Hour 3 - Cranking Up the Hot Stove

Ben Maller talks about the Red Sox interest in signing Ketel Marte and if he would be a good fit, Dave Roberts running it back with an almost identical Dodgers roster, FIFA adding mandatory hydration breaks, Maller's Mountain of Money: Jim Morrison Edition, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shaka Laca. It's our number three. Our number three
is ready to go. The Winter Meetings are underway in
Orlando and talk bays ball. So one of the big
rumors out of the Winter Meetings this week is a
trade room involving the Red Sox and Diamondbacks. Would could

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tell Marte be a good fit for the Red Sox.
They're said to be interested in the infield. There are
also thumbs up or thumbs down on Dave Roberts running
it back with an almost identical Dodger roster. He endorsed that.
And we'll talk the rare and appropriate socer. What does
FIFA adding mandatory hydration break signify to you for the

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upcoming FIFA World Cup in America. We'll talk about that
and more right now, settle in, have a great day.
It's our number three on this ninth day of December.
Cranking up the old hot stove. Yeah, the stove lega
is getting cranked up. Welcome in the beginning of another

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dot com and our lead this hour is from Baseball
love the rumor. I ran a gossip website years ago
and had some fun with that for a while, had
some success, made a few bucks, and I don't do
it anymore, haven't done for years. Haven't done it for years,
but I still love this time of the year, the
Winter meetings in Orlando at a Disney resort. Now, why

(02:59):
do they have the Winter meetings in Orlando at a
Disney resort Because it is a free vacation. The general managers,
the executives bring their wives and kids and they all
run amok at Disney World while the executives are playing
swap meet guys at the Winter meetings. So, if you
have not been following, there's been a few rumors that

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have popped up here. The one that caught my attention
that I would like to start with here is a
rumor involving the Boston Red Sox. Now, there have been discussions.
They have been in the they say the early stages,
the early the embryonic stages. The Red Sox and the

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Diamondbacks have that trade talk centered on infielder could tell Marte. Now,
if you're a baseball nerd, you know who could tell
Martee is if you're not. You're likely like who watches
the Diamondbacks. I don't know who that is? You're like that, Yeah,
well bad baseball knowledge. Anyway, it's a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question, and this is all a

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hypothetical world. We live in a hypothetical world. So as
we discuss the question for the class, would katel Marte
be a good fit with the Red Sox? That is
the question and what is the answer. So I've got
power Company, zen Master and Joey the Bellman, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are

(04:29):
going to make some French onion soup, which is not
at the very top, but it's it's in the top
five on the big board of soup. You know, you
don't go out of your way for it, but you
enjoy it when you get the French onion soup. It's
not like it's not chicken soup. It's great mazap balls. Yeah,
you know, there's a lot of good soup, but French
onion soup pretty high up. So, first of all, on

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the gossip out of the winter meetings in Orlando, katel
Marte is a terrific ballplayer. Is there however, I didn't say.
But however, it would be an absolutely atrocious with a
capital A fit for the Red Sox. That would be
a hard no. Now I have no skin in the game,
but that would be a hard no. If I were

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employed at Finway, I would be like, no, no, no, no, no.
The talent again, we love the talent. The talent is
absolutely there. He's a switch hitter with some pop positional versatility.
He can play more than one position. He's supposedly still athletic,
and he checks all the boxes. Check check check check
check check check, check, check all the boxes. The problem,

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what is the problem? The problem? You need to call
the power company. Well, why would you need to call
the power company. I'll tell you why. Faulty wiring. Faulty wiring.
That's the problem. Fire hazard, fire hazard, fire hazard. It's
just he's not the way I look at it, he's
not up to the grade you need to play in

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that mark. He's not. And it would be a debacle
if he ended up there. He's not Finway proof. You
gotta have some rhino skin to play in that, in
that uniform you do, and it's just stant you're going
to be booed you're going to have a bad homestand

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and you're going to be booed. And the criticism is
the oxygen that is out there. And whether it's the
sports talk radio callers or the social media bot army
and all that stuff, these folks wake up every morning
looking for a new pinata with a Red Sox logo
on it, and could tell Marte. Let's just say he's

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a bit delicate. He's a bit delicate. This is the
guy who got rattled by some jabbroni at the White
Sox game for chirping at him last year, and it
became a big story and it broke him him and
he just couldn't couldn't handle the heckling and all that.
And imagine him at Finway. He would melt into a puddle.

