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June 20, 2025 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about if it's fair for Connor McDavid to want out of Edmonton, what a McDavid trade would mean for the NHL, Florida Panthers star Matthew Tkachuk saying that the Panthers are now a dynasty after their 2nd straight Stanley Cup win, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Don't tell anybody the rare and appropriate hockey monologue. That's right, Well,
it's not a hockey season.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Just put up with it.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Is it fair for Connor McDavid to want out of Edmonton?
A lot of chatter that he wants out of Edmonton?
Or is he running from the grind as.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
The kids say?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Also, what would a Connor McDavid trade mean for the
National Hockey League?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
We'll talk about that.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Meanwhile, Florida Panthers star Matthew Kachuk says that following the Panthers'
second straight Stanley Cup win, they are a dynasty. Does
that work for you? All of that come in your
way right now here? It is mellow out lame jokes
as well. Our number three. Well call it what it is?

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actually gonna talk hockey now. I have a rule on
this show, and the rule is to just try not

(02:24):
to suck. That's the mantra, try not to suck. But
the other rule is I'm just trying to find things
I'm interested in. I feel like if I'm interested in stuff,
then you'll somewhat be interested and if it doesn't work,
that's fine, And very rarely am I that interested in
the hockey store. I enjoyed the Stanley Cup Final. I

(02:44):
was one of seven people watching, but I enjoyed it.
I watched it. Kenny Albert did a great job on
the play by play. I thought TNT's coverage was really good,
even though nobody watched it. I thought it was wonder
But our lead this hour is from hockey because there's
a story that caught my attention. Do not adjust your
audio device. This is another rare and appropriate Malord monologue.
Just for the puck of it. That's puck, just for

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the puck of it. So you hadn't been following, and
chances are you haven't. We'll get big numbers in Canada.
But Connor McDavid addressing his future with Edmonton, and he
made it clear that he's in no rush to sign
a new contract. Now we should point out McDavid's got
one year left on his deal. However, he can sign

(03:30):
a new contract starting July first, which is right around
the corner as we're doing the show in real time.
It is July twentieth, so that's not that.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Far away and I believe do we have audio. I
think we have audio on this. I believe we do.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
As you said, Yeah, it's only been a couple of
days since the season ended, you know, take some time
to regroup, talked to my agent a little bit and
family and all that, and make some decisions when whenever
that time comes.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
But there's no rush, no rush on anything like that.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
So you haven't made a decision that means you are considering.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Not staying in Edmonton now.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Multiple times in the news conference, McDavid made it clear
that when it came to signing a new deal, he
gave the old cop out, I'm gonna do what's best
for me and my family. Okay, played the family card.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
From the bottom of the deck. Did it multiple times.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
There's been a lot of radio chatter that McDavid is
going to force his way out. He is going to
not sign the extension with Edmonton and he is going
to leave the province of Alberta and head somewhere in
the United States. And that's just the way it's gonna be.
And he's gonna chase the bag and he's out. So question,

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as we discussed, the question, is it fair if this
is the way it goes, and it's looking like it's
going in that direction.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Otherwise he would have said, like, I love it here.
I don't want to go anywhere else.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
We were this close to winning the Stanley Cup, been
in the finals the back the last two years.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Just a couple of moves were right there. He didn't
say that, at least I didn't hear him say that.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
So is it fair for the face of hockey Connor
McDavid to want out of Edmonton?

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Or would he be, as the kid say, running from
the grind? What have you running from the grind?

Speaker 2 (05:20):
So I've got Guantanamo Bay, Red and Bull and Motel six,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are gonna put the biscuit in the basket, is
what we're gonna do. We're gonna put the biscuit in
the basket. So, first of all, watching this and listening
to it, Connor McDavid sounded like a guy who's ready

(05:42):
to leave. Didn't want to necessarily say exactly that, but
right now, if you gave him truth serum, that is
the way he is leading in terms of the question
is it fair or running from the grind?

Speaker 1 (05:57):
On this one?

