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August 20, 2025 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about Daniel Jones being named QB1 for the Indianapolis Colts, if Anthony Richardson got a raw deal from Indy, Andrew Luck saying he let his teammates down with his sudden retirement, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding dong. It's our number two, our number two. It's
a horseshoe for you. Let's check the water temperature in
the room. For Colts fans on Daniel Jones being named
the starting quarterback, keeping up with the Joneses. You excited
about that? Also, did Anthony Richardson get a raw deal

(00:24):
from Indy? We'll talk about that. And is Andrew Lucke
saying he let his teammates down justified on his Colts
retirement years ago? All that and more right now here,
it is our number two horseshoe. How do you do?
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben

(00:49):
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(01:15):
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so our lead. This hour is from Indianapolis. We're not

(01:58):
gonna talk about the Indianapolis five No, no, no, No
Quarterback carousel. Quarterback carousel update. If you have not heard
the drama, I'm not gonna say the drama Orama because
this was not drama Orama. The news is in. The
decision has been made. And if you thought that Anthony
Richardson was going to continue as QB number one in Indianapolis,

(02:23):
you're a loser. As Anthony Richardson has done the walk
of shame. He has been demoted, benched. See you later.
Alligator coach Shane Steiken, in a moment that no coach
wants to highlight, named Giants trash Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones

(02:48):
as the starting quarterback in Indianapolis. That's it. That's the story.
Daniel Jones beats out Anthony Richardson, who was a top
five draft pick a couple of years ago and has
now been usurped by Daniel Jones. All right, so let
us discuss the question. Let me check the water temperature,

(03:12):
if you will, uh for the Colt fan? What is
the temperature for the cult fan on Daniel Jones being
named QB one? You excited about this? All right? So
my observations, I've got Morton's fork, snuffle upfagus, and tinder date,
and we will combine all of these things together, and

(03:35):
we are going to make some grilled chicken and rice
is what we're gonna make you eat healthy. So number
that number goes out to Sherwin. That's for that. Number
one was for Sherwin. So the water temperature here is lukewarm. Lukewarm.
That's the water temperature. If you've got a tingly sensation

(03:59):
about Annual Jones being named QB number one, if you've
got that, that's not excitement, Okay, it's not. That's something
you should probably call the doctor about. If you've got
a tingley feeling about that, this is a Morton's fork situation.
If you don't know what that is, google it. That's
where you're stuck choosing between two equally unpleasant unpleasant alternatives.

(04:25):
And so it got me thinking, it's like when I
was seven years old, little fat Benny at the dinner
table with Mama Malor and my pops and my brother,
you know, and at seven, I didn't have another I
didn't have a younger brother. I was the youngest kid,
and my younger brother came after that, a little seven
year old kid there, and I'm sitting down at dinner
and the mom says, my mom said, hey, I been

(04:49):
good news. We are done trying to get your fat
ass to eat broccoli at dinner. And I light up.
I smile at my mom. I say, finally, here, I
am seven years years old, seven years old, and my
mom is giving me respect. That's a good mom. And
so I sit there and I got a smile, kind
of a smirk. I say, thank god, Mom, this is

(05:11):
so great. You're my favorite mom. You're my only mom,
but you're my favorite mom. And then my mom said, well,
we're gonna start serving cauliflower instead. I inside, I die,
I absolutely die, right because that blows too right, that sucks.
And that's what this is. That that's what this is. Right,

(05:33):
This is not this is not a ribbi. This is
not a ribbi. This is the steam vegetables that you
don't want. That's what this is. And don't forget like
the ultimate embarrassment, the ultimate. You name Daniel Jones, You're
starting quarterback in Indianapolis, and this is the guy that
lost his job with the Giants to Tommy DeVito. Okay,

(05:58):
now remember Tommy DeVito's like a character actor in the Sopranos.
Is what he's like. He is Tommy Cutlets. That's the
guy that ended up being the quarterback for the Giants
with Daniel Jones left town demoted for Tommy Cutlets, and
Jones could not hold off the immensibility of Tommy DeVito,

