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July 10, 2026 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about Viking coach Kevin O'Connell continuing to sell an open competition between Kyler Murray and J.J. McCarthy, rumor that Shedeur Sanders is closing the gap on the Browns' starting QB job, the idea that Christian Pulisic is getting unfairly criticized for the U.S World Cup flop, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!

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And here an hour number three of the Ben Malor Show.
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(00:40):
number three, Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell continues to sell an
open competition between Kyler Murray Alligator Arms Murray and JJ McCarthy,
the Michigan Man. So what's your take on what's going
on here? We'll talk about that. Also, is there anything
to this rumor that should ure Sanders is closing the

(01:02):
gap on the Cowboys starting quarterback job.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
We'll go there.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Also, US soccer headliner Christian Polisic is getting unfairly criticized
for what happened in the World Cup, the flopparou According
to a soccer pundit, thumb's down or thumbs up on
Christian Polisic getting unfair criticism for US soccer's embarrassing end

(01:27):
at the World Cup. We'll talk about all that and
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Thank the Insomniac, who briefly was a celebrity caller on
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One, but he stopped calling the show as a celebrity.

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Caller and he's lost his status as a celebrity caller.
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(04:50):
FIFA World Cup all right, and.

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I mentioned France. We mentioned this.

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They went two to nothing over Morocco, so that that
is done and they will face either Spain or Belgium
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are leave this hour from Minnesota, the Twin Cities, the
home of the Juicy Lucy and some great fans of
the Ben Malers. Show what a rollicking great time we
had in the Twin Cities back in the day. So
the Vikings quarterback competition between JJ McCarthy and.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Kyler Murray.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Alligator arms Murray is unresolved. Now, how would it be resolved.
They haven't started training camp, so there's no reason for
it to be resolved. They're heading into training camp, all
the nice people, all the celebrities, they're golfing in northern California. Well,
it's now taking a curious turn on if you saw
this or heard about this.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Maybe you did, maybe he didn't. I don't know. We'll
fill them the gap on that.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
So coach Kevin O'Connell, who is the head coach of
the Minnesota football.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Team, continues to refuse to name a starter.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
He popped up recently on the airwaves of Fox Sports Radio, So,
how many shows are at this golf tournament? Is it
Stegatts out there? And Dan Patrick? I guess the company's
got some money to send these guys out there.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Good for them.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
And on the Dan Patrick show, O'Connell Kevin O'Connell again
asked about this. He talked about open competition. He said, quote,
I'm not really familiar with a close competition. We want
the guys to push to find exactly what they can
become as players. O'Connell said, and it's okay to be

(08:16):
uncomfortable doing that sometimes.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Close quote.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Now, JJ McCarthy famously had had a hissy fit over
Kyler Murray. Murray just gave some cliches. And there's also
Carson Wentz. And so those are the quarterbacks in Minnesota.
That is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question. Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell continues continues to sell

(08:43):
an open competition between Kyler Murray and JJ McCarthy. What's
your take on what's going on here in the Twin Cities.
So I've got NASA, seagulls and earthworm and we will combine.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
All of these things together.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
We're gonna have some French onion soup. It's gotta be
on your big board. Yeah, I'm not a huge soup guy.
Like the nice Matzi ball soup, A chicken soup, a
French onion right there. There's not many other soups. There's
not many other soups that would go for not many
of the soups that I would go for it. Now,
my first thought on this, Kevin O'Connell keeps calling it

(09:22):
in quote open competition because saying Kyler Murray's the starter
by default because JJ McCarthy melted down like a cheap
candle in asana doesn't play well with the bass. You
gotta take care of the base. The Viky's quarterback situation
is so bleak?

Speaker 1 (09:38):
How bleak is it?

