Hour 2 - Tin Foil Hat

Ben Maller talks about the idea that there is an NFL grand conspiracy to help Travis Kelce and the Chiefs, Jerry Jones giving a vote of confidence to Cowboys DC Matt Eberflus, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Do you believe though there's an NFL grind conspiracy to
help Travis Kelcey and the Chiefs? They had no penalties
called against them in the game on Monday Night? Also,
how much stalk do you put in Jerry Jones' vote
of confidence for the embattled Cowboys defensive coordinator Matt Eberfluss.

(00:48):
And what is your reaction to Alex Bregman of the
cheating Astros hitting the eject button opting out of his
Red Sox contract. We'll talk about that as well. Well.
Here it is our number two. Big Red is not
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scream and shout and all that stuff. But our lead
this hour is from Cansa City, the home of the
Ben Mather Chicken figures. The Chiefs are back, baby, The
Chiefs are back after that win on Monday night against
the Lions. However, that is not the story from that
game that people are yapping about. It's still got legs.
A couple days later here after the Chiefs played a

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perfect game. Let me repeat that for those of you
a little slow in the back of the room. The
Chiefs played a perfect game, zero penalties against the Detroit
football team. Coach Andy Reid was asked about his opinion
on the referees performance that do you think that Andy
a rip? The referees said they should have called seventeen

(03:03):
penalties against us. Be said, the referees did a great job.
Or see had no comment? What do you think he said?
Did you see what he said? Did you see his response?
You did not see his response? No you did not, Okay,
perhaps you perhaps you missed it. So Andy Reid gave
a measured response. Is the way I will describe it here.
He said, quote, I thought the officials let the guys play.

(03:26):
I'm not saying I agreed with everything that went on,
Reid said, but you know what that means? But I
thought they were very fair on how they did it. Okay,
So that's the that's the point there made by Andy Reid.
Andy Reid said that it was quote good for the fans. Now,
based on listener feedback that I've gotten from the State

(03:49):
of Michigan, they did not agree that it was good
for the fans. They did not agree with that. And
every penalty that went against the Lions impacted Kansas City's
offense and hurt the Lions offense or vice versa. So
Reid's whole point to sum it up in four words,

(04:11):
they let it play out, which I guess is five
because I had to they in there, but let it
play out worthy four words. So a level headed response
by Andy Reid, which of course triggered the tinfoil hot
crowd convinced convinced that the NFL is rigging games for

(04:31):
Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. This is a story that
pops up just about every year on the calendar, same
time about every year. And here we are, so these
fine individuals, salt of the earth, and some of you
guys have reached out to me who are in this cult,

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and you have said to me, hey, listen, the refs
are in the tank with the NFL, obviously paid by
the NFL, and they're out to get anybody playing Kansas City.
They believe that the referees are apparently on speed dial
with Travis Kelcey and they text Taylor Swift between plays.
It's like, hey, Taylor, should we call holding on the

(05:14):
other team? Pass interference? Okay, we'll call passing difference? Why
not holding? Well, we don't want holding, we want pass interfirs. Okay,
we'll give you pass interference. Fine, there you go. Now.
Some of you have pointed out a study done. I
love that universities are doing studies on NFL teams and officials.
The University of Texas l Passo. Hello to my homeboys
working in the factory there in El Paso. You know

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who you are. So anyway, UTEP did a study which
the findings this went from This ended not last season,
the year before, but in the study done by UTEP,
the findings indicate this is great that postseason officiating trends
have disproportionately benefited the Patrick Mahomes chiefs. In fact, a professor,

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doctor Spencer Barnes. Never heard of him. Not my doctor,
He's not your doctor. Doctor Barnes. So, doctor Barnes said, quote.
The fact that postseason penalties consistently favored one franchise, meaning
Kansas City, while similar dynasties showed no such pattern points

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to the powerful role of financial incentives, financial incentives and
shaping supposedly neutral decisions. Close quote all right, So let
us discuss the question for the esteem panel, which you
are part of. Do you believe do you believe that
there is an NFL grand conspiracy to help Travis Kelcey

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and the Chiefs. So on this one, I've got Buffalo
Wild Wings, the Hair Club for Men, and Pillow, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are going to make the greatest donut of them all,
the Apple Fritter donut, the greatest doughnut of them all. Now,