(06:19):
who looked and still to this day looks like he
should be serving chicken palm at his uncle's restaurant somewhere
in Hobulka, New Jersey. But yet he was the quarterback
for the Giants and replaced Daniel Jones. And so us now,
has Danny Dimes ever, let me ask you this, has
he ever made anyone better that he played with? Now

(06:40):
he has been sputtering for years, and the Giants kept
playing him because they were like, well, we have to
salvage Daniel Jones. So they changed players around him, they
changed coaches, the whole thing right, and the one consistent,
the common denominator in Daniel Jones is the bonehead play
very good at that. His internal clock has been broken

(07:04):
and it runs about as fast he processes the defensive
alignment about as fast as you move through the line.
Without a reservation of the DMV. It doesn't go very well.
And so you know, there's just no warm and fuzzy.
There's no warman, there's no good way this could come
out for the Colts. There's not. You can try to
talk yourself into it, be a big fanboy and say,

(07:27):
oh yeah, this is great. Now does this quarterback decision?
Does it change the colts ceiling in twenty twenty five? No,
it doesn't. That they're still barreling down the highway. The
highway to Hell is where they're going. I mean, they
just are. And if everything breaks perfectly, I mean, the

(07:48):
running game is good, and you know they stay relatively healthy.
No one stays completely other. But you say relatively healthy,
you somehow put a pretty good defense together there in Indy.
The off defensive line doesn't fold up like a beach
chair on a fat guy sitting on a beach chair.
Then what are your max out at? What's the max

(08:09):
on that? What is this? This is a average avenue.
You're driving down average avenue. You get to eight wins? Woo,
you got eight wins? Okay, nine wins, maybe nine wins, Okay,
nine and eight. That's the tops right there. Of course
your ceiling is nine and eight. Okay, So let's think
this through the basement. What is the basement? It is

(08:32):
possible this team does not win a game. Okay, It's
not like your quarterback's gonna bail you out. So it's
there is a world, the dimension of the multiverse where
the Colts don't win a game, all right now, page two.
So there's been a lot of this is unfair, this
is not right commentary for Anthony Richardson. Let's hear from
the the man himself.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Here.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Here's Anthony Richardson, the former starting quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts,
the chosen one, who has now been the demogent one.
Here's his takee on being kicked to the curb.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
You gotta respect it, just said, you know, for like
how he's a better fit for the thing, better fit
for the outcome of us winning. So you've got to
respect it. And the sheep working. You know that the
under my other work out, but the end of it,
you know. But I say that I have to improve,
you know, my product. Improvement I made. Saying the dogs
on a part of that. So you gotta keep stacking
on that if hee be better.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
So we had the microphone who was actually placed in Gary, Indiana?
Not in Indianapolis? Or was that South Bend, Indiana? Okay, I'm
wearned headphones. I could barely make that out. That was bad.
Why do we play it because we had it? That's
why we played it. We played it because we had it,
and we played it because we had it.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
All right.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
I don't even know what he said. I do know
that Richardson's agent reacted with disappointment. Shocking. He would be
just disappointed as client has been benched. So he what upset?
Said that he's unsure of Richardson's future with the Colts. Well,
so are the Colts take a number now? The agent

(10:10):
Derek washed Derek Jackson Derek Jackson. I believe that's his name.
I've never heard of him. So he wondered aloud whether
or not to Shane Steikn's quarterback decison. His decision might
have been predetermined when the Colts signed Daniel Jones back
in March to a one year contract for fourteen million dollars.

(10:31):
So let's discuss. That's a good jumping off point. Did
Anthony Richardson get a raw deal? Did he get a
raw deal from Indy? So let's think about that. Right,
the jury is in and I've got two letters to
the judge. N oh no, Now, this was predetermined, but

(10:54):
it was not predetermined when Daniel Jones signed the contract.
In fact, as a distant relative of nostredwe friend of Nostradinas.
He lives in Seattle, Seattle area. This was predetermined. It
was not because of Daniel Jones signing on the dotted
line this. Let me tell you, they could have signed,
as my advisor Alf would say, the Alien Pinter, they

(11:17):
could have signed mister Snuffalopogus. Signed mister Snuffalopogus and he
would be named the started quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts.
I know the exact date It was October twenty seventh,
twenty twenty four. It was week eight of the NFL season,
two undred ninety seven days ago exactly from that point