Speaker 2 (05:58):
And we go on a case by case basis on
this one, it's absolutely fair. McDavid is mcgaughn. Two years
in a row, two years in a row. Connor McDavid
and his oiler teammates have been left clutching nothing but
heartbreak at the end there, and now his contract is

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a ticking time bomb down to the final year.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
It's a lame duck year and on.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Que the vultures are out circling around. And it's not
like McDavid jumping ship after three years or five years
or all that. He spent a decade, a full decade,
the first decade of his career, skating on the frozen
pond on the Alberta prairies there and the last two

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seasons and again we want to talk about talking you.
This guy has been dominateing two hundred and thirty two
points the last two seasons alone, and he is the
NHL's undisputed king of zero rings.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Nothing to show for it, right, He's the king of
the NHL no ring and he's.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Been to the finals now back to back years and dragging.
I know they have Leon dry Sidle, but you look
at the rest of the roster and there's a lot
of guys there that, you know, even I a novice
hockey fan.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Like they're not that good.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
And then they get there and they watch the Florida Panthers,
a team that does not have the star power of
McDavid and Leon dry Sidle.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
They got a bunch of grinders on that team.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
And you see the depth of Florida and the goltending
was it was like a webinar on goaltending and it matters.
And some people say it doesn't matter. Well, in this series,
it mattered. And so you have the NHL's golden Boy,
the golden child of hockey, who is stuck in an

(07:50):
ice box version of Guantanamo Bay, right, McDavid who's been
carrying the oilers like an atlas with the world, the
hockey world on his shoulders and all that, and so
what's he got to show for it? So he's got
a team that is close, you know, they are on
the doorstep. But the goaltending situation Stuart Skinner, Stuart Skinner,

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who's about as useful as an Amish electrician, like a
Mennonite electrician, if you know what I mean. Like the
oiler's failure and they've had ten years, ah, well, they're close.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Well, close doesn't get it done.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
So you have a once in a generation talent that
fell into your lap because you sucked and you got
the pick and you got the guy and all that stuff,
and you don't have a championship caliber goaltender and you
have a roster lacking depth.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
It's like that's a war crime in hockey. It's against
the sport of hockey.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Now, speaking of that, page number two, So what would
a Conor McDavid trade mean for the National Hockey League?
Is we brainstorm, Benny brainstorm.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
On this and this is rather obvious. You don't need
me to tell you this.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
If McDavid ends up with a glamour team in a
big market, the curtain goes up. The watch out, watch out.
Now there is chatter that Broadway is said to be lurking,
and that pretty much anyone and everyone in the NHL

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will if McDavid wants to play in a B or C.
He can play for a to Z, forget ABC, he
can play anywhere he wants. Just picked the team and
they'll move mountains to get him. He's that good a
player and they won't tiptoe around.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
They'll just go for it.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
So the first teams, the New York Rangers, and the
usual suspects, the original six teams that matter will be
out there now. As Michael Jordan would say, the ceiling
is the roof, and in terms of the NHL big picture,
wide angle lens, it.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Would be a case of red bull caffeine overload.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Like McDavid would become the most interesting man in the
hockey world. I don't always watch hockey, but when I do,
I prefer Connor McDavid.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
And that's that all right, final thought to the Sunshine State,
we go.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
The team that won that beat Connor McDavid and the Oilers.
They made some news this week and me, we were
away from the watchtower when this comet streaked across.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
The sky and the Panthers won the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
So after appearing in their third straight Stanley Cup, repeating
as champs back to back, belly to belly, the D
word came up. The big D dynasty that came up.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
And they are the.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Tenth team in the last fifty years to repeat, tenth
team in last fifty years.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
To go back to back.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Now, Matthew Kuchuk said, we gotta be a dynasty. Now,
that's a quote, We've got to be a dynasty now,
he said postgame, he said it again, and he said
it again.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
So that's the money quote.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
From the Hockey Week other than Connor McDavid is Matthew
Kuchuk saying that they're.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
There, they're a dynasty.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
So Panthers star Matthew Kuchuk saying that the back to
back Stanley Cup wins means that his team is a dynasty.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Does that work for you? So, after a thorough deliberation
and we looked at everything available, the answer is no, No,
that is a premature take.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
I mentioned the last fifty years, so we're going back
to a long time.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
This is the tenth team to do it. Have we
had ten dynasties in hockey?

