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March 17, 2025 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about the Bengals extending both Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins, how the Bengals justify making Higgins the NFL's 9th highest-paid WR, Seattle having an out in QB Sam Darnold's contract after the 2025 season, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dingo, here we go. It's our number two.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
And what a perfect way on this March seventeenth, Saint
Patrick's Day to celebrate the green then to give out
a bunch of green. What do you make of the
moves by the Bengals to extend Jamar Chase and T Higgins?
What do they signify to you? We'll discuss that. Also,
how do the Bengals justify making T Higgins, who's a

(00:27):
number two wide receiver, the NFL's ninth highest paid receiver overall?
And how do you read into Seattle giving out a
contract to Sam Donald they can get out of after.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Only one year.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
It's essentially a one year contract for Sam Donald in Seattle.
We'll talk about all that and more right now here
it is give it up for our number two in
the spirit of the holiday. Normally this NFL team they
wear the black and the orange. But it's all it's
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Speaker 1 (02:01):
Beat. So we have met our quota.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
We talked about the NCAA Men's basketball tournament and it
was a dud last hour, So we will move on
from that and get back to where the power is.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
The power is kept on here.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
The lights are on because of the National Football League
and our lead this hour from northern Kentucky or very
very southern Ohio. And while some some were bracket busting
and filling out different brackets and whatnot, an NFL team

(02:38):
under the cover of darkness movie in a clandestine way
to pay a lot of money out. And now if
you didn't hear, the Bengals wrote not one, but two
cartoon sized checks. The news coming down on Sunday night.
Sunday night over the weekend. If you did not hear,

(02:59):
perhaps not the BEng Gals, the Cincinnati football team has
agreed to deals with Jamar Chase four years, one hundred
and sixty one million Dead Presidents, making him the highest
paid non quarterback non quarterback in NFL history. That has
changed three times. Three times in the past ten days.

(03:22):
There has been a different player at the very top.
It started with Max Crosby from the Raiders who got paid,
and then the guy that really wanted to win and
wanted to be traded from the Cleveland Browns because he
couldn't win in Cleveland. And then the Browns made him
the highest paid non quarterback, Miles Garrett, and suddenly he
didn't care about winning. He wanted to play for the Browns.
And now now it's Jamar Chase. So Jamar Chase is

(03:44):
at the very top. He is under contract. I know
you're concerned about his finances through twenty twenty nine, so
he's he's locked in. But wait, there's more. So not
only one hundred and twelve million Garon teed for Jamar Chase,
but you also have T Higgins, the franchise tagged wide
receiver T Higgins was he traded to the Patriots. No,

(04:04):
T Higgins gets a four year deal for one hundred
and fifteen million, making him the highest paid number two,
number two receiver in NFL history. Not a number one,
not a number one. He's the deuce and he's getting

(04:26):
paid a lot of money. The first two years of T.
Higgins contract are fully guaranteed, so essentially it's a two
year deal. After that, there's some loopholes and whatnot, the
deal keeping Higgins, who's twenty six, in a ben Gal's
uniform through the twenty twenty eight season. So let us
discuss the money flying everywhere in the NFL, even in Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Wow. All right, So question for the panel, what do
you make We've seen the moves.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Shit, we went over the moves here, these moves to
exten Jamar Chase and T Higgins.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
What are these moves signify to you?

Speaker 2 (05:06):
One of these moves signify the Jamar Chase T Higgins contract.
So I've got Whistlestop, Dolly Parton, and primal Fear, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are gonna make the Gaba Ghul Because these guys can
buy as much Gabba gohoul as they want, they're loaded.

(05:26):
So to lead off here, this is the way I
will phrase it is out of character. If you've been
around for a few years, this is very unbangal like
what they're doing here. In fact, when I saw this
at first, I thought, well, this must be some kind
of satire. This must be Sports Talk Berry or one
of those satire sites.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
This is not real. But it turns out it is legit.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
That we double checked it, did the discount double check,
and sure enough, the Cincinnati football team was able to
dust the cobwebs off the wallet and pay out a
bunch of money. And that's old family money. Normally, old
family money does not get spent this way, not by
the Bengals. They are the cheapest franchise in the NFL.

