Hour 2 - The Reshuffle Continues

Ben Maller talks about The University of Washington president saying that the Big Ten move was not about money, the NCAA president saying he has "concerns" about conference realignment, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our dumber two. Those college presidents
say the darnedest things. The University of Washington president, for example,
had the goal to say that the Big ten move
for the Huskies was not about money. Are you in
or out on that take? Also, who is getting the

(00:23):
short end of the stick in this college football migration
that is going on? And the NCAA president Charlie Baker
says he has quote concerns about conference realignment. Does this
carry any muscle? We'll talk about that and much more
right now here. It is our number two. The reshuffle continues.

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When will it end? Will it ever end? In college football? Well,
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NFL grid iron, the college gridiron. And consider this our
obligatory malle monologue on the crumbling, stumbling and bumbling of
the Pacific two twelve Conference. As the pig Skin Galaxy
gets reorganized, there's an asteroid field coming through. So in
depth team coverage on the implosion of what was a

(02:13):
staple of our lives as sports fans, the Pac twelve.
Even if you didn't give a crap about the Pac twelve,
you knew about it and you were aware of it.
And every once in a while they had a pretty
good team that would compete at the big level. And
now it's about to go away. The Big Ten has
already swallowed up UCLA and USC, the men of Troy

(02:33):
going to the Big Ten. Also Oregon and Washington they're
going to the Big ten as well. Now among the
new revelations, I saw this quote and it got my attention,
so I wanted to break it down. The president of
the University of Washington. We don't normally talk about college presidents,
but Anna Marie causey of them. Yeah, I had never

(02:57):
heard of her. Either but Anna, Marie Kousi or Cawsay,
isn't it. She told reporters recently that the reason the
Washington Huskies are leaving the PAC twelve and going to
the Big ten, it's not just about dollars and cents,
this woman said. She said, quote, when you have a
deal that people are saying that one of the best

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aspects are that you can get out of it in
two years, that tells you a lot. Calsay says she
was talking about the media rights deal between the PAC
twelve and Apple that never happened. It'll be a great
part of the documentary when they go over the rotting
carcass of the PAC twelve and they look at what

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might have been, what could have happened, and what didn't happen.
Then the president at the University of Washington said this
was about national wasn't for our players being on linear
television so they can be seen, so they could have
the national exposure. It was about all these buzzwords, the

(04:02):
woman saying there, all right, so let us discuss the question.
The University of Washington president saying that the Big ten
move was not about the money. Are you in or
out on that particular take. Are you in or out
on that take? So I am out, way out, way

(04:22):
way way out on that take. I've got speak easy,
we've got cooties and toothless, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
an apple pie, a delicious apple pie, a la mode,
a little vannel ice cream on the side, perfect on
a summer day, summer night. That's the way to go.

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So number wam. So we're clearly out on the That
is a special level of Hutzbut it is for the
president of the University of Washington, as my grandfather would
say back, and that they always remember this, and this

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is an important thing. A lot of people get confused
by this. I don't understand why I'd like to think
you're smart. I assume you are. You're probably smarter.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Than I am.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
But in sports, when they say whoever they are, when
they say it's not about the money, it's always about
the money. When a free agent signs a contract, when
a team decides to get rid of a player, they said, well,
that's not about the money. Can't play anymore. That's about
the money. But in this case, it's obviously about the money.
No ifsands or butts about it, there's no debate about it.

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Washington has a seat at the grown ups table. Congratulations.
They get to hang out with the cool kids. And
you have the haves and the have nots in college
it's all about college football. You have the haves and
the have nots, and they were invited to join a
very special club. The Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference

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are running a sense a speak easy. That's what it is,
right And in this case, the Huskies were given the
password to say at the door, knock three times and
say baba ganoosh, and you are allowed in and you
can bathe in bathtub gin at the speakeasy. That's what
it is. At two conferences, you're gonna have the Southeastern

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Conference which is welcoming Oklahoma and Texas here, and you've
got the Pac twelve going away and the Big Ten
swallowing up the top teams in that conference. Now, if
national visibility, to use the quote of the Washington president
there the school president, if national visibility and exposure are

