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November 14, 2025 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about Aaron Judge beating out Cal Raleigh for the AL MVP honors, what this latest NL MVP does to the legend of Dodgers Shohei Ohtani, Lame Jokes of the Week, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka laka.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number three, our number three, and the old
school fun is here. Book them Dan o here an
hour number three talking baseball on this Friday, the fourteenth
day of November, got the fifth hour podcast with.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Me and Danny g coming up a little bit later today.
What was the key in baseball the Aaron Judge beating
out cal Rally for the American League MVP honors? Also,
what does this latest MVP in the National League? What
does that do for the legend of the Dodgers show? Hey, Otani,
and we will also discuss Vladimir Guerrero Junior winning the
first ever Entertainer of the Year award in baseball. Yeah,

(00:39):
I'm not making that up. Wait till you hear about this.
Oh my god, oh my. We'll get to that and
more right now. Lame jokes as well. It's our number three.
Just judge me bro, Just judge me bro. Welcome in
the beginning of another hour of the Ben Malers Show.

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This hour is from baseball The activities winding down with
a shindig on Thursday in Viva Las Vegas. Say what now?
The hardware department from the GM meetings which had been

(02:32):
taking place this week, they had a gala event, a
lot of stars on hand and Vegas and they handed
out some trophies not everyone was in at tennis. But
it was MVP day, MVP day, and who took the
top billing? Did you see? No, it's not baseball season.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Why are you talking baseball?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
It's mid November, Thanksgivings a couple weeks away. Shut up, yeah, gobble, gobble,
gobble exactly. So the Dodger star Shohei o Tani picked
up not one, not two, not three, but number four
his fourth career, fourth career MVP while unanimously earning the

(03:16):
NL honors. So much for Kyle Schwarber's MVP campaign there
in Philadelphia. So that's not much of a story. We'll
put that to the back burner. The better story is
where the drama is, and that isn't.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
The American League.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
So Aaron Judge became the Yankees' fourth three time MVP winner.
He edged out the big dumper cal Raley with seventeen
first place votes, thirteen for the switch in and catcher
cal Rale. That means we are told that if just
two scribes, two baseball elitist writers, had switched their votes,

(03:56):
it would have been a tie. It would have been
a tie, And that is a good jumping off point.
So let us discuss the question, what was the key
to Aaron Judge beating out cal Rally the big Dumper
in the Seattle, New York Battle Royale for American League
MVP honors? On this one, I've got the old switcher route,

(04:18):
high protein bowl, and whoopee cushion.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
We'll combine all of these things together and we're gonna
make that gabba goool. We're gonna make that gabba ghul
some goabba goul sandwiches. So, first of all, Aaron Judge
gets the real Estate Trophy. There's an MVP, but it's
a real estate trophy. What do they say in real estate?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Location? Location location?

Speaker 3 (04:43):
He plays off I ninety five adjacent the I ninety
five quarter, the axis of evil, and the pinstripes. You've
got those on your body when you play at home,
the pinstripes. And then the guy from Seattle, where's a trident?
The is like the ace. The trident is like a

(05:04):
two of clubs. And so the pinstripe wins every single time. Now,
the better story is in the losing locker room, and
the better story lost in this case. Are we surprised?
Are we surprised that this happened? No, of course not.
We're not surprised that Aaron Judge won the award. However,

(05:24):
cal Raley should have gotten that little piece of metal.
As Rob Manford would say, cal Rally was not only
a catcher. He was a catcher from Olympus this season
and sixty bombs. A switch hitting catcher, more runs batted in,

(05:45):
more leverage stats, more defensive value, more war, all the nerds.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Stats.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Dragged the Mariners out of the abyss, out of the
baseball wilderness where they were surrounded by Bigfoot, and came
out of there like Moses parting the Puget Sound and
didn't win the MVP War. There's nothing more cal Rawly
can do. He will never have a season like that again.
That was his career year, that was his moment in

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the sun. And he made the mistake of playing for
Seattle and not the New York Yankees. That's the problem, right,
that's the issue. And you know what what Seattle got though, Seattle?