(06:11):
That they did this, now, why did they do it?
It signifies we are going to pacify. We're gonna buy
the biggest pacifier we can get to. That Joe Burrow, right,
Joe Burrow was over there bitching that the Bengals needed
to keep this team together, a team that didn't even
make the playoffs last year. And Burrow's out there screaming,
you got to keep these these guys together. And it

(06:31):
turns out, the lesson of this story, and you can't
disagree with me on this, is that the grumbling by.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Joe Burrow, grumble, Grumbo, grumble. The grumbling by.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Joe Burrow worked his little whistle stop tour around the
NFL media Super Bowl week and around that time where
he publicly advocated and demanded that ownership pay these guys,
and sure enough it actually worked right. The Stumps each
paid off two hundred and seventy six million dollars in

(07:03):
contracts handed out.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Not all of it guaranteed, but most of it is.
Most of it is.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Guaranteed to t Higgins and also to Jamar Chase. So
Joe Burrow somewhere at a secret location with a Cheshire
cat smile from ear to ear that his koviching, his
complaining paid off.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Right and way to go.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
It all worked out Burrow, by the way, it is
getting two hundred nineteen million dollars he's on his that's
in guaranteed money. And the great thing about this is
that as good as I believe Joe Burrow is, he
does not have to make players around him better. There
was for many, many years this belief, if you're gonna
pay a quarterback top dollar. They're so good they elevate

(07:52):
the players around them. But Joe Burrow has publicly stated,
I think it's kind of clear here that he needed
these guys on his team. Is he's not good enough
to l of eight the players around him. Otherwise it
would have made more fiscal sense to allow at least
one of those two receivers to go somewhere else. But
what Joe Burrow will saying, Hey, I'm not good enough
as a quarterback, and so I have to have these

(08:14):
premier receivers because I can't take a B level receiver
and turn them into an A level receiver, and I'd
be tremendously handicapped as a quarterback if I don't have
these guys. And ownership agreed with the Bengals. Ownership's like,
you know, you're right, You're absolutely correct, Jo, You're not
that good. And now you look around, and so you've

(08:34):
got an absolute loaded offense.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
You'll continue to have that. You have an elite one
to two.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Punch right there at wide receiver, and the Bengals with
all those offensive dynamos, explosive players all over the field,
and it's just wonderful. But yet where else are they right?
You assume that the defensive star Trey Hendrickson will be
traded at some point here soon. Can't imagine they'd signed him,

(09:03):
but they weren't going to sign him. They probably would
have announced it on Sunday night, over the weekend and
do everything at the same time. There was no announcement,
which there have been some rumors that Colts are interested
in Hendrickson. Will see if that trade happens or not,
but it'd be surprising at this point if the Bengals
keep Hendrickson. They had a terrible defense last year, didn't
make the playoffs. Now, furthermore, let's focus in. We're gonna

(09:23):
lock in our laser pointer on T Higgins because T
Higgins now the NFL's ninth highest paid wide receiver. Then
we repeat that for those of you in the back
room that are barely awake.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
T Higgins.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
He's a wide receiver number two and T Higgins ninth
highest paid receiver in the NFL. So that is a
bitter pill to swallow. It is now, Higgins, here's the
way I look at against, Like, if I was the
Patriots and I paid him that contract, you know that's justified.
If I was the Chargers, and I paid te Higgins

(09:58):
that contract because he'd be my number one. So that
makes a lot of sense. But if I'm Kansas City,
I would I would pay t Higgins that country. If
I'm the Bengals, it's not my money.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
It's fine. They want to burn money, you can do it.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
But from a just a logical standpoint, if you already
have the number one receiver and you're paying him the
most money of any player not a quarterback in the
NFL at number two, you put your ninth highest contract
for T Higgins, I mean that is a that is
a tough one. That is a tough one. You had