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the reasons, those are the terms you're using. But those
things both have money involved in them, like the Apple
television deal. And I have no idea what it was.
It's a streaming service. From what I've been told it's
gonna be. The model would have been similar to the MLS,
where the Pac twelve would make a good amount of
money based on how many subscribers they were able to procure,

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like the MLS has. And that's why MESSI is such
a big deal for that league, because the money gets
filtered down to everyone else and blah blah blah. But
if the Apple TV package was a sweetheart deal, then
Washington would have not gone to the Big twelve. Hello, right?
If they had been given a bunch of gold bullyon

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and the TV deal was a sweetheart deal, they would
have stayed. It's of course, it's the money and the
Big ten. How much visibility is there going to be
in the Big ten when the Big ten is going
to have Big ten West, Big Ten East? It's going
to be a monstrosity, a absolute monstrosity. And are people

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going to key in on Washington. No, They're going to
key on the on the power teams Ohio, State, Michigan,
and if Iowa has a good team, they'll get some
attention sc if they've got a good team. But outside
of that, I mean Washington is going to be buried
in the Big ten. But they went for the money,
which is fine. I don't blame them for that, but
don't tell me it's not about the money when you're

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obviously doing it because of the money. Now, page two
here with all this consternation, and there's so many people
that love college football that are flummixed by the redistricting,
the rewriting of the map. It's like every ten years
or whatever it is, the Congress, the politicians rewrite the map,

(08:31):
the voting districts, so everything's changed. But who is getting
the short end of the stick for this college football migration.
It's an interesting question. The clear answers the fan who
likes going to road games. And now if you want
to go to a road game, you have to wait
on standby at the airport to get a flight across

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the country to see your team play. But I mean,
the fans don't matter, right, We know that we don't
matter as fans. Nobody cares about the fans. They think
we're all a bunch of gullible suckers. It's not about
the fans. It never is about the fans. They believe
they have a captive audience and market research has shown

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that your favorite university, whoever that might be, probably because
you went there, or your parents went there, whatever university is,
they are convinced that if your school moved to a
conference where they have road games in Timbunk two and Pyongyang,
that you would travel to Pyongyang, North Korea to watch

(09:32):
your team play or tim bucktoo, and you'd have a
great time.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Right.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
And the universities, they're the ones that have been kicked
in the balls the most.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Here.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
There are two. There are two that have been diagnosed
with codies, Oregon State and Washington State. Those are the two.
The PAC twelve has been exposed as really the PAC
ten back to the old PAC ten roots. What I
mean by that the beavers and the cougars. The cougars

(10:03):
are coming. The cougars are coming. No, they're not considered
albatrosses to everyone else in the PAC ten. How do
we know that? What's our evidence? Well, the evidence is
that there were people trying to save the PAC twelve
as of a couple of days ago, that we're contacting
the Big twelve and saying, hey, we want to move

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all these teams to the Big twelve, but will leave
Oregon State in Washington State behind. So in the eyes
of the power brokers of the PAC twelve slash PAC ten,
Corvallis and the police have high levels of toxicity and
they want nothing to do with it. My final point,

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So we now go to the nc double A president
Charlie Baker. Charlie Baker not the touchdown maker. He's just
a career political guy, but he's got a cushy job
now running the nc double A. He is a prepared
statement the Sports Illustrated on his business being up in

(11:05):
flames right now. He emphasized just concerns with the realignment
that's going on right now, as you might imagine, and
then he gave the most bull crap quote we've heard
in some time. He said, he's worried about this and
he wants to work to improve the areas in which
the student athlete is being impacted. The well being and

(11:27):
the competitive equity issues is what he said. A lot
of nonsense there. So the NCAA president saying that he
has concerns about the conference realignment, does that carry any muscle,
Does it have any muscle to it? And the answer
is no, no, no, no, no, no. Baker Charlie Baker

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is still using I love this. He's using the student
athlete jargon like a big dummy when the players who
are good are getting name, image and likeness checks, they're
getting paid, you moron. It's no longer a student athlete.
It never was student athlete. That was just a term
you came up with to avoid having to pay out

