January 23, 2026 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the FBI sniffing around the doctor who provided Colts owner Jim Irsay his opioids, the 49ers making efforts to trade for Vikings WR Jordan Addison, Aaron Glenn and the Jets being rejected by multiple big-name defensive coordinators, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How do you do It's a murder mystery here on
hour number two. Out of its murder or not. But
somebody died and the FBI is involved, and we'll talk
about that this hour here on this Friday, the twenty
third day of January. So the FBI is sniffing around
the doctor who provided Colts owner Jim Ersay the opioids
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that led to his death. How do you read this one?
How do you read into that one? The forty nine
ers making efforts to trade for Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison.
Do you approve or disprove that movement? And how do
you process Aaron Glenn in Jersey and the Jets being
rejected by multiple big name defensive coordinators. We will examine
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do want to alert all the listeners down the line
and the the affiliates the verbal octagon. We have not
done this in twenty twenty six. I haven't done this
in a long time. Used to be a staple of
the show. But the verbal Octagon will be open for business.
(03:27):
We are going to have Blind Scott representing the Patriots
in three rounds of verbal chaos in the octagon, and
we will have him going against someone I've never heard
of named John in Colorado. So we'll see how that goes.
That'll be coming up later this hour. Get your bets in,
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no fixing, No funny business here. I don't know what
the line is on DraftKings. I'll have to check. But
our lead this hour from Indianapolis, and we have a
true crime mystery in the NFL. Yeah. Are those still popular?
Those true crime shows? Are they still I don't know.
I don't know if they're still popular. If you haven't
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seen it, perhaps not. We have learned that the FBI,
better known by that name rather than the Federal Bureau
of Investigations, is looking into the death of former Colts
owner Jim Ersay and the doctor who was supplying him
all of those pills and whatnot, huge amounts of opioids
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and ketamine and injections and all that stuff, all that stuff.
And so from the story it was reported by the
Washington Post, they said, the same California based doctor Ersa
lives in indian He lived in Indianapolis, live anywhere now,
but Ursa in He had a doctor in California who
also signed his death certificate, the same one that was
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handing him all the good stuff and ruled the day natural.
All right, So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss again the FBI. The question is the
FBI sniffing around the doctor who provided Colts owner Jim
Mersay his opie opiods. So how do you read this one?
(05:18):
All right? How do you read this one? So my observations,
I got deep pockets, nanny pod, and tub sales. Pitch again,
deep pockets, nanny pod and tub sales pitch. And we'll
put all of these things together. One two, three, n ABC.
So number one, number one a little faster number one. No,
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that was better. That was better. So this is not
the Jim Mersey story. Is not a who done it?
It is a how much is it? Story? In my opinion,
it's a sad story, right, somebody dies, a sad thing. However,
I don't believe this is worthy of violins. You know
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what I'm saying. We don't need to play the violin.
Jim Irsay was a lot of things. He was quite
the character. He was good for what I do because
he said's anythings? And I appreciate people like that. If
everyone did the same thing, boy, life would be boring.
And so ever, say it was a character. He was
and wasn't the greatest owner in the world. But who
cares because he said some wackadoodle stuff, and we love that.
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We love that he also had demons. We all have demons, right,
everyone's got demons. He had demons. He was an addict.
It was very open about that. It was painful, and
this went on for decades. And one thing I know
people in my world. I'm sure you have people in
your world that are addicted to drugs or whatever. Alcohol.
You always find if you're an addict, you're always going
to find your fix. It's like water finding a crack, right,
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It's the water's going to find the crack. Well, there's
no crack. Well, there's a crack. You didn't realize it.
The water found it. And the other thing I know
from I'm not rich, but I know some people that
are rich. And when you have deep pockets, you can
find whatever you need, right, And especially if you're an
addic and you have a lot of cash, there's always
a doctor feel good. Right, There's always a doctor feel
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good willing to play pharmacist for hire. Now that said,
this is also one of those textbook one percent justice.
You know how there's like different different things. And when
regular people die because they're addicts and they found a
doctor that is running a buffet of pills for them,
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it's bubcus. Right, they get bupkus. There's no investigation. That's it.
It's kind of a shrug. Maybe you get the emoji,
the shrug emoji, and then that's it. You move on. However,
when a billionaire who happens to own an NFL team
keels over in the same situation, suddenly it is CSI
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rehab clinic. And we've seen some high profile cases over
the years. I don't know how old you are. They
should be a musician named Michael Jackson. He was kind
of famous. His doctor was giving him all kinds of stuff.
It was convicted, went to jail. More recently, the if
you watch the show Friends back in the day, Matthew
Perry who died in I think it was Malibu, and
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there's similar situation there. So these people had a lot
of money, they were famous people, and they were able
to find doctors. According to one was convicted. I don't
know what happened with the I haven't kept track of
the Matthew Perrys. So, but they had there's a lot
of there's a lot of opportunity. Uh, when you when
you've got the money, and so wealth buys confusion. It
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also buys you plausible deniability. Now, I want to be clear,
I got a very passionate reaction. Last year we talked
about the sad story involving the pitcher Tyler Skaggs of
the Angels, and he also was a drug addict, and he,
you know, he died from an overdose at a hotel
room in Texas and the Angels were playing the Rangers
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and the person that was giving him the drugs in
that case is currently in jail, will be in jail
pretty much the rest of his life. And I had
said I did not believe that that warranted a conviction
because that was a couple of junkies that were sharing drugs.
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They were both drug addicts. And so to me, this
is different than Jim irsey story. And the reason it's different,
I'll say why, is because doctors, unlike just regular people
that are addicted to drugs, they take the Hippocratic oath right,
And when you take the hypocritic oath, which is the
foundational ethical code of medicine for physicians, and I think
we most of us know that we learned that in school.
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And so when you do that, you emphasize the principles
of things like do no harm, right, do no harm
and patient you get to be quiet about patients of
the confidentiality and all that stuff, and so all of
those things go into it. And so it's different when
you're a doctor. When you're handing out the opioids like
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tic TACs, it's problematic as opposed again to somebody who
is a low level staffer for the Angels and was
also a drug addict, and Tyler Skaggs reached out to
him to get drugs. To me, that's a different situation,
all right. Now we move away from that's sad tale.
We go to the Bay Area where John Lynch the
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story still has legs the GM of the Niners confirming
confirming John Lynch that wide receiver Brandon Iuc will not return.
We talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
John Lynch said he has played his last snap. Now
we are told the Niners are all horny to get
their hands on Vikings. Wide receiver Jordan Addison, who played
at Pitt and SC was a very good college player
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and had a great rookie year in the NFL for
the Minnesota football team. So the theory is based on
what I understand. A minute long deliberation of the available
information that Jordan Addison would slide in to the Niners
and become the primary pass catcher and not likely sending
Brandon Ayac back to Minnesota. Now, why would Minnesota want
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to get to get rid of Jordan Addison. Well, there's
some financial stuff, but it's also he's just become a knucklehead.
Buffoonery has been taking place here. So Addison's production is strong,
although it's not going the right direction of the off
field stuff. The buffoonery is the story here for Jordan Addison.
So the question on this one for the class, and
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you're in the class. So the question is the forty
nine ers, According to various outposts making efforts to this offseason,
they have targeted Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison as a
guy they want do you approve or disprove? As you know,
it's very important. I'm at the bully pulpit here and
at the bully pulpit very important that what I say matters.
