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August 21, 2025 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about Urban Meyer suggesting that the NFL could punish Jim Harbaugh in relation to the Michigan punishments, Daniel Jones explaining that his run with the Colts will be different, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Urban My.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's our number two, our number two of the original
Recipe podcast and the Ben Malers Show rolls on this hour,
urban Meyer calling for Jim Harbaugh to be suspended for
actions that took place at the University of Michigan. What
do you suppose the NFL will do with Jim Harbaugh?

(00:25):
Will there be punishment? We'll take a look at that. Also,
we go in depth on the Colts Daniel Jones, who
says that his second act is going to be different.
What's your takeaway from that commentary? And speaking of the Colts,
their head coach Shane Steiken was waxing loquacious about Daniel Jones.

(00:48):
So how would you grade Shane Steiken's passionate defense for
the new starting quarterback in Indianapolis that he can get
the job done. We'll go there as well. Right now here,
it is our number two. Could it be an NFL
head coach heading to the penalty box before the season begins?

(01:09):
Say it ain't, so we'll explain. Welcome in the beginning
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so our lead. This hour is from the speculation Machine.
We'll call it Urban Planning. Urban Planning is an NFL
head coach in jeopardy of being suspended as the season begins.

(02:39):
Two weeks from today, the lidlifter in the NFL two
weeks from today, the reigning champion Philadelphia Eagles and they
take on the Dallas Cowboys. And that Thursday night Lidlifter.
And there's some chatter about a coach getting some trouble.
I don't even saw this or not, maybe not talking
about Jim Harbaugh. The Chargers said coach and if you

(03:01):
missed it, former Jacksonville coach for like a month. Urban Meyer.
Urban Meyer. So, urban Meyer says that the NFL should
suspend Jim Harble. What yeah, urban Meyer said, because of

(03:22):
the Michigan signs stealing scandal. He says that there is
precedent here, the elephant in the room or in this case,
the wolverine in the room. And he says that the
old Buck guys coach, not him, but Jim Tressel got
suspended because of issues that took place while he was

(03:43):
at the Ohio State University. Urban Meyer told the story.
He said, listen, Jim Tressel went to the Colts and
they made him sit out six games, according to urban Meyer,
six games because the league honored the NCAA punishment. Now,
there are some people that believe the NFL will ultimately

(04:06):
take some kind of action against Jim Harbaugh. There is
an issue whether or not precedent is legitimately involved in this.
To this point, however, the league has been radio silent.
They have not commented on the status of the LA
Chargers head coach. So let us discuss the question. My
question is this, what do you suppose the NFL will

(04:29):
do with Jim Harbaugh and any punishment. So I've got
my observations here. I've got Pecan, Pi air Fryer and
the amazing Randy and we will combine all of these
things together and we're going to make some billable hours,
some billable hours. Over the years, we've had some legal beagles,
some lawyers that stay up late because they actually work

(04:51):
on like a lot of lawyers that don't work, but
these guys actually work and they stay up late in
their office or in their home and putting stuff together.
So here's a number one number. I spent about a minute,
about a minute deliberating this. Didn't want to go too long.

(05:12):
It's an overnight show. And I've determined what the NFL
punishment to Jim Harbaugh will be. I've got three words here,
three words. This is the NFL's punishment. I've got I
wrote down on my scorecard, bupkis, zip bo and squad douche.
That's it. That's the three right there for Terry in England.

(05:34):
So Urban Meyer you know he's doing he's talking out
of his padunkadunk his way. I'm telling you that's what
he's doing. I think my theory is because he's still mad,
because remember he was getting the lap dance and that
went viral and all that, and that was the end
of Urban Meyer, the beginning of the end of Urban Meyers,

(05:54):
an NFL head coach. Of course, the team sucked. And
by the way, as far as the Jim Tressel thing,
Jim Tressel I looked it up. He was a replay
assistant for the Indianapolis colt he was a consultant. So
that's like suspending the person that gets the gatorade buckets
out of the storage facility. We're talking about Jim Harball here,

