August 11, 2026 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about whispers that Shedeur Sanders will be traded or released and won't make the Browns 53-man roster, the Hall of Fame Game getting much better ratings than every game in the NHL, Jeff Bezos investing in Liverpool FC, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Release the Kraken. It's our numb bird two, our number two.
And how new you knew with whispers that should Dur
Sanders will be traded or released and will not be
on the Browns fifty three man roster? Are we dealing
with reality or fantasy? Will take a look at that.
(00:24):
Also an NFL practice game between Arizona and Carolina. A
couple of low profile, non glamour teams thumped every game
in the National Hockey League last season in ratings. Where
does your mind go with this? And what stands out
about Jeff Bezos? Yes, that Jeff Bezos, the Amazon mogul
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investing in the Premier League's Liverpool club. We'll talk about
that as well. Settle in, Buckle up, buckaroo, it's our
number two, stuck in brown Town and all are you down?
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land Cleveland, Northern Ohio, we go where the Brownies and
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they're head coach. There Todd Mounkin, the mock Monkman, Mockman,
the Monkman. This guy. I like this guy. I don't
think he's a good coach. He seems like he's he's
not very media sat which is good for what I do.
It's something I will enjoy because you never want to
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get too addicted to the coach of the Cleveland Rounds.
It's the ultimate temp job. Get paid a lot of money.
You only last a year or two and then that's it.
Somebody else comes in. It's like they have a Greyhound
bus station of dudes coming in there and taking a
bus ride and then getting paid for years. So Todd
Munkin was asked about the quarterback situation in Cleveland. The battle.
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What a battle is this? Setting back the quarterback position
to before they had the forward pass. You've got the
creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson and Schadur Sanders, the social media influencer.
It's like he won a contest. Hey, you're pretty popular
on social media. How would you like to play quarterback
for the Cleveland Browns. Okay, I'll do it. Why not?
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I can get some followers, so he said, as long
as we're still sharing reps. It's competitive. He also snapped
at a reporter when a reporter indicated that Deshaun Watson
was in the lead, and he got a little testy
there said a bad word. Munkin did give Deshaun Watson
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every single first team rep over the weekend at practice
bo Bo Schauur. Sanders returned taking all the top reps
there at Brown's camp in yesterday's practice. So Cleveland still
has not settled on a starter. Now, Todd Munkin said,
Watson is making better decisions and has played better. Of course,
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it's hard to play worse than he did at the
beginning of camp. People got all worked up into a
lather because of a bunch of interceptions. Now this comes
amid the chatter that not only is should Sanders in
trouble in terms of the quarterback competition in Cleveland, that
he might not even make the fifty three man roster.
Holy grilled cheez batman. Yeah, the Browns is supposedly concerned
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about the viability of Shad Sanders, and then if he
doesn't get a lot better better quickly, the Browns will
look to trade him or release the spawn of Dion.
They're not happy with his production in some of the
ability that he has not shown during a training camp there,
and they're not going to keep all of the quarterbacks,
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and they keep trafting quarterbacks every year, etc. Et cetera.
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question. There are whispers, whispers that your der
Sanders will end up being traded or released and will
not will not make the Cleveland Brown fifty three man roster.
Are we dealing with reality or fantasy? That is the question.
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All right, So my observations, I've got ordering at Panera, TikTok, Trend,
and Hudson News, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to put the biscuit
in the baskets. We're going to do so number one one,
one one one. The sugar Sanders chatter lives in a
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land of magical realism. What the f is that?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
All right?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, thanks for asking. Uh yeah, this is where reality
and fantasy get together and you toss him into the
blender with some pineapple and you're you know, some veggies
so you don't taste the veggies, and then you're good.
It's very healthy. Uh yeah. Now, the trade rumors I'm
gonna use the F word. I'm about to say the effort.
Get ready to dump me, Mark, I'm about to say
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the F word. Are you ready? Okay? He's shaking his head. Yes,
he said, don't do it, but I'm gonna do it. Mark,
I'm a rebel. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna say
the F word. Food gaise I said it, Foo gaise
capital F. Stop it, stop it. As Andy Furman likes
to say, I was born at night, but not last night.
Come on, nobody is trading for Chadur because you're not
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acquiring a quarterback. You're buying a traveling You know how
expensive it is to feed the elephants, and you know
you got to house the clowns and all that stuff.
Come on, you got acrobats, you got to take care
of on that, you got jugglers. There's the human cannonball.
You know how hard it is to move that cannonball
onto a train. Come on, now, he has by my math.
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I did some malord math on his shoulder. Sanders has
a six pack entourage, at least a six pack. He's
got a camera guy, sound person, lighting dude, makeup girl,
a producer, and a publicist. I believe I'm right. That's
six people on his traveling circus. Shouldar Sanders. Now, one
thing that Sanders has not been doing is playing apparently
good football. Sanders is making the Browns or he's he's
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getting released. No one's going to trade for him. Those
are the only lines. Stay in your lane, those are
the only lanes. That's it now, right now, Not because
he's good. Deshaun Watson is in the pole position. That's
an old arcade game pole position. He's in the pole position.
And now he's not suddenly Joe Burrow two point zero
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or Mahomes. He's an abject failure to Shaun Watson. But
this is what's known as a default judgment. At this point,
it is a default judgment for Deshaun Watson. Now. The
knock on Shouldar Sanders remains what I learned when I
was a fan of Disney, back before Disney went woke
million years ago, and they were not doing that kind
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of thing, the bear necessities, and that, by all accounts,
is something that Shouldar Sanders is currently lacking, which the
Browns are not happy about. The bear necessities means mastering
the language, the cadence, the terminology, eliminating the unforced errors,
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shooting yourself in the in the leg that kind of now.
Last year, this famous story we talked about this way
way in the back back of the time machine, going
back a long time. The offensive line there was an issue.
They had trouble. They kept jumping off sides. There was
a lot of false start penalties, and they didn't understand.
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The theory was they didn't understand Shudar when he was
giving a cadence at the line, you know, hut hut hype.
He had problems with that. Everyone does that. Anybody comes
a fan of football, little kids, you become a fan
of football, hut hike like that. And so he was
having trouble with that. Shouardar Sanders and he basically the offense.
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He ran the offense like he was ordering at Panera
bread and it's like the line was jumping because they
didn't know whether or not he was calling a player
asking for extra bread. And they went, well, no, you
know you're not. He's it extra bread and what do
you want butter? What are you looking for there? I
don't know you're ordering at Panera And you've got to
speak clearly. It's a bad job by you. So he's
still at the quarterback kiddie table, Shoodar Sanders at this
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particular point. Now, it's most likely one of these guys
will get hurt and the other guy will get the
job based on that. But think of Shuder sitting at
the kitty table with the quarterback room there, and he's
doodling with crayons and learning how to chew his food
while everyone else is enjoying a nice Japanese Wago steak.
He's just trying to figure out how to eat the
Gerber baby food and how to chew it all right. Meanwhile,
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page two to the report card. To the report card,
we go the boob Tube. The boob Tube where nb
CEE NBC announced the Hall of Fame Game, which was
played last week. If my memory serves me correctly, the
Hall of Fame game between two non glamour franchises, the
lowly Carolina Panthers and the even lower Arizona Cardinals, averaged
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about seven million viewers. Seven million people watched that matchup,
making it be most watched Hall of Fame game since
twenty seventeen. But wait, there's more. Yeah, as we hear it,
that audience for the Pro Football exhibition game exceeded every
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single individual NHL broadcast National Hockey League broadcast of twenty
twenty five, twenty six, all of them, all of them. Wow.
