June 3, 2025 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about David Ortiz saying Rafael Devers should get final say on what position he plays for the Red Sox, the Padres eyeing Red Sox OF Jarren Duran in a trade, Astros pitcher Lance McCullers going public with death threats that came from overseas, Maller's Mountain of Money: Dana Carvey Edition, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dingdong. It's our numb Birth three, our three of the
original Recipe podcast. We know you have options. We thank
you for making the podcast part of your daily routine.
And here in our number three, we talked some bass Paul,
where are you at? On David Ortiz Big Poppies saying
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that Rafael Devers should get final say on what position
he plays for the Red Sox. It shouldn't be the manager,
it shouldn't be the front office. It shouldn't be anyone
other than Rafael Devers. He's that special. And the Padres
speaking of the Red Sox. The Padres are I eyeing
a deal for Red Sox outfielder Jaren Duran, looking to
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get him in a trade. How do you assess this one?
And Astro's pitcher Lance mccullors went public the cheating Astro
with death threats. That turns out it came from overseas.
Was this a good idea or foolish? We'll discuss that
as well, and get the popcorn ready. It's our number three.
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It's big poppy talk, is what it is. Welcome in
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we get right to the point. Do not dilly dalling,
No dillydaling, get right to the point. So our lead
this hour is from baseball, and we are going to
parse the words of a former baseball player who is
still very much part of baseball as a talking head
on television and Team Ambassador Brandonbassador talking about David Ortiz,
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better known by his gangster name, that would be Big Poppy.
So David Ortiz, if you did not hear, he was
doing some charity event in Boston, so the media was
out there and they put microphones and cameras in his
face and David Ortiz danced. He did a little tap dance.
So if you didn't see this as the Red Sox legend,
David Ortiz believes that Rafael Devers that is the big bat,
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no common sense player for the Red Sox. So Rafael
Devers should be able to decide, according to David Ortiz,
should decide whether he wants to remain a designated hitor
or go to first base, so he can you make
the call Rafael Devers. The Red Sox have been searching
for a regular first baseman since Tristan Cassis suffered a
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snap crackle pop season ending injury to his knee that
will likely end his time with the Red Sox. He's
probably I gonna play for them again, was supposed to
come back in a year. Good luck on that. That's
a different conversation anyway. Ortiz, when asked about the Rafaeld
Devers situation, he said he's doing great as the DH
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they asked for it, or Tez snickered and he's doing
great as a DH. Once Cassa's situation goes down, Ortez opined,
in people's minds it was Devers goes to first and
Yoshida goes to DH and we're a better team. Yeah.
Ortiz continued his diatribe. He said, yeah, that's what you
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put in your mind. But guess what, David Ortiz stated,
the kid was asked in spring channing to just hit,
and now all of a sudden, you want to switch
him over. It takes time, and the implication rather clear
that it's not your decision, multi billion dollar Red Sox,
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it's his decision. You might remember that Devers started as
a third baseman. He was the worst defensive third baseman
in the American League, if not all baseball. So Boston
went out and signed cheating astro Alex Bregman, the trash
can banging hero from the dark period of time in baseball,
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and so they signed him to a three year deal.
There's an option to get out of the contract after
one year. Devers lately has made it very clear, very
very clear, that he does not want to play first base.
He's also been raking. He's been putting up great individual
numbers for the Red Sox offense. So let us discuss
the question where are you at? Where are you at?
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On David Ortiz saying that Raffie L. Devers should get
final say on what position he plays, not the management,
not the front office, so not a manager, but the
player as opposed to the team, the Red Sox. So
I've got pedestal, jab and oxygen, and we will combine
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all of these things together and we are going to
put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're going
to do. So first of all, David Ortiz is this
is a take foul. It's hot take foul, and it's
a shooting foul for David Ortiz off his rocking chair,
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off his rocking chair on this one. You talk about
being a jock sniffer, David Ortiz, brown noser. I mean,
I know there's a lot of people I know in
my life that suck up the place. There's guys, you know,
David Vassay, who sucks up to all the Dodger play.
Like I know brown nosers. I know people who are
brown nosers and shamelessly flattering the player. David Ortiz though,
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has gone next level. He has gone next level, Big Poppy,
saying that Devers should have the final say, like not input,
not his opinion should be considered. David Utiz didn't say
that what I think final say on whether he plays
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another position because the team asked him to do this
in spring training, and we know no one ever situations
don't change, No one ever asked you to do more.
Once you've said this is what you're gonna do, you
cannot change, cannot do it. What planet are we living on?
Like on my planet? And you're an old head now
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like I thought, you have to adapt it's adaptability? Is
that no longer a thing? Do? We now live in
a world where there is no adaptability and we live
in a world where you just do the bare minimum
that drives me us, The bare minimum drives me nuts.
This is a bozo the clown situation. Wawi Kazawi is
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where we are in this one. The idea that Rafael Devers,
Rafael efing Devers, who only got the extension because the
Red Sox fed up Mookie Bets and they didn't want
Xander Bolgars and then they signed Trevor Story and he sucks,
so they had to keep They had to keep this
guy Devers, and that Devers is going to dictate, not
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the team, not the team, the player Devers is going
to dictate where he plays. It is bonkers me. And
what do I know. I just the overnight shot. Maybe
I'm completely wrong. And you know, player empowerment. Here we go, players,
here we go. You talk about putting someone on a pedestal.
It annoys me when players that earn the pedestal get
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the pedestal. Raphaeld Devers is getting the pedestal? Has he
earned it? Did I miss something? I must have missed something.
Maybe I was in a coma. And and that's why
you talk about spoon feeding the player, protecting them, coddling them,
treating them like royalty. What happened? And this is gonna
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blow you away? Oh you're just gonna be an old
guy with your don't say it, but don't say what
happened to? Putting the team first, doing whatever it takes
to win the game. You play to win the game.
I was taught that by a player named Rashid Wallace.
You play to win the game. And both teams played hard,
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My man, both teams played hard. So you're telling me
that Rafael Devers has veto power. He's like the governor,
He's got veto power here on where he plays. Now,
is that part of the three hundred million dollar contract
he signed with the Red Sox? Was that included in
the offset language? Maybe it was? What a sweetheart deal?
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Imagine that if you look at all of the successful
teams in baseball, the teams that actually win. To my knowledge,
maybe I'm wrong on this, but nobody is allowing the
players to decide, Hey, here's where I will play, and
if you tell me one thing, you can't change your opinion.
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No one has that kind of authority. Who's actually winning
conces instantly. It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Secondly, turning the page, here another story. Now this involves
with the Podres, but it also involves the Red Sox.
For the the Padres are a baseball team who is
teetering on the break. They're a good team, not a
great deal're a good team. And then there's a lot
of chatter that they're gonna start unloading key players at
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the trade deadline, which is at the end of next month.