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first of all, to answer the question I wish I
believe because it would be better as a talk show host,
I don't. I am not a believer. I'm agnostic on
this one. And here's why my problem and I can't
get past this. I've done too much sports talk radio.
I have done this job for many, many years. I've

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been through a number of dynasties in sports and yapped
about them on the radio, and the one common denominator
through this entire journey in sportscasting has been team wins.
A lot fans complain teams getting benefit of the officials
calling in their direction. So every dynasty gets painted by

(07:57):
people as being run by the illumina.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Nah.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
In this case it's the NFL. But same thing happens
in basketball. We don't really get dynasties anymore in baseball.
But when the Yankees were winning and there was the
belief that the Yankees got every call, I was told
by somebody that played for the Yankees that they believed
the guys on the Yankees believe at the old Yankee Stadium,
when George Steinbrenner, the old owner known as the Boss
when he was in charge there, that they truly believed

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umpires were afraid of calling pitches on the border against
the Yankees because George Steinbrenner would raise Holy Hell. But
again that's perception much like this we're talking about Kansas
City here. It happened also with the Patriots, and my
brothers and sisters who are Patriots fans know, when they
were winning, it was like, oh, the NFL wants Tom

(08:43):
Brady to win, they want Bill Belichick to win and
all that stuff. And I go back so far the
Dallas Cowboys. I remember when the Cowboys used to win
and they were like, oh, the NFL officials are in
the tank for the Cowboys because they got the big
stars in that erap. Yeah, and that was before social
media was even a thing. That was just when we
had sports talk radio and fax machines and people were

(09:07):
pumping up the tires on the Dallas Cowboys back in
the nineties. So it's not some secret zebra cabal that
gets together. Like the theory is, these guys all get together,
they go to Buffalo Wild Wings and then Andy Reid
is given a button and it's a direct line to
the league officiating headquarters. So when he's on his headset
and he's covering his mouth because he's got his play sheet,

(09:29):
he's actually talking to the league office. Can we get
a defensive holding on Team X? Can we do?

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Now?

Speaker 1 (09:37):
We can't? Can you give me? How about I want
an offensive holding? This team's driving against my defense. Can
I get an offensive holding? We need that? Yes, sure,
no problem, anddy whatever you need. The reality is rather simple,
and it doesn't make for great talk radio. But since
twenty eighteen, which is the meat and potatoes of this

(10:00):
particular era, and really just the entire run with Mahomes
taking over. Since twenty eighteen, Kansas City is ranked in
the top ten in the top ten of accepted penalties,
not the bottom, the top top ten. Now, what does
that mean. That means if this is a rigged delio,

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if the NFL's rigging these games for Kansas City, the
referees are doing a god awful job. They're doing a
terrible job of covering their tracks. Right, there's a terrible job.
And Kansas City last I checked, and I've been there,
and I have friends in Kansas City. I love visiting.
It's I've had a lot of fun when I've gone
there a few times over the years. But when you
go to Kansas City, right, it's not Manhattan. Now, if

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you want Manhattan, there's a Manhattan Kansas which is you know,
good drive away. It's not the Big Apple Manhattan. And
I'm pretty sure it's not Los Angeles. It's not like
a top market. It's TV market number thirty one, TV
market number three. You don't build a villain empire in
the shadow of Wichital. You don't do it, no one

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would do it. And as for the UTEP study, and
I used to love studies. I used to talk about
a lot on my podcasts I do on the weekends,
the Fifth Hour Podcast, And I learned over the years.
At some point I had an epiphany and I realized
that you have to look at who pays for the study.
You have to look at who's doing the study, because
it's often it's not on the up and up. I

(11:28):
used to think those things were all on the up
and up, everything was kosher. It's not so. But anyway,
this one, the UTEP study, I dug into it a
little bit, leaned into it. And the postseason flags they said,
lean heavily towards Kansas City during the Mahomes era. And
they connect the dots and it's like there's a conspiracy.
And it's like they've got their their corkboard up and

(11:50):
they're connecting yarn to different things and they're like, well,
there you go. They get their flash light and they
don't even have a flashlight. They have the light on
their head. You know those lights you put on your
head you're looking at crawling on your body trying to
crawl through the underside of your house or something like
that at two in the morning. But this is the
same tired VHS tape that they dusted off when Michael

(12:12):
Jordan was getting whistles. Uh. And I buy that more
than this. Like the NBA and with David Stern, that
was his playbook. We got stars. We want the stars
to get calls. And a foul against Michael Jordan is
not the same call against Joe blow on the bench.
It's just not.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
There were hockey people when I saw Wayne Gretzky play
and people said, well, Wayne Gretzky, you know when Wayne
was breathing near the blue line, there was an official
there skating around, uh with a with a whistle. It's
not collusion, right, It's not collusion. It's success envy. That's
what I call I call it success envy. And you

(12:55):
know what they say, you know say there. The saying
is that when you reach the very top of thet
you've worked your entire life in sports and you get
to the very top of the mountain, many people assume
that you got there on a ski lift. He didn't
climb the mountain. You took the easy way to the top.

