July 16, 2026 • 41 mins
Ben Maller discusses if the MLB All-Star Game is in the danger zone after a dud in Philly, MLB's scheme to issue harsh penalties to players who try to get out of the 2028 Olympics, if the Lance McCullers trade is an upgrade for the Brewers, and more Mallerpalooza!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Great Google emogally, it's our number two Ben Mahler Show.
It's Malard paloozat twenty twenty six, and this hour the
monologue begins with some hot baseball after a dud the
other night in Philadelphia? Is the Major League Baseball All
Star Game in the stranger danger zone? Also, where are
you at on Major League Baseball scheme to issue harsh
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penalties to players who try to get out of the
twenty twenty eight Olympics. We'll talk about that, and does
this Lance mccullors trade count as an upgrade for the
Brewers from the cheating Asstros. We'll go there as well.
We have acts from Christy in Kansas this hour also
Blind Scott among others. And so check out the talent
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here in the Mallard Palooz at twenty twenty six. Here
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Malard Palooza continues in a few minutes. Got the Mallard monologue.
Our next act and once you get ready for this,
our first I say kid act. Now technically Bennett, he's
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all grown up now, he's eighteen, he's adult. His sister
though still a kid, so I'm gonna consider this a
kid act. They are warming up right now, they're doing
some vocal exercises, getting ready for their act, and they
will be up next. So look forward to that, our
first kid act. And who could possibly follow in the
footsteps of Can't Close The deal Neil and especially Andrew
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and people loving inca terror's line about his comment on Andrew.
But our lead this hour and we'll get back to
the mallepoos our leader from the All Star fallout, several
prominent baseball figures voicing concern for the health of the
Midsummer Classic, the post mortem, the autopsy on what happened
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in Phildelphia the other day. So if you didn't follow along,
maybe not leading the charge buster only and several others
who said Major League Baseball is All Star Game is
in a fragile state. The baseball scribes and the pundits
are arguing that there's a lot of concern within the
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industry that the future of the All Star Game is
not bright. Despite this being the top All Star game
in the country, it's not going in a good place.
The marque players aren't interested, a lot of them skipped
the game, didn't even bother to attend the All Star Game.
And so there's a growing trend here of the All
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Star Game for the players, the biggest name players that
are just unavailable, and a lot of them pitched the
final day or two before All Star break and they
were not able to play and We had notable absences
this year. Some of the biggest stars in baseball Aaron Judge,
oh hey Otani who Mike Tyson apparently thinks is a check.
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Paul Skeins, Jacob Mazeroski, and Kim Schlittler among those that
either didn't show up or didn't participate. Now the baseball
big shots are concerned panic at the disco, So that
is a good jumping out point. Let us discuss the question.
Is the MLB All Star Game in the stranger danger zone?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Do do?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Do?
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Do?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Do?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
So my observations, I've got Micronesia, Ganghis Khan and Letterman's jacket,
and I promise you those things have never been combined
together until right here in this moment. We'll mix them
all together and you and I are going to take
the plunge. We'll take the munch. So to answer the question,
number one, number one, number one, All right, I'm nodding
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my head. Yes, I am nodding my head. Yes. We
are directly in the high seas, turbulent waters for the
All Star Game. Here. The game is not I want
to say, it's dying. It's a qq situation. Quiet quitting
is what's going on, and it's the same issue that
the industrial complex of sport, big sporty has been dealing with.
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All Star games are from a by gone era and
we're in an era now where this thing is a monster,
the professional sports, the big time sports here in this country.
So when the All Star Game began to give you
a little history lesson here, back when players earned somewhat
reasonable salaries, some of them even had jobs. Baseball players
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had have jobs in the offseason. They worked at car
dealerships and other things to pay the bills. And this
was an important event. It was a highlight for the players.
And that was back when the National League and the
American League never played each other, just to use baseball
as an example, but it was important. The players wanted
to promote the game, right. It was a promotional vehicle
to grow the sport of baseball. It was very important.
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You look at it now and the player, the arrogance
of the players. It's like Blockbuster Video, these All Star
games for these guys, and everyone remembers Blockbuster Video. If
you have a certain age and nobody's going back, no
Blockbuster Video. You can't go out there on a Friday
night get a thing of popcorn and see if you
can get the top movies in the theaters. So with
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the aristocratic wealth our baseball players have earned, these measly
little All Star bonuses are pocket change. They do. It's
not worth their time. The players would rather relax in Micronesia.
They would rather be there than endure the All Star Game,
which is like a low intensity senior citizen malwalk. The
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way that the game's played, and it's a showcase. It's
a showcase though that's lost all of its panache, if
you know what I'm saying. There even Philadelphia fans that
usually stayed at the end of the game, they were
abandoning ship in the eighth inning. The stadium was clearing
out in that snooze fest. I'm an All Star game,
so the stars keep skipping it. Major League Baseball they're
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talking about overhauling the game. God only knows what that means,
put it in Frankenstein's lab. Or they're even talking about
possibly killing the All Star Game like the NFL did
with the Pro Bowl, where God only knows what it is. Well,
they could copy the NFL, or the NFL pivoted to
dodgeball and tug of war and relay races for their
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little Pro Bowl weekend, so Baseball can do Capture the
Flag and Kickball and the Ultimate Frisbee Challenge instead of
the All Star Game. All right, now Page two to
the actual Olympics, but the baseball spin on the Olympics.
Now Major League Baseball proposing very harsh punishment for players
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who are selected to the twenty twenty eight Los Angeles
Summer Olympics but decline to participate. You see, this no
a right. So if you don't participate, you're picked for
the Olympics. You don't participate without an approved exemption, you're cooked.
It is all part of an ongoing negotiation between ownership
and the union. Under the proposal, as I understand it,
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players of star value who are refusing to participate in
the Olympics will be placed on the restricted list by
the Commissioner's office from roughly July tenth through August third,
so that's pretty much a month, meaning they will not
get paid their salary. They will get no service time,
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which is very important because if you're fully vested in
the pension, you're getting a lot of money when you
get old, and if you don't show up to the Olympics,
you're not getting that service time. So it's a big deal.
It's a pretty big deal here. And Baseball also wants
to prevent players in clubs from circumventing the integrity of
the Olympics and using questionable, made up in injuries to
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get out of it. Players granted injury exemptions would have
to remain on the engine list all the way through
August fourth, even if they're healthy, even if they're like,
you're faking it, ah, my tall, my tall, my tall,
and it turns out your toes actually not hurt. And
they they're warning teams. The Baseball was already warning teams
and executives and agents two years in advance here that
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anyone that does not honor the moral obligation if you will,
or tries to circumvent the rules could face additional punishment.
All right, So the question where are you at on
Major League Baseball's scheme to issue very harsh penalties to
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players who try to get out of the twenty twenty
eight Olympics in LA. So when I saw this, I
did think when I first saw this, that this was
some kind of parody. It was satire. I thought, well,
that can't be real. That is no, that's real. Anyway,
it's real. Apparently, I'm not making this up. It's not satire.
It's not sports Talk Barrier but crack Sports or any
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of that. It's real. It's not NBA sentel, it's real.
So Rob Manford is handling this like a windhom timeshare
presentation in Vegas. You ever been stuck in one of
those timeshare presentations. Me and my wife were stuck in
one years ago. They took our driver's license. We couldn't
get out, and it was like being held hostage. It's
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such a freaking nightmare. They pressure you, all right, they
give you a guilt for not signing up and all that.
