Extortion

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the podcast. Coming up on today's show, we do another
tap dance while juggling fire on the third rail and
we're riding a unicycle. So the NFL really is planning
to play apparently the black national anthem before season openers
this season. We examined that story. They've got players in

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pro football bellyaching about pandemic rules and regulations. The woke
police are trying to use extortion against an NFL owner.
Will it work? And Cam Newton in damage control mode
already as a member of the Patriots family. We'll take
a look at that as well. We've got some oddities

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I don't love the open but we can can fade
that down there. We're good with that. So during the pandemic,

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which we're still living through so not over again, 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
side again as we take a turn on the wild side.

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This involves the NFL, and I guess you would file
this 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 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 is
planning on playing a song called Lift Every Voice and Sing,

(04:20):
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 training camp portion
is going to open up later this month. The regular
season still a little while away, but the twenty twenty

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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, you know,
the US national anthem. But wait, there's more. Uh. The
NFL condemnation of police. They are at it again here

(05:09):
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
and jersey patches patches. So as we juggle flaming torches
while writing a unicycle on the third rail, let us discuss.

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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
go thumbs down. I'm going thumbs down. Now, I've got
the Boston Pops, the balconization, and reverse and we will

(05:54):
tie all these things together. Now, Hey, Roger Goodell, let's
call a spade to speed. He is not just dipping
his toe in these waters. He is doing a belly
whopper and then doing the backstroke in shark infested terrain there.
And this just looks like a fiasco. It's cringeworthy. When

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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
Talk Berry, that dirty dog. Everyone fell for Sports Talk Berry.

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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
heard this before, never heard this. And I talked to
several people who have been around longer than I, old timers,

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they'd never heard 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 on this.
So you have now opened already Pandora's box, but now

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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, right
now the outrage is still directed because of the murder

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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
whether you want avoid all try, you can't avoid everything.
It's bad things happen from time to time, and so

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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 in it.
Certainly seems like they are in virtue signaling, so to
demonstrate that their moral correctness is that they've got to
continue to demonstrate it. So if something happens to someone

(08:26):
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 how this works? If you don't do this now,
you you're insensitive because you've already done it or you're

(08:48):
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 gonna
be played, and you're gonna have about ninety minutes of
music before kickoff, just to cover every possible possible thing

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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 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

(09:33):
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
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

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doesn't matter whether you're liberal or conservative, gay or straight.
Any race, color, create or religion is welcome. And the
people on the team are selected based on ability and talent.
That's what meritocracy means. Now, following that mindset, uh, you know,
we united watching games and all that, But this and

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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
gonna divvy it up here, and we're gonna create some
hostility down that road. And nothing says unity like providing division,

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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 or the players supposed to kneel for
both national anthems or only the US national anthem? And
does it matter how bad those optics are going to look.

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If the entire Texans team with Bill O'Brien, for example,
the coach all gets down on the knee during the
US national anthem, but stand at attention during this black
anth And what happens if one of the players were
to kneel during the black anthem, but like a white guy,

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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
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.

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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
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

(12:04):
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
the eyes that even for the slow people in the
back of the room. It's about the anthem, right, and

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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
it was a nine hundred forty seven apologies that Drew
Breese issue. I think it was something along those lines.

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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 all into the progress
or not progress category? Are we going in the right
direction here or the wrong directions? That it doesn't matter,

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it's just okay. But 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 not reality based? Again,

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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 and moaning on both sides,

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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 bulletproof and they can they
can do whatever they want, and you are you're brainwashed
and you're gonna watch. And maybe that's the case. Maybe

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the ratings did go down back in twenty sixteen with
Colin Kaepernick, but we will see what happens this time.
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You're very welcome, sir. If you're new to the show,
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of the first hour of the show. Yeah, we had
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from that, by the way, keep you know what I have.
I've been I've been working harder in terms of you know,
typing in passwords and everything. So I've gotten better at it. Yeah,
I've recovered. Thank you. That's good. I'm glad. And you
didn't get fired, that's right, I didn't. That's good. Yeah,
I mean you can pretty much do anything. We had

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Bob Garrow who was my producer, and he shut the
entire network off. He eat the wrong button and shut
everything off, and then he got promoted. You locked us
out of the Twitter account. You really haven't been promoted though, right,
you're just no, no, I'm still I'm here. Hey, but
you don't really want to be promoted because you know
this is this is just a temp job for you,
right right, right, Yeah, I'm just I'm just skating by

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until until the big break. Yeah yeah, yeah. Some people
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out in Fox Sports Radio until they gets his big break. Yeah,
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the apocalypse is over right, it'll be here. And then
we also have Chris Perfect right over that Perfect, Well,

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I call you perfect is what I call it. I
think Eddie says almost perfect. So yeah, either way, you're
playing around with my name. That's fine. You can't mess
with a man's name. Yeah, debatable. Everyone's got a price?
Oh yes, so how much is your price? I can
goof on your name. Let's let's let's talk about it
off air. Okay, well we'll come to negotiation. Everyone's got
a price. You're right, all right, Terry and England. Rights

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And says, I give that monologue a B plus. I
guess you know, ranting and raving here He says, the
whole woke system will be fully covered. Blah blah blah
blah blah. There you go. Yeah, I got you will
you will adjust. This is a good night for third
rail conversation. I'd like to thank the Sporting World for
providing us with endless third rail topics to discuss the

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is threatening to blow up my equipment at this remote

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studio I'm broadcasting from how dare you? How dare you?
Rob in des Moines. There, there you go, Robin de Moine, right,
since his people today are so woke, they are unknowingly
bringing segregation back, he says, Okay. And Adrian, who's a
long time listening to the show. Adrian's been with me

(20:20):
many years. He's known as Pokey Pokey pokey man, he says.
And I have no way of verifying this or not
verifying it. He says. He's listening to us tonight in
the hospital, and he says he was diagnosed with the coronavirus. So, Adrian,
I hope, first of all, I hope you're not lying. Secondly,
I hope you get better there. And you're sounds like
if you're good enough to listen to the show and
you're you're goofing around on your phone and all that,

(20:42):
then you know, hopefully you'll be in in wonderful shape,
wonderful shape there, you'll be good. So I mentioned a
name name that we talked about a lot on this
show over somewhat recent years, who is now decide he's retired,
but he would like to make a comeback. He would

(21:03):
like to make a comeback, and this particular person has
tossed out the possibility of going to professional wrestling. So
we'll talk about this. I'm talking about Connor McGregor, who retired.
I say that in air quotes from Dana White's UFC's Yeah,

(21:26):
he's out of there. And I guess if you're retired
from from actual sports like wrestlings, it's thespian sports, right,
so you can go to wrestling and do that. So
get to the point, please Connor McGregor, who stepped away
from the UFC, and it sounds like he would like

(21:50):
to go to the ww Of course that would mean
if there's a big payday. McGregor on social media posted
a photo. There's a photo there featuring the Notorious holding
both the UFC title and the WWE title, and people

(22:10):
are connecting the dots here implying that there is going
to be a Connor McGregor appearance in the WWE. He also, oh,
this is big. He tagged Stephanie McMahon and she really
runs the WWE. At this point, Vince just kind of
hangs out and collects all the money, but McGregor in

(22:32):
professional wrestling. Well, he's actually acted like a professional wrestler.
As long as I've paid attention to him, he's acted
like a professional wrestler. So why not. I still maintain
my position that McGregor, who's all about the money, and
why not it's his job going to boxing again, it's

(22:53):
a sham, but it'll give us something to talk about
and you can make the most money. As popular is
the UFC is it's still a niche sport compared to
the other sports. And boxing, well, it's also a niche sport.
The ceiling, as Michael Jordan would say, the ceiling is
the roof if you will there, and there's a lot,

(23:17):
a lot to be made there and box it wouldn't
even matter if I was promoting McGregor. Put him in
there against any of the big other big names and
rematch with Floyd Mayweather. As long as Mayweather does the
rope a dope again and plays plays the foil so
the sham could continue. I'd put Manny Pacio in there.
I'd bring back Oscar Dala Joya, dust his ass off,

(23:38):
put him out in the ring. Mike Tyson, I'd find
I don't know if Buster Douglas still around. I'd find
him a vander Holey Field. Any of those guys, any
of those guests. Now the guy that says he's his
Twitter account is called Russef is the Goat, but it's
not actually got Mike guy. Russef a mala militiaman. But
Russef the Goat writes, and he says the w should

(24:00):
let Connor McGregor get squashed by the great brock Lesner,
or so he says. So he says, okay, very good,
all right, eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, if
you'd like to join the festivities, and let's go to
the phones right now. Pinto, who is in southern California. Now,

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if you've listened to while Pinto, he hasn't called in
a long time, but he is. He's originally from Chicago.
What's going on, Pinto? Hey, I'm here, man, Look, yeah,
I'm here. I'm in South Chicago right now. I actually came.
But I want to disagree with you a little bit,
but I always agree with your opinion. Yeah. Matter of fact,
I have your show saved it by phone as loose

(24:44):
cannons from Padel Brandon. You already doing the other man
Oh wow, that's that's that's the old school. I already
did a couple of shows on the loose Cannons with
Steve Hartman and the Yeah Yeah, yeah yeah, I'll see
in him, Victor Britt and Burbank. Uh. But in the
look at you, look at you, Pinto name dropping there,

(25:04):
look at you. So you're you're no longer You're You're
no longer in North Hollywood. You've moved to Chicago. Now, Pintel,
you're back in the Windy City. I mean, I'm still
in North Hollywood. I'd be back there towards the end
of the month. And a few people passed away at
the U my condolence what I said, my condolences. Oh yeah,

(25:28):
thank you, brother. I definitely appreciate that. My family appreciates that.
But you see, even have a problem with the Redskins
name being changed. That's at least that's what it sounded
like to me. Well, I'm gonna do a monologue about
this in the is it the Third Hour Monologue? Yeah.
I think that the owner of the Redskins, it should

(25:51):
be his choice whether or not he wants to change
the name, and and really based on the overall public vote,
not just some fringe groups that are trying trying to
bully the Redskins owner to change the name. I'm not
a Redskins fan, and they they're free to change the
name if they want, but I don't. I don't believe
that they're going about this the right way because the
problem with the people, and we'll get into this in

(26:14):
the monologue, but the problem with the people are trying
to change the Redskins name is that the public is spoken.
They don't have a problem with the name. The vast
majority of the public does not have a problem with
the name. What's my evidence that the Redskins or the
Redskins are the fifth? They were fifth and revenue in
the entire NFL last year, So you would think this

(26:36):
battle's been going on for years. You would think that
that would affect the revenue. Maybe it will now because
a bunch of companies are getting all woke and trying
to put pressure and bully the Redskins. I hear you.
I understand where you're coming from here. Be where I'm
coming from is that this country literally was built by

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people of all kinds, the colors and races. But a
lot of the people of color will written down as
to be a fifth of a person one fifth of
a person, which is not right. But I'm not even
going there. I'm going there. I'm from Chicago, So you
know these are teaching points. Now I'm universe they are,

(27:22):
they are teaching points. But here's the question. I mean,
you're upset. They did a survey in twenty sixteen the
Washington Post of Native Americans the people that should be
the most upset, ninety percent said they had no problem
with the Redskins nickname. So you're more upset than based
on that survey, the majority of people who should be
the most upset. You understand the oddity of that. That's

(27:44):
where you're getting me wrong. I'm not upset at all.
I'm just but you but you want but you want
the name Chance? Right? You called up and you want
the name Chance. No, listen, no, that's not why I
called it. So you okay, I explain explaining what explained
in one sentence because we're getting late here, So explaining
one sentence, all right, Okay, fighting the line. I love it.