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Of the right now. Secondly, I am contractually obligated by
the powers of the bet to mention the Dallas Cowboys
every so often, So we'll do that right now. To
Dallas we go, where, despite the horrific defense, the struggles
of the Cowboys defense, they blow this season. Jerry Jones
remaining very confident in his embattled defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus

(13:40):
now during his weekly radio show, which the editing department
here Fox Sports Radio deemed not worthy of recording on.
During that Jerry Jones said, Matt Eberflus is someone quote
I want in the fox hole with me. That's a quote.
Jerry also explained that he jumped, jumped at the op
You think Jerry's ever jumped at anything maybe like a

(14:01):
hot blonde in like nineteen ninety, but not not recently anyway.
So during his weekly radio show, Jones said that you
know he wants you know, he's a Foxhole guy. That
was his line, and he said he jumped jumped a
higher Matt Eberflus and said he you know, this is
the guy that I wanted this offseason to run the
defense and have not changed my position after six games,

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and he was pumping the tires about all the adversity
that Matt Eberflus has been through and all that bull crap.
All right, question how much stalk? How much stalk do
you put in Jerry Jones giving a vote of confidence,
the dreaded vote of confidence the Cowboys defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus.

(14:43):
So normally, and you know what I'm about to saying,
like normally, this is the kiss of death. You are cooked.
It is dun skis right, that's the kids kiss of death.
Like the he's our guy speech. We've all heard it.
It happened right before a piano drops on top of

(15:04):
your head from the third floor. Cob boom, see you later.
Now in Dallas, though it's different, My read on the
room in Dallas is a little different because Jerry's doing
what Jerry always does. He's making this about him. I
do a YouTube show called Benny Versus the Penny with
a guy who also makes it all about him, So

(15:27):
I know the all about him person. I know the
all about the person. I do that show with a
little less financially well off than Jerry Jones, but nonetheless
all right, So if Jerry says I am going to
give the excommunication message to Matt everfuss. I'm gonna kick
him out of the Dallas Cowboys, right, get rid of him. Well,

(15:50):
he's not just admitting Jerry Jones at that point. He's
not admitting that the defense stinks. It's more than that,
he's admitting I screwed up. I'm a bad GM. I
hired the wrong guy. That's on me and what I
know about Jerry Jones. This is a hair club for
men's situation. The great line from Walt Fraser, no play

(16:15):
for mister Gray. Jerry's not going to allow that to happen, right,
He's I'll hold on to a mistake. He's gonna hold
onto this mistake longer than a bad real estate investment,
just so he does not have to do the walk
of shame and admit now that job by me. If
Doup and the numbers don't lie, they don't. The Cowboys

(16:37):
are dead last, at the very bottom the sewer in
total defense. They're dead last against the past twenty eighth
against the run. They've given up thirty point seven points
per game, thirty point seven points per game they tackle.
I'm telling you, watch all these Cowboy games, it looks
like they tackle like they're wearing those inflatable sumo suits,

(17:00):
hard to move around, a lot of plotting. It's embarrassing.
And I'm not a Cowboy fan. In fact, I enjoy
this because it's good for what I do. I enjoy
with you the Cowboys defense, even with the Micah Parsons
trade right, well, there's enough there, there'll be somewhat competitive
and all that. So and Jerry, he really wants to

(17:20):
show the world. Yeah, when that guy dan Quinn who's
now coaching in Washington and they've had some success. They
didn't play well this week the Commanders, but they've had
some success. And what no is I'm fine. I don't
need dan Quinn to be my defensive Courteria. So he
got the guy and so there you go, Matt Ibraflus.
And so the Cowboys build is America's team. The Dallas

