Best of The Ben Maller Show Jul 08, 2020

Big Ben talks about the reaction to Desean Jackson's anti-Semitic comments, Joe West getting flak for wanting to ump this year, Maller to the Third Degree, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

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This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
Fox Sports Radio. So some days you come in here
and you're like, I don't know, is there really a
lead story. We're in the middle of an apocalypse, but
we got one. We got one, and don't worry. I
have my body armor on. I am getting ready to
jump on the unicycle and take a trip down the

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third rail. Man the third rail, and don't worry, I
will be juggling hand grenades while we go down the
third rail. A long time NFL player who has set
some records in his career is in the middle of
a mini firestorm. Now I don't want to go full
fire storm Rember. We're talking about de Sean Jackson. If

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you have not been paying attention here and you've just
kind of been in the dark, living in a vacuum
or something like that. Perhaps you have not heard about this,
so I'll give you the brief recap here a thumbnail version.
So it was a world wind day of sorts for
the in battled Philadelphia Eagle or saving out Jackson. You

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talk about doing damage to yourself. He was called out
by a series of anti Semitic postings on social media.
Apparently he's been doing this for some time, finally became
an issue. He used a quote that claimed he claimed
it was from Hitler, like people have said, it's not
from Hitler, but he attacked the Jewish community. And then

(01:50):
it did not reach full Drew Breese status. But I
will say I was surprised that we got not one,
but two apologies. Breeze issued three apologies, and his wife
apologized I don't know if the Shan Jackson is married
or not, and it did. This did not generate near
the backlash that the Breeze story got. He was called

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a bigot for supporting patriotism and standing up for the
flag Deshaun. He issued a near two minute video trying
to explain the post and attempting to apologize. Now my
favorite part in an apology, he says, my post was
definitely not intended for anybody of any race to feel

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any type of way, especially the Jewish community. What I posted,
Jackson said, I definitely didn't mean it to the extent
that you guys took it. See you're the problem, you
took it. He was just making a reference to what
he thought was Hitler. Can't we please just allow that
to happen? What's wrong with you? How dare you? Well?

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That went over like a ton of breaks, because so
the guy apologized and said, you guys took it the
wrong way. So then of course we had the next apology,
which is this is actually the reverse of Drew Brees,
because Drew Brees issued a written apology and then he
had to issue a video apology because people didn't like
the written apology. Well, this is is the OPI. So

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Deshaun did a video on the Graham that didn't go
over well, and so then he had to issue a
written apology later in the day, and in that he
claimed that he apologized to the Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurry
and the GM Howie Roseman, who are both Jewish, and
claimed he is going to meet with a rabbi or
talk to a rabbi in the Philadelphia area, says he's

(03:40):
already done that and the old you know bs about
sensitivity training and all that. So it's essentially, hey, this
is what the people who are in charge of caretaking
these type of situations or telling me, and I have
to just repeat with the mouth tell me so the

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story will go away. And that's what I'm gonna do.
All right, So let us discuss. Are you buying the
two apologies of DeShawn Jackson. Well, I'm not, of course
I'm not. Now my observations, You've got hutzpah, laryngitis, and
hall pass and we will lock all these things together.
Not number one. So Deshaun Jackson is not known as

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a deep thinker. I think we can all agree on
that he's pretty good at playing football. He's had a
decorated career as a receiver, although lately he's been injury prone.
Made a lot of money for his ability as a
professional athlete, and I hope he's paying some of that,
I assume to this crisis management team that is overseeing this.

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The whole situation, you can file in the disingenuous category. Certainly,
ken DeShawn Jackson is a toolbag, is what he is.
And now that said, he should not have apologized. I'm
gonna be very consistent here and I'm gonna give you
my boiler plate advice, and I've been pretty straight on

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in all of these situations. When it comes to public figures,
they only make things worse. Drew Brees should not have apologized.
You could have said this is worse than what Drew Brees,
and I would agree with you. But Deshaun Jackson should
not have apologized. The first apology talking about missing the mark,
that was meaningless. The second one was even more awkward.

