Hour 1 - Scandal Radio

Ben Maller talks about Dianna Russini resigning from The Athletic and what her resignation letter tells us, why she would resign if she did nothing wrong, how does Mike Vrabel walk into the Patriots facility like nothing happened, and much more!

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It's our number one. We thank you for subscribing. I
know you did, I know you subscribed to this podcast
and listening to the Ben Maller Show podcast, the Original
Recipe podcast on this Wednesday hump Day, this April fifteenth,
as we get through this together here in our number
one Scandal Radio, what's the story with Diana Russini's resignation

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letter to the Athletic what does it tell you? Also,
if she did nothing wrong like she claims, why did
Diana Russini resign from a really great insider job? And
how does coach Mike rabel walked back into the Patriots
facility like nothing happened when the reporter he was in

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the hot tub with just resigned her high paying job
because of that. We'll talk about all of those things
and more right now here. It is our number one.
But for at least a week, if not too many
of my colleagues in the media said, now I'm not

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So our lead this hour is from Human Resources. What

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the bleepity blee? What is this? Follow up? Follow up?
Major update on the NFL insider floozy and the football coach.
If you have not heard, If you have not heard,
the eagle has landed. The eagle has landed, and not
a Philadelphi eagle. Diana Russini, Bye bye. She's the insider

(03:51):
lady caught in a hot tub with Patriots head coach
Mike Vrabel in Sedona, Arizona, last month, and and she
has now quit her job. She resigned finietzcho done out
of here. Bye by Athletic, She's out of there. Russini

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submitted a public letter of resignation to her now former employer,
saying that she had handled her responsibilities with professionalism and dedication.
She did look dedicated in that hot gum. She said.
Throughout her career, she stands by every story featuring her byline,
she clearly earned those scoops. Diana seemingly with a straight face,

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that she's leaving not because she did anything wrong. No no, no,
no no, but because of the self feeding speculation that
is simply unmoored from the facts. And so the note continued.
But wait, there's more, she said, I have no interest
in submitting to any public inquiry that has already caused

(04:58):
far more damage than I I'm willing to accept. Interesting.
I wonder if she's holding Varibel's hands while she typed
that with her other hand. Maybe possibly, I don't know.
Rather than allowing this to continue, I have decided to
step aside now, she claimed, before my current contract expires
on June thirtieth. I do so not, she continued, because

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I accept the narrative that has been constructed around this episode.
But you know what that means. But because I refuse
to lend it further oxygen, or to let it define
me or my career. Right, So that's a good jumping
off point. Let us discuss lots to unpack here. And

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the question, now that we know the conclusion of this
part of the story here, what's the deal with Diana
Rossini's resignation letter? What does it tell you? All right?
What does this tell you? So I've got Caesar's Palace,
Capitol Hill, and Star Wars, and we will combine all
of these things together, and we're gonna make this Mallard

(06:05):
monologue one hundred and ten proof is what we're going
to do. Yes, very strong, very strong. All right. So
a my first thought is the G word, gobbledee gook.
That's what I thought of when I read this. Diana
Rossini has given the story which she claimed has no credibility, credibility. Congratulations,

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Abra cadabra. There you go. Now. Rassini said she won't
let lend oxygen to this story. Yet by doing what
she did, she's pouring unleaded gasoline all over it. Burn, baby, burn,
if you will, and leaving before it's it's finished. Wouldn't

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it be easy? I'm just asking the question if you
were with a bunch of girls on your girlfriends there
on the trip. One thing I know about women, they
love taking photos, They love taking mouthy so wouldn't you
think there'd be a bunch of photos of all girls
and her? Will you? No problem? And you just send
that over to the athletic Okay, we got your good
job by you. Okay, you're good. What happened? Maybe somebody

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had leaded all her photos? Is that possible? So how
do you square I stand by my work with I'm
leaving before my contract expires? The math the malor math
ain't math on that. And so what she's done here
and then the other part of it, which just rubbed
me the wrong way, is she's got her deck of

