July 24, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Packers opening their books to reveal the NFL handing over checks to each team for over $432M in national revenue, Giants coach Brian Daboll naming Russell Wilson as the starting QB, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dingdong. It's our number two, hammering away on the podcast
here fresh pod. Not that easy, but here in our
number two. It's all about amount of money. The packers
opened up their books as they have to do. Where
are you at on the NFL handing over checks to
each team for over four hundred and thirty two million
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in national revenue over the last fiscal year. We'll talk
about that also, Coach Brian Daball naming Russell Wilson the
Giants QB one before training camp really gets going. That
is blank, we'll fill in the blank. And Eagles quarterback
Jalen Hurtz explains the refusal to where the Super Bowl rings, saying, hey,
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he's moved on. It's a new year. People seem upset
by that. Does that work with you though? What Jalen
Hurts had to say, We'll go there as well. It's
our number two, rising from the dead, making it rain baby.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of The Ben
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much like certain events Punk Satani Phil will he see
his shadow? How many more weeks of winter? The Swallows
returning to Capistrano. So it was open book Day in
Green Bay. Oh man, I always look forward to Open
book Day in Green Bay. It's great, it really is.
So for some reason you're not familiar with I don't
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know how you wouldn't be, but maybe you're not paying attention. So,
as a publicly owned football team, the Green Bay Packers
have to let everyone know all of the math, all
of the numbers, and they revealed the national revenue sharing
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from the previous fiscal year. This is not Wall Street
Radio turns out though, that the green Bay Packers were
given a check by their sugar dotty at the NFL
four hundred and thirty two point six million, four hundred
and thirty two point six million. This a year after
national revenue top four hundred million, and so first time
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over the four hundred million threshold. So that the finance
is the only peak behind the curtain. The only way
we look and see what's on the other side into
the NFL's revenue sharing numbers is again, you know, the Packers.
Not to to bore you with the minutia, but as
the only publicly owned team, the Packers are required to
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reveal their financial information on an annual basis. So what
does that mean. Let's break it down with four hundred
thirty two point six million distributed, and you do the
math on that, divide it. Thirty two NFL teams got
four hundred thirty two point six million. That means the
league as a whole shared more than thirteen billion in revenue.
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More than thirteen billion if my malor math is correct
from the previous fiscal year. So a little bit better
than the Overnight show. So let us discuss the question
where are you at on the NFL handing over checks
to each team for four hundred and thirty two million
in national revenue over the last year. So I've got
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El Chapo, Ozzie and and Mark Jackson, and we will
combine all of these things together and we're gonna go
get some petty cash out of the NFL's ATM machine.
So number I said number. What this is is a
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refresher course the NFL. We say it all the time,
but for those that don't listen all the time, the
NFL is the most idiot proof business in America. Remember
years ago, I was thinking about doing another side hustle.
I always had two or three media jobs and I
get this show. I got a podcast. Hopefully they'll bring
the TV show back. But I've always got a lot
of stuff going on. I always got a lot of
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stuff going on. I thought, well, maybe I'll do a
little side hustle. I was like, I was looking at it, like,
what are the most idiot proof businesses? And they're like
vending machines atm machines, although that's risky because people might,
you know, rob you with a gun and take your money.
Laundromat things like that, or running a McDonald's, you know,
getting a successful fast food frameanchise, which is very expensive
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to get one of those. Except so think of the
NFL kind of like a Mickeyd's, except with a lot
more money, right, And you can't screw this thing up.
You can't. Like there's some real n income poops that
own NFL teams, and these these owners, I'm convinced they could.
They could sleep through the league meetings, they could light
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the playbooks on fire while they're smoking their cigars, and
they still cash these ridiculous checks. It's like every year,
like clockwork, here come the Green Bay Packers. The Squeaky Reel. Now,
I was told several years back. I don't even know exactly.
I mean, there's many, many years. It all runs together.
It's like a blank, giant blob of time. But I
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was told by some of the works of the NFL
who who was an associated mind, that the league years
ago tried to find a way to have the Packers
be owned by some meaning they would no longer be
part of the community. And they were. They had lawyers
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look at everything and all the agreements because it's a
bit of a problem. The Packers are the squeaky wheel
of the NFL, the only team in the industrial complex
of North American sport, in the big sports that matter
that's owned by I say, owned by the fans, but
I have some friends of mine that owned the Packers.
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They bought stock in the Packers. It's not like you
get to decide who the quarterback is, but it means
for our purposes every July, we get to play Bikkaboo,
bik kaboo, behind the velvet curtain, Behind the Velvet Curtain,
and Sweet Baby Jesus. It's like opening El Chapo's ledger
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and finding just how much money those drug cartels make
four hundred and thirty two million per team in national revenue.
And so let's break that down unscientifically for those of
you that are slow learners, because I was a slower.
That's not ticket sales. That's not the beer money. That's
not the nachos, the peanuts, the hot dogs. That's TV.
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That's gambling partnership money. That's the streaming money. That's thirteen
point eight billion sliced up like a drug cartel, profit
sharing operation. These guys are laundering the American passion. Pure profit,
pure profit. It's like the NFL has so much money.
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In my head, they've gone out to somewhere in Missouri
and they've got storage units. Maybe Ronnie the Bullet, Ronnie
the Bullet out there can go in there and find
the storage unit where they put the cash in there.
It's like Breaking Bad season five. So maybe it's sound
in New Mexico, but like, what are they doing? Like
I don't know, but they building new yachts every year.
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They got gold plated iPads, they got I mean, my god,
they could put a NFL game if they want. They
could put it in on the moon, and not because
they need to do that, just because they can, just
because they can. And the packers and of course they're
forced to tell the truth. And they reported an eighty
three point seven million dollar operating profit last year. Good
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for the I'm not ripping them. I may good for them.
May every business be profitable, not every business? And can
they actually reward their employees unlike some cheap companies. All right,
that's up twenty three million year to year, right, twenty
three million, And so it's listen, it's good for them.
They're successful. Meanwhile, you think about the NFL, and it
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doesn't matter whether you're good or not. The Cleveland Browns blow,
and you know, they can go out there and win
four games and they still get the same game check
or the same check, not a game check, but the
same money. And the Browns could hire a kangaroo to
run the team and they'd still turn a profit with
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a kangaroo. Okay, the NFL is the casino and casinos
make money, but they this one always makes money, like
a lot of money you don't give. You don't give
any other business that kind. I mean, I'm sure there's
some Wall Street places, some defense contractors that make a
ton of money and all that, but my god, it is,
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it is insane. So remember that now we do talk
about who's worth money who's not worth money. I don't
want to hear any sob stories about some owner crying
poverty and all that stuff. When these guys say they
can't afford to pay a player, they can always afford
to pay a player. The issue is not whether you
can afford to pay the player. The issues you want
to play pay the player. Is the player worth the money?
And for a team to say, wow, we can't afford,
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like a Bengals to it's like all of your payroll
is covered by the set by the check from the league, right,
So it's just it's really it's like Jeff Bezos saying
I'm on a budget, and you know, come on, the
only thing you're really budgeting is how many jets you're
gonna buy this year, and how many yachts and all
that stuff. And the NFL at this point, the NFL
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is not just a sport. It's the cartel. But they
do have nice helmets, they do have nice summits. Now
page two to Jersey we go, and we have a
quarterback one that has been announced coach Brian Dayball, who's
still hanging around somehow. You talk you about a cat
with nine lives. So Brian Dable named Russell Wilson mister
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Unlimited Russell Wilson the Giants starting quarterback before training camp.