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And it just goes back to my theory here that
when you issue these apologies, people think they're disingenuous. I
certainly thought Deshan was disingenuous, so don't even do it.
And plus the second apology, which was even more awkward.
I'll tell you why. There's, roughly, I think I'm not
wrong on this, a zero percent chance that DeShawn Jackson

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ever wrote a word of that apology. Now, what's my evidence.
All you have to do is look at the way
that he writes things on social media. He's not the
most articulate scribe from what I've seen of his social
media posting. So maybe he just dumbs it down on
social media, but he really smartens it up when he
wants to issue an apology. So the quasi apology, this

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is great. So I mentioned the first apology and again
I'm gonna go back to that if you missed it.
He said, essentially, you took it the wrong way. You
you were the problem. You took it the wrong way.
So the second apology, which again I don't even think
it was written by him, but he signed his name
on it, and whoever wrote it is like woo. My
intention was to uplift, unite, and encourage our culture with

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positivity and light. Unfortunately that did not happen. I unintentionally
hurt the Jewish community and the process, and for that
I am sorry. All right, So again I'm channeling I'm
going to the ever beyond and channeling my late grandfather
who would scream a lot of profanity in Yiddish and

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would say the hutzpah, the hutzpah Deshaun. He actually used
a quote that said Jews will blackmail and extort America
for world domination. And he then issues two apologies, the
first one saying you're you didn't get it the way
I wanted it received. And then nothing to see here.
You know, he was just just trying to split and unite,

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I guess at the same time, trying to break people
up in unite and uplift. He used to uplift, unite, encourage. Yeah,
all that which I think. Would you smell that chicken crab?
That's what that is, yep, chicken crab. All right. So
Deshaun Jackson, who has also been sharing quotes of another lunatic,
Lewis Farrakhan, the famous anti Semite himself, and now Lewis

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only he didn't only hate the Jews, he also hates
gay people and he's the leader of the Nation of Islam.
So Jackson's gone down that rabbit hole. Now the second
thing here, the most alarming part of this story. You
know what it is. It's not what de Sean Jackson.
There's probably a lot of guys in sports that feel
the same way Deshaun Jackson does. I'm not naive to
the world. I know how the world works. I think

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I've lived in a few years, so I wasn't even
like shocked by that. The most alarming thing, which is
another thing, it's probably more about me than these guys.
Was how this entire episode has played out in the
NFL community and the bigger sports community as well. And
it's quite the juxtaposition between the pushback that Drew Brees

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received universally condemnation from the jock accracy of the world. Right,
everyone just chilling Drew Brees, and he had to bow
on the knee and beg for forgiveness. Deshan Jackson, he
issued a couple of apologies, but it's not even where
close to the same thing. So let's go back, you
and I to the way back machine the beginning of June.

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I believe this was, and Drew Brees said in an
interview with Yahoo Finance, I believe it was. He said
that he believed you should stand for Yeah, I said
you should stand for the I don't look at Yahoo Finance,
but anyway, So the rec that was so over the top.
You had Lebron James leading the way. He had blown
into the bugle and sounded the mob of athletes. So

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Lebron James and a host of players you've heard of
and some of you haven't, who led a full on
attack against Drew Brees. Richard Sherman said Breese was quote
part of the problem. Aaron Rodgers demanded that we educate
ourselves and used the wake up America hashtag. He used that.
Jamal Adams of the Jets said, damn it. Drew. The

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mccordy Twins shout out Patriots called Drew Brees a disgrace.
Malcolm Jenkins, who played in Philadelphia and now with the Saints,
he posted a video on Drew Brees telling him to
shut the f up. How about Shannon Sharp TV guy
Shannon Sharpe who called for Drew Brees to be canceled?
And do you know how many of these guys can

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damn the anti semitic comments of the Sean Jackson. You
want to take your guests, you got a number? How
about none? Zippo bub kiss the mob got laryngitis. The
jack mob got laryngitis. Doesn't fit the agenda. Bunch of hypocrites.
They're all a bunch of areas. Of course, Lebron had
his own docy dough with anti semitic stuff back in

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twenty eighteen. You can google that. He was given clemency
by the NBA twenty eighteen. Now we saved the biggest
phony of them all for last, and that would be
Steven Jackson, mister wokee mcwoke from the NBA who called
out Drew Brees a bunch of foul language. And now

