January 8, 2026 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about and grades the trade of Trae Young from the Atlanta Hawks to the Washington Wizards, why the Hawks get an 'F' on their report card, allegations against Chiefs WR Rashee Rice, #AskBen, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka Laca. It's our number three, our number three,
and it's the Ben Mahler Show, the rare inappropriate NBA monologue.
We got a trade blockbuster, spose, this is a blockbuster.
I don't know. It does some small cosmetic damage. How
do you grade this Tray Young trade to the Wizards?
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The Atlanta Hawks star heading to the Wizards. We have
the Mallor report card. Why did the Hawks get such
a low grade on the Malar report card? As they
said bye bye to Trey Young? And what is your
initial reaction to the serious allegations made against Chiefs wide
receiver Rashie Rice, the speed racer from years gone by.
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We'll talk about that as well. It's coming your way
right now here. It is our number three. Bah blah
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It's okay, just take a chill pill. Everything's all right.
So our lead from the NBA the Wheeling and Dealing
the trade deadline about a month away and we got
a trade. It's being described as a blockbuster. Trey Young
is done. Trey Young is done with the Atlanta Hawks
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as they have said bye bye, trading him to the
Washington Wizards in a package that includes CJ. McCollum. We've
heard of him and the great Corey Kispert.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I have no idea who that is.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Washington said to be counting on having Tray Young as
an anchor that will elevate the franchise to a higher level.
It's very rare that you get a trade like this,
considering the teams are supposedly in the same same division,
same gobvias, the same conference and all that stuff. But
that's a good jumping off for it. So let us
discuss the question, how do you grade this Tray Young
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deal to the Wizards. So my views on this, I've
got group project, beach front property, and Little Abner and
we'll combine all of these things together and we are
gonna make the Gabba gul. We're gonna make the gobbagol. Now,
first of all, we go right to the mal report card.
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Do not wasting time. Right to the report. So the
Washington Wizards on the mal of the report guard get
and do they get a night?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Do they get a B, no, A C, A C
for the Washington Wizards. Now, how about the Atlanta Hawks.
They get rid of a guy that was a problem.
What do they get mal The report card says, were well,
answers and F and F written in crayon, eaten by
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the dog, and then you hand it back any You know,
It's kind of like we do those game shows and
a caller calls up and has the wrong answer and
knows they're wrong, but they still give the wrong answer
because they can't pick of anything else. So let's start
in DC or the in the Beltway region. And from
what we understand, the Wizards are talking themselves into Trey
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Young like he's the franchise messiah, He's the great savior
new scenery. We uh yeah, except and I don't wanna
be too harsh here. I don't believe Washington is the
yellow brick road in my life most of my life.
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The Washington Wizards, who used to be called the Washington
Bullets basketball dungeon where lottery balls roll like tumbleweeds out
in the West, the invasive species of tumbleweeds that came
to America from Russia. But they're hoping this is a
wake up call, right that fresh star, new lease on
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light blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah, career renaissance. Here's the problem.
Trey Young does not do leases. He does ownership. He's
a me guy, He's a meet guy. He's the culture
he walks in. He's the guy that walks into the
group project. He grabs the marker, grabs the marker. He
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writes name in giant billboard font, a huge font, and
then he turns around and he asks why nobody else
is pulling away? Why am I doing it? I just
wrote my name? Why are you not doing so? He's
six to one offensive dynamo, no defense, and the ball
is glued to his hands. He's really good at fantasy basketball.
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Play fantasy basketball is really standing. It's more like ash.
It's despair is what it is right now. Secondly, staying
with the big trade in the NB A question, why
did the Hawks get an F on the mallor report
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card for the Trey Young trade? So you don't have
to be Tommy in Atlanta to know that Timing is
everything in life. This low grade is because the moment
passed them by. They missed the moment. They missed the moment.
And it's like showing up to the airport. You got
a flight and you're showing up, and you showed up.
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The plane left at three o'clock, and you showed up
at four o'clock. And then you get to the airport.
You go to the counter and the plane's already taken off,
and you ask if your seat's still warm. Well, no,
it's it might be, but it's in You see the
sky up there. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Yeah,
it's a plane. It's your plane, And you dumb ass
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didn't sit in there. So heyway, there was a window.
I believe there was a window in Atlanta where Trey
Young was being marketed like beachfront property, franchise guy, headliner,
big box office, all that stuff. You could have pulled
three first rounders and a young blue chip player. Instead,
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the house that was beachfront property has been foreclosed and
there's some cracks in the foundation and there's a lot
of vermin that are in the house right now. So
Atlanta walked away instead of getting three first rounders and
a young player. They walked away, if I have the
trade right, a half eaten box of cracker Jacks and
a glass of tap water and a refill maybe to
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be named later, Maybe to be named later. And that's
what happens when you sell after the roof has caved in. Internally,
they knew. That's the part is they knew. The people
that were with the Atlanta Hawks knew this guy. For
them anyway, Trey Young was a rotten tomato. He was
a stat stuffing super nova, masking some structural damage and
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the kind of a ballplayer that has this unique talent
for separating and dividing a locker room and coaches, and
we've talked a little bit. We don't do much NBA
these days until the playoffs. But coaches did not just
leave guys like Nate McMillan and others, they evaporated because
of having issues with Trey Young. They would evaporate like
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missed off a hot, hot street covering an asphalt. And
the tape tells the truth. Trey Young, for all his statistics,
is a type of animal you might see at the zoo.
He's a hog, a ballhog. Eighteen seconds of dribbling, drib mo,
drib mo drib mo drib dri mud muldri muldri muldrin
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muldri muld muld Yeah. Uh. And you know, teammates, there's
nothing got the players in basketball hate more than they're
not getting the ball. They're not involved.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Basketball is supposed to be poetry in motion. You're moving
the ball around, everyone's touching the ball, blah blah blah.
And when you got a guy like Trey Young who
just like he's like, uh, sucks the air out of
the room. There it's a problem a defense that when
Trey Young plays defense, his defense ranges from liability to
active active investigation because there's some kind of basketball crime
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basketball crime going on, and you always trade a guy
when you first learned that, you trade him before it
gets out. Atlanta did not give Trey Young a new
contract before the season, which was a dead give what
dead give it that they were not happy with him.