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Seattle.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
You look side by side, right, New York East Coast bias,
all that stuff. They've got that East Coast bias. Theater
there which is on Broadway. Seattle's got rain, They've got fairies,
they've got the coffee shops. They've got that, they get
the Space Needle and New York, they've got more voters
who are watching Yankee baseball, even in this plugged in

(06:47):
social media world. Even in that world, a lot of
them and the baseball scribes all drool over Aaron Judge.
When Aaron Judge walks into the room in those sexy stripes,
they have gaga. They go gaga. Yeah, they go gaga. Meanwhile,
Cal Raley playing in what the former Dallas Cowboys head

(07:09):
coach Jimmy Johnson once called Southern Alaska. You're essentially invisible
unless you're on the Yes Network. So Aaron Judge gets
the he has done it before bonus. Now you normally
don't get a he's done it before bonus. There's usually
voter for tigu. But with Aaron Judge, there was no
voter for teg as he ends up.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Winning the vote.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
So, ah, he's done it before, we'll give him the MVP.
That's the little bonus there. It's like a loyalty card.
It's like, hey, it's MVP. It's not supposed to be
like you're going to Panera bread and you're punching your
card there, but here we are. Congratulations Aaron, You've got
a loaf of bread and you've earned a MVP. Yeah. No, no,

(07:54):
cal Raley was mythical, the mythical Mariner year.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Aaron Judge. Was he bad? No, of course he wasn't bad.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
He was not bad. He had a good year. There's
a difference though. In fact, this is a great It's
like we call it the Pepsi challenge. If you did
the Pepsi challenge, the old switcheroo, the old switcheroo, and
you gave the stats on cal Raleigh, and you gave
the stats on Aaron Judge, except you switched the logo.
You put the Mariner logo next to Aaron Judge's name,

(08:26):
and you put the Seattle Mariner logo next to cal Raley,
or the Seattle Mariner logo next to Judge and the
Yankee logo next to cal Raley. If you do that
on the side by side, who do you think wins
the MVP? Like a modern day There was a famous
movie years ago with Dan Ackroyd and Eddie Murray Murphy
rather trading places right, and so Raleigh would win the

(08:47):
MVP in a landslide if he just wore the right laundry.
He would be a unanimous MVP with that season. Instead,
cal Raley gets the Big Dumper Award the bridesmaid and
Aaron Judge beat cal Raley because he wasn't better in
twenty five because of geography branding the Pinstripe perfume. But again,

(09:13):
if you did the Pepsi challenge blind side by side said, okay,
we have a catcher that caught over one hundred games
whatever it was, and controlled the pitching staff, made the playoffs,
won the division for the first time in a generation,
and you had Aaron Judge on the other side who
stands out in the outfield picking his nose while the

(09:35):
game's going on. Which one wins the MVP award, you'd
give it to cal Raley, you would. So again, just
flip the logo cal Raley wearing the interlocking and why
Aaron Judge wearing the trident and the race is not close.
It's not. But that didn't happen, So there we go,
all right. Secondly, we go back to the National League
MVP race. The question here, what does this latest most

(09:59):
Valuable Player award?

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Due to the legend.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Of the Dodgers sho, hey, Otani, so he's now won four.
It further cements Otani the myth, the legend, the amazing
stories that will be told for years about Otani, like
he's some kind of biblical creature among mortals. Otani, like,

(10:28):
we're talking about a guy who's now won four MVPs unanimous. Again,
he's the second player in baseball history to win back
to back World Series and MVPs, only Joe Morgan of
the Big Red Machine the only other one to do it.
And you look at Otani and he's doing it with
this casual breeze, this nonchalant approach, like he's someone ordering