Speaker 2 (11:59):
No, nobody's going to say we've had ten dynasties in hockey, right,
And it's like back to back is nice. It's just
premature that we sell a pill.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
For that on the Overnight show. If you got an
issue with that, we'll sell you some some drugs. But
back to back is nice.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Calling that a dynasty is like calling you know, you
go to Motel six. You stay for two nights on
a Friday and a Saturday, and you say I've leased
out Motel six, Well, no, you stayed for two nights.
That's not that's not it. But we will leave a
light on for you. Now, don't get me wrong. The Panthers,
they're standing on the edge of Dynasty Mountain. They're right

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on the edge. However, Florida has not crossed the rubicon.
Here's why I've used malord math on this. And you
think greatness and this is not just a hockey thing.
But since we're talking about hockey, like for me, I'm
a casual hockey and I did cover hockey.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
For a few years when I was early on in my.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Radio journey, my broadcasting journey, I slaved the way at
hockey games, eating free food in the press box. But
back in my life, we'll just go through my life
because that's all I care about anyway. The nineteen eighties
Islanders dynasty, the Steve Eiserman Red Wings, Sergei Federoff dynasty

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in the nineties, the Gretzky Oilers back in the day.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Dynasty that was in the eighties.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Those teams dominated for half a decade, kicked ass right,
and so that's the rough to me. You need three
the magic number is three in a You don't have
to win three in a row, but you got to
win three within four or five years, and I'll then
put you on dynasty mountain. And that's it, and is

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a wise old man told me years ago. One time
as an accident, one time is an accident, a couple
of times as a coincidence.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
You know, three times you've got a pattern. You do
it three times. There's a pattern there, and so you
have to factor that into the arithmetic. And that's the
way that it is. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
That is the way this is.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
We had a NBA Finals game where we had a
surprising outcome Oklahoma City favored on the road. Some of
my friends are like, I'm not watching. That's gonna be blowout.
I'm not gonna watch it.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Now.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
It was a blowout, but the team that was supposed
to blow out the other team didn't do it. What Yeah,
it was supposed to be Oklahoma City wrapping it up
and just mopping the court with the Pacers, And much
to the dismay of who's your bill who thought the
series was over? Turns out what though, and the Pacers

(14:49):
they got it done, and so we will have a
Game seven this weekend on Sunday. We are excited about that.
We are anticipating some some good times. Now, I just
want a close game. I don't care really who wins.
I have no skin in the game. I do like
the way the Pacers play and so that would be
more fun.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
But it's not like I'm a Pacer fan.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
I just want to see people sweat in the fourth
quarter and see who's took his titans up and suffers
from tight took his syndrome. That's what I want to see.
Because if it's close, most games are lost, not one.
It's not gonna be somebody hitting a big basket.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
It's gonna be somebody.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Missing something defensively, somebody having a terrible stretch offensively.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
That is the outcome of that game. That's how that
game is going to end. In a Game seven, it
is the Ben Mahler Show.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
As we work our way through the overnight hours, time
now for the mallor Riddle of the day. And here
is the mallor Riddle of the day. Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh,
good old Jim Harbaugh.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Always good to give us a riddle.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
So Jim Harbaugh to the Spries of Many says that
despite being an NFL coach and a highly successful college
coach for a number of years, he never ever blanks
after games. Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh says that he's been
doing this a long time, but he never.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Blanks after coaching a game.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
That is the mallor riddle of the day, the answer,
We'll get to it and we will do it.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Next.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app Bill Miller and you.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
It is the Ben Mahler Show. We're up all night,
every single night. Lame Jokes of the week coming up
later this hour. All of that for you. Yeah, that's right.
I know you're excited by that.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
They'll be coming up the weed Man from my emmy
schedule to make a rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate
appearance on lame jokes, so.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
We have that to look forward to.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
You can answer the riddle of the day on X
at Ben malor that's at Ben Mahlor. Also you can
say aloa to Mark, who's hitting the buttons here. He's
in tonight doing a fine, fine job with all the
various buttons. Salor to Mark, Mark M. A. R. C

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Ramsey six four nine five Oho, and guys it Mark
always kind and nice and.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Uh yes, very nice to work with.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Good guy coops here as well a Bronco fan as well,
and your comments cannon will be used against you in
the court of sports radio.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Back to it we go all right time now, time
now for the Malor riddle of the day. I'll go
to football. A long time football.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Coach with the Chargers, and he's in Michigan, a Michigan
man for a long time, back with the Niners back
in the day. Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh says that he
never blanks after games.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
He never blinks. That is the Mallard riddle of the day.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Mallard prop guy says, coach Hawbat never misses an opportunity
to have a postgame you who chocolate drink, never kisses
his players on the mouth.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
From Asher gets drunk and beats his wife.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
From ferg Dog very violent? Who else we have page down?
Femi says he never eats after a game. He doesn't
do it. Who else, let's see here far out Dave
says think before he speaks. Alf the Alien o Planner
says he never groomed a horse after a game. Didn't happen,