They're gonna start unloading places. But there's also chat they're
gonna they're gonna try to add something. Now, one of
the names that has been prominently mentioned in the latest
rumor cycle is Jared Duran, who is an outfield He
might not know who that is because he's not very good.
He's an outfielder for the Red Sox and he has
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been listed as a trade target. Jared Durant bouncing around
the echo chamber of sports conversation. So the Padres said
to be eyeing this Red Sox outfielder Jared Duran in
a trade. How do you assess this one? And I
am a sucker for rumors. I ran a rumor website
years ago, and so my assessment is blah capital B,
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blah capital B. That's my assessment. Jared Durant. Now, he
could that's what he's a word. He could address the
Padre's immediate need in the outfield and the lack of
power in the lack of office. There's not scoring enough
runs the patters. However, here's the issue. Jared Duran is
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a jab. He's just a bat, and not a great one.
He's a garden variety player. But he was an All
Star last year. Okay, well that was a bit of
a fluke playing in a pinball machine at Finnway Pac.
Jared Duran is the word ordinary. He's the unexceptional, and
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he is. He's hitting two seventy one. He's on paced
it ten home runs and strike out one hundred and
sixty two times. Where I come from, that's not a
great ballplayer. Ten home runs and one hundred and sixty
two strikeouts. Now the podres they need help. They're eighteenth
out of thirty teams, eighteenth in baseball and run scored,
which I hear is not good. That, Oh, you're being
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too nigive just because you're a Dodger Finn Okay, yeah,
that's right. Eighteenth in run scored. Do you really think
that if you drop Jaron Duran in and you had
him eat in fish tacos every day in San Diego,
that he'd be sitting there and hitting bombs right and left.
Because I don't. All right, quickly, final thought, we go
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to the den of iniquity in Houston, where we now
know an intoxicated, degenerate gambler who lives overseas. He is
the person of interest that was behind behind the social
media threats directed last month at cheating as one one
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thousand and two, one thousand hole, Lance mccolors, the pitcher,
the cheating a hole and and his family. Now the
man has been gambling on baseball, but he was betting
on the A holes. I guess he thought they were
still cheating. He lost money shockingly and was very upset
and more inebriated than upset. And so those two things,
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you put those together and cob boom kaboom, kaboom, kaboom kaboom.
So he sent a bunch of threats to mccolors and
the Astro pitcher of course, went public with it. A
player went to the media, raised a big hole of
blue and said the person was gonna murder his family.
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And he's very upset. So Astro's pitcher, Lance mccollors, now
we have more information, So he goes public with social
media debth threats. He's not the only one. There've been
a couple of players in baseball that have done this recently,
but we're talking about Lance percaus. So he goes public
with the death threats. Now we know they came from overseas.
Was this a good idea or was this foolish? So
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you've got good idea over here, and you've got foolish
over here. And the arrow is pointing, it's pointing this
way to the to the foolish side.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You do.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
What you're doing here is you're giving oxygen to the story,
in this case the fire. So there's a fire, you're
feeding oxygen into the fire, which increases the intensity and
burn rate of the fire. Oh, that's an old take.
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You don't know what you're talking about. Well, this is
what I've always believed. If you publicize the social media
trolls that send you threat it's what you have done
is inadvertently and someone say, unintentionally, given the person who
sent that the high of what they want, the attention
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that their heart desires. You have promoted this and they're like, oh, man,
I really upset this cat. That's what I wanted, because
that's what a holes and trolls, that's what they try
to do. And also what you're doing is you're creating
more schmucks and more a holes that want that high,
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that rocky mountain high of attention because you're encouraging similar behavior.
Is what you're doing. And you're supposed to ignore the
trolls because if you feed the It's like when you
go to the beach and you start feeding the birds.
You know, summertime here, whether it's getting good, right, go
to the beach. What happens if you start feeding the
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seagulls you are it's I don't know how they do it.
Every e fing bird for five miles on the beach
find they get the sign, the bird sign, and they
squawk and they come up. They start picking through your
crap and they want more. They want You said, I'm
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just gonna feed this one little bird, and what happened?
You know, what happens. That's the same thing with online
trolls and online threats. You encourage other people to do
it because they're seeking notoriety. You know, they're losers. They
don't have anything going on, you know, schmucks. So if
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you're in the public eye and this is going to
blow you away, there are actually going to be whack
of doodles who are not happy with you. There are
going to be people that bet on these games that
lose because you suck at your job, and they're going
to blame you. And that's the way it works. There's
a lot of people that you can bind alcohol and
a we call it liquid courage or smartphone courage, keyboard courage,
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any of those terms. And so the lob overhand lobs threats. Now,
I actually relate to this story. I've been doing this
job for a while and we have gotten into many
a rhubarb over the years, actually, ironically enough, with the
fine people of Houston who did, for some reason, did
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not appreciate my takes. I don't know why. I don't
know why, for some reason they did not appreciate my commentary.
And I've gotten into it with the people in Houston.
I've had some incidence with people from Baltimore, Cleveland, a
couple other places over the years. And so doing this show,
you think, wow, who cares about overnight talk radio? Yet
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I have had dingleberries over the years that have threatened
to kill me, have threatened to kill my wife, my relatives,
the whole thing, and ninety nine of that never makes
the air, never makes the air, because I was taught
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you don't give that a megaphone. You contact who you
need to contact, and those people I trust you are contacted,
The proper authorities are contacted, and then it's up to
them to figure it out. But this has been a
new thing lately for players to play the victim and
all that stuff, And to me it's you get a
lot of online cred when you play the victim and
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people feel sympathy for you and all that stuff. But
you've created more of the problem, right, You're creating more
of the issue rather than solving the problem. You're you're
giving it a much larger amount of attention. Anyway, it
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about Mallar's Mountain of money. We'll be coming up later
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in the hour. But time now for the Mallor Riddle
of the day. And here's the Mallar Riddle of the day.
So Shaquille O'Neill, that's a former basketball player. He was
pretty good, Shaquille O'Neil. So, Shaquille O'Neill once bought a
blank for his friend's mother after visiting the family home
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in the Bronx. Again, Shaquille O'Neal once bought a blank
for his friend's mother after visiting the family home in
the Bronx. That is the Malor riddle of the day.
The answer, We'll get to it. We will do it next.
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Shaquille O'Neal once bought a blank for his friend's mother.
After visiting the family homes, decided to buy them a
blank A friend's mother, that is the question. What is
the answer, Malard prop guy says the highly coveted, highly
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coveted home version of Malar's Mountain of Money. Yeah, how
come let me ask you this now, Mallard prop how
come AI makes me look very odd in the in
the AI version of me? It's very odd. I don't know.
