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May 21, 2024 • 39 mins

Ben Maller talks about former WR Antonio Brown filing for bankruptcy, if a viral photo of a new Joe Burrow haircut is legit, if the Mariners have a Julio Rodriguez problem, Maller's Mountain of Money: Cher Edition, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our numb berth three, our three rocking 'n' rolling,
and we start with the downfall of a NFL legend.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Where are you at on Antonio Brown going belly up financially,
So that's what he said. The former Steelers star receiver.
Also is this magical mop of hair on Bengals quarterback
Joe Burrows head legit and thumb's upper thumbs down.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Dode.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
The Mariners have a Julio Rodriguez problem.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
On their hands.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
He only has two home runs heading into play on
Tuesday this season. We'll go there as well. All of
it's coming away right now. I have a wonderful Tuesday's
our number three. You can call it a brown out
if you will. Welcome. In the beginning of another hour

(00:58):
of the Ben Maler Show. We are in the air
everywhere hobnobbers as we trip over our own tongues, coast
to coast, border, the.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
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Speaker 3 (01:10):
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Speaker 1 (01:41):
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Speaker 3 (01:42):
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I saw him on hold the other day, but he
didn't stay on hold. I was gonna get to him
and he hung up. JJ was a great character at
the Maler meet and greet that we did in Seattle Back.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Guy's been five years, twenty nineteen.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
So our lead this hour coming from the vanishing four
all one k say what you can call this the
shrinkage of a star if you didn't see.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
It, and probably not.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
He did not get a lot of media attention, partly
because about the name of the player. The name of
the players why this did not get a lot of attention.
But we read that former Steelers Starr a yinser for
a couple of years, Antonio Brown has announced he's bankrupt. Shocking,
shocking revelation by Antonio Brown, and he did it with

(02:33):
some Razmataz on social media. As you know, AB is
a social media influencer. He said, the greatest bankruptcy announcement
of all time is what he said. He celebrated it
in his announcement. He patted himself on the back. Brown
braggadocious during the announcement, claiming he's a first ballot Hall

(02:57):
of Famer in twenty twenty seven and the founder of
the most trusted source in all of sports.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
I assume sports media is what he meant.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
So let us discuss the question where are you at
on Antonio Brown? Antonio Brown and his financial.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Downfall? So where you at on Antonio Brown as he
goes down?

Speaker 3 (03:22):
So I've got Houdini, Inspector, Gadget and PBS and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a nice box on Lincoln Road, right
next to weed Man Hippie there where he can hang out.
Our friend, our caller from Miami. So, first of all,

(03:45):
to see that this happened, to see that Antonio Brown
claims he has filed for bankruptcy, the first thought I thought, well,
this is comfort food is what this is now? Not
for ab It sucks to have to go through bankruptcy.
I've had relative that have had to go through that.
And certainly for you and I though we're not involved,

(04:05):
we don't have any skin in the game here. So
very few things. Just my theory on this and why
I believe that this is really comfort food. There are
very few things that are predictable, very few things that
are predictable in life other than taxes and death. That's
about it. Once you're born, you know you're going to

(04:28):
have to pay taxes and you're going to die. Everything
else is a toss up. Everything else is a toss up.
And Tonio Brown filing for bankruptcy on a random Monday
in the month.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Of May, that.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Is something that every man, woman, in child, every man
will no child could have seen from a country mile away,
and did see from a country mile away. Antonio Brown
to put into context about how big a debacle this is,
playing wide receiver mostly for the Steelers, mostly for the
Pittsburgh Steelers, very briefly, he didn't even plan a regular

(05:05):
season game for the Raiders.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
He as he burned his feet up.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
And then he went to the Patriots and played one
game there and then to Tampa Bay where he did
somersaults off the field. And Tonio Brown made over eighty
million dollars playing football. It's all gone, all of it.
It's all eighty million dollars his nest egg from the NFL.
Before he even turns thirty six years old. He's blown

(05:31):
through over eighty million dollars. So the question must be asked,
how did this happen? How did Antonio Brown manage to
futs away over eighty million dollars? So he did it
the old fashioned way, hoodeni like he was abra cadabra,
hocus pocus, presto is what he did. Very lavish lifestyle

