Hour 3 - Dust in the Wind

Ben Maller talks about Kyle Tucker getting benched by the Cubs, outfielder Heliot Ramos saying Giants fans are "against us," what the Teoscar Hernandez mistake-fueled loss for the Dodgers symbolizes, Maller's Mountain of Money: Edward Norton Edition, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball. It's our number three, our number three, and high
drama in the Windy City. The Chicago Cups currently a
wild card team in baseball, and they have just decided
to shut down for now one of their big name
brand position players. Is Kyle Tucker being benched for pressing?

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Or is Wrigley Field just messing with his swing as
some have said? Also, are you surprised that outfielder Elliott
Ramos says Giant fans are against us? And what does
this Tiascar Hernandez mistake fueled loss symbolize for the Dodgers
who lost to the worst team in baseball, the Rockies

(00:47):
last night, will go there as well. Right now here,
it is our number three. Like dust in the wind.
That was not the way it was supposed to go.
That was not the way it was supposed to go.
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We go where the news of the day takes us.
I did not imagine that this would be a story
that we'd be talking about at all this season, because
everyone had told me that this player is amazing and
one of the top players in baseball and the next
big thing. And you don't know what you're talking about.
If you disagree with that, shame on you. So we
go to Chicago, where the Cubbies are currently a wildcard

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team in the National League. They have fallen way behind
the Brew Crew. They were supposed to play a doubleheader
yesterday at Wrigley The second game was rained out. They
did play one game. The Brewers got back in the
win column there. So the Cubs are way back of
Milwaukee in the division and they still have dreams of
championships at Wrigley Field there because they're going to be

(02:54):
in the playoffs as a wildcard team unless something terrible
happens here. Now, one player who has been an absolute bust,
capital b bust has been right fielder Kyle Tucker. Kyle
Tucker the big pickup. They traded all those suspects to
get their hands on Kyle Tucker the Cubs from the
cheating Astros. Tucker has been a middling player in the

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Windy City. There were some early signs that things were
going to go well for Kyle Tucker. That has not
been the case. Things have taken a dramatic turn, and
if you have not been following the story, we have
reached critical mass. Now we have reached critical mass. If
you missed it, the Chicago Cup fans were booing Kyle Tucker,

(03:40):
boo boo. There's a theme here. So he was getting
raspberries during a recent game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. He
committed the crime of being a lazy slob and not
hustling on a ground ball against the Pittsburgh baseball team.
The fans boot him as he did not leave the

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box to go down the line. It was a very
bad look for Kyle Tucker, who barely jogged the first base.
Tucker has now been benched. Oh mgee, that's right. Kyle
Tucker has been demoted to the bench by Cub manager
Craig Counsel, who said the fans are frustrated. Kyle's frustrated.

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He said, when you make outs, it doesn't look good.
He's trying. He's just not clicking. We're going to have
to take a step back here. Just give him some
days off to reset him, hopefully. Close quote from Craig Council,
manager of your Chicago Cup. So let us discuss the question.

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Is this just a case of Kyle Tucker pressing knowing
that he's in a contract year, or is Wrigley Field
and the Chicago Cub logo messing with his mind and
his swing? So my views on this, I've got first
class ticket, Sherwin Williams, and live grenade, and we will

(05:08):
combine all of these things together and we're gonna make
the Gobba goool. We're gonna make the Gobba gooules what
we're gonna do. So, first of all, Kyle Tucker is
kind of like watching the stock market. You know, check
out Wall Street and a lot of people have apps.
I have an app i futz around on my phone
with these the stocks. And three months ago, Kyle Tucker

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was like investing in Apple or Google or Amazon or
Walmart on those big company. Now he's like bed Bath
and Beyond on clearance. Right He's There were stories up
until like a month ago that Kyle Tucker was gonna
be a five hundred plus million dollar outfielder. And now
you look at Kyle Tucker. He goes from the five

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hundred million dollar man in waiting to cannot buy a
hit to save his life at Wrigley Field for the
last couple of months, and right now he is swinging
and it might as well be sponsored by Dollar Tree
or Dollar General. Right Kyle has gone down to O'Hare
International Airport there in the suburbs of Chicago. He has
purchased a first class ticket. Kyle Tucker. He is currently

