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May 26, 2025 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about Aaron Judge calling himself a "work in progress" despite putting up MVP numbers, Ronald Acuna Jr. showing up to the ballpark rocking a pink purse, concerns about Cal Raleigh having played every single game for the Mariners this season, Insta-Advice Line, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding dong. It's our number three hour, number three talking
bays ball here in our number three. So if Yankee
slugger Aaron Judge is putting up MVP numbers, what does
he mean by calling himself a work in progress? He
said that over the weekend, will analyze and parse the

(00:21):
words of Aaron Judge. Also, Brave superstar Ronald Acuno Junior
showed up to the ballpark for his return to the Braves,
rocking a pink purse. The Internet exploded. Some folks loved it,
others not so much. What's was the fashion forward move
by Ronald Lacuna or was it just just a little
too much? A little too much? We'll talk about that.

(00:44):
And Cal Roley has played every single game this season
for the Seattle Mariners. Well that's great, right, we're talking
fifty two straight, most of them behind the plate. People
are freaking out. Are you impressed or concerned for the
big dumper? We'll talk about that and more right now
here it is our number three. Into the Judges chamber

(01:05):
we go.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Well, come, in.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
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Speaker 3 (02:17):
Me.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
So we're doing it live. We're doing it live, and
our lead this hour from the Boogie Down Bronx, but
actually from the Rocky Mountains Pinstripe Paradise. The Yankees somehow
lost the game over the weekend of the Rockies, but
ended up winning the series. The laughing stock of Baseball Colorado.
They've got nine wins on one of those points in

(02:40):
the season where you're supposed to look at the standings
and say, okay, here, this is a checkpoint. This is
a point. He's got a horse race. How many furlongs
in are we? Well this you're you're looking at okay,
So this is a marker and they've got nine wins
the woebegone Rockies. But that's not about the conversation. We're
not gonna talk about that. Not much of a talker. However,

(03:03):
during the weekend, the reigning American League Most Valuable Player
Aaron Judge filled up the old quote book. Aaron Judge
with pearls of wisdom. If you did not see this
because you have a life, good for you. Congratulations, I'm
proud of you. But it made a monstermashing performance this

(03:26):
season for Aaron Judge. Well, Aaron Judge said, quote, I
don't feel too great at the plate, he said, always
a work in progress. And that ding ding ding ding ding, That,
my friend, is the money quote. That is the money quote.
So let us discuss the question if Aaron Judge is
putting up an MVP season and right now he is

(03:49):
the runaway favorite as we head into the final week
in May to be the most valuable player. What does
he mean by calling himself a quote work in progress?
So I've got microfiber cleaning cloth, met gala and wartz,
things that have never been combined together, and I will

(04:11):
make them through the magic of hocus pocus and presto.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
We'll make that work.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
So first of all, I'm gonna put this in the
false modesty category. We are used to the over the top,
I'm the greatest of all time, you know, float like
a butterflies, thing like a bee.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
We're used to.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
That kind of managing expectations is also part of it.
So I have it in that category.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Now.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Aaron Judge is not just your normal Yankee.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
He is the captain, that Capatan of the Bronx bombers,
and he's leaning into that sea that captain C capital
C for the New York Yankees. And then Judge what
he's got here in the cartoon bubble over my head.
It's like right above my head. He's got the microfiber
cleaning cloth and he is delivering some what we call

(05:01):
media polish. He's laying it on thick, big groups of
media polish, is what he's doing. He's using the pass
the credit technique. If you've studied leadership. The pass the
credit technique is a popular tool used in leadership. You
elevate the contributions of the people around you, and you

(05:23):
downplay your own achievements. It's like the coach. When the
team wins, the coach is supposed to say, hey, this
guy did great. That guy did great.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
When the team.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Loses, it's all his fault. He's the moron, like that's
the I don't know. Judge is not the coach. I
get that, but he's following that same mindset. It's just
like my favorite leadership thing that I get in radio
is I get the complaint sandwich where they give you
a compliment and then they then they read you the
riot Act, tell you what an a hole you are,
and then they say a compliment at the end. That's

(05:56):
a it's a compliment sandwich where the really what they
want is just but they put a nice thing in
there at the beginning and a nice thing at the end.
But the real point of the meeting was to tell
you how terrible you are at your job. But anyway,
so elevating the contributions of your players, and Judge is
obviously playing amazing again and he's living up to the contract.