(05:55):
for Antonio Brown. He has at least six kids. We
believe there are more. The internet stopped counting. He's been
a dead beat who doesn't pay his bills. He's treated
the people who were at the low end of the
food chain like crap, so he doesn't treat people well.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
All that, at least what I read on the internet.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
All that said Antonio Brown, there was one thing that
he claimed that is correct. He is absolutely a first
ballot Hall of Famer.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
He is. He meets all the criteria.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
He's a dominating player in his day in Pittsburgh and
one of the all time great players at that position.
And he's a Hall of Famer, and he's also a wackodoodle,
so he's got that. He's got the wackadou factor, all right.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Now.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Secondly, next stop, we go to Cincinnati. And when you
think of fashion, you think of that kind.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Of what's in style, right, what's in vogue?

Speaker 3 (06:52):
You think of the show. For example, Joe Burrow has
gone viral. Several of you knuckleheads sent me the story,
so I thought I would engage you. Now, what did
Joe Burrow do? Maybe you didn't know. Maybe you don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
You didn't see what happened here, So I'll fill you in.
Did he get hurt? Did Joe Burrow get hurt? No?

Speaker 3 (07:11):
No, Did Joe Burrow not show up to the OTAs
of the Bengal, No, he showed up. Did he give
a silly quote? Now he didn't give a silly quote.
As far as I know, he didn't give a silly quote.
The answer is none of the above. The answer is
not the op. On Monday afternoon, photos started bouncing around
with Joe Burrow sporting described this properly long luscious locks,

(07:35):
long luscious locks that made him look like he was
back in an When was the mullet popular? Was there
a period of time the mullet was popular whenever that
was So is giant mullet. It's like that Joe Burrow's
got a big old mullet there. So is this magical

(07:58):
mop on top of Joe Burrow's head? Is it legit?
Is that hair legit? So I turned to inspector. Gadget,
go go gadget. I cranked open a minutes long mallor investigation.
And what I did is I went. I went back
in the recent history to try to find photographic evidence

(08:20):
of Joe Burrow to find out whether this is photoshopped
or whether it's real. And the most recent footage I
could find a Joe Burrow was posted on Monday by
the Bengals official social media account and it showed Joe
Burrow wearing a hat. Well, that's a dead end street
can't tell if he's got a mullet, if he's wearing

(08:40):
a hat.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Not the full mullet.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
So then I dug a little deeper and they posted
a hatless photo a couple days ago of Joe Burrow
last week, and that is where he appears to have
much shorter hair. So the verdict on this, even though
multiple listeners sent me the these photos. You've been hornswoggle,
You've been bamboozled, You've been led us read that that

(09:05):
is a deep fake, that that's some kind of photo shop. AI.
I don't know what unless Joe Burrow somehow figured out
a way to have supersonic hair growth. And if that's
the case, he's going to make a lot more money.
But when I think of mullets and square and this

(09:25):
was a good looking photo of a mullet, but the
era of the mullet, you gotta go way.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Back to like the eighties and the nineties.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
There's a guy that used to work here who's a
broadcaster for the Angels, Mark Goobazaw. When he was pitching,
he had a massive mullet. Randy Johnson. That's in the
two thousands, but he started the nighties. He had a
big mullet. The greatest mullet I've ever seen, though, probably
Yarm or Yager in hockey, because when he'd skate, the
long flowing hair would go in the air everywhere. And
there was a basketball player who wasn't very good. He

(09:54):
was getting college but not good in the NBA, Dwayne Schinzius,
who had a massive assive bullet back in the day.
All right, now, final thought, we pivot to the Bronx now.
Each night I normally pick one or two games to watch.
It was kind of a slow night on Monday, so
I watched the Yankee game with the Mariners, and then
I watched the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks once that game ended.