(06:18):
the head coach of the charge. You think that that
guy Dean Spanos is just gonna say, ah, we got
no problem here. If you want to suspend my coach,
go ahead. It doesn't matter for something he did in
ann Arbor, Michigan. Like, there's no chance. There's no chance

(06:38):
of that happening. If the NFL, I'm telling you, mark
my words, and I'm never wrong about these things. If
the NFL tries to force Jim Harball to even miss
a slice of pecan pie for dessert after he eats dinner.
The NFL says, well, your punishment, Jim, is you can't
have pecan pie after dinner. You're gonna have to eat

(07:02):
apple pie. Now, it was a I like apple pie,
but you're gonna have to eat apple pie that's store
brand and is almost expired rather than fresh pecan pie.
Guess what, Jim Harball will sue the NFL back to
the Stone Age, and he's gonna win because you know why,

(07:23):
he wasn't an NFL employee when this happened. Hello, right,
huh bout Jim Trussel. It's a non starter. It's a
non star. Now what is my evidence? I would like
you to look over at John Gruden, who currently is leading. Now.
The race is not over, the game is not over,
the scoreboard has not gone final. But at this point

(07:46):
John Gruden is beating the NFL in court, and the
NFL needs their cronies on the Supreme Court to bail
them out. The league is already in hot water for
punishing John grew and over the emails that he said
while he was not employed by the NFL. So do

(08:08):
they want to risk this again? Do they want to
make a repeat mistake with Jim Harbaugh? And what I
know about Jim Harball is he's rich, He's got lawyers,
and he's got a large ego. Those are three things
I know about Jim Harbaugh. So you think he's gonna say, ah, yeah, okay,
I'll sit out six games. I'll go surf somewhere and

(08:30):
I'll go down to down to Newport or lagon Is
somewhere and I'll go serf.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
No.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Right, So here's the deal. I'm gonna tell you what's
gonna happen. The NFL is gonna look at this. They'll
say nothing, and it'll kind of go away, and then
Irban Meyer will go pound saying somewhere and that's it.
And then Jim Harball will be on the sideline to
believe the charges open up with. I think it's Kansas
City right week one there. I know they're in Brazil

(08:55):
to begin the NFL season, and he'll be screaming at
the referees and thinking he's back coaching in Columbus against
Ohio State or something like that. I hey, Jimm, it's
week one of the NFL. The only thing Jim Harbaugh
is in danger of getting suspended for is khaki pants?
That's it? Like the khakis, he wears, they can get
in trouble with that. Right now, Moving on from that,
we head to page two Indianapolis. We go follow up

(09:19):
to the follow up, follow up to the follow up.
So Daniel Jones has been asked the question and he
is responded the question, why is anything going to be
different with the Colts? You sucked with the Giants, So
why would anyone think things are going to be better
with the team in Indianapolis? And Jones said, quote, I

(09:41):
think every situation is different, he said, telling reporters every
season is different. I'm growing and developing as a player constantly,
he said. He went on to say a lot of
things go into it. I think I am prepared, Daniel
Jones said, and will continue to work hard. All right,
So what did you take away from Daniel Jones explaining

(10:04):
his second act with the Colts is going to be different?
So the first thought I had is this is really
ground baking. It's groundbreaking, it's glass shattering commentary from Daniel Jones.
It is I've never heard an athlete say that. This
is like saying I'll be better at chess this time
because I'm using a different board. Well, no, it's the same,

(10:27):
it's the same game. No, No, the board's different, the
boards different. Yeah, I'm sorry, Danny boy. Right, you still
got to move the pieces around and all that stuff.
You've got to navigate everything that the NFL. It's not
some kind of group therapy session. Oh, it's getting closer
to that. It's getting closer to that. It's not there yet.
And the line that I loved was I'm growing and

(10:48):
developing as a player constantly, right off sports cliche dot com.
So I'm gonna ask you a question, serious question. What
does that even mean? Like, that's the kind of thing
you say when your statu sheet. You look at your
statuet and you've got to like put it near your
your eyes. You're like, whoa, that's like a one of

(11:08):
those Sudoku puzzles. Right, he is a twenty four forty
four and one twenty four to forty four and one
as a starter. That is not growth. That is erosion.
That's the coastline eroding back into the ocean. Right, It's
perfect Danny Dimes.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
Right.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
The guy talks like he's some middle manager on LinkedIn,
who just got whacked from his job. He's like, I
am prepared and I will continue to work hard. No life,
no feeling, But I am happy that you're cutting and
pasting that because that's never been said by any quarterback ever.