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It would not be not be pretty. And let's not
ignore the snuffalalufogus in the room. Here, the snuff alofagus
in the room is the age. He's thirty two. If
you look at the it's it kind of like insurance.
When they do life insurance. They're betting you're gonna die,
you're betting you're gonna live, and it's it's that kind
of that kind of thing. And so he's thirty two,

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which is not old in the real world, but in sports,
your athletic prime unless you do a cocktail of steroids
like nineteen nineties two thousands baseball players. He starts to
slow down around the age of thirty two. And he
is signed through twenty thirty. So he also has a
player option. So if you do the player option and

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the years left, that is six years left for Katel
Marte and a player who's already at the end of
it athletic prime. And this is known as the law
of diminishing returns, the law of diminishing returns, And I
would assume the position in Arizona. They know this. That
is why they are trying to get out of this

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deal right now. And yeah, Marte will likely be pretty
good for the next couple of years. It's the final
three or four years of that contract that will blow up.
And he again, he's a player that you look at it,
it just screams, It just absolutely screams that this is
an off the grid player in a place like Arizona,

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do Well, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, somewhere like that where there's
not a lot of people paying attention and he'll be fine,
and you don't put him in the pressure cooker. It's again,
fun player, it's just the wrong the wrong market. The
jigsaw puzzle piece does not fit, and it is temptation

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though because he he's locked up, he's not gonna leave.
You could have the player under contract for the next
five or six years. Just throw away the key. That's it,
assuming he can handle it, which is a big assumption. Now,
speaking of handling things, the Dodgers making some news at
the winter meetings. There are conflicting reports. There are some

(09:20):
reports saying the Dodgers are trying to trade for to
reach Schooble of the Detroit Tigers. Now that the word
from Dave Roberts, the Dodgers manager Dave Roberts is well, no, no, no,
We are very comfortable in our own skin, that's the word.
And the Dodgers are just they're fine. According to Dave Roberts,

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running it back to back to back, two time champions
in a row in Major League Baseball, he said, quote
Dave Roberts, there's really no big splash that we, meaning
the Dodgers, feel that needs to be made close quote.
So that's that's the news from Dave Roberts. So question
thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down

(10:03):
on Dave Roberts and his plan to run it back
with essentially the almost identical Dodger roster. So I am
gonna go thumbs down, down, down, down, down, down, down down, down,
way down. I'm going way down on the thumb here
the Dave Roberts, let's run it back manifesto. I'm gonna

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go know on this and neckkim on. He's likely lying.
The Dodgers probably talking to two or three free agent
relief pitchers and talking about trading for two starting pitchers
and all that. He's just saying this in case they
don't do anything. So we preface what we are about
to say knowing that Dave Roberts is a coach, and
all coaches lie. They're all a bunch of liars and weasels,

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and they use weasel words and all that stuff. So
that being said, if Roberts is not lying, we think
he is, But if he is, if he's not lying,
then that would be a mistake the size of the
Hollywood Sign. It just would be. The Dodgers just watched
their bullpen running on fumes and then eventually in the

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second half of the season it melted like an ice
cream cone in Death Valley in the summertime. It just
did not go well the second half of the season.
And yeah, they won the World Series. And so Dave
Roberts is going to give you the shrug emoji, like
did he not witness what we all witnessed in the playoffs?
The relief court was just garbage in October baseball, when