(10:17):
So those are the two games that I was focusing
in on. In the way this works, I get ready
for the show and then I have there's a there's
a TV in the studio where I prepare for the
show and I have the game on. So that's kind
of the set up there. So I'm watching the Yankee game,
watching the Yankees and the Mariners, and then the Yankees
are dominating. They're kicking some ass there right up until
the bitter end when things went sideways. What up Homes?

(10:40):
As we said earlier, what up Homes? Clay Holmes pooping
his pants here on the mound against the Seattle baseball team.
He had been perfect all year, but perfect no more.
And the Yankees blew a massively. The Mariners came back,
I think they put a four spot up against Clay
Homes there in the ninth inning. They had a wild

(11:01):
wild win in the ninth at Yankee Stadium against the
top team in the American League. So that works to
paper over the cracks a little bit. Mariners have been
a very mediocre team this year. Even Robbie the Mariner fan,
will agree with that. But if you look at the
star there, Jay Rod, not a Rod Jay Rod.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
He had four bats. He had a Measley single. That's it.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
That's all, leaving him with not one but two home
runs and just five doubles all season. We are almost
into the month of June and the Star of Stars,
the generational talent for the Seattle baseball team, has two
home runs and five rbs. Not only is he hurting

(11:50):
the Mariners, he's killing fantasy baseball players and gamblers across
the country. So this begs the question, begs the question
thumbs up or you to go thumbs down. Do the
Mariners have a Julio Rodriguez problem?

Speaker 1 (12:06):
So we do the show.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Today, and as I am doing the show today, that
is a thumbs up. Yes, the Mariners have a Julio
Rodriguez problem. So this is like the old PBS kids
show Electric Company. There's a power shortage at the Electric Company.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Power outage. You could say Jay rod has a.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Forever comany you remember the Mariner's Game of Contract a
couple of years ago. Everyone with some great idea, it
maxes out at four hundred and seventy million dollars. Now,
if this guy Rodriguez plays the way he's playing this year,
he's not going to get the full amount of money.
So the bare minimum is like a two hundred and
nine million or something like that, but it's up to
weasel terminology up to four hundred and seventy million. And

(12:52):
why do players get contracts like that. They get contracts
like that because they sell tickets. What sales tickets, Home runs, doubles,
extra base hits sell tickets. So if you look at
this objectively, and I'm mister EF and baseball in this one, Okay,
we are thirty percent into the season. We are almost
again into the month of June. We're almost into the
month of June, and Julio Rodriguez sitting on a pile

(13:15):
of money four and seventy million right now, on pace
hit seven more home runs than you and I seven,
and he's on pace for seventeen doubles.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
And it's not like forty eight games is not enough.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
That's enough.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
That's about the time anywhere from fifty to sixty games.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
There was an old line by the late Tommy the Sword,
and you see.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
The line was repeated by Sparky Anderson every old time
manager back in the old days. It was like, you're
gonna win sixty, you're gonna lose sixty. Is what you
do with the other forty. But they also had the line,
you don't really know what you have with your team
until you get to wait about fifty games into the season.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
About fifty to sixty games in the season, you gotta
wait and see where you're at, and whatever you are
at that point, typical.

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Patriots star Julian Edelman said, Tom Brady liked the sniff
blank before playing for the Patriots. That is the mallor
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Speaker 3 (16:45):
Coming up later this hour. If you stay with us
for the full hour, we'll have Mallard's amount of money.
But right now, the Mallary Riddle of the day, and
here's the malarriddle of day X. Patriots star Julian Edelman
says that Tom Brady like to sniff blank before games.
All right, that's the question. Keep it clean as always,

(17:07):
and we go to the Great Unwashed. If anybody knows
the answer to the Mallard riddle of the day, the
mal ddle of the day, Art Puffin, who's celebrating his
birthday this week, but we're not wishing him a happy
birthday again, says Tom Brady religiously sniffed the NFT hanging
on his wall, the board ape NFT hanging on his wall.

(17:30):
He says, who else.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Do we have a page down?

