Hangin' with Hunter

Ben Maller is joined by former Rams DE, TV star, and friend of the show Fred Dryer, talks Anthony Davis fine from the NBA, Tony Romo's comment about coaching, and much more!

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friend of the show. We do not have guests on
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director when you do an overnight show, you do not

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have guests. You're on overnight, So we will not have
a guest. We will have a friend of the show
a good man, a guy who played in the Super Bowl.
He's lived the life and I've told him this to
his face, so I'm not talking about his back. He's
lived the life like so many of these NFL players
want to live. There's a lot of debate about Rob
Gronkowski retiring. If Gronkowski retires from the Patriots after the

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Super Bowl, the assumption is he's going to go into acting.
He's going to go down that road and professional wrestling.
And if he had about ten percent of the career
of Fred Dryer has had in Hollywood, Gronk would be lucky,
because it doesn't usually work out this way. Fred Dryer
is very fortunate. He's good at what he does and

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he was able to cross over to Holly. He's still working,
he's still doing stuff Hollywood. So well, he'll be in
here in a couple of minutes and we look forward
to that and we will. People have been asked you, well,
tell you to call. Yeah, we'll take some calls later.
But I have a lot to say. We have a
lot to discuss. Me and Fred. We go back. We
had spats with shots. He was a central figure in
that Battle Royale that we had on the air several

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years ago. And of course he was a peaceful party
in that he was not an active man. He tried
to work out a peace agreement, but it did not
go well because I was asked to pay money by Shatners,
so it did not go well. But anyway, he'll be
in here to couple minutes. I just wanted to yap
for a minute about the Super Bowl. One of the
things that caught my attention, and it's the same storylines,

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the same storylines every year regurgitated. One team has more
experienced than the other. The team that has more experienced
every years, the Patriots, the other team, whoever it is.
Whoever the Patriots happened to play that year in the
Super Bowl, and people make a big deal about it.
And I point this out because the Rams Sean McVay
and they don't have much super Bowl experience. Aaron Donald
play on some terrible RAM teams, Jared Golf had to

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play with Jeff Fisher as well, and you go down
the list and Todd Gurley the core of the Rams.
They haven't been in many playoff games. I was told
before the playoffs started they had no chance because they
had lost last year in the playoffs. The geniuses that
call sports radio told me they had no chance. I
was also told they were gonna lose to Seattle in
the playoffs. I was told about they didn't want to

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play the Bears, and the playof all this stuff. But
as far as the experience card, all right, A couple
of thoughts on this number one. This is an issue
that gets brought up over and over and over a
year after years. Oh, the team with the more experience
is gonna win. And last year the Patriots had more
experienced than the Philadelphia Eagles. The Philadelphia Eagles won. It

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is all prologue. All of it is prologue. It is
stuff for people in the mainstream media who are running
up expense accounts right now all over nudy bars in Atlanta.
There is all kinds of debauchery going on with your
favorite media personalities that are running a muck all over
Georgia having a great time, and to justify their presence

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in Georgia, they have to come up with stories. They
have to feed the content machine. And one of the
lazy stories that comes up every year is about experience.
And I've ranted in the past, and I truly believe
this that it is more to do with I put
in the same category with locker room chemistry and those

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type of things, because it's something that's brought up when
a team to set up a game, to justify a story,
to get a story out. But yeah, based on experience
the Rams have, they should just not show up. They
should just check out of their hotel, fly back to
LA and that's it. They have no opportunity, just like
the Philadelphia Eagles last year had no real chance based

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on Super Bowl experience and all that. They had no business.
I thought they really had no business because of Nick
bleeping Fulls that. I mean, that is insane. That that
is why I believe the Rams have a shot. If
Nick Foles last year could do what Nick Foles did,
and the Patriots defense you could argue, in many statistical
categories worse this year than last year's Patriot defense, the

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one that had Matt Patricia as the de facto defensive coordinator.
In many areas, they were worse. And so I look
at that and I'm like, oh, wait a minute, here,
what the heck if that happened? You know, I said, well, again,
that happen last year doesn't mean it's gonna happen again.
But it gives you optimism if you're expecting it to
be a good game, a competitive game. But I've seen
several stories written about the experience, the lack of experience.

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Sean mcvay's in over his head now he's now he's
gonna be exposed. Now wasn't exposed when against the Saints
and the Cowboys, and the Rams earned both those wins
to get to the Super Bowl. But now it's now
here it is, and those same cockroaches that are saying
that if the Rams win, you know what cockroaches do

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when you turn the lights on, They scamper, they hide, right,
they don't they don't want the light. Then those cockroaches
don't like the light. They want to hide. They want
nothing to do with the light. And that's that's what's
gonna happen should the Rams. Now, if the Rams don't win,
it'll be pile on Sean McVay too soon, gotta pay

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his dudes more. Not there yet, they'll tear down Jared
Golf And I've seen some of the storylines. Jared Goff,
he's he can't play without Cooper Cup. That Cooper Cup
is Jerry apparently Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, and Arrell Owens
is Cooper Cup. I had no idea that he was
that guy that you're good players, a nice safety net

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for the for the Rams offense when he played there.
And there's all kinds of statistical collaboration to back up
the point that the Rams offense is in mud without
Cooper Cup. But I I look at that also, I'm like, well,
you think that the Patriots are gonna see that as well.
We don't have to play with the same gusto because hey,
Cooper Cup's not playing in the game right now. They

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just take off the game, just take it off, right
But you know the numbers, edited numbers say that. Of course,
there was also this thing called a slump which took place,
and for about three games, Jared Goff sucked out loud,
the game against the Lions, the game against the Chicago Bears,
which was rock bottom. He didn't play well against the

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Philadelphi Eagles, and he's played well enough. He was a
game manager against the Dallas Cowboys in the first game.
But he was a central player. He was a leading
actor in the Rams win in New Orleans, which got
overlooked because of the myopia of the Saints fans. The illness,
the mental illness the Saints fans have. They blame the

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referees out the graded justice morons, the people of Louisiana
with that nonsense. And I don't need to go down
that road, although I have a feeling from what I'm
being told, we will have more revisiting of the NFC
Championship game with the Saints and the Rams, because from

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what I understand, tomorrow Roger Goodell or today, I guess
he's going to address by the way, Coople. If you
want to go, go let our friend and you can.
He's waiting outside. He's standing outside, Coop. Coop's now producing.
He's walking around the corner. He's walking down the long hallway.
He will then make a right there's a short hallway.
He will then at that point he will make a

(08:24):
left turn. Then there'll be a fork in the road.
At that point, Coop will walk down the hallway. He
will then walk down. He will then go out a
door near the Smurf kitchen, and there will be our friend,
the great Fred Dryer, who will come in here in
a second. He played in Super Bowl fourteen back in
the day. We'll ask him about that. And I know

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people I got people are sending me questions to ask
Fred Apparently I don't know what to ask him. So
we'll just chalk. We'll talk. That's all we're doing real quick.
It's a it's a weird hour this night, different than
all of the night's to say hello to Edmund Dallas
steamboat Willie Judas Garcias right over there. Well, I'm surprised
you didn't have coop outstanding, you know, by the door

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by the by the entrance to the parking garage, because
when I when I leave in the morning, and there
are sometimes you know, big time people that come in
that that hour, around the six o'clock hour. Yeah, there'll
be a couple of guys like standing out by the
parking lot waiting for the limo to pull up for
some of the people that that do work in here
during when you know, when the sun's about to come up.
Really and let those guys in because you know they

(09:27):
have to be escorted immediately into the building, like wait
a moment. So next next time, just something thing about
I don't we'll probably have Fred on again next year,
but MS will be back in the super Bow. Just
have Coop stand out there, you know, I'm sure he'll
he'll enjoy that. Just have him stand out there in
the parking structure. Yeah, you ask him. How about you
ask him rather than me? Ask him? You say, hey, cool,
you well you're you're you carry much more weight than

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I do, heavier than you. But that's a fat joke
you make about me. You don't need to make a
fat joke about me. I came in, I saw these
nice cars of Bentley a Jag. I'm like, wow, Yeah,
they're paying the Fox Sports radio staff. More on this
out on Steve Harvey's over Steve Harvey Show. Over there
doing anything. Man, they drive better cars than us. Oh
yes they do, Yes they do. I'm gonna guess that

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there's a reason for that. Yeah, I'll let you figure
what that is. I don't know what. I don't know
what you're talking about. I mean, they just happen to
have really nice automobiles. It's like a car show when
they're here. It's it's amazing. They're not old nice cars either,
They're they're new nice cars. Yeah, they're brand new. Like
they're so new they don't even have a license plates
on it. They have the dealer, you know the sticker
or whatever. Anyway, So Ben Maller Show, we get everyone here.

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Fred's standing by, so I'm gonna stop yapping here and
we will have I loved him. He was Hunter on
television and I was played for the Rams. I was
a Ram fan. We'll get Fred Dryer. He's hanging out,
he's gonna be in studio. We'll get to that and
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Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller, all right, hang it out.
We don't have guests on this show, so you're not
a guest, Fred, you're a friend of the show. So
I want you to know that the great Fred Dryer
played with the Giants the Rams in the NFL back
in the day. Big Mogul, thank you still working in Hollywood.
We haven't you have been in here in a couple
of years. I was we were trying to do the
math on when you were last in here. I'm gonna say,

(11:38):
it's five years. You think he's been that long? I
think so yeah. Yeah, And every year I'm like, and
we text maybe once a year or something like that.
I'm like, I gotta bring Fred in and then I'm
I never done. I never I never bring you in.
I I apologize. You know, I did call you when
I left here the last time, and uh, I was
gonna we were gonna have a lunch or so. Yeah,

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we're still we still play on that, right, Yeah, still
are you still having But in the meantime, that's right,
we were. Yeah, we just had we caught the uh
the dev Carson was in here. Cookie Lady, Yeah she's
she's hawking girl, Scout Cookie, good girl, Scout Cookies. I
went with the Savannah smiles. I yeah it was good. Yeah,
that went a little Doughey for me, too much it's lemon.
I like the lemon, all right, yeah, the right, Okay,

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But anyway, you know we we didn't hook up the
last time, so maybe we should we should do this.
It's twenty nineteen, Ben, It's crazy, it's nuts. Yeah, it's
sports is just just gushing money I don't have. I'm
not making envy. Look at me. I'm a wreck here, Fred,
I'm not making anybody. How much would you now you played? Oh,

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you probably get asked. I think I asked you this
last time. If you played today with the numbers you
had back in the day with the giants in the
in the rams, how much do you think twenty two
and a half million dollars? Yeah, that's what I would
be making a year. So do you wish you had
been born? I saw Jack Youngblood. I saw Jack Youngblood
last year and that's we talked about that. Yeah. I
think my last year and eighty one, I made two

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fifty And that time that was a lot, right, was
it was? It was a high end scale there, you know.
And uh, but but they've got two fifty like on
them any given time, Pettica, anytime in the glove box
they have they're rummaging through their their their bags and

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stuff before they go out for practice, and they got
stacks of money in there. Yeah. Absolutely, So what you now,
you played in Super Bowl fourteen right with the Rams.
That was the last time the La Rams were in
the super Bowl. It was here in Pasadenia. And when
you play, like you look at the super Bowl now,
what was it? What was media day like when you
played in the Super Bowl against the Steelers back in
the day. Did they have media day back then? Was

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it the same setup they have now or similar to
what they have now? Yeah? Yeah, yeah it is. It's
just not it's just not a as perverse as it is. Yeah,
it really is out of line, you know. I mean,
and and there's a desperation in the players. You know,
they feel as though that when when they bust pulls

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up and they get out and they have to go
out and you know, put on their their name tags
and then go out and sit in the designated tables. Yeah,
that that they have to there's a performance that's required
if they have to, you know, I don't know, but
if they told themselves they have to perform, or they

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have to they have to be funny, or they have
to you know, clamp up and not say anything. This
was always great. Who what was the guy there for
the Seattle they're running back Mark? Yeah, yeah, he showed up,
he got all ready to come out to talk, and
then he decided he didn't want to say, said I'm
just I don't get fine. That was yeah, which is

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a good line. Yeah, I thought it was pretty funny.
But back in the day when you when you were
playing with the Rams and all, who was there? Were
you guys big talkers, And I'm to remember back in
those days, it didn't get the coverage you got now right,
it was a different situation and all that. Yeah, I um,
but by that time it was it was nineteen seventy nine.
I had one year left in the league that I

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was out, so I I got to go to the
Super Bowl towards the end of my career. It wasn't
towards it, you know. Yeah, yeah, the sweet spot, Yeah,
so up. But I didn't think that. Yeah, I thought
it was like, you know, it was funny. I could
see the end of my career while I'm getting ready

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to play in the Super Bowl, and I always thought
to myself, that's not fair, you know, Yeah, I here
it is Okay, you're gonna get you're gonna get to play.
But when it's over with heat tune a uniform. Man.
But isn't like that's the Hollywood story, right, isn't that
the story about getting the end of your care for you?
You said, I want to be my prime, I want
to play. Well, it's it's it's a hitchcocky and uh

(15:56):
type of storyline. Yeah, you finally get it. There you
are great, and then the guy comes up and says,
you know, I think you gotta leave now. Yeah, how
we've been through this before. There's new people listening, fred
As you know, they don't know, they didn't hear a
few years ago. So I feel like I need to
repeat some stuff. You probably said this so much, you do.
I don't want to talk about this. I want to
talk about something else. But well, that's that's the beauty

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ben as you know, because you deal with it all
the time, you know, you cross generations. Yeah, and there's
a responsibility for that. There you go. It's right. But
when you were playing with the Rams, did you always
in the back of your mind think I'm going into
acting like this is going to be something that I do. Yeah,
you did so you had that planned out kind of.
You had a rough right around my third year actually,

(16:38):
when I was still in New York. I'm seventy one.
I was there sixteen nine, seventy seventy one. So when
I left there, I just it was such a it
was such a hassle, you know, telling those people. At
the end of my last my third year, I was
on my option. So what I did was I just told.

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I told the giants. I said, I told mister Mara
was a real nice guy. And I said, look, you know,
I don't think I can I can come back here.
What do you mean? And I said, well, I just don't.
I don't get it. I don't see it. Here's what
I don't see. I don't see that. You get it.
You know, we're partners, you know, I mean, you underpay me,

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But I mean that's part of it. I accept that.
But the problem is is that you don't What I
require for you is to put a good team on
the field. And if you can't do that, then you're
not upholding your end. Yeah. So I gotta get out
of here. Yeah, I gotta go. Yeah. So uh he
went WHOA. So I played up my option and and

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then I left and and and as I'm as I'm
kind of winding down in New York, you know, I'm
you know, packing all my stuff out of my apartment,
and I said, I gotta get home. I gotta go
to acting school. I think, because this is this is
diminishing returns, because lord, I wasn't making any money. I

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was just to put it into perspective for your listeners.
Number one draft choices on football teams. I was a
thirteenth player in the country picked. Yeah, so I'm the
thirteenth best player according to NFL scouts. I should get
paid for that. I didn't get paid for that. I

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got like, I got twenty five thousand dollars. I signed
a one year deal. I didn't sign a multi year deal.
That's where I saw everybody, everybody going upside down, because
once you sign a three four year deal, you're in
there for four years plus an option year, so your
your career could be finished or half over by that time.

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So I just decided that that I would did I get.
I get a one year contract. I got twenty five thousand,
I got a five thousand dollar reporting bonus, and I
got they gave me a sixty thousand dollar, you know,
signing bonus. So the whole package, the package from one

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year was ninety grand, which in nineteen sixty nine was
pretty good. Yeah, so I felt okay about that. But
then you know, I figured the team, you know, I
gave him three years. I figured, look, I can't I
can't spend another year here. Yeah, this is really bad
the judgment if I did that. What do you think
about these NBA guys? We see this. This is a

(19:33):
trend now in the NBA. For read there, they're they're
not under they're under contract. Yeah you were. You waited
till your contract was up to leave. They like Anthony
Davis right now, we'll be talking about that. He's he's
not happy in New Orleans because they're not winning, so
he wants to find a way to go to the Lakers,
even though he's still technically under contract. In the NBA.
It's the thing now in the NBA, well, you know,

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the interesting thing is is that it's this pendulum has swung.
You know, you're back, You're you're now. It's now everything
in the league evolves around the players. They get anything
they want. In National Football League, the players just say, look,
we get fifty three, fifty four fifty two of television

(20:16):
revenue to split up amongst the players. And oh yeah,
there's some money in there that there's a percentage in
there that that you can the Players Association can distribute
to ex players, you know, guys who need it, you know,
the pre ninety three group. That's that's the that's you know,

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they're bleeding from the year exactly. I'm nice. You're part
of your part of that, right yeah, yeah, and uh
and so they they you know, they don't have they
don't give anybody any money, you know. So the present
day players, uh decided to hog all the money and
they wouldn't give the X players any money at all.

