor to

(15:25):
meet you. I hope to never see you again. You
maybe you turn the tables on him and you don't
meet him. You decide there's no need to see him,
and you still, you know, give a phone call, you
don't come in. The phone call, the well, the text message, Yeah,
nobody calls. Anybody saw a text message. That's how that works.
But anyway, so that was the story there in the NFL.

(15:46):
Those a couple of things on it's on my list.
I got stuff on my list. As we go through,
we'll take our show. You gotta have a list, gotta
pace yourself Eddie, you gotta pace yourself. You can't unlike
that first show. You did well the first show. I
did not pace myself. You didn't unlike that show, I said, Yeah,
you can't, Yeah, talk about everything in the first hour. Yeah, exactly,
cannot do that. All right, I'll take your phone calls
if you would like to be part, and you can

(16:07):
do that at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
And if you like numbers better than letters, which is
it's easier that way, eight seven seven ninety nine six
six three six nine, Our Facebook pages, Ben Maller's show,
and our Twitter feed for me if you want to
reach me, it's at Ben Maller. That is, at Ben Maller.

(16:28):
You can be part of the festivities and all that.
And later on if you're with us for the full
journey into the wee hours. In the morning, we're gonna
have too much or not enough. We got password the
word Game of the Stars will be playing later on.
Some other stuff along the way. Well, we'll call it
a visit to the social network. I'll explain what I

(16:48):
mean by that. We'll get to it, and we'll do
it next. Almost all talk shows sound the same after
a while. Think of us as a sports talk oasis
from the mundane. The Ben Mallor Show Facebook page is
our own unique media plays with over two billion of
our closest friends, most of whom ignores. Please take a
second to like our page at Facebook dot com slash

(17:09):
Ben Maller Show now live from the Geico Fox Sports
Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller Well speaking of his social network.
John Gruden last coached the game in twenty o eight
with Tampa Bay and in that time since John Gruden
last coached the game, things like social media have become

(17:30):
relevant and they matter. They didn't matter when John Gruden
last coached in the NFL. He actually addressed that at
his PEP rally in Oakland, where the Raiders introduced John Gruden.
He acclaimed he plans on having many a conversation with
Raider players on all social media platforms. Now. The question

(17:51):
is is that going to be public or private? Because
you can do both. You can do and is John
Gruden tech savvy enough to know what is private and
it is not private? Think about this When he last
coached in the NFL, Facebook, the Big Facebook was four
years old when Tampa Bay and John Gruden went their

(18:11):
separate directions there. Twitter was in its infancy and really
hadn't become a thing at that point. I believe it
was two years old, but no one was really on it.
Instagram was not even out, That had not become a thing.
That that didn't start for another couple of years, and
Snapchat was several years out from when John Gruden last

(18:35):
coached in the National Football League. He also the news
come Apparently Raider fans don't like what I had to say.
Why would you be offended? What did I say that
was so offensive? I didn't say anything that was offensive.
Alexander says, dude, you sound like a Raider. The Raiders
hurt you as a child. No, no, no, not at all. Nothing,

(18:56):
nothing like that. Our friend Teverley, we met Teverley. Teverley
help does close a minor league baseball team in Bakersfield.
She was part of that. Yeah, that's a we're the closer.
We come in there. You want to shut a business down,
we'll come in there. We'll shut it down for you.
We'll bring our friends too, We'll shut the whole thing down.
But Teverley says, don't be jelly, and you know you
love your Raiders. Fan listeners. Well, yeah, of course, what

(19:20):
do you want me sitting and be a shill. There's
other people on radio that are in the tank with
the Raiders, and you can listen to them and they
will give you a completely watered down everything is rosy,
nothing to worry about view of the Raiders. But it's
not the case. Listen, this is a gamble. They went
for the big name. They got the big name. Now
you actually gotta win. Now, you gotta win some games.

(19:44):
All right, let's go to the your phones right now,
we'll speaking of John Gruden. I was gonna gonna push
this back, but why don't we do it right now?
Because if you look to the stars and you look
out in the cosmos, and the stars tell a story,
the stars tell a story, and who bet to break
it all down? We can't make your weight. It's her

(20:04):
first appearance of twenty eighteen. That's right, Sports Astrology, the
official well she's kind of the unofficial astrologer for our show.
Andrea Andrea whatever, Andrea whatever, Andrea, Andrea, what's going on? Andrea?
Happy New year? Ben? How are you? What's going on? Welcome? Oh?

(20:26):
I love that introduction. That's the music is perfect. Well, yes,
we'll welcome Andrea. It's hot. Heor to have you on here.
What now, what do we what do we have your
John grew let's read the stars there. Yes, August seventeen,
nineteen sixty three, in Sandusky, Ohio. A magical day in
the history of the world. Indeed, yes, And you know,

(20:48):
being a Leo, he's the king of the Zodiac. And
it's interesting. One of the writers in the Bay area
said it was like a carnation. Yeah, it was like
a yeah, that's that's a good thing. Also, I said, revival,
but coronation, sure, the same thing. Why not? Yes, So
I thought, you know, with Leo being the king of
the Zodiac, he really does have this regal, royal kind

(21:11):
of passionate, dramatic, ardent, flamboyant quality about him. I mean,
the whole chucky thing. You know, he plays along with that.
You know, he has this star quality in this charisma
and this confidence which is very Leo. Yeah, but can
he do that? He's fifty four years old. Now can
you still be chucky boy when you're in your fifties. Well,

(21:34):
here's the thing, good, good point. Then he has three
planets in Virgo Virgo that sounds good. That will get
the job done. Super analytical, very detailed, good at watching
a lot of film. Crack in the whip, so you
know the three planuts in Virgo gets down to brass tacks.
That really is a good balance and forecast wise. What's

(21:55):
happening currently? Mercury Planet of communication, super important for a coat.
He lives on Mercury actually because he's a very good communicator,
John grun he's got the BS down he does. Yes,
point well taken. Really he really needs that. And um
this year with Pluto in Capricorn, Chinese, Mercury and Virgo.

(22:16):
Now as Pluto still a planet, I thought it wasn't
a planet? Does that count as a planet? As you
look at the stars it got emoded but then it
came back it did really Yeah, wow, I didn't know
about that. I was exciting a very good Pluto is
fired as a planet, but we let Pluto come back
as a planet. Yeah, you don't want Pluto man at
us trust beyond No, No, absolutely not, because then Mickey

(22:37):
Mouse will come over as a big mess. Yes, all right,
so so do that's some all this? Suff Andrea? What
do we have here? Yes? So in a nutshell, then
the powerful aspect to his mercury. Basically perfect timing, good
for tackling a demanding project. Now here's the thing. Yeah,
you know, I can't think of more of a demanding
project than the Raiders. He can't help Derek Carr to

(23:00):
ain extent, and I think you made a good point
about that. But we have to manage our expectations here, Ben.
You know, Car is still struggling with Saturn aspects, is
still going to be some limitation. So Gruden's not a magician.
He can help, you know. They saying he's the quarterback
whisperer and so on and so forth. You know it'll
be helpful, but I'm still quite concerned about Car. All Right,

(23:22):
nine or ten wins or less, I'll ask the stars
nine over under nine wins for the Raiders in twenty eighty. Well,
as a Raiders fan, i'd like to I'm not as
a Raider fan, I don't care. As a Raider. I
want to know what the stars to I want you
to look out to the Cosmos and I want to
know what the stars are saying. No, I hear you.

(23:44):
It's just I don't really use my work for that.
You have so much more money though you think about that.
I mean, if I had your ability, I would be
in Vegas putting bets down, is what I would be doing. Well,
you know, let me study some more charts and let
you know, because because I'm I'm seeing under nine wins
is what I'm That's what I'm seeing. But I but

(24:06):
I but you'll have to let me know the Andrea
all right, thank you, Adria. Alright, Andrea has a good taste. Yes,
there she she's a Raider fan looking at the stars. Yeah,
like if I could read the stars. You wanted to
take her on a Vegas trip with you, Yeah, I
would take her. We'd hang out in Vegas. We gam

(24:27):
will be fun, be great. Go in the sports book
we you know, whatever your favorite sports book is in Vegas.
We sit down there and bam be the way to go. Anyways,
the Ben Maller Show on Fox as we press on here,
press on and we'll hang out with an old show
from back in the day. Is it coming back the

(24:47):
Brady Bunch? Are they bringing the Brady Bunch back? We'll
get to that and a whole lot more right now. Though,
Eddie Garcia is here and he has got the lads well, Ben,
let's start with news from the Nfelos you've been talking
about for most of the show so far. John Gruden
has the head coach of the Oakland Raiders, introduced officially
as their next head coach. Of course, this is his
second stint with the team. He coached him previously from

(25:07):
nineteen ninety eight to two thousand and one, had a
record of thirty eight and twenty six, two and two
in the playoffs guiding the Silver and Black. We've had
some assistant coaches being fired and others being hired. Carolina
Panthers say goodbye the offensive coordinator Mike Schula and quarterbacks
coach Ken Dorsey, while the Green Bay Packers are reportably
gonna hire Mike Petton to be their defensive coordinator. You
might remember him briefly as the head No one remembers.

(25:30):
He said, you might. Didn't his daughter not want him
to coach the Browns? Wasn't that to store his daughter?
He should have listened to his daughter. Is he gonna
ask his daughter if he's allowed to coach the Packers defense? Yeah?
College basketball, band, I guess college football is over. Maybe
can we kind of pay attention to a little bit
to college now. No, it does not start until about
a month after from now, after the Super Bowl. That's
when college we're gonna mention it. Anyway, we had twelve

(25:51):
ranked teams in action last night. Two of them lost.
One of them had to lose because he had a
top ten match up number pronounce number nine Oklahoma beat
number eight Texas Tech seventy five sixty five. Had one
true upset is Marquette beat number thirteenth, seat four sixty four.
One team was ranked, the other one was not. The
point spreads though I had no said he would know
that not ill No, I didn't look at the college

(26:12):
basketball point spreads. But a real upset, I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna guess that Marquette was not favored to win
that game. Where was the game being played? Who was
a Marquette? It was at Marquette. Yes, I'll have to
look it up. Please do continue this support brought to
you by True Car. Online car shopping can be confusing,
but not anymore with true Price from truecr Now you
know exactly what the prices you're gonna pay for your

(26:33):
next car, so it is a true car and enjoy
more competent car buying experience and then we're gonna stick
with college basketball. If you're a man of a certain age,
you probably had a smile at the Georgetown Saint John's
game last night where it was Patrick Ewing going up
against Chris Mullen. Once again, you didn't say it, right,
Pat Trek Patrick Allawicious Ewing taking on Chris Mullen as

(26:54):
head coaches of their alma maters. In the end, Georgetown
gets the sixty nine sixty six win over Saint John's.
Both those guys, of course, in the Basketball Hall of
Fame played against each other, played with each other on
an Olympic team, and now coaching against each other in
the in the Big East. Patrick Ewing in his first
year at Georgetown, so far pretty good, twelve and fouries record,
So all right, very good, thank you for that. By

(27:15):
the way, Eddie, the point spread on the Marquette Seaton
Hall game that you were talking about earlier, it was
a pick them. So it wasn't an upset. No, they came,
I'm looking at it right here that the total was
the over hunder was one hundred and sixty one and
a half and it was a pick them, So that
was not an upset. That was an upset. It was
not an upset anytime it's a pick ranked team beats

(27:36):
a ranked team, that's it's not. It was an even game.
There was no there was no favorite in the game.
There's not an upset if there's no favorite, upset not
it's not a true upset. True you said true upset.
That's not a true upseting. It's a true up it's not.
It's not. Why do we have the rankings that if
it's not going to determine who it was, you know
in team we do radio, We don't need to television.

(27:57):
On television, they need to put that number next to
the team. Once again, if you didn't hear me, Marquette upset,
the game was a pick him. It's not an upset
if it's just straight up anyway. So no, it's the
Ben Maller Show. We're coming here from the Geico Fox
Sports Radio studios. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent

(28:18):
or more on your car insurance. Just visit Geico dot
com for a free rate. Quote. Rich says, raider myopia
is in full effect. Your right bend Gruden is going
to be a flop. That's what he says, So that's
that's his announcement, right, our friend Jay, Jay and Philly.
He's the guy that got the kidney transplant, remember that

(28:40):
guy Ja for years, he needed the needed the help
he got. He's healthy as an ox right now and
he's he's listing. I don't quite understand this. He sent
a message, but I don't quite understand it. Yeah, he's
very upset. I wish I could read it, but I
don't quite get it. But I'm glad that Jay's out
there because Jay has been with me for a long time,
so I'm glad to know these He's two it in. Well,
here's an announcement. Now, LaVar Ball has a TV show

(29:04):
on Facebook and he's now not alone. There's other people
that have done this. But the latest television program on
the social network Facebook spending more money now they have
they've written a gigantic check for original entertainment content. The
person to get the latest check Tom Brady. Yes, Tom Brady.

(29:25):
The social network has ordered a series called Tom Versus Time.
It's a docuse series about an aging football star named
Tom Brady. The original buy in six episode series and
it is being produced by a side product production company

(29:47):
Michael Strahand, though, is actually part of this now the
media company Strayhand's an investor. Tom Brady, who's going to
be the feature of the show, he's also an investor.
Is there any chance this is gonna be good? Like
I thought the LaVar showed LaVar ball a ball on
the family. I was very well done. The production quality

(30:08):
was really good. No, and I actually I didn't. I
watched the first episode. I didn't watch any more than that,
but I but I enjoyed it. I thought the first
episode was really good. Was it better than the big
Baller brand shoes? The quality? Well, I don't have the
big Baller branch shoes. I don't make the I do overnights.
I canently A lot of other people don't either. I
can't kidding them in the mail. And he's so upset
by that. Not I'm thrilled by it. I think it's awesome.

(30:30):
That is bringing companies sucks well. She pointed out that,
you know, the Better Business Bureau or whatever it's called,
is about trust them about as relevant as the phone book,
as he's pointed out there, which I think good quotes
in modern times. That he you know, I, yeah, I
had a phone book delivered to the Mallor mansion, and
I went, I said, we got the phone book here.
I looked at my wife's we get the phone book,

(30:51):
and she said, toss it. So it's right in the trash.
I didn't even didn't even make it in the house.
Didn't even make an house. I wouldn't need the phone book.
I figure, if the internet goes down, I'm not gonna
call anyone anyway. I mean, what do I'm gonna call? Why? So?
Who needs that? So right in the trash? Trash? But
Tom versus time you got a premiere? Uh? It follows

(31:12):
Tom Brady. Here's what it says, follows Tom Brady both
on and off the field. How exciting is that they've
been shooting this throughout the NFL season and the filmmakers
put all this this time in at Tom Brady's house
and whatnot. It tracks him as he turns forty years old,
a big point in a man's life, embarking on his

(31:33):
quest for another Lombardi Trophy. Uh. And yeah, so there
you go. You're gonna watch that? No, well, you know
I probably will have to do well. You know, I'm
a beloved occasional Boston radio show and the equipment works
forgot about so yeah, I probably have to. And they're
they're pumping up the fact that Brady has over four
million followers on Facebook and that these people are gonna

(31:55):
watch They think they're gonna get millions and millions of
people to watch this. But isn't this just gonna be
a commercial for the TB twelve formula. Isn't this gonna
be Tom Persh? Yeah? Sure, well no, it's gonna be
like an infomercial about how oh I hear's how I
envisioned it. Man, I wake up, you know, and I'm
feeling my age, and then I go and high, I
follow the I eat some avocado, and then I get

(32:17):
a deep tissue massage, and all of a sudden, look
at me, and it's all because of the TV twelve formula.
And for two hundred dollars a year, you can get
this app. And then I'll hold his phone up to
the camera and then now they're not going to do that.
They're gonna come close. I think they're gonna come close.
And now where TB twelve shirts. Well, Guerrero his buddy, Yes,

(32:42):
massaging and be a lot of fun. I think it'd
be great I won't be watching much of it. I'll
watch a little bit of it, but we'll check it out.
So what else is Facebook working on? Benny and the
Weed Man. I'm sure, yes, they should put our show on.
I'd actually rather watch that than the Tom Brady thing. Yeah,
there was a show about Dwayne Wade as that already aired.

(33:03):
I don't know. I don't don't remember that. You remember
a show about Dayne Wade on Facebook? No? No, I
guess that's in the in production. Well they better, yeah,
get on it before he retires. There's a Bill Murray show.
Is this? I don't know if he's a arda or not.
Bill Murray traveling around minor league ballparks. Do you remember
seeing something like that on Facebook? No? You do not?
All right, I don't know either. All right, very good?

