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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shack a Laka.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number three, our number three of the big
old radio program, and we start out talking baseball. This
our spring training less than a month away, and after
adding another star Japanese pitcher, the Dodgers also signed the
Tanner Scott, a star relief pitcher. There is major fan
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backlash against the Dodgers exorbitant spending this offseason. It's off
the charts. How do you rule on the fan rage
towards la Also in Chicago, owner Tom Ricketts recently said
the Cubs just don't have the dollars to get contracts
like the Dodgers, the Yankees, and the Mets, saying that
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the Cubs just try to break even every year financially.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Give me your school of thought on that.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And Mark Cuban says he'd like to buy the Pittsburgh Pirates. However,
the owners won't sell the Pirates because of all the
money they're making. What do you think of that explanation?
Even though they're not winning in Pittsburgh, We'll go there
as well. Here it is our number three, caught in
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It's how it works.
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Free agency in college football. Better lead this hour from baseball.
You realize we are less than a month away from
the first Cactus League game. The Doyers will take on
the Chicago Cubs on February twentieth, So we are less
stand a month away from spring training baseball.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And over the weekend, while we were all.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Watching the NFL, the Dodgers were doing some online shopping,
say scavenger hunt where they get whatever they want. The
reigning world champions of professional baseball have opened up the
petty cash yet again, the petty cash yet again, after
the Dodgers agreed to a deal with their latest Japanese
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phenom pitcher, Roki Sazaki agreed to a contract. Now, that
was on Friday night. I actually did a mini Mallar
monologue on the Fifth Hour podcast on Saturday morning about that.
But then again over the weekend Sunday, they agreed to
a seventy two million dollar contract with a relief pitcher,
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Tanner Scott, late of the Marlins and the Padres. Padres
traded three of their can't miss scratcher tickets to get
their hands on Tanner Scott at the deadline, and want
to watch him slip away? Now go to the shot
Vez Ravine and pitch for the Dodgers. So you know
what happened after that. I assume you know what happened
after the Dodgers added rookie Sazaki and Tanner Scott. Immediately
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there was backlash. There was a grassroots movement or Major
League Baseball to step in and to intervene that they're
ruining the game, and oh it's so bad, Oh my god,
the Dodgers get all the good players.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Now, this is not only fans that are complaining.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You have baseball pundits who are going on rants about
it not being proper that the Dodgers have gotten all
these players. The Dodgers have skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. Their
payroll is going to be like seventy plus million dollars
more than the next team. But you factor in the
luxury tax they'll be paying the tightwad teams in baseball
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another one hundred plus million dollars. The Dodgers will end
up paying over five hundred million dollars two fe field
a roster at the start of the year, and that
does not include the players they will eventually trade for
at the late July trade deadline to fatten up the roster,
when inevitably many of these players go down snap crackle pop.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So there's more to come.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
There's one story that I was sent by a Dodger,
a fan who thought that I would enjoy this. They
said that la, if they win another title in twenty
twenty five, they go back to back here and win
the World Series.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It would be a hollow, hollow.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Championship because the Dodgers have gone from villains to supervillains.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Oh use supervillains. So okay, let us.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Discuss the question for the panel after adding the newest
sensation from Japan Roki Sazaki and Tanner Scott. The pushback
is next level against the Dodge and all this spending.
How do you rule on this one?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
How do you?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Is this bad for baseball? So I've got DC Comics
brownies and three card Monty. In fact, let's make those
geara Deli brown he's the real good brownies.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
We'll make those geara Deli browns. All right.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So first of all, and we'll put all these together,
we'll make a buffet.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So my first thought is pure silliness.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And tell me you're a loser without telling me you're
a loser, that's my first thought, Like, tell me you
have no competitive spirit.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
That the Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Just by going out there and running out opening Day,
they're gonna win the World Series.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Tell me you don't know baseball, Like, just explain to me.
