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March 13, 2025 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about Pittsburgh making an offer to Aaron Rodgers and the delay in signing not being about money, a former GM saying that Rodgers is 'holding the Steelers hostage', why the Falcons are holding on to Kirk Cousins, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He we go.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome, it's our num ber one, our one of the
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Here we start out with pro football, and it's all
about the life and times of Aaron Rodgers. Everyone hanging
on the edge of their chair here. Pittsburgh has made

(00:24):
an offer to Rogers.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
The delay is not about money.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
A former NFL GM says Rodgers is holding the Steelers hostage.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
How do you assess this one?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Also, Aaron Rodgers was spotted alone by the paparazzo on
the beach in Malibu with a blanket and some earphones.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Now the pundits are saying that.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Rogers was contemplating whether or not he wants to keep
playing in the NFL. Does this count as a powerful
moment as it's been described by the tabloids? Also, why
are the Atlanta Falcons holding on to quarterback Kirk Cousins
by paying him an extra ten million?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
We'll talk about that as well.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
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Speaker 1 (02:15):
B So our lead this hour is.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
From the waiting game, and we continue to be stalkers
behind these microphones in the middle of the night. We're
hiding out in mister Rogers neighborhood. In fact, we are
actually broadcasting in his neighborhood, this show reaching Malibubu where

(02:39):
Rogers hangs out.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
But it is our obligatory malar monologue.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
On Aaron Rogers and his employment. And if you have
not been following this because you got stuff going on,
I got it. Perhaps you've missed it. So watch the
show back in the day called the First forty eight.
They don't get a big lead. Even the first forty
eight very tough to solve the case. Well, first forty
eight have come and gone and radio silence, not on

(03:07):
this show, but radio silence for Aaron Rodgers and nothing zippo.
Lack of decision. Apparently not about the money. Of course,
it's always about the money. But the former NFL JAM
is saying that these Steelers are being held hostage in Pittsburgh.
The offer has been made. It's all about Rogers and

(03:34):
these twiddling his thumbs is what he's doing right now,
and it's up to him. And so the suspense is
building between the Steelers, the Giants, and even the Vikings, suppose,
so let us discuss the question. Pittsburgh has made an
offer to Aaron Rodgers. The delay supposedly not about the money.

(03:57):
Rogers signed off on that. If you believe the reporting,
and a former NFL GM is saying that Aaron Rodgers
is holding the Steelers hostage very dramatically, how do.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
You assess this one? So I said to it this way,
I've got.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Grandfather clock taste buds and a bag of umbrellas, and
we will combine these three very random things together and
we are going to make some Canadian cheesy snacks, which
are my new favorite cheesy snack. A listener Nico sent

(04:32):
us a bunch of snacks from Canada, and these things
are amazing real cheese, unlike the crap we get here
in the States.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
All right, so.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
A my first thought on how I assess the Aaron
Rodgers story is the R.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Word rubbish, right, rubbish.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
The Steelers, I don't believe in the overly dramatic hostage drum.
I think they're being held hostage. If they have been
held hostage, it's only because they put all of their
eggs in Rogers basket and they have no other backup plan.
They are free to go out and sign any other
quarterback they want. And Aaron Rodgers at this point, he's

(05:09):
operating like a grandfather clock.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
But that grandfather clock.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Is not set to Eastern time, Central time, Mountain or Pacific.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
It's on island time.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
He's living the island life and that grandfather clock, and
Rogers is out there relaxing.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
He's in no rush.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
La la la, la la la. He's saying a Sunday Drive.
He's working at his own speeding. It could be that
he's out there somewhere and he's waiting for some europop
little ace of base back in the day and he
wants to see the sign and then he can say
I saw the sign and it opened my eyes, and
he hasn't seen the sign yet. Could also be that

(05:49):
he's waiting for his pal Joe Rogan to come over
with a jug of ayahuasca and that'll give him wisdom.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
But the way we.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Look at it, Rogers has the steel the Vikings, the Giants,
and mystery door, which is what retirement. But certainly seems
like it's going to be the Steelers, maybe the Vikings,
or I can't imagine the Giants. The Giants are on
the back burner at this point. But if anything breaks overnight,

