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June 11, 2024 • 38 mins

Ben Maller talks about Mike Tomlin getting signed to a 3-year extension by the Steelers, the odds that the Steelers get back to a Super Bowl in the next 3 years, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb bird. Two hour two.
We head Pittsburgh, PA, where Mike tom is sign sealed
and the liberty is locked up for the next three
years in Pittsburgh. Your thoughts on the latest Tomlin contract extension. Also,
what are the odds that the Steelers get to another

(00:24):
Super Bowl during the next three years? What are the
odds that actually works out for Pittsburgh? And in Denver
whispers that Zach Wilson is in the mix to be
the Broncos starting quarterback. Do you believe it? Do you believe?
We'll talk about that as well. All of it's coming
away right now here. It is our number two, James Bond,

(00:49):
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so our lead this hour from the Berg coaching carousel.
Update we had pro bouncy ball last hour. Now we
go to the NFL. If you have not heard the word,
maybe not. We learned that the Petsburg Staalers I've signed,

(02:01):
sealed and delivered a contract crossing all the tea's dotting
the ice head coach Mike Tomlin, He's not going anywhere
three year contract extensions. So all the talk that Tomlin
was in a lame duck year and it was a
proved situation in Pittsburgh, that was all bull crap, all
of it. Tomlin now under contract through twenty twenty seven.

(02:26):
He was entering the last year of his deal in Pittsburgh.
But Tomlin now free to settle in for another few
years as coach in Pittsburgh. Let us discuss the question
on this. Mike Tomlin locked up three year contract extension.
What are your thoughts on Tomlin sticking around Pittsburgh through

(02:46):
twenty twenty seven, least being paid through twenty twenty seven,
So I've got manager Special General Mills and wreck It Ralph,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make blank TVs. We have four TVs,
four giant TVs in the main studio here, and three

(03:09):
of them are completely not blank, but they're on that
like that filler. I don't know what that. I don't
know if that's all about anyway. Number one. All right,
So this is how they roll in yinzer Land. When
you coach the Pittsburgh's, Theiter's, it's like you're James Bond,

(03:31):
one of the early James Bond movies. A diamond is forever.
Coaching the Steelers is forever. It is forever and ever
and ever and ever and ever. It's all about uniformity
when you're coaching in Pittsburgh, and may we have that
in every job. And some of you might think I
have that I've been here so long, but trust me,

(03:51):
I do not have. I do not have tenure. They
can get rid of me at any moment. But it's
like a tenured professor. It's like Mike Tomlin is teaching
at Oxford and he's just happens to be coaching in
the NFL with the Pittsburgh football team, despite our obligatory
Mallard monologues to fire Mike Tomlin, which happens on a

(04:12):
yearly basis, and I promise you we'll have another one
at some point during the twenty twenty four NFL regular season,
when September gets around. Despite that, I do have a
soft spot in my heart for Mike Tomlin. I'm not
a Steeler fan, I'm not from Pittsburgh. I have friends
that are in Pittsburgh and from Pittsburgh and all that,
but I have no skin in the game other than
I have a four hour talk show every single night

(04:35):
and three hours of podcasting on the weekends that I
have to worry about. So Tomlin makes my life a
little bit easier because normally every other week Mike Tomlin
will give us a great piece of audio and we
can play and we go crazy. He's a living, breathing
dial a quote. If you need a quote, just turn
to tom He'll give you something.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Right.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
In terms of success on the field, there's a drought.
Is that fair to say? I don't think that's unfair.
There's a droughts that Pittsburgh has been a little bit
better than Jeff Fisher was in his run near the
end there. Oh, that's outraged. You're comparing Mike Tomlin to

(05:17):
Jeff Fisher. What's wrong with you? But I'm talking about
the second part of Mike Tomlin's act in Pittsburgh, not
the first part when he inherited Bill Cowers players and
they still had that group together and they won the
Super Bowl, and then a few years later they got
to the I think they were in the AFC Championship game.
After that. They had a run of success there early
on for Tomlin. But since then, in recent years, Mike