(18:54):
never eats at all you can eat buffet from Colorado.
He he never watched Benny Versus the Benny. Well, you know, donkey,
you're supposed to watch that show before the games, not
after the games. Supposed to watch Benny Versus the Penny before.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
The games, not after.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Who else do we have? Harbaugh never drives himself home.
He hitchhikes instead from Manuel in Guardina, Andy in Lino Lakes, Minnesota, says.
Jim Harbaugh says he never snaps into a slim gym
after a game.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Ozzie Wise from Western Australia is up with us. The
Land of the Kangaroo, the fighting kangaroo, and he says
celebrating with a couple of beers. He does not do that,
does not do it. Nature Boy says he never listens
to Doris Burke if he can help.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
It, I understand, I understand. Never pets his dog from Inkota.
That's not very nice.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Larry D says he never attempts to play Ben Maler
at a game of scrabble.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Well, many have tried. There's only a couple guys left.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
I was playing a bunch of games against fans of
the show, and then I kept kicking their ass, and
a bunch of them quit.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
These are legends on the show.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
They couldn't handle it. They could not handle the beatdowns
that they were getting, so they quit the game.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
It's embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Eke in Roseville, Minnesota says eat Fish Tacos does not
see take off his rubber pants from Johnny Q. Never
plays pocket pool after a game, only before games from
Tom the Plumber. Terry in England says Harbaugh never removes
his khakis after a game, so he says, all right,

(20:35):
the correct answer here and reveal answers, reveal answers charges.
Coach Jim Harbaugh says that he never showers after a game.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
He does not shower after the game. He goes home
or he goes.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Right on the team plane, covered in sweat, covered in sweat.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Does not believe in showering after a game?

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Is he?

Speaker 1 (20:58):
I didn't know he was from France.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
I did not realized he had French blood in him,
that he did not believe in the in the shower.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Let's go back to the.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Phones, and we'll say hello to Andrea in Berkeley, the
Astrology Insider, our friend Andrew.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Hello, Andrea, Welcome, Hello Ben.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
Who are you?

Speaker 2 (21:17):
If I was any better, I'd be a giant, but
not a San Francisco giant, because you know, they're still behind.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
The Dodgers and all that in the division. But what's
on your mind there, Andreao. They didn't make a nice
trade the other day.

Speaker 6 (21:29):
Yeah, the match. Yeah, that's really sad. But anyway, I digress.
I wanted to wish you and the Mala Melissa a
very happy and blessed summer Solstice.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh, the summer Solstice is back.

Speaker 6 (21:42):
Yes, we got the longest day of the year, although
I'm sure it feels like that for you a lot
of times. And it's at seven forty two Friday, seven
forty two pm Friday, June twentieth, twenty twenty five. So
we have the summer Solstice, longest day of the year
year sun enters cancer and it's just, you know, a

(22:04):
really nice day to start celebrating summer and you know,
just moving forward with that summer energy and play.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, that's great. Great those late sunsets.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
And have you ever been up north where the sunsets
like at ten or eleven o'clock.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
It's wild man. You go far up north and yeah,
oh yeah, that's next level.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Even though we were we were in Vancouver, the sun
was setting at like nine o'clock and I think, I think.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Later on it'll set it like ten. You'll have to
check it. I'll check it with Nico and find out.
But it sets late there. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (22:36):
Yes, the day with the most hours of sunset and
I'm you know, I'm a night hour. I'm working on
my Summer Soltice astrology newsletter, So off the malor flicier.
Anyone would like a free astrology newsletter, let me know.
It'll have the mercury retrogade dates, the full moons, all
the important Earth planets that are good to know about.