Speaker 3 (09:39):
It is so bleak that NASA called and they want
to study the quarterback situation in Minnesota as a new
form of dark matter. They think they've discovered a new
form of dark matter. There, it's in the quarterback room.
O'Connell is not to me. He's not selling competition. He's

(10:00):
running a clearance shop. It's like one of those Amazon
return pop up shops, and he's selling hope. He's selling hope.
It's been opened, it's reboxed at whatever. He looks down
the depth chart and sees nothing but warning labels and
recall notices and do not operate heavy machinery stickers and

(10:21):
all that. Kyler Alligator arms Murray in the pole position, allegedly,
not because he earned it, however, because he won the
least bad quarterback contest. Congratulations, all right, way to go.
The NFL's equivalent of being the tallest garden.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Gnome, if you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
So Minnesota they had a and Kevin o'connahatt a front
row seat to the Hindenburg. That was JJ McCarthy's season
a year ago. That was not football. That was cover
your eyes bad. It was performance art about human suffer.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
What it was.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
He was so staggered and bedraggled that the Vikings went
out and added a gamer, a guy that doesn't even
like football, A guy that had it in his contract
that he had to watch tape and then bitched about
it and they took.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
It out of the contract.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
That's the guy they brought in who's got noted attitude
issues and needs a high chair when he eats with
his teammates in the cafeteria. That's the guy. That's how
bad JJ McCarthy is. It's not a quarterback room, it's
a quarterback escape room. And Kevin O'Connell's still looking for
the first clue. He's trying to find the first flue.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
Now.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Secondly to Cleveland, we go now early in the offseason.
We talked about this a little while ago, but there's
new people listening all the time. So it looked like
the Browns were more than comfortable rolling, rolling and rolling
with Deshaun Watson as their QB number one to begin
the season, so they know that. They then what happened

(12:05):
is they they made the mistake, and it's it's really unfortunate.
The Browns decided to actually watch Deshaun Watson practice.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Uh, that did not go well.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
We are told that did not go well and he
did not handle that the way he handles massages. So
reports from OTA's and Mini Camp were we're not glowing.
We're not glowing about Watson. Of course should Sanders did
not earn great reviews either, and so now we are
at a fork in the road.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
We're now hearing I love these reports.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
The latest reporting is that the Browns sophomore quarterback mister
Sanders has quote closed the gap close quote on Deshaun Watson. Question,
is there anything to the rumor that Shoulder Sanders is
quote closing the gap on the Browns starting quarterback job

(13:00):
in the year twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
So this is and we be very clear here, I'm
me be level headed.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
This is a completely manufactured storyline. How the hell with
Sardur Sanders leap frog over to Shaun Watson when the
Browns having practice in a while, right, go down to
McDonald's in Cleveland, and don't get the big mac, don't
get the quarter.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Powder with cheese. No, no, no no.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
There's a special item they have only in Cleveland. It's
called the nothing Burger and it's perfect with the factory
of sadness. And you also get a side of hot air.
You get a little basket of hot air to go with.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
That nothing burger. Really good, really really good.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
So the reality is the Browns quarterback competition is sponsored
by Ambient Congratulations. One series of Brown's quarterback play and
here's what it sounds like.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, new head coach Todd Munken, the monk Man.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Famously missed the team photo because he was getting a
haircut or the coach's photo with the meetings league meetings.
So Todd Munkin has not named a starter, and I'll
tell you why because legally he cannot declare none of
the above. The NFL has said, you cannot have the
headless horsemen. You gotta have a quarterback. So the old
line they say, if you have two quarterbacks, you don't

(14:17):
really have one. And it's kind of like trying to
drive a car with two steering wheels, very difficult to do.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
That the whole battle. You know what this is like.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
It's like if you're at the beach this summer and
you watch two seagulls fighting over a stale French fly, Well,
what are you doing? It's a stale front. It doesn't matter.
The birds want it, the bird brains wanted. The seagulls
are fighting over it. Bad job by you. Now at
this point, the most accurate passer the Cleveland guys have
is the person that runs out at halftime and throws