This is strange anyway. Wrestling ring bed from alf the
Alien Opine and what kid would not want that? A
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you who laced with oil from Lady Sideburns. Page down.
Uh see your can't read that. Kennedy Fried Chicken from
Late Night Drug Tester, good memory from what Marcell famously
said years ago he liked Kennedy Fried Chicken, which is
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a fried chicken place in Brooklyn. The Malor Mobile from Scrooge.
That's his answer. Transistor radio so the mom can listen
to the Ben Maler show on the go. Who else
do we have? Page down? Trucker Joe said, mouse and
roach traps who else Danny DeVito bathwater turned into soap
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from King Rory, Not the actor Danny DeVito, the number
one trash man that listens to the show there in
the Boston area. A suit of armor from Donkey Sausage.
That's his answer. Bought her, Shack said, this guy said, milkman.
Mike said, bought her a butler named Marcel far Out.
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Dave says, one of those fancy high end sex swings
is the answer to the riddle of the day. Joy
read used fur coat from mister irrigation. Who else you have?
Page down? A fifty five gallon drum of mayonnaise. That's
from Tom and Kens City right in here the Landing
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where Tom can enjoy the Ben Mallard chicken fingers on
the menu. And I have made the pilgrimage to that venue.
We had a great Mallard meet and greet last November
at the Landing. It was wonderful. What else we have
a page now? Eke in Roseville, Minnesota says, A lifetime
passed to the Bronx Zoo. That is the answer. How
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about new JT. The wingman in Knoxville. We know what
it's on his mind? He says, a set of light
switch extenders, and then he sent photos of the light
switch extenders, a pizza and a VHS copy of Kazam
from courtesy Flusher. What do you think we order a pizza?
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On DJ Spin, Patrick or Buddy and Sandy Diego says,
a table spot A table saw is the answer? Inca
Tara going with the hot tup time machine? All right,
what say you, Lorrain? AT's the Mallard riddle of the day.
Shaquille O'Neal once bought a blank for his friend's mom
after visiting the family home there in the Bronx. You know,
Shaq seems like a very thoughtful person. Ben Okay, So
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I think I think he.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Got her squatty potties for every bathroom in the house.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Listen, you don't realize that you need a squatty potty
until you need a squatty potty, right, No, that is
incorrect the correct answer, though. Shaquille O'Neal, known for his generosity,
went to the family home in the Bronx and bought
a new home for the family there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
According to a recent interview with a rapper, Peter Gunns
says Shaq came to visit my mom in the Bronx
when I first met him. When we first met, he
was like, where you're at. I said, I'm on my
block and he said I'm pulling up and I said,
you get the f out of here. Whatever, And anyway,
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Shaq ended up buying the home and I said, we're
looking at all these big houses and ended up writing
the check. There you go, so good job by By.
He does that kind of stuff all the time. You
go like toy stores and just buy a bunch of crap,
and he usually doesn't do it for social media, this
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stuff comes out. Let's go to the phones and we do.
We do need contestants for Mallard's Mountain of Money. So
if you want to play that, call right now eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. Clifford the Big Red Dog
a hero of my youth, someone that influenced me when
I was young. I loved the Clifford the Big Red
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Dog books explains a lot. Hello Clifford, Welcome, Hello.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Mister Mahler, and welcome well, thank you for welcoming back.
May I say real quick, I'm sorry for my debut
on Password of the Stars, the Game of the Stars
last week and the other question is real quick. If
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you serve it one hundred people, how many people would
say data and how many people would say data? Do
you think it.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Depends where you grew up, depends only like the region.
Like you know, if people say pop, some people say pop,
some people say soda. How about how about the sandwich.
Some places it's called the hero, some places it's called
the Hogigi. Other people say it's a sandwich. It's just
your local dialect. But even that because of the Internet,
(26:53):
like local dialect is pretty much going away, Like there's
a lot of everyone's sounding the same because of the Internet.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Interesting. Okay, well, I appreciate.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
It, and I like your I like your bit, Clifford.
Every call is going to be apologizing for your previous call.
That's good.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Maybe not. I think I did a little better this
time I spoke.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Oh the call's not over. The call's not over, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Okay, Well, uh, well, i'd like to say the coop.
I appreciate him letting me on even though it was
a long wait. This time, maybe I can get on
the password game.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Okay, now now you're getting Now you're getting carried away.
Now you're now you're getting carried oa okay, care, all right,
all right, thank you hang up on yourself. Please go
go eat some dog food or some thank you. There's
Clifford the big red dog. Uh, let's see who else
do we have, page Dad. Let's go to blind Scott
and uh, let's see here. We do need a contestant
for malus amount of If we don't get one, we'll
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just blow the game up. We have other people on
a hold. They want to talk, but I just know
he wants to play the game anyway, mallards amount of money.
Let's say hello to blind Scott. Hello, blind Scott.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Yeah, like eighty percent of the disabled people are unemployed.
They changed my uh my payment date to today. It's
a third that you used to get pay them the
second Wednesday. So I got paid today and they give
me four hundred dollars more a month.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Which congratulations. What did you do to earn the extra
four hundred dollars a month?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
I don't know. I think elon mark. Do I cleaned
up the swamp?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
You know?
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Send some money my way? But I might even be
getting more.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Do you now? Do you act? I know you're not
that old. You're I think you're younger than me. Blind Scott.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
But do you too?
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Okay, you're younger than me, so but do you do
you act? Let me ask you? Do you act like
my dad knew exactly the within about ten minutes of
when the mail was going to be delivered? Do you
know exactly when the do you? You don't get this
direct deposit?
Speaker 5 (28:46):
You know it's an electronic that comes around with thirty three.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Okay, okay, that's what I was gonna get. I was
gonna ask, so not actual mail, you just get an
electronic deposit. I got you.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Yeah. I talked to a lawyer today about the trash
that was flying out window.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
You know.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Somebody was calling me like a British cigarette downstairs.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
So it's afraid to go by there.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
But it seems to be all cleared up now. But
there's a lot of complaints about me walking in the
middle of the street, like it doesn't look right, they say,
But decide if you walk down the cycle man, it
would take forever. I'm going to the blind Store today.
It's a store with products just for the blind. It's
a store that's where is.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
A blind store in Boston?
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Is it on Center Street? It's on Center Street in
Newton at the Carrol Center for the Blind.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
You're going all the way to Newton. How are you
getting over to Newton? How you getting well?
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Actually, my mom has a doctor's department at Brigerman Woman's Hospital,
so she's going to go for me. I'm not actually
going to go.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Okay, but I want to actually going. You're just gonna
request certain items in the in the years.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
My mom My Mom's going for me. I would like
to go, but I get up at like one in
the morning, So like, what time am I going to
go there at?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Like, you know, I'm dedicated to the courts here. I
do a lot of bits for a radio show that
I work on.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
I bet one thing you don't know about me is
I've used you over the years as a wreck coommendation.
