July 3, 2020 • 34 mins
Ben Maller reacts to the news of the NFL including the black national anthem during Week 1 of the NFL season. Ben explains why Dan Snyder is facing extortion. Plus, the latest edition of Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week!
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that down there. We're good with that. So during the pandemic,
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have had no shortage you and I of things to
discuss on the radio. Some have been sporting, not many,
most have been and we're about to go to the
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side again as we take a turn on the wild side.
This involves the NFL, and I guess you would file
us into the social justice category for the NFL if
you've not heard, and I don't know how you could
have missed it, if you're paying attention and listening. It's
been talked about all day here. I'll get my swing
in the batter's box. So we learned that the NFL
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is planning on playing a song called lift Every Voice
and Sing, which allegedly is that I didn't know this,
and maybe I should have. I didn't. This is apparently
the black anthem, Black National Anthem, and they're planning on
playing it before every season opening game. The NFL exhibition
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training camp portion is going to open up later this month,
the regular season still a little while away. But the
twenty twenty NFL season, should it take place as planned
in likely empty or mostly empty stadiums, will have someone
perform lift every voice and sing before the Star Spangled banner,
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you know, the US national anthem. But wait, there's more. Uh,
the NFL condemnation of police. They are at it again here,
the NFL's attack. They're on board with that anti police movement,
so they they they are talking about putting decals in
jersey patches on uniforms, decals obviously in the helmet, uh,
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and jersey patches patches. So as we juggle flaming torches
while writing a unicycle on the third rail, let us discuss.
It's pretty simple. This is not that hard. The NFL's
plan to play what is again being described in these
media reports as the black national anthem before games. You
go thumbs up or thumbs down on this. I'm gonna
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go thumbs down. I'm going thumbs down. Now, I've got
the Boston Pops, the balconization and reverse and we will
tie all these things together. Now, Hey, Roger Goodell, let's
let's call a spade to spend. He is not just
dipping his toe in these waters. He is doing a
belly whopper and then doing the backstroke in shark infested
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terrain there, and this just looks like a fiasco. It's cringeworthy.
When I saw this at a buddy of mine that
sent me a text and said, hey, you see this.
I like when I get those texts. During the day.
I was actually doing some stuff on the podcast for
this weekend, and so I got this text and I said, well,
that's got to be fake. I thought, yet again, sports
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Talk Berry, that dirty dog. Everyone fell for Sports Talk Berry.
And then it was like, well, it's not Sports Talk Berry.
So I thought I must be the Onion or the
Babylon Bee, which that dope guest Gone likes, But no,
it was not any of those. It turns out this
is an actual report, and I guess I must have
been living under a rock somewhere. But I had never
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heard this before, never heard this. And I talked to
several people who have been around longer than I, old timers,
they'd never heard of this before. This song being described
as the quote black national anthem now the way the
way to describe. And this appears to be a mistake,
and who knows how this is going to play out,
But I'll tell you why I'm going with thumbs down
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on this. So you have now opened already Pandora's box,
but now you've cranked it all the way open and
torn the door off so you can't close the top
of it. And see, when you start traveling down this road,
which is a pandering road, there is no end. It's
like the universe. It goes on for eternity. For example,
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right now, the outrage is still directed because of the
murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. But these type of things,
unfortunately happened every so often, sporadically, and not always just
to the black community. So if you play this out theoretically,
let's say another tragedy is going to happen and will
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whether you want to avoid all track, can't everything. It's
bad things happen from time to time, and so let's
say it's it's against a different group of people. So
you've now gone down this pandering highway. So what does
the NFL do if they're fully invested, It certainly seems
like they are in virtue signaling, So to demonstrate that
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their moral correctness is that they've got to continue to
demonstrate it. So if something happens to someone in the
Mexican American community that they didn't have to play the
Mexican national anthem, or you know, someone of the you
know from Asia, one of the eight countries in Asia,
they didn't get involved with that anthem. And so if
you don't, you get tagged as insensitive, right, Isn't that
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how this works? If you don't do this, now you
you're insensitive because you've already done it or you're planning
on doing it. And so I imagine this wild scenario.
It's like a parody or a sketch comedy of NFL
game starting and it's like the Boston Pops concert where
you're gonna have like seventy four anthems that are going
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to be played, and you're gonna have about ninety minutes
of music before kickoff, just to cover every possible possible
thing to fully pander. Now Part B of this the
story obviously reeks of overreaction. The NFL. They are free
to do this. They are a private business. And that
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also means though the customers, the people that support the NFL,
are also free to complain if they feel it is
not something that they support. I think we're still allowed
to complain until the Marxists take over, and then I
do not think we're going to be allowed to complain anymore.
So get your complaints in before Marxism completely takes over.
But one of the big calling cards in my life
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again maybe this is all different now, is inclusion. Right.
Inclusion big word and another big word that's used a
lot when building a roster is a meritocracy, right, And
it doesn't matter whether you're liberal or conservative, gay or straight.
Any race, color, creed, or legion is welcome, and the
people on the team are selected based on ability and talent.
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That's what meritocracy means. Now, following that mindset, uh, you know,
we united watching games and all that, But this and
some of the other things the NFL has done here
would dabble in the form of balconization, are essentially endorsing
the national anthem. We're gonna add another national anthem. We're
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gonna divvy it up here, and we're gonna create some
hostility down that road. And nothing says unity like providing division,
which is what this would be, certainly if the NFL
goes forward with it. And does anyone know the rules here?
Because I don't know the rules, I don't so riddle
me this, batman. Are the players supposed to kneel for
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both national anthems or only the US national anthem? And
does it matter how bad those optics are going to
look if the entire Texans team with Bill O'Brien, for example,
the coach all gets down on a knee during the
US national anthem, but stand at attention during this black
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anth And what happens if one of the players were
to kneel during the black anthem, but like a white guy,
does he then get excommunicated from from the NFL? Is
that how that works? I don't know, I'm asking. And
what would make you like king of a woke? Like
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what gets you extra credit? Is it taken a knee
for both but only one? I'm not sure. I don't
know the answers to those questions. Now the last Worrior,
So the the NFL's plan is going to destroy one
of the talking points that many who have defended the
athletes for being outspoken and all that and the people
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around them their circuits. One of the big talking much
we've talked about on this show, and it involves it's
not about the anthem. Remember when we were told that
this entire thing was not about the anthem. And if
the ball players kneel during the national anthem, but don't
kneel during the new anthem, which the NFL is talking
about here, then it's it's like staring. You're right between
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the eyes that even for the slow people in the
back of the room, it's about the anthem, right, And
you can talk about debunking a battle cry. Now, Drew Brees,
remember he was charboiled for saying he believes you should
respect the flag and the national anthem, and all that
he received woke counseling and mind manipulation before. I believe
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it was a nine hundred forty seven apologies that Drew
Breese issue. I think it was something along those lines.
