August 30, 2024 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about who won the contract standoff between Brandon Aiyuk and the 49ers, if Aiyuk is worth the $30M per year that he is getting, the counterblast from the deal, and much more!
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Here we go. Welcome, it's our nuburw just a drop
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that are in front of me. Programming note, today is Friday,
So a couple of things to look out for this weekend.
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First of all, the Fifth Hour podcast, which is an
ensemble podcast. It's a podcast that will go behind the
scenes the making of episode one of season two of
Benny Versus the Penny, some never before told stories as
the TV show returns to the NBC regional cable networks
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this weekend. Also, for the first time ever, we're gonna
be on Peacock. We're going national, so that's very exciting.
Some odd developments led up to that, some very strange
things happened this week. We'll talk about behind the scenes
the making of episode number one of the new season
on the Fifth Hour. And then of course you can
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watch you can watch the TV show Myself and the
Penny otherwise known as Looney Tunes and No Games this weekend.
So what are we gonna do to fill a half
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to find out. But here an hour one of the
original Recipe radio show. The Flavor of the Month is
no longer the flavor of the month. One of our
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favorite stories is now over. Who won the Cold War
standoff between disgruntled wide receiver Brandon Iok, who all of
a sudden is a cock eyed optimist and the forty
nine ers after he signs one hundred and twenty million
dollars deal. Also, is Brandon Iyok worth thirty million a year?
That's what he's gonna be being paid from San Francisco?
And what is the counter blast from Brandon aoks deal
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with the Niners. We'll talk about all that and much
more right now here. It is our number one little
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All kinds of chatter has been going on around the
runner up in the NFL. We've talked about this multiple times.
It's been great for what we do. So if you've
not heard the latest revelations that have gone on, maybe not.
We've learned now the forty nine ers have elected to
keep Brandon AOK. He has agreed to a four year
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contract for one hundred and twenty million dead presidents. Now,
I'm not gonna lie to you. I could lie to you,
you wouldn't know if I was or not. But I'm
not gonna lie to you. I'm a little cheery eyed
I am. This is the death of a story that
we have beaten into the ground. As mister nice guy
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would say, we flogged the horse on this one. The
dead horse. The soap opera fed the beast, the sports
machine of content, endless rumors, innuendo, cryptic social media posts.
It dragged on and on and on, including Brandon Ayuck
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playing footseet with his buddy former Arizona State teammate Jalen Daniels,
in flirting with the commanders, but in the end, status quo.
All right, so let us discuss the question who won
the Cold Wars? Is that too dramatic? Who won the
Cold War? Standoff? Between Brandon Auck and the forty nine ers.
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I've got Dutch oven, algebra, and Ronald Reagan, and we
will combine all of these things together, and we're going
to sit at the round table. We're all at the
round table here, we're all chatting with each other. So A,
I spent a good amount of time. I had a
minutes long Mallard deliberation on who was the winner in
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this contract squabble. The verdict is in and my vote
goes to the Dutch oven, as I would say, sourdough
Sowardo Sam. You can cook sourdough in a Dutch o
Sowardo Sam. The mascot. There the scales leaning heavily towards
the forty nine ers. Now you're probably saying, you're a tummy.
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What's show? You're what you're talking about. It's hard to
imagine a guy who got seventy six million darerongteed did
not win the day. However, we live in bizarro world,
the industrial complex of pro sports. So why did the
forty nine ers win? Why did they win this negotiason
because they kept the player, and if you believe the reporting,
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they didn't raise their offer. I had failed to get
ced Lamb money. He didn't get Justin Jefferson money, and
he's gonna have to settle for money. Similar to aman
Ross Saint Brown, who pointed out, as we talked about
in a previous episode of the show, that doing audio
content is harder than running roots in the NFL, he
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said that, now, who do you think leaked? Just between
me and you, who do you think leaked the Brandon
Auk story that he took the same offer that had
been on the table for the last month, last three
weeks or so, so let's examine that. Now. I like
these kind of stories because you try to figure out
who's the leak, and this one's rather obvious. I don't
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think you need to tell you just by having half
a brain. We always ask two questions, though, who stands
the gain from leaking the information? And why would you
leak now? The answer to both those questions is ding
ding ding ding ding. That's right, the forty nine ers,
because why you leak now? Will you leak now? Because
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the contract has been agreed upon, it's docu signed. You
gain from the leak because you say that the rest
of the world. I we didn't give in No, that's
the same offer. He just he took took the offer.
We made the offer. He just didn't want to go
to training. Kip the guy's lazy or whatever. We made
the offer. So you try to win the information war
the hearts and minds of the undecided forty nine er apologies. Now,
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page two is the player Brandon Auk worth thirty million
dollars a year. Let's examine that. So what we did
here is get the Malord microscope out and look at
the spreadsheet here for the forty nine ers. So examining
the Niners, and where they're at right now, not where
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they're going to be, where they're at right now. The
answer here is N plus O because if you look
at the ex's and o's part of it, the hierarchy
of the Niners, the totem pole. There for the Niners,
you've got Christian McCaffrey, who's at the very top of
the totem pole, and then below that Deebo Samuel. Those
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are the guys that really put the fear of God
into you. And then on a rare and appropriate night
or afternoon, George Kittle, the tight end, who's thirty but
getting very old. He looks old. He had some injury issues.
And then after that Brandon and I because the number
four option on the totem pole. But yet, if my
math is correct, and I checked my notes here, he's
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the fifth highest paid on average wide receiver in the NFL.
So good for him. It's great mitzvah. But the standard
algebra doesn't work either my entire life, the algebra for
these contracts has meant E plus B equal C, meaning
the e the eyeballs plus butts in seats equal c
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cash and Brandon ayuk Am I wrong I don't think
I'm right. He's not Musty TV. No one's gonna say,
oh my god, I can't wait to watch the Niners.
I want to see what Brandon and I are gonna do.
Maybe he'll become that guy. He's not that guy right now,
and he doesn't sell tickets. You're not gonna like I
gotta go to the game. I gotta see what this
guy's gonna do. But he got paid anyway, So how
does this work? How was he able to pull it off?
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I have a theory on this. So my theory is
that the player Brandon IOC used two things. He used
the feigned scarcity of the wide receiver market and FOMO
as in fear of missing out. So he ends up
getting paid, and the Niners we want to keep the player.
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What if he leaves and goes to Pittsburgh or Cleveland,
Washington and has success. Of course, nobody goes to Cleveland
and Washington has success, but maybe Pittsburgh. But in the end,
we always default that the player is worth whatever someone
is willing to pay them. And I continued to tell
our bosses here at Fox Sports Radio, I would love
for people to say I'm overpaid, that would make me
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feel so good. I want mean things said about how
much money I make and how rich I am and
how overpaid I am. I want to be that guy.
I'd like to be that guy. Now some of you
probably think I'm already overpaid, but trust me, based on
the amount of time that is spent preparing for the
show and doing the show and all that stuff, not overpay.
