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June 20, 2023 • 38 mins

Ben Maller talks about Lionel Messi getting a better deal from MLS team Inter Miami than any player has in the NFL, an apparent bidding war over J.J Watt as a sportscaster, Cite the Bite, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our dumbber fall, Hour four of the Ben Malors Show,
recorded off radio overnight and repackaged. Fewer commercials here on
the podcast and please support our advertisers. But here in
hour number four NFL heavy, what is your school of
thought on Linel MESSI getting a better deal than any

(00:23):
NFL player?

Speaker 1 (00:25):
What chance do.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
You give JJ Watt of being the next great sportscasting stars.
He's got a deal lined up. And what are the
chances of Dalvin Cook and DeAndre Hopkins ending up with
the same team. We'll talk about that and more right
now here. It is our number four. It is a
heck of a pitch. Welcmeume in the beginning of another

(00:49):
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Speaker 1 (00:51):
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(01:41):
The rare and appropriate intermingle Malard monologue. Now, there are
people frustrated that a big contract was handed out recently.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
We did not talk about this anything.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
We mentioned it on the show in passing and did
not make a big hullabaloo about it.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
But there are many people up in arms. They're like,
I can't.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Believe that a soccer player who plays football is going
to make more money and has a better deal than
any player in the NFL. That is not right now
if you don't follow soccer as we call it here
in America. We're talking about an Argentinian legend, Leonel Messi,

(02:24):
who is getting paid and oh yeah, now he's actually
not getting as much as he could have gotten. To
be taking that Saudi blood money, he would have made
a heck of a lot more money. He turned that
down and instead he agreed to join the fledgling MLS franchise.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
In Miami, Miami, Miami.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
If you've not heard about the details on this, we
are told that inter Miami of the MLS. That's apparently
a team in the MLS. We've never heard of them before,
but apparently that's a team there, and they have decided
to give Lionel Messi a contract that is between fifty
and sixty million dollars per year.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
But wait, there's more. Yeah, this is where it gets good.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
So not only does he get that, but we are
told that Messi's contract is in addition to the fifty
or sixty million dollars a year. The Sports Business journal says,
to sweeten the pot. I love when they sweetened the pot.
The amount includes a signing bonus, there's a salary. There's
also equity in the franchise. Now, if it's around of

(03:33):
shocking how much the MLS teams are going for, it
fascinates me. These numbers come out and some of these
teams are worth a billion dollars allegedly in the MLS.
So you've been given an ownership stake in a business
that conceivably will be worth possibly up to maybe even
over down the line, a billion dollars. The deal is

(03:56):
bigger than any that has ever been given out to
in any NFL players, and it is a better contract
than the Mahomes contract or whoever you think the greatest
contract in the NFL belongs to the creepy quarterback Deshaan
Watson in Cleveland and all that. Now that a contract,
the contract that Lionel Messi has gotten, has sounded alarm

(04:21):
bells woo, that's.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
What they sound like, and people of course freaking out.
It's not fair.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
They're crying, all right. So Mike Florio, who is known
to he's I think part of the Nanny state there.
He's he's always out there crying and complaining about something.
I guess he's done with the COVID complaining now because
we've moved on from that. So Mike Florio among those
lamenting the sad plight of the NFL players, and there

(04:52):
were others complaining it's not fair. So let's talk about this.
The question question on this one. What is your school
of thought on Lionel Messi getting a sweeter deal, a
bigger deal than any NFL player has ever gotten. So
I say, bravo is what I say. And I got

(05:15):
no skin in the game on this. So we've got
convalescent Home, Cosel and Jacuzzi, and we will combine all
of these things and we are going to make for
the second time tonight. Baba Ganoosh, We're gonna make the
Baba ganoosh is what we're gonna make, so to kick
off the festivities here as we intermingle football and football.