Hawks aren't particularly good this season, that's fair to say,
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and yet they screwed this whole thing up. And so
they finally blinked and the bill came due, and then
they got some stuff, but not much stuff for Trey
Young and now he'll go to Washington and he'll be
on his best behavior for a little bit. We'll see
how that goes, and then eventually it'll be time to
pay Trey Young and then we'll see. That's when the
rubber meets the road. That is, when the rubber meets
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the road. Now final thought to Cansaw City we go,
where the Chiefs released a statement confirming the story that
has been making the rounds around the NFL to confirming
that they are aware of some very serious allegations made
again Rashie Rice, who's really good at getting into some
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really bad situations, this one involving domestic violence. Now, the Chiefs,
of course, we least a prepared statement. You know what
was missing from the prepared statement? You want to guess, okay,
ing n Yes, they didn't mention his name. They didn't
put his name in there. So they were asked about
the story and they didn't put it in. So the
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Chiefs re issued this statement, which is mostly a boidered
played statement, saying the club is aware of the allegations
on social media and is in communication with the National
Football League. We have no further comment at this time. So,
you know, some lawyer, some Weasley, lawyer in Manhattan, came
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up with that phrase. They have I'm guessing they have
a one page thing at the NFL. Every team gets it,
all right, So if your player gets arrested for beating
up his girlfriend, you put this out trunk driving that
committing a crime, this one. If it involves a gun,
you put this one out. Uh. And then if it's
a felony, you put this this thing. And then if
it's a it's a misdemeanor. Don't even bother don't do
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that and uh yeah. So it's it's the organization declining
further common. Of course, it's a boiler plant response. Now,
the allegations come from someone named Dakota Jones. I don't
know who that is. I'm told based on what I
read on the interweb that this person has two children
with Rashie Rice.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
And she went on the gram and unloaded everything, every
all the dirty laundry, every skeleton in the closet is
out there.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Uh she And this is just the tip of the spear.
But she accused the football player of putting hands on her,
locking her outdoors in ten degree weather, multiple instances of
cheating and cutting up her shoes, and clothes and abandoning
the family in Kansas while he was off I guess
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driving at a tremendous amount of speed in Texas. So
the Instagram post included some receipts, several photos, several photos,
several pictures of bruises on the woman's face, there, legs, shoulders, chest,
the whole thing, and property that was damaged. So all
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of that sent out on a now viral post on
the gram. So the question, this is all developing right now,
So what is your initial reaction to these allegations, serious
allegations made against Chiefs Wide receiver Rashie Rice. So let's
start with the obvious. If even some of this is true,
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he's getting cooked. Like the allegation swirling around Rice, it
reads like you know what it reads like. It is
like police blater mixed with a reality TV the reunion
from the early two thousands, bruises, broken property, Instagram post,
the receipts, rather extreme baby Mama drama, and now now
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full stop. I point out these are unverified claims. That
does matter. That does matter. This is not a court
of law. If these claims are true, you would think
that some of this stuff would go to a court
of law, you would think. And the NFL, they have
their version of due process. They have their version. That said,
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based on what I looked at, my knee jerk reaction
because I asked the question, was your initial reaction, My
initial reaction is that if you look off to the mountains,
there's a rather obese woman, a fat lady. Now she's
not singing, she's not singing, she's stretching, she's hydrating, she's
warming up her vocal cords backstage right now in the mountains.
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Because if this is true, this would be the double Whaemie,
this would be the double whimy. You might remember Rice
made famous. He already served a six game suspension for
turning the streets of Dallas into a fast and furious
audition tape and suit up the wazoo for that. And
that was the vin Vin Diesel. It was Vin Diesel
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without the charm, all right, Vin Diesel without trump. Just
crashed the car and then walked off the highway. There,
I'm done, see you later, losers. Now now we're talking about,
if this is true, turning into a like a heavyweight
champ behavior outside the ring and all that. So based
on these events, based on these events, Rashi Rice is
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slowly becoming a walking, talking Little Abner comic strip. If
you know the character there the cartoon, the dark rain
cloud hovering overhead, and wherever that cartoon character goes, chaos
follows that. That's and here's the thing. You look at
Rashiet Rice like he's he's a nice player, but he's
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not that nice, right, He's not. Can we all agree
on that it's not that nice? Like these allegations if
they hold water, the Mallard Dakota Ring says, and says
very plainly in the Mallard Dakota Ring that the juice
isn't worth the squeeze anymore at that point. So, yeah,
you go, it's the off season. It's good this happened
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right away, and so you have time to get somebody
else go out. And the Chiefs need to improve their
roster anyway if they want to get back into contention.
So it's one of those weird deals because they spend
much money they do they invest on the team, considering
Mahomes is going to be out at least half of
next season. So it's like one of those weird deals.
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I'll have to check with our chief insider. Find out
what's going on with that. But it is the Ben
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All right. So at his introductory press conference this week
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daughter helped him choose the blue Jays because of blank. Again,
at his introductory press conference in Toronto, Kazuma Okamado says
his daughter it's an infielder says his daughter helped him
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act accordingly. Back to it, back to it. I did
want to, I got, I got pap the riddle and
then all that. It's something I want to talk about.
But the damn, I gotta do the riddle. I gotta
do the riddle. All right, here's the riddle. Riddle of
the day. And at his introductory news conference recently this
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week in Toronto, Kazuma Okamado, the infielder says, his daughter,
I guess this guy was a good player in Japan.
I don't know anyway, his daughter he helped him choose
the Blue Jays because of blank. Because of blank. So
that is the question. What is the answer, And Mike
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the Leprechaun will skip that one. Hold on a second.
Andy said because of her love for the Canadian dollar.
The sawman says, because she heard that they had a
great ballet and wanted to see that for her. So, well,
that's a different kind of ballet. She flipped the coin
guessed by Scrooge's that's his answer. In the younger Demo, Rod,
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the ambassador of Bakersfield says she has the hots for
Vladimir Guerrero Junior. Clearly right, all right? Who else? Tammy
in Vegas says a p meal bacon sandwich. I have
no idea what that is, but there's a lot of
lot of different meat on there. It would appear. Nick
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says it's got to be the poutine. That that is
the answer. Alf the Apono says because of the bird,
and the bird is the word. It's a great photo
there of the Godfather back in the day. There, what
a tremendous tribute there. He's probably sleeping right now. And
what else you have? Ike is going with a search
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firm is the answer because of the great Canadian scenery
guests by King Rory. Who else? Freddy says, chose the
Blue Jays because they are known for choking. In Game
seven of the World Series, Frog Dog went with poutine,
so did Milkman. Mike a lot of poutine answers. Late
Night Drug Tester she liked the fun facts from Cowboy
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John Brad in Windsor, Ontario, Donkey Sausage going with the
magic eight ball as his answer. JT. The Wingman says,
the amazing moosehead beer is the answer, Trucker Joe says,
because God told her. Inka Terra points out that the
daughter of this player who signed with the Blue Jays.
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There Kazuma Akamado that his daughter recommended the Blue Jays
because of the proximity to Rochester, New York and inca
terror of course, yes, that's right. And Felexus, who has
not called yet this year, what do we have? Piller up,
Phil says a retractable roof. They didn't want to be cold.
