Hour 2 - Unable to Leave the Nest

Ben Maller talks about the forecast for the future of Kirk Cousins as the trade market dries up, Nick Chubb joining the Houston Texans, Bills RB James Cook not showing up for anything and putting his house up for sale, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding dong. It's our number two, Hour number two and
a happy Monday to you. And here a hour number two.
We start out in the atl what's the forecast for
Kirk Cousins NFL future as the trademarket has dried up. Also,
Nick Chubb chubble uh blub, formerly of the Browns, coming

(00:23):
off a massive injury, a couple of massive injuries reportedly
headed to the Texans pending of physical Are you giving
this move a thumbs up or a thumbs down? And
James Cook, Buffalo's lead running back, isn't showing up for anything.
The team not close to a deal. And now get this,
he's put his house up for sale. So what does
all this tell you? We'll talk about that and more

(00:46):
right now here. It is our number two. Unable to
leave the nest. Welcome In the beginning of another hour
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the Watire Buying Show. So our lead this hour is
from the A. T L. The atl The dirty birds
aren't doing a damn thing. They're not They're not having
If you saw this you might know where I'm going
with it. Maybe not. You know, I love talking Atlanta
Falcon football. Are we not on the pulse of the people.

(02:19):
Don't answer that we have a trade rumor update, a
trade rumor update. The word on the street. The word
on the street is that the Falcons have been desperately
trying to trade quarterback Kirk cousins Or. They got him
last offseason. They were all excited about that, and then
they drafted another quarterback, so they've been trying to get

(02:40):
rid of him and now the quarterback market is bone dry.
According to the latest reporting, Atlanta was eager to say
bye bye to Cousins and until they weren't, and then
turned out they didn't really want to eat the big
portion of the contract that would been required. They didn't

(03:01):
enough barbecue sauce in Atlanta to do that. And so
now the quarterback carousel has begun. Cousins is left searching
for a ride. He's I want on the carousel, and
the horse is not there. In fact, very odd that
a horse on a carousel would leave the barn, but
that appears to be what happened here. And so supposedly

(03:23):
Pittsburgh was the last best shot for Kirk Cousins until
Aaron Rogers knocked on the door and they opened the door.
And that's it. So long story short, three words. Nobody
wants him. Nobody wants him. So let us discuss the

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question stuck in Atlanta. What is the forecast? What is
the forecast for Kirk Cousins's NFL future at this moment?
Two day? So I've got tumbleweeds, advanced degree, and dandy
and we will combine all of these things together and

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we are going to make some twisted pizza dough is
what we're going to make. So number on the forecast.
And we're never wrong about these things because we have
the power of the bully pulpit, the power of the microphone,
the power of the headphones, the tools of ignorance. So
the forecast for Kirk Cousins, NFL future looking at the

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long term weather modules right, looking at all the models
and modules and all that stuff. The Doppler radar left
behind by Roberto who quit radio to live his dream
as a bus driver. So the Doppler radar shows here
that the Falcons are experiencing what's known as climate whiplash.

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It's a relatively new term climate whiplash, but rapid shift
between posing weather extremes, opposing weather extremes from a flooding
to drought from flooding tought drought trout. So we are
talking about a desolate desert devoid of any precipitation, a

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desolate desert devoid of any precipitation, and a market that
is the only thing there you can see moving around
is tumbleweeds. It's a lot of tumbleweeds blowing around. That's
an invasive speechies that came to America from Russia and
stuck there as Cousins on the dance floor. Now he
is on the dance floor, that's the good news. He's

(05:29):
doing the dance move, the limbo, how low can you go?
How low can you go? And no trades. Really, what
he's waiting for is breakfast. Kirk Cousins is waiting for
breakfast because he knows at one point in the upcoming
month and then the next two months actually, because you
know we're doing the show in early June and you've

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got the rest of this month and then most of
July before training camp opens up. Somewhere between now an
early part of training camp, a quarterback in the NFL,
a starting quarterback will go out and have a big
bowl of rice crispies and they'll have a little milk,
and then they'll take the spoon and they'll put the
spoon in and then they'll have snap, crackle, pop. And

