July 11, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the New York Times announcing that it will disband it's Sports Department, the overall collapse of the newspaper industry, Maller's Mountain of Money: Harrison Ford Edition, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our naber three hour three of the radio show.
We talk about the downfall of a media empire. When
I was a kid, there was nothing bigger than newspapers
and the sports section, and newspapers. Now I'm old, I'm
not that old, and newspapers are near the end. And
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the New York Times getting out of the sports business completely.
They're shutting down their sports department. What is your position
on the death of the New York Times sports section
as they will shift over to the Athletic which they
purchased last year. And how can the La Times sports
section operate without game stories as they will have a
deadline of three o'clock in the afternoon. And why did
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the newspaper industry as a whole completely collapse. It's one
thing to go down a little bit, but they have
completely gone into the far blue yonder off in the distance.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We'll talk about all that and much more right now here.
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It is enjoy our number three, the end of a
sporting era.
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Welmeme.
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this hour, a story that we would have gotten to
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and it's probably better that we did not because we
can get into it more depth right here. So our
lead this hour coming from the media world and big
news involving a stalwart of American sports media. If you
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have not heard, and maybe not, we have learned, the
New York Times is dissolving their sports department. They're getting
rid of it there. They're not firing these people, they're
reshuffling the deck. There are thirty five journalists that worked
and editors for the New York Times, and they're they're
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all gone, both online and print. The paperwill instead lean
on the sports coverage from The Athletic which The New
York Times bought back in January of twenty twenty two.
Needless to say, the ink stained wretches of the old
Gray Lady are not going quietly. Members of the New
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York Times Guild said in a prepared statement late on
Monday when the news came out that they will fight.
They call this flagrant attempt at union busting with every
tool that we have, So that is code for rather
Obviously this is going to be tied up in the
court system for some time. The people aren't being fired,
so I don't know how that works. I don't know
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the union contract, neither do you. But they're not losing
their job. They're just being reassigned. So instead of covering
the Mets, you're covering the Middle East, or instead of
covering the Yankees, you are now taking over the transit
portion of the newspaper. Now I do not read the
New York Times. I did back in the day, but
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I stopped several years back. But The New York Times
has never been the go to sports section. But this
is still a big deal. It's a big deal because
it is the most powerful newspaper in America, more for
political news than sports news, and it's obviously one sided
political news, but.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
That's what they're known for, all right.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So question, as we discussed the question, what is your
position on the pending death of the New York Times
sports section? Meaning they'll just farm it out, outsourcing it
to the people from the athletics. So I've got Willie Nelson,
Hail Mary, and Blockbuster, and we will combine all of
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these things together and we are going to make a
street pretzel. That's the one thing I did enjoy over
everything else there in New York. That street pretzel that's
been sitting out there, flies all over it.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That's the best kind of pretzel you can get right
there on the street.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Now, Philadelphia's got better pretzels, but I was in New York,
so I enjoyed the pretzel.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
That's what happens.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
First of all, talking about the New York Times, our
position on the death of the New York Times sports sestion.
So this is like a Broadway show, and I attended
my first Broadway show. I almost had to have my
legs amputated because the seats were so small at this
old theater. But when you go to a Broadway show,
this choreography involved, it's choreography, and this was death and taxes,
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is what it was.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Inevitable. It was bound to happen.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
The moment that the New York Times spent five hundred
and fifty million dollars to acquire.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The athletic.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Everyone knew and they talked about it, and they were like, well,
they were grumbling, and they were like, what's going on,
and they knew what was going to happen. The music
started playing on the loudspeakers at the New York Times
sports headquarters there in New York, in the Big Apple.
And what was playing out of the loudspeakers, I'll tell
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you it was a Willie Nelson classic tune made famous
by a long on sportscaster, former NFL player Don Meredith.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And they were playing turnout.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
The Lodge the parties over.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, so much for running up those expense accounts going
to the Olympics to write a eight hundred word story
that no one reads.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
That is over. You are no longer allowed to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And sorry not sorry, So the Athletic I hate saying
this because it's behind a paywall, but the company does
pay for a password, so I use the company password.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
They have very good sports coverage. They do.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I wouldn't pay for it if I had to pay
for it on my own, but they do a good job,
so I will give them credit. They have many writers
who have done great work at other places that have
found their way to the Athletic. Ken Rosenthal leads of
the baseball department. Jason Stark, who's a somewhat of a
friend of the show. He's also part of that from Philadelphia.
And there's some great basketball writers and whatnot. Shams I
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believe is part of that as well, so they know
what they're doing now. Secondly, atletic sports coverage is better,
but it's kind of like they bought a really expensive
sports car, like a brand new high Falutin BMW, Porsche,
Corvette or whatever, and they were they were waiting for
the moment to start driving it, and it's like they
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were driving a camera, and a camera is a fine car,
but they wanted to drive the better car, and so
you switch over.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Secondly, it's not just the LA time and not just
the New York Times, it's the La Times as well.
Dramatic changes to the All Times. Now they have not
disbanded their sports section, or they might as well disband
their sports section. While the old Gray Lady is dumping
the independent sports for the Athletic, the LA Times is
getting completely out of the traditional newspaper business, although they
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are still selling the newspaper now. I have friends who
used to work at the La Times who have been
all over this story. One of my good friends is
a former editor at the La Times, and he's been
feeding me like he thinks I'm obsessed with the story,
by the way, but he's been feeding the information for
the last couple of weeks about what's going on at
the La Times. And they make most of their money
still from the actual print newspaper, even though they have
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an online presence a digital presence most people. Still the
way they make their money is from the printing press
of the La Times. And they recently announced that they
have sold their printing press. Now that's the equivalent of
a radio station selling the transmitter.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
That's kind of what they've done.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And so they have decided to sell the printing press,
and that means that they will have to farm out.
They're going to still print the newspaper, so they are renting.
This is what my buddy told me. They're renting printing presses.
If you're not familiar with southern Californian Riverside, which is
not that far away mileage wise, but with traffic, is
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about eight hours away from downtown Los Angeles. Everything's sent
digitally and all that, and so that means they're going
to have a deadline for the printed version of the
newspaper at three o'clock in the afternoon. So anything that
happens at three o'clock in the afternoon, they will not
have it in the actual newspaper. Now, keep in my
newspapers used to have deadlines of ten o'clock eleven o'clock
in the old days, and they always try to get
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the games. And I realized people change, habits change and
all that. I understand it, But how can the La
Times operate without they're operating a newspaper without having anything
in the newspaper after three o'clock like game stories, box scores,
things like that. And it's a hel mary is the
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way I would describe it. It's they can operate. It
will operate poorly. It is a last ditch effort to
save the newspaper from drowning in a sea of debt.
And there's also rumors that are going to be sold again.
And from a logistical standpoint, though it is insane to
the memory, it's an odd thing because we we do
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the radio show. I'm not talk more about the business
of radio if you care about that, But we have
podcasts obviously on this show, and some of them do
pretty well, some of them don't do well. But we
have podcasts in addition to the radio show. But it's
not even people are making a big deal about box
scores and the game stories.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I don't even think that's the issue here.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's more the people that are old school that read
the newspaper and they're like, well, the La Times if
Lebron James twists and ankle on against Sacramento's like no
mestion mentioned of it on a Wednesday night, or Mooie
Bets gets hurt or whatever. But those are the kind
of details that people want to read in the newspaper.
