August 31, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Colts GM Chris Ballard's comments about Andrew Luck, the Braves being considered the best team in baseball, another edition of #AskBen, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our dab three, and we are
often running in our three. And there is a grassroots
movement to get rid of the GM of the Colts.
Why he'd said something that was hurtful? Was the Colts
executives Andrew Luck comment in bounds or out of bounds?
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We will parse the words as that Colts executive is
currently being spanked. Also, does it matter we go to baseball?
Does it matter that the Atlanta Braves are considered the
best team in baseball by some unnamed executive? And how
crazy is this Wander Franco story? Turning some new developments
in the former bell of the ball for the Tampa
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Bay Rays. Who is now persona non grata. We'll get
to all of that and more as we snap into
it here in our number three. It is being called
the ballard of bull But what is it? Well, come
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As the football team in Indianapolis, the Colts, their general manager,
gentleman by the name of CRISP. Ballard. Say what Yeah, CHRISP.
Ballard is the guy's name. He's being roasted over an
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open fire for comments that he made recently. If you
did not see this story, give me the thumbnail recap,
you might have missed it. So, when asked about Jonathan
Taylor's slowed down strike, Chris Ballard said he doesn't think
that Jonathan Taylor's situation will hinder Anthony Richardson's growth. Okay, fine,
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but it's what he said at the very end that
is the money part of the quote. He mentioned a
former Indianapolis quarterback. And this ruffled a bunch of feathers.
People very upset. They were clutching their pearls. So let's
go to the audio tape. Here's the GM of the
Colts Chris Ballard.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Did you got stunts Anthony's growth?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Hinders this early development? That job?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Look, when you don't have a great player, I mean,
but I don't think it stunts his growth? No, not
at all. But he doesn't. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Did it stunt Andrew's growth without a special bag? No?
He said it. He said it. He said it. He
said Luck's dame, he said it. Yeah, that seemed like
a rather benign comment. But that led, of course, to upheaval.
A sign of the times. The zeitgeist of the day
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is to go crazy, like your hair's on fire, and
a number of indie backers and Andrew Luck fanboys are
now demanding that Chris Ballard lose his job. He crossed
the line. You can't say that about Andrew Luck. He
retired when he was twenty nine years old.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
You lose her.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
So let us discuss the question. Was the Colts executive
Chris Ballard his comment about Andrew Luck inbounds or out
of bounds, So it is inbounds inbounds. I've got passion
play trial lawyer and Stu and we will connect all
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of these things together and we are gonna make the
Baba ga noosh is what we're gonna make. Why not? So,
first of all, my first first thought on this chill
out man, just just chill out Ballard's comments, as I said,
they were inbounds. Who are these thin skinned are these
people are even real? These thin skinned people all upset.
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I get the whole hero worship thing and all that,
and you're you're, you're like, hey, Andrew Luck climbed up
the ladder and he was able to bob and weave
for a number of years, and we loved him and
all that. But Andrew Luck. The comment Andrew Luck did
not need a special back to become an effective quarterback.
That's based in reality. And can we also retire the
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false narrative that Andrew Luck retired because the Colts roster
was not good enough and if the Colts only had
better players, he would have kept playing. The same argument
people made about Barry Sanders with the lines, although I
tend to think that is more based in reality that
and he didn't want to get beat up. The Andrew
Luck thing though, if you examine what happened a few
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years ago, he retired before an exhibition game or during
an exhibition game for the Colts. Andrew Luck's retirement was
a passion play, meaning he never had the passion for football.
Guys that have the passion for football don't quit the
way he quit. And it's fine, and he see his life.
He can do whatever he wants. But I mean call
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like it is. He went into it because he went
into football because it was the family business. Hops was
a big time football player, so he went into football.
He happened to be pretty good at it. Maybe at genetics,
I don't know, but Andrew Luck had always been a
different breed a cat, and he was on the nerd
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spectrum more than the meathead spectrum. He wasn't like the
other players in the NFL, meaning that there are some
that are like. But most players in the NFL don't
have a book club. The ones that do stand out.
Andrew Luck loved the book club. He was a big
nerd admitted it, which is fine, but that's unusual in
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the NFL. And by the way, Anthony Richardson is a
green tomato compared to Andrew Luck coming into the NFL,
Luck was just add water guy, ready made. Was not
going to be a flop out of Stanford and ready
to go and right on the launching pad. Richardson. If
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Andrew Luck is a just add water help or like
a Hamburger helper type menu item, Richardson is a brisket. Well,
you have to add potatoes and veggies and sauce, and
you've got to use that low and slow cooking method
for eight nine hours to cook the brisk That's where
Richardson is. It is going to be ugly with a
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capitol capitol view. Now page two here, let's go to baseball.
Georgia is on my mind. We go to the state
of Georgia where the Atlanta Braves are on the road.
They're heading to Los Angeles for a big showdown series
Mono Omano, belly to belly, face to face, eye to eye,
the Dodgers and the Braves. It is on like don't
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get cang Thursday through Sunday. It's gonna be a great
matchup regular season baseball. The Dodgers trying to catch Atlanta
for the top record in Baseball Braves, I believe have
a four game lead, and the Braves, it's amazing they've
played so well because they're getting a bubble bath thrown
at them from other executives, literally getting a bubble bat. Now,
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the latest one that I saw, and I'm not sure
if you saw this or not, but a guy by
the name of Jesse Rodgers, he had a quote sports
writer for the Entertainment and Sports Network, but he talked
to an NL East GM who said the following. He
didn't bite his tongue. He said, they're meaning the Braves
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the best team in baseball and it's not even close.
And there were some other executives that also, we're jumping
on the Atlanta Braves gravy train and celebrating the Bravos.
So the question, does it matter that the Braves are
considered the team the top team in the industry? Does
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it matter? So I am, I'm gonna shake my head
no on this. I am I'm gonna shake my no,
my head no on this particular issue because it's just
it's not based in reality. It's not I mean, and
here here's let me get to the meat of the
matter here, and this is where the audio trial lawyer
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in me comes out that it's what's known as hearsay.
It's it's subterfuge, meaning that it does not prove anything
that the Atlanta Braves have done so far, does not
prove that the Braves are the top team, that they're
going to win the World Series. While it's nice and
it makes you feel good and gives you confidence Atlanta's
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baseball team. They have the top record in the regular season,
a few games ahead of the Dodgers in the top
and run differential. Whoop d damn do spoiler alert, spoiler alert.
Rob Manford does not give you the piece of metal
for being the top team after one hundred and sixty two.
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I wish he did. The Dodgers would have a few
more championships. You have to win in the month of
October and who over comes the immense pressure. The Braves
have not won with Ronald Lacuno Junior in the lineup.
They do not won a World Series. He was out
when they won that World Series a couple years. But
that's all that matters, and the evidence that the regular
season record is irrelevant since twenty nineteen. I'm not going
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back fifty years. I'm not going back one hundred years,
since twenty nineteen, we have had three average regular season
teams who happened to be in the National League who
worked as interlopers to crash the party. The Washington Nationals
used natitude to win ninety three years, which is not
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the greatest team in base They won ninety three games.