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I forgot about you guys. Was on with Fred Dryer,
that's the voice of hers to play with the Rams
and the Giants back in the day. He's been a
bunch of TV stuff. I know him as Hunter from
back in Thank You. I love that show. Thank You
work for me. It's great. And I'm gonna go back
to the Hollywood thing now. Rob Gronkowski, the rumor here
is he's gonna leave the Patriots eventually, either this year
or next year, and run off to Hollywood. And he's

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gonna be He wants to have your life, Fred, he
wants to go and be a star on Hollywood. What
advice would you give somebody like Rob Gronkowski. I don't.
I have no idea you know, what to tell people
who want to do that. But you did it though,
you know I did it. I did it. I kind
of I kind of backed into it. You know, I

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did it before it became popular to do not a
lot of people have done. You were a trend setter, Yeah,
I was a jobs trust yeah. Yeah. But but Gronkowski,
I mean, he's he's pretty beat up at it looks
like there's are down this. He's got like braces of
his elbows and his Yeah, he's missed a lot of
games the last couple of years with injury. And he
came out with walker. He's lumbering. He came out with

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a walker the other day. How's your health? By the way,
you all right? I'm pretty good. Actually, I'm gonna knock
on wood, right, I'm gonna knock on lamin it fake
wood right now, fake only. The best year at the
Fox Sports Radio looks does look good. It looks firm.
We decorated since you were last year. We put up
new artwork on the walls. You see it. Did you
up when when when the Rams came back? Did you

(22:28):
do anything special to the broadcast room? We I think
we cleaned the carpet. I think I see anything. Yeah,
it's pretty much the same. It's yeah, it is. We're
talking with Fred dry We'll have more. We'll take some
calls to coming up, because you're okay with that. Fred
talking to the people. You're a man. I'm here for
the long haul. All right, you're good, all right, we'll
take some calls. You would like to be part the
number eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven

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seven nine nine six six three six nine. We have
more with Fred in a moment, but right now from
the Guico Fox Sports Radio studios. Well, we eat girls,
Scott cookies, he dy well, eat him fast. I'll be brief.
We want to get back to Fred Dryer as much
time as you want. Don't have guests very often. Oh sorry, friend,
the friend of the show. Yes exactly. Hey. Last night

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in the NBA, we had the Pelicans, still without the
injured Anthony Davis while he's still on the team. They
beat the Rockets in Houston. One twenty one to one sixteen.
James Harden did have thirty seven points at his twenty
fourth straight game with thirty or more points seventy six
ers over the Lakers in LA one twenty one to
one oh five Joel and b twenty eight points. Lakers,
still without the injur of Lebron James, fall two back
of the Clippers for that final playoff spot. In the West.

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Thunder over the Magic one twenty six, one seventeen, Paul
George thirty seven points, Russell Westbrook a triple double, twenty
three points, fourteen rebounds, fourteen assins for Oklhoma City Spurs
needed a Rudy Gay Buzzard beater to beat the Suns
one twenty six, one twenty four and the Bucks down
the Pistons one fifteen one oh five. Milwaukee improved me
to the league best thirty six and thirteen on the year.
College basketball, Top ranked Tennessee easily wins at South Carolina

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ninety two to seventy falls or nineteen and one of
the years still indefeated. An SEC play overtime for third
right Virginia to beat number twenty three NC State on
the road sixty six sixty five to the final wins
for fifth rank Michigan number seven, Kentucky number eight, Nevada,
and ninth rank North Carolina number eleven. Kansas lost at
Texas seventy three to sixty three. Let's get back to
the Geico Flox Sports radio studios. It's Ben Maller with

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friend of the show, Freddy, right, longtime friend of the show. Oh,
we had to go out break bread though were eating
girls Scout cookies. I was gonna come in and say
hello to Fred you should come in. I saw he was,
you know, he was negotiating with the cookies there and
having some cookies. I didn't want interrupt it. No, no plays.
There's there's a there's there's a there's like a fifteen left. Yeah,
well that's good news to our producer, Justin Cooper, who

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was salivating over cookies. He's an actor like yourself. He was.
There was like a seventeen different flavors up here. While Yeah,
you were very methodical too, when you were looking at
each box you were trying to analyze. Fred was overlooking
the cookies. They're trying to figure out exactly what to pick.
You have to do that nowadays. Yeah, you've got to
make sure you're pick in the right stuff. I'm pretty

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with the girls Scott Cookies. I go thin mints and
then lately I've gone Savannah Smiles. I noticed you're you're
into the into the lemon flavored doe. What a racket
these girls Scout Cookies. They're great though they're they're out
in the front. I don't know what season it is
right now, but they're out in front of of every

(25:23):
store over on the west side of town. Yeah, it's
just the greatest. You're standing. There's an adult there, you know,
working the money and and and the girls are there
holding the boxes. They got their uniforms on. It's just
you can't walk by and not by it. They do
pull up the heart strings. All right. It is the
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Twitter much you're done with Twitter. You moved on from
you know. I wound up in an argument with somebody

(26:07):
I don't know, okay, and it just took it out
of me there for a while. I just I said, jo,
I can't do this. I can't. I can't look forward
to argue with strangers like that. You know, you look
at me. I argue every night for four hours. If
people I have never met will never meet, I have
no idea. What did you get? You get a you know,
you get a hang up on him? That's true. I

(26:28):
have the ultimate power. Yeah, I waked up and on
my Twitter's lit up, and I got the lunatics on
the other side telling that's what Twitter is. It's a
playground for the lunatics. Is absolutely it's a playground for Yeah.
All right, we'll send my best to to Bill because yes,
you know, yes, did you make up? Did you make up? Well?
We tried to make up, and then he tried to

(26:50):
get me to pay to get him to unblock me
on Twitter, like he wanted like he was doing a
charity thing and he wanted me to write him a check,
and I'm like, you know, I don't need to write
him out. Make enough money to write him a check.
You know what I'm saying, So don't forget. He also
turned you into ESPN. Oh yeah, he tried to get
me fired. He contacted ESPN to try to get me fired.
But I don't work at ESPN, so oh he thought,
oh yeah, Well he saw there was a report of

(27:13):
a merger, but it was not involving us. So but
it happens, it happens. Yeah. Oh well, you know, and
you resolved it. That's the important we did. We did
resolve it. We did resolve That's the important thing. Then
that's right now. So when we were you were here last,
that was before the Rams were back, and I was like, well,
the Rams should embrace you, The Rams should bring you in.
You're a Rams legend. You played with the La Rams.

(27:34):
You were in the last Super Bowl with the La Rams.
Have they done that? Have you been to an LA
I'm gonna tell I'm gonna tell you a quick story
and I don't want to be long winded on so much.
Trying to edit myself. As I go, I get an
email it says come out to the RAM facilities and Agora, Okay,
come on out there, and we're we want to hear
from some of the alumni on how we can interact

(27:56):
with the old fan RAM a fan base. Yeah, I thought,
well that's a good idea. So I drive out there
and and so I took with me the nineteen fifty
seven Norm van Brocklin Ram helmet. Nice, you know, and

(28:17):
you know, the difference between that helmet and the fifty
seven rams was how how big the RAM horns were
up in the front. They met in the middle. It
was a they overlapped and so they came out of
the front of your head and then wrapped a run.
It was a great look. It was real stylish, really hip.

(28:39):
And then of course, you know, you know, the decision
by committee group over the years separated the horns. So
now you've got these horns that are like, it's just stupid,
it's really stupid. So I said, well, that'll be my contribution.
So I put the hat in the car, drove out there,
and everybody was like twenty people in the room, and

(29:01):
I pulled this helmet out and it freaked them out
because they've never they'd never seen this foreign today, they'd
never seen this before, you know, And they said, if
you want to open up your stadium, this new stadium
is supposed to be really, really unbelievable. Yeah, if you
really want to open that place up and really have

(29:21):
a bang for your buck, put these helmets on these
jokers and run them out there on the opening day game. Yeah,
and it'll just be a it'll be a big win
for you. And so I did all that stuff, and
they one girl got her cell phone out took a
photograph of it. She says, I'm gonna show stand Crunky

(29:44):
the owner this picture. Nothing ever came out, nothing, nothing,
I know. You know. They are changing their uniforms, right,
they haven't revealed. I don't think they Well, they said
that the uniform, the blue home uniform they're wearing this
Sunday and the super Bowl is going to be there.

(30:04):
I thought that we're going with a white helmet. They're
gonna go with the goal. They're gonna wear the gold.
They're gonna wear a boo and gold. Are they not
going to the white? Well if once they go on
the road, they're gonna, I think they're gonna wear all white.
So it's gonna be white and white and yellow. All right,
all right, Fred Dryers here is hanging out with us,
you know, Come on, everyone knows this guy. Could people
want to talk to you, Fred. Let's go to Joe.
Who's in Orlando. Joe, You're on Fox Sports Radio. We're

(30:29):
hanging with Fred Dryer. It's the Ben Maller Show. What's
going on, Joe? Oh, fantastic man. This is an honor
to talk to Fred Man. I'm telling you, thank you. Fred.
You had your training camp with the New York Giants
and my alma mater and I graduated from the hundredth
class of that school State University of New York Maritime College.

(30:51):
Do you have any reminiscence about that particular training camp
or with working with the fran Tarking? Well, did you
say that we had a training camp there that maritime school? Right? Yeah? No, No,
When I was there sixty nine through seventy one, we

(31:11):
were at Fairfield College in Connecticut. Always, is that right?
That's right? Weel, that's right if I thought you were there,
But I remember seeing you standing outside Yankee Stadium as
a as a as a giant, signing autographs and it
was like forty degrees and it was snow and blue blazes,

(31:32):
and all you had on was a T shirt and
sandals and jeans. That's probably true. Unbelievable. Trust you still
had that that warm South in California blood running through you.
You didn't feel the effects of Winner at whatsoever. Well,

(31:53):
I got caught coming out. I thought I could make
it to my car, but they got me. So it is.
How about this polar vortex? Yeah, what does a forty
five below in Chicago. My brother lives in Appleton, Wisconsin,
because he's he's an idiot. He moved there a few
years ago and I was texting him and it's h
he's got food. They say that the house is warm,
but he's got his car filled with gas. If he

(32:13):
gets too cold, they're getting out of there. Wow, it's
getting like some of the Upper Midwest, it's like minus
thirty five, minus thirty seven. In some places it's Antarctica
weather like. Move down, it's purple. It's purple on the
weather map. What's the coldest game you ever played in
back in the day, I think, Uh, let's see, I'm
gonna say against the Vikings or something like that. You know,

(32:35):
one one of that might have been one of the
coldest games was in Saint Louis really in seventy two. Yeah,
we were there in Saint Louis. That wind was whipping
off that freaking river. Yeah, and it was really really cold,
but it was probably right around zero, A little little
less maybe, Yeah, But the toughest saying is the wind.

(32:57):
If it's cold, it's cold. You ever playing a snow
You played snowwhere? Yeah? Do you like playing in the snow?
I love I love you. Clement Weather watching football and
Clement Weather, Well, you can, but you gotta watch yourself.
The one thing about that is it looks like it's fun.
You can you can really get hurt. Yeah, and those
types of cans. All right. Fred Ryer's here, he's hanging

(33:18):
out with us, not a guest. If management is listening,
he is not a guest. He's a friend of the show.
We like him. He's I gotta go have a meal
with Fred. We gotta go break bread somewhere. We'll do that.
My wife would love to meet you, by the way too.
I'll drag her with me in perfect as well. All right,
we'll tell your calls eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox for the rest of the hours. We say we're changing,
we're breaking format in a way, but it's not a guest.

(33:38):
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(33:59):
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I mean, it's you know what I'm saying. You need
to play that. Roberto with special friend of the show
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Studios with friend of the Show, Fred Dryer. It's Ben Maller.
That's by the book, Roberto. He is going to play

(34:19):
that sound bite whether we have anyone hanging with us
or not. But we have Fred Dryer here for the
rest of the hour, as they say, and we'll take
some calls. Fred, you know, I know him from TV,
but I played with the Rams a Rams fan growing up.
You played for the Rams, were the Rams and the
Super Bowl. Back in the day, played with the Giants.
And I love the story you told last time about
the Patriots. You you tell somebody today that those of

(34:40):
the Patriots nine super Bowls with Belichick and Brady, you
didn't want to play for the Patriots though, back in there,
you want no part of the Patriots. They were really bad, horrible.
Well that what was that Billy Sullivan was the owner
of the team, and Upton Bill was a general manager
and Johnny Maser was the head coach, and it was
just it was it was like I told them. You know,

(35:03):
they called my mom to tell me that they had drafted,
that they had traded for me on draft day. So
I said, you know, I think you guys should have
called my attorney first, which they didn't really like hearing. Yeah. So,
but you know, they were like the Giants at that time.
They just couldn't find it. Yeah. I said, look, you guys,

(35:26):
I love your uniforms. The little man on the helmet
bat Patriot. Yeah, but but you know Parcels screwed that
uniform up. He's the guy that changed that. Yeah. I
liked that old old six and calls for you Fred
dread Dryer here for the rest of the hour. A
few more minutes with Fred and Anthony is in southern California.

(35:50):
What's going on, Anthony, you're on Fox. Well, thank you
very much and it's a pleasure talking to you and
I enjoy your program. Now, mister Fred Dryer, you know
I'm gonna let you know right now. I've been around
fans since I was eight years old girl in file Central, LA.
I live and die with you guys, and you broke

(36:12):
my heart, but you made me feel good, especially getting
no seventh straight NFC Western Division championships. It's a damn shame,
excuse my friends, and we couldn't have beat the Vikings
and the Cowboys in the same playoff runs. But with
that being said, I think you are a hell of
a defensive man. Along with jack Emblood I called bookends

(36:36):
you always you were great and that's that now. As
far as super Bowl, as far as the super Bowl goes,
and you should have won that super Bowl, but you know,
we know what happened. But that's all right. As far
as this super Bowl goes, I'm telling you right here,
right now, the Ram's gonna win it because they're gonna
impost their way of playing football on the line of scrimmage.

(36:57):
I looked at it. I know I played the savent
an out sideline packer. So that's what I'm calling it.
The Ramsna wins. What's the score? Oh, I can't give
you a score? Now, come on, well it's a two
and a half point swing it okay, okay, I'm I'm
gonna we're gonna get a pick six. So I believe
it's gonna be thirty five twenty four. That's a good

(37:21):
thirty five twenty four. All right, thank you, Anthony, he
loves you. Ahead. Anthony's a big fan. Fred. Let's go
to Let's go to Mitch in Jacksonville, Florida. Who is
next on? Is there another Jacksonville? Yeah, there's another. What's
going on, Mitch? What's going on? You're on the radio,
just drinking some Natty ice and eating some little Debby
cakes dry. Its pleasure to talk to you. Thank you.