I don't know baseball.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I'm a fan and I am Joe Blofan, and I
don't know ball. Because baseball unlike the NBA, unlike in
many respects in the NFL these days, if you're a
top team, you're going to win in basketball. In baseball,
it has never worked like that. It gives you a
better chance to win, but it doesn't guarantee anything. The
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way baseball is designed, players still have to reform. And
as far as it being hollow, you know it's hollow bamboo,
that's hollow. Dodgers, if they would go back to back
or win three or four in a row, nothing hollow
about it. They paid their money. If baseball's got a problem,
put a hard cap in there. I hate the cap.
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They should get rid of the cap. The cap is crap.
The cap protects cheap owners is what it does, and
it also prevents owners that could spend more money from
spending more money. The Dodgers are just saying, screw that.
This ownership group's not going to own the team forever.
They got all this money they got to pay out
and deferred payments. I'm gonna be really old by the
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time they're done paying these people, right, I'll be really old,
and many of us will be really old when that happens,
and they'll sell the team. By then, some other sucker
is gonna come in and buy the Dodgers, and by
that point they'll be out, and they'll have their World championships.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
And their rings and their.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Pendants and their knickknacks and all that from the glory
days of Dodger baseball.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You certainly enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Right now, the Dodgers are doing what these other teams
should be doing.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
They're putting their money where their mouth is. They want
to be a dynasty. They've been to the playoffs every
year for it seems like fifteen years. They're in the
playoffs every year. So here we are, right, multiple World
Series wins. That's chicken soup for the soul, is what
that is. And we guarantee the reason it's not hollow
also is that should the Dodgers stub their toe and
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ride the vomit comment in the playoffs, I will guarantee
you whoever beats them, and fans in general will be
or gas Mick with joy. They'll be our gas Mick
with joy. And this is why what the Dodgers are
doing is great for baseball. You need a bad guy.
Every story needs a good guy and a bad guy.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
You need that.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The Dodgers are the bad guys for fans that aren't
Dodger face.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
For the Dodger fans, they're the good guys. Right.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
That's the way it works, And so if the Dodgers lose,
it's pure shot in freud.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It is regardless.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And as far as your tears of agony, because the
Dodgers keep adding players, it's really misdirected. You should not
be upset at the Dodgers. You should be upset at
your tight wad franchise. That's who you should be upset
with the Blue Crew. It's like that that army slogan,
be all you can be. The Dodgers are being all
they can be. And if you want to make comic
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book references and go through the whole comic book world,
the Dodgers have gone. In my mind, DC Comics, they
have formed the Justice League. They have they formed it justicely.
They got the Green Lantern over there, they got the Flash,
they got Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Martian Manhunters
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even out there. I don't know who that is, but
that Martian Manhunters out there somewhere. They're headquartered in a secret,
hollowed out location outside of Happy Harbor, in a mountain
somewhere wherever Happy Harbor is. I think that's where Dodgers
Stadium is. Blue Heaven on Earth all right.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Secondly to Chicago we go as we suck up to
our chicagoans. At the annual CUB convension, I'd mentioned full
of Scholture. I'd mentioned the Pirates debacle where the fans
were chanting to the CEO sell the team, and then
the play by play guy started like pushing back against fans,
you know, and then everyone starts thinking he's a douchebag.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
So that happened.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Then the Pirates star player Paul Skeens, he was asked
whether he wanted to sign an extension to stay in
Pittsburgh long term and help the franchise turn things around, and.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
He didn't answer the question. That was so good.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
So a fan listener of the show who's a Cub
fan in Chicago sent me this store. I did not
see this over the weekend, so thank you for directing
me to this. So they had a Cub Convention over
the weekend, which is their PEP rally to get people
excited for Cub baseball.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Come out to the friendly confience Wrigley Field watch the Cubs.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So at that event, the owner, Tom Ricketts, did a
good job of taking a bucket of ice water and
pouring it all over the Cub fan fest the Cub
convention to get people fired up for the upcoming season.
