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August 13, 2025 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about Travis Kelce saying his last 2 seasons haven't been up to his standard amid his acting career, Jerry Jones getting called out by Denzel Washington, massive ratings for NFL preseason, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the catwalk.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Well, come in the beginning of our number one it is.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
That's right, the Ben Maler Show podcast. I would be
Ben high and here in hour number one, it's all
about GQ. Travis Kelce, that's a football player, says the
last two seasons have not been up to his standard
because of his acting career. He told that to GQ.
How does this sound to you? Also, will Jerry Jones

(00:30):
change his cowboy ways because Denzel Washington publicly called him
out the Hollywood Star And can you put these massive
NFL exhibition TV ratings for a Browns Panthers game into
some context. We'll talk about that and who knows what else.
Right now here, it is our number one. Just call

(00:55):
him mister GQ. That's all you have to do.

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So I made a last minute editorial decision. It's gonna
start with some baseball stuff, but I'll push that back,
push it back now untill later. And there are some
reasons for that. We'll get to that.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Later, but I'll begin I love you that is not
one of the reasons. But we will begin with GQ.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
When you think overnight talk radio, you think GQ magazine.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
So yeah, well we go where the stories are, and.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
A couple of times a year, a couple of times
a year, GQ magazine a feature an athlete and they
they have to put something little spicy in there. You
gotta put something spicy, because who the hell reads GQ magazine?
Who reads magazines at all anymore? It's basically a website,
so they have to throw something in there, and Travis
kelce took center stage. When you think GQ, you think

(02:52):
Travis Kelcey, Well, there's a guy that's done on one
to eighty in his life. So if you didn't see
this and maybe not in a cover story for GQ,
Travis Kelsey has spilled his guts. Yes, all about his career,
that little singing girl that he's dating and all that.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Now, Kelsey was.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Brutally honest allegedly, yeah she said these things, but the
quotes are there. So Travis Kelcey about the dimp, can
you do the dimp?

Speaker 1 (03:30):
How low can you go? How low can you go?
The production for the Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
If you've not been paying attention to the last couple
of years, Travis Kelcey has been.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
Going down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down down,
and the rock Bottom was a wretched puke can your
mouth performance in the Super Bowl where it looked like
he had been partying all week on Bourbon Street and
had nothing nothing for the game. It was one of

(04:01):
the great embarrassing moments in Super Bowl history. The no
show by Travis Kelcey against the Philadelphia Eagles who man
handled him, pushed him around.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
But that's just a small slipver of what has been
going on. Kelsey's production has been lacking the last couple
of years, and he has revealed the reason behind the slip, slip,
slip and fall in production, his lack of performance the

(04:33):
decline in Kansas City. He said, quote, I think it
might have slipped a little bit, because, by the way,
a little bit, how about a lot? I says it
might have slipped a little bit.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
This quote.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
I did have a little bit more focus, Kelsey said,
on trying to set myself up and opportunities came up
where I was excited, Kelsey said, to venture into a
new world of acting and being an entertainer.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Kelsey said.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
He went on to say, I don't say this as
I shouldn't have done it, meaning Kelsey's proud of the
fact that he's hurt the job that he had in
Kansas City team let the team down. Kelsey's not upset
that he did that at all. He says, I don't
say that I shouldn't have done it. I'm just saying

(05:22):
that my work ethic is such. Kelsey said that I
have so much pride in how I do things that
I never want the product to tail off. And I
feel like these past two years Kelsey said, have not
been to my standard. Close quote. Okay, so let's discuss.
That's the money quote, so we'll discuss. We'll jump off

(05:43):
that and talk about that particular quote right there. So
question for the esteem panel, which you are part of,
chief star Travis Kelsey saying his last two seasons, his
last two seasons have not been up to his standard
amid his acting career, which is going on right now.
So how does that sound to you? How does that

(06:05):
sound to you? So I've got green juice, Halloween, and Rooster,
and we're gonna combine all of these things.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Together and we are going to make.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
A delicious cookie Sunday with extra little chips of chocolate
chip cookie in there. And then we got some vanilla
ice cream. But then we'll mix in some different toppings
on top of that. Be just delicious, all right. So
A my first thought on this is nothing screams. Nothing screams, Hey,
I'm still football guy. I want you to know I