(05:41):
Tomlin has been a short order cook, serving up the
manager's special. You know, you know what the manager specials.
The manager special is You're mixed together the leftover corn,
the chopped up potatoes, the spaghetti. There's a little bit
of general sus chicken in the back there the fridge
and dump it all into a casse role, a dump

(06:02):
cast role, and the servant. It's the manager special. And
that's what the Steelers have been doing. And Tomlin has
shown an ability to produce average to slightly above average
results with substandard ingredients. The old line from Bill Parcells
was you expect me to make chicken salad out a

(06:24):
chicken crap right, something along those lines. I think it
was more saucy than that. But nonetheless, in recent years
the Steelers have had the three stooges at quarterback, Kenny Pickett,
Mitchell Trubisky, and Mason Rudolph the red nose quarterback. Those
have been the three quarterbacks in Pittsburgh. They all stink
the big pot of miscellaneous leftovers, that's what they had,

(06:47):
and Tomlin cooked up a passable gulash on the field.
But the proof is that the results. People bring up
the fact that Tomlin has gone his entire run there
seventeen seasons in Pittsburgh without having a losing record in
his time sitting in the big chair. And so now
they change it up a little bit and they have

(07:08):
a different set of leftovers. I think they have broccoli.
There's some cheese over their little rice. At the quarterback position,
Russell Wilson and Justin Field. So on one side of
the ledger for the Steelers, if you're Mike Tomlin going
into this year, you have a quarterback that is way
past his prime, and then you have one that hasn't
had a prime, So good luck keeping the customers there

(07:30):
in Pittsburgh, Fat and Sassey, which is what's required now
page two Here, what are the odds that Mike tom
getting this extension three extra years tacked onto his contract
in Pittsburgh? What are the odds that the Steelers have
a return to glory, that they get to a Super
Bowl in the next three years? So the malarodds, the

(07:51):
only odds that matter on this show, because my name's
on the show, the only odds that matter, mallarrodds, and
I have the Steelers at plus eight hundred, which is
roughly ten percent. I give him a ten percent chance.
And here's why. Have you looked out on the Serengetti.
Have you looked out at the landscape that is around there?
And if you don't need to have binoculars to see

(08:13):
what's going on here, Canza City is not going anywhere.
Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid, And barring some kind of
health problem for Andy Reid, you gotta think Andy sixth
a round because he's going to be the one. Andy
Reid winning twelve games a year is going to be
the one that becomes the record holder, passing Don Schulebay

(08:36):
and zooming past Bill Belichick. In the in the record
books is the all time winning as coach. So Reid,
assuming he six ready he will was his health falls apart,
obviously that changes things. But then Pittsburgh in the division,
you got to contend with Joe Burrow, the second top quarterback.
Mahomes is his way. Hey, he's like Secretariat, but Burrow
is number two. And then you've got Lamar Jackson, who's

(08:58):
a hell of a regular season player and then he
turns into the big dumper in the playoffs. And that's
his problem with the Ravens. But you factor in patternicity, patternicity,
and I am being generous when I say ten percent,
it's the Steelers. You've got got terrible towels. Come on
the Pittsburgh says since twenty eighteen, talk about the second

(09:20):
part of Mike Tomlin's run there in Pittsburgh. Since twenty eighteen,
Tomlin is seventeen games above really got seventeen games above
five hundred. That's solid. However, the Steelers have been one
and done one in Dunskies in the playoffs four of
the last seven years. But wait, there's more. Mike Tomlin

(09:42):
has an eight to ten career record in the playoffs
and has not won a playoff game since Barack Obama
was the president. That's a twenty twenty sixteen last time
the Steelers won a playoff game with Tomlin and Russell Wilson.
We mentioned him. He's a salvage and recovery situation at

(10:02):
this point and justin fields to be kind as a
fixer upper. But there's not a really good foundation there
unless you're a nerd that watches the highlights and don't
actually watch the games. O. Wait, looks great, So Pittsburgh
will be a one trick pony, well, maybe a two
t There's three ways to win, right, special teams, defense,
and offense. The Steelers offense is a zero special teams

(10:25):
that could be all right in that. And defensively you've
got TJ. Watt, who's now that Aaron Donald's gone, the
preeminent defensive player in the NFL. But he's one of eleven,
so you have him all right. Final point, we move
away from Pittsburgh. We go to Denver, where the air
is thin and the football blows. Whispers that Zach Wilson

(10:46):
in recent days that Zach Wilson is still very much
in the mix to be the Broncos starting quarterback. Do
you believe that? Do you believe the chatter?