It hasn't really gotten going, but Brian Dable as training
camp began, named Russell Wilson as the Giants starting quarterback.
That is blank. We'll play the fill in the blank game.
So Brian Dable naming Russell Wilson QB one for the
Giants is blank. My fill in the blank is I
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wrote down on my scorecard. Chicken fertilizer is what that is.
I'd rather say the other word, but we're not allowed to.
That is chicken bleep is what it is by the Giants.
It's absolute garbage, all right. The fact that Brian Dable
anointed Russell Wilson the number one quarter like, does he
not realize it's twenty twenty five, it's not twenty fourteen
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or twenty fifteen. Spoiler alert. This just into the Fox
Sports Radio newsroom. Russell Wilson there she blows, he's not good, right,
and he has not been the guy. He hasn't been
that guy in a while. And this is a total
vote of no confidence for Jackson Dart the rookie and
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famous Jameis Winston and at least pretend, at least pretend
like there's a competition, right. No, this reeks of the
late Ozzy Osbourne classic crazy Train. It's a desperation from
Brian Daball. No, why right now? Not only is Russell
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Wilson's stink, it's bigger than that. Right, He's a glorified
game manager. He's got a bloated resume. The guy has
been Matt at best for three years running. And this
goes back to something we've talked about for many, many
years behind these microphones. It is the theory the man
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that shot Liberty Vounce. Once the legend becomes the fact,
you go with the legend, right, you print the legend,
you talk about the legend. And the legend of Russell
Wilson was established in those salad days in Seattle with
the legion of Boom and all that. And Russell Wilson
has as many MVP votes as I've got and you've
got right, He's never been really all that great, but
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he had some good defensive teams and he was always something.
There were always three or four or five or six
or seven or eight quarterbacks better now there are twenty
quarterbacks often better than him, and his last year in
Seattle was not that great. He went to Denver was
a dumpster fire, went to Pittsburgh, polize unless you like
those five yard outs. And of course people called that
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a career revival. I didn't realize a five yard out
was a career revival. Apparently is. And in Russ, I
get he's living off the man that shot Liberty Vunce.
He's living off that one super Bowl and the let
Russ cook hype from back in the day, and that's it.
And Brian Dabole, the coach who's been billed as the
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quarterback whisper when he was in Buffalo quarterback whisperer with
Josh Allen, and he's just handed Russell Wilson the job.
Like why it's again, it's not twenty thirteen, it's we've
moved on from that. And now it's not all bad
because we do anticipate that we'll get some good corny sound,
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some good corny sound rehearse slogan. Russ is like a
mix of a motivational speaker and you know, a cheese ball.
And he's had a youth pastor retreat because on the field,
he's just blah bad, all right, blah blah blah blah
blah bad, and that's bad, but he's not and he's
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not even fun bad though, as we pointed out, Jameis
Winston and I want the record to show the Ben
Malors show we support Jameis Winston. Jameis Winston's chaos. Jameis
Winston is a pick six to the right, crab legs
of the left, four hundred yard passing games followed by
four turnovers in the middle, and you know what that
is entertainment. You're bad, but at least you're entertaining. You
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know what. Russ is balling And this just feels like
Brian Dable, who's one of those guys who's on the
hot seat covering his own tookas and he needs to
win and he thinks that Russ gives him the quote
safe option if you will, all right? Final point, Jeff
Philla Delphia, we go where Eagles quarter fact Jalen Hurts
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explain that he is refusing to wear refusing to wear
the recent Super Bowl ring after his MVP performance and
all that Hurt says, quote, he's moved on, moved on
to the new Year. It's as simple as that. Now
that has upset some people, but does it work for you?
(16:21):
Does it work for you that Jalen Hurts is not
wearing his bling bling So I am nodding my head. Yes,
all right, I love it. And as Mark Jackson would say,
this is what we call a grown man move. I'll
be Benny Brightside. Good job by Jalen Hurts. All right,
(16:41):
Jalen Hurts gets it. You gotta move forward. That is
the way this works.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
We know that accolades people love to celebrate that they
sit there and smell themselves, right, But accolades are just
the receipts for things you've already done. And it's you know,
it's when you become an old dude. You sit around
your rocking chair and you talk about the glory days.
You drink a glass of lemonade, marcol mar Day. Come
on the other factor, and I'll never forget out a conversation.
(17:10):
Years ago, when I was doing some NBA stuff, there
was a guy named Phil Jackson and he used to
coach the Bulls and the Lakers, and Phil won more
championships than just about anybody. And I remember this was
twenty five years ago, and Phil Jackson was complaining then
about how when he first won a championship I think
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it was with the Knicks in the seventies, it probably
fifty years ago whatever, but the championship rings were designed
for the person to wear. They were more like class rings.
And Phil would be complains of these rings. I can't
they're too big, They're for a safety deposit box. They're
not to wear. You know. Some people have made them
into chains. They're more of a chain thing than something
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you wear around, and they're so valuable, like you're just
asking for someone to steal the ring at gunpoint when
you were there. So they're not designed to be worn anyway.
So I mean, to me, I get why Jalen Hurts
isn't doing it and you press the reset button. That's
part of the deal. And so he's also validated one
of the things that we've said, there is no such
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thing as wait for it momentum. Uncle Ma only exists
in Jersey. Uncle Mo used to live in Brooklyn, but
he moved to Jersey. He's also validated the fact that
you don't get rollover minutes. You know, it's like, oh, well,
you play well and you leave a little extra in
the tank. No, no, no, no, you either dominate now or
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people say you're a has been right, you're a bit irrelevant,
bit irrelevant? You know, what have you done for me lately?
All that stuff and wearing that ring is like carrying
a trophy to a job interview. It's like announcing, Hey,
I'm a douche and here's my trophy. It's a loser move.
And uh, it was Winston Churchill. I don't know if
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he's the first one to say it. He repeated it,
that you don't fight the last war. You don't fight,
and you don't celebrate as you're fighting another war, the
last war when the new war has already started. So
you move on. It is the Ben Mahler Show, and
we move on. And if you'd like to be part,
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the monologue. We'll read some of those comments. And is
it true that one of baseball's top young players has
been placed on the trading block developing hot dot dot dot.
We'll get to that, and we we'll do it next.
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Back to it we go, and we'll get back to
the calls here in a minute. Also, is it true
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one of baseball's top young players has been placed on
the trading block? We'll get to that story. I mentioned
this earlier. We got to pay this off, so on
the lamb. And now this is about Antonio Brown. You
might remember Antonio Brown is a face seeing an accusation
that he is gonna go to jail for a long time.
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He was convicted of it involving that incident where he
claimed he was the victim of a crime and then
ended up taking a weapon and firing the weapon and
arrest warrant was issued for Antonio Brown not that long ago,
and it's been over a month now. I believe we
are almost at forty days. Last I checked, after the
(23:29):
warrant was issued for his arrest in Miami Dade County
on charges of attempted murder and Antonio Brown anticipating those charges,
did what anyone would do, left the country. He's been
living aparently. I thought this was like fake, but apparently
it's real. Like he's living abroad power and he has relocated.