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So I approve the Vikings going for Jordan Addison with
the qualifier of adult supervision. The talent this guy is
absolutely is wonderful. The Smarts does not have a high
football IQ. Okay, don't ask. Jordan Addison can play at
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a very high level. He's got the tools in the toolbox. Unfortunately,
the toolbox is missing the instruction manual. So if you
get him, you're gonna have to go online and see
can I get the instruction man? Well we don't. We
don't send that out. Well why not? I need it?
I need the instruction man. Well, we don't do it anymore.
I can send it to your phone. I don't have
a smartphone. I have a dumb phone. Okay, you're screwed.
That's it. So that's why he'll be available from Minnesota.
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If you believe these coupes, and really anyone's available, and
anyone's can be available. Of the Dallas Mavericks can give
away Luca, anyone can be available, and you can get
Jordan Addison for pennies on the dollar because there is
a hole in his ozone layer when it comes to
decision making. So if you activate the Malard think, which
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we like to do, you bring Jordan Addison in, then
you hold an A and E style intervention. You bring
in that A and E style intervention. I'm talking the
full babysitter package. You go on nanny pod you get
the VIP package, you got the nanny, you got the babysitter,
which I guess is different than a nanny. Then you've
got the chauffeur. Got to have the show for god. Now,
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in San Francisco they got those self driving waymos, which
in LA they turned into barbecues, but I don't know
if they do it in San Francisco too. So get
one of those, you know, give him a personal waymo
and then you're good on that GPS ankle bracelet. If
you have to, the court might give him that, anything
to keep him from Buckley. Now he has served the
vikings three years in the NFL. The three by three combo.
What is the three x three combos, that's the meal,
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three by three combo meal. You've got three seasons in
the NFL and three arrests. Three arrests in the NFL. Now,
I believe the last one, which was at a hotel
in Florida, I think the charges were not They didn't
go forward with that case, but he still was arrested
for it. But they didn't go worked out some kind
of deal. It would appear and the production. That's the
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other issue. He's not terrible, but it's like a phone
battery that every year you have your phone, the battery
drains a little bit faster. You know what I'm talking about.
It's paying the ass. Yeah, exactly. So that's the issue.
He's had fewer catches Jordan Nattison, fewer yards and fewer
touchdowns every season since his breakout rookie year. And nevertheless,
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here's the thing. I don't want to see the Niners
do well. But if I was the Niners, I would say, well,
we don't really need somebody that's acquired boy. We don't
need acquire boy. So they need a weapon, and we
know that brock Purty. Really, what the Niners are saying
is brock Purty's not that good, is what they're saying. Right,
He's not good enough. Some quarterbacks elevate wide receivers. Brock
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Purty is not. That guy's very average talent. They overpaid him.
And this is an admission that he needs playmakers brock
Purdy because he doesn't make players around him better. They
make him better, he doesn't make them better. He doesn't
elevate his teammates. That's really what the Niners are saying
by this rumor getting out there and Kyle Shannon's offense.
All you geniuses tell me how great this guy is
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as a coach and all that stuff. His offense is
hyped as a finishing school and all that. So let's see.
Let's see. Let's see Lance the bus driver, nest Do
in the Bay, and Terry in England's a big forty
nine er fan, and Jay Scoop and all these cats.
Let's see how this goes all?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Now, final pointud Jersey. We go to Jersey. We are
told that multiple defensive coordinator candidates, including two big names,
two prominent names in the NFL, have said ix nay
on the Jets say they have declined to even interview
with Jets head coach Aaron Glenn. Now, the big Apple
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media having a field day, acting like termites finding soft wood.
They are consuming it from the inside out. They're so excited.
This is so great for them. So the question, how
do you process Aaron Glenn and the j that's being
rejected by multiple big name defensive coordinators. So this is
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not Harvard law right turning you down. This is not
Harvard law. This is the NFL coaching market telling you, eh,
and we're good, We're good. We don't need that now
tells me that Aaron Glenn and the Jets front office
aimed way too high, way too hot, right, and you
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outkicked your coverage. Our old morning guy Klay Travis would
like that, but you OutKick your coverage right. You tripped
over your own shoelaces and you landed faced first in
a cloud of stardust. It's bad job by you. It
shows you zero situational winners. They don't know where they
rank on the food chain in the NFL, and you
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really have to know where you rank the Jets. I
guess I'll use the analogy like this. Imagine if you will.
You are a tech startup. You've got a little bit
of venture capital, but you're not You're not loaded, right,
you're a little venture capital. So you're a tech startup,
you're going to fix the world and all that stuff.
And you go out and you try to poach an
Apple executive and you offer them a bunch of stock options,
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and the Apple executive looks at you and said, wait
a minute, that's monopoly money, and said, well, I know
it's monopoly money, but we want you to come work
for us. We're hot to try start up well, no,
but I work at Apple. I have real money. I
don't need I do not need that monopoly money. But
please come on, you're using the if you're the startup
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the Jets, you're using the tub sales pitch. What I
call the tub sales pitch. You know what the tub
sales pitch is. It's trust us bro that's the sales pitch.
Just trust us brouh And we're building something. Yeah, that's it.
That's a ticket. We're building something. It is an open
secret that coaches. No, you go to the Jets, yeah,
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you'll make a decent amount of money, but you better
not buy anything because the Jets have a stumble bump owner.
The roster blows. There's chaos in the air everywhere. And
so there's also a lack of job security for Aaron
Glenn and so it appears they've said hard passed. You're
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gonna get someone obvious someone will take that job. It's
kind of like going to Best Buy. The Jets are like,
I think I gotta get a refrigerator, and so you
look at the price of the refrigerators and they're really
expensive and said, man, I can't afford that, And so
you're not getting a shiny stainless steel model with the
ice maker and all the bells and whistles and the
dew hickeys and all that. You're in the back open
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box fridge, you know, the back where they have all
the stuff. That's damage. You got dents on the door,
it's missing the shelf. There's some kind of weird, funny
humming sound thing. I don't know what that is, but
don't worry about it. And by the way, all sales
are final. All sales are final. Good luck, good luck,
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yikes it is. It's the Ben Mahler Show, and we
have the verbal Octagon, so we're not gonna give out
the number because the verbal Octagon will take a fair
amount of time. And we're gonna have a guy from Boston,
Blind Scott in the octagon ready to go, and then
John in Colorado. I don't know who that is, and
that'll be the octagon. One Bronco fan, one Patriot fan
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for all the marbles. We'll go into the verbal octagon.
Fist the cuff says only we can do it. We
will get to that and we will do it next.
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Queen and Coop Bronco fan. Let's get right to it,
all right, right to it. We are fired up, fired up.
Do we have any special intro music we can play here?
Drinking this?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Give me two seconds?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
All right? All right, you're listening to our live coverage.
This is a Fox Sports Radio exclusive. Every network wanted this,
none of them happened. This is not a strawweight. This
is not a lightweight. This is not bantamweight. I'm trying
to think of the other what are the weight classes? Welterweight?
I remember that this is the no, no, no, this
is not super welterweight.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Get me in the mood. Now I'm getting the mood.
Here we go. Ben Malor Show on Fox Sports Radio
Overnight presents the iconic verbal.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Oct Gone three rounds of Sparring with your big fat mouth,
the legendary squared Audio Circle, conic figures like Pete and Pittsburgh,
Tammy and Montana, Genie and Medford.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Real Talk, and others have laced them off in a
blood match. And who's in the rampage today? Three rounds?
A match to the side who's going to win the
American Football Conference Championship here in twenty twenty six, it
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is going to be a barn burner. Let's meet our contestants.