So anyway, it's just it's completely unnecessary. That's the point
I'm trying to make here. The supreme leader of hardball,
Rob Manfraud, wants to showcase baseball on the grand international stage,
and he is willing to use strong arm tactics to
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make it happen. And yet again Rob Manford telling everyone
he's out of touch, taking a page from that laminated
Genghis Khan playbook. The twenty twenty Eightlympics will be the
final big act for his commissionership. He is set to
leave baseball in twenty twenty nine. Hallelujah, hallelujah sounded like
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Andrew and Bakersfield. There the way, yeah, way I did that. Anyway,
As the saying goes, and we've all heard this in
our lives there, you cannot control behavior, or you can
rather control baby. You cannot. You cannot force someone to
buy it, right, you can control what they're doing, you
cannot force them to enjoy what they're doing. And so
I say that it's unnecessary. The reason it's unnecessary, the
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smart money says, the biggest stars in Major League Baseball
are all going to sign up for the Olympics. And
here's why, because they're gonna get They're gonna get money
out of it. Right, they're gonna they're gonna make money
from endorsements the Q rating. Uh, this will be a
marketing bonanza for baseball players. They'll be picking up Dino
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sized endorsements. Okay, so my advice Rob and for somebody
should let Rob No, Hey, hey, Rob, I've got a
bumper sticker. Oh it's on the bumper sticker. Let's say
it's a quote from Mike Tomlin. Oh, that's the guy
used to coach the Steeler. Yeah, yeah, he's on TV
now and the quote goes, we want volunteers, not prisoners.
All right, that's the quote. All right, meanwha. We have
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a trade in baseball, final point, trade in baseball. The
Milwaukee Brewers have made a deal to acquire a pitcher,
not a good one, Lance mccullors. Yeah, that guy, that dirty,
rotten scoundrel. They also acquired a minor league pitcher I've
never heard of, and cash considerations from the cheating a
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one two, one thousand holes and the trade trying to
boost up Milwaukee's injury depleted starting pitching staff. So they
added some depth in theory. Houston received outfield the prospect
Jaden Fielder in return. Who the f is that? Well,
it's a guy. It's got some name value. He's twenty one,
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the son of former MLB slugger for the Brewers, Princefielder,
and shockingly to say, the grandson of Cecil Fielder, which
I'm getting old. I interviewed him back when he was playing,
and now he's a grandpa. There you go. Anyway, mccullur's
agreed to waive his no trade clause. I know, I'm puzzled.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Too.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
How did he have a no trade clause to complete
the deal. He's spent his entire career with the Cheaters
and now he's heading off to Wisconsin to play for
the Crew. So the question does this Lance mccullor's trade
count as an upgrade for the Brewers? So I'm shaking
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my head, No, shaking my head.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
This is the baseball version of buying a used neutral
bullet blender that smells like burnt rubbert. Well, why'd you
buy that?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Work?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Well, it's cheap. I got it cheap. Well it's not
gonna work. In boxing, they call it the old one
two punch in boxing. For Milwaukee, they get a sucker
punch because it makes the Crew. I hate to say it,
because I love my people in Wisconsin, but it makes
them instantly more unlikable. And here's why I checked the
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letterman's jacket. Lance mccullors has a lifetime membership in the
Scarlet Letter Club because he was a figure part of
that despicable, deplorable cheating a stros. Yep, he's got twenty
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seventeen trash can cooties. He's got that. Good luck disinfecting that.
If you're the Milwaukee Brewers there tossing the fact that
he's damaged, goods washed up. He's on the what we
used to call the disabled list now becaus they call
something else, their shoulder inflammation. And when he has pitched,
his er is almost seven. So that's a knuckle sand
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which is what that is. So the Brewers did not
get quality depth, they got a medical chart. And the
only good news is they traded a prospect, which is
a suspect. As we know, Jaden Fielder, who was not
highly rated, is not projected to be anything really all
that special if he does even make it in the
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major leagues. And you know, the Brewers don't think this
guy's got it. You think the Brewers would trade Prince
Fielder's kid if he could play, if they thought he
could play. Hell, no, no, not. Everyone's right. They could
be wrong. He could turn out to be wonderful. Remember
the Dodgers traded Jordan Alvarez when he was in the
minor leagues. He turned out to be pretty good for
the cheaters. So it does happen. You make mistakes, But
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in terms of the value added for Lance, McCullers don't
see it. Milwaukee is simply betting they can go out
and find on Ebays some voodoo bugaloo and fix the
damage for Lance mccullors and put some soap on him,
rub away the cooties from the Bye Bye and the
whistle Whistle Whistle from the Cheaters and the big playoff push.
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All right is they Bean Mallard Show, The Ben Mahler Show.
The Malar Palooza continues. Our next act. We're going to
get to this coming up in a couple of minutes.
We have Bennett the comedian this hour. Also acts scheduled
to appear this hour regular in the Mala Puluosa. She's
back again. Our friend Christy from Kansas will make a return,
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so that's exciting. She'll be here this hour. Also Blind
Scott and Milkman Mike all scheduled to appear, among others.
In a jam packed hour, we have Inkatara, our celebrity
judge from New York who had an amazing score to
begin to begin the festivities there for can't close the
(17:56):
deal Neil and also Andrew in Begashield. The Mallard Palooza
twenty twenty six continues. We'll get to that, we'll do
it next.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
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what about that? Yeah, and I'd like to do that
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All back to where we go the next act. We
have the next act here on the Mallor PLUSA, the
twenty twenty six. We go now to Bennett the comedian.
Bennett has grown up with the Ben Mahler Show. He's
all illegal now, he's eighteen years old. He's all grown up,
gonna play baseball. Someday you'll see him in the Major leagues,
and he is ready to perform the next deck. Hello,
(20:07):
Bennett the Comedian, Good morning guys. How are we doing
all right? And you are ready to go? Bennett, do
you need anything from us?
Speaker 8 (20:15):
I do not, other than to say something really really quick.
It's a little bit of sad news. My sister has
to get up really early tomorrow morning and she kind
of chickened out too. So all right, unfortunately it will
not be here, but it is just me.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
That's all right, that's fine. It happens. So if you're
new to the show, The Mallard Palooza, you've got song parodies,
you've got jokes, you've got impersonations. It's a variety show.
And now Bennett. Each act gets about two minutes or less.
Less is better, less is more. We now give the
mic to Bennett the Comedian.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
All right, well, I'm gonna be playing one of my
favorite songs that's called Amazing Grace on the piano. So
without further ado, here we go.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Saying, all right, all right, that is Bennett the Comedian.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Coopa said off air, that is a shocking revelation. There.
We thought he would do comedy. It was Ben at
the comedian, but he cranked up the old piano, and
I'm going to defer Bennett the Comedian to the We
have a classically trained pianist who's performed all over the world.
I'm not exaggerating, Inca terror, So Inca, you want to
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go first here? How did you score the performance by
Bennett the Comedian on his piano?
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Oh, it was very competent. I like those little blues
notes he had going on in the right hand and nice,
nice moving left hand. Dare I think one verse would
have been plenty or something a little bit more varied
If you're gonna do a second verse, I'll give him
a a seven.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Wow, you are You are unbelievable. And when you're judging unbelievable,
all right, so I'll listen. What was it excellent? No,
it wasn't excellent. Entertaining, it was okay, you know, sorry.