(10:33):
to make Burrow happy. Burrow complained, right, you had to
make him happy. He had a hissy fit, and so
you made Burrough happy. But the second wide receiver is
the ninth highest pace second wide receiver in your locker room.
And overall, the Bengals, if you look at the way
they're set up, they are like Dolly Parton, the Dolly
Partner in the NFL. They're very top heavy, if you

(10:55):
know what I mean. And Jamar Chase, T Higgins and
Joe Burrow. The essamen is they're going to take up
almost fifty percent of the salary cap. Now I am
a salary cap truther. I am a salary cap truther.
I know that to be true, which means you can
finagle the salary cap and these contracts will be we
reworked in future years. And so there's some ways you

(11:17):
can work around it. But to pay both receivers one okay,
but seems seems a little much. Seems a little much.
And so Cincinnati is going to have a hodgepodge of
players from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Amazon delivery drivers and
Uber x drivers will be filling out their roster and

(11:38):
that'll be the way that goes there.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Good luck, I'm sure it'll work well.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
As long as you can go out and score thirty
five points a game, you'll have a chance to win
most games. And then that's the way it goes. Just
send a bunch of flotsam and jetsam out there and
see how it goes all. Right, Now, final part of
this Male of monogue, the last thing here we go
to see we pivot away from Cincinnati where everyone got paid.
We go now to Seattle and the details are coming

(12:06):
out now on Sam Darnald. Now, I got criticized by
some of our guys and say, you know you're too
hard on Sam Donald. You hit a big year. You
don't know what you're talking about. That's why you're doing overnights.
You were questioning Sam Darnald. So the details, the fine
print is out. The fine print is out on Sam
Donald's contract with the Seahawks. And it turns out that

(12:28):
everything I said was justified. Not that I'm here to
take a victory laugh, but i will take a bow.
I will bow, and you can call up and apologize
if you want. I'll give out the numbers in a minute.
But how do you read how do you read the
news out on the contract that Seattle's deal with Sam
Donald that they have an out after one season. Well,

(12:48):
it's essentially a one year deal for Sam Donald, and
after the twenty twenty five season they can say it's
not you, it's us and hit the road, Jack and
don't you come back now, get out of here. So
how do I read that? I read it like this, Okay,
I read it like this. This is like the metal

(13:09):
band Primal Fear. It is their song vote of no Confidence.
It is a vote of no confidence which is justified,
all right, it is justified the vote of no confidence. Rightfully,
Seattle does not trust Sam Donald. This is what I've
been saying, And it's nice to know that the Seattle
Seahawks also think this guy's is stiff and they don't

(13:30):
trust him. They're like, well, we're kind of into it,
but we're not fully into it, and we want to
make sure we have this way to get out of
the contract. And that is the way you should approach
Sam Donald. And yet I heard from a bunch of
my guys in Seattle that were like, oh, man, you're
just a RAM fan. You hate the Seahawks. I mean no,
I know that Sam Donald's gonna fall apart when you

(13:54):
need him the most. And why would you put your
faith in Sam Donald. The guys a zero fine week
three or week four, but down the stretch, it's like
a poorly made bag. It just falls apart, right falls apart.
Having blind faith in Sam Donald is akin to that

(14:14):
line about driving on a dark country road middle of
the night, you got no lights on your car and
you're looking out the back window. That is the chances
of that working and the chances of Sam Donald working are.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
About the same. They're about the same.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
It will worked for a while, but the first time
you come to a turn, you're going over the side
of the hill.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
And Sam Donald will earn thirty seven million, thirty seven
and a half million dollars in twenty twenty five. Good
work if you can find it. However, however, the fine
print Sam Donald's contract has all kinds of escape patches,
and the compensation after that does not kick in until
a week after the Super Bowl, so Seattle can say bye.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Bye, get out of here, you're a bum.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
And so a couple of weeks after the season, Seattle
won't make the playoffs next year. So then they have
to decide whether or not they want to keep Sam
Donald around or he goes back on the market and
Seattle goes back and tries to find some other quarterback.
But it makes a lot of sense, like Seattle has
an escape portal that they can go into an escape