What do you say? Making their way into the ring
in one corner, representing the Patriots, A person that lives
on the North End of Boston and loves to tell
everyone about it, singing the Virtues of the Commonwealth. A
man that loves radio more than radio loves radio. He
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enjoys a dish of pasta, social media trolling and other
wackadoodle activity as the leader of the Blind Caucus of
the Mala Militia, the longest tenured caller. Give it up
to Blind Scott. Making his way into the ring. There's
Blind Scott.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Hate this guy.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
I hate this guy, John. He's a piece of crap.
I want him to shut up. I work on the
Toucher and Hardy Show, the highest traded sports radio show,
the Deco.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
All right, all right, we haven't started yet. We have
not started yet. Calm down, sir, please. In the other corner,
entering the squared audio circle. A man of mystery little
is known. His name is John. He lives in Colorado.
He will represent the Broncos. Will he live up to
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the standard? Or is this guy a tomato can from
the Mile High City? Give it up to John in Colorado?
Hello John, Well, are you ready for the pugilism?
Speaker 8 (23:48):
John?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Good morning, Ben good music, Lorena, I'm Rocky, I'm John
Denver is okay?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
All right, calm down, shut up, shut up, John. Here
we go. Oh, this is bare knuckle boxing. So the
rules of the Verbal Octagon. If you're new to the show,
it's three rounds, three rounds, and it is the bloody
knuckles is what it is. It's essentially bloody knuckles. And
what we do is we go out and the issue here.
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This is a head to head battle. We've done this
in the past. We've had the I think one of
the last ones we did was the Southern Slam, which
was that was he was known as Dad Gummet back
in the day. Now, Sir scratch Off and Jed who fled.
But it's three rounds. Round one is ten seconds each,
so you're opening salvo only ten seconds. Round two to
twenty seconds each to respond and rebut the opening round
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and then round three it is own like donkey gone,
and that is where people go below the belt. Round
three is going to be thirty seconds. He said, well,
this is too short. This is too short. Trust me,
it's too long. It's too long. So that is the
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Those are the rules, and we have given you the
rules gentlemen before the fight, and you must protect yourself
at all times and obey my verbal commands. There is
no cursing. We'll be very clear about that. You are
docked for one curse. If we hear a second curse,
you are disqualified. That's it, so touch them up, good luck.
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We flipped the penny and we determined that blind Scott
is going to go first, representing the Patriots, the Patriots
of the Road team. So Blind Scott, we'll go first,
and our judges will include myself, Ben Lorena, and Coop.
We will also have the vote of the people on X,
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so get on X at Ben mall. That'll be up
shortly after the octagon. So here we go, without further ado,
let's get started. Here we go to blind Scott. We
put ten seconds on the clockets the verbal octagon. You're
on your way. Blind Scott go.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Yeah, this is boomer hippie culture. Denver Broncos fans. These
are turns, neffyl baby trust, fun living losers that brag
about stuff that nobody cares about. They have a sense
of the titlement. They ruined football.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It's all right, that was it? Ten seconds there? Now
I have noticed over this Blind Scott's been in this before,
and there's different kinds of boxing. And I love box.
I'm old, so I UFC wasn't a thing when I
was growing up, and I love big fights. I've only
really watched the heavyweight fights. I was able to go
to the sum back in the day. But blind Scott
he comes out there. There's nothing elegant about blind Scott.
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He just he's a swarmer. He tries to overwhelm the opponent,
applying constant pressure, all right, and so that's what he does,
all right. Now, entering the ring for round one from Colorado,
a man of mystery representing the Denver Broncos. John in Colorado,
go John.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Ten seconds go, Hey, mama boy made the snow dump
on you and you you're walking stick That.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Docs were stopping too soon. You suck all right? That
was only like six seconds. I believe that was it. Okay,
so did not use the full All right, we're one rounded.
This might be stopped. I don't know that. We might
not make it to round three. This could be uh,
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we might have a knockout. Finish them Scott. All right,
let's go to round two. You're listening to our live
coverage of the verbal octagon here, as we have blind
Scott representing the Patriots. Somebody, it says on my board
here John in Colorado, who is representing the Denver Broncos,
and they are duking it out with personal insults to
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decide who can do better in the octagon. Here the
iconic squared audio circle where legends have battled, and now
we've got these two knuckleheads. Okay, so the next round,
as we pointed out, a little bit more time here
in round number two, and so round two, you guys
will get twenty seconds in round two. We changed the
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times a little bit, so twenty seconds in round two
to respond and rebutt. We'll go back to blind Scott
and the twenty seconds on the clock.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
You're on your way and go all right, Lorena, you're
gonna respond to this. So Kennedy Stidham. She's a social
media influencer. She sucks that life. She's Jared Stidham's wife.
She shows her pregnant belly off like you wouldn't believe.
She bought more followers than Mike North. She's completely irrelevant.
There's Drake May's wife. She's and Michael May. She's a cook.
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She makes these beautiful YouTube All.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Right, all right, well, interesting strategy. It's I don't want
to give her I'm one of the judges, but I
just have some thoughts on that. That was an interesting move.
Now in Colorado choked in round one. He used about
six seconds of ten seconds of time, so now he's
got twenty seconds. There's almost no chance this goes well
for John and Colorado, the man of mystery. John, it's
round two of the verbal lockoun. You'll see our live
(29:13):
coverage here on the Ben Malors Show.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
You're in the ring.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Go ahead there, John and Colorado twenty seconds.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Dared did him? Was dumped by the Patriots? How dare
you blind? Scott in Bostom. The Patriots lose in Colorado
every single time over his three we have the Rocky Mountains.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You have alright? Alright, well, well quite the Matt was,
how do we how's this fight sanctioned? Do we know?
How is this?
Speaker 8 (29:45):
Sa?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Who put this on? Coop? You're the promoter? Coop? What
are we doing here? You're fired? All right? Well, this
is the final I think we've already I don't know
do we need the final round? I guess we'll put
the final round on. No knockout yet. You're listening. You
are live coverage. It's the Verbal Octagon and these gentlemen
going at it, and normally it's just an absolute backbreaker.
(30:08):
It's not a lot of bobbing and weaving taking place here.
It has not been a slugfest and pound profound. It's
like a heavyweight versus a bantam weight. The last round. Now,
both you gentlemen gonna be on the air. Let's let's
limit this one with thirty seconds. We'll limit this to
thirty seconds. Okay, thirty seconds to respond both on the air.
(30:30):
Anyone curses, you're disqualified. We've got John and Colorado blind Scott.
Verbal Octagon Round three. You're on the air, and go.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Dude, your wife doesn't want to have sex with you.
You're totally irrelevant. On the radio. You come on the
station say wick of crappy things about me and bribe
my cottails all the time. Dude, you're a piece of crap.
I'm gonna go on a serial.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
No no, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
I can't stand this.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Where is the where is the other? I don't even
know where the other? I don't even hear them. What happened?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It is?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
He just gave it. He's dead on the mat, He's
down for the count. This was not the Rumble, not
the rumble in the jungle. It was not the thriller
in Manila. It was the snooze in the overnight. But
(31:21):
there he goes, all right, Well, real quick, that's not
I was going to have another segment, but let's just
get to the judges' scorecards right now. All right. So
the first round, that was a bad sign. So Scott
came out and was vicious and just attack mode and
overwhelmed this person claiming to be John in Colorado and
(31:45):
just came at him, and as you would imagine, he
staggered the opponent and blow by blow, you look at
the CompuBox stats and I'm seeing this right, power punches
blind Scott hit every one of his power punches, and
John and Colorado did not hit one of them. So
(32:08):
I scored this. You know, not even you know the
way you score a fight artfile Lorraina knows this, probably not,
but the way that you score a boxing match, it's
like a ten nine thing most rounds and like ten
to nine. Whoever you thought had the lead would be
be like a ten to nine thing. So this though, no, no, no,
(32:31):
this was like ten ten five is what this is?