(12:12):
money in litigation. And you're still using that outdated term.
What are you doing? And then he mixed in the
equity term, which is a trendy word these days. But
the bottom line is the NCAA, which Charlie Baker runs
on this side of the microphone is a toothless institution.
They are bystanders. They are hanging out with you and I,

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and they are rubberneckers, Like we're watching this sixteen car
pile up on the side of the interstate. And Charlie Baker,
a career politician, what's he gonna do? Write a sternly
worded letter rebuking these moves. Yeah, isn't that what political
hacks normally do, the problem for Charlie Baker's got a

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lot of problems runs the NCAA. Now that that operation
not only is it toothless. It's on the endangered species list,
it's being hunted, it is antiquated. Football is where it's
at and they can do whatever that. They can create

(13:19):
their own new organization to oversee college football and college
sports because the NC DOUBLEA and Charlie Baker's getting a
nice fact check to run it is an obsolete operation.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. You want to comment
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Also on threads at Ben Malor on Fox. Got that
for you. Speaking of the shakeup on the college gridiron,
have cal and Stanford, the two big schools in northern California?

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Have they found a new conference oasis awaiting them? And
we've learned again that losing pays. What is that all about.
We'll get to it and we will.

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Speaker 1 (15:09):
The reshuffling of college football a big topic of conversation.
The game of musical chairs. Have Calan Stanford found a
new conference? We'll get to that. Also, losing does pay
pays very well. Just Josh and Cincinnati writes in a
Brigadier General and the Mallard Militia says, speak easy, cooties

(15:30):
and toothless. You trying you're tying Redbreast Paul and weed
Man together in that Mallard monologue, he says, are you
doing something else? Yeah, that was a homage. That was
a tribute to weed Man and the Red Rooster or
the Rhode Island rooster, now the red rooster, the Rhode
Island Rooster. Paul, he was completely completely gone to the

(15:55):
wind Man a man. Bro Let's go to the phones.
Let's say hello to Andre in the Commonwealth.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
Hello, Andre, good evening, Ben Albert, It's good to be
with you. Listen, Ben, you were talking about Charlie Baker
and essentially saying, you know, he's an empty suit in
his new role as a leading the NC double A. Ben,
Charlie Baker brought us through the pandemic here in the Commonwealth,
and if I have to say something, and he did

(16:22):
a pretty good job. You know, Charlie b even though
he's on the other side of the aisle, I'm more progressive,
you know, he's a little bit more conservative. But I
thought Charlie Baker was a good governor overall. I thought
he could have actually thrown his hand.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Well, I'm not talking about him as a governor. I'm
talking about the position as NC double A president. It
is a toothless position. You have no power, you don't.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
Indeed no power, a good amount of prestige. But that's
not Charlie Be's fault. I think he's going to do
a good job as a statesman and maybe try to
middle and organize, try to be pragmatic in terms of
recognizing your original point.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
That he's got a little more job security than the
guy that's the president of the PAC twelve at this point.
A little bit more, a little bit more.

Speaker 6 (17:05):
But Mark, Mark Emirate's on a beach somewhere, you know,
on the West coast or wherever it is. He's spending
his millions of dollars. You know, Mark emerates, laughing all
the way into the sunset. That Mark Emerates is an
individual who was incompetent as far as I'm concerned in
terms of getting ahead of some of the issues that
we're seeing in college sports. Mark Emmert is the person
we could have had nil years ago. We could have

(17:27):
recognized and everyone does now, but nobody wanted to admit
for years that college sports is professional. It's been professional.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
No, no, no, no, your boy, Charlie Baker said, Hey,
it's a student athlete he's still throwing the jargon around
student athlete. He's going for it exactly.

Speaker 6 (17:44):
Yes, Ben, I work in education, and that's and that's
what you're going to use for marketing. You want to
rack people up in the nostalgia of youth and.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Education, but it's people think people are morons. People know
it's not a big time football and basketball, but most
people seem to only care about up all these days.
It's all about it's it's not about a student athlete.
It's about bringing them the most bang of the university,
right the most influence and attention you can get. It's

(18:12):
not about going to math class or world history or
any of that stuff.

