March 10, 2026 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Tua Tagovailoa getting released by the Dolphins and signed by the Atlanta Falcons, the Dolphins posting a highlight video as a goodbye to Tua, Malik Willis replacing Tua in Miami, and much more!
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here in our number one quarterback toa Toungue bay Loa
headed to the atl What exactly are the Falcons doing
here as they've decided to add too as their top quarterback. Also,
why the Dolphins post a highlight video of a guy
in Tua who they are going to pay ninety nine
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dollars to not have them play for their football team. Also,
what stands out about Malik willis going to the Dolphins.
He's gonna replace Tua in Miami. We'll get to all
of that and more right now, settle in it's our
number one, and then go gaga. Well it's a case
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of Tua on the move. Bye Bye, Miami.
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the transaction, if you get all horny for the transaction,
you needed an ambulance. By midday. There was a lot
going on, a lot going on. Am I gonna sit
here and pretend like I'm an expert on every single player? God? No,
I mean I have no life, but I got some
life compared to some of these other jabbronis, who I
think are all fraudsters. Now, I got into a radio.
(03:26):
I worked for a guy in San Diego who claimed
he knew the answer to every name in like baseball.
People would call up with phony phone calls about names
of athletes that they just made up, and this guy
would say, well, I know that guy was in DOUBLEA
for the Cardinals or something like that. It's a bull crap.
And I look at a lot of these so called
geniuses who are out there breaking down the free agent pyramid,
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and I'm like, that guy's a charlatan, that guy's a
con man and all that. But our lead from people
we've heard of. Our lead from the quarterback mart on
the move again, on the move again. The high speed
sports wires smoking hot, smoking hot, developing dot dot dot,
and the legal tampering period is underway. The flag is
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up and off to the races we go. And the
story came out early. The dolphins said bye bye to
to a tongue of Iloa and the worst kept secret around.
The story had been out for sometimes. So then a
few hours later, just a few hours later, Tua was
swooped up in NFL Free Agencies found a new employer.
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I assume you know by now, however, there's a chance
that you actually have lived your life. You worked, have
you slept, You weren't paying attention. You tune in, you
want to hear what's going on. So the story we
learned that to a tongue of Iloa taking his talents
to the atl dirty Birds gone the dirty birds. There
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a one year contract for the minimum one point three million,
that's the veteran minimum. And how can he do that? Well,
he can do that because those suckers in Miami are
paying him money, man of money and then some. The
deal was likely agreed to a long time ago. It
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was just announced on Monday. So that is a good
jumping off point. Let us discuss the question you've got
quarterback to a tongue of Iloa headed to Atlanta. What
exactly are the Falcons doing here? Is this an upgrade? Seriously?
So I've got eve in life, We've got canned spam
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and Fisher Price, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to pinky squeaar. This
will be the greatest monologue ever broadcast overnight on Fox
Sports Radio on this day. And if it's not, then
I'm going to blame Mike Harmon, who I just saw
walk out of the building. All right, So a the
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Falcons answer the question, what exactly are the Falcons doing here?
It's a box checking exercise, that's my theory. It's a
box checking exercise or go to checks, not one, not two,
but three boxes? All right for Atlanta. He's cheap, he's available,
and he's got a pulse. We think he's breathing. We
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think he's breathing. So that's it. Boom rata tat tat.
There you go. That's the bar. That's the bar for
the Atlanta Falcons. And he comes with a warning label
buyer beware, buyer beware. Numbers are misleading, Stats are misleading.
And so this continues what apparently is the new franchise
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charter in Georgia. There the Atlanta football team there. They've
turned now to the island life. The island life. What
does that mean, Well, the island of lost souls. They
go play for the Falcons. Come on, come on, come on,
fun for all ages there Falcon football. Unless you're actually
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watching them, you can reinvent yourself, rejuvenate your career in
the Peach State. Unless that doesn't happen, But you to
go down there, hang out, get some of that jerk chicken,
that good southern food there, get some collid green, some
grits and a corn bread and all the other great
foods they have there, and enjoy that because you're not
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gonna enjoy playing quarterback for the Falcons very much. Now,
I will tell you on a tablet, if you look
at a tablet and imagine, use your imagination, you can
be Benny Brightside. You look at it, you're like, well,
this looks pretty good. You've got a dome stadium, a
division filled with Southern teams, so it's not your Northeastern
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coal or Upper Midwestern cold weather playmakers. And Drake London
and Jean Robin in Kyle Pitts up the wazoo for Tua.
So you got that. That's the kind of lineup that
on a tablet looks pretty pretty good. That looks gorgeous.
The sales pitch like, listen, this is the way to
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do it. These guys are all young and hungry and
the prime of their careers. Are not even in the
prime of their careers some of these guys.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The reality is the scouting report on Tua says, keep
your distance, keep your distance here. It's one of those
moves that looks better than it is from the hallway
outside the theater. Right outside the theater. Well, that's pretty
good outside the stadium, like, oh, that's not bad. That's
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not a bad move. However, when you sit down at
your seat and watch it, you realize it's a low
budget student film, is what it is. Now. The plot
twist here is this Atlanta now has two lefties at quarterback.
They're going all all left handed there, Tua and Michael
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Pennex Junior, who, for some reason the Falcons drafted in
the first round because there are a bunch of country
bumpkins and that worked out really well. That was great.
They should have drafted Tommy in Atlanta, our caller and
listener in Atlanta, Tommy would have been better off there.
Apparently the Falcons are running the South Paw offense, which
explains a lot now, keeping the theme going here, but
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turning the page on the Miami side of things. So
the Dolphins were so desperate, so desperate to get rid
of to us, how desperate were they? Thanks for rosing.
They were so desperate that they're going to take the
greatest salary cap ding in the history of the salary
cap ninety nine point two million. Do you understand how
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much one must suck and blow to have a team say,
rather than keep you, we would rather take a hit
of ninety nine point two million dollars. Now we are
told that will be spread like chunky peanut butter over
a couple of years. So starting this year, sixty seven
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point four million, in the following year thirty one point
eight million of dead charges, and then the Dolphins will
have to deal with that, and oh they are, Oh
they are so Miami hosted a one minute sizzle reel
as Tua was fired from his job. I guess laid
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off you get ninety nine million, You're not really fired
you're laid off. So the Dolphins sent out this sizzle
reel and he saw it or not. It happened when
I was sleeping. I saw it when I woke up,
and I wanted to talk about that. So the question
why why did the Miami Dolphins, a multi billion dollar
football team, post a highlight video of a guy in
Tua Tongue of Biloa who they are going to pay
(10:58):
ninety nine million to not have on their roster. So
what are you doing now? This made me want to vomit,
not the vomit comet, I just wanted to vomit, right,
Like it's if it's not just dysfunction with the Dolphin.
