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July 31, 2025 • 41 mins

Ben Maller talks about Gilbert Arenas getting busted for running an illegal poker game out of a mansion in Encino, California, former NBA player Marcus Morris calling out Las Vegas, another edition of #AskBen, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka laka. It's our numb birth three. We hope
it's in appealing our three. We open up the crime
files on the Ben Mathers Show, and what a story
this was when I woke up. How do you process
the Gilbert Arenas federal gambling story which is out there? Also,
former NBA player Marcus Morris called out Las Vegas, saying

(00:24):
he would have preferred to handle things mob style rather
than being arrested for fraud because he didn't pay back
the casinos. And you put into context what that means,
and Sixers executive Daryl Morey randomly said the Lakers twenty
twenty bubble title will quote forever be marked by an asterisk.

(00:45):
What's your verdict on this one? We'll go there as well.
It's going to be an out of sight because it's audio.
It's out of sight. Our number three here it is.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
You can bet on it. You can bet on it.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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Today different than all of the days. It's Miracle Treat
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(02:06):
need it most. DEQ happy taste good. I see Alf
over there nodding his head and furgg as well. Yeah.
So I do love these crime stories, the who done it? Stories?
I enjoy opening up the police blodder and talking as
a guy that should probably been a lawyer. I became
a talk shows. I would have made more money as

(02:26):
a lawyer, I think. But hey, whatever, So our lead
this hour is from the Federal Courthouse and a story
that is a humdinger of a story. If you didn't
hear about this, perhaps not. Former NBA All Star Gilbert
Arenas was arrested for an alleged role in an illegal

(02:48):
gambling house in southern California. Well, I get your attention.
So Arenas and five other dudes that aren't famous, including
a suspected Israeli mobster. There you go. See, everyone's got
him up. Every group's got him up anyway. Accused of
having high stakes poker games at the mansion in Encino,

(03:12):
which is just down the road from what we do
the show The Mothership there Fox Sports Radio. So according
to the US Department of Justice, Arenas is forty three
years old. I love how they sent out in the
news release. He's known as Agent zero. Yep, hey, dummies,
that's not a secret. That's been his nickname since he
played for the Wizards back in the day and Ostar

(03:34):
Jant was a big fan. So Arenas is charged with
one count of conspiracy to operate and illegal gambling business,
one count of operating an illegal gambling business, and one
count of making false statements to federal investigators. So that's
one two free counts total. So let us discuss the
question how do you process the Gilbert Arenas federal gambling

(04:00):
arrest and just a story in general. So I've got
club fed polly walnuts and dole whip, and we will
combine all of these things together, and we are going
to make some fish and chips. I normally eat fish
and chips once a year, and I like to get
extra tartar sauce. I only eat that. I don't really

(04:22):
like fish, But once a year beer battered fish sticks,
I'll eat that. And it's got to be during the summer.
It's got to be at the beach right there. All right. So,
first of all, in terms of Gilbert Arenas in the
Federal Gambling story, So Gilbert is a knucklehead, right, you dude,
you won the lottery. You won the lottery and essentially

(04:43):
playing the penny slots on this Now, I learned as
a child my professor. I had a professor named Professor
Gump Forrest Gump, who taught me that stupid is as
stupid does. My professor taught me that. So Arenas strutted
into a downtown Los Angeles courtroom, likely covered in graffiti,
and he walked in there very confident, well cocky. He

(05:07):
was averaging twenty five points per game. Spoiler alert, Hey, Gilbert,
You're not averaging twenty five points per game. Anymore. So
he played not guilty, which is and what do you expect?
You think I'm guilty? So who knows? I think we
kind of know. We don't know for sure. But agent zero.