Speaker 3 (17:35):
Fudgie in Boston said something with Gwyneth Paltrow. Fergduck says,
the soothing aroma of used hockey gear. There's nothing quite
like that smell other than a dead body. What else
do we have here page down. Late night truck tester
says he liked the smell Tom Brady of Scotch tape
Big fan jockstrap guessed by Freddy that's his answer. Who

(17:59):
else do we have paid let's see here? Under arms
guest by Malard prop guy, although I think I know
what he was doing.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Who else you have?

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Jimmy's from Alf the alien opiner uh His people in
New England understand it's an ice cream cone according to
Alf Kronk's fingers. Guessed by mister nice guy. That's his answer.
Viva los Vicki says Buenos Dias been the malar rid
of the day. Tom Brady would sniff Mighty Joe Young's

(18:29):
armpit before games. A lot of underarm answers Flat Football's
guests by Joe.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Who else you have? Page down? Malar riddle of the day?

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Jay Dot in Utah says Tom Brady would sniff cocaine
in the bathroom every day. Inco Terror says Joe Biden
is the answer. That's from inco Terror? Who else do
we have a page? Dan Uh Doubleow Mexican says Tom
Brady liked to sniff Bill Belichick's breath. Before games, freshly

(19:00):
aid Freedom Nuggets, guess by the King Rory.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Some good photo shopping going on there?

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Who else you have, Page, Dan Belichick, hoodies from Eke
and Roseville, Minnesota. Scratch and sniff stickers from Milkman, Mike,
if you have a certain age the scratch and stiff
snicker very important, Fargo Pete, who I met at the
Mall of Meet and Greet in Minnesota, says Robert Kraft's
massage table. I forty Ian says Tom Brady likes to

(19:29):
sniff the Boston haters tears before games.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, I don't know if the Boston haters around anymore?

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Eddie, do you have an answer to the Mallard riddle
Love today, the mal of.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Riddle of the day.

Speaker 7 (19:38):
Do you upset someone stole my Robert Krap massage Joe?

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Are you sure?

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Maybe you took it from I forty Ian? Oh No,
that wasn't. Is that which one who came.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Up with that one?

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Let's see Page. I don't know, I forget they're all
running together. Yeah, yeah, you don't have an answer.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
I did. I did have an answer. It was you
can't add Betty.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Come on, it's about Jeb, you know, the correct answer,
Julian Edmond says Tom Brady like the sniff chicken wings
before games? Chicken wings, you couldn't eat them, Bud, you
liked to sniff them.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
I saw what do you see?

Speaker 7 (20:13):
There's an establishment that's across the street, which across the
bar or over there?

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (20:20):
Yeah, yeah, okay. I think it was like Monday and
Wednesday all you can eat tenders and fries? Really twenty dollars?

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Is that right? Yeah? Is there a time limit?

Speaker 7 (20:32):
It was?

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, is there a time limit?

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Though?

Speaker 1 (20:35):
I don't believe so. No, you sure about that? Just
said no sharing.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
I had my first, as I talked about in my
podcast a couple of weeks ago, I had my first
Korean barbecue experience, and it was in all you can
eat thing two hours.

Speaker 7 (20:48):
It's only two hours, and I didn't see. All I
saw was no sharing and you couldn't take any home
with you.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
That standard in the audience instead. You know, I've been
in the game, Eddie. Yeah, you can eat games.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
I hear that. It's standard. You can't take a doggie
bag home? Now? You never cheated the system?

Speaker 8 (21:05):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Probably. When I was in college, I did a lot
of things like that. Specifically, are you talking about.

Speaker 8 (21:10):
It well, because you know, sometimes I can't fit all
the food that I want to eat into my stomach, right,
So like when I go see.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Like you have a little stomach too, I do. I
have a very tiring to tell me. She's every night,
she's got five course meal every night. I believe you
shouldn't finish it though, never never. Anyway, she's like a bird.
She's a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
Lose my big So you're right of a fee. You
stole food from a shaky They have that smorest pizza

(21:44):
at the end, right, the chicken and potato DGEs. Oh
my gosh, so good. Anyways, So I took two pieces
of the pizza and I smushed them together, and I
wrapped them in napkins, and I put them in my
coat and I walked out. Wow, I know I'm bad.
That's where we're working on radio.