Now what did the owner of the Cub say, Tom Ricketts,
This is outstanding. So Tom Rickets, is the Cub owner,
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said that they don't have the quote dollars. The Cubs
don't have the dollars like the Dodgers and the Yankees
of the Mets Bentley, Chicago's had tough times and there's
just nobody living there anymore, and there's there's just nothing
for the Cubs to do.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
And so he.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Says that, Tom Ricketts, the goal of the franchise every
year is just to break even.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
They're not making money, they just want to break even.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
So give me your school of thought on the owner
of the cub saying that they're not making money.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
They just want to break even. That's it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
So, as my grandfather taught me, that's a lot of hootzpa.
That is a lot of hootzpa from Tom Ricketts, the
Cubs owner. Nothing shows the fan base at a fan
fest in January cold weather that your franchise has the
fighting spirit like Medello. Then your owner is saying we're
just trying to break even, that that's what we're trying
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to do.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
And you really have to be in the.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
One percentile of stupid okay to know that this is
this is obviously just nonsense, right, it's completely not I mean,
there are apparently some people that just drink the kool
aid no matter what they're like.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Oh he said it, so it must be true, said it.
Let's do some malormath here for those of you that
are little obtwos.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So the Chicago Cubs, according to the numbers, they had
five hundred and six million dollars in revenue. Now you
have expenses, sure, you have a lot of expenses, but
five hundred and six million dollars in revenue. So based
on that, the Cubs ranked third in revenue in all
of Major League Baseball third in revenue. You know what
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percentage of money they spent on the player payroll, seventeenth,
So the math ain't mathing on that. If you are
third in revenue and seventeenth in money spent, it just
doesn't work out. So someone we should get some Ghara
Deli brownies will have a bake sale. Tom Rickis is
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worth nine hundred million dollars, the owner of the Chicago Cubs,
and I visited Wrigleyfield not that long ago and the
land around right now. I was at Wrigleyfield when I
was sewing stuff for the Dodgers years ago, and it
was a much different experience than when I went this time,
because when I went the first time, there were local pubs,
people sitting on the rooftops there, and it was just like,
you know, the way it had been as I understand
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it when I was a kid. And then the Cubs
bought up all the land. They made deals with everybody
around there, and so now it's like going to downtown
Disney or going to amusement park type situation.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
So stop, I mean, that is a cash.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Cow, real sob story in Chicago, all right now, final thought,
So following following the pr debacle, as we talked about
earlier in Pittsburgh, to sell.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
The team rant and all that.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
The pittsburgher the yinzer Mark Cuban, who has made some
horrifically bad predictions on social media.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
My god, as he suck at that right from the
NFL is not going to last.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You know, they're getting too big, and some of his
political predictions have been terrible.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
So anyway, the former Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Majority owner Mark Cuban says he would like to buy
his hometown baseball team, the Pittsburgh Pirates. However, he said
the owners, the owners there will not sell because all
of the money they're making in Pittsburgh. Do you think,
what do you think of that explanation? What do you
think of that explanation from Mark Cuban? So I actually
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agree with him on this, and I remember years ago
I had some people tell me that the dirty little secret,
the taboo part of baseball, the industrial complex of sports,
is if you're willing to sacrifice goodwill in the community.