(28:07):
I graduated from Sube University, s Lukey's Egyptian dog. I
love it. Yeah. If the people want the name not
to be red Skins or want the name to be
red Skins, call them their native tribal name, that's all.
Just call them you want them to change the I
got you, all right, all right? I mean the red
Skins have been around with since nineteen thirty three. I

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think something like that. All right, thank you, Pynter. We'll
leave it there. So I'm I'm a little confused though,
because didn't it sound like he was like pressing the
change in the name. But then he's like, I don't
have I don't know. It's odd anyway, eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox. If you would like to join
the conversation, that's right, the wonderful conversation and one of

(28:50):
the biggest names I put this guy in the very
near the very top in sports television has announced that
he is going to leave television and he's gonna take
a job. He's planning on it. He says, be prepared.
I'm leaving. I'm gonna go take a front office job
somewhere in sports. We'll get to that. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at

(29:12):
two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. All right, let's go
to the phones. And let's say hello to Dave in
New Jersey. Who's up next? Hello Dave in the Garden State.
What's going on? And I got a question I got
I gotta understand. How did the mob not get you
and Clay drive a sense to the Siberia for a

(29:32):
lifetime of labor? Yet, Oh, I don't know. Maybe they will.
I don't. I think Clay is in more danger than
I am. But you never know, Dave, the mob is
lurking out there. You have no idea they could come
and get you. Cat Shapiro is a It must be
a really big conservative. Why is that day? Would you
like to see me and Clay lose their jobs? Is
that what you're looking for? Absolutely? Absolutely not. I'm a

(29:54):
big fan of the of the of the Yeah, not
popular opinion, um as w. I think the people at Fox,
the people that run Fox Sports Radio, I they can
speak for themselves, but I think they want opinions of
all sides. I know that goes against popular thought. Right now,
you're only supposed to have one thought and no diversion opinions.

(30:15):
But I actually think that's a great credit to the
management at Fox Sports Radio that they're willing to put
people on who are extreme liberals, like my buddy Jason Smith,
and then they put guys like Clay On and and
dopes like me on. So that's a good thing. Yeah,
I like that. Do you do you actually think that
the name, the Resks name is actually gonna get changed?
These things that will happen, Well, again, I'm gon a

(30:37):
monologue Dave and a couple. I don't want to spoil it.
I don't think this is going to be the thing
that pushes the Redskins owner Dan Snyder over the edge.
I don't, and there have been pushes before. It certainly
seems like this is a bigger push by the Council
Culture Mob than some of the other ones. But I

(30:58):
still am in the no camp, although the needle is
moving more towards they are going to end up changing
the name. And again, I'm not a Redskins fan. I
don't you know. I've never supported the team. I remember
when they used to be good when I was a kid,
and they had good teams every year, but that's a
long time ago, and they've sucked in my adult life.
They've been terrible pretty much every year. So anyway, Yeah,

(31:19):
all right, Dave, everything good with you yes, you're okay, yeah,
all right, buddy, all right, thank you, Dave. All right,
there you Ave calling on the mob attack. It is
the Benn Mallers Show on Fox. So one of the
big name broadcasters in sports television gonna gonna hang up

(31:41):
the microphone, or at least says that is the intention.
A TNT NBA commentator, Is it Charles Barkley. It's not
Charles bark Nope, No, it's his right hand man. It's
the the Abbot and Costello of sports television, Kenny Smith.
Kenny Smith, right, who's kind of the straight guy to

(32:02):
Charles Barkley, is the jokester. And Kenny Smith has said,
now he said this before. He's interviewed for NBA coaching
jobs and front office jobs, but he has repeated, Kenny
Smith that it is inevitable that he is going to
leave TNT for a cushy front office job in the NBA.
Of course, the problem is somebody actually has to hire him,

(32:24):
and so far, every time he's interviewed for one of
those jobs, it hasn't worked out where he hasn't been
the name that is selected. How's that going to affect
Sir Charles Now, Barkley is usually good with anybody on television,
very entertaining, very funny goofing on whatever game back when
we had sports before sports were shut down, and he's
very good at that. But it is there's a certain

(32:47):
yen to the yang between Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley
that is hard to duplicate and is not duplicate even
when Barkley goops around with Shaquille O'Neill and some of
those other dopes on TNT, it's just not the same
as Kenny Smith. Sometimes it often feels forced all right.
Time now for the who am A? Game? Speaking of
the NBA, as we were with Kenny Smith, broadcaster, former
NBA player, Here's the who am I? Game? I think

(33:10):
this is a good one. I'm excited about this one
because this is one either you know it or you don't.
It's very hard. I hold the NBA record for the
most consecutive games without recording an assist. I played the
most games consecutive in NBA history without recording a single assist.

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Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
At eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox the answer
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So I found one of your burner accounts, Finley. You did. Yeah,
there's a guy that said Brian Finley's good radio and
that could only be from a Brian account. Yeah, you
know my mom is on Twitter now, and don't say
that because then these these losers and the Malla militia
are gonna find your moody daddy, some of them, some

(34:40):
of them, Ben have already found her creepy. But she's
a good sport about it. We all make mistakes. Leave
Mom out of it, man, Come on the Malla militia. Man,
they're relentless bunch of dogs. A bunch of dogs. I
need cats, not dolls, A frisky bunch that mallar militia.

(35:05):
Calm down. A Bill in the dreaded San Gabriel Valley
of Los Angeles says Ben Tonight's show is one of
the best I have heard. He says, he said this
a few minutes ago. First forty seven minutes. Best I've
heard in a while. Of course, we know the term
best means as good as all the others. Says life
is writing your monologues for you. Ben. That is true.
I well, that's pretty much how this works all the time,

(35:27):
whether they're good monologues or bad monologue. We just pretty
much react to what's going on in the world of sports.
And everything's turned upside down right now because of what's
going on. So it says, from the sublime to the ridiculous,
bill wrights in. Just when you think it can't get
any more stupid, the cyber bots push the needle even further. Well,

(35:47):
welcome to the matrix. All right, here's the who am
I game? I hold the NBA record for the most
consecutive games without recording an assist. Without recording, assists that
is the question. What is the answer. Matt the Warrior
Rader rays fan clearly cheating, got this right. Brad Muster
guests by Big Lou in the LBC. Jody the Season

(36:09):
Fan is going with the Trell Sprewell, Eric Piatkowski the
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Joe in San Antonio. The ten Second Delay Guy says
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always a great name to say. That's got to be
in the top five name categoria. Who else? Manic Mike

(36:52):
and Nashville checks in with Wilt Chamberlain Page down, page down.
David in Seattle says it's Herb Alpert and the Tijuana
Brass That is the answer. Aunt b from Ron in Minnesota.
Our friend Brianna, a former Fox Sports Radio intern, back
and they's going with Russell Westbrook as her answer. It's

(37:14):
a fine answer if the word without was not in it?
All right? Do you let Skeeter, I gotta get Skeeter.
Skeeters going with Dino the Dino Skeeter and Montana says,
Dino the Dino is the answer. Do you have an answer?
Brian f Robert tractor trailer, the late great Robert tractor trailer. No,
that is incorrect. It's also somebody that died a few
years ago. Also, remember Yenka Dare Maybe not. You might

(37:38):
not remember he played with the New Jersey Nets when
they were terrible and in the in the nineties, a
long time ago, he set the record seventy seven games
without an assist. Be sure to catch live editions of
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Another chapter in pouting pigskin players. Welcome in the beginning

(38:06):
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(38:49):
about at last hour is stuff happens, and then I
get on my bully pulpit and I rant and rave
like a lunatic, and some people get upset and other
people don't get upset, and then we do it again
and in rin, squash and repeat. Now this hour we
have a special, special kind of eurosis that is checked
in another day and another flare up in the return

(39:12):
of sports to the landscape. And this involves the National
Football League, and it also goes into the minutia of
the rules and the regulations that are involved in playing
sports during a pandemic. It's not the same. Everyone knows
it's not going to be the same. So the NFL

(39:32):
held a two hour, two hour conference call for player reps.
And this is all regarding the plan, the big plan
for twenty twenty. So I don't know if you've heard
about this or not. Maybe not, maybe you missed it.
So we are told that players could end up being
fined for conduct deemed detrimental to the team, but really

(39:58):
detrimental to their health if they are found to have
spread the COVID slash coronavirus by engaging in quote reckless
unquote behavior away from the facility. Now, what does this mean?
From the reporting, It means that if the players end
up going out to a nice restaurant and have a

(40:20):
nice pasta meal and then they ride an uber on
the way home, that is deemed as reckless and they
could be in hot water. Now that is just the
tip of the spear. Dan Graziato, the reporter who had
this story, tells us there is some sentiment among the
NFL Union, the players Association. There's a group of players

(40:45):
that are asking, why are we playing? If all of
this is unsaved, why are we playing? Okay, that's a
question we will address. And there's even more. But wait,
there's even more. Some players are unhappy with the proposal.
We had talked about this in a previous episode of
Face Shields, that they would have to wear on games

(41:07):
and in practice and just to work out, etc. And
they're concerned that their vision they won't be able to
see the people they're trying to destroy and tackle as
human spears and uh they're breathing could be effective. This
is something we had discussed. Because the helmet looks like
it's right out. It looks like the fock robot. That's

(41:29):
what it looks like. It's like the mask and the
way it's set up. And those hot days early in
the NFL season not normally grammy, it's pretty hot in
September in most places when the NFL gets going, certainly
in the southern part of the United States it's it's
really toasty. Miami, Jacksonville, places like that, and Tampa. The

(41:52):
non dome teams also outside Arizona, although they're dome, so
I guess it doesn't really matter anyway. So let us
discuss the question what do you make of what is
certainly a plot twist in NFL circles here that the
players are complaining they're upset again they as like, what
are we doing here? Why are we even playing? If
it's if it's this dangerous and this unsafe, etcetera, etcetera. Right,

(42:15):
So my views on this. You've got Costco bumper sticker
and the Jenga tower, and we will combine all these
things together and we are gonna make a all American barbecue.
I'm talking hot dogs, burgers on the grill because it's
Fourth of July weekend and that's yeah, it's all about

(42:37):
the grilling. It's all about the grill. All right. Now,
I guess you are you still allowed to do that
in your backyard? Or have the politicians banned us from
doing that? I'm not sure if to check the rules,
I don't know. Yeah, there's Chris burping right there. All right. So,
first of all, the reaction, and we're gonna take this
as accurate. This reporting the reaction, if it is true,
tells you what. It tells you that the players are

(43:02):
living the group that's upset. They're like living in some
parallel dimension. A lot of this is not great. It
stinks to high Heaven. I'm gonna disagree with that. But
getting tested regularly and not being able to live your
best life is as enjoyable as hemorrhoids, right, I mean,
you don't you really want hemorrhoids, and you don't really

(43:23):
want to not be able to do things you like
to do. And I think a lot of this is bullcrap.
But you follow the laws as you're supposed to follow them,
and it's equally batter. I guess it's more bad if
you're in your twenties. Now, it appears are Gridiron heroes,
all right. The heroes of the Gridiron have been so
isolated from the real world they haven't been paying attention.