I mean they got that going for him too. The
Dan Dolphins also works for dysfunction, but it's a sub
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basement level of loser dumb. So you go to the
basement and then you go below the basement. That's loser dumb.
There's a portal right under there, and you go in there,
and that's the port you're posting a thank you video
for Tua Tongue Bailoa like he's Dan Marino. They didn't
do that for Dan Marino because he wasn't There was
(11:42):
a social media when Dan Marino retired and all that.
But the guy to a just essentially pickpocketed the franchise
and you're left with a ninety nine million dollar charge.
He dined and ditched, and you, of course escorted him
out of the bill. The biggest heist in NFL history.
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And the social media mods for the Miami Dolphins are
out there and they're treating to a like he's some
kind of war hero. What are you doing? Just quietly
let him go. That's it. Say hey, we fed up
and we'll move on. That's it. And Tua turned out
to be a fake, a phony and a fraud. And
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some people I won't say who that may or may
not host an overnight show, tried to warn the Miami Dolphins.
Did they listen? Hell no, they didn't listen. No they
did not. So Tua not only commits the perfect crime
because he got all that money without a gun, without
a knife, without a hand grenade, just the duke, the duke.
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And that's it. So the Dolphins have already paid to
a by my Malor math one hundred and twenty four
million to check the turf, see what's going on there
for structural integrities. He throws the ball into the ground
and or better into the ear hole of a receiver
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that wasn't looking for the ball. And now you're eating
that ninety nine million dollar cap hit there just to
get him out of the building. That's an FBI situation,
is what that is here. This isn't the salary cap hit.
That's a ransom payment, is what that is. And Tua's
got another one hundred some million dollars that he's going
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to be getting by the time this is all done,
So he's got much more money. And for that, you
got one playoff appearance and no playoff wins with Tua.
He was also hurt quite a bit. That turned out
to be a superpower, and he's shown to be Tua,
based on his relatively long NFL career, a front runner
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who collapses the very moment, the very split second the
temperature drops below fifty degrees. He literally turns into a popsicle.
He turns into a popsicle. He's essentially just canned spam
under center, if you will. That cost a quarter of
a billion dollars. That's some very expensive can spam. That's
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what it is. And so that's what the Dolphins did
and They should have just posted a video of him
leaving Miami and said, okay, happy days are here again.
That's the only highlight that the Dolphins should have posted
to a left and just erase everything else. All right, now,
last word, so to the replacement we go. We already
have his replacement. The new head coach Jeff Haifley has
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a deal with former Titans and Packers quarterback Willis.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
The overnight rumor was Willis was going to the Cardinals.
The Dolphins supposedly stepped in and offered him a little
bit more money, toss in the floor to taxes and
saving some more money. On top of that, Solik Willis
going to Miami. The question what stands out? What stands
out about Malik Willis of all people, who's now the
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QB one for the Miami Dolphins. So this is great.
The reason I wanted to talk about it not that
in Mileague Wills I think he'll be okay. I want
to see if he can blossom. However, However, this moment,
this little polaroid, captures the absurdity of the business of football,
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the economy of the NFL. And this is the bully
pulpit where I have been screaming down from the bully
pulpit about the salary cap is crap and all that
stuff and going on and on and on. So this
should end all debate. This should be the moment that
it's all debate about those that preach at the altar
of the salary cap. So Miami is paying a ninety
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nine million dollar dead cap hit for two of to
go away. Okay, fine, we've established that get out of here,
go away. So that's not a buyout. It's not a buyout.
It's a yacht and a helipad and there'll there's still
all a bunch of guaranteed money and all that. And
somehow with that amount of money tied up, they were
still able to sign another quarterback. Like you'd think that
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Dolphins would have to play with ten players on the field.
They wouldn't have to full eleven on offense or defense.
They'd have ten on offense, ten on defense, maybe only
nine on special teams. But no, they still found a
way to get Molique. Wells now, why is that? Because
the cap is crap? Stay with me now, kids, Cap
is crap. Cap is crap, that's right, It's all part
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of the Fisher price cash register. That is the NFL
salary cap that even come with six little toy coins blue, yellow, green,
all those coades and the salary cap. It's like the
points on whose line is it? Anyway? None of it matters,
None of it matters, right, So, Malie Willis, this is
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also a great thing about life and gentle in sports.
I don't know if this works anywhere else. He became
more valuable Malik Willis by doing less, by not working
that much, his value skyrocketed to the moon, to the moon.
The last two years he has started three eight more
games than I have, and you have three. That's it.
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The last two years he's attempted, not completed attempt at
eighty nine passes. Malik Willis, He's barely played. And yeah,
did he show a flicker here and there for Green Bay. Sure,
surrounded by competent grown ups. He looked like he had
some kind of a clue. And now now he goes
(17:47):
to the daycare center in Miami, and yet I said, wow,
he's a blue chip stock waiting to happen. Okay, well,
I hope he does well, but certainly seems like a
quite the overpay. Meanwhile, you look at what the dolphins
plan is and we were discussing the jets the other day,
tanking for arch manning with the Miami Dolphins. At this
point came we do a wellness check on Stevie Meatballs
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and some of our great dolphin fans that are part
of the show. Because it looks like an exclusion zone.
You know that eighteen mile area around Chernobyl. That's the dolphins,
right and here, Malik, there's a lot of nuclear stuff
going on. We want you to blossom. We want you
to blossom right there, So the radiation soaked environment, that's
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As we work our way through the overnight, all right,
lad this hour of the who Am I?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Game?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Some fallout from some of the moves that have taken
place here, There's be some other names that are going
to pop up on the transaction wires we go through
the week here, the dominoes are falling, and we love
the dominoes falling. As the New Orleans Football team another
one of those teams that just kind of exists, so
other teams have have someone to play. New Orleans decided
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to sign a veteran running back, which didn't seem like
that was a need. Travis Etn gets a four year
deal on Monday, so he is taking his talents to
the Bayou, leaving Jacksonville. So he's gone, and now the
question is does that mean the trickle down effect will
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be Alvin Kamara, the guy that you do not want
want to run into at a Vegas casino because you'll
kick your ass. Alvin Kamara could be yours, and so
there are questions whether or not he's going to be
traded and will that happen the next couple of days
here it's Alvin camaraw watch Oh my god, so exciting,
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so exciting it is, I know. Try to stay com
try to stay calm. Doc Dan writes in from the
Twin Cities. He's worried about he says, worried about injuries.
The Vikings have a quarterback who enters into concussion protocol
if a leaf falls off a tree on him. And
when he's healthy, he makes people long for Christian ponder,
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why would you even ponder? Passing Tua is no Richard Todd.
You're dating yourself, Doc Dan. He's no Richard Todd when
it comes to talent. But at least he has some. Yeah,
at least he has him. There you go. Shanon de
Moyes says the Benny are more exciting than the World
Baseball Classic. The Mallard Talent Show is better than the
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World but no, it's not the talent Show. Shane, it's
the Mallard Palooza. It's the Mallard Palooza. That's what that is.