I've used weathers or recommendation from Ben and times his
name to that one.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Well, it sounds for you. It's very kind of you
to not tell me that. And how's that worked out
for you?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Well, we're to cool.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Like when I was getting a guide dog extupt like that.
I talked to that lawyer today book the guy that
she said you're the problem. She told me she was
able to get some videos that they had of me
at the school. One of them was I was working
at Talk and I like straight arm somebody. Can you
believe somebody took a video of that and sent that
to the school to tell them about me. Like, you know,
people will tell on you for literally anything, Like they're
(30:30):
they're so bored with their time, with their time out there,
you know what I'm saying, dude. So this summer, like
in the next month, a lot of radio people are
going on vacation. So Ben, here's the deal. Like, I'm
a little bit worried that if your show doesn't get renewed,
I'm a little bit worried about what we might do.
So I've been listening to Chris Flank he can't handle
the Friday night time slot. Would you work Friday nights
(30:51):
if your TV show doesn't get renewed?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You know you need the money. If they pay me,
of course, I will work with I guess. So hold on,
go away for now. Welcome to our contestants. We have
We are going to play maus amount of money. We've
got Mike in Boston. Hello, Oh, he's the boy. He's
got the radio turned all the way up. Holy crap.
That's like talk radio one one. They've had a delay
in talk radio since the nineteen fifties. All right, let's
(31:17):
try to get are you there, Mike? Oh crap? All right,
Well let's try Kelly in Des Moines. Maybe that'll work.
See Kelly in the moin. Hello, Kelly, Hi man, Hello, Kelly, welcome.
You're gonna play maus amount of money? Who would you
like to partner up with? Our friend? Kelly Man, I'm
gonna go with you, all right. We're in it to
(31:40):
win it, all right. And you're already in the league
because you know that there's a delay and you can't
have your audio turned all the way up. So you're
in the lead. And we've got Mike in bosson CV's there. Hello, Mike, Hi,
Sorry about that bad job by you? All right, Mike,
who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
My cool?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
All right? Well you good choice. Mike could have Picklin.
What are the categories? This go quickly? Quickly, quickly, quickly.
It's Malar's Mountain of money.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Gentlemen, this is the Mallard's mount of Money. Dana Carvey edition.
He turned seventy years old on Monday.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Oh my god, no, church lady.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
All right, Uh, the categories aren't This is spinal Tap, Opportunity,
Knocks Moving, and Wayne's World. Uh, Kelly, which category would you?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You're like, hold on, hold on, sake me, punch this guy.
Go ahead. Oh that's not Kelly. Go ahead, Kelly, I
would like to go with Wayne's World Wayneesworth. Okay, good choice.
What about you, Mike?
Speaker 5 (32:43):
This is spinal tap?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Okay, those are the categories. Everyone, hold on, do not
hang up. We are gonna have Mallar's Mount of Mine.
Who's gonna win? Get your bets in, Get your bets in.
Go over to DraftKings, get your bets in. We're gonna
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with me, and then Mike in Boston with Coop. We'll
get to that. We will do it next.
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Speaker 4 (33:43):
Now, Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Let's do it. Here we go. The matchup is set
Kelly in Des Moines, formerly in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
She is.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
With a fellow listening to the show The Power Couple
of Eye where sheen in the Moine and Kelly, everything
good with you two kids? Kelly? Yes, yes, it's amazing man,
Thank you. Wonderful outside mazlet alright and Mike and Boston
is teamed up with Cooper Loop. The Dana Carvey Edition
turned seventy on Monday. And you're up first, Kelly, you
(34:23):
picked Wayne's World? Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Okay? We got forty five seconds. These athletes have all
been considered sidekicks. We need the first and last name.
Are you ready, Kelly? Yes? I am all right. Forty
five seconds. We're on our way go. Michael Jordan's right,
hand man for the Bulls. Yes, tight end for the
Patriots with Tom Brady. White guy right, Yes, running back
(34:47):
for the Broncos. Some say he was the sidekick to
John Elway. Others say he was the main player for
those great Bronco teams. Oh, okay, Carl Carl Malone's sidekick
with the Utah Jazz John Yes, Barry Bonds sidekick, although
you wont an MVP with the San Francisco Giants. A
(35:07):
second basement white guy wore a porn mustache. Oh all right,
the other wide receiver for the forty nine ers in
the eighties next to you had Jerry Rice on one
side and this guy on the other. Come on, sorry,
that was a pretty good clue. All right, whole too, Okay,
(35:32):
I got seventy points, all right, Mike, you didn't get
John Taylor either. Oh that's who was the O.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
And Terrell Davis is the running back there it is,
thank you, Wow, it doesn't he doesn't help now, Mike,
Uh we have this is spinal tap.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
These athletes were all in a band at one point
in their life.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Mike, are you ready? Yep?
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Forty five seconds to begin Super Bowl winning quarterback for
the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Uh, this guy was one of the best dunkers of
his time. Started with the Raptors. He yes.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
This guy was a catcher for the Dodgers. He got
traded to the Mets. That's correct. This guy was a
center fielder for the Yankees in the in the nineties
when they won all their champions Yes. This guy was
a linebacker for the Patriots in the nineties and two thousands.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
White guy. Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
This guy was a shortstop for a bunch of teams,
the Indians.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
And this guy was a Hall of Fame quarterback for
the Browny Alright.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
All right, what was that, Kelly? Yes, man, I'm sorry,
don't break my heart. She's already a book.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Come on, how did he get o Marviskel from that clue?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Probably cheating? You're cheating, okay, all right, you just Kelly.
You're losing to a guy that sound on your category.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Kelly, opportunity knocks are moving?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Wait? What were the options?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
I'm sorry, take your time, opportunity knocks or moving opportunity?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Okay. These athletes all started as backups and became stars.
Forty five seconds on the clock, We're on our way.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Go.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Greatest quarterback in NFL history for the Patriots. Uh he
was a quarterback for the forty nine Ers. He took
a knee during the national anthem. Yes, French point guard
for the Great Spurs teams of the two thousands. Tony
Kukoch now wow you Okay, no, the Iron Horse for
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the Yankees. He had the all I'm most consecutive games
played until cal Ripken broke his streak. Okay White quarterback
from the eighties Giants. He replaced Phil Simms. He also
had a porn mustache and won a Super Bowl with
the New York Giants in the mid nineteen eighties or
nineties early nineties. Come on, come on, come on. He
(38:25):
got the first name right. It was Tony Parker, Tony Well.
Tony kukok was a player for the Bulls, but not Kelly.
He broke my heart. Kelly, hurry then, lou Gerig, I'm devastated. Kelly,
you won, Mike, Now figure out the delay on your radio.