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riding around in circles in the Vomit Comet and the
Cubs are strapped in for the turbulence there. Tucker is
hitting this month of August. Here we are it say,
as we're doing this in real time. It's August nineteenth.
Kyle Tucker is hitting a buck sixty one sixty this month,
and he has as many extra base hits as I

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have and you have zero, gooseg bupkis nothing? All right,
squad douche, that's it. And that's not a slump. That
seems like more of a hostage situation when he's at
at the batter's box. And forget extra base hits. He
hasn't homered since July nineteenth, that is a month ago.

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And he's expecting to be benched today for the Cubs,
which means he will not hit a home run today.
It's hard to do that if you're benched. Therefore, he
will have gone a full month, a full month of
the baseball season without hitting a home run. Embarrassing. That's
kind of like if you're an uber driver and you
keep accepting rides but you never actually show up. You know,

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you just they leave it standing there in the rain,
and what are you doing? The ground ball rate is
through the roof fifty three point seven percent, the Nerds
tell us in August. So he's turned into Way. His
bat is a.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Worm burner machine, a worm burner machine, and he's essentially
become I realize I'm gonna date myself with this reference,
but I don't give a crap.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Alfhil appreciate it, and I'm really just doing the show
for Alf At this point, as Kyle Tucker has become
essentially Tony Womack without the stolen bases, right Womack, a
lot of groundball hit the ball ground high ground ball rate.
The Cubs might have bought high. Right people's oh, you
gave up too much prospect, equity, equity and all that crap.

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So they gave up supposedly a lot. And what if
And the question must be asked, what if he peaked
in Houston? Is there a world? Is there a dimension
in the multiverse where Kyle Tucker had all this promise
and put up solid numbers with the Astros and that
was it. It does make you wonder. You start to

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wonder did he have any kind of special contraband in
Houston that he doesn't have in Chicago. The Cubs a
little different than the Astros. The Astros we know they're dirty, right,
you know the baseball allowed them to cheat. So if
they allow you to cheat, why would you stop cheating?
Like if they said, hey, we don't really care about
your banging on trash cans. We'll let you keep your trophy,

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and we don't care about you using buzzers and whistles
and all that. Just do what you want, Like, why
would you stop? So you wonder, like this guy was
so good at times the astros? Is he a fraud?
Is Kyle Tucker a fraud? Did Kyle Tucker put up
good numbers in Houston because he was doing something that
wasn't kosher? And in Chicago he's got to play a

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clean game and he can't hit. He sucks. I'm saying
that's happening. I just I'm wonder. I wonder because he
looks like a guy that really wants to watch some streaming,
but the WiFi is not working, if you know what
I mean. Here, he's not really pressing at this point,
He's drowning. He's absolutely drowning. And Wrigley Field and I've

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been there a few times. Not exactly a life raft.
It's more of an anchor when things go bad, and
they love to give you a little hard time on that,
which they should. That's a good fan. Now there's a
theme here because we leave Chicago where the cub fans
turned on Kyle Tucker and he got benched. To San Francis,

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the Giants did end the misery. They won their game
on Monday night. However, in the lead up to that
game against the Padres, Giants outfieler Elliott Ramos openly criticized
the one thing you're not supposed to criticize, the fan.
He was trying to defend manager Bob Melvin. Sleepy Bob,
Sleepy Bob Melvin. Longtime Bay Area Colamas Scott Osler. I'm

(10:24):
so old. I remember when he worked in LA. But
Scott Oser's been in the Bay Area for a million
years and he's one of the few good columnists left.
There's not many of them. And so Scott Osler asked
players about where they stood on the in battled Bob Melvin.
People are saying they're too passive, the Giants, and they
just don't have any energy, and so he asked about

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the criticism. The fans are demanding some more fire and
the player in this case, Ramos pointed the finger back
at the fan, he said, quote outside people don't know anything.
Ramos wind He says, that's the type of person he is,
meaning Bob Melvin. That doesn't mean that he's not a