They didn't even win in their division that year, the Nationals,
and they got to the World Series. The Braves. The
Braves teams that beat the Cheenie a Holes eighty eight
wins that year. They were under five hundred midway through
the season. The Philadelphia Phillies last season won eighty seven games.
They were the last team in all of them made
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the Fall Classic. And the Nationals and the Braves, we
know what happened. They won the whole Enchilada. So the
lesson is rather obvious that it doesn't matter the Braves
or the Dodgers. It's irrelevant. And the term best means
as good as all the rest. That's the legal definition
of the term best. We bring this up from time
to time because it's important people say they're the best team. Well,
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the best legally means as good as all the rest.
So yes, the Atlanta Braves are the best team. They're
as good as all the rest. The Dodgers are the
best team. You gotta even the Oakland A's are the
best team. There's good as all the rest. They're a
major league team. All right, final, stop here, let's go
to Tampa. The vanished, disgraced MLB star is back in
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the sports fodder yet again. Story that had gone silent
for a while, but the light is now flickering. We
are told that a special prosecutor in the Dominican Republic
is currently investigating a second formal complaint against Wander Franco,
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the baseball prodigy who signed the forever contract with the
Tampa Bay Rays, and another investigation that he was canoodling
with a young lady who was not of legal status,
was not over eighteen or over. So how crazy is
this Wander Franco story, attorney? So it's not surprising because
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there was chatter that this was going to happen, But
it is a wild ride on the tawdry side. Right,
you are dining al fresco and a very small bistro
on the wrong side of the tracks, and if you
look at the menu at this bistro, they're serving STU.
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It's tabo stu is what they're serving there. If you
check your scorecard. This is the latest of not one,
not to but three claims a made against hot stuff
wander Franco. Like what what's what's what's going on here?
And he was in air quotes dating dating girls who
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were hanging out on the handball courts at school. Uh.
And these these are all allegations and you have not
been proven guilty of anything. That is absolutely something that
needs to be said. At the same time, there are
some incriminating photographs of Wander Franco with what appears to
be underage girls, and some of them are wearing his jewelry, which,
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unless that happens to be a relative, tough, that's a
little tough. And some of the photos there's a little
kissy going on, which also makes it tough if that's
a relative. So anyway, listen, Wander Franco is in quicksand
there is two hundred million dollars on the line, and
more importantly for him, I would think his freedom and
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in the Dominican Republian he does have a lot of
money and there's some corruption going on there. So by
all manner of means you could figure out a way
maybe to get out of this. But I don't know
how bad it is. We don't know. I have no idea.
Maybe it's nothing, but it certainly seems like it's something
based on what we've read and all the titillating reports
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that are bouncing around. It is the Ben Mahllard Show.
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that time. Now for the Mallord Riddle of the Day,
The Mallard Riddle of the Day. I almost did this
on The Cowherd Show, but one of the producers would
have punched me if I had done this. But here's
the Mallord Riddle of Day. Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff
said Lynman Frank Ragnow could enter an eating competition for
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blank again. Jared Goff, starting quarterback of the Lions, that's
Rob Parker's favorite NFL team, said that Lyman Frank Ragnow
could enter an eating competition for blank. That is the
Mallard Riddle of the Day. The answer, We'll get to
it and we will do it next. Meat's very tasty.
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We'll take some calls and time out for the Mallory
Riddle of the Day. And here's the malarula today. Jared
Goff recently said he's the quarterback of the lines. He
said his teammate lineman Frank Ragnow could enter an eating
competition for blank is what he said. And what is
the answer to that? Orange and Blue Blood Brett going
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with Baba Ganooche. Why not go with the Baba ganooge?
Who else do we have? Dumming down here? Matt says,
Moms spaghetti Late Night Met's Matt the Warrior Raider fan
former A's fan, but they have moved to Vegas. Late
Night drug Tester says it has to be Gumbo Go
tagas Gumbo Jumbala go Yeah, late night truck Tester. Who
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else do we have? Well, this is appropriate from wild
Eye Southern Boy in Arkansas. He says. The answer to
the riddle is skunk weed. He said Stevie Meatballs in
the Sunshine State going with sausage stuffed muffins as his answer. Okay,
clam guessed by Fudgie. I know what you idiots are doing.
Who else do we have? Geffilter fish from ferg Cat
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Boy that man. I know. I'm a member of the tribe,
but I do not like that filter fish that is disgusting?
Who else do we have a very funny clam? I
don't think I'll eat that. I'll read that one on
the air. Darkey Sausage is going with a banana from
Lizzo as the answer. Rob in Minnesota says sugar coated
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beef marshmallows or beef marshmallows. He said, who else do
we have page down oodles of noodles from Kyle Circus Peanuts?
Oh boy, yeah, I don't think he's eating that from
raw That's his answer. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota says Juicy
Lucy's rag noow is a Minnesota guy cut not happy?
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I'm happy to say I ate it all three of
the big Juicy Lucy restaurants when I was in the
Twin Cities, and I enjoyed all of them. I enjoyed
every one of them. I like eating deep fried Tarantula's
guest by courtesy Flusher. Just Josh, one of the Brigadier
Generals in Cincinnati, going with eating knee caps as his answer.
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Ron Ron Mexico says not the real Ron Mexico. He says,
Frank is going to eat Detroit Square Pizza in the
eating contest. Jeff got this right. Bad job by him.
He cheated. Do you have an answer, Eddie, I need
an answer?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Ah, Yes, the answer is deviled eggs.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Deviled eggs. Is that the answer? No, that is not
the answer. Fox high wind says eating hissing cocker roaches.
That's also not the answer. The correct answer. Jared Goff
said that lineman Frank Ragnow could enter an eating com
petition for shrimp cocktails. Shrimp cocktails. He said he can
put down forty or fifty of them in a short
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amount of time. Say, he's never seen anything like it.
So there's an endorsement from Jared Brown. Yeah, let's go
to the phones and we'll say hello to eating Meanie Miney.
Let's go to blind Emmett the Seahawk fan, Hello, blind Emmett.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Oh big Bett not to comment on that Mallar riddle.
I mean, I could be dead wrong on this, but
I feel like forty or fifty trimp compared to like
a lot of these other eating competitions wouldn't be too bad.
I mean, think about it. You can do like the
Ben Maller inter minute fasting for a day and just
go crush that competition. Like, is it compared to the
hot dogs? You gotta like get down the bun and
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you know the ketchup must now.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
But I have you know, I'm a fan of competitive eating.
I've had Joey Cheston on several times over the years,
and he has mentioned mister Chestnut the greatest one eater
of all time. He has mentioned that sometimes that slimy,
fishy food is hard to eat.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I've thrown down more than forty something shrimp before in
a sitting.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
You have cool.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, the Red Lobster has endless shrimp every now and then.
In fact, I think it's going on right now. And
I used to do competitions with my buddy to see
who could eat the most before tapping out.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Did you put money on it or yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Do they? I know some of those restaurants. I've not
been to that one per se for the all you
can eything, but they they give you smaller plates every time. Yeah,
one of those deals.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, you pick, you pick like two flavors and then
that comes in like a normal portion, and then every
portion after that's a much smaller portion. But we were
mixing up.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
The like if you can't take it to go, they
get they don't like that.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, you can't take it to go. And see the
problem is you you go there and they've got those
cheddar Bay biscuits which are amazing, and so then you
eat like four of those before you even start on
the shrimp. And now you're now you get it yourself.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, yeah, well that's that's a little with the buffet thing.