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at that point, when you have the snap, crackle and pop,
that means you need another quarterback. Now. Is that Mahomes
hurting his ankle? Is that Josh Allen going a little
too heavy on his honeymoon and having a groin injury.
I don't know. Is that Lamar Jackson having a knee problem.
Who knows, but Boom goes to Dynamite and that is

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when the portal will open up again for Kirk Cousins.
And the Saints are the only team, the only one
that does not have a quarterback in the NFL. They're
not even trying. The fact that they're not even trying
in Ormans would lead you to believe that they're just
tanking and they're one of the teams is going to
try to get arch Manning for marketing reasons and do
the whole Manning family connection thing and all that stuff.

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And so that's it. Now Atlanta does have to act
relatively fast. And the reason they have to act relatively
fast because they're banking on Raheem Morris, who somehow has
a head coaching job in the NFL game. Raheem Morris
and the Falcons are banking on the second year jumpany
jump for Michael Pennex junior, that he's gonna jump on

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a trampoline and to the moon to the moon, to
the moon, to the moon. And so you gotta clear
the runway, gotta get rid of the things on the room.
Lane Cousins right now is some debris. That's clearing the
possible takeoff of Michael Pennock Junior. Now page two, we
did have a pending pending roster move over the weekend.

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What is the pending roster move? Nick Chubb a lob
blub formerly known as Nick Chubb. Nick Chubb, a love lob,
the former I say, former Cleveland Browns running back coming
off back to back seasons with massive career altering injuries. Well,
Nick Chubb has reportedly agreed to a deal with a

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new team. He is taking his talents to the Texans,
pending a physical. That's a big pending a physical addendum,
So are you giving this move a thumbs up or
a thumbs down? Nick Chubb going to Houston after a
thorough review, a minute long, minutes long deliberation, with our

(08:24):
copious amounts of research, we are giving this a full
thumbs up. Now, not two thumbs up, but one full
solid thumbs up, the thumb standing high and proud. It
is smart football. It is smart football because it's it's
a short term deal. It's a power play, power play
by the Texas. So Houston is not betting the family jewels. Right,

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that's a one year low risk if the reports are
Accurate's one year, low risk contract. It's a flyer. You know,
when you park your car and at like a sporting
event or a concert and you come out, there's a
flyer on the shield wiper. That's all. This is the flyer.
And I put that out. Maybe one out of two
thousand people will actually buy the product. But you're just

(09:08):
doing that right. He's he's a guy who was on
a dog Food Cleveland team, a spark plug. Nick Chubb
so went healthy and that is a massive, massive win.
That's ay. Ifs and butts were candy and nuts, you'd
celebrate every day, but you don't. Right. And when he's right,

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he's got the breakaway ability, or had the breakaway ability
of a top five running back in the NFL. Explosive
efficient powerful, a nightmare for opposing defensive players here. And
the problem is his doppelganger has been Humpty dumpty. And
when you're doppelganger is Humpty dumpty, it does not go well. Right.

(09:54):
Forget the spaghetti and meatballs because he left the spaghetti out.
What Nick Chubb has been doing the last couple of
year is adding meat ball surgery after meat ball surgery
he's twenty nine. And Chubb has not played a full
game since what Week fourteen the last season, and then
the year before he got hurt and I think it

(10:15):
was a week two. I believe it was week two
of the regular season. So it's been a while since
he played all the games. And he's a crash test dummy,
is what he is. And so he's got he had
the sprained ankle, and he had the ligament messed up
in his knee and is a complete just everything was shredded,
shred tred, shred tred, shred tred red. And so he

(10:37):
had the heel, the ACL that was the bugaboo, and
then he had the broken foot this past season, and
now he is I understand it if he does pass
the physical, which is very hard not to pass if
the team wants you, it's very hard not to pass
the physical. And they brought Chubb in and so I