(05:40):
So I have no animosity towards MESSI am I gonna
go out of my way to watch him play in
the MLS.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
No, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
I'm not a fan of soccer outside of the World Cup.
When I get engaged. Every few years when the World
Cup comes around, I will watch that. But United States
soccer aficionato's my entire life since I was a little boy,
have told me you just wait, you just wait. It's

(06:10):
like the doomsday prophecies. The same people who think the
world's about to end here, the same people that are like, wow,
you just wait.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
The soccer is.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Gonna zoom zoom past everything else, and it's going to
be because of X, Y and Z. And when I
was a kid, I remember was a little before my time,
but there was a player named Pele who came over
to play in the I believe it was the New York,
New Jersey area. And when I was playing ay, I

(06:36):
was a fat kid playing ayso soccer, and I remember
hearing stories about this guy is amazing and all this stuff.
And there have been plenty of players since then that
have come to the United States to play. I call
it the circle of life in football. That is the
way that it works. That you are an international star,

(06:57):
whatever your country of origin is, you are a big
f in deal and you dominate the World Cup, and
everyone worships you, and they all give you the manny
and the petty. They kiss your ass and say how
great you are. And then when you become long in
the tooth as an international star, what do you do
in the.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Twilight of your career.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
You come across the ocean, and whether it's the Atlantic
or the Pacific, and you head to the United States
and you hang out playing soccer in the convalescent home
that is the MLS. And today you get the golden parachute,
you get the big fat paycheck, all of that Major
League Soccer. They even have a rule the MLS to

(07:40):
make it easier to circumvent the salary rules that they
have in that league to help facilitate these kinds of transactions,
the kind of deal that is a messy deal. It's
called the Beckham rule, named in honor of course of
David Beckham, as the mechanism exists because Beckham was allowed

(08:02):
to violate all of the rules. They bent the rules
for bend it like Beckham so he could sign a contract.
In fact, the MLS teams, I believe, we're allowed to
sign multiple of foreign players who are considered outside of
their salary cap.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Because they're gonna help grow the game.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
So essentially, Lionel Messi is what he is doing here
is he's an ambassador. He turns thirty six years old
this I believe this weekend, so he's on the back
nine of his career. So Lionel will come over here
and he'll hang out and he'll be a good will ambassador,
will shake hands, kiss babies, take photos. He'll be given

(08:41):
a bunch of bags of dead presidents, and he'll hang
out at the Fountain Blue in Miami and the other
night spots there and occasionally he'll have a corner kick
or he'll do something on the field there and then
he'll go back to have another cocktail. And that's how
that's going to go. But if the NFL, here's the

(09:03):
way this works. If the NFL was a global game,
it's not. Despite what the NFL hierarchy wants to believe
if the NFL had the kind of reach that football does,
then the same scenario would play out where if there
were leagues American style football leagues in Saudi Arabia, Tom
Brady could go to Saudi Arabia right now, get some

(09:24):
of that blood money that the golfers got, right or
he could go to Russia or China or any of
those countries that would pay him a ton of money.
But that does not exist. It's not possible other than
Canada where they don't pay as much the Canadian Football League.
But there's nowhere else to go. It's not something that
is real. It just is not there now, Firmer turning

(09:47):
the page on that. So we have some broadcasting stories
that have crossed the radar here. The TV networks are
now in a bidding war. They've lined up to throw
money at JJ Watt, say what he retired from the NFL.
Probably didn't realize he was still in the NFL. He's

(10:07):
playing for the Ears on the Cardinals.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
They're relevant.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
We're hearing though CBS, NBC, and State sponsored Propped the
News Service, the NFL network are all interested in adding
the dulcetones of the JJ Watt to be an analyst. Now,
CBS is said to be the favorite. Why not because
they have the Super Bowl and they could shove jj
Watt on the Super Bowl broadcast. So what chance do

(10:32):
you give Here's the question on this one. What chance
do you give jj Watt on being the next great
athlete turns sportscaster. So I'm gonna be fair here, and
I've criticized jj Watt over the years, but I'm gonna say,
based on the mallrodds, JJ Watt has a zero point

(10:54):
zero zero zero to infinity. And beyond the chance of
being the next great athlete turned sportscaster, there is nothing, nothing,
that will be memorable. Charles Barkley is not going to
be losing any sleep. He's not going to be hanging
out with already there vacuuming in Fresno because he's worried
about losing his place at the very top of the

(11:16):
pyramid of ex jocks who have become broadcasters and not
worried about that at all. The late sportscaster Howard coach
Sell was clairvoyant about this. He was someone that saw
the future. And this goes way back to the late seventies,
in the early eighties time over fifty years ago when