You got a golden take a you gotta golden.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
I got a golden Chickad
Dingdong. It's our numb Birth three, our three of the
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And here in our number three, we talked some bass Paul,
where are you at? On David Ortiz Big Poppies saying
(00:20):
that Rafael Devers should get final say on what position
he plays for the Red Sox. It shouldn't be the manager,
it shouldn't be the front office. It shouldn't be anyone
other than Rafael Devers. He's that special. And the Padres
speaking of the Red Sox. The Padres are I eyeing
a deal for Red Sox outfielder Jaren Duran, looking to
(00:41):
get him in a trade. How do you assess this one?
And Astro's pitcher Lance mccullors went public the cheating Astro
with death threats. That turns out it came from overseas.
Was this a good idea or foolish? We'll discuss that
as well, and get the popcorn ready. It's our number three.
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It's big poppy talk, is what it is. Welcome in
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we get right to the point. Do not dilly dalling,
No dillydaling, get right to the point. So our lead
this hour is from baseball, and we are going to
parse the words of a former baseball player who is
still very much part of baseball as a talking head
on television and Team Ambassador Brandonbassador talking about David Ortiz,
(02:53):
better known by his gangster name, that would be Big Poppy.
So David Ortiz, if you did not hear, he was
doing some charity event in Boston, so the media was
out there and they put microphones and cameras in his
face and David Ortiz danced. He did a little tap dance.
So if you didn't see this as the Red Sox legend,
David Ortiz believes that Rafael Devers that is the big bat,
(03:19):
no common sense player for the Red Sox. So Rafael
Devers should be able to decide, according to David Ortiz,
should decide whether he wants to remain a designated hitor
or go to first base, so he can you make
the call Rafael Devers. The Red Sox have been searching
for a regular first baseman since Tristan Cassis suffered a
(03:41):
snap crackle pop season ending injury to his knee that
will likely end his time with the Red Sox. He's
probably I gonna play for them again, was supposed to
come back in a year. Good luck on that. That's
a different conversation anyway. Ortiz, when asked about the Rafaeld
Devers situation, he said he's doing great as the DH
(04:02):
they asked for it, or Tez snickered and he's doing
great as a DH. Once Cassa's situation goes down, Ortez opined,
in people's minds it was Devers goes to first and
Yoshida goes to DH and we're a better team. Yeah.
Ortiz continued his diatribe. He said, yeah, that's what you
(04:24):
put in your mind. But guess what, David Ortiz stated,
the kid was asked in spring channing to just hit,
and now all of a sudden, you want to switch
him over. It takes time, and the implication rather clear
that it's not your decision, multi billion dollar Red Sox,
(04:45):
it's his decision. You might remember that Devers started as
a third baseman. He was the worst defensive third baseman
in the American League, if not all baseball. So Boston
went out and signed cheating astro Alex Bregman, the trash
can banging hero from the dark period of time in baseball,
(05:08):
and so they signed him to a three year deal.
There's an option to get out of the contract after
one year. Devers lately has made it very clear, very
very clear, that he does not want to play first base.
He's also been raking. He's been putting up great individual
numbers for the Red Sox offense. So let us discuss
the question where are you at? Where are you at?
(05:31):
On David Ortiz saying that Raffie L. Devers should get
final say on what position he plays, not the management,
not the front office, so not a manager, but the
player as opposed to the team, the Red Sox. So
I've got pedestal, jab and oxygen, and we will combine
(05:55):
all of these things together and we are going to
put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're going
to do. So first of all, David Ortiz is this
is a take foul. It's hot take foul, and it's
a shooting foul for David Ortiz off his rocking chair,
(06:17):
off his rocking chair on this one. You talk about
being a jock sniffer, David Ortiz, brown noser. I mean,
I know there's a lot of people I know in
my life that suck up the place. There's guys, you know,
David Vassay, who sucks up to all the Dodger play.
Like I know brown nosers. I know people who are
brown nosers and shamelessly flattering the player. David Ortiz though,
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has gone next level. He has gone next level, Big Poppy,
saying that Devers should have the final say, like not input,
not his opinion should be considered. David Utiz didn't say
that what I think final say on whether he plays
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another position because the team asked him to do this
in spring training, and we know no one ever situations
don't change, No one ever asked you to do more.
Once you've said this is what you're gonna do, you
cannot change, cannot do it. What planet are we living on?
Like on my planet? And you're an old head now
(07:25):
like I thought, you have to adapt it's adaptability? Is
that no longer a thing? Do? We now live in
a world where there is no adaptability and we live
in a world where you just do the bare minimum
that drives me us, The bare minimum drives me nuts.
This is a bozo the clown situation. Wawi Kazawi is
(07:48):
where we are in this one. The idea that Rafael Devers,
Rafael efing Devers, who only got the extension because the
Red Sox fed up Mookie Bets and they didn't want
Xander Bolgars and then they signed Trevor Story and he sucks,
so they had to keep They had to keep this
guy Devers, and that Devers is going to dictate, not
(08:10):
the team, not the team, the player Devers is going
to dictate where he plays. It is bonkers me. And
what do I know. I just the overnight shot. Maybe
I'm completely wrong. And you know, player empowerment. Here we go, players,
here we go. You talk about putting someone on a pedestal.
It annoys me when players that earn the pedestal get
(08:32):
the pedestal. Raphaeld Devers is getting the pedestal? Has he
earned it? Did I miss something? I must have missed something.
Maybe I was in a coma. And and that's why
you talk about spoon feeding the player, protecting them, coddling them,
treating them like royalty. What happened? And this is gonna
(08:55):
blow you away? Oh you're just gonna be an old
guy with your don't say it, but don't say what
happened to? Putting the team first, doing whatever it takes
to win the game. You play to win the game.
I was taught that by a player named Rashid Wallace.
You play to win the game. And both teams played hard,
(09:15):
My man, both teams played hard. So you're telling me
that Rafael Devers has veto power. He's like the governor,
He's got veto power here on where he plays. Now,
is that part of the three hundred million dollar contract
he signed with the Red Sox? Was that included in
the offset language? Maybe it was? What a sweetheart deal?
(09:36):
Imagine that if you look at all of the successful
teams in baseball, the teams that actually win. To my knowledge,
maybe I'm wrong on this, but nobody is allowing the
players to decide, Hey, here's where I will play, and
if you tell me one thing, you can't change your opinion.
(09:56):
No one has that kind of authority. Who's actually winning
conces instantly. It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Secondly, turning the page, here another story. Now this involves
with the Podres, but it also involves the Red Sox.
For the the Padres are a baseball team who is
teetering on the break. They're a good team, not a
great deal're a good team. And then there's a lot
of chatter that they're gonna start unloading key players at
(10:24):
the trade deadline, which is at the end of next month.