(11:08):
great manager. When we were winning, everybody was on our side.
Now it's like all the fans are against us and
all that. I don't get it. That's the money quote.
Now it's like all the fans are against us, he said,
And I don't get it. I'm also a little confused,
and maybe you can help me out on this. When
did the Giants win with Bob Melvin? Did I? I

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must have missed that. I know they won with Bruce Bochie.
I must have taken a nap when they won with
Bob Melvin. Question? Are you surprised by Elliott Ramos saying
the Giant fans are quote against us? Am I surprised? No,
I'm not surprised. Stand by your manager, and by all accounts,

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Bob Melvin's a player's manager because he's often napping and
not paying attention. So I get it. But Rob comes
across as a dingleberry on this one. The fans have
kept showing up. Now I'm at the point now I
think people just go to those games because it's a
beautiful ballpark. And you see the you got the skyline
of San Francisco on one side, you got mccobby Cove,

(12:14):
you get the water there, the bridge. I mean, it's
really beautiful. The ballpark in San Francisco's wonderful. It's like
a piece of art that you can go sit at
if you want to spend one hundred dollars or whatever
to go to a Giants game and sit at it.
But these are people that are spending, whether they're there
to watch the baseball or just look at the construction
of the stadium. They're hard earned money watching. And he said, well,

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you're just a Dodger fit.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
You don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
I do know. I know boring baseball, I know lifeless baseball.
I know all of it. And that's what I've seen
when I watched the Giants. And I may or may
not be like Pete Rose and like to put a
couple of shekels down on a baseball game. And I
do know that certain teams who play like that, you
generally like to go against them because it usually works
out in your favor in the long run. And so

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it's like this idea you've got to you got a
nerve gall hutzpa. If you're Ramos to say that you
don't understand right, you're you know, people don't know anything
on the outside, those outsiders. Now, this is the cardinal
rule of sports. You never attack the fan. You can
attack your teammates, you can attack the other team, attack

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the coach, you can attack the front office, you can
attack ownership. You certainly can attack the media. You can't
do the fan can't do. It's always been the rule.
It's always been the rule the fans of the customers.
The customer is always right even when they're wrong, even
when they're wrong, and so he clearly forgot that. And
you don't walk the way the analogies. You don't walk
into a restaurant and eat the stale bread, choke down

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the undercooked fish which is going to give you a dysentery,
and then blame the diner for not enjoying it. Right,
That's essentially what Ramos is is doing. Like if you
walked into a restaurant, you ate stale brad, you ate
undercooked fish, and then the person in the restaurant's like,
well it's your you know, listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna
blame the diner. It's it's the diners. No, And that's

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what Ramos did. So if you're honest, uh, it's it's like, listen,
I know he's he's a no name player. What are
you doing here? I get it. I thought it was
a good quote. We know he's not Barry Bonds or
Buster Poser, anybody like that. He's been a fringe guy,
but he was an All Star last year with somebody
had to be an all Star last year for the Giants.
He was one of these prospect guys at all, you
people at all horny, get your pants down, for all

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the prospects who's never really popped. He's never been that guy.
He's bad outfielder, he doesn't have real pop. He's just
an average Major League Baseball player, dime a dozen. And
now suddenly he's the spokesperson for the Giants, the San
Francisco Giants fan relations department. Give me a break, And
I understand they the Giants looked like they were going

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to be a consistently good team. They were. They had
the fake open I got off to good start. They
looked solid for two months, and the fans are frustrated
because they've been watching this team that is not entertaining.
There's no life, there's no juice, there's no energy. And
it's kind of like going out and buying a canister
of Sherwin Williams paint and painting a wall and then

(15:19):
charging people to watch the paint dry, except at least
the paint eventually changes colors. Right, this team, it's the
same lifeless beige that you painted originally. It doesn't change
colors night after night. So blame the fans, blame gall
It's like a comedian going to a comedy club and

(15:39):
getting on stage there and telling not one, but not two,
not three bad jokes nobody in chuckles, comedy club lasts,
and then yells at the crowd. Oh, you guys just
don't get it right. No, you're a bad comedian, You're
not funny, You suck, and you're the problem. And so
I'd love to take shots at Giants fans. It's fun.

