Hour 3 - Bad Blood

Ben Maller talks about WR Terry McLaurin reportedly being "frustrated" with the Commanders and the lack of progress with his contract talks, Sean McVay saying the idea of not coaching is laughable now, Lame Jokes of the Week, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Subscribe to that, listen to that, but here an hour
number three. Can you unscramble what this Terry McLaurin contract
kerfluffle with the commanders is all about? What is your
reaction to the players' contractual issues getting into the public square.
We'll talk about that. Also, Rams head coach Sean McVay says,
the idea of not coaching feels laughable. Now, how does

(00:44):
that sound to you? We'll talk about that as well.
Come in your way, hot from the top rope. It's
our number three, but more bad blood in the Beltway
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feel good story, feel good story of the NFL season
trip to the Final four, the upstart Washington football team,
trouble in paradise developing hot. That's right, the plot thickens.
If you have not heard, and possibly possibly not, we
have learned that the wide receiver Terry McLaurin is not

(03:44):
a happy camp. Turns out that the player has grown
frustrated with the commanders. He would like the money, money
many he wants the money money, many and there is
no progress on that on a long term contract extension.
So McLaurin is in the final year of his deal.
He recently left voluntary workouts. O MG, there are dark

(04:09):
clouds around the commander's building. He left voluntary workouts. That
is a universal sign. That's the bird. That's that's baller bickering.
Ballers bickering when you leave voluntary workouts. Now there is
a mounting belief that's weasel terminology run amock, mounting belief
that twenty nine year old Terry McLaurin could potentially be

(04:35):
traded bye bye the end of the transfer. Oh I know, shocker,
Oh my god. If he doesn't get the money, he'll
be a bad apple. And when you have a bad apple,
you got to get rid of the bad apple. So
let us discuss the question. Can you unscramble what this

(04:58):
Terry McLaren contractor fluffle with the commanders is really about
other than the obvious? Right, So I've got thumb wrestling,
Court of Appeals, judge, and big book, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make the Baba goosh. We're gonna make the Baba

(05:19):
ganoush is what we're gonna do. So first of all,
this is a game. It is the brain game, all right,
brain game. That is it battle of the brain. Think
of this like thumb wrestling, except you've got the right
and the left side of your brain that are wrestling.
It's a big puzzle. It's a big puzzle. Then me explain.

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For those of you in the back of the room,
I'll explain. So you've got the right brain. You heard
this right when you're growing up. The right brain that's
the emotional center, and that's where your your lovey dovey
and everything's wonderfully very emotional. Thus it's called the emotional center.
So the right brain that says, pay the man, plain

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and simple, pay the man. Right, Let's get an understanding here.
And the reason your right brain believes that is because
the Washington football team was flying through some dark clouds,
bogged down for years. The only shining light was the player.
Now this is this is a guy in the darkness
that was a beacon of hope. And now the team's
got a quarterback and so now they're at full strength,

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and so you got to pay the guy. Now, the
left brain, remember this is a thumb war but it's
really a brain war. It's a battle of the brain,
the brain game. So the left brain, that's the logic center,
all right, that's the logic center, and that part of
the brain says, wow, you know, this guy is about
to become a falling star. And don't let a falling
star fall on you. You see, Scary Terry is in

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a battle that no one has been able to win,
the battle against time. Now, mcclaurin is not old, right,
he's not old, but he isn't a crossroads. He's at
a fork in the road in terms of another NFL payday.
He knows if he's gonna get one more my numbingly
large contract, it's gonna have to happen. Now, why he

(07:11):
turns thirty, Oh my god, this NFL season, get him
an AARP card thirty. Now, in football, that is middle aged.
In fact, it's actually not even middle aged. It's more
than that, because most players don't even make it the
thirty days, forget about it, whether they just aren't good

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enough or they're quit because they don't love football, like
that offensive lineman from the Lions, which means this is
a last ditch effort by the player to procure the
pink piggy bank filled with shekels, bring on the Mucho
de Niro. But you gotta do it quick, because if

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you don't do it now, you're not gonna do it.
No one's gonna pay a thirty thirty one year old
receiver for four or five years. That's not gonna happen.
So you gotta get the money right now. If that
means you have to get traded to the Chargers, or
you have to go play for the Cowboys or whoever,
and you gotta do it. You can no longer maintain
a low profile now. Second, speaking of that, what is

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your reaction as we app here on the Ben Maler
Show on Fox, what is your reaction to the player
Terry McLaren his contractual issues getting into the public square.
This is out there, it's in the public square now,
extra baggage. It's a distraction, all right. So this is