From a pure financial standpoint, owning a professional baseball team
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that is not spending a lot of money is a
license to have as much money as you could possibly
want in terms of just income that you don't have
to worry about it. It's insane. Imagine if you will,
because what they do if you're a bad team, what
you're doing is you're running a brewery, but you're watering
down the martinis and the different cocktails. The margaritas are
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being watered down and all that stuff. And so that's
what these tight wad owners, like the ownership in Pittsburgh,
does Cincinnati, Tampa Bay, Colorado, And why would you ever
sell if you're part of the pirate ownership, You wouldn't
be silly to sell because they've got a three card
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Monte game and the cops ain't coming. They're allowed, they're
legally allowed to play three card Monty. And there's a
line around the building of rubes who are either willing
to watch the games on TV or they'll go to
the games. And there's just enough. When you include the
outside revenue, your set rating suck, doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
You've got national TV money.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Attendance blows, you get some of the road attendants, it's okay,
none of it matters. You get to split up the
merchandise sales and all that. And so you have teams
like the Yankees, the Dodgers, and the Mets, and occasionally
the Red Sox, who will subsidize, subsidize the cheapness going
on in places like Pittsburgh. And you're laughing as you
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click except on the app on your phone, pocketing tens
of millions of dollars of passive income. It's like owning
a vending machine that sends nothing out but gold bouyan
and you don't even have to fill the vending machine
with good products. It's to the old, rotten products, and
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Speaker 1 (17:13):
Riddle of the day.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Iron Mike Tyson was given a blank at President Trump's
inaugural ball in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
On Monday night.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Again, legendary boxer Iron Mike Tyson. He was one of
the dignitaries. I guess who showed up. He was given
a blank at President Trump's inaugural ball in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
On Monday. That is the mallor riddle of the day.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
The answer, We'll get to it and we will do
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It's called Malar's Mount of Money. But now back to
big mouth Betty Bill. I do not Bill, I do
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not have a big mouth. It's it's fine. There is
the smell of cheeseburgers in the hall, which you really
want when you're fasting. You want to smell cheeseburgers and
fries and shakes. That that's the kind of thing you
really gets you fired up. When you're you're doing a
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fast you just enjoy the smells. The smells are just wonderful.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
I think we need to be more specific, Ben, because
it's not just cheeseburg, not just cheese.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
She's very pepsi.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
No, this place has a very specific smell. When you
drive by it on the road, you can smell it.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well, there's a lot of things you drive on the
road you can smell thought, skunk, you can smell the skunk,
homeless encampment, body.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Odor, po someone's got really bad bo you can smell that.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Right, Yeah, for sure. But this is in and out.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That's what a hamburger is all about.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Give it its credit.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
And it's the one right here in the San Fernando
Valley where there's a line all the way out to
the street every time because they dedicated. They did not
design that properly. It's an old school in and out.
You can tell the old school ones from the new
ones because the new ones have they all have lines,
but the older ones have they have no room for
the car, so they go out.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
To the street like the one over by Universal Terrible
goes all the way up the road.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
That is crazy traffic.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
The Burger line, have you been the one in Hollywood?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Is that when you're talking about the one in the
Hollywood boulevard or sunset?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
I think it's Hollywood, the one that's It doesn't matter.
They're all bad, It doesn't matter. What's the point. I'm
right off Klinga.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yeah, Yeah, that was not good anyway. Time now for
the mallor riddle of the day. Here's the mallor riddle
of the day. Iron Mike Tyson, kind of a big
name back in his day, was given a blank at
President Trump's inaugural ball in Washington.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
D C.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I broke my back on on Monday night. I don't
know that he was given that. Let's see here. Mallard
prop guy says, ears of ears of corn is the answer.
Jason saying, a soda popinsk, two knuckle sandwiches from Dad
Gummet that's his answer.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Who else do we have here?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
He was named the new diplomat for Sri Lanka from
the Late Night Drug tester ferg Dog says a Ben
Mahler showed t shirt from the Minnesota meet greet. Wow,
has it been been a couple of years now since
that meet and greet?
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Man.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
We gonna get back to Minnesota. At some point.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Mark and Queens says Tyson's was given a political pardon
for biting a vander Holyfield. All right, Tyson was given
a gold card to the ballet. How about new that's
a nice belt? Is that the one near your house? There?
Alf is at the local ballet and in that part
of Massachusetts. Milkman Mike in Colorado says he was offered
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to get to negotiate with Putin aka whoopee Pie Blair.
That was the answer. Andy in lion O Lakes, Minnesota.