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don't you love when things like this happened? He has
now been exposed as an anti Semite himself. Right, he's
his own douchebag for his comments. Now, Stephen Jackson played
a long time in the NBA. After Deshaun Jackson cited
a fake Hitler quote, his response was, quote, he was trying,
he Jackson was trying to educate people, and he's speaking
the truth. Sean Jackson said, you heard that right? Or

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Stephen Jacksons Stephen Jackson, a former NBA player who I
think pops up occasionally on CNN as a contributor speaking
the truth, he said of Deshaun Jason Jackson. There, so
there you go, all right? Now, final point. Now, as
you know, I am not a supporter of the council culture.
I'm not and I do not believe that DeShawn Jackson

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should be fired. I don't think he will be fired,
just like I didn't think Grant Napier deserved to be
removed as a talk show host and the voice of
the Sacramento Kings. Because he dared say that All Lives
Matter should not have been canceled. He was I didn't
agree with it. I know common sense be damn listen.
Deshan Jackson's played a long time in the NFL. I'm
assuming he didn't all of a sudden wake up and

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have these thoughts. He's had these thoughts for a while.
But he has been issued a hall pass from the
Fraternity of Pro Football. And amongst this, Pierce Now, there
were some media blowback. I'll give you that. There was
some media blowback, and there were a couple of apologies.
The Eagles ownership was upset, But amongst his contemporaries, this
was neither humiliating or emasculating. It's not a problem not

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He's been given amnesty by his fellow players, Meaning what
he said is not that out of bounds in the
culture of an NFL locker room. You know, let that
marinate for a little bit. The NFL community has spoken
loud and clear, and really, the woke community of sports
tells you all you need to know about what's been
going on here. Now. Meanwhile, what about the man that

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runs the NFL and has been running in circles to
try to appease everyone in the last couple of months.
Roger Goodell, how is he going to handle now? The
NFL traditionally has said these are team matters, not league manners.
But we know Goodell loves to pander. So what is
the plan here? They're going to issue some kind of
sizzle reel and say we're all united with the Jewish communities?

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Is that what they're gonna do? What kind of pandering
are we looking at? I guess the obvious one, the
easiest one will be just play the Israelian national anthem
right after now you play it, you have to play
it before the Black anthem, and then you can play
the US anthem. Is that how this works? I'm not
sure how this all works because memory I made the
joke about how it's gonna be like the Boston Pops.
It's gonna be like the Boston Pops before these NFL

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games with everyone who's offended. They got to play the anthem.
So we got the Black anthem, we got the now
the Israeli anthem, and then eventually we'll get to the
US anthem and we have another couple of months before
the regular season the NFL, So there's several more things
that can happen. We could get like four or five
songs before we get to the NFL games. There you go.

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Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. We have another outrage.
You give us ten minutes, we will give you a
sports outrage. Now this comes from the world a baseball
talking base ball. It does not involve a player or

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a coach. It does not involve an executive or an owner.
In fact, it doesn't even involve a team. This story
involves an umpire, a notorious figure in baseball circles, Joe West. Now,
if you are not a newshound, and you pay a

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little attention, but you don't pay that much attention, maybe
you miss this. Perhaps you know, but if you know,
I'll just give you the brief version of events here
the abridged comments. So, Joe West has announced that he
has gonna work the twenty twenty season despite his age,
and certainly at that age you could bow out. No

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one would look the other way. So this caused a
backlash by woke baseball writers who were very upset. Not
so much that Joe West is gonna umpire, that's bad enough,
but it's the comments he made because he did not
follow the talking points Joe West, and that outraged a
lot of people. Because Joe West says that he doesn't

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use the word quote believe that all these deaths have
been from coronavirus. That's the money quote which ignited the mob.
And he also claimed that he's lost a bunch of
weight Joe West in the off season, twenty five pounds
or so, he says, what if he's doing inter minute
fasting anyway, He says he's lost twenty five pounds since

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last season, playing golf every day, living his best life.
Says he's fine, and he's not gonna back down now.
He is going to continue on. He's a lifer, and
he's also closing in on a record for games umpired.
He's I think sixty five or so games away, and
so he's gonna have to come back in twenty twenty one,