Those that still read the newspaper, and the newspaper subscriber
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will be sol As Clater, You're out of luck, sorry,
out of luck there and this just go online. You
got your smartphone and all that. But again I go
back to the point, the La Times, even with as
few people that still read that newspaper as irrelevant it
as is the print edition they in nineteen ninety, it's
a long time ago, thirty something years, A generation ago,
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they had one point two million daily readers. They even
more readers of the La Times on Sunday, but one
point two million Monday through Friday and Monday through Saturday.
Now you want to take a guess how many daily
readers of the print version of the La Times there are.
From a high of one point two to one point
five million thirty years ago, now one hundred and forty thousand,
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they have gone all the way down to one hundred
and forty thousand. The esthmus one hundred and forty two thousand.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And so now of those one hundred and forty two thousand,
how many are going to keep paying for it? I
don't know all right, final thought, So, in general, the
newspaper business has been collapsing. I think I saw a
number between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty, so a few
years ago three hundred newspapers went out of business completely
went out of business. The New York Times is close
to going out of business. The LA Times is close
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to going out of business. And so there used to
be a song that said video killed the radio star. Well,
the internet merger the newspaper scribe. But it didn't have
to be this way, right, It did not have to
be this way. It is an Okham's razor situation. The
simplest answer is the easiest, and this is a case
of Darwinism.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
You either adapt or you die.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Much like Blockbuster Video had a chance to buy Netflix,
they didn't take them seriously.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
They said, what the hell's that? Nobody wants that.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And the newspaper business has the same level of arrogance
that they ignored the bloggersphere and they say, well, those
aren't real journalists, you know. We like the real journalistic
integrity and all that. And what they learned and what
they've learned over the many years this has been going
on is unlike the other journalists. The people that read
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news don't seem to really care about journalistic integrity very much.
They just want to read the stories, that's it. They
want to read the stories, and the newspapers have these
these paywalls.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
They've tried. The problem is the Internet set.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Up with you get stuff for free, and we put
ads up, and that's how the Internet is supposed to work,
and people don't. It's like Twitter. Twitter gave you something
for free that they're now charging eight dollars a month
for which, by the way, will only go up. It's
not going to stay eight dollars a month. It's going
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to go higher and hire and hire. That's how these
things work. And it's like the old Tom Petty song
when you talk about whether it's newspapers or Twitter or
any of these things, and it's the boys upstairs, right
in the corner office and all that. They want to
see how much you will pay for what you used
to get for free. And the newspapers have been unable
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to find a way to monetize it with ads and
all that and make it work. And it turns out
very few people actually want to pay for something that
they can get free. And even though you can't get
the exact same story, there are so many bloggers and
aggregators on the Internet that you can find a version
of whatever's story you're looking for. It just depends on
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how long you want to look. Now, convenience wise, it
would be easier for you to pay for the content,
but if you're willing to put the work in, you
can find it. And all of old media, whether it's television, newspapers,
or what I do for a living, radio have had
to adapt. Those that have have been okay, those that
haven't have not. Now the radio business, even though they've
been slow to adapt, they do have an advantage that
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you can have your you know, you can have your
cake and eat it too, right that meaning like we
do this show live and then we have many listeners
that upload the show on demand when we get done.
So we have two different ways you can get the
show and we don't charge for either one of them
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and cost you anything if you have a smartphone or
internet to get the radio show in the podcast format.
And so it's a way to double dip for the company.
And iHeart done very well with the podcasting and but
not they've made a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
We'd like for them to pass that down, but they've
done very well.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
They've done very well for themselves, and so there's a
whole niche there, but there's still more money we make
the company, as far as I know, makes more money
from the radio show than they do the podcast.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
And so that's just the way it is. People.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Even it talks about how anyone's doing podcasting. It's very
cool and in vogue and all that, but there's still
more people listening to terrestrial radio. Maybe that won't always
be the case. Maybe it'll switch tomorrow, maybe they'll switch today.
I don't know, but as of the last I heard,
that is still the case.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
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with blank. Dallas Collwary's quarterback Dak Prescott recently helped a
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His name is Mark. By the way, I.
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Speaker 2 (17:07):
We'll get the calls in them all the time. Now
for the Mallor Riddle of the Day. Dallas Cowboys quarterback
Dak Prescott recently helped a fan at a football camp
with blank. That is the Mallard Riddle of the Day
of the seed does anyone know the answer, And a
lot of these I don't think I can read on
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the air. I definitely don't think I can read the
one from Unassisted. I don't think I can read that
on the air.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I feel like all of those tweets, I mean, I
guess you enjoyed them, but because there's some way you
could gather them together and read them on the podcast,
I just feel.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
That it would be too much work.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Heady.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
If you would like to do that, you can do
that if you want.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Shane, that sounds like a job for Danny g Yeah, sure,
Shane in the Brain says, choking on a Jerry Dog.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
That's Shane from Portland. Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Blue Blue Ball guest by Donkey's Sausage.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
These are the ones you can't read.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, these are the ones I can't read. Justin and Cincinnati.
I don't think i'll read what he wrote there. Let's
see Jay dott Our buddy in Utah. A very fun
guy there, Jay dott He says he helped him run, stop,
drop and roll after a beer run is what he
had to say. Uh, let's see here, Milkman, Mike and
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Coloraess's Dak helped him pick some place to eat from
his Zagat restaurant guide. Let's see here, Calligan Tim said
Caligan Timmy Michigan says, rob a bank.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I can't read that.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Courtesy Flusher says, helped him with wicked blue cookie diarrhea.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well, that would be that would be problematic. There you go.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Uh, let's see here, can't read that on the air
page down alf the Alien Opiner says. Dak helped a
fan with his Doc Mike Daily Therapy regimen Campbell's chicken
noodle soup A delicious can guess by Ferg Dog Do
you have an answer? Eddie Sean Important says, got a
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seat on Jerry's party bus. Helped the fan get a
seat on Jerry's party bush.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
He helped him play puck Doku, which Brandon has turned
me on to it now now, so it's a it's
a apparently there are different sports that you can apply
to this, but it's a game that's online that you
can You're asked to kind of mix and match players
who played for certain teams things like that.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Okay, it's kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah, And you're doing all players from the eighties and
the nineties, I would think some yeah, yeah, I got you.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
The correct answer to the Mallard Riddle of the day, and.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Here it is.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott recently helped a fan at a
football camp with blank.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
The answer a.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Baby gender reveal, A baby gender reveal.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Well, he really had no choice because the woman went
up to him and said, hey, Dak, can you help
me out? If he said no, he would have been
a douchebag. So he had to do it. He had
no choice. Let's go to the phones and well, golden
ticket cashing a golden ticket, we go right to the
front of line.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
The roommate of Brian.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Finley, as far as we know, better known by his
stage name Ferg Dog.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Hey, Ben, I know you think I'm calling just a
bash threads, but Mallard Palos is tomorrow and I got
to secure my spy in then.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, you're in the palooza. WHOA what kind of act
will you be doing?