(06:40):
am still football guy. Then posing in I don't know
three thousand dollars pants on GQ and wearing a wig.
That's football guy, that is modern football guy.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Just to ask the Bears quarterback. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Maybe Kelsey had his nails painted on the GQ thing too,
I don't know. Now we appreciate, we do. We appreciate
Travis Kelsey's honesty. We want that he's admitting the things
that we have pointed out. And of course, anytime you
point this out the fanboys in Kansas City, you.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Don't know what you're talking about. Kelsey's fine, they're just
double teaming.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, okay, Now Kelsey's admitting you're all a bunch of
idiots that he wasn't working as hard.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
He just wasn't right.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
And Travis Kelsey, it's not easy being Taylor Swift's arm candy.
It's not that job is not that easy. He's now
become Kelsey America's favorite Golden Retrievers.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
It's just hilarious.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
And so there he is, right and the last two
years El Suco for the Chiefs. It's the Hollywood Vortex,
which is undefeated. That starts out simple enough, just one acting. Hey, Travis,
your agent here, can we we got a gig for you?
Can you fly out to La We want to do

(08:04):
this thing is, yeah, just take a couple of days.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Sure, I'll do it, no problem. Next thing, you know,
you're doing a game show.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Then for some reason, you're playing a waiter in an
Adam Sandler movie for no apparent reason, and so he's
morphed in. Travis Kelcey to the Hollywood. I guess the
NFL version nothing, the NFL version.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Of the Rock.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
He's just lacking some of the workouts, because the rock
still works out. But apparently Kelsey let let himself go
a little bit. Now, this is classic that Travis Kelcey
admitted publicly with no shame in his game that yeah,
I lost, I have lost a stab.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
But I want you to know I am really good.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
At a table read. I mean I f and kill
it at a table read. I am so freaking good. Now,
certainly are there others that have gone down that road
and been able to pull I know this is more
of a modern thing. I don't remember Jerry Rice with
the forty nine ers back in the day leaving the

(09:08):
Niners to go do a reality show and saying, hey,
mister Montana, I'll be back.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
I gotta do this show. I'll be back in a
couple of days. I don't remember that. Maybe it happened,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
But Kelsey's spending a lot of time I guess doing
that meathead podcast that he does.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
And they're doing. Do they rehearse that? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
I don't listen to it, but I know I know
he's admitting he's not really doing the two minute drill
practice as much. So listen Kelsey, who has recently been
better doing like some kind of cameo in a Hallmark
Christmas movie about the Chiefs, and rather than the super Bowl,

(09:52):
of course, I want you to know you taking a
bowel movement and flushing and wiping more successful than Travis
kill else in the most recent Super Bowl. So he's
in his mid thirties. The cliff is coming fast, it's
right there. And instead of fighting and throwing haymakers at

(10:14):
Father Time, he's letting the guy move in and Father
Times now and doing some redecoration is what he's doing here.
And he's got the double whammy, the double whammy, the
double he's aging, and he's spending more time trying to
perfect his podcast and procure his next Hollywood gig.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Then whether or not.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
He needs to block or go out and catch Pat,
you don't really worried much about that, And pretty soon
it will not be long. We're all going to see
Travis Kelsey show up to Chiefs practice and he'll be
wearing sunglasses. Maybe it's already happened, but you know those
a holes and entertainment to where sunglasses indoors those people

(11:01):
and they sip some kind of weird green juice that
they heard about from some shaman somewhere and then they call.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
Everyone, babe, what's up babe?

Speaker 3 (11:11):
That kind of thing, and then Mahomes in the cartoon
bubble in my head, Patrick Mahomes, mahoone.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
He's like, dude, all I'm really into is what a burger? Like?
What are you doing?