(15:22):
patch and they can cut bait and go get some
other Jabbroni to play quarterback. So it's essentially a throwaway
year for the Seahawks. It's a we're not trying to
win in twenty twenty five. I don't know why you
buy tickets for the team they're announcing. They're not really
into it. It's just an experimental year with Sam Donald
and maybe it'll work for a while, but at some

(15:44):
point it won't and then they'll have to move on
from him and bring somebody else in. All right, is
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(16:06):
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commentation coming up later this hour, we will have Mallor
to the Third Degree. That'll be coming up in a
little bit. Also, can you feel the Rush? Can you
feel the Rush? We'll explain what that's all about.

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We'll get to it.

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We'll take your comments on X at Ben Mahler. We'll
get to it all and we will.

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Do it.

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Next.

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Your comments can and will be used against you in
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Benny blabermouth. Well, it's actually just it's Bill. It's just Ben.
That's all, Isn't's no blabbermouth on there at all. Bad
job by you? All right, what do we have here?

(18:07):
Nick the Wendy's guy writes in and says, Ben, Buddy,
you got to show a little a little love to
the Timberwolves.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
They're on fire. I don't think I have.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Told you love the timber pupps.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Ben the.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Timberwolfs.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Eileen writes, Since says, I guess the Ben Gals and
the Seahawks lessons are pay brock party. Yes, well, brock
Perty is another guy that doesn't elevate people around him.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
That the forty nine ers. There's a great debate about
what to do with him.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
No Stradinas, writes, Sin says, for the record, that band
Primal Fear.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Is awesome and they have a new album out soon.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
That said, the Seahawks are just showcasing their skill of
managing a successful franchise, and Ben just can't handle it.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
This guy Nostra Dinis, Okay, this is dope.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
And I met no Stradinas like years ago and he
had I remember I met him and he had like
an anti.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Weed man thing. He hates the weed man.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was campaigning he wanted six years
ago he won a weed man banned from the show.
And I met him at this the Little bar in Seattle.
We had a Malard meet and great at Jay Scoop
set that thing up. And he had a little placard
and it had like weed Man and had an X
through his name, like to get rid of the weed Man. Yeah,
so should you really trust someone that's anti weed man
like that?

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Come on, it's a bad job by him. Shame on you.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
All right, Justin wants us to talk about the conspiracy
theory from college basketball.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Justin in Cincinnati, So I will get to that right now.
Why not? I teased it last ar. I didn't pay
it off.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
So people up in arms, the bracket people, the hardos
to do brackets. Now, we talked a lot of college
basketball last hour. I feel like we got to turn
the transmitters on. So we did the next worst thing
to college basketball. We talked Cincinnati Bengals football. No, next hour,
we'll talk Joey Gallop. My goal is to have no
one listening by the time I get done. My goal
is to have literally no one listening to the Fox

(20:07):
Sports radio by the time I get done.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
A kid, because I care. As Chris Myers used to say, so.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
The bracketologists, they had West Virginia in the field.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
If West Virginia should.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Be in Texas, should be in all one hundred and
eleven of the Brackettologists had West Virginia in Texas was
only in on fifty of the one hundred and eleven brackets,
Xavier on thirty and North Carolina the tar Hills on
twenty seven. But the selection committee put North Carolina in.
They got in. They defended the inclusion. I said there

(20:41):
was a contingency vote that led to the tar Hills
getting a spot in the NCAA tournament. Now, the reason
there is a conspiracy is because the athletic director at
North Carolina named Bubba. How perfect is that they're athletic
named Bubba. Good name Bubba, So Bubba Cunningham sounds like
a fake name.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Bubba Cuttingham is on the selection committee. And it is
interesting to know that Bubba Cuttingham, the North Carolina athletic
director there is part of the committee. From what I read,
he is going to make a bonus of over one
hundred thousand dollars because North Carolina made the tournament. So