(05:30):
The report says that the house in Encino, he's an
Encino man, had bartenders, valets, security, and about this boys
working girls giving massages wink wink. Not yeah, those are
really happy massages. So now the judge says, yeah, gil

(05:51):
go home. We just need a nice deposit. Fifty g's
no problem. See for Gilbert Renez, that's the point. Fifty
thousand dollars his pocket change. The man made one hundred
and sixty million dollars in the NBA, and if you
adjust it for inflation in today's money, has two hundred
and twenty five dollars, and so it's been charged. Now

(06:12):
you're not guilty and all that. But if this goes
the wrong way, he has a shot to spend. He
might spend five years, all expenses paid, vacation at the
Gray Bar hotel. And remember the Feds, they always have
home field advantage in court, and they're always favored. They're
always favored. And if you're convicted, as some of the

(06:33):
boys listening right now in prison. Know, you have to serve.
I believe it's eighty five percent of your your sentence.
So but all of this, apparently because he could not
resist the urge Gilbert Arenez to have a little action
to take a little rake off some underground poker game,
Like dude, what are you doing? Like, let me break
it down for those of you a little slow in

(06:54):
the back there. So you are obviously allowed to play
poker with your boys, right, play all night at the house.
Nobody cares the second and this is where the government
is like, what aren't there better things to worry about,
Like the second you take a cut of the pot,
they've decided, Well, now you're running a casino. Now it's
not poker anymore. You're running a casino. That's a felony.

(07:17):
That's tax evasion, that's interstate gambling. I don't know this
is interstate gambling because it was all in California. But
the Feds, you know, they start knocking on your door
five in the morning and you're still kind of sleepy,
and you get your Gucci robe on and all that.
But I was wondering about these these type of stories,
like who's the real victim here, Like, seriously, I don't.

(07:41):
According to what I read, nobody got robbed and nobody
got scams. Well, there were hookers there, so that's probably
not great. But it wasn't like Bernie madeoff or FTX
or anything like that. The crime is you took a
little off the top and yeah, you didn't give the
irs the cut. Like that's it, right, I mean that's
from what I read. Maybe I missed it, but nobody

(08:01):
said that this was a public safety issue. That there
was crying all over in Sino because of this, and
you know, it's about the revenue. It's like you don't
give if you do not give Uncle Sam his taste,
all right, now, now he's coming for your chips. Right.
There was a movie a few years ago called of Course.

(08:22):
Every time I say a movie, it was a few
years ago, it was like thirty years ago. But Molly's Game,
which was the same deal, private game, rich clients. Everything's
fine until the house gets greedy and you know, somebody
takes the rake and all that. But until the Fed
see you're making money and that they're not getting a
piece of it. So now Gilbert the last guy to

(08:43):
learn the hard way, until the next guy learns the
hard way. Play stupid games, win stupid president. So agents here.
There was one year people forget about this in the
early two thousands when Gilbert Arenas was the most popular
player in the NBA. You don't know what you're talking about.
That's not true. It was. It was true. There was
one magical year with the Washington Wizards where Gilbert Arenas

(09:05):
was the most popular player. He was They voted on
the cover the video game and he won the cover
because everyone loved him and Agent zero and all the stick,
all of that, and he was an All Star. And
now I guess he's trying to be like a pit boss.
And so the good news is that they can make
another Netflix docu series on Gilbert Arenas. So that's the

(09:28):
good news. Now, speaking of gambling, we go to Vegas.
We go to Vegas where another former NBA players in
hot water. Marcus Morris Senior, who you know who this
guy is? Spot up three point shooter Marcus Morris Senior
is back home in his satin sheets after more than
two days in a Florida jail. Pokey pokey pokey following

(09:53):
the weekend arrest, high profile because he owed money he
owed money to two Las Vegas casino So Morris was
arrested a Sunday in Fort Lauderdale at the airport that
I think it's the Hollywood Fort Lauderdale or Fort Lauderdale
Hollywood International Airport. I've actually flown in there, not that

(10:16):
you really care. I just remember being there. But it
was a felony fraud charges out of Nevada. Now, there
were two felony warrants for the arrest of Morris in
the state of Nevada, and they were outstanding because he
had casino markers for more than one hundred thousand dollars
at each and he was denied bail pending his extradition

(10:37):
back to Nevada. Now that he has cut the check,
that's a big check. He went on social media, So
this is where we'll jump off. So former ANBIA player
Marcus Morris calling out Vegas saying he said this that
he would have preferred, Marcus Morris, he would have preferred
that they handle things mob style rather than getting arrested

