November 4, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Dave Robert talking about a Dodgers three-peat at the Championship parade in Los Angeles, what the impressive TV ratings for the 2025 World Series tells us, if a salary floor would motivate the penny-pinching MLB franchises to spend more, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Talking bays ball even in November. It's our number two
to the victor goes to the parade, and we discuss
the championship celebration for the Dodgers. What did you take
away from Dodger chatter that Dave Roberts he tossed out
a three peat? He said, ah, We're gonna go do
a three peat. Also, what are the twenty twenty five
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World Series ratings which were very good involving the Dodgers
and Blue Jays? Tell us and what a salary cap
floor motivate the penny pitching franchises in baseball to spend more,
thus fixing the disparity in baseball. Talk about that and
more right now here. It is our number two, a
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though from baseball baseball? What no baseball? The season ended
over the weekend. Why would you talk baseball? What are
you stupid?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Let me explained. So the post mortem on the World
Series here to the winner goes a parade, an a rally.
You get a parade and a rally. That's how that
goes there. So after winning Game seven in a l
Classico in Toronto the World Series, the Dodgers made their
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way back in their luxury planes. They made their way
back to LA and the boys in Blue were serenaded
with flowers and songs and they just everyone loved them.
They cacophony of goodness for the Dodgers there as they
returned to the People's Republic of California for a big
celebration and a championship parade and rally for the ages.
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So if you didn't watch any of this, why would you?
If you're not a Dodger fan. I even I find
this a little annoying, but I did check some of
it out for talk show reasons, for talk show reasons,
and Dave Roberts good old Dave. Some of this stuff
was so corny. I mean, it was oh so bad. Anyway,
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Dave Roberts tossed out a word and it involved the
number and a word, and it was kind of the theme.
You had sho Hel Tani deliver a speech in English.
He was not the only one who did that, and
the crowd went wild. They sold out crowd at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
There.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That concluded with Otani saying that he was ready to
get another ring. But Dave Roberts talking about what the
mission is now for the Dodgers. Let's go to the
audio tape. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I talked of mind you have tail on the plane,
and he gave me the okay to use this phrase,
pat Riley, let's.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Go to the two. Okay, there you go. So how
could the Dodgers three people when they've already ruined baseball?
I don't understand anyway, So there you go. Let's discuss
That's a good jumping off point. We'll talk about what
Dave Roberts said there and the crowd went wild. So question,
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what did you take away from the chatter that Dave
Roberts you threw it out there? The Dodger chatter from
Dave Roberts about a three p all right, So I've
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make your Babushka's favorite buttered popcorn, the kind of buttered
popcord your Babushka just loves. Yeah, I can't get enough
of it. So number I said, number Why? All right?
The Dodgers held this event was the word gods event, right,
we are the gods of baseball? It was that was
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that kind of SUPESTI I love that Roberts worked in
a humble brag. Also, we talked last hour about Jerry
Jones humble bragging.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Dave Roberts say, oh, I was on the phone with
pat Riley.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
The funny thing about that is Riley's so old at
this point, the younger generations don't even know who pat
Riley is, right, I don't know who that is. I
wasn't around for the showtime late because that's a boomer.
You're friends with a boomer, Dave Roberts, what's wrong with you?
But the whole theme was that we are gods. We
are the gods of baseball, And it was like the
full Gladiator. You know that famous scene from Gladiator? Are
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you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Yeah, it was
that kind of it. So the whole freepeat thing, like
what are you supposed to say? Like these things are
always corny and over the top anytime a team wins
a championship, Like, what are you seriously supposed to say?
Can you imagine if Dave Roberts had come out and saying,
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let me tell you, boys, we've won enough championship. My
belly is full. I am bloated from all the blingling, bloated, bloated, blooded, bloated, blooded, blooded, blurted, bloated, bloated.
All right, my belly is so frickin' full I can't
even anymore. Uh no, you can't say that, right, Imagine,
Oh I ate so much? Which alphabet pasta all those ws? Www,
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I got no room left, no room left, can't win.
We're good now, We're satisfied. Can't do it, can't say it.
You can never be satisfied. So the whole idea that
you enjoy the moment and just live in the moment.
None of those guys were living in the moment, they
were already planning for next year. So it's okay, shouldn't
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you just embrace that particular day and just celebrate that
day and then you worry about next year at a
later point. But no, the champagne had not even dried
on the carpet there in Toronto, and they're already campaigning
and planning their parade route or root for next year.
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And the Dodgers have turned this in. It's like the
Harlem Globetrotters versus the Washington Generals the way they're playing here,
and they've got the payroll receipts, the billion dollar Boys
Club and all that stuff. Then you had we mentioned
Shoi Otani who gave the crowd his I'm ready for
another ring line from Otani? That was his quote there.
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He said it in English, mind you, he said it
in English, and the fans of course lost their mind
to the fireworks. There was then the choreographed moment with
Dave Roberts needing to bring in the other trophy. So
who did he call ice cube? He brought in not
an actual ice cube, ice cube? The you know the
old guy, Yeah, the rapper, Yeah, I guy, Uh, not
(08:28):
really a rapper anymore. He's like a businessman. Anyway. I
ice Cube brought in in a muscle car the Dodger
World Series trophy from centerfield, not played at all, very
organic moment just happened. It was very odd that ice
Cube just happened to be in his car with the
World Series trophy in center field the moment Dave Roberts
needed the trophy. What are the odds? Like ice Cube
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was just bored. He was driving around Dodger Stadium and
he just happened to be stopped out in center field
at Dodger Stadium. And at that moment he must have
known that Dave Roberts needed the trophy, so say, okay,
I'll drive it in, no problem. And then security they
opened the gate and they allowed ice Cube, in a
totally organic, not scripted mullet at all, to drive it in.
Simply amazing. The fireworks went off. The muscle car came
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in there and there it was no it's Dodger fan porn,
That's what it was. All of it, total fan porn, porn, porn,
porn porn porn, that's what it was. The speeches, everything choreographed,
all that stuff. We're a Dynasty Baby by Keith k Hernandez.
He's right by the way, they are dynasty, and it's
this is you know what this is for the Dodgers.
(09:35):
It is the Gilded Age. It is the Gilded Age
for the Dodgers. At some point this ownership group's gonna
sell the team. Once they have to pay a tani
seventy million dollars a year not to play baseball whatever
it is, they'll they'll sell the team and some other
dope will come in and talk about, well, we need
to reset the franchise and we're gonna build through the
minor league system and the team will suck. But until
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that happens, it is the Gilded Age for the Dodgers.