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the games were the biggest, when it mattered the most. Yeah,
the Dodgers won the World Series. However, they turned to
a motley crew of relief pitchers and mostly starters. There
were some swingman. There was a reclamation project they tossed
out there. And as far as the everyday roster, the

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Dodgers for one hundred and thirty eight games put Michael
Conforto in the lineup, who betted a buck ninety nine.
Michael Confordo in the outfield. It's like, that's not a
roster spot. That was like some kind of United Way
charity thing. They put this guy out there. He sucked.
And remember the words of the zen Master Phil Jackson,

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who used to preach about how you have to have
roster turnover every year. You must keep things fresh in
the industrial complex of professional sports. Teams that don't evolve
rot from the inside. And that was the message of
Phil Jackson, and it goes for all sports, not just basketball.
The players tune out, they get comfortable with their environment,

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they don't put the same amount of work in the
message against stale all of those things, and suddenly the
message is just background noise from the coach or the manager.
So there's that. And listen, the Dodgers have their pillars.
The Dodgers have their sacred pillars of Otani and Mookie
Betts and Will Smith and the guys that all be

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there for the law haul ten plus year players, all
of them with the Dodgers. That's the foundation, that's the bedrock.
And everything around those sacred pillars is fair game. And
I put Yamamoto in there also, he's the way he
pitched in the playoffs. I'd put him in there. But

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everything else can get tossed into the hopper and spun
around in the blender and all that all right, final
thought to soccer. That's right soccer. Now listen to me.
Do not tell anyone it's gonna be our little secret.
Do not tell anyone that we're gonna talk about soccer.
I thought this story was interesting and so I want
to share with you and be ready for more. In

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quotes rest on the pitch. So I don't know if
you saw this one or not. Maybe not. We learned
that the twenty twenty six FIFA World Cup, which is
coming to North America, will feature mandatory three minute breaks
at the midway point of the first and the second half,

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giving players, they say, the way they're spinning this, it's
giving players an opportunity to catch their breath and to
get fluids and stay healthy, stay healthy. Of course, the
games will be played in the hottest part of the summer,
and it's going to be scorching han out there on
the pitch and most of the North American host cities
it's gonna be really warm, really really warm. All right.

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So the question what does FIFA adding these mandatory hydration breaks?
What does that signify to you? All right? So I'll
go first here now again an I'm a casual observer
of football, which means I only watch the World Cup

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I own, and I only do it for talk radio purposes.
I only watch the World Cup, I don't even pretend
like I watch any of this other crap. So that
as the understanding as the starting point. The people at
FIFA can dress this up. They can put lipstick on it,
they can put cologne on it, they can change the
clothing on it, and they can say it's all about

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player safety. It's all about the player safety, all that,
and that's essentially what they're saying here, and they can
toss out the player's safety salad with other big words.
The reality is, though, this is Madison Avenue is what
this is, calling the plays, calling the shots, That's what

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this is. They're saying, Hey, the FEVA people like, well,
it's out of an abundance of caution. It's out of
an abundance of caution. No, it's out of an abundance
of greed dot trying to get some more money. Money,
money made it. This is a money grab. It is
a money grab. Wearing a hydration vest is what it is.

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This is the people at FIFA holding the door open,
and they're like, hey, advertisers, I'm gonna hold the door open.
I'm like Joey the Bellman again, I'm gonna hold the
door open. Come on in there you go, let's leave
the door open. Knock yourself out now right this way.
Yeah you yeah, that's right, that's right. You've come over here.
Enjoy your your three minute window, and you can sell

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us what you can sell us deodorant. I'm sure there'll
be some pharmaceutical, big pharma commercials. There'll be some insurance commercials.
Why not. There you go. You can practically hear the
television executives for the World Cup purring. They've got their
trashire cat smile, their grin and going from ear to

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ear there because they finally get commercial breaks in a sport, football,
the world's game that has been a fortress, an absolute
fortress against the clutter of advertising. Like this has been
the thing that people have said, have held held back
the you know in America anyway, the revenue because you

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can't really sell it because there's no timeouts and all.
So soccer is supposed to be a war of attrition
from what I know, football a war of attrition. And
you're out there, you're doing cardio, you're battling the elements.
You're battling the intense heat, the humidity, the exhaustion, all
of that stuff. It's an obstacle course is what it is.