I thought the skill level was actually pretty good. Originality
and I don't know that it's really what we're looking
for here, because we you know, it's just you know,
it was on his phone, the whole thing, that's how
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it works. I was originally going to give him a three,
but because his sister, his younger sister went to bed,
and he just played the piano in his house and
likely woke her up. I'm going to give him a
solid six because I just the fact that he played
the piano to wake up his sister who's trying to
sleep for early morning. What about you? Arena? Amazing grace?
(23:52):
How sweet the sound? Oh my gosh, I was. I
was so shocked that you pulled a rabbit out of
your hat. No one expected you to play the piano.
That is true, that is I mean, you have the
shock factor. I thought the song choice was beautiful. I
almost wasp. Don't get carried. Give six? You said a six?
(24:18):
Are Yeah? So you agree with me? I just took
less time. I go ahead, Coople oop, go ahead, Coople
oop o Judge Coople oop? Justin Cooper? Did did you
write me a script to Lorena?
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Wow? Script?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Make sure I remember? Okay?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Just kidding?
Speaker 5 (24:34):
All right?
Speaker 9 (24:34):
Uh no, I mean you know it wasn't funny, No,
but uh it was uh it was good. You know
there was there's talent there.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
It was a slower song. So I would have, you know,
like to see some some more talent with something a
little like, you know, faster paced.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But uh, you know. I still I still liked it,
so I'm also gonna to give it a six. All right, Well,
I think right now you're in the lead, Bennett, I believe.
So congratulations. Oh all right, thank you, thank you, buddy.
Good job. All right. Thrilled, He seems overwhelmed with emotion.
He was trying to stay calm there, Bennett the comedian.
So so far we've had Andrew. He did like the
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Jesus song, right, did Jesus?
Speaker 7 (25:21):
We had?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Can't close the deal, Neil. What was that that he did?
I couldn't know. He did the yankee doodle thing that
he learned back in elementary school. See I took notes
for a reason. Oh you did, so you did the
I should write this stuff Yankee doodle.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Yeah, but it was about but it was about what
it was that positions back in positions.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Okay, Yeah, he learned in the third grade or something. Okay.
The Malord Palooza twenty twenty six continues our next act.
We go to the great State of Kansas, and she
is a regular in the Mallord Palooza. She's a woman
of a mystery. She pops up for the Malapaloosa and
(26:02):
we welcome in our friend Christy from Kansas. Hello, Christy, Welcome, Hi.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
How's it going?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Good to have you again. I'm so happy that you're
here for another year of the Mallet Plusa. And like
I said, everyone, do you need anything and you're good
to go here? You want to give us a little
tip on what you're gonna do, or you just want
to surprise us.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Just got a song, it's a little ditty.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
All right, Well, this is very exciting. I will give
the four to you. You have up to two minutes
unless we're bored. Then we'll hang up on you. So
here we go without further ado in the Malaplusa twenty
twenty six. Here she is Christy in Kansas.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
All right. The Man Balance Show is full of Ben's
with If you disagree with them, you're full love. It
really makes me laugh. On ning joke day, Hey, Inkaterra,
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All answered, Oh goody, they're doing a meet and greet.
(27:04):
I'm hoping my states the next retreat Ben show as
far superior because this cast is awesome. Who doesn't love
to hear the snore of callers playing possum? Go, get on,
listen to them, Rambalan, You'll be smarter than the throng
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Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, Christian and Kansas go all right. Amazing creativity. I
love the originality there. I thought she was putting a
stage presence, very confident with her delivery. There, I thought
the quality. I enjoyed it because it was all about me.
Uh so, I'm gonna give it. I'm giving a nine.
(27:47):
I thought, I'm giving her a nine. Ink terror hold
on me to punch him up all I said, he
I'm so excited at her. I got so excited in
gatur I didn't have you on the air. Go ahead
and getur. I apologize.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
I was saying, Christy, you've grown like crazy from year
to year. This this is fantastic. I'm with Ben nine
all the way, all.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Right, nine and nine?
Speaker 7 (28:08):
All right?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 9 (28:10):
Amazing the songwriting skills, your lyrics, it all made sense.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
It was beautifully done, upbeat, good tempo. You get nine
from me as well?
Speaker 10 (28:19):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Three nines, Cooper Loop, I have a feeling Coop's gonna
be the party. Pooper, go ahead, Coop. I just looked
over and I saw you. I noticed a little something
over there. No, I look. I loved it. I just look.
I thought it was great.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
I think just nine is so close to ten, which
is the highest score you could possibly get.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
It's good, it was good. I'm giving it. I'm giving
it an eight. Cool, you're still hoping for better. All right.
By the way, my wife's she said ten, Christy, So
my wife says, you got a ten. So congratulations. All
right there points all right, thank you, Christy. Good job.
We'll talk to you next year at the mal Blues. Okay,
thanks you guys, say if you're the greatest. All right,
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our friend there she goes, our friend Kathy. Wow, what
a great beginning here. And there's more. We're not done.
You're listening to our live coverage. You know how much
we paid for the rights to this. This is unbelievable, massive,
This is almost as big as the World Cup. We
welcome in now, very controversial listener, very controversial listener from Boston,
(29:28):
and we say hello to Blind Scott, who is up next. Hello,
Blind Scott Hey.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
In Ko Terry.
Speaker 11 (29:35):
I just want to tell you signing solidarity bro. I
love you, Man, I love you and Katara. If you
want a spot on an organ in Boston, I could
get you a job, hopefully at Helen Keller's Church or
with Cornell West. But I'm ready to sing my song.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Let's do it, all right?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
You need anything at all? Blind Scott, are you good?
Speaker 11 (29:51):
She's going to play a track. I think you're going
to play that, all right?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yep, you're good to go. All right, we'll get Blind
Scott one of the long Are you the longest tenured
listening I guess Cowboy probably, but you've been around for many,
many years.
Speaker 11 (30:05):
Yeah, No, Man, Cowboy were like some of the original
callers at Fox Sports Radio because we were already calling
other networks like we knew each other already. Lorena, there's
a call in your email box on Instagram. My dad
did Tony Maserati send it to Benny?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Just did it?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Like?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Okay, all right, here we go. Enough of that. This
is Blind Scott from Boston The Mallet Palooza twenty twenty six.
The floor is yours.
Speaker 11 (30:42):
I've been fitting here trying to find my sale. I
get behind my sail. I need to remind myself.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
I listed for the play back.
Speaker 11 (30:59):
I listed for the pay back.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
I say that every Ben.
Speaker 11 (31:05):
Malley Show listener please just like me.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
I used to.
Speaker 11 (31:11):
I feel like I'm number one.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
But yet I'm last in line.
Speaker 11 (31:18):
God turn the lights out on me and I try
to pass the time. I didn't choose this life, but
I told the Ben Maille Show Late Night one.
Speaker 10 (31:33):
I stands with truck favers better listening on the restos
for the radio. But one, I know it's a tasty
what it damn state is a pressent me and I'll
tell you just to get by.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
I take too.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
Many pills to help to use the pain. I made
a couple of dollars bills and I blew it all
from my arm and a needle. Everybody knows my name.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
They sing it way out loud.
Speaker 11 (32:10):
Danny Decido, if you want to match with me, I'll
knocked everyone in door.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Get out, but show to be some bitch on the
Wad Show.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Wait, my phone calls.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Through the Bean Balace Show and I can't five.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Good night though, all right, blind Scott, Wow, that was
that was something? Uh man, A lot?