(14:48):
the T shirts into the crowd. They don't have cheerleaders
in Cleveland. There's people that run out and throw T shirts.
That's the person that has the most accuracy in the
quarterback room in Cleveland. All right, final thought to the
World Cup. Are we gonna do a malamnologue about France advancing?
Hell no, But there's more of an autopsy on the Red, White,
and Blue going belly up in the biggest game of

(15:11):
the World Cup, a round of sixteen. So the fallout
from this as we continue through the autopsy, Christian Polisic,
the captain of Team USA, the star player. A lot
of hype about this guy and he has been getting
absolutely destroyed.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
And just getting attacked all over.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
The criticism is in the air everywhere for Christian Polisic,
the escapegoating online for to be kind a lackluster performance. Now,
he started okay, had an assist in the opener against Paraguay,
and then vanished. He spent more time in the injury
tenth than he did running on the pitch. That led
to a soccer pundit named Craig Burley, I have no

(15:57):
idea who this is. Apparently he played in the World Cup,
not for America. He's on TV now and he pushed
back strongly, calling on the dog pile and it has
been a dog pile against Polisic. He said, it's embarrassing
and way over the top. He argued it's unfair to
treat Polisic as the sole reason for failure when the

(16:20):
entire USA squad underperformed at the World Cup, and that
much of the talk, he claimed, felt like a personal
attack rather than quote fair football analysis. Burley noted that
Polisic is a apparently big.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Time annoyed by what has been going on here.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Okay, well, his feelings hurt, so the question this United
States soccer headliner Christian Polisic is getting unfairly criticized by
the World.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Cup flop that happened.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
That's according to this soccer commentator thumbs up or thumbs down,
thumbs up or thumbs down to this, So we are
going thumbs up on this one. The criticism of Christian
Polistic is absolutely fair game.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
And every man, woman and child knows that.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Now.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
I don't know this Boza.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
I'd never heard this guy, Craig Burley or whatever his
name is, Big Soccer in America. We're gonna call it
that Big Soccer to America handed this guy Polisic the
keys to the US soccer kingdom, and he took those
keys and he parked the bus in dead neutral is
what happened. Right, to borrow a line from the iconic

(17:34):
Spider Man, with great power comes great responsibility.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Polistic faced Team.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
USA as he when it is, as the face of
two USA. He faced the world representing the red, white
and blue.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
But you know what that means.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
But when he looked in the mirror, the man in
the mirror must have said, try again later, bro, Try
again later.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Bro.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
And our soccer hardos are soccer hardos built this guy
up as a mythical savior for American soccer and instead
of providing a miracle, we got an emoji.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
It was the shoulder shrug emoji. That's what we got,
was a shrug emoji.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
And dubbed and I remember they did a clip during
the World Cup. I don't remember the guys that sappy
reporter on Fox, the guy that does all that, he
used to be at ESPN. He's like a sappy guy,
does these really heartstrings emotional bull crap stories. So this
guy did this whole thing about this kid who was
from Pennsylvania's family moved to Europe and he became the
soccer player and he whole and they played a clip

(18:34):
where he was dubbed Captain America, America, America, Captain America. Right,
he played in this World Cup more like earthworm gym
with not one, not two, not three, but four red
bulls and hadn't slept in about seven seventy two hours,
like Jed who fled going on a on a bender

(18:56):
and then not sleeping and all that stuff. You only
get I heard this years ago. You only get one
shot on the world stage. Now, Polisic's older, he's been
in these big games in the past.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
But I'm talking about the World Cup in America.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
I don't know that we'll all be alive the next
time the World Cup comes to America.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Who knows. Maybe we will, maybe we won't.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's gonna be a while they move this thing around.
It only plays every four years, so it's gonna be
a long time. And it would have been amazing, right
if this had happened here in America, of the USA
had gotten to the final game of the World Cup,
oh my god, it would have been huge.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
And that would have been a.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Big And so he's on the big stage in America, Polisic, and.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
He used this stage to launch a souvenir foam finger
into the stands, is what he did. And it was
the middle finger.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Turned pressure, a lot of pressure on Christian Polisic, and
he turned into dust, not diamonds, not diamonds, dust, shrinking
under that spotlight and sucking at a time you cannot suck.
And so Polistic he didn't just miss the mark. He
completely evaporated. And unlike this TV pundin it says it's