(17:42):
Cowboys America's team, And right now they're America's turnstile, is
what they are? There? Yeah, he was running right by.
If you're a wide receiver, there's no resistance. If you're
a running back, congratulations, you're gonna get four yards downfield
before there's any kind of contact. And Ibrafu's presiding over
a defense in Dallas that is they're getting cooked like

(18:04):
they're chicken at Applebe's. It's bad. And it's not just
the numbers. The eye test not good either. There's no
bull rush. There's a lot of bull crap from Jerry Jones,
but there's no bull rush and the unit has about
as much toughness as a pillow fight at summer camp. Right,
and some teams worry about the red zone. They're like,

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oh man, the red zone Dallas, it's got a hole
in the ozone the ozone layer there for the Cowboys,
it's not good. So Jerry giving a vote of conference.
Normally we say, well that's it, that's ebra Flus is done.
But again that this is not about the football, even
though the Cowboys defense sucks, it's about saving face for
Jerry Jones, and that's why the Cowboys are. That's where

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they are, all right, final thought to Boston, We go
to Boston, we go and forever cheating Astro Red Sox
third baseman Alex Bregman a notorious scoundrel in baseball history.
So Alex Bregman pulled the ripcord and is going to

(19:10):
test free agency. For the second consecutive year. The news
came out prior to the NLCS game Dodgers and Brewers.
Bregman is exercising the opt out. He's entering into the
transfer portal. He opts out of what's left of a
three year, one hundred and twenty million dollar contract. He'll
go to market try to get more money. The deal
included an opt out this year. There's also a player

(19:30):
option in twenty twenty seven. So quickly, what is your
reaction to Alex Bregman forever a cheating astro hitting the
eject button on the Red Sox contract after one season.
So this was baked in to the contract. It was

(19:51):
baked into the contract. And stop me if you've heard
this one before. I'm pretty sure you've heard this one before.
But Scott Morris and I'm using because I know I used
the other day, but it applies here. It's a my
pillow special. We said it when the contract was announced
for Alex Bregman with the Red Sox. Will say it
again here that this contract was what's known in the

(20:12):
industry as a pillow deal. That Bregman sucked at a
time he couldnot suck. He was not that good at
the end with the cheating a holes and so he
didn't get the offer he wanted for that and some
other reasons. And so the Pillow deal was a soft landing,
big money, total control by the player. It's a Scott
Boras special. So Boris gave Bregman that one year window

(20:34):
to go to Boston, polish the apple, if you will
flip it for another massive contract, go back to the
market and see what you can get. And he wasn't
in Boston. The plant roots. Now there's a chance he
goes back if the Red Sox meet his asking price,
but he doesn't care. He'll go anywhere. He's got no
moral compass, He'll go anywhere. And so he was there

(20:58):
kind of renting. You know. It's kind of place where
you rent and you leave the dishes in the sink
and you just go somewhere else here. I'm done with
this place. I'm out of here. And Bregman did not
exactly like the World on fire. The first half. He
was okay, it was actually pretty good. The first half
of the baseball season, made the All Star team. The
second half. Cover your eyes, Cover your eyes bad. A

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swan dive swan dive for Alex Bregman. After the All
Star Game, his power numbers went down thirty six percent.
He was a two point fifty hitter, and you're gonna
pay that guy thirty five forty million dollars a year
and he couldn't even hit it Finway. One of the
reasons Bregman went to Boston was because everyone hits at
Finway Park, right, everyone feast. It's a bandbox. And Bregman

(21:44):
batted two forty six at Finway and hit six home
runs all year. What happened to the launching pad? It
wasn't a launching pad when he was up there, and
so you know he's stunk at a time he can't stink.
And then so if you can't thrive there, you're gonna
thrive anywhere. Does he need trash cans? Does he need
a buzzard? Does he have to go back to his
happy place in Houston? And you mix in that's the

(22:07):
other thing, like we know cheating as Carlos Carea was
traded back to Houston, Like that's really the only spot
I guess that in the Blue Jays. Toronto doesn't care.
They got that cheater springer in their outfield, but Houston
back to Houston for Bregman, who says, now there's a cloud.