They're gonna start unloading places. But there's also chat they're
gonna they're gonna try to add something. Now, one of
the names that has been prominently mentioned in the latest
rumor cycle is Jared Duran, who is an outfield He
might not know who that is because he's not very good.
He's an outfielder for the Red Sox and he has
(10:45):
been listed as a trade target. Jared Durant bouncing around
the echo chamber of sports conversation. So the Padres said
to be eyeing this Red Sox outfielder Jared Duran in
a trade. How do you assess this one? And I
am a sucker for rumors. I ran a rumor website
years ago, and so my assessment is blah capital B,
(11:10):
blah capital B. That's my assessment. Jared Durant. Now, he
could that's what he's a word. He could address the
Padre's immediate need in the outfield and the lack of
power in the lack of office. There's not scoring enough
runs the patters. However, here's the issue. Jared Duran is
(11:35):
a jab. He's just a bat, and not a great one.
He's a garden variety player. But he was an All
Star last year. Okay, well that was a bit of
a fluke playing in a pinball machine at Finnway Pac.
Jared Duran is the word ordinary. He's the unexceptional, and
(12:02):
he is. He's hitting two seventy one. He's on paced
it ten home runs and strike out one hundred and
sixty two times. Where I come from, that's not a
great ballplayer. Ten home runs and one hundred and sixty
two strikeouts. Now the podres they need help. They're eighteenth
out of thirty teams, eighteenth in baseball and run scored,
which I hear is not good. That, Oh, you're being
(12:23):
too nigive just because you're a Dodger Finn Okay, yeah,
that's right. Eighteenth in run scored. Do you really think
that if you drop Jaron Duran in and you had
him eat in fish tacos every day in San Diego,
that he'd be sitting there and hitting bombs right and left.
Because I don't. All right, quickly, final thought, we go
(12:44):
to the den of iniquity in Houston, where we now
know an intoxicated, degenerate gambler who lives overseas. He is
the person of interest that was behind behind the social
media threats directed last month at cheating as one one
(13:07):
thousand and two, one thousand hole, Lance mccolors, the pitcher,
the cheating a hole and and his family. Now the
man has been gambling on baseball, but he was betting
on the A holes. I guess he thought they were
still cheating. He lost money shockingly and was very upset
and more inebriated than upset. And so those two things,
(13:32):
you put those together and cob boom kaboom, kaboom, kaboom kaboom.
So he sent a bunch of threats to mccolors and
the Astro pitcher of course, went public with it. A
player went to the media, raised a big hole of
blue and said the person was gonna murder his family.
(13:52):
And he's very upset. So Astro's pitcher, Lance mccollors, now
we have more information, So he goes public with social
media debth threats. He's not the only one. There've been
a couple of players in baseball that have done this recently,
but we're talking about Lance percaus. So he goes public
with the death threats. Now we know they came from overseas.
Was this a good idea or was this foolish? So
(14:15):
you've got good idea over here, and you've got foolish
over here. And the arrow is pointing, it's pointing this
way to the to the foolish side.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You do.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
What you're doing here is you're giving oxygen to the story,
in this case the fire. So there's a fire, you're
feeding oxygen into the fire, which increases the intensity and
burn rate of the fire. Oh, that's an old take.
(14:49):
You don't know what you're talking about. Well, this is
what I've always believed. If you publicize the social media
trolls that send you threat it's what you have done
is inadvertently and someone say, unintentionally, given the person who
sent that the high of what they want, the attention
(15:12):
that their heart desires. You have promoted this and they're like, oh, man,
I really upset this cat. That's what I wanted, because
that's what a holes and trolls, that's what they try
to do. And also what you're doing is you're creating
more schmucks and more a holes that want that high,
(15:32):
that rocky mountain high of attention because you're encouraging similar behavior.
Is what you're doing. And you're supposed to ignore the
trolls because if you feed the It's like when you
go to the beach and you start feeding the birds.
You know, summertime here, whether it's getting good, right, go
to the beach. What happens if you start feeding the
(15:53):
seagulls you are it's I don't know how they do it.
Every e fing bird for five miles on the beach
find they get the sign, the bird sign, and they
squawk and they come up. They start picking through your
crap and they want more. They want You said, I'm
(16:16):
just gonna feed this one little bird, and what happened?
You know, what happens. That's the same thing with online
trolls and online threats. You encourage other people to do
it because they're seeking notoriety. You know, they're losers. They
don't have anything going on, you know, schmucks. So if
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you're in the public eye and this is going to
blow you away, there are actually going to be whack
of doodles who are not happy with you. There are
going to be people that bet on these games that
lose because you suck at your job, and they're going
to blame you. And that's the way it works. There's
a lot of people that you can bind alcohol and
a we call it liquid courage or smartphone courage, keyboard courage,
(17:00):
any of those terms. And so the lob overhand lobs threats. Now,
I actually relate to this story. I've been doing this
job for a while and we have gotten into many
a rhubarb over the years, actually, ironically enough, with the
fine people of Houston who did, for some reason, did
(17:21):
not appreciate my takes. I don't know why. I don't
know why, for some reason they did not appreciate my commentary.
And I've gotten into it with the people in Houston.
I've had some incidence with people from Baltimore, Cleveland, a
couple other places over the years. And so doing this show,
you think, wow, who cares about overnight talk radio? Yet
(17:45):
I have had dingleberries over the years that have threatened
to kill me, have threatened to kill my wife, my relatives,
the whole thing, and ninety nine of that never makes
the air, never makes the air, because I was taught
(18:05):
you don't give that a megaphone. You contact who you
need to contact, and those people I trust you are contacted,
The proper authorities are contacted, and then it's up to
them to figure it out. But this has been a
new thing lately for players to play the victim and
all that stuff, And to me it's you get a
lot of online cred when you play the victim and
(18:26):
people feel sympathy for you and all that stuff. But
you've created more of the problem, right, You're creating more
of the issue rather than solving the problem. You're you're
giving it a much larger amount of attention. Anyway, it
is the Ben Malors Show. If you'd like to comment
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in the hour. But time now for the Mallor Riddle
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So Shaquille O'Neill, that's a former basketball player. He was
pretty good, Shaquille O'Neil. So, Shaquille O'Neill once bought a
blank for his friend's mother after visiting the family home
(19:31):
in the Bronx. Again, Shaquille O'Neal once bought a blank
for his friend's mother after visiting the family home in
the Bronx. That is the Malor riddle of the day.
The answer, We'll get to it. We will do it next.
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Shaquille O'Neal once bought a blank for his friend's mother.
After visiting the family homes, decided to buy them a
blank A friend's mother, that is the question. What is
the answer, Malard prop guy says the highly coveted, highly
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from King Rory, Not the actor Danny DeVito, the number
one trash man that listens to the show there in
the Boston area. A suit of armor from Donkey Sausage.
