Hour 2 - Saliva Style

Ben Maller talks about the NFL's decision to call Eagles spitter Jalen Carter's punishment a case of time served, how big of a blow the loss of George Kittle is for the 49ers, the 49ers dumping kicker Jake Moody after coach Kyle Shanahan said his job was safe, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is a cold brew for you in our number two,
our number two. As the punishment has come down from
the NFL, what is your read on the NFL's decision
to call Eagles spitter Jalen Carter's punishment a case of
time served. Also, how big a blow is the loss

(00:21):
of George Kittle for the forty nine ers. We'll talk
about that. And where are you at on the forty
nine ers dumping kicker Jake Moody after coach Kyle Shanahan
had said his job was safe after he shanked a
field goal there against the Seattle Seahawks. We'll talk about
all that and more right now here. It is our
number two. We're doing it saliva style. That's right, saliva style.

(00:46):
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Coming up later in the hour we will have the
instant tribute also Mallor to the third degree. We'll get
to that coming up here in a little bit. But
our lead this hour is from the aforementioned Saliva. That's right,
We are going to talk about Saliva doesn't get talked
about enough on sports radio. So our lead is from Philadelphia.

(02:19):
That is where Eagles defensive star. I don't know if
he's a star, but I've heard of him, so Jalen Carter,
it turns out, is he going to be suspended for
this weekend's game? For the Philadelphia Eagles. No, in fact,
he will not miss any future games for spitting a

(02:42):
loogie on Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. The NFL announcing
that they decided, after a negotiation with the agent for
Jalen Carter that since this is their logic, they said,
since Carter was ejected from last week's the season opening game,
remember last Thursday, it was a big kind of a

(03:03):
big deal. He did not participate technically in a single play.
So the league said they were going to consider that
particular game the one game suspension being served that he
already time served. So this is an important distinction, because
the NFL wants you to know that they have established

(03:27):
president for all future players that decide they want their
flem to go on another human being, you will be suspended.
You will be suspended, and it will result in a
one game suspension. So let us discuss the question, what's
your read on the NFL's decision to say time served

(03:51):
time served for Jalen Carter? The Eagle spinner, So on
this one, I've got freak show, Arctic monkeys, and aquafina,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we're going to make authentic Canadian poutine. Now I got
to enjoy that thanks to our guy Nico and Vancouver

(04:14):
who rolled out the red carpet that great Vancouver meet
and greet that we did there, and what a spread,
I say, the greatest spread that we've had because it
was all free Caive Nico rolled out the red carpet.
Everyone showed up to that Vancouver meet and greet. It
was all paid for. It was awesome and a big
thing of poutine and all my foods it was. It

(04:34):
was wonderful, all right. So number one, this is not
a suspension. Can we all agree on this? Anyone disagree?
No one disagrees. This is not a suspension. This is
a work around, Capitol w work around is what this is.
That's what the NFL is doing here. That's don't spit
on my cupcake and tell me it's it's all frosting. Okay,

(04:59):
that's what this is. And it's a technicality because he
was in uniform. He did run out to start the
game with his teammates there, he was on the field
when the game kicked off, on the sidelines. He got ejected,
and now the NFL thinks you're a moron. And they
want you to believe that that counts as a suspension.

(05:23):
They want you to believe that they counts as a suspension. Now,
my position was he shouldn't get suspended. However, now I'm
upset with the NFL because the NFL is like, well,
though that was a suspension, No it was not. It's
like wink, nod, nod. It's like, come on, what are
you doing? Seriously? I mean, I understand, I do. What
do I know? You think I'm just a country bumpkin

(05:46):
over here? What's wrong with you? Anyway? And it's one
of these things. Whatever it takes, whatever it takes, right,
because if you look at the schedule this weekend, and
if you remember the promos one of the NFL, do
you know who the Eagles are playing? Yeah, it's a
kind of a big deal they are playing. That's right,

(06:07):
Canza City, the home of the Ben Mallard Chicken figures.
That is America's game of the week. You cannot have
Jalen Carter. I don't care how fat that lougie was
and how much green mucus came out of his mouth,
because it was Eagle green. You cannot have that man,

(06:28):
miss America's game of the week. The American people need
to see Jalen Carter's fat ass on the field. That's
what they need. Tom Brady's calling the game. It's kind
of a big deal. You need to have him on.
That is the most protected TV window you could possibly have. Now,
my favorite part of this is the NFL slap Jalen

(06:50):
Carter with a fifty seven thousand dollars fine. They based
it on his per game salary. You talk about some
expensive phlegm. Like, I'm telling you how if I were
to get fine for spitting, and I mostly just spit,
I have a MIC condom, so I practice safe spitting.
I have a mic. I have a mic condom, so

(07:10):
I do practice safe spitting him that huck Yeah, dude night.
So if his is worth fifty seven thousand, like, how
much is some of mine worth?

