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March 3, 2025 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about reports that Seahawks WR D.K. Metcalf will be shopped before the NFL Draft, why the Commanders were able to get Deebo Samuel for peanuts, reports that Justin Fields has an 'edge' over Russell Wilson with the Steelers brass, and the start of the 2025 Benny Awards!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey we go. Welcome, It's our.

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Nber one of the Bennies. This night different than all
other nights, Quies You're listening during the day the podcast
we stayed up all night presenting the twenty twenty five
Benny Awards.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Now at the top of our one, here a Mallard monologue.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
About DK metcalf is he being shopped before the NFL
draft by Seattle? Also, why were the Commanders able to
get Deebo Samuel for peanuts? And quarterback Justin Fields has
apparently an edge over Russell Wilson. What do you make
of the current state of the Steelers franchise. We'll talk
about that. We'll also start giving out Benny Awards to

(00:41):
the social media influence of the year, the Rookie caller
of the Year, and we'll also have the Benny Award
for the top game show contestant of twenty twenty five.
All that and more coming up right now here it is.
Buckle up, It's the Bennies, the biggest night in overnight
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Coming Up's kind of obvious though. It's the twenty twenty
five Benny Awards, celebrating the people that make the Ben
Malor Show a show. And we've had voting most of
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that voted here. So we will cap all of that
off with the unveiling, the unveiling of who won the awards,

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so you gotta wait for that. Throughout each hour of
the show, different categories. We have the most categories we've
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but not right now. So tonight dedicated to the Benny's
that we will get real time feedback from people spurned.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I'm sure we'll lose at least three or four listeners.
I got strewed out of the voting. I didn't win.
I'm not listening to your show anymore.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
And there's other people that will win that we'll say
how great we are, so it all evens out in
the wash. But this hour is from the speculation machine.
We are in the midst of the silly season and
the most important sport in America professional football, the NFL.
Some interesting chatter, some noise out of the Pacific Northwest,

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the Emerald City there, it's all about DK Metcalf. Now,
if you've not been paying attention, maybe you took the
weekend off. The noise around DK Metcalf is that Seattle.
They don't want to trade them. They're not looking to
trade DK Metcalf, but you know they don't extend him.

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He's only got one more year on the deal. I'm
saying there's a chance, and it takes force to the
I was told the math on this. It takes two
to tango to make a trade. Several teams, including the
Green Bay Packers, the Buffalo Bills, and Cansah City are
said to be lurking in the shadows in the weis

(04:01):
trying to entice Seattle to make a trade. So let
us discuss do you expect the Seahawks wide receiver DK
Metcalf to end up shopped around here and traded this offseason?
So I've got atmospheric River, pink Fong, and kissing booth,

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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a little trinket. Now, we
are giving out virtual trinkets during the bennies throughout the overnight.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
But our first.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Thought on this in terms of do we expect Seattle
to put dk Metcalf on market and see what they
can get for him.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
I'm nodding my head. Yes.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
These things generally come in waves. They generally come in waves.
Dk Metcalf, his wave has not arrived yet. But if
you look around, Deebo Samuel was traded over the weekend.
More on that in a second Cooper Cup and DeVante
Adams are next up. They're in the on deck circle
right now. And once those things are sorted out, then

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you worked away and DK metcalf is in the waiting
area over there, and you just follow the atmospheric river,
is what you do. You follow the river. And metcalf
is six seasons into his NFL tur he's been around
now six years. He's got one year left on an
extension that he signed a couple of years back. And

(05:32):
the Seahawks they're satisfied at this point, not being a
real contender, right, it's pretty sad franchise that had some
really good teams about a decade ago and now they're
fine living on the margins, if you will. And you
can't really take a team seriously that continues to roll
out the rotting carcass of Gino Smith at quarterback. They're