(37:44):
I had a couple of questions, are you glad you're
not in the days of the social media and the
uh everything can be filmed or recorded so easily with
a cell phone in the locker rooms, sidelines, anything, Well,
it's all. It's all promiscuous and there's really no control

(38:04):
over anything. And uh, it's just kind of like the
wild Wild West. It's intrusive and rude. It can be fun,
but at whose expense. You know, I'm a show. Would
you've gotten in Fred back those parties back with you know?
You know the other thing else is, you know, you know,
whether you like it or not, you're you can be

(38:26):
the brunt of a of a tweet. It's not maybe
beneficial for you. Oh yeah, I had. I had a
woman in New Year's Eve, uh, down in Fullerton. She
she was sitting across with another group of people. She
was sitting across the room, and I could see that

(38:47):
she was secretly pointing her phone in our direction. And
she was and she was recording this and and you know,
we talked about a lot of stuff. You know, next thing,
you know, that stuff for the rest of my life
and your life. He's gonna be on record. And I

(39:08):
don't think I like that. So I got up went
over and told her, I said, hey, yeah, what are
you doing? Yeah? And I had had to make sure,
you know what, she wasn't filming me while I was
saying on the TMZ, let's go to Paul, who's in
North Carolina. Paul's next is Fox Sports for a couple
of minutes left with Fred Dryer. He's hanging out with
what's going on, Paul? Not much, man, not much, just

(39:32):
listening to a little sports radio. Good for you. Without that,
I wouldn't be here, Thank God? How can you? How
can we help you? Paul? Well, I was great to
hear you and Fred on the show. And uh, I
grew up as a little kid, of course loving the Rams.
He may know, Fred, may know my uncle. His name
was Danny Rosenblo. Well, he's still alive. His name is

(39:53):
Danny Rosenbloom. It was any relationship to Carol Rosenbloom, Yeah,
that was It was Carol's son, Danny. Danny. He had
a brother. He had a brother, Steve. Steve, Yeah, Steve
and uh and of course Chip as his half brother.
That's right, that's Georgia. Georgia was not his real mother. Uh. Yeah,

(40:17):
well I didn't, I didn't. Uh, I didn't catch that.
I talked to Steve Rosenbloom last week. Yeah. I've never
met Steve. Actually, my parents have. Yeah, my parents have
met him a bunch of times, and they've met Carol.
I never met Carol, but uh I got some good
a little bit of good old stuff on the old days.
I got an old football very nice. Hey, I gotta

(40:40):
let you go, Paul. You're on radio for your own show,
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(41:02):
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(41:24):
Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on
your car insurance. Just visit Geico dot com for a
free rate quote. So I was gonna rant and rave
about Anthony Davis, but Fred's still here. We're hanging out.
Fred's still This is called spillover. This is with Fred
because you're pretty much you're stuck Fred, because we haven't
gotten you out of the parking lot yet. So well,

(41:44):
that's all right, I'm here, so we'll just continue. I'll
get the cellone you want. I've done that before. I've
done that. But I was actually promoting some glad I'm
glad you stayed, Fred, because I was promoting your radio.
You do radio. Yeah, And we were rudely cut off
by hard network out as you know, and we could

(42:05):
we didn't get to get the full plug. And but
you do a show yourself, stared Fred, if you just
weren't with us last our Fred, you know Fred Dryer,
he has been. You were in the Bumblebee movie. We
were talking about that a few minutes ago off the air,
and he's of course Hunter and a bunch of stuff. Uh,
And he's hanging out here with us, and I guess
we'll do do some more phone calls, right that. Why

(42:26):
not you're hanging out and it's a it's unique, it's different.
Why not not a guest though? You're not a guest, Fred,
you're a friend of the show. I like that delineation. That.
Thanks smart. So tell me about the Bumblebee movie though,
before we'll get back to the super Bowl. But you
were in the Bumblebee. Yeah, I played. I played a
cop that I'm in the first part of the movie

(42:48):
where the where Eye Witness. I'm suspicious about these kids
and uh and uh and then I run into him
up and up up in up in the hills. And
we actually shot it out at the Griffith Griffith Park,
you know, you know, you know, you know the tunnel
that leads the Batman is the Batmanton or the No, no,

(43:09):
that's that's different. That's it. That's Beachwy Canyon. Okay, that's
near the Hollywood side. But we we went up to uh,
Griffith Park, which is right right right above uh the
what do you call it? The u the uh? I think,

(43:29):
what's over there? What? Uh? Damn it? What? Sorry, no, no,
but but but it's the observatory observatory. It's the tunnel
that leads from below where all the parking lots are,
through the tunnel and then up to the observatory. It's
just it helps, you know, a funnel traffic in and

(43:50):
out of that place. Anyway, that's the tunnel that the bumblebee.
That that the cop that's me by Pope alongside and
I look inside the card. I don't see anybody in
cars driving itself, and then it decides to go up
on the side of the tunnel wall and then up
on top and then it comes down and when it does,
it turns into a it turns into a you know,

(44:13):
a terminator type of a nice. Yeah, it's good, that's cool.
So we got that. Yeah, nice? All right, we'll take
some calls if he's like eight seven seven ninety nine
on fuck. Do you ever meet Sean McVay, Sean McVay,
the genius? Yes, I did. What do you think of him? Yeah?
Is he the real deal? Here? It was celebrating Sean. Yeah,
a genius. I don't know if well from what he's doing,

(44:38):
he seems to be all right, yeah, you know, I mean,
you know, you're talking to these guys, what the hell
do you know? But but they're nice guys, and uh,
he seems to have an insight, knows how to use
his people went out and went out and specifically got
a couple of replacements for the defensive line. Brought in

(44:59):
a Dominicans, you know, to be next to Aaron Donald.
And so they've got they've got some things defensively, and
they've got some good receivers and you've got a couple
of great backs and golf. You know. That was he
was the second guy picked a couple of years ago
in the draft quarterback from cal He's he's pretty good

(45:20):
and he's getting better. And they got a real shot,
you know, Sunday to beat them. I don't know if
they will, but we'll see. Yeah, all right, we'll take
some some calls if you have questions on the Evil
Twitter as well. Let's go to Jason in Ottawa. Who's
next on Fox Sports Radio? Hello Jason? Hello man? Uh

(45:42):
do you mister Dryers? Thank you very much for stopping
on the show. I appreciate it. Thank you. Um yeah,
I'm glad you brought up the old Rams uniforms. I've
always thought they were the most gorgeous. Um. I love
that old helmet, especially the old fifties Rams yellow uniforms.
And like you said, that helmet has that really nice
thing corn on it. Um had to drop anyway, but uh,

(46:03):
they had those gorgeous I love those old fifties rabbits.
Nor Van Brocklyn as my favorite player of all time,
not just because of how we played, but because it
was cantankers attitude. I liked a lot, um, but I
had I had a question for you, Um, around the
time you went to the actually the year you went
to the Super Bowl. I don't know if you remember, Um,
you had a teammate yours. His name was Leon White,

(46:24):
and he actually went on to a measure of success
much like you did after his football career. He was
Vader uh professional wrestling superstar for WCW and UH w W.
I was just wondering if you had um any memories
of him. Was he as scary uh as a teammate
as he was in real life as a wrestler, You know,
I I don't. I don't think so. I mean, you

(46:46):
don't see those things coming, you know, I didn't. These
guys are imposing guys, But I you know, I wasn't
a w w F guy. No, not really, No, not really,
you know, boxing at all into that uh MMA sometimes
yeah yeah yeah. Ronda ROSSI yeah yeah. I thought she

(47:10):
was good for a while till she got knocked out. Yeah,
a couple of times she got everybody you gotta get
knocked out, no what you do? Yeah, Robert writes, Ben,
You've got to ask Fred about the time he covered
the Super Bowl and uh, he and UH and Lance
wore press hats with credentials. Yeah. What super Bowl was that?
That was super Bowl, Uh, nineteen seventy five, super Bowl six,

(47:35):
super Bowl it was. It was Steelers in the in
the Minnesota Vikings in New Orleans, and Dick Chap, late
Great Dick Chap of Sport magazine hired Lance Runsel and
I actually actually hired Lance to cover to cover to
do an article on the Super Bowl for the magazine.

(47:56):
And so he wanted me to go with him. I said,
on my interested in going down there, and then he says, well, maybe,
you know, let's go to the movie. So we went
to a movie and we saw front page the movie
front page, and so it was a Roaring twenties movie,
you know. So he says, let's get let's get some
Roaring twenty outfits. So we went to Western Costume, got

(48:20):
all of our Roaring twenty outfits and loaded up a
bunch of junk in our bags and then took off
for New Orleans. And we did the interviews as Roaring
twenty reporters, and we and we just asked the most

(48:40):
insane questions and you know, stuff like we knew when
he when he went to the Steeler Brunch, the breakfast
in the morning, the big one, the first one that
welcomes everybody. Places back with people, all reporters, you know,
all these short, short arm guys, and and so uh,

(49:02):
I asked, I raised my hand and the guy and
Dick Knowles says, yes, you in the back and I
so I asked this question. I said, A lot has
been said about the zone defense, about about you guys
using it or not using it. Uh, what do you
think of the zone defense? Do you think it's here
to stay? And if not, where do you think it's going?

(49:26):
And there was a pause and then everybody turned around
to look at who asked this question, and he answered
the thing straight yeah. And it was a joke. I
mean we asked. We asked a bunch of real stupid
questions the whole week that we were there. And then
finally the commissioners said, I want to see you guys.
So we went down downstairs into the ballroom and there

(49:49):
was a cocktail party and Roselle said, you guys, Uh,
are you guys are credited reporters? He goes, yeah, Dick
Shop He goes, Dick Shop boy said, and he says, well,
You're about done, aren't you. Yeah, we're done. Were we
finished up today, Commissioner. So it was it was a
nice Uh, it was a nice brush off. Yeah, that's funny. Uh,

(50:12):
Jeff writes, and he says, just pulling into work here
in Minnesota, minus twenty nine right now, where where's the windshill?
About minus sixty? That's Jeff. He's listening to us on CAFAN,
Minnesota's sports station right there. I see he's got He
took a picture of the radio just to prove he's
actually listening to the show. He says, he's California dreaming, Fredd,
He's dreaming on the weather here in California. Well, it's

(50:33):
it's gonna rain this weekend, I think. But yeah, that's
better than being seventy below Winshill of minus sixty. Uh.
I hope he's exaggerating that. But if it's minus twenty nine,
I heard windy, Yeah, I heard of this. Yeah, that's insane,
all that all that stuff coming in from the Arctic eras.
That's it looks purple on the on the on the
weather map. So it's serious. We're doing weather with Roberto. Later.

(50:55):
He's our weather guy, so he'll be giving the forecast later. Well,
and he's our eye candy or whether I candy on
the radios. Well, he's uh, he's got his work cut
off for Yes, Yeah, I was promoting the show earlier.
I was rudely cut off by the hard knitwork clock.
You do a show which will be tomorrow, which is
now today, because we're in the Wednesday. We've crossed over this,
Yes we are, and it's later today, and you'll be

(51:18):
doing show. It's on CRN Talk right, CRN talk dot com.
Go to that and you'll see the the uh the
sports Lounge with Fred Dryer and Mike Horn and uh
and we're on every weekend and uh we're on Sirious
Radio and uh and so it's fun. And we talked

(51:41):
about the politics of sports, you know, yeah, we we
we talked about the Kaepernick thing, kneeling and all that stuff. Oh,
it was big here too. I think the last time
you were in there was that was around the time
that was still yeah, still going on. We're you know this,
this is an interesting time to be alive. And the culture,
you know, it's crazy, right, not just for sports but

(52:03):
for everything. Yeah, but it bleeds over onto everything. Yeah,
I asked you often. I don't know we to talk
about on here, but you've you've crossed paths with with
Trump at some point along the way you would in
it might have crossed paths. And have you met any
other presidents other than I met Reagan? He met Reagan? Yeah,
I met Reagan and I met who else? Uh? I

(52:25):
think that was about it was that before or after
he was joining right after, right after he'd been friends. Yeah,
right after I went I went out to uh uh
uh to uh Manhattan Beach uh when uh when his
uh when his daughter was running for congress here in

(52:47):
the South Bay and uh and Maureen. So I was
invited to go out there. And then he surprisingly showed
up and he drives up, gets out. He's in the
on seat of this black limousine. He gets out and
people are going, oh, the President and everybody. I'm standing there.
He walks right over to me. It starts talking to

(53:09):
me about you know, the Rams games. He's crazy fan.
Yeah that's cool, yeah, yeah, yeah, very very nice guy.
So you have a call. Let's go to Scott, who's
in a la a spillover bonus coverage with our friend
Fred Dryer, who's here Hello Scott in La. You're next
on Fox Sports? Got Ben? How are you doing? Yes?

(53:30):
Got the uber jar? But I'm also an actor? Hi Fred?
How you doing? Pretty? Thank you? What was your first
paid acting gig where you felt like you were on
your way? My first paid act? Well, every every acting
job I did, I got paid for it. So okay,
what was your very first one? Oh god, it goes
back to nineteen seventy one. You know it was some

(53:53):
small little uh, some little tiny little movie we did
here in La, somewhere off the highway. Yeah, you know,
it's just you know, I've done so many of these
things at the beginning, and then uh, and then I
got serious about getting an agent. And then once I
got an agent, then I was I was more selective. Yeah.

(54:13):
When you did Hunter, though, did you know you have
a pretty good feeling that was going to be a
successful show. Well, well, when when they cast it, it
was a big deal for NBC, and uh and Steve
Cannon was the producer, and uh, I had done something
for him, Robert Davy, and I had done something for
him and one of his other shows, and uh, and

(54:36):
so when this thing came up, they brought me in.
I read for it, I got it, and there was
something about it that that told me that it could
be it could be a pretty good run for me.
And it went out for seven years, you know, so yeah,
I know I was pretty good. Yeah. And then ask
question Eddie the Great the Voice Garcia. I'm sorry boat Willie,

(55:00):
but I want to ask you how close were you
actually to be to getting the Sam Malone role on Sheers? Well,
I was. It was between uh, it was between Ted
Danson and myself. Wow. And they also had another guy
that they tested that day over Paramount. There was a
guy William Devane, remember William Devay. He was great. And

(55:20):
he came down into into my dressing room up there
and he said, you know, it's between you and Ted U.
My agent told me it was between you and Ted.
I'm just here just to balance it out, you know.
So there was three of us. We we all tested
and uh uh. Julia Duffy remember the little girl that
played in the play in in the series with Bob Newhart, Well,

(55:47):
she was my she They parried her off with me.
They went for the tall joke, tall and short joke,
and then they put ted with Shelley Law and and
and they got it and they and they should have
got it. They were really good at it. And uh
and then after that, NBC saw me in that and
then said, uh, they would they would sign off if
I were to be cast as Hunter, and I eventually

(56:10):
was and then yeah, you know, so there you go.
That's cool? Is it? Like a musician though, like you're
you do a lot of other stuff since then, but
I think of you as Hunt, like you want to
be thought of as other stuff other than Hunter, because
I sometimes musicians they're like, wait a minute, I did that.
You know, I made that song a million years ago?
What's up with that? Are you? Are you cool with
everything how it's played out? Oh, it's it just it

(56:30):
unfolds as it unfolds. Yeah, you have no control over it, actually,
and uh and you uh, you you give thanks because uh,
you know, people are thinking of you and and you
walk down the street and people yell out hey Hunter,
you know, and uh and then you know that you know,
you've you've you've done something whatever that is. Yeah, you crossed,

(56:52):
as you said, you crossed generations. We got young guys, guys.
My yeah, I was in New I was in New York,
you know, years ago, you know, fifteen years ago, and
I'm and it's it's like at ten o'clock at night,
I'm on Second Avenue and I'm crossing the street and
I hear from a distance from a cement truck Hunter. Yeah,

(57:13):
how could he recognize me from being way the hell
across the streets? Great? I mean it's really it was
really you know fans are you know when they when
they like something, you know, they really respond it's great. Yeah,
I'm so jealous for it. I do radio and you guys,
you know you we can't play old radio shows. I
can't play a monologue I did from twenty o three
and people say, I really love that monologue. But the

(57:34):
Hunter is still on TV, right. I mean, I'm so
jealous of you that you could do that. You know,
all these years later, you still get a check from that,
I assume you do, right on t Yeah, but they've
they've diminished certainly over years, but I mean, you get
they got to pay it for That's that's a great
thing about the other day. The other day, it was
last year. I go to the mailbox and I pull

(57:55):
up a check and there's like like fifteen hundred bucks
in it. You know for for a little thing. Did
you don't count on? The beautiful thing is is that
you don't. You don't count on certain things and it
just falls in your lab found money, right, that's just
found money. That's beautiful. Yeah, we don't find much money
in these parts, Fred, But that's okay. Yeah, I can

(58:15):
tell it's a little sparse around all right. Well, Fred
a good news. Cooper Loop. He is a great producer.
He coop you found parking, Zach correct Cooper Loop, he's
holding the parking. You are now free, Fred, you are
free to to leave. We love you. We'll have you
in again. Yes, we're gonna go. We're gonna have a meal. Yeah,
we're gonna do that. Uh. Well, and again CRN talk

(58:36):
if you want to hear more of Fred. Not on
Twitter though, No more Twitter, but CRN talk. Doctor. I'm
not I'm not I'm not twitting, I'm not tweeting. Yeah,
I'll let Trump do that. And uh but uh, everybody's
getting ready for the game. Who do you like the game?
What do you what do you like? It's an awkward
situation because I'm on the radio and Boston, I'm picking
the rams. Who are you? You're mister Ray, you gotta

(58:56):
pick the Rams. There have no choice, don't you You
have to pick off I do or not good? I
don't know. Well, you didn't want to play for the Patriots.
You forced your way out of a Patriot situation. Yeah,
that's right. So don't you have no choice but to
pull for the Rams? Yeah? I look, I do. I
would like to see him win because it would really
help them, you know, with their fan base here, because

(59:17):
fans are having a difficult time after they've been back
three years now. It doesn't seem possible, but they've been
back three years. Seeing gone for twenty right, diff'll do it?
Gone for twenty one, twenty two years? Yeah, ninety four,
I think it was anyway a right but but anyway,
the point is that it should be a good game.
I'd like to see the Rams win. We'll see, let's
see what happens, all right, Well, enjoy Fred, were you

(59:39):
watching the game, he'd be at home. You're going somewhere
some I'm just I'll I'll find it whenever I bump
into it. Okay, thank you, Fred, appreciate your good Ben.
I listened to you all the time. Thank you. Man.
I grew up watching it look I did. I'm not
that old, though I know I'm growing up listening to you.

