June 12, 2026 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Team USA Men's coach Mauricio Pochettino complaining about mandatory World Cup hydration breaks, why this price gouging from FIFA isn't a surprise, where this FIFA ticketing skullduggery is heading, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Great googly moogli.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number three hour, number three and a way
week ago.
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We get that glow of happiness.
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Here, the rare and appropriate World Cup hour in all
World Cup Malard monologue. We only do this for the
World Cup? Are you buying or selling? The US men's
coach Mauricio Pocatino complaining about mandatory World Cup hydration breaks
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that they added even when the weather's fine, they're still
doing it. And why are we pretending this FIFA price
gouging with the tickets is a surprise. That story's picking
up some steam. And where is the FIFA ticketing skullduggery headed?
I'll talk about all that and more right now. Don't
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where the callers are blind. They both teamed up. They said, Ben,
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Boy, I wish we had more right now, but apparently
we don't.
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And coming up later on we'll have Mallard to the
third degree.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
That'll be ex Yeah, time.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Shifted for ratings purposes, Mallor to the third degree, time shifted. Okay, Now,
we were going to attempt something that has never been
done before, Well, I shouldn't say that I did this
last World Cup, so it's I guess every four years
or so, I do this, and we're gonna see how
this goes. We're beta testing this. We're beta testing this.
So our lead this hour is from the aforementioned World Cup.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
That's right, lickety split. So this is not a test.
We'd like to learn all the affiliates. This is not
a test. We're actually doing this.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
So the story that I thought was the most interesting,
and maybe I'm the only one that believes this as
we begin the World Cup and actually began on Thursday.
So Mauricio Pocatino, I am told that is the head
coach of the US men's national team, and he has
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thrown a haymaker at the FIFA mandated World Cup hydration
break rule that is now a thing at this event.
He argued that the stoppages are unnecessary when conditions are
not extreme, and the World Cup has introduced a kind
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of a different rhythm, if you will, before teams have
even settled into the tournament, and so they're all worried
about player safety out of an abundance of caution. Remember
that from the pandemic you could literally do anything you
want in the world if you say out of an
abundance of caution, any ridiculous for gayzy rule you can
put in there as long as you say out of
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an abundance of caution. So they're really worried about player
welfare and the logic.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
How can you disagree with the logic the forced pause.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
According to this coach of teamsa Pokatino, the force pause
in each half changes.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
The way that the match kind of.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Plays out right, but the way it breathes. So that
is a good jumping off point. It's very similar to
taking into other sports, like in baseball they added the
pitch clock, which fundamentally changed the game. The Ghost Runner, like,
there's a lot of dumb stuff that man fraud put
in there. When soccer, everyone's bitching about this pause, this
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mandatory hydration break. So let us discuss the question are
you buying or selling the USA men's soccer coach Mauricio
Pocatino complaining about mandatory World Cup hydration break.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
So I've got NASCAR, sun kissed and psyop and we
will combine.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
All of these things together, and we are in the
eye of the storm, the eye of the storm.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
So, first of all, as you.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
May or may not know, we are what's known as
casuals when it comes to the sport of soccer. We're
not hard ohs. We don't obsess over soccer like everyone else.
We wrap ourselves in the flag. Every four years when
the World Cup comes around, there's a little extra rasthmatas
this year being that it's in North America. However, on
this one, the comments by Mauricio Pocatino, the guy that
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coaches the USA team.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I am guzzling the red, white and blue kool aid
on this grievance.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
And let's be very clear, Pokatino is not anti water
or anti safety. He's all about common sense. He's against
nonsense and the problem.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And I saw an interview.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I was on one of those dopey websites and when
I saw this online, I wasn't on social media.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I was on a website and they wrote this whole
big thing, the problem is the rigid nature.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Like that there's no wiggle room apparently on this that
the people over at FIFA mandatory hydration breaks.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And you know, I played.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Ayso when I was a kid who played soccer, and yeah,
I didn't like it because all you did was running around,
didn't score that much.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But I played it as a kid, and it's a
fluid sport.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
And they are stopping matches when the weather does not
demand it, like, for example, the game tonight in SoCal
at six o'clock. It's likely going to be in the
mid seventies if that hot in Inglewood where they're playing.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
The game, and so it's gonna be fine.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
It's perfect conditions like that's you don't need a hydration break.
So why does every safety measure conveniently create new ad slots?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I wonder why.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So they're not protecting players, they're not worried about the electrolytes.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
The players are getting people at FIFA.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
They're protecting the stream as in the revenue stream. Hello,
FIFA has essentially engineered a clever way to squeeze those
lucrative AD dollars on the broadcast because this has always
been the complaint. And I've been in a world where
I know some people who do TV.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I did a TV show for a couple of years,
not anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
But the thing about the TV world in Soccer Week,
the reason that it didn't really get a lot of
traction on TV is because they can't put enough commercials.
There's not enough pauses, so this is a way for
them to make a little extra money. And it's masquerading
as player welfare, which is bullshoy. Think of this like
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NASCAR sponsored pit stops. If you will, you know on NASCAR,
you get the pit stop, A're gonna go to pitt row.
FIFA calls it crucial hydration. And if you smell with
your nose, you can smell that does That's not good,
that's rotting, that's that's moldy. That's moldy. And obviously the
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TV people are very excited.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
That's prime inventory. It's a beautifully cynical puzzle, and I
love cynical. And so the coach here again, the guy from.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
A Temosa Pocatino, he's completely right in my analysis here
to call out their charade. You should never have a
rule with no wiggle room, like common sense should apply.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Here, and it's not. And the reason it's not.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
He's calling out these charades because they're sacrificing the natural
flow of the what do you what do you people
call soccer? The beautiful game you call I think you
call it that, right? And so you have mandatory not
hydration breaks, commercial breaks, like they're not playing in Death Valley,
They're playing in.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Inglewood, which is much different.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Right, And FIFA could sell I'm telling you, if they
could sell oxygen, the people at FIFA, we would have
mandatory breathing pauses so they could sell you more oxygen. Secondly, wait,
there's more, believe it not more from the World Cup.
So this story has been bouncing around and this involves
you and I and it's the people at FIFA getting
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roasted for these high priced tickets, like the whole strategy.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Let me explain, I'm not explaining this well.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So, the people at FIFA have been accused of holding
back tickets to artificially create scarcity.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
On the ticket market.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
They launched their own resale platform with a fifteen percent
fee for both the people buying tickets and the people
selling the tickets, which means, if my malord math is correct,
they're making thirty percent on every ticket sale because they're
taking fifteen percent from the seller fifteen percent from the buyer,
that works out to thirty percent. And now, as a
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result of this brilliant strategy that some bozo came up
with in a boardroom, somewhere they're.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Still I saw the number.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
I think there's one hundred and eighty thousand tickets available
for purchase for the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Our already started. Hello, one hundred and eighty.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Thousand tickets have not been sold yet for the World Cup.
So the question, why are we pretending that this FIFA
price gouging is some kind of surprise.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
That's what it is. Call what it is. I do
the old duck test.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
If it walks like a duck, it makes noises like
it there's a duck of coause we are not surprised.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
We are not surprised.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
However, it seems like many of the media elites out
there seem absolutely gobsmacked and thunderstruck that this could happen.