Speaker 7 (20:50):
I'll tell you about my act in a second. First,
in case you don't remember, I tried to get on
last year's show as well. I wanted to break the
world record for holding your breath alongest but Coop rejected it.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
That's about job.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
I'm pretty devastated, Coop.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
You should have let him do that.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
Can I just point out what that This guy could
have just told me when I picked up the phone,
but he needed to be on air to reveal his
entry into the Talent Show.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
No, this is smart because what he's doing is your
I know what you're doing for a dog. You're doing
a mental trick. You're you're trying to plant the seed
for the voters, the unwashed, right, because you know if
you promote your act that that will get votes and
you have a competitive advantage.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I know exactly what you're doing exactly.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
It's smart.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Think about it, Coop, exactly. This is brilliant.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
This is marketing.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
I eventually got over last year's disappointment and now I
have a new act that I'm really proud of.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Okay, I cannot wait. What will it be?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
All Right?
Speaker 7 (21:45):
So I love the troops, Ben, So I'd like to
honor the brave men and women who have served in
the United States military by performing a two minute moment
of silence on tomorrow's Talent Show. What do you think
he support the troops?
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Right?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
What is just as good as you're holding your breath idea.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah yeah, no no, no, no, no no, Now, Eddie just
talked in my headphones. Eddie says he wants you to
do that on his podcast, The Puck the World podcast
supports the truth.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah, yeah, Eddie's all for it. He thinks that's a
great I want you to do it underwater?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
How about this?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
How about how about your drink? Like seven gallons of milk?
See what happens? You know, what could possibly go wrong?
I don't know, you'll die?
Speaker 7 (22:29):
What if you guys aren't selling my act? I could
just bash Threads for two minutes instead. Would that be
a better act?
Speaker 9 (22:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
What do you sew against Threads? Why? Why did scare you?
Speaker 9 (22:42):
Why?
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Is it because I believe in truth, justice and the
American way? Because when I watched Rocky four, I root
for Rocky and not Ivan Drago. Yeah, you see where
I'm coming.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
You know what I root for. I root for the
better product that's free. That's what I root for.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
So that's what I that's where I I don't want
to pay eight dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I don't want to pay eight bucks for what I
got for free. They're all communists. What do you want?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Come on, Elon Musk signed a letter to China, how
much he loves in the China and all that, so
it doesn't matter. They all do the same crap. Come on,
but yeah, exactly, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
There's one last thing I've got to ask Ben. There's
been a lot of confusion around the show lately, so
I'm hoping you can clear this up once and for all.
What happened to Roberto? He hasn't been on the show
in like two months, but he fired? Did he quit?
What the hell going on?
Speaker 6 (23:26):
He was abducted by aliens?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yes, he was actually in seriously, I don't know. We're
allowed to talk about us on the air because it's
a federal situation. But Roberto went to Vegas and he
was investigating the alien in the backyard there at that
home in Vegas, and that's the last we saw him,
and I don't know what happened. We assumed that he
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was abducted by aliens. And if you want to know more,
called George noriop over there Coast to coast.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
George will help you out.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I actually heard a different story, Ben, Oh you did?
What's that Eddie, the guy who said I know you Roberto.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Finally, finally, yeah, And because Roberto was looking for where's
my baseball?
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Guy?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
He was looking for the baseball and then the yeah
the other guy got him. Okay, Fergnad, Yes, thank you,
all right, go away, all right, thank you?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Uh all right.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
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going on with the cookie crook out there.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
You know I'm gona do next time.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I'm gonna put the cookies right here in the studio
and you will not walk in here to this studio
from your studio.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
We'll not do that. I love a challenge.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Not gonna happen, by way, Mark told me great Cookie.
That's what he told me, Great Cookie.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Is that true? Mark?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah? Yes, it is in your face, Gar see a
great cookie.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Uh god, the great's a little strong.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
It's a great cookie.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
It's a good cookie.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It's a great cookie. Great, it's great. How much this
How much did you pay for that cookie?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Eddie?
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Well?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
It was good for the price.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Cool? Now are we just talking about how good the
cookie is? The quality of the cookie.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
That's that's it.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
It's very all encompassing type of thing.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
Though.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
You know that's a good cook not that hard.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
How's it?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Look?
Speaker 6 (25:28):
What do you think about the present?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Stop with it? It's a beautiful looking cookie. The frosting's
on top of the blue frosting.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
It's a good looking cookie.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
Oh well, look I mean that they wouldn't put it
in the display case that crumble cookie.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'm just well no, because there's extra frosting. There's more
frosting on that than you would get at a crumble.
That's correct, absolutely true. Per capita there on that top
of the cookie. That's not a ronies. That's a smaller cookie.
But per per capita. You look at the circumfass of
the cookies. Okay, I still was that color frosting on sale?
(26:09):
Or why did you decide to from scratch? What do
you want me to make pink frosting for you. It
could be any color you want. You're such a dick.
My goodness, all right, my god.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
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Speaker 5 (27:00):
I believe we're gonna have a Malard monologue on coming up, right.
But Kansas City Chiefs super fan, we've talked about him before.
I'm gonna see if I pronounce this correctly or not.
But if I don't, you don't know who he is.
Xavier Babbadar captured and arrested on robbery charges in California
after being on the run for the last four months. Yes,
(27:21):
he was also known as chiefs Aholick. He dressed up
in like a I don't know, wolf costume.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Definitely a wolf costume. That's what a wolf costume would look.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
He was arrested in Lincoln, California, which I have never
heard of.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
That is a suburb of Sacramento.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
That's back there in northern California, which I considered Oregon,
but pretty anything north of Sacramento's Oregon.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Do you know how far it is to get from
Sacramento to the Oregon border.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
It's several hours.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
I drove. I went went to see Fresio State play
the University of Oregon. We drove and we got past Sacramento,
which is the furthest north I've ever been before that,
and we still drove for two hours.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Oh my god, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
My brother got married, my younger brother got married outside Sacramento.
So I went to the wedding obviously, and so we
were like, hey, we're close to Oregon, why don't we
just go up and you know, say, we got to
Oregon and I was like, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
All was like, because on the map it doesn't look
that far. That's true. It's like, holy crap, I'm not
going that far. No way, forget about it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
So we just drove across to San Francisco from Sacramento
and said that's it.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Good move. Yeah, So are we gonna have a Malermano.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Well, it'll be part of a malcolmodel. The infamous Chief
super fan chief soaholic. And how did you pronounce his
name again?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Any who did you?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I said, Xavier Baba Dar Baba Dar. All right, then
I'll just I'll cheat off your pape, right baba Dar?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
This guy went on a cross country bank robbing spree.
How wild he's bobbing banks?
Speaker 5 (28:56):
You do you talk about there's gonna be a movie
made about this.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
This is the great story.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
It is I The guy's doing it all to get
online attention and he's going to He was at SOFI
at the Chargers Chiefs game wearing his costume.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I probably saw him out there, maybe not, probably two
thousands of people.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
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(29:34):
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let's say hello to Michael who's in Lost Wages Nevada.
Hello Michael, by the way, eight seven seven.
Speaker 9 (29:44):
Wages. I'm already here.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah, no, I know that I'm giving out the number though,
eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine.
If you want to be part of Maelar's Mount and Money.
Now a man who sounds like he's having a grand
old time, Michael in Vegas? Michael, what are you having?
Can I have some of what you're having tonight?
Speaker 9 (30:07):
God bless you? So thank you? Ben?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (30:11):
Can I touch you on the first thing? Basis like
you can to me?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah, Well, I don't know your last name. I would
say your last name it.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
It's Michael Scuttles, but just don't.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Know you're not driving?