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would assume Houston wants him. While would they do that,
They could just you know, go out and sign mister
Irrigation to play running back, but anyway, nonetheless, so Nick
Chobb will not be asked to be the bell cow back.
It's going to be an ensemble backfield because you're gonna
have Nick Chobb back there and Joe Mixing. So that's
the one two punch, which means Nick Chubb would be

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what he would be the goal line, goal line kind
of closer. That type of running back does not have
to be Superman and leap tall buildings in a single
you know what. And as Larry David will say, that
would be pretty pretty good if you can mix and
match and intertwine Joe Mixing and Nick Chubb, right, and

(11:41):
if you're getting seventy or eighty percent of what Nick
Chubb had been back in the day, Okay, as a
part time player, that's not a bad situation, being all
right now. Final points, speaking of disheveled running backs. Disheveled
running backs dateline Buffalo store that has been percolating over
the last couple of days in upstate New York. The

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team that fancies themselves a Super Bowl contender but always
finds a way to screw things up in the playoffs,
The Buffalo Bills. James Cook, the leader running back in Buffalo.
James Cook, Let's just say that he is not planning
on showing up to Buffalo. He wants nothing to do

(12:26):
with Buffalo. He wants no part of that city or
that region at all. The Bills running back and not
close to a new deal. In fact, the team's pretty
much said, we're not giving you a new deal. And
he has put his house on the market. That was
originally an internet rumor. Apparently it's been confirmed and has

(12:49):
some recent commentary that he's already looking around for his
new team and all that stuff. So what does all
this tell you? Doesn't hit you right in the schnaz
What does this tell you? So it tells me everything
I need to know. The classic tune from a different
era in the NFL, bringing Dandy Dawn, Don Meredith, turn

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out the lots, the parties over a sealiler. It's business.
It's more than that though, it's not just business personal right,
this person Cook is cooked. He is cooked in a
Bill's uniform.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
He gon.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
He is mentally checked out. And once a player has
mentally checked out, that's it. Go to HR fill out
the paperwork. You're done, you're done. You're disconnected. He is
disconnected from the organization. And James Cook is not just
skipping workouts, said, well, who cares, it's June. He's not

(13:49):
just skipping workouts. He's essentially skipping zip codes. He's like,
I'm out, and you don't list your house for sale
like that. Remember Tom Brady before he left the Patriots,
he put his house on the market and there were
people like, well, that doesn't mean anything.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
I was.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Generally, it's a pain of the asked to move, even
when you're rich. I know, when you're rich, you can
have a bunch of people move your crap. But it's
still a pain in the butt to take everything in
your DMV, your driver's license address, change everything has to
be changed. It's a pain in the butt. So you
only do that when you have to do it right.

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And so the fact that James Cook is proactively getting
rid of where he lives, that is a dead giveaway.
You've got a contract squabble. The team's pretty much said
you're not that important, and really that's what that that
this gets down to you. James Cook put up solid
numbers in Buffalo last year. Is a yin to the
yang into the yang of Josh Allen. And this is

(14:52):
not Hey, I just want a little more money or
a couple of bonuses tossed into the contract. This is
not that it's more than that right. This is say
James Cook. Bird is the word. He's given the bird
to the organization, and he's already thinking about where do
I want to be in September? Do I want to
be Miami? Do I want to be? Where do I
want to be a Chargers? Where would I like to go?

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Pick your team? Mary? Not in Buffalo, not in Bubble,
somewhere else. He would like to be somewhere else. He's
ghosting New York And it's kind of like, go back
to the pandemic a couple of years back, and many
of us found out whether we were essential employees or
non essential employees, Like, for example, you would think overnight

(15:35):
talk radio not essential. I found out during the pandemic
very essential. In fact, they gave us cards if they
had martial law, which I maybe they'll have here in
LA with what's going on these days, but they gave
us a card. We're allowed to work because the people
need sports takes no matter what. So we are essential
employees doing overnight talk radio. But if you're a running

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back for the Buffalo Bills, you are non essential. You
are non essential. You are not part of the critical
infrastructure that is that football team. Clearly and I don't
disagree with that by the Bills front office. He's not
a one percent running back. James Cook, he had a
nice year. But you can find somebody else. Find Josh

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Allen will open things up and you have a decent
offensive line, you'll figure it out. It is the Ben
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our buddy Eddie Garcia used to work on this show.