Everyone's co everyone's pampered and spoiled. Who plays for the
Dodgers there from their toilets that shoot, you took us
with water to the two jumbo jet planes and all
that stuff. And you watch what's going on right now
and how loaded the roster is, and they're going to
annoy everyone and sign somebody else in free agency. Again,
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that's what they do. The Dodgers are so good they
signed two of the worst players in baseball, Michael Conforto
and he was one of them, and Tanner Scott the
other and still ended up winning the World Series. Still
ended up winning the World Series there, and you know,
they had the line the greatest fans in the world,
all that stuff, and so you had to say that line, right,
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That was Miguel Rojas. I believe that was his line.
I think he said that, and he praised his teammate.
It's not all about me, that whole thing. So he
had those and even the interpreters, as mentioned, these guys
might be out of work here because once you've exposed
the fact that you speak English, does it become a
problem now because those interpreters probably make ninety thousand dollars
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a year to travel around with these guys. And you
had both Yamamoto and shohel Tani who went full English
at the event, both of them. So there you go.
They're they're so dominant, they're now bilingual. So congratulations on that,
and that's how the empire rolls on. In Dodger Blue,
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it was a coronation situation and a reminder the Dodgers
have become a modern If they were a rock band,
they'd be like the Beatles back in the day at
this point. Now the rest of major League Baseball, if
you look around the landscape of major League Baseball, they're
just like an opening act, hoping, hoping, beyond hope. Here
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to grab a souvenir on the way out. Yeah, that
kind of thing. Now turning the page, but not turning
the page too far. Page two, TV Land. We go
to TV Land, you and I and the question, what
do the twenty twenty five World Series ratings, which were
very good, very good involving the Dodgers in Blue Jays
(12:08):
tell us? So the ratings came out, and turns out,
despite having a Canadian team in which supposedly is gonna
be a Debbie downer and the ratings wouldn't be that
good and no one's gonna watch, And well, turned out
that just wasn't true. People watched, and apparently the Dodgers.
Of what I took away from the TV ratings is
apparently the Dodgers are not ruining baseball after all. Shocking
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talk about a narrative buster. The Dodgers are killing baseball,
said the guy on social media that calls sports talk
radio and all that stuff. Twenty if I read this right,
twenty six million people. Twenty six million people tuned into
Game seven of the World Cities. Now that's not just good,
that's massive in modern television. Back in the old days
(12:54):
they got bigger ratings. But in modern with the cannibalism
of entertainment, wherever things chopped up into little bite sized pieces,
you get twenty six million people to watch baseball games.
Pretty good, most watched World Series game since twenty seventeen.
You might remember that one. The Dodgers were in that
World Series against the cheating Astros. Yeah, bang bang on
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the trash can cheat a cheata cheeta cheata cheetah cheeta. Meanwhile,
social media, you guys on social media told me. You said, listen,
everyone and their mother hate the billionaire boys club, that is,
the Dodgers. Cannot stand the Dodgers. They're bad for baseball.
You're running the Sparta Baseball, the Dodgers, you're running it.
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I thought Sho Hail Tani and Mookie Betts were supposed
to make you tune out. You told me that. That's
what you told me. You told me that people were
not gonna watch because of the Dodger payroll. Turns out
America still loves watching the rich kids were they tuned
in to watch the Dodgers lose. It doesn't matter. They
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watched twenty six million men, women and children tuned in
to watch the World Series. And that is not a
niche sport. That is an event. That is a massive event.
And up in Canada, the numbers from the people that Rogers,
they pulled record ratings the channel that carried the World
Series in Canada, and they estimate that nearly half of
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all Canadians, almost fifty percent of all Canadians that have
access to television, watched at least part of Game seven
of the World Series. Deep pritt deep, pretty dee good.
Half the fricking country was watching. H So so much
for the Dodgers are bad for baseball narrative, Oh it's
(14:48):
so bad. The social media echo chamber. A reminder for
those of you in the back of the room, the
social media echo chamber is not real. It just isn't.
X thinks everyone's boycotting these big market teams like the
Dodgers and all this stuff, and there you go. It
turns out not the case. In fact, the Dodgers are
actually good for baseball as the bad guys, as the villain.
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And if you study entertainment, if you study professional wrestling,
or just any kind of movie storyline, you look at
the storyboard. You have the good guy and the bad guy,
and you gotta have it. And the Dodgers have star power.
Check that box. They've got that big market, a lot
of drama. You had some drama there, and so reports
(15:33):
of Baseball's to mice have been greatly exaggerated. That's what
I'm trying to say that who knew, who knew the ratings?
The villains, the Dodgers, the big blue bad guys. They
got flash and they got the finish and all that stuff.
So the Dodgers delivered a little bit of this, a
little bit of that, and all work together. And Baseball's problem,
it turns out, is not the Dodgers. It's not the Dodgers.
(15:55):
It's the twenty other teams pretending to be on a budget.
That's a problem. That's a big problem. Dodgers are keeping
the lights on and they're actually the good guys here,
which is very odd considering everyone told me they're not
all right now. Final point, speaking of that, we'll use
that as a jumping off point for our next next
conversation point. So there is this chatter. I mentioned this
(16:18):
in a previous episode of the show. And there's a
lot of chatter that we're gonna have a nuclear winter
in baseball. There's gonna be a workstopage, either be a
lockout or a strike, and there's not gonna be baseball played.
There can be a long long time. They're gonna reset
all the rules in baseball. This has been the art
and the marching in showder Society demanding a salary cap
(16:40):
has been outspoken. Right, they've been banging the drum, bang bang,
bang in the drum yet again. And the argument is
that all we need is not just a salary cap.
We need a salary floor to encourage the teams that
don't spend a lot of money to spend more money,
and that will be the magic placebo that will fix
every thing in the sport of baseball. You might have
(17:02):
heard about that. Have you heard about that. I've heard
about that. I've heard about that. I've heard about this
for years. They've said this disparity in baseball, the Dodgers
spending too much, they spend too much, in the A's
don't spend any money, and we need to have more
balanced than all that. So the question on this one
would a salary cap and a salary floor motivate? In
(17:24):
this case the salary cap floor, would it motivate the
penny pinching major League Baseball franchises to spend more, thus
fixing the disparity in payroll between the top five or
six teams and everyone else in baseball. So this is
one of those ideas. There's a lot of this in life.
As you get older, you realize there's things in life
(17:44):
that sound like a good idea, and it makes for
a good post on social media and you get a
lot of way to go, way to go, and then
it falls apart in the real world. It's like there's
a lot of people these days that think they should
get everything free, not realizing that someone has to pay
for it.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
These are called dumb people. They don't understand there's nothing free.