(11:38):
to the time the Colts made the decision, So two
hundred ninety seven days it was in Houston, Texas. That
was the moment, just a moment in time, just a snapshot.
And in that moment in time, that is when Anthony
Richardson himself asked to be demoted as the QB number
one in Indianapolis. He tapped out, he said, no, Moss,

(12:01):
I'm done, Skis, I'm out of here. I can't play.
He wasn't injured, he was gassed, he was not in shape.
He pulled himself out of the game. That in that
business is a capital offense. And he did it, and
he didn't hide it. He talked about it openly. He

(12:22):
didn't try to pretend like he did something else. He
just said, this is what I did. Can't do it,
cannot do it. That's a no fly zone. And you
did it. That's high crimes and misdemeanors. That's you know,
that's a felony, is what that is. And you incriminated
yourself and once you quit once you say that's it.

(12:45):
Once you quit on yourself like that in that profession
the coach, but more importantly, your teammates you're done because
they also would like to come out of the game
like the people playing it, like it's paying the ass man.
You get to the second half of an NFL game,
you're getting your ass you handed to you, and you'd
like to step out of the game. But you have
a job to do and you're paid to be a
top flight professional athlete, and it's all about the grind, right,

(13:07):
that's the whole point to the war of attrition. But
you don't take yourself out of the war because you're
tired and he did it. You can't forgive that. You don't.
It's like when you call in sick. It's like the
equivalent in the real world. If you call in sick,
it's oh, man, I'm dying, dude, and you call your boss.
I'm your texting me. I can't show up, just I'm

(13:29):
not doing good and I feel horrific. I gotta go
to the doctor. I got to get some medicine. And
then they see you. They're scrolling on Instagram and they
see you in a swimsuit on the beach and you're
tricking a cocktail. They don't look at you the same.
They don't believe you. Yeah, they don't trust you. You're
out of the bubble of trust. And so that's the issue.

(13:50):
You're out of the bubble of trust. And look, Jerry
Glanville is you. Probably is if you're of a certain age.
But he was this old NFL coach, you a million
years ago coach the Atlanta Falcons and some other teams.
And Jerry glab said decades ago, the NFL stands for
not not for long. And certainly when you do that,
Richardson leaning leaning into that, and he learned the hard away.

(14:10):
He learned the hard way, a tough love. Rob Richardson
was never ever supposed to be the guy. That's the
thing about this, Like everyone talks about, there's a lot
of people get oh, this is not fair, this is
not right, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ba.
He was never supposed to be drafted there in the
first place. He should have been picked in the fourth
or the fifth round, and he ended up going in
the top five. It was a total project from the beginning. Now,

(14:31):
you know how I feel about the draft. I'd rather
have dysentery than do draft shows. At this point, it's
all the scam, it's all the hustle. And instead of
being drafted where you'd say, well he's a developmental player. Now,
Jim Mercy, the late Jim mrsays ah, we'll take him.
It's like a make a wish situation and let's let's

(14:53):
take this. Get all give him a shot at quarterback.
They did. They give him a shot, and Richardson played
like a guy that won a raffle, you know, at
a country fair. You know, it's a congratulations. Way to go.
You're the starting quarterback of the Indianapolis Coast. The only problem,
of course, this was not a raffle. It was the NFL.
The results bear out. Now, there were two things that

(15:15):
Anthony Richardson was truly a lead at. There were two
things Anthony Richardson was elite at getting hurt. That was,
he was next level superstar, next level superstar getting hurt.
And what's the old line, You could not hit the
broadside of a barn, you have no accuracy. He was
essentially Tim Tebow level accuracy. He was unplayable in the

(15:40):
modern NFL. But like fifty percent completions are below most
of the games, and that's it. So it's not a
raw deal. It's not. I mean, it was a natural
conclusion that anyone with half a brain who's not a
fanboy would have made. He didn't get screwed. In fact,
if anything, he was given an opportunity he did not deserve.