Very exciting, Yeah, in the becoming Mallard Palooza this summer. Yeah,
all right, Bemy in Minnesota, right, since says I cannot
wait for your monologue on the eleventh. It's going to
be history hearing your take on the Vikings signing Kyler Murray.
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Don't even know what to think anymore. I guess beggars
can't be choosers. Analog Al says, didn't tuoh one say
that he couldn't see over his offensive line? Are the
guys on the Falcons? Shorter? Yeah, they're gonna sign a
bunch of offensive linemen that looked like Kyler Murray's what
they're planning on doing there to help him out? And
who else do we have? See? King Rory from Wisconsin
(24:54):
says the Miami Dolphins scooping up Jeff Haffley and Malik
Willis their game against the Packers this coming season is
guaranteed in primetime. It's a primetime slot, if not a
streaming exclusive, I'm sure it will be an old slobber knocker.
I don't know about that. King Roy. You look at
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the Dolphins. That's a bad team, man, bad fing team,
and that's a bad football team. Fer dog rights and
he says, are you taking me over or under?
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On?
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How many callers wait on hold just to say they
hate the show. But listen, every night I'm setting the
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I think that guy Chris sobered up or whatever his
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If anybody hates the show, call up, tell me why
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the show to call out right now eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox nor Buddy Wayne in Duluth writes,
and he says Atlanta made a stupid move, just like
they did with Kirk Cousins. Tua is not worth the
lint in my pocket. H I wonder how much lint
is in your pocket? All right, just go to the
phones and we'll start it out. Here's the guy hasn't
called in a while. I think he just got out
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of the pokey pokey pokey. We say hello to Andrew,
who's in Bakersfield. Hello Andrew, welcome.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Ben it Ben Ben Ben Hey uh Lorena, you gotta play.
I like it when you do that right there?
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Oh, I like that song.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Andrew.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
You haven't called up in a while, Andrew, there's no
need to ask for songs. This is not kiss FM.
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (26:37):
And my recommendation is anything by the large Professor other
ones by Chiney Right?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Is it true? Is it true, Andrew, that this call
is being made to try to get your name nominated
for the Worst Caller of the Year. Is that true?
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Well, I'm not going to aim for that.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
No, sorry, because you can't. You can't reach that level
as the worst call the there's a lot of eat.
I'm getting emails from people concerned they're not going to
be nominated. They're worried about the Benny nom We're gonna
announce the nominations probably tomorrow. We'll have the nominations and
all that, and so you'll be able to vote the
rest of the week through Sunday.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
So I think it's a good thing that you're advertising
the mal of palooza in advance, because then you'll get
more people.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Possibly true, However, people do usually do things at the
last minute. It's like it's not like someone sitting there
in March, planning an event that's gonna take place in July.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Well, I've been thinking of the song I'm gonna sing
for ever since, a couple of months after the last one.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But it's a very evil laugh that you have.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
To.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Okay, by the way, this justin. Have you have you
finished massaging Kershaw? Are you done with your massage of Kershaw?
Is that over with now? Or are you still massaging him?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
No?
Speaker 6 (27:56):
He rocks. He's good unless.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
It's on a Wednesday night against the he's great. On
October night against anybody, he sucks. But that's fine. You know.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Wait what happened on Wednesday recently? Wait? Never mind, never mind,
you didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You didn't see it, so don't all right, well, blind joke.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
Two of them. I think it's a glaring deficiency. What
you don't want to hear? This a glaring deficiency when
he's affected so horribly by weather, I'm serious. He should
have moved to Greenland in the summer Greenland, see and
gotten used to the temperature because your body will acclimate.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
So you so you've called up a radio program you
stayed on hold to say that Tuurs should move to
Greenland in the summer.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
For the summer or Antarctica. That would work too.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
What are we smoking tonight, don't you?
Speaker 6 (29:00):
But yeah, it's probably green?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Three?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, okay, thank you? All right, I'll talk to you
in four months. Sorry, go away. There's Andrew.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Great music suggestions.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Don't encourage him truck stop fungus rights and says, I
won't gamble on old mushhead toua. He has so many
concussions you can smell the CTE. Wow. That's not nice.
It's not nice at all.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I dare you?
Speaker 1 (29:28):
All right?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
What else do we have? Let's see here. Michael says,
I love the fifth hour podcast about the damn time change.
Keep it the same, he says. My girlfriend keeps trying
to tell me she's affected by it, so I told
her to go to bed. Can you ask blind Scott
if he's affected by the time. I'm sure he'll call
him later. I don't know that I'm gonna remember that.
(29:50):
If I remember it, i'll bring it up. I'll bring
it up later.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
I kind of liked it this morning because I got
home and it was still dark out, so it made
it easier to go to bed.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
So they did this for you. Maybe change the time?
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Yeah, if they want to keep it at this, this
type of hour, I would prefer this.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Okay, I'm fine with just pick one. I don't care.
I don't care. Just pick one, stay with it, don't
need to change it. We're good.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Like changing my clocks. I don't want to change my clocks.
I don't do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, you don't have to change your clocks. Most everything's electronic, exactly, But.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
I'm saying the ones that aren't electronic, I don't even
bother to change the one that's in my car. I
didn't change it last time, but now it's the same
time again. I love how that works.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Interesting. Yeah, well it's too hard. Make it easier. That's
the way of the world these days, right kids. Well,
in pro bouncy ball, Steve Kerr, that's a basketball coach
for the Golden State Warriors, and he went on a
recent rant and he's continuing this is not new, per se.
But he did it again just a few hours back,
(30:53):
and he's campaigning for the NBA to have a shorter schedule.
Says it would provide a more competitively league. Said the
woke coach of the Golden State Warriors. There's Steve Kerr
he says, I know this won't be a popular opinion
in the league office, but I will continue to say
it because it's obvious we need to play fewer games.
(31:14):
We need to take ten games off the schedule. The
cur has already figured out to tends the magic number.
I think it would be great for the league, he says.
I get it revenue, and you know everyone, everyone's gonna
be to take less money, and that's a really hard
thing to do. But what I know about the league,
about coaching, about how hard it is to play the
modern game, the pace, in the space, I think it
(31:37):
would be a more competitive, healthier league if we played
fewer games. Steve Kerr can not be more wrong. We
have the greatest travel, we have the greatest medicine, We
have all of the greatest things today that are much
better than it was thirty forty years ago. And these
guys are such wisses. My god, and it's so embarrassing
that Steve Kerr continues to do this. And if you
play seventy two games, which is what Kerr wants, seventy
(32:00):
two games, in order for that to work, as curR reference,
there would have to be pay cuts by every single
player in the NBA would have to take a haircut.