Ultimately someone's paying for it, right, Like our friends in
New York are probably gonna find out about that soon
that someone's going to be paying for it. But nonetheless,
you think the Pirates, the A's, the Marlins, and the
Minnesota Twins are suddenly going to grow a conscience and
(18:23):
start chasing penance because there's a salary cap floor. Are
you that gullible? Give me a break, seriously, are you
that dumb? Yeah, but you're in for a surprise if
you think that's the case here. They will just find
creative ways to f around the rules. For example, the
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worst oder, most people say, the worst over of sports,
this guy, Bob Nutting, who he owns the Pirates. Bob Nutting. There,
you think this guy's gonna wake up the day after
they put a salary cap floor in baseball and say,
you know what, why don't we go out and sign
Kyle Schwarber. Now we're the Pirates, why don't we sign
Kyle Schwarber? What do you say? And we'll sign Ranger Suarez,
the top pitcher in the free agent market as well.
(19:08):
That'll go, Well, no chance, there is no chance they will. They'll.
What they're gonna do is they're gonna do it every
every team does. In a situation where there's a salary
cap floor, they are going to add bad contracts. They
will be the dumping ground. Teams like the Pirates will
be the dumping ground for massive bloated contracts in baseball.
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And what you're gonna see is teams like the Dodgers
will use the A's example, like the Dodgers will call
the Athletics up and say, hey, we got this guy,
Tanners Scott. He's a dog with fleas. The guy's terrible,
and we want to get rid of his contract because
the salary caps. So what you guys are you're not
even at the floor yet, So why don't we send
him and we'll we'll put we'll throw in some lottery
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ticket and we'll send him to the Athletics. And then
you just give us back, like you know, some low
level minor league pitcher, and then that's it. And and
that's what the top team are going to do. I
promise you. How do I know that I've seen it
in other sports? Right, He's like, well, I will send
you a prospect attached to the veteran player and all
that stuff boom, you meet the salary cap for it's
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creative accounting. It's creative accounting, that's all. It's not winning baseball.
It's bookkeeping. It's baseball bookkeeping. And the Phillies will trade
Aaron Nola, who's washed up or certainly was this past season,
the starting pitcher. They'll trade him to the Pirates for
a half eaten tuna fish sandwich and a half eaten
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bag of chips and a handshake and a smile. That's
what they'll do. And it's just cap compliance. Cosplay is
all it is at that particular point. And I remember
back in the day the Clippers, back before they were
purchased by Steve Balmer, when Stirling owned the team, right
before the season, they traded for a couple of veteran
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players and I was like, wow, the Clippers are trying
to improve the roster. No, no, no. They were so
far that there was like a salary cap minimum you
had to spend in the NBA. And I don't know
if they still have that. I think they do. But
the Clippers traded because they traded for these two contracts
they didn't even have them on the roster, just so
they could be compliant with the low end of the payroll.
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That's it. And so the teams will make phony trades.
You'll see a lot of phony trades just to check
the box. What's in the box? Phony trade, same playbook,
same playbook. So MLB teams are the teams that aren't
trying to compete, are going to continue not trying to compete.
They love the food snamps. They can't get enough of
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the food snamps. They're those snap benefits for billionaires are
just snapity snap, so good. And if you think the
floor forces effort, if you think that's going to force
these teams to try to win you to read a
book or something like that, learn a little bit about life.
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away from being homeless, so these are things we need
to know.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
It's very easy to do.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, I gotta believe that the world cash enough money
that everybody can have, like half a million dollars.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Maybe, yeah, you want everyone to sere, But don't you
have to work for that much money?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Though?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Usually you have to work for money.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Then you know money? No money is only play can ye?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Doesn't mean somebody have to pave I mean somebody has
to earn the money, right, just give money away then
the value of the money goes down.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Nobody money people should.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You can't have money. I can. I'm gonna tell you
right now. You get a lot of money. Go out
and get a job. Get a lot of money, all right,
Robb the goat Man writes in he says, a friend
of mine is waking up numerous times a night to
take a leak. What advice can you give him? Billy
from Rob the goat Man? Any any advice?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
We man? You don't drink water when you're sleeping, Just
don't do it. Ben, I'm telling you what. Money should
not have a point in people's life. Everybody should have
be free.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
People should be to be free. But you, somebody, in
order to be productive, you have to you earn your money, though.
That's just how he goes. I feel terrible getting stuff
without earning it. That's just how I'm wired, though. But
I just you getting free crap. I get it. A
lot of people. There's more people like you that don't.
There's more people like you that don't want to work
and are just lazy than people like me. I got it.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
No, no, no, no, that's not true.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I would do I would I would work, I would
do a talk show right.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Second, show I got you all right? All right? Andy?
All right is ask a weed man? Boy, this is
going well. Andy in Line Lakes, Minnesota says, ask a
weed man, did you ever find your teeth? And if
you didn't, are you planning on getting some new teeth?
They sell them at Walmart?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Is so amazing teeth, It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
They soul. I think you lost them in the pile
of rubbish. Didn't isn't that the story? Yes? But Andy
says if you yes? And Andy says, if you go
down to the Walmart you can get some some new teeth.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
I don't think that's true. Possibly be true. Was made
to go into my mouth?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah, these are the those are like the costume teeth.
I think you know they having the house probably on
sale right now, the house vampire ones.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I don't think that would work.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I am great, Yeah, I don't think all right, Steve.
Steve writes in this is I'm sure you have a
great take on this. He says, ask weed man. Why
Taylor Swift is afraid of the Bill's mafia? So apparently, well,
you're you're really an expert, so apparently. So apparently Taylor
(31:38):
Swift didn't show up to the game on Sunday because
she had a bad experience with Bills fans and she's
afraid of the Bill's mafia. So your thoughts on that,
weed Man?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I said, probably true? Why should she just do abused
like that? This is a worship woman. Everywhere she goes,
she's worshiped. She has the greatest life for you joking,
why should she do well?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
But yeah, but everyone so I'll keep, doesn't he keep?
You're grounded. If everyone kisses your ass, that would be
a curse, good for the soul. But we seriously, if
everyone kissed your ass all the time, you would that
would be terrible. I would think.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Taylor Swift probably likes it like that.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I don't know she said she like that? All right?
Shane in des Moines as another question. He says, hey,
weed Man, how much would you charge for a cameo?
Do you know what a cameo is? Weed Man?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I wish I could get on I wish I could
get you could.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
You could get on there? You could get on there.
Here's the problem, though, you're lazy. If you if you
put some work.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
In Wi Fi. I have no email. I have no emails.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
All right, all right, let's see.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I want the money thinkers. Not every client in the
in the universe deals.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
With money, like when you okay, all right, well most
most don't deal with money because there's no one living
on the planets Joe the ghost Hunter Okay, all right,
I'm sure there is. But Joe the Ghost Hunter says,
did Billy do special things for said money to other people? Wow?