(16:01):
Richardson that he should have never been a QB one
for the Colts because he didn't deserve that based on
his crappy college career. And then he proved that the
people that were critics were right. The critic was right
on this one. Could never throw accurately, couldn't stay healthy,

(16:22):
and pulled himself out of the game. Strike one, strike two,
strike three, batter out, batter out. So Richardson didn't get
screwed by the Colts. He screwed himself. He's essentially what
he did all right now, final points staying with the horseshoes.
Why not? So a couple of you idiots sent me
this quote. It's just going I guess it's been going
around last coupleause I didn't see it until in the

(16:45):
nighttime hour. So Andrew Locke popped up again. I haven't
really thought about Andrew Luck in a long time. Why
would I washed up athlete? I don't really think about
those guys much anyway, Anthony richards or Andrew will Luck.
Why Athinky Richardson soon enough will be the washed up athlete.
But get your crappy Colts quarterbacks?

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Right?

Speaker 1 (17:02):
So Andrew Luck popped up again. He was talking about
his retirement, and this was behind a paywall on the
Athletic and he said, quote, I was going to play
until forty or fifty. I thought I was invincible. And
then he said I fell out of love. I always
have guilt. He said, I let my teammates down. Close quote. So,

(17:25):
Andrew Luck, who famously you talk about the Colts have
really done good at getting guys that quit, Like Anthony
Richardson quit. He quit during a game. Andrew Luck Well
kind of quit during a game too. It was a
preseason game, but he quit. They're really good. They lead
the NFL and quitters Colts football. Wee raft guys that quit,
all right, So that'd be a good slogan.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
So is Andrew Luck saying that he let his teammates
down justified all these years later on his Colts retirement.
So I'm nodding my head. Yes, I'm nodding my Yes.
He's one hundred percent right in Luck did let them down.
He did. This is what I said. I got killed
for this. Take This is take validation. That's why I'm
bringing this up. It's Mallard take validation. So I said

(18:09):
this at the time as quitter. What you can't do that?
What are you doing? And you step away in March,
you say I'm done in April, even if you wait
till May. I'm good. I'm fine, you know, because I'm
really the judge, jury and execution, and I'm fine with that.
When you have the overnight bully pulpit, those are those
are decisions you make. So I'm okay with that. But

(18:30):
at the eleventh hour, just a couple of weeks before
the season kicks off, is not the time nor the
place to say I'm out. See you later, suckers. Uh No,
that's like telling your fiance on the way down the
aisle with everyone. They're all dressed up in their their
church clothes. Right, everyone's all dressed up, and by the way, surprise,

(18:53):
I'm out. Good Luck. You know you can't know Luck.
And by the way, it was a basketball player named
Richard Jefferson, who I think's on network television now who
did that. He famously did that anyway, So he didn't
just Andrew Luck didn't just screw over. He didn't just
screw over the team, the coaching staff, the fan. That's

(19:16):
the part that I had a problem with. Do you
announce that you have to pay a lot of money
for these season tickets? Now I'm not a season ticket older,
but I have friends of mine to buy the tickets
in the very expensive right. You got to give deposits
and all that stuff. And he basically ghosted the entire franchise,
like the Colts. It was like a bad tender date.
And he's like, I ain't gonna ghost this person. And

(19:38):
don't even give him the excuse that you had to
dog sit or something like that. You just like, I'm out,
I'm done, and you just ghost just disappear. So no
SOB story, right as far as it's I don't want
to hear about guilt. That to me, that's a SOB store.
The whole guilt things a SOB story. Andrew and people
were trying to make him the victim. I know, we

(19:59):
live in the age much anymore. Last couple years. But
it was like everyone's a victim for like ten years.
Everyone's a victim. I my god, drives me nuts. But
there are real victims. But Andrew Luck was not the
victim right. In fact, anything the guilt he should have guilt.
He was the guy at the bar, right He was
out there with his teammates at the bar and he
ducked out of the restaurant before the check showed up,

(20:22):
after having a bunch of booze and a bunch of apps,
you know, appetizers and all that's I'm out. And the
franchise has never recovered. I mean they are still feeling
the facts all these years later. There were years ironed
from boots on the ground that Jim, the late Jim
Mersey was convinced that Andrew Luck, Yeah, he'd come back
in two years and he didn't come back. And they