(10:52):
a high protein bowl at Chipotle for lunch and then
hits due home runs. Yeah. Now, the key is obviously
the pitching. A Tony's not an amazing pitcher.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
He's not.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
You're not supposed to say that part out loud, but
just the fact that he's a good pitcher is enough.
And if Otani was just a hitter, he'd have MVP awards.
He wouldn't have known un unchallenged, wouldn't have two unchallenged
MVP awards. The pitching thing puts him over the top.
He continues to be a glitch in the matrix, a

(11:25):
cheat code, and this is what the Dodgers paid seven
hundred million dollars to download. He's think he's thirty one.
Barry Bonds didn't start rattling off MVP awards a year
after year like they were Pez dispensers until until the
Balco days in his mid thirties with the Higantes. And

(11:47):
so Otani has already halfway well, he's passed halfway now
of seven, passed halfway to seven.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
So if you want to talk.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Barry Bonds record, because that's what we're now looking at,
he's got to win several more MVP awards show a
might lap him. If you figure the Dodgers are going
to continue to spend a lot of money because it's
all deferred money, so they just can write checks. They
don't have to pay those checks until years and years later,

(12:16):
so they're gonna keep adding players, and Otani's gonna keep
hitting home runs and at least for the next couple
of years, he'll continue to pitch and he'll just win
MVP while he's eating a Dodger dog. And again, the
Dodgers are getting what they paid for. And I give
Otani credit because often these contracts do not work out
this way.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
They don't.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
And who's to say Otani at the end of the
contract is going to be anywhere near this He likely
will not be. They've already gotten two World Series out
of Otani, They've gotten two MVP awards. That is outstanding.
The Dodgers didn't just buy a superstar. We know that
they bought a mythological being that he's a Paul Bunyan
baseball demigod show Heltani and Otani's not even really a

(12:59):
player anymore. It's like some kind of cosmic event a
it's wild because he played for the Angels and nobody
really paid attention. Now he's on the Dodgers, and it's
like the regular season numbers look like you're running a
creative player on rookie mode and just put all the
good stuff in there. It's efforless domination during the regular seasons,
almost like he's bored at times. And so this MVP

(13:23):
kicks the legend up a couple of notches, right another
tier and we're already past the greatest player of his generation.
Is there any debate that he's the greatest player. No,
there's no debate at his generation. We're into now the
greatest player who ever lived, and he's not done yet.
Now that one I have a tough time with because

(13:44):
I just it's tough to wrap my head around that.
But that's what people are arguing in the legend. It's
not peaking yet. I don't think it's peaking.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
It's expanding.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
It's definitely expanding, that's for sure. All right. Now, final thought,
we continue with the theme of the hour at least
with baseball on the Ben Malers Show here on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
But our final thought.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
They gave out a bunch of other awards, were focused
in on the MVP Awards because that's the big one.
That's the big giant Komodo dragon right there. So with
that said, there were some others that didn't have as
much buzz. It didn't really get as much juice going
and all that stuff. There was one that caught my

(14:25):
attention that I'd like to spend a couple of minutes
on with you, and that is a Toronto blue Jay
winning an award. And I'm gonna frame it this way,
the question where are you at? Where are you at?
On Toronto's Vladimir Guerrero Junior winning Major League Baseball's first
ever Entertainer of the Year award. Let me repeat that

(14:48):
for those of you that are a little slow. Baseball
has added to the award season the Entertainer of the
Year award. Okay, I already add on that. This is
baseball walking into the party. They're walking into the party
where all the cool people are, and they're wearing sunglasses

(15:10):
at night. That's what baseball's doing. Hey guys, hey, look
we're having We're having fun too, We're having a good time.
This screams adding entertainer of the Year. It screams one
thing and one thing only you know what that thing is. Yeah,
l se low self esteem. Baseball's acting with this award.
This like the teenager staring into the mirror whispering. Do