In round one and then round two around I don't
know what you'd call round two. That was a blind
Scott was so confident that he just started talking about
Jared Stidham's wife for some reason. So I gave that
(32:52):
to him. He was so arrogant, and he was right
because there was no competition from John. So I gave
that a ten to five. And then in round three,
the final round, I didn't even hear John in Colorad
until we told him to start talking. So but blind
Scott went very dark. He went to a deep dark place,
which I don't recommend. I don't think you should do that.
(33:12):
He went below the belt, he did, But again I
scored that. I was a little closer just because I
had to deduct some points for Scott and give those
points to John in Colorado. So I scored that final
round there ten to eight in favor of the person.
I gave the wind to Lorraine. How'd you score the
fight real quick? Oh my goodness?
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Definitely first round blind Scott won ten to zero. I
don't understand why John even joined. He did not seem
to come with any type of oomph for you know,
fire sauce. He had nothing. He had nothing going for,
He had no gas in his tank. He didn't even
try the last round.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Where were you?
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Do you understand what you're supposed to be doing when
you come on the air. Don't call back again until
you're ready.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
To enter the ring. He's very angry, all right, wasting
my time? Coop good.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
It was.
Speaker 8 (34:07):
It was a knockout in the in the second round.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we should have ended it.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
The third round was basically Scott just beating the lifeless
body to a poll.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Yeah, uh, Scott. It was personal for Scott at that point.
It was a crime of passion for Scott, not just
his wife.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
No one will have sex with a leprechaun, Okay, I mean,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Some of the similar rations Devin writes and He says,
that is the worst octagon in history. Pathetic. The militia
is the real loser in this. Uh yeah, down goes John.
Fat Daddy says, down goes John, Down goes John. The
Broncos don't have a chance having that loser represent them.
Uh not, A burner says, is John the leprechaun? Alf
(34:49):
the alien? Opinter says, is it just me or just
the guy from Diners? A lot like a leprechaun?
Speaker 9 (34:55):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
The Burner account checks in says this has to be
the weakest octagon on Big Ben Big board. Oh yeah,
this is the kind of octagon that will get us canceled.
This is you know that the famous thing in Hollywood
they say, jump the shark, which is an old sitcom.
Was it Happy Days? I think, yeah, yeah, they had
Phonsie jumping a shark and that ended that show. Supposedly,
(35:19):
this very well could end the octagon, very well could
end the octagon. This might be it. So do I
even need to put on X? I guess I will
put it up there just to see how crazy this gets.
But all right, well we tried. Yeah, not everything's your masterpiece,
but there it is. The octagon, man, I guess we're
lacking enough angry Bronco fans. I guess that's the issue
(35:42):
that people. Very upset. Jason says this was an unsanctioned
matched by everyone thirty to twenty four blind Scott, and
Johnny Q says blind Scott still sucks even in the octagon. Okay,
very good, Thank you all pointing out we've been bamboozled here,
(36:03):
Trucker Joseys, don't ever put loser con on in the
octagon again. We will have Mallard of the third degree.
We'll get to that. We'll also put this vote up.
We'll let you vote on this. I'll leave it up
for the podcast people so we can really get the
vote totals up on that. Straight ahead, we have Mallard
of the third degree. Now time for the insta trivia,
and here it is. There are almost a little less
(36:24):
than thirty thousand people that have played in the NFL.
Broncos quarterback bow Knicks is tied with Blank for the
shortest name of any player in the history of pro
football in the NFL. Again, they've been about less than
thirty thousand people that have played in an NFL game.
Broncos quarterback bow Knicks is tied with Blank for the
shortest name of any player in NFL history. That is
(36:47):
the Insta trivia the answer. We'll get to it. We'll
do it next.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
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Speaker 9 (37:13):
Today's Friday. It's a plumb pussy right there, Today's Friday.
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Jerk yourself away. Put a sock in your mouth.
Speaker 9 (37:19):
Today's Friday. Just now, Oh man, Today's Friday. Today's Friday.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
That's out. That's twenty five thousand dollars out, pat How
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dudes that have played in the NFL. Broncos quarterback bo
(38:06):
Nix is tied with Blank for the shortest name of
any player in NFL history. Who else do we have?
Let's see page down. Uh, Eke went with Joe Altz
and we want to check your you're spelling very funny
on that. Let's see here Willie Mopana, who's forty four today?
From Late Night Drug tester Femi's going with mister T.
(38:28):
Great name, Tim Biakabatuca from Rob That's his answer. Who
else do we have? Brian Cox from j T the
wingman who used to work here. Just Josh got it right,
bad job by him. To kenmy Well, Tombo from Gary
that's his answer. High Ho from Johnny Q. Paul got
it right. Uh. Scrooge says, thank God, the octagons over trucker.
(38:53):
Joe says bowld Bowl is the way to go Shack
from Mike the Leprechaun, who should retire? Do you have
an ant sir Larinea.
Speaker 5 (39:02):
Yes, our very missed listener, Siria Sean Siria?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Is it Sirias Sean? Uh No, the correct answer. Bonix
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Speaker 8 (39:27):
It was reported on Wednesday that Brian Daball is targeting
the Bill's head coaching job. Ben, what odds do you
give day Ball of actually landing it.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
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a better than fifty percent. I'd say a sixty percent
chess because he's bros with Josh Allen and Josh Allen
they got to suck up to Alan. So I say
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Piece where league executives, coaches, and scout were asked to
make a bold prediction, one thinks that the Falcons could
start the season with Kirk Cousins not only still on
the team, but at the top of the depth chart. Ben,
could you see that happening?
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Well?
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Could they? Yes? Could they? But if I'm Kevin Stefanski
and I'm taking over, I want to change it off.
I want to bring new people in there. Cousins look
pretty washed up at the end of last year, so
I would make a change. But could he sure I
could see that next.
Speaker 8 (40:23):
On Wednesday, there was a report that suggested Steve Kerr's
future with the Warriors is up in the air, and
that multiple assistant coaches on his staff are offerating under
the premise that Kerr will not be back next season.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Do you think this is it for Steve Kerr? Yeah,
well I think it's fair. If Kerr realizes it's all
over for the Warriors, he's out, he'll go back and
do television or at Amazon or NBC, which he did
at T and T before and that did. How'd we
do kobalout? You passed this edition when I won the game,
unlike unlike that guy pretending to be John from Colorado
who did not win
How do you do It's a murder mystery here on
hour number two. Out of its murder or not. But
somebody died and the FBI is involved, and we'll talk
about that this hour here on this Friday, the twenty
third day of January. So the FBI is sniffing around
the doctor who provided Colts owner Jim Ersay the opioids
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that led to his death. How do you read this one?
How do you read into that one? The forty nine
ers making efforts to trade for Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison.
Do you approve or disprove that movement? And how do
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absolutely way to go. So our lead story. But I
do want to alert all the listeners down the line
and the the affiliates the verbal octagon. We have not
done this in twenty twenty six. I haven't done this
in a long time. Used to be a staple of
the show. But the verbal Octagon will be open for business.
(03:27):
We are going to have Blind Scott representing the Patriots
in three rounds of verbal chaos in the octagon, and
we will have him going against someone I've never heard
of named John in Colorado. So we'll see how that goes.