And again, if it's not about the anthem, then why
are you planning on playing a different anthem? I think
we know the answer. That's rhetorical question. And the dividing
of the national anthem. Does that fall into the progress
or not progress category? Are we going in the right
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direction here or the wrong directions? That it doesn't matter,
it's just okay. But it certainly seems that from everything
I've been reading here, this would be shifting the car
into reverse, is what it would be. And I guess
we can cancel the word unity and all those things.
And or is this just a marketing thing? Is it
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not reality based? Again, these are questions I don't have
the answer for, but we're gonna find out. And the
NFL's free to do whatever they want. And will there
be any backlash or people so jones in for football
that the NFL can do whatever the hell they want
and it doesn't matter, and we're all gonna watch it.
It doesn't all these complaints and all the people bitching
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and moaning on both sides, it's irrelevant. And the NFL
are there, the teflon Dons of sports, and everyone's gonna
watch no matter what. And that's just the way it is.
That's what they think. They think that they are bullet
proof and they can do whatever they want, and you are,
you're brainwashed and you're gonna watch. And maybe that's the case.
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Maybe the ratings did go down back in twenty sixteen
with Colin Kaepernick, but we will see what happens this time.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. If you thought
the cancel culture relating to sports had taken the fourth
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of July weekend off, you are wrong. The mob has
awoke in with vengeance and like a boomerang, they have
returned with torches and pitchforks, ready to attack a familiar rival,
the owner of the dreaded Washington Redskins. If you have
not seen this, and maybe you have not been paying attention,
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I say most people listen to the radio only retain
about seventeen to twenty five percent of what we say.
Studies have proven that. But here's what we have learned.
We have learned that Nike, Pepsi, and fed X, the
big three major corporations in America and globally, have attempted
to use there's only one way to describe this extortion
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to get Dan Snyder to change the Redskins nickname now
fed X. Who's really invested with the Washington Redskins The
FedEx Corporation, which bought naming rights to the home of
the Redskins years ago. The four mentioned FedEx field and
they put out a statement saying that it is requesting
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a name change as a group of investment firms, big
investment firms that have asked companies like Nike, Pepsi, and
fed X to refuse to do business with the Redskins
and just shut it down until the name changes. The
team name has changed. And there's also local politicians. The
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Redskins are looking for a new stadium, and there's a
shakedown by the politician saying we're not gonna help you
build a stadium in your DC until you change the
name of the team. It's not gonna happen. So already
Nike capitulated and they removed all Redskins apparel from the website. Now,
maybe they'll say it's a glitch. I'm guessing they won't
say that. We mentioned the letter by FedEx. Now I
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use the word extortion. That's a powerful word. But if
you look up the textbook definition of extortion, it is
obtaining something through force or threats. How else would you
describe this other than extortion. Now, maybe you support it,
and maybe you think this is a good idea and
I'm all for it, but it is extortion. I mean,
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it's called like it is. Now, let us discuss the question.
Will Dan Snyder be taken down by the shakedown. That
is the question. So I've got the Red Bellied Piranhas
thirteen hundreds and the war chest, and we will combine
all these things together and we will make some banana creampie.
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As we're gonna We're make not to lead off with
it's appropriate because we're talking about the Redskins. I have
no skin in the game on this, and I've talked
about this issue a lot recently. We did a monologue
a couple of weeks ago. We were proactive praising Dance
Snyder for not following and bowing down to the mob.
We'll see if he still does that or not. I'm
not a fan of the Redskins. I'm not. I've watched
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them from Afar. I remember when I was younger and
growing up a RAMS fan, and then they would play
the Redskins occasionally, and the Redskins always seem to have
better teams in the Rams, which always bothered me. Not lately,
but I just find this whole thing nauseating, the way
this game is played. I'm old school. I believe that
if you think something should be canceled, you have a vote,
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and if you want a statue torn down, you have
a vote. You don't just take the law into your
own hands. And whether you want a team name changed,
that should be the vote of the people. I would
be bad news, I would say, because when it comes
to the Redskins, despite the uh, the people that are
making a bunch of noisier and banging on drums, most
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people are like, yeah, it doesn't really matter. Meanwhile, Dan Snyder,
who I again put on the short list of the
handful of people that have held off the attempts at insurgency.
And despite all of the bickering, Snyder has been very consistent.
He's been dyed in the wool here. He grew up
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a fan of the Redskins, and as long as he
owns the team, that's the way it's gonna be, come
hell or high water. It does look different. I'm going
to agree with you that it does look different. This
is a different layer. Things have been ratcheted up, and
the language and now actual action of extortion is certainly
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a lot different than it's been in the past. The
social justice warriors who are behind this, they are going
blitz creek on Dan Snyder. It's like a typhoon, right,
And they've been joined as accessories here, the woke NFL media,
the Mike Florio crowd, and all that who are down
with the cause, and they're all following the same rallying
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cry of hit him where it hurts, and that is true.
You hit him in the pocketbook. That does a lot
of damage. There's a lot of damage. It is successful.
It is successful usually not always, but from a simpleton's
view reading several of the stories and observing some of
the reaction to this, it does look like the financial
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walls from AFAR are caving in on Snyder. These are
big corporations that are invested in one way or another
with the Redskins, so it is really fascinating them to
watch how this cancel culture mob works, the woke mob,
and I really stand spellbound at how voracious. They're like
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red bellied piranhas and it is a mackerel that is
lowered into the tank and the red bellied piranhas just attack.
Will it work? Well, I'm still skeptical that this is
going to work. More on that in a second. But
Dan Snyder is on that list. I saw Portnoy from barstool.