(15:32):
people think I'm boring? Do people like me? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Baseball's not happy being.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
You know, baseball. It's always been the problem with baseball. Baseball.
People want to be something else. They're annoyed that football
is more popular. They're annoyed how cool basketball players look.
So like, we want some of that, and this is
a sport. You know who the president was when baseball
started in America, Baseball has been around since Ulysses s.
Grant was the president in the eighteen eighteen seventies. I

(15:59):
believe it. What so now it wants to hang with
the cool kids. I think it's actually the eighteen sixties,
but Ulysses asked, Grant was the president, so you want
to hang out with the cool people. And Vladimir Guerrero,
the first ever winner of the Entertainer of the Year
award is the Crown Prince of the Diamond Award? Is
that also a thing? The court gestured trophy? Is that

(16:19):
what this is?

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Do they hand it out?

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Do you get one of those little squirting flowers, you know,
those comedy flower things in the whoopee cushions as a
set like a golden whoopee cushion. Yeah, that's great. And
the other thing I was wondering, if Vladimir Guerrero plays
the way he's played and continues this for another seven
or eight years, he will end up in Cooperstown. He'll
be a Hall of Famer, father's son, hall of Fame combination.

(16:46):
So when he gets to Cooperstown in this hypothetical chapter
of the multi verse, he gets there, Vladimir Garrel Junior,
does it say on his All Star or his Hall
of Fame plag five time All Star are a home
run derby Champion, twenty twenty five Entertainer of the Year.

(17:07):
What are you gonna engrave him flipping a bat or
something or twirling a bat or doing a dance and
you can add some sound effects and bring the ras
Mataz and did a little shake and bake action over there,
and listen, Lad's he's mastered the check me out jog
around the bases. He's got a lot of showmanship, and

(17:28):
he did the posing and the preening is like WWE
style WWE and all that stuff. And it is true
that lad led the Toronto Blue Jays all the way
to the Fall Classic where they won the trophy for
the Almost Had It Award, which is also a trophy
the runner up gets the Almost Had It Award in
the World Series. So congratulations to Toronto. They had the

(17:50):
Almost had It Award in the Fall Classic. But this
is where baseball's going, which is fine, But if you're
truly gonna give out the most entertaining baseball award, it
should not have gone.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Should not have.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Gone to Vladimir Guerrero Junior. And that's a bigger outrage
than cal Roley not winning the MVP. For Aaron Judge,
the person that should have won the most entertaining award in.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Baseball is Survey, says.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
Philly Fanatic, the Philly Fanatic in uniform on the field
Highway robbery. I know Jonathan and Delaware agrees with me,
and so does Fry Daddy and Fats in Philadelphi.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Philly Fanatic was robbed.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Hell, I would have given it to mister met or
Wally the Green Monster, the Mariner Moose, or Billy the Marlin.
I would have given it to one of those guys
over Vladimir Guerrero Junior. And if you're really intellectually honest
about Entertainer of the Year, shouldn't this be named after
the San Diego Chicken, The iconic Chicken, back back Chicken,

(19:00):
old school mascot, one of the great radio promotions of
all time that became a career for a dude, which
I guess is not really I don't think the Chicken's
around anymore. I think the guy retired or whatever. Anyway, Yeah,
gotta know how to work the crowd, Gotta do it.
Congrats to Vladimir Guerrero Junior. The first man in baseball
history to win an award that makes us think the

(19:21):
Commissioner's office is out to lunch.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
It's out to lunch.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
And of course we thought that since twenty nineteen when
the scandal came out about the cheating ees Stros. That's right, ivan,
the terrible the cheating a Stros. So good, good job,
get a nice little participation trophy.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
You were the entertainer of the year. We way to go.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
All right, very exciting. I'm so happy for you.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
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Speaker 3 (19:51):
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we'll get to that coming up in a little bit.
We have some business to get to that we have
been remiss to take care of. Bad job by us.

(20:13):
But time now for the mallor Riddle of the day.
And here's the mallor Riddle of the day. And here
it is former Patriots coach Bill Belichick, now toiling away
with Spaccoli in North Carolina. Bill Belichick had a bizarre
reaction years ago when he was with the Patriots to
a couple of his players blanking. Again, it's a family show.