(06:16):
Humility with a capital H is another way you could
look at this. The Judge is using humility and he's
avoiding self promotion, and he's not promoting himself on this
and creating a stronger engaged locker room for the New
York Yankees and all that stuff. Judge is on pace
for fifty six home runs and one hundred and forty
six runs better than that seems like a lot. Now,

(06:39):
if only he could have caught the ball in center
field during Game five of the World Series for the
New York Yankees against the Dodgers ifs and butts were
candy and nuts. But alas Aaron, Judge could not. And
I'm very grateful that he was a klutz and it
was great to watch him, just wonderful to watch him
bock the ball out there all right now. Second to Atlanta,

(07:01):
we have a developing story out of the atl from
over the weekend. Brave superstar Ronald Lacuna Junior. He's back,
and boy did he make an entrance back in the
Atlanta Braves locker room. He showed up to the ballpark
over the weekend for the first time as a player,
an active player in a long time injured away from
the Braves. So Ronald back with the Atlanta Braves and

(07:24):
he was rocking a pink purse. A pink purse. Now
the internet exploded, I mean it always explosive his stuff
like this. So there you got this former MVP was
strolling into the ballpark with a pink purse. And some
people loved it. They thought, man, that's great. You know,
it's twenty twenty five, you know, paint your nails, wear

(07:45):
the purse, the whole thing. Other people not so much. Right,
people were like, what are you doing, dude, Like what's
going on here? So question was this move by the
Atlanta Braves former MVP Ronald Lacuna Junior. Was this fashion
for word or just a little bit too much, just
a wee bit too much.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
So the arrow is pointing on this one.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
After a minutes long Mallard deliberation, the arrow is pointing
towards a fashion crisis. This was not a fashion statement.
This is a fashion crisis. And doesn't when you think fashion,
you think middle aged overnight. Talk to your host, that's
what you think. I am on the pulse of I
know what's in vogue. I know I have the ability.

(08:29):
I have a gift. I know what's hip. I do,
I do now I do also. I would also point
out my main point is I feel like there's a
time and a place for all this stuff. And you're
going to play a baseball game. You're not going to
the Met Gala. Okay, you're not playing dress up. It's
not cosplay. It's the Met Gala. It's the ballpark. It's

(08:51):
your job. Like what are we doing here?

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Hell?

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Like, what's going on? And you're supposed to be the
leader of the Atlanta Braves. You're the i'mer MVP. You're
the face of the team. Like you know, you're supposed
to act like no, I don't. I don't mean go
full air and judge right and and just be like, oh,
you know, downplay everything and all that stuff. You don't
have to be like that. But it's not even about style.

(09:16):
It's just about the messaging. It's about the messaging. You're
not on the catwalk, Uh, you're not. And I have
a friend, I have one friend who's a Braves fan.
In my circle, I have a lot of Met fans,
a lot of Yankee fans, Red Sox fans. I got
a few Giant fans. But I got like one guy
that likes the Braves. He's around my age. He grew

(09:38):
up watching the superstation on Turner Sports back in the
day before internet, and you know, it was.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
A big Braves there still brace there and he was, ira,
are you.

Speaker 5 (09:46):
Gotta talk about this? Oh my god, you gotta get
this every day. You gotta kill him. I'm not gonna
kill him. I just I wouldn't have done.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
That, But I mean, it seems at odds. As my
friend texts me, he said, it looks like he's wearing
a Barbie perk. And I'm like, well, I don't know.
I've known what kind of purse Barbie has I didn't.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
I don't know. Maybe that is a Barbie purse.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
I have no idea, but listen, it's a it's clearly
a bit of a distraction.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
How big you know, he went out there and.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Hit a couple of bombs over the weekend Braves lost
the weekend series of the Padres. It's definitely a bit
of a distraction and it certainly raises some eyebrows. And
baseball is a buttoned up, buttoned up sport. If you
want to be taken seriously and all that as the
leader of the team, and they keep going back to that.

