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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, that's right. You heard the man, the Ben Maller
showed you just keeps rolling right along. My name is
Bernie Frattle. We're coming to live from the tyrack dot
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(00:21):
tire buying should be. But by now you've seen it.
You walk in, you buy a candy bar, they asked
you want to leave a tip? Do you order a
cup of coffee? They ask you to leave a tip.
Everywhere you go. We asked you to leave a tip.
They didn't even wait on you. They didn't even serve you.
You just stood there. Some people are saying, that's my
new rule of thumb. If I'm standing up, you ain't

(00:41):
getting a tip. Other people they found where they leave
the tip, Well, they meant to left fifteen percent, but
the machine took twenty. We got issues here. We got
a major issue here. If you want to weigh in
eight seven, seven, nine, nine, six sixty three sixty nine.
So why is all this happening? It's our fault. Experts
are saying it's our fault, and apparently, unknowingly or maybe

(01:04):
some people knowingly, we've been making these mistakes, these six
tipping mistakes when we go out to eat, and they're
in lives the reason while the culinary industry is fighting back,
we're gonna knock these out one by one. Go around
the room, and this is number one. Okay, Now, everybody

(01:24):
likes getting a discount certificate, gift certificate, or coupon, but
apparently the mistake, folks, you're making is that when you
use that coupon towards the meal, it reduces how much
money goes towards the restaurant and what people are doing
diners are according to an expert by the name of

(01:45):
Jules Hurst and etiquette and lifestyle coach me either diners
are apparently making the mistake of forgetting to tip for
the full a mode of the bill, even if they're
using a dining groupon, dining deal or a restaurant get certificate.
You get the picture. So let's say you go out
the meals eighty bucks, you got a coupon, safe, you're twenty,

(02:07):
you pay sixty. You should be tipping on the eighty,
not the sixty. Oh, Lorena, as a server, did that
ever happen to you?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I never worked at a restaurant that had coupon discounts.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Okay, speaking as an expert, though, had you done so?
What you know? You know it didn't change anything you did.
The bill should have been eighty. But the restaurants get
less money, and now the tips are artificially reduced because
the the diners aren't making up for the difference. Thoughts.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, for me, like me personally, when I tip nowadays,
I usually do try to take that into you know, consideration.
How and if I do get a discount, Let's say
I'm a member, right, some people are locals, you get
a local discount anything? Yeah, yeah, you should usually etiquette,
especially it's a good server, you tip them the difference, right,

(03:03):
that money that you save, you would, you know, roll
it over, But some people don't.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
They're in lies. Therein lies. Mistake number one, Eddie, your
thoughts on the issue.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Something about coupons.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well, here's the deal. Let's say you go to a restaurant. See,
it's all our fault now because the acutulary interest is
fighting backers. We're making all these mistakes. One of them is,
let's say for any reason, your meal is discounted for
any reason, so it'd normally be eighty bucks, but you
got a discount or coupon or whatever the reason may be,
and maybe the restaurant has a special, but instead of

(03:40):
tipping for the full amount of what the meal would be,
you reduce it. So even though the restaurant's getting less
money and the server did the same amount of work,
the tips aren't officially reduced.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, under those extreme circumstances, I would I would tip
a motle extra.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Then. Yeah, the thing is they want us to tip
the full amount based on what the bill would have
been had we not been the recipient of a discount.
Coop you have thoughts on this.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
I always do that, Like or if there's a situation
where I don't know, I wasn't happy with, like I
didn't like something that I ordered and it gets taken
off the bill, like the server takes it off the bill,
or if the server throws in you know, like free
dessert or whatever. I always tip, you know, assuming that
is part of the total. But on the same time,