(20:05):
unfair and it's not right. It's not football commentary. Yes,
there are other players that fed up. The goaltender for
Team USA was an embarrassment that famous defensive blunder as well. However,
again go back to my Man, Spider Man and stan Lee.
With great power comes great responsibility. They hyped you up
and you didn't.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
Do what you were supposed to do.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
You were supposed to hypnotize the non soccer fans. Instead
you gave them evidence as to why they should not
watch soccer other than the World Cup. You laid it
all out for them, is what you did. It is
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Riddle of the day. Norwegian soccer star erlung Holland.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
I believe his name.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
I butchered his name last night, but I believe it's
Erland or erlong Holland. He follows a very bizarre diet.
He consumes approximately six thousand calories each day, and he
recently said that blank is his magic potion.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Again.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
The Norwegian soccer star Erlong Holland follows a very bizarre
eating a planet diet, consuming approximately six thousand calories each day.
He said recently that blank, though, is his magic potion.

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That is the mallor riddle of the day. The answer,
We'll get to it and we will.

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Week coming up later this hour. We'll pay off the
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out of payoff the Mallar Riddle of the day, and
we've gone deep.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Into the bag. On the malar riddle of the day.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
A Norwegian soccer star named erlong Holland follows a bizarre
eating plant consumers approximately six thousand calories of food each day.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Now.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
He said recently that blank is his magic potion.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
That's what he said.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Alf the alien opine are going with De's nuts as
Stevie Meatbauls says seven to ten thousand pelvic thrusts per day.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
A six dollars burger which is.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Now, by the way, twenty dollars from for dog at
Carl's Junior. I remember that six dollars burger which was
like four bucks or something like.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
That back back in the day. What else do we have? Yeah,
everything's expensive, Craig, how about five guys? That's really man?

Speaker 3 (25:13):
Oh my lord god, I you feel like you should
be eating somewhere to Beverly Hills or something like that.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
I know, right. Craig is going with spinach is his answer.
What do we have? A late night drug?

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Tester says magic potion is from the jugs truckers leave
in the side of the road. Okay, a dozen deep
fried oysters from Eloy from Compton. Donkey Sausage is going
with wieners his answer, the Costco dog. The Costco dog

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that's from not a burner. There you go, how about that?
What else do we have here?

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Wow?

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That is quite the story. Not real, but quite the story.
Delicious corn beef from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.

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that we're in Mallard Chicken fingers from random Ryan in Carolina,
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the answer.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Wow. Okay?

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Uh, rock Rocky Mountain oyster from Doug in South Korea.
Our buddy Natron from Stockton who we've seen at the
Mallard meet and greet multiple times.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
He drags his lady friend there. Garlic and ranch dip
is the answer. What do we have here? Page down?

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (26:45):
He said.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Mike the Leperkun said seafood, especially oysters, is the answer.
Salad with ranch dressing from Philler Up Phil. Eileen in
San Francisco went with honey as her answer. All right,
do you have an answer again? This Norwegian soccer star
Erlung Holland follows a very bizarre diet. He consumes approximately

(27:07):
eight thousand or six thousand calories a day. He said
recently that blank, though, is his magic potion?

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Rainwater? Rain water? All right?