(11:45):
You know, this is the first time in my life
that a quarterback has said that I am going to
again be prepared and work hard. Never happens, and I'm
sure he'll say that right after he throws a pick
six on a bubble screen. That's it. So yeah, people
say it's a fresh start, it's not. It's a relocation

(12:06):
of mediocrity, is what it is. It's it's kind of
like if you have a broken air fryer and you
change apartments. You're like, in the back of my dad
bounced from apartment to apartment. So you change apartments, you're like,
of course they didn't have air friers back then, but
you change apartments and just go with the story, and
you're like, I'm not gonna buy a new air fraw,

(12:26):
I'm gonna take the old air fryer and magically it's
gonna work. Just because I moved, it's gonna work. Spoiler alert,
It's still not gonna it's not gonna turn on. If
it does turn on, it's gonna sputter a little bit,
and it's it's gonna disappoint. It's gonna disappoint. And so
the colts, I look at this on the outside, they're
treating Daniel Jones like a fixer upper with good bones.

(12:48):
I think that show is filmed in Indianapolis on HG
TV good bones, And I look at it on the
outside and I'm like, well, no, he's a quarterback version
of a house that's got black mold and a cracked foundation.
You don't renovate it, you bulldoze it. And that's it, right.

(13:09):
And Jones. The other thing about this is he clearly
needs validation. He's like a guy. And we've all seen
these dopes, and there's women that do it, more women
than men that do it. But they posted the Jim
selfies and the guys will always say, oh, the grind
never stops. And I'm like, oh, that guy's at your BRONI,
that guy's at Gibroni's that guy's a meat ed But listen,

(13:30):
we get it, dude, you're at the gym. Congratulations, you
want a cookie, You're working hard, guess what. Most people
are doing some kind of exercise. Otherwise you become a blob. Right,
you want credit for effort. That's not how it works.
It's the NFL all that stuff, blah blah, it's not pop.
Warner Jones continues to have almost no substance. He's got

(13:55):
less substance than a protein shake made with skimmed melk,
and you know a bunch of broken dreams tossed in
there for flavor. And so it's always those things, right, Well,
don't tell me, don't tell me. Ah, yeah, I'm gonna
do this. I'm gonna do that all that stuff. Now,
show me what you did, and then you can tell
me how you did it after you've done it. All right, Now,

(14:17):
final point. We go back to the story. In Indianapolis,
there was a humdinger. Now this was full credit in US.
I did not see this. It was sent in by
a listener who knows the show and knows what I
think is red meat doing the talk show. So I
want to thank I believe his name is Mike. He's
not in Indianapolis, but he's somewhere in Indiana. And he

(14:38):
says small town and yeah, he listens a couple hours
at night, and so he sent me this quote. He said, Ben,
why didn't you mention this? That's why I didn't see it.
That's why I didn't mention it. So now I'm aware
of it, so I'm going to talk about it right now.
So this is Shane Steichen. You don't know who that is,
likely unless you're Indianapolis and a Colts fan. He's the
head coach there and he was peppered with questions on

(15:01):
why should the fan, why should the season ticket holder
of the Colts believe in Daniel Jones. He was an
abject failure with the Giants and Shamesiken paused for a second.
It wasn't a long pause, brief pause, and he said,
I think that he meaning Daniel Jones, has proven that

(15:23):
he's played good football in that twenty twenty two season.
Stike In stated he had a hell of a year
that year. The coach said, I think that was the
highest completion rate in New York Giants franchise history that season.
Stiking quote continues on Daniel Jones quote, He's proven to