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There is a cloud following him around, a black cloud.
The cheating thing does not go away. And you know
that's true. You know that's true. Right, tattooed with baseball cooties.
He's got the cooties, yep, got them yep. And you
can hear the boos still every ballpark you go to
other than Houston, right, you get the booze and all

(22:49):
that stuff. And so the villain act it doesn't age well.
And that's the other problem. Bregman's not a pitcher, he's
a position player, and he's going to be at the
very end of his athletic prime. He turns thirty two
next season. Good luck. So you're gonna pay somebody for
what they have done, not what they're going to do,

(23:10):
and you're gonna hand that guy a long term contract.
And he's one of the more hateable people in the
sport of baseball. So good luck, buyer, beware. It is
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the Third Degree, and that'll be coming up now. When
I was a little kid, I used to listen to
late night radio. There's a guy named Art Bell, legend,
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the Premiere Networks. Met him at the Christmas party we
used to do. We don't do that anymore, big Galla
Christmas party, all the big stars of radio where that

(23:54):
was amazing. Different time anyway. They used to have this
thing called ghost to ghost. So we're gonna play a
little ghost to ghost because Hollows just a few weeks away. Yes,
very scary. We'll get to that and we will do
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I'm no doctor Barnes, but I did stay in a

(25:55):
Chevy in Pollo how comfy. Was pretty sure the refs
got into the wrong tray of edibles before kickoff and
drew blanks for three hours because they sure as Helle
weren't drawing any flags.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
Yummy.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeah, it's it's one of those things, like my theory
on life when it comes to this kind of stuff,
like if you're an official and you're paid, your travels
paid for, you have to stay at a hotel. You've
got to call penalties if you if you're a doctor,
you have to find something wrong with someone because you're
a duck. If you go to a lawyer, do I

(26:33):
have a case? Well, how does a lawyer get paid?
You've got to of course you've got a case. How
much of a case do I have, mister lawyer? How
much can you afford? It's like like the way the world.
But anyway, all right, let's see, Craig says, Eberflus is cooked.
The Cowboys defense is terrible. Yiche yack. Yeah, they're pretty bad. Uh.

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Craig also says, with all this Chiefs talk, why not
to go with the conspiracy. They're the reason why the
overtime rule sucks. The Bills defense lost all those AFC
Championship games. Sean McDermott, you're on the clock. Hot seat
has burned up. That's from Craig, That's what he has
to to say. Late Night Drug Tester writes in from

(27:23):
Parts Unknown, he says, if the NFL has it rigged
for Kansas City, they have a lot of work to do.
If the playoffs started now, they are outside looking in.
So which team should we fade for the rest of
the season. I will wait for Benny versus the Penny
to find out. Stay tuned. Yeah, if you look at

(27:49):
your your standings of the NFL will resume tomorrow on
Thursday with an AFC North matchup the Cincinnati Bungals and
the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday night, But the Chiefs are
out of the playoffs at this particular moment. However, the
NFL would be out of a lot of money if

(28:09):
they don't make the playoffs. And if you look at
the very boub Jacksonville is always the obvious one. You say, well,
Jacksonville's you know, they can fall out of the playoffs
pretty easy because they're Jacksonville. But the Kansas City's number
eight seven teams make the playoffs. And you've got a
bunch of divisional games, the Chiefs with the Broncos and
they play the Chargers again. So there's a lot of

(28:30):
moving and shake. Let's go to the phones. Let's jump
Alex up to the top. Here he once a yap
about Jerry Jones. Alex, what's going on? You are on
the Ben mal Show on Fox. Welcome.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
How's it going? It's my second time getting through, but
I'll make it quick, okay, Jerry Jones, I'm talking to you.
You pay people very fast for doing good for one year.
Our linebackers have sucked for a long time as a group,
one or two here or there. Our safetyes have been
butt cheeks for years years. To Troy Williams, you don't like,
bet don't understand, well.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
You look you like. Lorena questioned your term of butt cheeks.
She brought. She paused when you said the term butt cheeks, Well,
men generally do enjoy butt cheeks. But the smell might
not be what he's He might be what he's referred to,
even not the car.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
We want to look at, even not the car we
want to see. But yeah, Garry Jones overpays people, and
he does not get safeties for some reason. Our corners
are you see what they do? We get one here
and there. It's just frustrating. And as far as the uh,
the complaints about the chief referee, referees and all that. Uh,
the rich get richer. That's the way of the world.