You think they're gonna sign off on that. Yeah? And oh,
by the way, if you play seventy two games ten
years from now, too many games, too many games. Players
can't play seventy two games games too physical? You know,
look back twenty thirty six. Guys will say two physical
(32:24):
gotta play last. But we just went to seventy. Well,
I think sixty two would be the great number. And
no matter how many games you take away, mark my words,
And I'm never wrong about this stuff. The NBA players
will still take the easy road and take games off
for load management. They will. That's ingrained in this generation.
(32:45):
That's what they believe in. They love it. They can't
get enough of it. Let's go to back to the phones.
E Dog is on Long Island. Hello, E Dog, welcome.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Our ourf.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Oh you want to get on the air?
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Yeah, how he's doing?
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
So there's this guy named Lucky Tony. You knew who
that is?
Speaker 6 (33:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Is he Lucky?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
So he called up the other day and for some
reason he likes you.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Really sure, honestly, I haven't.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Asked him if he's sexually attracted to you. I don't
know that he is. I can't. That would be very
nice if lucky Tony sexually or what or well he
wanted to give you a gift, what kind charity? Well
do you want to he want to give you a
golden ticket? Big fan of the show? Well, we don't
(33:53):
pay e dog enough to actually listen to the show.
He just calls the show like he'll get done with oust.
Your call whoever's doing overnights at the w F, you'll
get they'll get a call from you, right, you know
how many how many calls you make a night? Two
two or three, two or three? So our show w FN?
Who else do you call?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Irene and uh Melissa?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Melissa? Shouldn't they be sleeping?
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Yeah, but they can't wait like goals?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I bet you they could.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Okay, Anyway, about the Knicks, I really can't stand them.
They're getting very I'm getting very mad at them. So
I'm gonna get out there scanning reports so other teams
should beat them.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
It's a great idea. You remember when the late Malik
Sealy was playing for the Indiana Pacers. Playbooks, Yeah somebody
he left No he left it? No, no, no, no,
that's that's a great story dogged Actually it was Buddies
with the Laksay played with the Clippers, but he was
on the Indiana Pacers. He left his this is back
before tablets, obviously in the nineties. He left his playbook
(34:53):
at LaGuardia and somebody gave it somebody, remember, somebody gave
it to don Imus, and Imus read the playbook and
it was then. It was like in the New York
Post the next day. And if I'm not mistaken, I
did Indiana win that series?
Speaker 6 (35:06):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I don't think it really mattered.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I am extranced away. But he was a good it
was a good dog shows.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Well, everyone passes away eventually enough, I thought, I thought that.
I thought the Knicks looked great by the way as
the the Clippers beat them.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
And here we go, here we go, what towns rifles
out of pass? Once in a while he goes to
the hall for an easy dunk, hits at three point.
Once in a while, Brunton is with the clutch. You
got a double team them. Bogi is is a good
player from the corner. Bridges is a good away jumps
he cut and uh and what's his name?
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Bridges?
Speaker 4 (35:45):
Is it good? From the way Away and that's about it.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
That's it. That's all right there. That's your Nick New
York Knick scouting report from the Great a Dog. So tidy?
Speaker 6 (35:56):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Will you be? Will you be joining the Knixt coaching
staff next year? What's this guy likes to Lucky Tony?
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
You want me to set you up with him?
Speaker 4 (36:06):
No, I'm straight, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
No, I don't mean like that.
Speaker 7 (36:09):
I mean his friends was setting people up on the show,
you know.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
I don't know about that, But you could be. You
could be like buddies, you know, best friends, besties, you.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Know, yeah, like Melissa says, I'm bestie's with Melissa.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Yeah, he could be like your male Melissa, you know,
plutonic relationship. Lucky Tony is a very masculine man. I
don't know that he's into your Lance the bus Driver.
I love that you read your references Lance the bus Driver,
because when you started calling, he was a star caller.
Lance is a retired caller now he's still checking. Yeah,
(36:42):
he calls.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
When I was in the radio business, what they called
me was I was in the.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Call of fame, the Call of fame. Yes, I'm sure
it was.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Kate Delaney and I used to say, hey, Jerrie Delaney
from now what time? When I was playing in high
school basketball, the coach, you're playing.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Dog? How come if I keep you on the air
long enough, you bring up your high school basketball every time?
Speaker 4 (37:11):
So what happened was he was setting ten seconds to
go on regulation.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I gotta go, Can I go? I gotta go? Thank you? Bye?
All right, go away? There's that e doc. Thank you.
Didn't seem like he was too excited about Lucky Tony.
Odd that he would have that reaction. Lucky Tony seems
like a nice guy to me. I don't want to
get on his bad side. He seemed interested, and I
was curious. You flattering. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
(37:42):
As we work our way through who the overnight hours?
Here time now for the who am I? Game? This
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And here we go. I am the only player with
fifty plus passes defensed and twenty plus tackles for loss
in the first four NFL season since at least the
year two thousand, so the last generation of NFL players. Again,
I'm the only player with fifty plus passes defense and
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(38:14):
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That team sucks.
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They're pretty bad.
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here in our number one quarterback toa Toungue bay Loa
headed to the atl What exactly are the Falcons doing
here as they've decided to add too as their top quarterback. Also,
why the Dolphins post a highlight video of a guy
in Tua who they are going to pay ninety nine
(01:07):
dollars to not have them play for their football team. Also,
what stands out about Malik willis going to the Dolphins.
He's gonna replace Tua in Miami. We'll get to all
of that and more right now, settle in it's our
number one, and then go gaga. Well it's a case
(01:31):
of Tua on the move. Bye Bye, Miami.
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(03:04):
the transaction, if you get all horny for the transaction,
you needed an ambulance. By midday. There was a lot
going on, a lot going on. Am I gonna sit
here and pretend like I'm an expert on every single player? God? No,
I mean I have no life, but I got some
life compared to some of these other jabbronis, who I
think are all fraudsters. Now, I got into a radio.
(03:26):
I worked for a guy in San Diego who claimed
he knew the answer to every name in like baseball.
People would call up with phony phone calls about names
of athletes that they just made up, and this guy
would say, well, I know that guy was in DOUBLEA
for the Cardinals or something like that. It's a bull crap.
And I look at a lot of these so called
geniuses who are out there breaking down the free agent pyramid,
(03:48):
and I'm like, that guy's a charlatan, that guy's a
con man and all that. But our lead from people
we've heard of. Our lead from the quarterback mart on
the move again, on the move again. The high speed
sports wires smoking hot, smoking hot, developing dot dot dot,
and the legal tampering period is underway. The flag is
(04:10):
up and off to the races we go. And the
story came out early. The dolphins said bye bye to
to a tongue of Iloa and the worst kept secret around.
The story had been out for sometimes. So then a
few hours later, just a few hours later, Tua was
swooped up in NFL Free Agencies found a new employer.