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So now we're going to get essentially mandated. It's like
NASCAR pit stops coming to soccer. It's Nascar with shin
guards is what it is here. And remember this is
how it starts. It's the Boiling Frog. It starts with this.
It's just a couple of minutes, no big deal. Who

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the hell cares? What's wrong with you? It's completely harmless.
It's benign as a stuffed teddy bear. There's nothing obscene
about this. But if you give an inch, if you
give an inch, they're gonna take a and eventually they're
going to charge you twenty bucks per minute to watch

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watch the commercials. It's kind of like the NFL red zone.
Remember the NFL red zone. Oh, it's only a couple
of commercials, Why would you complain? And sure enough, as
we correctly predicted, not that hard, any dumb dumb can
predict it. The NFL has slowly been adding more commercials.
So it's of course they are because he ha said, well,
you can't complain. What's wrong with whyn'd you complained? It's

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just a couple of small commercials. Yeah, and I guess
I get it. I'm in the advertising business. I love
the advertising, that's all about it. But don't lie to
me and tell me it's out of an abundance of
caution and all that bull crap. No, it's added an
abundance of trying to get more commercials in there. And
it's not on purity. It's not about purity. It's not

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on the grind. It's FIVA's priorities are not on the
beautiful game. They're not. Their focus is on the beautiful
revenue stream, which is fine. But don't lie to me
and tell me that you're trying to protect the player.
You don't give a crap about the players, you know.
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Notre Dame is boycotting the ball game this year we
learned some new information now, so Notre name boycotting the
ball game is a direct shot at blank. Again. Notre
Dame boycotting the ball game this year is a direct
shot at blank. That is the mailor riddle of the day.

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The answer, We'll get to it. We will do it.

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You can say a Lord of Lorena, the FSR Tech
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sports radio, so please act accordingly. Time now for the
Mallor Riddle of the day. And here's the mallow Riddle
of the day. So Notre Dame boycotting the Bowl game

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is a direct shot at blank. At blank, that is
the question. What is the answer, the Sawman says in
Mississippi was a direct shot at two pros and a
cup of Joe co host Brady Quinn. Yeah, so Brady
went went viral with some of the stuff he said
as a golden domer. Mally Ringwald from courtesy Flusher, Now

(22:30):
I'm done, And Eileen in San Francisco says Notre Dame
our blessed mother. Yeah, just Josh got it right, bat
chat by him and man Lady Sideburns says the not
terribly Good Club is the answer. Charlie Baker from alf

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the Alien opiner Who else do we have? Page down?
A shot at watermelons from Late Night drug tester John's
from Donkey's Sausage. Steevie meat Balls, part of the blind
wing of the Mouth of Militia says a direct shot
at the unwed forgive them, father, they know not what
they do mothers. All right, what else do we have here?

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Paige District Attorney did not answer it, but he said
some comment about the World Cup rant we have. Doug
in South Koreas says, a direct shot at everybody but Rudy.
That's right, everybody but Rudy. Uh. See page down here
Mike the Leprechaun was answered by j T. The Wingman. Oh,
there's photos of Mike the Leprecawn hours after he almost

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got me fired by showing up early to the studio.
What a wonderful day that was. Our friend Jill says, uh, oh,
she talking about baseball. Everyone's getting better but the Yankees. Yeah,
that's right. He's very upset by that. I like the
cartoon there, that's funny. What else do you I? Who else?
Let's see? All right, that's enough. Lorraina, do you have