(05:54):
obviously a fraud. Real football people know that they're not
trying to win in Seattle. It's not that Gino is terrible.
He's just not good, right, He's not good.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Everyone knows it.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
And so Seattle's okay being a happy faux contender. Right,
they're a fax contender, and they don't have a lot
of importance in the NFL. You know, it's not a
lot of influence from Seattle right now because everyone knows
they're a fraud in terms of actually trying to win.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
And again, they're not terrible, they're just.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Okay, and they'll only will win seven or eight games
a year and you can't really take them seriously and
all that stuff. And DK Metcalf is a luxury item
for a team that's not trying to win like Seattle.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Again, they're trying to be a worst team.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
They're not trying to be the Cleveland Browns, right They'll
only be the Cleveland Browns. There the Tennessee Titans. But
at the same time, they're not trying to be what
Kansas City has been or Philadelphia teams like that. And
so DK Metcalf is like driving a Porsche if you're Seattle,
but you're going to eat at the soup kitchen having
DK metca Like, what's the point? You know, It's like

(06:59):
it's kind of it's really And so you look at
the Chiefs and the Bills, in particular, I know Green Bay.
You look at the Chiefs and the Bills, and the
Bills have the thirtieth pick in the draft. Kansas City's
at number thirty one. So if they're drafting at the
end of the first round and you can get a
proven commodity, and then there's some debate about how proven
dk Metcalf is because he has been marginalized in the

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Seattle Seahawks offense.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
And you look around and the end of last year
was that Dad give away, Dad giveaway.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
That likely this is not going very well if you're
looking to get paid a massive amount of money as
a wide receiver.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
The final nine games.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Of the twenty twenty four regular season, DK Metcalf averaged
six targets a game.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Over the final nine.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
He's a twenty five million dollars a year guy getting
six targets a game. The math eight mathing on that,
it's just not And you would think if he went
to a team like Kansas City or Buffalo, assuming that
the issue is not him and the issues what we
think it is Geno Smith and the incompetent boobs running
the Seahawks, that dk Metcalf could go next level, and

(08:10):
next level on a bigger stage with a better coaching
staff and a better cornerback to play with. Now page two,
we mentioned the transaction that happened over the weekend, Many
wondering how is that possible? Why why were the Washington
commanders able to get Deebo Samuel for peanuts pennies on

(08:36):
the dollar from the forty nine ers, and many stunned
by this. I've already seen predictions that the Washington football
team is now the team to beat in the NFC,
that they have now used surp Philadelphia, which seems a
bit premature to me. Just a bit premature to me.
So what's the line. The market sets the price, right,

(08:58):
the market sets to the price. Let's try to break
this down unscientifically because we're doing talk radio. So, for
better or worse, Deebo Samuel, his career is where not
in the toilet, His career is in.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
The twilight zone. Do do do do do do Do
do Do Do Do Do do do do do do.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, it's the the gap between perception and reality with
Deebo Samuel. And I'll rephrase that for those of you
that have had too many cocktails and you're a little slow.
Deebo's got the name. He does not happen to have
the game. The game is lacking at this point. Now
the low information fan, many of them raising a hullabaloo

(09:45):
about this.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
I can't believe Washington got this guy. It's not fair.
Oh my god, Jayden Daniels is gonna take off with
Deebo sam Oh blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
All that right, all that noise, So you do not
grasp what small thing which is kind of a big thing.
If you look at the full body of work from
Deebo Samuel, this concept is over yet.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
But if you look oft the full body work, Deebo.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Samuel is the pink fong one hit wonder baby Shark.
Remember baby Shark from a few years ago. Yeah, that's
essentially what Deebo Samuel is. He's baby Shark. He's a
one hit wonder and during the twenty twenty one season outstanding,
he was a maestro on the field. In fact, Deebo

(10:31):
Samuel had seventeen hundred and seventy yards all purpose from scrimmage.
From scrimmage, he had fourteen touchdowns. He was an All Pro.
That's good. That's not playing water balloon toss at the
Pro Bowl. That's all Pro. That's great, First team All Pro.
He averaged eighteen yards per catch, game breaker mode, absolute