(33:24):
It is the Ben Maller Show on Fox. Well, good
luck to Tom Brady. I know he needs money. I
know he's struggling, and I know it's a very difficult
when you launch a new show. They have a worse
success rate on new TV shows than like restaurants. It's
it's not easy. So good luck. I know he needs luck.
All right? Who am I game here? We go. I

(33:45):
am the son of a jockey who my first love
was horses, but I would go on to a surprising
football career. I had stops in several exotic locations, and
despite being undrafted, I would end up starting under center
in a Super Bowl. Again the who am I game?

(34:05):
I am the son of a jockey. My first love
was horses growing up, but I would go on to
a surprising football career. I had stops in many exotic locations,
and despite being undrafted, I would end up starting under
center in the Super Bowl. Who Am I? The answer? Next?
On The Ben Mallor Show, we specialize in sarcasm, snark,

(34:27):
and satire, all things needed to survive the shady late
night characters on Twitter. You can follow Ben on Twitter.
He is at Ben Maller and you could follow me
Eddie Garcia. I'm at Eddie on Fox Little Taste and
out live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Maller. Well have the NBA pick him coming up

(34:54):
in a little bit. Here's the who am I game?
I am the son of a jockey. My first love
was horse says, and yet I would go on to
a surprising football career. I had stops in several exotic
locations despite being undrafted, I would end up starting under
center in the Super Bowl. Who am I? That is
the question. What is the answer? The rooster says, it's

(35:16):
gotta be Jim Plunkett. Gotta be Jim Pluckett, He says,
who else do we have? Wes Welker guests by Tequila Man,
Joe Capp from Mike from the LBC. Gilbert Brown thrown
out by Funhouse. Nice picture of Gilbert. I won't know
what he's doing now. Gummy Dave got it right, clearly
cheating you bum Sea biscuit thrown out by Ron. Who
else do we have here? Can't read that one on

(35:38):
the here? Eddie Goodell? Eddie Goodell from Stephen who says
the Cardinals sucked. That's his name? Good job by. You
can't read that. Can't read that. John Elway from Ivanson,
George the Animal Steal from Rob in Vegas. Eddie, what
say you? Jake Deloam, the Great Jake Deloam of the
Carolina Panthers, That is correct. Jake delom who started against

(35:59):
the Patriots in the Super Bowl. How that turned out?
He was Tom Brady's backup in the NFL's European football operation.
He played for Amsterdam and Frankfurt in the NFL Global
League there in Europe and then would eventually go on
to the Carolina Panthers. But his first love his horses.
He now owns a bunch of horses. He's in the

(36:22):
horse business and he still regularly appears on Carolina Panther
related programming. They bring him back and they do their thing.
Let's go to the phones. Andrew in southern California is
on Fox Sports Radio in West Covina. Hello Andrew, Hello
Ben Him. I'm calling you. I have something I want

(36:43):
to talk about. But first I'm glad you called me
because it's a talk radio show, Andrew, and this is
where we talk about things. Yes, okay, I wanted to
talk well, I wanted to tell you about did you
hear that story about the one me do one Me
a dollar Babo levodka? That was Solan And guess where
they found it? Where'd they find it? Had a construction site?

(37:06):
Was it empty completely? I'm a doctor. How much do
you think that? Do you think they shared it or
was it like one person? You know what I don't
think they knew was that it was worth one million dollars. Yeah.
The only part I didn't hear was well it's not
worth a million dollars. Now, I don't know. I just

(37:26):
don't know where it was stolen because I missed the
beginning of the yeah yeah broadcast. I can't help you.
I have nothing for one million a Copenhagen, I'm told. Now,
there you go, Yeah, there you go. Can you find
can you find Copenhagen on a map? Yeah, it's in Germany,
I believe, But can you find it in Denmark? Ashri? So,
I guess the answer is no? All right, yes, all right? Close?

(37:49):
Why that's all the same. It's like those guys, those
guys and no, no, this is you. You'd ask a
guy in London, you say, where is where's Chicago? And
he said, that's right near Seattle. Yeah it's close. You
know it's the same. You know it's why not? No
Chicago is never mind? Anyhow, I want to talk to
you about I heard on the radio. I believe last
night that someone mentioned that they were going to start

(38:12):
watching the time the Pitchers. You heard somebody on the
radio talk about this last night? Really, yes, I believe
it was. I don't know if it was you or
someone else, but they said they were going to chime yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well,
I don't know who we talking about that on the radio.
That got m a suck at radio. Who'd ever bring
that up on the radio to a segment of radio

(38:32):
on that that's brutal, that's terrible radio. Really, it's only
a rumor or what well? I mean if I were
to address that, because I would never bring this up
on my own here. But I believe they're having meetings
this week, the Major League Baseball Ownership Group and the
people that run baseball and the Players Association, and this
Rob Manford, this is the thing he wants. He wants
the Commissioner of Baseball wants to have a clock in

(38:54):
the stadium between pitches and you have to throw within
whether it's twenty or thirty seconds, whatever it is, and
if you don't, I don't know what the punishment is
gonna be. But that they want to bring that to
baseball could happen this year. You gotta be killing me.
I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not
making this up. I didn't make it up. That's what
they want. Oh. I heard it on the radio. You

(39:16):
know what I like about Andrew? You know what I
like about you? Andrew. You're like you're stepped behind Andrew.
You know I like that about you. I like that. No,
you told me I was coming out of my coma
last time I called you. You're still in your coma. No,
but I like that about you. You're back in the coma,
so we can we you know, I guess that's more
a less offensive nickname in the coma, Andrew. They're coming
out of the coma. All right, Andrew? There you all right?

(39:38):
I gotta go look at the time. Oh my, all right,
there he goes Andrew. Man. I can't believe someone would
talk about that on the radio. That must be a
terrible show. I dude, talk about pitch clocks in baseball,
and man, I would never do that. I would never
do that. You know what I would do? Yeah, you
know what? The NBA pick up daily fantasy fun my,

(40:00):
oh my, oh my, look at the time, and who's
going for a school? Uh? He was the only guy
that I picked three players that actually played. It's hard
to pick the NBA players. These guys are such softies.
They don't play everything. So Eddie Garcia my my my suggestion,
don't watch the games. That'll help you out a lot. Yeah, okay,
well you have the first pick, Eddie. You're on the clock.
DeMarcus Cousins. Cousins is off the board with Russell Westbrook.

(40:26):
All right, the board has held, Danny g Steph Curry.
The board does not hold. I'll take Carl Anthony Towns
and Anthony Davis, Danny m Andre Drummond is gone. And
what about you, Coop Dwight Howard Wow, Eddie, the back

(40:47):
to back Janna's group ball freak is gone, and let's
go with Damian Lillard. Right, not on my board, Coop Bloop.
Who you got, Nicola Jokic, Danny g Se, Jay McCullum,
all right, I will take Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler of
the red hot Minnesota Timberwolves, who own Lebron James and

(41:09):
the Cavaliers. There it is the NBA pick him our
daily fantasy game. And a couple of days ago, there
was a story, a couple stories on the Internet about
how the thunder of Oklahoma had come back and they
were they figured things out, and then they lost all
of a sudden, they suck again. In need of change,
but not necessarily a good change. Welcome in the beginning

(41:33):
of another hour. It's the Ben Maller Show. We are
in the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports radio network,
emanating live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios. Fifteen
minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on your
car insurance. Just visit Geico dot com for a free

(41:53):
rate quote. As we await the NFL Divisional round of
the playoffs this weekend, a lot of personnel moves, a
lot of personnel moves in the NFL, some more exciting
than others. We mentioned last hour, we talked about John
Gruden coming back with the Raiders. A number of coordinator

(42:13):
positions have been handed out. There's a new coach in Chicago.
The Bears did it. They hired a guy we've never
heard of. Naggi is the new head coach there in
Chicago and one of the teams that was in the
Super Bowl a couple of years ago. They have lost
their way offensively, and so what they did is they

(42:35):
whacked pretty much everyone of note on the offensive coaching staff.
And I am referring to the Carolina Panthers who said
you get a pink slip you get a pink slip,
You get a pink slip. The news coming out that
they had made a mass changes to the offensive coaching

(42:56):
staff after the irregular season, saying goodbye their offensive corps
nater and their quarterback coach, and so Ron Rivera now
is on the hunt for someone to get this woe
begone offensive unit on track after they lost to the
Saints in the playoffs of the weekend. Now, if you've
not been paying attention, the rumor mill is getting cranked up,

(43:18):
and it's intriguing because of the name. The name that
Carolina wants is intriguing. It's a guy that has been
around the NFL since maybe before you were born. And
this guy goes back to the early nineties when he
first started to make his mark in the NFL. The

(43:39):
Ron Rivera is he's got a bulls eye and tunnel
vision on Norval Turner. Norm Turner is the favorite to
be named the Panthers new offensive quarter You heard that right,
the one time redskin coach, very briefly a Raider coach.
He coached the Chargers back in long ago when in

(44:00):
San Diego. And later on on Wednesday, he is set
to arrive in Charlotte and will interview for the offensive
coordinator physician for the Panthers. I wanted to talk about
this another question. What are we to take away from
Norv Turner possibly taking over in Carolina. Now my viewpoint

(44:20):
this is obvious here. You've got unimaginative retread tires and weasel.
You've got weasel thrown in. I'll bind all this together. Now.
First of all, when people talk about Norv Turner in
a lot of broadcasters, when Norv is coaching a game
and broadcasters do the game, they just lick his toes.

(44:41):
They can't say enough good things about Norv Turner. They
talk about what a nice guy is, but he's a
wonderful fellow. They don't talk about what a great coach
he is because he can't do that. This is a
mistake in the making. Now, we don't work on the
inside of the NFL, do a radio show. You do
what you do. But you and I both know this

(45:02):
is not going to end well. It's very unimaginative. The
pendulum in the NFL has shifted away from this kind
of higher You want new ideas, you want new ideas.
You're Sean McVeigh types to run your offense. Carolina should
here's what they should do it. I'll be the consultant.
I'll give them some advice. They should have a comprehensive search,

(45:26):
go high and far and all that. Norv Turner, you know,
if you're gonna talk to Norv, you know what. When
you talk to Norv Turner, he's the last guy when
nobody else, nobody else will take the job. When everyone
else turns you down. Then you say, hey, Norv, you
want to come back to the NFL. That's where you go.
He was an offensive innovator, a creator of great offense

(45:49):
in the late twentieth century. Right, he's running a nineteen
nineties style offense, which was great in the nineteen nineties,
but it's twenty eighteen. Norv Turner is at the top
of your list, the top of your list. You got
a question you wish list. It's like a kid who
wants a big pile of dirt for his birthday. You'd

(46:12):
be like, well, why don't eat? What the hell's wrong
with you? Why would you want a big pile of dirt?
Norv Turner is the football equivalent running an offense of
a big pile of dirt. And it looks like Carolina
has locked in on this guy to run their office
and Ron Rivera, if this is the case, here, come on,

(46:32):
I'm calling you out on this. You don't go out
and get retread tires. NORV Turner, he's got twenty six
years of experience in the NFL. He's worked for nine
different teams, and there's a reason that he is a
coaching vagabond and has bounced all over the place. Look
at the numbers. NORV Turner's last five seasons as a
supposed offensive genius, he served up diarrhea, Die die diarrhea.

(46:57):
The Chargers, Browns, and Vikings. Right last five years produced
offenses that ranked on average twenty six in the NFL,
in the entire NFL. But wait, there's more if you
go back since twenty o three, right, twenty oh three,
So it's a good time, long time ago. Right now.

(47:17):
He missed last year, NORV Turner. But fourteen seasons. Out
of those fourteen seasons, how many times did NORV Turner
led offenses end up near the top in the NFL.
The answer is only four times. Out of the last
fourteen years, NORV Turner has been on an NFL coach
with either coordinator or a head coach. Has his team

(47:38):
ended up in the top half of the NFL in
total offense, what more do you need? Well, yeah, but
he didn't have good players. That's not even true with
the Chargers had a loaded offensive team. They were stacked.
The deck was stacked in San Diego, and he blew that,
blew that wide open. But I am convinced, and I
finally got in a moment of week this my friend

(48:01):
Karen Kay, who I used to work with. K K
admitted to me. She probably will forget it if you
call her on it, but she admitted I wanted the
Chargers hired Norv Turner. We were in here and she
was a big Charger fan, and I told her this.
I laughed the entire show. I just like I say,
Norv Turner, that was how I did it. And she
got very upset with me, you know, give him a

(48:22):
chance and all that stuff. Well, she finally did admit that.
My hypothesis was that if the Chargers hired just about
anyone else, that Charger team would have won a Super
Bowl with Tomlinson and Philip Rivers. But they hired the
worst possible guy they could have hired. Norville Turner, and
they didn't get bupkiss. And you could argue my friends

(48:42):
in San Diego that if the Chargers had hired Spanos,
had hired a good coach and they had won a
Super Bowl, that the Chargers would have gotten that stadium
built and they'd still be in San Diego. So, if
you're looking for a fall guy, why the Chargers left
San Diego to head to La I blame nor Turner.
You swept my ass. You're right, that's thank you, Kike.

(49:04):
That's right right now. Secondly, Norvelle Turner, I think it
was about eighteen months ago roughly. I'm bad with dates
and stuff like that, but it was not that long ago.
He was with the Vikings, right, And if I remember correctly,
when he left the Vikings after five weeks or so
of the NFL season, the report was he had retired, right,

(49:25):
and we had a sneaking suspicion that was bogus. And
if this is all true and he ends up being
hired by Carolina norv then that is proof that we
were right that he's a weasel and the Vikings are
weasels because Turner, it's kind of Bobby. He was fired
with the Vikings. He was there for a few years.
There were twenty seventh, twenty ninth in offense and points scored.

(49:48):
I think the last year, the last handful of games,
there were twenty eighth in offense. But Mike Zimmer, you know,
the old the good old boys network, we respect we
respect this guy. So instead of just saying we we
fired Norv Turner because he stinks the Vikings. At the time,
if I remember correctly, they said, wow, he retired, he's
taking a break whatever. He walked away a few weeks

(50:08):
into the season. It was poor performance. Right now, I
do not envy anyone working with Cam Newton. It is
possible that nobody will be able to salvage Cam Newton.
Like the numbers, don't tell you everything. They don't, but
they tell you a lot. They don't tell you the
whole story, but they tell you a good amount of
the story. They said, a pretty good baseline. And if

(50:30):
you look at Cam Newton's career, he is a middle
to back end passing quarterback. That is what he has
been the majority of the time. This past season, Cam
was twenty second in passer rating in the NFL. That
is not an outlier. That is closer to the norm
than anything else. The year before twenty sixteen, Cam Newton

(50:50):
was twenty eighth in the NFL in passer rating. The
year he won the MVP, he was eighth, But that
was the outlier. That year the outlier because the year
before that he was twenty six. He can go on
and on here. He's had one season in the top ten,
actually one season in the top fourteen in the NFL
quarterback rating category. And so the last seven years he's

(51:13):
had one finish in his run in the NFL in
the top ten. So the last thing here, right, Norv
Turner is looking out for family. That's why this is
all about family. Now. He might want the money to
come back and all that, but he's gonna be sixty
six years old next year. This is not a Bill
Belichick situation. It is more probable than not that a

(51:34):
pending return to the NFL for Norv Turner, a pending
return here is motivated because of his family, and in
particular is kid who has not worked in the NFL.
I believe since the Vikings got rid of good old
Norv and does Scott Turner, who what I would assume
joined the Vikings as a quarterback coach would be a

(51:56):
package deal and that would likely happen. All right, Benn
Malers on Fox, you want to come on on any
of that, you are more than welcome. There are there's
a line open and operators are standing by. Operators are
standing by and you can join the fun at eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven yes, eight
seven seven nine nine six sixty three six nine. So

(52:19):
are you a tech guy, Eddie Edmund Dallas steamboat, Willie Garcia?
You into tech technology? You into that? Um? No, that's
a no. I mean I have an iPhone? Okay, congratulations.
Yea's very nice. I'm not I'm not afraid to use it. Well,
they're having the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, which is
a big deal. It's a big high falutin deal, right,

(52:39):
this is the next wave of crap that we're gonna
have to work extra jobs to a ford. You know
what I'm talking about. Yes, So the newest thing from Samsung.
How big is your TV? Eddie? How big is your TV?
Seventy something? Pretty good? Yeah, it's pretty solid. I think
you got a bigger TV than I have. I even
know how big my T it's a big TV. My
wife's TV is bigger than yours. Really, well you no,

(53:02):
I gotta no, I said, I got a new TV,
right you. You didn't come to the Mallar mansion this year,
but by I upgraded the TV. It's a bigger TV.
But I who care? Like just like a peeing match? No, no,
I'm better than my TV feature hell cares all right? Anyway,
I was sit in my office most time anywhere. So
so Sam sung at this computer commuter commuter a computer

(53:25):
electronic show, Consumer Electronic. I get it right. Eventually, Consumer
Electronics Show, they introduced something called the Wall from Samsung.
I like it already, all right. This is said to
be the world's first modular TV that lets you adjust
its size that will best fit your living room. I
like it now. According to the story that's out there

(53:46):
from the Consumer Electronics show, the TV check this out,
Eddie measures one hundred and forty six inches. Do you
have a wall big enough for that TV? I'll find one.
I'll find one. And they point out the TV obviously
has to be mounted to a wall or even sunk
into the walls that big. It has to be sunk in.
But it's it's despite being ridiculously large. It is four

(54:10):
K resolution razor sharp. I'm looking at a photo of it.
It looks amazing here, it's just crazy the photo. However,
the question that I had was how much does it cost?
Because that's what I want to know, And Samsung would
not say how much it costs, which means you can't
afford it. They say that they'll have more information available

(54:31):
in March on the price and the availability of this
particular television. But it looks like Eddie that this is
a ball or TV. But you're a ball or you're
on radio, so you could probably afford a luxury television
of one hundred and six inches, especially when I try
to convince my wife that we can now stay home.