Speaker 5 (32:40):
That was.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Okay? How do I start Uh. Oh wait, I guess
Scott hung up. But uh, I thought the preparation was
was really good. If I felt like that was therapeutic
for Scott. I feel like a lot of what he
said was about his life, like he was singing about
his existence, and so the uniqueness of it unexpected. He
(33:04):
took that shot at Danny DeVito at the end of
Personal Beef with Danny DeVito, our trash guy in Boston. Uh,
the singing wasn't the greatest, I thought. I thought it
was pretty good. I'm gonna give him an eight and
a half. I'm gonna give him an what did you
don't need to Jesus is not involved in this. He
(33:24):
was in the first act. Coop. Yeah, that was the verse.
Anka Tara quickly please inkotary your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Oh yeah, that was like above Dylan cry for help.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
I'm giving that a three.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Okay, so I went have you with three? Lorena?
Speaker 11 (33:44):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
So I love that he sang from the soul.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
I love the crescendo when he got really big and boisterous,
and I love the octagon sample.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
You know, we gave a real good taste of what
he does on the air. I gotta give him a seven. Okay,
all right, Uh would be very careful, coop, you're up,
you're up next to your coop. So I mean he was.
Speaker 9 (34:06):
He was a little like off the like where he
was like supposed to start saying and then like the voice,
like the voice is not it's not good. But but
it got better when he got more like loud and gravelly.
I liked the gravelly, harsh vocals more. I'm gonna give
(34:27):
it a four.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Wow, okay, I guess I went a little to anytime
I hear my name in a song parody, I I'm
comparing him to Elvis. I thought, wow, that's amazing, or Sinatra,
somebody like that. Okay, very good. I believe we'll pause
for the cause in ka te hold on a second,
right there, the mallor palouse that continues. I think we
have dork Oh the comedian. Is he up next? I
(34:50):
believe Dorko the comedian, Yes, we have that ready to go.
I doubt he's doing comedy. All right, we'll have Dorko
the comedian, who knows. I think milkman Mike as well.
I don't see him online here, but hopefully we'll get
Milkman Mike in here. The Malur Palooza twenty twenty six continues.
It's all night entertainment. You get it only here on
the Ben Maler Show. We'll get to it. Back to
it we go, and we'll do it next.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
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Speaker 1 (35:22):
It is the Ben Mallor Show you're listening to. You're
listening to the Mallard Palooza twenty twenty six as we
continue on all night. Reminder, this show is on YouTube
as well. You can watch Mallard monologues and other features. Yes,
a wish sandwich, two slices of bread, and you wish this.
(35:44):
Actually did this in the seventh grade Talent show junior
high school. Damn no, I just imagine someone doing this. Yeah,
I did night. Oh my buddy Shane dragged me into this.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
I did.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, seventh grade talent show I did.
Speaker 9 (35:57):
Yeah, that blows my mind.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Yeah. I was very, very embarrassed. I'm an introvert, but
I had like the sunglasses on, I had the hat,
so I felt like I was hiding from people. So
I did it, but yeah video Oh no, god, that
was before they had video back in the stone Age. Anyway,
it is a Ben Maler show. We would continue on,
thank you, thank you, thank you. Let's get right back
to it. It is the Mallard Palooza twenty twenty six,
(36:20):
and our next act up a legend. He's very popular
on social media, always sends a lot of good commentary,
and he's teamed up with Jay Scoop for some wonderful
tunes over the last couple of years. There's a group
of Jayscoop, just Josh and our friend Milkman Mike. He's
also sung the song for Lorena every week that we've
(36:40):
been playing lately. So, without further ado, let's welcome in
on Wow. Well, what was that Mallard Palooza. We welcome
in Milkman Mike in Colorado. Milkman welcome. Do you need
anything for me?
Speaker 6 (36:53):
No, sir, I do not.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
All right, the floor is yours, Milkman. Here we go.
You are the next act up on the Malar Loser
from Colorado, The Malapluza twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
Well, good morning, everybody. I would say that I'm glad
to see you here, But if you could be anywhere else,
you'd be listening to something else. Hey, did you guys
hear about the accident real Talk had in Brooklyn?
Speaker 1 (37:16):
No, No, I didn't.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
Nobody saw it happen. He was laying in the street.
Nobody was waiting us to it. All they heard was
boom boom boom, boom boom. Sorry. What does the smell
from weed Man and the Ben Mallor show have in common?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
They are in the air everywhere. Brian Scott recently led
a blind protest through the streets of Boston. It was
cut short, though, when you let everybody off of here
in end of the Boston Harbor. Did you hear that?
(38:00):
I rate Bostonian walked up the blind Scott and stuck
his finger right in his face, but he didn't see
the point.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
What's the difference between uh looting your locker combination and
Poppy's picks?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (38:20):
Sooner or later you'll get your combination right. And finally,
what does poppies picks and sour milk have in common?
They both expired a long time ago. Thank you, milkman,
You've just been served.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Okay, there he is Milkman from Colorado, real quick in
gets there. How'd you score it?
Speaker 6 (38:45):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (38:46):
Very good?
Speaker 6 (38:47):
You know.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
The only the only thing I would say is you
got to watch the space in between the jokes. What
you how you treat it? But besides that, it is great.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Seven h seven Wow, all right, I did not see that.
Comedy is very difficult. Like the jokes were funny, It's
just a hard it's a hard thing to do. There
were a few boo boos in there. I love milkman, Mike.
I'm gonna give him a four. What about you, Lorena?
I loved his awkward delivery. I thought that was probably
(39:16):
the funniest part. So I also had for it. All right.
Speaker 9 (39:22):
I agree with you Ben, you know, kudos to doing
a stand up And that's that's difficult.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
I'm going to give it a six. WHOA lost your
bloody mind? Coop? What did then? You were ripping me earlier?
That's I mean, that's I'm gonna question the integrity of
the mote. Dave Scott in eight and a half, I
don't want to here talking about the Mala militia loved
(39:50):
Blind Scott. They thought it was the greatest thing ever.
They couldn't get another it U Joe Texas says, I
don't know what y'all, but blind Scott had me waving
my cell phone light in the air. That's from Ocho Texto.
Speaker 10 (40:02):
What else?
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Cho Texto is an idiot? Kathy and Madison says blind
Scott was great. Welcome back Scott a monkey biz. Doug
in Korea said, I spit my beer out of my nose.
Way to go, blind Scott, and you ripped him. They
love Scott, They thought it was great. Are we are
we scoring based on entertainment value?
Speaker 4 (40:22):
Talent?
Speaker 1 (40:22):
It's a tensive radio show. It's entertaining, supposed to be entertaining.
What's the point of doing this? Stupid thing?
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Said?
Speaker 10 (40:29):
Talent?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
You said is a talent?
Speaker 5 (40:30):
What does that to?
Speaker 9 (40:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:32):
I mean you know you can't get Come on, Coop,
it's an overnight radio show.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Man, We're not gonna get Elvis up there. We're not
gonna get Shane Gillis doing comedy. Okay, what's that? What
about Patricia? Patricia? Yeah? Come on, all right, stop, all right, anyway,
all right, we will continue. We went a little along there.
We have many more acts. We've got to pick up
the pace. We got a lot of action. Here's the
Mallard Palooza twenty twenty six. We having a hoot and
Nanny a grand old time right here. Stay oh, can't
(41:00):
believe it's gonna be amazing. Wait till you year. What's
next
Great Google emogally, it's our number two Ben Mahler Show.
It's Malard paloozat twenty twenty six, and this hour the
monologue begins with some hot baseball after a dud the
other night in Philadelphia? Is the Major League Baseball All
Star Game in the stranger danger zone? Also, where are
you at on Major League Baseball scheme to issue harsh
(00:22):
penalties to players who try to get out of the
twenty twenty eight Olympics. We'll talk about that, and does
this Lance mccullors trade count as an upgrade for the
Brewers from the cheating Asstros. We'll go there as well.
