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August 20, 2025 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about reports of Micah Parsons heading towards divorce from the Cowboys, Cam Heyward saying he told the Steelers to expect him back at the negotiating table if he made All-Pro, Von Miller choosing Peyton Manning as the greatest QB of all-time, and much more!

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where are you at? On this report of Micah Parsons
heading towards divorce court from the Dallas Cowboys. Also, Cam

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Hayward says he told the Steelers to expect him back
at the table if he made all pro should the
front office honor a handshake clause? And how much weight
do you give Von Miller's selection of Peyton Manning as
the greatest quarterback of all time over Tom Brady, the
Washington Edge rusher. Von Miller said that this week we'll

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talk about.

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That and more.

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One of our old bosses used to say, back and
they play the hits Ma Man, Ill, we go to Dallas.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Why are you not starting with the Colts.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I'll get to them later. Got four hours of talk
radio to do. I gotta pace myself. It's like a marathon.
It's a talk marathon, is what it is. So the
gift that keeps giving status update, status update, and we
go where the news of the day takes us. And
right now that is deep in the heart of Texas.

(02:55):
And have you heard the latest on the Micah Parsons
contract situation with the Dallas Cowboys. Well no, I haven't. Okay, good,
maybe you missed it, so.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
We got you.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
So we are now here that there is zero indication
bumpkis squad douche.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
That a deal is going to happen. Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Now, Adam Schefter, he passes on that at some point
in time, whether that's.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Now and now or.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
After the season or after another season, can Michael Parsons
can He's under contract for this year and then there's
a franchise tag the Cowboys can do, he says. Schefter
tells us the two sides are headed towards a.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Divorce.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Interesting, so let us discuss the question for the esteem panel,
which you are part of. Where are you at? Where
are you at on this latest report that Micah Parson
is heading towards the divorce court from the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
And mister Jones keeping up with the Joneses.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
So my thoughts on this, I've got public broadcasting, etch
a sketch and space heater, and we will combine all
of these things together and make a spicy stew is
what we're going to make.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
So ay, Michael Parsons.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Let me get up here on the top of the
bully pulpit. Here, hold on a second, step up here,
bully pulpit. Michael Parsons is not going anywhere. He's not
being traded. He's obviously not being released. Michael Parsons is
not going anywhere. Jerry's not letting him walk away. He's
not trading him for a couple of draft picks. He's

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not doing that. Jerry is playing cool hand Luke, and
yeah he is. As he said a couple of weeks ago,
don't lose any sleep over this. We never lose any
sleep because we sleep during the day, so we work overnight.
We don't lose any sleep over any of us. The
translation is, Hey, I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed, right,

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That's the messaging from Jerry Jones, classic dad energy.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Listen, I am not angry at you, but I am disappointed.
And you never want to disappoint your parents.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
So the cowboys have not picked up the phone allegedly
since April. Oh man, oh darn, that's not a cold shoulder.
By by the way, if you don't pick up the
phone to negotiates since April, that is full blown radio silence.
That is what the death of radio dead, air dead

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air passive aggrets. Now there are passive aggressive leaks from
both sides. Jerry Jones essentially going what I call public
Broadcasting PBS and doing his mister Rogers impersonation. Now he's
doing the whole mister Rogers, can you imagine user imagination?
Radio is theater of the imagination.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
So today, children, Matt and Jerry Jones can wearn't a sweater.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
And he walks out and he's got the he's got
the closet right there, and he opens the closet, grabs
the sweater and he says, today, children, we're going to
learn about leverage. When someone wants forty million dollars a year,
you smile, you nod, and quietly you activate the franchise
tag while playing Won't You Be My Neighbor on the jukebox.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
That's how you do it.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
And then Jerry walks away, and Jerry's got the franchise
tag in his back pocket, so no need to do this,
and things can change rapidly and all that stuff, and won't.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
You be my neighbor? Won't you be my neighbor?