He did not bow down to the mob. Tucker Carlson
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also from Fox News did not do it, So there's
a there's a few people out there, and I'm sure
I'm forgetting others who did not issue seven thousand apologies
and you know, do whatever the mob wanted now. Furthermore,
it is on brand for companies such as Nike and
FedEx to partake in this. It's virtue signaling, is what
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it is. And there is a whole cottage industry for
major corporations in America that take part in this, and
there's never been a better time for it than right now.
But there is one flaw in the strategy, all right.
The problem is nobody's perfect. It's kind of like what
happened to Jimmy Kimmel. I actually liked Jimmy Kimmel. He
was a radio guy in LA before he became a
big network star. But Jimmy Kimmel was like fully invested
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in the cancel culture and then the mob came knocking
on his door. And the problem is everyone's got skeletons
in their closet and there's nobody who's perfect. And there's
an old idiom that dates back to the thirteen hundreds
that certainly applies to these companies that are attacking the
Redskins and Dan Snyder, the owner of the team. It's
like people who live in glasshouses should not throw stones, right,
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And both Nike and FedEx both very successful companies that
have done very well for themselves, but they are now
starting to get called out on their hippocrisy. It's well
known that Nike, they have many of those products have
been made in sweatshops and underage labor and those kind
of things in other countries, and they've had business ends
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with communist China while talking about how they want to
end all of this oppression, but they have no problem
with depression in China. So that's Nike. Then you got FedEx,
who's a multinational super conglomerate of a company. They've been
called out in the past for safety violations and mandatory overtime,
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and it's all available. You can look it up yourself.
I'm not making it up now. The FedEx thing in
particular looks like they're just covering there behind and trying
to get a couple extra clout points, giving the illusion
that they're really locked in on this. Because the question,
and I'm questioning I saw the letter that's been you
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know what the version of the letter that's been going
around that what was supposed in the letter. But um,
they can say, hey, we asked the Redskins to change.
This is what FedEx can do now that they've sent
this letter. So we asked them, what are we supposed
to do? Right, We're not We're not the bad people here.
We don't want the name, but we have a deal.
Both Nike and FedEx keep mind that none of them
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had issues with the Redskins name. FedEx has been associated
with the Redskins for many, many years, big big money,
stadium naming rights deal and beyond. And the most amusing
part from the FedEx side is their CEO, Fred Smith,
is a minority owner in the Washington Redskins. Like he's
part of the ownership of the Redskins. He clearly wasn't
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offended when he put his money down and wrote a
check to buy a percentage of the team. Otherwise, why
would you do that. Rich people can buy percentage of
other NFL teams and be minority owners. And then as
Nike was, Nikes so aghast by the nickname that they said,
we're not going to offer you as an NFL operation,
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We're not going to offer you a deal because we're
upset by the having to sell Redskins branded gear. Of course,
Nike's deal is worth a minimum of a billion dollars,
but it's much more than that. Nobody knows exactly how much.
There's been different reports, but at least billion dollars the
merchandise deal, and as part of that, Nike agreed to
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sell all set up all thirty two teams game day uniforms,
sideline apparel and that you know, the swoosh logo and
all that that's part of the deal, and they'd sold
that merchandise on their website. Well, Dan Snyder, I would
think should be allowed to take the swoosh off the
Redskins logo if Nike's not down with that, and then
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he can go out and work out his own deal
with some other company that's willing to put their name
on it. And And I would think there are some of
those left now. The last thing here, so the sixty
four thousand dollars question, which is outdated, it's actually like
a sixty four million dollar question or a billion dollar question.
Is this attempt going to work? We addressed it earlier.
It's unlikely, right, And again it's moving more towards it's
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gonna happen, but I'm still in the unlikely camp. I
don't think we're there yet. This storyline is going to
run in the twenty four hour sports news cycle. But
what happens. The mob then moves on to the next target.
It's like a game of whack a mole, and somebody
else will be up and they'll attack that person or
that group or that organization. And that's how this works.
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And so they call in the bots and they attack,
and then they move on to the next target. And
this will go to the back seat and they'll fight
the next battle, and then they'll come back to this.
But Dan Snyder, you know, if you take him at
his word, he has repeatedly said he will never change
the nickname of the Redskins again. He grew up a
fan of the team. He bought the team. Every little
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kid's dream. You grew up a fan of a team,
you buy the team. It's a big deal. But he's
essentially said over his dead body, So let's say that's
the case. If you take that as the gospel, what
does that mean? Let me spell it out for you.
Dan Snyder is fifty five years old. He's gonna turn
fifty six years old. This year's birthday's coming up. Happy birthday, Dad.
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With modern medicine, and we know if you're wealthy, generally
live longer because you can afford better medicine and better doctor.
That's just how it works. It's based on financial And
so Dan Snyder has at least another twenty to twenty
five years of life expectancy, and probably a lot longer
than that. And assuming he keeps all of his marbles
with him and all that, that means that we are
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looking at what twenty forty five ish twenty forty, unless
he just taps out before then and sells the team,
But twenty forty five would be around the time you'd say,
maybe he checks out at that point. More importantly, and
this is the key reason I'm not buying that the
mob's gonna win this one. Dan Snyder has the one
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thing you've got to have to push back. He's got
a gigantic war chest, and you gotta have that. It's essential,
it's pivotal to be able to succeed. Money is power,
and Dan Snyder's worth two point six billion dollars. The
NFL TV money alone will pay most if not all
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of the bills for the Redskins and the the position,
and we've talked about as many times over the years.
My position has not changed on this. The free market
should decide. And it is spoken loudly that most people
don't have a problem with this. Now maybe they should,
and maybe you think that they should have a problem,
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and you have a problem that they don't have a problem.
But the Redskins have been one of the most profitable
brands in the NFL year after year, despite going out
most Sundays and puking all over the field, whether it
be against the Giants, Eagles, or Cowboys, year after year
and the other teams that they played. And for reference, again,
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the Redskins were fifth in revenue in twenty nineteen. Are
they going to go down? Maybe they will go down
of all these companies stop writing checks. But that team
has been known as the Redskins is nineteen thirty three.
They changed their name. They should be called the Boston Braves.