Speaker 3 (10:58):
So?

Speaker 1 (10:58):
I am ambivolent on this. That's the word. Aw, he's
a big word. Ambivalent.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
I've got mixed thoughts on this, and here's why. Because
I know that Zack Wilson can't play. I know that
Zack Wilson is the stiff. I saw him play enough
with the Jets to know this guy just doesn't have
it that Jenny said, Quah, He's lacking that whatever that is,
he doesn't have it. So I know that he's good
at getting headlines in the tabloids, but actually successful football

(11:24):
just not a lot there. However, the reason I have
mixed thoughts on this is because the wildcard factor and
the wildcard factor, I cannot completely dismiss the outrageous, the
unimaginable that Jack Wilson would start for the Broncos to
begin the year because of the swashbuckling bravado of Sean Payton,

(11:44):
who fancies himself iconic football coach mixed with a character
from Wreckett Ralph fix it feelings. I fix it feels
that Peyton figures he can put a new code of
paint on Zach Wilson. Smooth out some of the rough
edges there, run the same dumb down offense they ran

(12:05):
last year with Russell Wilson and get middling results at worst,
and then let the Prodigy marinate bo Nicks. Now, if
I'm the Broncos, you know how I feel about this.
We talk about this all the time. You play. You'll
learn from doing, you don't learn from watching. I wanted
to be on the radio, and I watched a lot

(12:27):
of people do radio, but I didn't really learn how
to do it until I did it. And that's usually
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Speaker 1 (14:52):
Are the skid marks included? We'll get to that coming
up in a couple as we press on here. Mike
Tomlin locked up for few more years as coach in Pittsburgh.
Midnight Walker writes it from Syracuse. He says, Mike Tomlin's
been good but he hasn't been great. It's been so
many years since he's won. He's not fine cuisine, He's

(15:13):
a blue plate special. And come playoff time, his team
will be done.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Cowboy Killer says, is the meet in greet going to
be official anytime soon? I am asking for a friend.
That's a great question, Cowboy Killer. It is not official official.
I'm not the one planning a coop. Do we have
a venue secured yet? We do not have a venue
secured yet, coop.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
No, I mean the venue secure. We're just finalizing details.

Speaker 6 (15:43):
Is it too late for me to make a request.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yes, damn, what kind of request?

Speaker 6 (15:49):
Can we time this with the NHL draft in Las
Vegas so I could go to that too?

Speaker 1 (15:53):
No, we already have a Yeah, we already have the day.
We already worked on the day. Daddy, we have the day.
But we already talked about the date. We went over
the date we did. We talked about it on air.
We talked ed are you losing your memory over there?
What's going on? And we talked about we went over
dates on the air.

Speaker 6 (16:09):
I don't recall that.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Well. Contact my lawyer, Eddie, I mean, my god, geez,
whin's the date, then we can give the date?

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Right?

Speaker 6 (16:18):
Who I mean, well, you said we just said we
talked about it on the air.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Set up. I need.

Speaker 7 (16:27):
It's it's like Ninna and I like the venue has
got my kind of food, Eddie.

Speaker 6 (16:33):
My kind of steak.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Shut up, it's true.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
No, he means like stuff that appeals to a child's palate.

Speaker 7 (16:44):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
I don't even know. I don't even need these things.
Most of the time I'm there to socialize. I'm very social.