I talked to a guy years ago about this. The buffet,
they set up the foods that fill you up right
at the front of the buffet because most people just
go from front to the end of it. They don't
go they don't pick and choose, they go from beginning
in and so they give you all the foods that
will fill you up that are cheap and the really
expensive like the Prime riv and all that stuff. If
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you go to one of those buffets in Vegas, they
put that at the very end because most people don't.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Okay there first, speaking of Vegas buffets, that I have
one of the worst buffets I ever had at Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
And was that at Circus Circus No.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
No, it was MGM And yeah, so I was there
like last summer and it was like the first place
we went to after like getting off the airport. It
was probably like noon, like we took an early fight.
And the first sign as we're going in there, this
like older guy comes out and he gives like four
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of these free meal vouchers because they you know, they
had to make something right to Hymn. That should have
been the first sign.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
I go in.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
You know, we go in here and all the food
is flavorless. I think the best thing there was a dessert,
and that's I feel like that's the most buffets. But
if we were to pay that Coop knows he's a
Vegas he goes to Vegas a lot, it's like fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I was like, I've had the MGM befa many times
and I and I enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I mean, it's yeah, I've never had a problem in MGM,
but there are there are some of that I've had
some really bad experiences. But looking back, I realized the
one time I had a terrible reaction I thought I
had just I almost died, was it was my gallbladder.
But it wasn't because of the buffet. It was because
I had a faulty gall bladder and it was malfunctioning so.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Fast. Thing, you know, they're trying to.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Stop with that. Not stop that. That's anti fasting propaganda
and I will not stand for that on these microphones.
How dare you?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Damn how many times do you use your air fighter?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
A great question?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Doesn't this an early ask Ben question?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh yeah, I asked Ben in a few minutes here,
all right? Everything good? Are you em Are you back
doing school stuff or.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Are you hanging out dart the eighteenth?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Okay? Are you excited? Are you gonna do it from
your home? Are you gonna go back.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
To the community college? Like ten minutes the road?
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There you go, the great blind. It well, everyone's beautiful
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the blind. But no, it's like, well, not everyone. I
probably think some people are they got terrible personality.
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Then we've seen made for TV sporting events, and I
guess maybe this falls into the category. You have had
college basketball on a battleship hockey games of course in
outdoor football and baseball stadiums, have had a base game
in a cornfield that Iowa Sam checked out. So we
had windsay, yeah, I know. Wednesday night at the University
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of Nebraska's football stadium, Memorial Stadium, they had a volleyball match.
Who was Nebraska against Huno the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Ninety two thousand and three people reportedly in attendance, making
this the highest attended women's sporting event in the history.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Of the world. We are told, Eddie, that is the
most entertaining thing that's ever happened on a Wednesday in
August in Nebraska. So congrets, No, that's a big week
for Nebraska. The lady you had, you had the bull
in the car, right, you had the bull in the car,
you had the Nebraska I guess he's not technically part
of the football team. Did you see that video of
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the guy that Georgia transferred the tight end?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yes, that broke into the liquor store or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
The vape shop. Yeah, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Know that Nebraska is going to claim him or the
bull fame.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I'm thinking he might not make the corner users team. Now,
there might be a problem with the transfer portal for
that guy. But we had Howdy Dooty the bull pooping
all over the car, and we had a listener say,
and I'm I'm not in that Reddit world. I go
on there once in a while, but I'm really a
Reddit person. But they, the Reddit people that like the show,
told me that that guy's famous on Reddit, the bull guy.
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So he's Internet famous on that social media site. It
is the good Yeah, there you go. It is yesop,
Oh no, it's me Sam. I was Sam. I was
Sam chiming and yes, I.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Wanted to add one more little bit of a trivia
to that Nebraska volleyball.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Well, when you do trivia, you become trivial.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well, I was going to say that it was actually
the bigger than any football crowd that's ever watched a
Husker game, surpassing the Miami Hurricanes at Nebraska in twenty fourteen,
because there were I think it was because there are
people on the field, yeah, yeah, surrounding the court.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I got a question. How much did tickets cost?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I don't know, but they packed ninety they all pay?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Or is it just you show up you get to
see the volleyball.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I don't know. I think I think they had to pay,
but I'm guessing it wasn't too much.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Let's look that up.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I want to know they've been fixing those numbers there
at Memorial Stadium for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Now, oh oh oh shots fire bold statement.
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Speaker 5 (27:51):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
I think the update just said that they're in the
wild card right, So yeah, yeah, we've been suttering. I'm
not gonna I'll give you that one.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
You will see it says a concession speech.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
From I think we'll make the playoffs. Like, I don't know,
we've been hurt, we're young, it's it's fine, we're happy.
I'm happy to be where we are.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
You're making excuses, is what you're doing.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
I'm making excuses like thanks to the Dodgers for beating
the crap out of the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
But you're welcome.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
That's that's the most to get out of me. But okay,
so blind, I met the Seahawks fin first time I've
ever heard him call in, and you were talking about
how the most beautiful women go to community college where
I guess he's going uh as a as as a
Hebrew Ben. Have you ever watched a curb your enthusiasm?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I have none. I have no.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Curby your enthusiast.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Oh oh I wait, Oh, I thought you said something else.
I thought I didn't. I didn't know. Yes, of course
I love.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I thought you were being sarcastic.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
No, no, no, I swear by my headphones was be mouf?
I thought he said something else, but no, that's a
that's my favorite show and Cooper loop over there. He
hates Larry David. He don't. He's funny, and I love
Larry David. I laugh at everything Larry David does.
Speaker 8 (28:59):
If the aliens came down to Earth and I could
send one person out in front of them, it would
be Larry David.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
He's a genius. I love his comedy. It's amazing.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
No, anyways, there's an episode of Kerker Enthusiasm where Larry
is confronted with the situation where he has a blind
friend and he goes, isn't my girlfriend hot? And Larry
goes something like, I love that. That's what that made
me think about. But anyways, what I wanted to talk
about is you, on your monologue, probably about twenty minutes ago,
(29:29):
you said, oftentimes teams that make the playoffs aren't the
teams with the best. Teams that win the World Series
aren't the teams with the best record.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yes, yes, I wish that was the case, where like
a basketball usually the top record you win the championship
most of the time.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
Yeah, absolutely that was the case for the Dodgers. They'd
have a lot more than just a sham, you know,
World Series one time in the last decade.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
But oh, here we go, here we go. There's a bout.
So everything you said prior is a lie, and now
you're going to get to the main point. Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (29:59):
But there is no no better example of that in
professional baseball than the San Francisco Giants dynasty run, in
which I think the only year they won the Division
was twenty twelve. They never had the best record. Out
of all those years, is the best team?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
No, you're right, the Giants those years were not great
regular season teams, but they had mad Bum in the playoffs.
Who was insane?