Who's out ice fishing in a box somewhere in Minnesota,
says Iron Mike was given a mouthguard and a free caller.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
That that is the answer. Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Page Dan, our great friend Tim, the Great Tim mcdarby
points out that right now snow has covered Kyle Field
for Texas, A and M they get snow, they don't
get snow. They're very often, but there's no crazy winter
A pardon from Biden, I guess by ikean Roseville, Minnesota'm
getting all choked up by that.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Who else do I? Lorraino? Do you have an answer? Lorraine?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I actually do Ben I think he gave him a
golden ear.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
A golden ear, all right, is that the answer? No,
It turns out that Iron Mike Tyson was given a
piggyback ride by YouTuber and foat boxer Jake Paul at
one of President Trump's inaugural balls. I learned there's such
a racket. I think I learned this last presidential election.
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But we have a new president. There's like multiple presidential
balls because each one they make a killing, right, they
make tons of money.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I do the same thing.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Right when I do these mallar meeting greets, I should
have like two or three of them at the same night,
rather than just do one of them, because that's what
the presidents do. They have two or three and they
have to get all dressed up in their penguin suit.
They go out in their tuxedo and they play kiss
ass and grab ass with all these people and then
they write giant checks.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
So that's the way that was. Anyway, we'll go to
the phones. Let's go now.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Oh god, we say all to James, who's hanging out
in Edmonton.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
What's going on? James?
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Welcome, welcome, Thank you, sir, mister Miller. Everything's good. Here
a little bit of a blizzard going on.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
But now come on, you give the temperature. You know
you want to give the temperature. You want to brag.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
No, No, the temperature actually not that bad. It's minus
seven selsiest so that would be minus twenty five.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Okay, so that's like a that's a chamber of commerce
kind of day in Edmonton.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Ray there you a goal. Yeah, but the reason for
my Coulter first time. But I love the show and
unfortunately it comes on the AM radio one of our
sports broadcast but from midnight till four am.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, well this what's on.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
I stay up man, and I love your insights. I
like the way that you want to know something. I
feel like we're two p's in the pod because you
got those little one liners. And I agree, like, for example,
you know vomit comment love it. But here's the other thing,
mister Johnson. Let's speak back to what you were saying.
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I do follow NFL quite a bit.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Not a.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Terrible nuts or junkie on the NFL, but I do
love the game. I really appreciate the level of skill
and you know the size of these of these people.
But one thing about him, and I think he's worth
every penny to give him a sniff is He's had
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multiple weird titles, you know, going through his career, like
I mean, assistant quarterback coach, a wide receiver coach, tight
end uh, quality control coach.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Yeah, that's a good one. Wouldn't you like to be
a quality control coach, James?
Speaker 6 (25:08):
I would love that.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Sounds like that's like in baseball, the bit like the
bench coach. You're the coach of the bench. You know
what an easy job that is.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
They don't pick up the water bottles the right way. Well,
I'm going to talk to them and say, listen, pick
it up this way, drink it that way.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Exactly Listen, that's exactly right.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
You didn't chew enough bubble gum. And my job as
the bench coach is to make sure you chew enough
bubble gum. That's a bad job by you. Now, now
let me ask you this, James, I know here.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Just to get this out, I already said it. But
love love the show.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Well, thank you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Tell you, I know, well, tell your friends if they
haven't insomnia, and you know your other buddies there in Edmonton,
they can hear the show.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
We're on all night here and uh and uh now
here here in the States.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I remember a couple years ago they changed a bunch
of names, like the Washington Redskins became the Commanders. But
you're your CFL team, right, your CFL You you were
part of that. When I was a kid, I used
to I used to reverence the Edmonton Eskimos. I want
to play for the Edmonton Eskimos.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
And now they saw that. What's up with that?