Speaker 7 (22:01):
When I when I was in college, I would take
like one of those freezer bags.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
You could eat pizza buffet. I'd fill that big pizza.
Why did I never think of that? Yeah, and then
stick it in my backpack and then I had dinner
the next day. Yeah, brilliant. Yeah, stealing really but brilliant. Yes,
it's that's why there's not a lot of buffets left.
People like you stealing.

Speaker 8 (22:25):
If I could eat all that in one sitting, they
wouldn't say anything.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
It's true.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
They put you on one of those TV shows, like
an eating contest with Joey Chestnut. You'd go against Joey
chest Night anyway. I can't take a call anyway because
my computer is still it's cleaning up. Now, could we'd
like to alert all the affiliates the computer in the
main studio is cleaning up. It still says do not
turn off your computer.

Speaker 8 (22:46):
You know a lot of a lot of the times
you can tell it, like to pause, yeah, well, like
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Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah, I didn't see it in time. That's the update
is the process or process is lazier. Focus coop on
the show.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
So focused so I can't see anything anyway. These lights
are these bright lights here. I feel like I feel
like there's e T or something like that.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
For you to keep them on because of the cameras.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
All right, well, let's say let's go to Phonsie who's
in Fort Worth, Because avoid a voice in my head
that's an outdated reference. Come on, I'm sure he never
got picked on like that. Hello Fonzi. That's probably notized
of his real name is probably his radio calling name.
Hello Phonsie.

Speaker 9 (23:30):
For the record, my name is Alfonso.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Okay, but that's not it's not Fonsie. It's Alfonso. Your
parents named you Alfonso.

Speaker 9 (23:38):
Yeah, yeah, but I mean just stuck ever since, like
the eighth grade, So that's what I stuck with.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
That's a good name, though. I like that Fonzie thing.
Do you wear leather jackets?

Speaker 1 (23:46):
I did not.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Did you did you jump a shark? Did you jump
a shark on a motorcycle?

Speaker 9 (23:51):
I'll tell you that I'm not even old enough things to.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Remember that Ben was water skiing.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
I'm not old enough either. I'm not even I'm not
old enough either. I don't see these guys are old boomers,
these guys I'm not olden for sure.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
I had a lunch box with him on. I think
you're dating yourself, Eddie. Yep, that's bad job, but I
got that reference. It's time for your colons. Well, Ponsie,
what is yours? Eddie? You have one coming? No, I
jump tend care for about five years. Oh yeah, good
five years. Okay, very good.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Anyway, funds, you didn't call about colonoscopies, I don't think.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
So what did you want to say?

Speaker 9 (24:27):
Well, first thing, First, I just wanted to know that
you're going to be let down because the stars will
be ed Minton oilers in the next series.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
That is true. That's incorrect.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
My oilers as I suck up to our friends in
Edmonton are going to get it done.

Speaker 9 (24:42):
The second thing is the only reason why I caught
it because earlier, on my way home from a water hole,
I heard you say that the Dallas fans are up
right now, so I had to just come and represent.
And then I heard the Minnesota fan smoke the golden
ticket challenge, so I just wanted to become the most
about that.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
He smoked it, all right, but he did get one, right,
so that's more than we thought he was going to get.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
To be fair. The question, yeah, well, you think you
can get all the Maverick questions, right? You think you're
like mister Maverick guy.

Speaker 9 (25:13):
Oh yeah, man, try me.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
I can't give you golden tickets, but I can play
the game if you want.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
I mean, we can, we can play the game. This
is fine, And you.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Were at the watering hole? And how many drinks did
you have at the watering hole? Okay, let me get
a little difficult, more difficult for you. Who is the
general manager slash executive that put the Mavericks together?

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Not Mark Cuban, but somebody else. What's his name?

Speaker 9 (25:41):
Nico Harrison?

Speaker 1 (25:43):
I got that right. Damn it. Our callers to know
the LORNDA didn't know that was I didn't even know that.
I didn't want Ben to finish the question initially.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
Okay, all right, well, Luka Doncik led the Mavericks in
rebounds per game?