And it's artificial scarcity. It is not a glitch. It
is not a problem with the what you might call it.
It is the system that they came up with. They
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created the FOMO and figured, hey, people will pay top
dollar because the fear of missing outs, like once in
a lifetime type situation if you're in North America and
these things come that off. And so they're like, okay,
so FOMO will limit the amount of tickets and then
we'll sell the antidote at a markup because of the FOMO.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
And honestly, FIFA's been.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Fifa ing, if that's the right way to say it,
since before they even existed.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Like the math on this is just great again.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Fifteen percent fee for the buyer of the ticket, fifteen
percent fee for the seller.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That is a classic shakedown, is it not? Am I
wrong on that? That seems like a shakedown?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
And FIFA created scarcity the way Universal Studios in Hollywood
create superheroes.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Out of finnair, just out of thin air.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
They held back tickets like they were releasing a limited
sneaker drop. And at the very end of this and
we're not even at the end, but at this point
in the story, FIFA they didn't sell enough tickets. They
thought they could pull this off. They squeezed the fans
like sun a sunkiss, you know how they squeeze the
orange just to get that nice juice. So that's what
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they did. And they want you to think that this
is like a victimless crime, except anyone that bought a
ticket and overpaid for the ticket, You're like, well, wait
a minute, what did I do?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Get zooks? All right?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Final thought from thirty thousand feet in the sky. So
the soccer hustle is obviously not over. They have a
ton of tickets they still have to sell. So let's
look up the Thomas Guide map on how this is
going to play out. The question where is this FIFA
ticketing skullduggery headed? And I'll tell you where it's headed
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to a courtroom near you. FIFA, as we said, they
did not sell the tickets. They thought they were gonna
be able to sell, and they didn't just sell the tickets.
It's this whole thing feels like a CIA style psyop.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
It's like a.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Psychological experiment of scarcity. And they're not alone. Now I'm
ripping FIFA. This goes on in a lot of the
major sports operations called dynamic pricing, which is a way
to f over the customer. And we call it let's
see how much we can shake out of.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
The roubs, that's what we call it.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
And you don't get to hide inventory and call it
a phased release. That's called deception. And so this is
not again, it's not a misunderstanding the fans that bought tickets,
the soccer hardcore people.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
If you ended up paying top dollar for this.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You were you got missile, right, that's what happened, right,
you got missiled. And that's just the way it is, pressured, manipulated,
whatever you want to say. It's a multinational corporation, FIFA,
and you know, testing how far they can push the
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And this is really about screwing over Americans, right, you know,
ain't our friends in Canada.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I don't think about Mexico as much.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
But from what I've read, FIFA's defense is essentially, as
I understand it, we didn't mislead customers.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
We just didn't tell them everything, which I.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Believe is still a lie. Right, a lie biomission is
still a lie. And it's like, don't urinate on my
leg and tell me that that's market driven pricing. So
FIFA wanted dynamic pricing, and they're about to get dynamic subpoenis.
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Multiple states attorney generals, places like Jersey, California, New York
and other places are already pressing FIFA, and this is
going to end up in a courtroom. You're apparently not
able to run a global ticket scam and then act
shocked when some attorney generals are like, hey, we have
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a nice invitation to come to our little speakeasy it's
called the Courtroom, and we can figure out this little
cat and mouse game that you've been playing.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
It is the Bad Mahlor Show.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
As we are getting the party started, and what better
way to continue the party.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And we have Cooper. Let's get to the big third
degree time ship for ratings. How about that to the
third degree. This is one big Ben gets grilled Coop
dal loop.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Ben that Seattle Seahawks are not favored to win the
Super Bowl, They're not even favored to win their own division.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Are you trying to upset no strudenus. Is that what
you're trying to do.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Look, I'm just stating the facts.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's right, that's a fact.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
No strthenas put that you go pipe and smoking, no
Struthenas with Bigfoot.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
They're actually three teams that have better odds to win
the Super Bowl than the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You know why, Sam Darnold, that's what.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Well Seahawks defensive lineman Leonard Williams said.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
I think I'd be lying if.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
There wasn't a little extra motivation from hearing that type
of stuff. So there's extra chips on their shoulder. Ben,
Do you think this dish suspect by the odds makers
is actually a good thing for Seattle.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
No, it doesn't matter because they're not as good as
they were last year.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
The roster's not as good.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
They also coop a loop, had the winners curse the
championship hangover, and they're not gonna.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Be able to get it done. Sam Donald's gonna revert
into Sam Donald. The defense won't be as good.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
And more importantly, they're not gonna get an extra two
points from the referees like they did against the Rams
in Seattle with that Fugaysey two point play, which the
play was over and they just went back and gave
Seattle two points, and I crunched the numbers. Seattle's gonna
need a whole touchdown now. They forget two points in
order for them to get back to the Super Bowl.
They're gonna need a full touchdown next.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
According to recent reports, the Chicago Bulls have narrowed down
their head coaching search to four finalists. They are Micah Nori.
It's an assistant head coach for the Timberwolves, Thiago Splitter,
Ryan Schmidt, another assistant head coach with the Hawks and
wes Uns.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Ben If you were Chicago's Bulls fan. Would you be
excited about any of these names?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Hell? No, at least Unseld. I've heard of you. I
heard his dad obviously back in the day. I like
that guy, Norri.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Didn't he fill in for Minnesota a couple of years
ago in the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Mur their coach? He had a bad back or something?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
That is that George's son, George?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
That's right, Yes, he talks about kem trails in the huddle.
When I go with I never heard of any of
those people. But I'll go with that guy because I
remember he gave us a good SoundBite when he filled
in his.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
The Timberwolves coach a couple of years ago. So I'll
go with Nori. Al right.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Next, all right, Ben, we have conflicting reports about what
Lebron James wants to do. We have one guy saying
that he actually prefers to stay with the Lakers because
his family is settled down in Los Angeles, And then
we have another guy saying that he has curiosity about
playing with Steph Curry.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Which way would you lean, Ben?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I believe he's going to Cleveland. I'll end on you.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Still you're still on the Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Yeah, that's the you know, that's the Disney story. Lebron's
all about making movies and all that. So the storybook
is you go back to the caves, you win a
championship again, fade the black.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
That's it, game over. So I'm going with Cleveland go.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Why would they there was a rumor that the war
is gonna get Kawhi Leonard and Lebron James to why
they want to make sure the doctors are busy, Like,
what are you doing anyway?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I don't know. How do we do cool?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
How passed it is?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
That's the letter.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
All right?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Time after the Mallor Riddle of the day, the Mallord
Riddle of the day. This is the hour of the
World Cup. Here and here's the Mallor Riddle of the day,
with lane jokes coming up later in the hour.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
So.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
A World Cup reporter went viral after walking out in
the middle of live TV a live TV broadcast. It's
a blank again a World Cup. Keep it, keep it clean, kids,
it's a family show. A lot of kids listen here
at this time.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
No, they don't.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
A World Cup report went viral after walking out in
the middle of live television on a broadcast to blank.