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So it's just really nice. The summer solstice June twenty first,
the longest day of the year, most hours of daylight.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
And now if you are you say you're a night owl,
and I appreciate that because you listen to the show.
So if you're a night owl, does that mean you
like when the sun sets earlier because then you have
more night So is that where you go because you
have more hours of darkness.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
Oh that's a good question, and I'd have to think
about that. Actually, you know when the.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Sun sets are like four thirty or something.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
During the winter.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (23:31):
Yeah No, that's uh yeah, that's that's a little harder
to deal with when it SAIDs. So, yeah, when it
gets dark so soon, I kind of like it when
it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yeah, okay, so you're a night owl, but you enjoy
the night being a little later.

Speaker 6 (23:46):
Yes, how about you?

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah? Yeah, I like being able to know.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
I sleep during the day so I write in the winter,
I get up and it's like it's like a mind hack.
You get up and it's already almost dark and you're like,
holy crap, what you don't know what time it is?
And you're like, is it morning time or is it
n I don't know if I'm I've been awake, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
It's all that. So all right, Well, thank you, Andrea.
I have a great weekend. We'll talk to you next
week now that the phones are back you can check in.

Speaker 5 (24:16):
That was great.

Speaker 6 (24:17):
There was a you know, mercury wasn't retrograde, but it
shorts felt like it was on this show.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
It was Yes, for the phones. It was absolutely in retrograde.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Thank you Andrea the she goes and what that newsletter
virgo in service on the X machine. Let's say hello
to our buddy jabone who's in Portland, Maine.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Hello, j Bone, Welcome mister Ben. How you doing the
Land of the Lobster.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
I'm looking right over the sea right now where you
were on Commercial Street.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Oh you are okay, very nice. That's a great street.
I enjoyed that a lot, a lot of great bars
there and little yea. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:54):
So if the shows renewed, are you coming back?

Speaker 1 (24:58):
That is the plan. I will be back.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
We will. I'll be taping some stuff if the show
is renewed by NBC, will be there and in the
Boston area. And I I would like to go back
to Portland, Maine and then.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
Check that out and buy you some chicken nuggets.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
You actually gonna show up this time, Jaybone. I don't
remember you showing up last time I was there.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
I hadn't worked my second job. But I don't have
a second job anymore. So yeah, I was the one
who said I suggested the spot that you went to.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, yeah, no, it was it was cool. It was
a nice.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
We had a good night.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
We had some good food there and then then drove
back down to Boston that night. So it was it
was cool, but people were people were complaining at Jaybone.
They were complaining, My guys that the guys that are
in Maine, They're like, that's not real Maine. That's fake Maine.
That's a tourist town. You got to go up in
the meat and potatoes of Maine, that's what.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, the soul of mate is.

Speaker 5 (25:48):
That's kind of right, but it's kind of wrong.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
I mean, and you can't be both. You got to
pick a side. You got it can't be both. You
have to pick a side.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
So I am so they call me a city it here.
I live in Portland and I grew up in Portland.
I'm a city kid. And you go up north you
get that, but you go twenty minutes away from Portland
you get the same thing. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
So yeah, no, I hear I hear you. All right, Well,
very good. What's on your mind? Jab?

Speaker 5 (26:16):
So I've been catching up on your fifth hour podcast, right, Yeah,
And I have been listening to you since Eddie has
been trying to hook up with Amanda, and.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
I've eard you.

Speaker 5 (26:29):
Yeah, I've never heard you use the yoku the yoku
ono take your bash of my boy, Josh Allen. So
he got married and he's like he lived rent freeing ahead, Ben,
let it.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
Go, Jabo, let it go, No, let let it go.
That was a great That was a great. That was
a great take.

Speaker 5 (26:48):
You had a take. You had a bad take when
he first came in the league.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
That's bad. Now he hasn't won a super Bowl yet.
It was not a bad take, Couper Bowl.

Speaker 5 (26:57):
If it wasn't for my homie, he would have beat
the hell out of the Rams on that super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Well yeah, and if it wasn't for if it wasn't
for Jordan, the Utah Jazz would have been a dynasty.
So what do you want me to say? Yeah, let
me play that game.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
If it was it wasn't for Joe Montana, my child,
but Eric Dickerson would have had the Rams to three
super Bowls.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
So what do you want?

Speaker 5 (27:17):
Hey, Dad? But what if it wasn't for Mahomes doing that?
You know, it's not even Josh Allen. It's the Bills organization.
Mcdermy sucks. I mean, we need a new coach. They're
wasting his best years.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Well, I thought they were going to fire him two
years ago. I did a monologue. Fire two years ago,
fire him.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
They kept him around. He can't leave. I'm there forever.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
You know, the Bills organization needs some help. But Josh
Allen is not the problem. You said he was going
to be a dud. He's not real and.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
He hasn't won. He hasn't won.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
You know, I'm just saying at the time, at the
time I said that, Jay Bone, that was a great take.