(04:30):
and this is it's kind of kind of related. I
hate when you go to a restaurant and they've got
the the the tip suggestion at the bottom, yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
Or whatever.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yes, and then they're basing it on the post tax total.
Sometimes some of those restaurants do that, yes, and it's
like no, no, it's the tips based on the subtotal.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
See, we're learning something here, we're learning you know, I'm
no high school drop. I went the full six years.
Whenever thunk it through that far? Is that even a word.
So we're four for four people, So listen up here, experts.
We do the right thing. Our crew does the right thing,
all right. So mistake number one, we're in the clear.
Number two, this is apparently a complaint and I bet

(05:18):
Loraina will speak to this one. Now. The key is
people who do tip well thinks it gives them the
right to perhaps be a little bossy with their server.
I make no mistakes. The experts say that servers are
always very happy, very thrilled when you leave an appropriate
gratuity after you've had your meal. However, that doesn't mean

(05:41):
because you're paying extra money or you're leaving a nice tip,
that you can leave out the politeness. People want to
be treated like people. Quote, according to Christy Spencer, another
etiquette expert founder of the Polite Company, never heard of them,
but seems like a noble endeavor. Tipping isn't just about
the money, It's also about expressing gratitude. Don't forget to

(06:04):
accompany your monetary tip with a genuine and sincere thank you. Lorraine,
I know you can speak to this one thoughts.

Speaker 6 (06:14):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yes, you know, I've had my fair share of really
bad serving experiences where people just assume they can treat
you however they want.

Speaker 6 (06:24):
And honestly, sometimes the rudest ones aren't the biggest tippers.
That makes it even worse.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
But yeah, no, being kind and and tipping is a
double double score for servers.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
So have you had a situation where the guy left
or Matt Orlan left a great tip, but they were
kind of a jackass? So what kind of ruined the
experience that did it? Did it sour the tip?

Speaker 2 (06:48):
And it's weird because when they do that, you assume
they're not going to tip you at all. They're like, wow,
they really hated me, Like there's no way they're going
to give me any any type of tip, and then
they leave and they left, you know, more than twenty
percent on the table, Eddie.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
I know I can't picture you be an employee to anybody,
but your thoughts about that a food server, they're serious about. Hey,
it's not just good enough you get to tip me,
will you got to treat me nice? Two thoughts?

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, I mean I always treat everyone I meet with
a certain level of respect, unless they call in and
challenge me, you know, on the NBA being sought something
like that. But no, this has never been an issue
for me. I've never I've had bad service. But I
don't think I've ever had a server be rude to me.

(07:35):
And I don't think I've ever been rude to a
server there. You know. At worst, I've been kind of ignored,
right well, you'll get your food and then you never
see them again, that kind of thing. And that's always,
you know, not great. That's just bad service. That's just
bad service. That's a wicked you know, if they're super
super busy, I might, you know, take that into consideration,

(07:56):
but they still should check on you, you know, at
least once before they give you the bills. So no,
I haven't. I haven't really had an experience. I'm nice
to everyone. Those people work hard and I plus, you know,
if you if you are rude to them, they can
spit your food or something, right.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
I mean, well I was about to almost go there.
Yeah that's why you never Yeah, funny man, joke, man,
you want to you want to crack out me. I
got your food back, and here here comes your secret sauce.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
Right, did you miss that?

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Lorena?

Speaker 2 (08:21):
I I did have cooks who would drop burger patties
on the floor.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
No, really, yeah really so it's it's a thing.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
It actually, it is a thing.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, it is a thing. Hmm.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
It makes you wonder, like what kind of stuff are
you consuming? Like what kind of stuff have you consumed
in your life? Going to restaurant?

Speaker 6 (08:40):
You risk it every time.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
You go outside, whenever you have someone else make your food, Like,
no one cares as much as you do, Okay, Like,
at the end of the day, it's just a job
for them. It's just a job. Their sanitation is not
on top of their mind all the time. It's it's
just not.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
That's why you got to go to Mission Star restaurants.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, facts, you know how much? Oh, I can't even
tell you. I hate finding hair in my food, and
I find it all the time.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
They don't charge extra for that, do they. No, that's
so funny. All right, we're gonna by the way, I
want to throw a little curve ball here. We got
a I got a tweet from a gentleman named Freddy Veris,
just don't forget to ask the crew about shopping carts.
It's their favorite crew subject. I think I know where
he's going with this. Where you don't take the time
to walk your shopping cart back to the little rails.