That is the malor riddle of the day. The answer,
We'll get to it, and we will.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Do it next.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
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Speaker 1 (23:03):
On Fox the Hour of the World Cup.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
So far, so good, nobody nobody got injured, nobody's been hurt.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
So far. We'll keep it going.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And if you want to chime in on the X Machine,
that's at Ben mahlor I saw the people at FIFA
humiliated as the match between South Korea and Chechia or
whatever it's called. They had tons of empty seats, tons
of empty seats. So that's what happens. They miscalculated the market.
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You can say hello to Loraina, Lorena, FSR Tech Queen
Hi Bell, don't talk to me and Cooper Loop all
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So please please.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Act accordingly.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
All right, back to what we go and we'll get
back to the calls. Also, lame jokes of the hour,
lame jokes of this hour, and about about ten.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Minutes or so, we'll have that. We look forward to
the lame jokes of the week, and.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
We did have the first ever World Cup Pick them
with the hopper and the hopper Hop on, Hop off
the hopper. Kathy in Madison wants to answer the riddle
of the day, if you just turned on the magic
audio box. A World Cup reporter went viral after walking
out in the middle of live TV on a broadcast
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to blank.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
What did they do?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Let's see does anyone know we go to the Great Unwashed.
Femi says, to go smoke a sig, all right, to flirt.
That's from Eileen in San Francisco. To hold a sign
up saying boycott the World Cup hosted by USA, USA USA.
That's Kathy in Madison. To drop a heater from the
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Sawman in Mississippi. To go to Yosemite like the kids
from nine oh two to one oh did. This is
a very important episode for fer Dog, who watched that
episode today and he's mentioned it now.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Twice during the show.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Alf the alien opiter says, to go powder their nose.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yes, they're little.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Powdered sugar courtesy Flusher says a left to punch blind
Scott in the mouth.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Eat a baloney sandwich from Rob?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Can we do a wellness check on Rob the goat
Man into Moine? I don't think he ripped Robbie the
Mariner fan everything, okay? See to look at the mountains
from King Rory? What else he left to pay? The
parking meter from Donkey's Sausage. That's his answer, Feed his
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feed his dogs from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Go drink
some gasoline from screwed.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Wow, he's in the younger demo.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
He's getting older by the day to walk like an
Egyptian guessed by JT the Wingman outside Knoxville, Tennessee el
Mo after dark. Everyone loves Elmo unless they want to
kill Elmo. D is for dancing dangerously. What else do
we have about Page Dan? Let's see hear Trucker Joe
said something about the alphabet. I don't want to get
(26:25):
a call Trucker Joe's Friday. I want to make sure
my bosses don't call me, so I'm probably not gonna
read that whole thing. What else do we have about
Page Dan left the broadcast to go tork from Douglas
in Mississippi. Fat Daddy says he left Live TVY to
cut his toenails. He had a hangnail, That's what he said.
(26:45):
Our buddy Timmy from Busco Indiana. Timmy, you're gonna become
a Bears fan now? No, okay, he walked out to
get a mandatory hydration break. That's from Tim or Timmy
rather In Busco, Indiana and Lorena, a World Cup reporter
has gone viral for walking out in the middle of
(27:07):
live TV a live broadcast to.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Blank check for better service.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Is that correct? Let's see here. Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
No, it turns out an Argentinian journalist abandon his post
in front of the microphone in order to get a
photo with Shakira.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
How about that? The pop icon is that would you
walk away from live TV to shake hips with Shakira? Yes,
that's worth it, right, that's worth it.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
You can get another job if you need to.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yeah, exactly Shakira. And how many how many times you
can have a chance to be around Shakira? Come on,
was at the game in Mexico City before the opening match,
and I guess she was there to perform.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I did not see any of this.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Was out there doing her thing, and this guy saw
and said, wait a minute, I gotta get a nice photo.
So better photo that guy with Shakira or Ernie Johnson
with Taylor Swift the other night at Madison Square Garden.
I'm going I'm gonna go Ernie Johnson with Taylor Swift.
(28:21):
Not that I wouldn't want a photo with Shakira either,
but you know, let's go to the phones. Let's say
hello to Andrew in Bakersfield, California. Hello Andrew, Welcome.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Hey Ben.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
I bought a hybrid this month congratulations, thank you. It's green.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
And uh but don't.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You don't you I thought you were I thought you
were blind.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
That's correct, yeah, I you know, I normally get the
Sativa model, but this month I went with the hybrid.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
So all right, lame jokes are actually there about ten
minutes not now?
Speaker 7 (29:07):
So you say you played ayfl soccer and prorection, I
did not play baseball in high school, but I did
grow up playing soccer. I have this thought, Ben, Okay,
you know pot is legal in Amsterdam, right, so my
question is in how many countries around the world is
pot legal? Because in the United States, and is it
(29:31):
legal in Canada? Is it legal in Mexico? Because in
the United States many places it is.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Andrew, I feel like they have this machine for this.
It's called the Google or AI or something like. You
can have all those in like what are you doing here?
Like you're wasting our time age. It's bad job by you.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
Okay. So they come to imagine because Steve Doreno and
Davis were talking about foreigners coming to America, visitors people
and talking about taco bell and loving it and all
that stuff. I thought to myself, how awesome would it
be to go to California and you know pot's legal.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
But yes, I'm sure all the tourists from Iran are
very excited.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
And they're very happy that they can have some weed
when they come to La.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Okay, thank you, Andrew.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Andrew's really going for that worst call of the year,
and he's really trying to settle in on that.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
He's got some.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Tough competition with Dorko and Poppy and San Diego.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
He doesn't even touch dorco A.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Dorko's next level. He's serious, though, he sent me, I
haven't looked at it. I have a bunch of email
I got to get to. But he sent me something.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
About he came up with the logo for the mall
or Palooza. He wants to make some like hats and
shirts and stuff like that. So it's apparently going to
do it.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Isn't the shipping from Hawaii going to be too much?
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Though?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I guess you could do it remotely or whatever from
from the States. Let's go to easy, let's get easy
with it. Hello. Is he welcome in La? What's up? Hey?
Speaker 10 (31:01):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Ben?
Speaker 9 (31:03):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (31:03):
Love your show man? First time call her. I wanted
to say, I feel like you're my brother from another mother,
even though I'm Mexican. Maybe you're white.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We're all human beings in this world. Izzy, We're all related,
we all we all have the same crap. We gotta
deal with, right, we gotta get through life, you know,
pay bills, all that stuff.
Speaker 10 (31:23):
Yes, I just wanted to excite in on the World Cup.
Uh ticket prices. Man, just wanted to say, I had
to skip my child support paintings for this month.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
The kid will understand when they're older, you know. Pop
said to go see a soccer game. Come on, man,
what's wrong with you? You don't need you need diapers?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
What's come on?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Please?
Speaker 10 (31:49):
Yeah? So, yeah, that's all I wanted to say, brother, man,
you know.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
What you got A good night, man, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Isy the Great Easy making his debut. When if he
becomes a regular, get Easy with It. That'll be the name, right,
Does anyone disagree that's a good name, Get Easy with It?