(10:59):
for fraud. Okay, so he wants mob starck. Can you
put that into context what that means? All right? So
Marcus Morris, who's another millionaire. Yeah, he is made a
lot of money. Marcus Morris, a millionaire, was passing off
bad checks that bounced more than the basketball in Vegas

(11:21):
at the casinos there, and he was in some kind
of Sopranos remake situation or something like that. Like I
just imagine in my head, Morris is rolling into the
MGM Grand He's wearing a velvet track suit, just like
all the MOB guys, and he's like, hey, can I
get one hundred thousand dollars mark? Yeah, sure, no problem.

(11:42):
And since he got that shake down, right, he's like,
I'll go to another hotel. I'll do it again. And
then he got caught, and now he's like, well I
want to I want to be like Mob style. So hey, fellas,
instead of arresting me at the airport, wish you did.
Can you just break my knee caps in the desert

(12:03):
behind the wind. Can you take me out behind the wind,
just break my knieka and just you know, take me
to the basement there at the wind and bring in
poly Walnuts and Bobby Bacala and we'll just we'll just
settle it the old fashioned way like men. You know. Unfortunately,
it's you know, Vegas really sucks these days in terms
of paying for parking, and they nickel and dime you

(12:25):
on everything. But I saw the other day buddy of
mine sent me this receipt from a hotel. They charged
twenty dollars at a steakhouse in Vegas to have a
view of the kitchen. Can you imagine if I saw that,
I would walk out. I mean, I've never got into
a place that twenty dollars to look in the kitchen. Well,

(12:47):
you have a kitchen view. This is unreal. That's the Vegas.
That's not the mob Vegas, right, the mob Vegas. You
go there, they comp you shrimp cocktail. So they got
security footage, digital mark and all this stuff. Six figures
of debt and Marcus Morris just earned his PhD in

(13:07):
FAFO f around find out he played the slots. The
house came in said I'd like our money. Now. Now look,
if you're dumb enough to think that you can stiff
Vegas for over two hundred thousand dollars in markers, I

(13:28):
don't feel bad for you, like you deserve to get embarrassed.
He's not the first. I feel like we've done this
story multiple times. I've been doing this job here at
Fox Sports, Rado, other places I've worked. We've done this
story about other aveletes. Wasn't an Antoine Walker doing the shimmy?
He got involved in that. Even I believe Charles Barkley
had some issues with gambling. Then there's been a bunch.

(13:52):
It's not bad luck, You're not some victim or something
like that. It's just just some moron. It happens all
right now, final fault to Philadelphia we go. We're longtime
NBA executive Daryl morry who made headlines his love of
certain countries. Anyway, Darryl Morriy randomly says that he just

(14:15):
randomly tosses out He randomly said that the Lakers twenty
twenty bubble title quote will forever be marked by an asterisk.
What is your verdict on this latest comment by Darryl Moore? So,
Darryl Morries said what everyone with a brain already knew,
But yet it gets headlines because there's a lot of
idiots out there that were purple and gold that don't

(14:35):
get it. And Darryl morri is just the latest in
a stack of people that have pointed out the Mickey
Mouse lebron ring in twenty twenty is a total fraud
drop right, And we have preached this from our bully
pulpit in the middle of the night for many, many years.
The whole thing was played in a glorified Florida timeshare
at Disney, right, and you know who else plays there.

(14:58):
I think they have high school volleyball tournaments in that
in place. It was the easiest title in NBA history.
There were no fans, there was no travel, there was
months of rest. That the key part that people seem
to overlook is the months of rest, Like, that's not
the playoffs. That is a weekend at the day Spa

(15:18):
is what that is. And then you mix in a scrimmage, like,
just don't tell me that things like that count as legit.
It dis is all the legitimate championships that are run.
The players were eating churos between games. I think there's
a photo of Lebron having a doll whip right after
he had a jump shot over Tyler Hero. He grabbed

(15:38):
a dole whip and he ate it right there. That's
not pressure. It was like an AAU tournament, is what
it was. And so Darryl Morey put it right there.
He said listen, asterisk forever and the real ones. No,
the bubble Championship is Lebron. You know what it is.
It's the fire Festival for Lebron. That's his fire festival moment.