Speaker 6 (18:18):
Not at all, Ben. It's win at all costs. And
here's my summation. What needs to happen in college. They
need to recognize Coach k was calling for this in
NCAA basketball, saying that they have a You need a
supreme leader to organize things as best as possible so
there's less chaos. Right now, you have absolute free markets.

(18:39):
You have an absolute free market system, i e. The
nineteen twenties, the people talking about we don't need regulation.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Which death spot would you like to bring in? Which
the name your dead spot. Who would you like to
bring in as the death spot?

Speaker 6 (18:50):
No death spout? How about diplomat?

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Then you said a supreme leader. That's what you said,
A supreme A tyrannical. I hear supreme leader. I think
like tyrannical, ruthless, oppressive, cruel, all of those things.

Speaker 6 (19:05):
I don't know why there's all those negative connotations. Being
a history teacher, you know what I mean is general patent,
General Patton. You know our leaders during World War Two.
We're getting in the semantics here, Ben.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Well, let's if you were to make on one side
of the scale you had good supreme leaders, and then
on the other side you would have people that took
it a little bit too far. Which side do you
think would have more?

Speaker 6 (19:28):
Probably the people that take it take it too far.
You come in as a liberator, and then generally absolute
power corrupts absolutely and you become the type of individuals
that you're talking about. So point taking there, you're right.
But in terms of college sports, you're going to have
in college football, which you have in the NFL, you
have an NFC and you have an AFC. The SEC
is going to be one power conference. The Big Ten

(19:50):
is going to be the other power conference. Everybody else
you're basically the minor leagues, mid major and everybody at
mixed at college basketball. Also, it's gonna be a little
bit more parody across the board. You're not gonna have
these super conferences. But you need, you know, coach, if
you want to maximize, back to your point, the revenue,
because you are a business, get rid of these inefficiencies.

(20:13):
Streamline and I e. David Silver, the late students, David
David Stern, the late great David Stern and how he
transformed the NBA. Adam Silver is keeping, yes, keeping on
that legacy. That's what we need in college.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yes, thank you. All right, you would like to have
somebody you very top. There a Napoleon at the head
of the table. Let's go to Poppy picking with Poppy
in San Diego. Hello Poppy, God please good pick with
Naz Over the weekend. I watched that solid job by you.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
Oh you did Wow? That was amazing. Yeah, great fight.
You know a lot of money bling bling out there
and yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
A lot of money if you bet against Pop.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Yeah, and people love that. I see you guys make money.
And uh, I wanted to give information to the low
infull fan. He wanted to ask me about some betty.
Tim's trying to make money and stuff, and are you
sure that? Yeah, he said it on Twitter. And the
thing is, you always want to have a bank brow.
We're not always gonna bet, guys. We're gonna be a
very small when we bet, and we're not gonna win

(21:21):
every day, but we are gonna bet. And a bad
job on you. Ben Maller on the Manolot Poppy has
been giving you winners of the Baltimore oriole since last season.
But don't worry that Announced is gonna come back because
I have talked to the Baltimore Orioles and they're breaking
news and he said he's gonna bring them back. So
Orio is gonna make the run and we're gonna get
a pick. I know you guys want to hear a pick.

(21:46):
You guys want to hear a pick, And.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
I'm gonna go Poppy, how your padre is doing. You
might want to go down to the ballpark. I think
you'll be pitching one of these games upcoming for the podcast.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Yeah, the stinky pads, we don't want to talk about them.
I haven't gone and seen a game all season. And
guess what, I'm not gonna be wasting my hard working morning.
We see him. I'd rather go see him when that
Baltimore Orians come in town. So Poppy is gonna beating.
And you know if they turned up Baltimore Orioles some

(22:19):
love sake last season, and people want to get Poppy
sticks every day.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
All right, your rambling here, you people get upset.

Speaker 7 (22:26):
I hang up on you.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
But you ramble, you don't get to the picks. What
do you want me to do?