That's his answer. Bought her, Shack said, this guy said, milkman.
Mike said, bought her a butler named Marcel far Out.
(22:55):
Dave says, one of those fancy high end sex swings
is the answer to the riddle of the day. Joy
read used fur coat from mister irrigation. Who else you have?
Page down? A fifty five gallon drum of mayonnaise. That's
from Tom and Kens City right in here the Landing
(23:16):
where Tom can enjoy the Ben Mallard chicken fingers on
the menu. And I have made the pilgrimage to that venue.
We had a great Mallard meet and greet last November
at the Landing. It was wonderful. What else we have
a page now? Eke in Roseville, Minnesota says, A lifetime
passed to the Bronx Zoo. That is the answer. How
(23:36):
about new JT. The wingman in Knoxville. We know what
it's on his mind? He says, a set of light
switch extenders, and then he sent photos of the light
switch extenders, a pizza and a VHS copy of Kazam
from courtesy Flusher. What do you think we order a pizza?
(23:57):
On DJ Spin, Patrick or Buddy and Sandy Diego says,
a table spot A table saw is the answer? Inca
Tara going with the hot tup time machine? All right,
what say you, Lorrain? AT's the Mallard riddle of the day.
Shaquille O'Neal once bought a blank for his friend's mom
after visiting the family home there in the Bronx. You know,
Shaq seems like a very thoughtful person. Ben Okay, So
(24:20):
I think I think he.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Got her squatty potties for every bathroom in the house.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Listen, you don't realize that you need a squatty potty
until you need a squatty potty, right, No, that is
incorrect the correct answer, though. Shaquille O'Neal, known for his generosity,
went to the family home in the Bronx and bought
a new home for the family there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
According to a recent interview with a rapper, Peter Gunns
says Shaq came to visit my mom in the Bronx
when I first met him. When we first met, he
was like, where you're at. I said, I'm on my
block and he said I'm pulling up and I said,
you get the f out of here. Whatever, And anyway,
(25:11):
Shaq ended up buying the home and I said, we're
looking at all these big houses and ended up writing
the check. There you go, so good job by By.
He does that kind of stuff all the time. You
go like toy stores and just buy a bunch of crap,
and he usually doesn't do it for social media, this
(25:33):
stuff comes out. Let's go to the phones and we do.
We do need contestants for Mallard's Mountain of Money. So
if you want to play that, call right now eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. Clifford the Big Red Dog
a hero of my youth, someone that influenced me when
I was young. I loved the Clifford the Big Red
(25:54):
Dog books explains a lot. Hello Clifford, Welcome, Hello.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Mister Mahler, and welcome well, thank you for welcoming back.
May I say real quick, I'm sorry for my debut
on Password of the Stars, the Game of the Stars
last week and the other question is real quick. If
(26:19):
you serve it one hundred people, how many people would
say data and how many people would say data? Do
you think it.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Depends where you grew up, depends only like the region.
Like you know, if people say pop, some people say pop,
some people say soda. How about how about the sandwich.
Some places it's called the hero, some places it's called
the Hogigi. Other people say it's a sandwich. It's just
your local dialect. But even that because of the Internet,
(26:53):
like local dialect is pretty much going away, Like there's
a lot of everyone's sounding the same because of the Internet.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Interesting. Okay, well, I appreciate.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
It, and I like your I like your bit, Clifford.
Every call is going to be apologizing for your previous call.
That's good.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Maybe not. I think I did a little better this
time I spoke.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Oh the call's not over. The call's not over, you know.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Okay, Well, uh, well, i'd like to say the coop.
I appreciate him letting me on even though it was
a long wait. This time, maybe I can get on
the password game.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Okay, now now you're getting Now you're getting carried away.
Now you're now you're getting carried oa okay, care, all right,
all right, thank you hang up on yourself. Please go
go eat some dog food or some thank you. There's
Clifford the big red dog. Uh, let's see who else
do we have, page Dad. Let's go to blind Scott
and uh, let's see here. We do need a contestant
for malus amount of If we don't get one, we'll
(27:52):
just blow the game up. We have other people on
a hold. They want to talk, but I just know
he wants to play the game anyway, mallards amount of money.
Let's say hello to blind Scott. Hello, blind Scott.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Yeah, like eighty percent of the disabled people are unemployed.
They changed my uh my payment date to today. It's
a third that you used to get pay them the
second Wednesday. So I got paid today and they give
me four hundred dollars more a month.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Which congratulations. What did you do to earn the extra
four hundred dollars a month?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
I don't know. I think elon mark. Do I cleaned
up the swamp?
Speaker 3 (28:23):
You know?
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Send some money my way? But I might even be
getting more.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Do you now? Do you act? I know you're not
that old. You're I think you're younger than me. Blind Scott.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
But do you too?
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Okay, you're younger than me, so but do you do
you act? Let me ask you? Do you act like
my dad knew exactly the within about ten minutes of
when the mail was going to be delivered? Do you
know exactly when the do you? You don't get this
direct deposit?
Speaker 5 (28:46):
You know it's an electronic that comes around with thirty three.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Okay, okay, that's what I was gonna get. I was
gonna ask, so not actual mail, you just get an
electronic deposit. I got you.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
Yeah. I talked to a lawyer today about the trash
that was flying out window.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
You know.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Somebody was calling me like a British cigarette downstairs.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
So it's afraid to go by there.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
But it seems to be all cleared up now. But
there's a lot of complaints about me walking in the
middle of the street, like it doesn't look right, they say,
But decide if you walk down the cycle man, it
would take forever. I'm going to the blind Store today.
It's a store with products just for the blind. It's
a store that's where is.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
A blind store in Boston?
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Is it on Center Street? It's on Center Street in
Newton at the Carrol Center for the Blind.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
You're going all the way to Newton. How are you
getting over to Newton? How you getting well?
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Actually, my mom has a doctor's department at Brigerman Woman's Hospital,
so she's going to go for me. I'm not actually
going to go.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Okay, but I want to actually going. You're just gonna
request certain items in the in the years.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
My mom My Mom's going for me. I would like
to go, but I get up at like one in
the morning, So like, what time am I going to
go there at?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Like, you know, I'm dedicated to the courts here. I
do a lot of bits for a radio show that
I work on.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Ben.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
I bet one thing you don't know about me is
I've used you over the years as a wreck coommendation.
I've used weathers or recommendation from Ben and times his
name to that one.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Well, it sounds for you. It's very kind of you
to not tell me that. And how's that worked out
for you?
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Well, we're to cool.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Like when I was getting a guide dog extupt like that.