(15:58):
Got a lot of hyphe totally staged, not real basketball.
You know who else agrees with that, Alice Caruso. It
was on the team. He tasted a real championship just
this summer here a couple months ago when Oklahoma City won,
And remember what he said, he was like on the
thunder and compared it to the bubble Ring. He straight
up dismissed it. He dismissed the bubble ring. He says, now,

(16:22):
I got a real one with Oklahoma City first. Then
everyone got upset with him, so he had to pretend
like he didn't mean that. But it was a direct
shot at Lebron. Everyone knows it. And the twenty twenty title,
it's like Anna Losion. It's a abrage, is what it is.
And you know it should be in a gift shop
at at Epcot like a commemorative mug. You're gonna have
the trophy and then Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and

(16:44):
Goofy and Pluto and whatever around it just he is mind.
But Lebron is such a failure as a Laker. Zero
rings as a Laker, zero rings as a Laker. That's
Lebron's legacy as a Laker. How embarrassing. It is the
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was a starting pitcher for Boston named Brian Bao who
was really good at night and sucked in day games.

(17:52):
Well not anymore so. Red Sox starter Brian Bao says
that Blank has cured his day game woes again. This
is the malord riddle of the day. Red Sox starting
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(18:15):
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Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Maler Show.
The final day of July is we are up all
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(19:54):
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(20:40):
Poop de loop. Remember your comments, Cannon, We'll be used
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and will be a Malor meet and greet developing. I'm
not going to announce it yet, but there's something in
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greet for late August. We are efforting some other meet

(21:01):
and greets, uh so, trying to make it happen. It's
a little dicey as we get into the meat of
the football season, but the plan is to try to
do more as everything's been on hold here the last
couple of months unfortunately. But we'll have more on that
later on the podcast on Friday. But time now for
the Mallor Riddle of the Day. And here's the Mallard

(21:22):
Riddle of the Day. Red Sox starter Brian Bao says
that Blank has cured his day game woes. That is
the Mallord riddle of the day. Let's sees anyone know
the answer. We go to the great unwashed, the Hoy
Paloy and see does anyone know? We'll go page down here,

(21:45):
page down. Mallard Riddle says, listening to the Ben Mallor
Show overnight with two of Ben's fanboys, Let's see is
that there's fer dog? And then uh, there's was that
the Viking? Was that hollering James? And says, hollering James,
ferg Dog? And then in the middle there is that?
Is that Andre? I only Andre is a Red Sox fan.

(22:07):
I don't know, Maybe that's not Andre alright? Who else
do we listen to? You guys when I was a kid?
Who's your Bill says, uh, something with Julia Child beef
burgundy and something involving Mexican Coca cola from Bobby in
Florida and see page down.

Speaker 8 (22:24):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Stevie Meatbaul says, playing with some kind of special stick
cured his day game woes. Andy in Lionel Lakes says,
drinking beer and eating Ben Maler chicken fingers in the
Red Sox clubhouse before games. Yeah, Brian Bao said that
some afternoon delight has cured his his His day game

(22:46):
was well, yeah, I'll help.

Speaker 9 (22:48):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Ferg Dog says, taking day quill before the game instead
of night quill. Sure lizard Lizard soup from Lady Sideburns
late night drug tests says. All the Red Sox pitcher
has to do is play a couple of games of
Connect four and he's good. Alf the Alien ol Pliner says,
the dairy Queen blizzards. What else's great? Point? Alf? Did

(23:12):
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(23:32):
when they support kids who need it most. So DQ,
happy taste good? What else do we let's see page
then I can't. A lot of you guys, very giving,
very graphic descriptions of certain things that I don't know.
We're allowed to say. What else we have? Eating Graham
crackers from King Rory. The watching the New Fantastic Four

(23:54):
movie is the answer. Let's see page pregame curing from
mister nice guy. Let's see Mister Irrigation says this cured
the pregame. Doldrum's Little Star Trek action That'll help cheap
sunglasses guest by Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Let's see page down,

(24:18):
page down. See can't all right? Do you have an answer?
Do you have an answer? Lorraine? Why?