All right, my god, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
What question?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
I don't okay, I will you want to explain that?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
May? I was just wondering if you do any extra
side favors, maybe on a sidewalk un extra money?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
No, you would, You're not a male jigglow.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
He That would be great work if I could.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Not until you see the people that want your services,
you know, maybe they can't see. It's kind of like
the nude beach. Nude beach sounds great till you go
to a nude beach and you're like, those people should
have clothes on. You assume it a'll be beautiful people. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
What my point is people should be able to do
what they want.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
To do it right, You are able to do what
you want. For the most part in life. You are
able to Let's go to sir, scratch off. Who has
a question?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
What years ago I was doing?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
What I was.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Doing, I talked to people assumed it. That's what I did.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
I had all right, all right, calm down, sir, scratch
office on the phones for you, sir, scratch off. SALEO
to weed man.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Hey, sure scratch off. How we in? By the way,
how are you, my Glennon?
Speaker 6 (34:26):
But I'm doing good. Buddies driving man.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Some of us got dumb, you know, and uh, you
need to get to your happies, all man. And I
fought you will be off the teeth, I would offenshaw. Huh.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
I wanted you used to sieve it's some wood man.
I used to be good at willing with a wood
wood by nine about fifty year ago. And I might
price still be able to get your piece of teeth
figured out, you know. And I won't tell you something.
There's enough people out here trying to give you some money.
If you'd ever wake up and get your cash up,
you'd have all kind of money coming, and you might
be able to buy your teeth. I to have a
Balentown day.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Thank you so much. That's so nice of you.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Well he did he did say this. Billy a couple
of weeks ago. But you didn't do it. Remember, Yeah,
I have to say you.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Got no ship because he wait lost on the weight.
I don't want to gain no weight. He looks really good.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Is that your Is that your explanation? Now I got it. Well,
let me tell you, sir, scratch off. We are going
to have such a great mall of meet and great
in Arkansas. I cannot wait. It is gonna be so
off the hook. It's gonna be amazing because of you.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
There.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, it goes all right, Well, put a bow on this.
Thank you so much, weed man, ask a weed man.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Ben, Thank you so much. Ben. I look forward to
thank you.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
All right, Thank you. There is the great We give
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and that was more than twice as long as any
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Speaker 7 (38:55):
Ahead of the Cardinals Monday night football matchup against the Cowboys,
Mike Florio reported that Yler Murray won't be going anywhere
before the trade deadline this year after the season. The
trade is not only a possibility but likely, Ben, Do
you think that'll be the case.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Yeah, if they can find a team dumb enough to
take a guy that doesn't like playing football and would
rather be a video gamer off their hands, absolutely they
will trade Kyler Murray. They would have traded him two
years ago if they could have. There's no one dumb
enough to take his kind of The only stupid team
to take this guy's the Cardinals. They gotta find somebody
dumber than them next.
Speaker 7 (39:26):
Matthew Stafford has won a Super Bowl, is all over
the record books, but he lacks individual accolades. However, some
analysts think that he needs to be considered for MVP
this season.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
What do you think, Ben? All Right? So, first of all,
I don't think there's anyone who's the MVP right now.
It's like to me, it's wide open. Nobody's established himself.
That's the first thing. Stafford's been great. I thought he
was gonna be done is back. It was all messed up.
I'm shocked that he's played as well as he has.
I didn't have that on my Bengo card. I don't
he's been good. I don't think he's MVP good though.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
Next, a little over a week ago, we talked about
how Jimbo Fisher wants to return into coaching, but that
he will be picky about his opportunities. Now his name
is being floated as a potential higher for Auburn, then
do you think that would be a good fit for Fisher?
Speaker 1 (40:08):
No, he's already won the lottery from Texas A and
M Why but just enjoy your life? What are you doing?
Why even bother coaching? Unless he can embezzle some more
money out of Auburn. They'll pay him a lot of money,
but it's it's not a great job in the SEC.
How did we do you passes it? That is are
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Talking bays ball even in November. It's our number two
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the championship celebration for the Dodgers. What did you take
away from Dodger chatter that Dave Roberts he tossed out
a three peat? He said, ah, We're gonna go do
a three peat. Also, what are the twenty twenty five
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and Blue Jays? Tell us and what a salary cap
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thus fixing the disparity in baseball. Talk about that and
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though from baseball baseball? What no baseball? The season ended
over the weekend. Why would you talk baseball? What are
you stupid?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Let me explained. So the post mortem on the World
Series here to the winner goes a parade, an a rally.
You get a parade and a rally. That's how that
goes there. So after winning Game seven in a l
Classico in Toronto the World Series, the Dodgers made their
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way back in their luxury planes. They made their way
back to LA and the boys in Blue were serenaded
with flowers and songs and they just everyone loved them.
They cacophony of goodness for the Dodgers there as they
returned to the People's Republic of California for a big
celebration and a championship parade and rally for the ages.
(03:35):
So if you didn't watch any of this, why would you?
If you're not a Dodger fan. I even I find
this a little annoying, but I did check some of
it out for talk show reasons, for talk show reasons,
and Dave Roberts good old Dave. Some of this stuff
was so corny. I mean, it was oh so bad. Anyway,
(03:57):
Dave Roberts tossed out a word and it involved the
number and a word, and it was kind of the theme.
You had sho Hel Tani deliver a speech in English.
He was not the only one who did that, and
the crowd went wild. They sold out crowd at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
There.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
That concluded with Otani saying that he was ready to
get another ring. But Dave Roberts talking about what the
mission is now for the Dodgers. Let's go to the
audio tape. Take a listen.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I talked of mind you have tail on the plane,
and he gave me the okay to use this phrase,
pat Riley, let's.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Go to the two. Okay, there you go. So how
could the Dodgers three people when they've already ruined baseball?
I don't understand anyway, So there you go. Let's discuss
That's a good jumping off point. We'll talk about what
Dave Roberts said there and the crowd went wild. So question,
(05:00):
what did you take away from the chatter that Dave
Roberts you threw it out there? The Dodger chatter from
Dave Roberts about a three p all right, So I've
got alphabet pasta atomic and tuna fish sandwich, and we
will combine all of these things together, and we're gonna
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make your Babushka's favorite buttered popcorn, the kind of buttered
popcord your Babushka just loves. Yeah, I can't get enough
of it. So number I said, number Why? All right?
The Dodgers held this event was the word gods event, right,
we are the gods of baseball? It was that was
(05:44):
that kind of SUPESTI I love that Roberts worked in
a humble brag. Also, we talked last hour about Jerry
Jones humble bragging.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Dave Roberts say, oh, I was on the phone with
pat Riley.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
The funny thing about that is Riley's so old at
this point, the younger generations don't even know who pat
Riley is, right, I don't know who that is. I
wasn't around for the showtime late because that's a boomer.