(21:25):
he had influence and he was able to get North
Carolina in. And so now, yeah, invest that in some
real estate and maybe a little bit of Wall Street.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Not lately, Marcus not doing that great lately.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
You'll go back up a little crypto, diversify your portfolio
extra one hundred thousand, because you and you had influence,
your fingerprints are in that able to get North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Now.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
I also would point out that what do we always
say about college basketball's march matters? It's a TV show.
It is a TV show, and you need celebrities in
a TV show, and you need the blue bloods, and
you don't get much more than more of a blue
blood than North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
And they couldn't. They couldn't get both North Carolina and.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Any and any Ena is pretty miserable, and they've been
traditionally one of the better teams with a following all
over the place. But you look at North Carolina they
get in and guess and it's not just the athletic
right there at North Carolina, but there are also some
TV people that were consulted like, well, North Carolina's got
a national following, maybe we should, you know, kind of

(22:33):
give the all things being equal, we should give them
the edge to get them in. And dada, ta da,
they got it, just like that. Amazing, all right, unbelievable, unbelievable.
Al Right, you know we have a fun fact. We
have that fun fact that we have a fun factory.
Fun fact. All right, so fun fact. Now, the number

(22:57):
sixteen seed in the NCAA tournament, the men's tournament is
Mount Saint Mary's. Now the fun fact is they have
a guard on their team. We are told that has
the name of two other teams in the tournament. Yeah,
the guard is named Xavier Lipscomb.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
And that is the name that Xavier. Yeah, Xavier from
is from Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
And then how do you spell that?

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Ben Lipscomb?

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Spell that for me.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
That's l I P. S CEO MB Lipscombe. You never
heard of that school? Come on, you're a college basketball insider.
You supposed to.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
I know, I'm shocked. I don't know that one, Ben,
I would get better.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
You've never been there. You weren't.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
You were at that school in North Carolina. But Lipscomb
University is in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a faith based
liberal arts college and there you go a lot of
spirit stuff and academia right there. Spiritual and academia get
together at Lipscomb. Yeah, you might go there. Hit by

(24:00):
lightning if you go there. You know, I'm just saying,
let's go the phones and we'll say hello to Blind Scott,
who is on the North end of Boston. Hello, Blind Scott,
Welcome with the ben.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
This is embarrassing, but I'm spending a lot of money
actually working on this show on the overnight. It's like,
already tonight, this is five this five weed this year.
That's ten maybe twenty bucks here about to forty five
dollars already tonight on this show. Dude, I'm spending like
maybe three hundred and fifty dollars a week calling this show.
I saw Trucker Joe showing you how I was like

(24:35):
on some social media platform asking people for five dollars.
It's pretty low that he that he did.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
That is Trucker Joe asking for money, Is that right?

Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yeah, he's a homeless guy that lives in a.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Truck that lose or I didn't see that. He hates
you too. I think it's a few mutually.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
No, No, we were friends, dude, that guy used to
like me. We were friends. He supported me on the
Blind Baseball teav he like donated, he interacted with the team,
and now we were gonna meet once around here. I
help the guy. Dude, I got to tell you about
woen's sports. A screw trucker. Show's another trucker. Yet, you
know there's so many of them out there, dude, women's sports.
I'm a huge fan of women's sports. I love everything
about women's sports. I love women's golf. So here's the

(25:15):
thing about women's golf, and you'll be a fan after
I explained to you. Let me tell it to you.
So the women don't hit the ball ball as fire
as the men, so you get to see the courts
more so. The ball goes through the courts longer, so
you get to see the women swing the clubs. You
know what I'm saying. I think I can actually, you know,
I think I could play in the w n b A.
I've thought about this a lot, and I meet the requirement.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
You should You should play in the w n b A.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
Yeah, we stand of the hoops, so you could throw a.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Basketball at told me you'll buy whatever jersey you'll buy
it if you play.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
Who don't let anyoney go. Hey, here's another thing too.
You know, teachers in Massachusetts they have to spend money
on school supply.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
You know what I'm saying a lot of places teachers
spend money.