I talked to that lawyer today book the guy that
she said you're the problem. She told me she was
able to get some videos that they had of me
at the school. One of them was I was working
at Talk and I like straight arm somebody. Can you
believe somebody took a video of that and sent that
to the school to tell them about me. Like, you know,
people will tell on you for literally anything, Like they're
(30:30):
they're so bored with their time, with their time out there,
you know what I'm saying, dude. So this summer, like
in the next month, a lot of radio people are
going on vacation. So Ben, here's the deal. Like, I'm
a little bit worried that if your show doesn't get renewed,
I'm a little bit worried about what we might do.
So I've been listening to Chris Flank he can't handle
the Friday night time slot. Would you work Friday nights
(30:51):
if your TV show doesn't get renewed?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You know you need the money. If they pay me,
of course, I will work with I guess. So hold on,
go away for now. Welcome to our contestants. We have
We are going to play maus amount of money. We've
got Mike in Boston. Hello, Oh, he's the boy. He's
got the radio turned all the way up. Holy crap.
That's like talk radio one one. They've had a delay
in talk radio since the nineteen fifties. All right, let's
(31:17):
try to get are you there, Mike? Oh crap? All right,
Well let's try Kelly in Des Moines. Maybe that'll work.
See Kelly in the moin. Hello, Kelly, Hi man, Hello, Kelly, welcome.
You're gonna play maus amount of money? Who would you
like to partner up with? Our friend? Kelly Man, I'm
gonna go with you, all right. We're in it to
(31:40):
win it, all right. And you're already in the league
because you know that there's a delay and you can't
have your audio turned all the way up. So you're
in the lead. And we've got Mike in bosson CV's there. Hello, Mike, Hi,
Sorry about that bad job by you? All right, Mike,
who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
My cool?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
All right? Well you good choice. Mike could have Picklin.
What are the categories? This go quickly? Quickly, quickly, quickly.
It's Malar's Mountain of money.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Gentlemen, this is the Mallard's mount of Money. Dana Carvey edition.
He turned seventy years old on Monday.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Oh my god, no, church lady.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
All right, Uh, the categories aren't This is spinal Tap, Opportunity,
Knocks Moving, and Wayne's World. Uh, Kelly, which category would you?
Speaker 1 (32:30):
You're like, hold on, hold on, sake me, punch this guy.
Go ahead. Oh that's not Kelly. Go ahead, Kelly, I
would like to go with Wayne's World Wayneesworth. Okay, good choice.
What about you, Mike?
Speaker 5 (32:43):
This is spinal tap?
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Okay, those are the categories. Everyone, hold on, do not
hang up. We are gonna have Mallar's Mount of Mine.
Who's gonna win? Get your bets in, Get your bets in.
Go over to DraftKings, get your bets in. We're gonna
have it. Kelly into Moine, she's gonna win. She's steaming
with me, and then Mike in Boston with Coop. We'll
get to that. We will do it next.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Miller and you. It is the Ben Mallers Show. Don't
forget the YouTube channel. Be sure to check out the
Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. Just search Fox Sports Radio
on the YouTube. You're on there anyway, you'll see a
whole bunch of video highlights from various gas bags, blowhards,
and Know It Alls. You can watch exclusive Mallard monologues
(33:32):
that nobody else has. Be sure to subscribe so you
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Speaker 4 (33:43):
Now, Mailor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Let's do it. Here we go. The matchup is set
Kelly in Des Moines, formerly in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
She is.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
With a fellow listening to the show The Power Couple
of Eye where sheen in the Moine and Kelly, everything
good with you two kids? Kelly? Yes, yes, it's amazing man,
Thank you. Wonderful outside mazlet alright and Mike and Boston
is teamed up with Cooper Loop. The Dana Carvey Edition
turned seventy on Monday. And you're up first, Kelly, you
(34:23):
picked Wayne's World? Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Okay? We got forty five seconds. These athletes have all
been considered sidekicks. We need the first and last name.
Are you ready, Kelly? Yes? I am all right. Forty
five seconds. We're on our way go. Michael Jordan's right,
hand man for the Bulls. Yes, tight end for the
Patriots with Tom Brady. White guy right, Yes, running back
(34:47):
for the Broncos. Some say he was the sidekick to
John Elway. Others say he was the main player for
those great Bronco teams. Oh, okay, Carl Carl Malone's sidekick
with the Utah Jazz John Yes, Barry Bonds sidekick, although
you wont an MVP with the San Francisco Giants. A
(35:07):
second basement white guy wore a porn mustache. Oh all right,
the other wide receiver for the forty nine ers in
the eighties next to you had Jerry Rice on one
side and this guy on the other. Come on, sorry,
that was a pretty good clue. All right, whole too, Okay,
(35:32):
I got seventy points, all right, Mike, you didn't get
John Taylor either. Oh that's who was the O.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
And Terrell Davis is the running back there it is,
thank you, Wow, it doesn't he doesn't help now, Mike,
Uh we have this is spinal tap.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
These athletes were all in a band at one point
in their life.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Mike, are you ready? Yep?
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Right?
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Forty five seconds to begin Super Bowl winning quarterback for
the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Uh, this guy was one of the best dunkers of
his time. Started with the Raptors. He yes.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
This guy was a catcher for the Dodgers. He got
traded to the Mets. That's correct. This guy was a
center fielder for the Yankees in the in the nineties
when they won all their champions Yes. This guy was
a linebacker for the Patriots in the nineties and two thousands.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
White guy. Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
This guy was a shortstop for a bunch of teams,
the Indians.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
And this guy was a Hall of Fame quarterback for
the Browny Alright.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
All right, what was that, Kelly? Yes, man, I'm sorry,
don't break my heart. She's already a book.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Come on, how did he get o Marviskel from that clue?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Probably cheating? You're cheating, okay, all right, you just Kelly.
You're losing to a guy that sound on your category.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Kelly, opportunity knocks are moving?
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Wait? What were the options?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
I'm sorry, take your time, opportunity knocks or moving opportunity?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Okay. These athletes all started as backups and became stars.
Forty five seconds on the clock, We're on our way.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Go.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Greatest quarterback in NFL history for the Patriots. Uh he
was a quarterback for the forty nine Ers. He took
a knee during the national anthem. Yes, French point guard
for the Great Spurs teams of the two thousands. Tony
Kukoch now wow you Okay, no, the Iron Horse for
(37:58):
the Yankees. He had the all I'm most consecutive games
played until cal Ripken broke his streak. Okay White quarterback
from the eighties Giants. He replaced Phil Simms. He also
had a porn mustache and won a Super Bowl with
the New York Giants in the mid nineteen eighties or
nineties early nineties. Come on, come on, come on. He
(38:25):
got the first name right. It was Tony Parker, Tony Well.
Tony kukok was a player for the Bulls, but not Kelly.
He broke my heart. Kelly, hurry then, lou Gerig, I'm devastated. Kelly,
you won, Mike, Now figure out the delay on your radio.
You got a golden take a you gotta golden.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
I got a golden Chickad
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