(23:59):
an answer? The mallar riddle of the a Notre Dame
boycotting their ball game is a direct shot at blank
the man. The man, all right, what kind of the
the answer is Mickey Mouse ABC, ESPN. Oh, you should
have said that. You didn't say that, You should have
said that. That's actually the answer. Now. So first of all,

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first of all, Notre Dame was getting killed rightfully, so
for skipping the ball game. He said, we're not We're
didn't get invited, We're not gonna play in the ball game.
And who wouldn't want to play in the pop tart bowl?
I love pop tarts. I grew up on pop darts.
The reason I'm so tall is pop tarts, love pop tarts,
and of course, when I was a kid, there's only
a couple of flavors of pop tarts, and now there's
a lot. There are only a couple when I was

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a kid. So anyway, whatever, I'm old. But here's the thing.
So the guy, this guy Bovakua, couldn't fall, couldn't hit
water if he fell off a boat. The athletic director
at Notre Dame. I heard he's a former television executive
at NBC, so he doesn't really like the people at ABC,
and they're upset Notre Dame because they didn't get invited

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to the party you suck. However, the bowl game they
were going to play, and the Pop Tart Bowl is
being broadcast by ABC, and they would have made a
lot of money. They would have been a great rating
for that game.

Speaker 4 (25:21):
Day.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
And so rather than help them out there, this is
the spin from Notre Dame. The spin is, well, we
didn't get invited and we don't want to help you out,
so screw you. We're not going to go to the
bowl game. I still think they got they should go
to a bolgain So I think it's it's stupid, but
that's the way the world these days. Let's go to
the phones. Eat Dog is on, long on, but I
need some contestants also coming up. We're gonna have Malard's

(25:43):
Mountain of Money a couple of minutes away.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
So I want to you first.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Okay, Well, I don't know that you can do well.
I see, I don't know if you'd be a good
game throw. You don't really watch sports dog. I don't
know these.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
Give me a little. I guess I'm the first one
before I get there.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
All right, baseball player from the nineteen seventies and eighties
known as mister October. Oh, look at that. You nailed it. Okay, right,
that was easy though. That was kind of easy.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
All right.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Uh, center, let's you here, center for the Golden State
Warriors in the nineteen eighties that had three names, Jamal Wilks. Well,
that's only two names, No, Joe Joe, Barry Carroll.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
That's that beat me on that one.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah yeah, what's on your what's on your mind? What's
on your mind?

Speaker 4 (26:41):
Okay? You know now that I have another go for
many chance turning this k mis cake?

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Wait wait wait, wait, so you dumped? Do you have
two girlfriends at the same time or just one? Well,
what happened? What happened to Melissa?

Speaker 4 (26:59):
I gave up Runner a little bit.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
You've moved on.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
Yeah, right, And I said to Kay, if the Chargers win,
I'll give you two slices of pizza. So I have
two slices of pizza.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Now, Wow, what are romantic? You know the way to
a woman's heart the stomach.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
Anyway, what I really want to say is about the Knicks.
About the Knicks on the first at home. When they're
at home, they only have one loss, and we're on
the road. They're terrible. So I want to coach the
road team. You think they give me a shot?

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah you should. You should email them and say that
you'd be interested in only doing the road games, and
how would you make them better on the road.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
I would play Josh Hart, which said doing.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Did you see the video of Josh Hart had his
kid on his lap on the bench the other day
and then handed him What the hell was that? What
are you allowed to bring your your toddlers to work
and put him on the bench.

Speaker 5 (28:04):
Later on that I'm assuming the mother or the or
the nanny or whatever was sitting in the row like
courtside behind the bench.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
She was behind the bench.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
But yeah, so I guess at that moment, did he
handed the kid to another player?

Speaker 6 (28:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (28:20):
He got something called back into the game. He's like,
oh here take this, you.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Take the kid. That's not something you do we do, right?

Speaker 4 (28:26):
What can you ask me another question? As?

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Uh so you only just come up with? All right,
let me see, I'll think of a questions the plane.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
We could say blue that's my dad's funny.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
What okay, I mean, I'm trying to think of a
question on the fly.