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part of the blueprint. It's part of the design to
try to get that big pile of pesos that Roberto
or old board Op who's now a bus driver left behind.
So if you want to get that pile of pesos,
McLaurin is acting like a court of appeals judge, a
Court of Appeals judge. He's holding a ceremonial, swearing in ceremony,

(09:03):
he's gonna stop playing mister humble soldier guy. And he
is now appealing, tugging at the heartstrings of the Commander
fan base. He's deputizing them, he's swearing them in to
try to get the money. And it's a time tested strategy.
It works. You go straight to the fan, the people

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that actually care, the people that aren't getting paid, the
people that do this. It's a passion play. You love
your teams. You're a fan. That's the real passion, right.
You don't do it for the money. You know, getting
many it costing you money. It's costing you money. So
you go through the pressure cooker called social media. That's
your battlefield. Instagram, x TikTok, cryptic post over there, all right,

(09:50):
throw in a Bible verse, talk at to the Bible belt, unfollow,
unfollow the team. Oh my goodness, you do all that
everything that is the universal language. That is a language
the NFL community understands. It's getting serious. He unfollowed the team.
The admins can't believe it. Oh my goodness, what are

(10:13):
they gonna do. And it's not the contracts, per se.
It's the optics, right, It's all about the optics. The
minute the fan base starts turning on the team for
strewing over McLaurin, you better believe ownership is gonna start
squirming a little bit, because the only reason rich people
buy teams other than the obvious making money. You can

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make a lot of money not owning a sports team.
You do it because you want people to know who
you are, number one and number two. You do it
because you want people to kiss your ass. And if
the fan base is upset, that's a lap laps in judgment.
Because you didn't get a deal done with the player,
You're not going to be feeling the love. People will
be upset with you, right, and so teams care and

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the people that own the teams care much more about
the backlash than the balance sheet.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
All right?

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Final thought to La La land we Go follow up
follow up to the follow up follow up to the
follow up. After several years of chatter and numerous mal monologues,
will he or won't he say goodbye? Leave the NFL
sidelines because it burntout, Ram head coach Sean McVay has

(11:24):
made a declaration. He says, the very idea of the
premise of him not coaching feels quote laughable. He said,
it feels laughable. So how does that one sound to you?
So it sounds to me like a sweet symphony. It
is music to my ears. McVeigh who had one foot

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in the Amazon as he was going to take over
as the lead commentator with Al Michaels on Amazon NFL
broadcast a couple of years ago, and he the very
last set second he had an offer a deal. He
did not sign the deal, but McVeigh credited his new
outlook on life to a conversation with the old Washington

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Huskies and Boise State head coach Chris Peterson, who is
on television on Fox. He said, quote this is McVeigh.
Quote he meaning Chris Peterson has helped me see this
game and this profession in such a totally different lens
that the idea of not coaching feels so laughable. McVeigh said,

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I get so much joy out of things that I
just didn't give a blank about before post quote. So
thank you, Chris Peterson, good job by you. Mcvay's thirty nine.
He's thirty nine, he's the NFL's second greatest coach right
now among active coaches, Andy Reid is ahead on Big

(12:52):
Ben's Big Board. Not a list, not a list, Big
Ben's Big Board. You've got McVeigh at number two. Andy
Reid is at nonumber one. Andy Reid got to the
Super Bowl with Donovan McNabb. And if you look at
the resume of Sean McVay, he got to a Super
Bowl with Jared Goff. That's about the same. Stafford and

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McNabb about the same. And then you look at Andy
Reid coaching Mahomes all these years, and so that's like,
that's great. But the Rams got there with Matthew Stafford,
and my friend Rob Parker and so many other people
who have watched the Lions over the years, they say,
there's no way a team could win a Super Bowl
with Matthew Stafford, and he did it. He did it.