Joe the ghost Hunter also went with Poutine, mentioned Michael
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Lepreconni because of her favorite TV show Bluey Bluey, not
Cub Blue Blue Skip. The Zip got it right, but
he cheated so that the lorraina do you have an answer?
So his introductory news conference in Toronto, this infielder Kazuma
Okamado says his daughter helped him choose the Blue Jays
because of.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Blake, because of their lucky cricket. They put out all
the teams and then the lucky cricket got to go
land on whatever one they thought was going to be.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
The team, and it landed on.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
It's It's not right, no, actually not far off. According
to the player because his daughter or his daughter liked
the logo, because what of his what of his daughter?
What I his daughter said, I like that Rockies logo
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or the White Sox logo, or I like the A's logo.
Fuck Dad, you'd be like, I don't know that that's
a good move. I don't know about that. Speaking of baseball,
I should congratulate. I didn't do this yesterday, so I
should congratulate Coop. A little big news in baseball, The
Angels have signed a big name free agent, Kirby Yates. Congratulations, tremendous,
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tremendous move there, Kirby Yates said, one year contract. As
the Angels continue to sign washed up picture, what does
I said, Michael Lorenzen agreed to a deal with the
Blue Jays.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Did you see the picture they sent out of Kirby
Yates with the welcome to the Angels, the one that
they sent out?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
No, what did they send out?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
What uniform was he wanting?
Speaker 7 (23:56):
I just he looks as thrilled as I would be
too to be on the Angels.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, yeah, Well he was washed up with the Dodgers.
I thought he can't pitch anymore, So of course he
goes to the Angels at one more contract, one more contract,
and then you're you're good on that anyway. So I
wanted to mention this. I get distracted. I hate when
there's so the story happens every every week in the NFL,
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people complaining about the the price, then your grimlins.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
You know, we're getting so close to the end of
the show. We're gonna need more callers to fill in
when Ben's not on. So if we have anyone who
wants to come on and jib jab, call up right now, Coop,
give the number.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
The number? Yeah, the number eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. WHOOA call up right now? Well you know
the number? Is that why you asked me to I
wanted you to talk.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
I can't be the only one talking while Ben's gremlins
are attacking.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
But yes, maybe I did forget the number for a second.
It's a long attack. This is a horribly long attack.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Wait a minute. I fought them back for the rating.
I fought them back, nib Now, Coop, do you have
when Eddie was here before the company whacked Eddie? We
just go to Eddie when the gremlins attack, and he
would do a Winnipeg Jets monologue. Do you have a
monologue coop on the Angels prepared? Could you do twenty
minutes on the Angels prepared?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
We would be better off just the dead air.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
No, you could. You could know, you could do like
five minutes on Darren Erstad, five on Tim Salmon, you know,
he could do a tribute to Chuck Finley. You could
go down the list there and then. But anyway, I
was ranching, oh, whatever to him.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Anyway, who's that?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Somebody dropped the piano on him. So the streaming in
the NFL. In order to watch every NFL wild creaking,
and this is a story that pops up every couple
of weeks. In order to watch every NFL game this
weekend streaming, it will cost you about ninety dollars. About
ninety dollars to access all six games. And that's twelve
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bucks to watch the Rams, Panthers and the forty nine
ers Eagles. That's fifteen bucks to watch the Packers and
the Bears, dumb Bears, twelve bucks to watch the Bills
and the Jags, and then twelve bucks to watch the
Chargers and the Patriots. How about this for the Monday
night game. To get that, that'll cost you thirty dollars
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to watch the Texans and the Pittsburgh Sei. So the total,
if you do the math on that, eighty eight dollars
and ninety five cents to stream to watch all those games. Now,
you should follow the rules. There are other ways though.
There are other ways, and I'm not recommending you become
a member of the Pirates of the Caribbean, but there
are other ways to watch these games. The NFL had
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always bragged about every fan has that access to every
game and all that stuff. I know this weekend, if
you have television like old school TV, you get I
think everything but the exclusive Peacock game, which is twelve bucks,
and that's the I think their game is the Chargers Patriots.
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I think that's the only I guess why Amazon Prime too,
Amazon Prime would be would be that. But those games
are supposed to be on TV in the local market.
Supposedly they're in there. They're on the TV in the
local market, so there is that as well. We have
asked Ben coming up in a little bit. We did
a monologue about the Washington Wizards, which is probably why
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the Gremlins attack.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I hope it's not just ask Coop and Lorena.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It could be maybe I'll go take a break, taken nap,
you know, Dan writes in he says the nation's capital
is all in on ice tray, the superstar clutch closer.
They've been desperate to land. Yeah, that's a good, good propaganda.
There By, Dan good Spind, the Charger fan commentator says
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zero teams, zero teams would give up three first round
picks for Trey Young. They could do a lot better.
Uh could could could have gotten a lot better return,
But no three first round picks. Maybe a few years ago,
but every team knows Young doesn't play defense and just patched.
As I, I don't think you listened very well. You
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might want to go to the ear doctor get a
hearing aid, because I pointed out a couple of years
ago when the Hawks were actually winning some games in
the playoffs and Trey Young was was putting up great status,
it was an all star, you conceivably would have gotten
three first round picks are meaningless, They don't mean anything.
They're worthless. The draft is horrific, Okay, it's it's unwatchable,
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and the talent it just you can't you can't consume it.
It you can't depend on it. Uh so, uh there
there is that. And then a random message from JJ
from Renton, who writes in and says that a woman
tried to get him to assaulter. He said, that's a
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very random message. JJ from written, I don't know what
that's all about, but hey, you know, whatever, you know,
you call up expand on that you can do it. Roberto,
the bus driver wearing his Dodger Onesie writes in our
old buddy Roberto who left the grind of overnight radio
for the Uh well, this guy, Roberto, you know, you know,
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working in the sweatshop that is radio. He left for
the glamour of being a bus driver, he says, because
Bobachett is going to be a Dodger. He said, yeah,
I could. I could see that happening. They don't need
Bobachett though, you know they don't need him. You know
they're fine. I don't need They'll survive without Bobaschett. Am
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I talking too much baseball? I don't get in trouble
for if I talk too much base I.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Thought you were talking Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Star Wars, oh Kawhi because of bull oh Boba fat. Yeah,
there you go. Well you are You're a Disney Disney girl.
You are a Disney You're all about that Disney action boss.
You're all about that. It's but I look at the baseball.