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I whacked Eddy, but Eddie still comes up my podcast.
So we talked to some Steelers and some hockey with Eddie.
It's on the Fifth Hour. Eddie's name out shaw fing yup.
So if you want to hear Eddie there. He's got
like seventeen hockey podcasts or something like that that he's
doing these days. But you can catch up on that
find out it's on the Fifth Hour podcast over the weekend,

(18:34):
and also a cool conversation with our buddy Nico, who
made that Canadian Mallord meet and greet possible. Can find
out some back behind the scenes details on how that went.
And Josh writes in from Nebraska. He says, back during
the pandemic, US newspaper carriers were essential. We worked every day. Still, yeah,
I agree. If I was fascinated when I had the

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boss is like, hey, you know, you're essential and if
there's martial law, will give you a pass. You're good
to go. It's like, oh, that's great. People need sports takes,
they need their sports takes. I said, absolutely, listen, this
country cannot go on without hot sports takes overnight. Sports
talk radio is very important. And the United States government
agreed with that. The people would rampage in the street. Yes, clearly,

(19:19):
and so that is why we are here. Chip and
the Q's rights and says hey plus on the mall
of monologue, anyone who knows about the Steelers organization knew
there was no chance Pittsburgh would both give up assets
and take on cousins bloated contract. Oh they didn't do it,
and I remember a conversation this guy used to call
a show angry Bill. I don't know what happened to him,

(19:40):
but Angry Bill used to call me, Oh, there's no
way Aaron Rodgers is going to Pittsburgh. Why are you
wasting your time on this blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. Huh Right, I'm sure he'll be calling up
to apologize any minute. Now. Who's your bills? Completely hammered
as he listens to the show and is making random
comments about Jack Peterson and other baseball players. Eugene in

(20:04):
Chitkago is up with this in the Windy City, He says, Ben,
someone on your radio show never heard the Ben Mallar
Ben Maler jingle. I think it's about time they hear
the fan made Mallard jingle. H I love the jingle,
but you know, we changed board ops and people don't
know the old drops and stuff. I think Danny plays that.

(20:25):
Danny g on the Fifth Hour podcast, so he'll he's
got a lot of the old drops that he'll play there.
But there, the jingles were great. I loved the jingles
and it was a fun, fun period on the show.
We had some good times with those jingles. Jordan Wrights
and says the Browns have five quarterbacks, but none of
them are NFL quarterbacks. Kirk Cousins will be a Cleveland
Brown by November first. This is not a prediction. This

(20:48):
is what will be happening. Period. Stop from Jordan. Well,
if Jordan said he this guy's never been wrong about
a Kirk Cousins room now, not when Kirk Cousins was
spotted at a Chipotle in Northern Ohio. Nobody's going to
Northern Ohio on vacation in like May or May I
think about in April. No one's going there unless they're

(21:10):
planning on playing for the Browns. But it didn't work out.
Matt Jack Wrights inceans, am I being too much of
a Dodger? Homer picking Otani over Schwarber at d H
Freeman over Alonso at first base? In Mooki over Ela
Ellie at shortstop for the All Star Game? You do you,

(21:31):
Matt Jack? You do? You? Just make sure there's no
hanging chads on your computer. Make sure there's none. All right,
we'll go to the phones and Meenie money. Let's go
to Andre who's in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Welcome, how.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
You doing Ben, Thanks for taking a call. Listen.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
Of course, there.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Would be mayhem in the streets if we didn't have
the mal and militia, Okay, in a pandemic or in
times of peace and security. It's clear, you know, the
United States government is obviously aware of the impact the
late night radio specifically Big Ben and the Mala militia
have on the people of the East United States. So
that's not in question. Also, I was guaranteed a cookie