Speaker 2 (07:21):
There?

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Right? You know malor lugi. Now, my lugies are not
heard around the world like his are. But you talk
about inflation, mug that is the world's priceiest spit fifty
seven thousand. Now, at least back in the day, if
you're old, there's a guy named Berto Alomar. In my
I heard stories because I wasn't doing sports radio and
he spit at an umpire. God no, but I've been

(07:43):
told wink wink, nod nod that when Alamar decided that
he wanted to give the umpire a nice juicy piece
of phlegm years ago, everybody knew he got suspended, right,
that was a suspension for a number of games. But
this is the NFL pretending to be tough football. We
are tough, but we're also gonna make sure that the

(08:03):
key players play in the most important games because we
are a TV show and we need the stars of
the TV show to be in the TV show. It's
a marquee matchup and you're gonna play. So it's it's
like a substitute teacher writing you up for detention. And
then the principal says, you know what, just count that

(08:24):
recess as time serve punishment. That's it recess. Yeah, and Carter,
he gets to play on the big stage. Massive game
would be the highest rated game of the NFL weekend.
The Eagles and the Chiefs, a rematch of that little
game they played at the end of last season. And
so Dak Prescott he got also a game used souvenir. Congratulations,

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you got some of Jalen Carter's DNA on your uniform.
But it's all spin, right, It's all spin, And of
course it is. It's a big corporation. It's like, we
are tough on spitting. We are tough on spitting until
it interferes with a matchup against Patrick Maholmes and then
him playing Jalen hurts. Then suddenly he's eh, it's okay,

(09:10):
it's all but oh no, this is we have not
changed the president. We have not changed the president at all.
So the messaging is rather clear. If you're in the
NFL and you have a predisposition for spitting, if you
are going to spit, make sure that you do it
before a primetime game because then you will not get
And this is not primetime. It's a late TV window,

(09:32):
but it's not like a night game. It's the late
game on Fox on Sunday. Now, if you spit on
someone and then the next game you play is against
the Tennessee Titans and the New Orleans Saints, you will
have to miss that game. You will have to miss
that game. But America's game of the week. We gotta
have yacht there. The American people, the men, women and
children need Jalen Carter out there for the Philadelphiagos. That's

(09:54):
the message from the NFL. Now we head across the
United States to Santa Clair, to the Bay Area where
it did. You can take long snap, crackle pop goes
to tight end. Just like that, the forty nine ers
given the whammy as George Kittle's hammy went whammy and
the San Francisco football team putting a star tight end

(10:16):
George Kittle on injured reserve with a hammy that did
decide to go ammy, and so Kittle will be forced
to miss at least four games, four games. He will
be eligible return in week six of the season. If
you have your phone out, that's October twelfth, you can
come back at Tampa Bay against the Baker and the

(10:38):
touchdown maker. So how big a blow? How big a
blow is the loss of George Kittle for the forty
niners over the next month, We're gonna call it. So
this is obviously not a bruise. This is not that,
it's not a hangnail. It's not that this is old school,

(10:58):
back in the day, old school backing Rocky Marciano, the
susie Q punch I never saw, but I heard about it. Well,
they called his his knockout punch was the susie Q.
He called it there and right to the jaw, right
to the jaw for the forty nine ers. So Kittle's
thirty one, although he plays a lot older than that.
Can we all agree on that plays a lot older
than that, And he's certainly an old thirty one. And

(11:21):
his home away from home not really the end zone anymore,
and he's moved on from that. He's graduated from the
end zone. It's now that pop up blue injury tent
that is his home away from home. So you see
him go down, Kittle goes down. It's a contact sport,
and you don't even check the replay. You don't need
to check the replay when George Kittle goes down. You
just start googling who the backup tight end is because