I try to find stuff to talk about in baseball
every day. There's really not much I like. This week,
I'd say, can I do a part of a monologue
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on Cutter Crawford agreeing to a contract with the Redsick? Now?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I can't do that. The Rays acquired an outfielder named
Justin Henry Malloy from the Tigers for cash. I don't
think that's worthy of a mention. I don't think I
can do that. You Cubs acquired a pitcher from the Marlins,
Edward Cabrera, who's supposedly pretty good. But that doesn't really
(30:43):
move the needle. And it was like, well, you know,
my mantra is it's broadcasting. It's not narrow casting. So
do people really want to hear the masses me do
a deep dive on some random, right handed, middle of
the rotation starting pitcher And the answer is no. The
answer is no. And you can't even like talk about
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the people the Marlins get because the Marlins don't try
to win, and so anyone that's good stays in Miami
for like three years and then eventually gets relocated reshuffled
around Major League Baseball. And that's just how that goes.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
That's just it.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
We're gonna ask Ben your questions and our answers Ask Ben,
so keep those questions coming in. I see there's like
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three questions that are good, and then the other ones,
I'm like, oh, those aren't really good. There's some sporty
questions in there. Probably won't use those. Probably won't use those.
But we're gonna have ask Ben again. Hashtag ask Ben
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Let's get to the reading of the questions Ben and
Friends and music by Lorena. Here's Cooper.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Look all right, we're gonna start off with a question
for you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Okay, I get to go first. Outsiding is that by right?
This is wonderful, amazing.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
All right? This is from Andy and Lino lakes Hi.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Andy.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
He wants to know do you ever get nervous about
certain subjects or talking about people on the air? U?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yes, anything that can get me fired. No, it was
very dicey for a few years back in like twenty
twenty and whatnot, and we were all walking on eggshells
here the cancel culture, which I guess is still out there.
I also don't like talking about death, but I've talked
(34:22):
a lot about death recently, done a lot of tributes
on my podcast and things like that. But I've never
been I don't think I'm very good at it. But
I've done a lot of eulogies recently because people I
know of Doc.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
Right, We're gonna go on to a question from the
King Rory, and the King Rory would like to know
what is the biggest animal that you think you can
fight with only your bare hands? And I guess we'll
start with lorena.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
Yes, well, Ben finds his grumlins and beats them to
a pulp. Maybe that's who Ben is gonna fight, is gremlins.
That would be good, right, Okay? I when I could
fight with my bear hands, even dogs intimidate me there?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Well, yeah, I mean I think a dog would I
don't think he would do. Well, let's go with Koala bear.
Koala bear, that's the biggest animal you think.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
I think the biggest animal I can fight with my
bare hands would be a milk cow. A milk cow, yes, now,
like I wouldn't want to because they're adorable, right, Like,
I mean it's like lay on top of that's all
it's got, right, I could I could fight that?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Uh? And Ben?
Speaker 7 (35:36):
We're gonna say Ben picks Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yeah, because they're because no Koala bears sit in the
tree and they get high on the eucalyptus. Right, I
guess they're not. Actually, every time I say Kali bear
a bear, dummy, but koala I could take down a
koala because they get high all the time and they
just sit in the tree. I remember when they first.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Had also said Kuala bears just coincidence?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Did you say that? I did? I yeah, she did.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I did.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Oh, really I did.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
I was hitting the I was hitting the thing here,
the thing of Jake, whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
The dude will take the same animal.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Ben. I wasn't listening, but no, yeah, because I remember
as a kid, my mom she was all sized. She
hiked it up San Diego's. They finally had kuala bears.
Oh my god, this is so excited. At that time
they come the Kuobra. So we went to the zoo
and it was the most disappointing thing because you couldn't
even see him because they were up in the trees
sleeping where he All I remember is the gift shop
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had seventy five stuffed animals of a koala. That's all
I remember. What's next year, it's ask Ben and Gremlin's.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
All right, we'll do a uh, we'll do another question
for you, Ben, just because we don't know how much
longer we'll have you.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
This from this is from ferg Dog.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
He went fer Dog.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
He wants to know how many listeners have threatened you?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Uh? I have my life has been threatened? Uh boo?
Uh four times? Well, four times a lot, most for
different listeners. Yes, most of it's on social media.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
I can think of two of them, right, we got
we got Mark the full name guy probably blind Scott
blind Scott.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Uh and okay, you know so, actually it's five because
I've been threatened by fans in Cleveland, Oh yeah, Baltimore. Yeah,
they there's a Yeah, it's been bad. Houston. Houston. Also,
they apparently didn't like my commentary about the Astros. I
don't know why, Coop, I don't know why they got
(37:36):
so upset. I have no idea the cheating as one thousand,
oh first time in twenty twenty six, first time.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
All right, let's do a question from Donkey Sausage. Hi, Donkey,
he wants to know this for everybody. Are you related
or distantly related to anyone famous?
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Like what level of fame? Like people?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
I don't know what you that's somebody that somebody else
might have heard of.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
I'm trying to think, not to the top of my head.
I mean, I've been to places where there's like famous
people who are friends of the family, but not related
to this. So I don't, like Loraina, any famous relatives.
Speaker 7 (38:21):
No, not that I know of, Not that you know, Okay, Coop,
Michael Cooper is my uncle.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Oh, that's right, the Laker, the six man. Yes, and
you look just like.
Speaker 7 (38:33):
Him, very similar out the Aliano Piner wants to know,
have you ever locked yourself out of the house?
Speaker 2 (38:38):
How did you get back in?
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Uh? No, I've never locked myself out of the house.
I've locked myself out of obviously hotels. Cars. That's a
pain in the ass trying to get the car. You
get somebody to break into the car get you know.
That's back in the old days you could leave. You
could use your keys and leave them in the car
and the door couldn't get open. Now usually if you
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have because they have the technology, But at the cars
the worst. What about you were ever locked out of
your house?
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Yeah, I have been a couple of times.
Speaker 6 (39:08):
Actually, yeah, We've done different ways of getting to like
pop the screen off. You're like, I'm sure one of
these windows is open. I've gone in through a bathroom window,
bedroom window.
Speaker 7 (39:16):
Yeah, I've had to do the same, and then you like,
actually you have to like almost break the screen.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
I've done a basement one too, one of those really
small basement ones.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
I am tiny, Okay, yeah, gotcha. That's ass man. Every
week
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We got a trade blockbuster, spose, this is a blockbuster.
I don't know. It does some small cosmetic damage. How
do you grade this Tray Young trade to the Wizards?
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The Atlanta Hawks star heading to the Wizards. We have
the Mallor report card. Why did the Hawks get such
a low grade on the Malar report card? As they
said bye bye to Trey Young? And what is your
initial reaction to the serious allegations made against Chiefs wide
receiver Rashie Rice, the speed racer from years gone by.