(15:47):
do it. I know he's had his ups and downs,
but everyone's journey is different, and we feel confident in
his abilities. Close quote question, how would you grade Shane
Steiken's defense for Daniel Jones proving he can get it

(16:08):
done with the Colts? Didn't get it done with the Giants?
How's gonna get it done with the Colts? So that
was a masterclass in football gas lighting with a capitol G.
So let's break this apart scientifically. We'll put it under
the Mallard microscope. So the quote, the first quote that
stood out, Jones had a hell of a year in

(16:30):
twenty twenty two. A coach. It's Ben Maller, I do
a little overnight show here at Fox Sports Radio. Coach. Yeah,
that year where he had a hell of a year.
The Giant offense looked like it was powered by a
rotary phone. Who are you talking about? They won a
playoff game against the Vikings. Oh yeah, okay, yeah, they

(16:51):
beat Kirk Cousins of the playoffs. That's true. You know
where the Giants passing offense ranked with Daniel Jones, Yeah,
we're twenty sixth in the NFL in twenty twenty two.
That's a hell of a year. Can I have Shane
Steike is my boss creating my work? If that's a
hell of a year. That's a hell of a year

(17:14):
if you're at a haunted house for checkdowns. So Shane
Steigen is really telling the Indianapolis fan listen, I know
it didn't work out with the Giants, but it's gonna
work out now. And I'm your financial advisor, and I
would like you to buy on your app on your
phone where you buy stocks. I would like you to
invest in Radio Shack. I want you to buy Radio

(17:35):
Shack stock in twenty twenty five because they're gonna make
a big comeback. Okay. He said Jones had the highest
completion rate in Giant's history, and while true, you know
what that means if you go back and look at
the tape. There were a lot of three yard slants
to Richie James back in twenty twenty two. It's kind
of like bragging that your kid is an honors student,

(18:00):
straight a's, and you don't explain the rest of the story.
As the Great Paul Harvey would say, all of the
kids classes were gym classes. It's the amazing randy of
quarterback spin, sleight of hand, smoking mirrors, and that's a
little salesman razzle, dazzle and all that. Like the Colts

(18:21):
quarterback plan. They're not rebuilding, they're rebranding failure. Like, all right,
we got this furniture that's kind of old and it
smells musty. Let's just move it around. Why not? And
Stikeen sound if you remember, I used to watch The Simpsons.
I haven't watched it much recently, but Homer Simpson had
a great quote one time. He said everybody is stupid

(18:42):
except me. And that's what Shane Steikeen sounds like, as
like Homer Simpson, everybody is stupid except me. Now I
get it. He's got to defend the indefensible decision. There
was no good decision because either way, the Colts were
absolutely porked here. If they had gone with Anthony Richardson,
well he sucks, he can't. And they brought in Daniel Jones,
and we know we know more that Daniel Jones sucks

(19:05):
than Anthony richards So this was a combo platter. It
was a combo platter for the Colts. And and he's like, well,
I got optimism, but there's also a delusion. You know,
it's really leaned in. He leaned into coach b It's like,
let me cherry pick a mid tier stat and I'm

(19:26):
gonna wrap that mid tier stat I'm gonna wrap it
up in a blanket of hope, hope blanket, and I'm
gonna serve it to the fan base like it's filet Minon.
And what you really did is you just reheated four
day old meat loaf. Is what you'd unseasoned four day
old meat loaf. Congratulations, Way to go, coach, Way to go.

(19:49):
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(20:10):
your questions in for that. I'll be coming up next
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And it is now if it wasn't years ago, people
now opening their eyes to the fact that a sport
has crossed over the rubicon and become full professional wrestling,

(20:30):
although it's not professional wrestling. We'll get to that. And
also the sport that you didn't know you needed to
watch because you don't need to watch it. That somehow
finagled themselves into a pretty decent deal. We'll go there
as well, and we will do it next.