(54:52):
We don't need to spend money on season tickets, we
don't have to drive this data. Are you trying to
cut back a little bit? Yeah, yeah, she opened this. Well,
probably not, but we would try. Well you should wait,
like when the new stadium opens up. Uh, we had
a guy in here last night, a big lou who
went to a basketball game, basketball game for twenty bucks. Yeah, well,

(55:13):
we are not going to the new stadium. We're not
going to pay the PSLs. Hell no, yeah, were good
for you. I'm happy to hear that. Because what you
can do is you can cherry pick games. That's right,
that's what she out of. Your cherry picked the games.
And if the teams blows and you'll get really cheap tickets.
And that's gonna be a pretty big stadium, so there'll

(55:34):
be a lot of available inventory for tickets. That'll be
the way to do it, all right, Well, so the
Ben Mallor show on, So I look forward to not
getting one hundred and forty six inch television those tv
Ben Why these monitors in the studio haven't been read yet.
They're waiting. Yeah there Yeah, Like what if you put
that one hundred and forty six Samsung television which you

(55:56):
can't see our studio, but would that be the entire
would be each wall, it would be every wall in
the studio? Nice the wall. Yeah, that's like too big though,
I think it's too big. Well, it depends on of course.
There is like, yeah, we have a loft area that's
where we do most of our TV watching. Yeah, and
the seventy inch TV in that room is about as

(56:19):
big as you want to go because it's it's kind
of like a wall. You're you know, we're sitting like
six feet away from it, so it's it's a pretty
tight space. And you say, if it's big enough, I'm
not going to enjoy it very much. Well, yeah, now
your your phone. They have like the large iPhone, they
have the regular size iPhone. You a large iPhone guy,
regular size iPhone, regular size. I'm a regular size guy too.

(56:41):
I go with the regular size iPhone. That's what I do.
It's my move there. I could have upgraded to they
they tried to get me to get the bigger iPhone.
I said, I'm used to the regular. I'm gonna stick
with the regular. But I've like watched games and stuff
on here and I'm fine with it. You know, let's
see the problem with that. I'm okay with it, all right.
So Ben Mather Show, If You Want to Be Part
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox Again eight seven

(57:03):
seven nine nine six sixty three six nine. Also on
Twitter at Ben Maller, that is at Ben Maller. A
compelling Carolina Panther Malla monologue and what you know, we
need cupcakes. We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
The only thing better than listening to The Ben Maller
Show live on the radio is to hear it again
at your convenience on demand. The Ben Maller Show podcast

(57:27):
is moving up the charts unless it's not. Support our
little radio show by subscribing to the podcast on iTunes
and giving us five stars. It'll help keep the show growing.
And I'll live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios.
It's Ben Maller. Do we have a top five podcast
city update? Couple? We have not given that in twenty eighteen.

(57:48):
We have not given the podcast radios. Who is downloading
the podcast of the most? What cities are at the
top helping support our show more than other cities? What
are the real p ones? Happened to reside the podcast listeners?
It's funny you should bring that up. I was just
taking a look at that. You were, all right, this
is very exciting here. So you sit down your little
squatty potty there and tell us go ahead, well let

(58:10):
me yeah, let me get the most up to date.
All right, click refresh there, I'll do a little tap dance.
We'll eat eating cupcakes coming up here in a little bit,
which is very exciting way for that, well kind of
virtual cupcakes yeah, okay, excited there for a second. Um,
obviously our our number one marketing. Now you don't start
with number one, now should you start with him? I

(58:33):
always thought you start with the end and the Yeah,
number one, that's a fair point. Well, I mean I
figured I don't assume you took we had the guy
in the comma earlier. Don't assume. Okay, all right, number
five and West Covine is in a coma, number five,
and they've they've fallen to number five, fallen to number five, Yes,
Minneapolis Saint Paul. Oh you're falling. They're not. They don't

(58:54):
like our show anymore. What happened? They hate our show?
Hollering James not being around anymore. It does hurt. That's
a blow, that's true. I don't know if it's so
much that they've fallen behind, is that these these other
markets have you know, pulled ahead, moving on up, all right, son,
Minneapolis Saint Paul. Number five, yep, number five, number four,

(59:14):
number four with the bullet, Seattle, Tacoma. All right, very nice.
I guess you can't say that number one with the bullet,
number four with the bullet anymore. Right, that's an outdated
that's a true violent violent So Minnesota, number five, month
number four is uh, what you say, Seattle to coma
A good job, thank you Seattle. Now number three and
number three, these these guys have have shot up the list. Really, yes,

(59:38):
I don't need surge. I don't know who this is.
I have no idea. San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose. Look
at that the bear are that's right? And they finally
found out we were on there. They had no idea.
They have come on so strong that they are only
slightly behind our number two markets. Yeah, Boston, Manchester, but

(01:00:00):
I do local radio in Boston to wait a minute here,
true they can't get enough. Oh my god, wait a
minute here. This is Boston could fall down to number
three on the list. They have, they have a lead,
but it's but it's a small lead, devastating. So you
know you need to tell your Bostonians to get on
the podcast and my equipment works. I'll do that, all right.
And number one here we go, Number one, number one,

(01:00:22):
I can't imagine. Let me guess google. Number one, Toledo, Ohio? No, no,
all right, no, the great of Los Angeles area, alright,
La baby, number one in the number one radio market,
the LA market, number one radio market in the world,
the Los Angeles. We're very good, thank you for that.

(01:00:43):
She would do with just a quick top five of
the international markets. Yeah, why not with the hell we've
killed enough time, let's keep it going. Yes, yes, number
playing the music again, Danny, I need more music, play
some music. Here we go. International list is number five
International Zimbabwe. No. Number five is Japan, Japan. Really yeah,
well that's not that's military. That's our military, guys. That's right,

(01:01:04):
that's our military, our men and women that are overseas there. Yeah, alright,
number five man number four, number four Afghanistan, Afghanistan. Yes,
look at that. I get email from these guys in
Afghanistan and sala listen, So I guess they're not lying.
Slightly ahead of Afghanistan at number three. Yea Australia, all right,
Australia now not as cool as you know, not as

(01:01:25):
cool as my favorite country. But that's now. There's a huge,
huge jump here between number three and number two. It's
a huge all right, big big hit the turbo button.
Here we go, right, New Zealand. Yeah, baby, whoa coming
in at number two? You know what that is? That's
ten years of appearances on the afternoon show in New Zealand.
Pan Off is with that's right, and we're by the way,

(01:01:46):
our shows also carried. This show is carried time shifted
on Radio Sport in Auckland, New Zealand. So good job
for you guys. Nice, nice, and of course number one,
number one, far and away number one O our brothers
to the new oh KAA, that's correct. Well, thank you Canada,
thank you, Jason and Ottaway, Yeah, Jason and Ottawa. Manzo

(01:02:10):
windsor when he know Jason and windsor when he calls
in he doesn't call it anymore, or cow we lost
all our guys and went cowboys don't call anymore. We
lost all our windsor guests. They're apparently the number one
station anymore. Else they're apparently just downloading the podcast. Yeah,
they're they're podcast guys. Now. Well, thank you for the
supporting the podcast. And as we say, we love that
you listen to the radio show live. You should listen live.
But it really pisses off management is the podcast numbers.

(01:02:32):
Because there are some other shows and I'm not going
to name any names here they spend a lot more
money on They spent a lot of promotion money on
and it drives them insane when our podcast numbers continue
to be better than these high falutin big time radio stars. Again,
you know, we're all family here, So why I don't
want to speak about anyone else. I'm just gonna say
that's that's kind of cool. Sorry, maybe all right? Eating

(01:02:55):
eating cupcakes now. I peeked ahead. You're never supposed to
peek ahead in life, but I peeked ahead at Alabama's
schedule in twenty eighteen defending their national championship. You see this, Eddie,
the twenty eighteen Alabama Crimson Tide schedule. No, I did
not see one of the keys to Nick Saban's success.
There's two things, great recruiting and great scheduling. Here's the

(01:03:17):
lineup some of the non conference opponents for Alabama in
twenty eighteen when college football comes back. They have the
Arkansas State Red Wolves. They also have Louisiana Jonesboro, Arkansas,
Louisiana Lafayette Raging Cajuns, the Citadel Bulldogs will all be
visiting Bryant Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa. That's a tough schedule, Eddie,

(01:03:39):
Not really, because your Fresno State Bulldogs and the Colorado
State Rams were on the schedule this past year. Right,
Fresno State at a good year. That was a good
win for Alabama forty to ten or whatever, forty one
to tennis something like that. But yeah, that's it. So
Nick Saban again lining up a murderer's row to come
into Bryan Denny Stadium when you you beat Citadel Louisiana

(01:04:02):
Lafayette in Arkansas State. I don't know this kid from
Hawaii right to a tongue of Iloah, this kid man,
watch you, I saw I love. I was watching TV
and guys were butchering his name. I felt so proud.
I was like, man, I'm not good at a lot
of stuff. I sucked a lot of things in life,
but I did nail this one, and I want to
see I hope that IK and them Polly last long enough,

(01:04:25):
so I K and M Polly can sack to a
tongue of Iloa and a broadcaster will have a heart
attack calling that game on television. But you're almost like
a genius because you could say those names, but you
can't say Andrea again. Yea yet again. This is more
proof rather than say boy Ben, way to go you No, no, no,

(01:04:50):
that's a backhanded compliment. You know it's a backhanded compliment.
You could have stopped right there. On the Dan Patrick Show,
Little Danetts, when they're not fawning Dan, all right, Dat's
what they do is, oh Dad, Oh you're so good, dad?
Oh Dad? Here you want some more board? Not at all.
If we came in here, you know, slurping up to you,

(01:05:12):
you would love it. I would feel like I'm a
big radio star. No, no, you and all that you
talk about it all the time. You couldn't If you
really want that, all you have to do is pass.
You just give his cat. I think I don't get
paid for this is his charity. What do you give?
I live in another state, Daddy, what are you talking about?
You might get a Ford too. I would live closer
to the radio station, but I can't. All right, anyway,

(01:05:34):
it's the Ben Mathers Show. Well, good luck to Alabama.
You see that story was at lane Kiffin said that
that to a tongue of Iloa would have left Alabama
if he didn't play in the title game. I didn't
see that. Yes, I betty, I bet he hopes he
would go to Florida Atlantic. You buying that? Come on, really,
he might have threatened to leave if you think he
was actually gonna leave Alabama. If that had been the case,

(01:05:55):
I'm s I don't know one of those guys though,
I don't see sticking around. They're both too good. Jalen Hurts, Yeah,
he'll be gone. Or would you think they're too good
to be? One of those guys is way too good
to be he's sitting on the bench. Well, Jalen Hurts
is yeah, not a great quarterback. Do you think he's
a great quarterback? Jalen Hurts. I think he's a good,
very good college quarterback, and he will go start at

(01:06:16):
a lot of different programs. If he leaves, they should
convert him to running back. He's not gonna be an
NFL yeah, because they don't have any good running backs
at Alabama. No, but how about like a guy that
can shift around a what was the thing a specialist
now Belichick used to call like a five tool player.
You can do a receiver, running back, quarterback because that's
what he could make the end kind of like slash

(01:06:37):
back in the day. Quartill start because Jalen Hurts can
make the NFL in that role, he'd have a shot.
He's not gonna be a quarterback, correct in the NFL?
All right, is like we're worried about his long term future.
All Right, we will have Mallard to the third degree.
I'm sure he's getting his college education. He'll be fine,
role tied, all right right now, though, Eddie Garcia will
give you the last Well, Mallard to the third degree. Here, well,
we'll start with news from the NFL, where I was expected.

(01:06:57):
The Oakland Raiders have introduced John Gruden as a new
head coach, and this is his second stint as head
coach of the Raiders. He previously coached them from ninety
eight to two thousand and one at a record of
thirty eight and twenty six, two and two in the
postseason with a silver and black. Carolina Panthers fired their
offensive coordinator Mike Schula and quarterbacks coach Ken Dorsey Wall.
The Green Bay Packers are reportedly hiring Mike Petton as

(01:07:18):
a new defensive coordinator. You might remember him, or we
might not. He was briefly the head coach of the
Cleveland Browns college basketball. We had three of the top
five teams in the country in action and a couple
of them at close calls. Number two West Virginia gets
by Baylor fifty seven fifty four, Third Eric Virginia down
Syracuse sixty eight sixty one, and number five per Due
slips by Michigan on the road seventy to sixty nine.

(01:07:39):
This report is brought to you by Truecar. Online car
shopping can be confusing, not anymore. With true Price from Truecar.
Now you know the exact price you'll pay for your
next car. Visit Truecar and a joy more confident car
by experience now bet. Obviously, we had a very eventful
national title game in college football, Alabama beating Georgian overtop
of the title. There is a report that a quarter

(01:08:00):
back from one of the teams is transferring, and we're
not talking about Jalen Hurts. We're talking about Jacob Easton
from Georgia. He was a starter last year, started the
season this year as a startup. We got Hurting the
first game, replaced by Jake from and then never saw
the field again. Now Easton is a sophomore. He's from
the state of Washington, and the reports say he is

(01:08:21):
going back home to attending University of Washington. So he'll
still be a dog that is accurate and a dog
with a W as well. Yeah, yeah, but it's they
do ogs, is how they do the dogs or they
do the same though I thought it was a W
for a Georgia as well. Oh is it dawg? Dogs?
How do you spell but your dogs? That you have
a dog. There's a couple. Do you have two dogs

(01:08:41):
in one year? I have two dogs and I am
a bulldog at Freston State. Spell dogs. Yeah, traditional traditional dog,
not the dawgs. All right, So Ben mather Show, speaking
of Jake from I saw several listeners sent me these
old tweets that he had sent out from a couple

(01:09:02):
of a couple of years ago. Tweets never died then,
I guess not, And uh, I guess he went to
He went to Bama on a recruiting visit and Bama
he he had a picture with Nick Saban there and
uh it was it some interesting stuff from Jake there.
In fact, one of the tweets he announced he was
committed to the University of Alabama and didn't quite work

(01:09:26):
out for him. There is now of course at Georgia.
All right, we will happen, you know, let's take a call.
We haven't done that, and then we'll get to malt
We take a call real quick, let's go to let's
see here. How about we sailor to Damien in Oceanside,
who's on Fox Sports Radio and he's the guy that
he can't sleep and he calls us up. What's going on? Damien?
What's that? Ben's? What's up with all them glory holes? Tonight? No?