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Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller all right. Later in this
hour we will have Mallard of the third degree. We'll
get that coming up here and we will get back,
get the train back going the right direction. Ernie the
great Opiner says with special non guest friend of the show,
Fred Dryer on the program, how freaking crazy is weed

(01:01:04):
Man trippy going by not getting on the show? Yes,
weed Man's freaking out. Although I think he likes Fred Dryer.
I think he likes Fred Dryer a mixed reviews some people.
Anytime you change anything, people freak out there. Oh you're
not doing the same ranting, get raving, you lunatic? Yeah,
he said post to scream Dance Dance Spider Dance on

(01:01:25):
the radio. They want to hear screaming and shouting about
Anthony David. I will I push back the Anthony Davis
rain We'll get. Don't worry. A plenty of time for
my latest Anthony Davis rain, we do. I saw a
photo th Old Rams helmet that Fred was talking about.
He was right, that's a good looking helmet. Yeah. D
Stover found a photo that's a solid look and it

(01:01:49):
looks like to me the photo I saw, the face
mask looks like something we would get when we were
kids if we ordered an NFL replica uniform. You know
what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It
was like to say that that's what you would get
and I'm blown away by like all our guys, there's
guys working outside Eddie in this polar vortex. We got
real men with the top testosterone masculinity. These guys are

(01:02:14):
working in this weather in Minnesota and elsewhere in the
Upper Midwest. And feel free to send your photos in
on Twitter and whatnot. We'll retweet them. I'm looking at
some of these pictures. The fire Lake DJ sent photo
of a nice bank of snow and the outs it
just looks horrific, just looks horrific. And then when we
mentioned earlier when Fred was in here, Jeff who just

(01:02:37):
pulled into work and it was minus twenty nine on
his car radio, the thermometer in his car with a
wind show of around minus sixty. How much would you
have to get paid to go out of your house
on a minus sixty wind showed day. How much would
quite a bit? Yeah, but you know you have bills
to pay. You gotta do it right. You gotta find

(01:02:57):
a way to do it, you gotta. You got no choice. Yes, So, yeah,
that mortgage doesn't pay itself, right, Those car payments don't
They don't pay themselves at all. We'll get back on
track now, the Super Bowl going on. There's a tradition
with the Super Bowl where since New York's not in it,
and usually they're not in it, the Giants get there
every so often the Jets very rarely, very very rarely

(01:03:20):
to the Jets get there. And so what the New
York media does is they try to hijack the Super
Bowl and they're like, what they play the could would
have should a game. For example, the Rams offensive line
was gobbage a couple of years back, and one of
the big signings a guy that used to play for
the Cincinnati Bengals, Andrew Whitworth, came over. And Andrew Whitworth

(01:03:42):
has been a rock of Gibraltar for the Rams offensive
line who's been pretty good the last couple of years.
And so there's a story in the New York media
that Andrew Whitworth wanted to play for the New York Giants.
He did not want to go to the Rams, but
Jerry Reese, the old Giants GM years back, didn't want him.
So that's story number one. I had story number one

(01:04:04):
because it makes the Giants look bad as we could
have had a guy and he's in the super Bowl now,
and that's a bad job, as Giants have had offensive
line issues for several years. Then story number two involves
the boy named Sue and Domikhan Sue, who's blocked me
on Twitter because I reported, thanks to a source who's
a friend of the show, a fellow listener who had

(01:04:25):
inside information that in Domikan Sue was gonna sign with
the Rams. So I remember he blocked me. That's along
to do. But anyway, in Dominican Sue, according to the
other story in New York, came close to signing with
the Jets. So you've got dueling stories. I two key
players on the Rams in the Super Bowl. One of
them could have been a Giant the other one. That

(01:04:46):
is how the New York media operate. That is how
they operate in the in the Big Apple. Also, now,
the President of the United States, now we'll press on you.
The President the United States likes to complain about fake
news fire. But the sports media, the mainstream football establishment,
got caught with their pants down on a story that

(01:05:08):
was regurgitated all over the play this week. And we
will get to the bottom of that. We got a
good one. We'll get to that here in a moment. Also,
mallet of the third degree We'll take some more calls
as well, but right now from the Geico Fox Sports
Radio studios, Polar Vortex be damned years Eddie Yeah in
a heated studio wearing shorts right now. NBA games of note,

(01:05:32):
the Pelicans without Anthony Davis in the lineup, he's still hurt.
While he's still on the team. They beat the Rockets
in Houston on twenty one to one sixteen. James Harden
did have thirty seven points in the loss, giving him
his twenty fourth consecutive game with thirty or more points.
Seventy six Ers go to La beat the Lakers one
to one O five Joel and Beat twenty eight points
in the win for Philadelphia. Lakers. Still without the intra
lebron James fell two games back of the Clippers for

(01:05:53):
the final playoff spot in the West. Thunder over the
Magic one twenty six one seventeen. Paul George thirty seven points,
Roclama City, Russell Westbrook another triple double twenty three points,
fourteen rebounds, fourteen assists, Rudy Gay It's a shot at
the buzzer, giving the Spurs eight one, twenty six one
twenty four win over the lowly Suns, and the Bucks
beat the Pistons one fifteen to one oh five. Milwaukee
now the league best thirty six and thirteen. It's a

(01:06:14):
half game better than Golden State and Toronto. College basketball
Number one Tennessee rolls over South Carolina on the road
ninety two to seventy volunteers now nineteen and one on
the year and undefeated in SEC play overtime for third
rate Virginia to win at number twenty three and see
State sixty six sixty five wins for number five Michigan,
number seven Kentucky, number eight Nevada, and number nine North Carolina,
while eleventh rank Kansas lost at Texas seventy three to

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thousand dollars by the NBA after his agent revealed to
the media that his client wanted to be traded. That's

(01:06:57):
justice Eddie's while the NBA's Collective bar Any Agreement prohibits
players or the rangements from publicly requesting trades. I saw
a stat that if you consider the totality of his contract,
that would be a fine about one hundred bucks to
you and me, yes, yes, And I want to ran
about that. Fred. Thank god Fred was here. I'm so
happy he hung out. And but I will rant. I

(01:07:17):
have some thoughts in a malven monologue that would be
coming up in about half an hour about Anthony Davis,
the polar vortex said, you know, we have weather with Roberto,
which will be coming up next hour. But many of
these senior members of the Mala militia are checking in
to give us their weather report, their eyewitness account as
they work. These are really many of the fat cats,

(01:07:39):
the nine to five ers. They don't have to deal
with this. It is at the coldest right about now,
right overnight, middle of the night. Man just Frigid, Just Josh,
he's a legend on the show. He says he's weighing
my options if I bail on my newspaper route white
Castle is looking pretty good. Air temp in Cincinnati's eight degrees,
which is warm compared to Minnesota, where it's minus twenty nine.

(01:08:02):
But the windshill in Cincinnati is minus seventeen right now
in Cincinnati. So and he said he's getting gas. It
looks like there's a nice little dusting of snow there
in Cincinnati that is just just absolutely wonderful. Spencer just
sent a photo of what looks to be just I

(01:08:24):
think he's moved to the North Pole. Spencer. I think
you've now moved to the North Pole. But don't loiter there.
Whatever you do, Spencer, do not loiter because there's a
sign that says no loitery. It's a bad job. You can't.
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we will all night. And it is a unique situation.
But this weather story is insane, and I would like
to see these photos. Give me your you're working, you're
you're actually out in this doing your job. We want
to hear send a photo. Let us know what it's

(01:09:06):
like where you're at and and let us live through
you in this this horrible weather. So I mentioned the
NFL media caught in a fake news story, Eddie. This
comes from the story that was widely reported in the
last twenty four to forty eight hours. The headline was
suspended wide receiver Josh Gordon, Yeah, is being his rehab

(01:09:31):
is being paid his inpatient rehab, is being paid for
his drug treatment by the New England Patriots. Did you
see that story? I did not see that story. I
did see a story about Patriots players still supporting him
and yeah, yeah, Well the story said, and Bleacher Report
picked it up in some other outlets. Once once one
person reports that, everyone else just copycats. It's about that.

(01:09:52):
It's kind of like high school, Eddie. It's once you know,
people start cheating off each other, and then everyone's cheating.
It's like one set of answers that go in. So
the Bleacher Report said that they sent out a message
that said the Patriots are paying for Josh Gordon's drug
treatment and a return to the team in the future
is possible. Well, who do you think shot that report down?
Do you think that report was shot down by the Patriots?

(01:10:14):
Do you think that report the Bleacher Report said we
actually got wrong. Do you think that report was shot
down by somebody else? What do you think I have
no knowledge of anything. No, the report was shot down
by the man himself, Josh Gordon. Josh Gordon responded to
the Bleacher Report report reporting saying, sorry, guys, but you

(01:10:35):
got fed another false report. I appreciate the support as
well as the criticism offered by your following, but for
future reference, feel free to reach out to me or
my representation listed via the NFLPA and will help deliver
as much info as we can. Thanks. And then he

(01:10:56):
had the prayer emoji there is Josh Gordon. Wait, your
report got a Roberto. Roberto does not pile on that.
You do not believe in piling on at all, Roberto,
you do not believe it. Yeah, let's go to the phone.
So Lenny is cashing a golden ticket from the cemetery
from the graveyard in Florida. Hello Lenny, Benny Boyd. That

(01:11:20):
was a great interview with Fred Dryer. I really enjoyed it.
I don't quote about half of it. I listened to
it later. Yeah, go download the podcast. Fred was wonderful.
We didn't have him in the first segment, but the
most of the first hour, and then we got a
full hour with Fred. The way I look at it,
we got a full hour radio with Fred. It's hot
to see, you know, a guy like that, tough as that,

(01:11:40):
no signs of CTA nothing. I was wondering how he
subsified all that stuff. I wonder. Yeah, I asked him
kind of a generic question, not a good question because
I asked it, but it was a generic question. And
he seems he's moving around pretty good. Fred's he seems
to be doing fine. I've I've interviewed and back when
I used to do interviews, this was not an interview.

(01:12:01):
We were just hanging with Fred, friend of the show.
If managements listening, not an interview. But when I used
to interview athletes, and we've had some i've worked with here,
they were much worse shape. And they were like, you know,
twenty thirty years younger than Fred, and they were in
bad shape, like they could barely move, They had the
fingers pointed the wrong direction, their knees cracked every time
they walked. It didn't seem that way with Fred. Fred

(01:12:22):
seems like he's doing pretty good. Yeah, thank god for that.
And I'd like to take hard he got another thirty
seven tonight. I wanted if he caught a pass tonight
and took a shot fro somebody else. Yeah, go back.
I did a monologue last week which was critically acclaimed
by everyone except Chris and Houston. He's the only one

(01:12:42):
that didn't like it. Everyone else loved that monologue. They
thought it was a ten. Chris thought it was a one.
But yeah, I went into that. Yeah, to me, he's
the most uninteresting James Harden great player in the NBA. Statistically,
people will look back at James Harden this year and say, amazing,
I'm bored with him. His ignature move is getting fouled.
I don't find that entertaining. I do not find that

(01:13:04):
enjoyable to watch, but other people like in huge. If
Isaiah Thomas, the originalized Aiah Thomas played in this day
and age, he'd be Stephan Curry to tenth Power. Yeah.
It was just phenomenal. And uh yeah, I think he
gets basketball land. And by the way, the poll of
vortex out here in Florida, it's pretty chili. It's about

(01:13:26):
fifty degrees out here. Make sure you wear an extra
pair of socks. Don't forget. Don't forget the b TNS
dot TV. Get the Malomlissia on that will you? All right? Yeah,
whatever you said? All right, I gotta thank you. All right,
there's I love you man, all right, there's Lenny. He's
really good at Baldadash. He's really really good at Baldadash.

(01:13:47):
And that'll be coming up later. It's the Ben Maller
Show off. Time. Now for the Insta Trivia. You were
deprived of the who Am I game, which is bad
for you and good for me because I can use
it tomorrow. So see, it's bad for you you didn't
get to play, but really good for me because I
spend way too much time trying to find unique questions
so Mike and the LBC and a couple other knuckleheads

(01:14:07):
don't get it right. So it saved me about ten
minutes work. So I'm glad that Fred stayed over and
we just it was nice. So again, bad for you,
good for me. Here's the Insta Trivia. Only three left
handed quarterbacks have started a Super Bowl and only two
of them have won it. That would be Kenny Stabler
and Steve Young. Blank was only the third left handed

(01:14:30):
quarterback to start a Super Bowl. He didn't win it though,
name him all right again. Only three left handed quarterbacks
have started a Super Bowl. Only two have won it,
Kenny Stabler and Steve Young. Blank was the third left
handed quarterback to start, but he did not win it.

(01:14:51):
That is the insta trivia celebrating the polar vortex. As
we press on, we'll get to that. We'll do it next.
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(01:15:33):
Pay off the institue. We got Mallard to the third degree,
and I am If I see it, I'll retweet it,
like guys are taking photos of the weather. How about
this guy Brandon, this polar vortex. He had to break
into work, but he had to pry the door open
to get into work minus twenty six degrees and he
had to If I have to break into work, I'm

(01:15:56):
going home. I'm not going to work. I love this job,
but I've to break into the radio station. I'm going home.
And Spencer, I mentioned this earlier. He had the photo
he took of the outside and there was a no
loitering sign, and I mentioned this. I do not believe
that law enforcement will be enforcing the loitering laws. I
think you're okay, you're allowed to loiter. You'll also freeze

(01:16:18):
to death that you're standing outside. And and then we've
got Blair who's in Plainfield, Illinois, where it's really warm.
It's like minus sixteen. So he's in he's in good
shape there, he's fine, and minus sixteen that's nothing, small potatoes.
Here's the instant trivia. Only three left handed quarterbacks have
started a Super Bowl and only two have won it.

(01:16:39):
Ellie Kenny Stabler and Steve Young Blank was the third
filling the blank. Who who do we have here? A
happy Bong Tucker's going with Donald Duck see page Damn.
Bob Greasy from Captain Cliche. Mike from Pittsfield. You know
this is easy if weed Man Hippy's getting right by
Mike and Pittsfield. Get it right. Bobby Brady from Harry Hothead.

(01:17:01):
That's his answer. Who do we have? Scott the Uber
Drivers just happy? He got to say hello to Fred Dryer?
Who else? Cam Newton from Jay Ryan Spencer got this
one right, Donald Trump, Doobie Tooker from Stoner Marvin page Down,
page down. Joe Namath from the New York Bozo Gumby
Dave got it right. Dick Butt Kiss from the Dick

(01:17:22):
Pole account. Frosty Iceman from Mister Wright, Jeff Rutledge tossed
out by Rob in Minnesota. Franco is going with Sean
Landetta as his answer, Eddie, Do you have an answer? Eddie?
Is Norman Boomer a siasin Boom Baby that's right? Super

(01:17:45):
Bowl twenty three against the forty nine Ers. Boomer Asiason
the third left handed quarterback to ever reach the Super
Bowl now, isn't that one of those self fulfilling prophecies.
They don't normally draft left handed quarterbacks when you're right handed.
If you're handed, they try to get you to not
to play quarterback. All right, more on that later. We
got more pressing business to the third degree. This is

(01:18:09):
one big band gets Grail Kopa Loop who found the
stash of parking. So if you want free parking, we've
got it. Don't tell James. Yeah, I'm sorry, hoops. All right.
Reports on Monday revealed that the Eagles do not plan
to tag Nick Foles and seemingly already let him go

(01:18:30):
free and clear ben. Who is Nick Foles going to
start for? Because it's gonna be someone right, Yeah, well sure,
yeah he shouldn't. But he's a high end backup, not
a starter. It's going to be Jacksonville. Jacksonville is in
the pole position. All the indications point to Jacksonville. First
of all, the Jags have been practicing strategic incompetence for years,

(01:18:52):
so this is the kind of hot potato that they
would sign up for as a franchise. People have said, well,
you need a game manager, you gotta get rid of borders,
you need a reliable game manager. Well, a lot of
people believe Nick Foles is that guy. I'm not convinced,
so it makes sense. And secondly, Tom Coughlin, the grand
poobah of Jacksonville football, who's calling the shots, He one

(01:19:16):
hund wants to get rid of borders, which is the
right move. That makes sense. The fact that they've already
hired a confidant of Nick Foles and John D. Philippo,
who was a coach with the Eagles a couple of
years ago, as the offensive coordinator. That's an obvious indicator.
Even blind Scott can see that. I'd also keep an
eye on the Redskins, but I put Jacksonville in the

(01:19:37):
pole position next. Now, when it comes to rookies in
the NBA, all the talk right now surrounds Luca Donzik. However,
Trey Young said in an interview that it's a marathon,
not a sprint, and that he will be the better
player in the end. Any chance of that, Ben, What
the hell's he supposed to say? I suck and I'm
gonna suck the rest of my career. Of course, he

(01:19:58):
can't say that he's got them a cheesemost thing going
on now here's what I'll say. Hey, Trey Young has
about a ten percent chance of making this happen, which
is I'm going high. At ten percent, he's obviously got
to go out and prove it. Prove it with your play. Statistically,
he's taking less shots of game and averaging around the
same points per game. Trey Young, he's just not getting