Speaker 10 (24:27):
Yes, Yes, I do.

Speaker 11 (24:29):
I believe it is his mom's.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Homemade cooking, Little homemade cooking. Okay, no, turns out. Red
Sox starter Brian Bayo says that after years of sucking
in day games, having two kids has cured his day
game woes because two kids means you have to get
up early. Now here you go, so you can't stay

(24:53):
up all night and sleep all day because the kids
need help. So that is the answer that will take
some calls. Here. We do have asked Ben coming up.
Your questions are answers. Let's say hello to the mode
Joel Rising in the Bay Area. Hello, mode, Joel Rising.

Speaker 12 (25:13):
Mister ben All break through to the other side. How
you doing. How's the godfather of overnight radio doing, My friend.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
I'm chilling. I'm hanging out here. I got the lights
on me, there's a camera in front of me. Here,
I'm blabbing into a microphone and life is good. Life
is good.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
Yeah, man, I wish I could call in work then,
but man, you know I worked at six o'clock in
the morning, so I listened to your show and I'm
just like, oh man, I want to call in.

Speaker 12 (25:44):
I want to call in. But I was like, oh man,
it's just so rough. But night I was up and
I said, you know, I have to call in because
it's been so long. And you know, I got to
give it to Lorraina. I mean, not only I'm sure
that she's very beautiful, but you know the music she's
just playing in the sky, Like did she have like
a lost soul to be going back to such classic music.

(26:05):
It's unbelievable. Man, your show is just out of this world.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
My friend, Well, thank you. I appreciate that. You know,
I'm a big fan of bumper music, right, Lorena, Don't
I love bumper music? Lorena? I love it, don't I
love it? I love it. I love it.

Speaker 11 (26:17):
When I first started working here, I said, Ben, what
kind of bumper music do you love?

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (26:22):
He says all of it. I love bumper music. That's
I love it.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
I do. Yeah. In fact, I often brought him out.

Speaker 10 (26:28):
Sometimes he wants me to play the music louder then Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Sometimes I'll listen like the Kiss FM or K Rock
and I will I will say what a great stop
set when the DJ just send me.

Speaker 11 (26:37):
Pictures of songs playing on the radio that he loves.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (26:41):
Knowledge of everything, not only I mean, we know it
is unfounded in sports and everything, but I mean music too.
But hey, the reason another reason for my main calls
it as we all know that today is for me,
it's the start of football season with the first pre
season game. And you know the autumn wind that used
to browth blow through the Raiders.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
The autumn win, mister man, there is.

Speaker 12 (27:04):
No more autumn wind in in Vegas.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
You know.

Speaker 12 (27:06):
I think I've called in before as a matter of fact,
last football season, to remind everybody that there is no
home field advantage. The Raiders have the worst advantage in
the league, like any team that goes there you can
be the Carolina Panthers. You'll look up in the stands
and you'll see more blue than Raider fans. I mean,
it's an embarrassment as.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
As it's a beautiful stadium. It's a beautiful Do we
have the Autumn win by the way the range? We
can we play a little Autumn win there? My version
of the Autumn Wind? Do we have that second? Yeah?
Because we you mentioned the autumn win and I did
a years ago. I did the Autumn Win. I came
in here and I had a very deep voice for
some reason, so I read the Autumn win. Were six Raider?

(27:47):
Oh yeah, I was sick, That's what I was sick.
And so I did the reading of the Autumn Win
just like the iconic NFL films version, very similar. I
doesn't play whatever, and we'll cut it off early.

Speaker 8 (27:58):
But just see the autum win is a pirate blustering
in from the city with a rollicking song. He sweeps along,
swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten. He wears a hooded.

Speaker 13 (28:11):
Sash with a silver hat about his head and a
bristling black mustache.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
That's pretty good. Why do we keep going? Yeah? Go ahead,
of us.