(06:17):
we are at the watch tower. We're at the guardshrack
all night long, and he happens in the wee hours
of the morning. We will give it to you first
right here, So no need to worry about looking at
any of those bogus algorithms on social media.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
We got you covered now beat.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
So Aaron Rodgers did pop up in the tabloids in
the last day or so, Rogers was spotted alone by
the paparazzi from the Daily Mail, that's a tabloid in London.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Rogers was sashetting.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
His way down the beach there in Malibu, and he
had a blanket wrapped around him in the upper part
of his body. He had some earphones on. Now, the
pundits claimed that Rogers was contemplating whether or not he
wants to keep playing in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
And this has.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Bounced all over the pinball machine. Does this count though?
This photo, and I'm describing it for our blind listeners,
and if you haven't seen it or you can't see it,
it's just Rogers. It's kind of at sunset there. Rogers
is on the beach. He's got what appears to be
swim trunks on, but he's got a blanket wrapped around
him and headphones and he's got a hat on backwards

(07:26):
and I'm sure Cowhard probably don't like that.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
And then he's wandering around.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
So does this count as a powerful moment as it
is being described in the tabloids? Is that a powerful moment?
So let me check the old taste buds on this,
because I think this was a little too rich for
our taste buds that this is a powerful moment.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
No, methinks that's a bit too dramatic.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
It's all about interpretation, right, Some are saying powerful moment.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
I saw as a regular occurrence.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
And I would argue that if you go to that beach,
or any beach at sunset, you will see people, whether
it's Aaron Rodgers or other people walking along the shore.
In this case, Rogers just a guy living in Malibu.
He's living the lifestyle, enjoying the Pacific Ocean, those majestic
views of the deep goop lucy out there looking at
all the water and the waves and all that. But yea,

(08:24):
Rogers had a blanket wrapped around him, and because it
was a little chilly California chili at sunset, and he
was wearing headphones because he was probably listening to the
Ben Mallor Show podcast what else would you listen to?
And he was also trying to avoid social interaction. Now
I've done the same thing, right, I've gone out. And
I used to go to games a lot and sit
in press boxes, and I would often wear headphones because

(08:46):
I didn't want someone to talk to me. And sometimes
I wouldn't even have anything on. But I've noticed that
some people, they're called schmucks. They'll talk to you anyway,
but oftentimes if you're wearing headphones, people will not bother you,
and if they do come up to you, you just point
at your headphones. Now, others have pointed out that it's
twenty twenty five and Aaron Rodgers was not using wireless headphones.

(09:09):
He had wired headphones, and this was pretty wild to
many people. Rogers likely worried about what the evil rays
from Bluetooth, some kind of things interfering with his brain waves,
the Bluetooth rais or.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Something like that. But you know when Aaron Rodgers is prepared.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
To pick a team, because he's going to visit what
some kind of darkness cabin somewhere, and then he'll have
the costco sized drum of ayahuasca and then meditation and
he'll go.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Hug some trees and he'll be ready to go. All
right now, last word.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
So we now had below below the Mason Dixon Line
State sponsored NFL Media the prov the news service of
the NFL, reporting that the Atlanta football team will not
will not be dumping Kirk Cousins. Not my cousin, not
your cousin, Kirk Cousins. In a plot twist, the former Viking,

(10:10):
former Redskin, current Falcon quarterback the boys from Georgia will
be handing him some extra money, but he'll be hanging
out as a highly paid backup behind Michael Pennix Junior,
rather than being let go and kicked out, get out
of here and all that. So the plot thickens here,

(10:33):
and this begs the question why are the Falcons holding
on to a quarterback they clearly don't want anymore in
Kirk Cousins, And they're gonna end up paying him an
extra ten million dollars.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
And that payment movie coming down in a few days.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
So after a minutes long Mallard deliberation, I have determined
that what the Atlanta football team is doing is they
have a bag of umbrellas and they're waiting with that
bag of umbrellas for the downpour. They're waiting for the storm,
They're waiting for the rainy day. And we all know,