Speaker 4 (28:46):
Here.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
What sport do you want it?

Speaker 8 (28:48):
From?

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Baseball? All right? Let's see here old school baseball player
nicknamed Hammering. Yeah, hammering with an age hammering.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Oh I'm terrible tonight.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Okay, that's hammering Hank Aaron.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
Oh that was easy.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Well you didn't get it, that's true.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
I get the picture.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
You're on your gaming though. You brought your a game here.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
You know. It's four thirty six in the morning. I
gotta get I'm getting out of here.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Okay, I'll let you go. You get some sleep, okay.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
No, no, no, I want to go.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
But you said you gotta get stuff to do. It's
four thirty six in the morning. You gotta go something.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
I'm gonna I'm gonna stay awake till tomorrow afternoon.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
That doesn't seem like a good idea. Yeah, I know,
yeh should get some sleep. Your body needs sleep.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
You need some sleep.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Well, you don't need a lot of sleep, but you
need some sleep. You can't stay up unless you're doing
drugs or something like that. You should be doing that.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
Oh yeah, with into my next one. How's the Late
night Drug Tester doing?

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, you love him. He's he's thinking about calling the
show now because of your Are you what if this
is actually a late night drug test? Wouldn't it be wild?
He emailed my podcast, the Fifth Hour podcast, the Late
Night Drug Test is saying he's wondering whether or not
he should be calling because of your endorsement. All right, yeah, yeah,
he's a big fan of e dog. Yeah all I

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love that.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
I you know, when I was in a I went
to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
That's a non sequitor. All right, I got I gotta go.
All right, thank you, get some sleep. There's the dog.
Let's say hello to hollering James in Minneapolis. Man, So
if you want to play the game. A call right
now eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Malar's amount
of money. Hello, hollering James.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
Games.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Everyone wants to play the game.

Speaker 8 (30:53):
Yeah, Molly's outing the money. Man, I got.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
What, I got something to say. I'll say it.

Speaker 8 (31:09):
He when the charges?

Speaker 4 (31:10):
When the super Bowl no out there?

Speaker 8 (31:13):
And your sign?

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Oh my god, is this being broadcast? Is this? Are
we on the air? Is this?

Speaker 4 (31:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Is this sing on work?

Speaker 5 (31:27):
You are definitely tapping the mind?

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Thank god? My boss is sleeping. Oh man, I'd be
I'd be in trouble if my boss has heard this show.
I would like to thank President Obama for the Obama phone.
Without that, again, we'd have none of these callers. Every
one of these callers has an Obama phone. God bless
my favorite president.

Speaker 8 (31:43):
Yes, well, man, I super charge my phone for you.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Well, thank you, James. You know you're the king of
the p ones. Hollering James, you really are?

Speaker 8 (31:58):
You know what? Me and Jack driving the else, me
and Jack headed out.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Well, you gotta make it. You gotta make up with Jack.
You can't be Jackson your buddy. You can't be getting
upset with Jack. That's the guy that takes you around
you have be nice to Jack. You have be nice
to Jack and our friend Tammy and Montana.

Speaker 8 (32:14):
Yeah, I got Jammy and Jammy together hooked up number.
But that's all right. I got a set about that.
But I got him a president. I got him golden
gope for Minnesota. Dold be nice please, he long sleep
shirt and he even accepted he got offended by it.

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I don't have to give him nothing, and he helper
says American James would have to get your gunning and I.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Gave all right. I don't. I don't care about any
of this. Thank you. Let's say hello to mister wonderful.
Who's next? Hello, mister wonder well, I still need some
contestants again. If you want to play Mallo's amount of money,
call right now?

Speaker 4 (32:54):
He sure?

Speaker 9 (32:55):
Why?

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Well, I ever want a whole wants to play? No,
I'm trying to get other people that call in and play,
mister wonderful. I mean if you want to play, I
mean you can call right back. What's on your talk
to you about? Mister wonderful? Hello?