(04:34):
I assume you know by now, however, there's a chance
that you actually have lived your life. You worked, have
you slept, You weren't paying attention. You tune in, you
want to hear what's going on. So the story we
learned that to a tongue of Iloa taking his talents
to the atl dirty Birds gone the dirty birds. There
(04:56):
a one year contract for the minimum one point three million,
that's the veteran minimum. And how can he do that? Well,
he can do that because those suckers in Miami are
paying him money, man of money and then some. The
deal was likely agreed to a long time ago. It
(05:17):
was just announced on Monday. So that is a good
jumping off point. Let us discuss the question you've got
quarterback to a tongue of Iloa headed to Atlanta. What
exactly are the Falcons doing here? Is this an upgrade? Seriously?
So I've got eve in life, We've got canned spam
(05:40):
and Fisher Price, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to pinky squeaar. This
will be the greatest monologue ever broadcast overnight on Fox
Sports Radio on this day. And if it's not, then
I'm going to blame Mike Harmon, who I just saw
walk out of the building. All right, So a the
(06:01):
Falcons answer the question, what exactly are the Falcons doing here?
It's a box checking exercise, that's my theory. It's a
box checking exercise or go to checks, not one, not two,
but three boxes? All right for Atlanta. He's cheap, he's available,
and he's got a pulse. We think he's breathing. We
(06:24):
think he's breathing. So that's it. Boom rata tat tat.
There you go. That's the bar. That's the bar for
the Atlanta Falcons. And he comes with a warning label
buyer beware, buyer beware. Numbers are misleading, Stats are misleading.
And so this continues what apparently is the new franchise
(06:48):
charter in Georgia. There the Atlanta football team there. They've
turned now to the island life. The island life. What
does that mean, Well, the island of lost souls. They
go play for the Falcons. Come on, come on, come on,
fun for all ages there Falcon football. Unless you're actually
(07:10):
watching them, you can reinvent yourself, rejuvenate your career in
the Peach State. Unless that doesn't happen, But you to
go down there, hang out, get some of that jerk chicken,
that good southern food there, get some collid green, some
grits and a corn bread and all the other great
foods they have there, and enjoy that because you're not
(07:32):
gonna enjoy playing quarterback for the Falcons very much. Now,
I will tell you on a tablet, if you look
at a tablet and imagine, use your imagination, you can
be Benny Brightside. You look at it, you're like, well,
this looks pretty good. You've got a dome stadium, a
division filled with Southern teams, so it's not your Northeastern
(07:54):
coal or Upper Midwestern cold weather playmakers. And Drake London
and Jean Robin in Kyle Pitts up the wazoo for Tua.
So you got that. That's the kind of lineup that
on a tablet looks pretty pretty good. That looks gorgeous.
The sales pitch like, listen, this is the way to
(08:14):
do it. These guys are all young and hungry and
the prime of their careers. Are not even in the
prime of their careers some of these guys.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
The reality is the scouting report on Tua says, keep
your distance, keep your distance here. It's one of those
moves that looks better than it is from the hallway
outside the theater. Right outside the theater. Well, that's pretty
good outside the stadium, like, oh, that's not bad. That's
(08:43):
not a bad move. However, when you sit down at
your seat and watch it, you realize it's a low
budget student film, is what it is. Now. The plot
twist here is this Atlanta now has two lefties at quarterback.
They're going all all left handed there, Tua and Michael
(09:03):
Pennex Junior, who, for some reason the Falcons drafted in
the first round because there are a bunch of country
bumpkins and that worked out really well. That was great.
They should have drafted Tommy in Atlanta, our caller and
listener in Atlanta, Tommy would have been better off there.
Apparently the Falcons are running the South Paw offense, which
explains a lot now, keeping the theme going here, but
(09:26):
turning the page on the Miami side of things. So
the Dolphins were so desperate, so desperate to get rid
of to us, how desperate were they? Thanks for rosing.
They were so desperate that they're going to take the
greatest salary cap ding in the history of the salary
cap ninety nine point two million. Do you understand how
(09:50):
much one must suck and blow to have a team say,
rather than keep you, we would rather take a hit
of ninety nine point two million dollars. Now we are
told that will be spread like chunky peanut butter over
a couple of years. So starting this year, sixty seven
(10:12):
point four million, in the following year thirty one point
eight million of dead charges, and then the Dolphins will
have to deal with that, and oh they are, Oh
they are so Miami hosted a one minute sizzle reel
as Tua was fired from his job. I guess laid
(10:36):
off you get ninety nine million, You're not really fired
you're laid off. So the Dolphins sent out this sizzle
reel and he saw it or not. It happened when
I was sleeping. I saw it when I woke up,
and I wanted to talk about that. So the question
why why did the Miami Dolphins, a multi billion dollar
football team, post a highlight video of a guy in
Tua Tongue of Biloa who they are going to pay
(10:58):
ninety nine million to not have on their roster. So
what are you doing now? This made me want to vomit,
not the vomit comet, I just wanted to vomit, right,
Like it's if it's not just dysfunction with the Dolphin.
I mean they got that going for him too. The
Dan Dolphins also works for dysfunction, but it's a sub
(11:21):
basement level of loser dumb. So you go to the
basement and then you go below the basement. That's loser dumb.
There's a portal right under there, and you go in there,
and that's the port you're posting a thank you video
for Tua Tongue Bailoa like he's Dan Marino. They didn't
do that for Dan Marino because he wasn't There was
(11:42):
a social media when Dan Marino retired and all that.
But the guy to a just essentially pickpocketed the franchise
and you're left with a ninety nine million dollar charge.
He dined and ditched, and you, of course escorted him
out of the bill. The biggest heist in NFL history.
(12:04):
And the social media mods for the Miami Dolphins are
out there and they're treating to a like he's some
kind of war hero. What are you doing? Just quietly
let him go. That's it. Say hey, we fed up
and we'll move on. That's it. And Tua turned out
to be a fake, a phony and a fraud. And
(12:27):
some people I won't say who that may or may
not host an overnight show, tried to warn the Miami Dolphins.
Did they listen? Hell no, they didn't listen. No they
did not. So Tua not only commits the perfect crime
because he got all that money without a gun, without
a knife, without a hand grenade, just the duke, the duke.
(12:49):
And that's it. So the Dolphins have already paid to
a by my Malor math one hundred and twenty four
million to check the turf, see what's going on there
for structural integrities. He throws the ball into the ground
and or better into the ear hole of a receiver
(13:09):
that wasn't looking for the ball. And now you're eating
that ninety nine million dollar cap hit there just to
get him out of the building. That's an FBI situation,
is what that is here. This isn't the salary cap hit.
That's a ransom payment, is what that is. And Tua's
got another one hundred some million dollars that he's going
(13:30):
to be getting by the time this is all done,
So he's got much more money. And for that, you
got one playoff appearance and no playoff wins with Tua.