(11:12):
if you're in a city, doesn't matter where you are.
I've been in many cities when the pop up rainstorm happens,
and what always takes place some JIBBRONI walks out of
a store, usually like in a trench coat, and he's
got a bag of umbrellas and bag in the old days,
and you get a breether for like five bucks I
think it's ten, fifteen, twenty bucks now cash only, cash only,

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but you got like a bag or a bucket of umbrellas.
And that essentially that's what cousins is a He's an umbrella.
And the falcons are waiting for a rainy day and
once once a few sprinkles happen, they'll sell it. Think
of it like the falcons are in the nerve center
at the Football Pentagon and they're waiting for the infestation,

(11:58):
and that injury infest station, the injury bug starts biting, nibble, nibble, nibble.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
It doesn't have to.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Bite, it could just nibble, and then the dirty birds
will turn on a neon light and say.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Hey, we are open for business.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
So if Jared Goff somehow goes out hunting and steps
on something he shouldn't step on and is not able
to play, the Lions can call the falcons. If Patty
Mahomes is somewhere in Texas and he ends up in
an accident with a deep friar at a waterburger. Then

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don't worry. Atlanta's got a quarterback for you. I'm sure
Josh Allen be injured on the back nine at Augusta.
Then hey, he can go to the injury tent and
call who you're gonna call. You're gonna call the Atlanta
Falcons and get your hands on Kirk Cousins by a
bing by.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
The boom, just like that, Yeah, just like that. All right.
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Speaker 1 (16:17):
You call me Benny.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
During football season, berg Dog says I've got a.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Need for speed, Ben.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
I know you do g manage in Chicago. Rights since
says terrific monologue. I feel Aaron Rodgers will either retire
or go to the Vikings only if he's the starter.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
This will give him.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Two shots to stick it to the Packers and two
more shots to own the Bears.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Gunner.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Gunner writes in from the Walmart in northern Minnesota, but
not the Louth way past the Louth, and he says,
tonight's going to be a good night. So that means
he's not calling in Tonight's gonna be a good night.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Hell yeah, all right, thank you for that, Gunner.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
You're making sure that sure the show's good. I appreciate
that Ryan right now. And he says the Falcons keeping
Cousins as they will trade him to the loser of
the Aaron Rodgers Pittsburgh or New York situation.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Mister Luciano writes in from from La but his heart
is in the Bay, he says ten out of ten
on the Mallard monologue, Benjamin, I don't know which is
more surprising that these teams have any interest on a
washed up quarterback or that Cousins is still playing in
the NFL.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Well, not his cousin's playing. He got the.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Bag, he got what's in the bag, He got the
bat money, money, money, money, a lot of money. Late
night drug tester writes in, says, just a few years ago,
Aaron Rodgers and Kirk Cousins were NFC North rivals on
the field. Now they're waiting to see who gets called
first for the last starting jobs.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Eh, they're all right.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Cousins is getting a lot of money, and Rogers if
he signs another contract, we'll get a massive amount of
money as well. David writes in from Ohio. But he's
a Steeler fan, He says, who's this Bill Miller bad
mouthing my Pittsburg Steelers?

Speaker 1 (18:10):
What more can.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
We do other than bring in Aaron freaking Rogers? All
the stars are aligned, Mars is in retrograde, whatever the
hell that means.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
This could be our last chance with this group. Are
we able? Ben? Yeah? Are you able?

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Of course you're able. Yes, it's Abel Skeemer, a Skeezer
or whatever that dessert is. You're available, of course you're available.
Do I am? I gonna stay here all night worried
about the Steelers and what's gonna happen with there Roger.
They will have someone play quarterback. They will not go
with ten on eleven offense versus defense, someone will be

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playing quarterback in Pittsburgh next season. Ferg Dog writes in says,
how is filling in for Rogan and sometimes Rodney show?
Did Fred tell you all about the he's taking off
to see the Dodgers in Japan?

Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (19:03):
I was unaware of that, but Fred informed me that
he is traveling to Japan next week to watch the
Dodgers and the Cubs as they begin the baseball season.
And not only that, but they're both going. So Rodney Peete,
the old Lions quarterback who does the show locally in
La and Fred are both Fred Rogan going to Japan

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to watch the game. There are two games, so it
must be nice quick quick trip just across the ocean,
short flight.