You're friends with a boomer, Dave Roberts, what's wrong with you?
But the whole theme was that we are gods. We
are the gods of baseball, And it was like the
full Gladiator. You know that famous scene from Gladiator? Are
(06:19):
you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Yeah, it was
that kind of it. So the whole freepeat thing, like
what are you supposed to say? Like these things are
always corny and over the top anytime a team wins
a championship, Like, what are you seriously supposed to say?
Can you imagine if Dave Roberts had come out and saying,
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let me tell you, boys, we've won enough championship. My
belly is full. I am bloated from all the blingling, bloated, bloated, blooded, bloated, blooded, blooded, blurted, bloated, bloated.
All right, my belly is so frickin' full I can't
even anymore. Uh no, you can't say that, right, Imagine,
Oh I ate so much? Which alphabet pasta all those ws? Www,
(07:04):
I got no room left, no room left, can't win.
We're good now, We're satisfied. Can't do it, can't say it.
You can never be satisfied. So the whole idea that
you enjoy the moment and just live in the moment.
None of those guys were living in the moment, they
were already planning for next year. So it's okay, shouldn't
(07:26):
you just embrace that particular day and just celebrate that
day and then you worry about next year at a
later point. But no, the champagne had not even dried
on the carpet there in Toronto, and they're already campaigning
and planning their parade route or root for next year.
(07:46):
And the Dodgers have turned this in. It's like the
Harlem Globetrotters versus the Washington Generals the way they're playing here,
and they've got the payroll receipts, the billion dollar Boys
Club and all that stuff. Then you had we mentioned
Shoi Otani who gave the crowd his I'm ready for
another ring line from Otani? That was his quote there.
(08:06):
He said it in English, mind you, he said it
in English, and the fans of course lost their mind
to the fireworks. There was then the choreographed moment with
Dave Roberts needing to bring in the other trophy. So
who did he call ice cube? He brought in not
an actual ice cube, ice cube? The you know the
old guy, Yeah, the rapper, Yeah, I guy, Uh, not
(08:28):
really a rapper anymore. He's like a businessman. Anyway. I
ice Cube brought in in a muscle car the Dodger
World Series trophy from centerfield, not played at all, very
organic moment just happened. It was very odd that ice
Cube just happened to be in his car with the
World Series trophy in center field the moment Dave Roberts
needed the trophy. What are the odds? Like ice Cube
(08:50):
was just bored. He was driving around Dodger Stadium and
he just happened to be stopped out in center field
at Dodger Stadium. And at that moment he must have
known that Dave Roberts needed the trophy, so say, okay,
I'll drive it in, no problem. And then security they
opened the gate and they allowed ice Cube, in a
totally organic, not scripted mullet at all, to drive it in.
Simply amazing. The fireworks went off. The muscle car came
(09:13):
in there and there it was no it's Dodger fan porn,
That's what it was. All of it, total fan porn, porn, porn,
porn porn porn, that's what it was. The speeches, everything choreographed,
all that stuff. We're a Dynasty Baby by Keith k Hernandez.
He's right by the way, they are dynasty, and it's
this is you know what this is for the Dodgers.
(09:35):
It is the Gilded Age. It is the Gilded Age
for the Dodgers. At some point this ownership group's gonna
sell the team. Once they have to pay a tani
seventy million dollars a year not to play baseball whatever
it is, they'll they'll sell the team and some other
dope will come in and talk about, well, we need
to reset the franchise and we're gonna build through the
minor league system and the team will suck. But until
(09:56):
that happens, it is the Gilded Age for the Dodgers.
Everyone's co everyone's pampered and spoiled. Who plays for the
Dodgers there from their toilets that shoot, you took us
with water to the two jumbo jet planes and all
that stuff. And you watch what's going on right now
and how loaded the roster is, and they're going to
annoy everyone and sign somebody else in free agency. Again,
(10:18):
that's what they do. The Dodgers are so good they
signed two of the worst players in baseball, Michael Conforto
and he was one of them, and Tanner Scott the
other and still ended up winning the World Series. Still
ended up winning the World Series there, and you know,
they had the line the greatest fans in the world,
all that stuff, and so you had to say that line, right,
(10:41):
That was Miguel Rojas. I believe that was his line.
I think he said that, and he praised his teammate.
It's not all about me, that whole thing. So he
had those and even the interpreters, as mentioned, these guys
might be out of work here because once you've exposed
the fact that you speak English, does it become a
problem now because those interpreters probably make ninety thousand dollars
(11:02):
a year to travel around with these guys. And you
had both Yamamoto and shohel Tani who went full English
at the event, both of them. So there you go.
They're they're so dominant, they're now bilingual. So congratulations on that,
and that's how the empire rolls on. In Dodger Blue,
(11:26):
it was a coronation situation and a reminder the Dodgers
have become a modern If they were a rock band,
they'd be like the Beatles back in the day at
this point. Now the rest of major League Baseball, if
you look around the landscape of major League Baseball, they're
just like an opening act, hoping, hoping, beyond hope. Here
(11:46):
to grab a souvenir on the way out. Yeah, that
kind of thing. Now turning the page, but not turning
the page too far. Page two, TV Land. We go
to TV Land, you and I and the question, what
do the twenty twenty five World Series ratings, which were
very good, very good involving the Dodgers in Blue Jays
(12:08):
tell us? So the ratings came out, and turns out,
despite having a Canadian team in which supposedly is gonna
be a Debbie downer and the ratings wouldn't be that
good and no one's gonna watch, And well, turned out
that just wasn't true. People watched, and apparently the Dodgers.
Of what I took away from the TV ratings is
apparently the Dodgers are not ruining baseball after all. Shocking
(12:32):
talk about a narrative buster. The Dodgers are killing baseball,
said the guy on social media that calls sports talk
radio and all that stuff. Twenty if I read this right,
twenty six million people. Twenty six million people tuned into
Game seven of the World Cities. Now that's not just good,
that's massive in modern television. Back in the old days
(12:54):
they got bigger ratings. But in modern with the cannibalism
of entertainment, wherever things chopped up into little bite sized pieces,
you get twenty six million people to watch baseball games.
Pretty good, most watched World Series game since twenty seventeen.
You might remember that one. The Dodgers were in that
World Series against the cheating Astros. Yeah, bang bang on
(13:19):
the trash can cheat a cheata cheeta cheata cheetah cheeta. Meanwhile,
social media, you guys on social media told me. You said, listen,
everyone and their mother hate the billionaire boys club, that is,
the Dodgers. Cannot stand the Dodgers. They're bad for baseball.