(09:22):
You guys have a thought on that.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, it was a big to do here. On the show,
Ben I was of the opinion that do you leave
your cart you know wherever? And there are people that
are paid to go wrangle up the carts and the
rest of us, you know, the good people on the
show were more of the opinion of, yeah, take it
back if you can take it back to to you

(09:48):
know where it came from, the little cart areas.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
No, I think in a perfect world that's what we
strive for. I can't lie. I've been guilty of both. Yes,
I've been of both. I'm one of those people who
doesn't drive around for half an hour to try to
get the closest space to the store. I park far away.
A lot of times, I'll just take the extra minute
to wheel the cart up. Sometimes I can't lie. I've
been one of those people that kind of prop it

(10:13):
up against the curb. That might have been me. I
don't like to do that, but I can't lie. I've
done it with Lorena. You were gonna say something.

Speaker 6 (10:20):
Thank you for your honesty, thank you Ye've done it. Yeah,
I feel like people.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Over here are trying to be like, I've never done it.
I'm a noble, noble gentleman, always putting my cart back.

Speaker 6 (10:32):
Now.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
No, Look, there was a time where I may have
propped the cart up or left the card, but I
have seen the era of my ways, and I know
that a good person returns the cart to the cart corral.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
So that's what I do every time. Now.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, I think maybe I was giving myself too much credit. Obviously,
we don't have the cart to roll away and go
tearing down the parking lot and jack somebody's car. You
don't want that, right, You want to avoid that at
all costs. So you think you're clever. You kind of
prop it up on a curb or find some sort
of impediment, or maybe on a sidewalk.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
See you got even that because, like Ben says, that's
what he does. He props it up in the curb
so it's not gonna roll and hit somebody's car. But
if you're propping up in the curb, that's probably like
part of a parking space. So you still have half
the cart hanging into the space. And then somebody thinks,
oh cool, a parking space and they go to turn
into it, and they can't because the cart's blocking them.
So they either have to go find a new space,

(11:33):
or they have to get out of their car and
move your cart so that they can get in the
parking space.

Speaker 6 (11:39):
Well, let me give you.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
This hypothetical scenario, okay, coop a reason to maybe leave
your cart in the parking lots.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
All right, this should be good, all right to hear
this stupid explanation.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Imagine this old lady is coming back to Walmart and
she's trying to bring back her ninety inch flat screen TV,
and you know what, she needs a cart and she
just happens to pull into a spot that is right
next to all.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
Right, so if this nine year old lady, if this
ninety year old lady was leaving the store, with a
with an eighty inch television carrying.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
To the store.

Speaker 6 (12:13):
She's coming back to return it.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
She's returned returning, so she needs the cart that's already
in the lot so that she can get it into
the store.

Speaker 6 (12:23):
See see a reason to leave your cart.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
I will say I returned a rather large computer monitor
this past weekend.

Speaker 6 (12:33):
Did you use a parking lot cart?

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yes, I did, so it did happen to come in
handy in that specific time. I'm not saying that that
was happy that you know that person did not return
your cart, but you know, in that case, it did
benefit me in that moment.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
Yes, but it would have taken you all of fifteen seconds.
I would have been correct, and I would have been
fine doing that.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yes, and I would have been fine doing that.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Well, there in lives the guilt trip I put myself through.
It's the it's the debate, the internal debate. It might
be one hundred and eight degrees here, no excuses, and
I might have to walk the cart thirty or forty
yards back, because remember I park far away. I like
to walk right, So I might have to park the cart,
wheel the cart back a bit of time, and I
gotta get going. I got stuff to do, man, I

(13:16):
gotta go right, and then I drive. Why did I
do that? Then I prop it up on the curb.
At least it's not gonna roll away. But to Coop's point,
now you're taking up half a space. I know. It's
a douchey look. It's one of those deals. It's like
when people get in the line at the grocery store
and it says fifteen items are less in your name.
You better even have less than fifty items or your
name better be less. People do it all the time, right.