(11:38):
a bitter and broken, jaded curmudgeon Howard co Sell this
old sportscaster, Bigges sportscaster at the time, and he came
up with the term jockocracy. He realized that in television
sports broadcasting it's filled with fanboys and jocksniffers. They love

(11:59):
hiring name brand players sight unseen guys that don't have
the necessary experience, and he dubbed it. Jockocracy was the
term he came up with. He ranted about this in
the early eighties and he said, it's just simply the
way it works in sportscasting is the networks, the network executives,

(12:21):
they're huge fans of certain athletes, and so they hire
guys that are not hired based on their ability as
a broadcaster, but simply because they're an ex jock and
some executive at a TV network happened to like them,
and then they are fond over at cocktail parties by
network executives and.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
All that stuff.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
And it doesn't matter whether you're good or bad, and
whether you deserve the job or not, and most do
not deserve the job, because for every Charles Barkley or
some say Tony Romo's really good at the NFL, you
get Emmett Smith or Jason Witten who were abject failures.
And JJ, why to me unless he changes a lot.

(13:02):
He takes himself way too seriously. And I just don't
think that's gonna work.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
That's I see guys like that. You know what I do.
I hit the mute button is what I do. That's
what I do, the mute bud our last thing here,
I shared a couple of quick things. So, free agent
running back Dalvin Cook has floated the idea of teaming
up with DeAndre Hopkins, who's also unemployed, as a package
de leo that two for one, Like, if you're the

(13:30):
Patriots and you want DeAndre Hopkins, you can get Dalvin Cook. Also,
Cook said it would be something epic for the NFL.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Is what he said in a recent interview.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
So what are the chances that Dalvin Cook and DeAndre
Hopkins end up with the same team as a package deal?

Speaker 1 (13:47):
And would it be epic? But it would be an
epic it would be an epic failure.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
And we asked the Magic eight ball about this and
the answer is outlook not so good for them.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Team up.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
The only way these guys are together is if you're
playing a video game. Outside of that, right, I mean,
maybe you throw a little extra in the collection plate,
it might happen. But may I remind you that if
you were to bring in Dalvin Cook and Deodre Hopkins,
you'd have to go out and buy a nice Dracouzzie
the hot Tub time machine to go back because set

(14:20):
the year what twenty eighteen when they were both dominant,
maybe twenty nineteen. Yeah, that's it, that's the ticket. But
Hopkins he's on the back nine of his career and
Dalvin Cook he's crossed the threshold fifteen hundred touches now. Meanwhile,
today's a big day in the NFL crime world, as

(14:44):
Jack Jones.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Will be arragined.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
That kind of sounds like an old Western cowboy villain
guy Jack Jones, or the Old West. Anyway, Jack Jones,
the gun toting New England Patriot. It will be a
rain today, I believe later this morning, if I'm correct
on that. In Boston for bringing a couple of loaded
glocks to Logan Airport, Shockingly, the security did not appreciate

(15:13):
the guns. I guess they don't like the guns there
at Logan Airport. And he is facing up to, if
convicted on all charges, thirty years in jail. So what
are the chances nice not gonna get three years even
if it's convicted on all charges and not get in
three years. But what are the chances Jack Jones slithers
out of this? So there is a better chance of

(15:34):
Jack Jones being fired by the Patriots today being released
by the Patriots than there is of Jack Jones completely
slithering out of this without any kind of jail time.
What he has to do is find the ultimate fall guy.
You see, He's got to find somebody. And I'm not

(15:54):
talking about some fairweather friend. I'm talking about somebody that
is willing to go to prison. The only way I see,
and I love these crime stories, the only way I
see Jack Jones getting out of this is if he
can say, listen, I'm an idiot. I didn't pack the suitcase,
and my so and so, my buddy over here packed
the suitcase and I didn't check it. I was in

(16:16):
a hurry my flight. I was worried about my flight.
And it's you know, it's a stupid thing. But he's
the guy that packed. And then the guy has to say, yeah,
I did it, And that person asked to be willing
to go to jail for a couple of years. How
much would that cost? How much would Jack Jones have
to pay for you to go to jail for two
years because he brought guns to Logan Airport? Is there

(16:38):
a price if he paid you? Three hundred thousand dollars
per per year, so six hundred thousand total two years
in jail?

Speaker 1 (16:47):
No?