Speaker 8 (30:21):
They did And guess who just came up the best
lefty since MAdM Kyle Harrison. And as you say, the
Giants are sputtering. God, I hope we don't get into
the playoffs for your sake, than mallet.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Oh stop what happened last year when the Giants? So
is it two years ago when the Giants and.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Dodger It was two years It was two years ago
when we loft to the Dodgers in that first in
that first series. And actually the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Did the Dodgers the Dodgers. The Dodgers sent Buster Posey
to retirement. That's what they did, sent him out to retirement.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
No, no, no, no, okay, but I did get let me finish.
I did get to see.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
But all right, Eddie's we're dying now. Eddie wants to ask,
but we'll pause with the calls. We'll have an extended
dance remake, setdie of ask, Ben, Your questions are answers
for the rest of we are or we'll get to
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Speaker 4 (31:50):
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Speaker 1 (31:54):
Ask Ben Twitter, Send us your questions on Twitter now
he no way we go. It is asked Ben, as
we jumped. Start the audio device you listen to right
now with your questions, our answers for the rest of
the hour, and now the reading of the questions, we
do the tango with the Koopol loop.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
All right, this first question is for Sam Justin and
Sherman Oaks wants to know, are you really a seventy
five year old man?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Me, I've been playing here seventy seven, don't you? Iowa Sam,
seventy seven?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Because of the because of what the ask, because of
the music you're playing. I mean, listen, I mix it
up here on the Ben mallin.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
But Roberto used to play like gangster stuff. Yeah, do that?
You know?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
I mean, I well, I mean that doesn't mean it's
not in my repertoire. I just have maybe a more
eclectic selection of music, a lot of that growing up
in Iowa.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Sam saying he's smarter than you.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
No, no, no, no, I'm not. I'm just saying that I
just have a wider variety of things to play. Well,
tonight it's been all boomer music. No, it's not true,
right of things. I'm actually in my late thirties.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
That wasn't an actual question back like you're I'm an
old soul how about that? And I'm sure there are
plenty of your listeners that have enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
My music young in the demo, right, they're all gen
Z demo And if they're not in the demo they
pretend to be in the tell me they're in the demo. Yeah,
what is next? All right?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
This actual question is I guess just for you, Ben,
He doesn't say for the crew. It's from Orange and
Blue Blood, Brett. He wants to know. He says, my
birthday happens to be on September eleventh, and since it's happened,
I can't seem to celebrate it. Do you think I
should feel that way?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
No, you were not. I mean, it's a it's a
somber day, but you know that's your day. Your day
happens to be that day. I think you can celebrate it.
I mean, it's been twenty years since that terrible event happened,
and you only have a certain number of years on
the planet. You might as well enjoy your day. So yeah,
(34:05):
I say, I say go for it. I mean, maybe
a couple years are like the year of nine to eleven,
and then a couple of years after that. I could
say maybe take a break, But after that, you know,
we gotta get to get get back on the horse.
So I say celebrate you a big cake and get
some ice cream and have a great time. What is next?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
All right? This is from Dante for everyone. Do you
avoid certain foods before you go to work because it
may affect your voice?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yes? Well, I don't eat much these days anyway, because
I'm I'm this gazy thing that you guys all rip
in a minute fasting. But yeah, there's I don't. Back
in the old days, when I drink a lot of soda,
it would make me burp. And you don't want to
be doing a monologue and start burping. Well, maybe you do,
it might be better, but I try to avoid that. So
any kind of carbonated beverages I try to avoid. And
(34:53):
anything that will mess my throat up, any kind of
crunchy spicy foods. If you mess my throat up, what
about you, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
No, they do say you should avoid dairy products before. Uh,
but I mean I don't talk as much as you do.
If I did, I'm sure i'd take that into account.
But no, I don't avoid any any foods. Milk was
a bad choice.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
I was saying anything you want to avoid. No, you
eat more of dairy and cheese. Double fish cheese have milk.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
I mean, like dairy products will make you a little
bit kind of uh, you know, what's that schmookers, you know,
just schmooker.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
See the touty the totty fruit is kind of yeah?
All right, coop, no, no, okay, moving on, here we go.
What's next is ask Ben? Your questions are answers? What
a marvelous segment of radio Just glorious, isn't it? Yes?
All right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Shanon to Moyne, would like to know when was the
last time you wore a suit or a tux?
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Actually I wore were dressed up. I didn't. I haven't
want to tux. I don't think I've ever wanted a tux.
But I wore a suit a couple of weeks back
for something I was doing, so yeah, but not usual.
I don't usually wear that other I think, though, I've
worn the suit since I've become an adult, more to
funerals than anything else, which kind of sucks. What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (36:13):
So did you wear that suit when you were in
Maine in the East coast?
Speaker 5 (36:16):
There?
Speaker 6 (36:17):
You know?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Still I haven't announced what that trip was all about.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I might get to that at some point this week.
You never know.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
It was either a funeral or a wedding. I don't
remember the last time.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
All right, I was saying I wore a suit for
a wedding in early July in Iowa, Julyowa, So there
you go, right, I remember it specifically. Mine was also
for a wedding well over a year ago, maybe even
two years ago. No, I'm a little over a year ago.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
You know, we're working radio. Why do we want to
get dressed?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
A better question for me would be when's the last
time you wore pants?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Oh? Yeah, I have void pants at all costs. I
hate pants. I can't, can't. And well, what is next?
What do we have here?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Ferd Cat? I am not asking that question.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Uh, now I want to know what the question? All right,
just move on?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Very personal? All right, Well here I'll ask a different
question from for Cat. He's admitted three of him.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
What board game do you hope to never play?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Again?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Man? Uh?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Well, A lot of those things have nostalgia, but like
Monopoly takes forever. I love Battleship and all that, but
I mean those things take so long. So I don't
know that I want to play any board game right
now because they just take way too long. Any game
eddy that you want to avoid any board game?
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
It was not a huge board game now fan as
a kid, I mean that, Yeah, but I like that.
I wouldn't I wouldn't avoid that. So, uh, there's nothing
I can really think of that I'm looking to avoid.
I guess yes, I've never really cared for Monopoly, So Monopoly.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
It takes a long time, I was saying.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I was saying, every time I play Risk, I get
very frustrated and upset and want to flip the board
because people always attacking me and I I'm not I
don't have a good strategy so Risk, I'd say, Risk coop.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
You're gonna go mouse trap coop? What are you gonna
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
That's funny because the two games that came to my
mind that I wouldn't want to play are Monopoly and Risk.
Oh I love Clue. By the way, Clue was.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Like hungry, hungry hippos. That's good for baby plastic. I was, Sam,
wash your mouth that with soap and water. Okay, I
like that. Yeah, the little plastic hippos just for a
little bit and maybe eat the little marbles and all that.
It was great. Shoots the Ladder, that solid game operation Kevity, Sam,
that's right, Anthony Davis and Kawhi Leonard, Yes,
Hello and welcome. It's our dab three, and we are
often running in our three. And there is a grassroots
movement to get rid of the GM of the Colts.
Why he'd said something that was hurtful? Was the Colts
executives Andrew Luck comment in bounds or out of bounds?
(00:23):
We will parse the words as that Colts executive is
currently being spanked. Also, does it matter we go to baseball?