(10:31):
Generally most leaders do not wear purses, but you know, hey,
you know, maybe it's new times. It does remind me
seeing the picture of him strolling in down down to
the ballpark there with the pink purse, Ronald the counell
the bridge. It reminded me of the I still laugh
when I see this, and I remember doing monologues about it.

(10:52):
This goes back about ten years. Remember Lebron James at
the NBA Finals and he was having a news conference
and he was wearing he put on sunglasses. He got
up and he walked over and grabbed his purse, grabbed
his purse to walk. It was the funniest thing. It

(11:13):
was like an angry middle aged woman forgot who's got
to grab a personal the way. It was hilarious. Uh,
And that has lived on. That meme has lived on
for some time. I haven't seen any Ronald Lacuna Junior
Barbie purse memes, but it was pretty.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Funny, all right.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Final thought to the Pacific Northwest we go. That's right,
the rare and appropriate Mariner talk as we blatantly suck
up to Robbie the Mariner fan to Robbi the Marrior fan.
Now there are some observers who have followed the Seattle
baseball team who are freaking out.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Because what happened.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Well, cal Rally, the franchise catcher, cal Raleigh, he's going
to be worn out. They're doing it wrong. Say why?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Now?

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Cal Raley has played every single game, every single game
this season for the Seattle baseball team. We're talking about
fifty two straight, most of them behind the plate, most
of them behind the plate. Are you impressed or are
you concerned?

Speaker 4 (12:18):
Now?

Speaker 1 (12:18):
We have no skin in the game, We have no
connection at all. I gotta tell you, though, I'm impressed,
as an outsider on this side of the microphone. I'm impressed.
In the load management era, do the bare minimum. Act
like you work at the DMV and do the bare minimum.
That cal Raley, who got paid, is from the old country.

(12:41):
He's not like a Dodger pitcher who got paid and
then sitting out there in the country club having cocktails
in the training room.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Now cal Raley's out there.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
He got the windfall contract, he won the lottery, he
got the bonanza. Cal Raley, and he's putting the work in.
I respect that mad respect. It's kind of pathetic that
we're at the point now where this stands out. We
have gotten to the point in the matrix whereby actually
wanting to play every day, it becomes a problem that

(13:10):
people have been trained, they've been indoctrinated, and it's you know,
this is my generations after me have been I was
like raised, You're supposed to do it. That's what you're
supposed to do. You don't get credit for that. But
we're at the point now where it's like, if you
actually show up and play every day and you're making
a lot of money, people get concerned, they get they
freak out. The worry warts watch out for the warts.

(13:32):
The worry warts are out there. And what do they say.
You know what they say, right, they say, well, out
of an abundance of caution, out of the alarmist. They
freak out, he's gonna get hurt, he needs time off,
he needs time off. Instead of the position, which my
position is maybe I'm crazy, what do I know is

(13:54):
you should celebrate that you're actually a you like your job,
your it at your job, and see you want to
do your job like that's celebrating the machism and it
should not be in anxiety situation. Baseball players get hurt.
They're the softest athletes we have. They are like, that's

(14:16):
just what baseball players are. They're soft. So this guy
he started to catch. I think it's forty two. Forty
two of the games. The other ten, I think there's
one he came in as a backup, but he did
play in the game. And then there was ten games
where he was the DA. So he's played in every game,
and it's give me growing. The real test of the

(14:38):
baseball season is in July, late July, August, and September
when it is oppressively hot. Now it doesn't get that
hot in Seattle. The manors will be on the road though,
and you'll see what hot cities they have to go to,
where the humidities nasty and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
And we'll see. But you know, the DH thing does
change it.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
The DH thing does change it because it's a it's
a it's a minimum day. It's like a half day,
so half day mixed with off days.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, that's all right.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
You know you're not out there deadlifting every day, you know,
like some people, I know, you're not out there doing
the deadlift.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
But but half days.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Okay, But either way, I rather than have anxiety and
the worry warts and all that. Cal Raley who's playing
like an all star, there'll be a slump. There's always
a slump. And now he's got an excuse. Oh, if
he hadn't played every day, blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. And the