I think that's great name.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Get got it? Thank you? No one's ever done that before?
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Ken Is he with it?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
NOA Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Let's go to Poppy in San Diego. Speak of the
caller and he shall appear. Hello Poppy in San Diego.
Speaker 10 (32:20):
Hello Ben Mallard.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
I'm going to talk about the Wolf Cup, and we're
gonna say people want to hear the World Cup picks,
Poppy stake, so we're gonna get onto it.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
You know what I you know what I love, Poppy
is you have called.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
This show for many, many years and we have consistently
told you nobody wants to hear the picks, and you
have You're still doing. You are so stubborn. You're the
most stubborn man I've ever met. And I love that
about you.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
Oh thanks, Well, people do want to hear about the
World Cups. You're talking about the World Cup, so uh,
you're big boss every one.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
So let's go on to the Wolf all right, I'm
going to set a clock here. I'm gonna have a
Poppy timer. Let me go around the room here, Lorena,
hold on a set you know, cool your jets, Lorena?
How long should I allow Poppy to pollute the airwaves
of Fox Sports Radio? Very powerful platform? How long should
(33:12):
I give them? Should I give them like a minute?
Thirty seconds? Two minutes?
Speaker 5 (33:17):
You I was thinking thirty seven seconds?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Thirty seven? Coop?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Do you agree or district? We should I give more
or less? Thirty seven seconds. Lorena says, oh jeez, that's
like absolutely great.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
What's that? What's what are you saying, Poppy?
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Oh you're saying, Oh you're acting Coop. I thought you
were working me.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
No, you would say thirty seven minutes is what you
would say.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
No, No, I say I'll say like at least two
minutes because people want to.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Hear the rock.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Oh god, no, that's I mean two minutes. I'll quit.
I'll walk out. I'm done. That's it. This is the
last show. Two minutes.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
I'm done.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I'll give you you know what, I like you. I'm
gonna give you thirty nine seconds. How about that?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Thirty nine seconds?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Okay, I'll give you. Ay, don't question me. I'll take
those seconds away. Thirty nine seconds. I'm gonna I'm gonna
say three to two one, you're on your way.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
That's it. You're gonna blow you up after thurday.
Speaker 11 (34:11):
Can I get a get requests? So bro, if you're
gonna do that, can World Cup five? Can you put
the chequa music, the one that she's saying in Mexico
City World Cup fives?
Speaker 5 (34:20):
You know, come on, it's gonna cut into your time.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah, it's gonna right, now we're down at thirty thirty
eight seconds. Now thirty eight sous very because you you
didn't listen to me thirty eight seconds. We gave it
an extra second. You're three two one. You're on your
way and go.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Tomorrow the Wolf Cup.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
That a good game.
Speaker 6 (34:39):
It's gonna be in so so five guys, we got
team you want to say by the why we're gonna
go with us, say we're.
Speaker 11 (34:45):
Gonna take you even money.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
On Saturday games.
Speaker 11 (34:50):
Uh, there's a couple of games on there, but we're
gonna go on the revenge game of.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Revenge twenty seconds, twenty seconds.
Speaker 11 (34:56):
On the other World Cup they lost to Morocco, we're
gonna go with on the Saturday Broz's gonna win.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
And on on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Games ten seconds, ten seconds.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
We're gonna go with fall In beating Japan. Holland.
Speaker 11 (35:09):
WA's out with another Lands team Holland. I really love
them and how they're gonna play for the best day
number one, all right?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Times up? Times up, times up, times up, times up?
Oh man, Poppy, you.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Could have you could have done that in ten seconds
to say I like the USA, I like you Just
name the teams you like that's it.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
Oh okay, I like you.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
We've got big bangs, lame jokes of the week.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
We'll get to that and we will do it. There's poppy,
we'll do it next.
Speaker 8 (35:43):
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Speaker 1 (36:26):
Thank you, Knock Knock, who's there? Blame we blame wee too.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
It's big Ben's lame joke of the week that it
is is our buddy Weed Man there in Florida, Billy.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Yello, Billy, I love you all right, Billy. Wow?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Listen, did you know that the excitement of the FIFA
World Cup is now streaming live on Fox one?
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Did you know that?
Speaker 7 (36:52):
Wow?
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Yeah?
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I did?
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Yeah, the official English streaming platform to catch every unforgettable moment.
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(37:17):
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All right, you ready for some jokes weed Man?
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (37:59):
Name you laugh?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
All right?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
These are actual jokes by actual listeners, care of Ben
Maler Show at gmail dot com. Who is weed Man's
favorite basketball player? Victor weed Man? Yama?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Is your favorite?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
That's Brendan from Boston. Did you hear weed Man and
Lisa are the VIP guests for Taylor Swift's Madison Square
Garden wedding.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I bet you would leave Lisa's online.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Well, apparently weed Man says it'll be one of the
high points.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Of his life.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
That's Tom in Indiana.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
All right. Did you hear that weed Man hip? He
got arrested for apparently fooling around on a plane. How
about that week?
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Yeah, yeah, he was arrested for high jacking. I guess
is the term there?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
That's at George in Yavaldi, Texas. He's a teacher. When's
he when's the last time you were on a plain?
Weed Man?
Speaker 7 (39:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Years ago, A long time ago, like in the two
thousands or before two thousands.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
Yeah, I'm thinking of two thousands.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
What look I got you?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
What did weed Man yell when he saw the video
of Ben Stiller ignoring a homeless guy outside the garden?
Speaker 1 (39:19):
What Ben, I hate you? That's from Eric in Kansas.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
John be ready, we've met John from Young cent O Houses.
What is the greatest lame joke of all time? What
weed man looking in the mirror? What does what? What
does weed man exemplify? What does weed Man exemplify?
Speaker 7 (39:41):
What?
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Everything that is currently wrong in society? That's John and
Young Santa. That's not nice?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
And how how ugly? How ugly is weed Man? How
ugly he's.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
So ugly he trick or treats through the phone, is
what he does through the phone.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Go all right, I think that's all we have time for.
All right, thank you, weave Man. Lisa
Great googly moogli.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number three hour, number three and a way
week ago.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We get that glow of happiness.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Here, the rare and appropriate World Cup hour in all
World Cup Malard monologue. We only do this for the
World Cup? Are you buying or selling? The US men's
coach Mauricio Pocatino complaining about mandatory World Cup hydration breaks
(00:30):
that they added even when the weather's fine, they're still
doing it. And why are we pretending this FIFA price
gouging with the tickets is a surprise. That story's picking
up some steam. And where is the FIFA ticketing skullduggery headed?
I'll talk about all that and more right now. Don't
forget about the Fifth Hour podcast as you ride out
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Fifth Hour Podcast. But here is our number three also
lame jokes. This hour here it is you get a break,
You get a break, You get a break, you get
a break. Well come in the beginning of another hour
of the Ben Malors Show, we.
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Live from the kitchen. We are the last chef.
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Standing, gaaranteed human on the world famous Fox Sports Radio
studios where Lucky Tony said, Ben, can you help the
people save some money on guests? I said, you know what,
Lucky Tony, I like you.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I wish you would call more.