Now the NHL average their national TV audience, it actually improved.
So that's a good thing. See Benny Bright said, the
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numbers went up last season. They posted their best regular
season rating in fourteen years. However, no single game, not
a single NHL game last year, reached the Hall of
Fame game audience. So here's the question for the esteemed panel,
which you are a part of.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Here.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It is so an NFL practice game, not a game,
not a game, practice practice, not a game between Arizona
and Carolina. Thumped gave the old thumper to every game
in the National Hockey League. Where does your mind go
with this? So on this one again we go back
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to the to the lemon, easypasy, lemon squeezy. That's what
this is, right, It just went straightforward and it really
is more of confirmation than anything else. We've said this
for a long time. People get upset. I used to
work with Eddie and Eddie who loved hockey, and I
used to go to hockey and I loved going to
hockey games, and I covered hockey when I was younger,
and stuff like that, and so good memories. However, as
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we like to say in these parts, we do broadcasting,
not narrow casting. And the NHL is a niche. It
is a fun niche. It is a passionate fan base,
a loyal niche fan base. However, anyway you sl slice it,
you can chop it up, you can take your butcher
knife out, your samurai sword. It doesn't matter. That is it.
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It is a niche sport. The NFL is America's default setting.
I think about Gary Bettman is taking trapnel here, the
little weasel commissioner, because the NFL what they did here
was they pulled off a ticktalk trend, hashtag pants. They
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pants the entire NHL on a exhibition broadcast. You think
about all the stars in hockey. You can roll out
whoever you like, Connor McDavid, Austin Matthews, Sidney Crosby, any
of these cats. And there's a bunch of other bigger
names there too, can roll them out there on skates
on the ice. And yet the biggest stars got body checked,
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got body checked into the boards by a bunch of
fringe NFL dudes who don't even have headshots on the
team website because they didn't bother to do it because
they're not going to make the team. You feel me
on that. Yeah, So that's where we are. And we're
talking about third string quarterbacks, backup linebackers, four string offensive
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linemen and the type that we'll be selling insurance or
contacting our friends at Express Pros in a couple of
weeks trying to find a job somewhere, and that's what
they'll be doing now. And yet these mama Lukes, these dingleberries,
drew a bigger TV audience because they were wearing pig
skin laundry. It's all about the laundry than the hockey elites.
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The krem de la krem of hockey had to take
a back seat here. And so this is another painful
reminder of where you are in the food chain and
where you are in life of professional sports, the industrial
complex of professional sports. And so there you go. The
NFL is not just a league at this point. We
have pointed this out for a long time. It's a
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content machine. It's a content content factory that whatever they
touched just about ends up ching chi ching, chichin. All right, wow,
final point to the owner's box. We go what the
owner's box?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
So there's a soccer team which is somewhat popular called
Liverpool FC Liverpool FC, and that team is about to
have a new bit owner or if it was the NBA,
they'd say governor because they're lame, But the rest of
us adults we say owners because if you buy something,
you own it. Anyway, the Liverpool FC could soon be
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having Jeff Bezos and his lovely bride Lauren Sanchez as
minority co owners of Liverpool. Bezos is part of a
billionaire consortium. How does one form a billionaire consortium? I
guess you have to know billionaires to do that, right, Hey,
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how would you like to go in? We're gonna buy
a team? Well, Jeff Bezos can buy all of the
teams in that soccer league. But nonetheless he's part of
a group of billionaires, a consortium there who are close
to purchasing roughly thirty percent thirty percent one third of
Liverpool from the Finway Sports group. Good Old John Henry,
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someone who is a co founder of Facebook but not
a famous one, is another major investor in this particular group.
Now According to reports I was reading earlier, they say
the transaction is estimated to be worth two billion dollars
in US money. Two billion. That implies that Liverpool their
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valuation about six billion in the neighborhood. In the neighborhood
six billion. Now, despite Jeff Bezos having more money than God,
we understand that this will not be a full hostile
takeover by the Amazon kingpin, and instead the Finnway Sports
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Group with John Henry will retain controlling ownership of Liverpool.
I know we're very concerned about that, all right. So
the question though, why are we talking about this? You're
wondering it was the soccer store, It's not the World Cup? Dude,
what are you doing? I come down the question what
stands out to you about Jeff Bezos investing in Liverpool FC?
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So the NFL for the better part of a decade,
using my memory, I'm never wrong about these things. So
the NFL chased Jeff Bezos like it. They were chasing
like a thirsty Instagram DM. You know, you slide into
the dms and all that, rolling out the red carpet
for their ultimate trophy billionaire. This is the one they wanted,
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right the aristocrats of the NFL. They had the velvet
rope ready to welcome the human atm into their good
old boys club, the very exclusive good old boys club
NFL owners. So Bezos kicked the tires on the Commanders
and I don't know about that. He sniffed the Seahawks
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and it smelled fishy, Yeah, very very fishy. Instead he
ends up buying something else, not an NFL franchise. I
could have bought an NFL franchise. He walked right past
those NFL franchises that have been available in recent years,
and he said, you know what, I'm late, guys, I
gotta go. I'm gonna I'm gonna go on a flight
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to Heathrow. But no, you're supposed to buy an NFL team.
Now I'm going to Heathrow. So he left the shield
on Reid while wiring a bunch of money to Northwest
England and you know, buying what essentially for him is
a bite sized appetizer of the Liverpool soccer team. Jeff
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Bezos kind of like you and I. If you go
to the airport and you're in the the Hudson News.
Every airport in America seems to have a Hudson News.
And you go in there and you grab like a
protein bar when you're checking out, he said, I'm just
grab that. That's Jeff Bezos putting down the money to
buy a share of the Liverpool team. Wait till the
people of Liverpool realize that Lauren Sanchez will actually be
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the one running the team. Jokes on you. Yeah, anyways,
but this is the billionaire alpha behavior. This is billionaire
alpha behavior, is what it is. And he passed on
what most of us agree. We just talked about the
NFL lapping lapping the National Hockey League, and that is
the perception of the NFL. But for Jeff Bezos, he
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passed on what is believed to be the undisputed heavyweight
champion of American sport and said, and I'm seeing something
I'm actually dating over in Europe, and that would be Liverpool.
So he told Goodell. He said, cheerio, Roger, Cheerio, Roger.
I'm sure Terry and England will be message man, we
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to it, all right, we do get back to it.
I have a weed man here, which we're excited about
in a fair amount of questions coming in. So I
like that. All right, Well let's just get to it
right now. Here we go, the one and only a
weed man hippie. Hello, weed Man, Hippie. If I was
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any better, I'd have a better connection. It sounds fine. Now,
it sounds good. There was a little static when we
first connected to you. So you're you're now here, weed Man.