Speaker 3 (22:30):
Okay, I'm gonna say my picks. Guys. Tomorrow we're gonna
go straight to the picks. That's what you guys. You
want winners. And tomorrow we're gonna have a good game.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
It's the Houston Ashs, Baltimore Orioles. We're gonna take the
red hot Baltimore Orios.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Okay, I guarantees the Astros will win. Okay, the a
holes will win. Who else?

Speaker 3 (22:46):
Actually, actually you're wrong, bit Valter, because actually Baltimore Oriols
when they play at home, they're red hot and the
Ashs I'm surprised, Rodriguez, rod Vegas. But you know what,
I'm also gonna give you another winner for you guys,
because you guys want to know winners. I'm gonna yeah,

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and we're gonna go.

Speaker 7 (23:10):
We're gonna.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
You know what I shout out to, just spin it out.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
I just spin it out for just say it, say
it Angel No, oh no, Cooper, your angels are gonna
lose again. I gotta go. I gotta go. Thank you,
hang it up?

Speaker 7 (23:34):
All right?

Speaker 1 (23:36):
That was cool.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
That was cruel to Coop.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah that's a body blow right at the end.

Speaker 8 (23:41):
Everyone who had to listen to.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
That, well, there's that too.

Speaker 5 (23:44):
Yeah, I don't care anymore.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Coop's giving up. He figures Artie Marino is now giving up, so.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
He's day on that. That happened quick.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
It's one week. Took one week, that's it. One bad week.

Speaker 8 (23:56):
Should have known better than than to trust your future
when you beat the tie and then just decide this
is where we're gonna go with it.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
I still like the fact they didn't trade out Tony.

Speaker 8 (24:06):
I no, I do too.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah, it's good and it shows you how pathetic fans
are today that they're all upset like, oh, I can't
believe you're trading the top player in the sport. You
didn't trade the top player in the sport. What's wrong
with you? You could have gotten some guys playing in
single a ball. Yeah that's what I want. Yes, that's
exactly what I want in my life.

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Speaker 4 (25:31):
Acc Leaders set to begin discussions on the potential of
adding Cal and Stanford to the conference.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
So Cal and Stanford are stuck in a weird spot.
The Big Ten does not seem all that interested in
bringing them in. So if the Big Ten doesn't want them,
they feel like they don't need them, as Cal's been
pretty bad at football and Stanford used to be good,
but the last couple of years they haven't been in
a very good football program, and so I guess they

(26:01):
just assume they're gonna continue to suck uh, and so
they don't want them. But the the a CC thing,
if you looked at a map, Bettie, how's that? How's
that one gonna work?

Speaker 4 (26:11):
The A I don't know's I know what a Big
ten the furthest East school I think is Louisville.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
I think you're right on that. But the Big Ten
has they're gonna have a Big Ten West and a
Big Ten East, So that makes some sense. You could
have the Pac twelve teams that are in the four
or I guess it's it's four right four that went
to THEE tend they and a couple of the Western
Big Ten teams would they put They probably throw Nebraska

(26:39):
in there. I would think right, trying to look at
the map here. But anyway, as far as the ACC
is concerned, I mean that is, you've got Wake Forest,
You've got the car all those schools in Carolina, Boston
College is part of Miami empsen Florida State, or they
want out. Suppose the Seminoles aren't happy there. Yeah, I

(27:01):
think Louisville is the furthest to the west. Okay, makes
some interesting gift. I cannot wait to see cal and
Georgia Tech. That's a fun game, Eddie, cal and Georgia Tech.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
The times they are changing, Ben mallor Yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
When Stanford and when Stanford and NC State get together,
you throw out the records.

Speaker 6 (27:23):
You know.

Speaker 8 (27:23):
I saw some people commenting that they have a good
grasp where the Atlantic Ocean is. But if you think
about it, all the oceans are connected. So isn't the
Pacific just more of the Atlantic? Are you working for
the ACC just making you think here, just making you
think open your third eye?

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah? Oh, now they the map. I've looked at maps before,
and there's a line that says where the Pacific ends
and then where the next ocean starts. So according to
the map, you're wrong.