That'll be coming up later this hour. Get your bets in,
(03:48):
no fixing, No funny business here. I don't know what
the line is on DraftKings. I'll have to check. But
our lead this hour from Indianapolis, and we have a
true crime mystery in the NFL. Yeah. Are those still popular?
Those true crime shows? Are they still I don't know.
I don't know if they're still popular. If you haven't
(04:08):
seen it, perhaps not. We have learned that the FBI,
better known by that name rather than the Federal Bureau
of Investigations, is looking into the death of former Colts
owner Jim Ersay and the doctor who was supplying him
all of those pills and whatnot, huge amounts of opioids
(04:33):
and ketamine and injections and all that stuff, all that stuff.
And so from the story it was reported by the
Washington Post, they said, the same California based doctor Ersa
lives in indian He lived in Indianapolis, live anywhere now,
but Ursa in He had a doctor in California who
also signed his death certificate, the same one that was
(04:57):
handing him all the good stuff and ruled the day natural.
All right, So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss again the FBI. The question is the
FBI sniffing around the doctor who provided Colts owner Jim
Mersay his opie opiods. So how do you read this one?
(05:18):
All right? How do you read this one? So my observations,
I got deep pockets, nanny pod, and tub sales. Pitch again,
deep pockets, nanny pod and tub sales pitch. And we'll
put all of these things together. One two, three, n ABC.
So number one, number one a little faster number one. No,
(05:40):
that was better. That was better. So this is not
the Jim Mersey story. Is not a who done it?
It is a how much is it? Story? In my opinion,
it's a sad story, right, somebody dies, a sad thing. However,
I don't believe this is worthy of violins. You know
(06:01):
what I'm saying. We don't need to play the violin.
Jim Irsay was a lot of things. He was quite
the character. He was good for what I do because
he said's anythings? And I appreciate people like that. If
everyone did the same thing, boy, life would be boring.
And so ever, say it was a character. He was
and wasn't the greatest owner in the world. But who
cares because he said some wackadoodle stuff, and we love that.
(06:23):
We love that he also had demons. We all have demons, right,
everyone's got demons. He had demons. He was an addict.
It was very open about that. It was painful, and
this went on for decades. And one thing I know
people in my world. I'm sure you have people in
your world that are addicted to drugs or whatever. Alcohol.
You always find if you're an addict, you're always going
to find your fix. It's like water finding a crack, right,
(06:46):
It's the water's going to find the crack. Well, there's
no crack. Well, there's a crack. You didn't realize it.
The water found it. And the other thing I know
from I'm not rich, but I know some people that
are rich. And when you have deep pockets, you can
find whatever you need, right, And especially if you're an
addic and you have a lot of cash, there's always
a doctor feel good. Right, There's always a doctor feel
(07:09):
good willing to play pharmacist for hire. Now that said,
this is also one of those textbook one percent justice.
You know how there's like different different things. And when
regular people die because they're addicts and they found a
doctor that is running a buffet of pills for them,
(07:31):
it's bubcus. Right, they get bupkus. There's no investigation. That's it.
It's kind of a shrug. Maybe you get the emoji,
the shrug emoji, and then that's it. You move on. However,
when a billionaire who happens to own an NFL team
keels over in the same situation, suddenly it is CSI
(07:52):
rehab clinic. And we've seen some high profile cases over
the years. I don't know how old you are. They
should be a musician named Michael Jackson. He was kind
of famous. His doctor was giving him all kinds of stuff.
It was convicted, went to jail. More recently, the if
you watch the show Friends back in the day, Matthew
Perry who died in I think it was Malibu, and
(08:13):
there's similar situation there. So these people had a lot
of money, they were famous people, and they were able
to find doctors. According to one was convicted. I don't
know what happened with the I haven't kept track of
the Matthew Perrys. So, but they had there's a lot
of there's a lot of opportunity. Uh, when you when
you've got the money, and so wealth buys confusion. It
(08:35):
also buys you plausible deniability. Now, I want to be clear,
I got a very passionate reaction. Last year we talked
about the sad story involving the pitcher Tyler Skaggs of
the Angels, and he also was a drug addict, and he,
you know, he died from an overdose at a hotel
room in Texas and the Angels were playing the Rangers
(08:56):
and the person that was giving him the drugs in
that case is currently in jail, will be in jail
pretty much the rest of his life. And I had
said I did not believe that that warranted a conviction
because that was a couple of junkies that were sharing drugs.
(09:17):
They were both drug addicts. And so to me, this
is different than Jim irsey story. And the reason it's different,
I'll say why, is because doctors, unlike just regular people
that are addicted to drugs, they take the Hippocratic oath right,
And when you take the hypocritic oath, which is the
foundational ethical code of medicine for physicians, and I think
we most of us know that we learned that in school.
(09:37):
And so when you do that, you emphasize the principles
of things like do no harm, right, do no harm
and patient you get to be quiet about patients of
the confidentiality and all that stuff, and so all of
those things go into it. And so it's different when
you're a doctor. When you're handing out the opioids like
(10:00):
tic TACs, it's problematic as opposed again to somebody who
is a low level staffer for the Angels and was
also a drug addict, and Tyler Skaggs reached out to
him to get drugs. To me, that's a different situation,
all right. Now we move away from that's sad tale.
We go to the Bay Area where John Lynch the
(10:21):
story still has legs the GM of the Niners confirming
confirming John Lynch that wide receiver Brandon Iuc will not return.
We talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
John Lynch said he has played his last snap. Now
we are told the Niners are all horny to get
their hands on Vikings. Wide receiver Jordan Addison, who played
at Pitt and SC was a very good college player
(10:42):
and had a great rookie year in the NFL for
the Minnesota football team. So the theory is based on
what I understand. A minute long deliberation of the available
information that Jordan Addison would slide in to the Niners
and become the primary pass catcher and not likely sending
Brandon Ayac back to Minnesota. Now, why would Minnesota want
(11:04):
to get to get rid of Jordan Addison. Well, there's
some financial stuff, but it's also he's just become a knucklehead.
Buffoonery has been taking place here. So Addison's production is strong,
although it's not going the right direction of the off
field stuff. The buffoonery is the story here for Jordan Addison.
So the question on this one for the class, and
(11:28):
you're in the class. So the question is the forty
nine ers, According to various outposts making efforts to this offseason,
they have targeted Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison as a
guy they want do you approve or disprove? As you know,
it's very important. I'm at the bully pulpit here and
at the bully pulpit very important that what I say matters.
(11:52):
So I approve the Vikings going for Jordan Addison with
the qualifier of adult supervision. The talent this guy is
absolutely is wonderful. The Smarts does not have a high
football IQ. Okay, don't ask. Jordan Addison can play at
(12:14):
a very high level. He's got the tools in the toolbox. Unfortunately,
the toolbox is missing the instruction manual. So if you
get him, you're gonna have to go online and see
can I get the instruction man? Well we don't. We
don't send that out. Well why not? I need it?
I need the instruction man. Well, we don't do it anymore.
I can send it to your phone. I don't have
a smartphone. I have a dumb phone. Okay, you're screwed.
That's it. So that's why he'll be available from Minnesota.