You're gonna fix the world. What is your plan today
to fix the world?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Yes, should make the world much better place. You got
boald from bombing around. You gotta change the world, make
it peaceful happy.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Do you think we should instead of instead of a time,
instead of bombing around? Do you think we should like
drop pillows on them?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Like?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
What do you would you like to do?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
No, no pillows? What about a pillow fight? Nobody gets
hurt in the pillow fight? You ever been Have you
ever been in a pillow fight weed Man back in
the day.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yeah, that'd be great, that'd be fine.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You'd be okay. So weed Man does support violence of
its pillow violence? All right, duly noted? Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I want to thank Torito for sending me food. I
really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
All right, Well you have done that. Congratulations. All right.
You want to know what we have to take a
call because there's a guy that's got a golden ticket
and the rules of the show weed Man, or if
somebody has a golden ticket, they have to get on
the air right away, So we must go to Graham,
who's hanging out in Richfield? What's going on? Graham? Welcome
gold TiCats, I'm going Ben, Welcome, Welcome to the show again, Graham.
(25:03):
Congratulations on cashing your golden ticket. That is true. Are
you you're in Richfield, Minnesota or Ohio? Which which Richfield, Minnesota? Minnesota?
All right, there you go. I had like a fifty
to fifty chance, and I got it half right. What's
going on?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Graham? I just wanted to talk about you doer Fingers
real quick. And he would not be relevant if his
dad wasn't Dionne Sanders. Even in college. I don't think
he would be well known if his dad wasn't Dad.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Well, obviously, listen, my dad was a Ham radio operator.
God rest his soul. If my dad had been Howard Stern,
I think I might have a better shift. I think
that's just kind of way it works, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I just I think I think the Browsers be better
off relief him, because even if Deshaun and Watson doesn't
turn out well, they also have Dylan Gabriel, who they
draft isn't the same draft as a shooter Standers.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I got you. We man, you have a take on
Shooter Sanders weed man, Weed man? Is he gone? What
happened to me? Are you hung up? Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Oh I just wanted to.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
I just wanted to.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Also just say hi to Marcel and Brooklyn too.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
All right, you're a big fancy. A lot of people
hate him. Very controversial. I will thank you Graham. There
you go, hot take on Shooter and a shout out
to Marcel in Brooklyn. Two things accomplished there, weed man,
we lost you? What happened we met? You were so
blown away by that guy. I didn't hang up on you.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I did not? You were cool? Was he not locked in?
The line was locked in? There was no hang up,
no hangout. Oh my god. Let's get to your questions.
Are you ready? All right? Here we go? This is
very nice. Uh, milkman Mike in Colorado? Right Sin says,
would you be willing to fly to a ran with
(26:58):
a suitcase full of weed to try to negotiate opening
up the straight? Uh? The straight there, which is called
would you be willing to do that?
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Come on, dude, come how about a peace peace mission?
Weed man? You can go over there? But what do
they put the blue helmets on, right, and you go
over there.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Okay, yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Do so you would you are willing to fly to
a ram with a suitcase full of weed and try
to negotiate. Yes, let's why that would be a different
way to do it. For the United Nations. I think
that's a great idea because the stuff they're doing is
not working. So just send weed Man inul. Wouldn't that
be a great movie we could write. We could write
the script like weed Man saw World Peace as weed
(27:37):
Man delivers weed all over the world to countries that
don't cut your head off if you have weed. But
that's fine, you know. Uh all right to Bozo, the
district attorney rights in and say, funny, you love that name,
he says. I think he just sends questions in because
he loves that you love his name, he says. Kids
(27:58):
in some parts of the country, or you're going back
to school, what did you want to be when you
were a kid, and how far do you think you
could have gotten if you had been a better student?
Weed Man? The great question when little weed Man was
growing up, I assume you didn't smoke weed when you
were like eight years old, So when you were a
little kid. What did you want to be? Weed Man?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
No, I don't know. I was Santa Claus. I I
wanted to be Santa Claus. Yea Claus.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
You moved to Miami because you don't like cold weather?
You wanted to go to the North Pole? No? No,
by the way, where'd you? Aren't you Jewish? How's that
going to work?
Speaker 6 (28:38):
So?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
What? I wanted to be in Florida? What's wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
All right? Nothing wrong with that? And you were for
a long time on South you were Santa Claus? Wow? Yeah, wow, bro?
All right? Fergduck says, do you like when Mark the
Pride of Chicago fills in for Lorena?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah? How are you? Walk?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
All as well? Weed Man? All as well?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
That's good? I mean I like Alena. I'm in Dick Channel.
Arenas well?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
You like Mark too? Right? Mark's all right? The hashtag
ask a weed Man more questions from the mall and militia.
Michael writes and says, if you could have a pet,
would you rather have a big domestic cat or a
small dog or a ferret?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Oh? No, I had. I had Kumo, who's a Collie Husky,
and I loved him.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, no, I know, but this is a question.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
I would like a dog.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay, as you want to talk, I got you all right,
Very good. That answers the question right there. Absolutely wonderful,
Absolutely wonderful. All right, let's see what else do we
have here. This is ask a weed, A very exciting segment.
So far amazing here. I can't believe it. Late night
drug test writes in says, when walking around Miami, do
you think you get in over ten thousand steps daily?
(29:56):
Great question?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
No, no, definitely not.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Really when you were homeless, though you you're probably the
kind of homeless guy.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. When I was homeless, I used to
walk all the time. I don't know how many steps
that is, but I walk all day pretty much.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I figure because you can't really stay
any one place, right, they're always kind of showing you alone.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
They always throwing me away.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
They can get up the boat, except except on Lincoln Road,
when you know, the police used.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
To make me move from now. It's unbelievable. They wouldn't
let me stay anywhere. You couldn't even stay on the beach.
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
They would come by in police cars at night and arrested,
arrest me if I was on the beach, you couldn't
be on the beach.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
How crazy it is odd when they close the beach.
I'm always like, there's a beach I go to. It
closes at ten o'clock. I'm like, do the waves stop
at ten o'clock? The well? Because people do bad stuff
at night on the beach. Probably that's probably why. But still,
I mean, technically, you can't stop the waves, right, the
waves are going to continue. So if the waves are going,
the beach should be open. Here's a question from Dave
(31:10):
says only fourteen percent of men in the United States
are over six feet tall? How tall is weed Man?
That's from Dave. I don't know where Dave's at, but
that's what he asked.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
How half your how tall?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I like that you added the half. Yeah, that's very
very it's very important that you added the five in
the half. That's yeah, all right, Steve wrights In says
weed Man. Do you have any advice for Brad Pitt,
who is drinking alcohol again after seven years of sobriety.
Do you have any advice? That's a great question. We
(31:44):
make can give any advice to Brad pitt.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Problem is a major I mean, you're giving him tough love.
Guy had his life. You gotta be joking me, Come on,
come on.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That is the why we do this right there, That
is an example of what the greatness of this bit is.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Nine o four Ray rights and he says, what should
I get my wife for our eighteenth anniversary? Ask a wen?
Whoa really? What a great thoughtful man? Ray is nine
o four Ray weed man? This guy?
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Yeah, really, that really is great? Eighteen years and now
get her diamonds a diamon ray oh diamond.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
But he's you know nine oh four. You know that
that's in Jacksonville. I believe I think he's in Jacksonville.
I think that's the nine oh four area. God, believe,
I believe it is. Yeah, if I'm not mistaken. So
have you ever been to Jacksonville?