(20:38):
There's a lot of kids listening, a lot of we're
on on the Bible belt. So please keep it clean.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Please.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
I know you will. I know you're gonna keep it clean.
So again the riddle of the day. Former Patriots coach
Bill Belichick had a bizarre reaction to a couple of
his players blanking while he was coaching in New England.
That is the mallor Riddle of the day.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Answer. We'll get to it and we will do it next.

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(22:51):
and Mitch was upset. He says, I've never heard your
show before, and honestly, I will probably avoid it. Mitch said,
he he's angry with my my take about the ENVP
and he had a lot to say. It was very
long winded here, Mitch. Mitch very upset, and I agree, Mitch,

(23:12):
I agree, he says. He says, I'm gonna a very
dismissive dribble I've ever heard on sports. Rate it. Well,
thank you, Mitch. I'm glad. Now. Unfortunately, Mitch, this is
not LaGuardia or JFK or lax O'Hare or Logan. You
do not have to announce your departure. You did not
announce your arrival. You don't need to announce your departure.

(23:35):
So good luck. You can enjoy the inferior programming that
is out there. Knock yourself out, have a fine time.
But I stand by my position, and it's a Yankee bias.
You're most likely a Yankee fan. Cal Raley got screwed
because he plays in Seattle. You know, these guys bring
up batting average and all that, and then you all

(23:55):
told me batting average doesn't matter. But now because it matters,
because it fits your argument.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Yes, Laarena should be thankful that you make him feel emotion.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
You know what I'm saying, emotion for yes, from a
sports take. Why would you get so emotional about a
sports take? Go breathe, Go meditate a little bit, Go out,
hit the grass, get your feet on the grass a
little bit, get some fresh airs, go out and see
the outdoors there. Enjoy the beauty of the world.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
You know that.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Holy Hey, let's pay yeah, let's pay off the Mallord
riddle of the day. Here it is Patriots coach Bill
Belichi about former Patriots coach he was. This happened when
he was in New England. He's currently coursed in North Carolina.
But former Patriots coach Bill Belichick had a bizarre reaction
when a couple of players were blanking at the Patriot facility.
So that is the question. What is the answer, Rob says,

(24:43):
Watching Dennis the Menace strikes again, that was his answer.
Alf Alfie Allenopatter says they were playing strat o matic
football on the sideline. Courtesy Flusher says they were lighting matches.
Let's see plank planking, planking from Fudgie in Boston, eating
clam chatta from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, and Eloy from Compton.

(25:07):
Everyone had the same clam chatta joke. Clam says, playing
Hackey sack? What else do we have? Page down? Waffle
stopping from Donkey Sausage. That's his answer, who else do
we have?

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Page down?

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Square dancing guests by Doc Dan in Minnesota, blowing air
into the balls from Doug in South Korea. Torking from
JT the Wingman. That would be odd doing kegstands from
Mark What else? Gunner in Minnesota says that they were
sleeping and that was it. Chucky Joe did the old

(25:46):
Tony Bruno joke from fifteen years ago? What else do
we have? Page down? Supermarket Steve also went with planking,
who else page down? Playing rock paper scissors? According to
Fat Daddy, that's his answer, who else do we have?
Page down? His players had a premonition about Jordan Hudson,
who was a baby at the time. Wow, that's kind

(26:08):
of cool. That's a little little creepy. Yeah, that's enough. Lorena,
do you have an answer to THEE Mallard riddle of
the day, the malor riddle of the day.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah, I was gonna go with practicing ballet.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
All right, that's a well, a lot of NFL players
double dip in ballet. They should make some more agile.
It's very important. Yes, is that correct?