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He's living in Dubai with his longtime lady friend and
their four children. Oh man, how about that? You wake
up one day you're Antonio Brown's kid, You're going to
school in Miami, and then the next day you're in Dubai.
How long can this last?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Now?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
The arrest warrant was issued way back June eleventh. Is
that incident, that celebrity boxing event in Miami, And the
charge was that Brown was involved and so he could
have gotten if he had just turned himself in ten
thousand dollars bond house arrests supposedly and had his day
(24:32):
in court. But he is living in Dubai. Isn't due
by very expensive? I've never been Dubai. I don't think
I'm moving. It's fancy, yeah, oh I oh, it's fancy
and all that, but interesting. He Brown celebrated his thirty
seventh birthday earlier this month, a couple of weeks ago
on a luxury yacht. And what's the is there a
(24:56):
statue to limitations like how many years does Antonio Brown
have to stay out? He's thirty seven, now, how many
years does he have to stay out of the United States?
And then that just goes away? Is there a certain
amount of time? I don't know the legal statutes in Florida.
I would imagine if he stays away, it's not murder
like murder. I know there's no statute limitation attempted murder.
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Those there are statute of limitations on attempted murder. We'll
have to get one of our lawyers to let us
know the inside skinny there. So how much money? How
much does he have? I thought Antonio Brown lost a
lot of his money anyway, Right, we'll see what happens
with that. But he's on the lamb, not Ceedee lamb.
That's somebody else. He's on the lamb doing his thing.
(25:37):
Is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we are doing our thing,
working our way through the over night hours, and let's
see who do we have here. We'll go to the
calls because it's a call and show at eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. Is the number eight seven
seven nine nine six sixty three six nine If you'd
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like to be part of it. Later this hour we
have Mallard of the third degree that'll be coming up
a little bit later, and also the inch to Trivia. Uh,
let's go now to eeny meeny miney moll. Let's say
hello to Jed who fled? Who's in the Sunshine State? Hello?
Jed who fled?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah? You can't when when you ever, whenever you pull
into somebody's house, you probably need to know who lives
there or else. You don't need to be turning in
down the driveway two am and then when the cop
pulls in, they're like, whose house is? They're gonna say,
I don't know you're gonna getarrested the meet. I don't
hear you radio stounds. I've been hung up on in my
on the radio own. Well you don't. You don't have
(26:38):
the wrong tag on your on your moped? What loser
mood again with he's right a moped talking a girl
at two am. That's that's what that's that's pretty strikes yea.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Who you who are you talking to? Jed?
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
What's up?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Man? What's that?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Big man? I'm talking to? My friends? Is mister period?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
What are you that? Speaker says, what I don't know
you did, but that that's my buddy teewe. We're out
here from you know, talking about people that don't have
strategies when they go to make moves at two am,
three am, you don't be in just touch wonder. Don't
ever put a license plate of a different vehicle on
your vehicle to seduce the super stuff because that darst
(27:18):
than haveing no life to play at all?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
You've got that is absolutely true. That is absolutely true.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
So I wouldn't. I wouldn't know. I don't. I'm not
involved in that, so I wouldn't. Yeah, I wouldn't know
about that.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
But everybody's involved in just some degree or the other.
Say you're just hooking up with a chick that's not
your chicks, and you're pulling away from the house. You
want to be seen, Boom, hit that button. James Box
style license plate, a new life plate drops down behind
your sample life and plate.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
The one of the cold Play concert. That's what he
should have done.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, well he should hope play right now.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
I love cold Play.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
That's that's all right there, that's just so. But what
about that guy? Board of your versions via but I
tell you that's racist, man, that that's racist stereodisee. I
don't know how to bounce like a pinball, Dude, get
the If I was Pokemon, my evolutions state would be
a pinball. The pinball was not in the store ball.
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He had to wa oh yourself.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I don't know what's going I'm trying to keep track
of what you're saying. I don't know it's I'm having cake.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Hey, you live on I live on the wrong side
of the track. Ben.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
There are no tracks where you live. You're out in
the swamp. There's no tracks there.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Hey, a lot a lot of friends have that former
friend of mine that whenever you've gotten noticeable like your
the front side of your arm looks like a dartboard,
they call that heaven tracks. But they don't do that.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I'm saying, like, hey, how come you didn't enter the
Mallard Palooza. You were another I got emails from people
they said, why wasn't hollering James there? Your name also
came up. People were disappointed. They feel like you let
the show down, that you did not participate in the
Mallard Palooza.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
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Speaker 5 (29:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
What happened to me is too much pressure. And as
soon as I'm putting pressure on the rest of the contestant,
they poled like chiefs suits and you know, Jay Stoopid,
the other guy. They have to cheat and you know
team up. Is that even in the rules? Is that
even allowable? Apparently so, because you're you're you're.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You are you are you cut? You're a choosing just
Josh and Jay scoop of cheating. That's a major accusation.
Are you calling them the altuve and the bragman of
the show?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Okay, I.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Go about to.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Jed who fled. I'm pressed that Jed has a friend.
He sounds just like him. I'm amazed.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Yeah, it's the only time I've ever heard him interact
with another human being.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It's great. It was like a hidden microphone, candid microphone.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
You know they have friends.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, you think that guy's has messed up as Jed
who Fled? You think this is the same same lifestyle
out there tweaking in the middle of the night, you know,
going around doing their thing in Florida. Yeah, all right,
isn't that awkward. Jet's out there causing havoc in Florida
in the swamp land. And then this other guy's out
there also common avoct causing havoc. But Jeed's got to
(30:29):
get a call into sports radio. That's a dedicated fan
of the show. That is a dedicated fan of the show.
Is it true? One of the big names, one of
the top young players in baseball on the trading block
where there are some whispers around baseball here in the
nighttime hours. The trade deadline is a week away from today,
and uh, Pittsburgh Pirates. Now, it's not who you think
(30:53):
it is, but O'Neil Cruz. O'Neil Cruz teams have reached
out to the Pirates said we kind of want that guy,
O'Neil Cruz. And the Pirates are open for business. They're
open for business, and they are eyeing a shortstop and
supposedly there's different reports on what they're looking. Who cares,
(31:17):
they're the Pirates, but O'Neal Cruz, Now, the Yankees had
been mentioned as a possibility for O'Neil Cruse. He's got
a lot of good nerd stats. The nerds get they
get a little chubby when they see O'Neil Cruz, like
his exit velocity and things like that, and they think
this is the perfect change of scenery guy that that's
the guy that will go to the Yankees or the
(31:37):
Red Sox or someone and will just dominate and be
a cautionary tale. He's six foot seven, so it doesn't
work out. If it doesn't work out in baseball, he
can always play small forward in the NBA. He's also
under team control through the twenty twenty eight season. He's
also been benched multiple times for being a dog and
(31:58):
not hustling, which seems to be a bit of a problem,
and he doesn't make contact very often, which nobody seems
to care about it anymore. In fact, he has the
lowest batting average of his career this year. He does
have thirty one stolen bases, so when he gets on,
he'll steal a base and all that. If you want
him to properly feel the ball in the outfield, good
luck on that. He does seem like a Yankee kind
(32:19):
of player because he's a very bad defensive player. He's lazy,
but he'll hit home runs. So that doesn't that seem
like the modern Yankee player. Keep an eye on that
a week away in depth trade coverage. We've got it
covered right here. Let's go back to the phone with Luke.