(22:13):
early on in the show being an NBA hardo Okay,
because I'm tuning into this NBA Finals. I'm locked in
for Indiana, Okay, So you don't give me this small
market talk. Okay, we we we need first of all,
in Indiana, you want to talk about that state of
basketball craze state, you know. So they're locked in. Okay,
they packed the stadium, fifty thousand people show up for
a high school basketball game. So we know that Indiana

(22:35):
is locked in for this finals. And if you're in
the Midwest, you know, it's good. You know, if you're
in Middle America, Okay, the bread basket, Oklahoma, this is
this is big news. Okay.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
So this final Oklahoma. Is that this is not the
bread basket. Think it's the bread basket.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
It's what the home there at Iowa? What do you Iowa?

Speaker 1 (22:55):
Iowa? The bread bag on the Oklahoma is the bread basket?
Where'd you hear that?

Speaker 3 (23:00):
It's got the bread basket conversation? But it's in it's
the same. It's in the proximity. You know, if you
build it, they will come, all right, you know. So
it sits out there, and you know the mids, you know,
the Heartland. Can I say Harley Heartland?

Speaker 1 (23:10):
You can say, I guess you could say the Heartland.
Let's see here the bread basket. Maybe you're right, I
don't I never thought of Oklahoma as the bread basket.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
Bread basket of America generally refers to Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, the Great but Oklahoma's parts of all ten states
sit within the Great Plants, so it's in the Great Plains.
So you've got North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, Montana,
and that's a lot New Mexico there you go. Yeah,
I don't think of it the bread basket the official Great.

(23:49):
How about this the official Great Plains Region of North
America also encompasses three provinces of Canada, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
With that, bet, you're educating an educator here, I got
to incorporate. I just knew it was close to where
they made fills the dreams. I didn't know all this
extra stuff. Now, I got to step up my curriculum, okay,
and one based on what I'm learning tonight from the
malin Militia. So so, but you know they're they're they're
they're fired up. Okay, and so I again, we go

(24:20):
through these narratives and needed the star every every finals
can't be Lakers versus Celtics, okay. And of course I
would have liked to see my New York Knicks under
the caple leadership of Tom Thibodeau. Okay, who's been railroaded.
I would have liked to see them in this finals.
And they can have their big market and kind of
and go from there. All right, But bottom line is,
you know it's good for basketball. We had those years

(24:43):
with the San Antonio. Santonio's not a big market, okay,
but those five championships are just as important as any
as any other championships. All right, so let's back off
a little bit and then you have the inconclusion. You
got a number of calls here, you know, but people
talk about it's the contract, the television contra tracts that, uh,
these leagues depend on. You know, if you have a

(25:03):
year where the ratings or not what the ratings were
the year before, and at the end of the day,
you know you're getting all your money because what brings
people in. First of all, what keeps people saying is
the malon militia. But next what brings people in is
live sports. So we're gonna be tuning in air regardless.
The networks know that, the people know that. In the leagues,
they're gonna get the money. So it's gonna be a
good finals. It's going seven and he's gonna bounce back
to be a split and its.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
No one's watching it. But you're you're on. You're fine,
No one's no one cares.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Okay, but I want that cookie, ben as the basketball?

Speaker 1 (25:33):
What do you want a chocolate chip cookie? What do
you sugar cookie? Raising oatmeal? What are you looking at here?

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Okay, I'm looking for the chips, Ahoyd.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
You know, and the chips a hoy, Man, I can
make a homemade chocolate chip cookie. Dude, Come on, man,
you want to chips a hoy, I'll make it. Come
on homemade, ben homemade.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah, I didn't realize you checked it up. I know you.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
I knew you.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
You were the Hooper. You're an app.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
No, I'm I'm Benny Crocker, man, I'm Benny Crocker. I'll
make a cookie from scratch. I don't care it makes
some mean. I try not to make him often because
I get fat when I you know, I don't want
get in the way back.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
But okay, that's that's gonna get me to the end
of the year. Down.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
You got a couple of days left. I thought you're
almost done. Are you almost done?