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Now here is where things get interested. What if I
told you that Sean McVay, if he continues to have
this love of football, has a legitimate path, a legitimate
path to end up writing his name at the very
top of the Big Book of Legends as the NFL's

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winning as coach. Peter ram Holmer. A right, calm down,
I know Terry in England that schmuck. He'll hill said.
Not her nest though, because her nesto is a classy
forty nine er fan. He's not gonna say that. But
let's do some malar math. What do you say you
want to some all right, you're shaking your head. Yes,
let's do some maler math. So I've done the basic outline. Okay,

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malar math. McVeigh at this point has coached eight years
in the NFL. He's got eighty wins. So using back
of the napkin malar math, loud and proud, McVeigh ten
wins a year, So eighty wins, eight years, ten wins
a year. At thirty nine, McVeigh could easily coach another

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twenty five years easily, right. Coaches going to their sixties
all the time, some of them going to their seventies.
You look at the the Raiders just hired Pete Carroll
because Tom Brady doesn't know what he's doing. But Pete's
in his seventies, he's coaching whatever. So again this is
my take. Do not challenge my take. So twenty five

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more years McVeigh would be in his mid sixties. If
you average ten wins a year, that gets you to
an extra two hundred and fifty wins. You canbine the
two fifty with the eighty wins he's already got in
his back pocket. That gets you to three hundred and
thirty wins. Do you know what the record is right now?

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I know Stevie Meatballs knows what the record is. He's
not gonna like it. Don Shula. Don Shula has the
record three one hundred and twenty eight wins. So all
McVeigh has to do. Easy for me to say behind
the bully pulpit is coach twenty five more years and
average ten wins a year. Now, keep in mind, the

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math is going to get easier for McVeigh. At some
point in the next five to ten years, they're going
to add an eighteenth game. There will be an eighteenth
week to the NFL regular season in terms of games,
and then after that they will add a nineteenth game,
and eventually they want to get to twenty games. They
want twenty weeks of the NFL season. They'll throw in

(16:04):
some extra bye weeks. But if you have twenty weeks,
if you go ten and ten, you're five hundred. So
then you're talking about McVeigh getting the twelve wins, and
then you don't have to coach twenty five years because
you're gonna get there quicker because the NFL is gonna
have more games, there's more opportunities to win, more chances
to win. And so this is legit. This is not

(16:26):
just some ram fanboy rambling on. And at some point
you and I will be able to say that Sean
McVay can truly ram it all day and ram it
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We do have lame jokes of the week coming up
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of the day. And here is the malor riddle of

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the day. Joe Flacco jump ball Joe. The Browns quarterback
Joe Flacco recently told Shadur Sanders that he hasn't blanked
publicly in his entire life. Again, Brown's quarterback Joe Flacco
recently told recently told Shadeur Sanders that he has is

(17:56):
not blanked publicly ever in his life. That is the
mallor really love the day the answer. We'll get to
it and we will do it next.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
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all right back to where we go, and uh, the
malor riddle of the day, the malor riddle of the day.
And here it is art so so mention this that
Brown's quarterback Joe Flacco recently told fellow quarterback Shader Sanders

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that he hasn't blanked publicly. That is the riddle of
the day. What is the answer? Fudgie in Boston, one
of our favorites, says he has not worn high heels. Okay.
Scrooge says has never eaten Wisconsin cheese curds in public.
Well when in Wisconsin, eat like a wisconsinite. And every

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five miles there is a restaurant that serves cheese kurds
every five miles. Stevie meat Poulse says. Joe Flacco said
he always displays his resting dunce cap face and has
never publicly closed his mouth. Always catching flies. There you go.

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All right, let's see here, page down. Let's see here.
Marcello says he has never blanked blanked in public. I
don't think I can say that, but thank you for playing.
Bergdog says he hasn't called Terry in England a schmuck yet.
Everyone should at least once. Well, yeah, that's Terry's nickname,
Terry Schmuck. That's I think it is the last name. Actually,

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who else do you have? Page down Stuck in Sacramento,
says Flacco, the flatulator has not blown gas in public
because it would smell like Sacramento. All right, Our buddy
Alf in Springfield, mass Boy, if they pick up the
TV show, and it's up in the air right now,

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but if they pick up the TV show, I'm gonna
I think I'm gonna meet out. I almost met him
last year. He couldn't make it because it was a
big storm. Alf says he had that. Flacco has never
gotten a massage from a booty model, all right. Robin
Minnesota says he's never eaten his ear booger in public.
He's really missing out, Milkman Mike in Colorado says he's

(21:56):
never used Blind Scott's plunger. Potty King Roy he says,
never had the mc lobster. I'm missing out on that
as well. Who else do we have? Pitch now? Tom
and Cansas City says never eaten a hot dog or
something like that. What do we have? Never taken an
escalator from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Page Down.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
J T.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
The Wingman says never played beach blanket bingo publicly. You know,
long rip from far out, Dave our Buddy Mark in
Santa Monica says never sang a Taylor Swift song publicly.
All right. Mike the Leprechaun says Flacco has never used
a binkie in his adult life. I think that's enough, right, Yeah,