Speaker 8 (27:50):
Oceans don't actually have lines on them, Ben, you should
know they do. I saw the ocean and there's like
a big black line on the maps.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Though there are lines on the map.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
The map do have exactly they have lines there territory.
There's the signifying the lines across the world. Yes, yes,
just like when Coop's watching an Angel game, he buoys
the Angel.

Speaker 5 (28:14):
I don't watch Angel games.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
I understand it is the ban Malord Show. As we
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(28:38):
posterity sakes, you can hear all of the moments of
the show Losing does Pay. We have a US women's
national team update from the World Cup. They've crunched the
numbers now the wyemen who did not seem to enjoy
the national anthem very much for Team USA there and
upset a number of Americans who normally watch these type
events because of patriots something. They like to wrap themselves

(29:01):
in the flag. The US women would like to. Some
of them look like they want to burn the flag. Anyway,
they are laughing all the way to the bank for
losing to Sweden at the World Cup. They are going
to take home. According to the breakdown, there's a FIFA
record one hundred and ten million prize pool. Now they're
not getting a hundred and ten million, but it's it's
divvied up, and so the US women's national team will

(29:25):
divvy up three point twenty five million. But you do
the math, and then the math works out this way
from what we're being told, the three point twenty five million,
but then you've got to give some of that. Ten
percent goes to US Soccer, so they get ten percent
of the total take on that. But by the time
you divvy up all the money, the women that lost

(29:47):
in the World Cup will each take a check per
player of almost three hundred thousand dollars the rookie numbers
ladies will take but after taxes that's about thirty dollars.
But still it starts out with almost three two hundred
and ninety eight thousand dollars. Pretty good to not score

(30:12):
very many goals time. Now for barbecuing, remember barbecuing Lenny's back.
He sent a message and I just saw his name.
My eyeballs, Wow, wait a minute, I remember this guy.
He's back. Barbecuing Len. I thought he retired, he says.
My Husky's playing Ohio State on a Saturday afternoon or
Oregon State at seven pm Pacific time on a Thursday

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or a Saturday night. Give me Ohio State eleven times
out of ten. Barbecuing Lens says, Okay, I'll remember that.
Barbecuing Len. Because there's so many teams in the Big Ten,
Washington and Ohio State, how often do you think they're
actually gonna play? What do you think once every three
or four years, because they're gonna have to rotate, unless

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Washington were to get to the Big Ten championship game
where they have the West versus the East, and then
you could match up there. But as far as the
actual schedule, you figure you're gonna play all the teams
in the West obviously in that in that half of
the Big Ten, and then you'll play a few teams
from the other conference, the other part of the Big Ten,
but that that's a rotation, so you're not going to

(31:17):
get that match up very often, not gonna happen. The
crazy tanker rights insisted Poppy pick the podres Ha. Yess,
that's another win for the Mariners. Good news there, yes,
good news. Matt the Warrior Raider Prospect fan writes, and
he says, you know who else is under five hundred

(31:38):
in August? The same team you claimed was still in
it just yesterday. That's from Matt. Yeah, listen, Matt, you're
a bad fan. I'm a good fan. I don't know
what to tell you. You like lottery tickets. I know
it's a suckers game. I'm aware it's a suckers game.
You haven't learned it's a suckers game. You are a fool,

(31:59):
and you're in the majority.

Speaker 7 (32:01):
Though.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
I'll give you credit, Matt. There's a lot of dumb
people like you, a lot of Mama Lukes that want
to trade all the good players and well start over, rebuild,
trust the process. It's gonna take time. Yeah, all that
bull crap. I'm done. I'm over it. It's a shell game.
It's a scam. It doesn't work. And look at the

(32:22):
the Astros. They have no legitimate world series. The franchises
a disgrace. They tanked and they had to cheat to
accomplish anything. That's what it gets you. No moral compass,
No moral compass. Now, Steve writes in and says that
the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans do not mix. There's

(32:44):
photographic evidence that they don't mix. He says he sent
a photo, Chris, would you like to respond, sorry, a
photo on what this guy? Steve sent a photo. He says,
the Atlantic and the Pacific do not mix. There's photographic
evidence he sent a little photo here he found on

(33:04):
the internet that they don't actually mix.