Speaker 3 (11:22):
I just bought some what a burger franchise? What the
f is wrong with you? And Mahomes will be looking around,
where's my tight end? Where's my tight end? And someone
will come over from the Chiefs and say, hey, Patrick,
he's right now. He's on set with some Jennifer Aniston
thing or something like that. I don't know, I don't
know what that is, but they're doing something. So this

(11:43):
is what happens with Hollywood. Kelsey, you got Hollywood Kelsey
and that's, you know, not my tight end anymore. He's
an entertainer now staying in Hollywood. But turning the page
from the Travis Kelsey story, we go to Hollywood Royalty
Denzel Washington. Denzel Washington, who is not a happy camper.

(12:06):
He's upset with the Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Do
you see this the legend of many uber successful films.
He was on some show with our old morning guy
I don't know the name of is Stephen A.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Smiths? Got some show I don't even know what.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Watches that anyway, it talked about the Cowboys that came
up in conversation, and Denzel Washington suggested that Jerry Jones
his handling of Micah Parsons, who hasn't signed that extension
of the situation.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Was a disservice to the fans, disservice.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
To the Cowboy fans. And the quote is as follows
from Denzel Washington. Is said, he's not thinking about us,
the fans. Jerry said, he is thinking about his pockets.
It's like there's the office and then there's the Oscars,
Denzel Washington said, And you ain't been to the Oscars

(13:08):
in a minute at the end of the day. I
always love when somebody says at the end of the day.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Love that.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Uh he says at the end of the day, Denzel
Washington said, I'm still gonna wear my hat with the
star on it.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
He said. Now.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
Washington then tried to dot the I Denzel Washington by saying,
all money ain't good money, Jerry, and then he moved
on to promote some crappy movie. All right, So question,
will Jerry Jones change his cowboy ways because he has
now been publicly called out by Hollywood legend Denzel Washington.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
So let me start by this. I'll say this, so.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Unlike your normal run of the mill, I don't know,
overnight gas bag, Denzel Washington has gravity to obviously a
little bit more than me, a little bit more than me,
just a little bit. So nevertheless, like Jerry Jones, he
is not let me say this from the top of

(14:12):
the mountain, Jerry Jones is not changing his ways, not
because of Denzel Washington or any other Hollywood blowhard. I'm
telling Denzel Washington he could show up to the Cowboys
game on Thanksgiving in Jerry's world and pretend it's Halloween.
He well, it's ak through Halloween. He can pretend it's

(14:32):
Halloween late Halloween. He could dress up in a gladiator
outfit and have a reading at halftime of Remember the
Titans and do some of the the lines from that,
and Jerry would still be in the luxury suite, counting
how many commas are on the bank statement and the revenue.

(14:53):
You see, Jerry Jones when you talk about movies, and
Denzel was like bragging about the oscars as opposed to
the ones that make mo But Jerry Jones has been
pretty clear he's a comic book movie guy. Those are
the ones people pay to watch.

Speaker 6 (15:06):
You know.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
He's not into the artsy fartsy movie. Jerry wants big,
big box office. He wants a billion tickets sold worldwide
and all that stuff and didn't care the critics say,
and in the Rotten Tomatoes score and all that. Doesn't
care about that. See, you think he's losing sleep as
he got called out by a big star, you know,
and the Cowboys haven't won Best Picture in the NFL.

(15:30):
Comer Jerry Jones, he's the Michael Bay of football management.
A lot of explosions, a lot of spectacles, cgi all
that stuff. There, and there's no real storyline in terms
of the playoffs other than failure, and there's no awards,

(15:50):
and Jerry's just going to keep rolling out fast and
Furious movies because people watch him, the Dallas Drift, whatever
you want to call it, because they works and it's
a good formula.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
And here's the other thing.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
And I need to point this out because Denzel said
something that he lost all credibility with his criticism of
Jerry Jones. Did you notice what he said that he
lost everything? Denzel said he still loves the Cowboys, all right,
So it's like putting butt in a conversation with anything
before the word butt is it's a lie. So Denzel like,

(16:27):
he still loves the cowboys. That's the whole point. He's
not apathetic. Now, he's not apathetic if he If he were,
then we'd be having a different conversation.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
But he's not.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
The Oscar winner is still wearing the hat with the
star on it. That's a cowboy hat. Jerry got money
for that hat. And Denzel's like, hey, you know, he's
like the guy that sees the sequel. We all know
people like this. We all know people like this, the
guy that sees the sequel to the bad Movie franchise