(20:42):
tried to They were like, well, well, just Andrew Luck
has a house. I don't know if he still does.
I know he's doing stuff for Stanford, but he lived
in retirement down the street from the Colts practice facility
because he thought, you know, they thought, well he lives here,
he's gonna come back and play quarterback quotes, and he
never did. And so they've had I had this like
Broadway casting call the Colts where they had Philip Rivers

(21:04):
and they had Carson Wentz and Matt Ryan and they
had this suck bag Anthony Richardson who quit. Now they
have Daniel Jones, who people hope will quit. And so
it's like those guys don't belong on Broadway. They belong
at like the Fargo Theater. Shout out to our guys
in Fargo, North Dakota. Come on, you know these are
not leading, legitimate and you have a bunch of washed

(21:24):
up guys and never was, never were good players. And
those are the guys at the front. I mean, the
franchise is still chasing its tail because one guy quit
at the most inconvenient possible time to quit. And that's
Andrew Luck's legacy. That's it. That's the legacy of Andrew Luck.
Forget the stats, forget all the promise and oh he's

(21:47):
gonna be amazing the full monte. He bailed at the
worst possible time and left everyone else holding the bag. Fans, teammates, coaches, everyone.
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(22:08):
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Miller and you. That's right, Lit's up. The Ben Maler
Show continues and in Vegas this Saturday three to five,
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You can hang out with Ben Maler, Little Rainer Coop
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(23:22):
this to hang out. It's one day only, so if
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friend Slug who lives in Vegas. Can hang out with
the great supermarket Steve, who'll complain about something because he
always complains. We have Clarence Roger, Roger Victor, another legend,

(23:43):
Big Lou. He's on number two from the LBC. He
says he'll be there. So if you want to hang out,
schmooze the whole thing. That's it. No gimmicks, no bs,
just the maland militia. Welcome salt of the earth. So
babe Vegas, Baby, No, No, I got kids, I don't know.

(24:05):
You do something with the kids. Tell the wife, Tell
the wife you're going out. Very important meeting work meeting
three o'clock on a Saturday. Have some fun. We'll see
you there in Vegas coming up on Saturday. There are rumors,
by the way, Brian No the No Show will be
there as well. Possibly Bernie Fratto might make an appearance.

(24:26):
I was wondering if he was. There's even speculation that
Wreckett Ralph might show up. Fox Sports Radio alumni remember
Wrecket Ralph. So we'll see it. Didn't he come last time?
He did? Five minutes? Well, yeah, he showed up because
one of his buddies is a big fan of the show,
and he was he was he was very upset by
that that he he and the guy was really he
lived in like Reno, and I don't know he'll be
there again, but he he came down and then Ralph

(24:48):
showed up, and then I think Ralph was disgusted by
the other people. So I think that was the show.
I back to it, all, right, back to it. We
go fired up for Vegas this weekend and we'll be
are we all going earlier as just some of us
are going early. I don't know, we're all everything.

Speaker 8 (25:05):
We're leaving Thursday.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
We're all going early.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
I want to join you in the studio.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Well, I don't even know. Bring my headphone. Really, you'll
bring your headphones, okay, all right, don't you want to
go out and party or something like that. You know
I will not be joining you in. You're more than welcomer, right.

Speaker 8 (25:18):
Due to the circumstances of the show being in Vegas
and doing the the meet and greet, I think it
would just be proper.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Okay, all right, well, very very good, We'll have you
come back. I've not I've heard the studio changed. It
was the old studio. Harmon was telling me, the great
Mike Harmon, he's worked out of the Vegas studio. That's
a new studio, which I'm excited about because the old
studio we did in Vegas was in a very bad
part of town, Like there were warehouses. You could see
the strip off in the distance, like this glowing Neon

(25:47):
sign of greatness, and you were surrounded by it was
like doing the show from here almost in the distance. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
It was like you're surrounded by you know, it's like
slum lord. Hear that, right?

Speaker 5 (25:59):
Though?

Speaker 8 (25:59):
There was a white castle nearby.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Yeah. Harmon was very excited about the white castle. White castle,
and the cool thing is getting getting done with the show.
We will still be able to go out and like, uh,
you know, it'll be late, but Vegas stuff will be
open anyway. So I'll be coming up this Weekend's all
the phones, and I mean, I don't know if he'll
be there. He was at the meet and greet last year.