Speaker 2 (06:39):
So it's a real SOB story there, And I still
maintain the malor position has not changed. That we will
get a report from Jay Glazer the Sunday before kickoff
that things change dramatically in the last forty eight hours,
the final forty eight, not the first forty eight, the

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final four eight before the kickoff of the regular season.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
All of a sudden tut up. That deal got done,
all right.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Now, moving on, we head to Pittsburg, PA, the land
of the Inser, where Steelers defensive star Cam Hayward.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
He's back.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, he returned to a practice. Are very concerned about that.
There's a hold in the situation that took place. He
still does not have a new contract. I know he's
very concerned about his finances.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
I know, I am. I'm talking about it here.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
So Cam Hayward does not have a new contract with
the Steelers, but he did return after the hold in
there began that on August seventh, he I guess ended
for now on August nineteenth, as he returned to practice.
Now we are told from sources not close to the

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situation that Cam Hayward his participation does not signal any
kind of step.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Towards a new de Leoh.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Nor is he accepting the reality that he must play
for his current salary and hold a bake sale prior.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
To the game.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Uh So, the question on this one is rather simple.
Cam Heyward says he told the Steelers to expect him.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
This goes back a couple months.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
He told the Steelers to expect him back at the
table if he made all pro status. Right, He've had
big year last year, said you expect me back at
the table. So the question continues to be in Pittsburgh,
should the front office honor, for lack of a better term,
the handshake clause for Cam Heyward, it's like, Hey, we're

(08:45):
men as men. Now listen, we're gonna I'm gonna go
out there and I am gonna break balls. And when
I break balls, you're gonna break a bunch of money
and you're gonna give it to me. And that's so
I'm nodding my head yes on this. I'm nodding my
head yes on this.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
One.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Now I realize that these Steelers are a buttoned up operation.
I am aware that they are a buttoned up operation,
So I get that part of it. But this is
always a case by case basis, player by player by player,
but it's not a one size fits all situation. So
it's not a one size fits all. So Hayward, he
just played this game not that long ago, as I

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remember doing the talk show where now he's back, you
know what It's like. It's like he complained not that
long agobout his contract. The Steelers gave him a little
more money, and so now he's like the guy that
bought the house, and he bought a house in a
hot market, and now he wants to refinance because he
went on Zillow and he's like, hey, it's so worth

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more now, so I'm.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Gonna I'm gonna refinance and all this.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
But these NFL contracts in general, the longer you pay
attention to this and the older you get, you realize
how fo gazy these NFL contracts are. Right, It's just
like they're written on an etch of sketch, and the
Steelers just shook the etch a sketch and they said, well,
I don't want to shake it again. And I said, well,
well no, Cam Heyward's I think you should shake it again.

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He's trying to redraw the lines on the etch of
sketch and you know, the market's already moved.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
It's great. I would love for the radio business to
be like that. I think every business.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Can you imagine whatever you I don't know what you're doing,
but wouldn't that be great whatever job you have, if
things move like the NFL. Playing in the NFL in
the last ten years, it is akin to buying bitcoin,
which is a source subject for me back in the day.
It's very volatile, very volatile. It's irrational. You don't last

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that long, but it doesn't ever seem to go down.
It's always trending up. And Cam Heyward in his career
is thirty six, which last I checked.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Is not old. But you know how it works in
the NFL at.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Thirty six, Oh my god, thirty six, he's on bonus time,
bonus time, and so he knows it, and so he's
trying to cash in before the wheels on the bus
stop going round and round. The wheels on the bus
come following off. He's trying to stop that, and I
don't blame him. And Steve has got money to burn.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
You know.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's like if they don't spend the money, they'll just
pocket the money. And that's fine. The NFL pays all
their bills based on television, and they have a surplus.
They have an absolute fin surplus of money these NFL
teams based on just television. And then there's all the
other revenue that they have. All right, so last word,

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we go to Washington debate. Topic tossed out sports radio debate.
Topic tossed out by a future Hall of Famer and
a champion with the l A. Rams von Miller Von
Miller edge Rusher von Miller. He explained this this week.