Speaker 8 (33:06):
Let me let me take a look here real quick.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
This is a two oceans meat. But they don't mix.

Speaker 6 (33:11):
He does not.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
I mean, I'm looking at the photos by photoshop, but.

Speaker 8 (33:14):
What is what is the piece of land that permanently
devised the oceans into the I'm looking photo include the Arctic,
the Atlantic, the Indian, the Pacific. They all mix. It's
all one body of water, my man.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
No, I don't know about that. I don't know about you,
mister usc over there. I don't know about that. I'm
looking at this photo. Yeah, anyway, all right, yeah, well
we don't have time for that right now. But thank you, Steve.
I'll analyze the photo some more. Thank you all right.
It is the Ben Malord Show. As we continue on
through these overnight hours, gonna have Mallard of the third degree.

(33:49):
We'll get to that time. Now for the instant trivia.
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He said it one point, as a younger player, he
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answer the Baja Peninsula. I guess by late Night drug Fester.
That's pretty good goofy from Cowboy Killer, Ken Obrigfell from
Mister nice Guy who continues his obsession with old baseball players.

(35:35):
Angry Bill Cartman from Milkman Mike in Colorado. Who else
do we have? Page down? I'm not reading that one
on the air. The Purple People Eaters guessed by a
riek in the Twin Cities there. Who else do we have?
Lizzo's treatment of her employees from Miguel on Fire. Robert
Downey Junior from Seawan and Portland. Bubba Gump from Eddie's

(35:59):
Burner a pickle milkshakes. I got one yesterday at EPCOT. Wow,
Oh my god, Eddie, do you have an answer? It
is not something to do with miss Piggy. According to
Scott in Rhode Island.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
I'm gonna go with former New York Giants star linebackers
Sam Huff.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Sam Huff, great answer. He was inspired by a former player,
Thomas Hollywood Henderson is the answer, who also didn't do drugs. Yeah,
he likes drugs and women. Well, a lot of guys
like women. But anyway, are here we go whit Miller to.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
The third degree. This is one big fan gets grill.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Over.

Speaker 5 (36:39):
The weekend was the twenty twenty three Hall of Fame
induction ceremony, and looking ahead to the players eligible in
twenty twenty four, I noticed a former Denver Broncos wide
receiver among many other teams, Brandon Marshall will be eligible
ben Is Marshall Hall of Famer.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
No, No, he can go to the Hall of Fame
if he buys a ticket.

Speaker 7 (36:56):
No.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
You know my criteria, Coop, I used this users for years.
Were you in All Pro once? Can you talk about
football the history of football when you were playing without
mentioning your name. He was All Pro one time. He
had a very similar creator like Andre Risen or Joey Galloway,
guys that were good but not Hall of Fame good.
So No, Brandon Marshall not in my Hall of Fame.

Speaker 5 (37:19):
Next he was a first team on Pro and a
second team off Pro.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Doesn't matter, not a Hall of Fame or next, give
me play for the proncos. Just fail me right now.

Speaker 5 (37:27):
You mentioned that you decided to watch the Jake Paul
versus Nate Diaz boxing match. Yeah, because of Poppy's pick.
Did the match get you interested enough to tune in
for a potential MMA rematch?

Speaker 1 (37:40):
No, it did not. In fact, the fifth round knockdown
Jake Paul barely touched Nate Diaz head. It was a sham.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
No.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
I mean, I'll watch it if Poppy picks it, but
I have no interest.

Speaker 5 (37:52):
Next Eagles Titan Dallas God told the media that his
goal is for himself, AJ Brown, and DeVonta Smith to
all get a thousand yards receiving this season. Been only
five teams have ever had three thousand yard receivers. Do
you think they could be the sixth?

Speaker 3 (38:05):
No?

Speaker 1 (38:05):
Jalen Hurst. The way the Eagles they were He's a
dual threat guy, but he's more a running guy than
a throwing guy. There's not enough volume of throws for
aj Brown, DeVante Smith and Goddard to get those numbers.

Speaker 6 (38:17):
How do we do?

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Coble up? That's a win. You tell this pedition you're come.
You are such a Bronco faded boy with Brandon Marshall.
My god,