Speaker 13 (28:21):
Says, he storms the country a villain, dig and bold,
and the trees all shake and quiver and quake as
he robs them of their gold. The Autumn Wind is
a raider pillaging just for fun.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
He'll knock you around and upside down and laugh what
he's cockered in one. Yeah, all right, what do you
think of that? Mojo rising?

Speaker 8 (28:48):
Was that?

Speaker 1 (28:48):
All right?

Speaker 12 (28:49):
Yeah? You gotta get you gotta get with her? And
then I say, that's the classic music too. In the background.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
That's where you became a fan. That's where you were
a fan, Mojo the Raids. You became a fan because
of the Autumn.

Speaker 12 (29:01):
Wind exactly exactly. And Coops gotta love it to be
being a Broncos fan, you know. He you know, the
whole rivalry between the Raiders and the Broncos, like you know,
I mean, I love Toop, don't get me wrong, but
you know that's the one team I just don't like.
As a Raider fan of Broncos and all this through
the years, they've just always been a just a thron
in the Raider's side. Well, the Raiders used to be

(29:22):
a thron on everybody's side, you know, back in the
day when they had the snake and Stabler, you know,
and all these kind of dudes. So but anyway, Ben,
I love you guys, man, Okay, brace your lives. Everybody
needs to embrace your lives and the chaos in the world, man,
because every day you just never know what the heck's
going on after you.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Gotta enjoy it. Man, you only get one ride, so
you got to enjoy the ride. Let's uh, let's go
to Gerrold speak of the Broncos, and the Broncos shall
appeal a period. Let's go to Gerald and the Mile
High City. What's going on? Jerald?

Speaker 9 (29:55):
Welcome h the most random pertinent the el Bean Mallard.
I'm I'm like really happy to be on the phone
with you.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Am I the most random fan or random person? Or
you the most random person? Who's the most No.

Speaker 9 (30:14):
You're the most random person ever.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
Like I'm moll to you.

Speaker 9 (30:17):
To my girlfriend, she said, shut them, Oh you.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
Know, I'm the best radio guys ever.

Speaker 6 (30:25):
J T.

Speaker 9 (30:25):
Brigg number two, Bean Mallard number one, College now heard
number three. Uh, I got one question ask you, mister man. Uh,
why are the Broncos gonna suck this year? Well?

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Are they are? You sure they're gonna suck? Are you?
Coop was not expecting that. Coop was expecting Bronco porn
and he does not like that you did not give
him Bronco porn. What do you mean he's upset? He
expected this to be a Bronco propaganda call. Clearly that
is not your a j Are you a Bronco hater?

Speaker 9 (31:01):
No, I'm a Bronco fan.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Okay, So what is that? Okay? So you're asking, I
know what you're doing. You're doing like this is where
you do a little fan insurance, Like what's the worst
case scenario for the Broncos? Is that what you're asking?

Speaker 4 (31:14):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (31:14):
If everything went wrong, well, the obvious one is bo Nicks.
The signs that he was good last year turned out
to be wrong, that he's he can't play, that he's
just a mediocre quarterback, and so that's not great. And
then you don't establish a running and the big pickup
was JK. Dobbins right from the Chargers and that doesn't

(31:35):
work out, and then the defense ends up being middling.
And I did see I was reading some quotes as
getting ready for the upcoming NFL season here and you're
head coach Sean Payton. He gave a tongue bath to
Drake Greenlaw, who I think is good. He's came over
from the forty nine ers. I think he's pretty good.
I think the Broncos got two guys on defense from

(31:56):
the forty nine ers.

Speaker 14 (31:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's pretty And I just had some
good defensive teams in recent years, so that's not But anyway,
Peyton was just like licking the toes of Dre Greenlaw,
say competed to Mike Tyson, said he plays football the
way Mike Tyson played football.