Another Luke. We had a Luke in Boston, and now
we have a Luke in Minnesota. It's a big night
(32:41):
for Luke's. Hello Luke in Minnesota. Welcome Luke.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Well, I consider myself for the better Luke.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
You got a big fan base up in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Oh, we love Minnesota.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Man.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I did a Malor meet and greet there a couple
of years back. It was wonderful. We had a massive turnout.
We had this place jumping the Mermaid. We were at
the Mermaid. You ever been to the Mermaid, Luke, No,
I have not. It's like a bar, bowling alley, meeting hall.
Pretty cool place, pretty cool place in the Mermaid. Not bad.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Oh cool, Yeah, I check it out.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
It's pretty neat.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Two things.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Whoa bo okay?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
No, man, you were doing so well, Luke, and then
you hit a speed bump. I know you were doing good, dude.
There was like a perfect that was like the perfect
start to a call. You were dominating you this you
got Come on, Luke, get back, put the train back
on the tracks. Luke, come on, man, I believe in you, Luke. Luke,
you've never heard the I bet I bet you, Luke,
you've never heard this before. May the Force be with you, Luke?
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Or yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:52):
The father bit.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Two things bikings eight and.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
A half.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
For wins over under or and then I also want
to hear are you asking.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
My professional opinion? Is that what you're asking my professional opinion?
So the totals? Is it really only and I haven't
looked at the wind totals yet? Is it really eight
and a half? Is that it?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I would bet the over on that. I mean, they're
not what they went forty won fourteen games last year,
all right, so they'll they'll win at least they'll go
ten and seven. At worst they should be ten and seven.
So all right, what's next? What else? What's next? Come on, Louke,
we're playing your music. Come on.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Most memorable radio experience.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Most memorable radio experience. Let's see here, like in what genre?
Like with a caller, interaction with a caller, a story
like what are you looking for?
Speaker 5 (34:55):
Interview?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Let's go with that, uh, interview? We don't do a
lot of interviews on the Overnight show, so I don't
know if that would be good. But being on some
of my favorite some of my I have interviewed many
people some of my favorite moments, and radio getting in
trouble with the Commissioner's office with Rob Manford because of
my commentary about the astros over the years. I'm very
(35:17):
proud of that. I love people that get upset about takes,
and so I'm very proud of that. I've had multiple
starting quarterbacks of the NFL block me from things I've
said on the radio show, many sportscasters, so those things
I wear those as badges of honor. And I have
chicken fingers named after me in Kansas City, so that's
(35:40):
pretty cool. Luke, I have chicken fingers named after me
in Kansasy and in Denver I have a chicken sandwich,
So that's kind of cool. So that's better. People talk
about People talk about winning a Golden Mic or Marconi,
but I'm like, dude, I have food named after That's
much cooler.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Man. Yeah, Mars of the Birds.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah, those are for daytime people. They don't give those
awards to night time people, all right, Thank you. Luke,
good job. You got to train back on the tracks. Luke,
good job by you. If you keep calling, we'll have
to give you the nickname Luke Skywalker. That's taken, sure,
I think that might be taken. Other Lukes. Luke Wilson,
(36:22):
that's an old actor. Who else you know Lukes? You
know Luke Weaver. That's a picture for the Yankees? Anybody else?
Any of the Lukes? No, Luke's not a lot of Lukes.
What about mus They gotta be some music. Guy's named Luke.
That sounds like a music for sure.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
There's a country singer named Luke Bryan.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Oh yeah, I've heard him.
Speaker 6 (36:43):
You'll Luke Garretson. That's kind of close. No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Wow, I thought you were gonna say Luke Garrett and
a garrig like the Luke Luke Bryan.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Are you just.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Is it? Is it Luke Brian?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Maybe it's not, Oh it is?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
You're right, you're right, right, all right?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Whatever?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Anyway, it is the Ben Mallor Show. We have mallarly
third degree. Here's the insta trivia. Blank has sixteen career
walkoff hits, the most walkoff hits and RBIs of any
active player in baseball. Again, Blank has sixteen career walk
off hits, the most walkoff hits and RBIs of any
active player in baseball. That's the insta trivia the answer.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
Next.
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now for the inch to trivia. Blank has sixteen career
walkoff hits, the most walk off hits and RBIs of
any active player in baseball. That is the question. What
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is the answer. Got to navigate? Who's your Bill's been
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You have an answer?
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Lorena Luke Cage?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Is it Luke Cage? No, that is incorrect. The correct
answer would be Freddy Freeman of the Dodgers, Freddy for
the Sorry, Joe the Ghost Starter, JT the Wingman. It's
not Barney five, Mister blunt and all you other guy eat.
How about that?
Speaker 3 (39:45):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Cooper Loop Tyron Matthew the Honey Badger, announced his retirement
on Tuesday, ending a decorated twelve year career since coming
out of LSU in twenty thirteen. The question now is
was his career good enough to get him a gold jacket?
Speaker 1 (40:05):
No? No, good career in borderline Hall of Fame. He
wasn't All Pro three times. He was part of an
All Decade team. He was never Defensive Player of the Year.
And you can tell the story of football during his
career without mentioning his name. He's got a great nickname,
but he does not. You look at the numbers and
(40:25):
the impact, and he played on a lot of black teams.
No next.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Warren Moon was recently asked of Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen,
and Joe Burrow who he thinks will win a Super
Bowl first, and without hesitation, he said Lamar Jackson. He
went on to say that it's not because of Jackson
being much better than the other two, but because the
Ravens have the best team surrounding him.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Is he right about that part?
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Well? The Ravens do have defense. I got a bunch
of alpha dudes on defense and all that, but I
would still go with Burrow. Burrow plays better in the
playoffs and Josh Allen. I put Lamar Jackson third. I
put sports with Cole went ahead of Lamar Jackson next.
Speaker 6 (41:01):
After you get another Dodgers loss. On Tuesday, Dave Roberts said,
it'd better be rock bottom. They did win today, but Ben,
that was the dodgers eleventh loss in the last fourteen games.
Yet they're still in first place. Is it premature to panic?
Speaker 1 (41:13):
No, they suck, and I'm sick of Dodger fans making excuses.
They got a bunch of holes in their line. If
the bullpen blows and they just are so arrogant over
there Dodger Stadium, Like, will be fine, We'll be fun.
I don't care. You're losing. You suck. How do we do?
You passed?
Speaker 2 (41:28):
I won?
Speaker 1 (41:29):
I won Lorena, another win, red blooded American win. Right there,
Dingdong. It's our number two, hammering away on the podcast
here fresh pod. Not that easy, but here in our
number two. It's all about amount of money. The packers
opened up their books as they have to do. Where
are you at on the NFL handing over checks to
each team for over four hundred and thirty two million
(00:22):
in national revenue over the last fiscal year. We'll talk
about that also, Coach Brian Daball naming Russell Wilson the
Giants QB one before training camp really gets going. That
is blank, we'll fill in the blank. And Eagles quarterback
Jalen Hurtz explains the refusal to where the Super Bowl rings, saying, hey,
(00:44):
he's moved on. It's a new year. People seem upset
by that. Does that work with you though? What Jalen
Hurts had to say, We'll go there as well. It's
our number two, rising from the dead, making it rain baby.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of The Ben
Mahler Show. As we continue the Red Eye flight, we
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are in the air everywhere, hand in hand as we
provide moonlight. Mallard monologues coast to coast, border to border
and beyond on the vast and voice hoarously powerful microphones
of fsr M monating live from the hammer as we
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hammer away, the hot sports takes one after another from
the Fox Sports radio studios, as approved by former WNBA
fans Supermarket Steve So Supermarket Steve used to get very
upset that we only talked about Caitlin Clark. We wouldn't
talk about the WNBA, and you're very upset about that.