Speaker 7 (16:49):
No, it's like it's it's they've got like Philly cheese,
steaks and stuff like that. But August, August third is
the is August third is probably percent going to be
the day.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
August Thursday day, all right, got on my calendar on
my phone, August three.

Speaker 7 (17:03):
The NHL draft is like in a couple of weeks. Yeah,
you think we can set this up in a couple
of weeks. What's wrong with you, Eddie?

Speaker 6 (17:11):
I thought you were big time.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Come on, people are traveling from around it and it's.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
About us, not them.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
I actually am going to be in Vegas.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah. Hey, by the way, NHL, you know there's a
there's this still thing. You can go any time you want.
You don't have to. You don't have to just wait
for us, Eddie to go to Vegas. Well, I need
permission to go, So permission? What are you a child?
My god?

Speaker 6 (17:30):
No, I'm a caring, loving husband.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Take your wife with you, she can go with She
doesn't like Vegas. What's not to like about Vegas? Well,
she doesn't gamble or drink, so you know, well, there's
some good restaurants there though, Yeah, yeah, I mean i'd go. Yeah, Hey,
there's shows, Yeah, there's a lot to do. You don't
have this gamble the whole time. There's a bunch of
people live in Vegas that never gets that's what people do.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Though.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
No, the people that live there don't gamble. Otherwise they
wouldn't live there because they'd be homeless. People were gonna, well,
I hope some of the locals show up. Robin Vegas
will be there. He's a degenerate gamble. He gambles all
the time. But go over to Henderson.

Speaker 6 (18:05):
You just said the people have lived their own game.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
But he's the exception to the rule.

Speaker 6 (18:08):
Eddie, and I like about our professional card player in Vegas.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
That's Robin Vegas. I just said his name that's Robin Vegas.
Are you everything okay? On? The camera's blocking the view,
By the way, what a surprise that never happens.

Speaker 6 (18:23):
And for some reason it's I mean, it's like they
do it on purpose.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, well they know that we're professionals, Eddie. And then
we don't need to see each other because.

Speaker 6 (18:32):
Well we never saw each other for years, twenty years.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Twenty plus years, even when we were in So they
moved us to new studios and we still can't see
each other. That is such a classic sports radio story.
Built the new new studio, right, you know, Rush died
and Steve Harvey went back to Atlanta or whatever, so
they built the built up the studio. And then yeah,
and he's gonna he's gonna need a contortionist to bend

(18:56):
his neck the way he needs to bend his neck.
Let's go to the phones. Let's say hello to B
from around the way, and let me make sure I
punched up the right line. Hello B from around the way.
Hello B. Hmmm did I punch the right Yeah?

Speaker 8 (19:14):
You did?

Speaker 1 (19:14):
I did.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
And this guy, this guy was complaining about being on
hold tame.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
He was all right, well, now he's have to complain
he's gone. Let's go to Here's another legend. This guy
has the most machiz mo of anyone that's ever called
the show. The toughest s O. B. Van, the one
legged Bama Man. Hello, Van, the one leg Obama Man.

(19:40):
His story amazing. This man had his leg bitten off
by a gator, and then he and a relative hunted
down the gator and had a nice supper with that gator.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
I have a good Lord, Just save me again.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Oh no, I was worried. We hadn't heard fro him
in a while. Man, I was worried that.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
I had a ruptured gall bladder.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
Oh man, I know big.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Now you're in my wheelhouse. Now you're singing mine. Now
you're singing from the same song sheet. Man, I suffered this,
And was it twenty nineteen? I think it was something
like that, twenty eighteen.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Something like that. Yeah, I'm almost waited too late.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
I'm the same way. My eyes were turning yellow by
the time I got to the emergency room. Yeah, yeah,
I was jaundice.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
I'm sergeant that I had so many GOLs selling it
looked like a driving range.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Oh yeah, well, I'm such a loser. I waited like you.
I gut. We were one and the same here. I
don't know if that says about you or what it
says about me, but I waited as well, and I
was so leffed up. They couldn't even take the thing out.
They had to wait. They'd give me medication. I was
in the hospital for like a week until they got

(20:56):
like three or four days to have it taken out,
and then I had to wait a couple days have
to make sure I didn't die.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
So I was.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
I was infc for like three or four days, in
the hospital for ten and then have to go to
rehab for ten more days.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
It was.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
It was my ass.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Oh well it's in the rear view mirror now and
now you have another story to tell.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
Yeah, what does Eddie think about the contract extension?