You're running the Sparta Baseball, the Dodgers, you're running it.
(13:41):
I thought Sho Hail Tani and Mookie Betts were supposed
to make you tune out. You told me that. That's
what you told me. You told me that people were
not gonna watch because of the Dodger payroll. Turns out
America still loves watching the rich kids were they tuned
in to watch the Dodgers lose. It doesn't matter. They
(14:03):
watched twenty six million men, women and children tuned in
to watch the World Series. And that is not a
niche sport. That is an event. That is a massive event.
And up in Canada, the numbers from the people that Rogers,
they pulled record ratings the channel that carried the World
Series in Canada, and they estimate that nearly half of
(14:25):
all Canadians, almost fifty percent of all Canadians that have
access to television, watched at least part of Game seven
of the World Series. Deep pritt deep, pretty dee good.
Half the fricking country was watching. H So so much
for the Dodgers are bad for baseball narrative, Oh it's
(14:48):
so bad. The social media echo chamber. A reminder for
those of you in the back of the room, the
social media echo chamber is not real. It just isn't.
X thinks everyone's boycotting these big market teams like the
Dodgers and all this stuff, and there you go. It
turns out not the case. In fact, the Dodgers are
actually good for baseball as the bad guys, as the villain.
(15:12):
And if you study entertainment, if you study professional wrestling,
or just any kind of movie storyline, you look at
the storyboard. You have the good guy and the bad guy,
and you gotta have it. And the Dodgers have star power.
Check that box. They've got that big market, a lot
of drama. You had some drama there, and so reports
(15:33):
of Baseball's to mice have been greatly exaggerated. That's what
I'm trying to say that who knew, who knew the ratings?
The villains, the Dodgers, the big blue bad guys. They
got flash and they got the finish and all that stuff.
So the Dodgers delivered a little bit of this, a
little bit of that, and all work together. And Baseball's problem,
it turns out, is not the Dodgers. It's not the Dodgers.
(15:55):
It's the twenty other teams pretending to be on a budget.
That's a problem. That's a big problem. Dodgers are keeping
the lights on and they're actually the good guys here,
which is very odd considering everyone told me they're not
all right now. Final point, speaking of that, we'll use
that as a jumping off point for our next next
conversation point. So there is this chatter. I mentioned this
(16:18):
in a previous episode of the show. And there's a
lot of chatter that we're gonna have a nuclear winter
in baseball. There's gonna be a workstopage, either be a
lockout or a strike, and there's not gonna be baseball played.
There can be a long long time. They're gonna reset
all the rules in baseball. This has been the art
and the marching in showder Society demanding a salary cap
(16:40):
has been outspoken. Right, they've been banging the drum, bang bang,
bang in the drum yet again. And the argument is
that all we need is not just a salary cap.
We need a salary floor to encourage the teams that
don't spend a lot of money to spend more money,
and that will be the magic placebo that will fix
every thing in the sport of baseball. You might have
(17:02):
heard about that. Have you heard about that. I've heard
about that. I've heard about that. I've heard about this
for years. They've said this disparity in baseball, the Dodgers
spending too much, they spend too much, in the A's
don't spend any money, and we need to have more
balanced than all that. So the question on this one
would a salary cap and a salary floor motivate? In
(17:24):
this case the salary cap floor, would it motivate the
penny pinching major League Baseball franchises to spend more, thus
fixing the disparity in payroll between the top five or
six teams and everyone else in baseball. So this is
one of those ideas. There's a lot of this in life.
As you get older, you realize there's things in life
(17:44):
that sound like a good idea, and it makes for
a good post on social media and you get a
lot of way to go, way to go, and then
it falls apart in the real world. It's like there's
a lot of people these days that think they should
get everything free, not realizing that someone has to pay
for it.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
These are called dumb people. They don't understand there's nothing free.
Ultimately someone's paying for it, right, Like our friends in
New York are probably gonna find out about that soon
that someone's going to be paying for it. But nonetheless,
you think the Pirates, the A's, the Marlins, and the
Minnesota Twins are suddenly going to grow a conscience and
(18:23):
start chasing penance because there's a salary cap floor. Are
you that gullible? Give me a break, seriously, are you
that dumb? Yeah, but you're in for a surprise if
you think that's the case here. They will just find
creative ways to f around the rules. For example, the
(18:45):
worst oder, most people say, the worst over of sports,
this guy, Bob Nutting, who he owns the Pirates. Bob Nutting. There,
you think this guy's gonna wake up the day after
they put a salary cap floor in baseball and say,
you know what, why don't we go out and sign
Kyle Schwarber. Now we're the Pirates, why don't we sign
Kyle Schwarber? What do you say? And we'll sign Ranger Suarez,
the top pitcher in the free agent market as well.
(19:08):
That'll go, Well, no chance, there is no chance they will. They'll.
What they're gonna do is they're gonna do it every
every team does. In a situation where there's a salary
cap floor, they are going to add bad contracts. They
will be the dumping ground. Teams like the Pirates will
be the dumping ground for massive bloated contracts in baseball.
(19:30):
And what you're gonna see is teams like the Dodgers
will use the A's example, like the Dodgers will call
the Athletics up and say, hey, we got this guy,
Tanners Scott. He's a dog with fleas. The guy's terrible,
and we want to get rid of his contract because
the salary caps. So what you guys are you're not
even at the floor yet, So why don't we send
him and we'll we'll put we'll throw in some lottery
(19:51):
ticket and we'll send him to the Athletics. And then
you just give us back, like you know, some low
level minor league pitcher, and then that's it. And and
that's what the top team are going to do. I
promise you. How do I know that I've seen it
in other sports? Right, He's like, well, I will send
you a prospect attached to the veteran player and all
that stuff boom, you meet the salary cap for it's
(20:13):
creative accounting. It's creative accounting, that's all. It's not winning baseball.
It's bookkeeping. It's baseball bookkeeping. And the Phillies will trade
Aaron Nola, who's washed up or certainly was this past season,
the starting pitcher. They'll trade him to the Pirates for
a half eaten tuna fish sandwich and a half eaten
(20:33):
bag of chips and a handshake and a smile. That's
what they'll do. And it's just cap compliance. Cosplay is
all it is at that particular point. And I remember
back in the day the Clippers, back before they were
purchased by Steve Balmer, when Stirling owned the team, right
before the season, they traded for a couple of veteran
(20:54):
players and I was like, wow, the Clippers are trying
to improve the roster. No, no, no. They were so
far that there was like a salary cap minimum you
had to spend in the NBA. And I don't know
if they still have that. I think they do. But
the Clippers traded because they traded for these two contracts
they didn't even have them on the roster, just so
they could be compliant with the low end of the payroll.