Speaker 5 (25:56):
You guys don't spend any money on this show. Like, yeah,
we don't.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
We don't spend any money. We barely don't know what
you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
I spent five hundred dollars a month to get here.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
You mean, yes, we do have to buy We have
to buy gas.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
We also paid for flights and hotels for the Mallard
meet and greet in Vegas. Y.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah, you did.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
You didn't show up. You didn't show to that one.
You always say you're going to You never show up
to these things.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
You always say you going to Vancouver.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
I have like wicked bad mental illness, so I need
a handler to go with me.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
You're not and you're not going to go to the
one in Vancouver.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
You know.

Speaker 5 (26:32):
I'm going to retract that I don't have mental illness.
If anybody's listening, Beasley Media will let me go in
the studio on Toucher and Honey. They think too much voliability.
I got disinvited to pool parties over the summer. They
think it's too much voliability. When people introduce me to
their girlfriends, they don't tell me their names where they work.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Are you sure, this is actually you think this might
be in your head or you think this is actually
happy you.

Speaker 5 (26:56):
It's true. When I met over the spent over the summer,
he called me on a restrict number two times. Bro, dude,
I was showing you that you and Obama documentary over
the weekend when I called you.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
No, No, I call everyone from a restricted number.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
The reason I call people from a restricted number is
because there's a guy named Doc Mike from Chicago who
famously years ago, he was in trouble with the State
of Illinois.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
He was going to jail.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
He said, Ben, I don't know of I'll be able
to find you when I get out of jail. Give
me your number. I'm going to call you one time
when I got out of jail. I said, you know what, Doc,
I like you. I'm going to give you my number,
but promise me you're not going to give it out.
You can only call it one time when you get
out of You just said, absolutely, Ben, I'm only going
to call you one time when I get out of jail.
So he was in the two years or whatever. Two years, Doc,
I'm finishing my starr ring. I'm finishing my Star eight.

Speaker 5 (27:41):
His brother's a serial killer.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
So anyway, uh, Doc Mike.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Two years go by and he calls me and he said,
I'm good, Ben, I can call your show again. And
then the following week he calls me again, and pretty
much every single week, and he's been out of jail
for like fifteen years, he calls me like every f
and week, at least once a week.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
To this day.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Well it's weaned a little bit because he's not up
as late anymore. He's getting older. But yeah, anyway, that's
my story. And you said you were ripping his brother.
Oh yeah, his brother.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Did I think kill somebody? I think right? He told
that story on the air. I believe, I think. Are
you there, blind Scott or No?

Speaker 5 (28:23):
Yeah, I'm here. I'm here. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (28:24):
No.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
I lived across the hall from serial killers families before,
Like you don't really want to.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
You said you live near Whitey Bulger's the family, right
or some of the.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
People who know the people who killed Whitey Bulls.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Oh the people are killed white kidding me, that's what
he said. I don't know if that's true. Whitey Bulger
was living in Santa Monica out here.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
Yeah, that's why I want to live like Lorena. So
I could get two grand a months if I rent
this place, and I would get an apartment. Like I
just say that's Lourena because she's younger. But me and Emmett,
we're talking about Loraina before. We're going to get a
hotel room in Vancouver. Be and Emmitt and we're like brothers.
So we're going to get a couple, you know, a couple.
I'm partners. I'm not going to get kick clean up
for the radio here, and then we're gonna have sext

(29:03):
me and Emmett together with other people.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Okay, that's a wild story, bro.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
I'm gonna I'm gonna call Emmett's parents right now.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
That's gonna be happening, Washington.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
What happened? You're not allowed to go to the mall
and meet and greet Emmett. Uh h, yeah, well he's in.
He's an adult. I guess he's a young adult.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
As long as they're consenting, I guess it don't matter.
Mallor Freako.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Okay, all right, No, I mean Scott the baby oil coup.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Take the meds. Scott, take the meds. Okay, come on,
say yes to the meds. Come on you swallow Wow
geez Louise Man. Alright, I don't know what's on the
air and what's off the I'm gonna guess that that.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
That was not all right?