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It's okay, just take a chill pill. Everything's all right.
So our lead from the NBA the Wheeling and Dealing
the trade deadline about a month away and we got
a trade. It's being described as a blockbuster. Trey Young
is done. Trey Young is done with the Atlanta Hawks
(02:58):
as they have said bye bye, trading him to the
Washington Wizards in a package that includes CJ. McCollum. We've
heard of him and the great Corey Kispert.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I have no idea who that is.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Washington said to be counting on having Tray Young as
an anchor that will elevate the franchise to a higher level.
It's very rare that you get a trade like this,
considering the teams are supposedly in the same same division,
same gobvias, the same conference and all that stuff. But
that's a good jumping off for it. So let us
discuss the question, how do you grade this Tray Young
(03:38):
deal to the Wizards. So my views on this, I've
got group project, beach front property, and Little Abner and
we'll combine all of these things together and we are
gonna make the Gabba gul. We're gonna make the gobbagol. Now,
first of all, we go right to the mal report card.
(03:59):
Do not wasting time. Right to the report. So the
Washington Wizards on the mal of the report guard get
and do they get a night?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Do they get a B, no, A C, A C
for the Washington Wizards. Now, how about the Atlanta Hawks.
They get rid of a guy that was a problem.
What do they get mal The report card says, were well,
answers and F and F written in crayon, eaten by
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the dog, and then you hand it back any You know,
It's kind of like we do those game shows and
a caller calls up and has the wrong answer and
knows they're wrong, but they still give the wrong answer
because they can't pick of anything else. So let's start
in DC or the in the Beltway region. And from
what we understand, the Wizards are talking themselves into Trey
(04:53):
Young like he's the franchise messiah, He's the great savior
new scenery. We uh yeah, except and I don't wanna
be too harsh here. I don't believe Washington is the
yellow brick road in my life most of my life.
(05:14):
The Washington Wizards, who used to be called the Washington
Bullets basketball dungeon where lottery balls roll like tumbleweeds out
in the West, the invasive species of tumbleweeds that came
to America from Russia. But they're hoping this is a
wake up call, right that fresh star, new lease on
(05:37):
light blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah, career renaissance. Here's the problem.
Trey Young does not do leases. He does ownership. He's
a me guy, He's a meet guy. He's the culture
he walks in. He's the guy that walks into the
group project. He grabs the marker, grabs the marker. He
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writes name in giant billboard font, a huge font, and
then he turns around and he asks why nobody else
is pulling away? Why am I doing it? I just
wrote my name? Why are you not doing so? He's
six to one offensive dynamo, no defense, and the ball
is glued to his hands. He's really good at fantasy basketball.
(06:21):
Play fantasy basketball is really standing. It's more like ash.
It's despair is what it is right now. Secondly, staying
with the big trade in the NB A question, why
did the Hawks get an F on the mallor report
(06:42):
card for the Trey Young trade? So you don't have
to be Tommy in Atlanta to know that Timing is
everything in life. This low grade is because the moment
passed them by. They missed the moment. They missed the moment.
And it's like showing up to the airport. You got
a flight and you're showing up, and you showed up.
(07:05):
The plane left at three o'clock, and you showed up
at four o'clock. And then you get to the airport.
You go to the counter and the plane's already taken off,
and you ask if your seat's still warm. Well, no,
it's it might be, but it's in You see the
sky up there. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Yeah,
it's a plane. It's your plane, And you dumb ass
(07:26):
didn't sit in there. So heyway, there was a window.
I believe there was a window in Atlanta where Trey
Young was being marketed like beachfront property, franchise guy, headliner,
big box office, all that stuff. You could have pulled
three first rounders and a young blue chip player. Instead,
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the house that was beachfront property has been foreclosed and
there's some cracks in the foundation and there's a lot
of vermin that are in the house right now. So
Atlanta walked away instead of getting three first rounders and
a young player. They walked away, if I have the
trade right, a half eaten box of cracker Jacks and
a glass of tap water and a refill maybe to
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be named later, Maybe to be named later. And that's
what happens when you sell after the roof has caved in. Internally,
they knew. That's the part is they knew. The people
that were with the Atlanta Hawks knew this guy. For
them anyway, Trey Young was a rotten tomato. He was
a stat stuffing super nova, masking some structural damage and
(08:39):
the kind of a ballplayer that has this unique talent
for separating and dividing a locker room and coaches, and
we've talked a little bit. We don't do much NBA
these days until the playoffs. But coaches did not just
leave guys like Nate McMillan and others, they evaporated because
of having issues with Trey Young. They would evaporate like
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missed off a hot, hot street covering an asphalt. And
the tape tells the truth. Trey Young, for all his statistics,
is a type of animal you might see at the zoo.
He's a hog, a ballhog. Eighteen seconds of dribbling, drib mo,
drib mo drib mo drib dri mud muldri muldri muldrin
(09:26):
muldri muld muld Yeah. Uh. And you know, teammates, there's
nothing got the players in basketball hate more than they're
not getting the ball. They're not involved.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Basketball is supposed to be poetry in motion. You're moving
the ball around, everyone's touching the ball, blah blah blah.
And when you got a guy like Trey Young who
just like he's like, uh, sucks the air out of
the room. There it's a problem a defense that when
Trey Young plays defense, his defense ranges from liability to
active active investigation because there's some kind of basketball crime
(09:59):
basketball crime going on, and you always trade a guy
when you first learned that, you trade him before it
gets out. Atlanta did not give Trey Young a new
contract before the season, which was a dead give what
dead give it that they were not happy with him.
Hawks aren't particularly good this season, that's fair to say,
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and yet they screwed this whole thing up. And so
they finally blinked and the bill came due, and then
they got some stuff, but not much stuff for Trey
Young and now he'll go to Washington and he'll be
on his best behavior for a little bit. We'll see
how that goes, and then eventually it'll be time to
pay Trey Young and then we'll see. That's when the
rubber meets the road. That is, when the rubber meets
(10:41):
the road. Now final thought to Cansaw City we go,
where the Chiefs released a statement confirming the story that
has been making the rounds around the NFL to confirming
that they are aware of some very serious allegations made
again Rashie Rice, who's really good at getting into some
(11:04):
really bad situations, this one involving domestic violence. Now, the Chiefs,
of course, we least a prepared statement. You know what
was missing from the prepared statement? You want to guess, okay,
ing n Yes, they didn't mention his name. They didn't
put his name in there. So they were asked about
the story and they didn't put it in. So the
(11:26):
Chiefs re issued this statement, which is mostly a boidered
played statement, saying the club is aware of the allegations
on social media and is in communication with the National
Football League. We have no further comment at this time. So,
you know, some lawyer, some Weasley, lawyer in Manhattan, came
(11:46):
up with that phrase. They have I'm guessing they have
a one page thing at the NFL. Every team gets it,
all right, So if your player gets arrested for beating
up his girlfriend, you put this out trunk driving that
committing a crime, this one. If it involves a gun,
you put this one out. Uh. And then if it's
a felony, you put this this thing. And then if
it's a it's a misdemeanor. Don't even bother don't do
(12:09):
that and uh yeah. So it's it's the organization declining
further common. Of course, it's a boiler plant response. Now,
the allegations come from someone named Dakota Jones. I don't
know who that is. I'm told based on what I
read on the interweb that this person has two children
with Rashie Rice.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
And she went on the gram and unloaded everything, every
all the dirty laundry, every skeleton in the closet is
out there.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Uh she And this is just the tip of the spear.