Speaker 2 (16:48):
All right, But see he didn't have big time money yet.
He hasn't made it big in the NFL, and if
he keeps doing this, he'll never make it big in
the NFL. But Coop tells me, in my head five
million a year. I don't think he's got that money,
but he could have. How about a percentage of his
future earnings in the NFL?

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Take that?

Speaker 2 (17:10):
No, that's what Dela Cruz has right. He has to
pay eight percent of his future earnings. It is the
Ben Maler Show. Well, they say a friend in need
is a friend indeed, and yeah, that would be that
would be the truth on that. It is the Ben
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(17:53):
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(18:31):
Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben mallor Lay.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
At this hour, we will have for you a classic
iconic bit that we've done for many, many years. Cite
the bike the great sports radio mister site the bite
that'll be coming up a little bit later in the
hour for you. In the Aaron Rodgers viral photo, a
photo making the rounds of Aaron Rodgers working out with

(18:55):
Kevin Durant, the Slim Reaper, and people had hot takes
on that. Aaron Rodgers, who knows a thing or two
about the They're very similar, actually, I think about like
the passive, aggressive, aggressive handbook of Aaron Rodgers and Kevin Durant.
Like they often are frustrated, they're resentful in the media.

(19:21):
Durance got the Burner's account, the Burner accounts all over
the place. I wonder if they were trading notes, possibly
trading notes on how they can be more annoying in
the future. I'm sure that's exactly what they were doing.
Who else is the page down here? People loving the
soccer monologue Fargo Pete says, if being in love with

(19:46):
yourself makes you a great broadcaster, JJ Watt will kill it. Yes,
Just think of all those selfies in the both of
jj as he's taking the selfie.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Look at me, I'm in the broadcast booth. I'm jj wa. Yes,
that will be wonderful.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
Art Puffing.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Hello, Art Puffin's true. Well, hopefully the ratings are up.
But I don't I don't know. I don't have those
in front of me.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
I don't know. So earlier.

Speaker 6 (20:25):
Call it in trying to get into the you know,
the matter of a mountain of money.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, Edie did.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Eddie didn't pick you though, I'm sorry I gave it.

Speaker 6 (20:34):
I was oh good, at least at least I no,
I was a candidate.

Speaker 5 (20:40):
No, you were.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
You were absolutely a candidate, Art Puffing, but Eddie went
the other way. Okay, thank you, Art Puffing. This is
go back to sleep, thank you, all right, go to bed, Yes,
all right, I gotta go, thank you.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
All right. Let's say.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Now, man, even when he's about to fall asleep, he
does something to wake himself up.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
I don't know what that is, whether it's legal or not.
Jed who fled?

Speaker 6 (21:02):
Hello, Jed, sleep sleep and sleep in heading towards the
deep end, ladies, I'm a preep in how's that your window?
You know, talking about literally why would it again?

Speaker 5 (21:13):
Stig with it? Thirty three percent of the.

Speaker 6 (21:15):
Day more available to you if you don't sleep the
a twenty four hours. That is statistical fact. If you
just live you stay. Wait, I mean if you sleep
eight hours night for you live in seventy five, you
just wasted twenty five years of your life.

Speaker 5 (21:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
But but Jed, I mean, here's the thing. Like a
lot of people that don't sleep are frazzled. They're they're
stupid sides.

Speaker 6 (21:36):
It's like NBA Tam. I come here with like frazzled
dabble and I'm dropping things. I'm several people's toes. I'm
socially anxious, and I work into my advantage. Dude, I
brun people out of their house. If they'd be like,
and we're gonna go the story, you wanna say, like, yeah,
I'm just kicking up, you know. I mean, I've irritated
them out of their own house frazzle dabbles.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah, Well, it doesn't take much to irritate me when
I have people at my house. They I'm very easily
annoyed when I have house kids.

Speaker 6 (22:00):
The good thing about me, hi I'm sweating all over
I'm like worse than Rick James, Like if your couch,
I'm sweating all over it. I've soaked it, I've ruined it,
and I just take it with me when I least Jed,
do you.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Do you think that you are the reason people have nightmare?

Speaker 5 (22:13):
I do think?

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Do you believe that people around Florida have nightmares because
of you? That you are the thing that goes bumping
the night?