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Being a Steelers fan?

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Oh, look at look at Van wants to know his take.
That's very polite of you, Van, the one legged baby.

Speaker 6 (21:31):
It was, you know, being a Steelers fan, and you know,
coming from that side of things, I'm not surprised by it.
I probably am more okay with it than the great
majority of Steelers fans. Uh, you know, they they are
very spoilt, as Mike Tomlin. Weell knows and if you're not,
you know, competing or in the discussion for a super Bowl,
they think you should be fired. So that's that's not

(21:53):
going to happen for the Steelers. I don't think I'm
very pessimistic about the season.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
I said about Russell Wilson, I'm.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
Not at all excited about but I'm okay with it.
I'm okay with that. I like Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
He's a good say it's good for our purposes. He's
a good SoundBite.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Still lousion season correct.

Speaker 6 (22:12):
That is correct?

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yes, thanks to a well time tie a couple of
years back, right, I think, well, well you have an
odd number of games now, so it's you have to
have a winning record unless you get a tie in
there and then you can be five hundred.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
So man, yes, other than these last two horrible shooting games.
What do you think about Tyrie? I mean Kyrie Tyrie.
Kyrie's turned around as an overall human being.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
I think it's I think it's fake. I think he's
too he's putting. He's putting on a show and I
and once he's done, he'll be back on. Like you know,
some weird podcasts talking about crazy stuff and he's acting
the way he needs to act at the time. I
don't believe it's real. I don't think at his age,
all of the sudden you make that drastic a change.
I don't buy it.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
You think you think this leg it all down? Said,
you got him, you gotta act normal now.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
I don't think you. I think I think any went
higher than Mark Cuban. I think Mark Cuban doesn't care.
I think this was above that. I think this was
the league because this was affecting sponsorships with the NBA,
so I think it was above above that. Maybe I'm wrong,
but Kyrie Irving is his early thirties. I think he's
pretty at that point, kind of set in his ways
and what he believes and what he doesn't leaveing. It's

(23:29):
finey do what you want, but we can also call
you a knucklehead. So that's the way it works. All right,
Hang in there, man, don't die in us.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
Man.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
We need you, buddy, Okay, I brag about you, man.
I gotta need you around, all right, all right, thank you,
all right, all right, good night. There he goes the
one legged Bama man. I forget who I was starting
to do. It the one the meet and where we
did in Charleston about a month ago? Was it month ago?
I don't even know. But hanging out in South Carolina.
So the mike falls apart but uh he no, sorry

(23:59):
I picked it up. One of the guys was asking
me about Man. We were telling stories about Van the
one legged Bama Man.

Speaker 5 (24:05):
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Speaker 1 (24:11):
Let's have some fun, Eddie s abstitute. This one is
for Mark. I don't think I didn't use We didn't
have a fun fact last star, right, I think we
skipped over the fun fact. Here's our first one fact. So,
the Chicago White Sox have played five games. This se
is Mark loves to Chicago.

Speaker 6 (24:25):
They played I don' think they've been very fun for Mark.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
But they played five games this season with multiple home
runs in away game on the road. Out of those
five games on the road where they've hit multiple home runs,
how many of them have they won?

Speaker 6 (24:40):
Mark?

Speaker 7 (24:43):
Zero?

Speaker 1 (24:43):
That is correct. That's a White Sox fan right there
already all in five the White Sox records seemingly hard fact.
I could see that fact coming down to stride. You
know what, Play it again, Mark, I'll give a different
fun fact. You didn't like that fun fact? Another fun factor,
all right? Based uh what is this? This is fun Eddie?