Speaker 4 (32:44):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Oh, okay, all right, listener, Mike writes in and says,
weed man, Uh, there's some exciting news that scientists have discovered.
They're calling it poop pills that could treat peanut allergies.
Do you have a peanut allergy?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah, would you? If you did, would you take a
poop pill for the peanut allergy. I don't know what
that is. That guy's probably making it up. I don't
know what the hell's going on. Just Josh writes in
from Cincinnati. You know i've met him. He's a good dude.
I met just Josh at the thing we did in Newport, Kentucky.
Really good guy, he says, have you ever come up Marda?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
I want to meet.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
You at some point? And now are you going to
actually show up? I have this idea that I have
a Mallard meet and greet in somewhere in the Miami area,
and you're not going to show up.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
No, you come here? All right?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I doubt you will show up. Well, didn't didn't tell
who I went down there. A bunch of listeners have
gone there. I oh, Coop went there? Yeah, you went
down there. You didn't meet Coop.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I don't know what happened, you know, that's the sure
I really would.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
All right, fair enough.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
What happened was I went to a exactly where he
used to be, like South Beach, and for whatever reason,
when I got there, he wasn't in South Beach, Okay,
somewhere else, and he.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Wasn't the guy who got him who he claimed had
I had him kidnapped. Remember, we got him a place
to stay.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
Was nowhere like he was within like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Okay, but I didn't have it.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
I didn't have a car, and I couldn't get there.
I couldn't get there at all. I couldn't.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
I was like, you could have taken a bus or something.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
All right, we man, y, Yeah, you're not going to
see me when I go there. I do you know,
I have some friends in Miami. I gotta get that. I've
been in Miami in a long time. So right, not
at rights, And I believe that's how you say her name.
She's she has works at the airport here Lax. Weed Man.
She's helping the planes at Lax. She says. Can you
ask weed Man if he is a Boeing or an
(34:51):
air bus man? Great question, Boeing or Airbus, air Bus.
You have no idea with either one of those things. Bozo,
the district attorney rights and he has a follow up
to the our idea here to have wheat. We have
(35:12):
an idea for weed Man to work for the United Nations.
He says that by the time the plane got to
I ran the suitcase of weed would be empty, so
weed Man would be fine. Uh so is that true?
Weed Man? Would you just that's a long flight to Iran.
It's a it's a long trip, a lot of hours
that you'll save a little bit. Yeah, yeah, all right,
(35:33):
analog outright. Sin says, I'd love to change the world,
but I don't know what to do, so I'll leave
it up to you, is what he says. So there
you go.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
We have to change the world. We have to get
rid of wars virus.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
All right, well final, is that your final thought, weed man?
We must get rid of war. That's a deep Nobody
else has had that take before. That's a good take. Yes, right,
that's an original take. All right, you're you're a dog.
All right, Well, thank you weed Man. We love you.
All right, we'll see you later in the week. All right,
there he goes weed Man, hippie. Unbelievable yet again, I
(36:12):
love the question that our friend from the airport. They're
not asked because you know, we've had no idea. Yeah,
just oh, definitely, And then at least he admits I
have no clue you know what he's talking about. Absolutely,
there you go, Broadway, Jay says, listening to weed Man,
is like watching grass grow or paint dry. He offers
(36:33):
nothing more than saying yes, no or giggling. All right,
So Broadway J not a fan. That is a weed
Man hater right there, Broadway J throwing the hammer down
on the weed Man. All right, it is the Ben
Maler Show, and we are going to have coming up
in a few minutes. Here, this is exciting. Mallard of
the third, here's the Insta trivia, and here we go.
(36:57):
Angel in the outfield. Mike Trout now has a let
seasons with twenty or more home runs, tied for the
fourth most among active MLB players. The active leader is me.
Who am I the answer? Next?
Speaker 3 (37:10):
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So help us out. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
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ton out for the answer. Trivia Angel on the outfield.
Mike Trout now has eleven seasons of twenty plus home runs.
That is tied for the fourth most among active MLB players.
The active leader for the most twenty plus home run
seasons is me? Who am I? That's the question? What's
the answer? Otto Valez from Alf the Alien opinter, Kirk
Cousins from Femi in Minnesota, Dicky Thon from malaprop Guy,
(38:07):
who else? Wally Joyner from mediocre Koboogie, Otis Nixon from
Kyle who else? Anthony Volpi from Matthew in Worcester? Who
else you have? Jeff Bezos from Billy misspelled the name?
Can Herbeck from Filler Up, Phil Paige down you're Batman Broadway,
Jay from Analog al Ex Chicago, Cub, Pete Lecoq from
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Via the Right Manny Machado from DJ Smith Patrick in
San Diego. All right, that is all incorrect. The correct
answer would be Jean Carlos Saton of the New York
Yankees fourteen. Here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go. It's maller, how about that?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
To the third degree.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
This third, reports of Joe Burrow being meaner and more
movated during camp for the Bengals mean Joe.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
Jamar Chase was asked about it ur of the weekend,
It admitted that he likes when Burrow is effing pissed.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (39:04):
Should Bengals fans be excited about angry Burrow?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
What is he doing an angry Piro Adam mcatwalk at
Fashion Week?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Come on?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
He has not been very good in the last three years.
I mean, I was a huge Joe Burke guy. He's
gotta play better. Stop. I don't care if you're angry
or nice, just play better. Stop it.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
Next, the Colin Kaepernick of the NBA is back at
it again, despite not being relevant for years. We're hearing
reports again of several teams expressing interest in Ben Simmons. Yes,
posted a workout video to social media.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Ben, are you buying this? Let me guess? He made
seven straight three point shots in the video?
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
And come on? No, the guy doesn't like basketball, He's
just bored. Don't don't stop stop Let him play in
the WNBI.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
Next, Craig Kimberl signed with his twelfth Major League baseball
team on Sunday now at the Kansas City Royals. It's
been a while since he was good, but he's high
on the all time says list. Do you think he's
a Hall of Famer?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
When it's all said, he will make the Listen, look
at some of the turds that are in the Hall
of Fame that that got in. He's he is already
a Hall of Famer. You know, we always bring up
Scott Rowland as a Hall of Famer. You know he wasn't,
but he's in the Hall of Fame. So yes, he's
gonna get in with eighteen teams by the time he's
done on the on the thing, how do we do? Kumo?
You passed checking it out,
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And how new you knew with whispers that should Dur
Sanders will be traded or released and will not be
on the Browns fifty three man roster? Are we dealing
with reality or fantasy? Will take a look at that.
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Also an NFL practice game between Arizona and Carolina. A
couple of low profile, non glamour teams thumped every game
in the National Hockey League last season in ratings. Where
does your mind go with this? And what stands out
about Jeff Bezos? Yes, that Jeff Bezos, the Amazon mogul
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investing in the Premier League's Liverpool club. We'll talk about
that as well. Settle in, Buckle up, buckaroo, it's our
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land Cleveland, Northern Ohio, we go where the Brownies and
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they're head coach. There Todd Mounkin, the mock Monkman, Mockman,
the Monkman. This guy. I like this guy. I don't
think he's a good coach. He seems like he's he's
not very media sat which is good for what I do.