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Caesar's Palace playing cards, and she pulled the victim hood
card from the bottom of the deck right there, and
a masterclass in avoiding accountability. I am going to avoid
the accountability. And so this is damage control dressed up
as martyrdom. Is she really the victim? I know that's

(07:53):
very popular. There's a cottage industry. You get a lot
of that faux sympathy. Oh victim, tell me more, tell
me more. Uh yeah, all right. So I looked at it.
It's like gaslighting one on one, gas lighting one on one,
the old misdirection misdirection play. If you will you feed
false information. You're trying to hornswaggle the public to question

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what they know to be true, like looking at the photographs. Uh.
And the thing about it, she's claiming she was the
victim when we are one of literally a handful of
shows that we're talking about this. I was getting message
in people who work in the business. Why are you
talking about that? You know you're never gonna get a
daytime show you talk, that's why you're on nights you

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talk about and these guys all look like donkeys, every
single one of them, Every one of those mainstream daytime
guys look like donkeys. Radio silent. You know, we do
overnights obviously here at Fox, and we're not part of
the machine. We sneak in, we commandeer the microphones overnight.
The daytime radio and television. They got a lot of

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egg on their face on this story, a lot of
egg on their Faceablishment mouthpieces in the media business did
not touch this. They didn't. How about the NFL insider crowd,
nothing Buppkus squad Douche from Adam Schefter and the rap
sheet and all those guys, they shut it up. They
got nothing but scoops. But I guess they ran out

(09:17):
of ice cream on this one. No scoopage, No scoopage here.
And then the other part of is that Diana Rossini
went down to home depot. I don't know why she'd
go there, but she went down to home depot and
she picked up some ballerina nails. Now why did she
pick up ballerina nails? Because those are the ones she
made her bed with, and the bed of nails and

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just like a coffin right there, boom. As far as
NFL insider, that's it now, keeping it going, keeping the
beat going. So the question now is if she's if
she did nothing wrong, If she did nothing wrong, why
did the now for former Athletic NFL insider Diana Roussini
resign from a really good gig? We are told she

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was the highest paid employee at the athletic, which blows
my mind, but that's what Who knows if that's true.
I read that on the internet. Might not be true,
but I read that, so I believe it because I
read it on the internet, so it must be true.
So why did you resign? Now that's the quest, and
so giving this one little side eye, it's a little
bit of side I hear. And the question you ask

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in these situations is did she jump or was she pushed?
And it is more likely than not, based on all
of these circumstantial evidence and years and years of stories
similar to this in the past, that it's more likely
than not that this was a preemitive eject button pressed,

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let me press the button. Okay, press the button. Boom,
there you go. Her deal was up June thirtieth. And
this smells yeah, now, it smells like the media version
of you can't fire me, I quit. Now, you do
understand who your employer is when you work for the

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old under the umbrella of the old Gray Lady. When
your employer is the old Gray Lady, all stuffy and
all that stuff, the New York Times, the old Gray Lady,
the optics matter more than oxygen. I wonder if the
editor also got whacked at the Athletic, the dumbass who
came out fully supporting Diana Russini before getting any information.

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My god. Anyway, So when you work for the New
York Times, you can't. You can't get away with this.
You can't. So now, if she worked at Barstool, she'd
probably get a raise, different more money, but not at
the New York Times. Uh, not there at all. So
on the malord scale of scandal, the malor scale of scandal,

(11:48):
spin Uh you know the lines she used, I refuse
to lend this oxygen. That is first ballot Hall of
Fame deflection. It is rubber stamped rubber stamp by the
boys on Capitol Hill, textbook crisis management. And it's what
you resign early on in the scandal. You control the narrative,

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you get your word out, you avoid the public guillotine.
Of course, on this case it's a little rough. Although
she did do something we'll talk about a little bit
later that lend you to be lends you to believe
that there's more to the story. But nonetheless, the translation
of all that is you exit stage left before they