They then became the Boston Redskins, and then they moved
eventually to Washington in nineteen thirty seven. There's a little
history lesson for you. The most fascinating part of this
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entire episode. The people driving the bus to cancel the
Redskins name are a group of people offended for people
who are not offended by and large, but these people
think they should be offended. Are you following along? Twenty sixteen,
which was just four years ago, the Washington Post ran
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a survey. It ran a pole, and they they ran
this thinking they were going to get the answer right,
connecting the dots backwards, thinking they knew the answer and
they would run this story. But they paid for a pole,
and they found out that ninety percent of Native Americans
were not offended by the Washington Redsen's nickname. In fact,
there are high schools on reservations that use the Redskins nickname.
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I've taken calls over the years some people that are
in the Mallem militia that live on reservations and have
told me that they see people were in it. They
think it's an actual thing of pride. Now maybe they're wrong,
and that's that's the incorrect position. And I'm just telling
you my experience over the years talking about this. And
they also said in that survey that the overwhelming majority
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considered it an unimportant issue. But here we are, it's
twenty twenty, and we are being told that this is
a front burner, not a backburner issue. At least for now.
We'll find out maybe I'm wrong in Dan Snyder will
announce today. You know what, No, Moss, I'm out, I
give up the mob wins, welcome to the matrix, and
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I'm changing the name or I'm selling the team. I
just don't buy it. From everything that has been said
and everything I've seen from Dan Snyder, I'm just not
buy it. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame week? Blame Week two. It's
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Big Band's lame joke of the week. All right, lame jokes, jokes, jokes,
actual jokes. I'm gonna read as many of these as
I can. I will bounce them off. Whoever wants to
play along, Finlay, you want to play along? Kind of
creepy at right? All right, don't play don't be creepy.
All right, I'll try not to be too much. Yeah,
all right? Did you see these are actual jokes, by
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the way, sending it by actual listeners. They're easily offended
by jokes? Please turn the radio off right now. One
one thousand and two, one thousand and three, one thousand,
All right, here we go. Did you see there will
be something very different about the fourth of July. I
did not see this. What's that? Yeah? Jason Pierre Paul
said he couldn't quite put a finger on it. Bill
from Iowa, thank you, Bill, love your jokes. Why are
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some Major League Baseball players scared to come back to
play during the pandemic? Why is that? Ben? Because they'll
be surrounded by bats? I am Ran in Vancouver. Why
did Bubba Wallace stop going to the Vatican? Why's that
he's sick of hanging out with Rope? Francis very upset
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by that. It's Kurt from Earth who sent that one in?
Why didn't Blake Snell jump in to save his drowning brother?
Why couldn't he do that? Ben? Because I'm risking my life? Bro?
That's I'm Ran in Vancouver. Who sent that one in? Chris?
If you're on the show, you would get the joke. Well,
when the NBA resumes their season this July in Orlando,
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why will they be pumping air conditioning into the arena?
Why would they be pumping air conditioning in the arena? Well,
there'll be no fans. Hey's surfer Todd. That's a professional comedian.
By the way, did you know that Brian Guys? He's
participating in Corny Night. He's been in comedy shows and
he's hosted comedy shows. What is the world's smallest organization?
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What is that? Not be the Real Talk fan club?
We haven't. We haven't heard from Real Talk in a
few days. Not that anyone's complaining unless they are. That's
from Eke and Roshelm Minnesota. Why are people not believing
in the new Jeffrey Stein statue? Why because Epstein didn't
sculpt it himself. There you go, it's Kurt from Earth.
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The w NBA is absolutely positively committed to competitive social distancing.
How yeah, no time during a game will the ball
go anywhere near the hoope? Our friend Gordy in Tacoma,
Where does a calpart come from? Ben Meller? Wow? No, No,
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from the dairy air, That's that's where. So that's a
Mark from Chino Hills with a good dad joke. Here's
another one from Mark. What did the bra say to
the hat? What did he say? You go on? Ahead,
I'll give you these two a lift. Screwed, I'll give
these two a lift. Is the punch line there? Yes,
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I did. Why did Bartolo Cologne go to a beauty
supply store when he was hungry? Why did he go
to a beauty supply store when he was hungry? Well,
he heard they had a deal on pancake makeup and
he got kind of excited by that. He's like, it's
our buddy, Eric and Iowa fighting the good fight. There.
These are actual jokes sent in by actual listeners. We
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call it Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week. Did
you know that the Astros are scouting band camps? Really? Yeah,
they're thinking of drafting a drummer in the second round.
So here you go, bang bangs from Rick in Southern California,
in beautiful north Ridge, the home of CSUN University. What
is the difference between a room full of MutS and
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the newbie night callers? What's the difference? At least you
can train the mutts at least. That's Bill from Iowa.
What's worse than being blind? What's that? A blind date
with Brian Finley? That would be worse. That's a Bill
from Iowa. Who said that? When and why was everyone
distracted when Brian's mom brought him to the firework show
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as a kid? Hey? Why because Brian was watching fireworks
but everyone else was looking at the smoke show. It's
Bill from Iowa. Again. Did you know that the medical
community has decided to change the term brain damage? Is
that so? Yes, it's now going to be known as
being woke is how it's going to be called. That's
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how hill Billy Mike who said that? Why did Lance
Armstrong's X get promoted? Why? Well, she's always on the ball,
that's why. Really, come on, that's she's on the ball.
That's Eric in Iowa, who is a maid's favorite baseball player.
Who is a med's favorite baseball player, Dustin but droya Hey,
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that's an oldie buddy goody from Eric in Iowa. All right,
what social justice group has canceled ray Rice and Earl Thomas?
Who's canceled ray Rice? General Thomas? That would be Black
Wives Matter has canceled them. It's some issues there. That's
Gordon in Tacomah. Let's see you has some jokes about
random callers as well. Let's go down here at random
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people on the show. Let's see page down here. What
is jet who fleds the least favorite hair band? What's
that warrant? No? Right? Have you seen the bumper sticker
on the back of Tammy in Montana's ox cart? Maybe
I have? Actually no, it's calm down. It says what
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happens in the barn stays in the barn? Is what
what it says? That's a cheap shot. I'll tell you
all right. Uh, what do you What do you get
when you cross a famous Beaver Creek Lows employee with
a potato? What has that been? A dictator? Is what
you get? That's Kennon Toledo. Uh? This year? What would
happened if you a shark ate Cooper Loop? What would happen?
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The shark would have high blood pressure? The shark would
have high blood pressure. See what I did there? All right?