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Hope you're not driving.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
You know, yeah, I am sitting.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah you should be sitting. Definitely, sit, Do.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Not try, don't whatever you do, don't dry.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
So I live in this town and we get this
pro sports stuff, like we have this pro sports. I'm
originally from Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Oh, congratulates. I was just in Minnesota a few months ago.
It's beautiful place.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
It is. Everything's got its moments.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Okay, sounds like you hate it, but that's fine.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Well, get get to the point please.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
So I'm gonna predict, as a distant relative of Nostradamus
and friend of noster Denis he lives in Seattle, that
you do not like the fact that professional sports have
come to Vegas?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Is that correct?
Speaker 9 (31:26):
I you know what? Yes?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
You ah, look at that. I read your mind. Unbelievable.
I'm also seeing in my crystal ball a lot of
alcohol in the crystal ball.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
There's nothing wrong with that, as.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Long as you don't drive.
Speaker 10 (31:45):
You're you're you're an adult and you've had all it,
says says my crystal ball. You've had all the alcohol
at the local CBS. You've had all of it.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
Oh yeah, I don't care if it's some CVSKI so.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Well, yeah, you're not a discerting I understand. I got
it all right, Well listen, I must move on, but
it's so great to talk to you. Please call us again.
You'll never remember anything that was said, but that's fine,
all right. It is the Ben at Malshaw. We'll line
our contestants up again. If you see the phones buzzing here.
But if you want to play, call right now. Try
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(32:24):
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Speaker 4 (33:04):
Now Malor's mountain of money. Hell do you have what
it takes to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
And we welcome in our contests. We have Philip who's
in southern California. Hello, Philip, welcome, Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 9 (33:20):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
You ready to do this, Philip?
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I'm ready?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
All right? Very good? And what brings you to the show.
What are you doing up late here?
Speaker 9 (33:29):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Just you know, in my recliner, just relaxing.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
There you go, belly relax with me.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Oh, thank you? How dare you? That's wonderful? All right,
very relaxing, very calming.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Show. Hold on a sec Philip.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
We have a blind Emmett, the Seahawks fan.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Hello, blind Emmett?
Speaker 4 (33:47):
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (33:48):
Big Ben?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Are you prepared? Blind Emmett? These are all people from
before you were alive. Are you prepared?
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Depends on the sport?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Okay, all right, very good? Hold on a seck here,
put you on the air.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
You on the air, all right, Philip, you were on
the air first. Do you want to partner up with Philip?
Speaker 9 (34:10):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
You can? Howard Stern? Who else? Do we have? Art Bell?
I don't think he's around anymore.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
U boie.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Babb a boy, Doctor Laura, Jim Rome, Steve Harvey Ill.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Okay, very good, Jim Rome, thank you for that. Blind Em.
Who whould you like to partner up with? Blind Em?
Speaker 7 (34:37):
I'll go with Justin Cooper.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Oh, the Cooper Loop? All right? Very good?
Speaker 7 (34:41):
And going to play the Jim.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
I don't know, I don't know, you're the host of
the show.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Whatever. I'll play the damn role of Jim grab a mine.
I don't care. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll
win the game.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
I mean, you're about three feet taller than Jim Rome.
Speaker 8 (35:01):
I think you do have the age advantage here. Wow,
you're talking about Philip with the contestants. Yes, of course,
not me, A right young All right, gentlemen. This is
Malard's Mountain of Money, the Harrison Ford edition. He turns
eighty one later this week, eighty one years old. Eighty one. Yes,
the categories are as follows. We've got Star Wars, the
(35:24):
Last Crusade, Air Force one and crossing Over. Philip, you
are on the air first, which category would you like?
Let's see cross crossing over?
Speaker 1 (35:35):
All right? And EMMITTT how about you air Force one,
Air Force one.
Speaker 8 (35:39):
Alright, So Ben and Philip are up first with crossing over.
Remember you need to say the first and last name
of the athlete in order to get points. You're gonna
have forty five seconds on the clock crossing over. These
athletes all crossed over into the media. Forty five seconds begin,
all right.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
He played for the Cowboys. He's on Monday Night Football now.
Was an analyst, Philip, he was just oh god, alright, okay,
a single season sack. King played for the New York Giants.
He's hosted a talk show. He's on Fox quite a bit.
Got a gap to.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
He yes, lt has a gap to.
Speaker 9 (36:22):
The pyramid.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
That doesn't really help.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Nickname nickname the Goose for the Ravens in the two thousands,
Uh all right, nicknamed Dandy Cowboys quarterback in the seventies, eighties,
TV guy Monday Night Football's.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Party too late.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Shocking.
Speaker 8 (36:48):
We shouldn't even get the hundred points because like Goose,
the nickname, it's kind.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Of that's that's his well, no, that's his name. That's
a loud. He doesn't say no nicknames.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
It's you said you can't say the guy's names a
part of his name.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
It's part name, that's not it's g u s a. Yes,
I'm you can turn the mic off and you go
eat another cookie. You can have hundred points. Emmett and
I are gonna mop the floor. Yeah right, good luck,
go right with that one hundred points. If you get that,
(37:24):
I'll make cookies for.
Speaker 8 (37:25):
Everybody to all right, air Force one. These athletes all
wore air Force ones. Forty five seconds in the clock.
Begin the round mound of rebound. Yes, uh, raptors dunker
he he won? Yes, all right, let's skip over to
(37:47):
uh this. This guy's got the same name as the
biblical character that uh uh.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
You know, save the the the Jews going Bible?
Speaker 8 (38:00):
All right, power forward with the uh Phoenix suns with
Steve Nash.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
I think he's also Jewish.
Speaker 8 (38:06):
Yes, defensive guy for the Lakers back in the eighties,
shares the same last name as me.
Speaker 9 (38:16):
What's this something Cooper? All right?
Speaker 8 (38:21):
Let me we met out of time but si but
Lakers player nicknamed silk.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
No chance man. All right, So how many points do
you have any you've got? Okay? All right? Emit Star
Wars or Last Crusade.
Speaker 8 (38:44):
Star Wars Alright, Uh quarterback for the Rams.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Matthew, we're out of time. We're out of time. That
we're at the time to win the game. You didn't
win the game. We're out of the We didn't have time.
We had to finishing, finished, and the guy got gold.
(39:10):
That was the time. You gotta gold, You get a toss.
You guys have kissed your sister. You gotta tie.
Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our naber three hour three of the radio show.
We talk about the downfall of a media empire. When
I was a kid, there was nothing bigger than newspapers
and the sports section, and newspapers. Now I'm old, I'm
not that old, and newspapers are near the end. And
(00:23):
the New York Times getting out of the sports business completely.
They're shutting down their sports department. What is your position
on the death of the New York Times sports section
as they will shift over to the Athletic which they
purchased last year. And how can the La Times sports
section operate without game stories as they will have a
deadline of three o'clock in the afternoon. And why did
(00:46):
the newspaper industry as a whole completely collapse. It's one
thing to go down a little bit, but they have
completely gone into the far blue yonder off in the distance.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We'll talk about all that and much more right now here.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
It is enjoy our number three, the end of a
sporting era.
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Welmeme.