(01:09:48):
That was yesterday? See that was that was yes that
was the theme of yesterday show. You still got that.
I'm a lot more tired tonight. I didn't sleep, I
didn't got class to night and I had I lost
Vega that Sina'll skateboarding and broke myself. But I got
a free lobster and steake dinner. So how much money
you were at the casino? And how much money did

(01:10:08):
you have to lose to get a free lobster dinner?
Too much? Like five hundred sixty dollars? So okay, So
if you lose five, you really spent five hundred and
sixty dollars on the lobster dinner, is what you spent? Right?
All right? Yeah, all right, that's great. Are you gonna
sleep all day? Today is that you're planning. You can
go to bed right now. You're a sleep all day.
I fell asleep. He woke in when he asked when

(01:10:30):
I was on hold? So you were, so we woke
you up? You would you would called up? And you
fell asleep listening to my brilliant Mala monologue about North Turner,
completely understandable. And then uh and now you woke up? Okay? Yeah?
Any any dreams now? Yesterday you had the dream you
had Jerry Jones. Any dreams that you would like to
share with us tonight? Well, my girlfriend made me a

(01:10:53):
one of those dreams, Dames of dream catches. I want
my room. I've been having dreams and lost night and
sin you Madia, I don't know that's work. That's a scam.
When you wish upon a star, watch out. Be careful
because she's gonna get you a salt lamp. And if
she gets you one of those, you're gonna get married.
If she ends up run to the hills. If she

(01:11:13):
gets you a lamp made out of salt, then yeah,
well what do you think about the battle for l
a next being the charger of the rams are going
to be better than It's an intensive battle. It's the
first one to get seventeen fans is going to be
the winner. Have you have you I have? I'm firmer
down the beach like the area. I'm familiar, Yes, of course, yes.

(01:11:36):
What's up with the harder apart? Is it look all
crazy now with the new stadium? Well they haven't. You're
talking about the NFL stadium and they haven't. They haven't.
It's it's under construction. It's big, but it's not. You can't.
It's gonna be massive when it's done. Yeah, that's gonna
be like if the rams and targets now they're gonna

(01:11:58):
get vans. Now you're ramming, and see now you're rambling.
You need to go to sleep. You're rambling and I
must hang up on you go to bed. Please, thank you,
Damian the rambling man from Ocean Side. All right, So
Ben Maller's show on Fox on Fox as we yap Away,
here's a guy says I'm listening right now in Toledo,
Ohio on Am twelve thirty. El Guapo says he's representing

(01:12:22):
the Bay area. A lot of reaction to those podcast
ratings that are out, a lot of reaction Robbie the
Mariner fan says, Jalen Hurts upside is a taller but
probably slower Braxton Miller or Hurts could play strong safety.
He has the build for that. Robbie's football annaw, he's
a scout. He's a future NFL scout. That's how he's

(01:12:44):
gonna do it. We will have a Mallard of the
third degree. We're gonna push that back time shifted here.
We'll get to that. Also, here's the inch to trivia.
Heading into play on Tuesday night, Heading into the NBA
schedule on Tuesday night, Blank had committed the most personal
fouls in the NBA this season. Again, heading into play

(01:13:05):
on Tuesday night, Blank had committed the most personal fouls
in the NBA this season. That is the Insta trivia
answer NIXT on the Ben Maller Show. We specialize in sarcasm, snark,
and satire, all things needed to survive the shady Latnheight characters.
On Twitter. You can follow Ben on Twitter. He is
at Ben Maller and you can tweet at and follow

(01:13:25):
our executive producer. He is the liar, liar and the
menace of the Fox Sports Radio Network. It's the Coop
de Loop Justin Cooper and he's at uh Broncho Fan.
I wish I could pull off those suits and a
live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller.
We'll have Mallar to the third degree here momentarily, but
the Insta Trivia heading into play on Tuesday night. Blank

(01:13:50):
had committed the most personal fouls in the NBA this season.
That's the question. What's the answer? Filling the blank fun
house is going with bo Outlaw, good name, good guy,
bo Outlaught from Back in the Day and the Nature
Boy Rick Flair from Robin Vegas, Rod the Ambassador to
Baker's Fields going with DeMarcus Cousins as his answer. Ronnie

(01:14:10):
Psychly from Rob in Minnesota. The rock Dog Cat checks
in with Lonzo Ball. Lonzo Ball is his answer. Let's
see you can't read that one on the air looking
around here. Vinnie dela Adova guest by Tequila Man somewhat close.
Just Josh says it's Bill Lame Beer ron our test
from Joseph laval Ball thrown out by Bob Harvey Weinstein

(01:14:35):
from Mister Wonderful. That's his guest, Eddie, do you have
an answer? Eddie, is it Draymond Greene? Yeah, No, it's
not Bill Cosby either. El Guapo went with that, what
happened to the couge? We haven't seen Bill Cosby in
a while? Right he is? He still on trial somewhere.
He's keeping a low profile, standing out of the spotlight,
probably laughing at Harvey Weinstein's guests. They welcome to the club.
All right, The correct answer, Eddie is none other. This

(01:14:57):
is exciting here, ready for the answer? Oh yeah, Earl
Anthony Towns of your Minnesota, Tim Burwell, very close though,
Carl Anthony Towns had committed two more personal files than
DeMarcus Cousins. Let's get to it here we go. It's
how about to the third degree? This gill and oh

(01:15:25):
the way we go for the third degree? We bring
in the coop the loop. The Master of Ceremonies, Ben
Steph Curry recently said that he would do quote whatever
it takes to be part of an ownership group for
the Carolina Panthers. People in Hollywood have different ideas, yes,
all right. Well he even confirmed having conversations with p Diddy.
Oh really, yeah, I'm sure show those very very deep conversations. Yeah,

(01:15:50):
He's also been very outspoken about wanting to own an
NFL team, well, not just any NFL team, though he
is a big fanboy for the Carolina Panthers. Love Ben.
Is there any chance whatsoever that we see a Curry
Diddy ownership group? Yeah, I would say Coovin. I think
I'm being realistic here. I think I'm being too harsh.
There's a better chance of the NFL adding an expansion
franchise in pyung Young, the capital of North Korea. I

(01:16:14):
believe that is more likely to happen than this group
winning a bid to own the Carolina Panthers. Hey, this
is a classic publicity stunt by Diddy. He is goofing
on everybody and people are buying it. Here that the
Panthers have Cam Newton. Now, granted I'm not a big
Cam Newton guy, but he is their quarterback for better

(01:16:36):
or worse for the next handful of years. Diddy said
his dream is to buy the Carolina franchise and then
signed Colin Kaepernick is his quarterback? Can you really take
demand seriously? Sean Combs has a net worth somewhere in
the neighbor of eight hundred million. The Panthers are worth
two point three billion. The math does not work even

(01:16:56):
with some other investors there, unless he's Eric Jeter two
point zero and there's a group of penny pinching hedge
fund guys that come in, and even then he's the
face of the ownership group, So that would have to
be signed off on and b Charlotte is the home
to banking, motor sports, a number of food and business

(01:17:17):
companies based in Charlotte. Their headquarters are in Charlotte. The
smart money says that one of the good old boys
from NASCAR, one of those NASCAR groups, ends up dipping
their toe in NFL waters. Now, that does not mean
that Steph Curry will be left out in the dark here.
He's got options like you could get a ceremonial ownership

(01:17:37):
stake if Steph Curry wanted two percent of the Panthers
if they sell for what they're supposed to sell for
two point three billion. Using my math, if Steph's got
an extra forty six million, he can get two percent
of the Carolina Panthers. He could become a small bid
owner in the team. All right. Next, NFL ratings from
wild Card weekend, we're down substantially from last season, But

(01:18:00):
Roger Goodell doesn't seem too worried. He reiterated that the
NFL is still dominant on TV, out drawing every other
sport in most other entertainment. He noted that thirty seven
of the fifty most watched programs on TV were NFL events.
Benny's not wrong. So do you think that the decline
will eventually plateau to still dominant levels or will they
keep falling? Well, I'm shocked that the commissioner did not

(01:18:22):
admit that there's an issue with the ratings going down
in the NFL. I would have suspected that he would
be very transparent and very honest, because you know that's
how Roger Goodell operates. But no, here's what I think
is gonna happen. The numbers are going to continue to
go down. They go down slightly a year after a year.
Here Number one, I'll tell you why. Part of this
is a market correction. The NFL is competing against many
forms of entertainment. Their product has not been great. We

(01:18:45):
saw lots of people find other things to do, not
exactly missing the NFL. But that apathy that is the
problem here. The apathy is what has got to be
concerning behind closed doors at the NFL's office. If you're
losing over a million television viewers to your product every year,
and your product is dependent on television income, eventually there

(01:19:07):
is a point of no return. There's a point of
demarcation where you're screwed. And number two, the NFL could
go a long way in helping stop the bleeding by
trying to non politicize football. You had football viewers boycotting.
There was a recent survey that came out this week
said that people that didn't watch football the percentag people
didn't watch. A lot of them didn't watch in support

(01:19:28):
of Donald Trump. A lot of them didn't watch in
solidary with players kneeling. So you had on both sides
of the aisle people not watching the NFL. It is
a battle that Roger Goodell cannot win. Thirty three percent
of football fans said they purposely stopped watching or attending
games this season. And Goodell doesn't think there's a problem.
This is the old boiling frog NFL games. Yeah, you

(01:19:52):
keep playing with this political fire and it's bad for business.
You're not gonna end up in a good spot next.
All right, Ben, some hot stove talk. All right, I'm
all about all about baseball, talking baseball, and we've been
here and talk lately about negotiations between the Red Sox
and JD. Martinez. That's right. However, recent report says that
they are at a stalemate because the Socks refused to
give Martinez more than a five year deal. But of

(01:20:14):
course he's represented by Scott Boris, so yeah, it's you know,
my guy Newport Beach compound. Yeah, he's very adamant about
getting what he wants. Ben being a newly adopted Bostonian,
do you think that these Socks are right to play
hardball here? Well, here's my perspective. And I have talked
a lot about j D. Martinez when I've done that
the show occasionally in Boston. My perspective on this, it's

(01:20:37):
not about playing hardball, it's about beating against yourself. The
Red Socks don't want to be bidding against themselves. First
of all, I believe JD. Martinez would thrive at Finnway Park,
but there appears to be little interest outside of Boston, right,
So teams are not trying to sledge hammer the door
down to make j D. Martine is an offer. So
don't if you're the Red Sox. Don't be the fool here,

(01:20:57):
don't be the jester. And second, it ain't my money.
There's no legit salary cap in baseball. J. D. Martinez
is a terrific power hitter. He would have helped narrow
the gap between the Yankees and the Red Sox and
give the Red Sox a legit power bat in the middle.
Would he catapult the Red Sox to the world's here
It's probably not, but he's a better player than what
they currently have. And again, not my money there. It

(01:21:20):
is Mallard to the third degree. How did we do? Ben?
You pass this edition? That's awitter. That's almost as deciding
as some new truecar commercials coming up we have that.
I'd like to alert everyone new truecar commercials. Yes, on
the other side of the globe, the magic that is

(01:21:40):
Lava Ball. Continuing on and on and on, we will
discuss the latest twist, the latest turn. Welcome in the
beginning of another hour. It's the Ben Maller Show. We
are in the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports Radio
Network comedy alive from the guy Fox Sports Radio Studios.

(01:22:02):
Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on
your car insurance. Just visit Geico dot com for a
free rate quote. It has been a parade of statements
and declarations against LaVar Balls continued all week after LaVar
pointed out that Luke Walton's in over his head as
coach of the Lakers. Think his record in LA would

(01:22:24):
prove that out to be correct. You don't have to
be an insider to know that. But rather than focus
on the incompetence of Luke Walton as an NBA coach,
and instead the NBA community has circled the wagons and
they are ready to defend their man, and they have
done it by attacking the guy that said the thing
you can't say about Luke Walton. Now Rick Carlyle, who

(01:22:47):
is the head of the NBA Coaches Association. He led
the way on this, and there have been many a
coach that have followed up on this, the orchestrated campaign
to defend Luke Walton by tearing down LaVar Ball. Among
coaches that have been outspoken on this, you've brought Brad Stevens,
Greg Popovich, Stan Van Gundy, Steve Kerr, and a number

(01:23:09):
of other coaches who have again defended they bunker down
in support of the embattled Laker coach. But here's the thing.
Not everybody, not everybody in the NBA is slamming LaVar Ball.
In fact, an owner, did you see this? An owner
has come out in support of the father of two

(01:23:31):
Lithuanian basketball players. Now, if you've not heard this, you
might have missed it. Future presidential candidate Mark Cuban has
made his support. No. Now, the owner of the Mavericks, ironically,
Rick Carlisle, that's his boss. Now here's what Mark Cuban
had to say. He pointed out that LaVar Ball could

(01:23:52):
actually be good for the NBA. Now, Cuban compared LaVar
to a former NBA player, a Hall of Famer, a
generational talent, and someone who's possibly going to change the
world by giving us world peace. I'm not talking about
metaworld piece. I'm talking about Dennis Rodman. Mark Cuban compared

(01:24:13):
LaVar Ball to Dennis robin Here's the quote. Here's the quote.
There's an old saying in the stock game that you
go loud and go long. Cuban declared, Now, LaVar Ball,
let's the quote, continued, LaVar Ball has to keep saying
crazy stuff. To stay relevant. Cuban pointed out, he's actually

(01:24:34):
good for the NBA in a perverse way because he
gets casual fans attention. This is what I want to
talk to about now, Cuban continued. Here, he said, it's
Dennis Rodman all over again. The only being left for
LaVar Ball to do is to put on a dress.
That's the quote. So let's get into this here. And

(01:24:56):
if the dress had a big ball Er brand logo
on it, my man, LaVar would do it. He would
absolutely do it. The question is do you agree with
Mark Cuban when he says that LaVar Ball is actually
good for the NBA because it helps casual fans and
gets them involved. Absolutely. In fact, I have been saying

(01:25:17):
this kind of thing for many, many months. My perspective
on this, you've got harmless empowering, and you've got marketing,
and I will link all of these things together. I
link them all together. Now. Ay. The Mavericks coach Rick
Carlyle his little hissy fit and call the action where

(01:25:38):
he got all these other NBA coaches together and said, Okay,
you have to say something bad. You have to say
something bad, you have to say something nasty about LaVar Ball.
It's ridiculous. It's absolute ridiculous. Now Carlyle in particular called
LaVar a threat, which is absolute rubbish. LaVar Ball is
a lot of things. He is not a threat. LaVar

(01:25:58):
is a carnival barker. He's self promoting side show, he's entertaining.
He's also harmless. And Carlyle and these other NBA coaches
and their little choreographed counterattack against LaVar Ball, this backfire.
It backfired. You've actually played in like putty. You've played
into LaVar's hands. And I don't even know that LaVar

(01:26:20):
knew this was going to happen. But this out worked
out because what you have done, these NBA coaches stan
Van Gundi and Popovic and Steve Kerr and all these
others saying, oh no, don't listen to him, don't do
stan Van Gunni threatened to not talk to a network,
a television network his brother Jeff van Gundi works for.
Does that mean he's not going to talk to his

(01:26:41):
brother Jeff van Gundy. How's that gonna work out? That'd
be interesting. Maybe they don't talk to each other. But
what you've done is you've helped out LaVar This is
empowering for LaVar Ball that he is sitting in a
hotel suite in Lithuania and a continent away, and these
million and air NBA coaches they're having a temper tantrum

(01:27:03):
because of what he said. Oh, pooh pooh. Now Mark
Cuban himself, I would put him in the novelty act.
He's got the reality TV show The Oh. He's a
self promoter, the whole deal. He understands as a self promoter.
Cuban the power of shock and awe. Right, LaVar Ball

(01:27:23):
has rode the coat tails of his kids. I don't
think anyone would disagree with that. LaVar was a failed
practice squad player in the NFL, and now he is
a not quite a household name, but he's certainly close.
He's got his own brand, a global brand. You got
a kid in the NBA, you got two other Lithuanian
professional basketball players. It is driving people mad. It's driving

(01:27:49):
this is the social media age. LaVar Ball is winning.
He is and every NBA person that gets their panties
into a bunch here is helping to promote the big ball.
The brand they're doing is LaVar Ball, arrogant yeah, Absolutely,
he's arrogant. Does he shamelessly and brazenly promote the Big

(01:28:10):
Baller brand and his kids? Absolutely he does, of course.
But you know what, people are eating it up enough.
People are eating it up where it's annoying and it's
a nuisance for these people in the NBA. And they
have this thing calling ratings and page views and things
like that where media companies are graded. And the reason

(01:28:31):
that LaVar Ball keeps getting interviewed and people pay attention
to what he has to say is because people read it,
people watch it, they listen to it. It gets a reaction. Now,
the question has been asked by some and I get
email about this every time we bring up LaVar Ball.
The question is is he a one hit wonder? We
don't know the answer to that. Is this a fad A?