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not like the WNBA, So he's okay with us ignoring
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hour is from the Frozen Tundra. So the story that
happens every time around this time, every year around this time,
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much like certain events Punk Satani Phil will he see
his shadow? How many more weeks of winter? The Swallows
returning to Capistrano. So it was open book Day in
Green Bay. Oh man, I always look forward to Open
book Day in Green Bay. It's great, it really is.
So for some reason you're not familiar with I don't
(02:59):
know how you wouldn't be, but maybe you're not paying attention. So,
as a publicly owned football team, the Green Bay Packers
have to let everyone know all of the math, all
of the numbers, and they revealed the national revenue sharing
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from the previous fiscal year. This is not Wall Street
Radio turns out though, that the green Bay Packers were
given a check by their sugar dotty at the NFL
four hundred and thirty two point six million, four hundred
and thirty two point six million. This a year after
national revenue top four hundred million, and so first time
(03:44):
over the four hundred million threshold. So that the finance
is the only peak behind the curtain. The only way
we look and see what's on the other side into
the NFL's revenue sharing numbers is again, you know, the Packers.
Not to to bore you with the minutia, but as
the only publicly owned team, the Packers are required to
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reveal their financial information on an annual basis. So what
does that mean. Let's break it down with four hundred
thirty two point six million distributed, and you do the
math on that, divide it. Thirty two NFL teams got
four hundred thirty two point six million. That means the
league as a whole shared more than thirteen billion in revenue.
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More than thirteen billion if my malor math is correct
from the previous fiscal year. So a little bit better
than the Overnight show. So let us discuss the question
where are you at on the NFL handing over checks
to each team for four hundred and thirty two million
in national revenue over the last year. So I've got
(04:56):
El Chapo, Ozzie and and Mark Jackson, and we will
combine all of these things together and we're gonna go
get some petty cash out of the NFL's ATM machine.
So number I said number. What this is is a
(05:17):
refresher course the NFL. We say it all the time,
but for those that don't listen all the time, the
NFL is the most idiot proof business in America. Remember
years ago, I was thinking about doing another side hustle.
I always had two or three media jobs and I
get this show. I got a podcast. Hopefully they'll bring
the TV show back. But I've always got a lot
of stuff going on. I always got a lot of
(05:37):
stuff going on. I thought, well, maybe I'll do a
little side hustle. I was like, I was looking at it, like,
what are the most idiot proof businesses? And they're like
vending machines atm machines, although that's risky because people might,
you know, rob you with a gun and take your money.
Laundromat things like that, or running a McDonald's, you know,
getting a successful fast food frameanchise, which is very expensive
(06:01):
to get one of those. Except so think of the
NFL kind of like a Mickeyd's, except with a lot
more money, right, And you can't screw this thing up.
You can't. Like there's some real n income poops that
own NFL teams, and these these owners, I'm convinced they could.
They could sleep through the league meetings, they could light
(06:22):
the playbooks on fire while they're smoking their cigars, and
they still cash these ridiculous checks. It's like every year,
like clockwork, here come the Green Bay Packers. The Squeaky Reel. Now,
I was told several years back. I don't even know exactly.
I mean, there's many, many years. It all runs together.
It's like a blank, giant blob of time. But I
(06:44):
was told by some of the works of the NFL
who who was an associated mind, that the league years
ago tried to find a way to have the Packers
be owned by some meaning they would no longer be
part of the community. And they were. They had lawyers
(07:05):
look at everything and all the agreements because it's a
bit of a problem. The Packers are the squeaky wheel
of the NFL, the only team in the industrial complex
of North American sport, in the big sports that matter
that's owned by I say, owned by the fans, but
I have some friends of mine that owned the Packers.
(07:26):
They bought stock in the Packers. It's not like you
get to decide who the quarterback is, but it means
for our purposes every July, we get to play Bikkaboo,
bik kaboo, behind the velvet curtain, Behind the Velvet Curtain,
and Sweet Baby Jesus. It's like opening El Chapo's ledger
(07:48):
and finding just how much money those drug cartels make
four hundred and thirty two million per team in national revenue.
And so let's break that down unscientifically for those of
you that are slow learners, because I was a slower.
That's not ticket sales. That's not the beer money. That's
not the nachos, the peanuts, the hot dogs. That's TV.
(08:09):
That's gambling partnership money. That's the streaming money. That's thirteen
point eight billion sliced up like a drug cartel, profit
sharing operation. These guys are laundering the American passion. Pure profit,
pure profit. It's like the NFL has so much money.
(08:33):
In my head, they've gone out to somewhere in Missouri
and they've got storage units. Maybe Ronnie the Bullet, Ronnie
the Bullet out there can go in there and find
the storage unit where they put the cash in there.
It's like Breaking Bad season five. So maybe it's sound
in New Mexico, but like, what are they doing? Like
I don't know, but they building new yachts every year.
(08:55):
They got gold plated iPads, they got I mean, my god,
they could put a NFL game if they want. They
could put it in on the moon, and not because
they need to do that, just because they can, just
because they can. And the packers and of course they're
forced to tell the truth. And they reported an eighty
three point seven million dollar operating profit last year. Good
(09:18):
for the I'm not ripping them. I may good for them.
May every business be profitable, not every business? And can
they actually reward their employees unlike some cheap companies. All right,
that's up twenty three million year to year, right, twenty
three million, And so it's listen, it's good for them.
They're successful. Meanwhile, you think about the NFL, and it
(09:39):
doesn't matter whether you're good or not. The Cleveland Browns blow,
and you know, they can go out there and win
four games and they still get the same game check
or the same check, not a game check, but the
same money. And the Browns could hire a kangaroo to
run the team and they'd still turn a profit with
(10:00):
a kangaroo. Okay, the NFL is the casino and casinos
make money, but they this one always makes money, like
a lot of money you don't give. You don't give
any other business that kind. I mean, I'm sure there's
some Wall Street places, some defense contractors that make a
ton of money and all that, but my god, it is,
(10:20):
it is insane. So remember that now we do talk
about who's worth money who's not worth money. I don't
want to hear any sob stories about some owner crying
poverty and all that stuff. When these guys say they
can't afford to pay a player, they can always afford
to pay a player. The issue is not whether you
can afford to pay the player. The issues you want
to play pay the player. Is the player worth the money?
And for a team to say, wow, we can't afford,
(10:42):
like a Bengals to it's like all of your payroll
is covered by the set by the check from the league, right,
So it's just it's really it's like Jeff Bezos saying
I'm on a budget, and you know, come on, the
only thing you're really budgeting is how many jets you're
gonna buy this year, and how many yachts and all
that stuff. And the NFL at this point, the NFL
(11:04):
is not just a sport. It's the cartel. But they
do have nice helmets, they do have nice summits. Now
page two to Jersey we go, and we have a
quarterback one that has been announced coach Brian Dayball, who's
still hanging around somehow. You talk you about a cat
with nine lives. So Brian Dable named Russell Wilson mister
(11:30):
Unlimited Russell Wilson the Giants starting quarterback before training camp.