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Well, Lord, Lord, Lord and Lord for that.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, there's a drop for everything. Yeah, we are as
have we double triple confirmed that.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
I did talk about it a little bit on the
podcast Going Down the Weekends, the Fifth Hour podcast that
we have a tentative dates scheduled for the Great Mallard,
the next Great Mallor Meet and Greet. But it's gonna
be the summer of a summer of Mallor. I'm thinking
so excited. I think in like from late May, June, July, August,
like Mallard meet and greets all those months, like just

(30:25):
beautiful weather.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
We'll do We'll do Vegas. We got to do one
in La at some point.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
We have a sponsor yet. I'm sure they're working on
that right now. I'm email the sales department right there.
I'm sure they'll get on top of that right away.
It's the sponsor coop is out of your own pocket.
That's a sponsor and out of your own pocket, yes exactly.
But hopefully someone will step up and become a title
sponsor the summer.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Of Mallard and we'll get all over the place.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
You got the Ohio Meet and Greet, which is I'm
still looking at some dates on that, probably sometime in June.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
We're looking at sometime in June.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
So it's gonna be a very busy couple of months,
which we're excited about when the weather gets good and
going out and hanging out with all of you and knuckleheads,
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Out here for life out here. Let's say hello to
Jed who fled. Hello, Jed, welcome.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
Not only am I trying to pay for gas? I
guess putting on the I love you. Consider that, dude.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
I don't want to be all right, I'll.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Put you on hold.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
He's complaining, right, he does not want to follow up
blind Scott.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah, okay, I'll put you back on hold. Jed. We'll
get to you later. Oh yeah, ye, all right.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
These guys complain when they don't they stay on hold
for a while. They complain when again them on quicker,
They complain. The one common denominator is they love to complain. Complain, complain, complain, complain.
All right, well, no complain, because we're gonna have Mallard
of the third degree. Mallard to the third degree. I
think it'd be fun on are you smarter than the
f SR Tech queen? If we just name like college

(32:41):
colleges in the tournament to see if she can name?

Speaker 3 (32:44):
That could be such a good.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Yes, all right, I'm kidding. I don't know who knows.
We might change it up. You have no idea. Games begin,
It'll be.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
An hour four. We gotta get to Mallard of the
third degree. Mallard of the third degree is straight ahead,
and here is the Insta trivia, And here we go
Insta trivia time. So Blank was an All Ivy League
first team selection, played in the NCAA Tournament for Princeton
back when they had coached John Thompson the third Later,

(33:18):
he was a regular for Major League Baseball's Podres for
four seasons. He was a Big League ballplayer for the Padres,
and he actually finished among the top ten of the
National League in triples a couple of years. Currently, this
person is a big league manager right now. That is
the Insta trivia the answer. We'll get to it, and
we will.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Do it next.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
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(34:03):
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(34:30):
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the presets on the old car radio back in the day,
and that's where the term P one comes from. You
can really be a p one and be sure to
preset Fox Sports Radio, Ben Malor Show, fifth Hour podcast
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(34:53):
on the the iHeart app right now. I click on
that and it's right right there at the top.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Mal Show, fifth Hour and then then Fox Sports Trado's third.
I have the Ben Malors Show first.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
And then thank you for the Internet.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
But you can do what you want on that.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Have a grand time and we'll pop right up on
your screen.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Now back to the talk. That's right.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
And in addition to that, we have to pay off
the Insta trivia and here is the Insta Trivia. Blank
was an All Ivy League first team selection played in
the NCAA Tournament for Princeton under coach John Thompson the
third Later, he was a regular for the old San Diego.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Padres for four seasons.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Finished among the top ten of the nation league in
triples a couple of years, and is currently a Major
League baseball manager.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
That is the question, what's the answer?

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Alf the alien O Pinter going with Ponceorella eric Oestrada
as his answer, with the great highway patrol officers in
our history?