(11:42):
that guy's going to get in the game. That's all
you need right there. And the Niners are already now
I know they beat Seattle, but it's more of a
product of Sam Darnold sucking being the old Sam Donald.
So the Niners are already oozing goo already to start
the year in terms of injuries, and they tried to
change the roster. They kept a lot of the veteran

(12:04):
guys though, and they mixed filled in the roster with
some younger players and the older guys already showing up
in the infirmary, and so they already lost a couple
of guys. Now, Kittle not exactly a side dish, despite
his regular appearances on the injury list. Not side dish.
He's the steak, he's the stake of that offense. And

(12:25):
he was the thirty first ranked player on that Dopey
Top one hundred player. I know Terry and England loves
that list. He's a big fan of the list. So
you know, while next man up, let's just go next
man up and all that stuff. It's like saying you're
going to replace the Arctic Monkeys with a cover band
from the local dive bar. Now, maybe that'll work. I

(12:46):
don't know. It seemed to have a lot of downloads
over there on the interweb and all that stuff, so
they seem to be doing something right. But this is
not an isolated incident with George Kittle. He has a
very rich resume of injury, very rich resume of injury.
In fact, I believe if my math is right. I
used mather math. The last last five years, he's missed
sixteen games, so essentially he's missed almost an entire season

(13:10):
of his last five years in the NFL because of injury.
So you cannot call George Kittle durable. Cannot use that
as a word to describe George Kittle. You call him
rent controlled is what you call him rent control because
he finds finds a way to take time off, and
that's kind of the way he goes. But losing Kittle

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and all of a sudden, you look at the Niners
here objectively, not to go Olhardo's Sports Radio on you,
but if you look at the forty nine ers and
starting to handicap this game as we go forward with
Benny versus the Penny, which is on YouTube now, so
you handicap the game and you're like, all right, well,
you look at how the forty nine ers operate, and
he is your third down security blanket for brock Purty.

(13:51):
And what is the scouting report on brock Purty. He
does not make players around him better that brock Purty
needs the star player to elevate him, not vice versas.
So now you're taking away his safety blanket oll, who
knows if he's gonna play. He's got a bad toe
and a shoulder thing, so he might not even play
against the Saints. Now, the good news is you are

(14:12):
playing the Saints, so that is good. And the play
action part of the forty nine ers offense with Kittle
as an option that does not have the same bite
to it, the same teeth to it, so you don't
have that, and the forty nine's offense just has less
of an edge. There's less of a nastiness to it
all right. Now, staying with that final point though, final
point to the transaction wire, where the Niners made a

(14:35):
roster move. They have fired their kicker, Jake Moody. I
guess he's in a bad moody. Jake Moody gone. He
missed sixteen field goals in three years. We hear that's
not good. Those daytime people say that's not good. If
you miss sixteen field goals in three years, you're probably
doing something wrong. Mister chipshot field goal. A couple of

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should have made field goals against the Apple. And so
the Niners fired Jake Moody and he went out stage left.
And then the other guy came in stage right. That
would be Eddie Panero on your scorecard, former Carolina kicker,
Chicago Bears kicker. So question, where are you at on

(15:20):
the forty nine Ers dumping Jake Moody after Keep in
mind the other part of the story here, don't bear
to lead my man, is that Kyle Shanahan, the coach,
said after the game that Jake Moody's job was safe. Yikes,
all right, so that part of it is laughable. Who goofed?

(15:40):
I've got to know? And Shanahan goes full Halloween Pinocchio knows,
all right, Pinocchio nos mode after the game. And so
it's just what coaches do. Shanahan is the guy who
will tell you do not worry, nothing to worry about here,
that Midtown Bridge is as safe as it could possibly be,

(16:00):
right before it falls into the river, right before that,
and standard coaching half truce, right, the half truce of coaching,
the exaggerations of coaching, and Shannan saying he said no
question that Jake Moody would be his kicker going forward,
and then basically a day and a half later he's gone.
So he should have said no question. Jake Moody he's

(16:22):
not a kicker. He stinks that's what he should say.
But he's a teachable moment. Don't listen to coaches. Don't
believe coaches teachable moment. That's it. That's why we're here
in sports radio to break down coaches. We give you
truth in broadcasting, unlike the coaches who lie. And it's
also a reminder that drafting kickers is dumb, du dumb,
dumb dumb. It's a stupid test. It just is. It's