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Loop at a Bronco fan. Comments can and will be
used against you in the court of sports radio. So
please please act accordingly. You must act accordingly. And I

(22:27):
saw I believe it was Ferg Dog who said it
was it was National Radio Day. He said there was
Was that yesterday or today?

Speaker 4 (22:36):
I don't know it was yesterday.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
It was yesterday, yes, so I must have missed it.
I did the company send us like chocolates or something
like that? We do national radio. Did we get any
gift from the company.

Speaker 7 (22:49):
No, I thank you from the company.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
We didn't get at Natta boy a pat on the back. Nothing,
No good job by you. No, Maybe they just gotten
my spam. It's in the spam folder. You think it
might be in the spam folder.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
I got to the producer's computer.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
You did, congratulations. That's only because the other one died.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
Though, Yeah, and I but then this new one doesn't
access you know, our our network drive.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah. Well they'll get that fixed in a couple of months,
it'll be good to go. So just you wait a
couple of months, it'll be good to go on that.
So yeah, National Radio Day. Another one of these fugazy holidays.
Where I used to talk about these on my the
podcast on the weekends, the Fifth Hour podcast, me and
Danny g we talked about these, and I just I've
kind of gotten away from that because it's, you know,
a little dope everyone. In a while, I'll mention one

(23:40):
and that's that's that. Ferg Dog says, I'm a Charger fan,
and I think suspending Jim Harblow is a terrible idea.
I think Irvin Myers just mad that it's been two
thousand and ninety days and so Ohio State has beaten Michigan.
So from fergdalk marked the full name guy. He writes it.

(24:01):
He says, Mallard, I thought for sure you would want me.
He marked the full name guy. Great in your work,
don't you want the reputation my rants can afford you.
And he says Jim Harbaugh has a big ego. That
is true. Oh he agrees with my my take. He
is a damn good coach, although he said darn and

(24:23):
I would question him personally though about one or two
decisions while head coach in San Francisco. Two bad decisions
out of thousands, two I objected to immediately, and one
was going with Colin Kaepernick as the starting quarterback. That's
from the Great Mark, the full name guy somewhere at

(24:44):
a secret compound in Oregon where we're not sure. We're
not sure, mister irrigation says. The world is standing by
looking forward to that WNBA update. There you go. Listen.
I don't make the rules around here, but the ratings.
When Caitlin Clark doesn't play, no one's watching. So maybe

(25:05):
they should stop doing that. I don't know, but uh,
each their own. Why not knock yourself out. Let's go
back to the phones and let's say hello, who do
we have here? All right?

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Well, Felexis was there, had a golden ticket but apparently hung.

Speaker 7 (25:20):
Up by f Alexis.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Why would you call up to use a golden ticket
and then not. I mean, you were next in line.

Speaker 7 (25:28):
Ben even told them they'd have to wait just over
the top of the hour, was it?

Speaker 2 (25:32):
I did? I did? I did tell them that. No,
I told him that I didn't. Yeah, you did, say, Ben, Okay,
everything okay, excited going to Vegas.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
She just told me that she's nervous. Sighted, Yeah, I'm nervous.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Why why are you? Why are you nervous? What are
you worried about? There's nothing to be nerve. You were,
you were, You were there last year at this thing. Right,
we did one last year at the same venue.

Speaker 7 (25:56):
You're right, You're right.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
It was fine. You know who. I don't know who's
going to be there, and we'll find out. I'll be surprised,
you know, maybe no one will show up, and then
you don't have to worry about any Ofthmore.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
Scott says that I'm sure he told you about this
in one of the you know, forty emails that he sent.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
I'm sure I stopped opening the email.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
Oh okay. He says that he promoted it on the
morning show.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Oh, on the Sports Hub.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
Yeah, I don't remember what show.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
So he realized Boston is rather far away from Vegas.
Do you understands geography that. Yeah, you know, we love
our people in Boston. We do very well on the
Sports Hub. It's the number one sports station in the
country in terms of ratings and the audioboff, and we're very
lucky to have four hours when no one's awakened Boston
to be on that station. So we're very grateful for that. However,

(26:43):
like he just jump on a plane last minute.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
He said, I plugged the meet and greet today. I
do think you get over one hundred people.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Well, I mean we've we've gotten around that in a
few of them, but it's like it doesn't happen most
of the time. I mean it's usually, but the people
come and go to they have a lot of people
have stuff going on on the weekend.