(43:46):
That seems to be the only reasonable answer. This comes
across as the group of players that are complaining that
they're so spoiled that they think, like I don't know
if it's a birthright or not, that they have to
have a different set of rules and entitled to that

(44:06):
mumbo jumbo, and I say, reality check. I have the
perfect solution here. What they need to do is they
go to Costco and you buy one of those giant
cases of smelling salts, I mean a huge case of
smelling salts, and then you pass them out like candy
on Halloween. You get a smelling salt, You get a
smelling salt. You get a smelling salt there, everyone, because

(44:30):
you need a wake up call. I right now, the
NFL prides itself on what masculinity and showing intestinal fortitude.
So this is a time in our lives where a
lot of that stuff is required. Now. Secondly, the reporting,
and many of you were so excited you couldn't wait
to pass this story on to me. Did you say

(44:51):
this bad? Oh my god, no football, the sensationalistic reporting
of and I get it. It's palace intrigue. And we
all like palace intrigue. It's red meat, It's NFL red meat,
and it's red meat for the crowd that wants to
shut it all down, shut everything down. It's not safe,

(45:13):
it's never going to be safe enough, and panic at
the disco or in this case, panic at the NFL stadium.
And so I understand if this is accurate. And again
we're doing this whole monologue based on the theory there
it is. There is a power struggle. But is this

(45:34):
real or a magic right? Is this just a mild hiccup,
a hissy fit, or is this something that is going
to escalate and go up like an elevator and become
a bigger and bigger situation on the line. Here is
billions of dollars in revenue that yeah, the owners will

(45:57):
get and also the players and players salary. The way
I see it, the NFL is not being unreasonable. They're
not unless I miss something, and maybe you can tell me,
but I know in golf the PGA Tour, from everything
that I've seen, they have set penalties that are very
similar to the plan the NFL is putting in, and

(46:19):
if a player goes rogue on the PGA Tour then
they will be fine, and I think some actually have
been fined, And so the way you gotta look at it,
and I understand both sides, but if it's uncomfortable for
the players, but from the owner's side of it, if
you're spending all of this money and for safety, right

(46:39):
plausibly for players safety, then the players have to do
their part or it doesn't work right. You know that
bumper sticker slogan that a chain is only as strong
as its weakest link, Like the NFL should not have
to pull out baby monitors to keep track of players
so they don't go any I mean, these are grown

(47:00):
ass men, and it's just it's in saying that, oh
it rules and all this stuff. Just you know, listen,
contain yourself, stay away from the booty models for a while,
you know, and limit that, uh, keep away from the
velvet ropes. Just doing not not forever, just for for
a little bit. And does that countless hardship? I don't know.

(47:22):
Maybe it does final thought, all right, So the facts
tell us, and I've said this many times, the facts
tell us that the risk of death from the coronavirus
in the NFL age range in shape, not overweight, fine
tuned athletes is similar to that of being stung by
a wasp or a murder hornet. That the chances of

(47:45):
that having vice versas it's about the same and being
struck by lightning. We're getting an automobile accident. But that's
a different conversation. That's not really what this conversation that
we're having right now is about. A bunch of positive
tests is enough that will cause the NFL to take

(48:05):
out the remote control and hit the pause button on
the season. So the players are going to have to adapt.
It's not the same. Just like the NBA players in
Orlando and the baseball players are gonna have to deal
with their own thing, and a lot of this is
based on liability. But the NFL has to be stringent

(48:26):
and lay on the red tape. Why blame the lawyers
if you want, But the NFL players they had to
follow the old Phil Jackson model, Like Phil was like
a borderline zen Buddhism guy and live in the present.
Isn't that the one of the beliefs of zen Buddhism.
Live in the present, and treat your work like a sanctuary,

(48:49):
and live like a simpleton, live a basic life, but
short term for the job, right for the job. And
if that's not your priority, if that's not something that
you really want to follow the guidelines of the NFL,
then what happens is the entire business of football, the
entire operation, turns into this wobbly, unstable Jenga tower and

(49:17):
all of the blocks come tumbling down at the same time.
Because if you've ever used the Jenga tower, it doesn't
take much. Right, you pull one album, the wrong one,
and it all comes Tell me down. Now, my belief,
and I'm one of the few that believes this, is
that these sports leagues can do the impossible. They can
pull a Harry Houdini and complete their seasons. But I

(49:40):
am in the minority. I'm an outlier. There are there's
many more people you can find on radio and television
and the Internet that are doom and gloom. It's all over.
It's never gonna work. Shut it down, Shut it down.
We're all doomed. That's what the woke media is telling you.
But the position I'm in the NFL, they've got to

(50:01):
get the full buy in from the players, and we
can debate whether that's actually gonna happen. It might not happen.
And if that doesn't happen and the players are still
doing things that you shouldn't be doing it this time
based on the chances of testing positive, not that you're
gonna die from it, but testing positive and then shutting
the entire NFL down, Well, if you think that's gonna

(50:23):
be the case, then we're done. It's not gonna happen.
But at least you try, right personal responsibility, The NFL
is again going to spend an s load a C
note of money, and then some they're hiring private firms,
outside firms to test and retest and then test again
right up the wazoo. I guess it's actually down the schnazzola.

(50:47):
There your nose for the coronavirus, and they will sanitize
and clean everything. They're gonna acid wash those NFL facilities
every single bleeping day. But it's all for not if
the players when they're not in the facility and everything's
done as well as they can do it with sanitation

(51:08):
and all that stuff, and at work, and then when
they leave, it's like la la la la la la la,
you know, and they end up doing things, frolicking about
and end up putting themselves in situation where they could
end up getting a positive test. So yeah, is that
personal sacrifice? Oh? Wee bit. But listen, there's people that

(51:31):
are working grocery store jobs and all kinds, driving trucks
and are out and about with other human beings and
doing their jobs and it's part of that job. That's
part of the requirement. Everyone's got things about their work
that they don't like. This is just more bureaucracy not
to like. All right, here's the Ben Maller Show. If
you want to talk about any of that, it is

(51:53):
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(52:39):
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Tonight Chris Perfett. He is on Twitter at Chris Perfett,
and he wants me to know that it is. Yes,
two teas, Chris Perfett with two teas very important. Your
witty comments may be used on the air. That's not perfect,
it's perfect, almost perfect as that, he says. Amen, back
to Big Ben, don't mess his name up. Family. He'll
kick you'll kick your ass man. He's Ohio guy. He'll

(53:26):
come in there and kick your kicklot. He's Toledo. That's Ohio.
Isn't in Ohio? Come on, penns who you ask? Some
people might say it's Michigan. I think Ohio. People don't
want Toledo. Michigan. People don't want to No one wants Toledo.
So it's Toledo. Was it Wasn't there a war over Toledo? Yes,
there was the Toledo War. Yeah, fought over the ports
port at the time, ports City of Toledo between Michigan

(53:48):
and Ohio. Malicious came down. They're fired off the guns.
One casualty, a man by the name of two Stickney
who got into a fight with a sheriff and stabbed
each other in the legs. Oh myself, so this is
they had a war, but only one person was a
casualty in the wars from a step And this was
in the eighteen hundreds, right, yeah, very early eighteen hundreds.

(54:10):
Just you know, most of it was guys going down,
they're shooting their guns off in the air. But still
fun to say that your city had a war fought
over you between Michigan and Ohio State. And now we've
devolved to the point where it's just a football game. Yeah, yeah,
it's just just a football game. That's yeah. Do they
have like a war museum, a Toledo war museum. They know,
I don't think that's there's a couple of books on it,

(54:30):
but you ought to open up a Toledo war museum,
and so I probably could. I could probably open that
up in the you know, we're not having the mud
Hens this year, so I can probably open up a
little exhibit in their ballpark. Saw they were the undefeated
champions right there, they selling T shirts they did not
lose a game, undefeated. Then the congratulations yeah yeah, yeah,
proud time for Toledo. Yeah all right, So we started

(54:52):
this hour. We did a monologue, this story. A couple
of NFL not a couple more than a couple of
NFL players are upset, or they could be find for
its deemed conduct detrimental if they are found to have
recklessly spread the coronavirus engaging in activities such as eating
out of a restaurant or having an uber ride. Now

(55:15):
keep in mind, it's very difficult to prove that they
You can prove somebody aid at a restaurant because it's video,
and I guess you could technically prove they were an uber,
but can you prove they really spread the virus. That
part seems like it's it's tough to actually prove. The meetings.
The NFL meetings this year, also, I read, are going

(55:37):
to be virtually done not in person, because I'm not
sure how that's gonna work. They're gonna go to the
facility and they're gonna kind of kind of step away.
Media access will also be done on like zoom calls
and things like that, so you won't get any inside
stuff from the locker room. That's not going to happen.
The players are not going to be staying at hotels

(55:58):
in training camp, which usually happens. Camp will be at
the team facilities. They will be staying at their own homes,
so no room service, none of that stuff. Sorry, all right,
let's go to the phones. Here's here's a blast in
the past. Randy in Norman is up next on Fox
Sports Radio. Hello Randy, Hello Mitch mallahr are you, sir? Randy?

(56:22):
If I was any better, I'd be a twin, but
not a Minnesota twin, because you know, least they have
won the World Series in years. Well, so I was
gonna apologize to Roberto for calling him a Mexican one day,
but I love Mexicans. But now we've got Chris in there,
so I don't even know what to say to him.
But well, Chris is in Ohio, and do you hate

(56:44):
people from Ohio? Well, nobody from the South like Michigan
or Ohio states. So I don't think I have many
nice things to say to him eitherybody, I don't know him,
so I'll try to withhold judgment till I. Oh, that's
not the old rest the old Randy. I know, Come on, Randy,
old Randy. I know you were all fired up, you
were angry. You stopped calling the show for like a

(57:07):
couple of years because I said the ball. What I
said ball was bounce here, and you got very upset.
I think he bit my ass one day, and so
I said, well, I'm not calling him anymore. You know
I would never do that. I use kid gloves. What
are you talking about? Randy? Were best friends me and you.
We go way back. I know we do well. I

(57:29):
never said I stopped listening. I just lost my phone
for a little while or something. I understand. Well, how
can we help you, Randy? Are you called up living
the moment here? How can we help you? Well, there
was a couple of things I wanted to come in on.
I just wanted to say hi, and I miss you guys,
and Believe and Eddie and all those guys. You did

(57:51):
good jobs. So I wanted to tell you that I
promise you. I promise you. None of them are listening
right now, but I will pass that on to them.
How about that? Okay, Well, here's one thing I wanted
to say is that I raised three daughters in Orlando,
and we had a season pass at Disney all the time.
If you go to Disney, it's like a hundred twenty

(58:12):
five bucks and if you pay twice, you get a
season pass. So we went all the time for birthday
parties and stuff for an hour or whatever. But you
don't want to pay a hundred bucks for an hour
for a kid's birthday party. But we played soccer there
and won the tournament. There's like twenty soccer fields and
six basketball courts, but it's kind of tight quarters. And

(58:36):
there's a lot of nice hotels. But you're always going
to be on the same bus, and you're always going
to be on the monorail, and you're gonna eat in
the same place. And I promise you that if the
NBA goes there, it's a real nice facility. I mean,
the best in the world. All right, there's a butt.
What's the butt? They're not gonna last two months there.

(58:57):
There'll be people falling out, just getting disgusted, and maybe
maybe that will happen and a bunch of them will
raise the white flag and quit and give up, and
that could happen. You're right, But don't you have to try?
You gotta try that? Is that still? Is that? Has
that been canceled? Trying? Has that been canceled? I don't
think so. No. But there's a couple of guys, a

(59:20):
couple of good players that have said I'm not going well.
If you got twenty million in the bank, maybe you
don't need to. But if you're a young guy, you
have to go well, exactly. And that's what everyone's gonna
have to make their own choice. And if they if
I don't want to show up, that's fine. If they
feel it's it's something they don't need to do or
they can't do for whatever reason. I'd rather have players
there that want to play, that want to be part

(59:41):
of it. And thank you. I'll leave it there, Randy,
But I'm glad you're doing well. It sounds like you're
doing well, and you're all sober. Now look at you. Boy.
Randy used to call us up back in the day.
If you've been with me for a while, and he
was man, he was out there. Let's go to sir
scratch Off in Arkansas? Who is next? Hello, Sir scratch Off?
What's going on? Big Ben? Hey? You tell me big

(01:00:02):
holiday weekend? You'll buy some extra lottery tickets this weekend? Well,
Ben Ben, you mentioned it. I'm sitting here on the
back of my dock on my truck, and I've got
me five piece of fish, three tricking strips, two sixty
dollars by water, a cup of coffee, and two hundred
dollars the scratch off cards. Listen to the show, because
if I moved my feet about three inches, I'll lose you.