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give you the Gong show treatment and get you off
the stage and all that, And so the athletic quietly
as I are, listen, we're gonna get rid of you,
and we're gonna allow you, though, to make it seem
like you're the one leaving, and we're gonna even let
you write your own goodbye poem. Yeah, you know, is

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it fiction or nonfiction? Well, this is like reading Harry potter.
That's what it sounds like. You read this note here,
and so now let's look at let's circle back the word.
One of the words she used was unmoored, and for
those with the lexicon issues, that word means unfettered, essentially

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like a goose chase. Like there was some kind of
witch hunt, if you will, And so she was attempting
it would appear whoever wrote that letter. I know she
wrote the letter or not, but some lawyer likely vetted
or wrote most of it. Fine, because there there could
be some lawsuits. These things usually lead the lawsuits. That
being said, playing scrabble, here's the fun fact. Do you

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know the word? I believe I'm correct on this. I
play a lot of scrabble. Do you know the word
that has the highest point value in scrabble? It's a
word that I use a lot on the show. Do
you know what? You don't know what I'm and you
can check check me on this, but I believe I'm right.
I looked this up a while back. The word that
has the highest point total unscrabble is rather mataz. That's

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the words worth Yes, it's worth forty eight points by itself,
forty eight points by itself is razmataz because it's got
the four z's in it and not the four tops
the four z So I believe that is the word
worth the most. So she could have used that, put
a little rathmataz in there. That would have been a
good word. It's onn word we said all the times.
Great word. Yeah, people smile when it earrasmatas. Razzle dazzle

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is another fun word. All right, Now, last part of this.
Now we know it takes two to tango and she
was in the hot tub with an NFL coach, Hello
Mike Rabel. Now we circle back and look at what
Mike Vrabel said when the story first came out in
the New York Post, because that reads like comedy gold,
Vrabel said it was quote laughable to consider the picks

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showed anything but an innocent interaction. Oops. All right, question
for the esteem panel. So the question, how does coach
Mike Rabel walk into the Patriots facility like nothing happened
when the reporter that he was in the hot tub

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with just resigned from a great job. So my theory
is that Rabel grew up a fan of Star Wars.
He's a big fan of Star Wars, say what. Yeah,
so Rabel trying the Jedi mind trick and these aren't
the droids you're looking for. These aren't the droids you're

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looking for, trying to sell calm. Everything's good here while
the building smells like burnt toast, man smell that burnt toast. Now,
he would have gotten away with it if it weren't
for you, meddling PI private investigator whoever ended up taking
the story. There'll be some Netflix docu series on this

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in about a year and it'll be really good, and
we'll find out how the photos were taken and who
took them and who sold them, and the whole thing
that'll be coming out before you know it. Yeah, the
person you said there's nothing, nothing hanky panky going on here.
The person you were in the hot tub with resigning
in a blaze of glory from her job. So Diana

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Rasidi might not be on the NFL payroll. She's not technically, However,
she swims in that ecosystem and that obviously matters. That's
a big part of it. And canoodling with a vendor
slash client is deemed problematic. I know this because I
have graduated every year for the last ten years or

(16:37):
so from iHeart University and I have had the extreme
training online courses. It's like going to traffic school. Every years.
I tell my busy, I didn't get a traffic ticket.
Why don't have to go to traffic school? What you
got to do?

Speaker 1 (16:48):
What?

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Ever?

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Here, I said, But I didn't get a ticket, but
you got to do a thing. So I've learned over
the years. You know these vendors, you can't you can't
fool around, can't do it. That's HR one oh one,
page forty five of the HR Handbook in bold print, unless,
of course, you've got a force field of football privilege.
So there's a big push now to see Mike Rabel

(17:10):
punished by the Patriots and to have something happen to
Vrabel that he is culpable here because he was doing
the doing the naughty whatever that means. We went in
the bedroom, but it certainly seems like the way they
were holding hands it was more than just reporter coach relationship.
So either way, the reason it's next to is the