(01:28:52):
Is it a trend? Is it going to stand the
test of time? Probably not. But remember people have compared
LaVar Ball and we did it as well. Here to
the Kardashians. To Kim Kardashian, well, Kim Kardashian turned a
porn tape into a family business. She's a porn star.
Kim Kardashian, if I had said to you if we

(01:29:12):
had been together, me and you fifteen years ago, twenty
zo three, twenty zero three, me and you were together
hanging out, and I will here at twenty three, So
maybe I talked to you in twenty three, but we're
together fifteen years ago. And Kim Kardashian, that ray j
a sex tape gets out there. And if I had
said to you on the radio, if I'd said, here
on Fox Sports Radio, fifteen years from now, because she

(01:29:36):
did a sex tape, Kim Kardashian will have a net
worth of one hundred and seventy five million dollars, you
would have said, you're full of crap. You didn't know
what you're talking about. That's what you're doing overnights. You suck,
you blow, That's what you would have said. But you
know what, Here we are in twenty eighteen, Kim Kardashian
a hundred and seventy five million dollars net worth. The
entire family's worth a ton of money. And you would

(01:29:56):
have laughed at me. And she's laughing all the way
to the bank. LaVar Ball has a ways to go
to get to that rare fight. Are you guys sell
a lot of shoes? He's got to get the TV
show going, the whole thing. But he's on his way.
He is on his way. He's closer to that than
he used to be in bankrupt And the parting shot
on this it is simple marketing. It is so simple marketing.

(01:30:18):
Here LaVar Ball has gotten millions and millions of dollars
of free advertising. We've done it television, Internet. The amount
of free ad dollars that the big ball of brand
has gotten is staggering. You know how much money big
corporations like Ford McDonald's, you know, different airlines, American Airlines,

(01:30:39):
Unite It, Delta, You know how much they spend on advertising,
what they would give to get the amount of free
publicity that LaVar Ball has gotten. So oh, it's bad publicity.
Why any publicity is good publicity, as they say, unless
you're Harvey Weinstein. So I mean these these think pieces
about hold, we're above this, we are we're above this.

(01:31:00):
We're adults here, We're not doing juvenile things like the varball.
You just look like a douche when you say that
kind of stuff, because it's not dissuading people from following
the stick that LaVar Ball is providing. So here's my advice,
and I think this is what the NBA should do.
Embrace Lavarball. He ain't going away. You're pushing him away

(01:31:24):
and you look like the old guy. Get off my lawn.
Rick Carlyle, Stan van Gundy's, Steve Kerr, these guys. He
ain't going anywhere. He's not all right. So the Ben
Mallers Show on Fox and we will take your calls
on that. If you would like to be part the
number eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, there's a

(01:31:45):
line open for you eight seven seven nine nine six
six three six nine. We're also on Twitter at Ben Maller,
that is at Ben Maller you can be part of
the festivities. And Edmund Dallas steamboat Willie Carcia right right

(01:32:06):
over there. Yeah, I would go ahead. No, no, I
just I was just gonna say I no. I just
think it's uh, you know, Rick Carlyle and uh stan
van Gundy and these guys. Aren't they giving Lavara Ball
more of a platform by commenting on this wouldn't the
appropriate thing to do, since as they since I agree

(01:32:26):
with him, this is absurd and not worth reporting on
or talking about. But when you talk about it and
you make it a bigger deal than that's just playing
into his hands. So yeah, I mean you just ignore
it is there's what should be done by it. Nobody
takes it seriously. It's all entertainment value. I want to
see though, when like the Pistons have a game coming
up on the four letters, Like let's say if I'm

(01:32:49):
the four letter, I would send Jeff Van Gundy to
call the game and then have stan Van Gunny not
talk to his brother before because he wants to make
a statement or that well he might actually not care
about might actually not care about talking brother. Yeah. I
saw Jeff Goodman, part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association,
Jeff Goodman who said that Rick Carlisle and stan Van
Gundy they don't know what's going on with the Lakers

(01:33:11):
better than LaVar Bald. Would you disagree with that? I
would say that none of them know what's going on
with the way, but I would think LaVar ball would
have a better idea. He talks to a Lonzo. Alonso's
like a robot, right, whatever LaVar wants him to do,
Alonzo does, so I would think that's part of the deal, right, Well,
Alonso is not saying what LaVar is saying. So I
think LaVar is saying what he wants the narrative to be.

(01:33:34):
I think he's Do you think Alonzo is completely different
than his father? Uh? Yeah, I do, actually do. Yeah,
they're completely different people. I think that. Well, obviously a
Lonzo's not. He's reserved. He's more of an introvert than
an extrovert like LaVar Ball. But that the opposite. When
a Lonzo Ball was asked over the weekend about Luke Walton,

(01:33:57):
he gave one of those soft pathetic cancers. He didn't
exactly come running out to defend Luke Walton. It wasn't like, god, man,
this is my coach. I don't want to see him
ever fired and all that. Yeah whatever, He's kind of
going through the motions. Well, but that's his personality. I mean,
he doesn't say anything. That's how you interpret that. But
you could say if he if he's totally different than

(01:34:18):
his father, wouldn't he come out and say, well, no, no,
this is my dad. My dad's completely Well I'm not
gonna know his dad is a blowhard and his son
doesn't say anything that's completely opposite. Yeah, all right, well listen,
I I love LeVar. I think he's great, and I'm
all in and I'm in the majority of You're the
you're the angry old guy. You're the old man. You're
the get off my lawn guy. That is you, Eddie.

(01:34:38):
Uh that's the way you interpret it, Okay, Yeah, well
I'm right. I'm with the young people. You're the old plays.
You're the old buttoned up guy there, and you're you're
with the people at you know, want to throw money
at this this huckster. Uh, And they're not throwing money
at him there. Really watched some people watch trying to
buy his crappy shoes and they're getting screwed. Uh. That's

(01:35:02):
because this guy is a terrible businessman and doesn't know
what he's doing. All he can do is talk, and
people like you eat it up. But go ahead, enjoy.
I'm enjoying more and more and more and more and
more and more and more. Give me more I need. Yeah,
that's right, you'll get there. You'll get the three billion. Eventually,
you'll get the three bilease again, look at them. But Alonzo,

(01:35:22):
when he was asked about Luke Walton, he said, I
just play basketball. Just play basket, all right. I will
take your calls eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox
if you would like to be part and let's see
here where do we go? Weed Man Hippie is on
Fox Sports Radio. Hello, weed Man Hippie, South Beach, there

(01:35:46):
is in You are still on hold. I will stay
on hold there and eventually we'll we'll get to you. Yeah. Yes,
there were some technical technical difficulties, so weed Man, that
we're beyond my my control. I was there even if

(01:36:06):
you want I was not, but I will hopefully if
everything gets worked out. If not, I will not be there.
But that's out of my control. Also, yes, you know,
I am trying to be friendly to your Boston audience.
But you gotta you can't. You gotta compart. You gotta
look at where you are living the moment, weed Man.
You're all over the place. You're all trying to fly by.

(01:36:31):
But let me tell you, let me tell you what
happens here. All right, I figured you out, weed Man.
All right, this is like Betty and the weed Man.
You can't just get to the point. And so what
happens is you do this nonsense right? Hey, No, No,
you're all over the map. You start with non You're
not mister non secretary. You bounce all over the place.
You're like a racquetball, bounce it all over the place.

(01:36:53):
And then by the time no I don't, by the
time you get to the point, you get kaboom is
what you get because you go You can't just get
right to it. You got a smooze, you're a schmoozer.
Well you should give me one minute to at least
threethe That makes a point. You've had ninety seconds already.
Tick tik tik tik, tik tik tik, ninety seconds you've had.

(01:37:14):
Go ahead, you don't love me, okay, No, no, I
don't start with that. I should do the same thing.
You do the same. Yeah, Lithuania, that's right. You ever
been to Lithuania? We'd me. I think every person that
does violence should be in Lithuania. That's how you fix

(01:37:36):
the world. What do you have against the people of Lithuania?
Just love? It doesn't have to be Lithuania. Didn't they
already do that with Australia. They send all the criminals
to Australia. Now it's I think that's a wonderful idea.
And I think the fighting line is violent. If you
are someone who what if you get arrested for drugs,

(01:37:57):
should they send you somewhere else? Or no? No, little
fun no, no, of course happy happy sexting droves the
happy violence is wrong. Hey, then listen to this too
hard grow. Yeah, all right, Well that that went pretty well.

(01:38:17):
Now he's gonna send a bunch of nasty messages complaining
and all that. That's uh, that's next, right, that'll happen.
I assume that's uh? Is that gonna all right? So
The Ben Maller Show on Fox will take some more
phone calls on the other side, as they say, eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine
nine six six three six nine. If you would like

(01:38:39):
to be part a bigger deal than the NBA, bigger
deal in the NBA, we'll get to that and we'll
do it next. On The Ben Maller Show. We specialize
in sarcasm, snark, and satire, all things needed to survive
these shady late night characters. On Twitter, you can follow
Ben on Twitter. He is at Ben Maller and you
can follow our technical producer. He plays all the music

(01:39:01):
and most of the funny sound bites all the Ben
Maller Show. His first name is Danny. His last name
is a mystery to most, but you can follow him
at Danny g Radio and at the top Year Lung
Scream where the white women at head out live from
the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios, it's Ben Maller Ernie

(01:39:23):
Wrights and he says, Ben, my new Year's resolution was
hopefully to not hear weed Man's voice. But that's been blown.
So now I'm gonna make another New Year's resolution, but
it'll be the Chinese New Year. So that's from Ernie.
So hey, weed Man, how do you feel Ernie didn't
want to hear your voice all of twenty eighteen? H

(01:39:45):
That wasn't a drop, wasn't that was? That was actually
the real McCoy. That was the real deal. Yeah, that
was the real deal. All right. Let's see he's like
Crusty of the clowns. You laughing. Let's see here, weed Man?
Are you there? Weed Man? All right? Bigger than the NBA.
We'll get to that here. Coming up momentarily, Angry Bill.

(01:40:08):
He's somewhere in Florida and he's on Fox Sports Radio. Hello,
Angry Bill, what about a nine year old girl? We're
also gonna have Tinderoni tips later this hour and too
much or not enough. So if you want to play
too much or not enough, call now, call now. We'll
open the line up for you. If you want to
play the game show, we'll get to that here. Yes,
Angry Bill, go, I'm no more on a little bit

(01:40:33):
like you Ben. The scenario with this LaVar Ball is
gonna be eventually gonna call his son into the office
and say, look, tell you old man to shut the
heck up. They've already they've already done that. They did
that before, they did that early in the year. Stupid,
you don't even know what's going on. You're uneducated. You
let me finish because you don't know what you're talking.
Your first statement is incorrect. They already Mattice Johnson already

(01:40:55):
had a meeting with LaVar Ball before the season. Keep going,
what other incorrect things do you want to say? Okay,
then they're just going to hand him a check and
say go go'll play basketball somewhere else, and he's going
to be the Cathnick of basketball. That's right. The number
the number two pick in the NBA draft. They're going
to let release the number two pick. Is that what

(01:41:15):
they're gonna do. Yes, exactly. I'm sure we've made a mistake,
that's an error, and we well, we're gonna fire you exactly.
That's what they're gonna do. Now that the point I
want to make with this in your California, who's go
to the number one listener to your show? There's only
one reason for that, Ben, is that they sit up
all night watching their houses get washed away, so they
have to hear nothing else to listen to. Flord is

(01:41:37):
your number one listener. No, that's incorrect. Actually that's incorrect.
That's that'd be a erroneous Ben. People people died in
Santa Barbara I am aware of. Yeah, so Angry Bill,
he definitely gets one of these. Okay, jerk schmuck. Hey,

(01:42:00):
another another wonderful phone call from him. Why can't he
take a hiatus? Why? Why there's a guy he's more
committed to the show than I. There's there's never a
sabbatical with Angry Bill. Every night man, every night he there,
he is doing his thing. Kazmir is uh in northern
California on Fox Sports Radio. What's going on? Kazmir? Mister Mallard,

(01:42:22):
thank you for taking my call? Good Moreenji sir, what's
going on? What you got here? Hey? The baller thing,
this is my ferry is the NBA is so freaking boring.
That and then we're like a WWE community. Man, we
need personalities. Whether they win or lose, we don't care.
We still show up to watch Hole Kogan or you know,
that's my heir. And I just said the NBA is

(01:42:44):
so boring. Now I'm a Warriors fan. I mean, but dude,
I love the WEE believe here is because those guys
could kick the crap out. I'm really these guys that,
you know, I wanted my athletes to be freaks, the
guys rather beat me up or something. And now I'm
a UFC fan and I watched these women and I
put all my money on Chris Cyber or could kick
the crap out of Stephen Curry, and so I can't
want It's hard to watch min's sports today and there's

(01:43:06):
no personality. I'm glad the NFL started letting the guys
celebrate after a touchdown because sports are just becoming boring.
Now what do you think, sir? Uh? Well, I'm not
gonna go that. I'm not gonna go that for them.
I make my living talking about sports, but it would
be more fun. I don't I don't disagree with your
premise that I like the personalities you're We're very similar

(01:43:26):
in that respect. Guys like Eddie they want everyone to
be boring and dull and all that, and for them,
they love the sports that are going on today. But
for people like us, it's not easy. This job ain't
that easy because these guys with personality they get pooh pooped.
I mean it's kind of like, uh, I'm not trying
to the geeks or whatever have taken over sports and
they don't know how to run it, you know, and

(01:43:47):
that's why you see these goofy rules and and um,
you know, like I'm kind of getting tired of watching
like defense. I'm a defensive guy, and I'm tired of
watching defensive guys get hurt, or of them missing tackles
because they pull up before they hit them because they're
afraid to get fine, and then it just looks bad.
I mean, the hit zone in the NFL is two ribs.
There's two ribs you're allowed to hit, and if you

(01:44:09):
go above or below those ribs, you can't hit every
one of the ribs. There's only two ribs in the
middle of the chest. You can hit that. But if
you go any other place, that's it. You're You're doomed.
And before I leave, who who'd you have your money on? Chris,
Cyborg or Steph and Curry? I'll take answer off her
all right? I love off air. I love it's an
old cliche. I love yeah, answer that, sir, Well you

(01:44:31):
got again because the man respect. We have a bond,
me and Kashmi. We have a bond in Walnut Creek.
Why must you poo poo that? Uh No? I think
Cyborg would kill Steph Curry. Steph Curry. Steph Curry is
the kind of guy you want making a jump shot
for you. You don't want him in a street fight,
right am? I correct? If you're if you how about this?
If you're in an alley, dark alley, late at night,

(01:44:54):
you know it's four in the morning, and you know
you're by yourself, and it's you realize it's a dead
alley and you're stuck in turnaround to go back, and
the person walking towards you is Cyborg or the person
Steph Curry? Who are you afraid of? Cyborg? Go cyb Well,
bigger than the NBA. How about this one. Now, this

(01:45:15):
is great, Eddie, the Lithuanian debut for all intensive purposes. Here,
the Angelo and LaMelo ball was broadcast on Facebook and
they drew one point six million people to watch a
Lithuanian basketball game on Facebook. Now, keep in mind, the

(01:45:37):
average NBA game gets two hundred and two thousand viewers.
Your average NBA broadcast continuing, you know, considering all the
bad teams and the good teams, your average NBA game
on TV gets one point four million. LaVar ball on Facebook. Now,
I know they've got a bigger pool, right because Facebook
globals everywhere. I get that. But one point six million
people watched, and they put the Big Baller brand logo

(01:45:59):
on the court. The officials were wearing Big Baller branch shirts.
It was it was the big top. It was a
marvelous It was just a wonderful. If you watch that game,
you are a loser. Well one point six million people
than Eddie are losers. I agree, that's your opinion. I
love it, and I hear there's a bunch of games
coming up to this is gonna be a whole tournament.