(01:20:19):
the publicity now, I will tell you all. So he
is the beneficiary of low expectations. Trey Young's off the
grid in Atlanta. People have already written him off, which
works in his favor. He can use that to his advantage.
And Luca don Chick on the other side, He's now
in people's minds. He's first in people's minds. The Maverage
forward has a bullseye on his back, and he has

(01:20:41):
the curse of high expectations. He's now got to follow
up his rookie season with another solid season. He's only
shooting forty three percent, which isn't all that great. But
that said, I would still rather have Don Check right
now than Trey Young next now. Another report that surfaced
yesterday is that the Raiders could go after a top
quarterback this year's draft, despite the fact that they don't

(01:21:02):
plan on getting rid of Derek Carr? Ben, what are
the chances that this happens? Pretty good? Right? If if
you look at this object to that and you don't
want to hear this Raider fan, But if you look
below the surface, Derek Carr was not John Gruden's quarterback, right,
he was inherited by John Gruden. And it makes sense.
Why don't you trade Car at the draft and draft

(01:21:24):
some other quarterback and you know, let that quarterback play
or have Car stay and then groom that quarterback for
a year in tim Buck two where the Raiders are
going to play before they move to Vegas. John Gruden
does weird things. It makes a lot of sense there.
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(01:22:28):
they are not messing around. When Adam Silver has an
iron fist, he's got bloody knuckles is what He's got,
brass knuckles, and he is throwing his weight around to
not mess with the commission of the NBA. After a
very brief investigation, which lasted about seventeen years less than

(01:22:50):
the Muller Council, the Commissioner's office determined that Anthony Davis
and his agent should be punished for going rogue. Now
what was the punishment he and his meddling agent demanding
a trade and sending out smoke signals that it was
to the Lakers and only to the Lakers. And that's

(01:23:11):
essentially what they said. The UNI brow does not want
to play in New Orleans anymore. He's so distraught by
how embarrassing their fan base was after the Saints game
in the NFC Championship that he wants out and want
us to play for the Lakes. So did you hear
what the penalty was I hope you're sitting down. I
hope you're warm. I hope you're warm. Here the NBA

(01:23:33):
find Anthony Davis fifty thousand dollars for his agent, Rich Paul,
publicly asking for a trade. Fifty thousand dollars. Wow, Holy mackerel.
Fifty that's a lot of money for me. That's a
lot of money for fifty thousand bucks. All right, so
let's discuss. Now the question is did Adam Silver do

(01:23:54):
the right thing? Hell? No, Hell Now my thoughts on this.
You've got the lapd Kawi's playbook. You've got that. And
the third piece of the puzzle, which we will put
together here as well, is the dark side. The dark side. Now,

(01:24:16):
first of all, anyone who knows how the business of
basketball works knows that this is completely ridiculous. Anthony Davis
is making this year. You talk about a hardship twenty
five point four million dollars. Now, I'm pretty sure he
didn't use a knife or a gun. He used a
basketball and sneakers to get twenty five point four millions.

(01:24:36):
So I'm not begrudging the fact that he's making that money.
But what does it mean? It means that Adam Silver.
Just find Anthony Davis zero point zero zero one nine
percent of his yearly salary. He makes over three hundred
thousand dollars per game. Three hundred ten thousand is the

(01:24:58):
amount of money Anthony Vis makes per again, whether he
plays or not, he's off, he's often sitting on the bench,
you know, he's often sitting on the bench or rehabbing
in that five thousand dollars suit. Now for terms that
you and I can relate to, because we're common people,
we're regular people. Here's here's how this this breaks down.

(01:25:19):
For a person making fifty thousand dollars a year, I'm
at fifty grand a year, it would be the equivalent
of a ninety eight dollars penalty. Ninety not even a hundred,
Eddie said earlier. One hundred ninety eight dollars is the equivalent. Now,
if you make fifty thousand and you got fined ninety

(01:25:41):
eight dollars like a citation, some kind of traffic citation
or something like that. Okay, I've been in more trouble.
I have been fined more than Anthony Davis, and I
didn't demand to trade from Fox Sports Radio. The lapd
ding me four hundred dollars. I got a ticket for

(01:26:03):
four hundred dollars. I had my car service, that's some
work done on the engine, and they gave the car back.
The auto shop for some reason turned the lights from
the automatic position to the non automatic, which means you
had to turn them on. Why do they do this?
They do this all the time. Why do they do it?

(01:26:24):
Just a mess with the customer. If you're in the
car repair business, why do you do that? And if
you do have to change the lights, why don't you
change them back? Anyway? So I got pulled over, in fact,
a block away from the iHeart Media building here in
Los Angeles. I got pulled over block away. I got
a four hundred dollars ticket. So I have been punished

(01:26:45):
more than Anthony Davis. And I haven't violated any of
the by laws of the NBA. Haven't violated any of them. Now,
I love the NBA media because the mainstream basketball media,
they are so busy scratching the back of Adam Silver
and giving him a bubble bath. It is over the top.

(01:27:08):
It is absolutely over the top. They are saying that
the Commissioner's hands were tied behind his back, that the
NBA's constitution and by laws indicate that what Adam Silver
did was the most that he could do. That the
by laws say that a fifty thousand dollars fine is
the maximum amount the commissioner can find a player for

(01:27:32):
making a public trade request. The obvious answer to that
as well, Okay, change the by laws. And here's what
I would advise the commissioners too, because this is embarrassing.
Of course, if the commissioner had any cajones, this is
what he would do. All right, here's what you do.
Every sport has the same best interest of the game
clause somewhere in the collective bargaining agreement. The commissioner has

(01:27:56):
these powers and the best interest of the game or
some version of that, some variation that. So the commissioner
what he should have done. He would have been better
off saying, for the better mid of the game of basketball,
I'm gonna find you fifty thousand, because that's all I
can find you. But i'm gonna put it in embargo
on you going to the Lakers for five years. Eventually

(01:28:18):
you can go to Lakers, but you've got to wait
five years because of this. And if that happened, then
of course this kind of stuff would stop, but the
Commissioner's not gonna do it because the commissioner and many
in the league office they don't want their star players
in towns like New Orleans. But that's what an adult
would you. An adult was, all right, we're gonna put

(01:28:39):
an embargo out. Davis cannot go to the Lakers for
five years. Lebron will be thirty nine years old by
the time you are allowed to go to the Lakers,
and Lebron's contract will be up. But then you can
go to the Lakes, knock yourself out, have a good time.
I'll buy your balloons and cake. You have good time.
Now the second point here, there is a conspiracy that

(01:28:59):
Aunt Deny Davis has ulterior motives to leave the Pelicans.
I got an email from t Rick in Michigan. He
was one of many, but he was the first one
I responded to, So I'll give t Rick in Michigan credit.
I think he's a podcast listener, but maybe he listens
live and Trick he said. He pointed out a story
from a couple of weeks ago that said the New

(01:29:21):
Orleans medical staff is essentially incompetent and they're a bunch
of boobs and they don't know what they're doing. The
training staff, the doctors in New Orleans, and essentially a paraphrase,
give you the thumbnail version. They're claiming that they have
the worst medical staff in the NBA. And that is
a correlation as to why the unibrow wants out. That

(01:29:42):
is the causation of that, and also why he's always hurt. Now,
as I said to Trick, that might be true, how
am I to say any different. I don't know the
medical staff in No Lands And for the basketball team,
maybe they are incompetent. And the trainer, I've got a
bunch of country bumpkins that are in charge. Nevertheless, you

(01:30:04):
are gullible if you believe this. That is an old
fashioned plant. Anthony Davis and his team planted this story
with some advocates in the media a couple of weeks back.
That is right out of the Kawhi Leonard playbook. Remember
Kawhi in San Antonio blamed the medical staff. He got

(01:30:24):
independent medical counsel and that's when he forced his way
out of the Alamo and just didn't play in subordination.
Kawhi Leonards like I just don't feel right and then
all of a sudden, he goes to Toronto. He's able
to play the Uni Brow was the tin man, the
glass man long before the medical staff turned over in

(01:30:48):
New Orleans. So that rumor should die on the vine,
that conspiracy should die on the vine. Now the last
point here, the NBA has a burgeoning crisis on its hands,
and it's been going on for a long time, but
it's gotten even worse in recent years. You've had three
examples of players that want their way out, attempting to

(01:31:09):
jerry rig the system, prematurely leave small market teams to
go play for the Lakers, high profile team, or one
of the other glamour franchises in the NBA, and league
management has essentially been castrated. Is what's happened here. The
players are now setting the way, and it's been this

(01:31:30):
way for a number of years, but it's so painfully
lately what's been going on. And Adam Silver is the
last guy that I would want in a foxhole to
help defend this practice. If anything, Adam Silver is going
to be like a helicopter parent encouraging this. His actions

(01:31:50):
indicate that in recent years the trend has gone on
and on tamper Kalude, Tamper Kalude. Now the dirtiest franchise
of them all is the lay the Lakers have already
invested by the time this gets done by my math,
now we're not done yet. They've already been fined twice
for five hundred and fifty thousand dollars Laker personnel. I'm

(01:32:13):
gonna tack on the fifty thousand dollars fine for Anthony
Davis because I have pretty good idea that Lebron James
was behind that. So that's a six hundred thousand dollars
the Lakers have invested in tampering, which is a very
small amount in the big picture. If you get one
of these players. They keep trying the war against the

(01:32:36):
NBA's middle class. Paul George attempted to force his way
out of Indianapolis. Wanted to play for the Lake Indianapolis
market number twenty five, LA market number two. Kawhi Leonard
took up battering Ram to get out of San Antonio
thirty seventh market and try to go to LA. And
now we have another mid market team, mid to small market,

(01:32:59):
trying to fight the good fight. Anthony Davis in New
Orleans which is television market number fifty three, is trying
to manipulate his way to the lake. There is nothing
that can be done when someone's a free agent. We
had Fred Dryer in here go back and hear the podcast,
and Fred he told the story about he was fed up.

(01:33:19):
He was playing for the New York Giants years ago
in different generation. Giants blew. They were terrible. He didn't
want to be part of it. The Giants didn't know
how to do anything. They put a team together. So
he waited till his contract was up and he left.
He went to play for the Rams. Actually he was
gonna go to Hollywood, but he left. These guys aren't
free agents. If Anthony Davis is a free agent, I

(01:33:41):
want to play for the Lakers. That's why he's got
a year and a half left on a contractual agreement
to play for the Pelicans in New Orleans. Now, I
pray that the Pelicans do the right thing here and
send the unibrow to Siberia, which is pretty much all
over the Upper Midwest in the United States right now.
That is where Siberia is. But the Spurs did the

(01:34:04):
right thing. The Pacers did the right thing. They didn't
give in to Kauai and Paul George both made really
good basketball trades. New Orleans should do the same. And
by the way, the Celtics are the team that has
the most to offer. Just to wait a little bit,
my big deal. Patience it's a virtue. That's the old saying, right,
Patience is a virtue. And if I here's the dark side,

(01:34:25):
if I'm an NBA owner in Milwaukee or Minnesota, you
have to do something the next couple of years, because
the way this works, you know, and I know that
who's gotten next janis Identi Coumbo, Carl Anthony Towns. That's

(01:34:47):
who's gotten next. They are the next mid market stars
who are going to be influenced to leave Milwaukee in Minnesota,
whether maybe it's not the Lakers in the cup years,
maybe it's the Knickerbockers or the Chicago Bulls wake up
from hibernation. That is what's next. So this is if

(01:35:10):
you're an owner of the Bucks, if you're an owner
of the Timberwolves, you've got to do something. Otherwise what's
the point. I mean, you're you're just a minor league team,
You're a minor league organization, and it's just everything's. Hey,
let's eventually we'll just get all these guys on a
couple of teams and that's that's the way it goes.
We'll have the Harlem Globe Trudders like they have with

(01:35:31):
the Golden State Warriors. But the Lakers are like, we
want to be the Harlem Globe Trudders too, right, And
there's some other questions, you will the Anthony Davis conundrum.
Will it lead to Lebron James being punished because Lebron James.
You really have to be a kool Aid drinking sycophan

(01:35:53):
to not realize Lebron James is behind this. Rich Paul's
is guy got a high basketball like Rich Paul is
the double agent, lifelong friend of Lebron James, childhood friend
of Lebron James, and and all that going back many years.
And it's obvious Lebron still like from the Vatican we

(01:36:13):
talked about this, so smoke signal from the High Priestess.
Lebron James goes out the Reverend Lebron James and then
within a month the agent Rich Paul comes out and says, hey,
we've got to get Lebron out of or Anthony Davis
out of New Orleans. We've got to get him with
with the Lakers trash. Yeah, and the Pelicans should also

(01:36:36):
be owed some compensation here for this give up a
first round pick the Lakers. This is the third time
the Lakers have been punished for tampera Give up a pick,
give a pickup. Remember the Patriots had to give up
a first round pick because one of their scandals. They
they only had thirty one picks in the first round
that year. Just give it up, all right, se Ben

(01:36:57):
Mathers show on Fox, We say a load to Edmund Dallas,
both Willie Judas, Solid gold Garcia. Now, Ben, you know
what a huge fan of the NBA I am. You are,
mister basketball you are. I have always been fascinated with
Adam Silver, not just because he looks like an extraterrestrian.

(01:37:18):
He looks like he needs a sandwich, but this relationship
he has with the players. And I understand the NBA
likes to sell itself as all, we have a partnership
with our players and blah blah blah. It seems to
me and you, you and I've worked in this business
for a while. Have you ever had one of those bosses.
That seems like he wants to be your buddy. It's
just an awkward thing for your boss to act like

(01:37:40):
he wants to be your friend and that you know
that he's not. And it's a weird situation. And Adam
Silver works for the owners. How does he go into
labor negotiations with these guys, because there's still even if
you want to say, oh, it's a partnership, it's still
an employee, you know, relationship with your boss. It's such
a weird thing. He just seems like he wants to

(01:38:01):
be liked by the players. Somebody, I got a perfect analogy.
You know what Adam Silver is. Adam Silver is like
the step dad who supplies the weed and booze for
the party. That's what Adam Silver is, right, He's that guy.
He's got and whatever you want, whatever you want, we're
gonna have the greatest party. Knock yourself out. That's essentially
what he's doing here. I love that. Yeah, thank you.

(01:38:25):
And then but what does he do when mom comes home? Though?
You know, like yeah, when the owners we're like, hey, man,
what you do imagine being that trust fund guy that
owns the bucks. You're like, you have Jannis Denta Komball,
this burgeoning star in Milwaukee. Who you know next year,
Once this all gets sorted out, Once this all gets
sorted out, and Anthony Davis is traded somewhere, he's gonna

(01:38:47):
be the next guy. He's gonna be like, where is
he gonna go? We gotta get him out of Milwaukee.
He's not happy. The Bucks can't win a championship, but
they can't get enough good players in Milwai. Even though
the Bucks are playing great this year. They have a
wonderful regular season right here, and they'll be, ah, he's
gotta get out of there. And if Anthony Davis gets
traded to I don't know, Toronto or something like that,
then they'll be like, well, here's what the Laker. The pivot.

(01:39:08):
The Laker historian pivots. I've seen it. They pivot. They're like,
all right, now we'll get yannest Jannis. He had a nice,
uh nice meal in Los Angeles and West LA at
a restaurant there, an Italian restaurant in West LA and
off Beverly, and he wants to play for the Lakers
because he wants to eat at that restaurant three times
a week and somebody will write that and it'll get

(01:39:29):
repeated in all that. Hey, Eddie, I love these uh,
I love these photos. We are covering the polar vortex
which is going on here. I love this term is intriguing.
I will it's just wonderful. Yeah, I got some more.
I got some more great pictures. Jason, I'm gonna retweet this.

(01:39:51):
I'll post this. Jason. I live in Green Bay. My
route takes me to Sturgeon Bay. Oh, I'm looking at
the same pictures. Oh my god, is that not just that?
If you if you see me that picture it said,
where's that picture, I would have said Antarctica, Yeah, North Pole,
something like yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah. That is insane. I
mean it's hard. You can't see cold, right, but you

(01:40:14):
can in these photos see cold. You're not supposed cold
is cold, right. You can see snow, you can see rain,
you can see that, but you're not supposed to be
see a cold. But I can see the cold. I
can feel the cold looking at this photo. Did you
see a Reeks video? He said out uh in Minnesota.
It's throwing the throwing the hot uh water into the
air and then having it turn into did one of

(01:40:36):
those Yeah, check that. Yeah, all right, so keep them
coming all as. If I see it, I'll send it
back out to the masses and the mallem militias so
we can all live through. You're you're our eyes, You're
our eyes. This well, we'll check it out. We're enjoying
being a spectator of this. Yeah, I mean, I'm fine.
I mean I did take I dressed up, Eddie, I

(01:40:57):
wore pants and well because we had a special friend
come in. Not a guest, not a guest, but the
great Fred Dryer, longtime friend. I gotta get Pontorella in here.
I'm telling you, Erica Strada. We gotta get him in
here next. I don't know him though, does probably not.
I almost Roberto probably knows him. He almost got hired
years ago. Wow, how by Eddy Garcia. That's that's not right.