(15:38):
person's gonna get killed. Here is Dan Wilson. That's the
manager of the Seattle Mariners. And Dan Wilson's a former catcher.
He was a catcher back in the glory days for
the for the marriage, well kind of the glory days.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
And he's gonna get killed.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
If cal rally A gets hurt or be just starts
sucking at some point, he's going to slump.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Everyone does.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Then, Well, Dan Wilson, he's the Tom Tibodaw baseball. He
should have given him some time off. You know.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
The whole thing.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
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Mallard riddle of the day. And here's the Mallor riddle
of the day. UFC star Connor McGregor. UFC star Connor

(17:32):
McGregor claims that he is in serious talks to buy blank.
All right, UFC star Connor McGregor claims he's in serious
talks to buy blank. That is the Mallor riddle of
the day. The answer, We'll get to it. We will
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(19:11):
right now though back to it. Yes, it's I been
and you gotta pay off. The mallor riddle of the day.
Here's the mallord riddle of the day. UFC star Connor
McGregor claims he's in serious talks to buy blank. To
buy blank, that is the malor riddle of the day.

(19:34):
Let's see does anyone know the answer? We go to
the hoy ploy to see who's got the answer. Courtesy
Flusher is up with us all nights going with slim
gyms snap into it. Oh yeah, from courtesy Flusher. A
large Supreme pizza with stuffed crust from Asher. Yeah, I

(19:55):
gotta make that that stuff. Crust is pretty easy to make.
I should make that. I've not made that. Next time
I make a pizza pie, I'm gonna put that cheese
that log of cheese around the crust. Make that nice
stuffed pizza crust. Ferd Dog says the creators of supermarket together.
I'm playing it right now. I have no idea what

(20:18):
that is. Does anyone know what that? Nobody knows what
that Brad is up with us in Montana, he says,
to buy a silverback Gorilla.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Brad who misses the show. Well we're here, Brad. You
don't have to miss the show. You can hear the show.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
Ike in Roseville, Minnesota says that the Leprechaun is planning
on buying Mike the Leprechaun's Pub. That says, Economy the Leprecaun.
That Connor McGregor is planning to buy the Leprechauns Pub.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Who else?

Speaker 1 (20:45):
We have a sonic restaurant from King Rory. That's his answer.
A shiny new bike. There you go. I did watch
some of that Peewee Herman documentary thing, but I didn't
make it all the way through, and I did get
back to it, and so it means I probably won't
watch it for another month to finish watching it.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
It was good though, it was well done. When the
beginning part that I watched a.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Donkey sausage, says the Remington Company. Because he loved it
so much he bought the company. That's right, Manuell in
guard No this, Karen kay Manuel in Guardina says Connor
McGregor in serious talks to buy NeSSI aka the Lockness Monster.

(21:28):
Fat Daddy said, a Nevada brothel.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Who else do you have?

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Page down? I can't read that. Robbie the Mariner fan
says the big dumper is built for a massive workload.
Just d him every now and then. That's what I'm saying, Robbie.
All these guys freaking out all you can't play him
every day? My god, he's gonna get it all right.
Let's see now, Lorrain is always good at this game.

(21:52):
The Mallard Riddle of the day. UFC star Connor McGregor
claims he's in serious talks to buy blank Lama's Ben
Lamas A lot of Lamas? Is Lama's the correct answer?

Speaker 6 (22:07):
I know?

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Wrong.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
It turns out that Connor McGregor claims he's in serious
talks to buy only fans, like the entire How is
that even possible? Like if you owned only fans, why
would you sell it? The amount of money that they
make just to allow porn on there. I mean they're

(22:30):
making a killing, right, yeah, so why would you bother sell?

Speaker 2 (22:33):
I don't understand.