Speaker 1 (26:02):
But who is second behind Luca and rebounds per.

Speaker 9 (26:04):
Game this season?

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah? This is well? Now, who cares about previous years?
This year?

Speaker 9 (26:09):
Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and say Derek Lafia.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
No, that is incorrect. It's Daniel Gafford. You got that
one job by.

Speaker 9 (26:18):
You're well, I was thinking Trey Deadline. I don't think
he's gonna be able to catch up to all right?

Speaker 4 (26:25):
You know?

Speaker 1 (26:25):
No, No, not done. Hold on a second, I'll do
one more here. Let's see here, all right, who led
the Dallas Mavericks in Let see which one?

Speaker 3 (26:36):
Who led the Mavericks in fowls? Per game, personal fouls
per game.

Speaker 9 (26:41):
Personal foules per game. I'm going to say that's a
tough one.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, stuff, I made it tough because you're like a
Maverick guy. I had to make it hard for you.

Speaker 9 (26:50):
Oh yeah, for sure. Let's say Luca dncs.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
No, that is incorrect. You only got one right to
Grant Williams. Great Williams is the correct answer.

Speaker 9 (27:00):
Oh you even played for us?

Speaker 7 (27:01):
Dang it.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
They played.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
They played thirty three games and then first was traded away.
But technically Daniel Gafford, who also only played part of
the season, was second. So anyway, listen, Phonsie, enjoy the
Western Conference finals. They don't start until tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Oh yeah, I will all right, calls up, let us know,
all right, thank you, I gotta go. Alright, there's Fonsie.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 7 (27:31):
Did you see report in the Athletic Lebron James says
he's not involved in the Lakers coaching search, has not
had conversations with is it, says your podcast partner JJ Redick.
They do a podcast together.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
Oh, come on, Eddie, they've been doing a podcast for
a month. It's been talking. I've talked about it on
the show. We talked about it on the show. Bad
Job by You, Eddie, Bad Job by You.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, No, I knew JJ Reddick had a podcast. I
didn't know he was doing.

Speaker 8 (27:55):
Well.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Here's the thing that's weasel terminology, the reports that Lebron
James has had no conversations with the Lakers about j
J Reddick. Yeah, but text message is not a conversation, right,
A text.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
And you know it's not. It's in a court of law, Eddie.
It is not a conversation a text message, it's not.
It's is not a conversation.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Weasel term. It's a weasel term. A conversation is like
I'm talking to you. We're having a conversation. It's digital communication.
But it's not a conversation.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
That makes no sense. It does make a lot of sense. No,
it doesn't. You're still you're still communicating with each other.
It's a conversation.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
In court, I have plausible deniability, Lebron can say I didn't.
I didn't have a conversation. I sent a text message.
That's different than a conversation.

Speaker 7 (28:40):
So if I sent a text message to a hit
man saying to kill you, that would be not admitted
in a court.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
If no, it would be admitted.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
But if you said I it was at the prosecutor
said it was a conversation. You said it wasn't a conversation.
It was a text message, it was a digital communication.

Speaker 7 (28:54):
What difference is if if you can say, if you're
still liable for what you say on a text message,
what's what's the difference?

Speaker 3 (28:59):
That's conversation, Eddie. But again the point is the point
I'm making here, Eddie. Well you're you're on the wrong
side of history, Eddie. At that's why lawyers make all
the money. They said, well, technically that was not a
conversation with Lebron. He did not have a conversation. He
signed a text message and then that person had a conversation.
So that person is the one that had the conversation,
not Lebron James. It is the bane at Mallards show.

(29:23):
Do we have our contestants ready to go? I think
we do, so let's welcome them in. We say hello
to JJ, who's in Seattle? Hello JJ, welcome, Hello Ben.
You sound overwhelmed with emotion to play this game, JJ,
I'm good man. Try to stay grounded, try to stay calm.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
JJ.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Welcome, You're gonna play the game. Who do you want
to partner up with? JJ's Mallard's amount of money?

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Who do you want to partner up with?