(17:00):
that made like two good movies back in the nineties.
But you're still watching hoping that they're gonna make something
good now. And for the Cowboys, how about am Cowboys?
As long as the stadium is full and the TV
ratings are baffo sokka, which they seemingly always are. You know,
Jerry's not and here's too old to change anyway. But

(17:21):
even if that were the case, he'd consider it. But
Denzel's going to keep being disappointed every late December and January.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
That's how that's going to go, all right, quickly.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
The last word here to the land of television the
boob tube report card out, report card out. Shedur Sanders,
the four string quarterback of the Cleveland Browns, made his
exhibition debut last week. The Brownies played the Panthers in
an exhibition game that somehow drew two point three million viewers,

(17:57):
had a solid rating, all the key down, all the
key demos, big ratings. So can you put Can you
put the massive NFL exhibition TV ratings for a Browns
Titans game? Into context? So yes, I can put this

(18:18):
into context. The Browns and Panthers are bad at football.
They suck. They combined last year to win eight games
between them.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Eight. That's it.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
They went between both. You go mind both, they were
eight and twenty six last year. There's no star power,
there's no juice. They don't have big name coaches, they
don't have star players, they have none of the things
that you would normally associate with drawing a big audience.
And yet they got more people to watch that game

(18:54):
then the highest rated MLB regular season game, as I
understand it, the highest rated regular season baseball game this year,
Yankees and Dodgers. Yankees and Dodgers, like two point two million.
Two point two million, I believe was the rating on that.
And and so that's where we are. An exhibition game

(19:16):
between two dog food NFL teams gets better ratings than
the Dodgers and the Yankees. And so that's why the
NFL schmucks. The executives there at the NFL, they run
around like the bantee rooster, and they've they've got their
chest out and there just chest pumped out and all
that stuff, and they've got they know they can serve

(19:37):
an inferior product. It's like a restaurant and saying we're
gonna serve food that has had maggots on it, and
people are gonna buy it and they're gonna pay full
price for it. And it's just the way it is.
And we know that no matter what we serve, we're good.
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(19:58):
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(20:58):
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Ben Maler Show, just beginning the red eye flight. We
have not yet reached our cruising altitude. We'll be here
all night long to the wee hours of the morning.
And we began ranting and raving. Travis Kelsey, mister GQ,

(21:59):
and he's got Hollywood.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Talked about that.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Also, Denzel Washington, don't getting more Hollywood than Denzel Washington, ripping.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Jerry Jones just a little bit.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
He wants you to know He's still gonna wear his
hat with his star on it, so it's all good.
And two of the worst football teams in America drew
more viewers than the highest rated Major League Baseball regular
season game.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Talked about all that.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number.
Also on X at Ben Mahllor. That's at Ben Mahler.
Part of the show. Lorena sayaloa to her FSR party
tech Queen and Coop at a Brocco fan and your
calls comments the whole thing. We'll get to them right now.

(22:54):
Back to the nonsense, right back to it and Lorena
fun fact about Lorena an assumer of the raising canes
and pays she's so boogie. She pays for the upgrade.
I don't pay for the upgrade. When I go to canes,
I do not do the upgrade.

Speaker 9 (23:10):
Are you talking about the special sauce?

Speaker 3 (23:12):
I am talking about this sauce. I am anti upcharge
for sauce. I believe that the sauce should be a tossin.
You should not charge the extra for the sauce.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Because she got honey mustard. Yeah, she gets honey mustard.
Kansauce is better anyway.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Cane sauce is fine and it's solid, but the honey
must you should not be charging extra for honey mustard.

Speaker 9 (23:31):
I agree.

Speaker 10 (23:32):
I also I hate when I go to pizza places
and they charge me for ranch. Like I buy a
large pizza, I should get at least four ranches.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
A mountain that I am willing to man.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
I've talked about this more on the podcast I do
the Fifth Hour podcast with Dandy g on the weekends
than I do here. But my long standing belief, and
I've literally walked out of restaurants. If I go to
a Mexican restaurant and they don't provide chips and sausa
without charging, if they charge you, I'm out.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
I'm done.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
If I go to an Italian restaurant and there's not
a basket, say I'm just out.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
I'm out.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
And if they don't put a basket of bread on
the table at an Italian restaurant, I'm gone. I'm not
I'm not ordering the Fetichini Alfredo. I'm out.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
That's it. Uh so, and just build it into the cost.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
And I know I'm paying for it one way or another,
but I don't want you to charge extra for it.