Speaker 3 (26:13):
We're under ten dates, man. We're to go this week
and then we're going a little bit of next week.
Cross the t's and Dott.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
In the eyes, and it's gonna be the summer, the
summer of Andre, the summer of Andre on the show.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Yeah, I'm gonna get back to my regular my regular call,
and you know, get back to my late night hours.
So you know, some kate league baseball. So there's some
good things on the horizon and then this cookie.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
Man.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Uh, you know, this is an abundance of abundance of resources.
So I'm doing. It's a lot of things to looking
looking forward to.

Speaker 4 (26:39):
Ben.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Thanks taking a call.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
All right, thank you, Bud. It is great. Andre. Let's
say hello to Bruce. I think he's walking around Santa
Monica right now. See how many steps? Bruce says, Hello, Bruce,
good morning.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
I'm on a super walk. I was slapping. I was
slacking off for a few days.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Oh hold on, I don't don't don't tell us, don't
tell us you're on a super walk. What time did
you start walking?

Speaker 4 (27:00):
Well, I was watching the NBA game between five and seven,
and there was a twenty I'm hoping for Indiana, but
then there was a twenty point lead, as you know,
so I decided I don't need to watch the end
of this. I listened to the end of it on
the radio, and I've been walking since seven o'clock.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Okay, so you've been walking for five and a half hours.
But it's normally I do.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
Four, as I told you, but I'm doing six tonight.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
All right, I'm gonna guess. Oh, you're doing six, So
you got another half hour to go or so and
then you're done. Yeah, okay, I'm thinking Bruce is at
I'm gonna say twenty one thousand, four hundred and eighty steps?
Anyone else wanted to play the game here? How many
steps is Bruce walking around Santa Monica tonight listening to

(27:46):
the show. Oh my gosh, it's so long to be walking.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, I'm walking slowly. I don't walk very fast.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
What time did the walk start? Seven o'clock, even o'clock game?

Speaker 4 (27:57):
After the game, seven o'clock, Pete.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, fixed standard time all the way till twelve thirty five.
What was your guest ben twenty one? Was I? Twenty
one thousand, four hundred and eighty. I believe it is
what I was saying. That's a good guess. I'm gonna
go with nineteen thousand. Okay, he said, slow walking? Have
you taken any breaks?

Speaker 4 (28:19):
Absolutely? No break. I don't go very fast.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
I'm gonna go.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
It's an intensity, guy. It's gonna be like I'm I'm over,
then over. Have you slowly walked me? You haven't? You
have a step doometer on your earth thing what you
call it? Of course?

Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yes, I'm going I got the on my iPhone. I've
got I've got steps, and I've got miles.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
I'm gonna go twenty five thousand. All right, here we go.
Lock you're listening, lock your bed saying, right now, Bruce
walking around beautiful Santa Monica. Let's find out how many
steps Bruce has.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
Just under twenty one?

Speaker 1 (28:56):
No Ye, showcase, show guy, we don't have to play
show keep shudder. So I went that I was technically closer,
So I think I won. I think that's what we'll
have to ask for a dog for the final ruling
on that. So you're wandering run and what are you
pondering while you're walking around here? You have some amazing

(29:17):
takes you're thinking about if you're wandering around? Is that correct?

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Bro?

Speaker 1 (29:20):
You?