(13:40):
It's not a good look. Not a good look.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
So I'd like that you brought that up. That's another
pet pee look.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Well, yeah, that's listen. There's no rules here, Coop. Here,
you got the floor.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
I'm just that that bothers me too, if I'm because
most of the time when I'm going to the grocery store,
I'm grabbing like three four five things at most because
the meals that I cook at home, I do like
one of those meal kit deliveries, So most of my
groceries are in those meal kits. I just go for
you know, milk or you know box of cereal or

(14:10):
whatever's here and there. And then when I go and
there's there's only like two lanes open operating at the
grocery store, and one of them is the fifteen or last.
And then I see, you know, somebody with forty items
just grinds my gears.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
It grinds all of our gears. And another gear while
we're at it, is, why the hell do they build
seven or eight lanes in the grocery store if they
never opened more than two or three of them? Have
you ever been to a grocery store wherever lane is
open and cranking?

Speaker 5 (14:41):
Yeah, big Pepe, I never have, actually, Yeah, So what
the hell?

Speaker 1 (14:46):
What are we doing here? People? What the hell are
we doing here? Good stuff? This is all good food
for thought as we strive to be better at citizens.
All right, I want to get back to a couple
more of these tipping issues, because some has to do
with delivery workers and some has to do with what

(15:06):
if the server did their job but someone in the
kitchen messed up. Well, i'll tell you what, we're gonna
get to that coming up. We got to solve these
world's problems here on the Ben Malor Show, So we
get to all that stuff coming right up. I'm Bernie
Fraddle sitting in for Ben Maller Company life in the
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(15:28):
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Speaker 1 (16:53):
All right, thanks lot Eddie and prof to Loraina Channel
nineteen ninety nine, t L Seal Arena Nor.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
After my kindergarten days, I used to sing this on
the playground me.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Too, I was in first grade. Little We don't want
those scrubs, man, No, you don't want those scrubs sit
in your section when you're you're you're doing your your
waitress stuff. Is that the proper terminalogy these days? Right? Oh?

Speaker 2 (17:21):
When they don't tip, but they leave their phone number
depending on who they are.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Right, I mean, if you keep an open mind on
that one right now.

Speaker 6 (17:28):
If you ain't tipping, how can you afford to take
me on a date?

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Maybe they're saving them money for the date.

Speaker 6 (17:34):
You shouldn't be dating if you can't afford that.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
I'm an agreement. I'm an agreement that you're a scrub.
You're a scrub. Yeah, that's not a good look. By
the way, a couple of good tweets here from Brian McCarry.
My first job was a cart kit at a grocery store.
I'm not sure i've ever put it not put it
in the corral since, but not. Everyone is a good
human being. Fantastic show as always to all of you.
By the way, that's another issue. Hell. I mean, if

(17:59):
everybody put the carts in the cart corral, the cart guys,
maybe the bets are getting laid off. We could create it.
We could create a recession.

Speaker 6 (18:05):
You know, it's definitely part of the argument.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Ah see, seeing by the way Milkman, Mike and Colorado
checks in, I've seen the checkout lines open during holidays,
all open, so it might happen. All right, real quick,
let's get to these last couple here, Loraine and I
know this is going to be one that's going to
be near and dear to you. Sometimes people will not
tip their food server. Again, these are the mistakes for

(18:29):
making you're essentially punishing something that's not You're punishing a
server for something that's not their fault. The theory restaurants
fast paced environments. Honest mistakes happen, but you can't take
your frustration out when you go to pay the bill.
Maybe the your semi boneless spaghett it wasn't good properly

(18:51):
or whatever. The wheel mill took too long, but it
wasn't the server's fault, and you get a crappy tip, Loraine,
And I know you can speak to that one.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, I mean, okay, So there's been times and as
a server, sometimes you lie right. Sometimes you smudge the truth,
Like you put a meal on hold because you sent
their appetizer first, and then you forget to send the
meal seven minutes later because you're trying to time it properly.