(01:46:19):
Well that's exciting for dopes. Like you. Oh, welcome to
Lithuania tournament for the ball. All right, it's the Ben
Mathers Show. Too much or not enough? We get to
that end and then later on Tinderni Tips with Danny
g Right. Now Eddie Garcia is here on Fox with
the latest Eddie. Well, there's from the NFL, where the
Okator has introduced John Cruden as their new head coach

(01:46:42):
for the second time in their history. Gruden, of course,
coach the Silver and Black from nineteen ninety eight to
two thousand and one. He had a record of thirty
eight and twenty six, two and two in the postseason.
Now he's back for a second Stant Carolina Panthers fired
their offensive uditator Mike Shula, as well as quarterbacks coach
Kent Dorsey, while the Green Bay Packers reportedly I'm gonna
hire Mike Petton as a new divisive coordinator. He was

(01:47:02):
briefly the head coach of the Cleveland Browns. College basketball,
twelve ranked teams were in action, two of them lost.
It was number nine Oklahoma beating number eight Texas Tech
seventy five to sixty five, while Marquette knocked Top thirteen
Frank Seatonhall eighty four to sixty four. The support is
brought to you by True Car. Online car shopping can
be confusing, but not anymore. With True Price from Truecar,
now you know the exact price you'll pay for your

(01:47:25):
next car. So as a True Car and enjoy more
confident car buying experience. Been back in the NFL where
Bill's general manager Brandon bean That said there may have
been a misunderstanding of the exchange where Jaguars defensiveman Yannick
in Gockway accused, yes, I got in Goockway right and
then accused wrong. He's so proud of yourself, right right. Yeah.

(01:47:47):
Bill's guard Richie Incognito was accused of using a racial
surcial slur. Did he say any but we don't know
because in Gockway said he would not repeat what it was.
Was it the big one? Was it the N word?
We don't know because what other what other word? Would
I don't know? Just say it's the N word. I
would like to again, Away says, I don't remember, but

(01:48:10):
you know he said what he said. He knows what
he said. I don't gotta repeat it. Well, so I
don't know what he said. There's no way to know
unless who is doing that game was a CBS. I
think they have it on the audio. I mean, what
are we gonna go through the tapes that I'd like
to hear what these guys say in the year. But again,

(01:48:31):
the GM of the Bill says it was just a misunderstanding,
and that's that's code for Richie Incognito is a really
good offensive lineman, go Pound, saying Cognito is reportedly tried
to reach out to in Gockway and he doesn't want
to talk to him, so I let it. Who cares
go away? Remember when Incognito was in that bullying scandal
in oh I don't remember that at all. No, No,
My favorite part of that was when he took the

(01:48:51):
baseball bat to the car on TMZ. Remember that and
he destroyed You're no fun? Yeah, I know why you
don't like LaVar ball. You don't You're not fun. Yeah,
LaVar Ball is just a barrel of laughs. He is
one point six million losers. One point six million losers,

(01:49:12):
just josh as I strongly endorse Angry Bill for the
worst call of the year. He seems like he's earned it.
Bella agrees, Yeah, it's gonna be hard to de throw.
We've had some bad calls, but Angry Bill consistency of
performance of crap. Angry Bill would have to be in
the lead. We are coming in from the Geico Fox
Sports Radio studios. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent

(01:49:36):
or more on your car insurunch. Just visit Geico dot
com or a free rate quote. It's another Ben Maller game.
We've endured too many of these. Too much or not
enough enough already all right, too much or not enough?
You go five for five. You join the exclusive fifty
fifty club and we'll give you a two golden tickets.

(01:49:57):
But all you have to do is get three out
of five. Right, We've got options here, we got options,
and I'm gonna blindly pick someone here. I'm thinking, uh,
but I think that Cooper Loop. I think that might
be the right here, Coop, look up, Coop. That probably
the one to go with. R Yeah. No, we're doing
hand signs here. No no, no, not that one. Yeah, yeah,

(01:50:20):
that was that was the one. Or I could do
I could do that one. I know I could do
that one or that one? Which one you want? This
one or that one? I want to announce my pronoun
until coop decides. Go ahead, Coopa loop. Let's go with
that one. Okay, that one I was that was my
first choice. But then we could have gone we could
have gone with this one, but we didn't do that one.
We're gonna do that one. I don't even know what
this means. Well, who's on first? But this one I'm

(01:50:42):
not even too sure as a real person. Okay, if
that's a fake, we won't go with the fake. So
let's go with that one. All right, we'll go with
that one. We're gonna go with this one. And that
that what the hell did that? I didn't even know
what that was. Robbie the Mariner fan, Hello, Robbie. There
he is right now. Robbie does these mallar marathons all
the time. He's very loyal, and he's he's a very
active member of the Twitter community, and he's going to

(01:51:04):
be a big celebrity lawyer eventually. That's what's gonna happen. Yeah,
all right, let's play the game, no small talk. Are
you in school, Robbie? Is that what you're doing these days? Yeah?
I got classes in the afternoon for him. Oh good?
All right, And what's your your your end game is law? Right?
You want to go to law schools at the Yeah?
Probably yeah? All right, good good for you. We need

(01:51:25):
new more lawyers. All right, here we go. All I
know every year it's eighty thousand new lawyers, clear throat.
All right, here we go. Hell's going on here? All right?
This is the one we chose. All Right, I know
I'm kidding on line one, you're on line five. Here
we go. Try take two? All right? Question number one.
Alabama is the fifth team to win the national title

(01:51:48):
a year after losing in the championship game? Is that
too much or not enough? Too much? He says too much?
Is he right? That is correct? Alabama is the third
team to do so. They join Florida State and Clemson
Florida State ninety nine, Clemson in twenty six? Team all right?

(01:52:10):
Number Question number two? Question number two, there have been
seven head coaches to win a national championship with their
alma mater. Is that too much or not enough? Too much?
He says too much? Again is his answer? Let's find
out is incorrect? The answer is not enough? There have

(01:52:32):
been ten ten. Kirby Smart would have been the eleventh,
but his team choked, so they didn't win a bunch
of choking dogs. All right, Question number three, here we go,
too much? Not enough? Play along as you listen to
the show. Drew Brees is the eighth quarterback with multiple
eighty plus yard touchdown passes in the playoffs. Is that

(01:52:54):
too much or not enough? He's the eighth eighth, eight
us again with not enough. He's very He's got that
answer down, pat not enough, He's gonna go with that?
Is he right? No, send and correct? The answer is
too much. Drew Brees is only the fourth quarterback with

(01:53:16):
multiple eighty yard touchdown passes in the post season John Elway,
Brett Farve and Darryl Lamonica or the others. All right,
question number four? You get these last two, right? Robbie
thinks of knock gone well. Question you're very well, You're ya,
I know, blame blame, plausible deniability. That's a legal term. Uh.
Too much is your favorite answer, But you don't have

(01:53:40):
to change him. I mean the next two could be
too much. I don't know. All right, Now here we go.
Since drafting Ben Roethlisberger in twenty four, the Steelers have
a losing home record against four teams. Is that too
much or not enough, too much? He's going no, no,

(01:54:03):
you whether you want to stick with your original answer,
you want to change it? Your original answer was too much?
You want to stick with that or you want to
change it much? He's gonna go too much? Is it
too much? And I don't I need the answer too much?
All right? All right? Says too much? A Getty says
that's right. That's all right, all right? You got that right.

(01:54:25):
It comes down to question five on too much or
not enough. It's the Ben Maler Show. You're listening to
Fox Sports Radio. Thank if you like to show, try
the podcast. All right, here we go. Robbie the marin
a fan, Last One Last One podcast podcast on iTunes,
by the Way and other places. Blake Bortles became the
second quarterback to win a playoff game with more rushing

(01:54:46):
yards than passing yards for the win for the Golden Ticket.
Is that too much or not enough? Robbie the Marin
a fan, go ahead, So it did have to be
more than two? If it was too much, we have
to be more than two. Yeah, not enough, he's saying,

(01:55:09):
not enough. You want to stick with that? Yeah, I'll
go with it. That's so he got it right, he
did too much for four the questions and not enough
at the end. It was enough to get to win.
Blake Bortles is the third quarterback to accomplish the feed
that joins Michael Vick and Bob Greasy. You got to win. Robbie,

(01:55:30):
good job by you. You're a winner. You get a
golden congratulations. Man. Think man, there he goes, Robbie. Good
job by him. Very active. He's up for Tweeter of
the Year, which sounds dirty but it's not. Uh, we
will We'll get to tender Roni tips. You're gonna go
live on the periscope BAP Tenderoni Tips with Danny g

(01:55:53):
in studio, in studio, we'll get to that. We'll do
it next. The only thing better than listening to The
Ben Maller Show live on the radios here again and
that your convenience on demand. The Ben Mallard Show podcast
is moving up the charts unless it's not. Support our
show by subscribing to the podcast on iTunes and giving
us five stars. It'll help keep the show growing. And why.
From the Guy Coo Fox Sports Radio Studios, It's Ben Maller,

(01:56:17):
Robbie the Marion, a fan giving a victory speech says
that win in the game show earlier was an ugly win,
too much enough, not enough, but he'll take it. And
he said, eat a W. That was his his victory speech,
to eat a W, quoting Jameis Winston who doesn't eat
many w's, but he enjoys them when he does get them.
All right, let's get to it. Here we go. You
know what time it is? That's right, yeah, tender only

(01:56:38):
Tips in a bit of a dry spell, tinder Gurlu.
Danny g is here to help you have a romantic query.
And you are under the age of fifty and you're
not freaky and disgusting thief. Give up the call. It
is the seduction of romance. We will be a lovey

(01:57:03):
dovey Here Danny Ge making his way in the studio.
It's another weekly edition of Tenderoni Tips. We're back at
it in twenty eighteen. You can check out the video
on the periscope app. Should have that on your phone already,
and it's Eddie on FSR. If you would like to
see Eddie's holding his camera right now. Thank you, thank you, Danny.

(01:57:24):
Then make yourself comfortable. Hey, this is actual relationship dating advice.
Happy hump Day, Yes, happy hump Day indeed many in
Saint Paul begins the festivities here on Twitter, he says,
what would you say are the biggest red flags when
meeting a new woman? You're not so sure? What do

(01:57:46):
you look for? Okay? How many teeth they have, to
they shower? Do they smell? What do you look? Well? Flaky?
He's talking about online dating, So I would say, is
she consistent in talking to you? So flaky? Number one?
If she's flaky band, yeah, big time red flag. What
if she says I'm I'm seeing three or four men

(01:58:07):
right now? She's not going to tell you that. Her
actions will tell you that she's not. She's not gonna
say that to either. Yeah, you can kind of tell
like she's she's available, right right, And then if she
gets back to you, and then if she'll set up
a date with you, because if she puts that off
and puts it off and puts it off, big time
red flag all right. Jared on Twitter writes Cities I

(01:58:30):
had a bad experience with my New Year's Eve date.
Oh no, I hate that. She happens a lot. She
was sloppy and that's why falling all over the place.
I'm drinking too much. Should I have a second thoughts
about another date? No, because it sounds like she well,
it sounds like she's fun. No, I'm saying, no, you
don't have second date. Second thoughts about the second date. Okay,

(01:58:53):
you should give her another try, because she sounds fun
first of all. But she could be an amateur too,
because New Year's Eve night for amateurs, So maybe she's
not really a drinker. Yeah, a lot of a lot
of people have some sloppy moments on New Year's Eve.
It's one of those holidays where there's couples fighting, too
much drinking going on, and it's not a good holiday.

(01:59:15):
It's not it's not a good day to go on
a first date. Let me say that now, so we'll
probably not. Yeah. Yeah. So now if you take her
out on a random Thursday coming up next week and
she does the same thing and drinks like a fish,
then you got a big problem. Yeah, all right, let's see.
Keep it going with Tinderoni tips with Danny Gee, he's
in the house. Mister Bills on Twitter says my ten

(01:59:37):
part of the mafia. My ten year wedding anniversary is
coming up next Wednesday, how do I celebrate this the
right way? Well, you've come to the right place sports
radio show. We have all the answers. I recommend a
nice romantic meal made from stuff you get at the
dollar stall man for that processed box food. Man, I

(01:59:59):
know about the and your thing, because done right, ten years,
you're done for life. Right. Well, besides that, my friend
Tito has been married to his girl for ten years.
This was a few months ago he celebrated. And I
think it's ten or aluminum, which sounds aluminum foil yourself,
Now that's something. Rap yourself in aluminum foil. It's cheap, right, Yeah,

(02:00:22):
I'm pretty sure your wife wouldn't be too impressed by that.
But here's here's what I would do, mister cheapo Ben Mallard,
get some tickets to the Bahamas or Hawaii somewhere cheap. Well,
ten years, come on, that's a landmark. How much money
these guys got though, who knows? Well, come on, ten years,
go to the park, it's cheaper. Take well, take a

(02:00:43):
nice gift and wrap it in aluminum for batsy. That's
how you That's how you do it, right there, that's
the move, all right, sean On, Congratulations mister Bills. By
the way, when you reach that ten year marker, your
wife owns everything. You're done. It's however, where are you at?
What's where are you? I've been married for coming up

(02:01:03):
on five years, so I'm about the midway point here,
coming up not quite summer five years. Sean, what about you?
What are you getting married? Danny? What's that happening? Uh?
Nineteen never ninety nine? Really okay? I Sewan on Twitter
says I haven't had much luck on Plenty of Fish.
How do I switch it up? What's to catch some
new fish? Don't put all your condoms in one basket. Job.

(02:01:26):
You gotta go tender, Tinder, Plenty of Fish, match dot Com,
Christian single Mingle, Jewish singles, Our Times dot Com, Muslim singles.
I don't know whatever, any of them? Whatever? You know
all of them? You know? Why not keep your options open?
For sure? Get on like four different sites at the
same time. All right, and thank you want to submit questions?
Send him to Danny. Yeah, you can't even direct message

(02:01:47):
at Danny G Radio. There you go. He's not boogie.
He doesn't block those messages. Right. Yeah, it's all about
Bill as in Bill Belichick he continues to be the
topic de jur in the NFL. Is he staying? Is
he going? What's the real deal? Welcome in the beginning
of another hour. It's the Ben Maller Show. We are

(02:02:08):
in the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports Radio network,
emanating live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios. Fifteen
minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on your
car insurance. Just visit Geico dot com for a free

(02:02:29):
rate quote. With John Gruden now implanted in Oakland, the Patriots,
will they be looking for a coach soon enough? Now?
The Patriots expected to barbecue the Titans this weekend. A
massive favorite. Patriots favored by thirteen and a half. That
line has stayed about the same since it opened up

(02:02:50):
at thirteen and a half. There's been no real movement.
In fact, if you look at the point spreads in
the NFL, there's only been a small, small movement early
in the week. The only line that has really shifted
has been the Minnesota New Orleans game. Minnesota opened a
three and a half point favorite in that game, and

(02:03:10):
last I checked at the MGM in Vegas and at
William Hill in Nevada and elsewhere, the Vikings are a
four point favorite, so that's gone up a half a point.
That's the game on Fox, But the other games have
stayed the same, But Patriots mentioned them thirteen and a
half point favorite. Still you can get at thirteen some places,
but thirteen and a half. The Atlanta Falcons continuing to

(02:03:33):
be a three point road favorite in Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh
still favored by seven and a half over Jacksonville. So
with that as the backdrop, much of the chatter continues
to center on the reported rift, the chasm between Bill Belichick,
Tom Brady, and Robert Kraft, and they have all made statements,

(02:03:55):
all of them over the last handful of days here
that the tabloids continue to be obsessed with what it
would take to poach Bill Belichick away from the Patriots.
It's a real brainbender. One NFL executive, according to one
of the tabloids in New York, saying that the Patriots
owner Robert Kraft would not trade Bill Belichick for anything

(02:04:18):
less than not one, not two, but three first round
draft picks were Bill Belichick. So I wanted to talk
about this and engage in some conversation for the purposes
of our little chat here the Mallard monologue. Let's assume
that that is true. Let's assume that is true. Let's
make you Bob Kraft. You're the Patriots owner. You've got

(02:04:40):
a yacht, You've got parties in the Hampton's to go to,
you hang out with Hollywood people. You're a socialite. You're
a big time socialite. You've got the private jet, you
got the luxury hotels, hob nobbing with celebrities, the whole package,
the whole thing. So you get the point there. Would
you here's the question, you trade Bill Belichick for three

(02:05:02):
first round picks? Absolutely not. The only way I would
do that is if Bill Belichick said, I hate you,
I will do nothing to help this franchise. I will.
I'll be like other people here and commit insubordination, so
you have to get rid of me. That's the only
way I would do. If Belichick's willing to do the
work and is willing to continue on, then no way