(01:00:23):
So I've been on call for a while. I didn't
want to miss you tonight. All right, I'm glad you're
there for me. And so two hundred is this your
weekly allotment, the two hundred and ten dollars of tickets
or is this just today? This just happens to be
like the Friday allotment. I'll be honest to you. I
had a bad night last night. I took I took
a three hundred on a roll with me home this morning,
and uh, it fell apart. I'd cast you for one

(01:00:46):
hundred twenty five dollars, so I sit them. I gotta
get my money back somewhere another. So maybe it's to
come out for me. You know. That's that's known, sir,
scratch off as chasing. I believe it's the term that's
the gambling term for chasing your losses, which is a
which is a slip, pretty slope. But man, be careful,
that's a slip. I've been there, I've done it. I'm
not I'm Oh my god. The noise I call it.

(01:01:08):
I call it a pure dedication. It's like the Big
Matter Show. For all you folks out here listening for
thirty minutes a night. You ain't dedicated. You gotta be
like me four hours through static and everything. So I
gotta change under word on my dad. I'm intending to
get my service, all right, Well I know you'll do that. Yeah, yes, yes,
I want to tell you something. You know. Uh, I

(01:01:28):
think about patting my dad gum name because I'm allowed
you and Jonas to use my name. And it's gonna
be a big deal because I'm having people Facebook and
tell me, Hey, I like your nicknames. But you know
if I if I'm patting that thing, we could make
some spend money with that thing. You know. Well there
you can have like T shirts, coffee mugs, key chains,
bumper stickers, like the whole You could have a whole

(01:01:51):
line of merchandise. Yes, you know that Finley, Um, I
got something funny about him. I've got two little towns
in Arkansas. They're on each side of my town where
I live at, and they got the weirdest names. But
one of my towns I go through, what human families
gotten coming, and it's called Gooper Arkansas Age. It's honest,

(01:02:16):
that's what it's called. Gooper. And the other side of
Joe Bros. Called Weener Arkans also wow in Arkansas. Well,
congratulations Brian Philly. Sir scratch Off has called you a gooper.
And I'm trying. I'm trying to get a host of
Mona that done that song because the girl that came
out of that new song she's singing about getico. I

(01:02:37):
want to get more of that. I'm gonna be her agent.
We're gonna put her on a sea. All right. Yeah, money,
that's a great idea of motive that. Hey, Mona girl,
all right, I gotta let you go on that. But
thank you. Good luck with the lottery tickets. Remember us.
If you win big, forget about us. If you don't win, hey,
god bus all you for man? All right, there you go,
Sir scratch Off. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports

(01:02:57):
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(01:03:20):
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slash giveback for info and eligibility. So real quick. The
team that's gonna win the NBA Championship this year is
the people's team. And several of you are very excited
because Woge had a woge bomb and reported that the
Los Angeles Clippers, the team is going to be the
champion this year. In the bubble that they had shut

(01:03:43):
down their practice facility in La La Land because of
a positive Corona test coronavirus test someone within the traveling party,
but did not name the person, and so they made
a big deal about this, say, the Clippers can't win
now that Corona, oh shut up and is a precautionary situation.

(01:04:05):
And I am confident, you know what. I'm confident because
Kawhi Leonard, this guy doesn't leave his house, he's a
shut in, and that he's a top player in the NBA.
Everyone knows it. Not Yannis, not Lebron James, It's Kawhi Leonard,
the greatest player in basketball plays with the Clippers. That
really annoys a lot of people. Kawhi'll be fun and
Kawhi won't touch anybody because he's not about that and
he's not gonna go hang out and do bad stuff.

(01:04:27):
And he'll be good. Now there's something, could be some
rogue player that comes in breeze, breathes on him and
you know, spitch mucus in his face or something like that,
and then you got problems anyway, all right, the Clippers
will be okay, all right, and they're not the first team,
they're not the last team, the Nuggets, Brooklyn. This is
gonna happen sporadically. Each team's got thirty five people they're
gonna travel with to Mickey mouse Town in Florida, and

(01:04:50):
twenty two teams thirty five each. You can you can
do the math on that. That's basic math, right, thirty
five times twenty two, and that's seven hundred seventy people
that will be in Orlando that have to stay away
from the coronavirus for the NBA to work. At least
most of them have to stay away. Let's go back
to the phones and we go now to northern California

(01:05:13):
and she's got her star charts out right now. Virgo
in service. On Twitter, Andrea celebrating the fourth of July
with an extra spicy hot look at the stars. Yes,
kind of a fireworks fourth of July. We got a
full moon lunar eclipse been at ninety four pm on

(01:05:36):
July fourth, Saturday. I'm feeling an eclipse like show. I'm
already feeling the effects of the eclipse before the eclipse
is here. Yes, you know what you feel the full
moon several days before the day of and several days after. Yeah, no, no,
there's been a different vibe on the show. There's been
a different vibe on the show. So I do blame

(01:05:59):
the planets. I am blaming the planets here and the
stars and all that. Yeah, well, we've got five planets retrograde,
including mercury, so there's a lot of blame to go around,
my friend. Yes, I am passing all of the We
need some good karma is what we need. We need
some positive kismet. Can you make that happen? Yes, Yes,
ask and ye shall receive. Yes. Putting out good energy

(01:06:21):
for the full moon. Yeah, it's intense. It's actually the
full moon lunar eclipse is happening on the United States birthday,
so that portends some interesting changes. But although it is
interesting to know it, I bring this up every year.
July fourth. Yeah, the constitution was I think it was
originally started. They started signing on July second, and it
was like completely ratified sometime I think in August. So

(01:06:45):
but we celebrate July fourth because we've always celebrated July fourth.
Why not, Yes, July fourth, seventeen seventy six, So that'll
be interesting to see the full moon July fourth weekend.
So you know. The odd thing though, in the seventeen hundreds,
not everyone, not everyone had a smartphone with a calar
on it, so they didn't really keep great tracks all

(01:07:06):
the time, great track of the dates all the time.
So but you know, astrologers did. I don't know about smartphones,
but we certainly knew when it was they had like
a quill pen and that kind of thing. So yeah, right, yeah,
I would find at five fifteen pm, so we're son
and cancer I think, moon and Aquarius and Sagittarius rising,

(01:07:28):
so we have some interesting dynamics there. Speaking of which,
O Cam Newton and Bill Belichick, they do not have
good compatibility. I was studying that at Greater Lafe. Oh
this is breaking news. Hold on us, I say, talk
slowly and carry a big stick. Say it again. Yes,
Cam Newton and Bill Belichick do not have good astrology compatibility.

(01:07:51):
Oh my god, the Patriots are screwed. It's over for
the Patriots, it is over. You know, it's interesting. You
may just really astute observation. A couple of nights ago, Ben,
you said something about some of the outfits Cam Newton
was wearing on TMZ and check this out. He has um. Yeah,
he's a taurist, but he has a Leo moon. And

(01:08:12):
our mooners are habit patterns and Leo moon. They create,
they crave like you know, they're very showy. They really
like dramatics. They like to be seen outfits to him
or fun. And Bill Belichick, he's an aries with a
Capricorn moon. He's really stoic. Someone said it's like a
stone wall. He's serious and responsible. He's uncomfortable quote with

(01:08:33):
any emotional displays. And all Cam Newton does is have
emotional displays. Yes, he's he's Reclempty so emotional. He's very emotional. Absolutely, yeah,
I really I think that you know that's going to
be really different because Belichick, he's got that undemonstrative, kind

(01:08:54):
of cold melancholy quality about him. Well, this is gonna
work for Cam Newton as long as he's good. If
he sucks, you've got every kind of viscual reaction, and
it is going to be outrageous. We gotta leave it
there though. But that's that's good stuff. I have a
solid holiday weekend. Thank you to all Right, there she

(01:09:15):
goes burshinger. We gotta tweet that out. Patriots are in trouble.
Fox Sports Radio has learned that Bill Belichick and Cam Newton,
the star chart is all wonky. It is all wonky.
It's time to push the panic button for the Patriots.
Run scared, start shaking in your boots, hyperventilating. It's gonna happen.

(01:09:38):
It's you gotta become hysterical. It's all coming apart of
the seams. Am I being too dramatic here, No, it's okay.
I'll tweet it out. I like being a tempest in
a teapot from time to time. It's kind of fun.
All right. We have mallard of the third degree. We'll
get to that right now, though, here's the insta trivia.
The nineteen ninety seven ninety eight season is the only

(01:10:00):
the year since the ABA NBA merger that either Blank
or Vince Carter We're not in the NBA again the
merger back in the seventies. So in nineteen ninety seven
ninety eight, that was the only year since the ABA
NBA merger that either Blank or Vince Carter was not

(01:10:20):
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Now back to Big Ben. All right, we don't have
a lot of time, so here's the insta trivia. Since

(01:11:01):
since the ABA NBA merger nineteen ninety seven ninety eight,
the only year since then that either Blank or Vince
Carter was not in the NBA. That is the question.
What is the answer? Moses Malone guest by Mallard prop
guy Mike Cat from Scott in Rhode Island, Eugene, don't

(01:11:22):
call me, Derek Pooh Jeter guest by Malibu Rubin Matt
the Warrior Raider as fan must be hacking my computer.
He's like a Russian spy. He keeps getting this right.
Screw you. Peter Dinklage from Robbie the Mariner fan who,
of course Josh and Cincinnati has a crush on Grant
got this right. Good job by him. Who else? Kim
Kardashian from the Scorpio Niner Classy, Freddie Blassie from Legal Tamperer,

(01:11:48):
Rod the Ambassador of pacos Field's going with Udonis Haslin
Haslim as his answer. Bartolo Cologne from Just Josh in Cincinnati.
Do you have an answer there? Finley Rebecca Lobo. Wow,
that's incorrect. It's the Chief Robert Parrish Old Golden State Warrior,
Boston Celtic Charlotte Hornet. All right, here we go that.