Speaker 7 (27:07):
I have enough name tags for everybody, you do, you sure?
And I have really colorful gel pens too, so you
can choose what color you want.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
That's very nice. And do we think that our friend
mouthwash Mike will show up? Do we think he'll show up?

Speaker 4 (27:19):
I sure, hope. So I brought a special bottle just
for him.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
You did, Okay, So if anyone can get a hold
of anyone who deals with the homeless in Vegas. If
you can get ahold of mouthwash, Mike, we'd love to.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
Did we have the last time we talked to him?
Did we have the date nailed down?

Speaker 2 (27:34):
No? I don't think so. Yeah. Yeah, even if we did, though,
he's got he's got some stuff going on. He's got something,
and I'm sure, well, yeah there's that. Yeah, he's in
and out of hospitals and in and out of jail.
That happens. I was happy to hear from mister PC.
That great song we played yesterday from mister PC, and

(27:56):
I haven't heard from him in a while. And he
reached out to the show Go back Well emailed and
he said, play the hits, mom man, play the hit, say,
quoting the old boss here. And he says, if I
knew Jay Scoop, Angry Bill or Blind Scott, we're going
to be there. I'd be encouraged to drive further. You
never know. Yeah, I told him about the He says

(28:17):
he wants to come down. We do the Ohio meeting,
but he's in Michigan and we don't have a venue
yet in Ohio. I thought, I know, full disclosure, I
thought I had a venue. I was talking to somebody,
and they kind of bailed on me. So now I'm
back to the drawing board on the Ohio Meet and greet,
much of the dismay of Dick and Dayton, who I
am convinced every time Dick and Dayton calls the show,

(28:40):
he is going to bring that up until I meet him,
and then, much like hollering James, once I meet Dick
and Dayton, every time after I do the meet and greet,
he will then reference the meeting. So that's the way
that's going to go. That's the way that's going to go. Now.
I did see this sor. I thought this was interesting
because I'm a little skeptical. I always take what I
hear from these teams with a grain of salt. So

(29:02):
there was a story bouncing around that Lamar Jacks, a
multi died time MVP in the NFL, that he's hurt.
Now he did leave practice early, he left practice early,
and there's conflicting reports on what's actually going on. The
Ravens say he's fine, he's he was at a foot situation.

(29:25):
His foot was stepped on at Raven's practice and everyone's like, oh,
they took they took a gasp, But like Oh my god.
Now the team's are all. He's okay, he's fine. It
was just as scare. There's nothing to see here. But
I'm gonna I'm gonna wait. I'm gonna see if he practices. Uh,
there's a lot of exhibition games like like right away,

(29:46):
like this is Thursday, and they try to get all
these games out of the way because the break, the
gap before the regular season year is upon us, and
so they want to have that extra time for rest
and relaxation before they're real the real NFL games begin,
and then it gets excited. So the Ravens, where do they
play this weekend? The Ravens exhibition game? See, I should

(30:07):
have checked in with my guy sports with Coleman, because
he has all the raven information and he knows the
spread Ravens played the Commanders. That's not till Saturday. So
like a light workout today, Probably light workout today, I
would say, So, we'll see if he plays in that game.
But there's uh, what do we got? We got a
couple of games today in the NFL tonight, Steelers and Panthers.