But she accused the football player of putting hands on her,
locking her outdoors in ten degree weather, multiple instances of
cheating and cutting up her shoes, and clothes and abandoning
the family in Kansas while he was off I guess
(13:06):
driving at a tremendous amount of speed in Texas. So
the Instagram post included some receipts, several photos, several photos,
several pictures of bruises on the woman's face, there, legs, shoulders, chest,
the whole thing, and property that was damaged. So all
(13:27):
of that sent out on a now viral post on
the gram. So the question, this is all developing right now,
So what is your initial reaction to these allegations, serious
allegations made against Chiefs Wide receiver Rashie Rice. So let's
start with the obvious. If even some of this is true,
(13:49):
he's getting cooked. Like the allegation swirling around Rice, it
reads like you know what it reads like. It is
like police blater mixed with a reality TV the reunion
from the early two thousands, bruises, broken property, Instagram post,
the receipts, rather extreme baby Mama drama, and now now
(14:13):
full stop. I point out these are unverified claims. That
does matter. That does matter. This is not a court
of law. If these claims are true, you would think
that some of this stuff would go to a court
of law, you would think. And the NFL, they have
their version of due process. They have their version. That said,
(14:37):
based on what I looked at, my knee jerk reaction
because I asked the question, was your initial reaction, My
initial reaction is that if you look off to the mountains,
there's a rather obese woman, a fat lady. Now she's
not singing, she's not singing, she's stretching, she's hydrating, she's
warming up her vocal cords backstage right now in the mountains.
(14:59):
Because if this is true, this would be the double Whaemie,
this would be the double whimy. You might remember Rice
made famous. He already served a six game suspension for
turning the streets of Dallas into a fast and furious
audition tape and suit up the wazoo for that. And
that was the vin Vin Diesel. It was Vin Diesel
(15:21):
without the charm, all right, Vin Diesel without trump. Just
crashed the car and then walked off the highway. There,
I'm done, see you later, losers. Now now we're talking about,
if this is true, turning into a like a heavyweight
champ behavior outside the ring and all that. So based
on these events, based on these events, Rashi Rice is
(15:41):
slowly becoming a walking, talking Little Abner comic strip. If
you know the character there the cartoon, the dark rain
cloud hovering overhead, and wherever that cartoon character goes, chaos
follows that. That's and here's the thing. You look at
Rashiet Rice like he's he's a nice player, but he's
(16:04):
not that nice, right, He's not. Can we all agree
on that it's not that nice? Like these allegations if
they hold water, the Mallard Dakota Ring says, and says
very plainly in the Mallard Dakota Ring that the juice
isn't worth the squeeze anymore at that point. So, yeah,
you go, it's the off season. It's good this happened
(16:25):
right away, and so you have time to get somebody
else go out. And the Chiefs need to improve their
roster anyway if they want to get back into contention.
So it's one of those weird deals because they spend
much money they do they invest on the team, considering
Mahomes is going to be out at least half of
next season. So it's like one of those weird deals.
(16:47):
I'll have to check with our chief insider. Find out
what's going on with that. But it is the Ben
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All right. So at his introductory press conference this week
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at his introductory press conference in Toronto, Kazuma Okamado says
his daughter it's an infielder says his daughter helped him
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But the damn, I gotta do the riddle. I gotta
do the riddle. All right, here's the riddle. Riddle of
the day. And at his introductory news conference recently this
(19:49):
week in Toronto, Kazuma Okamado, the infielder says, his daughter,
I guess this guy was a good player in Japan.
I don't know anyway, his daughter he helped him choose
the Blue Jays because of blank. Because of blank. So
that is the question. What is the answer, And Mike
(20:09):
the Leprechaun will skip that one. Hold on a second.
Andy said because of her love for the Canadian dollar.
The sawman says, because she heard that they had a
great ballet and wanted to see that for her. So, well,
that's a different kind of ballet. She flipped the coin
guessed by Scrooge's that's his answer. In the younger Demo, Rod,
(20:33):
the ambassador of Bakersfield says she has the hots for
Vladimir Guerrero Junior. Clearly right, all right? Who else? Tammy
in Vegas says a p meal bacon sandwich. I have
no idea what that is, but there's a lot of
lot of different meat on there. It would appear. Nick
(20:54):
says it's got to be the poutine. That that is
the answer. Alf the Apono says because of the bird,
and the bird is the word. It's a great photo
there of the Godfather back in the day. There, what
a tremendous tribute there. He's probably sleeping right now. And
what else you have? Ike is going with a search
(21:15):
firm is the answer because of the great Canadian scenery
guests by King Rory. Who else? Freddy says, chose the
Blue Jays because they are known for choking. In Game
seven of the World Series, Frog Dog went with poutine,
so did Milkman. Mike a lot of poutine answers. Late
Night Drug Tester she liked the fun facts from Cowboy
(21:37):
John Brad in Windsor, Ontario, Donkey Sausage going with the
magic eight ball as his answer. JT. The Wingman says,
the amazing moosehead beer is the answer, Trucker Joe says,
because God told her. Inka Terra points out that the
daughter of this player who signed with the Blue Jays.
(21:59):
There Kazuma Akamado that his daughter recommended the Blue Jays
because of the proximity to Rochester, New York and inca
terror of course, yes, that's right. And Felexus, who has
not called yet this year, what do we have? Piller up,
Phil says a retractable roof. They didn't want to be cold.
Joe the ghost Hunter also went with Poutine, mentioned Michael
(22:20):
Lepreconni because of her favorite TV show Bluey Bluey, not
Cub Blue Blue Skip. The Zip got it right, but
he cheated so that the lorraina do you have an answer?
So his introductory news conference in Toronto, this infielder Kazuma
Okamado says his daughter helped him choose the Blue Jays
because of.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Blake, because of their lucky cricket. They put out all
the teams and then the lucky cricket got to go
land on whatever one they thought was going to be.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
The team, and it landed on.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
It's It's not right, no, actually not far off. According
to the player because his daughter or his daughter liked
the logo, because what of his what of his daughter?