He was also hurt quite a bit. That turned out
to be a superpower, and he's shown to be Tua,
based on his relatively long NFL career, a front runner
(13:55):
who collapses the very moment, the very split second the
temperature drops below fifty degrees. He literally turns into a popsicle.
He turns into a popsicle. He's essentially just canned spam
under center, if you will. That cost a quarter of
a billion dollars. That's some very expensive can spam. That's
(14:18):
what it is. And so that's what the Dolphins did
and They should have just posted a video of him
leaving Miami and said, okay, happy days are here again.
That's the only highlight that the Dolphins should have posted
to a left and just erase everything else. All right, now,
last word, so to the replacement we go. We already
have his replacement. The new head coach Jeff Haifley has
(14:40):
a deal with former Titans and Packers quarterback Willis.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
The overnight rumor was Willis was going to the Cardinals.
The Dolphins supposedly stepped in and offered him a little
bit more money, toss in the floor to taxes and
saving some more money. On top of that, Solik Willis
going to Miami. The question what stands out? What stands
out about Malik Willis of all people, who's now the
(15:09):
QB one for the Miami Dolphins. So this is great.
The reason I wanted to talk about it not that
in Mileague Wills I think he'll be okay. I want
to see if he can blossom. However, However, this moment,
this little polaroid, captures the absurdity of the business of football,
(15:31):
the economy of the NFL. And this is the bully
pulpit where I have been screaming down from the bully
pulpit about the salary cap is crap and all that
stuff and going on and on and on. So this
should end all debate. This should be the moment that
it's all debate about those that preach at the altar
of the salary cap. So Miami is paying a ninety
(15:53):
nine million dollar dead cap hit for two of to
go away. Okay, fine, we've established that get out of here,
go away. So that's not a buyout. It's not a buyout.
It's a yacht and a helipad and there'll there's still
all a bunch of guaranteed money and all that. And
somehow with that amount of money tied up, they were
still able to sign another quarterback. Like you'd think that
(16:18):
Dolphins would have to play with ten players on the field.
They wouldn't have to full eleven on offense or defense.
They'd have ten on offense, ten on defense, maybe only
nine on special teams. But no, they still found a
way to get Molique. Wells now, why is that? Because
the cap is crap? Stay with me now, kids, Cap
is crap. Cap is crap, that's right, It's all part
(16:40):
of the Fisher price cash register. That is the NFL
salary cap that even come with six little toy coins blue, yellow, green,
all those coades and the salary cap. It's like the
points on whose line is it? Anyway? None of it matters,
None of it matters, right, So, Malie Willis, this is
(17:02):
also a great thing about life and gentle in sports.
I don't know if this works anywhere else. He became
more valuable Malik Willis by doing less, by not working
that much, his value skyrocketed to the moon, to the moon.
The last two years he has started three eight more
games than I have, and you have three. That's it.
(17:25):
The last two years he's attempted, not completed attempt at
eighty nine passes. Malik Willis, He's barely played. And yeah,
did he show a flicker here and there for Green Bay. Sure,
surrounded by competent grown ups. He looked like he had
some kind of a clue. And now now he goes
(17:47):
to the daycare center in Miami, and yet I said, wow,
he's a blue chip stock waiting to happen. Okay, well,
I hope he does well, but certainly seems like a
quite the overpay. Meanwhile, you look at what the dolphins
plan is and we were discussing the jets the other day,
tanking for arch manning with the Miami Dolphins. At this
point came we do a wellness check on Stevie Meatballs
(18:11):
and some of our great dolphin fans that are part
of the show. Because it looks like an exclusion zone.
You know that eighteen mile area around Chernobyl. That's the dolphins,
right and here, Malik, there's a lot of nuclear stuff
going on. We want you to blossom. We want you
to blossom right there, So the radiation soaked environment, that's
(18:33):
the dolphins. Good luck. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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Bill Miller and you it is the band Malor Shows.
We are just getting started on the Red Eye flight
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talking a lot of NFL as the silly season is
off to a flying start. If you like a lot
of no name players changing teams, guys that just are
(21:21):
on NFL rosters, good amounts of money and yeah you
don't really know who they are, but you get all excited,
oh we signed a player. We and then you're like, well,
you don't really know who that is not that good.
So the beat goes on. Here at eight, seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox eighty seven, seven nine nine, six
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there and coop a Bronco fan. That's a Bronco fan.
(22:05):
As we work our way through the overnight, all right,
lad this hour of the who Am I?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Game?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Some fallout from some of the moves that have taken
place here, There's be some other names that are going
to pop up on the transaction wires we go through
the week here, the dominoes are falling, and we love
the dominoes falling. As the New Orleans Football team another
one of those teams that just kind of exists, so
other teams have have someone to play. New Orleans decided
(22:36):
to sign a veteran running back, which didn't seem like
that was a need. Travis Etn gets a four year
deal on Monday, so he is taking his talents to
the Bayou, leaving Jacksonville. So he's gone, and now the
question is does that mean the trickle down effect will
(22:56):
be Alvin Kamara, the guy that you do not want
want to run into at a Vegas casino because you'll
kick your ass. Alvin Kamara could be yours, and so
there are questions whether or not he's going to be
traded and will that happen the next couple of days
here it's Alvin camaraw watch Oh my god, so exciting,
(23:21):
so exciting it is, I know. Try to stay com
try to stay calm. Doc Dan writes in from the
Twin Cities. He's worried about he says, worried about injuries.
The Vikings have a quarterback who enters into concussion protocol
if a leaf falls off a tree on him. And
when he's healthy, he makes people long for Christian ponder,
(23:44):
why would you even ponder? Passing Tua is no Richard Todd.
You're dating yourself, Doc Dan. He's no Richard Todd when
it comes to talent. But at least he has some. Yeah,
at least he has him. There you go. Shanon de
Moyes says the Benny are more exciting than the World
Baseball Classic. The Mallard Talent Show is better than the
(24:05):
World but no, it's not the talent Show. Shane, it's
the Mallard Palooza. It's the Mallard Palooza. That's what that is.
Very exciting, Yeah, in the becoming Mallard Palooza this summer. Yeah,
all right, Bemy in Minnesota, right, since says I cannot
wait for your monologue on the eleventh. It's going to
be history hearing your take on the Vikings signing Kyler Murray.
(24:31):
Don't even know what to think anymore. I guess beggars
can't be choosers. Analog Al says, didn't tuoh one say
that he couldn't see over his offensive line? Are the
guys on the Falcons? Shorter? Yeah, they're gonna sign a
bunch of offensive linemen that looked like Kyler Murray's what
they're planning on doing there to help him out? And
who else do we have? See? King Rory from Wisconsin
(24:54):
says the Miami Dolphins scooping up Jeff Haffley and Malik
Willis their game against the Packers this coming season is
guaranteed in primetime. It's a primetime slot, if not a
streaming exclusive, I'm sure it will be an old slobber knocker.