(30:30):
I will not be watching that. I will not be
watching the Patriots and Giants, which will be playing tonight,
and there's a bunch of games on Friday, and then
pretty much everyone else on Saturday. That's it. No exhibition
games on Sunday. So we'll see what's going on. All right,
Let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
Eenie Meanie mining Mode. Let's go now to a semi

(30:53):
regular call he didn't call very often, once a quarter
to the great State of North Dakota. And we say
hello to Screaming, the one and only Screaming Stephen. Hello, streaming.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Are you doing bad? Because there's wonderful How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (31:14):
If I was any better, I'd be sleeping, But I'm
here talking.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
So it's all question about the meet and Greek.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
You got a National championship quarterback as a Vegas Raider,
Cam Miller from the Bison.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
He's a raider.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Tell him to come down to the mean greet. We're
not paying. Everybody can come down.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Unfortunately, I don't know him personally.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Why not, man? I thought everyone. I thought everyone in
North Dakota knew everyone else about North Dakota is not
that big.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
We were harvesting potatoes, the little baby Yukon goals and pontiac.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
I love those those Oh my god, those are so good.
Oh my god, that is is that the king of
the potato? Is that the guy? Yeah, butter on that
you cook that properly, pull litle seasoning on their little
pepper or whatever. My god, is that great.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
The science of it, man, the science of it is
you have to go in the mills the hills and
they'll poke through and you have to grab them or
covered with dirts. We grabbed when they're young, and we
ever ate a potato chip with green.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
On the edges.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yes, yes, what is that? What is that? Explain that
to me? Give me, Give me that science.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
You know why the potato comes on the earth and
he hits the sun and the sun turns a little
edge of it green. But in the factory they just
sliced it up anyway because they don't have to want
to waiste anything.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Science. It's full, that's science. So it's okay. So like
you know, the green potato, that's an okay thing. You're
not gonna get sick or anything eating green potatoes. You're
okay with it.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
Oh no, No, it's just because it was bleached by
the sun or a bunked by.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
The sun, burnt by the sun. Okay, I got burnt
by somebody. And one time I made a garlic pizza.
Me and the wife made a garlic pizza and we
bought some some garlic. I think it might have been
from China or something. And it's the stuff turned green
on the on the pizza when I cooked it. That
scared us. We were a little scared of.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
I'm not I like pizza, but I never I don't.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Know all the science of pizza. Yeah, but you're farming
and vegetables.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
So you're a farmer, and that's what you do.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
We got we got.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
Vegetable gardens, and we got the chickens.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
You member. We bought the stuff at tractor supply, remember, yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Okay, all right, well wonder for now. You're trying to
suck up screaming Steve. Hey, Hey, hey, screaming Steve. We're
gonna make some new opens for the show. Can you say, hey,
this is screaming Steve, and I support the Ben Maler show.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Is scream and Steven, I am hem support the Ben
Malor show.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
You.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
I have all your albums.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
I love it. I love it all right, Thank you, Steve,
And I gotta go. But that's a great screen and
Steve much better than Stephen. A scream and Steve, that's
the real scream and Steve right there. Legend. Boots on
the ground. Boots on the Ground, update update update. Boots
on the Ground from Baltimore says that Lamar will not
play in that exhibition game regardless. You don't say, but

(34:18):
we will see if he practices today developing hoto dot
dot dot. That that message. I will not say who
sent that message, but it did have the eyeball looking
down emoji to the side, and I interpreted I interpreted
that eyeball to the side emoji as a sign that

(34:41):
there is trouble on the horizon. That is how I
interpreted that there is trouble on the horizon I did.
That's my interpretation. It's my take. You can't get upset.
It's my take. Fergdug says, why does screaming Stephen constantly scream?
Does he have a medical condition? Well, we hung off
on him, so I'll never I'll never be able to

(35:02):
give you the answer till he calls. Next time. Here
you go. Larry D says, Hey, Ben Maler show, the
goat of late night sports talk, radio. Nobody has done
it longer or better. I don't know about that. I'm
sure people have done it longer than me. There you go,
very nice hometown discount. Yes, you get a hometown discount
for sure. Thank you. That was a very nice That

(35:22):
was nicer than anything the Boss has said. That's from
larry D right there, the Great Larry D. Appreciate that time.
Now for the Insta Trivia. Go to the Insta Trivia
and we'll have Mallard of the third Degree coming up.
Here's the Insta Trivia Blank, and we're looking with the
name of a team. This could be any professional team
in American sport. Blank is the oldest continuous, one name,

(35:47):
one city franchise in professional American sport. Again, blank is
the oldest continuous, one name, one city franchise in professional
American sport. That is the Insta Trivia. The answer and
Mallard of the third Degree. We'll get to it. We'll

(36:07):
do it next.