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assuming he is able to umpire sixty games or so
this year, at least fifty games, so probably won't do
all of them. But they don't have to come back.
And then at that point I would imagine he would
say bye bye, I'm out of here, see you later.
So let us discuss the question when you first saw
this Joe West store, and maybe now is the first
you're hearing of it. What do you think? What do

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you think? So I've got Mark Twain, lighter fluid, and
the court system, and we will combine all these things together. Now,
first of all, this is actually something I think Joe
West should not be attacked for. I don't you go
as far as good job by Joe West, but I
do like people that show up to their jobs and

(16:37):
people that want to work. I think that is something
where that's how I was raised and a lot of
people I don't know. He shouldn't work, it's bad for
his health. I respect the hustle. Now maybe that makes
me a bad person in your eyes, but I respect
people that work hard, whatever your job is, whether you're
an umpire, you're a truck driver, your stocking shelves in
a grocery store all night. I respect people that put

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in an honest day's work and bust their ass. I do,
and you know, it's very easy to take the easy road.
Right took the path of lease resistance, and he would
have gotten paid money for nothing. Didn't have to come
back in umpire, but West was. He was designated as
a high risk coronavirus person by Major League Baseball, which

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means he could have opted out could being a weazel word.
He would have gotten full salary, all the benefits that
come with being an umpire. They make a lot of money.
Joe West is well compensated. He's not making millions, but
he's in the hundreds of thousands to be an umpire.
So I've maintained my position. I'm a believer in freedom
of choice. Bravo Joe, Right, Bravo Joe. And he's not

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somebody who's drinking the same group think kool aid that
a lot of the media is. And that's upsetting the media,
and they're they're upset with his position. How dare you?
You're you're not following the talking points here? And I
understanding twenty twenty things are different and it's a weird
time and all that, but I still believe, maybe not,

(18:08):
he's entitled to his position here. And of course the
mob is making him out to be a heathen. It's
their way or the highway, and I would just say,
you know, Joe West has looked around and he's done
his own own research, it would appear, and that's not
a bad life hack. You can form your own opinion.

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You don't have other people have to tell you their
opinion and then base your opinion off that, and maybe
you agree with popular opinion. If you look at the
numbers that are available on the internet, or it's possible
you'll find out that there's some manure mixed in there
and there's some manipulation of numbers in there. It really
has been an oil painting in terms of twisting the

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narrative to fit the doom and gloom that you're trying
to sell. And I have friends of mine that work
in the news. I was talking to somebody actually I
was on my walk because I don't go to the
gym anymore, but I was on my walk and I
was on the phone actually talking to somebody who's a
news reporter, and I was like, you have mastered the
art of panic Pedley. You really have. It's a gold mine.

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And TV has really put a masterpiece, it's masterpiece theater
out there. And as I and we were going back
and forth. I was like, I understand that the studies
where people are scared, they're gonna watch the news more.
But it reminds me of an old Mark Twain quote
that there are three kinds of lies, right, lies, damn lies,

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and statistics. And Joe West is sixty seven years old.
He's from the old school, right, He's on the old school,
And if he wants to umpire, good for him. Mazelto
go out there on umpire. Different strokes from different folks,
and it's it's an interesting juxtaposition on this one though,
compared to like David Price, David Price who's only in

(19:57):
his mid thirties, but he doesn't I think it's safe
enough or he's just not really motivated to play even one,
which is fine. I mean, I've done the monologue. I've
ranted a belief the Dodgers are actually better off without
these services of David Price on the field. Now, the
second part of this, in terms of umpiring style, Joe

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West has been a gift from the gods for those
of us that do this kind of work that are
sports gasbags. Because I know very confidently when a baseball
season begins that over the course of that baseball season,
Country Joe or cowboy Joe, whatever you want to call him.

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He is gonna stir the pot. He's gonna stir the
pot is what he's gonna do several times. And Joe
West is the epitome of the confrontational. Confrontational umpire is
what he is. And he doesn't mind a face to
face stare down. And I know that baseball wants the

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umpires to have no personality, and they want to quote
Aaron Rodgers, relax. It's what they want to calm things down,
Calm the waters. Everything's good here, Calm the waters, right.
They want to do that whole thing, and and it
really is working because of the way that umpires, the

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younger generation of umpires are But I in that regard,
I have a love hate relationship with Joe West. Do
I think he's a terrible umpire. Yes, I believe he's
a terrible umpire, But he's good for what I do.
So you see the quagmire that I have here when
you talk about Joe West, the newer umpires, they're all
cut out of the same cloth. They have no personality.