Speaker 9 (24:20):
I don't want to see it on my bill.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Exactly.

Speaker 9 (24:22):
Put that seventy five cents on my enchilada meal plate.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yes, you just added into the cost of the freaking meal.
That's what you should be doing.

Speaker 9 (24:30):
And then they ask for money for a refill. Oh
we canna.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Oh yeah, that's another way, Yeah, refill.

Speaker 9 (24:36):
Excuse you?

Speaker 1 (24:37):
You know how you know how freaking cheap that is?

Speaker 3 (24:40):
The this the beverages, like the carbonated beverages, the soda
and all.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
It just just powder and some carbonation. Nothing, it's syrup
and water and.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
The man bubbles. Ridiculous. Anyway, we will get back to
the nonsense here. Let's see any anything worthy of a Yeah,
I mentioned here late night drug test. This says the
reason preseason games get the ratings they do is because
people had money on the game. They were picking against Poppy.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
He says, there you go.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
Robbie the Mariner fan says he's still laughing at the
triple play at the Angels turned there against the Dodgers
for Dodgers out. How sweet was zach Nito's triple play?

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Men?

Speaker 3 (25:32):
If the Angels continue to flash the leather like that,
they are going to make some serious noise down the stretch,
did it, you, Coop?

Speaker 1 (25:40):
If only we can play the Dodgers every game? Yeah, hey,
I am. I'm happy.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
I'm gonna say my full Dodger rant till later, but
I'm happy the Dodgers are no longer in sole possession
of first place because they this Dodger arrogance that we're
the Dodgers, We're gonna be fine. Well they they have
been writing the vomit comment for two months and I've
had to hear, Oh, it's all right. There is no

(26:05):
sense of urgency. They've got a bunch of overpaid divas.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
The Dodgers, right.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
They got all these pitchers, they all have parties in
the trainer's room. All of them are babied, and they
spend more time injured. It's so embarrassing. And Andrew Friedman,
the GM of the Dodgers. Everyone kisses this guy's ass.
Andrew Friedman. All these guys the Dodgers brought in his decision,
He's got essentially a blank check with the Dodgers to

(26:31):
bring who everyone's.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Saying they all suck all those pictures.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
The bullpen guys, Blake Effans now kiss my ass, Blake
Snell guy sucks.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
He pitched wild of the store to Okay, shut up.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
King Roy says that Appleton International Airport announced today that
they will have direct flights to Orlando. Do you believe
your brother might take advantage of this or is he
a hermit just like you? No? I do travel, I
just have you know, the show. Oh I don't get
to travel that much because of the show. I like
to go out and see different places and hang out
with people. My brother, though, he does not like flying.

(27:08):
My younger brother, My older brother flies all over there.
My younger brother is not like flying. And I don't
think he likes leaving Wisconsin, which you know, it's just
he's locked in and like like if we do you know,
eventually this is Malard meet and gree at some point
here in Ohio. And I think he might go down
to Ohio because that's close enough, you know, it's it's
a couple of states over.

Speaker 9 (27:29):
It's a shorter flight.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Well, I think he'd drive because he don't like flying.
So I think you drive over because it's a few
states over. It's you know, reasonable drive. G Man's in Chicago,
says A plus on the Mallard monologue. Travis Kelsey is
not a football guy. He lost his football guy card
when he started dating that trash can. He's not interesting
with her, and he's not interesting without her. When he retires,

(27:53):
she'll be gone and he'll be kicking rocks.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
All right? Where the white women at? How do you
really feel? I just want to say yes, yes.

Speaker 10 (28:02):
When this whole thing started with Taylor Swift, I said it.
I said, he's going to get distracted. His game isn't
going to be as good because you cannot juggle that.
And then he put in acting in it. I was like, Oh,
he's gone.