But I'd like to be overpaid. So my bosses want
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to overpay me, I'd be more than happy to take
the criticism on. Now, last word, what is the counter
blast from Brandon auks deal with the forty nine ers?
Now that it's dun Ski's what is the counter blest?
Every action has an equal reaction. So the initial thought
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I had here was something that President Ronald Reagan came
up with years ago, trickled down economics. So we know
on this show the salary cap is not real, right,
it's not. We don't believe the salary cap is real.
So that said the Niners, though, you can bet your
bottom dollar the Niners will weaponize the Brandon ayuc contract
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and they will say they're hemorrhaging money and they're gonna
cry poverty. And the initial thought is well, Trent Williams
is not happy. He's still at Loggerheads. He's likely gonna
be gone. Okay, Well, not to mention brock Purdy, who's
close close to his massive payday. He's got to get
through this year then he's gonna get paid. So the
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smart money is that this will be the swan song
for Deebo Samuel, who's been out celebrating all these contracts
that have been handed out, but his deal there's an
out after this year. And if you're gonna pay Brandon
I have to be the fifth highest paid receiver in
the NFL on average, then you might as well start
throwing him the ball so he is productive and more productive.
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And then Deebo Samuel, who gets hurt quite a bit anyway,
and you look at the age and you do the
math on that, and it makes sense that he would
be the guy who's the odd man out. It is
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It's Ben Mallor, a party of one, and what did
you expect him to say? We'll get to those stories
coming up in a little bit as we are just
warming up. Don't forget. Benny Versus the Penny returns this
weekend starting today. This is our Friday show back on
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The people have spoken well, many have spoken, Chip and
the cues right since is a plus. And the Mountain monologue.
I cannot help but think that Brandon Ayuk won this.
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Anytime somebody gets thirty million dollars a year guaranteed to
play a game as the winner. Well, while that is
not wrong, when you look at the big picture of
the cartoonish, cartoonish money that is flying around in the NFL,
it's a different, a totally different dimension. Absolutely, Destin, right,
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since says Ben, you rock, please don't let Poppy make
my ears bleed. Let's get under the Mallard haters' skin tonight.
There you go, all right, Well, thank you Destin for
just torpedoing Poppy. We have not heard from Ozzie Wahs
whether or not he is going to come through with
a pig picking NFL games every week now, the Texas
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Trucker says, thanks for the shout out. I don't do
shout outs. He says, can you give out a golden
ticket to the winner of his malor themed fantasy football league? Lorraine,
Should I give this guy a golden ticket? If to
the winner, to the winner of I do think it's
(15:48):
very cool that he's making a Mallard draft. Yeah, that's nice, right,
that's voting the show. That's good branding for the show
spreading the world. I agree, I agree, yeah, And I'm
not against the winner getting a golden ticket. Ben, Yeah,
But then like everyone's gonna want one, you know, that's
the problem. But they'd have to join that specific draft
to get one to win it. Well, considering we have
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no marketing budget, you'll never see a billboard for the
show other than moving man Matt in Boston, who did
it on his own there driving around with the name
of the show on the back of his big rig.
Oh no, you don't know about this. Is there a
big sign like you actually put a big Oh yeah,
he came to the studio a couple of years ago. No,
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it's a massive banner. It's on it is I'll find
some photos. It's on both sides of his truck. It's
on the it's on the rig, it's on the back.
I mean, it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Please tell me your face was on it.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Unfortunately, not that that would have gotten him some tickets
if he had had my face. But the name of
the show, the name of the show, and that. You
know how expensive is to get those trucks with your
painted It's it's not cheap. It's not like you can
just do it yourself. It costs a lot of money
to do that. And yeah, that's the only only real
marketing budget that we have. So any marketing for the show,
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any guerrilla marketing, of course legal. There were some guys
going around putting mallard stickers up in random places like
Malor show snicker stickers which were which were kind of cool,
so we're all about it. Oh my gosh, we could
go put them on all the stop signs around the city,
so every city. Well, that's a wonderful idea. Just vandalism.
What could possibly go wrong with that? Let's see. Terry
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in England is a big forty nine er apologist. He's
part of one of those forty nine er fan club
groups there in the UK. He says, Brandon IOK has
signed Deebo will be offloaded next offseason. It's always been
the plan, says Terry. He's got all figured out, all
figured out. As he eats his you know what, hungry
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with his drama antics, IOK has screwed his long term
chances of another big contract. Well if he plays well,
forget about it, Anthony and Anaheim says nothing better and
turning the car on, expecting to hear the Malord Show,
and I hear Dodger talk in LA I still have
no clue what, well, Anthony, you're likely not listening, so
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I can rip you because you're not going to hear this.
But it is twenty twenty four. And the great thing
about this is if the local affiliate makes a decision
that does not include carrying the show for whatever reason.
I would hate to rip the local affiliate, especially the
flagship here in LA. But if they cover us up
for some reason, they have this app I nobas this
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is called the apps. I believe it's the iHeart app,
which is the most listened to audio app in the world.
And yeah, the show's on there, so no matter what. Now,
I recommend I always say listen first on your local affiliate.
But if your local affiliate's run by Bozo the Clown
or something like that and they make a mistake, then
you can carry this show. There's no reason to miss
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the show. Stuck in Sacramento says a way to go
putting My Lord and Savior Ronald Reagan in the Minus
Malard monologue. The only reason for the minus you had
to talk about damn San Francisco. And that's close to
this hellhole Sacramento. Let's start talking about the People's Team.
I can't wait to get to into it. For the opener,
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you'll enjoy your experience. And I recommend when you go
see the people's team at the end to it, don't
drink a lot of water before you go in there,
and a lot of booze a lot of beer because
you will have Everyone gets their own urinal when you
go to a Clipper game. They love their fans. They
want no one to have any bladder issues. Very nice,
very polite there. Mickey in State forty eight rights since
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Brandon Ayuc was close to leaving the NFL and coming
back here to Tempee to help coach our dumpster fire
of a program, if a deal was not done, well,
it's a shame Arizona State. They gotta get some new uniforms.
Though this is some bad looking uniforms there at Arizona State.
They got to change that up a little bit. Who
else do we have? Page down? Shane in des Moines says,
(20:05):
instead of giving weed Man a place to stay, give
him a new show to call. He says he's a
D plus caller. At this point, you don't like that
He just calls up, makes one passive comment about sports,
and then immediately says, I need a place to live.
I need a place to live. Blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah,
exactly all right, mala prop Guy says been another fantastic,
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in fact based Malle monologue. The amount of guaranteed money
certainly isn't mind numbing these days. Someone in the Malad
militia wanted me to ask you, besides Alf and Fergie,
how many other show contributors are receiving guaranteed money. Well,
that's a great question, Malaprop guy. It's changed over the years.
We at one point we had marked the full name
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guy in the payroll, but he became disgruntled. You might
see some of his comments like a lunatic on social media, unhinged.