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this hour, a story that we would have gotten to
last hour, but I got carried away with Chef boy
r D and Marcel, so we didn't go over this
and it's probably better that we did not because we
can get into it more depth right here. So our
lead this hour coming from the media world and big
news involving a stalwart of American sports media. If you
(02:24):
have not heard, and maybe not, we have learned, the
New York Times is dissolving their sports department. They're getting
rid of it there. They're not firing these people, they're
reshuffling the deck. There are thirty five journalists that worked
and editors for the New York Times, and they're they're
(02:46):
all gone, both online and print. The paperwill instead lean
on the sports coverage from The Athletic which The New
York Times bought back in January of twenty twenty two.
Needless to say, the ink stained wretches of the old
Gray Lady are not going quietly. Members of the New
(03:08):
York Times Guild said in a prepared statement late on
Monday when the news came out that they will fight.
They call this flagrant attempt at union busting with every
tool that we have, So that is code for rather
Obviously this is going to be tied up in the
court system for some time. The people aren't being fired,
so I don't know how that works. I don't know
(03:30):
the union contract, neither do you. But they're not losing
their job. They're just being reassigned. So instead of covering
the Mets, you're covering the Middle East, or instead of
covering the Yankees, you are now taking over the transit
portion of the newspaper. Now I do not read the
New York Times. I did back in the day, but
(03:51):
I stopped several years back. But The New York Times
has never been the go to sports section. But this
is still a big deal. It's a big deal because
it is the most powerful newspaper in America, more for
political news than sports news, and it's obviously one sided
political news, but.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
That's what they're known for, all right.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So question, as we discussed the question, what is your
position on the pending death of the New York Times
sports section? Meaning they'll just farm it out, outsourcing it
to the people from the athletics. So I've got Willie Nelson,
Hail Mary, and Blockbuster, and we will combine all of
(04:33):
these things together and we are going to make a
street pretzel. That's the one thing I did enjoy over
everything else there in New York. That street pretzel that's
been sitting out there, flies all over it.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
That's the best kind of pretzel you can get right
there on the street.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Now, Philadelphia's got better pretzels, but I was in New York,
so I enjoyed the pretzel.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
That's what happens.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
First of all, talking about the New York Times, our
position on the death of the New York Times sports sestion.
So this is like a Broadway show, and I attended
my first Broadway show. I almost had to have my
legs amputated because the seats were so small at this
old theater. But when you go to a Broadway show,
this choreography involved, it's choreography, and this was death and taxes,
(05:19):
is what it was.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Inevitable. It was bound to happen.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
The moment that the New York Times spent five hundred
and fifty million dollars to acquire.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The athletic.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Everyone knew and they talked about it, and they were like, well,
they were grumbling, and they were like, what's going on,
and they knew what was going to happen. The music
started playing on the loudspeakers at the New York Times
sports headquarters there in New York, in the Big Apple.
And what was playing out of the loudspeakers, I'll tell
(05:56):
you it was a Willie Nelson classic tune made famous
by a long on sportscaster, former NFL player Don Meredith.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
And they were playing turnout.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
The Lodge the parties over.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, so much for running up those expense accounts going
to the Olympics to write a eight hundred word story
that no one reads.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
That is over. You are no longer allowed to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And sorry not sorry, So the Athletic I hate saying
this because it's behind a paywall, but the company does
pay for a password, so I use the company password.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
They have very good sports coverage. They do.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I wouldn't pay for it if I had to pay
for it on my own, but they do a good job,
so I will give them credit. They have many writers
who have done great work at other places that have
found their way to the Athletic. Ken Rosenthal leads of
the baseball department. Jason Stark, who's a somewhat of a
friend of the show. He's also part of that from Philadelphia.
And there's some great basketball writers and whatnot. Shams I
(06:54):
believe is part of that as well, so they know
what they're doing now. Secondly, atletic sports coverage is better,
but it's kind of like they bought a really expensive
sports car, like a brand new high Falutin BMW, Porsche,
Corvette or whatever, and they were they were waiting for
the moment to start driving it, and it's like they
(07:16):
were driving a camera, and a camera is a fine car,
but they wanted to drive the better car, and so
you switch over.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Secondly, it's not just the LA time and not just
the New York Times, it's the La Times as well.
Dramatic changes to the All Times. Now they have not
disbanded their sports section, or they might as well disband
their sports section. While the old Gray Lady is dumping
the independent sports for the Athletic, the LA Times is
getting completely out of the traditional newspaper business, although they
(07:47):
are still selling the newspaper now. I have friends who
used to work at the La Times who have been
all over this story. One of my good friends is
a former editor at the La Times, and he's been
feeding me like he thinks I'm obsessed with the story,
by the way, but he's been feeding the information for
the last couple of weeks about what's going on at
the La Times. And they make most of their money
still from the actual print newspaper, even though they have
(08:09):
an online presence a digital presence most people. Still the
way they make their money is from the printing press
of the La Times. And they recently announced that they
have sold their printing press. Now that's the equivalent of
a radio station selling the transmitter.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
That's kind of what they've done.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And so they have decided to sell the printing press,
and that means that they will have to farm out.
They're going to still print the newspaper, so they are renting.
This is what my buddy told me. They're renting printing presses.
If you're not familiar with southern Californian Riverside, which is
not that far away mileage wise, but with traffic, is
(08:51):
about eight hours away from downtown Los Angeles. Everything's sent
digitally and all that, and so that means they're going
to have a deadline for the printed version of the
newspaper at three o'clock in the afternoon. So anything that
happens at three o'clock in the afternoon, they will not
have it in the actual newspaper. Now, keep in my
newspapers used to have deadlines of ten o'clock eleven o'clock
in the old days, and they always try to get
(09:14):
the games. And I realized people change, habits change and
all that. I understand it, But how can the La
Times operate without they're operating a newspaper without having anything
in the newspaper after three o'clock like game stories, box scores,
things like that. And it's a hel mary is the
(09:34):
way I would describe it. It's they can operate. It
will operate poorly. It is a last ditch effort to
save the newspaper from drowning in a sea of debt.
And there's also rumors that are going to be sold again.
And from a logistical standpoint, though it is insane to
the memory, it's an odd thing because we we do
(09:55):
the radio show. I'm not talk more about the business
of radio if you care about that, But we have
podcasts obviously on this show, and some of them do
pretty well, some of them don't do well. But we
have podcasts in addition to the radio show. But it's
not even people are making a big deal about box
scores and the game stories.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I don't even think that's the issue here.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's more the people that are old school that read
the newspaper and they're like, well, the La Times if
Lebron James twists and ankle on against Sacramento's like no
mestion mentioned of it on a Wednesday night, or Mooie
Bets gets hurt or whatever. But those are the kind
of details that people want to read in the newspaper.
Those that still read the newspaper, and the newspaper subscriber
(10:37):
will be sol As Clater, You're out of luck, sorry,
out of luck there and this just go online. You
got your smartphone and all that. But again I go
back to the point, the La Times, even with as
few people that still read that newspaper as irrelevant it
as is the print edition they in nineteen ninety, it's
a long time ago, thirty something years, A generation ago,
(11:00):
they had one point two million daily readers. They even
more readers of the La Times on Sunday, but one
point two million Monday through Friday and Monday through Saturday.
Now you want to take a guess how many daily
readers of the print version of the La Times there are.