Speaker 1 (26:29):
No, that's not correct.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Unfortunately, according to a former Patriots player, Bill Belichick had
a very bizarre reaction when a couple of his players
were speaking German German at the team facility. Belichick told
them to speak English because he wanted to understand what
they were saying.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
So that's the maybe he should learn German. Well, there's
that would look at it too.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Let's go to the phones, we'll say he lo to
hollering James in Minnieapple. Listen in a sort hello, hollering James.
This is actually JJ McCarthy playing quarterback for the Vikings.

(27:15):
Right here, here's Yirius James the radio. James, you dreams
have come true? James. Wow, he's really loud right now.
This is quality.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Things.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
They go bumping the bumpity bump see.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
And then when he calls later and I tell him
that he was already on, then he tells me that
it's not fair.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
We went to him.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
I said, you're on the air, hollowing James. Congratulations, welcome
to Fox Sports Radio. James, you're on the air. James. Okay,
he acknowledged it. He said, yeah, okay, James. Should we
take another call or should we just leave you on snoring?
What do you think take a call or no? M
I guess he doesn't want us to take a call.

(28:10):
He didn't say anything. Yeah, okay, what do you think
of my Viking monologue? James? Do you like that? I
was talking about the Vikings earlier?

Speaker 1 (28:20):
He did?

Speaker 3 (28:20):
You liked it? I even mentioned the Timberwolves too. I
did little Timberwolve talk that was big, got big ratings
in Minnesota. Yeah, no, James, Okay, okay, okay, yeah that's great.
Oh wow, what is that? That's a sound of body

(28:44):
should not make when you if you wont know what
sleep apne it sounds like this is this is it?
He's doing an infomercial for sleep Appy.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
He stopped O.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Man, so he stops breathing and then he wakes up
and starts breathing again.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
We got the flapper. That was a flapper.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
James, Okay, all right, we'll put your back on. Oh
he doesn't want to be on. I gotta get other
people on.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
James.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
I'm sorry, I gotta do it. Yeah, I know it's
not you.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Oh man, let's go to Poppy in San Diego.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Oh boy, we'd rather hear James snoring? Or do we
want to hear Poppy in San Diego? Hello Poppy?

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Pick it with Poppy, my friend Poppy, Hello Poppy.

Speaker 6 (29:48):
My mentor. I'm here and we're gonna give the pigs.
You already know, Ben Maler, I'm motivated, and let's go
with the music. We're right upside.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
You did not have a good wee last week.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
You would admit that things did not go your way
last week.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
So yeah, we're gonna bounce back. Lorena and my mentor,
Ben Miller and Couthulu We're gonna bounce back. And I'm
hoping Lorena we'll picked up Fox Music. But anyways, this's
got our first game.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
I have compliments on this music.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Bad last week, so I'm gonna stick with it. What
do you have against this music, Poppy. It's a very
professional music.

Speaker 6 (30:25):
You know, well, I wish it was more professional, like
I'm fuck for like the football, but it will hit
more of the mood it's it's fine or in the
one week, but okay, let's we're gonna go on to
the first game. It's gonna be a great game. We
got the Kansas City Chief against the Denver Bronco. I
know Kukulu is gonna like this a lot of people

(30:46):
the whole world. And don the gig yeah bedwoll you No,
I'm going the opposite way. I love bone Nick. Give
me those for Broncos. Plug for.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
A poppy.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
You just put the way me on the Broncos, dude,
And why would you see you like bo Nix. He's
the twenty seventh ring quarterback. All right, next next, hurry.

Speaker 6 (31:06):
Up next, all right, on the on the next game.
I really love this game. And uh you know we
got the Lions of the Sunday Night football game on
it against the Eagles on that one. I'm really on
this once im. You can help me with the Lion.
I'm really loving the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
With you know, Chalen U two and two and a half.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
I think the Eagles are favored by two and a half.
I'm drafted.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
I like the Eagle minus two and a half and
anytime touch on what the trust touch Jalen.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Hurts all right, hurry up, hurry up, you're waisting touch
up the last.