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They get annoyed by it, But on this one, I
support the Giants fans and Helea Ramos, screw you all
right now. Final thought to Denver, we go a rocky
mountain high the Colorado Rockies I'm told that's a baseball team,
not a good one, like the worst team in baseball.
They rallied to beat the Mighty Dodgers four to three

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on Monday night, courtesy of someone named Warming Bernabelle and
walk off single in the ninth inning. Now, that win
was made possible by bad News Bears outfielder Tiascar Hernandez,
who muffed a routine flyball. The Ozsie muffed it in
this case, not the Ozzie, but Tiascar Hernandez absolutely screwed

(16:47):
up a routine flyball that the nerds said had a
ninety nine percent catch chance based on all the other
players in baseball, was a ninety nine percent chance that
ball was caught. It was not in right field, and
that up the Rockies to win the game. So manager
Dave Roberts, the good old day of Roberts there. He
said after the game that Tiascar Hernandez has quote got

(17:09):
to get better out there close quote defensively, thank you,
captain obvious. So what does this ti Oscar Hernandez fueled loss?
What does it symbolize for the Doyers. So it is
certainly it's a symbolic, and it's it is a what's

(17:32):
the word I'm looking for here. It is a little
more evidence that we were right with our hypothesis that
this is the Dodgers telling you who they are, that
this particular team this year is a front runner with
a capitol le f. That's the twenty twenty five Dodgers.
They're a front runner. They got all fired up for

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the San Diego Padres. They kicked the Podres, took us,
kicked their ass up and down the diamond for three games,
swept them out of La tail between their legs for
the Friars as they left Dodgers Stadium, and the Dodgers,
these bums were strutting around like they were the kings
of the nationally West. And they did the whole told

(18:15):
you so, you gotta believe in us. I told you,
Shame on you. Yeah. And what do they do a
little over twenty four hours later? They play a night
game in Denver and they lose to a team that
now has, let me check my notes here, fifty three wins.
All right, No, check that they have thirty six wins.
They're fifty three games under five hundred. It's not a

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baseball team. That's a that's a horror show. The Rockies
are fifty three games under five hundred, and listen, her
name is we like the player. We are fans of
ti Oscar. Her name's just got a little razzle dazzle
to them. I like the player. However, he treated that
live fly ball like a hand grenade. Like a live grenade,

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is how he treated that, and like, what are you doing?
Looked like he was playing in the media baseball game,
my god, and you talk about bad optics too. He's
out there futzon around in right field like he's wearing
oven Mitch trying to catch the ball in right field.
You've got this guy Warming Bernabelle. That's the guy that
walked off the Dodgers. Now, I thought that was a

(19:21):
fake name. I saw that name. I said, well, that
must be that must not be his name. There was
no one named Warming Bernabelle. Does he have a brother
named Cooling Bernabelle. I mean, I don't know, but I
thought that was like a name that was a fake
name from some kind of video game thing or something
like that. And it's kind of like losing if you're

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the Dodgers and somebody beat you named Microwave Johnson. Except
there was a guy named Vinnie Microwave Johnson back in
the day in the NBA like this is next level
warming Bernabelle. He must have gotten picked on in school,
right with that name like that. So this is what
happens when you play now to your competition. When the
Dodgers saw the Rockies and they said, eh, eh, we'll

(20:06):
be fine, We'll be all right, that is not championship DNA.
That is not October baseball. That is May baseball. When
you're playing in Cincinnati. It's now almost late August, past
the midway point, so it is late August. And that's
the way the Dodgers approach this thing. It makes me
want to puke in my mouth. It is, and it's

(20:28):
on Dave Roberts, it's on Andrew Friedman. As you're either
allowing it to happen or you're coaching it that way.
That's it. So either Dave Roberts is okay with this,
he's allowing this to happen, or he's encouraging them to
play down to their competition or play up to their competition.
Now that the counter argument is okay, fine, they'll be okay.