(17:32):
odds of Rabel getting any in any real trouble are
less than five percent less than five percent, And the
reason is because he's got the anti person. He's got
not old spies, not, He's got w spice is what
he's got, because in the NFL, winning is the most
amazing deodorant. And if this was Gerard Mayo or some

(17:56):
Jabbroni coaching the Patriots, and they have had some before, Belishick,
there were many Jabroni's, although Gerard Mayo was the last one.
He was one and done to Broni. If you bring
somebody like that in, that person would have been escorted
out of the Patriots facility already in a timely manner
with a cardboard box holding their half eaten bag of

(18:16):
skittles from their office. That's how that would have gone down.
Coach of the year, You're in the super Bowl. Okay,
we can look the other way. It's all good here,
it's all We're all good. Now. Rabel's got some things
he's got an answer to at his house, I would think,
who knows what's going on? And they got the wild
swing lifestyle. I don't know, but otherwise they got some

(18:37):
explaining to do.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
All right?

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Is the Ben Mahlor show your thoughts on what is
for now? The conclusion of this story also, where does
Diana Russini end up. I know our guy. I guess
somebody sent me an email saying Stu Gott's offered her
a job here at this company. Really, Okay, I didn't
know you had that kind of money. Is that a joke?
I thought he was. I don't sell me so many eames.

(19:01):
Your guys. Do Gots offered her job? You're gonna have
to be working with hers. First of all, Even if
she got a job here, she'd worked during the day
and I would never see her.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
I would love to meet her.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
I would never see her in my idol. Now you
might be your hero. Yeah, and she definitely went above
and beyond the call, dude to get scoops anyway, apparently,
what do I know? Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
I bet she gets you know, she'll do a podcast.
Everyone nobody listens to most of these podcasts. She'll do
a podcast, or she'll work at barstas Hello, HEO, the
Hot Tub, the Sedona podcast, she could call it. Yeah, anyway,

(19:35):
she'll I'm sure she'll be fine. And she she's now infamous,
and in some ways she's more famous now than she's
ever Actually, most of the way she's more famous now.
She ever would have been just being a regular run
of the mill like seventh or eighth most popular NFL Insider.
She didn't reach the upper echelon of NFL Insider. Despite
going to great lengths to try to go in the

(19:55):
upper echelon, she did not reach that level. Now she
has in terms of in for me. It is the
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and Diana Russini. She's out at the Athletic Gonzo. Bye bye.
She'll get a job somewhere else. It's fine. It's like
we make fun of coaches that get fired like they
just keep getting a job. Doc rivers how many times
that guy's been fired? He sucks as a coach, he
keeps getting jobs. Sometimes it's just a new opportunity. One
door closes, another one opens, of course. I like in
radio when you lose your job and nobody calls you.

(24:20):
I got cooties. You know, you just leave you. I
can't talk to you. At least that's how it used
to be. I don't know if it's the same way anymore,
but used to be like that back back in the day. Anyway.
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will be used against you in the court of sports.
Radio Milkman Mike writes in from Colorado. He says, cannot
wait to hear the meat and potatoes of the show.
I think we need to take a moment to remember
that tonight's show is the one hundred and fourteenth anniversary
of the Titanic sinking in the Atlantic. Except in Marcel's

(25:06):
World where it's only the fifth anniversary. Yeah, if you're
new to the show, it's one of the great moments
in show history. And it was put together in part
by Milkman Mike in Colorado. So there was a period
of time our guy Marcel and Brooklyn. If you don't
listen to all four hours, Marcel calls in in our
number four. He's been calling me for a number of years.

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And when Marcel started calling me early on, he was
like the character Ron Burgundy. Whatever you told him, he
would repeat on the radio. It was to the point
where Milkman Mike, I believe it was Milkman Mike. He
brought it up, so it must be him. So he
sent Marcell a story that the Titanic had crashed out

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in the Atlantic and hand to God. Marcel and Brooklyn
during his phone call in the fourth hour of that show,
reported as breaking news that the Titanic had hit an Iceberg.