He does that because we had to get a real job. Well,
we had to cut him off, and that's because of
Coop Hoop wanted Mark the full name got cut off
and guaranteed money, so we cut him out. There's some
rumors that one of our friends in Brooklyn, but not
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not Marcel. Marcel works cheap, but Uncle Ma in Brooklyn
might be off the payroll. There's some chatter about that.
And we've rotated enough. You've noticed this Malapropkat. But some
of our celebrity callers from Maine. They've come and gone
here and we've moved them around a little bit. There's
a lot of moving parts to this. There's meetings, there's
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consultants involved. There's a lot of layers to the bureaucracy
on who gets the money, who doesn't get the money.
Like for a while Ed and Arlington during the baseball
season was a key contributor, and then that that stopped tapping.
No more Ed, and then we had every once in
a while, even like the online stuff like Ostro Jah
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in DC, Like occasionally we'll have to pay him for
some content online that doesn't go well. Now, Shannon, we
don't pay him, he just sends the stuff in. We
don't have to pay him at all now. But Alf
and Fergdog right up there, Matt the Warrior Raider, Tom
Brady Rose Fan also a big money guy. Justin and
Cincinnati aren't puffin there on the payroll. So, I mean,
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there's a lot of this show's budget is endless. You
I think we don't have another advertising budget, but we
we definitely have big budget when it comes to contributors
to the show. Otherwise, no one would call who the
hell's listening? Why would anyone be awake at this hour.
My god, you're such a loser if you're awake at
this hour. Right, And I'm certainly not gonna be doing
the show live. I mean, I'm a TV guy. Now,
I can't be up all night doing a radio show.
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I might be doing a radio show. I've got a
TV show now, can't be doing a radio show all night?
Come on meanwhile? A random pop quiz, Random pop quiz.
There was one NFL team, one loan NFL team, that
voted on the new NFL ownership tweek, voting no, saying
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they don't want private equity ownership. The loane no vote
in the NFL. Anyone want to take a guess? Eddie?
Would you like to take a guess? On the have
one and thirty two chants of getting this right? The
only team the loan team to abstain to vote no
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for private equity entering the NFL. The NFL decided that
they will allow a maximum of ten percent of a
team to be owned private equity.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Would that be the Green Bay Packers?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Okay, green Bay Packers? Is it the green Bay pat Now?
Oh you're wrong, You're wrong, Coop? Would you like to play? See?
Here we go? No, I don't know. I don't know
Arizona Cardinals. All right, at least you guessed you didn't
not guess. That is wrong. Over to Lorrainea, let's see
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if it is my chance to make a name for myself.
That is right, we trust you. Come on, here we go, Lorrain,
here we go. Here we go to be.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Your marquee moment to date in the show.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
This could be the defining moment that sets you apart.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
All right, are we are? We ready?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Here we go. No ship the Chicago Bears. That is
a great guess. That's an action. I thought you were
gonna guess the Winnipeg Blue Bombers or something like that.
But no, that is a real NFL team, and that
is wrong. You're wrong. The one team that stands up
for the people, the people's champ the Cincinnati Bengals, the Bengals,
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the only team in the NFL. Mike Brown, who's older
than Dirt, said no, no, no, no, no. He's not
going to allow some private equity group to come in
there and to put all their crap olva and all
their slogans and all that stuff, and certainly their money
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and fix up the facility there in Cincinnati, so the
Bengals the only ones. Usually it was the Raiders back
in the day when Al Davis owned the Raiders. When
I was a kid, it was always like he'd vote
no on everything just because he hated the NFL, the
way the structure of the business was and all that. Now,
what did you expect him to say? That would be
Patrick Mahomes who was asked whether or not Taylor Swift
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was a distraction for the Chiefs, which is rather an
odd question considering they won the Super Bowl while she
was going to all the games. But anyway, somebody asked
the question and Mahomes said, people act like it was
a distraction. I was like, no, this is just Travis Man.
I would argue that Taylor Swift not a distraction. Travis
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Kelsey doing every game show, every movie, every podcast, asked,
all that stuff, radio, you name it, that is more
of a distraction than Taylor Swift because he is completely
houring himself out. He's doing everything every and good. Ye know,
I would do the same thing, but that does not
mean that you are worn thin when you're when you're
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done with that. And the other thing is when you
think about asking Mahomes whether or not Taylor Swift is
a distraction to the Chiefs. If if I'm mistaken, isn't
mahomes wife like besties with or trying to be besties
with Taylor Swift so like? Isn't that also in the
arithmetic on that? So?
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Speaker 4 (26:39):
Is time for our nightly segment. Did the White Sox
oh lose?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Did the White Sox Chicago White Sox put it on
the y?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Did in fact lose to the Rangers to a job?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I want to see him lose out. I want to
see it. There's a month ago in the baseball season.
I don't want to see him win another game. They
are not another one.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Thirty one and one hundred and four in the season.
I want in thirty three since the all start.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I want to see thirty one and one thirty one.
That's what I would like to see. At sixty that worked,
That would work. Why they play one hundred and sixty
two so they could be thirty one and one thirty one?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Sixteen losses to tie, seventeen losses to break the nineteen
sixty two years.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I believe in.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
You twenty seven years.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Guys.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
If they don't, it doesn't happen. Now, I think it's
a giant upset Hue jump set.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
You guys blow. And I want to see the White
Sox set the record. I'm here for the history.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I want with you.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Let's do it.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
We can do it, White Sox.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
And let me tell you some if I was doing
local sports radio in Chicago, I'd want to throw a
parade for the White Sox if they set the record.
I want to have a parade right there, right down
Michigan Avenue. I want to have a parade in Chicago's
what I want. Right on the lake right there, Chicago River.
Also right along the river there. Anyway, it is the
Ban Malors Show. As we are roll and on. I
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have something in common with an NFL broadcaster. We'll get
to that. But let's go to the phones. We haven't
hear from this guy in a long time. I think
it's been ten thousand days. Let's say hello to Shazam
in Jersey. Hello Shazzam, Ben, welcome back, Shazam. It's been
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a while. Yeah, I got my life together out there.
You're cleaning up. You're not partying all night, living the
rock star lifestyle anymore. Shazam. Oh your your phone's cutting out? Shazam,
this is not good.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Oh could you hear me? Now? We can't cut out
right now.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
This is a very.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Important all right, So well, what is what is going on?
How can I help you?
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You know, I'm in La now.
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Actually I'm not not near where you do your show
about in La that's what.
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We so you have to come back. You'll have to
come by sometimes, zam and say hello in La.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
I got a tour of the studio.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Maybe do a show with you.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
I think we'll make We'll get some nice eyeball.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I mean, what do you think you're Eddie? Should we
let this guy host the show with me and you
can take the night off. You can, Sam can do
the news updates.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
We'll have to clear that with management.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Eddie's shaking his head. No, but we could give you
the ten cent send me an email, welcome me in here?
Why not?
Speaker 5 (29:22):
All right? My brother Dave suns reguards.
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All right, I hope your brother's doing well. Both you guys.