(02:05:24):
to you trade him. You don't make a preemptive strike
with Bill Belichick. You do not do it. My thoughts
on this, You've got wishful thinking, fool's gold, fool's gold
perception versus reality, and a therapist. But before we break
all that down, let's hear from Bill Belichick, who attempted

(02:05:44):
to shift the conversation. Belichick trying to shift the conversation.
You know his shtick when the Patriots have a game
coming up. You know what he does. Just Belichick trying
to move the needle of the other direction. But with
some non Tennessee subjects here over the last few days,
this at this point, I'm all in on Tennessee. So

(02:06:05):
answer any questions about the Titans? All right? So that
did not stop some of the Boston media guys from
attempting and girls from attempting to you know, poke the
bear if you will here. Uh, and did Bill Belichick
take the bait? Let's find out did he take debit Tennessee?
Did you address any of those non Tennessee to view

(02:06:26):
those with boys? You know we're on Tennessee. You didn't
answer the question. What the hell? You didn't answer the question?
All right, But anyway, here we go, let's dig into this.
You're ready, all right? Here we go. Number One, Bill
Belichick has multiple years left on his contract. If that
is true, it's what we're told. Who knows he's not
a free agent? So Belichick would have to ask to

(02:06:47):
leave the Patriots. Is it possible that Belichick would say
I want out of New England? Absolutely? Is it likely
despite the drama, I say no. Belichick is a sixty
five year old guy. He has been living in that
area since the year two thousand. He got hired as
Patriot coach when he's forty eight years old. Do you

(02:07:09):
really want to toss your life upside down, pack up
and start over, start over at age sixty five going
on sixty six. Maybe he does. Aside from that, there's
a lot of wishful thinking going on, specifically in the
New York media, the tabloids. There This particular NFL writer

(02:07:34):
Gary Myers, who wrote the stories, clearly compromised. He's in
the business of selling newspapers. He's in the business of
selling newspapers. Now, the second part of this, if the
Patriots end up being boxed into a corner of having
to trade Bill Belichick, even for three first round picks,

(02:07:54):
it would not be enough value in return. As some
of the guys in Boston are like, oh, I'd make
the trade three round picks. It is a long shot
that the Giants would even do that kind of a trade.
The biggest bounty ever paid out for an NFL head coach.
You know who got the most in return, the most
goodies in return? As they say, that would be back

(02:08:15):
in twenty o two when Chucky Boy John Gruden was
sent from the Raiders to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That's
a big f and deal Mark Davis, I would say, yes, absolutely, two.
He had two first round picks. That was the transaction there.
Tampa Bay sent the Raiders two first round picks, two

(02:08:36):
second round picks, and eight million dollars. This is a
big fin deal. Absolutely. Now, a couple of years before that,
the Patriots traded a first round pick to get Bill
Belichick from the Jets. So that was how much Belichick
was worth. That was what was that. I think it
was nineteen or two thousand or two thousand, and we're

(02:09:00):
going back a million years here. But the Patriots also
were involved in the trade with another coach, Bill Parcels,
and that was with the Jets. Also, if you're an
old fart, you remember that the Patriots traded a third
and a fourth round pick to get Parcels to the Jets.
To the Jets, the Bill Parcels rats, So Anyway, The's
a lot of stuff going on here. The point of

(02:09:20):
this is, I don't believe that three first round picks
would be enough. I don't think the Patriots would get
three first round picks. And my position is that Belichick
is more valuable than any draft pick compensation. Now, a
lot of the Patriots success is Tom Brady, but the
continual turnover of the defense, the skill positions around Tom Brady,

(02:09:41):
the offensive line, tells you that Bill Belichick knows something
that he's whether he's a tactical genius or not picking
players he's been really good at. He's done well here.
He's had a knack for finding guys, and many of
them off the scrap heap by NFL standards, not your
lude chip first round picks. He's found mid round picks.

(02:10:02):
He's found players released by other teams, and they've had
good success. Not all of them, but a lot. You know,
it's the old coach ability versus paper, you know, stats
and all that that go through and all the other
cliches we use around the NFL's draft. Now, my the
premise of avoiding draft picks anyway, first round picks, if

(02:10:22):
you were to trade Belichick, they're scratcher tickets. Right's fool's goal.
The NFL draft is fool's gold. On the surface, it
sounds wonderful because if you got all those draft picks,
if you traded Belichick, if you don't want to be there,
you would fortify your roster, you'd upgrade your talent for
the next decade. But the problem is, if you get
rid of Belichick, if you're the Patriots, you are going

(02:10:44):
to end up having to hire somebody else to pick
the players, and that would likely be Josh McDaniels at
this point, and how that how would that work out?
He's the guy in Denver that blew up in a
couple of years picked Tim Tebow. And remember perception versus reality.
Perception is the Patriots would get all these stud draft
picks that would set the franchise up for years and

(02:11:05):
years to come. The reality is that you'd get some
guys built like Adonis, and a lot of them wouldn't
be able to play because the hit rate, the success
rate on first round draft picks is not nearly as
high as the common man thinks the hit rate is.
For first round draft picks, you are much more likely

(02:11:27):
to get a bust than you are a player that's
going to be there for the next decade. That's just
the way it is. And the last thing here, now
we're spitballing on what is really going on. Here's the
real story is. But if I'm Robert Kraft, what I
do is I don't trade anybody, and I hire a
really good shrink, I hire a therapist, and I figure

(02:11:49):
out how to make these guys all get along. If
they really is this chasm and that these things are
actually being leaked by someone, then I try to save it,
try to fix it. That's what I would try to do. Now.
Tom Brady also appeared on his weekly radio show with
Kirk and Callahan on Wei and he also attempted to
pooh pooh the story from last week. It's just such

(02:12:11):
a poor characterization of anything. I've never in eighteen years
ever celebrated when someone's been traded, you know, been cut.
I would say, that's disappointing, you know, to hear that
someone would express that, or a writer would express that,
because it's if so far from what my beliefs are
about my teammate. Yeah that well, he believes in his team.
He does. We'll find out when that Facebook show hits.

(02:12:34):
The social network can't wait for that. Boy, that's is
that going to be better than the toys that made us?
Because the toys that made us is really good like
the toys that made us is? Man, I'm gonna go
back and watch that again this weekend. That's what I'm
gonna do. Well, I'm not watching football. That's what I'll
be checking out. I'll be yeah, I'll be studying up
on Star Wars, Barbie he Man and g I Joe.

(02:12:57):
That is what I will I will study up for.
We have a new coach. Put it away from Belichick.
We have a new coach in the NFL. Matt Naggy.
Matt Naggi is the head. I don't know who he is.
I don't know who he is. He's apparently the head
coach of the Chicago Bears, but not for long. And
he's doing something. Now, what are you doing now that
you've become the head coach of the Chicago Bears? What's
what's your move here? This is truly an honor, it's

(02:13:19):
specially it's a dream. And I'm still pinching myself. Really,
where do you think he pinches himself? A personal question?
Here's more from Matt. Here's more from Matt Nage, the
new coach of the Chicago Bears, but probably not for long.
And he's trying to He's trying to bond with the natives,

(02:13:40):
is what he's trying to do. I thought I was
gonna get real emotional up here, but you know what,
this is why we do what we do. I love
y'all co bears. Is it doub Bears? Yeah right, doub Bears? Boy?
All right? Kid? Yeah? Is that? Is that in the
same category with Herm Edwards not knowing what a sun
devil Isn't all that is? At the remember my man,

(02:14:01):
Herm gave a lecture to the reporter all over me
the whole the whole devil deal. Yeah, all right, So
the ben maul a good luck to Naggie. He gets
the thirty day package where we will forget all of
his sins for thirty days and then we will kill
him after thirty days. That's typically how that works with
new coaches. That's the standard package that we offer to coaches.

(02:14:24):
Edmund Dallas, Steamboat, Willie Garcia right overhead over there. So
I mentioned the Consumer Electronic Show in Vegas. There's one
hundred and forty six inch TV which will be coming
to well not really, you won't be able to afford it,

(02:14:45):
but it'll be available if you want it, and it
changes sizes. It's called the Wall. I mentioned that earlier,
but now here's a story that can really connect with
the list, Eddie. And it also involves the Consumer Electronic
Show in Vegas. In an effort to get business, the
Sapphire Strip Club in Vegas has decided to go above

(02:15:09):
and beyond the call of duty. What does that mean. Well,
what they've done here, Eddie, is they have flown in
from the UK robot strippers. That's right, the UK. Huh, Yes,
apparently the UK is ahead of us. They have robot
strippers there and they have flown these dancing robots to

(02:15:32):
Las Vegas and they they were announcing this so they
wanted the attendees of the big convention in town to
come to their club. If I weren't a computer, I
would pimp slap you. But apparently this has not gone
over well, Eddie. The robots, the people that have gone there,
they're not that impressed. I don't think the dancing robot.

(02:15:52):
They don't get all aroused watching a robot dance on
a stripper pole. Understand, you know, you know, imagine I
say that. I imagine the guy turning on the radio,
so I want to hear some hot sports talk and
there's a dancer, you know, robot dancing around a stripper pole.
Full yeah. But the intention was that the robot strippers
would attract a large, door diverse crowd, and apparently that

(02:16:16):
is not Apparently that's not gone on. Well, so it's
not exactly that I saw video though. I saw a
little video clip of the robot attempting to shake its
robot curves on the your thoughts, Yeah, I gotta tell you,
I'm not attracted a robot's Eddie. Does that make me
a bad person? Yes? I know we live in these
new nuanced times here, but I'm not I'm not into it, man,

(02:16:38):
I gotta tell you, does that make me a bad person?
Eddie the loser. The funniest thing about this video and
I'll try to find a clip I can I can
send out because that's just what I want to put
on my social media. But the robots trying to kind of,
you know, make out with the pole strip club, and
then there's like a professional female stripper, I think female
and she's you know, she's like halfway up the stripper

(02:17:00):
pole doing her thing, you know, shaking with a Mama
gave her. And it's so funny because you got this
robot and it's got like a camera head the robots
got did you see a Coop? You saw it right
looking at it right now, watching the same video I'm
watching here. It's like a fifteen second clip of the
robot dancing. I'm looking at still shots and I a video. Yeah,
there's a little video in this in the story that

(02:17:20):
I have here. And it's so funny because the robots like, guy,
it's it's kind of I don't know, we can't I'm
describing a robot so I can see whatever I want, right,
the robots it's kind of grinding his legs into the
stripper pole. And then behind is the female. She's really
like she's a pro, you know, so the robots stripper
has to get to that level, you know, right, It's

(02:17:41):
just it's just marvel. This is ridiculous. Is that great?
Come on? You want to go to Vegas right now,
Coop to see the robots stripper, don't you? Oh my god,
it's so so I found the video. Oh you found,
you know, your the same video. I'm looking at right
where they where they were reveal it at first, like
like the No One Okay, so I'm looking at one

(02:18:02):
where the actual strippers are pulling off like they're like
pulling down the curtains to reveal the robot. The bigger,
the big reveal, the big, the big reviews here the
people in the strip club with these just like half hearted,
like Yeah, if you're going to the ballet, you want
to see ballet. You don't want to see that. That's

(02:18:24):
not what you're looking for when you go to the ballet.
You want to see professionals. Do you, Matt think of
that about You know, in the world from twenty years
from now, strippers are gonna lose their jobs to robots.
They gotta they gotta figure out that the proper scent
the robots. The robots gotta have the well yeah, and uh,
you know the robot's gonna wear like the thong you know,

(02:18:44):
take you I gotta have the read that you gotta
take the thing off there. I have a statin night
that'll work. Also, I mean you can do that, but
oh that's that's great. Calm down, cowboy, Calm down. I
know you're exciting, but it's it's okay, all right, Ty,
The Ben Maller Show on Fox. If you would like
to be part eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox

(02:19:08):
eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine,
and I would say this is the number one good
luck charm in the NFL. Possibly ever in the NFL,
you get a whole lot by doing very little. We'll
get to that. We'll do it next. You can't lick
your own elbow, travel at light speed, or sneeze with

(02:19:29):
your eyes hoping. However, you have the power to increase
the audience of The Ben Maller Show. Tweet, Instagram, and
Facebook post about the show, tell your friends and family
and help us get new listeners. And Now live from
the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios, it's Ben Maller. Well Eddie.
Here's some interesting news that has broken overnight out of Seattle.

(02:19:49):
Apparently the Seattle Seahawks have there's a report, have a
parted ways with their offensive coordinator, Darryl Benno. Daryl Bebel
is out, according to a report out of Seattle here,
Bebel removed his offensive coordinator after seven seasons. Unconfirmed by

(02:20:12):
the team yet, but Hey, they won't be in the
office for a while. It's the middle of the night.
I think Marshawn Lynch's mom will be happy about that.
Richard Sherman will be very happy. Sherman will be have
a party right dance on the grave there. I think
he'll be in on that and a number of other people.
So will they try to fight Carolina for Norville Turner?

(02:20:35):
Is that what Pete Carroll? I want nor Turner? No,
you can't have Norton. We got an opening now, all right,
so that he's he the fall guy for Seattle not
making the playoffs. Daryl bebel if this is accurate that
they did have him out as the officer's question. Yeah,
all right, we'll keep an eye on that. That story.

(02:20:55):
I also get to the good luck charm of the NFL.
Right now, we say hello to our good luck charm.
No condom, Carl, No condom, Carl. Area is right there,
Carl against the hard one here it's going on, No
condom Carl. Good morning. He Dan. Do you know the
difference between the male and female robot strippers? Uh? Well,

(02:21:15):
I'm looking at the video here. I know you've got
a joke, So I won't and if you go ahead,
I don't know the female the female strippers bringing a
very large data package to the program, and the male
strippers have huge hard graves. Come on one of these

(02:21:36):
robot coogle the video, I tweeted out, they look like
the robot's got robot boobs? Am I correcting that? Or
is that wearing like a robot bra? I can't. I
mean it's hard to tell us dark there's no detail.
I mean, they're like they're more like just lumps. We
don't need we don't need it. Now. It's like it's
like Barbie. If you watch that the toys that made

(02:21:56):
us on Barbie, they point out that they had to
adjust Barbie because people can handle nipples on bars. Yeah,
speak for yourself, no condom, Carl, I want nipples on
my stripper robots. I agree, I agree, Yeah, I put
I put it out Carl that with all these lawsuits
coming down and everyone's just suing everyone and all that,
you know, the NFL should hire these robots as cheerleaders

(02:22:17):
in twenty eighteen, right, wouldn't that? Now? What are these like?
Aren't there like four teams that don't have cheerleaders? I
like the Giants, the packers. It's like a hammer. They
should hire robots as cheerleaders, right, How cool would that be? God? Yeah,
that that would be just let forget it. You got
you gotta see this video though, car Carl serious, It's

(02:22:37):
the funniest thing is the robot trying to grind into
the stripper pool and then the stripper behind like a
professional stripper doing her thing. You know, it's it's hilarious. Yes, yes,
then I'm driving. Please, I don't want to hit a pole.
I don't want to they both they both hit the pole.
I don't know what you want from me? Yes, why
I'm calling here? Number one? You're missing the boat on

(02:23:00):
LaVar Ball. He's not a Kadashian. He's more of the p. T.
Barnum Vince McMahon of his day. Because how did they
get to where they are? They were outrageous and what
they did. But my big question is when are you
starting the promos for Super Bowl Week? Then Mallari's Overnight Extravaganza.

(02:23:24):
I'm assuming you went to management afterwards, you know, you
pitch this to them. Well, of course, listen, they said,
the show's an enormous success. We absolutely love you. Ben.
You're amazing, You're you're missing the boat A wonderful and
then they laughed at the true car. Yeah, Geico, that's

(02:23:45):
sleep number all sponsor. Yea, the money you're saving on
truecr in Geico Insurance, you can get the sleep number
bed so you can there and enjoy listening to Ben
Mallory Overnight extravaging. That's remarkable that you're making deals, is
what you're doing. I like that all you know, kind

(02:24:06):
of thank you. They you know they're not doing you.
They love the show. They say it's very successful and
we're dependable here. But let's play the right jingle. Okay,
it's twenty eighteen. Have to play the strange odd jingle
you can. We get to the good luck charm of that.