(25:06):
Based according to Eurostat National I don't like it already,
Longitude Survey of Youth and a bunch of other people.
Just bear with me, Eddie, okay. Estimated average age of
young people leaving the parental household the oldest age, by
name of country, Eddie. But you guys, we all can

(25:27):
probably only name about ten countries, but a lot of country.
This is the country, Eddie, on average that the young
people the next generation leave the house at the oldest age.
I'll give you the age. Okay, they leave on average
at age thirty three point four years they leave the house. Wow. Yeah,

(25:49):
name a country. Go ahead here, I'm gonna go with that.

Speaker 6 (25:51):
I'm gonna go with Ertria.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Okay, that is an interesting answer. What about you, Mark, Italy, Italy, Talia, Italiano, Kopa,
what do you think coop the United States? United Now
it's a terrible answer. The answer Croatia.

Speaker 6 (26:11):
But that really the country of my wife's here.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Tell your wife a thirty three point four years right ahead,
of Montenegro at thirty three point three years, then in
North Macedonia at thirty two point one. The United States,
the average age young people leave the parental home nineteen.
I think that's when I.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
Left the county, believe, and come back for every year
or so.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
A lot of people do that.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
I did that.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, well, times are tough, Eddie. You know you're gonna
do that, but yeah, so there you go. That's my
fun fact Croatia. Let's go to the phones and we'll
say hello to Jerome. Bring it home, Jerome and Charleston, Hello, Jerome.

Speaker 8 (26:58):
I left home when I was eighteen years old to
join the military. Then, okay, and it was one of
the best decisions I've ever made in my life. I
don't regret one minute of it, and if I could,
I'd probably do it all over again.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
You know, would you have spent more time in the military,
But I.

Speaker 8 (27:14):
Would have stayed in a lot longer. But then again,
you know, I missed my mom and I missed I
miss being around her, so I figured it was time for.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Me to go.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
You probably broke your mom's heart when you joined the military.

Speaker 8 (27:26):
Probably out No, I didn't, but she wasn't She didn't really,
you know. It was keen on the idea of me
joining the military. She wanted me to stay in Charleston,
try and find a job. But you know me, man,
I gotta spread my wings. Man, I gotta bund my horizons.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
I gotta like yes, unless it's a malord, meet and
read down the street from your house, and then you
don't want to broaden your It's much closer than when
I normally do these things.

Speaker 8 (27:55):
Look, look, I told you I have no fun. Okay,
has happened.

Speaker 9 (28:03):
Butthole you.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Can't say. You can't say you were doing so well, Jerome, Jerome,
you were doing so well? Jerome. What's wrong with you? Jerome?
You fell off the wagon? Jerome, you fell off the wagon.
You got to go back to the twelve step. What's
wrong with you?

Speaker 8 (28:24):
You're not getting funished? Fine? Look Nike fired Carrie over
to his viewpoint. You know what I r You're done
now he's wearing these little can't come on?

Speaker 1 (28:38):
He's always worn that can't. That's wrong with you?

Speaker 8 (28:42):
What the things again?

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Ron?

Speaker 1 (28:44):
Why do you call him up and can play the bell?

Speaker 8 (28:48):
He's like a little tinker bell.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Okay, well maybe that's his favorite character. I don't know
what you want me to say. I have no idea.
I don't watch the show. I don't know what you
want me to say. Jerome, I don't. He doesn't work here.
I don't I met him one. I don't know the guy.

Speaker 8 (29:01):
What I got a proposal for you? Say, Rupert Murdoch
comes to you and offers you twenty million dollars to
saying the common thing four or five dollars a day
on your radio show like Pat macafrog guns. Would you
take you?

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Absolutely yes? I mean, my god, where do I sign
the contract I get I'll get whiplash. I'll get whiplash.
You're doing that? But come on, so you're paying me
twenty million dollars a year to do the same thing
I'm doing now to me.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
You're giving me.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
I will do a deep dive on the w n
B for twice. I want anyone a Fox and iHeart
to know right now, this entire show will be terrible,
will be nothing, but w n B A if you
pay me that kind of.