Speaker 9 (28:13):
He's gone.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Well, it's gone.

Speaker 10 (28:15):
He's just not I was expecting him to begin to
retire after that started.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, But is it more of just like an excuse
to himself.

Speaker 9 (28:24):
He's convincing himself that his body's not breaking down.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Well, that's definitely part of it.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
He's definitely getting to the point where usually if you
look at the arc of an athletic career, that's why
you always say your prime years are up until like
thirty two, and then after that it's all bonus time.
But I kind of like the angle of blaming Taylor Swift.
I like having a woman to blame. I think as men, right,
Coop do we like we not as men, we like
blaming women, right. I mean, it's always fun to blame
a woman for your problems. It's not it's not that

(28:51):
you're incompetent. It's a woman's fault. I think that's a
great way to live life. And there is a thing
content is called the Delilah effect right where you know,
successful man gets seduced by a beautiful woman and then
the femme fatale takes over and overtakes his life.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
And Trevor Barer knows all about it. Oh wow, Taylor.

Speaker 10 (29:11):
Swift might be a siren. She's a beautiful woman and
she's a singer. Now, Travis Bilsey's gone off on a
different venture, whole different career path.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
I tell you, I got an unpopular opinion. I think
Taylor Swift the average. She fat her up a little bit,
you know, get us some cheeseburgers or something like that.
I think he's too skinny. That's my opinion. It's my
hot take on Taylor Swift.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
What do you say we order a pizza.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Let's go to the phones. Let's say a lot of
hollering James. Here's a guy that has hot takes. Hello,
hollering James in Minneapolis, minnesoulde, Oh, come on, I went
to your first f and call. You just called in.
He's already sleeping.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
This guy's un I just and so now now he's
gonna call, He's gonna wake up, and he's gonna be
like it's.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
I don't hear him snoring though I know you know
he's sleeping. He just called it.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
He loved His whole day is around the show. He
calls into the show to talk and he falls asleep immediately.
You know he fell asleep when I talked about Italian
restaurants charging for a basket of bread. Do you think
that's when he fell asleep? Or with the chips or.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Know I'm gonna get rationally angry.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
I know you know he's gonna call, he's gonna wake up,
be upset, call back. Then we'll go to him again.
He'll fall asleep again. Rinse, wash, repeat. Well, let's go
to a man who never falls asleep. But usually we
have to use the dump button. Let's go to Tony
in the Bay Area. Hell out, Tony.

Speaker 7 (30:40):
Hey, man, when does David say when with excitement to
look in a mirror?

Speaker 1 (30:45):
I don't know when I say, hey, dick face?

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Okay, all right, alright, uh what Vessa his guy. He's
got to get those knee pads out for the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
Man, they need it.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
They're no longer in first place by themselves. He's got
to really suck up to those guys, like I'm sure
he's He's done a lot of that. Man, got to
suck up to the boys. Vassa, the Dodgers blow the
terrible God. His buddy Blake snail though, that's his buddy.
Blake's getting those good breakfasts every morning from Vessa on
the road. So there there is that that's out standing.

(31:19):
Out standing. Yes, Joe the ghost hunter from Ohio right since, says,
but I love when Ben's teams poop the bed. So
much rage from our leader.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
There's no rage, there's no rape. It's all good.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
We're fine, sir, smokes a lot rights in from the
Bay Area says, raising Caine's secret sauce. You mean ketchup
mixed with mayonnaise. That isn't very special.

Speaker 10 (31:42):
No, this is not Goopchin sauce is not goop.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Well, I think the you can do a rip off
of cane sauce. There's recipes online where there's mayo and
ketch but there's pepper and some other Goop.

Speaker 9 (31:55):
Is just mayo and ketchup.

Speaker 10 (31:56):
And I will die on this hill and I love
it with my French fries and Kanes sauce is not goop.

Speaker 9 (32:01):
I'm going to look up the ingredients right now.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Yeah, you also realize that the the Kentucky Fried Chicken
Secret recipe is also available online. Now. When I was
a kid, it was like, oh, Kentucky Fried Chicken. You
know they have the eleven herbs and spices and all
that stuff and.