(10:52):
game breaker mode. And then Deebo has gotten progressively worse.
He hit rock bottom last season. He went from seventeen
one hundred and seventy yards from scrimmage to eight hundred
and six and he only had four touchdowns last season.
Now the numbers on this Debo's yardage has gone down
fifty four point four percent from his peak and his

(11:15):
touchdowns by seventy one percent. And now you know why
the forty nine ers. Also, money was involved, But now
you know why the forty nine ers were giving Deebo
away for next enough because what you're getting in Washington
is next to enough. He now, is he going to
have this great come to Jesus moment and this epiphany
and take off? At this point, all we know Debo

(11:38):
brings to Washington is the ability to walk out of
the locker room with a boom box and be the
coolest guy in the stadium. Now, when the game starts,
that aura goes away because he's he's unable to get
separation from defensive backs.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
And that's a problem.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
The rapid decline, that's how you end up getting traded
for a fifth round draft pick. But I digress, all right,
now last word to the QB shuffle. You gotta do
the QB shuffle. It's all about the QB shuffle. So
Justin Fields and Russell Wilson, they were both in Pittsburgh
last year. Are they going to be back in Pittsburgh

(12:17):
this year?

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Probably not. One of them will be gone.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
And the latest scuttle butt over the weekend is that
Justin Fields has a slight edge, a slight edge over
mister unlimited Russell Wilson with the Steeler brass there. So
what do you make of the current state of the

(12:41):
quarterback situation for the Insers in Pittsburgh. So the word
is gloomy. The word is gloomy for these Steelers in
the quarterback position. And our friend Sean the hood guy,
he knows this. He's a Steeler apologist, and he knows this.
And here's why the Steelers, who always are in contention

(13:03):
for a playoff spot, the Steelers have a blank spot,
continue to have a blank spot. If you look at
their bingo card right there under center, blank spot, right
where it says quarterback, Justin Fields is not the answer. Now,
that's not my opinion that Justin Fields is not the answer.
That is the opinion of Mike Tomlin. What is my
supporting evidence. Mike Tomlin started Justin Fields last year because

(13:27):
Russell Wilson.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Was supposedly hurt to the beginning of the year.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
So Tomlin fought so little of Justin Fields that when
Russ was ready to go, he played him.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Okay, so well, fine, well, he played Russ.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
But then when Russ started riding the vomit comment in
Pittsburgh at the end of.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
The year, you well, why didn't you bention him?

Speaker 2 (13:46):
They could have gone back to Justin Fields, but Tomlin
thought he fought so little, fought so so little of
Fields that he went with the thirty six year old
Russell Wilson, and Russ was pool being his diaper on
a weekly basis for the Steelers, and at no.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Point did they switch back.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Now, my advice here for the Pittsburgh Steelers is to say, hey,
Justin Fields and Russell Wilson, thank you both for your service.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
We have a nice partning gift. We'd like you to
walk down the dusty Winnemucker Road and get out of here.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Fields can go play for the Jets. He'd be the
perfect Jets quarterback. He filled with Chicago failed with Pittsburgh,
go to the Jets. That's three strikes. You're out of
the NFL, and Russell Wilson can go. I don't know
the Giants. They can about duke it out in the
Battle of New York or go to the Cleveland Browns.
It doesn't matter. But Mike Tomlin, at this point, you
might as well just open iView the Steelers. You open

(14:40):
up a kissing booth, because you got to kiss a
lot of frogs before you find that prince, right. Ben
Roethlisberger last played in twenty twenty one. Since then, there
have been a line, a conga line of of really
bad quarterbacks, Mason Rudolph, Canny Pickett, Russell Wilson, justin Fields.

(15:00):
And it's on to the next. It's on to the
next the now. For pure entertainment, we endorse Aaron Rodgers
because that's good for the business. And I'm in the
business of entertainment, so why not past expiration date? Yes,
Aaron Rodgers has passed his expiration date, but he would
be good for talk radio.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
And that's really what I'm worried about.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
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We have the most.