From a high of one point two to one point
five million thirty years ago, now one hundred and forty thousand,
(11:24):
they have gone all the way down to one hundred
and forty thousand. The esthmus one hundred and forty two thousand.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
And so now of those one hundred and forty two thousand,
how many are going to keep paying for it? I
don't know all right, final thought, So, in general, the
newspaper business has been collapsing. I think I saw a
number between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty, so a few
years ago three hundred newspapers went out of business completely
went out of business. The New York Times is close
to going out of business. The LA Times is close
(11:52):
to going out of business. And so there used to
be a song that said video killed the radio star. Well,
the internet merger the newspaper scribe. But it didn't have
to be this way, right, It did not have to
be this way. It is an Okham's razor situation. The
simplest answer is the easiest, and this is a case
of Darwinism.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
You either adapt or you die.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Much like Blockbuster Video had a chance to buy Netflix,
they didn't take them seriously.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
They said, what the hell's that? Nobody wants that.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And the newspaper business has the same level of arrogance
that they ignored the bloggersphere and they say, well, those
aren't real journalists, you know. We like the real journalistic
integrity and all that. And what they learned and what
they've learned over the many years this has been going
on is unlike the other journalists. The people that read
(12:46):
news don't seem to really care about journalistic integrity very much.
They just want to read the stories, that's it. They
want to read the stories, and the newspapers have these
these paywalls.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
They've tried. The problem is the Internet set.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Up with you get stuff for free, and we put
ads up, and that's how the Internet is supposed to work,
and people don't. It's like Twitter. Twitter gave you something
for free that they're now charging eight dollars a month
for which, by the way, will only go up. It's
not going to stay eight dollars a month. It's going
(13:22):
to go higher and hire and hire. That's how these
things work. And it's like the old Tom Petty song
when you talk about whether it's newspapers or Twitter or
any of these things, and it's the boys upstairs, right
in the corner office and all that. They want to
see how much you will pay for what you used
to get for free. And the newspapers have been unable
(13:44):
to find a way to monetize it with ads and
all that and make it work. And it turns out
very few people actually want to pay for something that
they can get free. And even though you can't get
the exact same story, there are so many bloggers and
aggregators on the Internet that you can find a version
of whatever's story you're looking for. It just depends on
(14:05):
how long you want to look. Now, convenience wise, it
would be easier for you to pay for the content,
but if you're willing to put the work in, you
can find it. And all of old media, whether it's television, newspapers,
or what I do for a living, radio have had
to adapt. Those that have have been okay, those that
haven't have not. Now the radio business, even though they've
been slow to adapt, they do have an advantage that
(14:26):
you can have your you know, you can have your
cake and eat it too, right that meaning like we
do this show live and then we have many listeners
that upload the show on demand when we get done.
So we have two different ways you can get the
show and we don't charge for either one of them
(14:47):
and cost you anything if you have a smartphone or
internet to get the radio show in the podcast format.
And so it's a way to double dip for the company.
And iHeart done very well with the podcasting and but
not they've made a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
We'd like for them to pass that down, but they've
done very well.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
They've done very well for themselves, and so there's a
whole niche there, but there's still more money we make
the company, as far as I know, makes more money
from the radio show than they do the podcast.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
And so that's just the way it is. People.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Even it talks about how anyone's doing podcasting. It's very
cool and in vogue and all that, but there's still
more people listening to terrestrial radio. Maybe that won't always
be the case. Maybe it'll switch tomorrow, maybe they'll switch today.
I don't know, but as of the last I heard,
that is still the case.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It is the Benett Maler Show.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
You want to come in on anything we just said,
you can join us here at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine nine six
sixty three sixty nine. Also on Twitter at Ben Mahler.
That's at Ben Maller Time. Now for the Mallord Riddle
of the day, and here it is. Dallas Cowboys quarterback
Dak Prescott recently helped a fan at a football camp
(15:55):
with blank. Dallas Collwary's quarterback Dak Prescott recently helped a
man at a football camp with blank. That is the
Malor Riddle of the day. The answer and these phone calls,
we'll get to them and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
You can be a one percenter. Or study show that
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Speaker 6 (16:44):
His name is Mark. By the way, I.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Don't know why anybody would confuse him for somebody else,
but his name is Mark. But he is not on
social media, so unfortunately for you, you cannot tweet at him.
But he's here and he's doing his job. Fleet and
I'll live from the tirerack dot Com. Fox Sports Radio Studios.
It's Ben Mallor.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
We'll get the calls in them all the time. Now
for the Mallor Riddle of the Day. Dallas Cowboys quarterback
Dak Prescott recently helped a fan at a football camp
with blank. That is the Mallard Riddle of the Day
of the seed does anyone know the answer, And a
lot of these I don't think I can read on
(17:28):
the air. I definitely don't think I can read the
one from Unassisted. I don't think I can read that
on the air.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I feel like all of those tweets, I mean, I
guess you enjoyed them, but because there's some way you
could gather them together and read them on the podcast,
I just feel.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
That it would be too much work.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Heady.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
If you would like to do that, you can do
that if you want.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Shane, that sounds like a job for Danny g Yeah, sure,
Shane in the Brain says, choking on a Jerry Dog.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
That's Shane from Portland. Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Blue Blue Ball guest by Donkey's Sausage.
Speaker 6 (18:02):
These are the ones you can't read.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, these are the ones I can't read. Justin and Cincinnati.
I don't think i'll read what he wrote there. Let's
see Jay dott Our buddy in Utah. A very fun
guy there, Jay dott He says he helped him run, stop,
drop and roll after a beer run is what he
had to say. Uh, let's see here, Milkman, Mike and
(18:26):
Coloraess's Dak helped him pick some place to eat from
his Zagat restaurant guide. Let's see here, Calligan Tim said
Caligan Timmy Michigan says, rob a bank.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I can't read that.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Courtesy Flusher says, helped him with wicked blue cookie diarrhea.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well, that would be that would be problematic. There you go.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Uh, let's see here, can't read that on the air
page down alf the Alien Opiner says. Dak helped a
fan with his Doc Mike Daily Therapy regimen Campbell's chicken
noodle soup A delicious can guess by Ferg Dog Do
you have an answer? Eddie Sean Important says, got a
(19:11):
seat on Jerry's party bus. Helped the fan get a
seat on Jerry's party bush.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
He helped him play puck Doku, which Brandon has turned
me on to it now now, so it's a it's
a apparently there are different sports that you can apply
to this, but it's a game that's online that you
can You're asked to kind of mix and match players
who played for certain teams things like that.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Okay, it's kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Yeah, And you're doing all players from the eighties and
the nineties, I would think some yeah, yeah, I got you.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
The correct answer to the Mallard Riddle of the day, and.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Here it is.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott recently helped a fan at a
football camp with blank.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
The answer a.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Baby gender reveal, A baby gender reveal.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Well, he really had no choice because the woman went
up to him and said, hey, Dak, can you help
me out? If he said no, he would have been
a douchebag. So he had to do it. He had
no choice. Let's go to the phones and well, golden
ticket cashing a golden ticket, we go right to the
front of line.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
The roommate of Brian.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Finley, as far as we know, better known by his
stage name Ferg Dog.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Hey, Ben, I know you think I'm calling just a
bash threads, but Mallard Palos is tomorrow and I got
to secure my spy in then.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, you're in the palooza. WHOA what kind of act
will you be doing?