It hasn't really gotten going, but Brian Dable as training
camp began, named Russell Wilson as the Giants starting quarterback.
That is blank. We'll play the fill in the blank game.
So Brian Dable naming Russell Wilson QB one for the
Giants is blank. My fill in the blank is I
(11:54):
wrote down on my scorecard. Chicken fertilizer is what that is.
I'd rather say the other word, but we're not allowed to.
That is chicken bleep is what it is by the Giants.
It's absolute garbage, all right. The fact that Brian Dable
anointed Russell Wilson the number one quarter like, does he
not realize it's twenty twenty five, it's not twenty fourteen
(12:19):
or twenty fifteen. Spoiler alert. This just into the Fox
Sports Radio newsroom. Russell Wilson there she blows, he's not good, right,
and he has not been the guy. He hasn't been
that guy in a while. And this is a total
vote of no confidence for Jackson Dart the rookie and
(12:41):
famous Jameis Winston and at least pretend, at least pretend
like there's a competition, right. No, this reeks of the
late Ozzy Osbourne classic crazy Train. It's a desperation from
Brian Daball. No, why right now? Not only is Russell
(13:02):
Wilson's stink, it's bigger than that. Right, He's a glorified
game manager. He's got a bloated resume. The guy has
been Matt at best for three years running. And this
goes back to something we've talked about for many, many
years behind these microphones. It is the theory the man
(13:23):
that shot Liberty Vounce. Once the legend becomes the fact,
you go with the legend, right, you print the legend,
you talk about the legend. And the legend of Russell
Wilson was established in those salad days in Seattle with
the legion of Boom and all that. And Russell Wilson
has as many MVP votes as I've got and you've
got right, He's never been really all that great, but
(13:45):
he had some good defensive teams and he was always something.
There were always three or four or five or six
or seven or eight quarterbacks better now there are twenty
quarterbacks often better than him, and his last year in
Seattle was not that great. He went to Denver was
a dumpster fire, went to Pittsburgh, polize unless you like
those five yard outs. And of course people called that
(14:08):
a career revival. I didn't realize a five yard out
was a career revival. Apparently is. And in Russ, I
get he's living off the man that shot Liberty Vunce.
He's living off that one super Bowl and the let
Russ cook hype from back in the day, and that's it.
And Brian Dabole, the coach who's been billed as the
(14:29):
quarterback whisper when he was in Buffalo quarterback whisperer with
Josh Allen, and he's just handed Russell Wilson the job.
Like why it's again, it's not twenty thirteen, it's we've
moved on from that. And now it's not all bad
because we do anticipate that we'll get some good corny sound,
(14:51):
some good corny sound rehearse slogan. Russ is like a
mix of a motivational speaker and you know, a cheese ball.
And he's had a youth pastor retreat because on the field,
he's just blah bad, all right, blah blah blah blah
blah bad, and that's bad, but he's not and he's
(15:15):
not even fun bad though, as we pointed out, Jameis
Winston and I want the record to show the Ben
Malors show we support Jameis Winston. Jameis Winston's chaos. Jameis
Winston is a pick six to the right, crab legs
of the left, four hundred yard passing games followed by
four turnovers in the middle, and you know what that
is entertainment. You're bad, but at least you're entertaining. You
(15:39):
know what. Russ is balling And this just feels like
Brian Dable, who's one of those guys who's on the
hot seat covering his own tookas and he needs to
win and he thinks that Russ gives him the quote
safe option if you will, all right? Final point, Jeff
Philla Delphia, we go where Eagles quarter fact Jalen Hurts
(16:01):
explain that he is refusing to wear refusing to wear
the recent Super Bowl ring after his MVP performance and
all that Hurt says, quote, he's moved on, moved on
to the new Year. It's as simple as that. Now
that has upset some people, but does it work for you?
(16:21):
Does it work for you that Jalen Hurts is not
wearing his bling bling So I am nodding my head. Yes,
all right, I love it. And as Mark Jackson would say,
this is what we call a grown man move. I'll
be Benny Brightside. Good job by Jalen Hurts. All right,
(16:41):
Jalen Hurts gets it. You gotta move forward. That is
the way this works.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
We know that accolades people love to celebrate that they
sit there and smell themselves, right, But accolades are just
the receipts for things you've already done. And it's you know,
it's when you become an old dude. You sit around
your rocking chair and you talk about the glory days.
You drink a glass of lemonade, marcol mar Day. Come
on the other factor, and I'll never forget out a conversation.
(17:10):
Years ago, when I was doing some NBA stuff, there
was a guy named Phil Jackson and he used to
coach the Bulls and the Lakers, and Phil won more
championships than just about anybody. And I remember this was
twenty five years ago, and Phil Jackson was complaining then
about how when he first won a championship I think
(17:31):
it was with the Knicks in the seventies, it probably
fifty years ago whatever, but the championship rings were designed
for the person to wear. They were more like class rings.
And Phil would be complains of these rings. I can't
they're too big, They're for a safety deposit box. They're
not to wear. You know. Some people have made them
into chains. They're more of a chain thing than something
(17:53):
you wear around, and they're so valuable, like you're just
asking for someone to steal the ring at gunpoint when
you were there. So they're not designed to be worn anyway.
So I mean, to me, I get why Jalen Hurts
isn't doing it and you press the reset button. That's
part of the deal. And so he's also validated one
of the things that we've said, there is no such
(18:16):
thing as wait for it momentum. Uncle Ma only exists
in Jersey. Uncle Mo used to live in Brooklyn, but
he moved to Jersey. He's also validated the fact that
you don't get rollover minutes. You know, it's like, oh, well,
you play well and you leave a little extra in
the tank. No, no, no, no, you either dominate now or
(18:39):
people say you're a has been right, you're a bit irrelevant,
bit irrelevant? You know, what have you done for me lately?
All that stuff and wearing that ring is like carrying
a trophy to a job interview. It's like announcing, Hey,
I'm a douche and here's my trophy. It's a loser move.
And uh, it was Winston Churchill. I don't know if
(19:00):
he's the first one to say it. He repeated it,
that you don't fight the last war. You don't fight,
and you don't celebrate as you're fighting another war, the
last war when the new war has already started. So
you move on. It is the Ben Mahler Show, and
we move on. And if you'd like to be part,
(19:21):
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in right now hashtag ask Ben. You can comment on
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the monologue. We'll read some of those comments. And is
it true that one of baseball's top young players has
been placed on the trading block developing hot dot dot dot.
We'll get to that, and we we'll do it next.
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(21:38):
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It is a live show. Those people that were reading
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Back to it we go, and we'll get back to
the calls here in a minute. Also, is it true
(22:42):
one of baseball's top young players has been placed on
the trading block? We'll get to that story. I mentioned
this earlier. We got to pay this off, so on
the lamb. And now this is about Antonio Brown. You
might remember Antonio Brown is a face seeing an accusation
that he is gonna go to jail for a long time.