We have acts from Christy in Kansas this hour also
Blind Scott among others. And so check out the talent
(00:46):
here in the Mallard Palooz at twenty twenty six. Here
we go, it's our number two from All Star to
dim Star. What is that?
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In the beginning of another.
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Hour of The Ben Mahler Show, we are in the
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Malard Palooza continues in a few minutes. Got the Mallard monologue.
Our next act and once you get ready for this,
our first I say kid act. Now technically Bennett, he's
(03:19):
all grown up now, he's eighteen, he's adult. His sister
though still a kid, so I'm gonna consider this a
kid act. They are warming up right now, they're doing
some vocal exercises, getting ready for their act, and they
will be up next. So look forward to that, our
first kid act. And who could possibly follow in the
footsteps of Can't Close The deal Neil and especially Andrew
(03:40):
and people loving inca terror's line about his comment on Andrew.
But our lead this hour and we'll get back to
the mallepoos our leader from the All Star fallout, several
prominent baseball figures voicing concern for the health of the
Midsummer Classic, the post mortem, the autopsy on what happened
(04:02):
in Phildelphia the other day. So if you didn't follow along,
maybe not leading the charge buster only and several others
who said Major League Baseball is All Star Game is
in a fragile state. The baseball scribes and the pundits
are arguing that there's a lot of concern within the
(04:22):
industry that the future of the All Star Game is
not bright. Despite this being the top All Star game
in the country, it's not going in a good place.
The marque players aren't interested, a lot of them skipped
the game, didn't even bother to attend the All Star Game.
And so there's a growing trend here of the All
(04:43):
Star Game for the players, the biggest name players that
are just unavailable, and a lot of them pitched the
final day or two before All Star break and they
were not able to play and We had notable absences
this year. Some of the biggest stars in baseball Aaron Judge,
oh hey Otani who Mike Tyson apparently thinks is a check.
(05:03):
Paul Skeins, Jacob Mazeroski, and Kim Schlittler among those that
either didn't show up or didn't participate. Now the baseball
big shots are concerned panic at the disco, So that
is a good jumping out point. Let us discuss the question.
Is the MLB All Star Game in the stranger danger zone?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Do do?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Do?
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Do?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Do?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
So my observations, I've got Micronesia, Ganghis Khan and Letterman's jacket,
and I promise you those things have never been combined
together until right here in this moment. We'll mix them
all together and you and I are going to take
the plunge. We'll take the munch. So to answer the question,
number one, number one, number one, All right, I'm nodding
(05:51):
my head. Yes, I am nodding my head. Yes. We
are directly in the high seas, turbulent waters for the
All Star Game. Here. The game is not I want
to say, it's dying. It's a qq situation. Quiet quitting
is what's going on, and it's the same issue that
the industrial complex of sport, big sporty has been dealing with.
(06:14):
All Star games are from a by gone era and
we're in an era now where this thing is a monster,
the professional sports, the big time sports here in this country.
So when the All Star Game began to give you
a little history lesson here, back when players earned somewhat
reasonable salaries, some of them even had jobs. Baseball players
(06:35):
had have jobs in the offseason. They worked at car
dealerships and other things to pay the bills. And this
was an important event. It was a highlight for the players.
And that was back when the National League and the
American League never played each other, just to use baseball
as an example, but it was important. The players wanted
to promote the game, right. It was a promotional vehicle
to grow the sport of baseball. It was very important.
(06:58):
You look at it now and the player, the arrogance
of the players. It's like Blockbuster Video, these All Star
games for these guys, and everyone remembers Blockbuster Video. If
you have a certain age and nobody's going back, no
Blockbuster Video. You can't go out there on a Friday
night get a thing of popcorn and see if you
can get the top movies in the theaters. So with
(07:19):
the aristocratic wealth our baseball players have earned, these measly
little All Star bonuses are pocket change. They do. It's
not worth their time. The players would rather relax in Micronesia.
They would rather be there than endure the All Star Game,
which is like a low intensity senior citizen malwalk. The
(07:43):
way that the game's played, and it's a showcase. It's
a showcase though that's lost all of its panache, if
you know what I'm saying. There even Philadelphia fans that
usually stayed at the end of the game, they were
abandoning ship in the eighth inning. The stadium was clearing
out in that snooze fest. I'm an All Star game,
so the stars keep skipping it. Major League Baseball they're
(08:05):
talking about overhauling the game. God only knows what that means,
put it in Frankenstein's lab. Or they're even talking about
possibly killing the All Star Game like the NFL did
with the Pro Bowl, where God only knows what it is. Well,
they could copy the NFL, or the NFL pivoted to
dodgeball and tug of war and relay races for their
(08:25):
little Pro Bowl weekend, so Baseball can do Capture the
Flag and Kickball and the Ultimate Frisbee Challenge instead of
the All Star Game. All right, now Page two to
the actual Olympics, but the baseball spin on the Olympics.
Now Major League Baseball proposing very harsh punishment for players
(08:49):
who are selected to the twenty twenty eight Los Angeles
Summer Olympics but decline to participate. You see, this no
a right. So if you don't participate, you're picked for
the Olympics. You don't participate without an approved exemption, you're cooked.
It is all part of an ongoing negotiation between ownership
and the union. Under the proposal, as I understand it,
(09:13):
players of star value who are refusing to participate in
the Olympics will be placed on the restricted list by
the Commissioner's office from roughly July tenth through August third,
so that's pretty much a month, meaning they will not
get paid their salary. They will get no service time,
(09:34):
which is very important because if you're fully vested in
the pension, you're getting a lot of money when you
get old, and if you don't show up to the Olympics,
you're not getting that service time. So it's a big deal.
It's a pretty big deal here. And Baseball also wants
to prevent players in clubs from circumventing the integrity of
the Olympics and using questionable, made up in injuries to
(10:00):
get out of it. Players granted injury exemptions would have
to remain on the engine list all the way through
August fourth, even if they're healthy, even if they're like,
you're faking it, ah, my tall, my tall, my tall,
and it turns out your toes actually not hurt. And
they they're warning teams. The Baseball was already warning teams
and executives and agents two years in advance here that
(10:23):
anyone that does not honor the moral obligation if you will,
or tries to circumvent the rules could face additional punishment.
All right, So the question where are you at on
Major League Baseball's scheme to issue very harsh penalties to
(10:45):
players who try to get out of the twenty twenty
eight Olympics in LA. So when I saw this, I
did think when I first saw this, that this was
some kind of parody. It was satire. I thought, well,
that can't be real. That is no, that's real. Anyway,
it's real. Apparently, I'm not making this up. It's not satire.
It's not sports Talk Barrier but crack Sports or any
(11:05):
of that. It's real. It's not NBA sentel, it's real.
So Rob Manford is handling this like a windhom timeshare
presentation in Vegas. You ever been stuck in one of
those timeshare presentations. Me and my wife were stuck in
one years ago. They took our driver's license. We couldn't
get out, and it was like being held hostage. It's
(11:26):
such a freaking nightmare. They pressure you, all right, they
give you a guilt for not signing up and all that.