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The draconian and oh man, I do mean Oh, so draconian,
the draconian conditions and such a.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Such a story. How do they survive? We'll get to that.
Let's go to the phones right now.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
We'll say hello in the leadoff chair to Nick, who's
in Berkeley, and I haven't talked to Nick in a while.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
What's going on? Nick? Welcome?

Speaker 3 (20:24):
So going on?

Speaker 4 (20:25):
Man, Hey, it's general malviny. You know what I'm saying. Hey,
So check it, man. I mean Rogers obviously walking down
the beach waiting for that lifeguard that he slips the
fifty to the swim out to that booy. He grabs
a littlejugg a high watched and tied out. That's the
bottom of him. So I don't know what he's doing.
And know how Shanahan has a wandering eye when it
comes to quarterbacks, so he's startingly trying to take you.
You know, we were my boy visors in there somehow,

(20:48):
even though we may quit like five games in a row.
So I don't even know why you would do that,
but I got a strange feeling. Man, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
We want to now, Nick, you got your quarterback Mac
mac Jones.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Congrats to the forty nine ers. They agreed to and.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
We always carried May's that's the downgrade. But we always
carry three quarterbacks, so Rogers can slipping nicely in the
second spot before pretty gets searched.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
I would rather have a bowl of mac and cheese
than Mac Jones, an actual craft mac and cheese.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
I would rather have that than Mac Jones on my roster.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
I mean, dude, I mean what we what do we
get him for a steak? A case of steaks and
like a case of beer or something like that soccer
player in Europe.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
It costs you five million dollars five million.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
Dollars, yeah, five millions, far too much, man. And they
don't even hand out these swag at the gates. We
get no T shirts, towns or anything else. Doesn't we
get We got to Jimmy g bubble head. Wein't got
nothing in the last few years of fans, dude. Our
team is tightened up because we got that moser like Farhan,
that other cat. He's over there in England trying to
build the soccer team up now went to Scotlands apparently

(21:58):
to try to find the team. But I'm like, bro,
why are you hovering over the contract negotiations? We got
a general manager and coach like, what is the deal? Bro, Like, well,
you know you got you there, like baby sit Jed
Jorge or something because daddy, you know, Daddy wants to
watch you. The monster situation. I'm like, dude, back off.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
I mean, like you gotta hold a nick.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
You gotta squeeze, you gotta squeeze every penny, man, you
gotta squeeze every single penn, every penny.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah, no, man, I'm just like you where it's like
a dumpster sale right now. I don't even know what
what's going on with my niners. I've got I'm dismissing
it from my mind because the Warriors right now, then the.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Warriors, you're all jones up, you're all well, just don't
run into flippers down the line.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Just don't worry it. Don't be you know, you'll lose it.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
I will pull for the Warriors if they play the
Evil Lakers, but other than that, I uh, the Warriors
are in some trouble.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Play the people's team. Your problem there.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, Jimmy Butler's doing well, but you know how it
ends with Jimmy Butler, and I love Jimmy. He's a
great he's a fun player to watch, plays hard and
all that. But at some point he'll have a meltdown
like he did everywhere else.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
But that's fine. That won't happen for least another year.
So you got him for another year before his meltdown.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
Yes, at least a year and a half. Hopefully even
Draymond won't start fighting on the sidelink and Draymond times
is what he did with Durant. J Buckets.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Ain't going for that now, Jimmy, go for the neck.
He's not gonna He's not gonna take that.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah, all right, Well, thanks Nick, they're the great Nick.
And by the Niners, I thank you, buddy. I don't
want to be too negative, you know, because I'm Benny Brightside,
and so I don't be accused of anything by that
schmuck Terry.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
In England, who's like the.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Forty nine er guy over there. But let's look at
this objective. So I think we all agree. Most most
people understand that brock Purty does not elevate players around
itim there's nothing astonishing about brock Purty right now. He's
an appealing player when he's surrounded by good players, and
and sure most quarterbacks are like that, but there's nothing