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They're all like robots, and eventually they'll get to robot
umpires and drone umpires and the supercomputers gonna call balls
and strikes and all that. As long as you have
no personality, you're allowed to be an umpire. But some
of my fondest memories, and I guess I'll date myself,
but some of my fondest memories of watching baseball when
I was growing up was a kind of boring game

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that wasn't really didn't have a lot of juice. And
then an umpire would run out of the dugout and
get in the face of the home plate umpire and
he was on like Donkey Kong. They were in a
spinning match. Remember Tommy Lasorda had some legendary confrontations with
umpires years ago. Earl Weaver another, you know, Earl Weaver
has been gone for a few years. Billy Martin also

(22:29):
got lou Pinella somewhat more recently. Lou Pinella famously kicking
dirt and having a hissy fit and all that. Remember
Lloyd McClendon when he was managing the Pirates and he
got upset with the umpire and he took I think
it was third base. He ripped third base out and
walked back into the clubhouse with the base to get
back at the umpire, and Joe West is obviously still around.

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He's he's the last of the Mohegans and uh And
it was crazy. I was first base, but it was
first base that McLendon, so I knew it was either
third or first. I had a fifty fifty chance. I
had a fifty chance, but it was it was first base.
So anyway, the umpires other than Joe was Americ. Ken
Kaiser was a crazy guy, Eric greg and who could
forget if you're old enough to remember. I think it

(23:11):
was the National League Championship Series Braves and Marlins, where
he called everything a strike. Everything was a strike. He
wanted to get the game over. Tim McClellan. There was
a guy who's he's also been dead for years. Derwood
Merrill was an American League umpire, and I got a
kick out of him because he would call a strike,
but he would turn and point to someone in the

(23:33):
crowd and that always annoyed the hell out of the
players that were so annoyed by that. All right, final thoughts,
So this about Joe was now Joe West says he
does not believe all the deaths are from COVID that
are being reported as deaths of the coronavirus, which is
being just annihilated by the baseball media and some of
the other branches of the media. But it has it's

(23:55):
that's not actually an unreasonable position considering early on in
this the numbers were being screwed. It's it's not an
outrageous tinfoil hat type of conspiracy. In fact, it's been
proven some of it. Now how many is up for debate.
But the other thing that annoys me about this conversation
when this comes up and I see my friends people
I know in the in the sports media that just

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take the low hanging fruit, which is the most delicious fruit,
and go with it. And the thing about this that
is being ignored, and this always bothers me, say, you
can report, Yeah, the cases are going up, but it's
the agenda, right, It's the good news is swept under
the rug. You don't want to report the good news.
You want to sell the bad news. You don't want

(24:38):
to calm people down. The media's job is not to
calm you down. The media's job in this case is
to ratchet up emotion. Is what it is. Right in
the court system, there's a term for this. It's called
a lie by omission, and it essentially me is you
just leave important details out that would certainly change the

(24:59):
fact to the case. For example, there's a lot of
this just doesn't get reported. The death rate has declined
nationally by seventy six percent for the coronavirus over the
last ten weeks, down seventy six percent. Is that being
reported wide across the I don't think it is. Maybe
I missed it. In March. Seven percent. Way back in March,
seven percent of people that were hospitalized with COVID die.

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That's a seven percent death rate. Today it's at one
percent and continues to go down. But you're not allowed
to celebrate that. You're not. And those parts of the
story are upsetting. So listen, Joe West wants to work.
He's made his decision, and if something happens to Joe West,

(25:42):
then he's gonna have to deal with that. But that's
his decision, and that's fine, and I say good for
Joe West. The guy wants to show up and he
could take the easy road, as we said, and get
paid and not have to worry about it, but he
wants to do it. Be sure, to catch live editions
of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
eleven pm Pacific. It's Meller. How about that? To the
third degree, This is one big fan gets grilled all right.