Speaker 4 (29:21):
When I listened to you, I get some inspirations. So
you were talking tonight about the you mentioned in passing
a little bit about the Manning quarterback dynasty. And look,
I love the two Manning brothers. They're great quarterbacks. I
think they both end up in the Hall of Fame.
Peyton already is. But the dirty little secret, which I
think he probably know but you maybe you don't. It's

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an archie. Manning had a really mediocre NFL career. I
don't think he ever appeared in a playoff game. I
don't think the New Orleans Saints or he played for
Houston at the end of his career. I don't think
they ever made the playoffs once. And he was a
great college quarterback at I guess he was Southern Mississippi,
but he never never played.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, be careful, you might be struck by lightning for
saying that you're not allowed to attack a manny. You're
that is in the inappropriate.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
I want to call it. My whole point of calling
in is that it's a myth. It's a myth, but
it's not a dynasty. It's two brothers, that's all. It's
two brothers. It's on a dynasty. And looked up Marchie
Archie Manning and see at the ever New Orleans Saints
never made the playoffs once.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
In about No, they didn't make the playoffs. But he's
revered NFL people. They revered. Not his fault. He was
surrounded by bad but in fact Archie Manning in his career,
he started what he started his career record. He had
thirty five wins and one hundred and one losses. For
the Saints, and I did not know that.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
Yeah, I didn't know that the figures were that bad,
but yeah he was. He didn't accomplish anything but.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Played for the Oilers and the Vikings at the end
of his career, but he played mostly with the Saints.
It was thirty as really as el Stinkle thirty five
and one hundred and one.

Speaker 4 (30:59):
When you listen to anyone talk about it, they go,
they talk about like it's a dynasty. Is how is
thirty five and one hundred and one part of a dynasty?

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, well, it is impressive that both his kids made
the NFL and is I guess his grandson right, Arch
Manning is not, but not Eli and Payden's kid. That's
the other Manning, Cooper Manning's kids.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
So right, Very briefly regarding Kirk Cousins, my take on
Kirk Cousins is is that, now get ready to disagree
with me on this one. I believe that NFL quarterback
is the most dominant position in any sport in the world.
It's eighty percent of your NFL team is one guy,
the quarterback. Ten percent is the offensive line. That's five

(31:39):
three hundred and fifty pounds tanks to protect them and
everybody else on the team. I don't care what all
the NFL shows and Terry Bradshawn, whoever you've got on
the I'll say that all these other positions are important,
like cornerback and the defensive back ten percent for the
whole rest of the team. And you might say, well,
cornerbacks and wide receivers, they're all they're the most athletic

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guys in the field. That's true. They are more than
the quarterback. But every NFL team has five or six
great wide receivers at any one time. There's one hundred
other ones.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, your percentages might be off a little bit, but
it's obviously a very important I'd be careful walking, Bruce.
You're just walking around your building, right, You're fine, You're okay,
all right, thanks, all right, Buddy the courtyard. He's in
the courtyard. So if you're Bruce's neighbor, you see a
guy walking around, that might be the famous Bruce the
Walker in Santa Monica wandering around. It is the Ben
Mallards show, So blame the mic. If you're watching the

(32:32):
Sunday Night Baseball the Yankees and the Sauks from the
Bronx you might have noticed that the third baseman of
the New York Yankees, Jazz Chisholm Junior, made a throwing
air while he was miked up, who goofed? I've got
to know? Yeah? Happened in the top of the third inning.

(32:54):
The Yankees were up to nothing over the Red Sox
game they would end up losing, and Jazz had the
mic on and yeah, and that led to the famous quote,
the word damn It was said thereby Jazz Chisholm, who goofed?
I've got to know? Blame the microphone? The in game

(33:14):
interviews does that? And is anyone watching for the in
game interviews serious? Like Zama oh Man, I love those interviews,
I don't. I know they're trying to get Baseball players
are generally boring and there's nothing interesting about them. So
the reason they do that is to try to let
you behind the scenes so you can find stuff out
about the players and they seem more likable and more

(33:35):
human and all that. It seems rather ridiculous, though all
the game's going on, to do the in game interview
with you know, who goofed? I've got to know? Anyway,
it is the Ben Malord Show. We're gonna have Mallord
to the third degree. Mallard of the third degree. That
is right around the corner time now though for the
Insta trivia, and we'll go to baseball for the answer trivia.