(29:39):
Just like to tuck roll back in the day. Hey,
whoever is you know, want to beat the best, you
gotta beat the best decisively.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
There you go, all all, thank you Alex there racuum.
That's a Is that our huge call. That's a different show.
That's not our huge call to day. I'm sorry. So
ghost to ghosts, well, in this case ghost at the hotel.
It is law been an open secret that there is
a haunted hotel in Milwaukee. Okay, well we're supposed to

(30:08):
do if sleazy Cheese actually comes through here, will do
a mallor meet and greet in Milwaukee, and we can
stay at the infamous hotel, the Fister Hotel. That's the Yes,
that's the name of it there in Milwaukee. And I
bring this up because of the story before Game two
of the NLCS. Was that ti Oscar Hernandez Hernandez who

(30:28):
hit a home run in Game two of the World Series,
he had to switch hotels in Milwaukee. And why did
he switch hotels? Well, he switched hotels because the belief
is the hotel the Dodgers were staying at is haunted.
He claimed that he does not believe in ghosts per se,
but his wife, my wife does believe in ghosts. She

(30:51):
had some concerns. So as a result, when h yes,
oh this is like from the Disneyland Haunted mansie. Right, yeah,
do you see somebody died like a woman died on
the Haunted Mars. How lucky is she? How would that
be lucky?

Speaker 6 (31:07):
Okay, they have been asking for their one thousandth ghosts
for years. They have nine hundred and ninety nine happy haunts,
and they invite people every day to be the thousands,
and she finally got to be it.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
So they have to change all of the sounds in there.
So this hotel in Milwaukee. Now years ago, in another life,
I actually did stuff with the Dodgers. We were in Milwaukee.
We did not stay at this hotel because there was
a player on the Dodgers named Adrian Beltray who was
so freaked out because they had stayed at that hotel,
the Fister Hotel in Milwaukee, that he would sleep with

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a baseball bat in case a ghost attacked him at night.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
But you can't hit a ghost with a baseball bat.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
You might want to let him know that that.

Speaker 6 (31:49):
Is a false sense of security.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
You might want to let a baseball player right now. Yes, see,
not the brightest ball anyway. He became a Hall of
Famer and not because of what he did with the
Dodger anyway. So we stayed at different hotel. But yeah,
at the hotel, supposedly, the legend is the lights will
go on and off in the rooms randomly, right, just randomly.
The doors there, there's there's noises of doors opening and closing.

(32:11):
You hear sounds of footsteps in the middle of the
night when there's no one walking around. And so yeah,
those some of the things that have happened there at
that hotel.

Speaker 6 (32:19):
I'm gonna have to go look it up.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yes, it's h P F I S T E R.
The Fister hotel there in Milwaukee. Apparently his tail went
to it. He didn't go to another hotel. He went
to an airbnb. You want to bet that's a nice airbnb.
You want to bet that's like a penthouse apartment, not
your random airbnb that you and I would stay in.
Let's go to William in Kansas City. Hello, William, welcome.

Speaker 7 (32:45):
How do mister Chasey here in Kansas City? Here is
like transerve em exactly too of some kind of marriage?

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Hold time? Can you can you move your mouth a
little away from the receiver. I want to hear every
word you're saying. I feel like I can't hear everywhere.
Go ahead, try that again. Go ahead.

Speaker 7 (33:03):
You know I see mister Kelsey on TV. Every time
I see him, it's like it's the Moves of the
East Saw the New Orleans.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
Is he on crack?

Speaker 6 (33:13):
You know?

Speaker 7 (33:14):
Something? More of something that? What is that?

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Well, I'll tell you what if he played if he
if he was on crack, he would have played better
in the Super Bowl. He could have played much worse.
It was more like he was on sleeping pills, so
somebody drugged him. The way he played in that Super Bowl.

Speaker 7 (33:29):
He's made to the top of the RuPaul reject Whift.
What what he is? That's like settled over Woldo here
in South The stadium is over there and big things
and merge off the top.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
So it's fair to say that you're not getting a
Christmas card from Travis Kelsey's that accurate?

Speaker 7 (33:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, I think I'll be yeah, I'll be.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah. I hear you all right, And I'm sure he's
worried about you as he rolls over in his thousand
thread sheets and his mansion there is very concerned about you,
you know, his Egyptian thread sheets. Thank you. Though you
ever seen a ghost? Loreni ever been out and seen
a ghost? You know, I can't say I've seen a ghost.
Have you you felt like in a room with a

(34:19):
ghost multiple times? Multiple multiple interest times. We have a
guy named Joe the ghost Hunter in Ohio who goes
around and like sees it. I've never seen a ghost.
I did see something that I believe was a UFO
at one point, but I've never seen it. I've never
seen it. I was on a hike, and I saw
these black orbs that I still can close my eyes

(34:42):
and see them. This is way before.