It's something I will enjoy because you never want to
(03:06):
get too addicted to the coach of the Cleveland Rounds.
It's the ultimate temp job. Get paid a lot of money.
You only last a year or two and then that's it.
Somebody else comes in. It's like they have a Greyhound
bus station of dudes coming in there and taking a
bus ride and then getting paid for years. So Todd
Munkin was asked about the quarterback situation in Cleveland. The battle.
(03:27):
What a battle is this? Setting back the quarterback position
to before they had the forward pass. You've got the
creepy quarterback Deshaun Watson and Schadur Sanders, the social media influencer.
It's like he won a contest. Hey, you're pretty popular
on social media. How would you like to play quarterback
for the Cleveland Browns. Okay, I'll do it. Why not?
(03:49):
I can get some followers, so he said, as long
as we're still sharing reps. It's competitive. He also snapped
at a reporter when a reporter indicated that Deshaun Watson
was in the lead, and he got a little testy
there said a bad word. Munkin did give Deshaun Watson
(04:10):
every single first team rep over the weekend at practice
bo Bo Schauur. Sanders returned taking all the top reps
there at Brown's camp in yesterday's practice. So Cleveland still
has not settled on a starter. Now, Todd Munkin said,
Watson is making better decisions and has played better. Of course,
(04:32):
it's hard to play worse than he did at the
beginning of camp. People got all worked up into a
lather because of a bunch of interceptions. Now this comes
amid the chatter that not only is should Sanders in
trouble in terms of the quarterback competition in Cleveland, that
he might not even make the fifty three man roster.
Holy grilled cheez batman. Yeah, the Browns is supposedly concerned
(04:56):
about the viability of Shad Sanders, and then if he
doesn't get a lot better better quickly, the Browns will
look to trade him or release the spawn of Dion.
They're not happy with his production in some of the
ability that he has not shown during a training camp there,
and they're not going to keep all of the quarterbacks,
(05:17):
and they keep trafting quarterbacks every year, etc. Et cetera.
So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
discuss the question. There are whispers, whispers that your der
Sanders will end up being traded or released and will
not will not make the Cleveland Brown fifty three man roster.
Are we dealing with reality or fantasy? That is the question.
(05:44):
All right, So my observations, I've got ordering at Panera, TikTok, Trend,
and Hudson News, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to put the biscuit
in the baskets. We're going to do so number one one,
one one one. The sugar Sanders chatter lives in a
(06:08):
land of magical realism. What the f is that?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
All right?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, thanks for asking. Uh yeah, this is where reality
and fantasy get together and you toss him into the
blender with some pineapple and you're you know, some veggies
so you don't taste the veggies, and then you're good.
It's very healthy. Uh yeah. Now, the trade rumors I'm
gonna use the F word. I'm about to say the effort.
Get ready to dump me, Mark, I'm about to say
(06:34):
the F word. Are you ready? Okay? He's shaking his head. Yes,
he said, don't do it, but I'm gonna do it. Mark,
I'm a rebel. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna say
the F word. Food gaise I said it, Foo gaise
capital F. Stop it, stop it. As Andy Furman likes
to say, I was born at night, but not last night.
Come on, nobody is trading for Chadur because you're not
(06:56):
acquiring a quarterback. You're buying a traveling You know how
expensive it is to feed the elephants, and you know
you got to house the clowns and all that stuff.
Come on, you got acrobats, you got to take care
of on that, you got jugglers. There's the human cannonball.
You know how hard it is to move that cannonball
onto a train. Come on, now, he has by my math.
(07:19):
I did some malord math on his shoulder. Sanders has
a six pack entourage, at least a six pack. He's
got a camera guy, sound person, lighting dude, makeup girl,
a producer, and a publicist. I believe I'm right. That's
six people on his traveling circus. Shouldar Sanders. Now, one
thing that Sanders has not been doing is playing apparently
good football. Sanders is making the Browns or he's he's
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getting released. No one's going to trade for him. Those
are the only lines. Stay in your lane, those are
the only lanes. That's it now, right now, Not because
he's good. Deshaun Watson is in the pole position. That's
an old arcade game pole position. He's in the pole position.
And now he's not suddenly Joe Burrow two point zero
(08:03):
or Mahomes. He's an abject failure to Shaun Watson. But
this is what's known as a default judgment. At this point,
it is a default judgment for Deshaun Watson. Now. The
knock on Shouldar Sanders remains what I learned when I
was a fan of Disney, back before Disney went woke
million years ago, and they were not doing that kind
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of thing, the bear necessities, and that, by all accounts,
is something that Shouldar Sanders is currently lacking, which the
Browns are not happy about. The bear necessities means mastering
the language, the cadence, the terminology, eliminating the unforced errors,
(08:49):
shooting yourself in the in the leg that kind of now.
Last year, this famous story we talked about this way
way in the back back of the time machine, going
back a long time. The offensive line there was an issue.
They had trouble. They kept jumping off sides. There was
a lot of false start penalties, and they didn't understand.
(09:12):
The theory was they didn't understand Shudar when he was
giving a cadence at the line, you know, hut hut hype.
He had problems with that. Everyone does that. Anybody comes
a fan of football, little kids, you become a fan
of football, hut hike like that. And so he was
having trouble with that. Shouardar Sanders and he basically the offense.
(09:35):
He ran the offense like he was ordering at Panera
bread and it's like the line was jumping because they
didn't know whether or not he was calling a player
asking for extra bread. And they went, well, no, you
know you're not. He's it extra bread and what do
you want butter? What are you looking for there? I
don't know you're ordering at Panera And you've got to
speak clearly. It's a bad job by you. So he's
still at the quarterback kiddie table, Shoodar Sanders at this
(09:59):
particular point. Now, it's most likely one of these guys
will get hurt and the other guy will get the
job based on that. But think of Shuder sitting at
the kitty table with the quarterback room there, and he's
doodling with crayons and learning how to chew his food
while everyone else is enjoying a nice Japanese Wago steak.
He's just trying to figure out how to eat the
Gerber baby food and how to chew it all right. Meanwhile,
(10:22):
page two to the report card. To the report card,
we go the boob Tube. The boob Tube where nb
CEE NBC announced the Hall of Fame Game, which was
played last week. If my memory serves me correctly, the
Hall of Fame game between two non glamour franchises, the
lowly Carolina Panthers and the even lower Arizona Cardinals, averaged
(10:47):
about seven million viewers. Seven million people watched that matchup,
making it be most watched Hall of Fame game since
twenty seventeen. But wait, there's more. Yeah, as we hear it,
that audience for the Pro Football exhibition game exceeded every
(11:10):
single individual NHL broadcast National Hockey League broadcast of twenty
twenty five, twenty six, all of them, all of them. Wow.
Now the NHL average their national TV audience, it actually improved.