Speaker 6 (22:24):
I do a bump or two and that's usually about
every night. I mean, no, I don't go bumping to night.
But if you're gonna be an effective criminal, you can't
be going like bump, you know what I mean, like
wait for the people to leave. I got another trick
up my sleeve. I'm not gonna do the whole easy song,
but it's called No More Questions. You should usually google it.
Eric Wright is not a Compton Busters. Yeah, I mean
I want you to know that Ben mallis.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
What is the deal with everybody has?

Speaker 6 (22:47):
Like man Marstelles. I mean, I don't want to prepare
negative negatively.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
What does this say about me that I like? I
love God?

Speaker 7 (22:53):
Wait?

Speaker 6 (22:54):
Why were you some negative about the Ballace Mountain of money. Dude,
everybody knows. When I lose, the ratings go through the roofs.
Who can who can deliver a losing performance when the
raidings go out?

Speaker 8 (23:02):
Who else can do that?

Speaker 2 (23:04):
I have to chair. Well, Justin used to play the games,
but he moved to the enchanted form.

Speaker 6 (23:09):
That was these in the fairy Kingdom or something like that.
I bet he's supporting these fatures of perpetual and doorgence.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, okay, all right, thank you, jam.

Speaker 6 (23:19):
Contribution to your own show and maculate you'll figure.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Go away.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
It is the Ben Maler Show. We will press on.
We'll take some more of these riveting phone calls. They
are so good, and we also have coming up later
they're not you don't like them. Also, later on we
will have the site the bite segment on the show
and you can play along with that. Try to figure
out if you can recognize the person's voice. Hopefully that
will not be a debacle. Right now, we will get

(23:46):
you caught up on everything going on in the overnight
and a man, if you were not listening earlier, go
to a can download the podcast. There was a Class
three felony committed by Eddie Garcia, who stole baked goods.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Live on the radio.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Crime in Los Angeles through the roof. I'm sure there
will be an investigation. The district attorney will get to
the Bottomless Eddy, you will be charged.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
How dare you?

Speaker 4 (24:11):
Well, Ben, apparently you haven't heard they don't arrest criminals
in Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Well, that is true. You will actually get a bonus.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
He they will give you extra money for stealing in
Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yes, I'll be.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Perfectly fine, perfectly fine. Absolutely. That's the way to get
to the top is to steal in LA.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
That's the way I do. And if you're if you.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
Want a urine and the security guard he can snoozing
right now.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
He has no idea. He is in our four of
sleep right now, is what he's in.

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Speaker 5 (25:24):
Rich give me the hell yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
We get right back to the calls.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
Here, get that dump button ready, we'll say hello to
Angry Bill in the Sunshine State where he is lacking sunshine? Hello,
Angry Bill, how you doing?

Speaker 5 (25:38):
Guys? It just turns me a little bit, is it?

Speaker 7 (25:41):
Mark?

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Mark's the new guy taking over.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
For Yeah, you're upset because you don't know anything about Mark.
You can't criticize him because he doesn't talk.

Speaker 5 (25:51):
No, I'm concerned that there's something wrong if you guys
abuse him or something or something going on there.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yes, Eddie abused him.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Eddie committed a crime, a class three felony, right in
front of Mark.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
Why don't you let Mark talk and shut up?

Speaker 1 (26:05):
He doesn't want he doesn't want to talk to you.
He doesn't like racist guys.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
So, is there's something wrong Mark trading? Anything wrong?

Speaker 1 (26:12):
He's giving you a sign language, he's giving you right.
Are you picking a fight? Are just talking?

Speaker 10 (26:17):
No?

Speaker 5 (26:18):
That see we got him the talk. No, I'm concerned
that you're not participating with the show and you're not
one of the guys jumping in saying stuff. I'm concerned
that you know there's something wrong.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Think of it like, think of it like Rusty Stop.
I came in for a pitch hit.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
So you're just staying around for a pin ship for
Rusty Stop.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Thank you. That's why I bring it out.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
And now we're talking rusty old school baseball talk, old
school do an old guy baseball talk, Rusty stock around.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
You're gonna hit and run. You're just gonna take off
and and and you know you're.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Not gonna make a You're not gonna make a fat
joke angry Bill about Rusty Stop at the end of
his career.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
You know, No, I was. I was a little player myself,
So I can't do that.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Now You're you're no longer chubby, You're you're gone past job.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
No, I'm I'm working on it. That's what I can
tell you. How good but Mark, if you can participate
and then be happy it was your job, job, all right,
or just that you're a quick all right.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
I knew that was I mean I almost got he
knew I was about to hang up on him, and
then I.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Didn't do it quick enough.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
Job.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Yeah, every call is the same. He has nothing to say.
He just wants to call up, and he says, how
long can I stay on the air before I say
the offensive thing? Now we have a birthday boy, right now,
let's go to Windsor, Ontario, Canada. A man on his
birthday cake, we are told, was blowing out seventy cans
by another another listener, Cowboy.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
Another listener in Maine.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Said, I heard Cowboy call a different show under the
name Brady I believe.