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Von Miller explained why he does not.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
View Tom Brady.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
He does not view Tom Brady as the NFL's greatest
quarterback of all time. Instead, who do you think he
picked as the greatest quarterback of all time? Who do
you think von Miller picked as the greatest quarterback of
all time? Do you think he a picked Joe Montana
would know Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
No, how about option number three?

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Peyton Manning. That's right, the same Peyton Manning, who was
his teammate in Denver ding ding Ding ding Ding. Now,
Von Miller said, for me, it's always going to be
Peyton Manning. He changed the quarterback position in terms of
changing the play. He wasn't scrambling or doing none of
that stuff.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
He said.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
He did it all with his arm. Von Miller said,
as he was smooching all over the legacy of Peyton Manning,
he said it was beautiful man clothes.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Quote.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Okay, so that's von Miller now with the Washington football team.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
It's weird.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
So how much weight do you give von Miller?

Speaker 2 (13:03):
How much weight do you give von Miller's selection of
Peyton Manning as the greatest quarterback of all time over
Tom Brady? So how about zero percent of the weight.
It's absolute cronyism, it is. We all know it, right,
we all know it. It's plain and simple. It's right

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there in front of your eyes there, Even blind Scott,
blind Emmett, the Inca Terror, Stevie meat.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Balls, they can all see it.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Even Cooper Loop over there, big Broncos suck up, he
can see it as well. Listen, von Miller is riding
that nostalgia train. He's riding the nostalgia train. Because Manning.
I'm sure at one point in Denver they went out
they had the Mallard chicken sandwich together. Maybe Manning paid
for that mail or chicken sandwich at the sports book

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bar and grill. There multiple locations in Denver, and as
possible that Manning showed up to some Vaughn Miller charity
events somewhere in Colorado and he took photos and kissed
babies and all that stuff. It's classic locker room biased.
It's one of the problems when you have value placed
on athletes. Quotes like von Miller is completely biased. The

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witness is biased.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Your honor. You play with a guy like von Miller
played with Peyton Manning.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
And he knows your kids' names, and he signs your cleats,
and suddenly he's the messiah. Anybody that knows football those
Peyton Manning is not anywhere near that level. He's not
one of the great choke artists of all time. Peyton
Manning absolute disaster in big games. The last guy you
would want among the supposed top quarterbacks in a big

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game was Peyton Manning, unless you wanted someone who was
an expert at writing the vomit comet and that's it.
Now people are trying to change history because Peyton Manners
not played in them a number of years and all that.
So there's like, oh, Peyton Manning was loogitos of all time.
Tell me you don't know without telling me, you don't
know what ball. Peyton Manning was a regular sitson guy.
We ripped Dak Prescott, We rip all these guys for

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being frauds in big game. Peyton Manning is the personification of.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
I'm a fraud in big games.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
I mean, how many times did we come in here
and just laugh at Peyton Manning puking all over himself
in a big game?

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Right?

Speaker 2 (15:24):
The antithesis of what Tom Brady was in big games
in his team money Now many it was, you.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Won two super Bowls? How many did you win? You're
doing overnights? Okay, so let's break that down.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
The one he won in Denver, Peyton Manning he had
a noodle arm. He was literally laying on a hospital goody,
and they pushed him. The defense with von Miller pushed
him across the finish line in that Super Bowl by
hitting the Bronco Devins, hitting Cam Newton so hard he
still hasn't recovered, he's still he clearly he's lost all

(15:58):
He hadn't blinked Cam Newton since that particular Super Bowl
that was not and Peyton Manning was on one of
the worst Super Bowl performances.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
You can possibly have.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
For the Broncos, you cannot tell the story of Peyton
Manning properly. You cannot tell the story of Peyton Manning
properly without talking about the fact that he suffered from
extreme shrinkage.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Nor it's like boys go in.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
The water, it happens. But for Peyton Manning was the playoffs.
Manning in big games was like a space heater you
cranked all the way up in a blizzard.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Now what happens when you put a space heater in
the blizzard?