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Awards we've ever given out for the Bennies, and if
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talk radio is upon us, a night we look forward
to every single year. And straight ahead, we're gonna kick
off the twenty twenty five Benny Awards. We're gonna hand
out the Social Media Influencer of the Year award, which
was tied up with thirty minutes to go until the
voting ended, and also we'll give out the Rookie Caller
of the Year. Those the first two honors to give

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out as the twenty twenty five. Bettys will get started
here momentarily, we'll get to that and we will do it.

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Next.

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We celebrate the great show contributors. You have a front
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The entire night dedicated to giving out honors, trophies, trinkets,
virtual trinkets, and trophies. There are no actual trophies for
the Benny's there's no budget for this show, but now
let's get the party starting.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
Live from Sherman Oaks, California, and the Blox Sports Radio
Studio from Mere Radio Networks is proud to present the
one hundred and fifth annual Benny Awards. And now here's
your host for the evening, Ben mal.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Yes, I appreciate that. Every year it's the one hundred
and fifth Pennies. I don't know how that happened every
I'll calm down, everyone, stay com one. A night, the
greatest night in overnight talk radio. The Benny Awards were
live down the street, over the Hill the Hollywood Hills.
The Benny Award the highest honor that can be awarded

(18:20):
to a listener to the Ben Malor Show. And this night,
as we said earlier, this night different than all of
the nights because it is the night that we celebrate
the people that make the Ben Malor Show a show
that would be you. So we thank you for listening
and supporting the show. Many of you never participate in
the show. The numbers indicate the amount of people listening.

(18:42):
The amount of people that actually participate are very small
in terms of the number of participation compared to the
people that are listening. Which is normally the case, and
we take one night to celebrate those that made the show,
as we say, a show. And there are more categories
this year than ever before.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Four.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
But the first Benny. This is exciting, you know. Let
me get my I have a stack here.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
We can hear that.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
That's a stack of envelopes. I have a literal stack
of envelopes in my hand. These have been hermetically sealed.
I did show you.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Thank you very official. They have golden stickers, that.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Is correct, and we will start giving them out the end. Actually,
let me give you the nominees first, before we get
to the envelope. First mistake of the Benny's, first mistake
of the bet. All right, the nominees. Now the first
Benny that we are going to give out here the category,
some say the most competitive category of them all. Why

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because this came down to the very end. It's the
final round. There were multiple rounds of voting the twenty
twenty five Benny Award social Media Influencer All the Year.
The final round. The nominees alf the Alien, Old Piner
from Springfield, Mass Third Dog from that Winter Wonderland of Fullerton,

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and Justin in Cincinnati, all right, those of the nominees,
and good luck to all of you.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Only one of you will win, and the envelope please
al right, here we go.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
And the Benny Award goes to Alf the Alien Opider.
Congratulations Alf.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
This was tied up.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Alf and Justin and Cincinnati were tied up with thirty
minutes to go, and we don't want to time.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
We want somebody to win.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
But getting a final push, Alf got thirty six point
one percent of the vote. He just edged out Justin
and Cincinnati at thirty four point nine percent of the
voters and Ferg Dog, who was neck and neck at
one point on Saturday. It was a three way tie
which I've never seen before, but Ferg Dog finished in third.