You guys have grown up with this show. She's am right,
both you guys with you exactly see life is better
when you listen to overnight sports.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Radio, specifically Uncle Ben's show.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
That's right, Uncle Benny. Hey, and by the way, Shazam
who this weekend the TV shows back Zam. So not
only radio but also television. So check out No No,
I loved you TV. They put your better person if
you do. Tom Looney told me that we're better people
now because we do TV. That's what he said. Who
(30:04):
I don't know, Yeah, some gas bag, I don't know.
He's that guy? All right, Well, Sam, you're in la
very guy? Is that all you had? You just want
to say hello. It's good to hear your voice. I'm
glad you're doing well.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Uh yeah, I have it together, you know good.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
You're giving your nose thing, You're walking the line. You're
all grown up. You got it all out of your system. Now,
don't grown up next time I call you.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Next time I call you, maybe I'll be like all
growing up and stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Okay, all right, Sam, well send me all right? All right,
there he goes the Great Shazam, normally in Jersey, but
he's in la now making his way to the West coast. Yeah,
having having a great time. Let's say hello to Andre
in the Commonwealth. Hello Andre, Hello Ben.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
It's good to be with you, and it's difficult for
me to be following behind somebody from the great state
of New Jersey. Shazam as I'm proud to be from
said state, even though I currently and to come well. Listen, Ben.
He started off the show breaking down some basic match
A plus B equal C and Brandon ayuk. I have
to push back a little bit. He is gonna be
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the guy that drives the attendance. We're we're not relying
for the San Francisco forty nine ers, mister irrelevant rock
thirty okay to power that offense. So he needs a weapon,
are you chief among them? So he's gonna drive the attendance.
Ben out there in the Bay Area is gonna put
the B but in the seat, which means ce, okay,
cost pay the man his money. Se Francisco forty nineers
(31:34):
knew they could not be They could not be the
candidate and get away with letting go their number one
weapon and still be It's.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Not their number one what are you talking about? Christian
McCaffrey is the number one and the number two weapon
for the Niners. Trust me, I see the Niners play.
I'm a Rams. I see them playing the Rams twice
a year now. It's Christian McCaffrey and Deebo Samuel. Those
are the guys that normally kill the Rams, not not Brandon. I.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Neither of them led the team in receiving yards to
be or to receiving touchdowns. Okay, so you need it.
It's about the combination of all of those. ANNY know McCaffrey.
I like his workout videos that I'm seeing on the
social media.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Who knows, don't don't, no, no, no workout? Who wants
to watch workout videos? Tell me you're a heart all
without telling me you're a heart. I hate that. I
can't stand guys that post workout videos. You don't need
to post a video from the gym, and if you
do that, I believe you are a Joe Brownie Ben when.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
He was with the Panther, when he was with Carolina,
he was getting injured and I didn't stan any workout videos.
Since I've been seeing these workout videos, he's been healthy.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
So let me tell you some You think when I
know when I go to the gym and I'm on
the treadmill, you think I'm posting videos No I'm not
posting videos. I just put my work in there. I
don't need post videos. In this sweating power, you.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Tower over all of the other people they are working out.
You know that the video wouldn't he you know, they
wouldn't be able to get You know.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
That that is true that you love the height that
I How tall are you? Andre? How tall he man?
Speaker 5 (33:08):
I'm a system point guard. You know I'm coming in
at five eight with my basketball shoes on.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Okay, all right, so you're in the NBA players five
foot eight. There have been some, I know the shortest
NBA player with spud web was like five four five,
Monkey Bogue five all Muggsy Bogue. I was spud Webs
five four, Muggy Bogues five to three. The guys actually
actually were Earl Boykins. He was five to five. He
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played for the Clippers. He was actually pretty good offensive player.
Earl Boykins. What a cool last name. Yeah, he was
a good He was a good offensive player. Nobody could
The problem with Boykins is nobody could guard him. But
he couldn't guard anybody because he was so small. They
just flick him away because he's a little guy.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
You know.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Anyway, Indeed, indeed, Munkey Bogue, the pride of he went
to a powerhouse, heighth school in the DMV.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
The name, the name, Uh, it doesn't matter. I know
what you're talking about. And and there's that famous photo
Muggsy Bogues with the tallest player in the NBA minut Ball.
They were teammates. I gotta, I gotta let you go there,
Andre so so thank you. You made your your point
and we appreciate that. Time. Now for the who am I? Game,
we'll go to baseball, where the Atlanta Braves have a
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picture named Chris Sale, who was garbage with the Red Sox.
He's good again. Chris Sale is tied for the Major
League Baseball lead in wins er and strikeouts. He's on
pace to be the first big league pitcher to win
the Triple Crown of pitching in a non shortened year.
Since me, Who am I? The answer? Next?
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Speaker 1 (35:08):
Time now for the who am I? Game? A pathetic
attempt to horton swoggle you in to listening a little
bit longer, and it appears that it has worked. The
Atlanta Braves made a trade for washed up Chris Sale,
and all of a sudden, he's no longer washed up.
Once he left Finway. Chris Sale is tied for the
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Major League Baseball league in wings, e er A and strikeouts.
He is on pace to be the first big league
pitcher to win that Triple Crown of pitching in a
non shortened year. Since me, who am I? That is
the question? What is the answer? Cowboy Killer says it
has to be inspector Gadget, Go, Go, gadget. Who else
(35:51):
do we have? Page down Chase in nor cow going
with Matt Caine as his answer. Texas Trucker says Jim Abbott.
Who else we have a milkman, Mike says Andre the
faux feline Felix is the way to go, George Scott
from Willie boof Bonser from our friend Jonathan Well, I
(36:13):
think is in in Louisiana. He's like a big muckety mucky.
He's sent some really cool hats a while back. Our
buddy Jonathan from the school he works at there in Louisiana.
Fer Dog says the birthday boy Chris Taylor, who's hitting
like a buck sixty seven or something. He's so bad,
he sucks so much, he's so terrible at baseball of us.
(36:34):
I don't know what happened to him. Who else do
we have? Burley Grimes great guest by Eke a very
relevant guest there from you Eke and Roseveld Minnesota, Barbararella
from courtesy Flusher Oil. Cann Boyd from Andy Alone Lakes.
That's Andy's guest, Walter Big Train Johnson from Art Puffin,
Tommy Losorda and the Philly Fanaticus by Alf the Alien o'piner.
(36:58):
Who else do you have page down paid down? Uh
let's see here. Uh we'll skip over that. Justin Verlander
and his really nice looking friend from Matthew Warrior Raider,
Tom Brady Rose Fan, Big Sexy Bartolo Cologne guests by
Eloy from Compton, Dark Winged Duc by Shane of des Moines.
Brian Banister, that's a good name from Robin, Minnesota. I
(37:21):
like that. Who else? Terry in England says? Is it
Chazam's brother? No, that is incorrect. Johann Santana guests by Marcus.
Who else? Meet Low from Slimpton? What say you, Addy? Quickly?