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Technically it's working, right, It's not doing much, but it's on.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yeah, that's where. So he had a Super Bowl passer.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Rating in his career, I believe, if I have the
numbers right here, seventy eight point six, which was below
his career norm.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
But wait, there's more.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Right, he was statistically in the playoffs a worse performer
than in the regular season by a wide margin. And
so that is not goat material. You know what that is,
that's goat cheese. So yeah, Peyton Manning was the goat.
He was goat cheese in big games, soft and crumbly

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and only good on the right salad. But I don't
eat salad, so for me, I don't need goat cheese.
Don't need it, don't.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Need and so again this is just a rapt this up.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Von Miller went sentimental, not statistical, not reality based his
argument there, And it's like, it's like the guy that says, well,
let me tell you something. My high school band, back
in high school, back in my day, the high school
band was better than the Rolling Stones because my buddy

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played bass in the band. Loyalty matters and all that stuff.
But you're talking about the all time greatest. It's Brady,
and there's no debate. It's bad for sports radio, there's
no debate. And I used to be the Joe Montana
guy because he used to slay the Rams every time,
but I even I've given that up years ago. It's

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Tom Brady. That's it, period. Stop now. If you want
to get attention online, you'll scream and shout and say hey,
it's well, it's not it's not Tom Brady. But everyone
knows you're just doing that. Your trolling is what you're
doing anyway. It is the Ben Mallor Show. If you'd
like to be part. We had some new people call
up yesterday.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
It was kind of cool. It's it was neat.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
I didn't have to say we'll do a Nubi Knights
like to see some new people. I won't see you
because it's radio. But if you want to be part
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it's the same number we've had for a long time.
Haven't changed the number doing law the world has changed,
the number has stayed the same. So if you want

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to be part eight seven seven nine nine six, you
can tell me how great my Peyton Manning take was.
You can say, probly really nailed that one. Mallord eight
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If you want to be part of the program and
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be the judge of that. You'll find out as we
go through the night whether it's good or bad or
mid any.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Of that stuff.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
So we'll have later on an hour till we got
mallardly third degree, and our three will have the riddle
of the day, too Much or not Enough? The return
also of the Queen of Hearts with Loreno, will have
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that'll be coming up an hour number four. You'd likely
be long gone by all that stuff, so you'll have
to go back and hear the podcast to hear how

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that goes. So it doesn't matter whether it's sliced bread
or stale bread. It doesn't matter, but what is it.
We'll get to that and we will do it.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Next.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
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Speaker 2 (20:29):
Bill Miller here in Big News this weekend last Vegas
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Vegas and hanging at the Steak Gout ve Steak Out
Bar and Grill. It's right near unlv our buddy slug.

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Putting that together for one day, only, one day only
to meet Ben Maler, Lorena Coop in person, the lights
of Vegas, the neon lights flashing.

Speaker 7 (21:05):
It's gonna be so fine.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Some people might even laugh. There'll be a lot of schmoozing.
Be very difficult for introverts, but we'll make it work.
We'll try to make it painless for introverts. Yeah, you
won't want.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
To miss it. Who's showing up, Well, that's up to you.
That's up to you. I don't know. That might be
no one there.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
We'll just be hanging out with each other. I don't know,
i'd be don't show up. We'll be there in Vegas.
So check that out on Saturday if you want to
be part of this show. On the phones at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. Also on X at Ben Mahler,
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and remember your comments can and We'll be used against
you in the court of sports radio. And now back
to it. Back to it we go and Tacoma Drew
writes in says, geez, man, you back like Peyton Manning
was at a cracker barrel meal to go? Is he
not a top five quarterback all time? Not top three?