Does it matter that the Atlanta Braves are considered the
best team in baseball by some unnamed executive? And how
crazy is this Wander Franco story? Turning some new developments
in the former bell of the ball for the Tampa
(00:46):
Bay Rays. Who is now persona non grata. We'll get
to all of that and more as we snap into
it here in our number three. It is being called
the ballard of bull But what is it? Well, come
in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Malors Show.
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As the football team in Indianapolis, the Colts, their general manager,
gentleman by the name of CRISP. Ballard. Say what Yeah, CHRISP.
Ballard is the guy's name. He's being roasted over an
(02:18):
open fire for comments that he made recently. If you
did not see this story, give me the thumbnail recap,
you might have missed it. So, when asked about Jonathan
Taylor's slowed down strike, Chris Ballard said he doesn't think
that Jonathan Taylor's situation will hinder Anthony Richardson's growth. Okay, fine,
(02:43):
but it's what he said at the very end that
is the money part of the quote. He mentioned a
former Indianapolis quarterback. And this ruffled a bunch of feathers.
People very upset. They were clutching their pearls. So let's
go to the audio tape. Here's the GM of the
Colts Chris Ballard.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Did you got stunts Anthony's growth?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Hinders this early development? That job?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Look, when you don't have a great player, I mean,
but I don't think it stunts his growth? No, not
at all. But he doesn't. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Did it stunt Andrew's growth without a special bag? No?
He said it. He said it. He said it. He
said Luck's dame, he said it. Yeah, that seemed like
a rather benign comment. But that led, of course, to upheaval.
A sign of the times. The zeitgeist of the day
(03:41):
is to go crazy, like your hair's on fire, and
a number of indie backers and Andrew Luck fanboys are
now demanding that Chris Ballard lose his job. He crossed
the line. You can't say that about Andrew Luck. He
retired when he was twenty nine years old.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
You lose her.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
So let us discuss the question. Was the Colts executive
Chris Ballard his comment about Andrew Luck inbounds or out
of bounds, So it is inbounds inbounds. I've got passion
play trial lawyer and Stu and we will connect all
(04:29):
of these things together and we are gonna make the
Baba ga noosh is what we're gonna make. Why not? So,
first of all, my first first thought on this chill
out man, just just chill out Ballard's comments, as I said,
they were inbounds. Who are these thin skinned are these
people are even real? These thin skinned people all upset.
(04:50):
I get the whole hero worship thing and all that,
and you're you're, you're like, hey, Andrew Luck climbed up
the ladder and he was able to bob and weave
for a number of years, and we loved him and
all that. But Andrew Luck. The comment Andrew Luck did
not need a special back to become an effective quarterback.
That's based in reality. And can we also retire the
(05:11):
false narrative that Andrew Luck retired because the Colts roster
was not good enough and if the Colts only had
better players, he would have kept playing. The same argument
people made about Barry Sanders with the lines, although I
tend to think that is more based in reality that
and he didn't want to get beat up. The Andrew
Luck thing though, if you examine what happened a few
(05:32):
years ago, he retired before an exhibition game or during
an exhibition game for the Colts. Andrew Luck's retirement was
a passion play, meaning he never had the passion for football.
Guys that have the passion for football don't quit the
way he quit. And it's fine, and he see his life.
He can do whatever he wants. But I mean call
(05:53):
like it is. He went into it because he went
into football because it was the family business. Hops was
a big time football player, so he went into football.
He happened to be pretty good at it. Maybe at genetics,
I don't know, but Andrew Luck had always been a
different breed a cat, and he was on the nerd
(06:15):
spectrum more than the meathead spectrum. He wasn't like the
other players in the NFL, meaning that there are some
that are like. But most players in the NFL don't
have a book club. The ones that do stand out.
Andrew Luck loved the book club. He was a big
nerd admitted it, which is fine, but that's unusual in
(06:37):
the NFL. And by the way, Anthony Richardson is a
green tomato compared to Andrew Luck coming into the NFL,
Luck was just add water guy, ready made. Was not
going to be a flop out of Stanford and ready
to go and right on the launching pad. Richardson. If
(06:57):
Andrew Luck is a just add water help or like
a Hamburger helper type menu item, Richardson is a brisket. Well,
you have to add potatoes and veggies and sauce, and
you've got to use that low and slow cooking method
for eight nine hours to cook the brisk That's where
Richardson is. It is going to be ugly with a
(07:20):
capitol capitol view. Now page two here, let's go to baseball.
Georgia is on my mind. We go to the state
of Georgia where the Atlanta Braves are on the road.
They're heading to Los Angeles for a big showdown series
Mono Omano, belly to belly, face to face, eye to eye,
the Dodgers and the Braves. It is on like don't
(07:40):
get cang Thursday through Sunday. It's gonna be a great
matchup regular season baseball. The Dodgers trying to catch Atlanta
for the top record in Baseball Braves, I believe have
a four game lead, and the Braves, it's amazing they've
played so well because they're getting a bubble bath thrown
at them from other executives, literally getting a bubble bat. Now,
(08:01):
the latest one that I saw, and I'm not sure
if you saw this or not, but a guy by
the name of Jesse Rodgers, he had a quote sports
writer for the Entertainment and Sports Network, but he talked
to an NL East GM who said the following. He
didn't bite his tongue. He said, they're meaning the Braves
(08:23):
the best team in baseball and it's not even close.
And there were some other executives that also, we're jumping
on the Atlanta Braves gravy train and celebrating the Bravos.
So the question, does it matter that the Braves are
considered the team the top team in the industry? Does
(08:47):
it matter? So I am, I'm gonna shake my head
no on this. I am I'm gonna shake my no,
my head no on this particular issue because it's just
it's not based in reality. It's not I mean, and
here here's let me get to the meat of the
matter here, and this is where the audio trial lawyer
(09:11):
in me comes out that it's what's known as hearsay.
It's it's subterfuge, meaning that it does not prove anything
that the Atlanta Braves have done so far, does not
prove that the Braves are the top team, that they're
going to win the World Series. While it's nice and
it makes you feel good and gives you confidence Atlanta's
(09:33):
baseball team. They have the top record in the regular season,
a few games ahead of the Dodgers in the top
and run differential. Whoop d damn do spoiler alert, spoiler alert.
Rob Manford does not give you the piece of metal
for being the top team after one hundred and sixty two.
(09:54):
I wish he did. The Dodgers would have a few
more championships. You have to win in the month of
October and who over comes the immense pressure. The Braves
have not won with Ronald Lacuno Junior in the lineup.
They do not won a World Series. He was out
when they won that World Series a couple years. But
that's all that matters, and the evidence that the regular
season record is irrelevant since twenty nineteen. I'm not going
(10:19):
back fifty years. I'm not going back one hundred years,
since twenty nineteen, we have had three average regular season
teams who happened to be in the National League who
worked as interlopers to crash the party. The Washington Nationals
used natitude to win ninety three years, which is not
(10:41):
the greatest team in base They won ninety three games.
They didn't even win in their division that year, the Nationals,
and they got to the World Series. The Braves. The
Braves teams that beat the Cheenie a Holes eighty eight
wins that year. They were under five hundred midway through
the season. The Philadelphia Phillies last season won eighty seven games.