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Pierre de Serve from the Cleveland Browns from Lyndon Wood.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Oh, No, that is incorrect. It's also not U Bonser
from Big Grig Rob Well Marcus, That boy, Malcolm got
it right. It's Johann Santana back in oh Sex twenty
six for the Mats
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So a couple of things to look out for this weekend.
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Some odd developments led up to that, some very strange
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So what are we gonna do to fill a half
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no longer the flavor of the month. One of our
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favorite stories is now over. Who won the Cold War
standoff between disgruntled wide receiver Brandon Iok, who all of
a sudden is a cock eyed optimist and the forty
nine ers after he signs one hundred and twenty million
dollars deal. Also, is Brandon Iyok worth thirty million a year?
That's what he's gonna be being paid from San Francisco?
And what is the counter blast from Brandon aoks deal
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All kinds of chatter has been going on around the
runner up in the NFL. We've talked about this multiple times.
It's been great for what we do. So if you've
not heard the latest revelations that have gone on, maybe not.
We've learned now the forty nine ers have elected to
keep Brandon AOK. He has agreed to a four year
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contract for one hundred and twenty million dead presidents. Now,
I'm not gonna lie to you. I could lie to you,
you wouldn't know if I was or not. But I'm
not gonna lie to you. I'm a little cheery eyed
I am. This is the death of a story that
we have beaten into the ground. As mister nice guy
(04:06):
would say, we flogged the horse on this one. The
dead horse. The soap opera fed the beast, the sports
machine of content, endless rumors, innuendo, cryptic social media posts.
It dragged on and on and on, including Brandon Ayuck
(04:27):
playing footseet with his buddy former Arizona State teammate Jalen Daniels,
in flirting with the commanders, but in the end, status quo.
All right, so let us discuss the question who won
the Cold Wars? Is that too dramatic? Who won the
Cold War? Standoff? Between Brandon Auck and the forty nine ers.
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I've got Dutch oven, algebra, and Ronald Reagan, and we
will combine all of these things together, and we're going
to sit at the round table. We're all at the
round table here, we're all chatting with each other. So A,
I spent a good amount of time. I had a
minutes long Mallard deliberation on who was the winner in
(05:14):
this contract squabble. The verdict is in and my vote
goes to the Dutch oven, as I would say, sourdough
Sowardo Sam. You can cook sourdough in a Dutch o
Sowardo Sam. The mascot. There the scales leaning heavily towards
the forty nine ers. Now you're probably saying, you're a tummy.
(05:35):
What's show? You're what you're talking about. It's hard to
imagine a guy who got seventy six million darerongteed did
not win the day. However, we live in bizarro world,
the industrial complex of pro sports. So why did the
forty nine ers win? Why did they win this negotiason
because they kept the player, and if you believe the reporting,
(05:57):
they didn't raise their offer. I had failed to get
ced Lamb money. He didn't get Justin Jefferson money, and
he's gonna have to settle for money. Similar to aman
Ross Saint Brown, who pointed out, as we talked about
in a previous episode of the show, that doing audio
content is harder than running roots in the NFL, he
(06:18):
said that, now, who do you think leaked? Just between
me and you, who do you think leaked the Brandon
Auk story that he took the same offer that had
been on the table for the last month, last three
weeks or so, so let's examine that. Now. I like
these kind of stories because you try to figure out
who's the leak, and this one's rather obvious. I don't
(06:40):
think you need to tell you just by having half
a brain. We always ask two questions, though, who stands
the gain from leaking the information? And why would you
leak now? The answer to both those questions is ding
ding ding ding ding. That's right, the forty nine ers,
because why you leak now? Will you leak now? Because
(07:02):
the contract has been agreed upon, it's docu signed. You
gain from the leak because you say that the rest
of the world. I we didn't give in No, that's
the same offer. He just he took took the offer.
We made the offer. He just didn't want to go
to training. Kip the guy's lazy or whatever. We made
the offer. So you try to win the information war
the hearts and minds of the undecided forty nine er apologies. Now,
(07:28):
page two is the player Brandon Auk worth thirty million
dollars a year. Let's examine that. So what we did
here is get the Malord microscope out and look at
the spreadsheet here for the forty nine ers. So examining
the Niners, and where they're at right now, not where
(07:48):
they're going to be, where they're at right now. The
answer here is N plus O because if you look
at the ex's and o's part of it, the hierarchy
of the Niners, the totem pole. There for the Niners,
you've got Christian McCaffrey, who's at the very top of
the totem pole, and then below that Deebo Samuel. Those
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are the guys that really put the fear of God
into you. And then on a rare and appropriate night
or afternoon, George Kittle, the tight end, who's thirty but
getting very old. He looks old. He had some injury issues.
And then after that Brandon and I because the number
four option on the totem pole. But yet, if my
math is correct, and I checked my notes here, he's
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the fifth highest paid on average wide receiver in the NFL.
So good for him. It's great mitzvah. But the standard
algebra doesn't work either my entire life, the algebra for
these contracts has meant E plus B equal C, meaning
the e the eyeballs plus butts in seats equal c
(08:56):
cash and Brandon ayuk Am I wrong I don't think
I'm right. He's not Musty TV. No one's gonna say,
oh my god, I can't wait to watch the Niners.
I want to see what Brandon and I are gonna do.
Maybe he'll become that guy. He's not that guy right now,
and he doesn't sell tickets. You're not gonna like I
gotta go to the game. I gotta see what this
guy's gonna do. But he got paid anyway, So how
does this work? How was he able to pull it off?
(09:17):
I have a theory on this. So my theory is
that the player Brandon IOC used two things. He used
the feigned scarcity of the wide receiver market and FOMO
as in fear of missing out. So he ends up
getting paid, and the Niners we want to keep the player.
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What if he leaves and goes to Pittsburgh or Cleveland,
Washington and has success. Of course, nobody goes to Cleveland
and Washington has success, but maybe Pittsburgh. But in the end,
we always default that the player is worth whatever someone
is willing to pay them. And I continued to tell
our bosses here at Fox Sports Radio, I would love
for people to say I'm overpaid, that would make me
(09:59):
feel so good. I want mean things said about how
much money I make and how rich I am and
how overpaid I am. I want to be that guy.
I'd like to be that guy. Now some of you
probably think I'm already overpaid, but trust me, based on
the amount of time that is spent preparing for the
show and doing the show and all that stuff, not overpay.
But I'd like to be overpaid. So my bosses want
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to overpay me, I'd be more than happy to take
the criticism on. Now, last word, what is the counter
blast from Brandon auks deal with the forty nine ers?
Now that it's dun Ski's what is the counter blest?
Every action has an equal reaction. So the initial thought
(10:40):
I had here was something that President Ronald Reagan came
up with years ago, trickled down economics. So we know
on this show the salary cap is not real, right,
it's not. We don't believe the salary cap is real.