What I his daughter said, I like that Rockies logo
(23:12):
or the White Sox logo, or I like the A's logo.
Fuck Dad, you'd be like, I don't know that that's
a good move. I don't know about that. Speaking of baseball,
I should congratulate. I didn't do this yesterday, so I
should congratulate Coop. A little big news in baseball, The
Angels have signed a big name free agent, Kirby Yates. Congratulations, tremendous,
(23:38):
tremendous move there, Kirby Yates said, one year contract. As
the Angels continue to sign washed up picture, what does
I said, Michael Lorenzen agreed to a deal with the
Blue Jays.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Did you see the picture they sent out of Kirby
Yates with the welcome to the Angels, the one that
they sent out?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
No, what did they send out?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
What uniform was he wanting?
Speaker 7 (23:56):
I just he looks as thrilled as I would be
too to be on the Angels.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, yeah, Well he was washed up with the Dodgers.
I thought he can't pitch anymore, So of course he
goes to the Angels at one more contract, one more contract,
and then you're you're good on that anyway. So I
wanted to mention this. I get distracted. I hate when
there's so the story happens every every week in the NFL,
(24:22):
people complaining about the the price, then your grimlins.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
You know, we're getting so close to the end of
the show. We're gonna need more callers to fill in
when Ben's not on. So if we have anyone who
wants to come on and jib jab, call up right now, Coop,
give the number.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
The number? Yeah, the number eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. WHOOA call up right now? Well you know
the number? Is that why you asked me to I
wanted you to talk.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
I can't be the only one talking while Ben's gremlins
are attacking.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
But yes, maybe I did forget the number for a second.
It's a long attack. This is a horribly long attack.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Wait a minute. I fought them back for the rating.
I fought them back, nib Now, Coop, do you have
when Eddie was here before the company whacked Eddie? We
just go to Eddie when the gremlins attack, and he
would do a Winnipeg Jets monologue. Do you have a
monologue coop on the Angels prepared? Could you do twenty
minutes on the Angels prepared?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
We would be better off just the dead air.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
No, you could. You could know, you could do like
five minutes on Darren Erstad, five on Tim Salmon, you know,
he could do a tribute to Chuck Finley. You could
go down the list there and then. But anyway, I
was ranching, oh, whatever to him.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Anyway, who's that?
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Somebody dropped the piano on him. So the streaming in
the NFL. In order to watch every NFL wild creaking,
and this is a story that pops up every couple
of weeks. In order to watch every NFL game this
weekend streaming, it will cost you about ninety dollars. About
ninety dollars to access all six games. And that's twelve
(26:08):
bucks to watch the Rams, Panthers and the forty nine
ers Eagles. That's fifteen bucks to watch the Packers and
the Bears, dumb Bears, twelve bucks to watch the Bills
and the Jags, and then twelve bucks to watch the
Chargers and the Patriots. How about this for the Monday
night game. To get that, that'll cost you thirty dollars
(26:31):
to watch the Texans and the Pittsburgh Sei. So the total,
if you do the math on that, eighty eight dollars
and ninety five cents to stream to watch all those games. Now,
you should follow the rules. There are other ways though.
There are other ways, and I'm not recommending you become
a member of the Pirates of the Caribbean, but there
are other ways to watch these games. The NFL had
(26:52):
always bragged about every fan has that access to every
game and all that stuff. I know this weekend, if
you have television like old school TV, you get I
think everything but the exclusive Peacock game, which is twelve bucks,
and that's the I think their game is the Chargers Patriots.
(27:13):
I think that's the only I guess why Amazon Prime too,
Amazon Prime would be would be that. But those games
are supposed to be on TV in the local market.
Supposedly they're in there. They're on the TV in the
local market, so there is that as well. We have
asked Ben coming up in a little bit. We did
a monologue about the Washington Wizards, which is probably why
(27:33):
the Gremlins attack.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I hope it's not just ask Coop and Lorena.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It could be maybe I'll go take a break, taken nap,
you know, Dan writes in he says the nation's capital
is all in on ice tray, the superstar clutch closer.
They've been desperate to land. Yeah, that's a good, good propaganda.
There By, Dan good Spind, the Charger fan commentator says
(28:04):
zero teams, zero teams would give up three first round
picks for Trey Young. They could do a lot better.
Uh could could could have gotten a lot better return,
But no three first round picks. Maybe a few years ago,
but every team knows Young doesn't play defense and just patched.
As I, I don't think you listened very well. You
(28:25):
might want to go to the ear doctor get a
hearing aid, because I pointed out a couple of years
ago when the Hawks were actually winning some games in
the playoffs and Trey Young was was putting up great status,
it was an all star, you conceivably would have gotten
three first round picks are meaningless, They don't mean anything.
They're worthless. The draft is horrific, Okay, it's it's unwatchable,
(28:45):
and the talent it just you can't you can't consume it.
It you can't depend on it. Uh so, uh there
there is that. And then a random message from JJ
from Renton, who writes in and says that a woman
tried to get him to assaulter. He said, that's a
(29:06):
very random message. JJ from written, I don't know what
that's all about, but hey, you know, whatever, you know,
you call up expand on that you can do it. Roberto,
the bus driver wearing his Dodger Onesie writes in our
old buddy Roberto who left the grind of overnight radio
for the Uh well, this guy, Roberto, you know, you know,
(29:29):
working in the sweatshop that is radio. He left for
the glamour of being a bus driver, he says, because
Bobachett is going to be a Dodger. He said, yeah,
I could. I could see that happening. They don't need
Bobachett though, you know they don't need him. You know
they're fine. I don't need They'll survive without Bobaschett. Am
(29:51):
I talking too much baseball? I don't get in trouble
for if I talk too much base I.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Thought you were talking Star Wars.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Star Wars, oh Kawhi because of bull oh Boba fat. Yeah,
there you go. Well you are You're a Disney Disney girl.
You are a Disney You're all about that Disney action boss.
You're all about that. It's but I look at the baseball.