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that down there. We're good with that. So during the pandemic,
which we're still living through so not over yet, we
have had no shortage you and I of things to
discuss on the radio. Some have been sporting, not many,
most have been and we're about to go to the
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side again as we take a turn on the wild side.
This involves the NFL, and I guess you would file
us into the social justice category for the NFL if
you've not heard, and I don't know how you could
have missed it, if you're paying attention and listening. It's
been talked about all day here. I'll get my swing
in the batter's box. So we learned that the NFL
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is planning on playing a song called lift Every Voice
and Sing, which allegedly is that I didn't know this,
and maybe I should have. I didn't. This is apparently
the black anthem, Black National Anthem, and they're planning on
playing it before every season opening game. The NFL exhibition
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training camp portion is going to open up later this month,
the regular season still a little while away. But the
twenty twenty NFL season, should it take place as planned
in likely empty or mostly empty stadiums, will have someone
perform lift every voice and sing before the Star Spangled banner,
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you know, the US national anthem. But wait, there's more. Uh,
the NFL condemnation of police. They are at it again here,
the NFL's attack. They're on board with that anti police movement,
so they they they are talking about putting decals in
jersey patches on uniforms, decals obviously in the helmet, uh,
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and jersey patches patches. So as we juggle flaming torches
while writing a unicycle on the third rail, let us discuss.
It's pretty simple. This is not that hard. The NFL's
plan to play what is again being described in these
media reports as the black national anthem before games. You
go thumbs up or thumbs down on this. I'm gonna
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go thumbs down. I'm going thumbs down. Now, I've got
the Boston Pops, the balconization and reverse and we will
tie all these things together. Now, Hey, Roger Goodell, let's
let's call a spade to spend. He is not just
dipping his toe in these waters. He is doing a
belly whopper and then doing the backstroke in shark infested
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terrain there, and this just looks like a fiasco. It's cringeworthy.
When I saw this at a buddy of mine that
sent me a text and said, hey, you see this.
I like when I get those texts. During the day.
I was actually doing some stuff on the podcast for
this weekend, and so I got this text and I said, well,
that's got to be fake. I thought, yet again, sports
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Talk Berry, that dirty dog. Everyone fell for Sports Talk Berry.
And then it was like, well, it's not Sports Talk Berry.
So I thought I must be the Onion or the
Babylon Bee, which that dope guest Gone likes, But no,
it was not any of those. It turns out this
is an actual report, and I guess I must have
been living under a rock somewhere. But I had never
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heard this before, never heard this. And I talked to
several people who have been around longer than I, old timers,
they'd never heard of this before. This song being described
as the quote black national anthem now the way the
way to describe. And this appears to be a mistake,
and who knows how this is going to play out,
But I'll tell you why I'm going with thumbs down
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on this. So you have now opened already Pandora's box,
but now you've cranked it all the way open and
torn the door off so you can't close the top
of it. And see, when you start traveling down this road,
which is a pandering road, there is no end. It's
like the universe. It goes on for eternity. For example,
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right now, the outrage is still directed because of the
murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. But these type of things,
unfortunately happened every so often, sporadically, and not always just
to the black community. So if you play this out theoretically,
let's say another tragedy is going to happen and will
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whether you want to avoid all track, can't everything. It's
bad things happen from time to time, and so let's
say it's it's against a different group of people. So
you've now gone down this pandering highway. So what does
the NFL do if they're fully invested, It certainly seems
like they are in virtue signaling, So to demonstrate that
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their moral correctness is that they've got to continue to
demonstrate it. So if something happens to someone in the
Mexican American community that they didn't have to play the
Mexican national anthem, or you know, someone of the you
know from Asia, one of the eight countries in Asia,
they didn't get involved with that anthem. And so if
you don't, you get tagged as insensitive, right, Isn't that
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how this works? If you don't do this, now you
you're insensitive because you've already done it or you're planning
on doing it. And so I imagine this wild scenario.
It's like a parody or a sketch comedy of NFL
game starting and it's like the Boston Pops concert where
you're gonna have like seventy four anthems that are going
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to be played, and you're gonna have about ninety minutes
of music before kickoff, just to cover every possible possible
thing to fully pander. Now Part B of this the
story obviously reeks of overreaction. The NFL. They are free
to do this. They are a private business. And that
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also means though the customers, the people that support the NFL,
are also free to complain if they feel it is
not something that they support. I think we're still allowed
to complain until the Marxists take over, and then I
do not think we're going to be allowed to complain anymore.
So get your complaints in before Marxism completely takes over.
But one of the big calling cards in my life
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again maybe this is all different now, is inclusion. Right.
Inclusion big word and another big word that's used a
lot when building a roster is a meritocracy, right, And
it doesn't matter whether you're liberal or conservative, gay or straight.
Any race, color, creed, or legion is welcome, and the
people on the team are selected based on ability and talent.
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That's what meritocracy means. Now, following that mindset, uh, you know,
we united watching games and all that, But this and
some of the other things the NFL has done here
would dabble in the form of balconization, are essentially endorsing
the national anthem. We're gonna add another national anthem. We're
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gonna divvy it up here, and we're gonna create some
hostility down that road. And nothing says unity like providing division,
which is what this would be, certainly if the NFL
goes forward with it. And does anyone know the rules here?
Because I don't know the rules, I don't so riddle
me this, batman. Are the players supposed to kneel for
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both national anthems or only the US national anthem? And
does it matter how bad those optics are going to
look if the entire Texans team with Bill O'Brien, for example,
the coach all gets down on a knee during the
US national anthem, but stand at attention during this black
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anth And what happens if one of the players were
to kneel during the black anthem, but like a white guy,
does he then get excommunicated from from the NFL? Is
that how that works? I don't know, I'm asking. And
what would make you like king of a woke? Like
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what gets you extra credit? Is it taken a knee
for both but only one? I'm not sure. I don't
know the answers to those questions. Now the last Worrior,
So the the NFL's plan is going to destroy one
of the talking points that many who have defended the
athletes for being outspoken and all that and the people
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around them their circuits. One of the big talking much
we've talked about on this show, and it involves it's
not about the anthem. Remember when we were told that
this entire thing was not about the anthem. And if
the ball players kneel during the national anthem, but don't
kneel during the new anthem, which the NFL is talking
about here, then it's it's like staring. You're right between
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the eyes that even for the slow people in the
back of the room, it's about the anthem, right, And
you can talk about debunking a battle cry. Now, Drew Brees,
remember he was charboiled for saying he believes you should
respect the flag and the national anthem, and all that
he received woke counseling and mind manipulation before. I believe
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it was a nine hundred forty seven apologies that Drew
Breese issue. I think it was something along those lines.