Speaker 9 (32:14):
So the worst scenario, we're in the wildcard.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
No, the worst case scenario is in you're you're in
the top ten of the draft. That's the worst case scenario.
You know what that's like as a Bronco fan, You've
been there. Yeah, all right, well listen, I appreciate you listening.
Thank you. I'm going to hang up on you. There
you go.

Speaker 10 (32:36):
Broncos are a plus three thousand to win the Super Bowl.
I think that's a when you're in Vegas, you gonna
bet on that? Yeah, I might just do that. You
might how about you bet might drop a.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Hundred?

Speaker 10 (32:47):
Yeah not money?

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Yeah, well, I mean a bunch of teams forfeit. Yeah,
there's a bunch of a bunch of gambling scandals and
and all that.

Speaker 15 (32:59):
Look, I don't know that when if he develops like
I think he's gonna develop, and the defense I think
is gonna be even even better than last season, I
don't know that there's a team out there that the Broncos.

Speaker 10 (33:15):
That's also this is.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
What this is what Coop always does with the teams
he likes when he thinks they're good to He does
it with the Lakers. He does this with the When
he used to do this when the Angels, when he
thought they were gonna be good. You work yourself in
like this is gonna be everything's gonna be great, everything
be perfect, nothing will go wrong, and and then by
week two or three you're like, we suck. You know,
it's terrible.

Speaker 10 (33:35):
It's the Broncos are gonna make some noise this year.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Make some noise. That's a weasel term, you know, that's
a weasel term. We're gonna make some noise. Oh yeah,
they're on they're on a note. It reminds me of
that famous quote from John McKay when he talked about
he was coaching the Expansion Buccaneers and he's like, Uh,
you think you guys are gonna be good this year.
We do a lot of praying, but most of the

(34:01):
time the answers No, it's that that kind of the Anyway,
it is the Ben Maler Show. We're gonna have ask
Ben your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
We'll get to that. We will do it next.

Speaker 5 (34:17):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
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(34:44):
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(35:10):
It's now time for time for Henry Hervey.

Speaker 9 (35:14):
A Twitter said this is.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Your questions on Twitter now and the way we go.
It's asked, but they say one of my nicknames Benny Blizzard.
Do you know that Benny Blizzard? Yes? And did you
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(35:38):
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(35:59):
blizzards today.

Speaker 11 (36:00):
Hallowey free blizzard.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yes, well it could be. Could it's a weasel word.
It could be. Well, let's get to ask bed like
Picasso on the radio, it's your question, maybe more like
Rits and Van Go. I don't anyway, your questions are answers,
and away we go over to Cooperloop.

Speaker 15 (36:20):
All right, our first question is gonna be from alf
the alien opiner. Hi Al says for the crew, what
food does your significant other like that?

Speaker 1 (36:28):
You hate cauliflower? Uh? She always like makes it. It
smells up the entire house. It's disgusting, just the smell
of it. I want to puke in my mouth. It's horrible.
So that's Lorena.

Speaker 11 (36:43):
Well, my significant other is myself, and I really I
struggle sometimes.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
Can you hate yourself?

Speaker 7 (36:47):
Well?

Speaker 11 (36:47):
Sometimes I really want salmon and then I get salmon
and I hate it, and I'm yeah, why did you
get that? It smells bad, it tastes bad, you know,
but part of me wanted it.

Speaker 10 (36:57):
So anyways, how do.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
You eat salmon, you priet? Or do you?

Speaker 4 (37:01):
What do you have?

Speaker 11 (37:01):
I usually would like pants. I caught it on fire
once in my oven last year.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
That's wonderful. The salmon my mom when I was a kid,
she served a lot of fish. You know, I hate
it now as an adult. But she would like salmon patties,
which is like a burger like of salmon.

Speaker 10 (37:19):
Oh, I don't know about that texture.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yeah, I neither do I cool. I had no choice.
I was a captive audience.

Speaker 10 (37:27):
I would say peas, oh.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Like the green peas, the Jolly Green Giant.

Speaker 10 (37:34):
I'm not a not a fan of peas soup.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Yeah, Hey, you should go to Minnesota. There's a giant
statue of the Jolly Green Giant in Minnesota. See it
you have nightmares? Yeah, it's like the thing that got
flown on the court at the w w n B.
All right, what's next? Asked Ben?