Speaker 6 (22:35):
It's not just porn, Ben, You can also get good
financial advice on there.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Like I said, it's porn. They said, revenue one point
three billion, And that's a couple of years ago one
point three billion in revenue. How about that? Why would
you sell that? If you you I don't understand. They
take a twenty percent slice of the porn, so they
make in you know, twenty percent. Now they said, as

(23:02):
I have some numbers from from last year, they actually
ranked they raked in six point six billion as of that,
but then not in expenses and all that.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
But still you're.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Making over a billion dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Why would you get rid of that?

Speaker 4 (23:16):
Like?

Speaker 2 (23:17):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
It makes no sense unless they're worried about government restrictions. Right,
let's go to let's say.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Hello to who do we have here?

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Hollering James is in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Hello, hollering James.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
Hey, Ben, I wasn't at a meeting greet and met you.
I didn't meet Lorena, I didn't meet cool. I didn't
mean Eddie when I met you.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah you did.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
It was a game changing experience. It was very emotional.
It was it was like.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
A I still remember. I got a sharp memory for
a sixty one year old man, and exactly almost twenty
nine days and a month.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Not that you're counting down to your birthday or anything
like that.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
You know, I was sixty one and I'm getting closer.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Hey, can you for the demo? Can you say you're
gonna be thirty one for the demo? Because that would
help us out.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
I'll be thirty one and counting.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
To thirty one and a couple of extra years on top, right,
but attention advertising right in the demo. Write in the
average the sweet spot for the demo.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
I the thirty one just because right, No, look on,
I'm gonna.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Have some fun, No boy, nothing like hollering, James.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Sound like my grandpa if I was twenty years younger.
Oh boy, right, sizing me up and calm down, James.
I don't think that's what I was. There's no sizing
going on here, James, No.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
No, no size all right. This is restricted radio, I know,
But I got one for you. Cam. He's trying to
get a hold.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Of me, but she can how do you know? How
do you know she's trying to get hold of you?
You're easy to get hold of. Everyone knows where you are.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
I can get a hold of you if I wanted to.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
I know you was what you never do? You were surprised.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Well, I don't have your numbers, so that's why you
never give me your number.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
Oh call man, I gotta tell you what. Timber Wolves
are not down and out yet. My twins are not
down and out yet. They took the series from Kansas
City even though they lost the last game of the series.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Okay, wonderful, and I got more.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
Take for you. I would like to take on Marcel
and New York because I got to pick from Marcel.
I think it's gonna be New York and the timber Wolves.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Both of them are gonna Well, I'll make a deal
with you. If Minnesota comes back to win that series
and they play the next both both teams come back,
we will have no I don't want to have the
could we could do the oct I think we should
have like a who knows more about their team contest
to see who knows more and decide who's gonna win that.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
If that happened, I apologize to you. So I should
be on good terms with you because I came correct.
I stood up like a man, and you can't handle
like your man. You accepted my apology, all right?

Speaker 2 (26:00):
I think away, you're annoying me.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
What is that? What is he because he's allowed he
said what you know?

Speaker 2 (26:06):
I mean, he did call today and I apologize.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Okay, Yeah, a bunch of wackerdoodles.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
What do you want?

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Stuff happens, okay, like blind Scott, by the way, this guy,
how many threatening emails did I get over the weekend
from blind Scott? I lost count Blind Scott. I think
you threatened just about every part of me.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
I think I apologized and then got mad again.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
But yea, what did I do? I don't do anything.
I just do the show. There's nothing I do. You
get upset. I don't know why you got to say
your promise. Dude, You're you're on social media way too much. Okay, listen,
you just getting just these people just trying to incite you,
and you're feeding right into it.

Speaker 6 (26:46):
Yeah, you got pretty upset, but I'm not angry anymore
about it. But but then something happened with like we
were on the phone together, me and Ben, and Ben
was like, whatever's in a big deal. But then in
the Morning Show heard it, so it sounds like I'm
bothering Ben, like I'm harassing them. So I like call
in the Morning show and they're punishing me because I'm
harassing Ben and I haven't even harassed him yet.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
So then well, you did harass me via the email,
so let Fred. I'm sure Fred's not working today, but
let Fred know Greg is working on a holidays is
what a what a weird radio move?