They were the last team in all of them made
(11:03):
the Fall Classic. And the Nationals and the Braves, we
know what happened. They won the whole Enchilada. So the
lesson is rather obvious that it doesn't matter the Braves
or the Dodgers. It's irrelevant. And the term best means
as good as all the rest. That's the legal definition
of the term best. We bring this up from time
to time because it's important people say they're the best team. Well,
(11:24):
the best legally means as good as all the rest.
So yes, the Atlanta Braves are the best team. They're
as good as all the rest. The Dodgers are the
best team. You gotta even the Oakland A's are the
best team. There's good as all the rest. They're a
major league team. All right, final, stop here, let's go
to Tampa. The vanished, disgraced MLB star is back in
(11:46):
the sports fodder yet again. Story that had gone silent
for a while, but the light is now flickering. We
are told that a special prosecutor in the Dominican Republic
is currently investigating a second formal complaint against Wander Franco,
(12:06):
the baseball prodigy who signed the forever contract with the
Tampa Bay Rays, and another investigation that he was canoodling
with a young lady who was not of legal status,
was not over eighteen or over. So how crazy is
this Wander Franco story, attorney? So it's not surprising because
(12:31):
there was chatter that this was going to happen, But
it is a wild ride on the tawdry side. Right,
you are dining al fresco and a very small bistro
on the wrong side of the tracks, and if you
look at the menu at this bistro, they're serving STU.
(12:52):
It's tabo stu is what they're serving there. If you
check your scorecard. This is the latest of not one,
not to but three claims a made against hot stuff
wander Franco. Like what what's what's what's going on here?
And he was in air quotes dating dating girls who
(13:18):
were hanging out on the handball courts at school. Uh.
And these these are all allegations and you have not
been proven guilty of anything. That is absolutely something that
needs to be said. At the same time, there are
some incriminating photographs of Wander Franco with what appears to
be underage girls, and some of them are wearing his jewelry, which,
(13:43):
unless that happens to be a relative, tough, that's a
little tough. And some of the photos there's a little
kissy going on, which also makes it tough if that's
a relative. So anyway, listen, Wander Franco is in quicksand
there is two hundred million dollars on the line, and
more importantly for him, I would think his freedom and
(14:03):
in the Dominican Republian he does have a lot of
money and there's some corruption going on there. So by
all manner of means you could figure out a way
maybe to get out of this. But I don't know
how bad it is. We don't know. I have no idea.
Maybe it's nothing, but it certainly seems like it's something
based on what we've read and all the titillating reports
(14:24):
that are bouncing around. It is the Ben Mahllard Show.
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The Mallard Riddle of the Day. I almost did this
on The Cowherd Show, but one of the producers would
have punched me if I had done this. But here's
the Mallord Riddle of Day. Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff
said Lynman Frank Ragnow could enter an eating competition for
(15:07):
blank again. Jared Goff, starting quarterback of the Lions, that's
Rob Parker's favorite NFL team, said that Lyman Frank Ragnow
could enter an eating competition for blank. That is the
Mallard Riddle of the Day. The answer, We'll get to
it and we will do it next. Meat's very tasty.
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Goff recently said he's the quarterback of the lines. He
said his teammate lineman Frank Ragnow could enter an eating
competition for blank is what he said. And what is
the answer to that? Orange and Blue Blood Brett going
(16:38):
with Baba Ganooche. Why not go with the Baba ganooge?
Who else do we have? Dumming down here? Matt says,
Moms spaghetti Late Night Met's Matt the Warrior Raider fan
former A's fan, but they have moved to Vegas. Late
Night drug Tester says it has to be Gumbo Go
tagas Gumbo Jumbala go Yeah, late night truck Tester. Who
(17:02):
else do we have? Well, this is appropriate from wild
Eye Southern Boy in Arkansas. He says. The answer to
the riddle is skunk weed. He said Stevie Meatballs in
the Sunshine State going with sausage stuffed muffins as his answer. Okay,
clam guessed by Fudgie. I know what you idiots are doing.
Who else do we have? Geffilter fish from ferg Cat
(17:24):
Boy that man. I know. I'm a member of the tribe,
but I do not like that filter fish that is disgusting?
Who else do we have a very funny clam? I
don't think I'll eat that. I'll read that one on
the air. Darkey Sausage is going with a banana from
Lizzo as the answer. Rob in Minnesota says sugar coated
(17:46):
beef marshmallows or beef marshmallows. He said, who else do
we have page down oodles of noodles from Kyle Circus Peanuts?
Oh boy, yeah, I don't think he's eating that from
raw That's his answer. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota says Juicy
Lucy's rag noow is a Minnesota guy cut not happy?
(18:09):
I'm happy to say I ate it all three of
the big Juicy Lucy restaurants when I was in the
Twin Cities, and I enjoyed all of them. I enjoyed
every one of them. I like eating deep fried Tarantula's
guest by courtesy Flusher. Just Josh, one of the Brigadier
Generals in Cincinnati, going with eating knee caps as his answer.
(18:30):
Ron Ron Mexico says not the real Ron Mexico. He says,
Frank is going to eat Detroit Square Pizza in the
eating contest. Jeff got this right. Bad job by him.
He cheated. Do you have an answer, Eddie, I need
an answer?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Ah, Yes, the answer is deviled eggs.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Deviled eggs. Is that the answer? No, that is not
the answer. Fox high wind says eating hissing cocker roaches.
That's also not the answer. The correct answer. Jared Goff
said that lineman Frank Ragnow could enter an eating com
petition for shrimp cocktails. Shrimp cocktails. He said he can
put down forty or fifty of them in a short
(19:10):
amount of time. Say, he's never seen anything like it.
So there's an endorsement from Jared Brown. Yeah, let's go
to the phones and we'll say hello to eating Meanie Miney.
Let's go to blind Emmett the Seahawk fan, Hello, blind Emmett.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Oh big Bett not to comment on that Mallar riddle.
I mean, I could be dead wrong on this, but
I feel like forty or fifty trimp compared to like
a lot of these other eating competitions wouldn't be too bad.
I mean, think about it. You can do like the
Ben Maller inter minute fasting for a day and just
go crush that competition. Like, is it compared to the
hot dogs? You gotta like get down the bun and
(19:48):
you know the ketchup must now.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
But I have you know, I'm a fan of competitive eating.
I've had Joey Cheston on several times over the years,
and he has mentioned mister Chestnut the greatest one eater
of all time. He has mentioned that sometimes that slimy,
fishy food is hard to eat.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I've thrown down more than forty something shrimp before in
a sitting.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
You have cool.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, the Red Lobster has endless shrimp every now and then.
In fact, I think it's going on right now. And
I used to do competitions with my buddy to see
who could eat the most before tapping out.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Did you put money on it or yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Do they? I know some of those restaurants. I've not
been to that one per se for the all you
can eything, but they they give you smaller plates every time. Yeah,
one of those deals.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, you pick, you pick like two flavors and then
that comes in like a normal portion, and then every
portion after that's a much smaller portion. But we were
mixing up.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
The like if you can't take it to go, they
get they don't like that.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, you can't take it to go. And see the
problem is you you go there and they've got those
cheddar Bay biscuits which are amazing, and so then you
eat like four of those before you even start on
the shrimp. And now you're now you get it yourself.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, yeah, well that's that's a little with the buffet thing.