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Also another breaking overnight news. While everyone has slapped the RMS,
Titanic has reportedly hit an Iceberg, New York. Can I
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Yeah, you got it right, Marza, you got it right.
God bless him. So keep in mind when the Titanic crash.
Radio did not exist. Radio wasn't even a thing when
the Titanic crash. So, uh, they were using Morse code.
So that means that this show, the Ben Mather Show, is,
to my knowledge, the only radio show to report as

(26:44):
breaking news the Titanic hit an Iceberg. Yeah, because no
radio existed at that time. And milkman Mike points out,
it's the fifth anniversary. It's only been five years since
that happened. I thought it was longer than that. It's
only been five. We'll go back a little longer than that.
It could be just five. That's twenty twenty one. All right,
let's go to the phones and we'll say hello. Let's

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go to Mike, who's in New Hampshire. What's going on? Mike? Welcome?

Speaker 4 (27:10):
Oh, not too much. I want to talk about Mike Rabel.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
You know, my grandmother told me that women are fickle,
and you know, it seems like they always get kidney
when you're blowing bubbles up their butt in the hot tub,
and then they get all offended later and they always
assume me afterwards. I don't know why.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
It all right, thank you. Let's go to Edgar in Texas. Hello, Edgar,
Edgar did Edgar fall asleep? I think we need to
ask if it's a full moon tonight. Is there a
full moon? That guy, that guy was, he was on
he was on bath Salts. That last guy, Holy crap.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Did that make it?

Speaker 2 (27:49):
That didn't make it on the air? Did it?

Speaker 1 (27:50):
No?

Speaker 2 (27:50):
I dumped it. Okay, good, you'll go back and hear
the podcast. It's something about a hot tub in bubbles.
I never thought of using bubbles though. Way, I don't
think keasy. I don't think he's done that either. He
just imagined in his head. He's done it in his mind,
he's done it in reality. Likely not the Russian kid.

(28:10):
Oh this The Russian kid says, Wow, Ben, I'd love
to be in Newport, Kentucky. I'm in Dayton. Should I
bring Dick with me? Or I think we have worked
out the logistics of getting Dick from Dayton to the
meet and greet in Newport, Kentucky. There were give me
a little taste of that, Dick. It's a long day.
There were several phone calls that were made to Dick.

(28:34):
I did call Dick and talked to him multiple times
and trying to explain to him the logistics that in
order for me to pick him up from where I
am staying at the hotel in the Greater Cincinnati area,
the location I am staying at. In order to pick
him up and then take him back, I would have

(28:54):
spent more time in the car than flying from Los
Angeles to sin So because it would have been six
hours roughly, and the flight's not you know, it's not
that long. So anyway, the one way, the one way
obviously the way back and do the math on that.
So I think we're in a good spot on that.
I did have some people reach out Angelina and some

(29:17):
other people that were like, hey, I'll help you out,
which is very kind. I believe we're we're in good shape.
I will let you know. I will have more information
as it becomes readily available. People very concerned here that
we have to have a jail break to get Dick
and Dayton out of the facility that he's staying. There
was an old TV show back and they called the

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A Team they had to break out this guy to
go on their missions Soldiers of Fortune. So we have
feel like we have to far meet and greet. We
have to get Dick and Dayton out of the place.
He's at No one puts Dick in the corner. You
can't stop him. You can't. But listen Lisa, listener, Lisa,
if I can talk to listener, Lisa and her husband
Rob have reached out. I mentioned that at the end
of yesterday's show. So I think I think we're good

(30:00):
on that. I believe we're in good shape in that department,
which is very important that Shane in des Moines writes
and he says, I love this. Shane is a day behind,
day behind. I don't know why, says Emmitt Smith, basically
saying the Cowboys are soft and everyone's too afraid to
admit it is something all of us have been saying
since the late nineties. I blame Jerry. Soft coaching hires

(30:24):
lead to a soft team, so he says. Late Night
Drug Tester says, I'm sorry to say, but your story
with the stinking genius Arnie has now fallen to number
two for the best overnight hot tub story. No, no,
you let me tell something. Okay, if you were to