Speaker 10 (37:57):
Your question to answer donkey sausage.

Speaker 15 (37:59):
Would like to know from everybody, what's your favorite burger topping?

Speaker 1 (38:05):
Uh, well, donkey sausage. It depends on my mood, but
you can't go wrong with I like smash burgers. But
if you put like an onion ring on top or
grilled onions, is either like sauce or like other.

Speaker 15 (38:19):
I guess any any topping, anything that you would put
the top, Yeah, that you would put on a burger.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Yeah, Like my go to would be if I make
him here at the you know, the mallor mansion, I
would do like smash burger, a couple of onion rings.
I might even go grilled onions and then, uh, I'm
a purist ketchup mustard mail. What about you Lorna.

Speaker 11 (38:38):
You know, if I have to put one thing on
my burger besides sauce, it's gonna be lettuce. I have
to have something refreshing. It can't just all be like dense.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Well speak for yourself. Cool, who much lettuce? That's the
worst answer is so good? I do some lettuce on
my burger.

Speaker 15 (38:57):
Disqualified us like a I'm I'm assuming that, Like I
don't know, because I feel like cheese is like a
cheap answer.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
What kind of cheese go prob aloone you go?

Speaker 15 (39:10):
I mean, I mean pepper drags, a nice sharp cheddar. Yeah,
but I mean I like all kinds of cheese, So
like you can put anything on there pretty much.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Do you mix cheese? Do you throw? Yeah? Sometimes yeah, yeah,
can do that.

Speaker 15 (39:23):
Yeah, But like if we're not talking cheese, then then
it's gonna be onion, like the strip onion strings those.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Are yeah, yeah, that's solid. Yeah yeah, it's hard, like
to make all that at the same time, it was
a pain in the ass. I'm not a line chef,
but I can do the iron rings in the air
fryer and then that have them done because you gotta
make it perfect, you know, I don't want to make
him in advance. I want them hot. Right, Well, what
is next year? It's ask Ben? Your questions are answers,

(39:53):
Benny Blizzard? Yes, what the King Rory?

Speaker 15 (39:56):
Rory actually has a couple of good ones here, so
I'm gonna keep do them back to back. The first
one is would you rather play pictionary or charades?

Speaker 9 (40:05):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (40:06):
I think charades? Go charades? What about you?

Speaker 11 (40:09):
Same charades?

Speaker 12 (40:09):
I like that?

Speaker 10 (40:10):
Ye, yes, charades, I agree, all right.

Speaker 15 (40:15):
The second question, when using a public bathroom, do you
judge others on how much paper towels they use to
dry their hands?

Speaker 1 (40:23):
No, because I see too many people that don't even
wash their hands, So I don't. If you use too many,
I'm fine with that because you're actually washing your hands. Like, yeah,
you stand there, it's like, oh man, we were Disneyland
a while back and go to the bathroom and there's
like nobody's like they're just dudes are just going in there.
They're you know, grabbing their junk urine eating and they
walk right out, you know. Wild that's no.

Speaker 11 (40:45):
Oh god, yeah, I don't. I don't judge them, but
I usually I don't really use the paper towels either.
I don't want to touch anything more than I need to.

Speaker 10 (40:58):
It's I like wash my hands right now.

Speaker 15 (41:00):
I'm always worried that I'm being judged because I feel
like I use a lot of the paper towels.

Speaker 10 (41:04):
How many do you use? Like three or four?

Speaker 1 (41:09):
All right, let's try to get another one. And what
do we have is ask Ben your questions all answer.

Speaker 15 (41:13):
Fer dog wants to know. Do you eat the ice
cubes in the bottom of the glass or do you
throw them out?

Speaker 14 (41:19):
No?

Speaker 1 (41:19):
I wait for them to melt, is what I do, Lorena.

Speaker 11 (41:22):
Depends on what I'm drinking. If it's like a frosty
type drink, y'all eat the

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Bottomop no, no gross, no, no ice cubes.
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