Speaker 9 (33:08):
Hello, how are you sir?

Speaker 1 (33:10):
If I hear you? If I was any better, I'd
be an eagle, but not a Philadelphia Eagle because they
just lost on Monday.

Speaker 9 (33:16):
I know they stink.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Hey, I just.

Speaker 9 (33:21):
About Notre Dame.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
They sucked.

Speaker 9 (33:24):
My hurricanes are going to go all the way. They're
going to win it. Watch it.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
And that's not a biased opinion. You're completely unbiased.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Yeah, no, that's a fact. That's a fact, Jack, that's right.
What are you driving to? Where are you driving to?
Mister wonderful, I'm driving home from work. Oh okay, there's
nobody on the road right at this hour.

Speaker 9 (33:48):
About three cars.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
They're all listening to the show. Every one of those
hawk your horns. They're all honking, all listening. I want
me to hawk my horns if you want go ahead.

Speaker 9 (33:58):
It's a siren.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
What can I say?

Speaker 1 (34:01):
You have a siren? Yeah? Are you driving an ambulance?

Speaker 4 (34:05):
Oh? Patrol car?

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Oh yeah, probably not a good idea. You'll scare everyone
in front of you. You'll scare the immediately pull over
the Oh no, I'm having a bad day. I'm gonna
get a ticket.

Speaker 8 (34:17):
Oh no, exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Now, when you drive, though, I bet you people slow down.
It must be annoying people in front of you. Drive
your patrol car right, because they're all like thinking you're
gonna they're gonna get a ticket.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
Or something like that, right, you know, it's the nature
of the beast. What can I say?

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Yeah, it's like an instant traffic break. I do the
same thing when I see a cop car, like I
slow down, you know, even if the game, guys, even
if I'm not well, Yeah, then I don't want to
play the game.

Speaker 9 (34:45):
But I don't get a chance to talk to you
anymore this year. I want to wish you and your team,
your team there and your family's happy. Mary Christ Oh
you too, mister one.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
But hopefully we talk again. Be here, you know, take
a little time off at the end of the year,
but I will be here for the most part. So
thank you, mister Wonderful. Be safe out there. Thank you, Yes, sir,
all right, the great mister Wonderful. If I ever get
a speeding ticket, I'm calling him in Florida. He's gonna
get me out of it. He knows people, all right.
If you want to play a game eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox, it's called Malar's Mountain of Money,

(35:18):
Mallar's Aunt of Money eight seven seven nine nine six
six three sixty nine. We'll get to that and we
will do it next.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 6 (35:31):
Oh, come, drink your your that will be your cure. Yes,
drink up your yournces, Doc Mike, drink your your that
will be your cure. Oh drink Oh, love your your,

(35:57):
Oh keep your yellow for and oh yellow fans adointer Mi.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yah, It's Bill Miller The Ben Mahlers Show. As we
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(36:28):
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Speaker 2 (36:49):
Now h Malord's Mountain of Money. He do you have
what it takes to get to the top? Probably?

Speaker 4 (36:58):
Not?

Speaker 1 (36:58):
All right, right to the game. Mark is in Berkeley,
hanging out with the cool people. What's going on? Mark?
You ready to play the game here?

Speaker 4 (37:05):
Sir?

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Hello? Mark? Okay, full of energy? Look at this man?
Ready to go? Mark? Who do you want to partner
up with? All right, let's call find Ben Maller. We'll
make that happen. Okay, very good. Travis is in Florida.
Hello Travis, Welcome, Thank you Ben. It's a big state.
What part of Florida? Travis? Ah, you're a baller West

(37:32):
Palm Beach. Look at that? All right, very good. Let's
play the game here and you'll be teamed up with Coop.
Is that okay?

Speaker 4 (37:39):
That's great?