Speaker 3 (29:50):
You? All right, it's a smart choice. And see you're calm,
cool and collected. So we're gonna win because you don't
show your emotion until you win, right JJ. And when
you win, you're gonna go crazy. Yeah, exactly, I knew it.
And we've got Jacob who's in Delaware. Hello, Jacob, welcome,
Welcome in Jesse. Jacob seems somewhat happy. You seem somewhat

(30:13):
happy to be on the show, right Jake?

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Maybe sure? All right? Just go with it, gotcha? All right?
And are you working right now? Jacob? What do you
got going on?

Speaker 4 (30:22):
I'm working right now?

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Leaving them around, all right, very good, end of the route.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
And who do you want to partner up with? You've
got Eddie or Kooper Loop? I want to well, he
hates you, Eddie. I cannot stand the state of Delaware.
He told me off the air. You never said that,
Yeah you did.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah. By the way, Jacob, you you agree with me?
Though that a converse. No, we don't have time for that.
I just want to know. Let's go all right? What
are the categorizes?

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Conversations?

Speaker 1 (30:51):
What I don't know? You don't care? All right? Uh?

Speaker 8 (30:55):
This is Mallard's amount of money Share edition. She turned
seventy eight years old yesterday got seventy eight. Yes, the
categories are I got you, babe, if I could turn
back time, Believe and strong enough.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
We've got the wrong people parted up here we do?
Oh yeah, boy? All right, that's Coop's mistake there, Jj
what what category would you like?

Speaker 8 (31:23):
Believe?

Speaker 1 (31:24):
All right? Because he's a believer, that's why. And Jacob,
how about you stronger?

Speaker 4 (31:33):
All right?

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Everyone, don't hang up. We have people. Don't hang up.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
We will get to Mallard's amount of money. It's entirety
and we will get to it.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
We will do it next.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
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Speaker 7 (31:54):
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of freaks of nature. Sure your support for the oddities
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Speaker 1 (32:04):
Phill up the content plate.

Speaker 7 (32:05):
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Radio Studios. It's Ben Mallor.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
Now Malor's mountain of money. Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not?

Speaker 1 (32:25):
And right to the game we go. We have our
contestants all lined up here.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
You've got JJ, he's in Seattle and he's matched up
with me, and then Eddie is with Jacob who is
in Delaware, and Cooper.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
I believe we're going to me and JJ going first. Yes,
that is correct, right, very exciting. All right. The category
you picked that there's a lot of ambient noise there
make a lot of ambient noise that is not good.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
That was on Jacob's ie. We put them on home
all right, Here we go. The category you picked is believe?
Is that correct, JJ? Because you believe we're gonna win?

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (32:58):
I do.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Okay, here we go.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
No one initially believed these athletes as they went undrafted undrafted.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Okay, are you ready? Forty five seconds on the clock.
Here we go. We're on our way go.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
He's the lead commentator on the NFL on CBS. He
played for the Cowboys. Yes, quarterback for the Greatest show
on turf, the Saint Louis Rams.

Speaker 6 (33:20):
Shirt Warner.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yes, fear the fro from the Pistons of the early
two thousands. All right, quarterback for the Oilers. Number one
African American. He also played Yes, that's correct, dog shooting
guard for the Knickerbockers in the nineties. He missed all
eleven three point shots in Game seven of the Game
seven of the nineteen.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Ninety four NBA Finals.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
John Tark, Yes that is correct, Vikings Hall of Fame
defensive end number ninety three in the nineties. He played
mostly in the eighties and the nineties Hall of Famer.
He finished his career with the Seahawks.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
All right, stir it, Allen, John Randall was who were
looking for and you didn't get Ben Wallace. I don't right? Correct?
All right? Correct? So one hundred and thirty points, that's
enough to win. All right?

Speaker 8 (34:10):
We move over to Jacob and Eddie, and you guys
have strong enough These are some of the strongest athletes
of all time.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Forty five seconds on the clock. Are you ready? Jacob
all right?