So that said the Niners, though, you can bet your
bottom dollar the Niners will weaponize the Brandon ayuc contract
(11:04):
and they will say they're hemorrhaging money and they're gonna
cry poverty. And the initial thought is well, Trent Williams
is not happy. He's still at Loggerheads. He's likely gonna
be gone. Okay, Well, not to mention brock Purdy, who's
close close to his massive payday. He's got to get
through this year then he's gonna get paid. So the
(11:26):
smart money is that this will be the swan song
for Deebo Samuel, who's been out celebrating all these contracts
that have been handed out, but his deal there's an
out after this year. And if you're gonna pay Brandon
I have to be the fifth highest paid receiver in
the NFL on average, then you might as well start
throwing him the ball so he is productive and more productive.
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And then Deebo Samuel, who gets hurt quite a bit anyway,
and you look at the age and you do the
math on that, and it makes sense that he would
be the guy who's the odd man out. It is
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coming up in a little bit as we are just
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The people have spoken well, many have spoken, Chip and
the cues right since is a plus. And the Mountain monologue.
I cannot help but think that Brandon Ayuk won this.
(14:42):
Anytime somebody gets thirty million dollars a year guaranteed to
play a game as the winner. Well, while that is
not wrong, when you look at the big picture of
the cartoonish, cartoonish money that is flying around in the NFL,
it's a different, a totally different dimension. Absolutely, Destin, right,
(15:04):
since says Ben, you rock, please don't let Poppy make
my ears bleed. Let's get under the Mallard haters' skin tonight.
There you go, all right, Well, thank you Destin for
just torpedoing Poppy. We have not heard from Ozzie Wahs
whether or not he is going to come through with
a pig picking NFL games every week now, the Texas
(15:27):
Trucker says, thanks for the shout out. I don't do
shout outs. He says, can you give out a golden
ticket to the winner of his malor themed fantasy football league? Lorraine,
Should I give this guy a golden ticket? If to
the winner, to the winner of I do think it's
(15:48):
very cool that he's making a Mallard draft. Yeah, that's nice, right,
that's voting the show. That's good branding for the show
spreading the world. I agree, I agree, yeah, And I'm
not against the winner getting a golden ticket. Ben, Yeah,
But then like everyone's gonna want one, you know, that's
the problem. But they'd have to join that specific draft
to get one to win it. Well, considering we have
(16:11):
no marketing budget, you'll never see a billboard for the
show other than moving man Matt in Boston, who did
it on his own there driving around with the name
of the show on the back of his big rig.
Oh no, you don't know about this. Is there a
big sign like you actually put a big Oh yeah,
he came to the studio a couple of years ago. No,
(16:32):
it's a massive banner. It's on it is I'll find
some photos. It's on both sides of his truck. It's
on the it's on the rig, it's on the back.
I mean, it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Please tell me your face was on it.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Unfortunately, not that that would have gotten him some tickets
if he had had my face. But the name of
the show, the name of the show, and that. You
know how expensive is to get those trucks with your
painted It's it's not cheap. It's not like you can
just do it yourself. It costs a lot of money
to do that. And yeah, that's the only only real
marketing budget that we have. So any marketing for the show,
(17:06):
any guerrilla marketing, of course legal. There were some guys
going around putting mallard stickers up in random places like
Malor show snicker stickers which were which were kind of cool,
so we're all about it. Oh my gosh, we could
go put them on all the stop signs around the city,
so every city. Well, that's a wonderful idea. Just vandalism.
What could possibly go wrong with that? Let's see. Terry
(17:28):
in England is a big forty nine er apologist. He's
part of one of those forty nine er fan club
groups there in the UK. He says, Brandon IOK has
signed Deebo will be offloaded next offseason. It's always been
the plan, says Terry. He's got all figured out, all
figured out. As he eats his you know what, hungry
(17:50):
with his drama antics, IOK has screwed his long term
chances of another big contract. Well if he plays well,
forget about it, Anthony and Anaheim says nothing better and
turning the car on, expecting to hear the Malord Show,
and I hear Dodger talk in LA I still have
no clue what, well, Anthony, you're likely not listening, so
(18:12):
I can rip you because you're not going to hear this.
But it is twenty twenty four. And the great thing
about this is if the local affiliate makes a decision
that does not include carrying the show for whatever reason.
I would hate to rip the local affiliate, especially the
flagship here in LA. But if they cover us up
for some reason, they have this app I nobas this
(18:33):
is called the apps. I believe it's the iHeart app,
which is the most listened to audio app in the world.
And yeah, the show's on there, so no matter what. Now,
I recommend I always say listen first on your local affiliate.
But if your local affiliate's run by Bozo the Clown
or something like that and they make a mistake, then
you can carry this show. There's no reason to miss
(18:54):
the show. Stuck in Sacramento says a way to go
putting My Lord and Savior Ronald Reagan in the Minus
Malard monologue. The only reason for the minus you had
to talk about damn San Francisco. And that's close to
this hellhole Sacramento. Let's start talking about the People's Team.
I can't wait to get to into it. For the opener,
(19:20):
you'll enjoy your experience. And I recommend when you go
see the people's team at the end to it, don't
drink a lot of water before you go in there,
and a lot of booze a lot of beer because
you will have Everyone gets their own urinal when you
go to a Clipper game. They love their fans. They
want no one to have any bladder issues. Very nice,
very polite there. Mickey in State forty eight rights since
(19:42):
Brandon Ayuc was close to leaving the NFL and coming
back here to Tempee to help coach our dumpster fire
of a program, if a deal was not done, well,
it's a shame Arizona State. They gotta get some new uniforms.
Though this is some bad looking uniforms there at Arizona State.
They got to change that up a little bit. Who
else do we have? Page down? Shane in des Moines says,
(20:05):
instead of giving weed Man a place to stay, give
him a new show to call. He says he's a
D plus caller. At this point, you don't like that
He just calls up, makes one passive comment about sports,
and then immediately says, I need a place to live.
I need a place to live. Blah blah blah blah blah. Yeah,
exactly all right, mala prop Guy says been another fantastic,
(20:26):
in fact based Malle monologue. The amount of guaranteed money
certainly isn't mind numbing these days. Someone in the Malad
militia wanted me to ask you, besides Alf and Fergie,
how many other show contributors are receiving guaranteed money. Well,
that's a great question, Malaprop guy. It's changed over the years.
We at one point we had marked the full name
(20:47):
guy in the payroll, but he became disgruntled. You might
see some of his comments like a lunatic on social media, unhinged.
He does that because we had to get a real job. Well,
we had to cut him off, and that's because of
Coop Hoop wanted Mark the full name got cut off
and guaranteed money, so we cut him out. There's some
rumors that one of our friends in Brooklyn, but not
(21:10):
not Marcel. Marcel works cheap, but Uncle Ma in Brooklyn
might be off the payroll. There's some chatter about that.
And we've rotated enough. You've noticed this Malapropkat. But some
of our celebrity callers from Maine. They've come and gone
here and we've moved them around a little bit. There's
a lot of moving parts to this. There's meetings, there's
(21:30):
consultants involved. There's a lot of layers to the bureaucracy
on who gets the money, who doesn't get the money.