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Is that correct? Survey says no, unfortunately not. Holland said
his magic potion is raw milk, raw milk. Although he
also eats organ meat, he loves eating liver and heart.
You're eating heart, eating heart, that's right, because you're a heartbreaker.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
That's why you eat it. That's how you do it.
But you know, like when you cook a turkey on Thanksgiving,
you take all the innerds out. Yeah yeah, my friend
likes to put them with salt and hot sauce.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Wow, that's like Roberto who used to work on the show.
He retired for the luxury career of being a bus driver.
But Roberto talked about Manudo. You know what Manudo they
put like diet I. I like the band back in
the day, But the Manudo they put the like all
the bad parts of the cow. They just throw it
in there and they season it and then it's supposedly

(28:06):
somewhat edible. Come down, Calm down, Roberto, what's wrong with you?

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Shame on you? All right?

Speaker 3 (28:15):
What's text and calls? It is a call in show.
We do have coming up later this hour for your
dancing and dining pleasure. We will have big bands, lame
jokes all the week.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
He lame jokes a week. Let's go to the phones though.
Right now, let's say hello to James.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Not hollering James though, James in Tacoma, Hello, James, Welcome.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
James.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
So, Lorraine staer Keith clean next week? Well I got
for breaking news in thirty minutes, I'm gonna clean my
dentures all right about?

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, all right, my dad on dentures.

Speaker 5 (28:52):
Do you have one of those fancy pods or are
you just gonna drop like one of those tablets in water.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Tablet for about usually take about seven or eight hours
a polodics either one.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
Okay, yeah, I was on a city bus.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
The other day where the driver found a pair of
dentists to somebody left on the bus.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Those might be weed man's They might be weed man's teeth,
you know.

Speaker 7 (29:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
But the but the reason I called man is that
you're doing a monologue yesterday about baseball managers who polar
starters who have no hitter going.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
Yes, this happened twice in the last twice in the
last week. The Marlins and then the Pittsburgh Pirates did
it too.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
Yes, Well, how do you feel about managers who don't
want their best hitters doing the home run derb because
they're worried that the Derbyshire runners runs swing for the
rest of the year.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, it's it's stupid. It's dumb.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
It shows you that these people aren't that smart, and
that's just unfortunate. I mean, it's it's it's really wild
because these are supposed to be the smartest people these
teams are hiring, and they're graduating from Ivy League schools.
It's flawed logic. As I talked about here, James. Baseball
has done research that has proven the whole pitch count

(30:15):
limiting things on how many people. There's no correlation causation
that you're gonna have more injuries. It's just humans think
that is the case. It is not the case. The
same thing with the home Run Derby, Like there were
a few guys that didn't play well after the All
Star Break who were playing well, but normally there's a
regression to the mean. That's what happens. Extreme outcomes are

(30:37):
followed by more moderate ones. So like this year, you
look at the you know, the home runs, Kyle Swarber
s hit a bunch of home runs with the Phillies,
and I guess he's gonna be in the Home Run Derby.
He's likely not going to play as well down the
stretch because that's just how it works, James.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
It's same with bright Hander, bright Happer. They bumfer so
supposed to do Derby. But John Manley's like, hope, don't
get hurt.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
You can get hurt. You're sleeping, you can hurt yourself.
It who cares? All right, good luck when you're dentist, James,
good luck, all right, we're pulling for you, James, whoopee
pie Blair is in the Great State of Maine. He's
a TikTok star and he's in the air everywhere.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Hello, whoopye pie Blair.

Speaker 7 (31:21):
That's why I only, I mean, I get a lot
of sleep. Now, that's why I don't make it on
here that much. I'm barely on kickcock now, I'm there barely.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Are you growing up?

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Blair?

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Are you now? Are you working? Are you? Do you
have a job? Lair? You're not with us and I don't.

Speaker 7 (31:37):
They're working on getting me an electric bike?

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Then no, really, that's great.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
So that means now the next time, as you know,
when I go to the Northeast and I love Boston
in that area, and when the next time I go
to like Maine and I only go to Portland, you
can take your electric bike down to Portland.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
How about that?