So anyway, it's just it's completely unnecessary. That's the point
I'm trying to make here. The supreme leader of hardball,
Rob Manfraud, wants to showcase baseball on the grand international stage,
and he is willing to use strong arm tactics to
(11:48):
make it happen. And yet again Rob Manford telling everyone
he's out of touch, taking a page from that laminated
Genghis Khan playbook. The twenty twenty Eightlympics will be the
final big act for his commissionership. He is set to
leave baseball in twenty twenty nine. Hallelujah, hallelujah sounded like
(12:13):
Andrew and Bakersfield. There the way, yeah, way I did that. Anyway,
As the saying goes, and we've all heard this in
our lives there, you cannot control behavior, or you can
rather control baby. You cannot. You cannot force someone to
buy it, right, you can control what they're doing, you
cannot force them to enjoy what they're doing. And so
I say that it's unnecessary. The reason it's unnecessary, the
(12:34):
smart money says, the biggest stars in Major League Baseball
are all going to sign up for the Olympics. And
here's why, because they're gonna get They're gonna get money
out of it. Right, they're gonna they're gonna make money
from endorsements the Q rating. Uh, this will be a
marketing bonanza for baseball players. They'll be picking up Dino
(12:56):
sized endorsements. Okay, so my advice Rob and for somebody
should let Rob No, Hey, hey, Rob, I've got a
bumper sticker. Oh it's on the bumper sticker. Let's say
it's a quote from Mike Tomlin. Oh, that's the guy
used to coach the Steeler. Yeah, yeah, he's on TV
now and the quote goes, we want volunteers, not prisoners.
All right, that's the quote. All right, meanwha. We have
(13:18):
a trade in baseball, final point, trade in baseball. The
Milwaukee Brewers have made a deal to acquire a pitcher,
not a good one, Lance mccullors. Yeah, that guy, that dirty,
rotten scoundrel. They also acquired a minor league pitcher I've
never heard of, and cash considerations from the cheating a
(13:43):
one two, one thousand holes and the trade trying to
boost up Milwaukee's injury depleted starting pitching staff. So they
added some depth in theory. Houston received outfield the prospect
Jaden Fielder in return. Who the f is that? Well,
it's a guy. It's got some name value. He's twenty one,
(14:06):
the son of former MLB slugger for the Brewers, Princefielder,
and shockingly to say, the grandson of Cecil Fielder, which
I'm getting old. I interviewed him back when he was playing,
and now he's a grandpa. There you go. Anyway, mccullur's
agreed to waive his no trade clause. I know, I'm puzzled.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Too.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
How did he have a no trade clause to complete
the deal. He's spent his entire career with the Cheaters
and now he's heading off to Wisconsin to play for
the Crew. So the question does this Lance mccullor's trade
count as an upgrade for the Brewers? So I'm shaking
(14:48):
my head, No, shaking my head.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
This is the baseball version of buying a used neutral
bullet blender that smells like burnt rubbert. Well, why'd you
buy that?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Work?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Well, it's cheap. I got it cheap. Well it's not
gonna work. In boxing, they call it the old one
two punch in boxing. For Milwaukee, they get a sucker
punch because it makes the Crew. I hate to say it,
because I love my people in Wisconsin, but it makes
them instantly more unlikable. And here's why I checked the
(15:21):
letterman's jacket. Lance mccullors has a lifetime membership in the
Scarlet Letter Club because he was a figure part of
that despicable, deplorable cheating a stros. Yep, he's got twenty
(15:43):
seventeen trash can cooties. He's got that. Good luck disinfecting that.
If you're the Milwaukee Brewers there tossing the fact that
he's damaged, goods washed up. He's on the what we
used to call the disabled list now becaus they call
something else, their shoulder inflammation. And when he has pitched,
his er is almost seven. So that's a knuckle sand
(16:06):
which is what that is. So the Brewers did not
get quality depth, they got a medical chart. And the
only good news is they traded a prospect, which is
a suspect. As we know, Jaden Fielder, who was not
highly rated, is not projected to be anything really all
that special if he does even make it in the
(16:27):
major leagues. And you know, the Brewers don't think this
guy's got it. You think the Brewers would trade Prince
Fielder's kid if he could play, if they thought he
could play. Hell, no, no, not. Everyone's right. They could
be wrong. He could turn out to be wonderful. Remember
the Dodgers traded Jordan Alvarez when he was in the
minor leagues. He turned out to be pretty good for
the cheaters. So it does happen. You make mistakes, But
(16:49):
in terms of the value added for Lance, McCullers don't
see it. Milwaukee is simply betting they can go out
and find on Ebays some voodoo bugaloo and fix the
damage for Lance mccullors and put some soap on him,
rub away the cooties from the Bye Bye and the
whistle Whistle Whistle from the Cheaters and the big playoff push.
(17:12):
All right is they Bean Mallard Show, The Ben Mahler Show.
The Malar Palooza continues. Our next act. We're going to
get to this coming up in a couple of minutes.
We have Bennett the comedian this hour. Also acts scheduled
to appear this hour regular in the Mala Puluosa. She's
back again. Our friend Christy from Kansas will make a return,
(17:35):
so that's exciting. She'll be here this hour. Also Blind
Scott and Milkman Mike all scheduled to appear, among others.
In a jam packed hour, we have Inkatara, our celebrity
judge from New York who had an amazing score to
begin to begin the festivities there for can't close the
(17:56):
deal Neil and also Andrew in Begashield. The Mallard Palooza
twenty twenty six continues. We'll get to that, we'll do
it next.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
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who's a big podcast support us that always emails me
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All back to where we go the next act. We
have the next act here on the Mallor PLUSA, the
twenty twenty six. We go now to Bennett the comedian.
Bennett has grown up with the Ben Mahler Show. He's
all illegal now, he's eighteen years old. He's all grown up,
gonna play baseball. Someday you'll see him in the Major leagues,
and he is ready to perform the next deck. Hello,
(20:07):
Bennett the Comedian, Good morning guys. How are we doing
all right? And you are ready to go? Bennett, do
you need anything from us?
Speaker 8 (20:15):
I do not, other than to say something really really quick.
It's a little bit of sad news. My sister has
to get up really early tomorrow morning and she kind
of chickened out too. So all right, unfortunately it will
not be here, but it is just me.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
That's all right, that's fine. It happens. So if you're
new to the show, The Mallard Palooza, you've got song parodies,
you've got jokes, you've got impersonations. It's a variety show.
And now Bennett. Each act gets about two minutes or less.
Less is better, less is more. We now give the
mic to Bennett the Comedian.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
All right, well, I'm gonna be playing one of my
favorite songs that's called Amazing Grace on the piano. So
without further ado, here we go.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Saying, all right, all right, that is Bennett the Comedian.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Coopa said off air, that is a shocking revelation. There.
We thought he would do comedy. It was Ben at
the comedian, but he cranked up the old piano, and
I'm going to defer Bennett the Comedian to the We
have a classically trained pianist who's performed all over the world.
I'm not exaggerating, Inca terror, So Inca, you want to
(22:42):
go first here? How did you score the performance by
Bennett the Comedian on his piano?
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Oh, it was very competent. I like those little blues
notes he had going on in the right hand and nice,
nice moving left hand. Dare I think one verse would
have been plenty or something a little bit more varied
If you're gonna do a second verse, I'll give him
a a seven.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Wow, you are You are unbelievable. And when you're judging unbelievable,
all right, so I'll listen. What was it excellent? No,
it wasn't excellent. Entertaining, it was okay, you know, sorry.
I thought the skill level was actually pretty good. Originality
and I don't know that it's really what we're looking
for here, because we you know, it's just you know,
it was on his phone, the whole thing, that's how
(23:31):
it works. I was originally going to give him a three,
but because his sister, his younger sister went to bed,
and he just played the piano in his house and
likely woke her up. I'm going to give him a
solid six because I just the fact that he played
the piano to wake up his sister who's trying to
sleep for early morning. What about you? Arena? Amazing grace?