(26:08):
Here we go Kobolow fan. So there's lots of reaction
to pictures of Zion Williamson, who reportedly lost fat and
gained muscle during quarantine. JJ Reddick said that he looked
like a superhero. Should the league be scared? Ben? No?
Are you kidding? You know? I know he's scared. First
of all, Zion Williamson, who he didn't look that different

(26:31):
to me. I he's trimmed up a little bit, but
it looked like there was some good lighting there. His
muscles are more toned and he's more defined. But the
proof is in the pudding here. And just because he
looks better and swim trunks at the pool in Orlando
does not mean that it's gonna lead to better basketball performance.
He was playing well anyway, right, And so I guess

(26:55):
see if what he comes back here, there's gonna be
a lot of rusty players playing basketball. I imagine it's
gonna be pretty ugly. And the second part this and
the NBA needs Zion Williamson. He is the next face
of the NBA marketing department. That's why they brought back
all these bad teams because they want to make sure
Zion is playing in the fake bubble in Orlando, all right. Next, So,

(27:18):
then a little while ago, Melvin Gordon was signed by
the Broncos. The idea is kind of a two running
back attack here, but he was on a podcast earlier
this week and he admitted he knows there can only
really be one number one back in Denver. Who do
you think that's gonna end up being? Yeah, so I'm
not going with Gordon. I'm gonna go with Philip Lindsay,
who was already there. And the Melvin Gordon thing, I

(27:40):
feel like he should still be on double secret probation
a because of the shenanigans with the Chargers, and there's
there was no real market for him. I don't know
why John Elway had to bring this guy and didn't
make a lot of sense. They didn't really need him.
And Philip Lindsay, who's not I mean, this guy's not
great either, but he had a better season. He averaged

(28:01):
more yards per carry over sixteen games, and he had. Yeah,
I believe he has had much better ball. Secret I
don't think he's even fumbled as opposed to Melvin Gordon,
who does put the ball the bug on the rug
as they say there. So I'm gonna go with Lindsay. Now,
I think the Broncos gonna shove Gordon down people's throats
because they signed him and they have to justify the signing.

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But based on just ability, I would go with Lindsay.
All right. Next Well Jr. Smith admitted that he went
through a depressed state being out of the NBA so
much though that he stopped playing NBA two K because
it reminded him of not being in the league. Ben.
When you went on your involuntary hiatus, Yeah, were you
still able to listen to the radio? Uh? No, I didn't. Well,

(28:44):
I didn't. I don't. I try not to listen to
the radio that much anyway, because I don't want other
people do their own thing. I try to do my
own thing. But when I was on the beach for
six months and twenty six days coop back very dark
day in radio in twenty oh nine, eleven years ago,
I was just trying to stay busy. I was I
was getting auditions. You know, I heard. I did listen
a little bit. There were a lot of people that

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were a bunch of hacks that were on the radio.
Ad upset me. But I do think radio is an
art and when it's done right, and when it's not
done right, it sounds like a finger painting, so I
try to avoid it. But no, I was actually auditioning
for different jobs at a gig in Boston. I auditioned
for one in southern California. I was actually close to
a job in New York when Fox Sports Radio called

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me to come back here. So I'm happy about that
because I yeah, at that time, I couldn't really leave
La for for other reasons. All right, anyway, how do
we do? Cooper Loop? I mostly agreed with you. You pass, yep,
I'll take that. The last guy in law school still
a lawyer. Let's welcome in. Our contestants will go to

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who do we have here? Let's see we have blind
Scott who's in Boston? Hello blind Scott? Yeah, yeah, Mookie
Best didn't do his micro and micro and macro economics classes. Yeah,
it's quite baseball, so that's why he's screwed out all
his money. You know well, to be fair, nobody predicted

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a global pandemic that was not on the radar. So yeah,
and then did Sean Jackson. He needs to go to
he needs to go to church and stop watching adult movies.
That's what corrupted his brain. I think you think, all right, well,
I'm not gonna even all right, you don't really want
to play the game, No I do. Yeah, yeah, I
want to play. I'm good, I haven't even smoked. I'm fresh.