And again, if it's not about the anthem, then why
are you planning on playing a different anthem? I think
we know the answer. That's rhetorical question. And the dividing
of the national anthem. Does that fall into the progress
or not progress category? Are we going in the right
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direction here or the wrong directions? That it doesn't matter,
it's just okay. But it certainly seems that from everything
I've been reading here, this would be shifting the car
into reverse, is what it would be. And I guess
we can cancel the word unity and all those things.
And or is this just a marketing thing? Is it
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not reality based? Again, these are questions I don't have
the answer for, but we're gonna find out. And the
NFL's free to do whatever they want. And will there
be any backlash or people so jones in for football
that the NFL can do whatever the hell they want
and it doesn't matter, and we're all gonna watch it.
It doesn't all these complaints and all the people bitching
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and moaning on both sides, it's irrelevant. And the NFL
are there, the teflon Dons of sports, and everyone's gonna
watch no matter what. And that's just the way it is.
That's what they think. They think that they are bullet
proof and they can do whatever they want, and you are,
you're brainwashed and you're gonna watch. And maybe that's the case.
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Maybe the ratings did go down back in twenty sixteen
with Colin Kaepernick, but we will see what happens this time.
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the cancel culture relating to sports had taken the fourth
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of July weekend off, you are wrong. The mob has
awoke in with vengeance and like a boomerang, they have
returned with torches and pitchforks, ready to attack a familiar rival,
the owner of the dreaded Washington Redskins. If you have
not seen this, and maybe you have not been paying attention,
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I say most people listen to the radio only retain
about seventeen to twenty five percent of what we say.
Studies have proven that. But here's what we have learned.
We have learned that Nike, Pepsi, and fed X, the
big three major corporations in America and globally, have attempted
to use there's only one way to describe this extortion
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to get Dan Snyder to change the Redskins nickname now
fed X. Who's really invested with the Washington Redskins The
FedEx Corporation, which bought naming rights to the home of
the Redskins years ago. The four mentioned FedEx field and
they put out a statement saying that it is requesting
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a name change as a group of investment firms, big
investment firms that have asked companies like Nike, Pepsi, and
fed X to refuse to do business with the Redskins
and just shut it down until the name changes. The
team name has changed. And there's also local politicians. The
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Redskins are looking for a new stadium, and there's a
shakedown by the politician saying we're not gonna help you
build a stadium in your DC until you change the
name of the team. It's not gonna happen. So already
Nike capitulated and they removed all Redskins apparel from the website. Now,
maybe they'll say it's a glitch. I'm guessing they won't
say that. We mentioned the letter by FedEx. Now I
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use the word extortion. That's a powerful word. But if
you look up the textbook definition of extortion, it is
obtaining something through force or threats. How else would you
describe this other than extortion. Now, maybe you support it,
and maybe you think this is a good idea and
I'm all for it, but it is extortion. I mean,
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it's called like it is. Now, let us discuss the question.
Will Dan Snyder be taken down by the shakedown. That
is the question. So I've got the Red Bellied Piranhas
thirteen hundreds and the war chest, and we will combine
all these things together and we will make some banana creampie.
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As we're gonna We're make not to lead off with
it's appropriate because we're talking about the Redskins. I have
no skin in the game on this, and I've talked
about this issue a lot recently. We did a monologue
a couple of weeks ago. We were proactive praising Dance
Snyder for not following and bowing down to the mob.
We'll see if he still does that or not. I'm
not a fan of the Redskins. I'm not. I've watched
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them from Afar. I remember when I was younger and
growing up a RAMS fan, and then they would play
the Redskins occasionally, and the Redskins always seem to have
better teams in the Rams, which always bothered me. Not lately,
but I just find this whole thing nauseating, the way
this game is played. I'm old school. I believe that
if you think something should be canceled, you have a vote,
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and if you want a statue torn down, you have
a vote. You don't just take the law into your
own hands. And whether you want a team name changed,
that should be the vote of the people. I would
be bad news, I would say, because when it comes
to the Redskins, despite the uh, the people that are
making a bunch of noisier and banging on drums, most
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people are like, yeah, it doesn't really matter. Meanwhile, Dan Snyder,
who I again put on the short list of the
handful of people that have held off the attempts at insurgency.
And despite all of the bickering, Snyder has been very consistent.
He's been dyed in the wool here. He grew up
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a fan of the Redskins, and as long as he
owns the team, that's the way it's gonna be, come
hell or high water. It does look different. I'm going
to agree with you that it does look different. This
is a different layer. Things have been ratcheted up, and
the language and now actual action of extortion is certainly
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a lot different than it's been in the past. The
social justice warriors who are behind this, they are going
blitz creek on Dan Snyder. It's like a typhoon, right,
And they've been joined as accessories here, the woke NFL media,
the Mike Florio crowd, and all that who are down
with the cause, and they're all following the same rallying
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cry of hit him where it hurts, and that is true.
You hit him in the pocketbook. That does a lot
of damage. There's a lot of damage. It is successful.
It is successful usually not always, but from a simpleton's
view reading several of the stories and observing some of
the reaction to this, it does look like the financial
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walls from AFAR are caving in on Snyder. These are
big corporations that are invested in one way or another
with the Redskins, so it is really fascinating them to
watch how this cancel culture mob works, the woke mob,
and I really stand spellbound at how voracious. They're like
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red bellied piranhas and it is a mackerel that is
lowered into the tank and the red bellied piranhas just attack.
Will it work? Well, I'm still skeptical that this is
going to work. More on that in a second. But
Dan Snyder is on that list. I saw Portnoy from barstool.
He did not bow down to the mob. Tucker Carlson
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also from Fox News did not do it, So there's
a there's a few people out there, and I'm sure
I'm forgetting others who did not issue seven thousand apologies
and you know, do whatever the mob wanted now. Furthermore,
it is on brand for companies such as Nike and
FedEx to partake in this. It's virtue signaling, is what
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it is. And there is a whole cottage industry for
major corporations in America that take part in this, and
there's never been a better time for it than right now.