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So congratulations to Alf the Alien oll Piner, the first
Benny Award winner of the night in a very important category,
social Media Influencer of the Year. Now we already have
our first controversy on the Benny's and that courtesy of
that dope supermarket Steve, who says he has a feeling

(21:33):
there might have been some funny business with the social
media votes. He's accusing Cooper Loop. He says Cooper Loop
runs the voting meme and he has a hold us.
He has a legitimate gripe with Justin and Cincinnati because
he's more popular, the most popular Justine on the show.
He's demanding a recount. Supermarket, Steve, the poll is on
your account. That is correct, That is correct. But couldn't

(21:56):
you have maybe everybody's with the musk and you maybe
you know, did something there fusched around or something with
the voting.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
You know, gotcha. I don't know that's what he's saying.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
But anyway, well, congratulations to ALF and super Markets, Steve Slower,
role you super Marke, stevef you you gotta buy and
you didn't even make it. You got a first round
by and you didn't even make it to the final
round of the Benny's Bad job by you. I will say, Ben, Yes,
this award included. I feel like a lot of these categories. Tonight,

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we're the closest I've ever seen in the history of
the Benny of Yes, it was crazy.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
I did the red carpet thing.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
I did the fifth Hour podcast on Friday, and I
was looking at some of the numbers and it was like,
so it was separated by millimeters. Yeah, it was nuts,
which is either good or bad.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Is that good that there's a lot of competition, Is
that mediocrity or I don't know, but I was.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
I was excited.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
The voting was so close, which means we the Blue
Ribbon Panel Coop did a good job of putting the
right people in different categories because it was so competitive.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
That's right. So I'm gonna pat ourselves in the back.
All right, great job, thank you. Yes, next up, here
we go, Here we go. All right.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
The next category on the twenty twenty five Benny Awards,
the top Game show contestant. Actually know we're not doing that.
We're doing that later, right, I'm putting that envelope back. Yeah, no, no,
we're putting that back.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Rookie Caller of the Year.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
You gotta start with a big one to draw in
the exactly exactly Okay, wait.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Wait wait, wait, wait what the Rookie of the Year?

Speaker 4 (23:29):
Right, you know what that sho.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Blocks Look at this is a highly produced all right,
Rookie of the Year the category. Who are the rated
rookies here for the Benny Award? And again, hundreds and
hundreds of people voted and Rookie Caller of the Year.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Now before you announce man. Yes, in the past, I
can't remember. Please refresh my memory.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
I know that we gave at least one golden ticket
to every winner of a Benny award.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yeah, it was it two the year? Or was it
two to everybody?

Speaker 2 (24:03):
It's usually it should be two to everybody in The
Caller of the Year gets like three, we'll do it.
How about that, We'll do that, So three the Call
of the Year, two to everyone else who wins an award.
So Alf, you've got Alf never calls the show as
far as we know. Maybe he calls and uses the name.
We just don't know it's him. He might call in
every day.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
True, But Alf, you have two golden tickets. And here
we go the nominees for Rookie Call the Year. I
get accused all the time, Lorena. People say, oh, you know,
it's the same seven people call every night. No one
knew calls the show. I said, no, not at all.
It's bull crap. There's new people all the time. So
the nominees are Daniel in Fort Wayne, America's favorite crossing guard.

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Fort Wayne, Indiana, calls the show normally on Thursdays into
Wednesday and Thursday, the Mojoe rising from the Bay Airy
very positive vibe.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Rations from Mojoe Rising. Tuna in Laguna. No Tuna is
a call very often. We just love the name. It's
a great name. Tune in the go to solid name.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Mike the Leprecahn from the Boston area. What happened to
the applause? Kelly in Des Moines, formerly in Nashville.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Kelly again, a lot going on in her world this year.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
I'd engaged and she's got the the bun in the oven.
And from Boston, America's favorite trash man, Danny Devido.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Those are the nominees.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Envelope please here all right, and the winner Rookie Caller
of the Year goes to.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Mike the Leprecahn.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Congratulations, Mike the Leprechaun. You are the Rookie of the
Year on the Ben Mathers Show.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Way to go, mister Leprecaun.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Guy.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Here, we'll do our own mind clapping count events. Yeah,
there you go.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
And that is his not his second Larrao, that's his
first Benny Awards. So, Mike de leprech if you want
to call up anybody who wins, you want to call
up and and give a speech as a winner or
if you want to there, he is right there. He
calls up, does dad jokes and a lot of dad jokes.