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Man?

Speaker 6 (27:19):
Terrible? The weather's bad here, it's like been It's weird.
It's been like forty five degrees. So, like two weeks
I was watching this TV show This is Us. You
guys must have seen it. Why do they portray the
football scenes like when Joe name it's which quarterback? It
doesn't make any sense. It bothers me though, But you
guys haven't seen that show. It's a famous show.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
Like but yeah, one thing though, like I do really.

Speaker 6 (27:42):
Good phone calls on this show, Like I'm waiting on
hold like every hour because I enjoy it. But I'm
ready after every caller, you know, So for people to
say that I'm a terrible phone call, like I think
I'm a pretty decent phone call. I mean, people might
not like what I'm talking about, but I'll talk about
other stuff. I really don't want to bend anybody or
get anybody upset. But when people come at me on

(28:03):
social media and say like you're queer and you do this,
like that's the lowest form of insult ever, And.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Well, this guy, people are a holes.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
You should know that.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Like I just I don't go on there. You get
find hobbies, go you know, play the piano or something,
get a guitar, do.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
Something to here. I go on walks and everything. And
I like social media because there's people there, but it
is pretty boch.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Well, you know, why do you want to hang out
with people when they're a holes?

Speaker 6 (28:34):
My sister on blocked my phone number. I sent you
like five messages, but I haven't heard nothing back yet.
But I would. I would hang out with my family,
but we would all argue in the space gets so tight.
So I hang out with you guys. Yeah, okay, but
this community isn't like the best community for me ever,
but it is. I do enjoy the people around it,
and I do like the people.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
That are all right.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Well, listen, you're a character on the show. We like
having you part of the show, and that's it. You
don't you don't have to freak out every time somebody
says something on social media.

Speaker 4 (29:04):
Okay, well I would try.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
Well, here's the thing. I was trying to be cordial
with these people for the past six months. I said,
I'm just going to be cordial with them. I apologize
to people in the past and then but for some reason,
somebody really got under my skin and I emailed Ben
and said really nasty things to him.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Now, yes, you did a series of emails that got
progressively more angry and upset, and I I was.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Like, I didn't do anything.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
That's trying to feel like what I did. I didn't
say anything.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
I know.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
I was just doing the show.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
If I had said something to trigger you, it would
be fine.

Speaker 6 (29:35):
I'm under the assumption that I'm going to respond to
everybody that ever says anything bad to me on your show,
which isn't good for radio.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
It's it's terrible.

Speaker 6 (29:42):
If I took dude and then this other guy, I
know he's just doing stick or whatever.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
He's not even listening. Now, Like I've lived in the.

Speaker 6 (29:48):
North enstance, the nineties. I know everybody had I don't
know much in the North, said, nobody knows this guy.
He showed up on the show and he's trying to
take my He's obviously from here, he's born and raised there.
But if he wants to come down and see me
on hand Over Street, I will see him.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
Okay, we don't need to set up a fight between Mark.

Speaker 6 (30:05):
My dad was roommates with Caesar and Jelo, Jerry and Julo,
the head of the whole New England mafia back in
the day. You know, I know everybody.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
I got you.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
I know you're a made man. You're even a Whitey
Bulger who lived over on the East. Yeah, I got all.

Speaker 6 (30:22):
I met Whitey Bulger in christ And Island.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Now you're just bragging. Now you're just bragging.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
I gotta go. It's just bragging, is what you're doing.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
You know what it doesn't brag is weed Man Hippie.
Weed Man Hippie is in Miami. He's a friend of
the show, the great weed Man Hippie. Hello, weed Man Hippie.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Hey man, I love you, Hey goo goo. The Knicks
are coming back. That's great.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Did you watch the game? Yeah you did, really?

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (30:48):
You watch it?