Speaker 7 (31:56):
Uh No, that's not for that. They're trying to make
it seem like it's can be for work only. Oh,
come on, I don't know that either. I'm not with
that for either. But that would that would run out
of juice anyways, wouldn't make it that far.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah, what kind of job are you going to get?

Speaker 7 (32:15):
Uh? I don't know. I gotta go get some applications
and fill them out with Volke Rehab. You know they do.
They they're the ones that fill out job application.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
You got a girlfriend. What's going on?

Speaker 7 (32:31):
I have concerts to go to you tonight?

Speaker 4 (32:34):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (32:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Who's who's performing?

Speaker 7 (32:37):
Ones called Adam Babcock is starting off for the Schizzle,
My Nozzle, my Misle, my dig Wow, yeah called it's
called They're called the Paul, They're called the Diggle or whatever.
I don't know, I've heard of them. They're like a

(32:57):
rap kind.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Of banda you think kind of.

Speaker 7 (33:03):
They're gonna play out doors at seven pm. They're supposed
to start like eight thirty because the one that's coming
on board at seven, which is Adam Babcock really good.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
Really good, really good.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Big.

Speaker 7 (33:16):
You're doing some uh some videoing of the tonight's gigs,
So okay.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
We'd like to announce that's big, big news, big news
we will have.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
This is very exciting.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
Blair will be videoing from a concert of rappers in Maine,
in central Maine. And will you be participating Blair in
the Mallard Palooza? Are you going to enter the big
show that we're having next week Wednesday?

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Into Thursday.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
So a week from now we're gonna have this. Uh
I guess, I guess less than a week now, six
days from now?

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Are you going to enter?

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Hell?

Speaker 7 (33:52):
Yeah, Ben, I will do that. Do I need to eat?

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah? Email me Ben Maler Shows. Email. What are you
gonna do?

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Are you gonna do a comedy? Are you gonna do
a song? What are you gonna do?

Speaker 7 (34:03):
I'll come up with something.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Okay, all right, listen, you know what you're you're such
a big name. Let me tell you something. You're an entertainer.
You are an entertainer, and.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
So I am going to allow you to come up
with whatever you want, whatever you want to do, and
I will leave a slot.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Now, what hour do you want to be on the
Mallard Palooz.

Speaker 7 (34:24):
I'll work on it whenever. I mean you are, just.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Email me, Email me at time, Blair and we're doing
this live on the air now, okay, yes, on the
website Ben Maler Show at gmail dot com. Just the
name of the show at gmail dot com. At gmail dot.

Speaker 7 (34:40):
Email me and I'll get up hit up with what's
his name?

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Okay? All right, all right, very good, send it out.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
I understand, okay, all right, buddy, Well, thank you, Blair,
all right, go away. Uh, there he goes our friend Blair.
H chances that Blair actually remembers to enter the Mallard
Palooza less uh scale of one to ten minus nine hundred.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
There is no chance he will be part of that.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
He's already in fact, I would say, Coop forgotten that
he just agreed to be part of it.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Yes, I think so, probably all right, Yeah, I'd love
for him to be part of it. Never mind he
hung up. Of course, he already hung up.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Yeah, he has no chance that he's going to be
part of this Mallard Paluza. Is the Ben Maller Show.
We got Big Ben's lame jokes all the week for
the rest of the hour, and settle in. Get your
funny bone, find your funny bone. Big Ben's lame jokes.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Of the week. We'll get to that, and we will
do it next.