(01:12:15):
How about that to the third degree? This is one
big band gets quilled. All right? Future leading actor in Hollywood, Ryan,
keep trying bur Shinger and what do we have Quickly?
Dan Snyder may not be able to seek you're funding
for a new stadium unless he changes the name. Do
you think this will break him? Finally, I'm gonna do
a monologue on this next hour, So I don't want

(01:12:36):
to spoil the monologue, but no, I am still I'm
gonna say Snyder holds firm on this. More coming up
in the monologue next. Rob Manford said on the Dan
Patrick Show that they were never going to play more
than sixty games, regardless of how negotiations went, Ben, do
you think this will open the door for player grievances? Yeah,
here's the thing. See Rob Manford is trying to walk

(01:12:57):
that back and unring the bell. The owners actually have
the trump card. And what is the trump card? They say, Well,
because of the apocalypse, we could only play sixty games,
so that was why we were only gonna play it.
And if that goes to an arbitrator, it's it's the
ultimate get out of jail free card. But Manford's admitted
that he's a phony. He's as phony as a three
dollar bill. All of that negotiation was for theatrics. All right,

(01:13:19):
next Harrison, Butker said that there are mini kickers. They
can make a sixty five yard field goal in game situations,
they just never get the chance. Ben, do you do
you agree? Well, good job by you going quick. I'm
gonna say no. If kickers are going against air, they
can make it from sixty five yards. But it's much
different when the team, the imposing team is trying to
block and block the kick. They have an advantage. It's

(01:13:41):
easier to block kicks because they gotta go low the trajectory.
And I'd rather have a kicker that is consistent from
forty forty five yards even thirty five yards. I don't
care about the long kicks. You don't need the long kicks.
I want a consistent, good kicker from close in how
do we do? You made me go too fast? Ben,
You fail, you strow, you and you Hollywood idiots. Be

(01:14:05):
sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show
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(01:14:28):
Radio Empire as we filibuster the overnight hours away. Although
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(01:14:51):
of those nights we were told by our friend Andrea
she broke the big story here. According to the Star Charts,
the Patriots are screwed. It's over with Cam Newton and
Bill Belichick him. I'm sure we'll have more on that later.
That's gonna rock. I'm guessing Adam Schefter is gonna lead
with that in his morning tweets when he wakes up
when he finds out about that, Schefter and Jay Glazier
are just gonna have a field day. But anyway, so

(01:15:14):
it's a third rail kind of a show. And if
you thought the cancel culture relating to sports had taken
the fourth 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

(01:15:34):
a familiar rival, the owner of the dreaded Washington Redskins.
If you have not seen this, and maybe you have
not been paying attention, I say most people listen to
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 FedEx,

(01:15:57):
the big three major corporations in America and globally, have
attempted to use there's only one way to describe this
extortion to get Dan Snyder to change the Redskins nickname.
Now FedEx. Who's really invested with the Washington Redskins, the
FedEx corporation, which bought naming rights to the home of

(01:16:20):
the Redskins years ago. The four mentioned FedEx field and
they put out a statement saying that it is requesting
a name change as a group of investment firms, big
investment firms that have asked companies like Nike, Pepsi and
FedEx to refuse to do business with the Redskins and

(01:16:44):
just shut it down until the name changes. The team
name has changed, and there's also local politicians. The Redskins
are looking for a new stadium, and there's a shakedown
by the politicians saying we're not going to help you
build a stadium in your DC until you change the
name of a team. It's not gonna happen. So already
Nike capitulated and they removed all Redskins apparel from the website. Now,

(01:17:08):
maybe they'll say it's a glitch. I'm guessing they won't
say that. We mentioned the letter by FedEx. Now I
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,

(01:17:29):
and maybe you think this is a good idea, and
I'm all for it, but it is extortion. I mean,
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

(01:17:53):
all these things together and we will make some banana
creampie as we're gonna 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 Dan
Snyder for not following and bowing down to the mob.

(01:18:13):
We'll see if he still does that or not. I'm
not a fan of the Redskins. I'm not. I've watched
them from afar. I remember when I was younger and
growing up a Rams fan, and then they would play
the Redskins occasionally. The Redskins always seem to have better
teams than the Rams, which always bothered me. Not lately,
but I just find this whole thing nauseating, the way

(01:18:34):
this game is played. I'm old school. I believe that
if you think something should be canceled, you have a vote,
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. Now that
would be bad news, I would say, because when it
comes to the Redskins, despite the people that are making

(01:18:59):
a bunch of noise, you're in banging on drums. Most
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 attempt said insurgency.
And despite all of the bicker, Snyder has been very consistent.

(01:19:19):
He's been dyed in the wall here. He grew up
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

(01:19:44):
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, 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 cry.

(01:20:08):
I've hit him where it hurts, and that is true.
If 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

(01:20:29):
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

(01:20:52):
red bellied piranhas and it is a mackerel that is
lowered into the tank and the red bellied piranha it's
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.

(01:21:15):
Tucker Carlson, 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 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

(01:21:37):
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 like Jimmy Kimmel. He
was a radio guy in LA before he became a
big network star. But Jimmy Kimmel was like fully invested

(01:21:59):
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,

(01:22:22):
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 hypocrisy. 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

(01:22:44):
with communist China while talking about how they want to
end all of this oppression, but they have no problem
with oppression 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,

(01:23:07):
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

(01:23:29):
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 set
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 in mind that none of

(01:23:52):
them had issues with the Redskins name. FedEx has been
associated with the Redskins for many, many years, big big
money stadium naming 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

(01:24:15):
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, Nike so aghast by the nickname that they said,
we're not going to offer you as an NFL operation.

(01:24:36):
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 a billion dollars
the merchandise deal, and as part of that, Nike agreed

(01:24:56):
to 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,

(01:25:17):
and then he can go out and work out his
own deal with some other company that's willing to put
their name on. 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

(01:25:40):
towards it's 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

(01:26:01):
this works. 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

(01:26:21):
fan of the team. He bought the team. Every little
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.

(01:26:45):
With modern medicine, and we know, if you're wealthy, generally
live longer because you can afford better medicine and better doctors.
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

(01:27:06):
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

(01:27:27):
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,

(01:27:48):
of the bills for the Redskins and 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 it. Now maybe they should, and maybe
you think that they should have a problem, and you

(01:28:09):
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,

(01:28:29):
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 into Washington in nineteen thirty seven. There's a little
history lesson for you. The most fascinating part of this

(01:28:51):
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 alone? Twenty sixteen,
which was just four years ago, the Washington Post ran

(01:29:14):
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.

(01:29:38):
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 over majority

(01:30:00):
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

(01:30:22):
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. All right, It is the Bennet Maller Show.
You want to talk about that. It is a fair
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(01:31:06):
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(01:31:27):
now more with Big Ben. So you think people should
follow keep trying Ryan because of a photo of him
as a pirate. I'm assuming is that him? He's got
like a band. No, No, I'm sorry, that's not me,
and it's not a pirate either. It's okay, it's it's, it's,
it's it's it's understandable. Well, Finley's like seventy years old,

(01:31:48):
he's got bad eyesight, he's ned Flanders, he's got issues,
he's got problems. I do. Yeah, I'm glad you admitted that. Yeah.
No flirting with the ladies though, we've only well we've
only had one, so let's let's get some more. And
I'm getting warmed up tonight. That's bad news. Rob In
des Moines says another Whiplash A plus monologue, nodding in agreement.

(01:32:13):
He says, the whole time, Judd, let's see. Justin in
Cincinnati believes that Roger Goodell is gonna strip Dan Snyder
of the Redskins. You just wait and see, all right,
Justin predicting hostile takeover by Roger Woke Goodell, and he's
he's down with it, down with the cause, Skywalker right,

(01:32:34):
since says Dan Snyder needs to call the bluff and
go make his own deal with Red Bull. Welcome to
your new Washington Red Bulls. Screw FedEx and the cancel
culture mob, he says. Manic Mike in Nashville, right, Sin
says the odds are against Dan Snyder. Not only is
he facing the challenge of changing the Redskins name, but

(01:32:54):
eventually the cancel culture mob will demand the change of
the city name Washington. That's right. George Washington owned uh
what is it over a hundred slaves, I think by
the time he died there, So you got to change Washington.
You're gonna have to change DC, which is short for
the District of Columbia, which I believe, if my history

(01:33:15):
is right, was named after Christopher Columbus. Uh, and they're
trying to cancel him. So yeah, you got you're that
entire region's gonna have to have new names, and so
it won't be the Washington Redskins. It will be whatever
the new name is, you know, Woke, USA, and they'll
they'll change the name to that. That's that's how that works. Uh. Yeah.
In Bozo, the distric attorney also saying they got to

(01:33:35):
change the name Washington. When are they going to change
the money? They got to change the money, Isn't that
on the list also, I think. So, uh, let's go
to Chris in Houston. Who is up next? Hello Christopher?
Then let me ask you a question being Yeah, when
you call woke woke culture, there's woke people. Who are
you actually talking about trying to people trying to cancel everything?

(01:34:01):
The people that are telling us how we're supposed to think.
Those people for those people that supposedly told you how
to think, was because the United States has been lying
to people for a decade. So, I mean, what's wrong?
Would actually have some truth to stuff? For one? Well,
what is truth? What do you think is truth? And
what I think is truth might be different. Now, I'll
tell you one thing that I gotta beef with is

(01:34:22):
a marijuana law. It was all fake. It was all
made up because of profits. It was all made up
because of fear. We all know that. But the government
would never change that because it's money. It's the same
thing as they said when I went into you know,
I had a drug class, and they told you which
one is more addicted the drug dealer for the drug addict,
it's actually the drug dealer because they're more addictive. Money money,

(01:34:43):
But it is about money, but it's also about lobbyists.
And this is not a political show, Chris, but it's
about the lobbyists and the drug industry that are able
to pay off politicians to keep things the way they
are because the money keeps coming in. That's how that
game works. Yeah, that's you know, the whole thing is
that you know, we're talk that life is not fair,
and what's not fair is that people get to use

(01:35:05):
their money to implement a law that actually harms other people.
See see I look at it different. I think it
is fair. Just get the money, find a way to
get the money, and then you can influence the outcome
of these things. No, we're not. I'm not like like
because people have money like I don't. I don't like
a lot of things that go on. But I understand

(01:35:26):
how the game is played. And you're trying to change
the game. Yeah, they trying to chay the game and
a lot of that stuff, you know. I mean, I've
always grown up, hey man, as long as it don't
really affect my life to keep moving and keep keep
trucking towards going, because I mean a lot of stuff
don't just get changed in my lifetime. I'm almost forty,
so I'm not really well, yeah, I mean you're you're right.

(01:35:46):
I mean a lot of this stuff, you know is
people fight about whatever they're fighting about. Now, five years
from now, you're gonna be fighting about different stuff. And
it's just people complain. It's the number one pastime of
human beings, that is to complain about something. Well say,
adults don't like to be told and told to do stuff.
That's the one thing being adult. You here, I'm a
grown man, I'm a grown woman. Why are you telling

(01:36:07):
me to do this? We're dealing with the mass right now.
But being I tell you, I give a shout out
to Maya Moore, but actually not talking but doing it,
but doing something, Like I told you, man, it's been
a lot of casts that's been locked up in prison
for years, for decades and can't get an actual fair
trial in the judicial system. And you know, she actually

(01:36:28):
stopped playing basketball. Go we don't watch w W NBA anyway,
but she stopped playing basketball to actually help this guy
get out of jail. And you know what, you gotta
give Pross for that. But who cares? Uh? You brought
it up. I mean I didn't bring it up. We
had a guy yesterday called up it was like the
man he like he wanted a monologue on Maya Moore.
I'm like, I'm okay, No, we're okay with that. Now

(01:36:50):
the Disney World thing, okay, the food, they don't they
don't really stiff you on the food. Now where they
stiff you at is the room, ben, I tell you
the rooms man, And I tell you, man, look here,
they look like like like four look like weed, man,
hit your house? Really four about four box? That's what
they give you. Yeah. But did you see, Kristy, you
see what the NBA did. I think it was a

(01:37:10):
couple of days ago. I didn't mention it. I saw it.
They they brought in oversized beds for the players because
I guess the beds were small in the rooms, and
so they had to bring in NBA sized beds for
the players that are gonna be in the bubble. Oh yeah, man,
I'll tell you. You know. The one thing I tell
you about Disney World, it is far more better than
Disneyland because it has a whole lot more amenity. Because

(01:37:31):
I compared the two before I actually win. I went
to disney World because Disneyland doesn't offer as many things
these World offered. Freaking Uh. It's much bigger at disney World,
so yeah, they got more. There's more space there, although
Disneyland bought like most of the property around Anaheim and
they own it all. So but yes, real quick, you

(01:37:52):
got you have to go, and you got to spend
at least a week there, man, you got. I would
like to do it. I think I might be over
over the age, but yeah, all right, all right, just
the food, all right, all right, I gotta thank you, Chris.
I gotta go. All right, there he goes Chris in Houston.
So Bubba licious. Uh, the NBA, now they got one bubble?