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He said, see minus on your take. That's a bad
job by you, Drew. I mean you clearly have a
bias towards Peyton Manning. He says, remember the butt rule.
I love your show, Hey, I always remember the butt rule.
Very important there, and Anthony says, to the first time
I've ever heard one of.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
You fuck sports guys have New England's back.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Well, Anthony, I'm an equal opportunity hot take guy, and
I don't. I don't worry about the other people that
work here, the other blowhards and gas backs.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
I only worry about I cracked my takes.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Now right now we have we very rarely have anyone
on the inside line the warm line here very rarely.
But right now, for my money, dollar for dollar, the
number one voice for a sport. You know how hard
it is to get someone to call into an overnight
radio show, and the amount of money that we had

(23:05):
to pay this person is gonna blow your mind. Okay,
it's gonna absolutely off and blow your mind. Everyone's trying
to get this guy on, and Colin Cowhard is going
to be crying when he finds out we got this
guy on. Dan Patrick is going to yell to corporate
that this guy came on the Ben Malor radio show.

(23:26):
It can be so upset, right, Coveno and Rich they're gonna.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Complain Houston, we have a problem, but we got this guy.
Nobody else is hot. Nobody out.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
Rob Parker, you screwt can't have the guy he wanted
to do this show. We now go to the warm
line and the leading commentator for the National Hockey League.
We welcome in Edmund steam Boat, Willie Dallas, Judas Garciall,

(24:03):
Eddie Garcia.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
I love hearing your voice, Eddie. What's going on? I'm
just talking? Is this late? Is this late? Is this
late for you?

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Eddie?

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Because you know you're not working in the late night
shift anymore?

Speaker 3 (24:15):
No, not really, not really it's not that late for
me to be honest with you. May congratulations on your
multi year contract extension.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Well, thank you, Eddie.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
I appreciate that kind of you too to say that,
Eddie and you were together for many, many years here
and you never know what the future holds.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Who knows.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
I'm not holding my breath, but yeah, I hear you. Unfortunately,
I will not be joining you guys in Vegas this time.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Come on, I didn't Now, I did invite you, right it.
I did reach out to you. I made the invitation.
I said, Eddie, if you want to come down there,
we'll do like a cold Because this is not as
you know, Eddie, none of these meet and greets are
sanctioned by the company, so it's all an independent operation
here when we do these meet and greets. So you
were more than welcome to come hang out with us,
even if we got care what was through the company

(25:05):
or not, You're more than welcome. We got to get you.
We got to get you at one of these meet
and greets. Though, we will do something.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Else we have. Yeah, I was going to ask you,
do we have a local one lined up anytime?

Speaker 2 (25:15):
We We do have a couple of venues that have
offered locations in southern California.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
So we.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yes, yes, for the twelve drunk people that show up
to these things.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yes there's a bidding war, but we have not determined
to date on that. There is one in Boston that
we're supposed to do sometime in October.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Obviously that's a that's a far trip for you, Eddie.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
But you did did you not run into someone randomly
on the streets of Los Angeles, that is someone that
may or may not be a listener to the show?

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Is at accurately It actually was not random at all.
It has been a meeting that had been scheduled for
a while and finally was able to work out with
our busy schedules. But I did meet up earlier today
with one of your biggest fans. He's a former federal judge, oh,