I don't know about that. King Roy. You look at
(25:15):
the Dolphins. That's a bad team, man, bad fing team,
and that's a bad football team. Fer dog rights and
he says, are you taking me over or under?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
On?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
How many callers wait on hold just to say they
hate the show. But listen, every night I'm setting the
line you have a gambling problem. At half of one call,
I think that guy Chris sobered up or whatever his
name was, and he's he's out, So we're good on that. Listen.
If anybody hates the show, call up, tell me why
you hate the show. I want only people that hate
(25:48):
the show to call out right now eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox nor Buddy Wayne in Duluth writes,
and he says Atlanta made a stupid move, just like
they did with Kirk Cousins. Tua is not worth the
lint in my pocket. H I wonder how much lint
is in your pocket? All right, just go to the
phones and we'll start it out. Here's the guy hasn't
called in a while. I think he just got out
(26:09):
of the pokey pokey pokey. We say hello to Andrew,
who's in Bakersfield. Hello Andrew, welcome.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Ben it Ben Ben Ben Hey uh Lorena, you gotta play.
I like it when you do that right there?
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Oh, I like that song.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Andrew.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
You haven't called up in a while, Andrew, there's no
need to ask for songs. This is not kiss FM.
What's wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (26:37):
And my recommendation is anything by the large Professor other
ones by Chiney Right?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Is it true? Is it true, Andrew, that this call
is being made to try to get your name nominated
for the Worst Caller of the Year. Is that true?
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Well, I'm not going to aim for that.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
No, sorry, because you can't. You can't reach that level
as the worst call the there's a lot of eat.
I'm getting emails from people concerned they're not going to
be nominated. They're worried about the Benny nom We're gonna
announce the nominations probably tomorrow. We'll have the nominations and
all that, and so you'll be able to vote the
rest of the week through Sunday.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
So I think it's a good thing that you're advertising
the mal of palooza in advance, because then you'll get
more people.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Possibly true, However, people do usually do things at the
last minute. It's like it's not like someone sitting there
in March, planning an event that's gonna take place in July.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Well, I've been thinking of the song I'm gonna sing
for ever since, a couple of months after the last one.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But it's a very evil laugh that you have.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
To.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Okay, by the way, this justin. Have you have you
finished massaging Kershaw? Are you done with your massage of Kershaw?
Is that over with now? Or are you still massaging him?
Speaker 4 (27:55):
No?
Speaker 6 (27:56):
He rocks. He's good unless.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
It's on a Wednesday night against the he's great. On
October night against anybody, he sucks. But that's fine. You know.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Wait what happened on Wednesday recently? Wait? Never mind, never mind,
you didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You didn't see it, so don't all right, well, blind joke.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
Two of them. I think it's a glaring deficiency. What
you don't want to hear? This a glaring deficiency when
he's affected so horribly by weather, I'm serious. He should
have moved to Greenland in the summer Greenland, see and
gotten used to the temperature because your body will acclimate.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
So you so you've called up a radio program you
stayed on hold to say that Tuurs should move to
Greenland in the summer.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
For the summer or Antarctica. That would work too.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
What are we smoking tonight, don't you?
Speaker 6 (29:00):
But yeah, it's probably green?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Three?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah, okay, thank you? All right, I'll talk to you
in four months. Sorry, go away. There's Andrew.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Great music suggestions.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Don't encourage him truck stop fungus rights and says, I
won't gamble on old mushhead toua. He has so many
concussions you can smell the CTE. Wow. That's not nice.
It's not nice at all.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I dare you?
Speaker 1 (29:28):
All right?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
What else do we have? Let's see here. Michael says,
I love the fifth hour podcast about the damn time change.
Keep it the same, he says. My girlfriend keeps trying
to tell me she's affected by it, so I told
her to go to bed. Can you ask blind Scott
if he's affected by the time. I'm sure he'll call
him later. I don't know that I'm gonna remember that.
(29:50):
If I remember it, i'll bring it up. I'll bring
it up later.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
I kind of liked it this morning because I got
home and it was still dark out, so it made
it easier to go to bed.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
So they did this for you. Maybe change the time?
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Yeah, if they want to keep it at this, this
type of hour, I would prefer this.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Okay, I'm fine with just pick one. I don't care.
I don't care. Just pick one, stay with it, don't
need to change it. We're good.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Like changing my clocks. I don't want to change my clocks.
I don't do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well, you don't have to change your clocks. Most everything's electronic, exactly, But.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
I'm saying the ones that aren't electronic, I don't even
bother to change the one that's in my car. I
didn't change it last time, but now it's the same
time again. I love how that works.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Interesting. Yeah, well it's too hard. Make it easier. That's
the way of the world these days, right kids. Well,
in pro bouncy ball, Steve Kerr, that's a basketball coach
for the Golden State Warriors, and he went on a
recent rant and he's continuing this is not new, per se.
But he did it again just a few hours back,
(30:53):
and he's campaigning for the NBA to have a shorter schedule.
Says it would provide a more competitively league. Said the
woke coach of the Golden State Warriors. There's Steve Kerr
he says, I know this won't be a popular opinion
in the league office, but I will continue to say
it because it's obvious we need to play fewer games.
(31:14):
We need to take ten games off the schedule. The
cur has already figured out to tends the magic number.
I think it would be great for the league, he says.
I get it revenue, and you know everyone, everyone's gonna
be to take less money, and that's a really hard
thing to do. But what I know about the league,
about coaching, about how hard it is to play the
modern game, the pace, in the space, I think it
(31:37):
would be a more competitive, healthier league if we played
fewer games. Steve Kerr can not be more wrong. We
have the greatest travel, we have the greatest medicine, We
have all of the greatest things today that are much
better than it was thirty forty years ago. And these
guys are such wisses. My god, and it's so embarrassing
that Steve Kerr continues to do this. And if you
play seventy two games, which is what Kerr wants, seventy
(32:00):
two games, in order for that to work, as curR reference,
there would have to be pay cuts by every single
player in the NBA would have to take a haircut.
You think they're gonna sign off on that. Yeah? And oh,
by the way, if you play seventy two games ten
years from now, too many games, too many games. Players
can't play seventy two games games too physical? You know,
look back twenty thirty six. Guys will say two physical
(32:24):
gotta play last. But we just went to seventy. Well,
I think sixty two would be the great number. And
no matter how many games you take away, mark my words,
And I'm never wrong about this stuff. The NBA players
will still take the easy road and take games off
for load management. They will. That's ingrained in this generation.
(32:45):
That's what they believe in. They love it. They can't
get enough of it. Let's go to back to the phones.
E Dog is on Long Island. Hello, E Dog, welcome.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Our ourf.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Hello.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Oh you want to get on the air?
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Yeah, how he's doing?
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
So there's this guy named Lucky Tony. You knew who
that is?