(01:38:13):
What's better than one bubble? Two bubbles? Bubba licious, that's right.
The NBA close to signing off on a second bubble
in the windy city of Chicago. I gotta hire Doc
MICUs their medical advice. Can you imagine the players on
the bad teams forced to drink Doc Mike's beverage, his
witches brew. But eight teams, eight teams that were not

(01:38:35):
invited to be with the cool kids, you know, Orlando.
They would have a mini training camp and play games
against other clubs with a target on. This is supposedly
in September, or so they say, as the crow flies.
So we'll see if that actually happens. And I thought
those guys didn't want to play. Wasn't that the whole story? Though,

(01:38:55):
we're done the Golden State Warriors and all those other
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(01:39:18):
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in the state of Maine. Hello, Angry Bill. Oh, he's in,

(01:39:47):
I said, mane, he's in. I know. They call it
on the line. He's in Jacksonville. That's where he hangs out.
He's got a compound down there. Yeah, Dad, how are
you doing? I'm doing good. How's our little sleetheart going, Daddy?
She's doing great. Hey, she's one years old. She wants
to meet you, and I look forward to our date
to the park where we can get our dogs together
and have a good playtime all of us. Well, bens

(01:40:11):
got me pretty upset last weekend. I went to pick
fell up and had masks tied to both ends of
her and it was yeah, so we before her. Right,
we've now answered the question who's in the bubble bath
with Brian? I think it's angry? Bill. How about that
you do take bubble baths together? Nothing wrong with that.
You gotta save water somehow. Yeah. But with all the

(01:40:31):
problems we got going on, I got some good news.
You know how Nike took off all the apparel for
the Washington Redskins. Well Hames Underwear took all the white
underwear off the shelves, and now I have to my
only black underwear. But the good thing is at for
Washington anymore? There you all right? And see that is

(01:40:51):
lame jokes, Bill, all right, very very of course you
haven't worn white underwear in a while. Because you've your body. Well, no,
you're still on the air. It's unbelievable. I said goodbye,
and I guess the guys I want to leave you
on there, so keep shy and Ryan wants to just
leave you on the air. All right, what Ryan? Why
did you leave him on the air? Ryan? What what happened?

(01:41:12):
When you're not listening? You not hear my queue there? Like? What? Well?
What happened? I was just very entertained, but I thought
it was a strong lame joke. Wow, that's okay, We're
getting the segment going early. Man, all right, you let
me down. I'm so excited. I was so excited to

(01:41:34):
keep trying. Ryan. All right, big Band's lame Jokes of
the week. We will have an entire segment of lame jokes.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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(01:42:19):
Ben Knock knock, who's there? Blame week? Blame WEEKO. It's
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? Finly, you want to play along, you're kind
of creepy in right, all right, don't play don't be creepy.

(01:42:40):
All right, I'll try not to be too much. Yeah,
all right? Did you see? These are actual jokes, by
the way, sending it by actual listeners. They're easily offended
by jokes. Please turn the radio off right now? One
one thousand, two, one thousand, 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? Jay Sin Pierre Paul said

(01:43:01):
he couldn't quite put a finger on it. Bro from Iowa.
Thank you, Bill, love your jokes. Why are 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'm ran in Vancouver. Why did Bubba Wallace

(01:43:22):
stop going to the Vatican? Why's that he's sick of
hanging out with rope Francis very upset by that. That'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?

(01:43:47):
If you're on the show, you would get the joke. Well,
when the NBA resumes their season this July in Orlando,
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 here. You's Surfer Todd. That's a
professional comedian, by the way, dude, you know that Brian.

(01:44:08):
I guess 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. What is that? That'd 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 Rosehulm, Minnesota. Why are

(01:44:30):
people not believing in the new Jeffrey Epstein statue? Why?
Because Epstein didn't sculpt it himself. Here you go, it's
Kurt from Earth. The w NBA is absolutely positively committed
to competitive social distancing. How yeah, no time during a

(01:44:51):
game will the ball go anywhere near the hoop? Our
friend Gordy in Tacoma. Where does does a cal fart
come from? Ben Mallory? Wow? No, No, 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.

(01:45:13):
What did the bra say to the hat? What did
he say? All right, you go on ahead, I'll give
you these two a lift. I screwed, I'll give these
two a lift? Is the punch line there? Yes? 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

(01:45:35):
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 in in by actual listeners. We 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

(01:45:58):
here you go, bang us from Rick in southern California,
in beautiful North Bridge, the home of CSUN University. What
is the difference between a room full of mutts and
the newby 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

(01:46:21):
with Brian Finlay? That would be worse. That's a Bill
from Iowa who said that way in Why was everyone
distracted when Brian's mom brought him to the fireworks show
as a kid? He why because Brian was watching fireworks
but everyone else was looking at the smoke show. It's
a Bill from Iowa. Again. Did you know that the

(01:46:45):
medieval 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 Hillbilly 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?

(01:47:11):
Who is a Med's favorite baseball player? Dustin but draya
hey 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 in Earl Thomas? That would be
Black Wives Matter has canceled them? They has some issues there.

(01:47:32):
That's Gordon in Tacoma. Let's see who has some jokes
about random callers as well. Let's go down here at
random people on the show. Let's see page down here.
What is Jed who fled the least favorite hair band?
What's that warrant? Now? All right? Have you seen the
bumper sticker on the back of Tammy in Montana's ox cart?

(01:47:55):
Maybe I have? Actually no, it's calmed down, It's says.
What happens in the barn stays in the barn? Is
what what it says? That's a cheap shot. I'll dare you,
all right, 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?

(01:48:17):
That's Kennon Toledo? Uh this year? What would happened if
you a shark a coopa loop? What would happen? 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 what do Doc Mike and
Zeke Elliott have in common? What possibly do they have

(01:48:37):
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a slightly different tune or is he welcome? In the

(01:49:02):
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the B squad in here and it was going so
well up until like the last twenty minutes or so,
and then it all went to hell. So hopefully get

(01:49:47):
back on track. We'll get the train back on the
tracks this hour. Calm down, Bright, calm down. You talk
to your real hero. They're angry built, so you're good,
all right. So this hour we are learning more about
Cam Newton and his deal with the Patriots. It's much lower,
much lower than initial reports, and at least all reports

(01:50:10):
were not good. But Cam Newton will need to get
in the breadline. If you believe the reporter, based by
NFL standards of the breadline, he will only be receiving
five hundred thousand dollars in guaranteed money. I'd buy that
for a dollar. I gotta tell you, if I made
five hundred thousand dollars, I would have thought I won

(01:50:30):
the lottery if I made that much any year. Anyway,
the base salary is a little over one million, but
it's five hundred thousand guarantee, which tells you that Patriots
have the right to dump Cam Newton, to get rid
of him at the end of training camp if it
doesn't work out and you go your way, I'll go
my way. It's not you, it's me, and see you later.

(01:50:53):
The incentives would give him seven and a half million dollars, which,
again by NFL standards, not right, not great. So Cam
Newton explained why he took such a popper's type of
contract in New England. If you saw this or not,
maybe not, but he said, quote, this is not about

(01:51:15):
money for me. It's about respect. Newton wrote that on
the gram. So let us discuss the question how much
stock do you put in Cam Newton? Playing the respect card? Right,
just playing the respect card. So I've got the Queen
of Soul, the fishbowl, and footsteps, and we will combine

(01:51:40):
all these things together like that, and we're gonna make
apple pie, which goes really good. If you have a
nice barbecue meal celebrating the birthday of America, and you're
gonna have an apple pie, all right now, Number Cam
Newton is practicing the ancient art of stay it with me, now,

(01:52:00):
damage control. This is damage control. It's fine, but let's
call it what it is. You know, que up, the
late great Queen of soul. Uh and and and the
line which she made famous Aretha Franklin ri e spect right,
it's all about that respect play the respect card. Why not? Now?

(01:52:21):
Just between me, you and that lamp post, which is
which is over there? Uh, this was not the plan.
It wasn't listen jumping the way back machine. Sixteen hundred
and nine days ago. I looked it up. I wrote
it down. Sixteen hundred and nine days ago, one thousand

(01:52:43):
and six hundred nine days. Cam Newton was the toast
of the town. The Super Bowl that year was in
northern California, and they had a big awards gala in
the Bay Area, and they announced that Cameron Newton was
the most valuable player of Vienna, the most valuable player
of the NFL. Having a whale of a good time

(01:53:06):
and in terms of individual accolades, again not team but
individual accolades. Cam Newton in his business was at the pinnacle,
the pinnacle of success for his career. And if you
had said, if I had said, I'd done a monologue
after Cam Newton won the MVP, and I say, listen,

(01:53:26):
you just wait, all right, four years from that four years,
these guys gonna be unemployed until like a month before
training camp. He's gonna have to sign a one year
deal for next to nothing, next to nothing. That is
the future of Christmas future for Cam Newton. And if

(01:53:47):
I had said that he's just gonna get chicken feet,
he's gonna have to replace Tom Brady, you would have
called me a ragamuffin. You would have made fun of me.
Here we are to Presto. It's happened. And I get
what Cam is doing. He's trying to position this as
he's in control. But are you buying what he's selling

(01:54:08):
on this one? I'm not. It doesn't pass the smell test.
That doesn't pass the smell test. It is a truck
filled with twenty seven tons of human waste that has
just flipped over on the highway. So everyone who's stuck
there can smell the sewage. All right now, money in

(01:54:28):
sports is equal to respect. The naked truth has been
true for many years that Cam knows this. He knows
that it's all about the money, and that it is
fine that he took less money. And that's fine, but
let's not say that's my choice. You had no other choice.
He was getting antsye, he was becoming agitated. He's still unsigned,

(01:54:54):
and beggars can't be choosers. So he swallowed his pride
in his machismo and he's signed on the dial line
to join BELICHICKI and Eville there and in New England.
And when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Isn't that
how the line goes? Not a second thing here. You
gotta think at some point, Cam Newton, whether it's right

(01:55:15):
now or when they get to training camp or the
start of the regular season, is going to have second thoughts.
The Patriots are a much different animal. Cam decided to
take the sure thing rather than the methodical approach. His
resolve is going to be tested when other quarterbacks start

(01:55:36):
getting dinged up. And I gather on tee as a
distant relative of the great Nostre Damas and a friend
of Nostredinas. That's gonna happen. Quarterbacks are gonna get injured
and they're gonna be need for other quarterbacks. Those were
options whatever team pop up on that list, Whatever teams
are on that list, they would have been options for
Cam Newton. Now, they likely would not have the same success.