I try to find stuff to talk about in baseball
every day. There's really not much I like. This week,
I'd say, can I do a part of a monologue
(30:19):
on Cutter Crawford agreeing to a contract with the Redsick? Now?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
I can't do that. The Rays acquired an outfielder named
Justin Henry Malloy from the Tigers for cash. I don't
think that's worthy of a mention. I don't think I
can do that. You Cubs acquired a pitcher from the Marlins,
Edward Cabrera, who's supposedly pretty good. But that doesn't really
(30:43):
move the needle. And it was like, well, you know,
my mantra is it's broadcasting. It's not narrow casting. So
do people really want to hear the masses me do
a deep dive on some random, right handed, middle of
the rotation starting pitcher And the answer is no. The
answer is no. And you can't even like talk about
(31:04):
the people the Marlins get because the Marlins don't try
to win, and so anyone that's good stays in Miami
for like three years and then eventually gets relocated reshuffled
around Major League Baseball. And that's just how that goes.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
That's just it.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
We're gonna ask Ben your questions and our answers Ask Ben,
so keep those questions coming in. I see there's like
two or three that are good. I see two or
three questions that are good, and then the other ones,
I'm like, oh, those aren't really good. There's some sporty
questions in there. Probably won't use those. Probably won't use those.
But we're gonna have ask Ben again. Hashtag ask Ben
(31:39):
on X, follow the Ben Mallard page that's at Ben Mallor.
That's at Ben Mallor. We'll get to all that. It's
asked Ben time minutes away, and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
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Show weekdays at two a I'm Eastern, eleven pm Pacific, Bill.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
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Ask Ben coming up in just seconds. We'd like to
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Speaker 4 (32:20):
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(32:42):
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(33:03):
at the very top, the very very top of your screen.
It's now time for.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Horry Harry.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Wait ask Ben. Twitter said, this is your questions on
Twitter now and wait we go's to ask Ben. Your
questions are answers for the rest of the hour. You
can send questions in on x at Ben Malor. That's
at Ben Mallor and hashtag asked Ben. Hashtag asked Benny.
(33:34):
Let's get to the reading of the questions Ben and
Friends and music by Lorena. Here's Cooper.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Look all right, we're gonna start off with a question
for you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Okay, I get to go first. Outsiding is that by right?
This is wonderful, amazing.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
All right? This is from Andy and Lino lakes Hi.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Andy.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
He wants to know do you ever get nervous about
certain subjects or talking about people on the air? U?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yes, anything that can get me fired. No, it was
very dicey for a few years back in like twenty
twenty and whatnot, and we were all walking on eggshells
here the cancel culture, which I guess is still out there.
I also don't like talking about death, but I've talked
(34:22):
a lot about death recently, done a lot of tributes
on my podcast and things like that. But I've never
been I don't think I'm very good at it. But
I've done a lot of eulogies recently because people I
know of Doc.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
Right, We're gonna go on to a question from the
King Rory, and the King Rory would like to know
what is the biggest animal that you think you can
fight with only your bare hands? And I guess we'll
start with lorena.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
Yes, well, Ben finds his grumlins and beats them to
a pulp. Maybe that's who Ben is gonna fight, is gremlins.
That would be good, right, Okay? I when I could
fight with my bear hands, even dogs intimidate me there?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Well, yeah, I mean I think a dog would I
don't think he would do. Well, let's go with Koala bear.
Koala bear, that's the biggest animal you think.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
I think the biggest animal I can fight with my
bare hands would be a milk cow. A milk cow, yes, now,
like I wouldn't want to because they're adorable, right, Like,
I mean it's like lay on top of that's all
it's got, right, I could I could fight that?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Uh? And Ben?
Speaker 7 (35:36):
We're gonna say Ben picks Uh?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yeah, because they're because no Koala bears sit in the
tree and they get high on the eucalyptus. Right, I
guess they're not. Actually, every time I say Kali bear
a bear, dummy, but koala I could take down a
koala because they get high all the time and they
just sit in the tree. I remember when they first.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Had also said Kuala bears just coincidence?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Did you say that? I did? I yeah, she did.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
I did.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Oh, really I did.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
I was hitting the I was hitting the thing here,
the thing of Jake, whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
The dude will take the same animal.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Ben. I wasn't listening, but no, yeah, because I remember
as a kid, my mom she was all sized. She
hiked it up San Diego's. They finally had kuala bears.
Oh my god, this is so excited. At that time
they come the Kuobra. So we went to the zoo
and it was the most disappointing thing because you couldn't
even see him because they were up in the trees
sleeping where he All I remember is the gift shop
(36:32):
had seventy five stuffed animals of a koala. That's all
I remember. What's next year, it's ask Ben and Gremlin's.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
All right, we'll do a uh, we'll do another question
for you, Ben, just because we don't know how much
longer we'll have you.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
This from this is from ferg Dog.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
He went fer Dog.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
He wants to know how many listeners have threatened you?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Uh? I have my life has been threatened? Uh boo?
Uh four times? Well, four times a lot, most for
different listeners. Yes, most of it's on social media.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
I can think of two of them, right, we got
we got Mark the full name guy probably blind Scott
blind Scott.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Uh and okay, you know so, actually it's five because
I've been threatened by fans in Cleveland, Oh yeah, Baltimore. Yeah,
they there's a Yeah, it's been bad. Houston. Houston. Also,
they apparently didn't like my commentary about the Astros. I
don't know why, Coop, I don't know why they got
(37:36):
so upset. I have no idea the cheating as one thousand,
oh first time in twenty twenty six, first time.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
All right, let's do a question from Donkey Sausage. Hi, Donkey,
he wants to know this for everybody. Are you related
or distantly related to anyone famous?
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Like what level of fame? Like people?
Speaker 2 (38:04):
I don't know what you that's somebody that somebody else
might have heard of.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
I'm trying to think, not to the top of my head.
I mean, I've been to places where there's like famous
people who are friends of the family, but not related
to this. So I don't, like Loraina, any famous relatives.
Speaker 7 (38:21):
No, not that I know of, Not that you know, Okay, Coop,
Michael Cooper is my uncle.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Oh, that's right, the Laker, the six man. Yes, and
you look just like.
Speaker 7 (38:33):
Him, very similar out the Aliano Piner wants to know,
have you ever locked yourself out of the house?
Speaker 2 (38:38):
How did you get back in?
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Uh? No, I've never locked myself out of the house.
I've locked myself out of obviously hotels. Cars. That's a
pain in the ass trying to get the car. You
get somebody to break into the car get you know.
That's back in the old days you could leave. You
could use your keys and leave them in the car
and the door couldn't get open. Now usually if you
(39:02):
have because they have the technology, But at the cars
the worst. What about you were ever locked out of
your house?
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Yeah, I have been a couple of times.
Speaker 6 (39:08):
Actually, yeah, We've done different ways of getting to like
pop the screen off. You're like, I'm sure one of
these windows is open. I've gone in through a bathroom window,
bedroom window.
Speaker 7 (39:16):
Yeah, I've had to do the same, and then you like,
actually you have to like almost break the screen.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
I've done a basement one too, one of those really
small basement ones.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
I am tiny, Okay, yeah, gotcha. That's ass man. Every
week
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