Speaker 5 (35:48):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
It is the Ben Mallard Show, The Ben Mahler Show. I,
of course Bill Miller reminding you that you are never
far away from the Ben Mauser. Some of you idiots
don't listen. The other night we were covered up by
some soccer game on one of the big homes of
this show, and a number of you said.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
I can't find your show.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
Oh my god, you panicked, your big dummy. Listen the
iHeartRadio app. You can hear the show on the Fox
Sports Radio channel at all times.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Never ever covered up on the iHeartRadio app, So make
sure to have that at least as a backup. I
know you like what you listen to. I get it.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Do you have the iHeart Radio app, Fox Sports Radio
Channel live and local in your ear drums all night?
You also hear the Ben Malor Show podcast and the
Fifth Hour podcast. Yeah, a new episode will drop later today.
Very exciting.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
I think. Well, I think I'm gonna do a Mallard
travel type log thing. We haven't done one of those
in a while, so I have that for you coming
up later today. Check it out.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Ben Malor Show podcast, iHeartRadio app listen live on.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
The Fox Sports Radio channel. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

Speaker 5 (36:55):
That game Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame we blame we too.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
It's Big Man's lame joke of the week.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
That is, these are actual jokes sending by actual human beings,
guaranteed human guaranteed him.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
But do we have weed Man's weed Man there? Yes?
All right, it's very exciting here, weed Man Hippie.

Speaker 7 (37:20):
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (37:20):
All right? All right?

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Why were you late? Weed Man? What happened? I'm here,
I know, but you were a little late, you know,
a little.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
I'm here, so I'm raised jokes.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
I feel I feel like you're not into it. I
feel like you're distracted. I feel like you're annoyed. All right?

Speaker 3 (37:44):
Why does weed Man actual jokes by actual listeners? Why
does weed Man hate gardeners? Why they take away all
the weeds? That's Mike Michael Africa. Well did you hear
that weed Man Hippie was named the new CEO of
Toys r US except you want to rename it.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Can you believe that you're gonna rename Toys r US?

Speaker 6 (38:06):
What?

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Yeah, the new name is gonna be Bums r US.
That's John in Youngstown, Ohio. Why did Weedman Hippie almost drown?
Why because he was too far out?

Speaker 4 (38:19):
Man?

Speaker 1 (38:20):
That's Darryl in the Ozarks. Have you ever been to
the Ozarks? You ever been there?

Speaker 4 (38:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (38:27):
No, I'm not either it looks beautiful. I've never been.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Why Why was weed Man upset when America started recycling
cardboard boxes?

Speaker 7 (38:35):
Why?

Speaker 3 (38:37):
Two words housing shortage. That's Brendan from Boston. What is
the only school weed Man Hippie ever attended?

Speaker 1 (38:49):
What high school?

Speaker 3 (38:51):
You love the highsnown unknown caller sent that one in.
If you want to send jokes in Ben Maler Show
at gmail dot com, put jokes in the lines short
gmail dot com.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
How many shots of tequila can weed Man do?

Speaker 7 (39:05):
How many?

Speaker 1 (39:06):
One shot? Two shot? Three shots?

Speaker 4 (39:08):
Floor?

Speaker 3 (39:12):
I hope Todd's going to be in the mallet palooza.
I don't know if he is or not, but that's
coming up, Todd. I've not got an email from you
saying you want to be part of it. Why did
weed Man decide to become a car salesman?

Speaker 7 (39:23):
Why?

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Well, he's a fan of high pressure sales. She loves it. Well,
interesting story here.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
Did you hear that weed Man and Mike the Leprechaun
are creating a new cereal?

Speaker 4 (39:38):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (39:38):
Cool?

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yeah, it's called Unlucky Charms is what it's called? Relations
on that they're very excited. Uh, what do you feed
the mouse that has weed Man's teeth. What government cheese baby?

Speaker 5 (39:59):
Why?

Speaker 3 (40:00):
What did weed Man Hippie do after telling terrible jokes
about candy?

Speaker 1 (40:04):
What he snickered? All right?

Speaker 3 (40:07):
What is the what's the what's what's the difference between
weed man socks and a camera and his camera? What
his socks take five toes and his camera only takes photoes.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
That's nine oh four ray weed Man. That rugby bys
beg God, weed Man hippy
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