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Okay, how about this? Listen how I'm going to be
politically correct, but listen how incorrect the new name is. Okay,
if you drive down a highway, okay, in the middle
of like the wilderness, and you see wildlife, for example,
on elk coming from the shoulders, and there's ten of them,
(26:37):
what do you call them?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
What do you call what do you call them? I
don't know what do you call?
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Well, what do you call them?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I don't know what?
Speaker 6 (26:43):
I see? A bunch of elk?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, okay, a bunch of elks? Correct? Yeah, sure, we have.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
A fucking up. We have an ass on.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
The end of it.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh you do? Okay, yeah, I know it's so dumb.
I got her.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Oh well, at least we still have the Winnipeg Blue Bombers,
but not the Edmonton Estimator.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Like the Washington Redskins.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Sure, I know it's so ridiculous. Well, times are times
are changing. Yeah, but we'll see what happens. I gotta go, James,
call me again, buddy.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Thank you, man, And James, wash your mouth out with
soap and water. Okay, all right, thank you. There's that, James.
You have to listen to the podcast. See even a
nice Canadian, nice lad sitting there in minus twenty weather
can get so worked off over the Edmonton Eskimos that
he has to work Blue, has to work Blue on
(27:43):
the show. It has to happen. Let's go now to
the woman formerly known as Donut Kelly. Now she is pregnant,
Kelly in de Moin. Hello Kelly, I man, what's good?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
What's good in the neighborhood? I want you to know.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I'm sitting in the room. All the lights are out.
I only turn the lights on for the top of
the hour Mala monologue.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
It is eighty degrees in this yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
It's right now we are with wind chill at negative thirty.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I don't care. I'm worried about my problem. My problem
is it's eighty degrees in here. That's my problem.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
What, Ben, how's not a problem? Eighty sounds I sweat.
I'm I sweat like a peg. It's terrible.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
No, I would so much rather be hot than cold.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Nah, because you can get a nice heater or something
like that. And no, no, because cold weather clothes aren't cute.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I'm not worried about it. I'm on radio. Who cares
if I what I look like?
Speaker 8 (28:47):
You can only take off so many layers of clothes
and it's still hot, but you can always put more
clothes on and bundle up.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Coop, come on, really cold.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
Overheat any day, I'm on this one.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I'm yeah, I hate the hot man.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
It needs to be hot.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I was thinking the other day when I was at
the spot, I was like, I need it to be
eighty five so.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
That cold doesn't cause you to stink. I don't heat does.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
I'm talking just general human populations. So your personal problems,
personal problems. Just go to an area with a large
amount of people. If it's hot, it's not gonna smell good. Yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
It activates me. It activates body odor.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
It's terrible because people smell.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
They smell like tukis they smell like ass?
Speaker 8 (29:37):
All right, come on, because heat causes people to sweat,
which activates body odor, which smells gross.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yeah, and even if you have bo if you're in
the winter, you have a lot of layers of close
so it's harder to get to smell out.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
But how about that. That's a hot take? Send that
out a coop on that X. That's a hot take.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
No, here's the thing is that not everyone smells gross
when they sweat.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Well, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
All it takes is one out of ten people smell
and like football, what happens when it's hot In football,
players get swamp ass.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
You don't get swamp ass. When it's when it's cold,
you don't get swamp ass.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Do you remember the time that DK Metcalf had to
get like carted off the field because he had to poop? Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Well, I remember Lamar Jackson running to the locker room
because he had to poop.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Yeah, No, DK got wheeled off the field.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Oh I do remember that. Actually, I do recall that.
Great moments in n great poop moments in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Do you remember remember when Ben Bishop, the goaltender, had died,
died diarrhea, even though Eddie swore that.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Didn't He did not, Ben, He absolutely did not.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Eddie's not here anymore. He had diarrhea.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Die die Diarrheaop.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Is absolutely right, he did not have diarrhea.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Oh my god, No, keep darei, Kelly, keep chating off
the phone, Keep him off the phone out there, he's
interfering with the show. All right, all right, you too,
you two kids there, you go. Just let the record show. Kelly,
you chose to go to the Moines. You left Nashville
for the Moinne. You didn't have Shane go to Nashville.