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not retired. He's a big hockey fan and big fan
of the show, which is why he wanted to meet
up with me, And he did want me to tell you,
and I'm passing along this opinion. He's a big Dodger
fan and he wanted to make sure I told you
that David Veasse is a schmuck.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Good look at that. That's great.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
And so to what says he have a name, does
he not want his name out because.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
His name is his name is Sherwin.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Sherwin. Well well Sherwin. Thank you Sherwin.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
And that's the great thing about the show Eddie, as
you know you worked on the show for a million years,
that we have everyone from the people that guys like
Sherwin put in jail to the judges like we have
the judges. We have people that I've had people that
reach out who are professors at major universe like Ivy
League universities that listen to the show.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
And we have people that are coming in crimes that
are listening to the show. So it takes a whole community,
as you know, Eddie, to do this. So that's great.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
I saw you the photo of Sherwin. Nice looking dude,
good looking guy. Man there they saw the guy and
so I thank him for having insomnia.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Well you know this very well. While the show appreciates
the folks that call in and all the folks on
social media, there is a core group of the maw
and militia that he's silent, but they are there and
they listen every night, and he's one of those guys.
He doesn't not on social media, it doesn't call, but
he is listening and he's enjoying a thing.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, and those guys always blow me away. I meet
those guys. I'm always like amazed. I'm like, well, I'm
I'm when I go to these and and you you've
done a bunch of them too, Eddie. We do the
meet and greets and it's like, you know, people we
have mouthwashed Mike that shows up, who's shot gunning mouthwash?

Speaker 3 (27:47):
And then.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, he called in like a month ago month we haven't. Unfortunately,
we've not heard from him, so I don't know that
he'll be at the event we're doing in Vegas on Saturday.
Although the rain and did get some party favors. Apparently
I do that.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
I would, I thought so fun. I thought you did.

Speaker 7 (28:04):
I was throwing it out there. Liked the idea, but
I want to make like center pieces.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
I'm not a wedding.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
It might be a funeral, but no, I don't know.
It depends if we hear from from mouthwash. Mic I
think we can go with that.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
I don't. I mean weird if we do that and
then he's not there, very weird. It'd be very awkward.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Really, I think it'd be funny because he's either my
mouthwash mic is either in jail.

Speaker 7 (28:28):
And then people can take him home as party favors.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
He's in a hospital or something worse. So you know,
because he's out, he's going to listen to the show
and all that. So, Eddie, I know it's August and
the hockey season is still a little while away.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
I guess it's not that.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Far away, and you believe it's I believe it's less
than fifty days away.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Are you serious?

Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah, holy crap, it's October.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Seven, all right, and you have like multiple hockey podcasts, Eddie, Right,
you're hustling on the hockey stuff.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Yeah, yeah, exciting news. Doing some This is not you know,
like official network or anything like that. But you know,
you know, I'm all over the Lockdown Sports Network right now.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
So I'm gonna be doing some Steeler postgame show stuff.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Oh look atness, you Steelers suck up, Eddie Garcia.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah, you lapdog for the Steelers. Look at that. There's
a kid again. Well that's great. I did not know
about that.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
That's breaking news, breaking news, Lorrainea, breaking news right there.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Come on.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
Breaking news from Fox Sports.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
I miss that, Yes, especially out of context breaking news,
which is what we really we really liked the out
of context.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
How's it's been a little bit a little while since
I've called in. Yeah, any major breaking new other than
of course that's the big contract there. But is there
any any Malard militia?

Speaker 1 (29:59):
See, I don't know has anyone? Has anyone died since
we last spoke. I don't thank you.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
I saw Michael came in for a visit on Oh.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah, that guy got me in trouble, dude, that guy. Yeah,
he flew out. So I said come in here, you
know at West Coast time. I said, show up at
like midnight, right, and that Coop and Lorena we're not here,
so neither one of them were here. So he's like
he kept emailing, and he's like he was very excited,
like he bought it. He got a hotel room right
down the street from the radio station because he wanted
to be here. Like he's more excited about being here
than people actually work here. He was fired up and stuff.

(30:32):
So Michael Leprecaun's like, hey, I want to show it.
So so anyway, like I'm just sitting in at my house.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
I'm whatever.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
I'm watching a ball game and my phone getting all
these texts from iHeart people. Uh, there's a guy here,
he's representing your show. He showed up twelve hours early
and walked into the building and everyone started freaking out,
like they were going to rest.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
I can understand that. Yeah, yeah, so did he not
tell time? Does he know when the show is normally on?