(23:06):
He was convicted of it involving that incident where he
claimed he was the victim of a crime and then
ended up taking a weapon and firing the weapon and
arrest warrant was issued for Antonio Brown not that long ago,
and it's been over a month now. I believe we
are almost at forty days. Last I checked, after the
(23:29):
warrant was issued for his arrest in Miami Dade County
on charges of attempted murder and Antonio Brown anticipating those charges,
did what anyone would do, left the country. He's been
living aparently. I thought this was like fake, but apparently
it's real. Like he's living abroad power and he has relocated.
(23:52):
He's living in Dubai with his longtime lady friend and
their four children. Oh man, how about that? You wake
up one day you're Antonio Brown's kid, You're going to
school in Miami, and then the next day you're in Dubai.
How long can this last?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Now?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
The arrest warrant was issued way back June eleventh. Is
that incident, that celebrity boxing event in Miami, And the
charge was that Brown was involved and so he could
have gotten if he had just turned himself in ten
thousand dollars bond house arrests supposedly and had his day
(24:32):
in court. But he is living in Dubai. Isn't due
by very expensive? I've never been Dubai. I don't think
I'm moving. It's fancy, yeah, oh I oh, it's fancy
and all that, but interesting. He Brown celebrated his thirty
seventh birthday earlier this month, a couple of weeks ago
on a luxury yacht. And what's the is there a
(24:56):
statue to limitations like how many years does Antonio Brown
have to stay out? He's thirty seven, now, how many
years does he have to stay out of the United States?
And then that just goes away? Is there a certain
amount of time? I don't know the legal statutes in Florida.
I would imagine if he stays away, it's not murder
like murder. I know there's no statute limitation attempted murder.
(25:17):
Those there are statute of limitations on attempted murder. We'll
have to get one of our lawyers to let us
know the inside skinny there. So how much money? How
much does he have? I thought Antonio Brown lost a
lot of his money anyway, Right, we'll see what happens
with that. But he's on the lamb, not Ceedee lamb.
That's somebody else. He's on the lamb doing his thing.
(25:37):
Is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we are doing our thing,
working our way through the over night hours, and let's
see who do we have here. We'll go to the
calls because it's a call and show at eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. Is the number eight seven
seven nine nine six sixty three six nine If you'd
(25:57):
like to be part of it. Later this hour we
have Mallard of the third degree that'll be coming up
a little bit later, and also the inch to Trivia. Uh,
let's go now to eeny meeny miney moll. Let's say
hello to Jed who fled? Who's in the Sunshine State? Hello?
Jed who fled?
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah? You can't when when you ever, whenever you pull
into somebody's house, you probably need to know who lives
there or else. You don't need to be turning in
down the driveway two am and then when the cop
pulls in, they're like, whose house is? They're gonna say,
I don't know you're gonna getarrested the meet. I don't
hear you radio stounds. I've been hung up on in my
on the radio own. Well you don't. You don't have
(26:38):
the wrong tag on your on your moped? What loser
mood again with he's right a moped talking a girl
at two am. That's that's what that's that's pretty strikes yea.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Who you who are you talking to? Jed?
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
What's up?
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Man? What's that?
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Big man? I'm talking to? My friends? Is mister period?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
What are you that? Speaker says, what I don't know
you did, but that that's my buddy teewe. We're out
here from you know, talking about people that don't have
strategies when they go to make moves at two am,
three am, you don't be in just touch wonder. Don't
ever put a license plate of a different vehicle on
your vehicle to seduce the super stuff because that darst
(27:18):
than haveing no life to play at all?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
You've got that is absolutely true. That is absolutely true.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
So I wouldn't. I wouldn't know. I don't. I'm not
involved in that, so I wouldn't. Yeah, I wouldn't know
about that.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
But everybody's involved in just some degree or the other.
Say you're just hooking up with a chick that's not
your chicks, and you're pulling away from the house. You
want to be seen, Boom, hit that button. James Box
style license plate, a new life plate drops down behind
your sample life and plate.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
The one of the cold Play concert. That's what he
should have done.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, well he should hope play right now.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
I love cold Play.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
That's that's all right there, that's just so. But what
about that guy? Board of your versions via but I
tell you that's racist, man, that that's racist stereodisee. I
don't know how to bounce like a pinball, Dude, get
the If I was Pokemon, my evolutions state would be
a pinball. The pinball was not in the store ball.
(28:14):
He had to wa oh yourself.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I don't know what's going I'm trying to keep track
of what you're saying. I don't know it's I'm having cake.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Hey, you live on I live on the wrong side
of the track. Ben.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
There are no tracks where you live. You're out in
the swamp. There's no tracks there.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Hey, a lot a lot of friends have that former
friend of mine that whenever you've gotten noticeable like your
the front side of your arm looks like a dartboard,
they call that heaven tracks. But they don't do that.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
I'm saying, like, hey, how come you didn't enter the
Mallard Palooza. You were another I got emails from people
they said, why wasn't hollering James there? Your name also
came up. People were disappointed. They feel like you let
the show down, that you did not participate in the
Mallard Palooza.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
What say you, I say, drugs drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs,
drug drug drugs.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Think about Nickelodeon, except us a drug town.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Now.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
What happened to me is too much pressure. And as
soon as I'm putting pressure on the rest of the contestant,
they poled like chiefs suits and you know, Jay Stoopid,
the other guy. They have to cheat and you know
team up. Is that even in the rules? Is that
even allowable? Apparently so, because you're you're you're.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You are you are you cut? You're a choosing just
Josh and Jay scoop of cheating. That's a major accusation.
Are you calling them the altuve and the bragman of
the show?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Okay, I.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Go about to.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Jed who fled. I'm pressed that Jed has a friend.
He sounds just like him. I'm amazed.
Speaker 6 (29:57):
Yeah, it's the only time I've ever heard him interact
with another human being.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
It's great. It was like a hidden microphone, candid microphone.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
You know they have friends.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, you think that guy's has messed up as Jed
who Fled? You think this is the same same lifestyle
out there tweaking in the middle of the night, you know,
going around doing their thing in Florida. Yeah, all right,
isn't that awkward. Jet's out there causing havoc in Florida
in the swamp land. And then this other guy's out
there also common avoct causing havoc. But Jeed's got to
(30:29):
get a call into sports radio. That's a dedicated fan
of the show. That is a dedicated fan of the show.
Is it true? One of the big names, one of
the top young players in baseball on the trading block
where there are some whispers around baseball here in the
nighttime hours. The trade deadline is a week away from today,
and uh, Pittsburgh Pirates. Now, it's not who you think
(30:53):
it is, but O'Neil Cruz. O'Neil Cruz teams have reached
out to the Pirates said we kind of want that guy,
O'Neil Cruz. And the Pirates are open for business. They're
open for business, and they are eyeing a shortstop and
supposedly there's different reports on what they're looking. Who cares,
(31:17):
they're the Pirates, but O'Neal Cruz, Now, the Yankees had
been mentioned as a possibility for O'Neil Cruse. He's got
a lot of good nerd stats. The nerds get they
get a little chubby when they see O'Neil Cruz, like
his exit velocity and things like that, and they think
this is the perfect change of scenery guy that that's
the guy that will go to the Yankees or the
(31:37):
Red Sox or someone and will just dominate and be
a cautionary tale. He's six foot seven, so it doesn't
work out. If it doesn't work out in baseball, he
can always play small forward in the NBA. He's also
under team control through the twenty twenty eight season. He's
also been benched multiple times for being a dog and
(31:58):
not hustling, which seems to be a bit of a problem,
and he doesn't make contact very often, which nobody seems
to care about it anymore. In fact, he has the
lowest batting average of his career this year. He does
have thirty one stolen bases, so when he gets on,
he'll steal a base and all that. If you want
him to properly feel the ball in the outfield, good
luck on that. He does seem like a Yankee kind
(32:19):
of player because he's a very bad defensive player. He's lazy,
but he'll hit home runs. So that doesn't that seem
like the modern Yankee player. Keep an eye on that
a week away in depth trade coverage. We've got it
covered right here. Let's go back to the phone with Luke.