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They'll be able to win in the playoffs because all
the teams will be good in the playoffs and all
that generally does not work that way, generally does not
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here it is. The Kansas City Chiefs have a one
hundred and fifty foot below ground secret underground bunker. It's

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under Arrowhead Stadium where they store blank. Again the Chiefs,
it has been revealed they have one hundred and fifty
foot below ground secret bunker under the stadium where they
store blank. That is the Mallor riddle of the day.
The answer next.

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Riddle of the day. The Kansas City Chiefs have a
one hundred and fifty foot below ground secret bunker under
the stadium at Arrowhead there where they store blank. That

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is the question. What is the answer to the Mallard
riddle of the day. And let's see here, who do
they have? Eenie Meenie mighty Mo. The sawman in Mississippi
says he's a Mississippi State Homer and a Ben Maler
show p one. He says, The answer is that is

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where they store Taylor Swift's platinum records, right under Arrowhead Stadium.
Donkey Sausage says, enough Ben Mallard chicken fingers to live
off of after a mad Max esque uber apocalypse, that
sausage gotta be prepared. Get that government cheese and the
Ben Maller chicken fingers from the landing in Liberty, Missouri,
and you're good to go. Andy in Lino Lakes, Minnesota, says,

(24:48):
the chief store all of Taylor Swift's makeup and cash
under there. Wow, does she wear a lot of makeup?

Speaker 6 (24:56):
I don't really bee ye, it's a lot of red lipstick.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Best really, I know the lipstick, but she she wear
other makeup. Also, I don't pay payta Okay, So you're
saying that she's hiding something. A lady Lady Cyberne says,
where where they keep all the mystery meats under the stadium?
Uh Paige, Then they were they were storing hundreds of
Patrick Mahomes clones in case one breaks and throws multiple

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interceptions from Scrooge in the Bay Area. Uh Paige. Dn
Delicious ice Cream bombs like we have in western mass
miss You send me these photos for a dog A,
I'm fasting and b it looks like amazing and apple fritter,

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Apple fredter happy Monday apple fritter vanilla ice cream filled
with yummy warm apple pie filling that sounds really good.
Does see what else we have George Brett's Pine Tar
guests by Eke in Roseo, Minnesota. Milkman Mike says, they
keep that famous Kansas City barbecue down there. Master copy
of the Sailor Moon movie.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
He love that movie.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, so does Ferg Dog. You and Ferg Dog have
that in common. Yeah. Emergency rations of the Ben Mallard
chicken figures with absolutely never ever ranch dressing from the
great Mauthard prop guy who was in here? Uh, just
Josh and Cincinnati says, Taylor Swift's fall wardrobe is in
there justin case. Who else do we have? Page down

(26:24):
a lot of Ben Mathered chicken for you. I'm honored
everyone had the Ben Mathered chicken finger. Yeah, hungry, hungry
for a lot. And those of you that have had
it that live in Kansas or Kansas City, in Missouri,
there anywhere, you know how good those chicken fingers are.
We did a meet and greet last November. It was awesome.
I had a great turnout. People from all over that
part of the country showed up. Was wonderful. What else
do we have? Let's see page down. Attillo he's going

(26:47):
with his answer the gabba. Ghoul JT. The wingman who
will be unable to attend the meet and greet from Knoxville, Tennessee,
says the mouthwash. Mike's a quit brand mouthwash. He said,
that is the that is the brand of Walmart. I
believe it's the Walmart brand.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
I think that's yeah, great value. I think that one's Walmart.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Oh, he had the Equate brand. I thought it was
a Walmart product, But I don't know.

Speaker 6 (27:13):
It might be for their bathroom stuff.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, maybe, I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 6 (27:17):
Uh, Equal all right.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
That's where they store. Jerome in Kansas City. He's been
m I a since they lost to the Bengals. Truck
or Joe truck or Joe remembers he remembers see here
porn movies of man hippie from via the Wright. That's
his answer. Random messages from Mark, the full name guy

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who said like French fries or something like that. All right,
do you have answer? And answer Lorna again the Mallard
riddle of the day the Chiefs had we turns out
the Chiefs have one hundred and fifty foot below ground
bunker under the stadium where they store blank in at Arrowhead.