I talked to a guy years ago about this. The buffet,
they set up the foods that fill you up right
at the front of the buffet because most people just
go from front to the end of it. They don't
go they don't pick and choose, they go from beginning
in and so they give you all the foods that
will fill you up that are cheap and the really
expensive like the Prime riv and all that stuff. If
(21:18):
you go to one of those buffets in Vegas, they
put that at the very end because most people don't.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Okay there first, speaking of Vegas buffets, that I have
one of the worst buffets I ever had at Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
And was that at Circus Circus No.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
No, it was MGM And yeah, so I was there
like last summer and it was like the first place
we went to after like getting off the airport. It
was probably like noon, like we took an early fight.
And the first sign as we're going in there, this
like older guy comes out and he gives like four
(21:52):
of these free meal vouchers because they you know, they
had to make something right to Hymn. That should have
been the first sign.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
I go in.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
You know, we go in here and all the food
is flavorless. I think the best thing there was a dessert,
and that's I feel like that's the most buffets. But
if we were to pay that Coop knows he's a
Vegas he goes to Vegas a lot, it's like fifty dollars.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I was like, I've had the MGM befa many times
and I and I enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I mean, it's yeah, I've never had a problem in MGM,
but there are there are some of that I've had
some really bad experiences. But looking back, I realized the
one time I had a terrible reaction I thought I
had just I almost died, was it was my gallbladder.
But it wasn't because of the buffet. It was because
I had a faulty gall bladder and it was malfunctioning so.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Fast. Thing, you know, they're trying to.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Stop with that. Not stop that. That's anti fasting propaganda
and I will not stand for that on these microphones.
How dare you?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Damn how many times do you use your air fighter?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
A great question?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Doesn't this an early ask Ben question?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Oh yeah, I asked Ben in a few minutes here,
all right? Everything good? Are you em Are you back
doing school stuff or.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Are you hanging out dart the eighteenth?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Okay? Are you excited? Are you gonna do it from
your home? Are you gonna go back.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
To the community college? Like ten minutes the road?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Welcome to my world. By the way, the most beautiful
women go to community college. Let me tell you that
right now. Absolutely yes, that matters for me. Ben, Absolutely well, yes,
blind emmittt you want a good looking woman? I know that. Yes,
all right, thank you? An exactly all right, thank you?
There you go, the great blind. It well, everyone's beautiful
(23:36):
the blind. But no, it's like, well, not everyone. I
probably think some people are they got terrible personality.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
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Speaker 3 (24:47):
Then we've seen made for TV sporting events, and I
guess maybe this falls into the category. You have had
college basketball on a battleship hockey games of course in
outdoor football and baseball stadiums, have had a base game
in a cornfield that Iowa Sam checked out. So we
had windsay, yeah, I know. Wednesday night at the University
(25:07):
of Nebraska's football stadium, Memorial Stadium, they had a volleyball match.
Who was Nebraska against Huno the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Ninety two thousand and three people reportedly in attendance, making
this the highest attended women's sporting event in the history.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Of the world. We are told, Eddie, that is the
most entertaining thing that's ever happened on a Wednesday in
August in Nebraska. So congrets, No, that's a big week
for Nebraska. The lady you had, you had the bull
in the car, right, you had the bull in the car,
you had the Nebraska I guess he's not technically part
of the football team. Did you see that video of
(25:46):
the guy that Georgia transferred the tight end?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yes, that broke into the liquor store or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
The vape shop. Yeah, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Know that Nebraska is going to claim him or the
bull fame.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I'm thinking he might not make the corner users team. Now,
there might be a problem with the transfer portal for
that guy. But we had Howdy Dooty the bull pooping
all over the car, and we had a listener say,
and I'm I'm not in that Reddit world. I go
on there once in a while, but I'm really a
Reddit person. But they, the Reddit people that like the show,
told me that that guy's famous on Reddit, the bull guy.
(26:21):
So he's Internet famous on that social media site. It
is the good Yeah, there you go. It is yesop,
Oh no, it's me Sam. I was Sam. I was
Sam chiming and yes, I.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Wanted to add one more little bit of a trivia
to that Nebraska volleyball.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Well, when you do trivia, you become trivial.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well, I was going to say that it was actually
the bigger than any football crowd that's ever watched a
Husker game, surpassing the Miami Hurricanes at Nebraska in twenty fourteen,
because there were I think it was because there are
people on the field, yeah, yeah, surrounding the court.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I got a question. How much did tickets cost?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I don't know, but they packed ninety they all pay?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Or is it just you show up you get to
see the volleyball.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I don't know. I think I think they had to pay,
but I'm guessing it wasn't too much.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Let's look that up.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I want to know they've been fixing those numbers there
at Memorial Stadium for quite a while.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Now, oh oh oh shots fire bold statement.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
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continue on, we're gonna have ask Ben coming up in
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hello to Alamidalou real quick, Hello alamid Lou, And how
you doing? If I was any better, I'd be a giant,
but not a San Francisco giant because they're off in
the distance in the nationally West.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (27:51):
I think the update just said that they're in the
wild card right, So yeah, yeah, we've been suttering. I'm
not gonna I'll give you that one.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
You will see it says a concession speech.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
From I think we'll make the playoffs. Like, I don't know,
we've been hurt, we're young, it's it's fine, we're happy.
I'm happy to be where we are.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
You're making excuses, is what you're doing.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
I'm making excuses like thanks to the Dodgers for beating
the crap out of the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
But you're welcome.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
That's that's the most to get out of me. But okay,
so blind, I met the Seahawks fin first time I've
ever heard him call in, and you were talking about
how the most beautiful women go to community college where
I guess he's going uh as a as as a
Hebrew Ben. Have you ever watched a curb your enthusiasm?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I have none. I have no.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Curby your enthusiast.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Oh oh I wait, Oh, I thought you said something else.
I thought I didn't. I didn't know. Yes, of course
I love.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I thought you were being sarcastic.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
No, no, no, I swear by my headphones was be mouf?
I thought he said something else, but no, that's a
that's my favorite show and Cooper loop over there. He
hates Larry David. He don't. He's funny, and I love
Larry David. I laugh at everything Larry David does.
Speaker 8 (28:59):
If the aliens came down to Earth and I could
send one person out in front of them, it would
be Larry David.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
He's a genius. I love his comedy. It's amazing.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
No, anyways, there's an episode of Kerker Enthusiasm where Larry
is confronted with the situation where he has a blind
friend and he goes, isn't my girlfriend hot? And Larry
goes something like, I love that. That's what that made
me think about. But anyways, what I wanted to talk
about is you, on your monologue, probably about twenty minutes ago,
(29:29):
you said, oftentimes teams that make the playoffs aren't the
teams with the best. Teams that win the World Series
aren't the teams with the best record.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yes, yes, I wish that was the case, where like
a basketball usually the top record you win the championship
most of the time.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
Yeah, absolutely that was the case for the Dodgers. They'd
have a lot more than just a sham, you know,
World Series one time in the last decade.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
But oh, here we go, here we go. There's a bout.
So everything you said prior is a lie, and now
you're going to get to the main point. Go ahead.