(26:22):
A lot of those dad jokes we will have later
this We will get to the game show Contestant of
the Year. We have that to look forward to. That
section calls though right now it is the Benny Awards.
Will pause the awards to take some calls.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
We'll say hello to Eeni, Meeni, Mini, Moe. Andre Is
in the Commonwealth, Hello, andre.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
Ben, how are you doing.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
Listen? It's very exciting and also anxious with the Benny
Awards being given out tonight on the same night as
the Oscars. Actually, you know, so I think it's a
seminal achievement for those who are aspire to move up
the ranks and the mail and militia. So even oh
it's brick cold here in the Commonwealth and a little
bit late at night, you know, there are little beads

(27:05):
of sweat on the forehead, you know, as you just
kind of anticipate and wait, you know, I think it's
tannam out to what's going on out there in Hollywood.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
The Oscars are actually a pre party to that. Anyway,
that's the pregame show We're the main event.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
In fact, to signal that there was a decent sized
earthquake about an hour before the awards.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Question absolutely startled my soul. Wasn't that big?

Speaker 3 (27:29):
It was big.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
It wasn't even it was like three point nine. It
didn't even get the first time hearing about it, I
had no idea. It shook the building pretty good. You probably,
I don't know, maybe you're driving. I don't know. It
was a mile from where I was, and the whole building.
I thought I was going to fall over. That was
shaking pretty good. It was little.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
And I was like, oh my, I thought I thought
the neighbors had big feet.

Speaker 5 (27:49):
Yeah, you know, not to cut you guys off, because
you guys are right there kind of at the epicenter.
But what's going on in the world. We had an
earthquake in the Commonwealth last year in Maine that was
felt here in the peninsula Cape cat You know, we're
not used to you know what I mean, worries.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Are you trying to want up us on earthquakes? Is
that what you're trying to do here? Andre As Willis
to see I talked to Willis as willis there, please
put your dog Willis on.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
Right now, hold on, hold on, Willis is awake. You know,
I got some snacker us. You know, he's been wrecked.
We can get because he doesn't you know, I got
and he's already he's already you know what I mean,
he's seen, he's seeing the intimates. I can't give him
the intimates because he got stick last week. But he
seems a little bit ten. I don't know if he's
gonna you know, but he's here.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
He's here.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
No intimates for Willis because it upsets their stomach bent
and we already we already been down that road. But
he's a little bit plastic. But Willis and myself we
both navigated the earthquake. It was a little legitimate earthquake, like.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
You know what I mean, Well, the problem is, uh,
and that's just some hot earthquake talk. The problem with
the earthquakes if the buildings here are mostly designed.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
For earthquakes, but in May not designed for earthquakes, that's
the problem wealth not either. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 5 (28:54):
Literally the building was shaken.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
I'm you know, at of body experience. You can hear.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
Willison in the background. He sees the inmates now and
you get a little being get a little bit frustrated.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
You got a lot of callers. Ben, Let's go back
to the NFL.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
The Commanders have not usurped the Eagles were bringing in Debo.
It's a big move. You know who they usurped, Ben
the dog on Detroit Lions. I see the Commanders moving
ahead of the Detroit Lions having Debo, having Dan Quinn,
this system, Jaydon Daniels Detroit.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
I was pulling for you this year.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
You had it all lined up and you got molly
walked at home and you lost Ben Johnson going to
the Chicago Bears. So Commanders, it's the NFC East right now,
the Cowboys, the Giants, Okay, back of the line. Okay,
Eagles and the Commanders. They could be the top two
teams in the NFC. It's a big move. But the
Eagles fly.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Eagles fly.

Speaker 5 (29:39):
Ben, Thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
All right, thanks, Well, it's this year and we we'll.