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You know, I think I'll win. You know that's good? Okay,
all right, all honestly, all right? Who else you want? Cool?
We got? We got. Let's see here. You want to
pick Cooper, I'll have any pick? Which one do you want?
Any pick? Coop hates picking? All right, So we have
a Goofy caller. We have an older caller who's annoying,

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and we have a younger caller who's annoying. So which
one do you want to pick? Um? Boy, those are
not very good choices. No, no, no, I guess let's
go with Goofy and maybe we'll get some fun, funny,
funny business. All right, congratulations, Eddie, you have picked Flexus
outside of Buffalo, New York. Hello, Flexus. Oh, we can

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beat blind Scott. Eddie. You know I want you for
my partner. Congratulations Eddie, ask for all right? Hold I said,
we let's see blind Scott could pick Eddie. Hold blind Scott,
who you want to part roll with? Blind Scott? Um,
I'll take Eddie because Plexus is an alcoholic that twice
miss and all his toes, so he's a joke. We're
going to crush him. He's probably all right, Flexus. Sorry,

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you don't get the partner up with Eddie? Who do
you want to play with? FLEXUSO? I never thank you,
Thank you, sweet baby Jesus. All right, everyone, hold on.
This ought to be entertaining. Flexus is blind Scott is
saying mean things to Flexus with Eddie, and we'll have

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password the word Game of the Stars, and we'll get
to that. We'll do it next. Be sure to catch
live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two
am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Everyone, and the password is password,
you idiot, password the word Game of the Stars. Here's

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Ben Maller. So I'm gonna send the line on this
game at minus seven fifty blind Scott and Eddie or
a minus seven fifty favorite against Flexus and Roberto, which
implies an eighty eight percent chance that Blind Scott and
Eddie will win. But we've seen bigger upsets before, So

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we have a list of words. Guys. Those are the
teams and who was on the air first. I think
Flexus was right, I think so. Oh no Scott all right,
Blind Scott, all right, Blind Scott picking number one to ten?
A number seven? All right, Blind Scott from Boston's picked
number seven. Go ahead there, Eddie, all right, the clue
is donation fundraiser. No, it's incorrect, all right, So see

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if Flexus can take advantage of Berto. Uh word is
um geez? That's uncomfortable philanthropy? Why speaking English? Philanthropy, that's
a good word. I'll pay offerings offerings. Okay, that's a

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terrible answer. I was actually a good clue girl, and
you screwed her out, Flexus out there? All right, let's
see drag que donation Hublan, how about uh compassion? Oh? Simple?

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See and the Puck podcast is released later on today. Well,
the last part of that is correct. The first part, though,
is not correct. This is going this is a disaster. Alexus,
you suck a countdown. Scott, all right, now stop you

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know do you know what will happen? All right? Go ahead, Flexus, Flexus.
His name is Roberto. Go ahead, Roberto. Endowment and Meyer
and Meyer. He said endowment and you said, wow, a blood, Scott.

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Let's review here. Okay, for idiots, I've said some time,
I've said donation, I've said compassion. How about contribution? Oh um,
Jewish vocational services? Come on, come on, I think I

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got it. All right, hurry, I gotta throw the word
out or you want to go no, no assistance? Okay,
assistence number number one. Word. The word was if you
make If you make a donation, you make it to

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a charity. Number one. Come on, let's word with charity.
The word was charity, you dummies? Next whatever? Okay, number one,
Eddie or Scott. Rather pick a number one to ten? Flexus, whatever, Flexus,
Go ahead. You guys both suck good idiots. Too many

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natural ices they melt number one. All right, let's go
with the uh uh this is terrible. Pasture Flexus didn't
go to Boston University, that's for sure. Neither did you
to be Yeah, brother in law, Pasture, you what yeah? Right?

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Oh my god? What do you say, Wait a minute,
what did you say, Flexus? No, say again, Flexus field.
You gotta right, okay, all right, let's go Scott, number
number two, number two, number two, go ahead, Eddie, all right,
come on now, Scott. Um wait did yeah? This is awkward.

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Huh all right? Um you want to throw that out? Attie?
You want to? I mean we should all right throw
pick other number, Scot already number one, number one. We
just did number one for one, number one, that number three. Okay,
I'll do them. I'll do the mallarw maneuver. Scott'll do
the mallarw maneuver. Alright, all right, all right, insurance business,

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call the insurance business time. It's insurance policy. And that's all. Oh,
no chance of losing and Flexis won the game. Any
Oh my god,