Speaker 6 (31:37):
Game for not the Dallas Cowboys against you know, a
lat of Veggas Raiders that he can help me with
the lie. I really like that trust draw the Cowboys.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
What's the lab.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
I think the Cowboys are favored by four and a
half or five on the on the road, the road
favorites in Vegas.

Speaker 6 (31:52):
Yeah, I like the Cowboys. Backs and onto the leaper ground.
Don't pick up pay trusts ever ground, let's hear you.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
Okay. But he was I think he was at the
He said some gronk thing, the Leprechau, a Leprechau. Hello,
le We had a lot of Mallard militia guys at
that game. I saw moving man. Matt was there, the
Leprechaun at his merch on. He was all excited.

Speaker 7 (32:11):
Yeah, yes, it was a great nice Anyway, I'm the
entertainer of the year, and I love the clown music. Lorena,
I love that music. Heard you're time, Okay, I give
I had I give Lorendo many emotions. The raying of
fire in the microway is he fikes, you have.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Five seconds and then we're hanging up on your five
seconds five picking.

Speaker 7 (32:35):
No, Okay, I'll sorry I kicked the pat, but I
did have it eight. I picked the Viking, I picked
the Commanders, and I picked the Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
And I do have a quick rap Vikings, Commanders and Seahawks.
That'll be an zero to three weeks when he.

Speaker 7 (32:48):
Has a pointed out from last night.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
I picked the pat.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
No, that doesn't count.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
You didn't do it on the show.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
It doesn't count.

Speaker 7 (32:55):
Okay, how official is your picking? If you're losing to
her chicken, it's about as bad Benny who always loses.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Okay, thank you. Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week
with our friend Billy better known as weed Man from Miami.
Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week. We'll get to
that and we will.

Speaker 5 (33:15):
Do it.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Next.

Speaker 4 (33:18):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Mahler Show,
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We are glad you have chosen to hang out with us. Reminder,
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(33:45):
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(34:06):
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Speaker 1 (34:10):
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Speaker 3 (34:12):
It is for me and for you. I use it
all the time. Check it out.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
Knock Knock, who's there?

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Blame Weed Blame week too. It's Big Man's lame joke
of the week.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Man. We go to Miami. Our friend Billy better known
by his stage name weed Man Hippie from My Billy Hollywood.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
I love you, I Love you, Thanks Monday.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
All right. Well, I mean the way you said that
sounded kind of dirty, but I had a good time,
so it was got a.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
All right, weed Man, here we go.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Sounds like you need to take him to dinner first.
Next time we Man.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
You gotta hi weed Man. I don't know if there'll
be another date weed Man? All right, here we go?
What is weed Man?

Speaker 3 (34:58):
These are actual jokes by listeners. What is weed Man's
favorite arcade game? What? Bong?

Speaker 5 (35:05):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (35:05):
That's Jeffardy Al sent that one in very funny man.
I'm glad Jeopardy Al's back sending jokes and every so
and every now and again. Georgia and Uvaldi, Texas sent
this one in how did Lisa react when weed Man
hippie told her that he was addicted to viagra?

Speaker 7 (35:22):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (35:24):
Well, I mean apparently she took it very hard. I
don't know why, but there you go. All right, that's
an old joke. Eric Eric in Kansas sent this one
in what's weed Man's favorite clothing company?

Speaker 1 (35:35):
What Bam Equipment? A big fan?

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Big fan idea? Did you hear that weed Man got
a seasonal job as a handyman at his apartment complex?

Speaker 6 (35:48):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Cool? Yeah, apparently the boss says that you're you're really
high on maintenance? Is really what you're doing there? That's
a Tom and Indiana. Good joke by Tom and Indian,
A good job by you. Drew in Minnesota sent these
next couple jokes in. He said, Hey, weed Man, no,
why do you keep ignoring your doctor's phone calls? Why? Well,

(36:11):
anyway he calls, there's.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
No cure for your pinballs. He said, there you go,
all right?