Speaker 5 (27:56):
It was it was Yeah, it was MVP of the
league pal.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, okay, all we'll need when you come here. Okay,
all right, all right, Hey, I gotta go. Thank you, Jabon.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Make sure they pick up the show or I ain't going.
And we're getting close to that time, right this summertime
or football.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
We're only like a couple of.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Months away from the first NFL game, so we're we're
right at that point here. It's nail biding time. And
I mean, I got the lepre CON's already got a
whole night planned. He's got like a band, he's got
a venue picked out for a Mallard meet and greet.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
We can watch a wool socks game.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
He's got like there's big events played, but it's not
out of my control. I'm waiting to hear back from
the network to see if they pick up the show
or not. And the economy is not great, so who knows.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
We don't know.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
We'll find out later on. We will find out a
little bit later on. I mentioned this earlier, and I
didn't pay it off that job by me. So Tyrese Halliburton.
Tyre's Halliburton's a basketball player, and he didn't score a
point in the previous game, or didn't make a basket
in the previous game, but he came back.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
He played pretty well all things considered.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Pacers winning a route or root the pace regard Tyree's Halliburton.
His girlfriend apparently decided listen. According to Halliburton, she said listen.
She's been making him take care of his injured calf,
getting that done before.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
According to him, they watch Love Island. So I've heard
a lot in the last like ten days about this
Love Island. I have no idea. I knew nothing about
I've never seen the show. Yeah, what was wrong with
you when you watched the show? He was a great show.
I can't believe you.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Every stupid night, I'm watching sports sporty guy.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
So I've not watched Love Island for some reason. It's
like everywhere.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
I guess it started as a British series and then
it came to America.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
It was it was picked up by CBS. It's been
on for years.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
I just have never watched it, and I guess it's
on Was it on Peacock now?

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Is that where it is?

Speaker 2 (30:13):
I guess it's uh. I think it's on Peacock now.
It was originally on CBS, and so I don't know.
I haven't seen Is it worth my time?

Speaker 1 (30:22):
It seems like a cheeseball thing. I don't know. If
i'd i'd be into it. I don't know about that.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
It's getting a lot of attention. It's getting a lot
of attention. It's like a cheeseball dating show.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
And as I've learned, and I knew this before.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
I remember one time I was driving in.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Hollywood going to where I used to live. I have
apartment over in Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
I was driving to the radio station I was working
at a time, and this was in the early days
of reality TV, and they were.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Doing one of those dating shows.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
I think it might have been like blind date or
something like that. And they were recording this couple, this
young couple, and they were crossing the street and I
guess they didn't get the right b roll, so they
had to cross the street again because they needed the
right to the right b roll. And it was that
moment I realized, this is not you know, this is

(31:13):
it's not totally authentic. And then as I've had a
little taste of television the last couple of years, some
of the big grizzled TV executives have pointed out to me,
there is nothing that happens on television.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Nothing that is really reality. Everything is loosely.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Scripted, and there's nothing that's just oh natural.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
It does not happen anyway. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
So Halliburton enjoying Love Island as a bunch of other
people are. But I'm good on that. I believe I'm
good on that.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
We have Big Bend's lame jokes of the week. The
lame jokes of the week is weed Man there? Do
we have him standing by?

Speaker 5 (31:53):
He?

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Is he there waiting out? All still? All right? He
might be?

Speaker 2 (31:57):
If not, we'll need a fake weed man. Eight seven,
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Speaker 1 (32:07):
We'll get to it and we will do it next.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
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Speaker 1 (33:08):
Well, there we go. It is time out for lame
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Speaker 2 (33:13):
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Speaker 6 (34:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (34:18):
See that was the That was the joke. Anyway, right
here we go.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
These are our actual jokes by actual ministers. What do
Ben Mahler and the Fox Sports radio phone lines have
in common? What they both took a couple nights off
this week that's Eric in Kansas.

Speaker 5 (34:37):
I know I called you Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah the phone, the phones didn't work. What that's Eric,
very funny man.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
What did blind Scott like when he attended one of
Doc Mike's family barbecues? What that warm glass of lemonade
from Surfer Topical Media. What is one of the best
per that blind Scott gets?