(33:58):
The inaugural MLBACH was held sixty years ago this week,
and Blank was the first of fifty two players who
were signed by the team that drafted them to later
enter the Hall of Fame. In Cooperstown, New York. Again
baseball draft was held. First inaugural Baseball Draft held sixty

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years ago this week. Blank was the first of fifty
two players who were signed by the team that drafted
them to later earn a Hall of Fame election. That
is the insta trivia. The answer we'll get to it
and the third degree and we will do it next.

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Right after we get off the air, our time to
do the instat trivia, and here it is we go

(35:27):
on the hot Top time machine. The inaugural MLB draft
was held sixty years ago this week. Now Blank was
the first of fifty two players who were signed by
the team that drafted them to later earn a Hall
of Fame election. That is the question, the Insta trivia
question of the night. Let's see, does anyone know the answer?

(35:49):
Chew Chew Coleman guessed by our buddy I forty Ian
mister Fuji from the Great Rob in Vegas, Lenz Sakata
from alf the Alien upon her I was actually his
name came up. Alf I was with a buddy of
my one of my gaming buddies, Hunter, and len Sicata's
name came up. We're trying to think of players in

(36:10):
the night, like random players in the nineteen eighties, his
name came up. Hl's going with Jim Palmer. Who else
do we have? Page down? Angel Reevees from King Rory
dan Uggla another good name from malor prop Guy, Andy Messersmith,
the big free agent pitcher from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota.
Tony Suck from j T the Wingman, Mickey Lolish from Robin, Minnesota.

(36:32):
Sid Finch guessed by Donkey's Sausage. Who else do we have?
Chico Escuala from Viva Los VICKI Do you have an answer? Lorraine?
Kobe Bryant? All right, Well, Kobe was great sixty years
ago and then he died and came back and played
for the Lakers. The correct answer is Johnny Bench of
the Big Red Machine. Johnny Bench.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (36:57):
To the third degree, this is one Big Ben gets
grilled cool.

Speaker 5 (37:05):
Earlier this year, former Colts coach Chuck Pagano came out
of retirement to join the Ravens as their secondary coach.
He was recently asked if he aspires to be a
head coach again, and he said emphatically no, He's had
enough of head coaching.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Do you believe him? Yeah, I do believe it's been
almost ten years since he was a head coach. He
coached the Colts. I love Pagano is a great sound
by he's almost sixty five. I think he's just tired
of the bull crap and he just wants to coach
and it's fun being a position coach and he can
play grab ass with everyone on this Generally, I think
most of these guys are lying when they say they

(37:38):
don't want to be head coach. But in this case, no,
I I believe Pagano is being one hundred percent reel
and he knows he's not gonna be a head coach,
and he's like he's happy just kind of hanging out
and being part of the Ravens coaching step.

Speaker 5 (37:50):
Next, the Steelers have not had a losing record since
the two thousand and three season under Bill Kauer. That's
a twenty one straight years of finishing five hundred or better.
Continue with Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yes, because they've proven they've had sucked quarterbacks in Pittsburgh
since even in the end of Roethlisberger, they were pretty bad.
And so the Steelers defense is good enough to win
by itself seven games, let's say, right, So they'll win
seven because of the defense, and then the offense will
win at least two or three, so they'll get to
that nine or ten win Mark and Tomlin is a

(38:24):
good regular season coach. He hasn't been a good playoff coach.
But with TJ. Watt and Patrick Queen and what they
have on defense and Hayward and those guys, they'll win
at least nine games.

Speaker 5 (38:35):
Next The Celtics are widely expected to be active on
the trade market this summer. In recent recording, says rival
teams are operating as if Boston will have a little
something for everybody. Yeah, then what Boston players do you
expect to be gone next year?

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Well, definitely Holiday, Drew Holliday is going to be traded,
Porzingis will likely be gone. The big one is do
they trade Jalen Brown? But at least two of the
rotation guys will be gone? How do we do necesssities?
Actual went flooding on the board.

Speaker 4 (39:03):
H