(30:46):
get women to run for the hills, you put Arnie
in a hot tub, and that is they sprint out
of there. They women are like Usain Bolt. They see
Arnie and well not see him. Once Arnie starts talking,
it's over. It's just forget about it. It's game over
for any kind of conversation. Yeah, just Josh says. The

(31:09):
problem with these insider chicks is they are average, willing
and vrabel to go. Oh, I see to the line
of scrimmage was crossed. The yellow flag has been tossed
along with Well, I said, you guys must think I'm
on satellite radio. I can't you guys put these works? Right? Okay,

(31:29):
all right, but right Lorena, I mean I can't. What
are we doing here? I can't. I can't do this.
Mark from Queen's Right since says your regular use of
ras mataz and when you use that phenomenal word, you
use it well, he says, your use of language and
voice inflection top notch. There you go, top notch is

(31:53):
a Caddy shack reference. Keep up the fun here late night.
That's Mark in Queen's You. Femi from Chicago writes, and
he says, hey, Mallard, hey plus plus in an unlimited
deep dish on one of the best Mallard monologues of
the year. Dirty d must have thought that she was

(32:14):
writing the gas lighting letter to her husband rather than
her employer and the general public. It's your fault, not mine. Now,
speaking of that, Speaking of that, there's something that happened
that was a as we'd like to say in these parts,
a dead give wit, dead give wit. Diana Rassini one button,

(32:37):
Diana Now, she sent out on her social media. She
sent out the letter of resignation that she was out
of there, see you later, I'm done. So she sent
that out and she clicked one button, and the button
turned off all the comments, so you post. So she

(32:58):
posted something on social media which is about engagement, and
she was announcing that, Hey, this is what I'm doing
here and get this out there. And then she turned
off the comments, which is generally a yell from the
top of the mountain. A I can't take the fire.
I can't take the fire, and B I'm going the

(33:20):
other direction from the fire. So not a great look
at me. Just listen.

Speaker 5 (33:26):
Do what I do.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
I toss stuff out and then I don't look at
the comments. The only time I look at the comments
most of the time is here when I'm on the
air doing the show, and I'll read the comments because
I know guys like ferg Dog and Alf and JD
and Boston and the number one burner account and all
these guys are going to interact with the show, and
we have new people that are part of the show.

(33:49):
And during the day I don't eat it. The only
person allowed to turn off their comments is Britney Spears.
Is that I thought she was in rehab? Isn't she in?

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Read?

Speaker 2 (33:57):
How she is now? She got pulled over for a
drunk driving or something was under the employment She end
up in the same rehab as Pukka. Are they roommates
over there? Some holistic there's a bunch of places in Malibu,
the rehab. What could be like Tiger Woods go to
Europe or something like that, or Australia.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Can I do it?

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yeah? I'd like to go to rehab. Can I go
to a beach in Australia?

Speaker 3 (34:19):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Why not? You want to go to Perth? You want
to go to Sydney? Which way were you? Well? One
of those gesture why not? Michael writes in and he
says Ben aplus on the Mala monologue as an old
school newspaper guy who actually writes and has any TV
insider ever been accountable? The short answer is no and

(34:40):
no surprise. How the rest of the insiders having touched
this Diana Russini Mike Rabel story, Yeah, stand away from that.
Keith in nor Cow writes in haven't heard from Keith
in a while. Good to see his name, And he
says the mainstream drive time guys can't give these stories

(35:01):
any airtime until they make sure all the players involved
don't have dirt on them. He says, good job by you. Well,
I get it. I've crashed the party. I've been an
interloper at the super Bowl over the last five years.
So I've gone to most of the Super Bowls. The
last five years. I didn't go for like thirty five
years or whatever it was, but the last five years,

(35:21):
at thirty years, i'd you go. But the last few
years I've gone, and I've seen it. It's a lot
of grab ass and you know, fratnizing and people just
going to drink all week and not do any real work.
And they all party. They're all friends with each other.
They go out and party. That's pretty much what super
Bowl Week iss. So they're all they're all friends with
each other. I get it. And that's the way it is.
And so you don't want to take a shot at