(01:55:59):
Question me hostile then to match what the Patriots had
done the last twenty years. But he better buckle up
because not only do you have that, but you got
the whole Boston sports scene and it's a much different
animal there. Cam Newton is going to be swimming in
a much different fish bowl, much different fish bowl, and

(01:56:20):
it's perpetual, it's relentless, the around the clock coverage that
he's gonna get it. Listen, I know they have sports
radio in Charlotte. I understand all that. I get it,
but it's it's like the story on TMZ the other day,
But it's gonna be every day. When Cam shows up
and wears one of his flamboyant outfits to go to
the store, he is going to be treated with the

(01:56:43):
utmost importance by audio, visual and print media, every platform,
and everybody and their mother is gonna go on some
kind of tangent. Did you see what Cam was doing
when he went to the ninety nine Did you see
what Cam was doing when he went out? He he
was walking along the Charles. You see what it's gonna be,
that kind of stuff. Get your popcorn ready. Now many

(01:57:05):
player advocates who think that these players can he has
a hanging about it. Those people are can be triggered
by this. Now the final point, So Cam Newton's story
is about the macro versus the micro short term. Yeah,
he's gonna get peanuts. Actually don't mind peanuts, but he's
gonna get peanuts. And he's been forced to bet on himself. Now,

(01:57:29):
he did have the options I was talked about earlier
in the monologue. He had the option of waiting, playing
the waiting game, slow walking, this waiting for players to
get hurt. He chose not to do that. You got
a little Nancy, So Patriots had the standing offer. He
took the offer from the Patriots. But he's in that
strange situation because of this. He's also damaged goods until
proven otherwise. And he is walking in the footsteps of

(01:57:53):
Tom Brady. I realized Brady's still playing, but that's the
guy he's replacing. You're chasing ghosts. You're chasing the legend
of what Tom Brady had been in New England? Am
I being too dramatic about it? I don't think I'm
being too dramatic. And you talk about tiptoeing around land
mines man oh Man. And on top of that, if

(01:58:15):
you weren't listening earlier, I know a lot of people
only listen to this hour. We had Andrea from Northern California.
She's an astrologer, and she looked at the star charts,
the sports astrologer to the stars, and she said, wait
a minute. The star chart says these guys are not
going to get along Brady, not Brady, but Belichick. Rather,
Tom Brady's old coach, Bill Belichick and Cam Newton. The

(01:58:39):
star charts are not good. It's not in the cosmos,
according to what she saw on her star charts. So
be very work long term. So that was the mic.
Where the long term, though, is Cam's getting the chance
to reinvent himself. And that's something a lot of people
don't get. This second act for Cam Newton. If he

(01:59:00):
if he takes advantage of it and his body doesn't
let out on him, he can prove that he is
not the show punny that he is billed as, and
he can say, hey, if you can handle Belichick, you
can handle anything. Belichick's like running this rehab clinic for
troubled NFL players, not trouble the players that have this
bad reputation. The greatest accomplishment of Belichick would be what

(01:59:25):
I guess, Randy Moss. Randy Moss, who had been good
with the Vikings, went to the Raiders and was a
problem child in Oakland back I'm old enough to remember
when the Raiders played in Oakland, and then he flourished
with the Patriots and changed his entire reputation. Cam Newton
can have a similar twist of fate. It's it's up

(01:59:46):
to him, obviously, and he can become a spark plug
and the guy that guides the Patriots offense. Bets are
gonna have a pretty good defense if he can handle
all of that dogma, Patriots dogma. And I just want
to go back to the point though, that this was
not the Patriots plan, all right. If it was the

(02:00:09):
Patriots plan, they would have signed Cam Newton at least
a month ago, probably two months ago, and they would
have had him in and going over virtual meetings and
deciding the offense. They didn't do any of that. Now
there is still a chance, and I maintain there is
still a chance that Jared Stidham is going to undermine

(02:00:29):
this entire disneyesque story and turn this into some kind
of Greek tragedy by beating out Cam Newton and all
the buzz and all the luster, and idiots like me
to do monologue after monologue about Cam Newton. I mean,
what the hell app I believe that plan A has
been That's Plan A for Belichick Jared Stidham. For whatever reason,
they wanted to give themselves some insurance. So they went

(02:00:52):
down Cam Newton Highway. And here we are at a
fork in the road, and so decisions have to be made.
All right, is the Ben Mallard Show. You're gonna talking
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(02:02:17):
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(02:03:02):
thought of the foes, we got our murderers, row, we
got big name callers lined up here. Let's go to
Blair in Maine, a former caller of the Year. Hello,
Blair's whoope? Probably Blair? Well, sometimes you don't want to
be called whoopie pie Blair. Sometimes you just want to
be called Blair. I don't I love it when you
call me whoopie pie Blair. Well, that's a drop all right, Yeah,

(02:03:22):
you are whoopee pie. Whoopee pie, whoopee pie, whoopee pie Blair. Yep,
I'll make sure I have some whoopie pies for the
Fourth of July. Don't don't brag about your ability because
you live in the home of the whoopee Pie. Not
there you why you have them? Well, I probably can
have them. They're just not as readily available as they

(02:03:44):
are where you are. Yeah, you can't go to the
store and get them like I can. I can go
to a Hannaford's supermarket and get it. Yeah. So um. Anyways, Ben,
what I'm gonna talk about is I Am not going
to set fireworks off. My mom is not going to
set them, and her boyfriend's not going to set them
off the fourth of July. Man, they don't want to.

(02:04:06):
They don't want We don't want a chance, you know,
getting the house set on fire because we have too
much like green bushes and too much you know, stuff
like that could sit on fire. So guess what I
am gonna You know, we are gonna light They're called
morning glory Um sparklers. Oh yeah, sparklers. Well that's that's
a very dangerous thing. Be careful, Blair. A lot of

(02:04:28):
people will. They're not dangerous. Came on you, everybody you
ever heard of Jason Pierre Paul, Come on JPP. What
gold happening? But guess what I am going to watch
on TV though eight to eleven the Boston Pops. Oh yeah,
they're going to show the fireworks in Boston. I guess

(02:04:49):
they're still going to do them. I remember going to
that one year when I was looking at my house
here in Maine, my mom and I went and actually
went down there. It was pretty crowded and it's un
there's lots of entertainment down there. And yeah, hey Ben though, Ben, Yeah, July,

(02:05:11):
I just want to tell everybody be safe. Don't do
anything stupid, Ben and all your people in the studio.
Everything I'm gonna do. What are you? What are you?
What are you insinuating there? What do you think I'm
gonna do the firework? Just be careful to want to Blair?
You want to take a Blair? You want to take
a call Blair? Sure, yeah, all right, let's go to Chicago. Doc, Mike,

(02:05:35):
you're on Hello Doc. Yeah you're doing whoopee pie. Oh
I'm doing great. The whoopie pires are great. But I'm
not going anywhere near urine now for sure. Well you
know how toxic refined sugar is. Your keith are gonna
fall out, your hair is gonna fall I help you
helps my muscles when I need that seventeen mile bike, Right,

(02:05:57):
I'm gonna take today. Yeah, that's all electric guessing too.
You know, you're like stupid, I'm not gonna drink it.
But I am gonna I am gonna go pee a
lot today. But uh I am. I am going to
take a seventeen mile bike right now. I tell you what,
take a bottle. You'll see how that fuels you up.

(02:06:19):
No kill me. You will be about fourteen or fifteen
years old, all right, still at home with mommy. Calm down, doctor,
God the I want a piece of this guy. Come on, man,
I want this guy. Hold on, hold on everyone, hold
on you knuckleheads. Listen. We'll be popular, have a great
holiday weekend. Yes, all right, well, and I'm gonna go

(02:06:42):
take a seventeen mile and plush that bike. Right are they?
You're bragging? Go brag? Okay, I gotta thank you. All right,
all right, doc, Yeah, you're very morning, you're very feisty. Time. Well,
you know how old is this guy? He sounds like
you're with his mommy. He's always talking about it. I'm
always a young guy there. You know, there's more there's
more people now living with their parents and than ever

(02:07:04):
before their parents. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's nice. You
know that people have a place to go. When when
did you When when did you move out? When did
you when did you get kicked out of the house. Doc,
how old were you when you went out in your
own nineteen sixty eight? I was twenty three, so you
waited twenty three? Uh, twenty three? Yes, yeah, Tree, Yeah,

(02:07:27):
you haven't booked any authors for the show recently. What happened? Yes,
Martin Laura is in Chicago. He arrived yesterday New York.
He's in Chicago. You're gonna take him out to have
a nice meal. Doc, we already did. Did you go
to five pounds? He's a big guy, he's a big
two sixty five. Okay. We had a chopped salad yesterday.

(02:07:50):
He's had blueberry cold press drink and a and a
fruit and vegetable drink. Yeah, but twenty four hours so
you know, you know, when you're not around him, he's
gonna run out and buy like deep dish pizza, which
is how did you lose all that weight with the
pineapple smoothie? Were smoothie today? All right? That's a very delicious. Alright,

(02:08:15):
hold on, Doc, maybe I'll hold on. We're gonna keep talking,
We're gonna keep going. I gotta see I don't have
control because because burshare is kind of like, you know,
a little laxer. Oh, he's on holding all right, Let's
go to boy another legend, legend after legend after legend.
Marcel in Brooklyn is on the Ben Mallows Show. Hello Marcel,

(02:08:40):
he's the caller of the year from the streets up Brooklyn.
Good morning man, Happy fourth of July. Along with we're
all Brian, Ryan, and we're Bertso nope, no, that's right.
I seek Roberto's not here, wrong, yeah, Eddie and out.

(02:09:03):
So has got to be two Brians. One is Ryan
and Brian's my name? Marcella the guy from Toledo. Have
you ever been to Toledo? Marcel? You call into our
Sunday show all the time. What's my name? Ryan? All right?

(02:09:23):
It starts with a ce? How about that? Who? I
don't even remember? You don't remember? All right? Uh, these
questions are very difficult. His name is? His name is?
His name is Chris? Oh, good morning Chris. All of
a sudden it came back to him. Was a little
shaky there, but all of a sudden it came back

(02:09:44):
to him. Yeah, I understood. Hey, a new dawn, a
new day, a new month. So let's get into let's
get into its starting with our food picks in the
morning and Ben starting with you. All right, I'm gonna
go with an old classic here, Chef boy r D.

(02:10:08):
Chef boy rd, what about you, Brian ned Flanders over there?
That wasn't that funny from the Simpsons on? Wow? You
watch the Simpsons? Look at that. Marcel loves the Simpson
who's your favorite Simpsons character, Marcel? Of course, Homer is

(02:10:31):
the star of the show. That's a good job by you.
All right, come on, give me a food dish please, Cheerios, Cheerios.
What that's for breakfast? Not dinner. It's for breakfast every morning. Yeah,
that's a bad job by you. See it's the dinner
bet all right, Chris, what's the answer there, Christopher, Oh man,
I've never heard of dinner. Let's see what I say
every time. I'm won the show. Burger Burger, all right,

(02:10:53):
burger and keep trying. Ryan Burschinger, Yes, my my picket
is similar. I think I think Marcell is getting his
July fourth on Early with hot dogs. Oh, hot dogs. Yeah,
Riek in Minnesota's guessing wieners and hot and fries, he said,
all right, reveal answers. Here Marcel and Brooklyn were playing
the Marcell food picks game. Go ahead, Oh, Chrissy needs

(02:11:16):
a drum wall or you won't give the answer. We'll
just be sitting here here you go usually has a
lead up. Gross, chriss my foot picks from last night.
It will be Celesti pizza. Oh the pizza. I even
know that brand. That's good stuff. Yeah, that's gonna pizza,

(02:11:38):
original Pepperoni. Yes, any favor, you want anything that you
really love, like a dollar at the store. Yeah. And
the amazing thing, Marcel, you know this because you live
in Brooklyn, Those those legendary Brooks. Yeah, those legendary Brooklyn
pizza shops actually sell the Celeste pizza and yeah great, Yeah,

(02:12:01):
and they charge like thirty five forty bucks for a pie.
But it's actually just a celest piece. That'spensive. Yeah, that
is expensive. Here all right, Marcell, what are you doing
for the fourth You're gonna see some fireworks? So you
got any plans there? Well, at least we'll believe it
or not. I'm gonna take some shower, then shower, Oh
my god, he's gonna take a shower. Then I have breakfast,