(01:41:25):
I didn't play that. Uh. Later this hour, we're gonna
changing that. We have weather with Roberto, which is exciting,
it's entertaining. It just sounds greatcing Ols got the sponsors
for that too, we do. Yeah, all right, we'll have that.
We have too much or not enough later this hour
and uh, a whole a whole new way to do sports. Medicine, Eddie.

(01:41:46):
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(01:42:28):
in a couple of minutes. If you want to play
a radio game show, call now, Call now. We'll get
to that as we yapp the night away, warming you
up like a fire, So imagine my voice is fire
all right. Elliana, who is a p one, She's great.

(01:42:49):
She works in the weather business. I'm not sure exactly
what she does. But she's she's a very important person
in the weather game, and she's up all night and
she listens to the show and she's got all the data,
like she's tracking all this stuff where she works. And
she says, the coldest observation I have found, She says
tonight is minus thirty seven degrees with a minus sixty

(01:43:12):
three degree windshill. Where is that, you ask, That is
in Park Rapids, Minnesota. So congratulations to Park Rapids, Minnesota.
At this moment, you are in the lead. You're in
the number one chair for the coldest weather in this
polar vortex, according to a professional, a woman that keeps

(01:43:37):
track of this stuff. She's in the weather business, and
she's going with that. That's right in the middle of Minnesota,
right in the middle of the state of Minnesota. There.
I'm looking at it. But that is that is tremendous,
and I think this is the it's gotta be a
record that the record low in January is minus well,
let's see her minus forty five, So I guess it's

(01:43:59):
not a record. H nothing, It's been colder there, all right,
spend Mala show on Fox the real question. Let's go
to Chris in Houston. Who's next on Fox Sports Radio?
Hello Christopher, Well, I tell you Ben that no first
now segment, Well, mister dry, that was the most just
whackest just questions ever. This is a Ben Mallage show.

(01:44:19):
I want to know, how did you guys leave? What
did he think about when he first seen you? Like? What? Well?
That was the previous when he was in here. No,
I've Fred. I know he listened to our show before
I met him. But I was a fan of his
before I met him because I watched I used to
watch Hunter when I was a kid, and I knew
when he played in the NFL with the Rams. I
was a Rams fan when I was growing up, So

(01:44:41):
I knew friend. We have mutual friends, we have friends.
I was introduced by someone that we both know. So
but I tell you you know, I know he's listened
to them Benn Mallage Show, and he knows we like
to you know, have fun. That wasn't fun. That was born,
he wasn't born, And he didn't want to answer them.
Old blame ask questions. I guess some question you look
at the spicy questions. The last time you got with

(01:45:03):
a hooker? You know, come on, yeah, that's that's really good.
You should you should have gotten on the air and
asked that question. That would have been a good question.
I was waiting then you didn't want to go because
you know, I sparked the life up. But let's talk
about it. This Lakers fiasco. This this this this Lebron
Laron fivage. I called the lawnchoage. That's what I called it.

(01:45:25):
I mean Laker fans. I mean, is everybody gonna go
to the Lakers. Now, we're gonna get to this. Every year,
every free agent is going to the Lakers. And then
Rich Paul with his little crony ass coming around, uh,
basically being a scapegoat for Lebron fifty thousand dollars being

(01:45:46):
You're right, that is that is pathetic. That's pathetic. Adam
Stilward should be right over the coals for that crap.
I mean, dude, come on, dude, he basically poops fifty
thousand dollars. Yeah, and he does. And you look at
the the list Rich Paul, you're trying to say, well,
clutch sports, what other clients does he have? Who's the

(01:46:09):
next top player? I guess Eric Bledsoe's decent in in Milwaukee.
Is a lot of these other guys that just role players?
Is not? Anthony Davis is the big fish? I guess well,
Ben Simmons, also Ben Simmons, we can't shoot, so I
don't can sid man Man? Well, Ben, we all know
that Lebron punks the rest of the NBA players. He

(01:46:30):
basically bullies them to sign with h homeboy, and if
he don't, he don't mess with him. He don't like
Steph Curry, he don't like James Hardy. They're not sign
a risk Paul. The Dick Stars are not signing with
Ris Paul. He don't want to mess with him. Only
one he messed with, Kevin Durant to play with him.
We'll see. It's up to New Orleans. I will see
New Orleans now the balls in their court. We'll see

(01:46:50):
if they're spying the They how to follow the league? Well, yeah,
follow lead to Popovitch. You traded trade? Did you hear
what Papa did though? Well? I saw him deal Dimp.
What's his name, Del Dimp, the dummy in New Orleans. Yeah,
he called him and told him, hey, don't trade him
some to the Lakers. Yeah, I saw that. I hope.

(01:47:11):
I hope that's true. I don't know that's I mean,
I saw that. I hope it's true. It'd be funny
if it was true. He's right, You don't, you don't rule.
Listen if you want, you tell Anthony Davis if you
want to play with Lebron, you're gonna be. You'll be.
Wait a couple of years, he'll be thirty six and
you can play with him. Knock yourself out, play with
the thirty six year old Lebron James. Oh, he's just

(01:47:32):
gonna be used as escape being. We know that, and
I'm out of here. Ah, they thank God. All right,
we need somebody to play the game call right now
operators are standing by too much and not enough. And
then weather with Roberto. We are so excited about that.
Roberto is just going to give the weather and all
the upper Midwest cities, you get all that ready to
go his weather debut. He's got the Doppler forecast weather

(01:47:54):
music for him to play. They we're prepared. This is
a big This is gonna be better than romance with Roberto. Well,
I don't know about that. We'll find out. We'll fight out.
But right now, before we get to all that we
got to get the game and from the Geico Fox
Sports Radio studios years Eddie, let's get you caught up.
One to happen last night in the NBA with some
games of note, including the Pelicans, still without star Anthony Davis,

(01:48:15):
who's heard they go to Houston beat the Rockets one
twenty one to one sixteen. James Harden did have thirty
seven points in defeat four of the Rockets at just
twenty fourth consecutive game scoring thirty or more. Seventy sixes
go to La beat the Lakers one twenty one to
one oh five. Joel and b twenty eight points for Philadelphia. Lakers,
still without the age of Lebron James falls two back
of the Clippers for that final playoff spot. In the West,

(01:48:35):
Thunder over the Magic one twenty six, one seventeen. Paul
George thirty seven points for Oklahoma City, Russell Westbrook a
triple double twenty three points, fourteen rebounds and fourteen assists.
Rudy Gay hits a shot at the buzzer, giving the
Spurs a one twenty six one twenty four win over
the Suns and the Bucks knock off. The Pistons won
fifteen to one oh five Milwaukee now the league best
thirty six and thirteen on the year College basketball, top

(01:48:56):
ranked Tennessee an easy winner over South Carolina on the road,
ninety seventy volunteers or nine and one excuse me, nineteen
and one and undefeated an SEC play overtime rated. They
could go out in the first tournament game. If they
even make the NCAA tournam maybe they'll lose. They'll lose
a bunch of games the rest of the way. Well,
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shriking news. Number three Virginia, who also is a team
that seems to lose earlier in the tournament. They won

(01:49:17):
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(01:49:37):
if you saw the story, but apparently there was a
medical marijuana commercial that tried to buy a Super Bowl
ad and the NFL said no, they turned them away.
I guess they figured that was not appropriate for their product.
But it did make me think. Okay, now I know
the super Bowl is in Miami next year, and weed
Man Hippie apparently wants to go there, and you're going

(01:49:57):
to vouch for him, perhaps to try to get any
I promise We'm not. I'm not guaranteed management will sign
off on him, but my my pitch to management is
going to be that super Bowl Media Day is perfect
for people like weed Man. Well, with this news in mind, yeah,
the NFL rejecting the medical marijuana commercial, we were going
to have to change his name. He will not be
able to go to media day as weed Man Hippie. Yeah. Well,

(01:50:21):
but maybe by next year. The NFL was against gambling,
they were the devil. Now they have a deal with Caesars,
So these things change. These things change. Hope hopefully by
next year they will change. In weed Man, he's gonna
he's gonna have to use his like his real name.
We've come like Billy Billy, Billy the hippie maybe, but

(01:50:42):
everything he has has like logos of weed on it.
That could be a problem, problematic, right, But the players
will flock to him. The players will be like, hey,
what's going on, weed man? What's going on? Man? We'll
give him a list of silly questions like the old thing,
the old stuttering John Bitt back in the back in
the day. I can guarantee you a weed man knows

(01:51:06):
he will not ever do that again. So he will
ask pretty much anything. Do you see the guys at
barstool or did dragging? They got one of them got arrested.
Portnoy was at portinoys that got arrested. It was a
couple of them, I hope a couple of years. You
do not like da No, you're not a fan of
his work. No, what do you not like about Portnoy?

(01:51:28):
The whole like frat guy persona. You don't enjoy that. No,
it's stick though, that's not real, right, you know, Yeah,
it's not real. It's he's playing a character. How do
you know? Yeah, I've heard pretty confident, I guess. I mean,
I've I've seen some like behind the I don't know,
I don't you don't like well. Plus he's a blood

(01:51:50):
rival of Clay Travis. Right, well, I wasn't loyal. I
was loyal to Clay. But now I'm done to this
whole Danny Gee fiasco. I don't have some time to
get into a nowady, but I'm very upset. Yea, he's
on my blacklist. He's done. He's not going to get
to come to the Ugly More. The party invitation is out.

(01:52:12):
He's I hope he enjoyed the party last year. He's
not invited again. He's dead to me. How could he
do that? I mean, I mean, I mean it's crazy
mortal enemy and he's hanging out hugging him. I think
they they I think they made out. I think they
might have made out there right there in the media center.
Let's get to the game, because we have to get
to weather. With Roberto on this too much or not

(01:52:39):
enough enough already, let's do it here we go too
much or enough. Let's welcome in our contestant celebrating the
the weather. It's all about everyone loves the weather. It's
really cold or really hot. That day would be historically cold,
let's say hello to the demo guy. Hello, demo guy,

(01:53:01):
you're really blowing stuff up today? Is that your normal protocol?
No change at all? Yeah, no, no change. Yeah, we're
working a little bit outside night too, and it's twenty
nine below and yeah, fifty seven blow and chill, so
it's perfect now colds park rapids. But you know, hey,
we got a little bit of a uplift. We got

(01:53:24):
forty degree temperature coming on Saturday, so yeah, get the
get the sun time lotion out, ready to go? Man?
So yeah, like a ninety degree temperatures wringing there? So
how hard to it? How many extra layers does demo
guy have when he goes outside? How many extra layers?
How are we looking at here? Ah? None? None. Oh
he's a real man. You see that. This guy's got

(01:53:45):
thick Minnesota blood in him. He doesn't need any extra
cloy Well, demo guy, let's get to the game. Good
luck to ye too much and not enough? You get
three right to win the game? You get all five? Right,
We'll give you an extra golden ticket. Here we go.
Question one. There are only six players on the rams
entire roster that have performed in a Super Bowl. Is
that too much or not enough for the NFC champs.

(01:54:08):
I'm going with not enough, not enough? All right? Is
he right? I believe it or not? That's too much.
The Rams only have four players that have played in
a Super Bowl, three that have won it. That's it.
Only four. Patriots have a bunch of guys because they've
been in the Super Bowl every f and year. All right.
Question number two, Luca don Chick is the fifth rookie

(01:54:31):
in NBA history to have a thirty five point triple double.
Is that too much or not enough for the MAVs.
Rookie boy, I'm going too much? Too much again, he's
actually you're changing. You're going to too much? Is he
right here? Not enough? He's the seventh rookie to do.

(01:54:51):
Let me call time out, time out, calling time time
all yes, I need a time all band demo. Guy,
you're as cold as the weather outside the air outs
side right now. You gotta turn this thing around. Whatever
your instinct is, go the other direction, whatever, Yeah, all right,
whatever your instinct is, I'm going with the question number three.

(01:55:12):
This year was the eighth year in a row that
a player was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
in his first year on the ballot. Is that too
much or not enough? Not enough? Then not enough? All right?
This is the stale alive demo gap. Yeah right, not good,

(01:55:39):
not good, Benny, what are the odds on you have
a fifty fifty chance on each question? You got all
of them wrong? The odds on the math on that
is impressive. Demo Guy, I love you anyway. We'll have
a nice parting gift. We'll give you a trip to
nowhere and also whenever you want to obviously, when you
want to go nowhere, think of us. We'll give you
that and nothing, a lifetime supply nothing. So when you

(01:56:00):
want nothing, call us up. We are. We're gonna send
you nothing, and we'll send all your relatives nothing as well,
and your boss anything, anybody who's related to you. If
they want nothing, we will send them nothing. Care of
the Ben Maller Show, the show that cares about you. Okay,
Demo Guy, thank you, Ben, Throw me up, Rocky Roberto, Oh,
great tribute to the moose Man. May he rest in

(01:56:22):
peace from Maine down goes the demo Guy. But that
gives us more time for Weather with Roberto. That's right,
not romance with Roberto Weather with Roberto. You might want
to make sure you record this because if it goes
the way that romance with Roberto win, it might not
be in the podcast. We'll get to that, and we

(01:56:44):
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(01:57:26):
of these extreme weather conditions, we're not only your sports
talk radio home here at Fox who you're late night
overnight programming from all night to the dawn. We also
give you the weather when when it calls for the weather.
When we need to give the weather, we get to
it right now. Let's go to our ACCU weather news desk. Eddie.

(01:57:49):
He's standing by in front of a green screen, which
doesn't really work on radio, but there he is anyway,
the official accredited if that were a real other person.
He's got his barometer out right. Now make way for
weather with Robert do Thanks Big Ben. This portion of

(01:58:10):
the weather is brought to you by Delita's Lovely Ladies,
best Mexican girls in TJ. Is that right? Yeah? The
best Mexican sweet bread in the world. Really, I need
to get some of them. Yeah, it's really good, but
you gotta try, Okay, I'll try, all right, you see
my Mexican doppler. It's really it's really cold out there, Ben,

(01:58:31):
How cold? Is it really cold? Though? What I say? Really?
I mean really really cold? Oh all right. We got
the North Pole and the South Pole, and this week
we got the Midwest Pole. Man, that's big pole. Yeah, yeah,
we got we got the polar bartex in the Middlewest. Man.
Where's the Midwest on a map? If you could you
find the Midwest on a it's it's kind of in

(01:58:53):
the middle right there, of the kind of that's right,
that's accurate. He's not wrong it's not wrong. Yeah, that's
why this is great weather. We're burto It is in
the middle of kind in the middle of Spanish Cassie
has seen in the media. There you go. Sounds good,
very just like down man, I'm down with that. Yeah. Yeah.
So it's really cold out there, guys. Okay, yeah, currently

(01:59:14):
right now in Minnesota, it's twenty five degrees below zero
with the wind chill of minus forty five. Yeah's meal,
don't go outside, no, do not. What's the dew point?
Do you know what the dew point? The du point.
I'll get back to you in a little bit. I
just love when they say the du point. Does that
even mean the duke point? My Mexican doppler's being a

(01:59:34):
little fishier, and I understand. I understand. R beaver dam
twenty one degrees below zero. The guy in beaver damns freezing. Yeah,
with the wind chill the minus forty one. Good wow,
that it is freezing out there. Good fishing weather is
what that is right there. It's all cold beavers. Beavers.
Don't go outside. What he likes you cold beaver? Yeah,

(01:59:56):
all right, keep going. Chicago thirteen degrees below zero. Oh man,
the wind chill of minus twenty. There's a lot of
cool Mexicans in Chicago, right, don't go outside. Where's the
neighbor where's the hoods? Probably the south side, man, outside
of probably the south side of Chicago. No, I've been
to the south Side. I think you're wrong on that.
Chicago Mexicans, A lot of Mexicans in Chicago. My friend really, yes,

(02:00:19):
all right? Who knew? I had no idea? Look at
des Moines, Iowa said, like a true Iowa, like a
true That's how the local say it. Yeah, they don't
call it des Moines. They call it des mo Yeah, right,
that's the that's how they do it in Mexico. Yes,
nineteen degrees below zero, nineteen below zero. Wait until the

(02:00:43):
minus forty two, holy most cold. Yeah, that's cold, man,
that is unbelievable. It's freezing out there. Don't go outside. Nah,
Fargo thirty three, thirty degrees below zero with the wind
chill of minus fifty four. Can I get a hell? Yeah?
The thermo? Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we got Cincinnati.