Speaker 1 (35:55):
Who else do we have?

Speaker 2 (35:56):
The iron chic from rob in Vegas solid Eileen checking
in with the great mel Ott as her answer, who
else do we have?

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Paige Down?

Speaker 2 (36:05):
You are Irish singer Hosier, who is thirty five today
from late Night drug tester Hornswaggle from King Rory into
several others. Bill Bradley guessed by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota
poly d got it right. He obviously cheated The blind
Goat inca terror from Shane in Des Moines. Jed your
coo from Malibu rubin Paige down see here After that call,

(36:31):
I'm convinced blind Scott is going to be on the
Epstein flight logs.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Justin in Cincinnati says wee. Willie Keeler from BP.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Who else do we have Paige down Terry in England,
also with a reference to blind Scott and blind Emmett's
plans there, Mickey in state forty eight still up with
us as he sap Choy, Mike Kat, Dustin from Tom
from Fullerton. That's a good looking kitty from that's from Tom.
That's Dustin Cat right there. Who else do we have?

(37:02):
Alex Trebek guess by Bill's Monster and Tony Canigliero from
L A R A M. Steve that's his selection, Whitey
Herzog from Kyle Conan O'Brien guess by Mark and Santa Monica.
Who else do we have? Page down? I can't read
that on the air. A lot of X rated comments here.

(37:23):
They're funny, but they're not getting on the air, don't you?

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Yeah? All right, you go ahead again in trouble, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
I gotta be piano man.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Elton johns Elton John for the wind is no that
is incorrected? Is Will Vennable the son of Max Venable,
the White Sox man now Max Vnable. This guy's dad
gave me a ball when I was a kid. He
was an outfielder for the Angels. I always remember the
players that tossed me at baseball when I was a kidding.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Max Venable is one of my brought to the third degree,
no idea.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
That is never heard of him.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
All right, here we go, here we go, Here we go.
A couple of Billy Joela is the piano man. By
the way, I just I just went with.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
If I correct every one of her mistakes, we will
have no time.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
Just come on.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
Anyway, man, it's only a four hour show, Coop.

Speaker 6 (38:19):
The latest prediction has the Giants taking Shadar Sanders with
the number three pick.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Are you buying that? Well?

Speaker 2 (38:26):
I saw over the weekend shoulder Sanders posted on the
gram photo with Gino Smith clearly implying.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
That he would rather play for the Raiders.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yet again, every sent out all those comments on social
media during the Colorado season, he wants to play for
the Raiders.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
So I'm not buying it.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
I don't I think the Giants would be wise to
not draft a quarterback. I don't think either one of
these guys is a slam dok. So I don't believe it.
And you know how this works, Coop. It's the elevator game.
It's up and down if you need it, if it's
a slow news day. Should hear Sanders story? If it's
a big news day, you let it rest. Next.

Speaker 6 (38:56):
So Mike Williams, he had some good seasons with the Chargers.
It was a good receiver. Then he went to the
Jets and he was terrible, and now he's back with
the Chargers. He said that he has something to prove
after a terrible year. Do you think he'll bounce back
with the Chargers?

Speaker 1 (39:10):
No, this is the dumbest signing.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
They got rid of him because he couldn't stay on
the field and he was inconsistent.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
He went out to.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
Two other teams, couldn't stay on the field, it was inconsistent.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
And they brought him back Like what are you doing?
How dumbed?

Speaker 2 (39:22):
The dumb?

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Dumb dumb? Are you next?

Speaker 6 (39:25):
So Duke announced over the weekend that they expect Cooper
Flag to be back for the NCAA tournament.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Is Duke your favorite to win at all?

Speaker 2 (39:31):
No, I'm going with Saint John's. Okay, Rick Pattino bias,
I admit it. Betino's a great SoundBite. I love Patino.
I want to see Saint John's win it all.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
How do we do cope? Quick? In your face? Justin
and Cincinnati in your face, Justin, Saint John's
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