Speaker 5 (29:42):
See you next time. That all the Benny winners. My
heck goes off.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Okay, there's Andre and the Commonweals again. You just picked
up Deebo Samuel, who has been an enigma for the
forty nine ers. The last couple of years, and yet
everyone's all Washington commanders of the team to beat. Don't
you think if he was any good, Niners would have
held onto him. Now, maybe you'll have a great metamorphosis right,

(30:06):
a renaissance in Washington. But the player that Washington's getting,
you'd rather have him take on Joey Chestnut in a
competing competitive eating contest than you would playing in an
NFL game. At this point, let's go to Mike, who's
in lubbing, Texas. What's going on, Mike, welcome?

Speaker 7 (30:25):
How are you being?

Speaker 2 (30:26):
If I was any better, I'd be a cowboy, but
not a Dallas cowboy because they stink.

Speaker 7 (30:33):
That hurt because I have a blue star on my
right forearm.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Or well, I wanted to talk about this today, Ben,
you want to talk about blue stars on?

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Mike in loving.

Speaker 6 (30:45):
Shoulder blade that has a cowboys tattoo on it, and
I was like, do you feel shame? I wanted to
ask for do you feel shame?

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Who has the tattoo?

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Some lady in front of me at Disney, some random
lady at disneyn you took a photo over tattoo? Did
she know you were taking? No, she didn't know, she
just randomly took a photo of this work.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
You want to see it to you, okay, for your eyeballs.

Speaker 6 (31:05):
I wanted to as it.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (31:07):
So, as a Cowboys fan, like I'm a huge fan
of the rookie Jayden Daniels, I think that if we
see a healthy Devo Samuel like we.

Speaker 8 (31:18):
Did back when the you know, the forty nine ers
were relevant, then him and Jayden Daniels and the rest
of the squad they have not to mention the Dallas former
Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Clintons, their head coach. I
feel like it could be special, but I just he's
hurt a lot. He did that and the others.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, so that's that's your day. But if you listen,
let me tell you something.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
The worst thing you can do is a well, if
only we stay healthy, No one stays healthy. Everyone gets hurt.
And if you add players that are injury prone, guess
what they get hurt. That's what they do. They stay healthy.
No one stays healthy. I'm not even healthy. No one's healthy.

Speaker 8 (32:03):
No, not nowadays?

Speaker 2 (32:06):
No, no, yeah, well exactly, because you know it's you
know what it is, man, The money's so great now
it's like, hey, man, you got and you're not one
hundred percent. You don't go out there if you're not
eighty five percent. But back in the old days, when
these guys had to play to get their money, they
would play. Hey, they'd have like the toe hanging off
their foot, they'd still go out there and play. Not

(32:26):
anymore though, all right, well, thank you, Mike.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
I gotta go go away. There's a mic hanging out.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
It is the Ben Malord Show. We're gonna get back
to the Benny Awards. Know who am I game? But
the next Benny Award up we'll get to coming up
here in a couple of minutes, the Benny Award for
the Game show Contestant of the Year. So many different
games we play. Normally we play them as we get
later into the night here, and you do a lot
the first hour. But we do play sports, Jeopardy, Got Password,

(32:56):
the Word, Game of the Stars, the Mallard Militia Feud.
We just started a new game which is not eligible
for this, and Marcel won a week ago. Are you
smarter than the FSR Tech Queen? And that's the greatest
thing that's ever happened to Marcell in Brooklyn, So straight ahead,
we will give out the Benny Award for the top
game show contestant of twenty twenty five. We'll get to that.

(33:17):
We'll take some more of your calls as well. We'll
do it all, and we will do it next.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
Bell Miller and you.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
It is the Ben Maler Show. The Benny Awards continue,
and you can stream this show and all those other
Fox Sports Radio shows live twenty four to seven. The
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(33:53):
There we are, Where's You? And one of the newest
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(34:14):
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Speaker 1 (34:23):
And Bill, you did not do the toss.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
It's a bad job by you, but we will continue
the twenty twenty five Benny Awards. It's the greatest night
in overnight sports talk radio as we celebrate the people
that make the Ben Malor Show a show. Next up,
the Top Game Show Contestant of twenty twenty five, The