Speaker 6 (30:49):
Yeah, okay, yeah, hopefully I can win and.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Beat the Pacers and then the finals, right.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
That would be right.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
If you win the conference finals, you go to the
NBA Finals week, man, are you gonna?

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Are you gonna?

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Are you gonna go back to New York to watch
a game? Maybe go up to New York for a
couple of days see Lisa and watch a game.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
That would be great. Yeah, that'd be great.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah. How things going with Lisa?

Speaker 6 (31:14):
Yeah, she's great.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
She's on the photo. Does she probably tell her sleep
issue that.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
What's going?

Speaker 1 (31:22):
When are you going back to New York? Right?

Speaker 2 (31:23):
At some point you're going back to New York?

Speaker 4 (31:25):
Right, Well, that would be good. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
No, I don't think you want to. I think you
want her to move to Miami. You don't want to.
You don't want to.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
Move, definitely. I definitely like far to day. I want
to be warm. I don't want to be cold.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
I understand.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah, well, you can go to New York for the
summer and then come back to Florida for the winter.
That's what most people do, right.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
That would be great.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
Yeah, so Thursday we're going to jokes, right, No, we're.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Gonna be in Vancouver, so don't worry. You're off of assignment.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
You don't have to worry about it because we'll be
in Vancouver Thursday and the Friday that weekend. Big. We'd
love to have you, weed Man, if you can make
the Vancouver, come on out hang out with us. It's
on Thursday night, May twenty ninth, Courtside on Maine mallor
Meet and Greet. I'll be there Loreina Coop and we'd

(32:15):
love to have you show up. You can make it
from Miami to Vancouver. That's a short trip, right.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
That's funny. No, so will you're not going to be
on Thursday night?

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Well, I just said. I just pointed out because of
the meet and greet, logistically it's not going to work
out the amount of time it takes to prepare for
the show, do the show properly a professional show. I
cannot do both. So that's the way it is. If
I could, I would so, but I'll be here every
other night.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
I'll be here.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
It's only twenty eight hundred miles from Miami, so that's nothing, right,
you can hitchhike.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
There, that's funny. Yeah, Judge is still hitting over four hundred.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
He's playing well, he's playing well.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Yeah, doing right. You're a You're a Mets fan more
than a.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
Yankee fan, though, you know, definitely, definitely.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
The Mets beat the Dodgers two out of three. You're
very proud of that. I bet yeah, you had no idea. Okay,
I gotta thank you a call every day. We'll be
here every day except.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
For the day you want us to be here.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
Okay, Oh terrible.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
I know you'll you'll get over, You'll be okay, No,
thank you, go away. All right, there's the great weed
Man hit me friend of the show. He devastated, devastate?
How dare how dare us?

Speaker 2 (33:32):
All right, let's see, uh what do we have here?

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Justin in Cincinnati, of course, immediately trying to press buttons
with blind Scott astresses blind Scott not a good phone call. Uh,
Ferg Dog says, how about the advice line? We give
dog better pickup lines? That says you not about it?
It should we dedicate the instant of ice line, as
Ferg Dog recommends to E Dog to allow you know,

(33:56):
it's dog eat dog world, because he dog called up
and had some cheesy pick up lines. So advice to
eat Dog on how to properly use pickup line. I
think we'll do that. That sounds good. I had something else
planned with it seems good.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (34:09):
We'll do that eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox
the Insta Advice Line Unscreened Radio.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
We'll get to that and we will do it next.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
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Speaker 2 (34:42):
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Speaker 1 (34:43):
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They're everywhere these podcasts. Be sure to follow and review
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(35:04):
best of version posted Right after we get off the air, Hey.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
You sports figure, guy or girl who got here?

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Well you talking to son?