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Yes now, hal pal, our buddy, hal Pal, He said, Ben,
I'm really excited about the World Cup and two percent
chance agreed from Alabama and they said, can you let
the people know that home depot's also excited. I said
it was very odd that listeners like hal Pal and
Chance would want to know about home depot. As long
as you're okay with that, I said yeah. And then
Eileen in San Francisco was very excited, so was Kathy
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Build it like Beckham. That's a great line.
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don't miss Team USA USA first game of the group stage,
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which I'm told is kind of important. That'll be later
today nine pm Eastern and that's six pm on the
West coast there in the Pacific time zone. On Fox,
it's USA versus Paraguay live from Sofi Stadium.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
In La La Land.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And then blind Dan, of all people, I said, blind Dan,
I didn't know you could email your blind Dan from
Saint Louis and he reached out. And then Andrew, who's
also blind. All of our listeners are blind. Andrew in Bakersfield,
where the callers are blind. They both teamed up. They said, Ben,
some people don't know how they can find the game,
and I said.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You know what they need. The excitement of the FIFA
World Cup is now streaming live.
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to watch Team USA's first game of the group stage.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Again. Later today at nine pm.
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Eastern six pm Pacific, it's USA versus Paraguay live from
so far in Los Angeles, actually in Englewood. Download Fox
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Speaker 1 (04:52):
Boy, I wish we had more right now, but apparently
we don't.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And coming up later on we'll have Mallard to the
third degree.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
That'll be ex Yeah, time.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Shifted for ratings purposes, Mallor to the third degree, time shifted. Okay, Now,
we were going to attempt something that has never been
done before, Well, I shouldn't say that I did this
last World Cup, so it's I guess every four years
or so, I do this, and we're gonna see how
this goes. We're beta testing this. We're beta testing this.
So our lead this hour is from the aforementioned World Cup.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
That's right, lickety split. So this is not a test.
We'd like to learn all the affiliates. This is not
a test. We're actually doing this.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
So the story that I thought was the most interesting,
and maybe I'm the only one that believes this as
we begin the World Cup and actually began on Thursday.
So Mauricio Pocatino, I am told that is the head
coach of the US men's national team, and he has
(05:53):
thrown a haymaker at the FIFA mandated World Cup hydration
break rule that is now a thing at this event.
He argued that the stoppages are unnecessary when conditions are
not extreme, and the World Cup has introduced a kind
(06:15):
of a different rhythm, if you will, before teams have
even settled into the tournament, and so they're all worried
about player safety out of an abundance of caution. Remember
that from the pandemic you could literally do anything you
want in the world if you say out of an
abundance of caution, any ridiculous for gayzy rule you can
put in there as long as you say out of
(06:36):
an abundance of caution. So they're really worried about player
welfare and the logic.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
How can you disagree with the logic the forced pause.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
According to this coach of teamsa Pokatino, the force pause
in each half changes.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
The way that the match kind of.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Plays out right, but the way it breathes. So that
is a good jumping off point. It's very similar to
taking into other sports, like in baseball they added the
pitch clock, which fundamentally changed the game. The Ghost Runner, like,
there's a lot of dumb stuff that man fraud put
in there. When soccer, everyone's bitching about this pause, this
(07:19):
mandatory hydration break. So let us discuss the question are
you buying or selling the USA men's soccer coach Mauricio
Pocatino complaining about mandatory World Cup hydration break.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
So I've got NASCAR, sun kissed and psyop and we
will combine.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
All of these things together, and we are in the
eye of the storm, the eye of the storm.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
So, first of all, as you.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
May or may not know, we are what's known as
casuals when it comes to the sport of soccer. We're
not hard ohs. We don't obsess over soccer like everyone else.
We wrap ourselves in the flag. Every four years when
the World Cup comes around, there's a little extra rasthmatas
this year being that it's in North America. However, on
this one, the comments by Mauricio Pocatino, the guy that
(08:15):
coaches the USA team.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I am guzzling the red, white and blue kool aid
on this grievance.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
And let's be very clear, Pokatino is not anti water
or anti safety. He's all about common sense. He's against
nonsense and the problem.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And I saw an interview.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I was on one of those dopey websites and when
I saw this online, I wasn't on social media.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I was on a website and they wrote this whole
big thing, the problem is the rigid nature.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Like that there's no wiggle room apparently on this that
the people over at FIFA mandatory hydration breaks.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
And you know, I played.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Ayso when I was a kid who played soccer, and yeah,
I didn't like it because all you did was running around,
didn't score that much.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But I played it as a kid, and it's a
fluid sport.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
And they are stopping matches when the weather does not
demand it, like, for example, the game tonight in SoCal
at six o'clock. It's likely going to be in the
mid seventies if that hot in Inglewood where they're playing.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
The game, and so it's gonna be fine.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
It's perfect conditions like that's you don't need a hydration break.
So why does every safety measure conveniently create new ad slots?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I wonder why.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So they're not protecting players, they're not worried about the electrolytes.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
The players are getting people at FIFA.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
They're protecting the stream as in the revenue stream. Hello,
FIFA has essentially engineered a clever way to squeeze those
lucrative AD dollars on the broadcast because this has always
been the complaint. And I've been in a world where
I know some people who do TV.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I did a TV show for a couple of years,
not anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
But the thing about the TV world in Soccer Week,
the reason that it didn't really get a lot of
traction on TV is because they can't put enough commercials.
There's not enough pauses, so this is a way for
them to make a little extra money. And it's masquerading
as player welfare, which is bullshoy. Think of this like
(10:28):
NASCAR sponsored pit stops. If you will, you know on NASCAR,
you get the pit stop, A're gonna go to pitt row.
FIFA calls it crucial hydration. And if you smell with
your nose, you can smell that does That's not good,
that's rotting, that's that's moldy. That's moldy. And obviously the
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TV people are very excited.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
That's prime inventory. It's a beautifully cynical puzzle, and I
love cynical. And so the coach here again, the guy from.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
A Temosa Pocatino, he's completely right in my analysis here
to call out their charade. You should never have a
rule with no wiggle room, like common sense should apply.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Here, and it's not. And the reason it's not.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
He's calling out these charades because they're sacrificing the natural
flow of the what do you what do you people
call soccer? The beautiful game you call I think you
call it that, right? And so you have mandatory not
hydration breaks, commercial breaks, like they're not playing in Death Valley,
They're playing in.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Inglewood, which is much different.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Right, And FIFA could sell I'm telling you, if they
could sell oxygen, the people at FIFA, we would have
mandatory breathing pauses so they could sell you more oxygen. Secondly, wait,
there's more, believe it not more from the World Cup.
So this story has been bouncing around and this involves
you and I and it's the people at FIFA getting
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roasted for these high priced tickets, like the whole strategy.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Let me explain, I'm not explaining this well.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So, the people at FIFA have been accused of holding
back tickets to artificially create scarcity.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
On the ticket market.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
They launched their own resale platform with a fifteen percent
fee for both the people buying tickets and the people
selling the tickets, which means, if my malord math is correct,
they're making thirty percent on every ticket sale because they're
taking fifteen percent from the seller fifteen percent from the buyer,
that works out to thirty percent. And now, as a
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result of this brilliant strategy that some bozo came up
with in a boardroom, somewhere they're.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Still I saw the number.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
I think there's one hundred and eighty thousand tickets available
for purchase for the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Our already started. Hello, one hundred and eighty.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Thousand tickets have not been sold yet for the World Cup.