(02:01:04):
It's it's it's cool. There's seven degrees below zero. That's nothing,
minus nine winchill. Give me an ice storm or something
like that. We got Milwaukee seventeen degrees below zero. What
about like Green Bay or Appleton, Green Bay. It's very
very cool too, man, Really we got we got sub
zero temperatures out there. Really Yeah, like the dude from

(02:01:26):
Mortal Kombat listening to the weather with Roberto, this is
actual weather. Don't go outside because I like this, This
is great. This is a big people are loving it, Eddie.
It's a monsoon of weathers outside, freeze instantly, not going.
This is this polar vortex is worse than those northeasters

(02:01:48):
they get in Boston and New York and water. If
you have to go outside, where sweater? Okay? Or seventeen sweaters?
We're seventeen sweaters if you got sweater? Mean well here
uh at the super Bowl site, yeah, the three it's
uh twenty three degrees in Atlanta. Yeah, I get colder.
We Gametime it'll be sixty one degrees. And here it's

(02:02:13):
Truman Oaks a Chris fifty four. But we got ranked coming.
We have that sea breeze. Though. You can wear a
T shirt here if you want. I mean, it's yeah, yeah,
that's it. It's over. Fox Sports Radio has the best
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iHeartRadio app. Search f SR to listen live. Consider this
your career counselor Tony Romo. I'm here to give you
help yet again, I know you need my help. Welcome
in the beginning of another hour. It's the Ben Maller Show.
We are in the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports

(02:02:54):
Radio Network on this polar vortex kind of a day,
it's coldest before the dawn. Welcome in the beginning of
another hour. It's the Ben Mallor Show. As we are
in the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports Radio Network.
It is the buzz of Super Bowl Week. Will Tone
Knee Roam stay in the broadcast booth. Now, this is

(02:03:17):
not about Tony Romo coming back as a player. We
talked about that in the previous edition of the show.
But the buzz around Super Bowl Week some of it
indicating that Tony Romo is such a hot commodity. Now,
how hot a commodity is he that he could return
to the NFL on the sidelines. So my advice, of course,

(02:03:43):
is to come back and play. Romo is not going
to do that. He would get a starting job, and
he would be wonderful. I'd rather have Tony Romo than
Dakota Prescott's my quarterback. That's about quarterback. His body is healed.
I'd like to see him play, But that conversations for
another day. We've already had that conversation, so we'll push

(02:04:03):
that to the side and instead instead of that, there's
another layer to this story that he said he's not
coming back as a player, but what about a coach.
There have been rumblings this week that Tony Romo has
already received phone calls from Jarrah from the Cowboys, and

(02:04:24):
supposedly some other teams in the NFL have put feelers
out to Tony Romo about coaching jobs. Now, the report
indicated offensive coordinator positions that that had been been mentioned.
When asked about this, Romo was asked as he prepares
for the game from Atlanta. He left the door open
just a little bit, he said, not now the quote

(02:04:48):
from Romo, Well, they'll have to wait, he bubbled when
he answered the question. I'm sure one day I'll coach.
Right now, I'm happy with where I'm at. Close quote.
All right, So let's discuss now the question in terms
of coaching, what is the play here for Tony Romo?
He said, I'm sure one day I'll coach. That's not hey,

(02:05:12):
I might do it. I might. When you say you're
sure you're gonna do something. When you say, hey, I'm
sure I'm gonna do the dishes, or I'm sure i'm gonna,
you know, take the trash out, you do it. How
would talk to be a trash guy picking up trash
and in windshill of minus sixty three degrees? How would
you like to be that? Oh boy? Anyway? All right,
So they're bout Rumma, stay focused about Ruma? All right?

(02:05:35):
So again the question in terms of coach, what is
the play here for Tony Ruma? Patience is a virtue,
as we talked about earlier, applies to Tony Romo. I've
got the conductor, the hocus pocus and two points Oh
did you get all that? The conductor hocus pocus in

(02:05:56):
two point zero? And we'll line all this up. We'll
knock him down like Domino. Now, First of all, Tony
Romo's universally celebrated for his broadcasting work. The hyperbole has
no ends. In fact, Romo has been celebrated so much
that I'm almost to the point now where I'm gonna
turn heel, much like our friend Russef the senior member

(02:06:17):
the Malla Militia, that everyone's kissing Romo's ass. He Some
have said that he's the greatest broadcaster since John Madden,
some saying he's even better than Madden, which has to
annoy the hell out of guys like Troy Aikman. We
know he's got a big ego, and Chris Collinsworth, he's
got a big ego. Aikman was getting into it with

(02:06:37):
the radio guy in Buffalo. He was so taken aback
by some criticism on the interweb. Now, despite that, right,
the play here for Tony Romo is to continue working
as the conductor and keeping the good train a going
down the tracks, Chu chue, down the tracks. You go
with Tony Romo. Romo's legend is only going to go

(02:07:00):
higher and higher and higher over the next couple of years. Again,
when you're critically acclaimed for your television work, it's not
like he's gonna forget how to do television. It's very
easy to do TV, and so he just has to
talk about what he's seeing that the TV critics have
been slobbering all over him. He's the most in demand broadcaster.
The last time I remember something like this was with

(02:07:22):
Charles Barkley. Charles Barkley had standing offers from every broadcast
channel that did the NBA, and I know people that
work at ESPN, and they offered him essentially a blank
check to leave Turner at Barkley and go work at
ESPN from what my friend who works there told me,
and Barkley didn't want to do it because he didn't

(02:07:43):
want to have the restraints of Disney and so he
just wanted to stay at TMT, even though he could
have made endless amounts more money if he had made
the move. Well, Romo's in that category. Okay, Romo's in
that category now. Secondly, Tony Romo is so good at
his job. How good is he? The Tinfoil hat brigade
is checking in. They're they're around the corner. They're like

(02:08:06):
they're peeking around the corner, saying, hey, we got something
here with our tinfoil hats. You heard about this one? Now?
Maybe not. There is a dark web theory that Tony
Romo is a con man, that he's up to nefarious
activities on those CBS broadcasts. Like a stage magician, he
is using misdirection. There is no such thing as magic.

(02:08:29):
I love magic, but all magic is his misdirection. The
human mind can only process a certain amount of things
at one time, and so all you're doing is goofing.
You're doing mind tricks. And so the conspiracy is that
that is what Romo's doing. It makes it seem like
he's so locked in on teams and he's got such
high football IQ that he's done his homework and he

(02:08:52):
knows the plays. Now the deep state is like, hey,
wait a minute here that you know. The claim is that,
let's just say it's possible that somebody in the production
truck at CBS has tapped in to the on field
communication and they know before the play what's going to

(02:09:13):
be run, and they know exactly and they relay that
to Romo and he can hear the play being called,
and abracadabrahocus pocus presto. The legend is born some old
fashioned sleight of hand, a manipulation of interest, if you will,
now do I think that's going on? I'd say the
chances are very low, right that millions of people in

(02:09:36):
the CBS audience have reached the conclusion that Romo has
done something which he has not done, and he has
just wrongly directed them into the belief that's the misdirection.
I'm not buying that. The main reason I don't buy
that is because someone with loose lips would have spilled
the beans. By now, it's been all years. Someone would

(02:09:58):
have said, Hey, Romo's is stooge, and here's how he's
doing it, here's how he's doing it. And that hasn't
happened yet, at least I haven't seen that other than
just some freakazoids on the corners of the interweb that
are spitting that out there. I think the counter argument
is that Romo just takes this way too seriously, and

(02:10:20):
these other guys that do the games, well they're good
at it, they don't they're not interested in that part
of it. And there's people upset with Romo. There's people
that are offended by Romo. They're like, wait a minute,
you're ruining the fun. I don't want to know what
plays coming. I want to watch the play on evolved
and you tell me what you saw, which is what
most of the media does. They're reactionary right. Most of

(02:10:40):
the media is reactionary. All right. Now the final word here,
Tony Romo shouldn't leave the catbird seed, as we said,
the television business for anything less than a head coaching gig.
Romo's gonna be thirty eight years old. I think I
think he just had a Birthday's thirty eight Now, I
don't know when his birthdays. I've stopped sending on birthday

(02:11:02):
presents a couple of years ago. But that's actually a
dinosaur compared to Sean McVay. Right, McVeigh just had a birthday.
What is he thirty three? It is a proven fact
that NFL owners are mesmerized by the boob tube. The
play for Romo. John Gruden two point oh two point zero.

(02:11:26):
Gruden left ESPN for the Raiders. He got a hundred
million dollars in a bank heist situation. You know how
many people commit crimes and don't get one hundred million dollars.
John Gruden did it by smiling and selling you hooters
on television. That's how we got one hundred million dollars.
So some hypnotized NFL owner, if Gruden can get one

(02:11:49):
hundred million, Romo is better than Gruden. At television. Why
doesn't Romo get a twenty year contract for two hundred million? Now,
I think this is what's gonna happen. I'm gonna tell
you it's gonna happen. But you might not know this.
We've never met. But I am a distant relative of
the Great Nostre Damas. And as a distant relative of
the Great Nostre Damas, here's who what I see happening,

(02:12:11):
My magic Crystal Bull in the magic radio box. When
Jason Garrett fails in Dallas, and he will fail, Tony Romo,
like Mana from Heaven falling from the heavens, there is
the perfect replacement. Jerry Jones loves that Jason Garrett is subservient,
that he's a sock puppet, that he's a tody for

(02:12:32):
Jerry Jones, and Jerry gets all the glory. Tony Romo
would be similar. There's a similar father son type relationship.
But Romo's a bigger name than Jason Garrett. The only
dark mark, the only black mark on Romo's resume is
that he would also have some celebrity. That would take
a little bit away from Jerry Jones, but it's certainly

(02:12:53):
better than going out and hiring some big personality, bloviating
coach who would definitely cause issues with Jerry Jones. It's
the Ben Mallers Show on Fox. You are free to
talk about that if you would like. The number is
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. It's a unique
night here, the polar vortex in effect, and we're just

(02:13:17):
fascinated by these jaw dropping weather conditions that are North
Pole and Alaskan like that are right in the middle
of the United States and many This is in Mallar
Militia country. These are our guys, These are our brothers
and sisters and the Mallard Militia that are out there working,
that are dealing with this. Pat is in, he says,

(02:13:38):
he's listening in Maddock, North Dakota. At minus thirty four.
Says it feels like minus fifty four. He had to
go out and start the car. He parked outside. It's
by job by you. Pat. You gotta maybe you don't
have a way to park inside, but man if I did,
I would obviously park inside, says. Devil's Lake is minus
thirty four. He says, maybe freezing over this week. It's

(02:14:03):
a good point. Hell might freeze over absolutely we say
allot to Edmund Dallas, teammote, Willie Judas, solid gold see it. Well,
then the reviews are in for Weather with Roberto and
it's been a it's a smash, breakout hit. Yeah, they
loved it. You can't get enough congratulations Roberto. That's Roberto.

(02:14:29):
Wasn't romance with Roberto. We like to sound by a bit,
but this is a home run. The problem is you
can only do this when there's a polar vortex. That's
the problem. So what can we do cooking with Roberto?
Could that be next week? Could you make like that
could be a possibility. Yeah, maybe chicken palm or something
like that with some feeduccini. That's right, you have the Tomali's. Yeah. Yeah,

(02:14:50):
well that's great. Well you did a good job. So
we need to have a meeting here. My trust has
been betrayed again. My trust has been betrayed again by
someone that was in the inner circle. There is an
obstacle in my relationship with this person, someone I considered
a friend. I don't have a lot of friends in radio.
I don't I don't deal with these people other than

(02:15:12):
a professional relationship. This is someone I've broken bread with.
This is someone who's been to my house and he
essentially spit a loogie in my face, this person, and
I'm so offended by this. I'm so hurt by this.
I need to see a therapist. I need to know
what I should do. I've got this dilemma. I need
your help. So for several years, one of my right

(02:15:35):
hand guys on the show, one of my producers was
the great Danny g Radio. I considered him a brother.
All Right, we work together. When you do the overnight
show together, there's a bond, there's a fraternity that you
have when you work overnights with someone in radio. And
he has betrayed me. He has become I called him

(02:15:57):
baby Judas because not only did he schmooze with a
mortal enemy of mine, not only did he hang out
in his presence, he then had the hutzpah. He then
had the gall to shove it in my face with
a photo hugging and essentially canoodling with this person, the

(02:16:21):
clown show that is Deshaun Watson. This is the kind
of a blunder, the kind of a Freudian slip that
I don't know that I can ever patch up this relationship.
I'm very pigheaded. I'm a Taurus, as our friend Andrea
knows in Berkeley. I'm very stubborn, and when you cross me,

(02:16:44):
you're dead to me. And so I don't know how
to handle this here. This is very simple. That the
bridge has been burned. Right, I have a boat and
he's burned my boat. Is what he's done. Right, He's
kicked down the ladder. I'm on the roof and he's
kicked down the ladder. So how do I handle this?

(02:17:06):
What kind of adjudication should I provide? What kind of payback?
Kind of vendish? No invite next year? I think that's
the first thing, but that's not the only thing. Coup
the ugly. I have such disdain for this Deshaun Watson,
and Danny knew it. Danny was in here when we

(02:17:27):
battled Deshaun Watson. He was first, he was an eyewitness, Eddie.
He's turned enemy combatant, is what Danny G radio. Oh no,
he's a turn coat. I don't know what Clay Travis
is doing with my man, Danny G. But that's not
that Danny G. I knew that Danny G. I knew
had integrity, he had scruples, he had a moral compass,

(02:17:50):
and now he is hanging out cuddling with one of
my enemies smiling. When I looked at that smile, the
smile was f you Maller, you schmuck. That's what that
smile said. That smile said. If I was still working

(02:18:12):
on your pathetic show, I would never have gone to
the super Bowl. And look at me now, Ben, I'm
hanging out with someone that hates you, and I'm smiling.
I am smiling because I like this this Shaun Watson
more than you. I'm looking at the photo right now.

(02:18:34):
The Shawn definitely has a F you Mallor smile. Yes, yes, Danny,
I don't know. I'm looking at Danny's face now. It's
kind of a forced smile. Is enjoying himself now he
asked for the photo that I'm telling you I'm baby
forgot about your beef. I am great at reading body language,
and that is the body language of someone that says

(02:18:56):
I am done with Maller. Here is a butcher knife
and I'm stabbing it in your chest. That is, I'm
holding them knife and I'm stabbing in your chest. That's
what Danny g is doing in that photo, telling you, man,
this is what he's doing. I don't know why he would.
What did I do to him? Well, I didn't do
anything to him. I liked him on the show. We
had fun with him and the whole the Tynderoni tips

(02:19:19):
and a boy. I wish I had never done that
now after this photo, I mean, that was a mistake.
I admit that I'll own that one, Eddie. But this
is I mean, that is betrayal, is what that is.
That's baby Judas is what I mean. Look, the Sha
has got his whole hand around Danny g and Danny's
got his hand around to Sean. I mean, there, get

(02:19:40):
a room, boys, get a room. What's up with that?
I wonder I would be wearing a hat because he
always wears hats, and he's got the super Bowl, which
is the f you to mout that's the fun. Hey,
I'm not wearing my my normal gear. Ben, I'm at
the super Bowl. Just in case you didn't realize where
I was, Ben, I'm at the super Bowl, something you've

(02:20:00):
never been invited to in twenty years in radio band.
I'm here so unbelievable. This is the guy I thought
was a friend. This is a distrust situation and Deshaun Watson.
That smile is like see that, Oh yeah, I agree
with that. Yeah. He's like, Hey, Maller, you moron. I'm
selling deodorant and I'm hanging out with one of your

(02:20:22):
old producers. Yeah, there you go. I'll never use that
deodor and Eddie ever, I will not use that deodorant.
Some would say, you don't use deodorant as it is. Wow,
that's a low blow by you, Eddie. How dare you
blow by you? How dare you are right? Anyway? It
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From the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller.
Mister wonderful, says Ben. My boy, Danny G said, f
the small people, I'm climbing that corporate ladder. He's a
mover and shaker, now, Ben, that's right. Many people outrage.
Senior p ones in the Malle Militia are offended by this,

(02:21:50):
and it's bad. He is the Jane Fonda of the
Mallar Militia. That is what Danny G is clearly hanging
out with the enemy. That's up with that man. Bad
job by you. We're covering the polar vortex. I love
this man. This is great. I love that you guys
have been so helpful here and giving us the local weather.
Where you're listening and Jams writes in and he says

(02:22:14):
Key Lake. He's listening in Key Lake, Canada, he says,
in Cowboys Corner Territory, and it is minus forty six
degrees feels like minus sixty four feels like minus sixty four,
which sounds just lovely, doesn't It doesn't that sound great?
Sound sounds wonderful. So a couple of stories here. First

(02:22:35):
of all, hats off to the Houston Texans night goof
around with teams cheating and all that stuff, But they're
being very transparent here. The Houston Texans have hired to
join their strength and conditioning staff Brian Cushing. Brian Cushing,
who famous for steroids. He's known for ster The Texans

(02:22:56):
are announcing the world, you get p ds, you get pets,
you get pets like I understand that teams have hired.
The Dodgers had Mark McGuire as their hitting coach. The
Padres have markable guys any coach. They didn't hire him
as the guy handing out the medicine. Okay, the Marlins
hired Barry Bonds, but he wasn't the one in charge

(02:23:18):
of the drugs to give to the players. And there
it is. Brian Cushing is now in the strength and
conditioning staff for the Texans, which is just perfect. That's
a ten. That is a ten way to go. And
we have another rant I want to place do we
have the audio on this Popovich? The Spurs beats the Suns. Now,

(02:23:38):
I believe Danny, if we edited off the end of
this clip. This is so generic, it is so nondescript
that we could use it if we just have to
cut off the end of it. It's John McLaren esque
without the cursing. Here's the Spurs coach after the San
Antonio Spurs on I believe it was a buzzer beater.
Beat the Suns, the morbid Suns. Here's what I had

(02:24:00):
to say. We're really fortunate to win the game. I
thought that they outplayed us. I'll coached us, physical to us,
out executed us. We had no respect for them or
for the game. We didn't play with each other. It
was a pathetic performance and Phoenix got robbed. Yeah, so
we just cut off the part Phoenix got robbed? Perfect?