Speaker 6 (19:14):
But you are busy. And there was a.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Time where I used to be like, oh my gosh,
my cook's lost your ticket. I'm so sorry. They're gonna
whip it up real fast. You don't try to save
my butt. But at the end of the day, they
can usually tell and if it's not your fault, let's
say the cooks actually did lose the ticket. People are
really nice. They try to be very understanding. It's only
the angry people who get mad.

Speaker 6 (19:36):
It happens, it does.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
It happens. Let's go out to the phones of John
here in Las Vegas has some thoughts on our tipping discussion. John,
what are your thoughts? My man? Hey?

Speaker 3 (19:48):
What up?

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Bernie? How are you good man? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (19:53):
I understand what she's saying that sometimes that does have
one with the servers. But a lot of times people
take it out on the server, even when it's not
their fault, and that happens quite a bit. Also when
it comes to the split checks, like you were talking
about before, when something gets calmped from the kitchen and
people don't tip on the full amount. That happens all

(20:14):
the time.

Speaker 10 (20:14):
Yes, they get a discount, or they use a gift
card and their gift card takes off, say their bills
one hundred dollars, their gift card takes off fifty dollars,
and then they only tip on the last fifty dollars.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
That's really discouraging for the server. I can imagine. I
can imagine. Thanks for checking in, John, appreciated, I say
you not everybody I've been in the radio business a
long time. Not everybody. Some radio people are cheap and
I was many many years ago. As with a buddy.
We got a meal comped. It was not a cheap meal,

(20:47):
and the knucklehead asked for a dessert to take home.
So they give it to them, and they don't want
to leave a tip, Like, what are you doing? You
got we gotta leave a tip? No, man, the meals
comp No, no, no, yeah, the meals comp but they're
waiting on us, right. The son of a gun didn't
leave a tip. Really pissed me off. I really let
them have it later and I went around and circle

(21:08):
back around and handed the people I had him a
fifty dollars bill. Yeah, true story, true story, the last one.
And this is one we can all really relate to.
We're all under tipping delivery workers apparently now apparently even
if you're home when you're calling your delivery person. There's
a whole rule book for this as well, especially now
you know since the post pandemic world where you got

(21:30):
apps and services and gets a little more confusing again
as to who gets paid and you're supposed to have
a sometimes you have a delivery fee on the bill.
Breakdown and there are few things here, but I have
a real thumb, and I ordered a pizza here is
my house as recently as a week ago. Five bucks.
You come to give you a flat five bucks? Now?

(21:51):
Am I wrong? Is that good enough for it? Because
I will a true story. Anybody's eating now with me?
Asked crack Man when he comes on our show. I
tipped thirty percent. I just feel better. But if you're
just delivering something of my house, I'm assuming you're doing
twenty deliveries that night. If somebody gives you, everybody gives
you five bucks, a hundred bucks, whatever. I don't know.
Is that good enough Florida? Or am I screwing the
poocha on this one?

Speaker 6 (22:11):
I think that's fine.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Delivery drivers, obviously they're saving you the hassle of having
to leave your house. They're definitely giving you a service,
so tipping them makes sense. And gas is expensive too,
and you know that they don't pay you and compensate
you for gas, so any extra tipping for them is
probably the best.

Speaker 6 (22:27):
To be honest, there have.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Been times I've done more, but usually not. Five bucks
is usually my real thumb. Eddie am I raw? Am
I off? Based on that or is that fair?