(21:15):
That's it. And so the teams will make phony trades.
You'll see a lot of phony trades just to check
the box. What's in the box? Phony trade, same playbook,
same playbook. So MLB teams are the teams that aren't
trying to compete, are going to continue not trying to compete.
They love the food snamps. They can't get enough of
(21:37):
the food snamps. They're those snap benefits for billionaires are
just snapity snap, so good. And if you think the
floor forces effort, if you think that's going to force
these teams to try to win you to read a
book or something like that, learn a little bit about life.
(21:58):
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It is the Ben Maler Show coming up. Mama's away
from Ask a Weed Man, our friend Billy from Miami.
He's demanding his own segment, so we've given him his
own segment. So we'll take some calls on that at
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox and questions on
ex at Ben Mahler. That's at Ben Mahler in solo.
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Your comments can't We'll be used against you in the
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(24:05):
Militia back to it all right, back to it we go,
and without further ado, we go to Miami now and
his name is Billy, but he is known as the
superhero weed Man, hippie.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
I love you, Thank you so much for letting me
do this. Yes, five minutes change the world? Has change
the world?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Change the world? How are we changing the world?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Everything has to change? You know, owl, This cliet is
so primitive. Oh, if anybody wants your call, call what
you would like to do with your life? If you
can do anything you want to do, what would you
do with your life?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Those Okay, So now now you're becoming a deva. Now
you're requesting specific phone calls. Okay, so now you don't okay, Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
All right, let's make it the place segment.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, okay, it's gonna be an amazing segment At eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox, it's asking what.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
On sports overnight talk radio. We are really going to
change the world. We're doing it. I realize this, Okay.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
That I know.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Now you don't want me in this case to be
thirty five years old. I'm sixty six, which is good
for you because I'm with a grandfather and a father
to most for your audience. That's the true.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Okay, all right, well you're leaning you're leaning into your age.
It's fine, which is fine. You've been calling the shows.
You've been calling the show since you were like in
your forties. Right, it's been a long time.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
What I'm trying to show, Yeah, I did. I did
my TV show forty years ago when I was twenty
five years old.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
All right, I got you. So people have been emailing me.
We man, they wanted to get a hold of you.
Have you set up a GENI mail account? Have you
said up?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Oh, I don't know. I don't have it.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
You have not. So you even though the people wanted
to send you money your you chose not to set
any of that up. Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
You couldn't do it. You just couldn't do it, and
then listen you could. I'm not I'm not in Shane.
I know Sports spots. Sports Radio is not putting me
on this.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Oh no, no, this is not a this is not
an approved segment by management. This is just we're just
having some fun here. We know. This is no yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
What I'm saying. What I'm saying, yeah, is that I'm
doing something that's even better than sports to me.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, I know, all right, Shane Shane and de Moyne
has a question for you to ask a weed man.
He says, how did you find the Ben Maller? What
is that? Well? How did you find the Ben Maller show?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
He says, Wow, I have been listening to Ben at
least twenty years now. It's where did you stop doing
with Tom Looney? Remember Tom Louy.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I don't know what happened to Looney? I don't know.
Maybe do a YouTube show with it years ago. That
was many many many years ago. Yeah, yeah, long, I
love that.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Well.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Remember when you first started calling, we thought we didn't
think you were real. When you started calling, you were
called as billy. I think you called this billy from Miami.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Then you showed that called you are great. You'll thank
you just the fact that you're allowing me to do.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
That's right, of course.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Let me answer things. We as a planet are, We're violent,
We're pretty stored.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Okay, all right, all right? Yeah, dog has a question.
He says, is panhandling a good career choice? He's thinking
about a career choice? Is panhandling a good way to go?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
You can go a hotspot like Lincoln Roads. More people
will drop twentys on you. Then you have no idea
people want to help you.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah, okay, so Lincoln Road that's where they had you
kept getting arrested on Lincoln Road in Miami because on
Lincoln Roads. I understand, I understand. It's it's asking there.
I know that was a cry all right, late late
night drug test. Just as what is a better makeshift
pillow for sleeping? Rolled up newspaper magazine? Great question?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Uh, newspaper? You can always get fresh newspaper and you
put it in a daggers it works out. Well.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Okay, that's great advice. We're only a couple of mistakes
away from being homeless, so these are things we need
to know.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
It's very easy to do.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, I gotta believe that the world cash enough money
that everybody can have, like half a million dollars.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Maybe, yeah, you want everyone to sere, But don't you
have to work for that much money?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Though?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Usually you have to work for money.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Then you know money? No money is only play can ye?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Doesn't mean somebody have to pave I mean somebody has
to earn the money, right, just give money away then
the value of the money goes down.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Nobody money people should.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You can't have money. I can. I'm gonna tell you
right now. You get a lot of money. Go out
and get a job. Get a lot of money, all right,
Robb the goat Man writes in he says, a friend
of mine is waking up numerous times a night to
take a leak. What advice can you give him? Billy
from Rob the goat Man? Any any advice?
Speaker 2 (29:36):
We man? You don't drink water when you're sleeping, Just
don't do it. Ben, I'm telling you what. Money should
not have a point in people's life. Everybody should have
be free.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
People should be to be free. But you, somebody, in
order to be productive, you have to you earn your money, though.
That's just how he goes. I feel terrible getting stuff
without earning it. That's just how I'm wired, though. But
I just you getting free crap. I get it. A
lot of people. There's more people like you that don't.
There's more people like you that don't want to work
and are just lazy than people like me. I got it.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
No, no, no, no, that's not true.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I would do I would I would work, I would
do a talk show right.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Second, show I got you all right? All right? Andy?
All right is ask a weed man? Boy, this is
going well. Andy in Line Lakes, Minnesota says, ask a
weed man, did you ever find your teeth? And if
you didn't, are you planning on getting some new teeth?
They sell them at Walmart?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Is so amazing teeth, It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
They soul. I think you lost them in the pile
of rubbish. Didn't isn't that the story? Yes? But Andy
says if you yes? And Andy says, if you go
down to the Walmart you can get some some new teeth.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
I don't think that's true. Possibly be true. Was made
to go into my mouth?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah, these are the those are like the costume teeth.
I think you know they having the house probably on
sale right now, the house vampire ones.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I don't think that would work.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I am great, Yeah, I don't think all right, Steve.
Steve writes in this is I'm sure you have a
great take on this. He says, ask weed man. Why
Taylor Swift is afraid of the Bill's mafia? So apparently, well,
you're you're really an expert, so apparently. So apparently Taylor
(31:38):
Swift didn't show up to the game on Sunday because
she had a bad experience with Bills fans and she's
afraid of the Bill's mafia. So your thoughts on that,
weed Man?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I said, probably true? Why should she just do abused
like that? This is a worship woman. Everywhere she goes,
she's worshiped. She has the greatest life for you joking,
why should she do well?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
But yeah, but everyone so I'll keep, doesn't he keep?