So the question, why are we pretending that this FIFA
price gouging is some kind of surprise.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
That's what it is. Call what it is. I do
the old duck test.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
If it walks like a duck, it makes noises like
it there's a duck of coause we are not surprised.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
We are not surprised.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
However, it seems like many of the media elites out
there seem absolutely gobsmacked and thunderstruck that this could happen.
And it's artificial scarcity. It is not a glitch. It
is not a problem with the what you might call it.
It is the system that they came up with. They
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created the FOMO and figured, hey, people will pay top
dollar because the fear of missing outs, like once in
a lifetime type situation if you're in North America and
these things come that off. And so they're like, okay,
so FOMO will limit the amount of tickets and then
we'll sell the antidote at a markup because of the FOMO.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
And honestly, FIFA's been.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Fifa ing, if that's the right way to say it,
since before they even existed.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Like the math on this is just great again.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Fifteen percent fee for the buyer of the ticket, fifteen
percent fee for the seller.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That is a classic shakedown, is it not? Am I
wrong on that? That seems like a shakedown?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
And FIFA created scarcity the way Universal Studios in Hollywood
create superheroes.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Out of finnair, just out of thin air.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
They held back tickets like they were releasing a limited
sneaker drop. And at the very end of this and
we're not even at the end, but at this point
in the story, FIFA they didn't sell enough tickets. They
thought they could pull this off. They squeezed the fans
like sun a sunkiss, you know how they squeeze the
orange just to get that nice juice. So that's what
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they did. And they want you to think that this
is like a victimless crime, except anyone that bought a
ticket and overpaid for the ticket, You're like, well, wait
a minute, what did I do?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Get zooks? All right?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Final thought from thirty thousand feet in the sky. So
the soccer hustle is obviously not over. They have a
ton of tickets they still have to sell. So let's
look up the Thomas Guide map on how this is
going to play out. The question where is this FIFA
ticketing skullduggery headed? And I'll tell you where it's headed
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to a courtroom near you. FIFA, as we said, they
did not sell the tickets. They thought they were gonna
be able to sell, and they didn't just sell the tickets.
It's this whole thing feels like a CIA style psyop.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
It's like a.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Psychological experiment of scarcity. And they're not alone. Now I'm
ripping FIFA. This goes on in a lot of the
major sports operations called dynamic pricing, which is a way
to f over the customer. And we call it let's
see how much we can shake out of.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
The roubs, that's what we call it.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
And you don't get to hide inventory and call it
a phased release. That's called deception. And so this is
not again, it's not a misunderstanding the fans that bought tickets,
the soccer hardcore people.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
If you ended up paying top dollar for this.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You were you got missile, right, that's what happened, right,
you got missiled. And that's just the way it is, pressured, manipulated,
whatever you want to say. It's a multinational corporation, FIFA,
and you know, testing how far they can push the
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And this is really about screwing over Americans, right, you know,
ain't our friends in Canada.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I don't think about Mexico as much.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
But from what I've read, FIFA's defense is essentially, as
I understand it, we didn't mislead customers.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
We just didn't tell them everything, which I.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Believe is still a lie. Right, a lie biomission is
still a lie. And it's like, don't urinate on my
leg and tell me that that's market driven pricing. So
FIFA wanted dynamic pricing, and they're about to get dynamic subpoenis.
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Multiple states attorney generals, places like Jersey, California, New York
and other places are already pressing FIFA, and this is
going to end up in a courtroom. You're apparently not
able to run a global ticket scam and then act
shocked when some attorney generals are like, hey, we have
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a nice invitation to come to our little speakeasy it's
called the Courtroom, and we can figure out this little
cat and mouse game that you've been playing.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
It is the Bad Mahlor Show.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
As we are getting the party started, and what better
way to continue the party.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And we have Cooper. Let's get to the big third
degree time ship for ratings. How about that to the
third degree. This is one big Ben gets grilled Coop
dal loop.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Ben that Seattle Seahawks are not favored to win the
Super Bowl, They're not even favored to win their own division.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Are you trying to upset no strudenus. Is that what
you're trying to do.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Look, I'm just stating the facts.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's right, that's a fact.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
No strthenas put that you go pipe and smoking, no
Struthenas with Bigfoot.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
They're actually three teams that have better odds to win
the Super Bowl than the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You know why, Sam Darnold, that's what.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Well Seahawks defensive lineman Leonard Williams said.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
I think I'd be lying if.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
There wasn't a little extra motivation from hearing that type
of stuff. So there's extra chips on their shoulder. Ben,
Do you think this dish suspect by the odds makers
is actually a good thing for Seattle.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
No, it doesn't matter because they're not as good as
they were last year.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
The roster's not as good.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
They also coop a loop, had the winners curse the
championship hangover, and they're not gonna.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Be able to get it done. Sam Donald's gonna revert
into Sam Donald. The defense won't be as good.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
And more importantly, they're not gonna get an extra two
points from the referees like they did against the Rams
in Seattle with that Fugaysey two point play, which the
play was over and they just went back and gave
Seattle two points, and I crunched the numbers. Seattle's gonna
need a whole touchdown now. They forget two points in
order for them to get back to the Super Bowl.
They're gonna need a full touchdown next.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
According to recent reports, the Chicago Bulls have narrowed down
their head coaching search to four finalists. They are Micah Nori.
It's an assistant head coach for the Timberwolves, Thiago Splitter,
Ryan Schmidt, another assistant head coach with the Hawks and
wes Uns.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Ben If you were Chicago's Bulls fan. Would you be
excited about any of these names?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Hell? No, at least Unseld. I've heard of you. I
heard his dad obviously back in the day. I like
that guy, Norri.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Didn't he fill in for Minnesota a couple of years
ago in the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Mur their coach? He had a bad back or something?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
That is that George's son, George?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
That's right, Yes, he talks about kem trails in the huddle.
When I go with I never heard of any of
those people. But I'll go with that guy because I
remember he gave us a good SoundBite when he filled
in his.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
The Timberwolves coach a couple of years ago. So I'll
go with Nori. Al right.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Next, all right, Ben, we have conflicting reports about what
Lebron James wants to do. We have one guy saying
that he actually prefers to stay with the Lakers because
his family is settled down in Los Angeles, And then
we have another guy saying that he has curiosity about
playing with Steph Curry.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Which way would you lean, Ben?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I believe he's going to Cleveland. I'll end on you.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Still you're still on the Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Yeah, that's the you know, that's the Disney story. Lebron's
all about making movies and all that. So the storybook
is you go back to the caves, you win a
championship again, fade the black.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
That's it, game over. So I'm going with Cleveland go.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Why would they there was a rumor that the war
is gonna get Kawhi Leonard and Lebron James to why
they want to make sure the doctors are busy, Like,
what are you doing anyway?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I don't know. How do we do cool?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
How passed it is?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
That's the letter.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
All right?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Time after the Mallor Riddle of the day, the Mallord
Riddle of the day. This is the hour of the
World Cup. Here and here's the Mallor Riddle of the day,
with lane jokes coming up later in the hour.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
So.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
A World Cup reporter went viral after walking out in
the middle of live TV a live TV broadcast. It's
a blank again a World Cup. Keep it, keep it clean, kids,
it's a family show. A lot of kids listen here
at this time.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
No, they don't.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
A World Cup report went viral after walking out in
the middle of live television on a broadcast to blank.