(23:52):
How sweet the sound? Oh my gosh, I was. I
was so shocked that you pulled a rabbit out of
your hat. No one expected you to play the piano.
That is true, that is I mean, you have the
shock factor. I thought the song choice was beautiful. I
almost wasp. Don't get carried. Give six? You said a six?
(24:18):
Are Yeah? So you agree with me? I just took
less time. I go ahead, Coople oop, go ahead, Coople
oop o Judge Coople oop? Justin Cooper? Did did you
write me a script to Lorena?
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Wow? Script?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Make sure I remember? Okay?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Just kidding?
Speaker 5 (24:34):
All right?
Speaker 9 (24:34):
Uh no, I mean you know it wasn't funny, No,
but uh it was uh it was good. You know
there was there's talent there.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
It was a slower song. So I would have, you know,
like to see some some more talent with something a
little like, you know, faster paced.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But uh, you know. I still I still liked it,
so I'm also gonna to give it a six. All right, Well,
I think right now you're in the lead, Bennett, I believe.
So congratulations. Oh all right, thank you, thank you, buddy.
Good job. All right. Thrilled, He seems overwhelmed with emotion.
He was trying to stay calm there, Bennett the comedian.
So so far we've had Andrew. He did like the
(25:18):
Jesus song, right, did Jesus?
Speaker 7 (25:21):
We had?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Can't close the deal, Neil. What was that that he did?
I couldn't know. He did the yankee doodle thing that
he learned back in elementary school. See I took notes
for a reason. Oh you did, so you did the
I should write this stuff Yankee doodle.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Yeah, but it was about but it was about what
it was that positions back in positions.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Okay, Yeah, he learned in the third grade or something. Okay.
The Malord Palooza twenty twenty six continues our next act.
We go to the great State of Kansas, and she
is a regular in the Mallord Palooza. She's a woman
of a mystery. She pops up for the Malapaloosa and
(26:02):
we welcome in our friend Christy from Kansas. Hello, Christy, Welcome, Hi.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
How's it going?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Good to have you again. I'm so happy that you're
here for another year of the Mallet Plusa. And like
I said, everyone, do you need anything and you're good
to go here? You want to give us a little
tip on what you're gonna do, or you just want
to surprise us.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Just got a song, it's a little ditty.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
All right, Well, this is very exciting. I will give
the four to you. You have up to two minutes
unless we're bored. Then we'll hang up on you. So
here we go without further ado in the Malaplusa twenty
twenty six. Here she is Christy in Kansas.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
All right. The Man Balance Show is full of Ben's
with If you disagree with them, you're full love. It
really makes me laugh. On ning joke day, Hey, Inkaterra,
Coop and Loraina join in the mallor Militia Mania. If
you tune in every morning just to hear their banter,
you can win a golden ticket in be the first.
All answered, Oh goody, they're doing a meet and greet.
(27:04):
I'm hoping my states the next retreat Ben show as
far superior because this cast is awesome. Who doesn't love
to hear the snore of callers playing possum? Go, get on,
listen to them, Rambalan, You'll be smarter than the throng
because Ben is never wrong. Boone, A show fifth hour
means mot with Ben behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, Christian and Kansas go all right. Amazing creativity. I
love the originality there. I thought she was putting a
stage presence, very confident with her delivery. There, I thought
the quality. I enjoyed it because it was all about me.
Uh so, I'm gonna give it. I'm giving a nine.
(27:47):
I thought, I'm giving her a nine. Ink terror hold
on me to punch him up all I said, he
I'm so excited at her. I got so excited in
gatur I didn't have you on the air. Go ahead
and getur. I apologize.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
I was saying, Christy, you've grown like crazy from year
to year. This this is fantastic. I'm with Ben nine
all the way, all.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Right, nine and nine?
Speaker 7 (28:08):
All right?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 9 (28:10):
Amazing the songwriting skills, your lyrics, it all made sense.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
It was beautifully done, upbeat, good tempo. You get nine
from me as well?
Speaker 10 (28:19):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Three nines, Cooper Loop, I have a feeling Coop's gonna
be the party. Pooper, go ahead, Coop. I just looked
over and I saw you. I noticed a little something
over there. No, I look. I loved it. I just look.
I thought it was great.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
I think just nine is so close to ten, which
is the highest score you could possibly get.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
It's good, it was good. I'm giving it. I'm giving
it an eight. Cool, you're still hoping for better. All right.
By the way, my wife's she said ten, Christy, So
my wife says, you got a ten. So congratulations. All
right there points all right, thank you, Christy. Good job.
We'll talk to you next year at the mal Blues. Okay,
thanks you guys, say if you're the greatest. All right,
(29:04):
our friend there she goes, our friend Kathy. Wow, what
a great beginning here. And there's more. We're not done.
You're listening to our live coverage. You know how much
we paid for the rights to this. This is unbelievable, massive,
This is almost as big as the World Cup. We
welcome in now, very controversial listener, very controversial listener from Boston,
(29:28):
and we say hello to Blind Scott, who is up next. Hello,
Blind Scott Hey.
Speaker 6 (29:35):
In Ko Terry.
Speaker 11 (29:35):
I just want to tell you signing solidarity bro. I
love you, Man, I love you and Katara. If you
want a spot on an organ in Boston, I could
get you a job, hopefully at Helen Keller's Church or
with Cornell West. But I'm ready to sing my song.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Let's do it, all right?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
You need anything at all? Blind Scott, are you good?
Speaker 11 (29:51):
She's going to play a track. I think you're going
to play that, all right?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yep, you're good to go. All right, we'll get Blind
Scott one of the long Are you the longest tenured
listening I guess Cowboy probably, but you've been around for many,
many years.
Speaker 11 (30:05):
Yeah, No, Man, Cowboy were like some of the original
callers at Fox Sports Radio because we were already calling
other networks like we knew each other already. Lorena, there's
a call in your email box on Instagram. My dad
did Tony Maserati send it to Benny?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Just did it?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Like?
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Okay, all right, here we go. Enough of that. This
is Blind Scott from Boston The Mallet Palooza twenty twenty six.
The floor is yours.
Speaker 11 (30:42):
I've been fitting here trying to find my sale. I
get behind my sail. I need to remind myself.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
I listed for the play back.
Speaker 11 (30:59):
I listed for the pay back.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
I say that every Ben.
Speaker 11 (31:05):
Malley Show listener please just like me.
Speaker 6 (31:10):
I used to.
Speaker 11 (31:11):
I feel like I'm number one.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
But yet I'm last in line.
Speaker 11 (31:18):
God turn the lights out on me and I try
to pass the time. I didn't choose this life, but
I told the Ben Maille Show Late Night one.
Speaker 10 (31:33):
I stands with truck favers better listening on the restos
for the radio. But one, I know it's a tasty
what it damn state is a pressent me and I'll
tell you just to get by.
Speaker 6 (31:52):
I take too.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
Many pills to help to use the pain. I made
a couple of dollars bills and I blew it all
from my arm and a needle. Everybody knows my name.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
They sing it way out loud.
Speaker 11 (32:10):
Danny Decido, if you want to match with me, I'll
knocked everyone in door.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
Get out, but show to be some bitch on the
Wad Show.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Wait, my phone calls.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Through the Bean Balace Show and I can't five.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Good night though, all right, blind Scott, Wow, that was
that was something? Uh man, A lot?