(12:39):
If you believe these coupes, and really anyone's available, and
anyone's can be available. Of the Dallas Mavericks can give
away Luca, anyone can be available, and you can get
Jordan Addison for pennies on the dollar because there is
a hole in his ozone layer when it comes to
decision making. So if you activate the Malard think, which
(13:00):
we like to do, you bring Jordan Addison in, then
you hold an A and E style intervention. You bring
in that A and E style intervention. I'm talking the
full babysitter package. You go on nanny pod you get
the VIP package, you got the nanny, you got the babysitter,
which I guess is different than a nanny. Then you've
got the chauffeur. Got to have the show for god. Now,
(13:22):
in San Francisco they got those self driving waymos, which
in LA they turned into barbecues, but I don't know
if they do it in San Francisco too. So get
one of those, you know, give him a personal waymo
and then you're good on that GPS ankle bracelet. If
you have to, the court might give him that, anything
to keep him from Buckley. Now he has served the
vikings three years in the NFL. The three by three combo.
What is the three x three combos, that's the meal,
(13:45):
three by three combo meal. You've got three seasons in
the NFL and three arrests. Three arrests in the NFL. Now,
I believe the last one, which was at a hotel
in Florida, I think the charges were not They didn't
go forward with that case, but he still was arrested
for it. But they didn't go worked out some kind
of deal. It would appear and the production. That's the
(14:05):
other issue. He's not terrible, but it's like a phone
battery that every year you have your phone, the battery
drains a little bit faster. You know what I'm talking about.
It's paying the ass. Yeah, exactly. So that's the issue.
He's had fewer catches Jordan Nattison, fewer yards and fewer
touchdowns every season since his breakout rookie year. And nevertheless,
(14:26):
here's the thing. I don't want to see the Niners
do well. But if I was the Niners, I would say, well,
we don't really need somebody that's acquired boy. We don't
need acquire boy. So they need a weapon, and we
know that brock Purty. Really, what the Niners are saying
is brock Purty's not that good, is what they're saying. Right,
He's not good enough. Some quarterbacks elevate wide receivers. Brock
(14:46):
Purty is not. That guy's very average talent. They overpaid him.
And this is an admission that he needs playmakers brock
Purdy because he doesn't make players around him better. They
make him better, he doesn't make them better. He doesn't
elevate his teammates. That's really what the Niners are saying
by this rumor getting out there and Kyle Shannon's offense.
All you geniuses tell me how great this guy is
(15:07):
as a coach and all that stuff. His offense is
hyped as a finishing school and all that. So let's see.
Let's see. Let's see Lance the bus driver, nest Do
in the Bay, and Terry in England's a big forty
nine er fan, and Jay Scoop and all these cats.
Let's see how this goes all?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Right?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Now, final pointud Jersey. We go to Jersey. We are
told that multiple defensive coordinator candidates, including two big names,
two prominent names in the NFL, have said ix nay
on the Jets say they have declined to even interview
with Jets head coach Aaron Glenn. Now, the big Apple
(15:45):
media having a field day, acting like termites finding soft wood.
They are consuming it from the inside out. They're so excited.
This is so great for them. So the question, how
do you process Aaron Glenn and the j that's being
rejected by multiple big name defensive coordinators. So this is
(16:07):
not Harvard law right turning you down. This is not
Harvard law. This is the NFL coaching market telling you, eh,
and we're good, We're good. We don't need that now
tells me that Aaron Glenn and the Jets front office
aimed way too high, way too hot, right, and you
(16:29):
outkicked your coverage. Our old morning guy Klay Travis would
like that, but you OutKick your coverage right. You tripped
over your own shoelaces and you landed faced first in
a cloud of stardust. It's bad job by you. It
shows you zero situational winners. They don't know where they
rank on the food chain in the NFL, and you
(16:51):
really have to know where you rank the Jets. I
guess I'll use the analogy like this. Imagine if you will.
You are a tech startup. You've got a little bit
of venture capital, but you're not You're not loaded, right,
you're a little venture capital. So you're a tech startup,
you're going to fix the world and all that stuff.
And you go out and you try to poach an
Apple executive and you offer them a bunch of stock options,
(17:14):
and the Apple executive looks at you and said, wait
a minute, that's monopoly money, and said, well, I know
it's monopoly money, but we want you to come work
for us. We're hot to try start up well, no,
but I work at Apple. I have real money. I
don't need I do not need that monopoly money. But
please come on, you're using the if you're the startup
(17:35):
the Jets, you're using the tub sales pitch. What I
call the tub sales pitch. You know what the tub
sales pitch is. It's trust us bro that's the sales pitch.
Just trust us brouh And we're building something. Yeah, that's it.
That's a ticket. We're building something. It is an open
secret that coaches. No, you go to the Jets, yeah,
(17:55):
you'll make a decent amount of money, but you better
not buy anything because the Jets have a stumble bump owner.
The roster blows. There's chaos in the air everywhere. And
so there's also a lack of job security for Aaron
Glenn and so it appears they've said hard passed. You're
(18:15):
gonna get someone obvious someone will take that job. It's
kind of like going to Best Buy. The Jets are like,
I think I gotta get a refrigerator, and so you
look at the price of the refrigerators and they're really
expensive and said, man, I can't afford that, And so
you're not getting a shiny stainless steel model with the
ice maker and all the bells and whistles and the
dew hickeys and all that. You're in the back open
(18:37):
box fridge, you know, the back where they have all
the stuff. That's damage. You got dents on the door,
it's missing the shelf. There's some kind of weird, funny
humming sound thing. I don't know what that is, but
don't worry about it. And by the way, all sales
are final. All sales are final. Good luck, good luck,
(18:59):
yikes it is. It's the Ben Mahler Show, and we
have the verbal Octagon, so we're not gonna give out
the number because the verbal Octagon will take a fair
amount of time. And we're gonna have a guy from Boston,
Blind Scott in the octagon ready to go, and then
John in Colorado. I don't know who that is, and
that'll be the octagon. One Bronco fan, one Patriot fan
(19:22):
for all the marbles. We'll go into the verbal octagon.
Fist the cuff says only we can do it. We
will get to that and we will do it next.
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Miller here, it is a big night on the Ben
Maler Show. We are moments away from the Verbal Octagon,
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We will put up in a little bit when this
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(20:30):
who won the upcoming Verbal Octagon. It is one of
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you can be part of this on x at Ben Mahler.
That's at Ben Mahler. Listen very closely, take this very seriously.
All right, this is not just your amateur hour. This
is professional boxing, audio boxing. What is audio boxing? You're
(20:56):
about to hear so at Ben Maller, Lorena, FSR, Tech
Queen and Coop Bronco fan. Let's get right to it,
all right, right to it. We are fired up, fired up.
Do we have any special intro music we can play here?
Drinking this?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Give me two seconds?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
All right? All right, you're listening to our live coverage.
This is a Fox Sports Radio exclusive. Every network wanted this,
none of them happened. This is not a strawweight. This
is not a lightweight. This is not bantamweight. I'm trying
to think of the other what are the weight classes? Welterweight?
I remember that this is the no, no, no, this
is not super welterweight.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Get me in the mood. Now I'm getting the mood.
Here we go. Ben Malor Show on Fox Sports Radio
Overnight presents the iconic verbal.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Oct Gone three rounds of Sparring with your big fat mouth,
the legendary squared Audio Circle, conic figures like Pete and Pittsburgh,
Tammy and Montana, Genie and Medford.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Real Talk, and others have laced them off in a
blood match. And who's in the rampage today? Three rounds?
A match to the side who's going to win the
American Football Conference Championship here in twenty twenty six, it
(22:27):
is going to be a barn burner. Let's meet our contestants.