(16:46):
like it's like paying full price for a bottle of
Aqua Final water while there is a drinking fountain right there,
Like why would you do that? You have fun fact
about that Dodger Stadium opened up this palace many years
ago and they did not have drinking fountains. They forgot
to put drinking fountains in Dodger Stadium, so they had

(17:07):
to put them in. But these I assume the reason
they didn't put drink founds. And they want people to
buy water, although back then people didn't buy water as
much as they do now. But anyway, the pay it's
kind of bring ice to Antarctica or Alaska or something
like that. You don't really need to do it. It's
absolutely unnecessary drafting kickers. The Niners thought, yet again they
were the smartest people in the room. The rest of
the league bunch of morons, And now, of course everyone's

(17:30):
pointing fingers and laughing. They drafted a kicker in the
third round. Haa. It's organizational organizational arrogance, is what it is.
And you love when it blows up in your face
or their face, not your face, but their face. And
so they thought they were gaming the system, and the
system gained them. Instead, they drafted a guy who was

(17:50):
so confident that he fell apart by year two, and
they kept him around for year three, and good luck.
The people were throwing helmets on the sidelines. The teammates
were not big fans, and so there you go. Kickers.
They really like relief pitchers in many ways. Kickers are
like relief pitchers in that they're pretty much everywhere, and

(18:13):
they're important and yet disposable, like a good relief pitcher.
Most games in baseball are designed to be won or
lost by relief pitchers, yet they don't make as much
money as the starting pitcher. It's one of those bizarro
things in baseball, but in kicking in the NFL. It's
very similar. A lot of the games will come down

(18:33):
to an extra point or a field goal, and yet
the kicker is not really a football player. It's like
a weird, weird dynamic there. It's like what's a blind spot?
Is what it is here? And so you pick a
kicker up off the waiver wire. You go get someone
from the Toronto CFL franchise, the Argonauts or the Alouettes

(18:57):
over from Montreal, and you pick them up when you
go to the grocery store to buy some eggs and
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a soft launch that wasn't so soft. We'll get to that,
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I wish I thought of it. It's perfect for the
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I'm putting it on the board, so it was going
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It'll be a nice high rotation. And I'm thinking that
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and I think that would be a perfect parody song.
I'm surprised no one's done it. I don't remember anyone
doing it. So anyway, we began this hour talking about
the spit heard round the NFL as Jalen Carter ends
up getting fake suspended by the NFL. There's no other
way to say it. He got fake suspended. So there's that.

(23:28):
And we also covered the forty nine ers losing George Kittle.
He'll be out for a month. And they also embarrassingly
fired their kicker, who they drafted in the third round
a couple of years ago. Remember all you idiots, tell
me how important these draft picks are. Oh yeah, so
great to draft a kicker in the third round who
would miss sixteen field goals in his forty nine er career.
Let's go to the phones. We'll say hello to Brett,

(23:49):
who is in Nashville. Hello Brett, welcome.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Hey Bda, how's it going bout hey?

Speaker 1 (23:55):
If I was any better, I'd be a Titan, but
not a Tennessee Titan. Week Yeah.

Speaker 8 (24:03):
Man, I'm a depressed Dolphins fan, but I don't want
to talk.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
About Okay, we are a Dolphin. It's even worse somehow,
the Dolphins. It feels worse if you're a Miami Dolphin
fan than a Tennessee Titan fan, which is amazing. The
Titans were the worst team in the NFL. But right
now it feels worse being a Dolphin fan.

Speaker 8 (24:21):
It does in Nashville, and my coworkers are.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Like complaining about the Tennessee game. I'm like, you must
not have watched the Dolphins game.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Oh no, no, the Dolphins. That was a if that
In basketball, we call that get the coach fired performance,
Like you're trying to get the coach fired. You fall
high by thirty points. The NFL, as you know, Brett,
the NFL's design where every game comes down. Even the
worst team in the NFL stays in the game and
has a chance until the fourth quarter, and then the
games decided in the fourth quarter. The game was over

(24:52):
at halftime.

Speaker 8 (24:53):
Oh, it was horrible. Departmentcomic was first class compared to
what they were flying Sunday.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, no, exactly, it was horrific.