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I think that's enough, all right. Yeah, the correct answer
Joe Flacco. This is the mala riddle of that. Joe
Flacco recently told you Der Sanders that he hasn't blanked publicly.
That would be danced. He has not danced publicly. No
dance Joe, no dance Joe Hey, Terry and England. The

(23:05):
Schmack did write in. He said, Ben, that was an
impressive mallet monologue. No toast sucking, no knee pad slurping.
That was honest down the middle conversation about Sean McVay.
Good job by you. I expected you, Ben to be different.
I thought you would be a fanboy. You were not.
And I'm glad that you're a better commentator than I
am when it comes to my team. The forty nine Ers. Well,

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that's very honest of you, Terry, to say all that.
I didn't think you would go there, but you did,
and I appreciate that very kind. We've got lame jokes
of the week coming up in a little bit. Let's
get to the phones at eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox and let's say hello to Andrea, who's in
the Bay Area, and she's got inside skinny on Aaron Rodgers,

(23:49):
who has ended the biggest storyline of the NFL offseason.
Rogers agreed to a contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers. But
what does the star chart say. Let's find out right
now and go to the source. Andrea, Yes, Hi, Ban,
how are you hello? Andrea? Welcome?

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yes, Well, I heard you saying Aaron Rogers when they
made that announcement, so I just had to put in
a call.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
That's right, Aaron Rogers. And right who went to school
right down the street from where you live, Andrew, he
went to college right out there, Like I was, so, yeah,
there you go.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
So it's you know, kind of full circle here. And
you know his birthday December second, nineteen eighty three, two
fifty pm, Chico, California. Remember, he's really into astrology, so
I have his birth time and you know, basically that sagittarius,

(24:47):
free spirit. The football gods and goddesses have quite a
sense of humor because week one they're going to play
against the.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Jets in a made for TV extravaganza.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
You can't make it stuff up, So you know that's
the thing. He's having his midlife crisis. He's a Sagittarius.
He wants to get another year in and you know
he's kind of restless and easily bored. So variety is
a spicy life. Will try this team and see how
it goes. And you know he's got that on a

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wonder lust. He's freedom loving and very out you know,
outspoken and kind optimistic, so he wants to try something new.
For the midlife crisis is a time of rebirth and renewal,
so there he goes. He's forty one, the oldest player
in the NFL, which is not that old for the

(25:40):
rest of us. But anyway, Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
About you, Andrew. I stopped aging at about thirty five,
so I stopped counting it after thirty five.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah, it sounds like a plan. And I wrote about
apology for the Athletic well over a year ago in
the Ayahuasca journey and him finding himself well.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
And also don't forget now you mentioned the Jets game
in week one, but in week eight the Green and
he's not going to Lambeau but the Green Bay Packers
go into Pittsburgh. So Rogers will play the Packers in
week eight. That's a good matchup. And then there's a
bunch of showcase games. But you're in a division where
you got to play Lamar Jackson twice and you got

(26:20):
to play Joe Burrow twice. So and Pittsburgh has Buffalo
in the schedule and there's some big time matchups for
the Steelers, So we'll see how this goes.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yeah, I know he's got his work cut out for him.
But again, being as Sagittarius, you know, he's not the
retiring type. He really wants to keep on playing. And
the midlife crisis is a time of rebirth and manual,
so in his own strange way, he's going along with
that divine plan. So it'll be interesting to see what
manifests for him. But he wasn't quite ready to hang

(26:51):
it up.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, all right, well, thank you, Andrea, appreciate that. Yes,
all right, have a wonderful weekend. We'll talk to you
next weekend. Okay, all right, Our friend Andrea is the
astrology lady. Virgo in service on the X machine. That's
Virgo in service on the X machine. And we are

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not that far away from the Pittsburgh Steelers taking the field. Now,
Rogers won't play in this game, but the first exhibition
game for the Pittsburgh Steelers is against Jacksonville. How exciting
is that? That is sixty four days. We're two months away,
a little over two months away from the exhibition game,
first one for Pittsburgh. So that's right, I mean right

(27:37):
down the line there. It's on a Friday night in August,
and that'll be the first the first day. But he
won't play. He won't play. Let's go back to the phones.
Tony in the Bay Area, get that dump button ready, Hello,
Tony in the Bay Area. Welcome, Hey Ben.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
What did the bear say to the guy in the wheelchair?

Speaker 1 (27:57):
I don't know, walka walka.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
He?