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(37:07):
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(37:30):
see does anyone know the answer? But here's the question. Blank.
Is the oldest continuous one name, one city franchise in
professional American sport. Like these teams move around a lot.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
I like this question.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Uh see, does anyone know the answer? Econ Rosevio, Minnesota
is going with the dluth Eskimos as his answer. Uh
Freddie says Arizona Cardinals. That's his answer. Who else do
we have a Scrooge in the Bay Area? Says the
Maller Militia Crackhead Franchise. Yeah, well, we haven't had a
jet who fled? Check in our king Crackhead. Who else

(38:05):
we have? Biloxi Shuckers from the sawmn in Mississippi. The
Princeton whistle Pigs from mister nice Guy. The Los Angeles
Angels of Anaheim King Roy's answer Robin Vegas, who may
be at the Mala meet and Greek there And you
know Rob likes to stay on the side because he's
you know, he's a made man. Flint Tropics. Flint Tropics.
His answer? Who else do we have the my your

(38:29):
favorite strip club, Bob's Classy Lady from Benita? Oh yeah,
I've got great stories about that place. My podres from
Patrick Right, Lorena, do you have an answer? It's not
the Seattle Pilot's guessed by mister Irrigationho, of.

Speaker 7 (38:40):
Course it's not. It's got to be the Portland pickles.

Speaker 6 (38:42):
Ben.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
No, now, Rob the goat man got this right. The
answer is the Philadelphia Phillies, who have been the Philadelphia
Phillies since eighteen eighty three. That's why. In America, that's
a long time ago. Man. The Philadelphia Phillies are here
we go, Here we go, Here we go, here we go.
It's smeller. How about that? Oh my god? All right,

(39:09):
go ahead, cool please.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
About a month ago, it was reported buying an anonymous
insider that it would take a godfather offer for the
Giants to trade Jamis Winston. Back then, you said you
weren't buying it. Now, Giants assistant GM Brandon Brown said,
I appreciate people that are interested, but Jamis is a
New York giant. Ben, are you having now?

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Well, he is a New York Giant. No, I don't
believe it. Listen, that's how you play the game. Well,
I'm not gonna talk about hypotheticals. They always do that
bull crap. I'm not gonna talk about hypotheticals. Blah blah
blah blah blah. Listen, if if I'm if I've got
this right as I understand it, Russell Wilson's going to
start at some point. Jackson Dart with an X is
going to play. So what's the way if someone's going

(39:49):
to trade you a conditional fifth round pick for Jameis
Winston and he's not gonna play, trade him.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
Next Nearly two months into NBA free agency and Russell
Westbrook is still out a team. It's even being reported
that he could remain unsigned by the start of the season. Ben,
do you think that will happen?

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Well, I thought he was gonna go to Sacramento. That
was the hot rumor, and I guess that fizzled out.
And uh, you know, Russell, he'll be in the NBA
somewhere he'll be He'll be in the NBA. He's gonna
be on a team. Uh, And it's gonna it's not
obviously not gonna happen till before training camp, but I
don't believe that he's going to be unemployed when the
season starts next.

Speaker 4 (40:26):
Mariners outfielder Victor Billbliss was suspended ten games for an
incident earlier this week, when he hurled a bat at
a pitcher after getting hit by a pitch during a
rehab assignment. Ben, do you think he got off easy?

Speaker 8 (40:35):
Yes, you you don't. That's what you cannot do that.
You can't throw the bat, you can't do it. There's
a lot of things you can do and they'll look
the other way. I mean, you go through baseball history
that you can kill some No, how do we do?

Speaker 4 (40:49):
Koger, I'm a assition.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
You can pludge in someone with the
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