Speaker 6 (27:57):
They keep Santa Claws down there.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Every year into Christmas, Santa Claus they store Santa Claus.
I thought that was the North Pole the Lena. Uh No,
that is incorrect. They store team memorabilia, the history of
the Chiefs one hundred and fifty feet. They have old
footballs from when they were originally in Dallas, the Chiefs,

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and then all the old memorabilia is under Arrowhead stadiums.
So the good news is if the stadium gets destroyed,
they at least have the old footballs and the old
helmets and all that stuff under Arrowhead Stadium. Let's go
to the phones and we'll start out with Mike. We
do have Malors amount of money coming up in a
minute or two. Mike in Tucson, Hello, Mike, Welcome.

Speaker 7 (28:40):
Hey Ben, how are you Mike?

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Oh, thank you Mike.

Speaker 7 (28:43):
I think I needed to listen a lot back in
the day when I worked the overnight job at the
grocery store. Yeah, they got a day jobs.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Job.

Speaker 7 (28:52):
So I to listen to you again.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Well, welcome back, Mike, welcome back back the podcast.

Speaker 7 (28:57):
But I'll try the podcast so not hit like the
live show.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
What's wrong with the podcast?

Speaker 7 (29:03):
It's so good, but the live show is even better.
I get a call in.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
That's right, you can participate in the live show, Mike.
And so now, not only that, but can I recommend
Express Employment Professionals?

Speaker 7 (29:15):
You are you?

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Are you actively seeking game full employment?

Speaker 7 (29:18):
I am for sure.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
All right, Well let me tell you something, Mike. Listen
Mike in Tucson. Is it is it time for a
new job? Yes? Then that means that means, Mike listening,
I'm trying to do a commercial, Mike. That means it's
time for Express Employment Professionals. Remember that name, Mike.

Speaker 7 (29:37):
I will it.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
You need it right now that you're the perfect person.

Speaker 7 (29:43):
The monsoon Arizona so hot, there's all painting jobs right now.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Okay, okay, let me let me let me finish the copy.
So quit the endless online job search, Mike, enlist the
pros and Express never charges job seekers if they're not
a charge of Mike, go to expresspros dot com. Okay, awesome, Okay,
I'm done with done with the copy. Yeah, go ahead, So.

Speaker 7 (30:10):
We ever do an Arizona meet and greet.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
I absolutely will, uh.

Speaker 7 (30:16):
I told I offer. I will smoke all the barbecue.
I'll pay for the food.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
You'll pay for the food. Okay, that certainly has my
that now you are you want me to go to
Tucson because I do have family in Phoenix, actually in
the Phoenix area. I do have some time. I know,
actually have family that lives all. They live all. They
don't live here anymore. They've moved all over the country.

Speaker 6 (30:38):
Well but here.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
I only have a few people that live in California.
Most of them live in random states. It's very odd.
They've spread all over the country, which is good because
I don't normally see them at all. And I but
I can say I know someone in like I actually
have a lot of family and face. Now I'm planning
on my next Arizona sojour and mic is when the
the state of Arizona comes fully mature and gets a BUCkies.

(31:05):
There's a BUCkies company.

Speaker 7 (31:06):
We're getting one.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Yeah, I know that's what I'm saying. So I will
visit when the BUCkies opens up. I think that's is
that in good Year. I don't remember, Okay, good Year,
so I'll go out to good Year.

Speaker 7 (31:19):
Can I tell you how I found the show? Back
in the day when I started listening beickim a big fans.
I just to a lot of sports overnight shows boring.
When I found your show. You were talking about what
lap down at the pack would crash in.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yes, we did. I did that. We did that bit
for a while.

Speaker 7 (31:36):
The I know when I heard that, I said, no way,
this guy's doing this, and then tin Rony tips So
since then I said, this is my guy.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
That's Dan.

Speaker 7 (31:45):
Everybody the diehard Raiders fans seeing you on the Dark
set of the Raiders, you were you were on the
Dark Raiders? Are you a closet with your fault?