Speaker 1 (37:41):
I don't that is great. That's not really great. I
would use the word great.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
This is the Jim Morrison edition of Malard's mount of Money.
He would have turned eighty two years old on Monday.
We would have, yes, would have. He was a member
of the twenty seven club. Mark, you were on first,
so you get to choose your category first. The categories
are light, my fire, break, on through people are strange
or Alabama?

Speaker 7 (38:02):
Song? Mark, which category would you like?

Speaker 4 (38:04):
Right?

Speaker 7 (38:05):
Light my fire? All right? And Travis, how about you?
Which category would you like? Do you want to.

Speaker 5 (38:12):
Break on through? People are strange or Alabama? Break on through?

Speaker 7 (38:16):
All right?

Speaker 4 (38:17):
All right?

Speaker 7 (38:17):
So Mark and Ben you are up first.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
All right, very good. These athletes all had reputations as
good teammates. Are you ready? Mark?

Speaker 9 (38:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (38:26):
All right? What the hell was that? Okay, there's a
lot of ambient noise there. These athletes all had reputations
a good team. It's forty five seconds of the clock.
We're on our way.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Go.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Quarterback for the Green Bad Packers before Aaron Rodgers. Yes,
center for the Spurs all those years after David Robinson
even with him, Yes, wide receiver, greatest receiver in Arizona
Cardinals history. All right. Dad was a sports writer in Minnesota,

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a center for the Philadelphia Eagles. His brother is Travis,
who's going to marry Taylor Swift and.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
Man?

Speaker 1 (39:10):
All right, Red Sox second baseman when they won the
World Series Air a couple of times injured, had a
career inning injury. Dust kind of a dirty dust.

Speaker 7 (39:22):
He tried to cheat, but it didn't.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
I didn't try to cheat. How did I try to cheat?
Dusty name, give me a break. What his name's Dustin?
But the way, that's not that dust and Dusty. It's
a different word, dummy. It is a different word. All right,
Travis points.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
Our Our category is break on through, don't choke. Did
not choke. These athletes finally won a championship late in
their career.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Do not choke?

Speaker 5 (39:45):
All right, forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin.
Quarterback for the Broncos. He won back to back Super Bowl. Yes,
this guy is the current coach for the Dallas Mavericks. Yes,
this guy's nickname was the Glove.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
Gary Peyton.

Speaker 5 (40:02):
Yes, this guy spent a long time on the Raiders
as a cornerback, but he won a championship.

Speaker 7 (40:06):
With the Packers.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
Charles Woodson.

Speaker 5 (40:08):
Yes, uh, this guy was a center on the Heat
he won in twenty oh six. Yeah he No, he
got in the fight and the coach was grabbing onto
his leg. You no, yes, yes, okay. This guy was
an old pitchery pitch till he was like fifty. He

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was on the Mariners and then won a championship with
the Phillies.

Speaker 7 (40:32):
What's that?

Speaker 8 (40:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (40:34):
Yeah, did not get the name? It did not get
the full name. There was not the full the buzzer,
not before the buzzer, before the buzzer. He had the champions,
but not the Moyer. No, he didn't get the more.
You got the Jamie, not the Moor. He got there, Jamie,
not the Moyer. He's all right, what do you want here? Mark?
You want? People are strange? You're Alabama song Gally Mark? Okay, okay,

(41:03):
why not? These athletes are all a little weird. We'll
put forty five seconds on the clock. Here we go.
Relief pitcher for the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets
in the nineties and the two thousands used to used
to chew a licorice between innings. Relief pitcher David Jones. Well,
that's true, that's not working for who it is. The
player for the Indiana Pacers who blew air into Lebron

(41:26):
James ear, I'm so tired right now, Yes, yes, so much.
That's not going to help us out, all right. Golfer
who's fat and smokes a lot. And there's a cult
hero on the congratulations to No, it's John.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
Go to bed, Go

Speaker 1 (41:47):
To bed, leave me alone, Go to bed.