Speaker 1 (35:14):
If you're some instant advice.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Hold that thought. No one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
And if you don't like it, anyway, we go. It's
the advice line as recommended by Ferg Dog. Advice to
people in sports.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Now.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Normally we do athletes.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Or coaches or teams that need the.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Wisdom, the pearls of knowledge that are provided the wisdom
teeth of the mouth of militia. But in this case
we're changing it up a little bit in honor of
Ferg Dog.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
He said, you know that guy E Dog.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
E Dog is one of our callers from Long Island
and he's been on the spectrum.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
And I need some help, need some help with the
pickup line.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
So any advice to E Dog on better pickup lines.
You're live on the air. When you hear my voice
lying number one at eight seven seven ninety on Fox. Hello,
line one, where all right, thank you? Line two.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
You're on the air.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
We're giving advice to eat dog, eat dogs in that's it. Yeah,
caller too. E Dog's on Long Island. He needs some help.
Hello caller too, Hello say Okay, I couldn't understand that.
Why what do you say?

Speaker 2 (36:21):
I didn't hear that. I don't want to hear that.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Line three.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Hello, line three, you're on the airline three.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
Go hey for a job, keep working all right?

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Thank you for that.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
You're already on the air, sir.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Hang up. Line number four. Hello, Line force, the instant
advice line for e Dog.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Hello, line four in morning time?

Speaker 4 (36:40):
What does the stand for enough?

Speaker 2 (36:43):
That's very funny. Rick from Maryland checking in morning time.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Line number one w NBA talk from Rick and Maryland
this time. Hello, Line one, you're on the airline one.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Okay, thank you. Line two, never call again, line too, Hello.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Got a murder.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
There's the famous gotta murder, gotta go, one of the
great drops of all time.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Line three, you're on the airline three. Hello, they liked me,
they really liked me.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah, okay, thank you. Line six, this is going very well.
Eat Dog lives on Long Island. He's a big fan
of the show and he called up earlier. He needs
some help. Pick up lines and not going very well. Hello,
line six, Yes man.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
The only way to solve this problem is to suspend
Britney Grinder from the NBA.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Okay, we'll get right on that. Yes, she said something
mean about Caitlin Clark. I guess over the weekend. I
saw that somewhere. Saw the headline. Didn't read the story
Line one, you're on the airline one number one.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (37:44):
The editor of the Boston Herald listens to this show.
I start him tweet you the other day.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
Dandy benro Yeah, he's a big fan of the show.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
They should write a big story there in the Boston
Herald about this show. Come on, man, what you do it?
Line number two?

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Hello, Line two.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
Ke in your pants because I can see myself tapping it.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Okay, that was good, Like that one Arena, look at
you actually impressed, Lorena. I got a real woman in
the flesh, who's impressed? Line number three, Hello, line three,
it's on the fire hydrant.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Walk in front of a subway train to get the latest.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
All right, I sounded like, man, well and guardin a
little bit a Line four. Line four, you're on the
air line four go.

Speaker 4 (38:27):
We were as all right?

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Okay, it keeps going back. You listen to our live coverage.
This is the insta at Vice line. We are trained professionals.
The safety and is offered taking unscreen calls. This is
why we have a call screener, as you can listen
and understand how terrible this is. We're giving advice to
E Dog listening to the show. Listen to New York
and he's having problems with pickup lines. You're live on

(38:50):
the air. When you hear my voice at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox, line number one, Hello, line water.

Speaker 6 (38:56):
Ask her to see the new Pee Wee Herman movie,
Avengers of Pee.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
Week coming to the theater new Year.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Okay, thank you for that line too, Hello, line.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
Two, change line up the same morning.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Oh see there, Now he had to he had to
work the w n B A, the Rick and Maryland.
Line number four.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Go to line four, Hello, line four, to pick up line.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Okay, it's all see the only only fans the line.
Let's go to line six. Line six.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
You're on the air next.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
It's the Instant Advice line, live coverage here on the
Ben Mathers Show. We're giving advice to E Dog. That's
a caller from New York. Hello, line six.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
I found a jolly ratcher under my bed and I
hate it.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Oh that's disgusting, dude. But unless it was it was
in the rapper. No, if he's in the rapper, it's okay.
But it was like, you know, it gets real sticky,
and then then all.

Speaker 5 (39:49):
Right, last call, are you on one? O?

Speaker 1 (39:54):
My god, that was a disaster at the end. Oh
my god, we ruined the end of that. What happened?
Why that happen
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