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Bernie? I apologize. I was watching Luka Dodger Studio of.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Ah good, my man. We were talking about tipping delivery drivers.
And while I will happily tip thirty percent in a restaurant,
I do it. I'm happy to do it. Someone brings
a pizza in my house or getting five bucks, I
never am I screwing the poocha on that? Or is
that good enough?

Speaker 3 (22:57):
Well that's hard for me to answer because I never
get any food delivered. I always go get it, So
I literally I can't remember the last time that happened.
And I'm guessing the last time it happened, I was
probably like in college and had no money, so I
probably gave no tip at all.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Coop, I'm sure you've got stuff about this.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
I mean, that's I think that's generous.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Five five bucks, Okay. Yeah, So here we are, folks.
We're not going to solve the world's problems. But the
next time you are walking into an establishment and maybe
you're just ordering a coke to go and they put
that tipping thing in front of you. See, it's all
it's our fault. We're making these tipping mistakes, right, Having

(23:41):
to do with everything from well we were rude, let
the tip do the talking. That's not good enough. We're
not considering discouncer our coupons. And obviously you have a
situation where you're punishing the food server for something that
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Speaker 1 (24:44):
Eddie, thanks so much. And I checked out this My
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you saw they had the NFL Draft, and my hometown
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it merely underscores the incredible ongoing popularity of the National

(25:27):
Football League. They own one day of the week. Now
they own two days of the week. This year they'll
play games on Wednesdays. Everybody wants more, more and more
and more. Sportsbooks wanted, the TV networks wanted eighteen games.
The idea of expanding to eighteen games, believe it or not,
goes back to twenty ten, and it came up during

(25:48):
the negotiating when they were negotiating the collective bar in
the agreement, and in twenty eleven, you know, they talked
about getting to seventeen games, which they finally did in
twenty one. Now the commission wants eighteen games, and there'll
be some symmetry, and I'll tell you why, because what
that would do if you started the season in its

(26:09):
current start day, it takes you up to the second
third weekend in February, which butts up a game'st President's Day.
Guess what super Bowl would be played the day before
President's Day? La La mondays off. Typically it's a national holiday.
People who have opined about having wanting to have a

(26:30):
the super Bowl the day after the super Bowl be
a national holiday, Now you would have it. That's one thought.
But here's what we probably haven't been told. Roger Goodell
has not offered a timeline for getting to eighteen games.
But these are the facts, ma'am. The NFL's current CBA

(26:50):
runs through March twenty thirty. That's six more years. So
any expansion of the season would have to mean a
renegotiation of the current CBA, something the NFL virtually never does,
or you gotta wait till twenty thirty and get a
new CBA. That seems more likely getting to eighteen games

(27:12):
anytime between now and twenty thirty seems unlikely, but I
would bet. I would bet that you'll have an eighteen
game season starting in twenty thirty when they have have
formulated the new CBA. Secondly, the extra week during the
regular season would mean sixteen additional games for broadcasters to
have to pay up for. Well, the NFL knows this,

(27:34):
and the NFL's current one and ten billion dollars TV
deal runs through twenty thirty three. But guess what the
NFL can opt out after the twenty twenty nine season,
And that's the year before the CBA. So perhaps the
NFL does that says, Okay, we're gonna get you sixteen

(27:55):
more games, sixteen more opportunities to sell your advertising time
and pedal your product and be a battering ram for
all your fall shows advertisements. Well you're gonna pay them
for it. That could increase the kitty. That could increase
the pot, as it were, for what the networks will
have to pay for NFL games. Another reason I think

(28:19):
you're going to have to wait until what twenty thirty.
The other thing, too, is, and I just talked about
this a second ago. Good don't folded the possibility of
the Super Bowl. Obviously, it takes place on the second
Sunday of February. He would like it to fall on
the weekend of President's Day, which is always commemorated on
the third Monday in February under the current schedule, believe