So that's a good thing. See Benny Bright said, the
(11:32):
numbers went up last season. They posted their best regular
season rating in fourteen years. However, no single game, not
a single NHL game last year, reached the Hall of
Fame game audience. So here's the question for the esteemed panel,
which you are a part of.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Here.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It is so an NFL practice game, not a game,
not a game, practice practice, not a game between Arizona
and Carolina. Thumped gave the old thumper to every game
in the National Hockey League. Where does your mind go
with this? So on this one again we go back
(12:13):
to the to the lemon, easypasy, lemon squeezy. That's what
this is, right, It just went straightforward and it really
is more of confirmation than anything else. We've said this
for a long time. People get upset. I used to
work with Eddie and Eddie who loved hockey, and I
used to go to hockey and I loved going to
hockey games, and I covered hockey when I was younger,
and stuff like that, and so good memories. However, as
(12:37):
we like to say in these parts, we do broadcasting,
not narrow casting. And the NHL is a niche. It
is a fun niche. It is a passionate fan base,
a loyal niche fan base. However, anyway you sl slice it,
you can chop it up, you can take your butcher
knife out, your samurai sword. It doesn't matter. That is it.
(12:58):
It is a niche sport. The NFL is America's default setting.
I think about Gary Bettman is taking trapnel here, the
little weasel commissioner, because the NFL what they did here
was they pulled off a ticktalk trend, hashtag pants. They
(13:20):
pants the entire NHL on a exhibition broadcast. You think
about all the stars in hockey. You can roll out
whoever you like, Connor McDavid, Austin Matthews, Sidney Crosby, any
of these cats. And there's a bunch of other bigger
names there too, can roll them out there on skates
on the ice. And yet the biggest stars got body checked,
(13:43):
got body checked into the boards by a bunch of
fringe NFL dudes who don't even have headshots on the
team website because they didn't bother to do it because
they're not going to make the team. You feel me
on that. Yeah, So that's where we are. And we're
talking about third string quarterbacks, backup linebackers, four string offensive
(14:05):
linemen and the type that we'll be selling insurance or
contacting our friends at Express Pros in a couple of
weeks trying to find a job somewhere, and that's what
they'll be doing now. And yet these mama Lukes, these dingleberries,
drew a bigger TV audience because they were wearing pig
skin laundry. It's all about the laundry than the hockey elites.
(14:30):
The krem de la krem of hockey had to take
a back seat here. And so this is another painful
reminder of where you are in the food chain and
where you are in life of professional sports, the industrial
complex of professional sports. And so there you go. The
NFL is not just a league at this point. We
have pointed this out for a long time. It's a
(14:51):
content machine. It's a content content factory that whatever they
touched just about ends up ching chi ching, chichin. All right, wow,
final point to the owner's box. We go what the
owner's box?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
So there's a soccer team which is somewhat popular called
Liverpool FC Liverpool FC, and that team is about to
have a new bit owner or if it was the NBA,
they'd say governor because they're lame, But the rest of
us adults we say owners because if you buy something,
you own it. Anyway, the Liverpool FC could soon be
(15:33):
having Jeff Bezos and his lovely bride Lauren Sanchez as
minority co owners of Liverpool. Bezos is part of a
billionaire consortium. How does one form a billionaire consortium? I
guess you have to know billionaires to do that, right, Hey,
(15:53):
how would you like to go in? We're gonna buy
a team? Well, Jeff Bezos can buy all of the
teams in that soccer league. But nonetheless he's part of
a group of billionaires, a consortium there who are close
to purchasing roughly thirty percent thirty percent one third of
Liverpool from the Finway Sports group. Good Old John Henry,
(16:19):
someone who is a co founder of Facebook but not
a famous one, is another major investor in this particular group.
Now According to reports I was reading earlier, they say
the transaction is estimated to be worth two billion dollars
in US money. Two billion. That implies that Liverpool their
(16:41):
valuation about six billion in the neighborhood. In the neighborhood
six billion. Now, despite Jeff Bezos having more money than God,
we understand that this will not be a full hostile
takeover by the Amazon kingpin, and instead the Finnway Sports
(17:02):
Group with John Henry will retain controlling ownership of Liverpool.
I know we're very concerned about that, all right. So
the question though, why are we talking about this? You're
wondering it was the soccer store, It's not the World Cup? Dude,
what are you doing? I come down the question what
stands out to you about Jeff Bezos investing in Liverpool FC?
(17:25):
So the NFL for the better part of a decade,
using my memory, I'm never wrong about these things. So
the NFL chased Jeff Bezos like it. They were chasing
like a thirsty Instagram DM. You know, you slide into
the dms and all that, rolling out the red carpet
for their ultimate trophy billionaire. This is the one they wanted,
(17:49):
right the aristocrats of the NFL. They had the velvet
rope ready to welcome the human atm into their good
old boys club, the very exclusive good old boys club
NFL owners. So Bezos kicked the tires on the Commanders
and I don't know about that. He sniffed the Seahawks
(18:12):
and it smelled fishy, Yeah, very very fishy. Instead he
ends up buying something else, not an NFL franchise. I
could have bought an NFL franchise. He walked right past
those NFL franchises that have been available in recent years,
and he said, you know what, I'm late, guys, I
gotta go. I'm gonna I'm gonna go on a flight
(18:34):
to Heathrow. But no, you're supposed to buy an NFL team.
Now I'm going to Heathrow. So he left the shield
on Reid while wiring a bunch of money to Northwest
England and you know, buying what essentially for him is
a bite sized appetizer of the Liverpool soccer team. Jeff
(18:54):
Bezos kind of like you and I. If you go
to the airport and you're in the the Hudson News.
Every airport in America seems to have a Hudson News.
And you go in there and you grab like a
protein bar when you're checking out, he said, I'm just
grab that. That's Jeff Bezos putting down the money to
buy a share of the Liverpool team. Wait till the
people of Liverpool realize that Lauren Sanchez will actually be
(19:16):
the one running the team. Jokes on you. Yeah, anyways,
but this is the billionaire alpha behavior. This is billionaire
alpha behavior, is what it is. And he passed on
what most of us agree. We just talked about the
NFL lapping lapping the National Hockey League, and that is
the perception of the NFL. But for Jeff Bezos, he
(19:37):
passed on what is believed to be the undisputed heavyweight
champion of American sport and said, and I'm seeing something
I'm actually dating over in Europe, and that would be Liverpool.
So he told Goodell. He said, cheerio, Roger, Cheerio, Roger.
I'm sure Terry and England will be message man, we
(19:58):
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Malors Show. If you'd like to be part. We have
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really had a job in his adult life. However, he
does show up to this. It's amazing. He loves his segment,
(20:20):
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the overnight. The Red Eye flight. Quite halfway to our destination.
We have reached our cruising out to Dude, so feel
free to roam around the cabin. If we hit any turbulence,
we'll make sure to turn on the fastened seatbelt sign.
We have a segment we call ask a weed Man
(22:15):
our friend Billy, when these super fans of the show
and he has decided it is his life's mission to
fix the world. You might be saying, well, it's impossible
to fix the world on overnight sports talk radio. But
we're doing it. We are, unless we're not. He'll be
(22:38):
coming up here, Mam matell you can send a question
to him. You can call in if you want. At
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven
seven nine nine six six three sixty nine. Also on
EX at Ben Mahllor. That's at Ben Mahlor. Can sail
out to Marky Mark, who's hitting all the buttons for us,
his second consecutive night hitting all all the buttons. Mark Ramsey,
(23:01):
the pride of Chicago Sale Mark Mark with the C
Mark Ramsey at and then six four oh six Mark
Ramsey sixty four nine on X and Cooper Loop a
Bronco fan, big supporter of Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert in
playoff games, big fan of his work. And now back
(23:24):
to it, all right, we do get back to it.