Speaker 8 (29:59):
But there is no no better example of that in
professional baseball than the San Francisco Giants dynasty run, in
which I think the only year they won the Division
was twenty twelve. They never had the best record. Out
of all those years, is the best team?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
No, you're right, the Giants those years were not great
regular season teams, but they had mad Bum in the playoffs.
Who was insane?
Speaker 8 (30:21):
They did And guess who just came up the best
lefty since MAdM Kyle Harrison. And as you say, the
Giants are sputtering. God, I hope we don't get into
the playoffs for your sake, than mallet.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Oh stop what happened last year when the Giants? So
is it two years ago when the Giants and.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Dodger It was two years It was two years ago
when we loft to the Dodgers in that first in
that first series. And actually the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Did the Dodgers the Dodgers. The Dodgers sent Buster Posey
to retirement. That's what they did, sent him out to retirement.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
No, no, no, no, okay, but I did get let me finish.
I did get to see.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
But all right, Eddie's we're dying now. Eddie wants to ask,
but we'll pause with the calls. We'll have an extended
dance remake, setdie of ask, Ben, Your questions are answers
for the rest of we are or we'll get to
that next.
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Speaker 4 (31:50):
It's now time for time. Horry Harry, I can hurry wait?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Ask Ben Twitter, Send us your questions on Twitter now
he no way we go. It is asked Ben, as
we jumped. Start the audio device you listen to right
now with your questions, our answers for the rest of
the hour, and now the reading of the questions, we
do the tango with the Koopol loop.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
All right, this first question is for Sam Justin and
Sherman Oaks wants to know, are you really a seventy
five year old man?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Me, I've been playing here seventy seven, don't you? Iowa Sam,
seventy seven?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Because of the because of what the ask, because of
the music you're playing. I mean, listen, I mix it
up here on the Ben mallin.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
But Roberto used to play like gangster stuff. Yeah, do that?
You know?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
I mean, I well, I mean that doesn't mean it's
not in my repertoire. I just have maybe a more
eclectic selection of music, a lot of that growing up
in Iowa.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Sam saying he's smarter than you.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
No, no, no, no, I'm not. I'm just saying that I
just have a wider variety of things to play. Well,
tonight it's been all boomer music. No, it's not true,
right of things. I'm actually in my late thirties.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
That wasn't an actual question back like you're I'm an
old soul how about that? And I'm sure there are
plenty of your listeners that have enjoyed.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
My music young in the demo, right, they're all gen
Z demo And if they're not in the demo they
pretend to be in the tell me they're in the demo. Yeah,
what is next? All right?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
This actual question is I guess just for you, Ben,
He doesn't say for the crew. It's from Orange and
Blue Blood, Brett. He wants to know. He says, my
birthday happens to be on September eleventh, and since it's happened,
I can't seem to celebrate it. Do you think I
should feel that way?
Speaker 1 (33:45):
No, you were not. I mean, it's a it's a
somber day, but you know that's your day. Your day
happens to be that day. I think you can celebrate it.
I mean, it's been twenty years since that terrible event happened,
and you only have a certain number of years on
the planet. You might as well enjoy your day. So yeah,
(34:05):
I say, I say go for it. I mean, maybe
a couple years are like the year of nine to eleven,
and then a couple of years after that. I could
say maybe take a break, But after that, you know,
we gotta get to get get back on the horse.
So I say celebrate you a big cake and get
some ice cream and have a great time. What is next?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
All right? This is from Dante for everyone. Do you
avoid certain foods before you go to work because it
may affect your voice?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Yes? Well, I don't eat much these days anyway, because
I'm I'm this gazy thing that you guys all rip
in a minute fasting. But yeah, there's I don't. Back
in the old days, when I drink a lot of soda,
it would make me burp. And you don't want to
be doing a monologue and start burping. Well, maybe you do,
it might be better, but I try to avoid that. So
any kind of carbonated beverages I try to avoid. And
(34:53):
anything that will mess my throat up, any kind of
crunchy spicy foods. If you mess my throat up, what
about you, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
No, they do say you should avoid dairy products before. Uh,
but I mean I don't talk as much as you do.
If I did, I'm sure i'd take that into account.
But no, I don't avoid any any foods. Milk was
a bad choice.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
I was saying anything you want to avoid. No, you
eat more of dairy and cheese. Double fish cheese have milk.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
I mean, like dairy products will make you a little
bit kind of uh, you know, what's that schmookers, you know,
just schmooker.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
See the touty the totty fruit is kind of yeah?
All right, coop, no, no, okay, moving on, here we go.
What's next is ask Ben? Your questions are answers? What
a marvelous segment of radio Just glorious, isn't it? Yes?
All right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Shanon to Moyne, would like to know when was the
last time you wore a suit or a tux?
Speaker 5 (35:53):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Actually I wore were dressed up. I didn't. I haven't
want to tux. I don't think I've ever wanted a tux.
But I wore a suit a couple of weeks back
for something I was doing, so yeah, but not usual.
I don't usually wear that other I think, though, I've
worn the suit since I've become an adult, more to
funerals than anything else, which kind of sucks. What about you, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (36:13):
So did you wear that suit when you were in
Maine in the East coast?
Speaker 5 (36:16):
There?
Speaker 6 (36:17):
You know?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Still I haven't announced what that trip was all about.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I might get to that at some point this week.
You never know.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
It was either a funeral or a wedding. I don't
remember the last time.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
All right, I was saying I wore a suit for
a wedding in early July in Iowa, Julyowa, So there
you go, right, I remember it specifically. Mine was also
for a wedding well over a year ago, maybe even
two years ago. No, I'm a little over a year ago.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
You know, we're working radio. Why do we want to
get dressed?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
A better question for me would be when's the last
time you wore pants?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Oh? Yeah, I have void pants at all costs. I
hate pants. I can't, can't. And well, what is next?
What do we have here?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Ferd Cat? I am not asking that question.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Uh, now I want to know what the question? All right,
just move on?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Very personal? All right, Well here I'll ask a different
question from for Cat. He's admitted three of him.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
What board game do you hope to never play?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
Again?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Man? Uh?
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Well, A lot of those things have nostalgia, but like
Monopoly takes forever. I love Battleship and all that, but
I mean those things take so long. So I don't
know that I want to play any board game right
now because they just take way too long. Any game
eddy that you want to avoid any board game?
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
It was not a huge board game now fan as
a kid, I mean that, Yeah, but I like that.
I wouldn't I wouldn't avoid that. So, uh, there's nothing
I can really think of that I'm looking to avoid.
I guess yes, I've never really cared for Monopoly, So Monopoly.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
It takes a long time, I was saying.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I was saying, every time I play Risk, I get
very frustrated and upset and want to flip the board
because people always attacking me and I I'm not I
don't have a good strategy so Risk, I'd say, Risk coop.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
You're gonna go mouse trap coop? What are you gonna
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
That's funny because the two games that came to my
mind that I wouldn't want to play are Monopoly and Risk.
Oh I love Clue. By the way, Clue was.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Like hungry, hungry hippos. That's good for baby plastic. I was, Sam,
wash your mouth that with soap and water. Okay, I
like that. Yeah, the little plastic hippos just for a
little bit and maybe eat the little marbles and all that.
It was great. Shoots the Ladder, that solid game operation Kevity, Sam,
that's right, Anthony Davis and Kawhi Leonard, Yes,
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