But there is one flaw in the strategy, all right.
The problem is nobody's perfect. It's kind of like what
happened to Jimmy Kimmel. I actually liked Jimmy Kimmel. He
was a radio guy in LA before he became a
big network star. But Jimmy Kimmel was like fully invested
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in the cancel culture and then the mob came knocking
on his door. And the problem is everyone's got skeletons
in their closet and there's nobody who's perfect. And there's
an old idiom that dates back to the thirteen hundreds
that certainly applies to these companies that are attacking the
Redskins and Dan Snyder, the owner of the team. It's
like people who live in glasshouses should not throw stones, right,
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And both Nike and FedEx both very successful companies that
have done very well for themselves, but they are now
starting to get called out on their hippocrisy. It's well
known that Nike, they have many of those products have
been made in sweatshops and underage labor and those kind
of things in other countries, and they've had business ends
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with communist China while talking about how they want to
end all of this oppression, but they have no problem
with depression in China. So that's Nike. Then you got FedEx,
who's a multinational super conglomerate of a company. They've been
called out in the past for safety violations and mandatory overtime,
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and it's all available. You can look it up yourself.
I'm not making it up now. The FedEx thing in
particular looks like they're just covering there behind and trying
to get a couple extra clout points, giving the illusion
that they're really locked in on this. Because the question,
and I'm questioning I saw the letter that's been you
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know what the version of the letter that's been going
around that what was supposed in the letter. But um,
they can say, hey, we asked the Redskins to change.
This is what FedEx can do now that they've sent
this letter. So we asked them, what are we supposed
to do? Right, We're not We're not the bad people here.
We don't want the name, but we have a deal.
Both Nike and FedEx keep mind that none of them
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had issues with the Redskins name. FedEx has been associated
with the Redskins for many, many years, big big money,
stadium naming rights deal and beyond. And the most amusing
part from the FedEx side is their CEO, Fred Smith,
is a minority owner in the Washington Redskins. Like he's
part of the ownership of the Redskins. He clearly wasn't
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offended when he put his money down and wrote a
check to buy a percentage of the team. Otherwise, why
would you do that. Rich people can buy percentage of
other NFL teams and be minority owners. And then as
Nike was, Nikes so aghast by the nickname that they said,
we're not going to offer you as an NFL operation,
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We're not going to offer you a deal because we're
upset by the having to sell Redskins branded gear. Of course,
Nike's deal is worth a minimum of a billion dollars,
but it's much more than that. Nobody knows exactly how much.
There's been different reports, but at least billion dollars the
merchandise deal, and as part of that, Nike agreed to
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sell all set up all thirty two teams game day uniforms,
sideline apparel and that you know, the swoosh logo and
all that that's part of the deal, and they'd sold
that merchandise on their website. Well, Dan Snyder, I would
think should be allowed to take the swoosh off the
Redskins logo if Nike's not down with that, and then
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he can go out and work out his own deal
with some other company that's willing to put their name
on it. And And I would think there are some of
those left now. The last thing here, so the sixty
four thousand dollars question, which is outdated, it's actually like
a sixty four million dollar question or a billion dollar question.
Is this attempt going to work? We addressed it earlier.
It's unlikely, right, And again it's moving more towards it's
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gonna happen, but I'm still in the unlikely camp. I
don't think we're there yet. This storyline is going to
run in the twenty four hour sports news cycle. But
what happens. The mob then moves on to the next target.
It's like a game of whack a mole, and somebody
else will be up and they'll attack that person or
that group or that organization. And that's how this works.
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And so they call in the bots and they attack,
and then they move on to the next target. And
this will go to the back seat and they'll fight
the next battle, and then they'll come back to this.
But Dan Snyder, you know, if you take him at
his word, he has repeatedly said he will never change
the nickname of the Redskins again. He grew up a
fan of the team. He bought the team. Every little
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kid's dream. You grew up a fan of a team,
you buy the team. It's a big deal. But he's
essentially said over his dead body, So let's say that's
the case. If you take that as the gospel, what
does that mean? Let me spell it out for you.
Dan Snyder is fifty five years old. He's gonna turn
fifty six years old. This year's birthday's coming up. Happy birthday, Dad.
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With modern medicine, and we know if you're wealthy, generally
live longer because you can afford better medicine and better doctor.
That's just how it works. It's based on financial And
so Dan Snyder has at least another twenty to twenty
five years of life expectancy, and probably a lot longer
than that. And assuming he keeps all of his marbles
with him and all that, that means that we are
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looking at what twenty forty five ish twenty forty, unless
he just taps out before then and sells the team,
But twenty forty five would be around the time you'd say,
maybe he checks out at that point. More importantly, and
this is the key reason I'm not buying that the
mob's gonna win this one. Dan Snyder has the one
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thing you've got to have to push back. He's got
a gigantic war chest, and you gotta have that. It's essential,
it's pivotal to be able to succeed. Money is power,
and Dan Snyder's worth two point six billion dollars. The
NFL TV money alone will pay most if not all
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of the bills for the Redskins and the the position,
and we've talked about as many times over the years.
My position has not changed on this. The free market
should decide. And it is spoken loudly that most people
don't have a problem with this. Now maybe they should,
and maybe you think that they should have a problem,
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and you have a problem that they don't have a problem.
But the Redskins have been one of the most profitable
brands in the NFL year after year, despite going out
most Sundays and puking all over the field, whether it
be against the Giants, Eagles, or Cowboys, year after year
and the other teams that they played. And for reference, again,
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the Redskins were fifth in revenue in twenty nineteen. Are
they going to go down? Maybe they will go down
of all these companies stop writing checks. But that team
has been known as the Redskins is nineteen thirty three.
They changed their name. They should be called the Boston Braves.
They then became the Boston Redskins, and then they moved
eventually to Washington in nineteen thirty seven. There's a little
history lesson for you. The most fascinating part of this
(25:59):
entire episode. The people driving the bus to cancel the
Redskins name are a group of people offended for people
who are not offended by and large, but these people
think they should be offended. Are you following along? Twenty sixteen,
which was just four years ago, the Washington Post ran
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a survey. It ran a pole, and they they ran
this thinking they were going to get the answer right,
connecting the dots backwards, thinking they knew the answer and
they would run this story. But they paid for a pole,
and they found out that ninety percent of Native Americans
were not offended by the Washington Redsen's nickname. In fact,
there are high schools on reservations that use the Redskins nickname.