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Well, he claimed Michael leppertom that it was so excited
he didn't know for sure where the station was and
he wanted to make sure he knew where to go.
And yeah, and the people that work here freaked out right,
And I'm getting all these messages.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
I'm like, I didn't tell them to show up.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Then I was like, I told you, I told him
what time to show up, and this jackwagon shows up
twelve hours early.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
And I got management people who were screaming at me.
People I haven't talked to in years.

Speaker 7 (31:27):
Well, you know, have a like report, what's called reputation,
and so you know, we got the crazy listeners.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
They're like, oh my gosh, Ben Mallers show.

Speaker 7 (31:38):
We got messages from all of management. Now we're supposed to,
you know, let people know, if we have visitors coming,
just don't.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Show up during the day. They don't care.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
If you is to show up at night, it's a
prime you don't show up during the First of all,
you have to be invited, okay, if we don't want
people showing up that uninvited. Right, So if we invite you,
you show up. And there were as you know, Eddy,
there are protocols that we have. You can only stay
for a limited amount of time. We don't allow you
to stay for that long. And that time has gotten
shorter because of Michael Leprechaun and so so there's all that.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
But how can people find you?

Speaker 2 (32:10):
You're still on You're on the X machine and all
that stuff, right, and your your podcast.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
How can they find you if they want to track
you down and harass.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
You, Well they can do the old Google thing search
YouTube for lockedown La Kings. Thank you for the Internet
as well. Thank god for the Internet. Yes, and uh,
you know got the Puck podcast And it's twentieth year now, Ben, can.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
You believe twenty years?

Speaker 3 (32:36):
It's got to be what do you got to be
the longest running hockey podcast.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
I'll put my stick right in your mouth. Well, just
say it. Just say it is, just say it is.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
I I we do. I think, well, because there's nobody
that's challenging us on that.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
So there's probably some guys, some guy in Winnipeg that
might have one longer, but who cares.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
You know, he's in Winnipeg, so it doesn't really matter
and all that stuff. It's irrelevant.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
So I would even challenge that you go up against
those Winnipeggers.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah, I want you to know, Eddie, that I've added
to my record. I'm the all time game show wins king, by.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
The way, and well, because I'm gone now, I.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Have continued to pile on the winds, Eddie, I just
want you to know that I have piled on the
continued to cheat. Coop thinks I'm cheating, Coop coep got
very No he's not.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
You were.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
You were both caught cheating, and we want to talk
about that on the Earth. That's a bad, bad memory list, Eddie.
I'm glad you do.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Well.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
You know I have a tough network clock that I'm
by the clock malor for the clock, Yes, for the clock,
by the clock, all about the clock, as you know.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
So thank you and thank the Sherwin Man that's great
that you met Sherwin. That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
Yeah, absolutely, so have a good time in Vegas and
hopefully we will stee you at a local meet and
greet here in the greater Los Angeles area. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Well, and I know your wife is, of course your
wife who hung out Karen the Great Karen who hung
out with if Roger Goodell at the NFL draft few
years ago during the COVID thing.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
So she's a celebrity fan. So I will be.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
I'm sure i'll see you in a charge your game
at some point. I'll go out there and I'll harass
so good good.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
And I also hear here there she may be featured
in a Thursday night football open.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Really, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
That's heard that.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Okay, there's some there's some scuttle, but there there's some rules.
The streets are talking. Eddie the Naked City Never sleeps
all right, Well, thank you Eddie the Man. Everyone listening
to this guy's podcast, Eddie.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
We love Eddie. We want Eddie back at some point,
but the great Eddie Garta. Thank you Eddie and.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Coop and Lorena, Hello and goodbye.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
You guys want to say you want to say anything
to Eddie, you want to butcher the clock here and
say something, Eddie, go ahead, you feel free if.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
You want to.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
No, does not see you any I.