(31:06):
You went to the Moine. So enjoy the cold weather.
But it will get warm in like two months, thank you,
or three months?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Hollering James is in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Hello, hollering James.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
I don't know what Chilly's complaining about the weather.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Here we go, this is where it's gonna be colder. Yeah,
I know.
Speaker 6 (31:29):
Me.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Let me give you a PSA.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
If you ever get your own radio show, and you're
on a lot of places, you have a big audience.
If you ever say the price of gas or the weather.
For the rest of that show, people will be calling
up and it's like a urinating match and it's cool
to William it's some more snow here. Yeah, and that's
where we're at right now. You don't go outside, James,
you stay inside. So who can it could be one
hundred degrees below zero.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Oh, I need to smoke a cigarette every now and
then to relieve my stress.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Now you know you're on thirty six pills in the morning.
Thirty six pills it now, you don't need that.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I want to hear that song again.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
That's my favorite song.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
You play that for me, and you know.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Who you want to hear the song? Do we have
the song? Is that?
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Give me a second to effort?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
It's not in the system yet. We don't have that.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
And I just don't make a button yet.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
You don't have a butt, James.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
I love that song. Honestly.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
It's one of my favorite songs I've ever heard on
the show. And it's quite an honor.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
You think of you think of the legends, You think
of the legends of music, Elvis Presley, you think of
the Beatles, you Taylor Swift, here's a Jay Scoop and
just Josh song about Holler.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
Again, bills, anemoning and thirty six pills that night, A
months to do in the afternoon, nix.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Nick feel all right. I bought these bills and time
of sleep. I thought the time I bottled this before
Mamela's show, and then I bought some more. James.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
Yeah, I'm a good sleep listening to more your show.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
James, were you ever caught snoring?
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
No, daddy, he once told me.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
James h be sports color man on a buffero. He
turned into a Vikings fan.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
But then one day you fell asleep on the game show.
Gave you crazz.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
Now you can dream and you can rhyme Weld tell
me takes care of Henday.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
This has become one of the great moments to show history.
A man fast asleep has what a radio game show?
Is that enough, James? Or do we have to play
the whole thing? And that's a fantastic show?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
You Yeah, all right, you're keeping Big Pharma in business.
You realize that seventy two pills a day, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Oh yeah, Cruks, you gotta have crugs. I wouldn't be
able to well.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I can't say. But that's a lot to that's a
lot to intake. There seventy two pills.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
That's a lie. Are you falling asleep game? But you're
on the year.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
What are you doing?
Speaker 6 (34:21):
I'm sleepy, but I'm all wait, I'm all wait, I'm
sleepy and no I'm not faith.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
You know what you need? You need the mayor of
Philadelphia to get you fired. Where's the mayor? Give me
the mayor of PHILADELI I need the mayor. Where's the mayor?
At Let me.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Owe?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
All right, we gotta fly that bo birds? All right,
Thank you, James.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I need contestants eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox,
Aunt of Mallows, amount of money, call right now, Malos
amount of money eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
Mallows amount of money eight seven seven nine ninety six
six three sixty nine Mallows amount of Money's next.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays a two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Bill Miller is here. Tell you to listen to the podcast.
Download the podcast. Ben Maler Show podcast be up shortly
after we get done. Let's get to the game.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Our Malord's Mountain of money. Hell do you have what
it takes to get to the top? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Let's play the game right now. We welcome in our contestants.
We have let's see here, we have Art puffin. Hello,
Art welcome. Who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Art?
Speaker 8 (35:36):
So good?
Speaker 6 (35:38):
So good?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Yeah? Okay, he's not paying attention.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Let's try Jacob Jacob in Delaware. Who do you want
to partner up with? Jacob welcome? Well, coope, all right,
you're gonna lose.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
And we have Andrew in Maine.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Let me make sure I punched the Ryan line up there? Andrew,
who do you want to partner up with?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Andrew?