(26:22):
And this guy you talk about being a chameleon who
changes his appearance. Let's say hello now to our friend Salsa. Hello, Salsa, Welcome.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
Good evening. Then what's going on Buddy Raina and Cooper?
So then I am deep in the heart of Texas history.
But it's not technically the heart of Texas. It's only
an out from the border of Oklahoma. So how's that
deep in the heart of Texas?

Speaker 1 (26:50):
This is a good question. So I'm I've always heard
Dallas is deep in the heart of Texas. But then
there was a famous guy. Okay, calm down, but it
wasn't It's based on a song, Isn't it based on
a song that said? Is correct? Okay? So all you
have to do, Salsa is write a song that says,

(27:11):
what would be deep in THEO? Would Houston Houston's further in?

Speaker 7 (27:14):
Right?

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Would Houston be deep in the heart of Texas.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
Incorrect. Also, Houston is close to the Gulf of Mexico.
The actual heart of Texas is a place called Brady, Texas.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
That night a biggin brouh There you go, Susa, deep
in the heart of Texas. Well as you know Salsa.
You've been a listener for a long time. When the
legend becomes the fact, you go with the legend. The
legend is the heart of Texas is in Dallas, that
is correct. So you go with the legend the man
that shot Liberty valance, of course, and so there you go. Now,

(27:47):
so last time we saw you, we didn't We didn't
recognize you. You look like you had won the New
York Marathon. So if you I don't know if you're
going to be in Vegas or not. But next time
we see you, are you going to now be like
seven hundred pounds?

Speaker 4 (28:00):
I still look exactly the same as you saw me
last year?

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Okay, all right, fair enough.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
You know I had a plant actually scheduled to Medihen
for this weekend, so I'm kind of what.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Are you going there for?

Speaker 4 (28:15):
Huh yeah, Columbia.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, Well, I don't blame you for going there instead
of to hang out with.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
However, I do want to make that and I could
do some other stuff. Columbia is not going anywhere, but
we don't have these amountabet in Greece every day, so
I'm leaning towards coming.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
There, all right?

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Send that out coop on social media. A guy's going
to give up partying in Columbia.

Speaker 8 (28:41):
Can you go to Columbia first, then come to Vegas?

Speaker 4 (28:44):
I cannot?

Speaker 1 (28:47):
You work at the airline? Did you could go? You
could go to Vegas and go from Vegas to Columbia.
Boom done, there you go. I do.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
I do things like that all the time. That's just
a little bit too far.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Okay, Yeah, I got you, because you have to get
back to work or whatever.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
No, no work, no work, no work.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Okay. How long does it take to fly to Columbia?

Speaker 4 (29:05):
Well about from here in Texas? I got a non
stop about five to six hours.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Okay, So it's like going from the West coast to
the East coast.

Speaker 8 (29:14):
I get so antsy on that amount of time traveling
in planes.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Yeah, I wouldn't do it that long. I would connect
through Fort Lauderdale or Orlando. So from there it's about
three hours to Orlando. It's about two and a half
hours to give a take.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, I got you. Well, we haven't heard from you
in a while, saw, So what you've been up to.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
What I've been up to? Working out? Ben? Yeah, okay,
working out, dancing, dancing, five nights a week now. No
football summer is here, so no football to worry. But
so five nights a week.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
You got about two more weeks and actually this week
in college zero week in college football. It's beginning.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (29:51):
That means it doesn't really count, but the games count.
But there's only a few games this weekend and the
real launch is the following week. So college football could
be here in like two weeks.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
Yeah, I'll be a we that we better start. So
that's gonna be a little bit of a disruption, but
I have to make it worse.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Well they have. That's the internet. You can You should
not watch illegal streams, but there are ways. I'm told
I don't do this, of course, because it would be wrong,
but there are ways.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
Watch watch on my phone.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah, exactly, you can watch on your phone. That's amazing.
All right, Well, very good salsa, Thank you buddy.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
All Right, you have a great night.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
All right.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
The great Salcon checking, let's go to Tony.

Speaker 8 (30:25):
Before we got to Tony real quick, I did, I
did receive word that some other show royalty will be
joining us.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
A really agains. Oh who I do not know? Who's
going to be the Queen Roxanne?