(02:12:23):
I put some clothes on. I'm gonna good traveling and
heading to Linden, New Jersey for family fireworks and fun.
Believe me, all right, you better post some pictures of
Uncle Dynamite and your your dad, your pops and all that.
All right, absolutely, all right after dark, Marcel. Everyone be

(02:12:44):
sure to follow me or you can find me on
Facebook at Facebook four slash Marcel Mark dot three. Yes, everyone,
have a great four July weekend back on Monday, all right, boy,
full lockout there the full Monty. Be sure to catch
live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two
am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. All right, thank you for that. Brian,

(02:13:07):
Geico geygo Geico to the rescue. By the way, I
just looked. If you want Redskins gear, go to NFL
shop dot com. You can buy a mask, a single
mask for fifteen bucks. I'd buy that for a dollar.
You get a three pack for twenty four ninety nine,
and they have redskin a mask you talk about opportunistic
with the pandemic right there at the front. You get

(02:13:30):
a four pack for thirty bucks. Now it costs these masks.
What do you think it costs to make the mask? Like,
I don't know, fifty cents forty cents of material, but
they're charging thirty bucks for four masks, fifteen bucks for
one mask. And you get all that right there on
the Redskins website at NFL shop dot com. All right,
it is the Ben Mallers Show. As we press on,

(02:13:51):
will take a few more phone calls. Let's go to
Matt in Arizona. Who is next? Hello Matt, Hello, Matthew, Bye?
What's up? Hey, Maddie, Maddie? What's going on? Ben? I
want to talk about the team that has benefited the
most from this pandemic, and that is the Houston Astros. Well,

(02:14:13):
they've only benefited because they haven't been booed, but they
will be booed at some point. This we're not gonna forget, Matt.
I'm not forgetting. Don't let us forget, Ben. I'm relying
on you and the rest of your colleagues, and let
us forget that the Houston Astros are the biggest cheaters
in the world. Yea, and that every headline before this
was the Houston Astros. What's going to happen? And now

(02:14:36):
we've all forgotten. Let's not forget Ben. I'm relying on you.
Thank you, Yes, all right, thank you, Matt preach on
and I feel like that shot in Freuda song right
pleasures Tea. Yes, we are taking joy and pleasure from
your misfortune the Astros who have not here. We are

(02:14:58):
on July fourth weekend and the Houston Astros have yet
to win a game. They have yet to win a
baseball game in the regular season in the year twenty twenty.
So not all is wrong with twenty twenty. It just
seems like everything Milwaukee this year. But if you're like
me and you have disdain for those cheating savages from
Houston that pretend to be baseball players and they're all phonies,

(02:15:18):
well congratulations, because they have yet to win a game,
and they are just pushing back the inevitable push you back,
push you back. Now, they're pushing it back. But we're
not going to forget. And the way people are reacting
right now, it's so angry about everything, they're gonna be
even more enraged towards the Astros. Now I mentioned moo

(02:15:39):
and how does that relate to sports? Well, Steven Adams,
the Kiwi for Oksey, he was asked what he was
up to during the pandemic in New Zealand. During the
NBA's gap the hiatus, and he said he spent part
of his time boxing out cows, is what he said. Yeah,

(02:16:02):
there's some sound right there at one of the cows,
and he was he was boxing outa See that's that's
a good It's called the zinger. Of course he was kidding,
but it's kind of funny to imagine Steven Adams was
kind of a burly looking guy and to see him
boxing out a cow and that's heard about it. Yeah,
have you you tipped over some cows in your day there,
Chris back in the back in the day. No, No,

(02:16:24):
I I am more. I don't think most of people
I knew grew up knew. But a cow looked like
we had farms nearby. But I'm trying not to be
this whole like Midwest as my scheck. I just I
just like hearing and Coop going moo moo. Yeah, now
imagining in boxing out Coop. Actually, yeah, there's a lot
of Coop drops if you want to play Springer Coop.
This guy, the third shift security guy Benjamin wrote in
earlier he said, I think you and Coop should bet

(02:16:47):
on this year's NBA Championship. When the Lakers win, you
have to switch jobs for a day. So I wrote
back and he didn't respond. I said, well, what do
I get when the Clippers win? You know what happens
to me? And do you think Finley, Brian Finny, do
you think that Scott Shapiro and Don Martin, the people
that run Fox Sports Radio, do you think they would

(02:17:09):
allow Coop to host for a night? What what would
his monologues be about, like bombs and weed and stuff
like that, or yeah, it would just be like CMD
oil would be one, yeah, and like CMD massage oil.
Hold up, CMD, isn't that what it is? Try again?
C C CBD. Okay, you were close. I was close.

(02:17:34):
You didn't didn't quite get it yet, you were there,
And yeah, CBD massage oil, CBD, bubble bath soap, CBD shampoo.
These are all different monologues from Cooper Loop. I think
we get a lot about movies. I like to hear
his takes on Sonic the Hedgehog for the first fifteen minutes. A. Yeah,

(02:17:55):
well he does the Coop Scoop on entertainments. We would
have that right about now, but Coop's not here to
do it, and so I guess the bit the bit
gut canceled. But somebody asked, is they're gonna be the
hot dog eating contest? Ruben, Yes, they are gonna have
the hot dog eating contest in New York, but it's
at his secret location. The greatest athlete in my life,

(02:18:15):
I've interviewed this guy before, the great Joey Chestnut. And
let me tell you, this guy's a machine, Joey Chestnut,
and he is going for the all time record. We
are going to see history at a secret location in
New York. Dogs and buns. He's going for like seventy
seven seventy seven dogs and buns on in like twenty

(02:18:36):
minutes or whatever. It's gonna be insane. If you've never
watched competitive eating in person, it is an amazing thing.
And you can actually bet they One of the off
show books is offering two to one odds to new
betters in New Jersey and Colorado regarding Joey Chestnut that
he will break the hot dog and bun record on Saturday,

(02:18:57):
And uh, it's just it's just an amazing event. And
the Hot Dog Eating Contest that the championship head to head,
Joey Chestnut is minus fifteen and a half versus the
second place winner, who's plus fifteen and a half, which
means that you know, if you don't know gambling, you
bet on Chestnut. He's got to win by sixteen dogs

(02:19:18):
and buns or he loses. He gotta have sixteen more
dogs and buns in the second place competitor. So you're
getting it's like a football game where one team's favored
by over two touchdowns. The greatest athlete of our generation
is Joey Chestnut, and we will watch him in competition
this weekend. He's gonna he's gonna break the record. I'm

(02:19:38):
betting on him. Seventy four hot dogs and buns is
the record. Go bet on Joey Chestnut. He is gonna
set the record. He's gonna do it. Yeah. The over
under is like seventy two and a half dogs, seventy
two and a half dogs and buns, and I'm gonna
take the over on them. So there you go. All right,
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(02:20:44):
We're getting people to listen to the damn podcasts. And
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for you. No, no, no, no, that's incorrect. I was
laughing about this music that Chris pick doubt. This is
what you play when you're in the bathtub with angry Bill. Yes, yeah,

(02:21:06):
any nineties pop back to you and now it's just
what you've been waiting for. It's Ben's balderdash. What the
hell is this formerly known as something we're not allowed
to say. All right, here we go, Balderdash time, Benny's
balderdash every week at this time. Bring that music down
a little bit, just a wee bit. There you go.

(02:21:27):
All right, let's welcome in our contestants. We've got I
thought he lost last week. Maybe I was just imagining
that and I was hallucinating. Lenny in South Florida, Hello, Lenny, Danny,
I'm back. I'm trying to redeem my show. Well wait,
you just you lost. You don't normally get to come
back when lost on the other game? What game? What game?

(02:21:52):
Have you using an hour monty amount of money? Okay,
you are you? You are in the running for biggest
game showhorre. You. I know, just justin in Cincinnati typically
has that wrapped up because he's a giant game showhre.
But you, you, Lenny, are giving him a run for

(02:22:12):
his money. All right, Hold on, Lenny's a regular. He
works at a cemetery there in Florida where business is booming.
All right, hold on a second, Lenny, and we have
Dave in Arkansas. Hello, Dave, what's happening been top of
the morning to you? Dave? How's everything in Arkansas. Yeah,
it's just Peachy's. I'm in a little town called green Forest,

(02:22:37):
Green Forests. It's about forty five miles from Sabe. All right,
I got you. What kind of work do you do,
Lenny or Dave Brother we're playing Lenny, I'm doing landscape man,
landscape me all right? Very good, well, good luck? Yeah,
it is all right Dave and Lenny. You guys are
both on the air. We actually have three categories this
week because Burschinger worked overtime. We have Alumni Association in

(02:23:00):
baseball on the big screen, and these quarterbacks have all
had noteworthy moments for the Redskins, so it's a Redskins
category as well the Washington football team. Yeah, alright, right,
all right, Lenny, you were on the air first, you're
the game show horse. To pick a category. Your name
is your buzzer. Let's do alumni alright, Alumni association, gentleman,

(02:23:22):
your name again is your buzzer. Good luck. I name
the athlete. You tell me the college they went to.
Two hundred dollars, Deshaun Watson, Freddy Lenny Crumps. That is correct,
all right, Lenny gets two hundred dollars. We go on
for four hundred dollars. I name the athlete, tell me

(02:23:42):
the college they went to. Carmelo Anthony Lenny. Yeah, that's
an easy one. All right, Dave, how's your buzzer? It
doesn't seem like it's working. Lenny's quick, Yeah he is.
That's that's the key to the game is not actually
be good, it's just being quick. All right, six hundred dollars.

(02:24:04):
I name the athlete. Tell me the college they're known
to have attended. Aaron Donald and Rams. Yeah, nobody knows.
Defensive players come on, yeah, no, all right, Uh it's
it's pitt It's the University of Pittsburgh. Now, guys, remember

(02:24:29):
you actually have a lifeline. You each have a lifeline.
We're playing balder dash. Davis in Arkansas, Lenny's in South Florida.
Eight hundred dollars. I name the athlete, tell me the
cause they went to from the NBA Damian Lillard. Lanny
is gonna give it a shot, Lenny, Kansas State. That

(02:24:49):
is wrong, Lenny, Dave, you want to steal or pass?
I'm gonna steal and use a lifeline. All right. You
want to go to Ian Finley or who do you
want to go to? I'll go Lebron all right, Finley,
we're looking for the college that Damian Lillard attended about

(02:25:12):
Dave Weaver State. All right, you want to go with that, Dave? Yeah,
all right, that is correct. Just like that, Dave is
taking the lead. Dave is taking the lead. All right,
Alumni Association for a thousand. I named the player. You
tell me the college they went to from the cheating
Astros Alex Bregman. Yeah, no, nobody knows where baseball players

(02:25:37):
went to college. Uh yeah, it's it's LSU. All right,
Baseball on the big screen. I give you the name
of the film. You tell me the real life baseball figure.
The movie is about two hundred dollars Jackie Robinson. Letty
there you go, all right, Uh, four hundred dollars. I

(02:26:00):
game the movie. You tell me what it's about. The
key figure in that money ball Ranny Lenny Billy Bean. Yeah,
that is correct, Billy being actually the A's But we'll
get you Billy Bean part six hundred dollars. Here we go.
I named the film. Tell me the real life baseball figure.
The movie is about the pride of the Yankees, Ranny

(02:26:23):
lay Garret. Oh my god, you're right, and you retake
the lead eight hundred dollars. I named the film tell
Me The Real Life Baseball Player. The film was about
sixty one Ranny, Lenny, Roger Marris. Oh my god, he
didn't get out of time, Lenny. When's that come back?

(02:26:43):
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