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Well, I do live in a closet, but I'm not
a Raiders fan. But I do have some friends that
are kind of connected with the Raiders, so I hope
they do well. But I'm not I'm not a Raider fan.
But listen, Mike, thank you. I'm glad you lost your job.
It's great for the show, it's not good for you.
I'm very happy. I'm very happy. It's one of the
great things that ever happen. You're losing your job, and
if you do get another job, I recommend working overnights

(32:17):
so you can get a life, you know, get a
real job, and I'll meet you. I will let you
know when we do the Arizona thing. I'll let you know.
We'll give you a lot of promotions.

Speaker 7 (32:27):
I'll get my number to coop and I mean it.
I have a big smoker, I'll do.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Look at that all right? All right, thank you, Mike.
Look at that hook?

Speaker 7 (32:35):
Is that all right?

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Smoked meats?

Speaker 6 (32:38):
I do love a good smoked meat.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Sure about that. Let's say hello to Dre in Central California. Hello, Dre, welcome.
I hear some ambient noise. It doesn't sound like dres
loan in a bedroom sleeping, although it does sound like

(33:04):
he may be sleep. Oh, he's definitely sleeping. That's a sleeper.
We got a sleeper. Sell. I'd like to alert all
the it's a very quiet sleeper. You're listening to our
live coverage. This is Dre in Central California.

Speaker 6 (33:19):
Is this your way of trying to win the game, Ben, Yes,
this is how I'm not trying trying to win the game.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
You're assuming that I'm somehow going to be behind in
the game.

Speaker 8 (33:28):
I plan on leading the game from Oh yeah, let's
let's get started.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Then why don't we pause for the cause and then
we'll do the big the full big block of the game.
How about that? I wonder do that the pause for
the cars? We have Mallard's mounted my sol. You guys
on Hold that have called up to play the game,
do not hang up. We'll have Malar's Mountain of Money,
the Edward Norton edition. If that means anything to you,

(33:54):
We'll get to that and we will do it next.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Miller and you. It is the Ben Malor Show. With
the iHeart Radio app, you can stream the Ben Mahlor
Show wherever you happen to be anywhere. Let's catch us
and all the other blowhards, gas bags and know it Alls.
Fox Sports Radio Show is live twenty four to seven
the new and improved iHeartRadio app. Just search Fox Sports
Radio on the app. You can stream us live all

(34:23):
day and all night every day and every night. You
should have selected Fox Sports Radio Ben Malor show on
the weekend Fifth Hour podcast as your presets in the
iHeartRadio app. It will always pop up at the very
top of your screen.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Now, Mailor's Mountain of money? Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not?

Speaker 1 (34:47):
And let's welcome in David in Lost Wages, Nevada. Hello, David, Welcome.

Speaker 7 (34:55):
Well, I would want to play this for a long
time because I'm playing at home when you do it
real well, and I just know it's one of these feels.
And now that I'm actually out of the radio, I'm
gonna have stage right.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
No, no, you're not. No one's listening. Look what time
it is. Everyone's sleeping, no one's awake, all right. And
then David, you're gonna be at the meet and read
on Saturday. We're gonna meet you right there, all right?
Who do you want to partner up with? David?

Speaker 7 (35:20):
Let's go with you.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Start off the top here, that's right, All time wins, king,
by the way, all time wins. All right, Uh, and
hold on second, we have Stephan who's in Denver. Hello, Stephan, Welcome.
Wait Dad, oh, this guy your guy Coop. This is
your guy. This is Stephan. Yeah, all right, well you

(35:44):
know Denver fan, I assume maybe not. I'm as he's
a colts man. Oh man, cool in Denver. You're not
even from Denver, Coop, and you're all right? All right?
Coop's always plans. He thinks he's gonna win if somehow
he has more time. No, yeah, exactly, Urry up, hurry up,

(36:05):
all right, chap drops, I'm both on here. David.

Speaker 8 (36:09):
The category is are this is the Edwin Nordon edition.
He turned fifty six on Monday? Fight Club, Moonrise, Kingdom,
Birdman or Motherless Brooklyn? Which category would you like?