(23:52):
about his skill set that tells you he will be
able to have a masterclass with lesser talent. So the
Niners have downgraded around brock perty right. Defense isn't as good,
at least in theory, they're not as good. They've lost
some players on offense, and so he has not demonstrated

(24:15):
that he has the ability.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
This is just setting up to be a.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Gigantic debacle, a boondoggle in fact, for the forty nine ers,
because they're gonna they're gonna pay brock Purty a fair
amount of money.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
More likely than not, he's going to get paid.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
And then I'll do a rant and I'll goof on
the forty nine ers and all that. But it's really
setting up to be a total it's a total debacle
because you're gonna pay him. He's got a lesser team
and he doesn't elevate his teammates, and so there his
performance is going to go down, and you're gonna look
at his contract and you're like, oh my god, what.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Have we done? What have we done? Why did we
do that?

Speaker 2 (25:00):
And in the other when we can get out of
the contract, is there a way we get out of
How much do we have to pay to get out
of the contract. So that's where that is headed for
the forty nine ers, barring some kind of dramatic turn
of events, and it's not necessarily. They've made a bunch
of bad decisions. They just got rid of some players
that were of name value, and they haven't, to my nods,

(25:22):
they haven't replaced them. I know they've signed some other players,
but I haven't seen much there that really pops. They're like, WHOA,
that's that's pretty impressive. My goodness, I can't believe that one.
Let's say hello to Kelly, who's in Des Moines. Hello Kelly,
formerly known as Donut Kelly, but now she's de Moine Kelly.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Hello Kelly, Welcome, Hi Ben.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
What's good.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
Well it's a talk show and there's a microphone and
headphones and I am talking, yeah, talking, all right, Well.

Speaker 5 (25:53):
There you go. I just want to let you know
that I am totally in on if you want to
do any type of debacle speed about the Niners.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
I'm in on that, yeah, but not the Seahawks. Right,
I can't because you're like.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
To see, no, you can't do that. No, I but
now the gino's gone, you can hate us a little less.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
No, h well, it's different without Gino. It was more
fun to goof on Gene.

Speaker 5 (26:18):
I know, I know, I know you of Gino was
was strong.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
However, it's not that difficult to find reasons to pick
on Sam Donald because you know, at some point he's
going to slip up. And Sam Donald's the perfect quarterback
for sports radio because he sucks.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
Now, we's got Sam Donald, We've got Sam Howell, We're
creating a Sam Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
The only thing you don't have his uncle Sam, although
one of them might be uncles, so you might actually
have an uncle Sam on your rocket. But here's no no,
but but here's here's the deal, right, so you look
at the Seattle Saws and Sam donalk. The reason he's
perfect is because he'll likely play all right for a
while and he'll suck the fans in, you know, you know,

(27:02):
low information fans like no Stradinas will get sucked in,
and then at some point he will slip on the
banana peel. There'll be some kind of cosmic accident, and
then he'll play like he did at the end for Minnesota.

Speaker 5 (27:14):
I mean, here's the thing. Here's the thing, though, Benness,
I mean, I live through all the eras like I
watched Dave Craig for so many years, Like it doesn't
even affect me anymore.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Now I think it does. I think you are putting
up a tough front, but I believe deep down there
you've got a lot of a lot of stuff going on. Right,
you're pregnant. You've got a lot of things going on there.

Speaker 5 (27:37):
Yeah, no, yeah, no, I've got a lot of but
I mean, yes, I have a lot of personal stuff
going on. But trust me, the Seahawks always come first.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Well, and they will always frustrate you. They will.