Speaker 8 (25:01):
Yeah, but I did.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
I wanted to call and say, did you see the
video of dak and not to condone. Nobody should ever
spit on anybody. It's a disgusting and the main thing
to do.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
But you said, but you said, but you said, but
that means everything everything you said before, that's a lie.
You video. Yes, I did see the video. I did
see the video. Okay, that's like saying, listen, I I
shot the gun into the ground, and then the other
person shot you between the eyes. There's a little bit

(25:34):
of a difference there, a warning shot, you know, the
whole thing.

Speaker 8 (25:37):
I don't know in this country if you shoot the
gun in the ground at somebody.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Okay, that was not that. That was not the greatest analogy. Okay,
that was not the greatest analogy. But still I was trying.

Speaker 7 (25:47):
It was on the fly.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Okay, it was on I ad meant that's a bat
you win. That's a bad analogy by me. But still,
you know, my thought process was in the right place.
I do.

Speaker 8 (25:58):
What you say. It was of course bad, but dak
knew what he was doing, and it was kind of a.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
You know what, move out.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Generally you're allowed the NFL said you're allowed to spit
as long they don't care about the ground. Now, I
said this right after the game, Brad. I don't know
if you listen, but I said, listen, at some point
there will be a lawyer that will represent the ground
and say that you cannot spit on the ground, that
the dirt dirt matters, you know, and you can't spin it.
But we're not at that point yet, so we don't

(26:25):
have to worry about that yet. But but no, he sped,
and Dak says, he spits all the time. He's a
he's a chronic spitter thousand times a day. That a
thousand times a day, he said. We did the math
on it.

Speaker 8 (26:36):
Does he's smile and wink every time he.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Hello, that's a.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Thing.

Speaker 8 (26:45):
What This may be a stupid question, but I've only
been listening to the show year and a half.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yeah, you say, Bill.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Miller, Oh, here we go.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
This is.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
You're big MILLI Bill Miller.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
See, this is a tribute really to the company because
for years I did the show with Eddie Garcia. I
love Eddie. For whatever reason, they made a decision that's
not my decision, that they made a decision to let
Eddie go, and so I have to do the re
joins now, and so I've decided to honor the company.
Updated the website years ago here and they sent out

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a company wide email. They were very excited the new
website Fox Sports Radio and man, I thought this was
a big this shay. They were bragging me on all
you guys to go check out your photos and your
bios on this website. So I was all excited and
I went to the computer and I clicked on it,
and then I opened it up and then, you know,
this is a long time ago. And I opened it
up and there was my photo right there, and it

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had my bio and right above the photo it said
Bill Miller is what it said. So they screwed up
my first name and my last name, both names. So
then I emailed them. I said, you know, that's kind
of I mean, you f that up. That's a bad
job by you. They said, don't worry, Ben, we're going
to fix it. Give us about ten minutes, we'll update
the website, no problem. So I waited about twenty minutes,
I went to the website, I went back and they

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did change it.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
They then said I was Bill Mallor is what they said.

Speaker 9 (28:04):
So there you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a little
bit of inside It's an inside joke, is what it is.
And that's and just for the record, that's the old management.
I would never offend the current management at Fox Sports Radio.
That's the old That would not be smart. That's the
old management.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
They're long gone. They're way out of there. In fact,
one of those guys is dead, long gone.

Speaker 8 (28:27):
So anyway, all right, well man, I always enjoy it.
You keep me going here on a night shift at
the prison, and always enjoy talking to you.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
All right, Well good luck you're you are of course adult,
you're an adult babysitter, so be allough you were you
work behind the scenes, right, you're not? I got you?
All right, Thank you, Brett. There's Brett from Nashville. Let's
say hello to eeny meenie, miney Moe. Let's say hello
to Michael, who's in Tucson. What's going on? Michael? Welcome?

Speaker 10 (28:52):
What's that big fast?

Speaker 4 (28:54):
I have?

Speaker 10 (28:56):
Yes, look at the football. All your co workers at
Fox spores love the Broncos, Bonegs.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
They're all really, they all do. Is that right? I
think Cooper? I didn't know who else is a Bronco.

Speaker 10 (29:11):
I won't say own names, but some of us friends
with Champagne and they brag about the Broncos and we
can only we can only count of week one. See
when yourself and you say, I get paid to talk
about what happened right now the future, that's.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Right, that's right. That you're using a melorism right there,
that's my line. That's the raid and that's my line.
He's using my line.