(28:42):
it or not, in twenty twenty seven, two years miss January,
when Super Bowl sixty six is at SOFI Stadium, It'll
be played on Sunday February fourteenth. That's an oddity because Monday,
February first is the first Monday in February, So Monday
February fifteenth is the third Monday in five I bury,
which means, yes, if you are watching the super Bowl

(29:04):
on February fourteenth, twenty twenty seven, super Bowl sixty six,
you're going to be off the next day most likely
as long as you're whoever you work for celebrates President's Day.
That's a mashup that is only going to happen once
every ten years. But under a new pushback NFL schedule
the Super Bowl President's Day weekend, they would align pretty

(29:26):
much every year now. He brought up a good point earlier.
Some punnets have suggested that there's no way you could
have an eighteen game schedule on a second bye week
for each team, and I think there's real merit to that,
there's absolute merit to that. But that wouldn't necessarily work

(29:47):
with Goodell's President's Day idea unless the NFL moved back
their kickoff on Week one to Labor Day weekend, which
they historically done up until just a few years ago.
But now you're competing against that key college football weekend.
Although some of them plain I did a show with
Steve Hart, but he was incensed that what's up with
this new NFL schedule. You finish your last preseason game

(30:11):
and then you don't play for twelve days. You wait around,
of course, in ten days, then you have that Thursday game,
you know, the traditional kickoff Thursday in that game. Now,
so the long and the short of it is, look,
the NFL, the owners, the players union, they have to
get together convince everybody to do this. Do I think
it'll happen. Yes, I do think it'll happen, and maybe

(30:33):
they can have another Brady Roast after it happens, which
kind of brings me to my next point. We have
to talk a little bit about this, because I got
to tell you, not everybody was happy about it. It
kind of surprised me. And a writer for The Washington
Post named Sally Jenkins, a longtime writer, wrote the most
incredibly scathing thing I think I've read in a while

(30:56):
about how horrible the Brady roast was. So it wasn't
all just fun and games. We'll share that coming up.
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It's all fun and games. It's all fun and games
until someone loses an eye. Washington Post didn't think it
was too funny. The Tom Brady Roast. I'm Bernie Fraddow
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Speaker 1 (32:55):
All right, thanks so much, Ednie. And of course, folks,
unless you've been on asleep for more than five days,
there's been five days since the Tom Brady roast, and
the comments and aftermath and actually fall out now won't
go away in case you missed it. You know, there
was comments on Brady's looks, his ex wife Giselle, his

(33:16):
family life has died, his cheating scandals. Even they touched
on Robert Kraft's massages, which pis Brady off. I thought
we were almost gonna have a Will Smith moment there.
It was live, first time I ever had a live,
uncensored roast, and it was on Netflix. You can still
go back and watch it. And you know there was
Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman and Randy Moss, Peyton Manning,

(33:39):
Kim Kardashian, Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck, by the way, wasn't funny. End. Look,
there was some clean jokes, right. Jeff Ross, who's typically
not clean, says, quote, You're an example to future generations
that if you work hard, eat right, film the other
team's practices, deflate the balls and have the NFL make
new rules for you. You can be the third most famous

(34:00):
guy on the Dunkin Donuts commercial. Of course that was
an omaster, the Dunkin Donuts commercial with Ben Affleck and
Matt Damon and a Super Bowl freaking brutal almost threw
a brick at the TV. Or do you have a
chance to go eight to nine and all you want
to do is cost your wife and kids? You got
what you got to do. That's what Kevin Hart said
his final season, after Brady basically told the Giselle he

(34:21):
was not going for the ultimatum, and that was rumored
to have given him to retire. Split and Brady played
one last year and Brady said, I'm trying to buy
a piece of the Raiders. I'm trying to I'm tired
of owning just the Colts and the Bills. Okay, those
were the clean jokes, but it's all fun games. So
someone loses an eye and every day things seep out.