Like for a while Ed and Arlington during the baseball
season was a key contributor, and then that that stopped tapping.
No more Ed, and then we had every once in
a while, even like the online stuff like Ostro Jah
(21:53):
in DC, Like occasionally we'll have to pay him for
some content online that doesn't go well. Now, Shannon, we
don't pay him, he just sends the stuff in. We
don't have to pay him at all now. But Alf
and Fergdog right up there, Matt the Warrior Raider, Tom
Brady Rose Fan also a big money guy. Justin and
Cincinnati aren't puffin there on the payroll. So, I mean,
(22:16):
there's a lot of this show's budget is endless. You
I think we don't have another advertising budget, but we
we definitely have big budget when it comes to contributors
to the show. Otherwise, no one would call who the
hell's listening? Why would anyone be awake at this hour.
My god, you're such a loser if you're awake at
this hour. Right, And I'm certainly not gonna be doing
the show live. I mean, I'm a TV guy. Now,
I can't be up all night doing a radio show.
(22:36):
I might be doing a radio show. I've got a
TV show now, can't be doing a radio show all night?
Come on meanwhile? A random pop quiz, Random pop quiz.
There was one NFL team, one loan NFL team, that
voted on the new NFL ownership tweek, voting no, saying
(23:00):
they don't want private equity ownership. The loane no vote
in the NFL. Anyone want to take a guess? Eddie?
Would you like to take a guess? On the have
one and thirty two chants of getting this right? The
only team the loan team to abstain to vote no
(23:21):
for private equity entering the NFL. The NFL decided that
they will allow a maximum of ten percent of a
team to be owned private equity.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Would that be the Green Bay Packers?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Okay, green Bay Packers? Is it the green Bay pat Now?
Oh you're wrong, You're wrong, Coop? Would you like to play? See?
Here we go? No, I don't know. I don't know
Arizona Cardinals. All right, at least you guessed you didn't
not guess. That is wrong. Over to Lorrainea, let's see
(23:59):
if it is my chance to make a name for myself.
That is right, we trust you. Come on, here we go, Lorrain,
here we go. Here we go to be.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Your marquee moment to date in the show.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
This could be the defining moment that sets you apart.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
All right, are we are? We ready?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Here we go. No ship the Chicago Bears. That is
a great guess. That's an action. I thought you were
gonna guess the Winnipeg Blue Bombers or something like that.
But no, that is a real NFL team, and that
is wrong. You're wrong. The one team that stands up
for the people, the people's champ the Cincinnati Bengals, the Bengals,
(24:48):
the only team in the NFL. Mike Brown, who's older
than Dirt, said no, no, no, no, no. He's not
going to allow some private equity group to come in
there and to put all their crap olva and all
their slogans and all that stuff, and certainly their money
(25:08):
and fix up the facility there in Cincinnati, so the
Bengals the only ones. Usually it was the Raiders back
in the day when Al Davis owned the Raiders. When
I was a kid, it was always like he'd vote
no on everything just because he hated the NFL, the
way the structure of the business was and all that. Now,
what did you expect him to say? That would be
Patrick Mahomes who was asked whether or not Taylor Swift
(25:33):
was a distraction for the Chiefs, which is rather an
odd question considering they won the Super Bowl while she
was going to all the games. But anyway, somebody asked
the question and Mahomes said, people act like it was
a distraction. I was like, no, this is just Travis Man.
I would argue that Taylor Swift not a distraction. Travis
(25:55):
Kelsey doing every game show, every movie, every podcast, asked,
all that stuff, radio, you name it, that is more
of a distraction than Taylor Swift because he is completely
houring himself out. He's doing everything every and good. Ye know,
I would do the same thing, but that does not
mean that you are worn thin when you're when you're
(26:16):
done with that. And the other thing is when you
think about asking Mahomes whether or not Taylor Swift is
a distraction to the Chiefs. If if I'm mistaken, isn't
mahomes wife like besties with or trying to be besties
with Taylor Swift so like? Isn't that also in the
arithmetic on that? So?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Is time for our nightly segment. Did the White Sox
oh lose?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Did the White Sox Chicago White Sox put it on
the y?
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Did in fact lose to the Rangers to a job?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I want to see him lose out. I want to
see it. There's a month ago in the baseball season.
I don't want to see him win another game. They
are not another one.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Thirty one and one hundred and four in the season.
I want in thirty three since the all start.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I want to see thirty one and one thirty one.
That's what I would like to see. At sixty that worked,
That would work. Why they play one hundred and sixty
two so they could be thirty one and one thirty one?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Sixteen losses to tie, seventeen losses to break the nineteen
sixty two years.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I believe in.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
You twenty seven years.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Guys.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
If they don't, it doesn't happen. Now, I think it's
a giant upset Hue jump set.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
You guys blow. And I want to see the White
Sox set the record. I'm here for the history.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I want with you.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Let's do it.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
We can do it, White Sox.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
And let me tell you some if I was doing
local sports radio in Chicago, I'd want to throw a
parade for the White Sox if they set the record.
I want to have a parade right there, right down
Michigan Avenue. I want to have a parade in Chicago's
what I want. Right on the lake right there, Chicago River.
Also right along the river there. Anyway, it is the
Ban Malors Show. As we are roll and on. I
(28:00):
have something in common with an NFL broadcaster. We'll get
to that. But let's go to the phones. We haven't
hear from this guy in a long time. I think
it's been ten thousand days. Let's say hello to Shazam
in Jersey. Hello Shazzam, Ben, welcome back, Shazam. It's been
(28:20):
a while. Yeah, I got my life together out there.
You're cleaning up. You're not partying all night, living the
rock star lifestyle anymore. Shazam. Oh your your phone's cutting out? Shazam,
this is not good.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Oh could you hear me? Now? We can't cut out
right now.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
This is a very.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Important all right, So well, what is what is going on?
How can I help you?
Speaker 5 (28:45):
You know, I'm in La now.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Actually I'm not not near where you do your show
about in La that's what.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
We so you have to come back. You'll have to
come by sometimes, zam and say hello in La.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
I got a tour of the studio.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Maybe do a show with you.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
I think we'll make We'll get some nice eyeball.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I mean, what do you think you're Eddie? Should we
let this guy host the show with me and you
can take the night off. You can, Sam can do
the news updates.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
We'll have to clear that with management.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Eddie's shaking his head. No, but we could give you
the ten cent send me an email, welcome me in here?
Why not?
Speaker 5 (29:22):
All right? My brother Dave suns reguards.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
All right, I hope your brother's doing well. Both you guys.
You guys have grown up with this show. She's am right,
both you guys with you exactly see life is better
when you listen to overnight sports.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Radio, specifically Uncle Ben's show.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
That's right, Uncle Benny. Hey, and by the way, Shazam
who this weekend the TV shows back Zam. So not
only radio but also television. So check out No No,
I loved you TV. They put your better person if
you do. Tom Looney told me that we're better people
now because we do TV. That's what he said. Who
(30:04):
I don't know, Yeah, some gas bag, I don't know.