I have a weed man here, which we're excited about
in a fair amount of questions coming in. So I
like that. All right, Well let's just get to it
right now. Here we go, the one and only a
weed man hippie. Hello, weed Man, Hippie. If I was
(23:47):
any better, I'd have a better connection. It sounds fine. Now,
it sounds good. There was a little static when we
first connected to you. So you're you're now here, weed Man.
You're gonna fix the world. What is your plan today
to fix the world?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Yes, should make the world much better place. You got
boald from bombing around. You gotta change the world, make
it peaceful happy.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Do you think we should instead of instead of a time,
instead of bombing around? Do you think we should like
drop pillows on them?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Like?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
What do you would you like to do?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:17):
No, no pillows? What about a pillow fight? Nobody gets
hurt in the pillow fight? You ever been Have you
ever been in a pillow fight weed Man back in
the day.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yeah, that'd be great, that'd be fine.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You'd be okay. So weed Man does support violence of
its pillow violence? All right, duly noted? Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I want to thank Torito for sending me food. I
really appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
All right, Well you have done that. Congratulations. All right.
You want to know what we have to take a
call because there's a guy that's got a golden ticket
and the rules of the show weed Man, or if
somebody has a golden ticket, they have to get on
the air right away, So we must go to Graham,
who's hanging out in Richfield? What's going on? Graham? Welcome
gold TiCats, I'm going Ben, Welcome, Welcome to the show again, Graham.
(25:03):
Congratulations on cashing your golden ticket. That is true. Are
you you're in Richfield, Minnesota or Ohio? Which which Richfield, Minnesota? Minnesota?
All right, there you go. I had like a fifty
to fifty chance, and I got it half right. What's
going on?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Graham? I just wanted to talk about you doer Fingers
real quick. And he would not be relevant if his
dad wasn't Dionne Sanders. Even in college. I don't think
he would be well known if his dad wasn't Dad.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Well, obviously, listen, my dad was a Ham radio operator.
God rest his soul. If my dad had been Howard Stern,
I think I might have a better shift. I think
that's just kind of way it works, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I just I think I think the Browsers be better
off relief him, because even if Deshaun and Watson doesn't
turn out well, they also have Dylan Gabriel, who they
draft isn't the same draft as a shooter Standers.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I got you. We man, you have a take on
Shooter Sanders weed man, Weed man? Is he gone? What
happened to me? Are you hung up? Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Oh I just wanted to.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
I just wanted to.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Also just say hi to Marcel and Brooklyn too.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
All right, you're a big fancy. A lot of people
hate him. Very controversial. I will thank you Graham. There
you go, hot take on Shooter and a shout out
to Marcel in Brooklyn. Two things accomplished there, weed man,
we lost you? What happened we met? You were so
blown away by that guy. I didn't hang up on you.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I did not.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I did not? You were cool? Was he not locked in?
The line was locked in? There was no hang up,
no hangout. Oh my god. Let's get to your questions.
Are you ready? All right? Here we go? This is
very nice. Uh, milkman Mike in Colorado? Right Sin says,
would you be willing to fly to a ran with
(26:58):
a suitcase full of weed to try to negotiate opening
up the straight? Uh? The straight there, which is called
would you be willing to do that?
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Come on, dude, come how about a peace peace mission?
Weed man? You can go over there? But what do
they put the blue helmets on, right, and you go
over there.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Okay, yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Do so you would you are willing to fly to
a ram with a suitcase full of weed and try
to negotiate. Yes, let's why that would be a different
way to do it. For the United Nations. I think
that's a great idea because the stuff they're doing is
not working. So just send weed Man inul. Wouldn't that
be a great movie we could write. We could write
the script like weed Man saw World Peace as weed
(27:37):
Man delivers weed all over the world to countries that
don't cut your head off if you have weed. But
that's fine, you know. Uh all right to Bozo, the
district attorney rights in and say, funny, you love that name,
he says. I think he just sends questions in because
he loves that you love his name, he says. Kids
(27:58):
in some parts of the country, or you're going back
to school, what did you want to be when you
were a kid, and how far do you think you
could have gotten if you had been a better student?
Weed Man? The great question when little weed Man was
growing up, I assume you didn't smoke weed when you
were like eight years old, So when you were a
little kid. What did you want to be? Weed Man?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
No, I don't know. I was Santa Claus. I I
wanted to be Santa Claus. Yea Claus.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
You moved to Miami because you don't like cold weather?
You wanted to go to the North Pole? No? No,
by the way, where'd you? Aren't you Jewish? How's that
going to work?
Speaker 6 (28:38):
So?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
What? I wanted to be in Florida? What's wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
All right? Nothing wrong with that? And you were for
a long time on South you were Santa Claus? Wow? Yeah, wow, bro?
All right? Fergduck says, do you like when Mark the
Pride of Chicago fills in for Lorena?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah? How are you? Walk?
Speaker 1 (29:02):
All as well? Weed Man? All as well?
Speaker 4 (29:05):
That's good? I mean I like Alena. I'm in Dick Channel.
Arenas well?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
You like Mark too? Right? Mark's all right? The hashtag
ask a weed Man more questions from the mall and militia.
Michael writes and says, if you could have a pet,
would you rather have a big domestic cat or a
small dog or a ferret?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Oh? No, I had. I had Kumo, who's a Collie Husky,
and I loved him.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, no, I know, but this is a question.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
I would like a dog.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Okay, as you want to talk, I got you all right,
Very good. That answers the question right there. Absolutely wonderful,
Absolutely wonderful. All right, let's see what else do we
have here. This is ask a weed, A very exciting segment.
So far amazing here. I can't believe it. Late night
drug test writes in says, when walking around Miami, do
you think you get in over ten thousand steps daily?
(29:56):
Great question?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
No, no, definitely not.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Really when you were homeless, though you you're probably the
kind of homeless guy.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. When I was homeless, I used to
walk all the time. I don't know how many steps
that is, but I walk all day pretty much.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I figure because you can't really stay
any one place, right, they're always kind of showing you alone.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
They always throwing me away.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
They can get up the boat, except except on Lincoln Road,
when you know, the police used.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
To make me move from now. It's unbelievable. They wouldn't
let me stay anywhere. You couldn't even stay on the beach.
It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
You know.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
They would come by in police cars at night and arrested,
arrest me if I was on the beach, you couldn't
be on the beach.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
How crazy it is odd when they close the beach.
I'm always like, there's a beach I go to. It
closes at ten o'clock. I'm like, do the waves stop
at ten o'clock? The well? Because people do bad stuff
at night on the beach. Probably that's probably why. But still,
I mean, technically, you can't stop the waves, right, the
waves are going to continue. So if the waves are going,
the beach should be open. Here's a question from Dave
(31:10):
says only fourteen percent of men in the United States
are over six feet tall? How tall is weed Man?
That's from Dave. I don't know where Dave's at, but
that's what he asked.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
How half your how tall?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I like that you added the half. Yeah, that's very
very it's very important that you added the five in
the half. That's yeah, all right, Steve wrights In says
weed Man. Do you have any advice for Brad Pitt,
who is drinking alcohol again after seven years of sobriety.