Speaker 7 (36:19):
David? Let's go Moonlight Kingdom, moon Like, king.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Moon Rise Kingdom?

Speaker 8 (36:22):
All right, moon right, and then Stephen, do you want
fight Club, Birdman or Motherless Brooklyn?

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Let's go Birdman? All right? All right? Did you go?
Good luck on?

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Then?

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Okay, here we go, David, David, here we go, and
you picked moon Rise Kingdom. These athletes were all boy scouts.
Are you ready? Okay? Forty five seconds on the clock.
We're on our way. We need first and last name,
the all time home run king prior to Barry Bonds.

(36:55):
That is that is correct now, quarterback for the forty
nine Ers after Joe Montana. He was my Ontana's back
up with the Niners. What do you say, Eastern Stevie? Okay,
all right, quarterback for the Washington Redskins. He had his
legs snapped in half by Lawrence Taylor. All right, we'll
skip ahead here. How about running a tight loan linebacker?

(37:16):
Linebacker for Notre Dame. He had a fake girlfriend. He
played for the New Orleans Saints. That is, correct guard
for the New York Nicks. He played with the Lakers.
His last name is like Romance, like a Valentine type
last name. Now the fly in Hawaiian Philadelphia Phillies star.

(37:36):
You missed Josh Hart and Shane Victorino. All right, go ahead, there,
you go ahead, one toy. Did you know who? Did
you know who the flying Hawaiian was?

Speaker 7 (37:47):
David?

Speaker 1 (37:48):
He did? All right?

Speaker 8 (37:49):
A little slow on, All right, Stefan, we have birdman
h Need the first and last name of the athlete.
These athletes all jump so high they seem to fly
h forty five seconds in the clock.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Let's begin. Current running back for the Eagles.

Speaker 8 (38:03):
Just rush for two thousand yards. Yes, uh, this guy
was the kid for the Mariners back in the day. Okay, okay,
don't curse. Don't this guy one? That's all right. This
guy is on the Memphis Grizzlies. He jumps out of
the he loves guns. He loves to shoot guns.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Even fake one.

Speaker 7 (38:25):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 8 (38:26):
All right. How about the human highlight reel in the NBA? Yes,
John Ran, that's correct, human highlight reel.

Speaker 7 (38:36):
Good all right?

Speaker 1 (38:38):
This guy?

Speaker 8 (38:39):
How about a really short guy he used to dunk
back in the day. His last name is this the
thing that spider lives in?

Speaker 1 (38:48):
You gotta got better than that, Coop.

Speaker 6 (38:49):
Maybe taking longer with the last sleeping call, then.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Maybe I should have done last last name. That's the spider.
Doesn't matter, Coop. Go ahead again, Go ahead again? What
you want? All right? Motherless Brooklyn or fight club? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (39:04):
No, he got the thirty one two?

Speaker 1 (39:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (39:06):
So for oh yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, Stephan, Do
you want motherless Brooklyn or fight club?

Speaker 1 (39:12):
All right?

Speaker 8 (39:13):
These athletes have all been in notable fights. Forty five second,
let's begin. The best basketball player of all time? Yes,
this guy is a defensive end on the Browns. He
bashed Mason Rudolph with the helmet. Okay, yes, this guy
had the one handed catch for the New York Giants

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back in the day.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Okay, what's what's that?

Speaker 2 (39:40):
I think it's no, it's time.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Are you there? Stephan? Oh cool? Oh god? Alright, let's
run it up here, David, let's show much's not here? David?
Are you ready? David? Where's day? Here we go? Motherless
Brooklyn stuff. These athletes weren't raised by their biological mothers, right.
They were adopted or raised by film. Uh a quarterback

(40:05):
who started a protest movement in the NFL with the
forty nine ers. Oh all right, the the bambino for
the New York Yankees. Yes, point guard. He played for
the Golden State Warriors and the Clippers back in the
early two thousands. Uh, it doesn't matter. We want to

(40:27):
have it. Baron Davis, we won the guys. Davis the
wing All time waits keg, all time waits keg.