Speaker 6 (33:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Is he Lucky?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
So he called up the other day and for some
reason he likes you.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Really sure, honestly, I haven't.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Asked him if he's sexually attracted to you. I don't
know that he is. I can't. That would be very
nice if lucky Tony sexually or what or well he
wanted to give you a gift, what kind charity? Well
do you want to he want to give you a
golden ticket? Big fan of the show? Well, we don't
(33:53):
pay e dog enough to actually listen to the show.
He just calls the show like he'll get done with oust.
Your call whoever's doing overnights at the w F, you'll
get they'll get a call from you, right, you know
how many how many calls you make a night? Two
two or three, two or three? So our show w FN?
Who else do you call?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Irene and uh Melissa?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Melissa? Shouldn't they be sleeping?
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Yeah, but they can't wait like goals?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I bet you they could.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Okay, Anyway, about the Knicks, I really can't stand them.
They're getting very I'm getting very mad at them. So
I'm gonna get out there scanning reports so other teams
should beat them.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
It's a great idea. You remember when the late Malik
Sealy was playing for the Indiana Pacers. Playbooks, Yeah somebody
he left No he left it? No, no, no, no,
that's that's a great story dogged Actually it was Buddies
with the Laksay played with the Clippers, but he was
on the Indiana Pacers. He left his this is back
before tablets, obviously in the nineties. He left his playbook
(34:53):
at LaGuardia and somebody gave it somebody, remember, somebody gave
it to don Imus, and Imus read the playbook and
it was then. It was like in the New York
Post the next day. And if I'm not mistaken, I
did Indiana win that series?
Speaker 6 (35:06):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I don't think it really mattered.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I am extranced away. But he was a good it
was a good dog shows.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Well, everyone passes away eventually enough, I thought, I thought that.
I thought the Knicks looked great by the way as
the the Clippers beat them.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
And here we go, here we go, what towns rifles
out of pass? Once in a while he goes to
the hall for an easy dunk, hits at three point.
Once in a while, Brunton is with the clutch. You
got a double team them. Bogi is is a good
player from the corner. Bridges is a good away jumps
he cut and uh and what's his name?
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Bridges?
Speaker 4 (35:45):
Is it good? From the way Away and that's about it.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
That's it. That's all right there. That's your Nick New
York Knick scouting report from the Great a Dog. So tidy?
Speaker 6 (35:56):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Will you be? Will you be joining the Knixt coaching
staff next year? What's this guy likes to Lucky Tony?
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
You want me to set you up with him?
Speaker 4 (36:06):
No, I'm straight, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
No, I don't mean like that.
Speaker 7 (36:09):
I mean his friends was setting people up on the show,
you know.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
I don't know about that, But you could be. You
could be like buddies, you know, best friends, besties, you.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Know, yeah, like Melissa says, I'm bestie's with Melissa.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Yeah, he could be like your male Melissa, you know,
plutonic relationship. Lucky Tony is a very masculine man. I
don't know that he's into your Lance the bus Driver.
I love that you read your references Lance the bus Driver,
because when you started calling, he was a star caller.
Lance is a retired caller now he's still checking. Yeah,
(36:42):
he calls.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
When I was in the radio business, what they called
me was I was in the.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Call of fame, the Call of fame. Yes, I'm sure
it was.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Kate Delaney and I used to say, hey, Jerrie Delaney
from now what time? When I was playing in high
school basketball, the coach, you're playing.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Dog? How come if I keep you on the air
long enough, you bring up your high school basketball every time?
Speaker 4 (37:11):
So what happened was he was setting ten seconds to
go on regulation.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I gotta go, Can I go? I gotta go? Thank you? Bye?
All right, go away? There's that e doc. Thank you.
Didn't seem like he was too excited about Lucky Tony.
Odd that he would have that reaction. Lucky Tony seems
like a nice guy to me. I don't want to
get on his bad side. He seemed interested, and I
was curious. You flattering. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
(37:42):
As we work our way through who the overnight hours?
Here time now for the who am I? Game? This
is where I pretend to be somebody else? Thus the
who am I?
Speaker 6 (37:50):
Game?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
And here we go. I am the only player with
fifty plus passes defensed and twenty plus tackles for loss
in the first four NFL season since at least the
year two thousand, so the last generation of NFL players. Again,
I'm the only player with fifty plus passes defense and
twenty plus tackles for loss in their first four NFL
(38:14):
season since the year two thousand. Who am I the answer?
We'll get to it, We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Bell Miller and you. It is the Ben Malers Show.
This show is broadcast on the Overnight Live and on
demand The Ben Maler Show five nights a week. The
Fifth Hour Podcast is a spinoff of this show that
is available every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday new episodes of
the Fifth Hour Podcast. So check that out wherever you
get your podcasts. It's all omnipresent. You can listen to
(38:50):
The Ben Mallor Show on demand the Fifth Hour Podcast
on your weekends. Check it out. All right, back to
what we go in time now for the who am I?
A Game? But before we do that, the play of
the night, the matchup which it's supposed to be two
of the top teams in the NBA. Don't if there
was too much juice for this game. He had Oklahoma
(39:12):
City and the Denver Nuggets and it was s GA
all the way.
Speaker 7 (39:19):
SG with Fox, SJ step fast, three, two cut slow, Okay, three.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Gods and out of night that he tis go. Chamber
lays SGAs great, it's hit star continues ok s wins.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
All right, there you go. The call is at Okay,
see NBC. There was NBC with the call there as
the thunder, get the win and down go the next one.
Twenty six SGA, thirty five points and fifteen assists. And
that is the play of the night. Play Night made
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Speaker 2 (40:20):
Game?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
I'm the only player with fifty plus passes defensed and
twenty plus tackles for loss in their first four NFL
seasons since the year two thousand. Who am I? That's
the question, What's the answer? And it's e dog the
try curious one from Milkman Mike Andrew van Ginkel from
Andy in Lion O' Lakes Malapropku. I also went with
(40:43):
the Dog Drew Carey from Rob the Goatman Cometh. Who
else do we have? Lucky Tony and E Dog's love
Child from mcguiel on Fire, Captain Carew from Alf the
Alien Opiner? Who else we have? Hitman Harrison Smith from
em And that's his answer? Justin Herbert, who is twenty
(41:04):
eight today from Late Night Drug Tester A great Thad
Bosley not a bad name for mister nice guy. Who
else you have? E? Dogg's Army Guests by Ferg dog
Weed Man Hippie from King Rory. That's his answer. Lorena,
what say you? Lorena? Darren Sharper uh No, the correct answer.
The now former New Orleans Saint current Tennessee Titan Alonte
(41:26):
Taylor defensive back. He just signed with the Tense Titans.
Speaker 7 (41:32):
That team sucks.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
They're pretty bad.
Speaker 6 (41:34):
Yeah,
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