That is the malor riddle of the day. The answer,
We'll get to it, and we will.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Do it next.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Hey, it's Rob Parker and Calvin Washington from The Odd
Couple on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
And in addition to hearing us live weeknights from seven
to ten pm Eastern on Fox Sports Radio, we are
excited to announce brand new YouTube channel for the show.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
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Speaker 9 (22:42):
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Speaker 1 (22:52):
Bill Miller and you and it's to the Bend Mallor Show.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
We are together all night under the cover of darkness,
and you can be part of the show at eight seven,
seven ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
On Fox the Hour of the World Cup.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
So far, so good, nobody nobody got injured, nobody's been hurt.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
So far. We'll keep it going.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And if you want to chime in on the X Machine,
that's at Ben mahlor I saw the people at FIFA
humiliated as the match between South Korea and Chechia or
whatever it's called. They had tons of empty seats, tons
of empty seats. So that's what happens. They miscalculated the market.
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You can say hello to Loraina, Lorena, FSR Tech Queen
Hi Bell, don't talk to me and Cooper Loop all
Bronco fan. That's all Bronco fan. Your comments can and
we'll be used against you in the court of sports radio.
So please please.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Act accordingly.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
All right, back to what we go and we'll get
back to the calls. Also, lame jokes of the hour,
lame jokes of this hour, and about about ten.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Minutes or so, we'll have that. We look forward to
the lame jokes of the week, and.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
We did have the first ever World Cup Pick them
with the hopper and the hopper Hop on, Hop off
the hopper. Kathy in Madison wants to answer the riddle
of the day, if you just turned on the magic
audio box. A World Cup reporter went viral after walking
out in the middle of live TV on a broadcast
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to blank.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
What did they do?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Let's see does anyone know we go to the Great Unwashed.
Femi says, to go smoke a sig, all right, to flirt.
That's from Eileen in San Francisco. To hold a sign
up saying boycott the World Cup hosted by USA, USA USA.
That's Kathy in Madison. To drop a heater from the
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Sawman in Mississippi. To go to Yosemite like the kids
from nine oh two to one oh did. This is
a very important episode for fer Dog, who watched that
episode today and he's mentioned it now.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Twice during the show.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Alf the alien opiter says, to go powder their nose.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Yes, they're little.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Powdered sugar courtesy Flusher says a left to punch blind
Scott in the mouth.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Eat a baloney sandwich from Rob?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Can we do a wellness check on Rob the goat
Man into Moine? I don't think he ripped Robbie the
Mariner fan everything, okay? See to look at the mountains
from King Rory? What else he left to pay? The
parking meter from Donkey's Sausage. That's his answer, Feed his
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feed his dogs from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Go drink
some gasoline from screwed.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Wow, he's in the younger demo.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
He's getting older by the day to walk like an
Egyptian guessed by JT the Wingman outside Knoxville, Tennessee el
Mo after dark. Everyone loves Elmo unless they want to
kill Elmo. D is for dancing dangerously. What else do
we have about Page Dan? Let's see hear Trucker Joe
said something about the alphabet. I don't want to get
(26:25):
a call Trucker Joe's Friday. I want to make sure
my bosses don't call me, so I'm probably not gonna
read that whole thing. What else do we have about
Page Dan left the broadcast to go tork from Douglas
in Mississippi. Fat Daddy says he left Live TVY to
cut his toenails. He had a hangnail, That's what he said.
(26:45):
Our buddy Timmy from Busco Indiana. Timmy, you're gonna become
a Bears fan now? No, okay, he walked out to
get a mandatory hydration break. That's from Tim or Timmy
rather In Busco, Indiana and Lorena, a World Cup reporter
has gone viral for walking out in the middle of
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live TV a live broadcast to.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Blank check for better service.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Is that correct? Let's see here. Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
No, it turns out an Argentinian journalist abandon his post
in front of the microphone in order to get a
photo with Shakira.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
How about that? The pop icon is that would you
walk away from live TV to shake hips with Shakira? Yes,
that's worth it, right, that's worth it.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
You can get another job if you need to.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Yeah, exactly Shakira. And how many how many times you
can have a chance to be around Shakira? Come on,
was at the game in Mexico City before the opening match,
and I guess she was there to perform.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I did not see any of this.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Was out there doing her thing, and this guy saw
and said, wait a minute, I gotta get a nice photo.
So better photo that guy with Shakira or Ernie Johnson
with Taylor Swift the other night at Madison Square Garden.
I'm going I'm gonna go Ernie Johnson with Taylor Swift.
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Not that I wouldn't want a photo with Shakira either,
but you know, let's go to the phones. Let's say
hello to Andrew in Bakersfield, California. Hello Andrew, Welcome.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Hey Ben.
Speaker 7 (28:34):
I bought a hybrid this month congratulations, thank you. It's green.
Speaker 8 (28:42):
And uh but don't.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
You don't you I thought you were I thought you
were blind.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
That's correct, yeah, I you know, I normally get the
Sativa model, but this month I went with the hybrid.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
So all right, lame jokes are actually there about ten
minutes not now?
Speaker 7 (29:07):
So you say you played ayfl soccer and prorection, I
did not play baseball in high school, but I did
grow up playing soccer. I have this thought, Ben, Okay,
you know pot is legal in Amsterdam, right, so my
question is in how many countries around the world is
pot legal? Because in the United States, and is it
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legal in Canada? Is it legal in Mexico? Because in
the United States many places it is.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Andrew, I feel like they have this machine for this.
It's called the Google or AI or something like. You
can have all those in like what are you doing here?
Like you're wasting our time age. It's bad job by you.
Speaker 7 (29:48):
Okay. So they come to imagine because Steve Doreno and
Davis were talking about foreigners coming to America, visitors people
and talking about taco bell and loving it and all
that stuff. I thought to myself, how awesome would it
be to go to California and you know pot's legal.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
But yes, I'm sure all the tourists from Iran are
very excited.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
And they're very happy that they can have some weed
when they come to La.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Okay, thank you, Andrew.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Andrew's really going for that worst call of the year,
and he's really trying to settle in on that.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
He's got some.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Tough competition with Dorko and Poppy and San Diego.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
He doesn't even touch dorco A.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Dorko's next level. He's serious, though, he sent me, I
haven't looked at it. I have a bunch of email
I got to get to. But he sent me something.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
About he came up with the logo for the mall
or Palooza. He wants to make some like hats and
shirts and stuff like that. So it's apparently going to
do it.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Isn't the shipping from Hawaii going to be too much?
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Though?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I guess you could do it remotely or whatever from
from the States. Let's go to easy, let's get easy
with it. Hello. Is he welcome in La? What's up? Hey?