Speaker 7 (20:50):
I'll tell you about my act in a second. First,
in case you don't remember, I tried to get on
last year's show as well. I wanted to break the
world record for holding your breath alongest but Coop rejected it.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
That's about job.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
I'm pretty devastated, Coop.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
You should have let him do that.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
Can I just point out what that This guy could
have just told me when I picked up the phone,
but he needed to be on air to reveal his
entry into the Talent Show.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
No, this is smart because what he's doing is your
I know what you're doing for a dog. You're doing
a mental trick. You're you're trying to plant the seed
for the voters, the unwashed, right, because you know if
you promote your act that that will get votes and
you have a competitive advantage.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I know exactly what you're doing exactly.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
It's smart.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Think about it, Coop, exactly. This is brilliant.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
This is marketing.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
I eventually got over last year's disappointment and now I
have a new act that I'm really proud of.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Okay, I cannot wait. What will it be?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
All Right?
Speaker 7 (21:45):
So I love the troops, Ben, So I'd like to
honor the brave men and women who have served in
the United States military by performing a two minute moment
of silence on tomorrow's Talent Show. What do you think
he support the troops?
Speaker 9 (21:58):
Right?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
What is just as good as you're holding your breath idea.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah yeah, no no, no, no, no no, Now, Eddie just
talked in my headphones. Eddie says he wants you to
do that on his podcast, The Puck the World podcast
supports the truth.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah, yeah, Eddie's all for it. He thinks that's a
great I want you to do it underwater?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
How about this?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
How about how about your drink? Like seven gallons of milk?
See what happens? You know, what could possibly go wrong?
I don't know, you'll die?
Speaker 7 (22:29):
What if you guys aren't selling my act? I could
just bash Threads for two minutes instead. Would that be
a better act?
Speaker 9 (22:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
What do you sew against Threads? Why? Why did scare you?
Speaker 9 (22:42):
Why?
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Is it because I believe in truth, justice and the
American way? Because when I watched Rocky four, I root
for Rocky and not Ivan Drago. Yeah, you see where
I'm coming.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
You know what I root for. I root for the
better product that's free. That's what I root for.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
So that's what I that's where I I don't want
to pay eight dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I don't want to pay eight bucks for what I
got for free. They're all communists. What do you want?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Come on, Elon Musk signed a letter to China, how
much he loves in the China and all that, so
it doesn't matter. They all do the same crap. Come on,
but yeah, exactly, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
There's one last thing I've got to ask Ben. There's
been a lot of confusion around the show lately, so
I'm hoping you can clear this up once and for all.
What happened to Roberto? He hasn't been on the show
in like two months, but he fired? Did he quit?
What the hell going on?
Speaker 6 (23:26):
He was abducted by aliens?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yes, he was actually in seriously, I don't know. We're
allowed to talk about us on the air because it's
a federal situation. But Roberto went to Vegas and he
was investigating the alien in the backyard there at that
home in Vegas, and that's the last we saw him,
and I don't know what happened. We assumed that he
(23:49):
was abducted by aliens. And if you want to know more,
called George noriop over there Coast to coast.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
George will help you out.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I actually heard a different story, Ben, Oh you did?
What's that Eddie, the guy who said I know you Roberto.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Finally, finally, yeah, And because Roberto was looking for where's
my baseball?
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Guy?
Speaker 2 (24:07):
He was looking for the baseball and then the yeah
the other guy got him. Okay, Fergnad, Yes, thank you,
all right, go away, all right, thank you?
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Uh all right.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
It is the Bane Maler Show. We are gonna have
it a little bit a very popular game. Well I
say very popular, but that's really up to you to
decide whether it's very popular or not. But coming up
in a little bit, we'll have Malar's amount of money,
so I need some contestants to line up for that.
We'll take some more calls prior to Mallard's amount of money.
But right now, let's get you caught up on everything
(24:35):
going on with the cookie crook out there.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
You know I'm gona do next time.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I'm gonna put the cookies right here in the studio
and you will not walk in here to this studio
from your studio.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
We'll not do that. I love a challenge.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Not gonna happen, by way, Mark told me great Cookie.
That's what he told me, Great Cookie.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Is that true? Mark?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah? Yes, it is in your face, Gar see a
great cookie.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Uh god, the great's a little strong.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
It's a great cookie.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
It's a good cookie.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It's a great cookie. Great, it's great. How much this
How much did you pay for that cookie?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Eddie?
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Well?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
It was good for the price.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Cool? Now are we just talking about how good the
cookie is? The quality of the cookie.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
That's that's it.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
It's very all encompassing type of thing.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
Though.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
You know that's a good cook not that hard.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
How's it?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Look?
Speaker 6 (25:28):
What do you think about the present?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Stop with it? It's a beautiful looking cookie. The frosting's
on top of the blue frosting.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
It's a good looking cookie.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
Oh well, look I mean that they wouldn't put it
in the display case that crumble cookie.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'm just well no, because there's extra frosting. There's more
frosting on that than you would get at a crumble.
That's correct, absolutely true. Per capita there on that top
of the cookie. That's not a ronies. That's a smaller cookie.
But per per capita. You look at the circumfass of
the cookies. Okay, I still was that color frosting on sale?
(26:09):
Or why did you decide to from scratch? What do
you want me to make pink frosting for you. It
could be any color you want. You're such a dick.
My goodness, all right, my god.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
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along with my trustee sidekick David Gascon.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Would mean a lot to have you join us on
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is the Fifth Hour.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I'll tell you it's a spin off of that Ben
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Speaker 1 (26:45):
Why should you listen? Picture if you will a world will?
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Podcast or wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I believe we're gonna have a Malard monologue on coming up, right.
But Kansas City Chiefs super fan, we've talked about him before.
I'm gonna see if I pronounce this correctly or not.
But if I don't, you don't know who he is.
Xavier Babbadar captured and arrested on robbery charges in California
after being on the run for the last four months. Yes,
(27:21):
he was also known as chiefs Aholick. He dressed up
in like a I don't know, wolf costume.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Definitely a wolf costume. That's what a wolf costume would look.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
He was arrested in Lincoln, California, which I have never
heard of.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
That is a suburb of Sacramento.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
That's back there in northern California, which I considered Oregon,
but pretty anything north of Sacramento's Oregon.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Do you know how far it is to get from
Sacramento to the Oregon border.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
It's several hours.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
I drove. I went went to see Fresio State play
the University of Oregon. We drove and we got past Sacramento,
which is the furthest north I've ever been before that,
and we still drove for two hours.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
Oh my god, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
My brother got married, my younger brother got married outside Sacramento.
So I went to the wedding obviously, and so we
were like, hey, we're close to Oregon, why don't we
just go up and you know, say, we got to
Oregon and I was like, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
All was like, because on the map it doesn't look
that far. That's true. It's like, holy crap, I'm not
going that far. No way, forget about it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
So we just drove across to San Francisco from Sacramento
and said that's it.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Good move. Yeah, So are we gonna have a Malermano.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Well, it'll be part of a malcolmodel. The infamous Chief
super fan chief soaholic. And how did you pronounce his
name again?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Any who did you?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I said, Xavier Baba Dar Baba Dar. All right, then
I'll just I'll cheat off your pape, right baba Dar?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
This guy went on a cross country bank robbing spree.
How wild he's bobbing banks?
Speaker 5 (28:56):
You do you talk about there's gonna be a movie
made about this.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
This is the great story.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
It is I The guy's doing it all to get
online attention and he's going to He was at SOFI
at the Chargers Chiefs game wearing his costume.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I probably saw him out there, maybe not, probably two
thousands of people.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
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(29:34):
Mount of Money, call right now. While we wait for that,
let's say hello to Michael who's in Lost Wages Nevada.