Speaker 8 (29:43):
Money, I'm misogynist like that.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Oh not a misogynist, my god, give it a break
to a No, Okay, all right, you're out of thank you.
I'll go away. You can get some new MATERI all right, Well,
we don't know if these skid marks are included, but
Tom Brady's game used pants from his Buccaneer playoff loss

(30:12):
final NFL game to the Dallas Cowboys have been sold
at auction. You always wonder about these things, like what
do you do with that? Like the jersey I get,
because the jersey you can frame and you can put
it up and say, oh, look there's Tom Brady's number
twelve jersey from Tampa Bay. But who wants to sit
there and stare at a pair of pants? Seems I

(30:35):
don't know. I know, you get the glass frame and
all that, but the the pair of pants Brady war
during the Buccaneers playoff loss to the Cowboys wild Card
weekend way back in January of twenty twenty three sold
at auction for eighty nine thousand dollars. The minimum bid

(30:55):
was only ten thousand, so it went way over eighty
nine thousand and one dollars. And we don't know if
they'd been washed. I assume they hadn't been washed. And
it's got the skid marks on him, and the whole thing,
the whole deal let's say a lot of wild Pete.
Who is next, Hello wild Pete, welcome, hey Ben.

Speaker 9 (31:19):
One of your opinion on the Vikings situation, I'll give.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
You mind fast. I think Darnald might be a hit gym.

Speaker 9 (31:26):
I think he might pull off something because he's got
a lot of talent around him. I think Kirk Cousin,
with the talent in the offense, looked a lot better
than he was. I'm not saying he isn't talent. I
just think he's probably going to have a worse season
with the Falcons than he had with the Vikings. I
think Darnald might surprise people. I'm predicting ten wins. I

(31:46):
might be out of my mind, but they don't call
me wild Pete for nothing.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Well, and number one, you are out of your mind.
You also used the weasel word might. It's a weasel word.
Sam Donald also might start seeing ghosts, maybe some ghosts
floating down the mississipp River that might come over to
the Vikings stadium there and all of a sudden he'll
be seeing those goes. See. The problem is, Sam, I
don't doubt that he'll have some decent games if he
does start for the Vikings, because there is a lot

(32:11):
of talent there in Minnesota, and then he can chuck
the ball up and they'll catch it, but you can't
trust him. That's the guys like Sam Donald. They are
not in the bubble of trust. So even if things
are going well for a guy like Sam Donald, you're
winning some games and all that, you still know in
the back of your head, this guy is going to
turn into the big Dumper in a playoff game. He's
going to turn into cal Raleigh in a playoff game,

(32:32):
and it's not going to go well. And so that's
that's the issue. We've seen guys that have come out
of nowhere or guys that were left for dead and
then they play well for a while, but you're still
in the back of your head you're like, I don't
know if I trust that guy. Sure, I'm not so
sure about that. But thank you you are wild Pete though,
So thank you, Wild Pete. It is the Ben Malors Show.

(32:54):
Time now for the install Trivia. NBA Finals are on hiatus.
I think we'll be back on Wednesday, but who knows.
So here's the answer. Trivia Blank holds the all time
NBA Finals single game record for the most field goal
attempts with forty eight in one game. Again, Blank holds

(33:15):
the NBA Finals single game record talking about being a
ballhog most field goal attempts with forty eight in one game.
That is the instant trivia. The answer. We'll get to it,
and we'll have Mallard of the third degree, and we will.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Do it next.

Speaker 5 (33:30):
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(34:04):
It's been Malor.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Time now for the insta trivia. A blatant attempt to
get you to listen a little bit longer, and it
appears that it worked. We go to a question of
the hour. Blank holds the all time NBA Finals single
game record talking about being a ballhog most field goal
attempts with forty eight in one NBA Finals game. That

(34:29):
is the question. What is the answer? Let's see does
anyone in the Great Unwashed the Hoy Paloy know the answer?
And we go page down, A page down, we'll skip
over that one. The Dark Night guessed by Cowboy Killer
Sir Charles Barkley from Fergdog, Robbie the Mariner fans biological Mother.