What do you say? Making their way into the ring
in one corner, representing the Patriots, A person that lives
on the North End of Boston and loves to tell
everyone about it, singing the Virtues of the Commonwealth. A
man that loves radio more than radio loves radio. He
(22:49):
enjoys a dish of pasta, social media trolling and other
wackadoodle activity as the leader of the Blind Caucus of
the Mala Militia, the longest tenured caller. Give it up
to Blind Scott. Making his way into the ring. There's
Blind Scott.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Hate this guy.
Speaker 7 (23:09):
I hate this guy, John. He's a piece of crap.
I want him to shut up. I work on the
Toucher and Hardy Show, the highest traded sports radio show,
the Deco.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
All right, all right, we haven't started yet. We have
not started yet. Calm down, sir, please. In the other corner,
entering the squared audio circle. A man of mystery little
is known. His name is John. He lives in Colorado.
He will represent the Broncos. Will he live up to
(23:37):
the standard? Or is this guy a tomato can from
the Mile High City? Give it up to John in Colorado?
Hello John, Well, are you ready for the pugilism?
Speaker 8 (23:48):
John?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Good morning, Ben good music, Lorena, I'm Rocky, I'm John
Denver is okay?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
All right, calm down, shut up, shut up, John. Here
we go. Oh, this is bare knuckle boxing. So the
rules of the Verbal Octagon. If you're new to the show,
it's three rounds, three rounds, and it is the bloody
knuckles is what it is. It's essentially bloody knuckles. And
what we do is we go out and the issue here.
(24:18):
This is a head to head battle. We've done this
in the past. We've had the I think one of
the last ones we did was the Southern Slam, which
was that was he was known as Dad Gummet back
in the day. Now, Sir scratch Off and Jed who fled.
But it's three rounds. Round one is ten seconds each,
so you're opening salvo only ten seconds. Round two to
twenty seconds each to respond and rebut the opening round
(24:42):
and then round three it is own like donkey gone,
and that is where people go below the belt. Round
three is going to be thirty seconds. He said, well,
this is too short. This is too short. Trust me,
it's too long. It's too long. So that is the
(25:04):
Those are the rules, and we have given you the
rules gentlemen before the fight, and you must protect yourself
at all times and obey my verbal commands. There is
no cursing. We'll be very clear about that. You are
docked for one curse. If we hear a second curse,
you are disqualified. That's it, so touch them up, good luck.
(25:26):
We flipped the penny and we determined that blind Scott
is going to go first, representing the Patriots, the Patriots
of the Road team. So Blind Scott, we'll go first,
and our judges will include myself, Ben Lorena, and Coop.
We will also have the vote of the people on X,
(25:48):
so get on X at Ben mall. That'll be up
shortly after the octagon. So here we go, without further ado,
let's get started. Here we go to blind Scott. We
put ten seconds on the clockets the verbal octagon. You're
on your way. Blind Scott go.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Yeah, this is boomer hippie culture. Denver Broncos fans. These
are turns, neffyl baby trust, fun living losers that brag
about stuff that nobody cares about. They have a sense
of the titlement. They ruined football.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It's all right, that was it? Ten seconds there? Now
I have noticed over this Blind Scott's been in this before,
and there's different kinds of boxing. And I love box.
I'm old, so I UFC wasn't a thing when I
was growing up, and I love big fights. I've only
really watched the heavyweight fights. I was able to go
to the sum back in the day. But blind Scott
he comes out there. There's nothing elegant about blind Scott.
(26:38):
He just he's a swarmer. He tries to overwhelm the opponent,
applying constant pressure, all right, and so that's what he does,
all right. Now, entering the ring for round one from Colorado,
a man of mystery representing the Denver Broncos. John in Colorado,
go John.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Ten seconds go, Hey, mama boy made the snow dump
on you and you you're walking stick That.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Docs were stopping too soon. You suck all right? That
was only like six seconds. I believe that was it. Okay,
so did not use the full All right, we're one rounded.
This might be stopped. I don't know that. We might
not make it to round three. This could be uh,
(27:31):
we might have a knockout. Finish them Scott. All right,
let's go to round two. You're listening to our live
coverage of the verbal octagon here, as we have blind
Scott representing the Patriots. Somebody, it says on my board
here John in Colorado, who is representing the Denver Broncos,
and they are duking it out with personal insults to
(27:53):
decide who can do better in the octagon. Here the
iconic squared audio circle where legends have battled, and now
we've got these two knuckleheads. Okay, so the next round,
as we pointed out, a little bit more time here
in round number two, and so round two, you guys
will get twenty seconds in round two. We changed the
(28:16):
times a little bit, so twenty seconds in round two
to respond and rebutt. We'll go back to blind Scott
and the twenty seconds on the clock.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
You're on your way and go all right, Lorena, you're
gonna respond to this. So Kennedy Stidham. She's a social
media influencer. She sucks that life. She's Jared Stidham's wife.
She shows her pregnant belly off like you wouldn't believe.
She bought more followers than Mike North. She's completely irrelevant.
There's Drake May's wife. She's and Michael May. She's a cook.
(28:48):
She makes these beautiful YouTube All.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Right, all right, well, interesting strategy. It's I don't want
to give her I'm one of the judges, but I
just have some thoughts on that. That was an interesting move.
Now in Colorado choked in round one. He used about
six seconds of ten seconds of time, so now he's
got twenty seconds. There's almost no chance this goes well
for John and Colorado, the man of mystery. John, it's
round two of the verbal lockoun. You'll see our live
(29:13):
coverage here on the Ben Malors Show.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
You're in the ring.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Go ahead there, John and Colorado twenty seconds.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Dared did him? Was dumped by the Patriots? How dare
you blind? Scott in Bostom. The Patriots lose in Colorado
every single time over his three we have the Rocky Mountains.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
You have alright? Alright, well, well quite the Matt was,
how do we how's this fight sanctioned? Do we know?
How is this?
Speaker 8 (29:45):
Sa?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Who put this on? Coop? You're the promoter? Coop? What
are we doing here? You're fired? All right? Well, this
is the final I think we've already I don't know
do we need the final round? I guess we'll put
the final round on. No knockout yet. You're listening. You
are live coverage. It's the Verbal Octagon and these gentlemen
going at it, and normally it's just an absolute backbreaker.
(30:08):
It's not a lot of bobbing and weaving taking place here.
It has not been a slugfest and pound profound. It's
like a heavyweight versus a bantam weight. The last round. Now,
both you gentlemen gonna be on the air. Let's let's
limit this one with thirty seconds. We'll limit this to
thirty seconds. Okay, thirty seconds to respond both on the air.
(30:30):
Anyone curses, you're disqualified. We've got John and Colorado blind Scott.
Verbal Octagon Round three. You're on the air, and go.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Dude, your wife doesn't want to have sex with you.
You're totally irrelevant. On the radio. You come on the
station say wick of crappy things about me and bribe
my cottails all the time. Dude, you're a piece of crap.
I'm gonna go on a serial.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
No no, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
I can't stand this.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Where is the where is the other? I don't even
know where the other? I don't even hear them. What happened?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It is?
Speaker 1 (31:00):
He just gave it. He's dead on the mat, He's
down for the count. This was not the Rumble, not
the rumble in the jungle. It was not the thriller
in Manila. It was the snooze in the overnight. But
(31:21):
there he goes, all right, Well, real quick, that's not
I was going to have another segment, but let's just
get to the judges' scorecards right now. All right. So
the first round, that was a bad sign. So Scott
came out and was vicious and just attack mode and
overwhelmed this person claiming to be John in Colorado and
(31:45):
just came at him, and as you would imagine, he
staggered the opponent and blow by blow, you look at
the CompuBox stats and I'm seeing this right, power punches
blind Scott hit every one of his power punches, and
John and Colorado did not hit one of them. So
(32:08):
I scored this. You know, not even you know the
way you score a fight artfile Lorraina knows this, probably not,
but the way that you score a boxing match, it's
like a ten nine thing most rounds and like ten
to nine. Whoever you thought had the lead would be
be like a ten to nine thing. So this though, no, no, no,
(32:31):
this was like ten ten five is what this is?