Speaker 9 (32:15):
They're a secret.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
Yeah, well it's out there. You can make it. And
it's all like there's like the same spices in there.
Twice it was like written on the back of a
napkin somewhere somebody the eleven herbs and spices.

Speaker 9 (32:27):
I have all the ingredients. Are you ready?

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Okay? Here with that.

Speaker 10 (32:31):
It is mayonnaise and ketchup. It is also Worcestershire sauce,
garlic powder, black pepper, creole seasoning and paprika paprika.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
All right, do you know what paprika spicy? You know
what it is.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
It's just a bell pepper. Just that's right up, Yes, yeah,
that's all. It is just a bell pepper.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
That crazy.

Speaker 9 (32:50):
I love the idea of that.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
I learned that a couple of years ago. Blew me away.

Speaker 9 (32:54):
I'm not a chef.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
I discidered.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
I thought paprika would be some kind of somewhere out
in the Amazon or something like that. I know, it's
just it's just a bell pepper. They just grind the
thing up, try it out. Boom, there you go. You're
good to go on that. What else do we have
to see?

Speaker 6 (33:09):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (33:10):
Rilliant?

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Supermarket Steve says, if you really and this, you think
he's gonna show up to Vegas at that mallard me
you know.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
He'll be there with his wife.

Speaker 9 (33:18):
Yeah, they're coming, you.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Need they'll they'll bring the Tierra Massoux like the last time.
I hope. I mean, maybe maybe they'll change it up
new dessert. Maybe they'll make cookies or something. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Anyway, Supermarket Steve says, if you really want to know
what the biggest rip off in the world is try
to research why a twenty ounce soda costs more than than.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
A two liter.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
You learn to hate the Coca Cola Bottling company says
it says the supermarket Steve there. Yeah, I mean there's
a lot of things that just say you look at
like the actual cost to produce them and how much
they're they're charging.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
It's it's ridiculous.

Speaker 8 (33:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Ferd Dog says, do non podcast listeners even know what
Tony in the Bay Area sounds like? All you'd hear
is him being introduced followed by laughter after his whole
call was dumped.

Speaker 9 (34:06):
Well, that sounds about right.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Well that's the magic, right, that's the magic of a
call from Tony in the Bay Area. And I love Tony.
He's not long winded. He gets right to the point,
and he throws he throws daggers, he throws absolute daggers.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
And we love that.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
We think that's just absolutely great. Uh Now, sir smokes
a lot. He's he's anti canes, he says, a bland,
non flavored chicken tenders. Well, and I guess which finger
I'm holding up for you, sir smokes a lot. I
think you're number one, number one, Mark Mark from Queen's Rights,

(34:47):
and he's in Arlington, Texas though right now, he says,
Big Ben living close enough to where I can see
the disgusting death Star Cowboys Stadium and watching Jerry the
GM fail. It is just fantastic. Mark says his son
Stephen Jones, the NEPO kid looks like he has steak
for dinner every night. Now, I would say Stephen Jones

(35:08):
has steak for breakfast. You know you're doing well when
you have steak for breakfast, like you're really doing pretty good. Yeah,
all right, anyway, we'll pause for the cause it is
the Ben Mahlor Show, the Ben Malor Show. I did
want to mention though, before I forget Kevin Stefanski, the
Browns coach who came out with a depth chart this
week hetche Dur Sanders as the four string quarterback.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
But yet that's the story, right, that's the story.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
And so the media in Cleveland's like, hey, is he
going to start this next exhibition game?

Speaker 1 (35:36):
And Stefanski refused to name a starter.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Now, normally you don't start your fourth string quarterback in
the second exhibition game because this is the one where
you play some of your starters allegedly because it's you
don't play them the last exhibition game. There's only three
of these days. Stefanski was asked later on if he
knows who will start Week one the Browns played the
ben Gals, and well, he said that he was unwilling

(36:01):
to commit to one of his quarterbacks and the reason,
of course he didn't say this, I'm gonna say it
for him because they all sucked. So he didn't want
to commit to any of them because they all are terrible.
Ton out for the who am I?

Speaker 7 (36:11):
Game?