Speaker 10 (31:01):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Ben?
Speaker 9 (31:03):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (31:03):
Love your show man? First time call her. I wanted
to say, I feel like you're my brother from another mother,
even though I'm Mexican. Maybe you're white.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We're all human beings in this world. Izzy, We're all related,
we all we all have the same crap. We gotta
deal with, right, we gotta get through life, you know,
pay bills, all that stuff.
Speaker 10 (31:23):
Yes, I just wanted to excite in on the World Cup.
Uh ticket prices. Man, just wanted to say, I had
to skip my child support paintings for this month.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
The kid will understand when they're older, you know. Pop
said to go see a soccer game. Come on, man,
what's wrong with you? You don't need you need diapers?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
What's come on?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Please?
Speaker 10 (31:49):
Yeah? So, yeah, that's all I wanted to say, brother, man,
you know.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
What you got A good night, man, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Isy the Great Easy making his debut. When if he
becomes a regular, get Easy with It. That'll be the name, right,
Does anyone disagree that's a good name, Get Easy with It?
I think that's great name.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Get got it? Thank you? No one's ever done that before?
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Ken Is he with it?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
NOA Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Let's go to Poppy in San Diego. Speak of the
caller and he shall appear. Hello Poppy in San Diego.
Speaker 10 (32:20):
Hello Ben Mallard.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
I'm going to talk about the Wolf Cup, and we're
gonna say people want to hear the World Cup picks,
Poppy stake, so we're gonna get onto it.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
You know what I you know what I love, Poppy
is you have called.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
This show for many, many years and we have consistently
told you nobody wants to hear the picks, and you
have You're still doing. You are so stubborn. You're the
most stubborn man I've ever met. And I love that
about you.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
Oh thanks, Well, people do want to hear about the
World Cups. You're talking about the World Cup, so uh,
you're big boss every one.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
So let's go on to the Wolf all right, I'm
going to set a clock here. I'm gonna have a
Poppy timer. Let me go around the room here, Lorena,
hold on a set you know, cool your jets, Lorena?
How long should I allow Poppy to pollute the airwaves
of Fox Sports Radio? Very powerful platform? How long should
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I give them? Should I give them like a minute?
Thirty seconds? Two minutes?
Speaker 5 (33:17):
You I was thinking thirty seven seconds?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Thirty seven? Coop?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Do you agree or district? We should I give more
or less? Thirty seven seconds. Lorena says, oh jeez, that's
like absolutely great.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
What's that? What's what are you saying, Poppy?
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Oh you're saying, Oh you're acting Coop. I thought you
were working me.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
No, you would say thirty seven minutes is what you
would say.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
No, No, I say I'll say like at least two
minutes because people want to.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Hear the rock.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Oh god, no, that's I mean two minutes. I'll quit.
I'll walk out. I'm done. That's it. This is the
last show. Two minutes.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
I'm done.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I'll give you you know what, I like you. I'm
gonna give you thirty nine seconds. How about that?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Thirty nine seconds?
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Okay, I'll give you. Ay, don't question me. I'll take
those seconds away. Thirty nine seconds. I'm gonna I'm gonna
say three to two one, you're on your way.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
That's it. You're gonna blow you up after thurday.
Speaker 11 (34:11):
Can I get a get requests? So bro, if you're
gonna do that, can World Cup five? Can you put
the chequa music, the one that she's saying in Mexico
City World Cup fives?
Speaker 5 (34:20):
You know, come on, it's gonna cut into your time.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
Yeah, it's gonna right, now we're down at thirty thirty
eight seconds. Now thirty eight sous very because you you
didn't listen to me thirty eight seconds. We gave it
an extra second. You're three two one. You're on your
way and go.
Speaker 6 (34:37):
Tomorrow the Wolf Cup.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
That a good game.
Speaker 6 (34:39):
It's gonna be in so so five guys, we got
team you want to say by the why we're gonna
go with us, say we're.
Speaker 11 (34:45):
Gonna take you even money.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
On Saturday games.
Speaker 11 (34:50):
Uh, there's a couple of games on there, but we're
gonna go on the revenge game of.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Revenge twenty seconds, twenty seconds.
Speaker 11 (34:56):
On the other World Cup they lost to Morocco, we're
gonna go with on the Saturday Broz's gonna win.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
And on on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Games ten seconds, ten seconds.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
We're gonna go with fall In beating Japan. Holland.
Speaker 11 (35:09):
WA's out with another Lands team Holland. I really love
them and how they're gonna play for the best day
number one, all right?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Times up? Times up, times up, times up, times up?
Oh man, Poppy, you.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Could have you could have done that in ten seconds
to say I like the USA, I like you Just
name the teams you like that's it.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
Oh okay, I like you.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
We've got big bangs, lame jokes of the week.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
We'll get to that and we will do it. There's poppy,
we'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (36:26):
Thank you, Knock Knock, who's there? Blame we blame wee too.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
It's big Ben's lame joke of the week that it
is is our buddy Weed Man there in Florida, Billy.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Yello, Billy, I love you all right, Billy. Wow?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
Listen, did you know that the excitement of the FIFA
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Speaker 1 (36:50):
Did you know that?
Speaker 7 (36:52):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
I did?
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weed Man, right, absolutely, Yeah, it's USA. Thanks for playing along.
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Speaker 1 (37:56):
All right, you ready for some jokes weed Man?
Speaker 7 (37:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (37:59):
Name you laugh?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
All right?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
These are actual jokes by actual listeners, care of Ben
Maler Show at gmail dot com. Who is weed Man's
favorite basketball player? Victor weed Man? Yama?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Is your favorite?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
That's Brendan from Boston. Did you hear weed Man and
Lisa are the VIP guests for Taylor Swift's Madison Square
Garden wedding.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I bet you would leave Lisa's online.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Well, apparently weed Man says it'll be one of the
high points.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Of his life.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
That's Tom in Indiana.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
All right. Did you hear that weed Man hip? He
got arrested for apparently fooling around on a plane. How
about that week?
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Yeah, yeah, he was arrested for high jacking. I guess
is the term there?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
That's at George in Yavaldi, Texas. He's a teacher. When's
he when's the last time you were on a plain?
Weed Man?
Speaker 7 (39:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Years ago, A long time ago, like in the two
thousands or before two thousands.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
Yeah, I'm thinking of two thousands.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
What look I got you?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
What did weed Man yell when he saw the video
of Ben Stiller ignoring a homeless guy outside the garden?
Speaker 1 (39:19):
What Ben, I hate you? That's from Eric in Kansas.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
John be ready, we've met John from Young cent O Houses.
What is the greatest lame joke of all time? What
weed man looking in the mirror? What does what? What
does weed man exemplify? What does weed Man exemplify?
Speaker 7 (39:41):
What?
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Everything that is currently wrong in society? That's John and
Young Santa. That's not nice?
Speaker 1 (39:46):
And how how ugly? How ugly is weed Man? How
ugly he's.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
So ugly he trick or treats through the phone, is
what he does through the phone.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Go all right, I think that's all we have time for.
All right, thank you, weave Man. Lisa
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