Hello Michael, by the way, eight seven seven.
Speaker 9 (29:44):
Wages. I'm already here.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah, no, I know that I'm giving out the number though,
eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine.
If you want to be part of Maelar's Mount and Money.
Now a man who sounds like he's having a grand
old time, Michael in Vegas? Michael, what are you having?
Can I have some of what you're having tonight?
Speaker 9 (30:07):
God bless you? So thank you? Ben?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (30:11):
Can I touch you on the first thing? Basis like
you can to me?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah, Well, I don't know your last name. I would
say your last name it.
Speaker 9 (30:22):
It's Michael Scuttles, but just don't.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Know you're not driving?
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Hope you're not driving.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
You know, yeah, I am sitting.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah you should be sitting. Definitely, sit, Do.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Not try, don't whatever you do, don't dry.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
So I live in this town and we get this
pro sports stuff, like we have this pro sports. I'm
originally from Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Oh, congratulates. I was just in Minnesota a few months ago.
It's beautiful place.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
It is. Everything's got its moments.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Okay, sounds like you hate it, but that's fine.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Well, get get to the point please.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
So I'm gonna predict, as a distant relative of Nostradamus
and friend of noster Denis he lives in Seattle, that
you do not like the fact that professional sports have
come to Vegas?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Is that correct?
Speaker 9 (31:26):
I you know what? Yes?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
You ah, look at that. I read your mind. Unbelievable.
I'm also seeing in my crystal ball a lot of
alcohol in the crystal ball.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
There's nothing wrong with that, as.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Long as you don't drive.
Speaker 10 (31:45):
You're you're you're an adult and you've had all it,
says says my crystal ball. You've had all the alcohol
at the local CBS. You've had all of it.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
Oh yeah, I don't care if it's some CVSKI so.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Well, yeah, you're not a discerting I understand. I got
it all right, Well listen, I must move on, but
it's so great to talk to you. Please call us again.
You'll never remember anything that was said, but that's fine,
all right. It is the Ben at Malshaw. We'll line
our contestants up again. If you see the phones buzzing here.
But if you want to play, call right now. Try
to sneak in there. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox,
(32:24):
Malard's Mountain of Money in its entirety. We'll get to
it and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
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Speaker 4 (33:04):
Now Malor's mountain of money. Hell do you have what
it takes to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
And we welcome in our contests. We have Philip who's
in southern California. Hello, Philip, welcome, Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 9 (33:20):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
You ready to do this, Philip?
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I'm ready?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
All right? Very good? And what brings you to the show.
What are you doing up late here?
Speaker 9 (33:29):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Just you know, in my recliner, just relaxing.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
There you go, belly relax with me.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Oh, thank you? How dare you? That's wonderful? All right,
very relaxing, very calming.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Show. Hold on a sec Philip.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
We have a blind Emmett, the Seahawks fan.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Hello, blind Emmett?
Speaker 4 (33:47):
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (33:48):
Big Ben?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Are you prepared? Blind Emmett? These are all people from
before you were alive. Are you prepared?
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Depends on the sport?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Okay, all right, very good? Hold on a seck here,
put you on the air.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
You on the air, all right, Philip, you were on
the air first. Do you want to partner up with Philip?
Speaker 9 (34:10):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
You can? Howard Stern? Who else? Do we have? Art Bell?
I don't think he's around anymore.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
U boie.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
That's a good one.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Babb a boy, Doctor Laura, Jim Rome, Steve Harvey Ill.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Okay, very good, Jim Rome, thank you for that. Blind Em.
Who whould you like to partner up with? Blind Em?
Speaker 7 (34:37):
I'll go with Justin Cooper.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Oh, the Cooper Loop? All right? Very good?
Speaker 7 (34:41):
And going to play the Jim.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
I don't know, I don't know, you're the host of
the show.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Whatever. I'll play the damn role of Jim grab a mine.
I don't care. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll
win the game.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
I mean, you're about three feet taller than Jim Rome.
Speaker 8 (35:01):
I think you do have the age advantage here. Wow,
you're talking about Philip with the contestants. Yes, of course,
not me, A right young All right, gentlemen. This is
Malard's Mountain of Money, the Harrison Ford edition. He turns
eighty one later this week, eighty one years old. Eighty one. Yes,
the categories are as follows. We've got Star Wars, the
(35:24):
Last Crusade, Air Force one and crossing Over. Philip, you
are on the air first, which category would you like?
Let's see cross crossing over?
Speaker 1 (35:35):
All right? And EMMITTT how about you air Force one,
Air Force one.
Speaker 8 (35:39):
Alright, So Ben and Philip are up first with crossing over.
Remember you need to say the first and last name
of the athlete in order to get points. You're gonna
have forty five seconds on the clock crossing over. These
athletes all crossed over into the media. Forty five seconds begin,
all right.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
He played for the Cowboys. He's on Monday Night Football now.
Was an analyst, Philip, he was just oh god, alright, okay,
a single season sack. King played for the New York Giants.
He's hosted a talk show. He's on Fox quite a bit.
Got a gap to.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
He yes, lt has a gap to.
Speaker 9 (36:22):
The pyramid.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
That doesn't really help.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Nickname nickname the Goose for the Ravens in the two thousands,
Uh all right, nicknamed Dandy Cowboys quarterback in the seventies, eighties,
TV guy Monday Night Football's.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
Party too late.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Shocking.
Speaker 8 (36:48):
We shouldn't even get the hundred points because like Goose,
the nickname, it's kind.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Of that's that's his well, no, that's his name. That's
a loud. He doesn't say no nicknames.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
It's you said you can't say the guy's names a
part of his name.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
It's part name, that's not it's g u s a. Yes,
I'm you can turn the mic off and you go
eat another cookie. You can have hundred points. Emmett and
I are gonna mop the floor. Yeah right, good luck,
go right with that one hundred points. If you get that,
(37:24):
I'll make cookies for.
Speaker 8 (37:25):
Everybody to all right, air Force one. These athletes all
wore air Force ones. Forty five seconds in the clock.
Begin the round mound of rebound. Yes, uh, raptors dunker
he he won? Yes, all right, let's skip over to
(37:47):
uh this. This guy's got the same name as the
biblical character that uh uh.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
You know, save the the the Jews going Bible?
Speaker 8 (38:00):
All right, power forward with the uh Phoenix suns with
Steve Nash.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
I think he's also Jewish.
Speaker 8 (38:06):
Yes, defensive guy for the Lakers back in the eighties,
shares the same last name as me.
Speaker 9 (38:16):
What's this something Cooper? All right?
Speaker 8 (38:21):
Let me we met out of time but si but
Lakers player nicknamed silk.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
No chance man. All right, So how many points do
you have any you've got? Okay? All right? Emit Star
Wars or Last Crusade.
Speaker 8 (38:44):
Star Wars Alright, Uh quarterback for the Rams.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Matthew, we're out of time. We're out of time. That
we're at the time to win the game. You didn't
win the game. We're out of the We didn't have time.
We had to finishing, finished, and the guy got gold.
(39:10):
That was the time. You gotta gold, You get a toss.
You guys have kissed your sister. You gotta tie.
Host
Ben Maller
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