Speaker 6 (35:02):
What?

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Well?

Speaker 2 (35:03):
He never has to worry about seeing his exes ever? Again,
that's Noah in Austin. What event has even more fighting
than Caitlin Clark's w NBA games. What Blind Scott's family
reunion at the Boston Zoo.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
That would be the answer there.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Then Fargo Pete sent me a couple of jokes which
I don't think are broadcast worthy. I love you, Fargo Pete.
It was great meeting you back in the day. But
I just can't use him because I want to be
here on Monday. How would you describe weed Man's biopic? Wow,
it's a cautionary tale. Richester rags made in Hollywood, Florida,

(35:49):
that ships in Maine. How's your roommate by the way,
is he there?

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Oh? Yeah, there he is?

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Look at he works at wall Eh? Yeah, all right,
He's like your sidekick. This is great. He has a
two man show. Now, weed Man, this is your dream
come true?

Speaker 1 (36:07):
All right?

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Inspired by the George Foreman grill, weed Man is doing
a celebrity endorsement of his own to year about that
weed Man doing. According to Dan in South Carolina, look
for the weed Man roach clip coming soon.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Very exciting, all right.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Why does weed Man love the Fox sports radio phone lines?
Why because they don't work either. That's Eric in Kansas.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Very funny.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Well did you hear that the Mennonites are off for
are offended?

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Rather, Mennonites are offended by.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Weed Man's poor work ethic and are boycotting lame jokes.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
How about that?

Speaker 5 (36:48):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, Yeah, a defiant weed Man hippie told them to
stay in their lane while he applies. We're more government
handouts to make people laugh.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
That's Tom and Indie.

Speaker 5 (37:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Why is weed Man being considered to be the new
poster child for the National Hockey League? Why because weed
Man he has no teeth and looks like a hockey stick.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
That's a surfer Todd. You're a very thin man, that.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Surfer Todd, the comedian, a multi platinum joke writer. Surfer
Tide you, you would admit, weed Man, you're on the
thin side, right, Yes, you're leaning me.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
You're leaning me. But even before you you lost you
know your your way there, all right?

Speaker 2 (37:34):
What does weed man call a bag of crap on
fire on his porch? What a hot lunch? That's Tony
in the bay. That's not nice, Tony, that's not nice. Well,
years ago, weed Man had a minor role in a
movie called Cocaine.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Do you remember that weed Man? No I was Man,
No I was you were in Cocaine. It was only
one line, though, that's it. You only did one line.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
That's Eacon Roseville, Minnesota. Very funny man, all right, John
and Youngstown sent a joking about your roommate, which I
also don't think is worthy of being on the air.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Unfortunately, good joke, John, I enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Marcel in Brooklyn, Well he caught the peekaboo virus. You
hear about that weed Man? Yeah, he ended up in
the ICU. Come that is like a That is a
cheeseball dad joke.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Send him by Owen in Utah.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Thank you on well hollering James is unable to drink
milk because he apparently has a foot fetish.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
How about that one weed man?

Speaker 5 (38:39):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Yeah, James's lactose intolerant, is what he is.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
That's Derek. That's another dad joke by Derek and Denver.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Why are bananas the favorite fruit of Blair in Maine?

Speaker 5 (38:54):
Why?

Speaker 1 (38:55):
We're not sure. He says. They're just appealing, is what
he says. They're appealing.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
That was a mark in Madison, Wisconsin, near Kathy in.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
Madison, Freddy from Fremont. That sounds like a fake name,
he says.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Blaire in Maine was reading a book called the History
of Lubricants.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
How about that one weed man?

Speaker 5 (39:16):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, it's apparently a non friction book, is what it is.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
So there is Why does why does Mike the Leprechaun
wear a kilt? Why because a sheep can hear a
zipper a mile away?

Speaker 1 (39:32):
That's wow. That's Ecan Roseville. I mean that's not right there, man,
oh man, oh man, All, I got time for a
couple more here.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Chip and Maine sent this one in What can Giant
fans expect from Rafael Devers this year? What he'll lead
the league in walks to first base on infield grounders?

Speaker 1 (39:51):
There it is lame jokes in the week, Thank you
weed Man. There he goes, lame jokes
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