Speaker 2 (30:35):
No?

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Is that right? Great Queen Roxanne? Correct? We met her
years ago. She showed up to a minor league baseball
appearance that we did remember back in the day. Was
that was that San Bernardino? Yes, I think San Berna.
We threw out the first pitch. We're gonna do that again.
We haven't thrown out the first pitch in a while
because Rob Manford got rid of most of the minor
league baseball teams, which limits how many options. Although we

(30:56):
could have done the WU Socks if we'd gone during
the WU Sox season. So should we wait? How about this?
Should we wait until next summer to do the meet
and greet in Boston because then we can do a
WU Socks night and then throw out the first pitch
in a minor league And wouldn't that be kind of
cool to do? We have the connections to do the

(31:17):
first pitch. Yeah, yeah, there's some listeners that are we
do very well in that area, and there's some people
that have reached out that said they know people and
if we're there, we could throw out the first pitch
with that. You'd rather do that, though, I mean, I
don't know. I mean it's cool October were cool, or
we could say the Salem Witch stuff it's not. Oh yeah,
I mean look either way, we could do both. We

(31:39):
could do both. You know, we'll just have these guys
are loaded. You know, if we ended up doing summer
next year, Oh, here we go coops going to Europe
or something.

Speaker 8 (31:47):
No, no, I would have to I'd have to figure
out how to get my dad to come along.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
He has not been to Fenway, and so you have
to make the pilgrimage.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
I think that's like a lifelong thing. Okay, all right,
that's an option. We'll chat with Mike in New Hampshire
and your favorite person, Lorena the Leprechaun to the bottom
of Tony is it Lucky Tony in the Bay Area? Hello,
Lucky Tony.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Shut out to Eddie and this is dedicated to Veronica Real.
I really can't, but baby, it's cold outside. I got
to go. But baby, it's cold outside. He has me
so very nice. Oh answer, like, thanks Ben, who did

(32:44):
you dedicate that to you?

Speaker 1 (32:45):
I believe that's a porn star. I believe she's an
adult entertainer. Oh my gosh, did I tell you? How
do they get porn stars these days? Because you can
just do it on your own, you can be you
can go on OnlyFans. Why why would why would? How
would you? How do they? How do they recruit win
to get in here? It's a difference. You can make porn,
but to be a porn star is a whole or

(33:05):
I don't know, is there really a porn star anymore?

Speaker 7 (33:08):
No?

Speaker 1 (33:09):
I disagree. When I was a kid, yeah, yeah, I
one time was driving in Hollywood back from I lived
in my apartment in Hollywood. I was doing the local
radio in LA and I was driving home and this
is like the nineties, and we were bumper to bumper
traffic in Hollywood, and add a payphone. They still had payphones.
Ron Jeremy, the greatest fat porn store of all time,

(33:30):
was on a payphone in a Hawaiian shirt and everywhere.
It was so funny because dudes are like, I rod,
what's going on?

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Run?

Speaker 1 (33:37):
I guess he's in jail and he I don't know,
did some terrible things or whatever, but in jail. But
at the time, I don't even know if it's still alive.
But at the time it was like a big deal.
It was like, you know, literally anyway, all right, it
is the Ben Mallers Show. Time. Now for the instant trivia.
You're gonna have mallardly third degree. Blank is the only
player in Major League Baseball history with two seasons of

(33:59):
fifteen or more first inning home runs. One player that's
done it. Blank is the only player in Major League
Baseball history that have two seasons of fifteen or more
first inning home runs. That is the insta trivia. The answer.
We'll get to it. We'll do it next.

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(34:46):
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Now for the Insta trivia, they'll get to Malthard of
the third degree. Here's the Insta trivia. Blank is the
only player in Major League Baseball history with two seasons

(35:08):
of fifteen or more first inning home runs. First inning
home runs. That is the question. What is the answer?
Scrooge in the Bay Areas going with Stan the Man
as his answer. Alf the Alien Opiner says, A bella
danger is the star there? That's Alf. We know what
he's gonna do. Amy Adams, who is fifty one today?