You're grounded. If everyone kisses your ass, that would be
a curse, good for the soul. But we seriously, if
everyone kissed your ass all the time, you would that
would be terrible. I would think.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Taylor Swift probably likes it like that.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I don't know she said she like that? All right?
Shane in des Moines as another question. He says, hey,
weed Man, how much would you charge for a cameo?
Do you know what a cameo is? Weed Man?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I wish I could get on I wish I could
get you could.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
You could get on there? You could get on there.
Here's the problem, though, you're lazy. If you if you
put some work.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
In Wi Fi. I have no email. I have no emails.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
All right, all right, let's see.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I want the money thinkers. Not every client in the
in the universe deals.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
With money, like when you okay, all right, well most
most don't deal with money because there's no one living
on the planets Joe the ghost Hunter Okay, all right,
I'm sure there is. But Joe the Ghost Hunter says,
did Billy do special things for said money to other people? Wow?
All right, my god, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
What question?
Speaker 1 (33:18):
I don't okay, I will you want to explain that?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
May? I was just wondering if you do any extra
side favors, maybe on a sidewalk un extra money?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
No, you would, You're not a male jigglow.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
He That would be great work if I could.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Not until you see the people that want your services,
you know, maybe they can't see. It's kind of like
the nude beach. Nude beach sounds great till you go
to a nude beach and you're like, those people should
have clothes on. You assume it a'll be beautiful people. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
What my point is people should be able to do
what they want.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
To do it right, You are able to do what
you want. For the most part in life. You are
able to Let's go to sir, scratch off. Who has
a question?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
What years ago I was doing?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
What I was.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Doing, I talked to people assumed it. That's what I did.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
I had all right, all right, calm down, sir, scratch
office on the phones for you, sir, scratch off. SALEO
to weed man.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Hey, sure scratch off. How we in? By the way,
how are you, my Glennon?
Speaker 6 (34:26):
But I'm doing good. Buddies driving man.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Some of us got dumb, you know, and uh, you
need to get to your happies, all man. And I
fought you will be off the teeth, I would offenshaw. Huh.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
I wanted you used to sieve it's some wood man.
I used to be good at willing with a wood
wood by nine about fifty year ago. And I might
price still be able to get your piece of teeth
figured out, you know. And I won't tell you something.
There's enough people out here trying to give you some money.
If you'd ever wake up and get your cash up,
you'd have all kind of money coming, and you might
be able to buy your teeth. I to have a
Balentown day.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Thank you so much. That's so nice of you.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Well he did he did say this. Billy a couple
of weeks ago. But you didn't do it. Remember, Yeah,
I have to say you.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Got no ship because he wait lost on the weight.
I don't want to gain no weight. He looks really good.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Is that your Is that your explanation? Now I got it. Well,
let me tell you, sir, scratch off. We are going
to have such a great mall of meet and great
in Arkansas. I cannot wait. It is gonna be so
off the hook. It's gonna be amazing because of you.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
There.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah, it goes all right, Well, put a bow on this.
Thank you so much, weed man, ask a weed man.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Ben, Thank you so much. Ben. I look forward to
thank you.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
All right, Thank you. There is the great We give
out your email, but you don't have one, so there's
no social media. He's a man that just is a
man without all that other stuff. It is the Ben
Mallard Show. Time Now for the instant trivia. Then we
will get to Mallard of the third degree. Chief Star.
Patrick Mahomes had completed at least fifty percent of his
(36:02):
passes in all one hundred and forty one games of
his career entering the weekend, and that was it. That
was it. It ended over the weekend. That was more
than twice as long as any other streak to begin
a career in the NFL all time, Blank is second
to Maholmes. That's the Insta trivia the answer next.
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of the third degree. A Chief Star. Patrick Mahomes has
completed at least fifty percent of his passes in all
one hundred and forty one career games that was entering
play this weekend. Did not do that against the Bills,
and that was more than twice as long as any
(37:40):
other streak to begin a career in NFL history. Blank
is second to Mahomes, who's streak ended over the weekend.
That is the question. What is the answer I'd see?
Does anyone know? Matt Shop Guess by Scrooge, Deuce Bigelow,
Mail Jiggilo from Alf the Alien opinter Kim Possible from
Bobby in Florida, Marinervan, Robbie's Tidy Whiteyes from Rob the
(38:05):
goat Man, Jack Torrance from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Bullwinkle
Moose guessed by Eileen Planet Mars where There's no Money
from Ferg Dog, Steve Fatwater from Nurse who Else? Nurse
Jockey Dan Mkowski guests by Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Muggsy
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That's his answer. All right, do you have an answer?
The ring gotta go with Stephen Diggs. All right, fine, quarterback. No,
it's Mark Bulger. Bulger is the st Louis ram Here
we go, here we go, here we gol How.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
About that to the third degree? This is one big
fan gets great.
Speaker 7 (38:55):
Ahead of the Cardinals Monday night football matchup against the Cowboys,
Mike Florio reported that Yler Murray won't be going anywhere
before the trade deadline this year after the season. The
trade is not only a possibility but likely, Ben, Do
you think that'll be the case.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Yeah, if they can find a team dumb enough to
take a guy that doesn't like playing football and would
rather be a video gamer off their hands, absolutely they
will trade Kyler Murray. They would have traded him two
years ago if they could have. There's no one dumb
enough to take his kind of The only stupid team
to take this guy's the Cardinals. They gotta find somebody
dumber than them next.
Speaker 7 (39:26):
Matthew Stafford has won a Super Bowl, is all over
the record books, but he lacks individual accolades. However, some
analysts think that he needs to be considered for MVP
this season.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
What do you think, Ben? All Right? So, first of all,
I don't think there's anyone who's the MVP right now.
It's like to me, it's wide open. Nobody's established himself.
That's the first thing. Stafford's been great. I thought he
was gonna be done is back. It was all messed up.
I'm shocked that he's played as well as he has.
I didn't have that on my Bengo card. I don't
he's been good. I don't think he's MVP good though.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
Next, a little over a week ago, we talked about
how Jimbo Fisher wants to return into coaching, but that
he will be picky about his opportunities. Now his name
is being floated as a potential higher for Auburn, then
do you think that would be a good fit for Fisher?
Speaker 1 (40:08):
No, he's already won the lottery from Texas A and
M Why but just enjoy your life? What are you doing?
Why even bother coaching? Unless he can embezzle some more
money out of Auburn. They'll pay him a lot of money,
but it's it's not a great job in the SEC.
How did we do you passes it? That is are
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