Speaker 6 (35:58):
I look to part with you.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
All right, We're gonna win, So that's all. That's all
we're gonna do. Hold on, hold on, sek you, let's
punch the right line up? All right? What are the categories?
Speaker 5 (36:07):
Quickly?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Cool?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Please?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
All right?
Speaker 8 (36:08):
This is the Steve Perry addition of Mallers amount of money.
He turned seventy six years old today. The categories are
don't stop believing, faithfully captured by the moment and only
the young Jacob, which category would you like?
Speaker 6 (36:20):
Don't stop believing?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
All right? And Andrew? How about you.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
I'll take the ladder.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Well, there's three of them.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Faith faithfully captured by the moment, or only the.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Young Which one you want?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (36:34):
Sorry?
Speaker 8 (36:35):
Alright, alright, alright, go ahead, chep job. All right, Jacob,
forty five seconds. Don't stop believing. These athletes were on
teams that ended long championship droughts. First and last name, please,
forty five seconds. Let's begin, all right, he is the King.
He's on the Lakers, but he was on the Calves.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (36:52):
This is a wide receiver that was on the Chiefs,
but he is now on the Dolphins. He's probably gonna leave. Yes,
Big Poppy of the Red Sox. He was the tight
end for the Eagles when they won their championship. He's
on the Commanders now.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Zach rd Yes, uh.
Speaker 8 (37:07):
This guy was a pitcher on the Orioles. He was
terrible with them, but then he won a World Series
with the Cubs.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
All right.
Speaker 8 (37:14):
This point guard was on the Milwaukee Bucks. He just
won a championship with the Boston Celtics. Right now, No,
he just won a championship with the Celtics. His first
name spelled weird. What's that?
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (37:31):
This picture for the all right, well.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
You wouldn't gotten Hondy one anyway. That was not good.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
I'm not sure, did you?
Speaker 1 (37:39):
I think you won ninety? Let's go all right?
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Oh my guy?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
I think my guy's gone. I think my my g
That means I no, No, Art Puffins? You want to say, Art,
you're in the other guy hung up?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
All right?
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Only the young. These athletes died young. Are you ready?
Art Puffin?
Speaker 8 (38:00):
I'm ready?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
All right? Forty five seconds. Here we go.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Died in a helicopter crash. Laker legend, yes, tight end
for the Patriots. He killed somebody went to jail. What's
his first name?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Oh my, alright, you're an idiot. Alright, this is when.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
You picked me your team.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Then here's my backup. That was my backup.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
Why don't you try line five as a backup?
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Line five? You want to step in? Line No, that's
line six. Hold on line fire you there, line five?
You see you? All right?
Speaker 3 (38:36):
All right?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
What else?
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Iron Horse for the Yankees, Iron Neck uh safety for
the Arizona Cardinals. He died in the military. He was
killed by friendly fire. What's his first name? Celtics Celtics
stars drafted Hi did a bunch of cocaine.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Died after the NBA draft in the eighties, and oh
Man cooling mics on to it. I mean, it's obvious
what's going on.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
I mean, you had like a minute and a half
with this category.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
The first guy hung up, I'm on the third doc,
I'm on the third guy.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
The first guy hung up, the second guy said the
F word, And now I have got on the Poppy.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
You under sad me. You would have said, Okay, the
freaking game is over. The game is over. Free people,
we mean Jay Gobb, you gotta gold to take it.
My god, that's so.
Speaker 8 (39:37):
Jan.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
So I went. I went to art puffing. He wasn't
paying attention. Then I go to that guy Andrew. I
don't know, maybe a moose ran into him in Maine.
I have no idea. So then I had to go
to Poppy and I know his first day. You gotta
know the first and the last time. That's how you
play the game. That's a bad job by you.