Speaker 7 (34:27):
Begin, former NBA big man the Diesel He's on TNT
NBA star teamed up with John Stockton in Utah. Recently
retired Rams defensive lineman. He was a Defensive Player of
the Year several times. Yes, slugger for the Yankees. Not
Aaron Judge came over from the Marlins. Former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker,

(34:49):
very angry looking all the time. Yes, Philly's slugger. He
won a World Series with the Cubs. Former tight end
for the forty nine and Redskins, Mike Singletary had a
Ram can't win with them? Yes, soly crap Sphilly slugger now,
but he won a World Series with the Cubs. Bryan, No,

(35:11):
you're close though, didn't run the table back Warbur, but
otherwise fantastic.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
John impressed.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
That was Davis Well, I was not impressed, Vern Davis,
But you didn't get the hardest one was Warburt.

Speaker 8 (35:23):
Two hundred and sixty points first place smarts Now all right, uh,
we'll run.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Up the score here.

Speaker 8 (35:28):
We aren't going back JJ and Ben JJ, would you
like if I could turn back time or I got
you babe.

Speaker 9 (35:38):
Time.

Speaker 8 (35:38):
All right, these athletes are still at it despite being
past their prime. Forty five seconds on the clock.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Begin, all right, cheating astro pitcher, he's on the Atlanta Braves.
He's forty years old. Starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves,
all right. Won an MVP with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He's
an outfielder. He's back with the Pirates. Now, yes, that
is correct. I won a Super Bowl with the Ravens,
got a huge contract and then sucked. He was on

(36:05):
the Browns last year. Quarterback yes, uh. Shooting guard for
the Sixers. He was on the Clippers. Used to play
for the Portland Trailblazers and shoots a lot of three
point shots from France.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
I believe no.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
All right, wide receiver just signed with the Dolphins. Former
Giant star, played with the Rams. Won a Super Bowl
with the Rams. Big diva.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Now that's yeah, that is correct. You needed that to tie.
Not a baseball guy, huh or basketball? So we win.
We have to score though you missed.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
You missed Charlie Morton, the cheating a hole as the
Atlanta Braves. You didn't get that one. That's the one
we needed. We needed that one. That's the one we
needed JJ and we needed that one. The Fred didn't get.

Speaker 8 (36:56):
That one basketball player whenever he made a shot on
the Blazer as it was a blank shock of locker.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
That was my guy, Brian Wheeler, and they Blazers fired
his ass. I love Wheeler. Nicholas Nicholas Batoom, Yeah, Nicholas Batum.
All right, you should be doing play by play somewhere.
Let's run up the score. Only had to win one category.
This is why Coop is cheering for Eddie to run
up the yeahs that you've got. I got you, babe,
You've already won. But I'm not press. You didn't know,

(37:26):
Kyle sh the sports figures all recently got married. Well,
what a great clue.

Speaker 7 (37:29):
That is forty five seconds on the clock. Begin Current
Detroit Lions quarterback here go, yeah, Dodgers Japanese slugger may
or may not have gambled on baseball. Current quarterback for
the forty nine Ers.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Oh yeah, I was gonna fail you. Yes, yeah, Oh
my god. Oklahoma City Thunder's got a hyphenated name. Former clipper.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Cha.

Speaker 7 (38:03):
You can't say that, Alan, You're not allowed to incurage
the Witness Atlanta Hawk starred the hul Human High Rail.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Yes, that's a sixty point question. Clutch sports dating, Adele,
you didn't run the time you sucking this. It bends
out you were.

Speaker 9 (38:20):
So this.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Dad.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
What a cheat there, Eddie, be your guys only one category.
How embarrassing that you didn't even know Kyle Schwar You're
in Delaware. I assume you're not that far. You don't
even talk Hilly game.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
A Delaware River, the Phillies play, and this guy's in
Delaware and he doesn't know Kye Swarts who plays for
the Phillies.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
We win golden ticket for you, sir.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
Not impressive, Davis, that my god, My god. Charlie Moore loser.
You guys loom both losers. But Tom's cousins don't even
know you played. That's a and sixty point answer. Come on, Dominique,
well because that's an all time.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
He's trying to blame you, Coup. It's a bad job lost,
bad job by Eddie
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