(02:24:28):
We have also have a Caller of the Year, a
former Caller of the Year hanging out in the bullpen.
We'll get to all that, but first Eddie Garcia is here.
We're gonna we're gonna play password as well. So if
you want to play passwords, start calling for password right now,
though Eddie is gonna give you the lace well, Ben.
We start with news from the NFL the oclaaiders introducing

(02:24:48):
John Cruden as their new head coach for the second
time in his career. Of course, he had coached the
Silver and Black from nineteen ninety eight to two thousand
and one, finished with a record of three eight and
twenty six and was two and two in the postseason.
Arlanda Panthers fired offensive coordinator Mike schuland quarterbacks coach Ken Dorsey.
Mike Patton's reportably gonna be the new defensive coordinator of
the Green Bay Packers. You may or may not remember

(02:25:09):
him as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns. Briefly
here and this will get people to remember him. His
daughter like ripped the Browns on Twitter when he was
interviewing for the jobs. He was upset that he was
coaching the brow Yeah. I don't think that's going to
help people remember and the kid I remember. Kan City
Chiefs reportedly promoting running backs coach Eric b Enemy too
offensive coordinator. Remember him, he was a running back with

(02:25:30):
the cold of Buffalo's back in the day. They were
the Chargers today in the NFL. Briefly in the Good
College Football Player. All right, speaking of college how about
college basketball? We had three of the top five teams
in the country in action and a couple of that
close calls. Number two West Virginia gets by Baylor fifty
seven fifty four. They ranked Virginia beat Syracuse sixteen sixty
one and number five for new slips by Michigan on

(02:25:52):
the road seventy six. They really slipped by, and they
did just running by squeaked run by slips by sea.
How about they let leapt over they leaped old squeaked
by right. The support is brought to you by Truecar.
Online car shopping can be confusing, but not anymore with
true Price from truecr Now you know the exact price

(02:26:12):
you will pay before you buy your next car. So
it is a true car and enjoy more confident car
buying experience. Ben back to the NFL where Atlanta Fugons
quarterback Matt Ryan missed practice yesterday for an undisclosed personal matter.
Now he's being arrested undisclosed personal matter. Any inside into

(02:26:33):
what this undisclosed personal matter could have been? I believe Eddie,
he had diarrhea like Ben Bishop in the Stanley Cup
finals a couple of years ago. Okay, yeah, he had
the runs that did not happen, That did happen, wouldn't
you wouldn't. If that was the case, you would just
say it was a medical issue and not a personal matter.
A personal issue, he's got to be in the bathroom
for in a bond with the throne. All right, I

(02:26:57):
wasn't as good as I thought it was. We're coming
from the guy. I'm sorry to let you down. We're
company from the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios. Fifteen minutes
could save you fifteen percent or more on your car insurance.
Just visit Geico dot com for a free rate quote.
If I could afford him any I would buy you
Big Baller brand shoes, is what I would do. I
can't afford. They wouldn't show up or they'd be the
wrong size. No, no, I would. If I have I

(02:27:19):
had that kind of Big Baller money, I would do that.
But no refund policy as well. It's the best kind
of policy. That's the way you should do. Not if
your customer it isn't. I go into many stores. All
sales are final. I said that signed it. That's the
Big Baller brand model. All sales are final. That's a
great company. It has that stuff. Yeah, you know who
the good luck charm of the NFL is. You don't

(02:27:42):
This guy played college football at Boston College. He was
an undrafted free agent, and he is now the good
luck charm of the NFL. He's also created quite a
nice vagabond career. He has been part of. I believe
he's been part of four different NFL teams this year.
His name is Cassim at A Bally. I believe that's

(02:28:03):
how he pronounced the name. He's a linebacker at Boston College.
Number fifty eight. Uh well, he's moren't eight different numbers,
but he's an outside linebacker. Have you heard this story.
This is a wonderful story. This reminds me when I
was a kid. This used to happen to baseball players.
So this linebacker, free agent, linebacker, Cassim at A Bally.

(02:28:23):
He signed on December twentieth. He signed with the Rams.
The Rams played at Tennessee four days after he signed.
Now he was inactive against the Titans, but the Rams
that day clinched the playoff spot. They won the NFC
West title, and at A Bally got to celebrate in
the locker room. He was given a cap and he

(02:28:43):
got to have a little celebration in the locker room.
He was part of an NFC West Championship team. He'd
been there for four days. Well, the Rams cut this
guy a few days later, December twenty seventh. They cut him,
so he was with the Rams for a week. He
got to celebrate the NFC West tile. He got released
the next day. The New Orleans Saints signed at a

(02:29:04):
Bali right December twenty eight. The Saints then played at
Tampa Bay on New Year's Eve. Again, this guy was
inactive against the Buccaneers. But New Orleans won the NFC
South that day and at a Bali got to celebrate
as an NFC South champion. He got a cap, he

(02:29:26):
got to hang out in the locker room, and so
in from December twentieth till December thirty first he was
in the locker room celebrating an NFC West championship and
an NFC South championship. He didn't play at any of
the games. How great is that? That's a neat thing
that reminds me of when we before my time, Eddie.

(02:29:47):
But I heard stories Don Baylor used to he was
like the good luck Charming so late, I can't believe
he's got yeah, but Don Baylor he like every year
it seemed for a few years back in the eighties.
I'm told day before my time, he would peer in
a playoff teams like you'd go from team to team
to team. Was like the Yankees, the Red Sox, the Twins,

(02:30:08):
the A's all they see and they make the playoffs.
So anyway, all right, So Ben Mallers show on Fox
and who do we have? Oh, Blind Scott former caller
of the Year. Blind Scott in Boston is on Fox
Sports Radio. Hello, Blind Scott, Hey, let me tell you something.
You know, Bob Craft he bought a Bowling airliner this
year in Roger Goodell. He was requesting a Bowling airliner

(02:30:31):
in our Bowing soul. The eight hundred airplanes last year
they delivered them. They back ordered nine hundred and twelve.
You know this company, Bowing. Everybody wants an airplane. Now,
this is what's driving our country. It's driving the doubt
a record highs. It's not anything else. It's Bowling, Bowling.
It's gonna pick everybody up in this country this year.
It's gonna double the stock price. It's it's amazing how
many people are getting on these bowlings too. Are you

(02:30:53):
trying to get people to buy Bowing stock? I mean,
you gotta at least hide it. But blind stock, how much?
How much bowling how much bowling stock did you buy,
blind scot Nobody on the show could afford bowling stock.
I got tiny Scared's got a point? What about now
the buy in? How much is like? I think Tesla?
Tesla's already expensive. What is Tesla like three hundred bucks

(02:31:14):
to share something like that? Yeah, but that's not real though,
Tesla's it's fake. No, it's not fake. Now people are
buying Tesla's the future. Man. They're buying like fifty thousand
a year though, and they're blowing all their money. I mean,
it is the future, but that's a cash burn right now.
You know you gotta you buy it for the few
buying holes for the future man, that's the movie. You
don't buy Google, Google's please you buy Google and ambuzon.

(02:31:36):
You don't buy Tesla. TESLAO cut in half at a
heart peak the Fox Business Channel in CNBC. Yes, hey,
you know one other thing too, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.
Who cares if they have problems. You know, we're the Patriots.
We get those draft picks. We just got a new
coach out some other bump comes in, but Bill's not
going anywhere. Both his kids work in the organization. You
know what I mean, this is our Bobcraft. He's gonna

(02:31:57):
passed away, so you know, and every thing will be
How do you know he's gonna pass away? So what
are you doing the math on the average life expectancy. Yeah,
he drinks so much. He's in his eighties. You know,
he's out, like at eleven o'clock on Saturday nights. He
gets these hot broads. You know, one day he's gonna
be getting a massage and he's just gonna have a
heart attack. You know what I'm saying, very positive, and hey,

(02:32:21):
why not You're doing what you love getting a massage. Yeah.
The snow is still kick at my ass. I started
smoking cigarettes again, and you know, I get out, I
get outraged, and here at the radio. Somebody said something
on the radio, and I think something's the matter with
me because it drives me through the roof. But then
I realized, its snow around here. It's not my mental health.
You know, I understand. I understand. Well, hanging there and

(02:32:41):
it's supposed to the weather's gonna warm up this week
in Boston to break to fifty seven. Tomorrow I'll be
at the beach. Me and Craim will be got the beach.
I'm singled now, you know, I got all these different
lady down dating two girls named Shell. You know what yourself?
Oh that's good to see. If you're gonna date two women,
you want him to have the same name. It makes
it much easier, much more convenient. Yes, yeah, yeah, so

(02:33:02):
what yeah? What happened? Did you ever get back on
the radio? Oh? And boss, Well, I had some technical issues.
I'm trying to work them out, hopefully tonight. If not,
we'll definitely be back next week. But there's some engineering
issues there. I'll let you know, blind Scot, I'll tweet
it out, I'll let you know. All right, there he
goes a blind Scott smoking cigarettes. That's great for his
his health. There so buying stock and Boeing's. He really

(02:33:26):
hides it well though you don't know. You don't know
what investments. Yeah, for those Robert Kraft is not yet well,
his listed age is seventy six. You think that's his
real age or you think he's actually old baseball player
from the Dominican Yeah, I think it's his real age.
They could lie about it. How old's Jerry Jones really
like his real age? I don't know. I think whatever

(02:33:48):
his listed ages is probably Come on, and don't you
have any cynicism in your body? What's wrong with you
with NFL owners? Yes? No? Why why would they lie
about their age? A lot of people lie about their age.
They twist numbers about your aid. Yes all the time.
I'm much younger than I say I am. I lie.
I want to be older. I want to be a
cool person. I want to have more credibility. You call

(02:34:09):
yourself an old man. Even I don't even need these glasses, Eddie,
these reading glasses, I don't even need them. These are
all for shows. So because people in classes get on radio. Yeah, exactly. Password.
It is the word game of the stars. Password. We'll
get to that. Yeah, and we will do it. Almost
all talk shows sound the same after a while. Think

(02:34:30):
of us as a sports talk oasis from the mundane.
The Ben Mallor Show Facebook pages are on unique meeting
place with over two billion of our closest friends, most
of whom mc norris. Please take a second to like
our page at Facebook dot com slash Ben Maller Show
Now Live from the Geico, Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Maller. We're gonna get the password here in a moment.

(02:34:52):
Strip Club, John Robot Strippers, Yes or no? Strip club
John in Cleveland. Well, listen, here's the robust or past. Say,
but hal of Rams could be the wave of the future.
You can't touch him though, Yeah, but but perform on
the stage, the stage performance. So yeah, but if you

(02:35:12):
toss dollar bills at him, what you know what you
can't they can't catch keell it. Yeah. Well it's a
harmbination of book. But the no one like like Coop said,
there's no nips on the nothing, I mean, nothing's going on. Yeah,
these are pretty weak man. Yeah, you guys got to
do better, all right, John, we don't. We're out. I

(02:35:33):
love you John Callback. Next time we'll give you more time.
The strip club John, our buddy in Cleveland. I gotta
get the lowdown on that parade. Let's get to it.
Here we go, let's do it. Yeah, that's good word password,
you idiot, password, the word Game of the Stars. Here's
Ben Miller Man. Oh wait, we go on password. Let's

(02:35:57):
meet our contestants for this week's edition to password. And
we had let's see here, Dwayne in Virginia Beach. Hello, Dwayne,
Hello man, how are you doing? Welcome in, Twayne, Good
morning to you. You're ready to do this, yes, sir?
All right Twayne? Dwayne? What do you do in Virginia Beach?
One of the trucking company? Oh? Nice man, very cool.

(02:36:18):
How's that going for you? So far? So good? Yeah cool?
All right, hold on sec Dwayne, and uh you will
be going against Let's see here. We'll have Mike in Minnesota. Hello, Mike,
I regard man. Welcome in, Mike. You're going against this guy, Dwayne.
What are you doing Minnesota? Mike? You're the demo guy.

(02:36:39):
That's right. But you blow stuff up, you blow crap up.
You're like, I like that? All right? Very there. There's
some of his work. Kaboom. Hey Mike, can you blow
weed man? Hippie up? Can you do that? I can
blow weed man hit up easily. Yeah, all right, hey
weed man. That guy can blow you up. Weed man.
He can you know, two sticks of dining. Right there

(02:37:00):
you go. He's not even listening. He's not even listening.
All he always can play. So you don't come back
to me, you don't love me? Well, go back to him.
He did, he's not there. All right, Dwayne, who do
you want to partner up with? Dwayne? I'll take you
be all right, Good job by you. And Mike. Who
do you want to partner up with? With? Eddie? All right?
You don't sound excited about that. I can't blame you,

(02:37:21):
all right, So here we go. Let's get started, all right, gentlemen,
classic matchup Dwayne and Ben versus Mike and Eddie. Ten
words on the board each are worth ten points. For
every incorrect guest, we take a point away. All right, Dwayne,
you were on the line first, picking number one through ten.
Five five okay, Ben? Number five? All right, here we go, Dwayne.

(02:37:42):
And now do you know the rules of password? I
don't want to. Yesterday we played a game and it
did not go so well because the guy didn't know
how to play. Do you know how to play? Yes? Yes?
All right, they're very good. Let's go with impale them No, alright, alright, Mike.

(02:38:05):
Ben's word was impale. You don't have to say that.
My password to you is ear. That's correct. Wow. So
I should get half credit on that because that you
wouldn't have gotten if you said ear. Sorry, that's not
how the game. Well, have you said ear, wouldn't You're
gonna have gotten if you had said here, I know,
but that's not how the game's played. Sorry, all right, Mike,

(02:38:27):
one through four or six through ten, pick a number.
I'll take number one, all right, Eddie, number one? Very difficult.
How you'll get this? My goodness. The password is frozen.
Maybe it's not that, all right? He should have used

(02:38:47):
the reverse Mallard maneuver. Okay, we need a guest from you.
All right, Mike, the word is password is frozen. Dude,
what's that? All right? He don't have it? He don't
have Mike, are you there? Never? Okay? Answer? You want
to wait fifty minutes for me. The man doesn't have

(02:39:08):
an answer. He said he didn't say. That's a lie.
He never said that. He never said that, you guys.
He never said, you guys. You could hear him. Here's
what he did. That's what he did. That's the that's
the replay of what he did. Said again, you guys
are cheating these games. In twenty eighteen. He didn't have
an answer back. He was clearly cheating. He was clearly cheating.

(02:39:33):
He was clearly cheating. He was you're all a bunch
of I'm playing on the protest. That's not the way
the game works. Let's wait twenty minutes for the guy
at Google an answer. That's not the design of the game.
He needed to google frozen. Yes, he didn't. Never, here's
what he did. That's what he did. That's his answer.
And you morons, you sat there and waiting for you

(02:39:54):
looked up the ass. He went from saying it was
so simple to saying he was simple. I'm not saying
he's that bright, but you guys had to wait from
the Google the answer nineteen nothing good, guys, embarrassing. All right,
Dwayne and Ben. Now, Dwayne, I'm gonna wait thirty minutes,
so cheat and look up the answer on this one, Dwayne,
all the time you want. Take as much time as
you want. Dwayne. Go ahead, two through four or six

(02:40:16):
through ten, Dwayne eight eight, we're number eight. All right,
let's go with HM. See here, uh la la la
la la. Let's go with goatee be Yeah, good job

(02:40:42):
by you. You didn't need a cheat. You didn't need
to look it up like Mike did over there. And
we are on the board. You can put it on
the board. Yeah, okay, let's see Mike two, three, four, six,
seven or nine or ten. We're going number two number? What? Who? Two?
Number two? See? That's what the issue has been. His

(02:41:04):
phone was breaking. Yeah, the issues you waited twenty minutes
from the breaking up. All right, my five minutes you waited.
The password is let's see here, oh, take take your time, eddie.
The password is untamed. Whoa whooooo fild that's correct, Eddie.

(02:41:28):
He said two words. Well I didn't I said untamed word.
I don't know what even you don't know? That might
be all right, keep it going, go ahead, picking up,
picking another go ahead, don't pick another number? Go ahead?
You know how we have thirty seconds. You gave that
guy thirty minutes, doesn't matter. We're killing you playing this

(02:41:49):
is you know to ten. It's you a golden take
a twenty because these guys cheated. They waited thirty five.
I twitts. The golden tickets, the real golden vidulant golden ticket.
You got screwed, Dwight. You're those tickets are mic

All Episodes

Episode Transcript

Host

Ben Maller

Popular Podcasts

Stuff You Should Know

Dateline NBC

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

.css-15opob5{left:0;position:absolute;top:0.8rem;} All Episodes

.css-14f5ked{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:2;overflow:hidden;}Ben Maller: Un Tamed