Speaker 4 (28:02):
Is there anything new with Coachino and Snitch or they are?

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Oh no, I guess that was a misunderstanding. I was
told they didn't Ashley, it was a joke. And then
Danny DeVito he heard it secondhand and then uh now,
unfortunately no, but if you want to go to war
with David Vasse, you can Tony, because he's still a schmuck.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
Oh he's up, he's up to stuff. Or he's just
a smuck.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Yeah, man, I'm here and he's been trashing me, uh
on local LA radio. So uh, the guy that spends
all his time licking the toes of Dodger players is
upset with me. I don't understand why.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
All right, I'll keep that in mind.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Would you like to hear about a dream?

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Oh? Of course.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
I love your dreams. Come on, that's that's how you
became a famous caller, Tony your dreams.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
I love your dream go hey, geez, calm down, man,
keep your pants on.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
Well, this one's kind of complicated, beca because it's mainly
based on recent events. But so I can maybe explain that.
But so the dream, I remember, it was me digging
into a trunk to find a weapon, and I guess
I found a middle pipe about four feet long, and

(29:18):
I wind up talking to this guy who I got
an issue with in real life, and we were going
back and forth and he's like you know, like, what's
your deal?

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Whatnot?

Speaker 4 (29:25):
On my dude, you're a coward, you know, and this
that and the other, and so basically the conversation went
back and forth, and so the dream is really not
that interesting, but it just relates to real life because
I need to dig up that bat from the trunk
because I'm pretty sure things are going to come to
a Headscine, Okay.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Thank you, all right, Okay, let's go to Let's go
to Hunter. Who's in North Carolina? Hunter? What's up you are?
Next year? Hunter? Welcome?

Speaker 5 (29:56):
Hey Ben, I've been meaning to call this week. Just
tell you guys how much I enjoyed the content from
the trip. I want her to know the backstory on
that La hat with the with the trees and just
and I hope Cooper got out and explored as much
as the two of you guys. Did I mean banana
slug in the wild for Lorraina Kills. I know she's

(30:18):
not there, but I had something that had a rare
and appropriate positive comment for blond Scott. I mean, when
you called him in yesterday to tell how to call
in a radio show. I was floored. Hats off to him.
That was a tutorial when he got.

Speaker 6 (30:34):
Right to it.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
He I never heard such a straight, straight.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
Line talk out of him, normally like a pinball machine,
but just just great, yeah, yeah, the guy go ahead.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
No, No, I just want to follow up on that,
because I did get it a couple of emails. That
blind Scott I was like the greatest call he's ever
had because it was right to the point he went.
He went paint by numbers on what you need to
do to be a good caller, and I you're absolutely right,
all right, what else you got?

Speaker 3 (31:03):
No?

Speaker 5 (31:03):
I mean, I didn't want to get into sometime with
the with the oaths, but the guy yesterday almost intimidates me.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Now, I don't worry about one guy. Yeah, don't worry
about that.

Speaker 5 (31:15):
Sometime. I would like to try to get that number
five drop for you. I'm I got at.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
I don't carry the note, but I can hold it
till it's almost comical.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
Okay, Well, you're gonna have to call back when the
rain is here, because otherwise, I mean, yes, yeah, so
give us a call back on her. And and why
were you? I was in North Carolina. I did a
Mallard meet and greet in Charleston, was it last year
or two years ago? You didn't go to that bad job,
are you?

Speaker 5 (31:45):
Well?

Speaker 3 (31:46):
This is true, This is true.

Speaker 5 (31:47):
I don't drive the interstate. I got a little phobia
with that. I'm I'm basically on tobacco roads. So uh,
I got a little bit away from Charleston.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
But I was fine though.

Speaker 5 (31:56):
Yeah, I got you.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
All right, Well, thank you on a callback. Well we'll
do the oath and we'll do the whole thing. There's
a hunter checking it, very very nice, right, real quick,
let's get Eric and we got lame jokes of the week.
Eric is in the Yosi. What's going on? Eric? Welcome?

Speaker 6 (32:12):
What's going on? Big Ben? You know, watching the NBA
Finals once again the rafts are trying to ruin the game, man,
just like Jerome was staying on that one play. If
they should go out for a laya, there's a collision
in the air, there's no call, right. I had to
tell my wife and my living mame. Do they change
the rules? There was you know, if you don't want
to get a foul and Leah dance right up, no

(32:34):
jumping hens hands up in the air, right, But then
he here George burst over here. The experts folly said, Wow,
how fascinating. He said straight up as he jumped. I'm like,
get the collision in the air, that's a foul.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
How much how much did you how much did you lose? Eric?
How much do you lose on the game?