Speaker 7 (34:52):
Still think about you every time I go to Disney.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
Really, I'll be there tomorrow. The eighty nine degrees.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Oh no, that's the perfect temperature. No it's not so.
Hopefully to bring your parasol so you don't get a sunburn.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Hopefully the lines will be short.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
All right, guys, there you go, the great Eddie Garcia.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
There you go, Eddie Garcy, who had Now he doesn't
have as many nicknames as I have, because I'm the
all time nickname king, but Eddie had many. The Shuttlecock
of sports like he always hated that one. The shuttle
Cock of sports talk didn't like that. I don't know why.
But there it is the great Eddie Garcia, who picked
up a bunch of nicknames, Corporate Garcia, all that stuff. Anyway,

(35:31):
we'll press on here. It is the Ben Meller Show.
We will, obviously, for timing issues, pushed back these it
slice bread?

Speaker 1 (35:39):
Is it stale bread? We'll push that back time now
though for the who Am I? Game?

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Arizona's Corbin Carrol became the first big league player since
me to have at least sixteen steels, sixteen triples, and
twenty seven dingers in a season.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer.
We'll get to it and we will do it next.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
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(36:46):
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(37:06):
a former federal judge on YouTube and subscribe. All right
back to it. And before we pay off the who
m my game, We've got to go to the play
of the day, And of course that would be none other,
uh than the baseball.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Baseball's going on right now.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Another tough Love Mallard monologue which inspired the tire Act
Play of the Day. Let's go to the Rocky Mountains.
The Dodgers embarrassed paints by. They were absolutely pants by
the Rockies on Monday, lose on a walk off and
show Heyltani made sure that did not happen again.

Speaker 8 (37:44):
Won one pitch and Otani rips it taped to right field.
This one heading back.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
And it has gone a home run end of the
Rockies bullpen.

Speaker 8 (37:53):
A bullet hit right over the fence past the three
seventy five marker show I'm in a mile High City.
Home run number forty four, No Toni retakes the National
League lead in home runs.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
And that was Tim Neverett, friend of the show. The
Dodger Playboy Cup play guy. He lives in New Hampshire.
You know he used to do red sock games. He
lived in New Hampshire. Tim Neverertt the radio playboy play
guy for the Dodgers. There on AM five to seventy.
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Speaker 3 (38:43):
Game?

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Arizona's Corbin Carrel became the first big league players since
me to have at least sixteen steel sixteen triples in
twenty seven dingers in a season. And that's a good
Fantasy baseball season. So who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer? Glenn wrights In says the King

(39:07):
Eddie is the answer and says the ripped the updates
since Eddie left, Well, they're on tape. So the update,
persons long sleeping, They're not here. Scrooge is going with
Marshawn Lynch as his answer.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Let's see hear Keith says Oho text, So you should.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Have had Eddie give us an update, get us caught
up and everything going on in the overnight.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Eddie's not getting paid for that. He ain't doing it.
What do we have here?

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Andy and Lionel Lakes says Rusty Coots.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Make sure you say that properly. Who ferg Dog?

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Says the Dallas Police Chief. Eddie Garcia is the answer?
Zach Granke from Shane ever Owing. Derek the Hacker aka
Bill's Monster says the answer is Ben Maller page down
a ram cheerleader from Nature Boy.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
They got in early on that male cheerleader thing.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
They love back King Eddie was guessed by just Josh
in Cincinnati. Tammy in Vegas excited about all that too.
Let's see what else do we have your page now?
Alfred I hit Dingers delaiah Uh the answer?

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Who else?

Speaker 2 (40:14):
A moose scouring from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Go go,
Joe Charbono from mister igishon.

Speaker 4 (40:21):
What say you?

Speaker 1 (40:21):
Lorenay Krueger Ben n it's

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Jimmy Rollins, Jimmy Rowlin, the Fighting Pills back in O seven,
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