(35:41):
a friend or anything like that. I understand it doesn't
make it right though not a burner writs in and
says Russini heard the show last night decided to resign
from the Athletic so she can start living by Lorena's
creed of you only live every day. That's right, Yolie

(36:02):
jolie D. Is that your phrase, joli D? You only
live every day? Yeah, you only live every day? And
that's it. You should you should use that y O
l e D yoli D. That be that could be yours.
You should go hashtag yolie d. Random Ryan checks and
he'd like to alert everyone that he has he's in

(36:24):
a tennis now Random Ryan buggeted bugget bugget buggety buggety. Yeah,
all right, you can join the fun here. You can
join the fun on x at Ben Mallor and Neil
from the Fall River Massas. Would the hot tub story
be a story if it was Adam Schefter instead of

(36:44):
Diana Russini, Uh, yeah, it would be a different kind
of story. I was like bro Back Mountain, or it
could be a Schefter with some NFL owner. You know
some of the women who have inherited NFL teams that
own teams. It could be out there doing the hanky panky.
It is the Ben Mahler Show. We'll press on time

(37:06):
now for the who Am I? Game? This is where
I pretend to be somebody else else. We call it
the who am I Game? In honor of the riveting
that she The first game was pretty good. I don't
see much of the second game the Blazers and the Suns,
but the Hornets and the Heat went to overtime. Pretty entertaining,
pretty entertaining. Well. Along that note, time for the who
Am I?

Speaker 5 (37:23):
Game?

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Miami Heat guard Tyler Hero is now the all time
leading scorer in NBA play in history, as he has
one hundred and sixty seven points. He passed the one
hundred and sixty six points that I had scored as
I had the record prior. Again, Tyler Hero all time
leading scorer now at NBA play in history, one hundred

(37:44):
and sixty seven points, passing my number of one hundred
and sixty six points. Who Am I? The answer? Next?

Speaker 3 (37:49):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Bill Miller here it is the Ben Mallor Show. As
we roll on and on just reaching our cruising altitude
on the Red Eye flight. A reminder, this is not
only a radio show. It morphs into a podcast. You
can hear that during the daytime hours, the Ben Mallor
Show podcast. It's also on YouTube. Yeah, you can subscribe

(38:19):
to our YouTube channel at Ben Mallor Show. There's a
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(38:39):
So check it out, support the show all those different ways,
and of course listen to the og way on the
local radio. Back to it all, right, back to where
we go, and time now for the payoff on the
who m I? Game? Here it is in Miami heat
card Tyler Hero who was almost the hero until he
wasn't for Miami. He is now the all time leading

(39:02):
scorer in NBA play in history with one hundred and
sixty seven points. Congratulations passing the one hundred and sixty
six points that I had scored. Who am I? That's
the question wants to answer, Rob the Goat home going
with Don King, who somehow is still alive. Good for him.
I met Don King many many years ago, and he

(39:23):
looked really old then, and he he's still going. Good
for him. Chuck Connors from Rob the Ambassador of Bakersfield.
Amy Adams guests by Bobby Keelin Pie Bobby in Florida,
Andy and Lionel Lakes Minnesota says A Zack's favorite player,
Karl Anthony Towns. Who else do we have? Late night
drug Tester says you are a rapper Sexy Red who

(39:44):
is twenty eight today? Scrooge says SpongeBob square Pants, although
he gave SpongeBob a different name, different name there. Who
else do we have? Page down? I can't read that.
Edward J. Smith Captain the Titanic from alf the Alien Opiner,
Patrick Beverley from Femy who had the greatest celebration after

(40:05):
a play in tournament win. Benny Buckets from Fergnucks. It's
actually moneyball, Maller, Lorena, do you have an answer, Lorena?
I'm gonna go with Peter Griffin. Peter Griffin. No, it
is none other than Trey Young. Trey Young, although Steph
Curry could pass him by, but Trey Young