Speaker 3 (36:11):
This goes out to Ferg Dog and only for Dog.
Joe Adele. I'm told that's a baseball player in Anaho.
Who Joe Adele joined me as the only Angels with
walk off extra inning hits against the more popular team
in LA, the Dodgers. So Joe Adele joined me as
the only Angels with walkoff extra inning hits against the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Who am I?

Speaker 3 (36:36):
That's the question? The answer, We'll get to it. We'll
do it next.

Speaker 7 (36:40):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
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Speaker 3 (36:49):
We are excited to announce a brand new YouTube channel
for this show. The company has asked me to ask
you to go to YouTube dot com slash at Ben
Mahlor Show, or if you're already within the YouTube universe,
just search Ben Mahler's Show. That's all one word, Ben
Malor Show. Be sure to hit the subscribe button. That'll

(37:10):
help us out. It doesn't cost you a penny, but
it helps us. We're starting with no followers, so we
got to build this thing up. And I think we're
gonna take down Joe Rogan. He's worried there in Austin
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(37:31):
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Speaker 1 (37:34):
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Speaker 6 (37:39):
Thank God for the Internet.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Back to it now and a time time for the
who am I? Game?

Speaker 3 (37:46):
And here is the who am I Game? This is
where we pretend to somebody else. It's the who am I?

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Game?

Speaker 3 (37:51):
So someone named Joe adele i am told that as
an outfielder.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
For the Angels.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Joe Dell joined me as the only Angels with the
walk off extra inning hits against the Doyers. That is
the question. What is the answer, And let's see does
any everyone know the answer? Anyone know the answer? Chuck
Munsey guessed by William Geke is going the nineteen nineties

(38:19):
Angels shortstop Gary DiSarcina ron as his answer. John McCrae,
I guess by Alf the alien opiner?

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Who else we have?

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Ripman in Ohio's going with a liberal Justin as his answer?
Red Green from Milkman. Mike, do we need a fake
hollering James?

Speaker 6 (38:41):
Now?

Speaker 3 (38:42):
Yes, if you would like to be the fake collaring James,
which is really easy.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
You just call up there and snore and that's it.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Yeah, let's see your Jay Scoop says, Guess who's back again?
The answer is mister Irrigation's ring brilliance. Yeah, that's a
good looking ring. A nice grill, by the way, Jay,
Scoop man, you're rocking the grill. Ostrich Ant in DC
says been. The answer is the all beef hot dog
from Costco plus. We'll drink for a dollar fifty?

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Who else?

Speaker 3 (39:13):
G Mann Shoy from Elloy from Compton. That's Coop's favorite
Angel Henry Rowan Gartner from Benito the Long Suffering Cowboy Fan,
Orlando Paulmero from Ferg Dog and who else, mister nice guy,
He's going with an old Seattle Mariner, Bruce Bakhti is

(39:34):
his answer?

Speaker 1 (39:35):
Who else? Do we have?

Speaker 3 (39:37):
DeMarcus Cousins? Who is thirty five today guests by the
Late Night Drug Tester? All right, Lorena, do you have
an answer?

Speaker 10 (39:42):
LORRAINA, Yes, I'm going with Vanessa Hudgins baby daddy slash
husband Cole Tucker.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Okay, that's a lot, but that's wrong. The answer is
Mo Vaughan believes. In nineteen ninety nine, twenty six years ago,
Hovan's first game an angel, he fell into the dugout
wearing a periwinkle uniform and was never the same. Rick,
real quick, Rick, what's going on? You're on Fox Sports
Radio and SoCal. What's going on?

Speaker 6 (40:08):
Rick?

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Welcome?

Speaker 6 (40:10):
Hey, I might as well join this angel LoveFest right now.
You just mentioned Mova on that still brings in horror stories.
But let me say you said something yesterday that got
to irk me. Not really, but you said the angels,
you know, will never make, never make the playoffs when
you play the Angels. You never played into the playoffs. Well,
I would have to say that since nineteen eighty eight,
the Angels have as many world series as the Dodgers.

(40:32):
I believe the Angel is about nine years ago.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Mike, Mike, trust yeah, I know. Well, and if that
gets you through the night, Rick, I mean, what are
you doing? What is that
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