(02:24:21):
Is that not? Can we can we get a version
without that at the end? Can we put that in
our system? That reminds me of a longer version of
we sucked at a time we shouldn't have sucked. And
it was a pathetic performance. Yeah, it was a pathetic
Which was an old Jim Mora quote. Remember Jim Morris

(02:24:42):
said that was a well he said, it was a
disgraceful performance. Well, let's play it. Here's Popavich, let's play
it one more time. I think this has staying power.
I've heard many of these over the years, and I
think this one's going to be used as a junior
when a team plays a bad game. We'll play this
as we'll just pretend it's some other coach, right, a
play really fortunate to win the game. I thought that
they outplayed us. I'll coached us out physical to us,

(02:25:06):
out executed us. We had no respect for them or
for the game. We didn't play with each other. It
was a pathetic performance, maam, and Phoenix got robbed. That
would work for any sport, right, if you take the
Phoenix part out of it, that works for any sport.
You can say that about baseball, hockey, Football sucked, and
we sucked at a time that you can't suck. Yeah,

(02:25:29):
it's wild. We'll press on. We'll take some more of
these phone calls here. So let's mark that. Robero. Just
put that in, but take out the end of it.
We don't need the Phoenix Park because that that's a giveaway.
But other than that. It's fine, so thank you. I
want winners, Yeah, I want people that want to win.
We'll get the password. We're a little backed up. We
had not a guest. We had our friend Fred Dryer

(02:25:52):
in studio earlier. We love Fred Hunter. TV's Hunter. Former
NFL player Fred dry won't even know he played football.
You didn't when I was a kid. I mean, yeah,
I hear you, I hear you. All right, we'll get
to that. Yeah. I remember him. At the end of
his ramscre he mentioned that that he was at the
end of his career with the Rams when they finally
got to the Super Bowl in LA. All Right, we'll

(02:26:12):
get to that and a whole lot more right now,
though I also password a little bit later, Eddie, And
let's get you caught up on games. A note in
the NBA, where the Pelicans, still without injured star and
disgruntled star Anthony Davis, going to Houston and beat the
Rockets one twenty one to one sixteen. In defeat, James
Harden did have thirty seven points, giving him his twenty
fourth consecutive game with thirty points or more. Six Ers

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beat the Lakers in LA one twenty one to one.
Oh five Joel and Bad twenty eight points to lead
to Philadelphia victory. LA still without the injured Lebron James
spelled two games back of the Clippers for that final
playoff spot in the West. Thunder over the Magic one
twenty six to one seventeen. Paul George thirty seven points
lead Oklahoma City in another triple double for Russell Westbrook
twenty three points, fourteen rebounds, fourteen assists. The Spurs were

(02:26:56):
taken on the Suns. We just heard from Greg Popvitch
that brings us to our Geico Play of the Day. Hey,
outside the perimeter, we'll take it inside. You to try
along too. It's good the buzzer and the San Antonio
Spurs have the feet of the Phoenix Suns one twenty six,
one twenty four Wai with the Rudy Gay buzzer beater,
giving the Spurs the two point win over the Suns

(02:27:17):
for our Geico Play of the Day. Bucks over the
Pistons one fifteen to one oh five. Milwaukee now a
league best thirty six and thirteen on the year. From
college basketball Number one. Tennessee Rolls over South Carolina ninety
two to seventy volunteers or nineteen in one of the
year and undefeated in the SEC over inside for third
rank Virginia to get by number twenty three and see
State on the Road sixty six sixty five wins for
number five Michigan, number seven Kentucky and rating about a

(02:27:39):
number nine North Carolina while number eleven Kansas lost in
Texas seventy three to sixty three to the Long Horns.
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dot com. Watch credit score limitations apply. Thank you for that, Edie.
It is the Ben Mallers Show. As we press on
and well, Travis really summed it up. Travis has made
that just painful photo of someone I had a great
amount of respect for a fellow radio brother who has
gone over to the dark side. Boy, I just man

(02:28:20):
is stuff. We lost Danny G. We've lost Danny G.
He's just become a typical corporate chill in the radio
game and it's too bad. And did you see the
meme here is screw you, Bill Miller, And I think
that sums it up. Good job by Travis. It's sad
Miller there, it is right there. It's unfortune didn't have
to be like this, did not did not have to

(02:28:42):
be like. Let's say hello to Mitchell, who's in Ohio
on Fox Sports Radio. Hello, Mitchell, Hey, what's up man?
I just want to tell you, in my opinion, you know,
they should allow things like that trade to go down,
because I mean, if not, then they should put a
like an NFL salary cap on there, because to keep

(02:29:02):
teams from like the Warriors is loading up the way
they do. I mean because if not, basically, everybody knows
you're talking about Anthony Davis. You just get on. Some
people don't understand what you're talking. You're talking about Anthony.
You think he should be on the Lakers. You because
he wants to play for the Lakers. What if he
wakes up after he gets traded to the Lakers says
I'd actually rather be a Brooklyn net Will you then
trade him to Brooklyn? I just think that I'll do

(02:29:25):
something to try to give the Warriors some competition. They
made the NBA boring. I mean every year, you know
the Warriors are gonna win. Why even watch? I mean,
it's some problem they're having. Actually they're rating well. The
Warriors will still win even if Lebron gets Anthony Davis,
because Anthony Davis misses half the season and he'll be
injured and they won't have a great record that they
won't win. So I find bring him on, I'm bringing

(02:29:46):
bring him to LA. Yeah. Well, I mean they should
do something anyway, trade for somebody else too, I guess,
But I'll be watching the Warriors be the only one
that's loaded up like that if they're not, if they're
gonna stop the trade like that, and like I said,
they on a salary capital. The only you're telling me
the only way to beat Golden State is to conspire

(02:30:08):
with Lebron using a double agent to make that happen.
That's the only way to do it. Oh, I'm sure
there's other ways, but I mean that's the best chance
right now. I mean yeah, I mean, I mean the
ratings show at the ratings suck. I mean, who cares
about the way you don't work in the NBA? You know,
who's worried about NBA ratings? T n T and ESPN.
They're worried about ratings. You shouldn't worry about ratings. Who cares.

(02:30:31):
You don't work in You're not an advertising you're not
a television executive. You don't care. Who cares? Oh, you're right,
I don't. But I'm sure the NBA does. I mean
because they might probably make more money off those television
contracts than they do tickets and all that other stuff.
I got you, all right, Thank you, Mitch Weed Man
hippie is hanging out there in Miami. Miami, He's boy.

(02:30:54):
You talk about that cold front? Wow? Wow, wow, wow.
It is reason in Miami weedmen, and I love to
give next day. I am called Jesus the why and
everybody moves to Miami. Just look at that lord Mop
on your TV. There's a sunny, sunny face with a

(02:31:15):
small old face right over the tip of Miami. What's
wrong with you all Weeden? Why do you want people
to move there? Then there's more traffic, Every price of
everything goes on. I gotta tell you something. I gotta
tell you so how stupid people are? Miami is empty?
There's not that many people in Rufia, and it's insane

(02:31:36):
to me because it's the most beautiful place on the planets.
That's why I'm there. Do you know the one line
I would argue that the island of Kawaii is more beautiful,
but that's just I use your Nawi and I will
agree the colors in Nawi. You want to smoke everything,

(02:31:57):
but the temperature, it's exactly. I was on a boat
on the ne poly coast. I was the most beautiful
place I've ever been in my life the past every day. No,
I didn't want to I just want to look at everything.
I wanted to soak it all in. I'm like, wow,
this is an amazing thing that this is on the
same planet that I'm on the the poly coast of Hawaii.

(02:32:20):
But I didn't want to smoke it. It's great. I
want to hear that every time it is called Yeah,
we will well during the summer it'll be really hot
and then we'll have a weather with Roberto and it's
so odd. It's yeah. Then Ben, that takes you. Danny

(02:32:41):
pushes me off too. I'm angry. I'm angry. I'm not
stopping slid by one common, one common and one twee
So listen to Eddie, what time do we do hippie?
It's the cons No, no, but we no, No, I'm
not against the wee Man brand. But the problem is

(02:33:01):
the NFL has got people up tight with a stick
where the stunt sun don't shine. I understand. Yeah, No,
Eddie's right. They the NFL will look at you, and
they will even if we got you a past. I
don't care. They won't let you in. Yeah, if you

(02:33:22):
want to get in, you have to play the game.
All right. I'll do whatever you say. All right, I
doubt that. But okay, no, you won't do whatever we say.
You've never done whatever we say. I love you. How
about this one from Inca Terror The Great Judge or
The Talent Show, which we'll do again later this year.
Inca Terror says, doesn't Mitchell from Ohio just sound like

(02:33:44):
Alex Jones? That is tremendous. Scooby Scooby, Scooby dooby doo.
That's amazing that Alex Jones is still I give him credit.
Actually he's still in visits. They've they've ripped all of
his advertising. Way from he's got no advertising. He's not
a broadcast anywhere and he's still. I guess they're making

(02:34:05):
some money. I don't know what they got going on
though at the Info Wars. All right, let's go a
real quick. Let's cowboy up on the Ben Mallow Show.
Cowboy John Brad. Then we're gonna get the passwords. Start
calling for pass where we need some guys for password? Hello,
Cowboy John Brad. Hello everybody. I'm a great great nephew.
Santana Turners two months old today. The great flyweight Champion

(02:34:27):
Miguel Canto was seventy one today. Chorus half a century
ago today. It was the Beatles final public performance on
the rooftop of the Apple Records du Company. And eighty
six years ago eight Fittler became Kenny Many French Germany.
And Nolan Ryan will be a seventy two tomorrow and
long look about some blond speaking people tomorrow morning, La Bank,

(02:34:49):
there you go. Did he mention the weather at all?
He didn't mention the way. No, it's like minus sixty
out his front door. He doesn't mention the way. He
didn't care. It's cold is cold. He figured, you know,
Roberto coverted, we're gonna get the pass We're now I'm
gonna give Rachel a golden ticket because I'm gonna give
MGM John and Rachel a golden ticket because they've been
hanging out there for a while, So make sure they

(02:35:09):
get a golden ticket. I love your Rachel Amana Bellow.
I love the MGM. John. You're good people. You're good,
loyal people. I got two Mallard marathons in the next
couple of days. It's gonna be this is gonna be
a torturous situation, Eddie. I'm going on Boston Radio the
next couple of days and I want the Rams to
win the super Bowl. It's gonna be very awkward for
Gilly Gilley. Yeah, it canna be very painful, but I'm
gonna do it. I don't care. I'll be taking darts,

(02:35:30):
I'll be taking punches, haymakers. But we'll get to pass
where the word Game of the Stars. We'll get to that,
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(02:36:14):
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That's welcome in our contestants for this edition of Password
we have let's see you. We've got Joe in San Antonio. Hello, Joe,

(02:36:35):
Hi Ben, Nice to talk to you. Hey, real quick.
Last last week, I something happened that hadn't happened in
twelve years. I had a couple of early doctor's apartments,
and I missed two consecutive secutive shows since the first
time I heard you. Two Wow, devastating, Like to kick

(02:36:57):
your doctor's ass. I can't lose you as a live man.
All right, Hold on a sec, Joe, I'm glad you're
we I got you off his deathbed years ago and
now he's doing pretty well. Gotta keep him healthy even
though he we have a love hate relationship. Me and Joe.
Let's say hello to Eli in Ohio. Hello, Eli, Yo,

(02:37:17):
yo yo? How's it going? Yo? Yo yo? What part
of Ohio are you in? Eli? I'm near Tam. You're
dating you know a guy named Dick? Nah? Unfortunately? All right,
he's at the Lows. So if you want to he's
in the garden. Areat Lows. He's a big Browns and
Bengals fans. So yeah, all right, Well, good luck to you.

(02:37:40):
Hold on a sec And by the way, what do
you do for a living? Eve? I gotta be polite here.
What do you do for a living? I am a
truck driver? Oh cool? Are you working right now? Or
are you? What's your deal? You're starting your day in
your night? Yeah, in the middle of my day. I
got all right. We'll be safe. Hold on and Joe

(02:38:00):
drives a truck also around Texas. Joe, who do you
want to partner up? We gotta get to the game.
Who do you want to play with? Okay, we'll stay
away from the hate and get to the love. I'll
take you. Oh, look at that. It's all romance. It's
all love here. We will be cuddling, just like Danny
Gee and Deshaun Watson. All right, very good, Eli, who
would you like to partner up with? Eli? Let's go

(02:38:23):
with Eddie. Okay, it's a bad choice, but we all
make bad decisions. You didn't have very good options. All right,
very good, you're there, you're over here. We have a
list of words here. They are one to ten. If
you saw the words, you're a cheater, Joe. You got
on the air first of picking number one, two, ten, one, two,
ten Please we're number five. All right, we start out

(02:38:49):
with ten points and we will work our way down.
Let's go with holy holy yes, holy h o l
y holy yeah bab just like that. Ten nothing good, guys,
you can put it on the board, just HOWK. Carrolton

(02:39:10):
would say. Eddie, you're up, Eddie, you're up. You're down
ten nothing you want to quit right now? No? Okay, Eli,
One through ten except for number five. Let's go with seven,
number seven. What w Let's go with m hmmm, do

(02:39:34):
do do do do do? This is not gonna be easy.
Let's go with Trapper. What trapper? What? Shut up? Ben? Yeah?
What what are we doing? Said trapper with the t yes,
what goe? No, all right, he said, he said trapper.

(02:39:59):
I'm gonna go with Outdoorsman, Joe, Outdoorsman, Yeah, fam nineteen
and nothing. Good guys, it was on the show Man.
That's right, our friend Hunter good Man. Couldn't you couldn't
say friend though, we're not allowed to say friend because

(02:40:19):
that would Yeah, that would be illegal. Well, Joe, we're
back up. We're dominating this game. Let's run up the score. Joe,
pick a number, Joe and San Antonio. We're up nineteen
nothing anything but five and eight. We have every other
number between one and five and seven, five and seven,
might keep saying, Might I say? All right, oh cares
anything other than five and seven? There you go. Let's

(02:40:40):
do egg. You want to do eight? All right, let's
go with m hm m hmm. Okay, de frost, de frost.
Let me try. No, the door is open. Eli's not
opened very much, Ben said Defrost, or one of him,

(02:41:03):
and then Joe said, thaw, the clue is liquefied. Come on,
el and he's about to have a book, Oh Jesus,
and he's gonna have a mountdown. He's gonna have a

(02:41:24):
Garcia volcano eruption. No that is incorrect. Uh no, no,
don't do that. Come on, I'm within he don't do that.
Let's just go What did I say? I said, defrost,
I got a great clue. Then he's gonna give you
a clue. Okay, this should be good. Give him a clue, Joe.
I was gonna say, here's what, let me give you snow.
How about snow? Oh? Come on, Joe. Oh, I was

(02:41:50):
gonna say, now, yeah, very good. Fine, My FI clue
is gonna prove Patty? Oh Patty? Oh yeah, that would
have been the malad maneuver Lisiens. I could have done that,
would I would go for Patty mill? Right now? Should
we end the game? Now? Do you want to keep going? Eli?
Do you want to you want to try and avoid
the shutout? I guess that's a a more time any

(02:42:15):
anything but five? Seven or eight? How about three? Three?
All right? The password is leash leashed. We've already lost

(02:42:35):
the last one. All right, he's not gonna get it.
It's uh, what's connected to the leash? The the caller?
The call it was caller c O. L L A R. Caller,
Thanks for playing, Thank you. I don't like that, Eli,
God bless Joe gets a Golden Take another win for me.
The all time wins leader at password wins against a

(02:42:57):
murder Gotta go. I want to get Eddie