Speaker 10 (29:31):
Yes, thank you, you get paid someone right now. But
what the Raiders did this past weekend, does that change
their aspect of what we did? And does I watched
the Broncos.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Play the Chiefs, pray they don't look good.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
They don't look good, well the Broncos. The Broncos somehow
hold on. The Broncos somehow didn't cover the spread against
the Titans, which is somewhat concerning. And they only scored
twenty points, which is not ideal considering that.

Speaker 7 (29:57):
You know, depends when you made the bet.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
When I it was eight and a half when we
did Benny versus the Penny. So that's that's what I
went on Open seven and a half. It was eight
and a half. On DraftKings it was eight and a half.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
But but nonetheless, I mean, the Raiders, I don't know
that you can get two worked up about being beating
the Patriots because they're they're bad. I mean, they're the
Patsy's that's what they are. They're back to being the
pat It's nice that they won the game, and they
did put up a good amount of offense. And I'm
not the biggest Geno Smith fan in the world, but
he had a typical Gino Smith game where he threw

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for a lot of yards and he mixed in a
touchdown and he turned the ball over. And that's what
you're gonna get from Gino Smith. So anyway, all right,
thank you, Mike. Oh he's there, he's still there. Yes,
go ahead, mikeel my Ben.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Real Quick, Real Quick Free.

Speaker 10 (30:44):
Make shout out to all all the overnight Uber drivers.
My boy Ritchie riding with the Uber overnight show because
I was the guy who's got laid off painting. So
all my peers buns laid off drive Uber over and
they're all listening right now.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. We love the Uber community.
You're uber cool. Be safe driving the roads. Oliver, Tucson,
All right, thank you this Michael there in Tucson. Let's
see your eating meany miney miney, Tuxan. Let's go to
John real Quick in Anchorage, beautiful Anchorage, Alaska where it's
like a night show in Anchorage. It's not an overnight show. Right,

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we're doing night times. We're not doing overnights at Anchorage, right, John.

Speaker 6 (31:20):
That's right, but I love you. You're from nine o'clock
at neither in Anchorage until two in the morning.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Look at that nine o'clock, baby, nine o'clock and there
is there's nothing more happening. What's the night life like
in Anchorage? I've never been, John, what's the night life like?

Speaker 6 (31:34):
I'm too old to know?

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Okay, perfect, can you pretend to be in the demo? No,
I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Real, I don't have a lot
of time. What you got, John, What do you have
for me?

Speaker 6 (31:43):
When I was in the tenth grade one summer, my
best friend was a young man in Los Angeles named
Alan Mallor. And I'm wondering if you have an uncle
or a grandfather named Alan Mallor?

Speaker 5 (31:56):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Probably you know. I don't know when this was, but
were at one point a lot of the Malor family
was in LA so probably was someone related to me.

Speaker 6 (32:09):
Then he was for a short time or maybe a
long time.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
I don't know what high school he got.

Speaker 6 (32:14):
I went to LA High but he.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Did not go to LA Oh, okay, well, my dad
went to Dorsey High School in LA So.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
He was.

Speaker 6 (32:22):
A rabbi at a synagogue in culver curty. I'm assuming
he were a culvert.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah, probably, I mean I don't. I'd have to go
back and check the family tree. I don't. I mean
I assume yes, because it's not a common name, so
I'm probably probably if it's smelled the same way my
name is, probably was.

Speaker 7 (32:38):
So if it's spelled like a Mallard, it's probably a Malleary.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Look at that, John. It's a small small world, John,
it's a small small well. Thank you for listening. Man,
call it calls again. I don't have a lot of time,
but I appreciate you checking. And there's John from Anchorage, Alaska,
which I got to get to Alaska at some point.
A lot of people have been there here it's beautiful,
and they're doing Alaskan cruise. I've never never done that.

Speaker 7 (33:05):
Oh you sure, you do it in the middle of summer, though,
Why is it?

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Well?

Speaker 7 (33:10):
When I went this past year in May, it was
just it was raining, just everywhere we went, NonStop. Canto.
I mean it was it was nice. It was still nice.
It was still beautiful, but uh, you know it very We're.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Hoping for better word. I got you, all right. We
will press on time now for the Insta trivia. Freddie
Freeman of the Doyers. Freddie Freeman of the Dodgers tied
Blank for the most career twenty plus home run seasons
among primary first basemen in National League history. That comes
back to eighteen seventy six. So hooterd he tie? That
is the innsw trivia. The answer we'll get to. Also

(33:41):
Mallard to the third degree. We'll get to that and
we will do it next.