(34:46):
Top Game Show Contestant of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
The nominees.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Coach Russell from the Orlando area started calling the show
the last part of twenty twenty four high school football
coach in Orlando, Kelly in Des Moines, formerly known as
Kelly in Nashville, trying to become the new power couple
with Shane in the Moine, a baby on the way,

(35:14):
Manuel in Gardena, the Og in southern California, Chris in Massachusetts,
the Commonwealth there and Chris in Boston, A lot of
Chris is and Mitch in man Cato as well.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
So those are the nominees. The envelope please, all right,
here we go a little nervous. I have no idea
who's gonna.

Speaker 6 (35:42):
Win this here, Okay, I'm ready, I'm ready, all right,
And the winner of the Benny Award goes to.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Manuel in Gardena, Yeah, can we have the lenses?

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Manuel?

Speaker 7 (36:03):
Right?

Speaker 2 (36:04):
I know it's not the huge call of the year,
but Dick, that's a big deal. In a dominating win
by Manuel and Guardina. He he got. I think he
got more than half the votes in that category. So
tremendous job by Manuel in Guardina as he is the
winner of Game Show Contestant of the Year. Let's go

(36:25):
back to the phones and we'll say hello. We'll get
back to the Bennies. We have many more awards to go.
That's just the preview of the rest of the night.
Let's say hello to Scottie, who's hanging out in Oklahoma?

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Hello, Scotty, welcome, Hello.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
Hello, Hello, Oh my god, him on the hood out?
Just kidding? How are you doing? Mister Malla?

Speaker 2 (36:45):
If I was any better, I would be mister nice guy.
But I think we got mister nice guy sending automated comments.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
And notice some people are answering the who am I game?
Even though we didn't give out the who am I game?

Speaker 2 (36:57):
These people are frauds there, frauds anyway, Go ahead, Yes,
what's up Scottie?

Speaker 4 (37:03):
Oh? Well, the deebo Samuel saying I have a question,
mister mallay, do you have the eye sight of Red
Fox on Harmum Knights, Because Deebo Sammons the last five years,
even though he was injured last year, pretty much all
of set still comport not that were injured last year.
But even when he was injured and did come back

(37:24):
and play, he was a dominating force. His name is
Deebo after tiny Zeus Lester from Friday. Yes, equivalent of
a train a brick wall.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, well, maybe my eyes are broken, or maybe you're
just a fanboy and a boot liquor and you don't
watch football that He has been progressively worse. He had
one All Pro amazing season twenty twenty one. It's now
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
Well, even though it's twenty twenty five, he's still is
gonna be probably, I guarantee you go through the Pro
bo uh this coming up season.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Well, the Pro Bowl doesn't exist anymore though, Scotty.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
They got rid of it. The players didn't want to
play in it. It's now they played volleyball or tic
tac tall or whatever.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
All Pro.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yes, that's what matters. All Pro. He's done that one time.
That's it.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
One All Pro. The rest of the time. No, he's
had one amazing season in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
The world's not perfect, but don't have a bad habit
of anybody to have.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
It's not one, but your it's not Why what are
you talking about. It's not what you're saying. It's one.
It's not one. It's not one. It's more than one.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
It's three. It's not one, it's three. Okay, Okay, listen,
here's what's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Let me let me tell you.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
I'm a distin relative of No Strodamo's friend and no Streets.
I'll tell you what's gonna happen. So Deebo I'll hold
let you go Kazuo up against it. But here's here's
what's gonna happen. Deebo will go out and be a
mid level He'll be a jag, not a Jacksonville jack.
He'll be just a guy in Washington.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
And uh and we we proven correct here, and you
will never call up and bring this up again. Scotti.
That's what always happens.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
It always happens that way, that when you're wrong, you vanish,
you go out in the heavens, you hide.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Is what you're gonna do. I know, I know how
this is gonna happen. I know it, I know it,
I know it.
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