Speaker 6 (32:52):
I don't gamble, but I just say that drags me crazy.
How the officiated so bad? If yet that gun he
was there, he would have been like, wait a minute,
there's no calling that call that he got knocked down.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Well, that's why Van Gundy is not there, because that
he did say that stuff and it was preposterous. The
NBA is like, you got to get rid of this guy. Man,
he's on the wacky Tobacci man. Van Gundy was calling
out the officials and that drove people in the NBA
up said that they went bonkers. So but but, but,
but listen, it's a there's a lot of there's a

(33:25):
lot of judgment we're talking over here. There's a lot
of judgment calls, right, there's a lot of fault and
that's you know, that's the problem because you know one
person's fouls another person let him play and all right,
I got to leave it there. But thank you, Eric,
I don't know. I think he bet. He says he
didn't bet, but normally the guys that call up a
guy in southern California upset about the thunder and the pacers,

(33:50):
I'm thinking he had a bet. That's what I'm thinking.
He says no. He says no, but I'm thinking there
was a bet. We've got big bangs, lame jokes. Is
weed man there? Do we have weed man?

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Is he on? Hold?

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Okay? Good? Are we'd managed there? We're gonna have big bands,
lame jokes of the week. I think we finally gotten
rid of the lizo jokes. We'll get to that and
we'll do it next.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
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we go, Knock knock, Who's there? Blame We blame wee too.
It's Big Man's lame joke of the week, and we go,

(35:40):
we go to South Florida, one of our favorites. He's
got his own segment on national talk radio. He's a
star in six hundred cities. For some reason, they carry
this dumb show, weed Man, Hippie, Hello, weed Man. I
love is you're still by yourself. There's no roommate, right

(36:03):
dot hell, there's a weed man's got a friend? All right,
what's your what's your roommate's name? Weed Man?

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Mark?

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Mark Hi Mark? All right, let's say get to the
good Mark. We're going to do the jokes. But this
is great. Weed Man's got his own like his sidekick.
This is awesome. All right. These are actual jokes sitting
by actual listeners all over the country and around the world.
Here we go. You can send these jokes in care
of Benmaller Show at gmail dot com. Ben Malors Show
at gmail dot com. Who was the last doctor that

(36:38):
weed man went to see? Doc Gooden? That's I know
you do. That's the joke. That's Chip in Maine. What
does a certain type of worm and weed man hippie
have in common? What an inch? That's John and Yustana Hi?

(37:02):
All right? Which garden tool does weed man hate the most?
What the weed whacker? That's Dennis in Detroit that sent
that joke in Thank you Dennis. Why doesn't the lifeguard
save weed man hippie?

Speaker 4 (37:18):
Why?

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Because he's too far out man, He's too far out.
That's a Bobby Bobby in Florida sent that one in.
Why were weed Man's appearance fee demands to do lame
jokes rejected by Fox Sports Radio management. Why, Well, it
turns out that he's being replaced by an alternative free

(37:41):
segment of jokes called Poppy's Picks. That's Tom in Indiana. Well,
we got one Lizzo joke this week. How is Lizzo
like the Detroit Red Wings? Oh well, according to Monkey
Bone in yellm Washingt, she showers just like the Red

(38:02):
Wings at the end of every game, after all the
periods are done. She showers right there, three periods right there?
All right? Oh man, I got both you guys laughing.
This is like a live studio audience. A truck full
of Vicks vapor rub crash in the middle of the
highway during rush hour this week.

Speaker 4 (38:22):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Really yeah, amazingly no congestion at all. I don't know
why that's Hank. Hank and Cleveland sent that one in.
These are actual jokes by actual listeners. What else do
we have here? How did Angel Reese recently hire or
who did Angel rees recently hire as a new shooting coach? Wow,

(38:43):
blind Scott, she hired Line Scott. That's Georgia and Uvaldi Texas.
Very nice. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Why?
Because he was outstanding in his field, The great Dominican
Mike I loved Aminican Market. It's great to hear that
he's still out there every day hollering. James tells Tammy

(39:04):
and Montana he's going jogging and he doesn't do it.
Weed man. Why it's a running joke. That's why it's
a running joke. What is blind Scott going to try
as his next service animal? What a blind nut? Defined
a squirrel? That's it. There you go, all right, Big

(39:24):
Ben's La chip in Maine, Big Ben's lame jokes of
the week. Thank you,