Another Luke. We had a Luke in Boston, and now
we have a Luke in Minnesota. It's a big night
(32:41):
for Luke's. Hello Luke in Minnesota. Welcome Luke.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Well, I consider myself for the better Luke.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
You got a big fan base up in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Oh, we love Minnesota.
Speaker 6 (32:54):
Man.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I did a Malor meet and greet there a couple
of years back. It was wonderful. We had a massive turnout.
We had this place jumping the Mermaid. We were at
the Mermaid. You ever been to the Mermaid, Luke, No,
I have not. It's like a bar, bowling alley, meeting hall.
Pretty cool place, pretty cool place in the Mermaid. Not bad.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Oh cool, Yeah, I check it out.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
It's pretty neat.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Two things.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Whoa bo okay?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
No, man, you were doing so well, Luke, and then
you hit a speed bump. I know you were doing good, dude.
There was like a perfect that was like the perfect
start to a call. You were dominating you this you
got Come on, Luke, get back, put the train back
on the tracks. Luke, come on, man, I believe in you, Luke. Luke,
you've never heard the I bet I bet you, Luke,
you've never heard this before. May the Force be with you, Luke?
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Or yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:52):
The father bit.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Two things bikings eight and.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
A half.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
For wins over under or and then I also want
to hear are you asking.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
My professional opinion? Is that what you're asking my professional opinion?
So the totals? Is it really only and I haven't
looked at the wind totals yet? Is it really eight
and a half? Is that it?
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
I would bet the over on that. I mean, they're
not what they went forty won fourteen games last year,
all right, so they'll they'll win at least they'll go
ten and seven. At worst they should be ten and seven.
So all right, what's next? What else? What's next? Come on, Louke,
we're playing your music. Come on.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Most memorable radio experience.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Most memorable radio experience. Let's see here, like in what genre?
Like with a caller, interaction with a caller, a story
like what are you looking for?
Speaker 5 (34:55):
Interview?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Let's go with that, uh, interview? We don't do a
lot of interviews on the Overnight show, so I don't
know if that would be good. But being on some
of my favorite some of my I have interviewed many
people some of my favorite moments, and radio getting in
trouble with the Commissioner's office with Rob Manford because of
my commentary about the astros over the years. I'm very
(35:17):
proud of that. I love people that get upset about takes,
and so I'm very proud of that. I've had multiple
starting quarterbacks of the NFL block me from things I've
said on the radio show, many sportscasters, so those things
I wear those as badges of honor. And I have
chicken fingers named after me in Kansas City, so that's
(35:40):
pretty cool. Luke, I have chicken fingers named after me
in Kansasy and in Denver I have a chicken sandwich,
So that's kind of cool. So that's better. People talk
about People talk about winning a Golden Mic or Marconi,
but I'm like, dude, I have food named after That's
much cooler.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Man. Yeah, Mars of the Birds.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah, those are for daytime people. They don't give those
awards to night time people, all right, Thank you. Luke,
good job. You got to train back on the tracks. Luke,
good job by you. If you keep calling, we'll have
to give you the nickname Luke Skywalker. That's taken, sure,
I think that might be taken. Other Lukes. Luke Wilson,
(36:22):
that's an old actor. Who else you know Lukes? You
know Luke Weaver. That's a picture for the Yankees? Anybody else?
Any of the Lukes? No, Luke's not a lot of Lukes.
What about mus They gotta be some music. Guy's named Luke.
That sounds like a music for sure.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
There's a country singer named Luke Bryan.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Oh yeah, I've heard him.
Speaker 6 (36:43):
You'll Luke Garretson. That's kind of close. No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Wow, I thought you were gonna say Luke Garrett and
a garrig like the Luke Luke Bryan.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
Are you just.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Is it? Is it Luke Brian?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
Maybe it's not, Oh it is?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
You're right, you're right, right, all right?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Whatever?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Anyway, it is the Ben Mallor Show. We have mallarly
third degree. Here's the insta trivia. Blank has sixteen career
walkoff hits, the most walkoff hits and RBIs of any
active player in baseball. Again, Blank has sixteen career walk
off hits, the most walkoff hits and RBIs of any
active player in baseball. That's the insta trivia the answer.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
Next.
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the latest episode and a best of version posted right
after we get off the air. Back to it time
now for the inch to trivia. Blank has sixteen career
walkoff hits, the most walk off hits and RBIs of
any active player in baseball. That is the question. What
(38:24):
is the answer. Got to navigate? Who's your Bill's been
carpet bombing my timeline? Great the Great Gonzo from Alf
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(39:26):
You have an answer?
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Lorena Luke Cage?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Is it Luke Cage? No, that is incorrect. The correct
answer would be Freddy Freeman of the Dodgers, Freddy for
the Sorry, Joe the Ghost Starter, JT the Wingman. It's
not Barney five, Mister blunt and all you other guy eat.
How about that?
Speaker 3 (39:45):
To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Cooper Loop Tyron Matthew the Honey Badger, announced his retirement
on Tuesday, ending a decorated twelve year career since coming
out of LSU in twenty thirteen. The question now is
was his career good enough to get him a gold jacket?
Speaker 1 (40:05):
No? No, good career in borderline Hall of Fame. He
wasn't All Pro three times. He was part of an
All Decade team. He was never Defensive Player of the Year.
And you can tell the story of football during his
career without mentioning his name. He's got a great nickname,
but he does not. You look at the numbers and
(40:25):
the impact, and he played on a lot of black teams.
No next.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
Warren Moon was recently asked of Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen,
and Joe Burrow who he thinks will win a Super
Bowl first, and without hesitation, he said Lamar Jackson. He
went on to say that it's not because of Jackson
being much better than the other two, but because the
Ravens have the best team surrounding him.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Is he right about that part?
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Well? The Ravens do have defense. I got a bunch
of alpha dudes on defense and all that, but I
would still go with Burrow. Burrow plays better in the
playoffs and Josh Allen. I put Lamar Jackson third. I
put sports with Cole went ahead of Lamar Jackson next.
Speaker 6 (41:01):
After you get another Dodgers loss. On Tuesday, Dave Roberts said,
it'd better be rock bottom. They did win today, but Ben,
that was the dodgers eleventh loss in the last fourteen games.
Yet they're still in first place. Is it premature to panic?
Speaker 1 (41:13):
No, they suck, and I'm sick of Dodger fans making excuses.
They got a bunch of holes in their line. If
the bullpen blows and they just are so arrogant over
there Dodger Stadium, Like, will be fine, We'll be fun.
I don't care. You're losing. You suck. How do we do?
You passed?
Speaker 2 (41:28):
I won?
Speaker 1 (41:29):
I won Lorena, another win, red blooded American win. Right there,
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