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Freddie Freeman of the Doyers tied blank for the most

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twenty plus home run seasons among primary first basemen in
National League history. That goes back to eighteen seventy six.
It's been a minute, and so we're looking for the
name of the other first basement. Let's see, does anyone
know the answer? Scrooge in Northern California going with Joe Burrow.
Bobby in Florida, says Maigan. The Stallion is the answer,

(35:03):
showing her talent. There Alf the Alien. P. J. Johnstone
is the the answer. Who else do we have? Page down?
Don Mattingly from Mark in Queen Slash Arlington, Lee, Kamie
James from Fergdog. Eugene is the answer from Milkman Mike,
but I don't think he's talking about Eugene in Chicago.

(35:25):
Barry Larkin from William Albert Pool host guests by Andy
and Lionel Lakes, Pete Lecoq from BP that's his answer.
Old player for the Cubs back in the day, the
Big Cat Andres Golaura Eloy from Compton says the Cleveland
Indians legend Pedro Serrano, who I met at one point,

(35:48):
Dennis Haysbert and Haysbert and I don't have time.

Speaker 7 (35:51):
Are you flexing?

Speaker 1 (35:53):
No, I don't have time to tell us. It was
a really funny story, but I don't have time to
tell I'll tell maybe I'll tell them the podcast Manuel
and Guardina going with Steve Eve Garvey as his answer,
John Olerude from Rob in Vegas and Lorraine, Uh, it
is not Dave Caman guess by JT the Wingman who's
up early in Knoxville or Boog Powell from Chip and

(36:13):
the Cues. Do you have an answer? Yeah, I'm going
with Wally pip Eh. How do you know who Wally
pip is? Google there? Johnny Oates was guessed by Sean
That's not the answer. The correct answer a player who
played so long ago they were just known as the Astros.
Jeff Bagwell is the answer, Jeff Bagwell. Here we go,

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Here we go to the third degree. This is one
Big Ben gets grilled.

Speaker 5 (36:50):
So the Broncos were able to start off their season
with a win despite poor play from second year quarterback
bow Knicks. This has caused a contingent of the fan
base to panic, with some even calling for Jared Stidham. Now, Ben,
is it is it time to panic for the Broncos?

Speaker 1 (37:05):
For some reason? Your MIC's very overmodulated. There, Yes, always panic, Coop,
You always must. No, of course not they won the game.
You panic when you play like that and you lose
the game. When you win the game, it doesn't matter.
It's like putting on a nice cologne. It takes the
full smell of the loss the odor away. So no,

(37:26):
if they start losing games and he's playing like that,
then you make a change. But they're gonna ride with
Bow the Bow Show next.

Speaker 5 (37:32):
So it was announced on Monday that George Kittle will
miss around a month with a hamstring injury.

Speaker 7 (37:37):
Ben, how bad is this news for the Niners?

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Well, it's we talked about it. It's a mess. I mean,
they don't have the playmakers that they've had and their
quarterback doesn't make players around George Kittle better. So it
is a huge deal for the forty nine ers. Now,
brock Perty's got an opportunity here, he's got an opportunity
to change the story about his career. I'm not betting
on brock Purty, though I am. He might have missed

(38:02):
the game this weekend. He's hurt, so it's a big deal.

Speaker 5 (38:05):
Next the New York Mets probably aren't going to be
catching the Phillies and the NL East, but as of
right now, they hold on to that third and final
NL wild card spot.

Speaker 7 (38:13):
Ben, do you think they keep it?

Speaker 2 (38:16):
No?

Speaker 1 (38:16):
I think the better story is them choking it. The
Giants have been playing, but I think that the last
twenty games or so, they have the second best record
in baseball. So they've been playing a lot better in
San Francisco, and Rafael Devers is hitting similar to what
he did in Boston, and I just I love the
Met fans when they blow it. And to not even

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make the playoffs with this roster, that would be so great. God,
I want that to happen. Obviously I hate the Giants,
but I want the Giants to make the playoffs for
the Mets. Anyway, there it is Cooperloop. How did we do?
As they win?

Speaker 8 (38:52):
I won, I'm a winner.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
I won snooker, snuoker, I won