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I've taken calls over the years some people that are
in the Mallem militia that live on reservations and have
told me that they see people were in it. They
think it's an actual thing of pride. Now maybe they're wrong,
and that's that's the incorrect position. And I'm just telling
you my experience over the years talking about this. And
they also said in that survey that the overwhelming majority
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considered it an unimportant issue. But here we are, it's
twenty twenty, and we are being told that this is
a front burner, not a backburner issue. At least for now.
We'll find out maybe I'm wrong in Dan Snyder will
announce today. You know what, No, Moss, I'm out, I
give up the mob wins, welcome to the matrix, and
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I'm changing the name or I'm selling the team. I
just don't buy it. From everything that has been said
and everything I've seen from Dan Snyder, I'm just not
buy it. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame week? Blame Week two. It's
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Big Band's lame joke of the week. All right, lame jokes, jokes, jokes,
actual jokes. I'm gonna read as many of these as
I can. I will bounce them off. Whoever wants to
play along, Finlay, you want to play along? Kind of
creepy at right? All right, don't play don't be creepy.
All right, I'll try not to be too much. Yeah,
all right? Did you see these are actual jokes, by
(28:13):
the way, sending it by actual listeners. They're easily offended
by jokes? Please turn the radio off right now. One
one thousand and two, one thousand and three, one thousand,
All right, here we go. Did you see there will
be something very different about the fourth of July. I
did not see this. What's that? Yeah? Jason Pierre Paul
said he couldn't quite put a finger on it. Bill
from Iowa, thank you, Bill, love your jokes. Why are
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some Major League Baseball players scared to come back to
play during the pandemic? Why is that? Ben? Because they'll
be surrounded by bats? I am Ran in Vancouver. Why
did Bubba Wallace stop going to the Vatican? Why's that
he's sick of hanging out with Rope? Francis very upset
(28:57):
by that. It's Kurt from Earth who sent that one in?
Why didn't Blake Snell jump in to save his drowning brother?
Why couldn't he do that? Ben? Because I'm risking my life? Bro?
That's I'm Ran in Vancouver. Who sent that one in? Chris?
If you're on the show, you would get the joke. Well,
when the NBA resumes their season this July in Orlando,
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why will they be pumping air conditioning into the arena?
Why would they be pumping air conditioning in the arena? Well,
there'll be no fans. Hey's surfer Todd. That's a professional comedian.
By the way, did you know that Brian Guys? He's
participating in Corny Night. He's been in comedy shows and
he's hosted comedy shows. What is the world's smallest organization?
(29:45):
What is that? Not be the Real Talk fan club?
We haven't. We haven't heard from Real Talk in a
few days. Not that anyone's complaining unless they are. That's
from Eke and Roshelm Minnesota. Why are people not believing
in the new Jeffrey Stein statue? Why because Epstein didn't
sculpt it himself. There you go, it's Kurt from Earth.
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The w NBA is absolutely positively committed to competitive social distancing.
How yeah, no time during a game will the ball
go anywhere near the hoope? Our friend Gordy in Tacoma,
Where does a calpart come from? Ben Meller? Wow? No, No,
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from the dairy air, That's that's where. So that's a
Mark from Chino Hills with a good dad joke. Here's
another one from Mark. What did the bra say to
the hat? What did he say? You go on? Ahead,
I'll give you these two a lift. Screwed, I'll give
these two a lift. Is the punch line there? Yes,
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I did. Why did Bartolo Cologne go to a beauty
supply store when he was hungry? Why did he go
to a beauty supply store when he was hungry? Well,
he heard they had a deal on pancake makeup and
he got kind of excited by that. He's like, it's
our buddy, Eric and Iowa fighting the good fight. There.
These are actual jokes sent in by actual listeners. We
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call it Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week. Did
you know that the Astros are scouting band camps? Really? Yeah,
they're thinking of drafting a drummer in the second round.
So here you go, bang bangs from Rick in Southern California,
in beautiful north Ridge, the home of CSUN University. What
is the difference between a room full of MutS and
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the newbie night callers? What's the difference? At least you
can train the mutts at least. That's Bill from Iowa.
What's worse than being blind? What's that? A blind date
with Brian Finley? That would be worse. That's a Bill
from Iowa. Who said that? When and why was everyone
distracted when Brian's mom brought him to the firework show
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as a kid? Hey? Why because Brian was watching fireworks
but everyone else was looking at the smoke show. It's
Bill from Iowa. Again. Did you know that the medical
community has decided to change the term brain damage? Is
that so? Yes, it's now going to be known as
being woke is how it's going to be called. That's
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how hill Billy Mike who said that? Why did Lance
Armstrong's X get promoted? Why? Well, she's always on the ball,
that's why. Really, come on, that's she's on the ball.
That's Eric in Iowa, who is a maid's favorite baseball player.
Who is a med's favorite baseball player, Dustin but droya Hey,
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that's an oldie buddy goody from Eric in Iowa. All right,
what social justice group has canceled ray Rice and Earl Thomas?
Who's canceled ray Rice? General Thomas? That would be Black
Wives Matter has canceled them. It's some issues there. That's
Gordon in Tacomah. Let's see you has some jokes about
random callers as well. Let's go down here at random
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people on the show. Let's see page down here. What
is jet who fleds the least favorite hair band? What's
that warrant? No? Right? Have you seen the bumper sticker
on the back of Tammy in Montana's ox cart? Maybe
I have? Actually no, it's calm down. It says what
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happens in the barn stays in the barn? Is what
what it says? That's a cheap shot. I'll tell you
all right. Uh, what do you What do you get
when you cross a famous Beaver Creek Lows employee with
a potato? What has that been? A dictator? Is what
you get? That's Kennon Toledo. Uh? This year? What would
happened if you a shark ate Cooper Loop? What would happen?
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The shark would have high blood pressure? The shark would
have high blood pressure. See what I did there? All right?
Last one for now? What dude, Doc Mike and Zeke
Elliott have in common? What possibly do they have in common? Well,
Darryl tells us they both enjoy the live stream. Fox
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