Speaker 5 (27:49):
No, I'm I'm a Seattle fan. I've been this, I've
been say my whole life, Ben, Like I deal with
the Marrors and the Seahawks. Of course I have frustration constantly.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yeah, but you can You're in Iowa. You don't have
to worry about that anymore. You're in de More. You
can go watch a minor league baseball game or something
and chill out, or go look at the corn grow
or something. Yeah, right, all right, thank you, all right,
go away, there's a Oh she had more to say.
I thought she was done. She said all right.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
I thought that was it. She moved on. I thought
we were done with the call.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
She had another thought, went on, let it all all
hang out here in the.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Middle of the night.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Well, how about this story from the draconian condition department
to the Northwestern men's basketball team that I'm told that's
a college basketball team and that is coached by Chris Collins.
You might, if you're old, know who his dad was,
Doug Collins, who, Yeah, he's an NBA commentator as a
coach in the NBA. It was actually one of Michael

(28:47):
Jordan's coaches. And then there was a situation with the
Bulls and then they had to get rid of Doug Collins.
And then this guy Phil Jackson came in and turned
out to be pretty good. But anyway, Chris Collins is
the head coach at north Western, that's the school there
in the Chicago area, and he publicly censured the Big
Ten Conference. Now, what is Chris Collins upset about Northwestern

(29:10):
men's basketball coach?

Speaker 1 (29:11):
What is he annoyed about?

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Well, turns out he's claiming that the Big Ten placed
the Northwestern basketball team at.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
A hotel that did not have air conditioning. Oh geek, yep,
I know.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
And he says that the players had to sleep in
rooms with temperatures that were past eighty five degrees. Yeah,
and then he started catching I mean that actually that sucks.
He said that we're used to being treated like this
by the league, is what he said.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Now, I've only experienced that one time in my life.
I was in Vegas.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
This actually happened about a year ago, and I was
staying at a fran end of a friend's place, not
a hotel, not a hotel, but a friend of a
friend's place. And the room we were given to sleep
in was fine. I mean, it's not the greatest, but
it was fine. It was a bad or whatever. And
but the air conditioning in the summer in Vegas was

(30:20):
not working in that part of that and it was
it was so bad. I just gotten I tried to
sleep for a little bit, and I got in the
car and I went to like one of the hotels
and just kind of hung out there in the air,
in the air conditioning. I just kind of that was
my thing. But is it really the big tens fault?
I'm assuming all hotels have air conditioning?

Speaker 3 (30:42):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Can you find maybe in Hawaii somewhere there are places.

Speaker 6 (30:45):
I was gonna say, where where doesn't have I mean it.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Must be must have been broken, right, it had to
be broken. Yeah, it couldn't. Couldn't be.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Just like, hey, we have a hotel, come stay at
our hotel. We have no air conditioning.

Speaker 7 (30:55):
Well, most of the places in Italy don't have air conditioning.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
See that's the reason for me not to go to Italy.

Speaker 8 (31:02):
I'm a big a handle air conditioning.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
You can always put one of those cheese ball one
of those window things in.

Speaker 7 (31:09):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, because there was like there was one, like,
there was a couple places in it. I would won't
say everywhere doesn't, but like whenever I'd find a restaurant
that had an air.

Speaker 6 (31:20):
Conditioning, I was like, oh, yes, eating here.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
So there's a lot of bo in Italy. Is that
what you're saying? Cool?

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Because if it's not air conditioning, people sweat and they
have a lot of body odor. Right do you smell
a lot of body odor in you're in Italy.

Speaker 6 (31:34):
It's not as bad as France.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
People, Oh France, So nobody wears theodor in France. That's true,
That rumor is accurate.

Speaker 6 (31:41):
I mean I honestly didn't really notice it.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Well, if you go to a drug store. Do they
have a deodoran aisle if you're in France? I don't know,
maybe not. They might not even sell the odor. Oh natural?

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Is that? Are you going there at Lorrain in the summer?
Are you going to Europe somewhere?

Speaker 8 (31:57):
I was hoping, Yeah, I would like to go to
Paris perie.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (32:03):
I like Paris because when I went on a tour
there when I was in my teenage years, my tour
guide was very hairy, like a wooly mammoth.

Speaker 6 (32:10):
She was, and I was.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Like she was Harry was like, you have a mustache.

Speaker 8 (32:15):
No, but she had the pits of my grandfather and
the hair.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
On her legs.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
You know. You know what I'm saying, just.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Look like to barka wow.