He's that guy? All right, Well, Sam, you're in la
very guy? Is that all you had? You just want
to say hello. It's good to hear your voice. I'm
glad you're doing well.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Uh yeah, I have it together, you know good.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
You're giving your nose thing, You're walking the line. You're
all grown up. You got it all out of your system. Now,
don't grown up next time I call you.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Next time I call you, maybe I'll be like all
growing up and stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Okay, all right, Sam, well send me all right? All right,
there he goes the Great Shazam, normally in Jersey, but
he's in la now making his way to the West coast. Yeah,
having having a great time. Let's say hello to Andre
in the Commonwealth. Hello Andre, Hello Ben.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
It's good to be with you, and it's difficult for
me to be following behind somebody from the great state
of New Jersey. Shazam as I'm proud to be from
said state, even though I currently and to come well. Listen, Ben.
He started off the show breaking down some basic match
A plus B equal C and Brandon ayuk. I have
to push back a little bit. He is gonna be
(31:11):
the guy that drives the attendance. We're we're not relying
for the San Francisco forty nine ers, mister irrelevant rock
thirty okay to power that offense. So he needs a weapon,
are you chief among them? So he's gonna drive the attendance.
Ben out there in the Bay Area is gonna put
the B but in the seat, which means ce, okay,
cost pay the man his money. Se Francisco forty nineers
(31:34):
knew they could not be They could not be the
candidate and get away with letting go their number one
weapon and still be It's.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Not their number one what are you talking about? Christian
McCaffrey is the number one and the number two weapon
for the Niners. Trust me, I see the Niners play.
I'm a Rams. I see them playing the Rams twice
a year now. It's Christian McCaffrey and Deebo Samuel. Those
are the guys that normally kill the Rams, not not Brandon. I.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Neither of them led the team in receiving yards to
be or to receiving touchdowns. Okay, so you need it.
It's about the combination of all of those. ANNY know McCaffrey.
I like his workout videos that I'm seeing on the
social media.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Who knows, don't don't, no, no, no workout? Who wants
to watch workout videos? Tell me you're a heart all
without telling me you're a heart. I hate that. I
can't stand guys that post workout videos. You don't need
to post a video from the gym, and if you
do that, I believe you are a Joe Brownie Ben when.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
He was with the Panther, when he was with Carolina,
he was getting injured and I didn't stan any workout videos.
Since I've been seeing these workout videos, he's been healthy.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
So let me tell you some You think when I
know when I go to the gym and I'm on
the treadmill, you think I'm posting videos No I'm not
posting videos. I just put my work in there. I
don't need post videos. In this sweating power, you.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Tower over all of the other people they are working out.
You know that the video wouldn't he you know, they
wouldn't be able to get You know.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
That that is true that you love the height that
I How tall are you? Andre? How tall he man?
Speaker 5 (33:08):
I'm a system point guard. You know I'm coming in
at five eight with my basketball shoes on.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Okay, all right, so you're in the NBA players five
foot eight. There have been some, I know the shortest
NBA player with spud web was like five four five,
Monkey Bogue five all Muggsy Bogue. I was spud Webs
five four, Muggy Bogues five to three. The guys actually
actually were Earl Boykins. He was five to five. He
(33:34):
played for the Clippers. He was actually pretty good offensive player.
Earl Boykins. What a cool last name. Yeah, he was
a good He was a good offensive player. Nobody could
The problem with Boykins is nobody could guard him. But
he couldn't guard anybody because he was so small. They
just flick him away because he's a little guy.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
You know.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Anyway, Indeed, indeed, Munkey Bogue, the pride of he went
to a powerhouse, heighth school in the DMV.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
The name, the name, Uh, it doesn't matter. I know
what you're talking about. And and there's that famous photo
Muggsy Bogues with the tallest player in the NBA minut Ball.
They were teammates. I gotta, I gotta let you go there,
Andre so so thank you. You made your your point
and we appreciate that. Time. Now for the who am I? Game,
we'll go to baseball, where the Atlanta Braves have a
(34:15):
picture named Chris Sale, who was garbage with the Red Sox.
He's good again. Chris Sale is tied for the Major
League Baseball lead in wins er and strikeouts. He's on
pace to be the first big league pitcher to win
the Triple Crown of pitching in a non shortened year.
Since me, Who am I? The answer? Next?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
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Speaker 4 (34:46):
This is the greatest show on overnight audio Earth. That's
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It's Ben Mallor.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Time now for the who am I? Game? A pathetic
attempt to horton swoggle you in to listening a little
bit longer, and it appears that it has worked. The
Atlanta Braves made a trade for washed up Chris Sale,
and all of a sudden, he's no longer washed up.
Once he left Finway. Chris Sale is tied for the
(35:29):
Major League Baseball league in wings, e er A and strikeouts.
He is on pace to be the first big league
pitcher to win that Triple Crown of pitching in a
non shortened year. Since me, who am I? That is
the question? What is the answer? Cowboy Killer says it
has to be inspector Gadget, Go, Go, gadget. Who else
(35:51):
do we have? Page down Chase in nor cow going
with Matt Caine as his answer. Texas Trucker says Jim Abbott.
Who else we have a milkman, Mike says Andre the
faux feline Felix is the way to go, George Scott
from Willie boof Bonser from our friend Jonathan Well, I
(36:13):
think is in in Louisiana. He's like a big muckety mucky.
He's sent some really cool hats a while back. Our
buddy Jonathan from the school he works at there in Louisiana.
Fer Dog says the birthday boy Chris Taylor, who's hitting
like a buck sixty seven or something. He's so bad,
he sucks so much, he's so terrible at baseball of us.
(36:34):
I don't know what happened to him. Who else do
we have? Burley Grimes great guest by Eke a very
relevant guest there from you Eke and Roseveld Minnesota, Barbararella
from courtesy Flusher Oil. Cann Boyd from Andy Alone Lakes.
That's Andy's guest, Walter Big Train Johnson from Art Puffin,
Tommy Losorda and the Philly Fanaticus by Alf the Alien o'piner.
(36:58):
Who else do you have page down paid down? Uh
let's see here. Uh we'll skip over that. Justin Verlander
and his really nice looking friend from Matthew Warrior Raider,
Tom Brady Rose Fan, Big Sexy Bartolo Cologne guests by
Eloy from Compton, Dark Winged Duc by Shane of des Moines.
Brian Banister, that's a good name from Robin, Minnesota. I
(37:21):
like that. Who else? Terry in England says? Is it
Chazam's brother? No, that is incorrect. Johann Santana guests by Marcus.
Who else? Meet Low from Slimpton? What say you, Addy? Quickly?
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Pierre de Serve from the Cleveland Browns from Lyndon Wood.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Oh, No, that is incorrect. It's also not U Bonser
from Big Grig Rob Well Marcus, That boy, Malcolm got
it right. It's Johann Santana back in oh Sex twenty
six for the Mats
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