Do you have any advice? That's a great question. We
(31:44):
make can give any advice to Brad pitt.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Problem is a major I mean, you're giving him tough love.
Guy had his life. You gotta be joking me, Come on,
come on.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That is the why we do this right there, That
is an example of what the greatness of this bit is.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Nine o four Ray rights and he says, what should
I get my wife for our eighteenth anniversary? Ask a wen?
Whoa really? What a great thoughtful man? Ray is nine
o four Ray weed man? This guy?
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Yeah, really, that really is great? Eighteen years and now
get her diamonds a diamon ray oh diamond.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
But he's you know nine oh four. You know that
that's in Jacksonville. I believe I think he's in Jacksonville.
I think that's the nine oh four area. God, believe,
I believe it is. Yeah, if I'm not mistaken. So
have you ever been to Jacksonville?
Speaker 4 (32:44):
No?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Oh, okay, all right, listener, Mike writes in and says,
weed man, Uh, there's some exciting news that scientists have discovered.
They're calling it poop pills that could treat peanut allergies.
Do you have a peanut allergy?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah, would you? If you did, would you take a
poop pill for the peanut allergy. I don't know what
that is. That guy's probably making it up. I don't
know what the hell's going on. Just Josh writes in
from Cincinnati. You know i've met him. He's a good dude.
I met just Josh at the thing we did in Newport, Kentucky.
Really good guy, he says, have you ever come up Marda?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
I want to meet.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
You at some point? And now are you going to
actually show up? I have this idea that I have
a Mallard meet and greet in somewhere in the Miami area,
and you're not going to show up.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
No, you come here? All right?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
I doubt you will show up. Well, didn't didn't tell
who I went down there. A bunch of listeners have
gone there. I oh, Coop went there? Yeah, you went
down there. You didn't meet Coop.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I don't know what happened, you know, that's the sure
I really would.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
All right, fair enough.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
What happened was I went to a exactly where he
used to be, like South Beach, and for whatever reason,
when I got there, he wasn't in South Beach, Okay,
somewhere else, and he.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Wasn't the guy who got him who he claimed had
I had him kidnapped. Remember, we got him a place
to stay.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
Was nowhere like he was within like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Okay, but I didn't have it.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
I didn't have a car, and I couldn't get there.
I couldn't get there at all. I couldn't.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
I was like, you could have taken a bus or something.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
All right, we man, y, Yeah, you're not going to
see me when I go there. I do you know,
I have some friends in Miami. I gotta get that. I've
been in Miami in a long time. So right, not
at rights, And I believe that's how you say her name.
She's she has works at the airport here Lax. Weed Man.
She's helping the planes at Lax. She says. Can you
ask weed Man if he is a Boeing or an
(34:51):
air bus man? Great question, Boeing or Airbus, air Bus.
You have no idea with either one of those things. Bozo,
the district attorney rights and he has a follow up
to the our idea here to have wheat. We have
(35:12):
an idea for weed Man to work for the United Nations.
He says that by the time the plane got to
I ran the suitcase of weed would be empty, so
weed Man would be fine. Uh so is that true?
Weed Man? Would you just that's a long flight to Iran.
It's a it's a long trip, a lot of hours
that you'll save a little bit. Yeah, yeah, all right,
(35:33):
analog outright. Sin says, I'd love to change the world,
but I don't know what to do, so I'll leave
it up to you, is what he says. So there
you go.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
We have to change the world. We have to get
rid of wars virus.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
All right, well final, is that your final thought, weed man?
We must get rid of war. That's a deep Nobody
else has had that take before. That's a good take. Yes, right,
that's an original take. All right, you're you're a dog.
All right, Well, thank you weed Man. We love you.
All right, we'll see you later in the week. All right,
there he goes weed Man, hippie. Unbelievable yet again, I
(36:12):
love the question that our friend from the airport. They're
not asked because you know, we've had no idea. Yeah,
just oh, definitely, And then at least he admits I
have no clue you know what he's talking about. Absolutely,
there you go, Broadway, Jay says, listening to weed Man,
is like watching grass grow or paint dry. He offers
(36:33):
nothing more than saying yes, no or giggling. All right,
So Broadway J not a fan. That is a weed
Man hater right there, Broadway J throwing the hammer down
on the weed Man. All right, it is the Ben
Maler Show, and we are going to have coming up
in a few minutes. Here, this is exciting. Mallard of
the third, here's the Insta trivia, and here we go.
(36:57):
Angel in the outfield. Mike Trout now has a let
seasons with twenty or more home runs, tied for the
fourth most among active MLB players. The active leader is me.
Who am I the answer? Next?
Speaker 3 (37:10):
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So help us out. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
(37:43):
ton out for the answer. Trivia Angel on the outfield.
Mike Trout now has eleven seasons of twenty plus home runs.
That is tied for the fourth most among active MLB players.
The active leader for the most twenty plus home run
seasons is me? Who am I? That's the question? What's
the answer? Otto Valez from Alf the Alien opinter, Kirk
Cousins from Femi in Minnesota, Dicky Thon from malaprop Guy,
(38:07):
who else? Wally Joyner from mediocre Koboogie, Otis Nixon from
Kyle who else? Anthony Volpi from Matthew in Worcester? Who
else you have? Jeff Bezos from Billy misspelled the name?
Can Herbeck from Filler Up, Phil Paige down you're Batman Broadway,
Jay from Analog al Ex Chicago, Cub, Pete Lecoq from
(38:29):
Via the Right Manny Machado from DJ Smith Patrick in
San Diego. All right, that is all incorrect. The correct
answer would be Jean Carlos Saton of the New York
Yankees fourteen. Here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go. It's maller, how about that?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
To the third degree.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
This third, reports of Joe Burrow being meaner and more
movated during camp for the Bengals mean Joe.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
Jamar Chase was asked about it ur of the weekend,
It admitted that he likes when Burrow is effing pissed.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (39:04):
Should Bengals fans be excited about angry Burrow?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
What is he doing an angry Piro Adam mcatwalk at
Fashion Week?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Come on?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
He has not been very good in the last three years.
I mean, I was a huge Joe Burke guy. He's
gotta play better. Stop. I don't care if you're angry
or nice, just play better. Stop it.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
Next, the Colin Kaepernick of the NBA is back at
it again, despite not being relevant for years. We're hearing
reports again of several teams expressing interest in Ben Simmons. Yes,
posted a workout video to social media.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Ben, are you buying this? Let me guess? He made
seven straight three point shots in the video?
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
And come on? No, the guy doesn't like basketball, He's
just bored. Don't don't stop stop Let him play in
the WNBI.
Speaker 6 (39:51):
Next, Craig Kimberl signed with his twelfth Major League baseball
team on Sunday now at the Kansas City Royals. It's
been a while since he was good, but he's high
on the all time says list. Do you think he's
a Hall of Famer?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
When it's all said, he will make the Listen, look
at some of the turds that are in the Hall
of Fame that that got in. He's he is already
a Hall of Famer. You know, we always bring up
Scott Rowland as a Hall of Famer. You know he wasn't,
but he's in the Hall of Fame. So yes, he's
gonna get in with eighteen teams by the time he's
done on the on the thing, how do we do? Kumo?
You passed checking it out,
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