Speaker 7 (34:43):
Now.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Now you'd say it's just a drone, you know, but
those were before. Maybe it was a test drone and
they just were testing it out. But I saw this
and I never seen anything quite like it. Yeah, I
don't know what it was. Who knows. Maybe it's some
government ops operation somewhere with some secret technology some government
has and I who knows it is the Ben Mahla show.
We are going to have straight ahead Mahler to the

(35:06):
third degree tome now though for the insta trivia and
here it is go back to that NLCS game too,
the Dodgers Yoshinobu Yamamoto did not allow an opponent to
bat with a runner and scoring position. Now, the last
time that happened was Doc Holliday, Roy Holliday, the late
Roy Holiday twenty ten NLDS Game Number one, who he

(35:27):
had a no hitter. Remember that was one of the
moments in the last twenty five years in baseball playoffs
and no hitter for Roy Halliday, the only other pitcher
other than Yamamoto and Halliday to do so in the
past twenty years was blank again. Yoshinobu Yamamoto did not
allow an opponent to bat with a runner in scoring position,

(35:48):
and last time it happened was Roy Halliday. The only
other pitcher to do it the last twenty years. Last
generation was blank. That's the Insta Trivia, the answer and
Mallard of the third degree. We'll get to it. We
will do it next.

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(37:13):
right back to it. Time now for the Insta Trivia,
and this is a blatant attempt to get you to
listen a little bit longer. And we'll also have Mallard
of the third degree that'll be coming up in a
couple of minutes. The Dodgers their monster mashing here before Halloween,
Yoshinobu Yamamoto dominating. He did not allow an opponent to
bat with a runner in scoring position. The last time

(37:35):
that happened was Roy Halliday for the Phillies in twenty ten.
He had no hitter. The only other picture to do
so in the past twenty years was blank. That is
the question, what is the answer? Let's see does anyone
know the answer? We go to the Great Unwashed and
Eke is going with Adeo Nomo. I see what you
did there, Doug Doug Fister from alf the Alien Pinter.

(37:59):
The Fister Hotel was named after Doug Fister. Who else
do it? Benito, the long Suffering cowboy fan going with
aj Volton is his answer? Who else? Casper from Bobby
in Florida, Sewn in Portland's going with Taylor Swift, Simon
Belmont from ferg Dog, Emerald Legassi, who's sixty six today?
I quote Emerald quite a bit. The great celebrity cheft

(38:22):
Missus Drysdale's poodle Claude from Kathy and Madison. That's it.
That's got to be the answer. Mickey Loulwich guessed by
Rob in Minnesota. Clayton Kershaw just kidding from Robbie the
Mariner fan h Warren Crommarty exposed legend from the Freeman.
All right, what say you? Lorrain up?

Speaker 6 (38:40):
I'm going with the Invisible.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Man Ben all right. Unfortunately know this guy in many
ways Invisible White Sox legend John Garland in O five
John Garland starting pitcher Game three of the ALCS White Sox.
Here we gonna get Smeller. How about that?

Speaker 4 (38:56):
To the third degree is one Big Ben gets.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Grill and Coo dow Lou.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Bill Belichick opened his media session on Monday by saying
that reports of him negotiating a buy out with North
Carolina are quote categorically false.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
Ben. Do you believe him?

Speaker 4 (39:16):
No?

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Of course not no, No, they just haven't worked out
the details on that. It's it's an absolute mess, and
Belichick doesn't have anything else lined up. Of course, you
don't believe Bill Belichick, and you know it's not correct
until it's correct, and then all of a sudden Belichick
vanishes and doesn't talk about it. Next.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
The Philadelphia Phillies have decided not to make manager Rob Thompson,
the escapegoat for their defeat in the NLDS, says he
will be returning to Philly in twenty twenty six. Do
you think keeping Thompson was the right move?

Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yes, because he's not doing anything like all these other managers.
So it's like the Yankees, the Dodgers, they keep all
these guys around because they're just kind of figurehead guys. Next.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Russell Westbrook has yet to find a new NBA team.
When he was asked recently about the possibility of playing overseas,
He said, there has been zero discussion of out that.
But do you think Westbrook will eventually end up playing
in China or something?

Speaker 1 (40:03):
No worse, He'll play for the Sacramento Kings. How do
we do you pass