(34:53):
They're very nice, justin in Cincinnati. Who else do we have?
Page down? Drazen Petrovitch from Alph the Alien Opiner. That's
his answer. Late Night Drug Tester says you are a
Panthers fan. Kodak Black, who is twenty seven to eight.
Remember we did a whole hour on Kodak Black after
game when it appeared that he was really enjoying himself

(35:15):
in one of those luxury boxes. Robin Vegas Bobby the
Brain Heenan is his answer. Legend all time iconic figure
Uncle Drew from Donkey Sausage Air Bud guessed by King Rory.
It's Poppy and all the regulars outside of seven to
eleven from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Dan Marley thunder Dan

(35:36):
from Econ, Roseville, Minnesota, Shane of Des Moines going with
blind SeaBASS as his answer. Mikey Moore from Malibu. Ruben,
that's his guest. Who was a Paige Den? We'll go
over that. Matt the Warrior Raider, Tom Brady roast fan
cheated again because he's a loser. Who else do you have?

(35:58):
Paige Den? All right, do you have an answer? Do
you have an answer?

Speaker 6 (36:01):
Was it playoff or finals?

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Was the NBA Finals single game in the NBA?

Speaker 6 (36:07):
Let's go Kobe Bryant.

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Kobe Bryant. That is incorrect, correct answer. Blank holds the
NBA Finals single game record most field goal attempts with
forty eight in one finals game, Rick Barry in nineteen
sixty seven for the San Francisco Warriors. That is a game,
our stat that has held up all these years.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
It's mallard.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
How about that? To the third degree, this is.

Speaker 5 (36:35):
One big event gets great?

Speaker 4 (36:37):
Lets you Allen.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Iverson's pissed that he didn't get forty nine shots up
in a finals game for the Sixers back in the day.
Kobolo the reading of the questions. Unless you're not Mallard
of the thirty three, what do we have?

Speaker 7 (36:47):
It was imported over the weekend that the Orlando Magic
are being mentioned as a possible suitor for Paul George. Ben,
the Magic are already a playoff team in the East.
Do you think Paul George would make them a real contender?

Speaker 1 (36:59):
No, there'll be a Fax contender. And I'm fine if
Paul George comes back. Okay, I don't have a problem
with him leaving either. It's not gonna break my heart
if Paul George leaves the Clippers, because Clippers just go
out and get somebody else who's great, because Steve Bamber's
got one hundred and twenty five billion dollars. But Paul
George with the Clippers, there's parts of his game that

(37:20):
are that are flawed and it's just been that way.
He vanishes for stretches at a time, and if Orlando
wants something, canna have next.

Speaker 7 (37:30):
It's being reported that the rival executives believe Toronto Blue
Jays could look to trade Vladgareo Junior and Bobashet if
they don't turn it around this year. Ben, do you
think either of those guys are gone by the deadline,
well more likely will be Bobashett.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
It's a harder sell for your fan base in Toronto
if you get rid of Vladimir Guerrero, even though his
numbers have not been particularly great. I did actually a
monologue about this about a month ago. If I'm the Angels,
I do whatever I have to do to get Vladimir
Guerrero Junior in Anaheim, try to re connect with his
dad and all that and the good old days for
the Angels. And then if I'm the Dodgers, I would

(38:05):
want Bobasht. I know his dad played for the Angels.
Also next Ben.

Speaker 7 (38:10):
Last year I asked you which NFL team you thought
could go from worst to first in their division this year?
I want to know, are there any teams that you
think could go from first to worst?

Speaker 5 (38:20):
Well?

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Yeah, I mean any any of these teams based on
injuries Koople Loop. If you look at the you know,
the NFL, your starting quarterback goes down and that's it
could put. But I keep an eye in Buffalo. They
don't have a lot on offense there. Josh Allen injury prone.
That's a team right there that I would keep an
eye how we go, how we go, He passed. That

(38:41):
is a way you can put it on the board.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Yes,
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