(34:43):
And one particular newspaper you know, talked about how shocking
and crude and filthy and this whole deal was, and
they went on to say they were white jokes, black jokes,
gay jokes, Jewish jokes, jabs about CTE eating disorders, and
even Brady's former teammate Aaron Hernandez, who was I think

(35:07):
convicted of killing people including himself. Well, everything was on
the menu, including obviously Brady's failed marriage to Gel Bunching.
Brady is rumored to have had a hair transplant. Hell,
I don't know. They picked on Rob Gronkowski's ACU Bill Belichick.
Now you know there's actually some fallout that's part of

(35:28):
the story there. That's where the story had shifted. Even
Giselle came out and complained Lorena on balance is this
is this Brady roast thumbs up or thumbs down? Given
the pushback five days after the roast has been.

Speaker 6 (35:44):
Done, I think it's a thumbs up.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
I think if it made the waters, you know, how
do you say it like affected the waters?

Speaker 6 (35:53):
What do you call it?

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Stirred the pot?

Speaker 2 (35:55):
God's it when it stirs the pot. I think it
has done a great job sturing the pot, which makes
me get it.

Speaker 6 (36:00):
Thumbs up.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
All right, Well, that little fair fair Eddie. I'm sure
you got thoughtful opinions on the whole Brady roast.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
Yeah, two thumbs up. I thought it was I thought
it was hilarious. I hope that this is an indication
that we're maybe getting back to be able to tell
jokes again. And Sally Jenkins needs a lighten up. My god,
I bet she's fight at parties.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah. No, listen, you you're you're not You're not wrong,
you know. He Sometimes these folks that take themselves too seriously,
with all due respect, they need to, you know, slip
their wet clothes and to dry Martini, maybe get themselves
a cool compress, lie down, more milk, soft music, and
hope it goes away. When people do that, sometimes I
wonder if they're grand standing. This is America, by the way,

(36:48):
you choose to watch, right. No one forced anybody to watch,
and I'm glad. I'm glad both Eddie and Lorey and said, hey,
come on, can we lighten up a little bit here please?
These are all adults. No one had to watch it. Coop,
what are your thoughts on the whole deal? Oh? I
loved it. I thought it was great. Was there anything particular? Okay,
real quickly where we're at it. We really got about

(37:09):
a minute and a half. Who would we like to
see roasted next? I mean, we've heard the Tiger Woods
and Michael Jordans. Any anybody come to mind for you? Oh?

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Yeah, I'd like to see Michael Jordan get roasted because
I think he would be upset about it. I'd like
to see him get upset.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah, I say it's coop. Anybody you'd like to see
get roasted? Well? See?

Speaker 4 (37:27):
And I think I think when it comes to sports,
those are probably, like, you know, one of the only
two or two of the only guys that it would
work like with Tom Brady, because Tom Brady has crossover appeal.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
Even if you're not a football fan. Sure, most people
know who Tom Brady is. They know about his relationship
with Giselle. He's in the tabloids.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
So there's there's only a select few athletes that it
would work on this same kind of mass appeal.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
That's an excellent, excellent point about Dwayne the Rock Johnson.

Speaker 6 (37:58):
Yeah, wouldn't he be fun to do? He's certainly somebody
told me.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Is there any truth to the rumor Brady might have
been paid as much as ten million dollars to do this?
Is that true? I can't confirm it at all. I
don't know.

Speaker 5 (38:10):
I have not heard that.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
There are a whole host of people I will tell
you if you really want to see an incredible roast.
It was better than Brady's. It was justin Bieber's. It
was back in twenty fifteen. I'm sure you can find it,
so you can find it on YouTube. I think HBO
will run it. It's so good. I saved it. I
watched it once a year. It's actually clever, and every
bit is raunchy. Everybody is raunchy, and for some reason,

(38:35):
it didn't invent as many people back then coming up
the dance sensation sweep of the nation. What kind of
brand new fool of you? Followed by what my name? Yes,
you two are going to participate, Well, the crew will participate.
Keep it locked. This is Bernie Frotter. You're listening to
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