(35:29):
How about that Late Nights drug tester? Charlie Blackman from
Eke Rocky's Legend from Eacon Roseville, Minnesota. Charlie Furbush from
Andy and Lionel Lakes. Who else do we have? Page nine?
David gagon from Malard prop Guy that he used to
work here, David gag On, Who else do we have?
Edgar Martinez from Shane in Des Moines. Large Marge, not

(35:52):
Robbie the Mariner fan from Rob the goat Man. Who
else do you have? Big Charlie from Mister Irrigation of
the Boston Red Stockings. Who else milkman Mike got this right,
bad job by him. He's a cheater. Bingo Long from
Donkey's Sausage. Let's see here, Eileen in the in the
Bay Area. I believe I think she's in the Berry.

(36:14):
Judge Sherwin is the answer. Rob in Minnesota going with
Hal McCrae, and Rob says, that's my favorite team. I
thought you were retired. Rob, thank you for still listening.
A says Hal mccraye. My favorite tantrum. No, no, the
lee Ilia one is still better.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
J T.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
L Wingman says Squiggy. Now, next time you come to
a meet and greet, j T. I gotta tell you
I was friends with the actor that played Swiggy. He
became a baseball scout in the nineties, Dave Lander. He
passed away a couple of years back. But yeah, wild
I was buddies with Squiggy, who was a big Starlery,
you have no idea appreciate he was a star of

(36:51):
this show. There was a show called la Vernon Shirley,
which is a very popular show before you were alive
and even before I was alive. But he was a
star that Mickey Rivers from Larry du Fat Daddy says
his favorite porn star, John Holmes.

Speaker 5 (37:07):
Daddy.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Queen Roxann's alerting the militia. She will be there on Saturday,
so you can That's a rare appearance, a rare in
appropriate appearance by Queen rox Anne. All right, dad, do
you have an answer the rain?

Speaker 9 (37:18):
I'm going with Scrooge McDuck, Screws, not Scrooge in the
Bay Area.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Scrooge McDuck. That is incorrect. The correct answer is the
judge not sure when the judge Aaron Judge, who his
fifteenth first inning home run for the Yankees in the
game on Tuesday night. He had eighteen first inning home
runs in twenty twenty four. So there you go. Here
we go. It's mallard. How about that?

Speaker 5 (37:42):
To the third degree?

Speaker 1 (37:45):
This is one big Ben gets quat.

Speaker 9 (37:49):
Titans number one pick Cam Warren found himself in the
middle of a practice scuffle after he shoved and taunted
Pro Bowl defensive lineman Jeffrey Simmons. However, cornerback Jarvis brownly
liked seeing that from Warren's It shows he's got that
dog in him. Yeah, Ben, do you want to see
your quarterback getting into the middle of those kind of things?

Speaker 5 (38:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (38:06):
I know people are freaking out your your panties are
bunched up on the internet, but I don't mind it,
you know. And that's the kind of stuff that once
you established that you're that kind of guy, like your
teammates love you, the offensive lineman love you and all that,
there's always some pencil nose poindexter that gets all upset.
You don't do it all the time, but rare and appropriate.

(38:26):
I like, Yeah, it's good. I like it. Cam Moore,
you know, I hope he's okay. He'll be good for
the show next.

Speaker 9 (38:34):
Mets legend Jose Reyes talk to TMZ recent Jose Jose, Jose, Jose,
that's right. He said that he thinks people have been
too hard on one Soto and that he's done pretty
good for his first year with the team.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
Yeah, Ben, do you expect so to improve next year?

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Well?

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Yeah, he's gonna be with the Mets the rest of
my career, so I would assume he's going to get better.
But no, that's a that's a bad take by Jose Rays.
You're in New York, there's high expectations. You signed the
biggest contract in baseball history. Oh you've been too hard.
Oh what kind of loser take is that? That's like
the worst take I've heard in a long time. Next, suck.

Speaker 9 (39:08):
It's being reported that the Houston Rockets are reluctant to
give Kevin Duranty contract extension and that they aren't going
to go all in on any potential extension.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Ben Could his stay in Houston be short lived? Yes,
he's a nomad, He's a hobo. That's what Durant does.
He changed his teath. As soon as things go bad,
Durant looks to leave. He doesn't want to make it better.
He wants to leave. That's what he does. They're at
is male third degree? How do we dows.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
I won?

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Andre I won
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