In round one and then round two around I don't
know what you'd call round two. That was a blind
Scott was so confident that he just started talking about
Jared Stidham's wife for some reason. So I gave that
(32:52):
to him. He was so arrogant, and he was right
because there was no competition from John. So I gave
that a ten to five. And then in round three,
the final round, I didn't even hear John in Colorad
until we told him to start talking. So but blind
Scott went very dark. He went to a deep dark place,
which I don't recommend. I don't think you should do that.
(33:12):
He went below the belt, he did, But again I
scored that. I was a little closer just because I
had to deduct some points for Scott and give those
points to John in Colorado. So I scored that final
round there ten to eight in favor of the person.
I gave the wind to Lorraine. How'd you score the
fight real quick? Oh my goodness?
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Definitely first round blind Scott won ten to zero. I
don't understand why John even joined. He did not seem
to come with any type of oomph for you know,
fire sauce. He had nothing. He had nothing going for,
He had no gas in his tank. He didn't even
try the last round.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Where were you?
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Do you understand what you're supposed to be doing when
you come on the air. Don't call back again until
you're ready.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
To enter the ring. He's very angry, all right, wasting
my time? Coop good.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
It was.
Speaker 8 (34:07):
It was a knockout in the in the second round.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we should have ended it.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
The third round was basically Scott just beating the lifeless
body to a poll.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Yeah, uh, Scott. It was personal for Scott at that point.
It was a crime of passion for Scott, not just
his wife.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
No one will have sex with a leprechaun, Okay, I mean,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Some of the similar rations Devin writes and He says,
that is the worst octagon in history. Pathetic. The militia
is the real loser in this. Uh yeah, down goes John.
Fat Daddy says, down goes John, Down goes John. The
Broncos don't have a chance having that loser represent them.
Uh not, A burner says, is John the leprechaun? Alf
(34:49):
the alien? Opinter says, is it just me or just
the guy from Diners? A lot like a leprechaun?
Speaker 9 (34:55):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:55):
The Burner account checks in says this has to be
the weakest octagon on Big Ben Big board. Oh yeah,
this is the kind of octagon that will get us canceled.
This is you know that the famous thing in Hollywood
they say, jump the shark, which is an old sitcom.
Was it Happy Days? I think, yeah, yeah, they had
Phonsie jumping a shark and that ended that show. Supposedly,
(35:19):
this very well could end the octagon, very well could
end the octagon. This might be it. So do I
even need to put on X? I guess I will
put it up there just to see how crazy this gets.
But all right, well we tried. Yeah, not everything's your masterpiece,
but there it is. The octagon, man, I guess we're
lacking enough angry Bronco fans. I guess that's the issue
(35:42):
that people. Very upset. Jason says this was an unsanctioned
matched by everyone thirty to twenty four blind Scott, and
Johnny Q says blind Scott still sucks even in the octagon. Okay,
very good, Thank you all pointing out we've been bamboozled here,
(36:03):
Trucker Joseys, don't ever put loser con on in the
octagon again. We will have Mallard of the third degree.
We'll get to that. We'll also put this vote up.
We'll let you vote on this. I'll leave it up
for the podcast people so we can really get the
vote totals up on that. Straight ahead, we have Mallard
of the third degree. Now time for the insta trivia,
and here it is. There are almost a little less
(36:24):
than thirty thousand people that have played in the NFL.
Broncos quarterback bow Knicks is tied with Blank for the
shortest name of any player in the history of pro
football in the NFL. Again, they've been about less than
thirty thousand people that have played in an NFL game.
Broncos quarterback bow Knicks is tied with Blank for the
shortest name of any player in NFL history. That is
(36:47):
the Insta trivia the answer. We'll get to it. We'll
do it next.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
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the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
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to listen live live.
Speaker 9 (37:04):
It's a live.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Don't worry, don't worry.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
It's just tay the top.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
Today's Friday. It's a plumb pussy right there, Today's Friday.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Jerk yourself away. Put a sock in your mouth.
Speaker 9 (37:19):
Today's Friday. Just now, Oh man, Today's Friday. Today's Friday.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
That's out. That's twenty five thousand dollars out, pat How
about shut up? Bill Miller? Here it is the Ben
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Time out for the insta Trivia's been about thirty thousand
dudes that have played in the NFL. Broncos quarterback bo
(38:06):
Nix is tied with Blank for the shortest name of
any player in NFL history. Who else do we have?
Let's see page down. Uh, Eke went with Joe Altz
and we want to check your you're spelling very funny
on that. Let's see here Willie Mopana, who's forty four today?
From Late Night Drug tester Femi's going with mister T.
(38:28):
Great name, Tim Biakabatuca from Rob That's his answer. Who
else do we have? Brian Cox from j T the
wingman who used to work here. Just Josh got it right,
bad job by him. To kenmy Well, Tombo from Gary
that's his answer. High Ho from Johnny Q. Paul got
it right. Uh. Scrooge says, thank God, the octagons over trucker.
(38:53):
Joe says bowld Bowl is the way to go Shack
from Mike the Leprechaun, who should retire? Do you have
an ant sir Larinea.
Speaker 5 (39:02):
Yes, our very missed listener, Siria Sean Siria?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Is it Sirias Sean? Uh No, the correct answer. Bonix
is tied with tie Law. Picture's legend, tie Law, It's Mallard.
How about that?
Speaker 3 (39:18):
To the third degree, this is one big event gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Coobol.
Speaker 8 (39:27):
It was reported on Wednesday that Brian Daball is targeting
the Bill's head coaching job. Ben, what odds do you
give day Ball of actually landing it.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Well, of course everyone's targeting that job. I give him
a better than fifty percent. I'd say a sixty percent
chess because he's bros with Josh Allen and Josh Allen
they got to suck up to Alan. So I say
that Brian da Ball, I would say he's about sixty
percent chance. He worked there. He was beloved in Buffalo, Like,
that's the one guy they can hire that people won't
(39:55):
be pissed off about. Next, in a.
Speaker 8 (39:57):
Piece where league executives, coaches, and scout were asked to
make a bold prediction, one thinks that the Falcons could
start the season with Kirk Cousins not only still on
the team, but at the top of the depth chart. Ben,
could you see that happening?
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Well?
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Could they? Yes? Could they? But if I'm Kevin Stefanski
and I'm taking over, I want to change it off.
I want to bring new people in there. Cousins look
pretty washed up at the end of last year, so
I would make a change. But could he sure I
could see that next.
Speaker 8 (40:23):
On Wednesday, there was a report that suggested Steve Kerr's
future with the Warriors is up in the air, and
that multiple assistant coaches on his staff are offerating under
the premise that Kerr will not be back next season.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Do you think this is it for Steve Kerr? Yeah,
well I think it's fair. If Kerr realizes it's all
over for the Warriors, he's out, he'll go back and
do television or at Amazon or NBC, which he did
at T and T before and that did. How'd we
do kobalout? You passed this edition when I won the game,
unlike unlike that guy pretending to be John from Colorado
who did not win
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