Speaker 5 (32:40):
That was.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Okay? How do I start Uh. Oh wait, I guess
Scott hung up. But uh, I thought the preparation was
was really good. If I felt like that was therapeutic
for Scott. I feel like a lot of what he
said was about his life, like he was singing about
his existence, and so the uniqueness of it unexpected. He
(33:04):
took that shot at Danny DeVito at the end of
Personal Beef with Danny DeVito, our trash guy in Boston. Uh,
the singing wasn't the greatest, I thought. I thought it
was pretty good. I'm gonna give him an eight and
a half. I'm gonna give him an what did you
don't need to Jesus is not involved in this. He
(33:24):
was in the first act. Coop. Yeah, that was the verse.
Anka Tara quickly please inkotary your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Oh yeah, that was like above Dylan cry for help.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
I'm giving that a three.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Okay, so I went have you with three? Lorena?
Speaker 11 (33:44):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
So I love that he sang from the soul.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
I love the crescendo when he got really big and boisterous,
and I love the octagon sample.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
You know, we gave a real good taste of what
he does on the air. I gotta give him a seven. Okay,
all right, Uh would be very careful, coop, you're up,
you're up next to your coop. So I mean he was.
Speaker 9 (34:06):
He was a little like off the like where he
was like supposed to start saying and then like the voice,
like the voice is not it's not good. But but
it got better when he got more like loud and gravelly.
I liked the gravelly, harsh vocals more. I'm gonna give
(34:27):
it a four.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Wow, okay, I guess I went a little to anytime
I hear my name in a song parody, I I'm
comparing him to Elvis. I thought, wow, that's amazing, or Sinatra,
somebody like that. Okay, very good. I believe we'll pause
for the cause in ka te hold on a second,
right there, the mallor palouse that continues. I think we
have dork Oh the comedian. Is he up next? I
(34:50):
believe Dorko the comedian, Yes, we have that ready to go.
I doubt he's doing comedy. All right, we'll have Dorko
the comedian, who knows. I think milkman Mike as well.
I don't see him online here, but hopefully we'll get
Milkman Mike in here. The Malur Palooza twenty twenty six continues.
It's all night entertainment. You get it only here on
the Ben Maler Show. We'll get to it. Back to
it we go, and we'll do it next.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
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Speaker 1 (35:22):
It is the Ben Mallor Show you're listening to. You're
listening to the Mallard Palooza twenty twenty six as we
continue on all night. Reminder, this show is on YouTube
as well. You can watch Mallard monologues and other features. Yes,
a wish sandwich, two slices of bread, and you wish this.
(35:44):
Actually did this in the seventh grade Talent show junior
high school. Damn no, I just imagine someone doing this. Yeah,
I did night. Oh my buddy Shane dragged me into this.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
I did.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, seventh grade talent show I did.
Speaker 9 (35:57):
Yeah, that blows my mind.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Yeah. I was very, very embarrassed. I'm an introvert, but
I had like the sunglasses on, I had the hat,
so I felt like I was hiding from people. So
I did it, but yeah video Oh no, god, that
was before they had video back in the stone Age. Anyway,
it is a Ben Maler show. We would continue on,
thank you, thank you, thank you. Let's get right back
to it. It is the Mallard Palooza twenty twenty six,
(36:20):
and our next act up a legend. He's very popular
on social media, always sends a lot of good commentary,
and he's teamed up with Jay Scoop for some wonderful
tunes over the last couple of years. There's a group
of Jayscoop, just Josh and our friend Milkman Mike. He's
also sung the song for Lorena every week that we've
(36:40):
been playing lately. So, without further ado, let's welcome in
on Wow. Well, what was that Mallard Palooza. We welcome
in Milkman Mike in Colorado. Milkman welcome. Do you need
anything for me?
Speaker 6 (36:53):
No, sir, I do not.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
All right, the floor is yours, Milkman. Here we go.
You are the next act up on the Malar Loser
from Colorado, The Malapluza twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
Well, good morning, everybody. I would say that I'm glad
to see you here, But if you could be anywhere else,
you'd be listening to something else. Hey, did you guys
hear about the accident real Talk had in Brooklyn?
Speaker 1 (37:16):
No, No, I didn't.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
Nobody saw it happen. He was laying in the street.
Nobody was waiting us to it. All they heard was
boom boom boom, boom boom. Sorry. What does the smell
from weed Man and the Ben Mallor show have in common?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
They are in the air everywhere. Brian Scott recently led
a blind protest through the streets of Boston. It was
cut short, though, when you let everybody off of here
in end of the Boston Harbor. Did you hear that?
(38:00):
I rate Bostonian walked up the blind Scott and stuck
his finger right in his face, but he didn't see
the point.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (38:13):
What's the difference between uh looting your locker combination and
Poppy's picks?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (38:20):
Sooner or later you'll get your combination right. And finally,
what does poppies picks and sour milk have in common?
They both expired a long time ago. Thank you, milkman,
You've just been served.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Okay, there he is Milkman from Colorado, real quick in
gets there. How'd you score it?
Speaker 6 (38:45):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (38:46):
Very good?
Speaker 6 (38:47):
You know.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
The only the only thing I would say is you
got to watch the space in between the jokes. What
you how you treat it? But besides that, it is great.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Seven h seven Wow, all right, I did not see that.
Comedy is very difficult. Like the jokes were funny, It's
just a hard it's a hard thing to do. There
were a few boo boos in there. I love milkman, Mike.
I'm gonna give him a four. What about you, Lorena?
I loved his awkward delivery. I thought that was probably
(39:16):
the funniest part. So I also had for it. All right.
Speaker 9 (39:22):
I agree with you Ben, you know, kudos to doing
a stand up And that's that's difficult.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
I'm going to give it a six. WHOA lost your
bloody mind? Coop? What did then? You were ripping me earlier?
That's I mean, that's I'm gonna question the integrity of
the mote. Dave Scott in eight and a half, I
don't want to here talking about the Mala militia loved
(39:50):
Blind Scott. They thought it was the greatest thing ever.
They couldn't get another it U Joe Texas says, I
don't know what y'all, but blind Scott had me waving
my cell phone light in the air. That's from Ocho Texto.
Speaker 10 (40:02):
What else?
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Cho Texto is an idiot? Kathy and Madison says blind
Scott was great. Welcome back Scott a monkey biz. Doug
in Korea said, I spit my beer out of my nose.
Way to go, blind Scott, and you ripped him. They
love Scott, They thought it was great. Are we are
we scoring based on entertainment value?
Speaker 4 (40:22):
Talent?
Speaker 1 (40:22):
It's a tensive radio show. It's entertaining, supposed to be entertaining.
What's the point of doing this? Stupid thing?
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Said?
Speaker 10 (40:29):
Talent?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
You said is a talent?
Speaker 5 (40:30):
What does that to?
Speaker 9 (40:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:32):
I mean you know you can't get Come on, Coop,
it's an overnight radio show.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
What do you want?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Man, We're not gonna get Elvis up there. We're not
gonna get Shane Gillis doing comedy. Okay, what's that? What
about Patricia? Patricia? Yeah? Come on, all right, stop, all right, anyway,
all right, we will continue. We went a little along there.
We have many more acts. We've got to pick up
the pace. We got a lot of action. Here's the
Mallard Palooza twenty twenty six. We having a hoot and
Nanny a grand old time right here. Stay oh, can't
(41:00):
believe it's gonna be amazing. Wait till you year. What's
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