Speaker 3 (36:18):
What is weed Man's definition of the LBC? What litter,
back alleys and cockroaches? That's a drew in Minnesota. It's
Big Ben's lame jokes a week. If you'd like to
send jokes in. If you want to send jokes into
a future episode of the show, send it care of
at Ben Mahler Show or Ben Maler Show at gmail

(36:40):
dot com. Betmolo Show at gmail dot com. How many
weed Mans does it take to set up an email account?

Speaker 7 (36:46):
I can't do it?

Speaker 1 (36:47):
How many it takes ten?

Speaker 3 (36:50):
One to hold the lighter while the other nine dismantle
the computer and sell it for parts?

Speaker 7 (36:58):
Wait?

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Oh wait now Chip in main checks and Chip says,
why can't the Malard Militia send weed Man money?

Speaker 6 (37:05):
Why?

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Because his email inbox is cardboard. That's a good joke.
How does weed Man teach? How does weed Man teach
on skill share?

Speaker 5 (37:21):
Or what?

Speaker 3 (37:21):
What does weed Man teach on skill share? How to
beg and panhandles? What he teaches that.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
That's Noah in Austin. All right, here's a political sporty joke.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
What's the difference between the Venezuelan drug boats and Eagles
receiver AJ Brown? What the drug boats are being targeted? AJ? Brown?
Is not?

Speaker 1 (37:43):
That's a Gordon in Tacoma? Who sent that one in?

Speaker 6 (37:47):
Right?

Speaker 3 (37:47):
Good?

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Have Gordon back?

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Gordon's a longtime joke, right, it's right as often anymore.
What is Ben Mahler's new name after he becomes a vampire?

Speaker 5 (37:57):
What?

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Ben Pallor from George and Uvalde, Texas? Well, big news here,
weed Man, hippie hollering James was recently held overnight when
he visited the zoo there in Minnesota.

Speaker 7 (38:12):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Why well, apparently the people who worked there thought he
was a wildebeast that had escaped its cage, and so
you were concerned, some Mike MIKEH. Lafrechaan. Well, some exciting
news for the Mala Militia. Marriage records in Florida show
that Jed who fled, our very own Jed who fled
recently got married weed man.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
How about that?

Speaker 6 (38:32):
Wow? How about that?

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Yeah, he's changed his name. He's now known as Jed
who Wed. So, congratulations Jed. That's eat in Roseville, Minnesota.
How is blind Scott? How does blind Scott have a
have one up on Aaron Rodgers?

Speaker 5 (38:49):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Well, Aaron's jealous of blind Scott because for blind Scott
every day is a darkness retreat. Wow, come on, Dan,
that's not wrong man. What does Blair's podcast, Blair in
Man's podcast, and a tree falling in the forest have
in common?

Speaker 1 (39:06):
What nobody is listening to either one? Nobody?

Speaker 3 (39:11):
That's from Fargold Pete, who also sent this one in.
What does Lenny Clark and blind Scott? What are they
having in common? Comedy of Lenny Clark and blind Scott?
What they both like playing with the golden banana? That's
far gold Pete. There, there you go, Fargo Pete. Well,
interesting news out on Jed. According to Jeopardy Out, Jed

(39:32):
who fled, took an online DNA test. Do you hear
about that weed man? Yeah, he wanted to hear his
hee heritage. He found out that he's actually metakon is
what he is? There? So there he go. He's methic
on American meth Yeah. What is Jed who Fled's favorite
arcade game? What crack man, big fan crack Man. That's Jeopardy.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Al we sent that one in.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
Why was Michael LEPPERKHN confused when the rainer wished him
an informal goodbye? Why because no woman has ever said
so long to him before, ever, ever, ever, ever.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
All right, one more?

Speaker 3 (40:13):
Why is Malos show called Danny DeVito a better housekeeper
than Poppy in San Diego? Why because at least Danny
DeVito knows when to take out the trash.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
There's Jeopardy. Oh thanks, weed Man. There he goes Billy
in Miami or Hollywood
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