Speaker 6 (32:30):
You know, oh man, that's very beast.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
That's scary. That's not scary, hairy baby, oh man? I see.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
I don't know that I want to experience body odor,
no air conditioning, hairy women. I don't know that I
want that. I mean, you're not really selling me on Europe.
I've never been, but.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
I've got the people in my world that would like
me to go to Europe.

Speaker 7 (32:54):
No, it's definitely worth it. Just don't just don't go
in the middle of July like I did.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
So the summer. But how many how many really hot
months are there in Italy? Is it? Is it July
August like it is here? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (33:06):
I think so, yeah, okay, So I'll go in the
winter time.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
But I can't go in the winter because football. I
I gotta be here football.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
The only time to go is I is maybe the spring,
little spring trip, Yeah, something along those lines.

Speaker 7 (33:19):
To do that, going go in May and then and
then get back just in time for the finals, the
NBA finals.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
That is Oh yeah, yeah, may could do that.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
That's doable. Oh, this job is not that easy. This
is not that anyway. It is the Ban Maler Show
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(33:50):
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Speaker 1 (34:37):
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Speaker 2 (34:38):
Active NFL defensive backs to have one hundred plus passes
defended are Jalen Ramsey and me.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Who am I? Who?

Speaker 2 (34:48):
That is the question? The answer, We'll get to it
and we will do it.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
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Speaker 3 (34:56):
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(36:01):
to pay off the always popular, well somewhat always popular
who am I?

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Game?

Speaker 2 (36:08):
The only active, only active NFL defensive backs who hundred
plus one hundred plus passes defended. Among active defensive backs
are Jalen Ramsey and me and me?

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Who am I? That is the question?

Speaker 2 (36:22):
What is the answer? Does anyone in the malord militia
working the third shift here doing the live thing with
us have the answer? Let's go to the great on
Washington see if anyone can get it right, and then
we'll give you the answer. Valvenus guessed by random Ryan
in Carolina, Professor Chaos from Milkman, Mike in Colorado.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Who else do we have Bonnie Blue from I fourty
e m Boss.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
He's taking the Internet by storm there and apparently slept
with the entire internet. Mister Luciano going with mister Luciana
going Reggie Miller as his answer.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
Who else?

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Do we have a French girl with unshaven armpits. Yeah,
that's good luck on that for Speedy Gonzales guest by
Jamie We have he Hate Me, Rod Smart from Andy
and Lion o' Lakes Minnesota. Tanyan Sturts guessed by mister
nice Guy. His random baseball player of the night Late

(37:26):
Night drug tester says, you are Jack Harlowe, who is
twenty seven. What an old fart heh. You're washed up,
Jack Harlow. Time to hang him up. Alf the Alien
opine A going with Sir Charles Charles Barkley. Yeah, Charles,
that's an out of context quote by Sir Charles and

(37:48):
King Rory as well, you too, Dope, sent the same thing.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
You're all losers. Gil Bird guest by Pauli d.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Bird is the word charger legend, the nature boy Rick
Flair from Rich that's his answer, Little Keem Trail shouldn't
Little Keem Trail be listening to Coast to Coast, says
Harrison Smith, is the answer, Barkley Blue shout out to
Cooper Loop from Timothy in Northern Kentucky.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Danny in Nashville. It's just the crackhead who was outside
y'all building, also known as.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Danny in Nashville. Danny's was ar because Danny lived in
Nashville for a while and he was a regular caller.
He then met some girl, moved to Miami, and then
he stopped calling. Then he started calling for a while,
and then he vanished again.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
But he'll be back.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Mister irrigation going with Zeke Moore as his answer. Donald
Duck from Gunner Joe Horn guests by Rob in Minnesota.
Who else do we have? JJ went with holding something.
I don't know what the rest of that was.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Terry in England says, is it the French armpit? Is
that the answer? Well, you would know better than me,
all right, Do you have an answer quickly? Loraina?

Speaker 6 (39:02):
Rob Gronkowski, Ben.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
That's a terrible answer. The correct answer is the honey badger.
You know who the honey badger is?

Speaker 8 (39:08):
No, never heard of him?

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Oh Tyron Matthew, Tyron Badger. The honey badger is the
correctn
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