Speaker 11 (27:58):
Yeah, Well, yeah that was that was on Sunday. But no,
my birthday is until July sixth. I got oh days
to go my own high school buddy, Bob Patonski seventy three. Oh,
let's yeah, let's build a bird for Cocob Ware. He's
sixty five today.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Where does Coco Bewar rank on your all time great
listener or wrestler list there on your big board?

Speaker 11 (28:24):
Well, he's been one of the best spawler wrestlers five
with seven like my father was. But he was strong
as a deck at Dickens. He could get the eager
give the goat up to these like three hundred pounders.
Although he tried to lift up. My late fellow Canadian
led John Tenna, was two was four to seventy and
it didn't kind of work our well for him. By

(28:45):
the way, John Tenna would have been sixty tomorrow, but
he died seven, two thousand and six of bladder cancer.
Hey eightieth anniversary at the beginning of the nineteen forty
three Detroit ryant that cost up thirty four wives. And anyway, Yesterday,
of course was June teens, which celebrated the June nineteenth,

(29:07):
eighteen sixty five marching to Galveston Bay, Texas by twenty
thousand Union soldiers to free the two hundred and fifty
thousand slate Texas and formerly have finished the process that
President Lincoln's on New Year's Day, eighteen sixty three Emancipation

(29:29):
Day Emancipation Proclamation began. And although okay, Blake Shelton was
forty eight on Sunday and speak to people of Marmo,
you remember, you got to be a boy to be
a cowboy.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
No, my birthday is okay.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Anyway, I think we should do a bit on this show.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
We should have cowboys birthday show, like an entire night
of cowboy themed radio.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
That's what I think.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
So I guess he's not retiring.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Well he considered. He's like a heavyweight championship box ready.
He thinks about retiring, and then it's like after a fight,
you retire and then you come back after a great call.
He retires and then he moves back. Let's go to
Moving Man Matt, who is in Boston. Hello, Moving Man Matt.

Speaker 8 (30:18):
What's going on?

Speaker 7 (30:19):
Ben?

Speaker 8 (30:20):
By the way, Mark, welcome to the show. With that
rest rusty stop reference. Well done, well done.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
See the audience is pretty easy there, Mark. They just
love old names of athletes. They that's all they that's it,
that's all they need right there.

Speaker 8 (30:36):
Jack Jones has screwed Massachusetts mandatory minimum for a loaded firearm.
I know a few guys that maybe have experience with this,
and one year mandatory minimum for a loaded firearm. Now,
the only thing might be because it was that logan,
it could be a federal deal. But there's my input
on that unofficial.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
But unofficial legal advice from a moving truck driver, moving
man mad so, But the only thing he could do
is say that I didn't pack it, but you're still
guilty of negligence, for you're not supposed to let somebody
else pack your bags, right, Isn't that that's what they'll plan.

Speaker 8 (31:10):
I don't think that works because they ask that when
you check in, if you pack your own bags.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, No, I know, I don't.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
I'm trying to think what would the defense be if
you were the defense attorney for Jack John? And the
only defense would be while I'm an idiot, I didn't
do it, somebody else.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Did it and I was in a hurry. But that
doesn't really work.

Speaker 8 (31:30):
So I got my head on swivel this morning for
yellow cocktails as I come through the land of the
Dog here ben uh, because you know, we don't want
to have to drink any of that stuff. I mean,
I don't know what's going on with that guy, But
you got.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
The dock, you got the dog. Oh, I thought you
were back in Boston. Did I realize you were on
the road?

Speaker 8 (31:51):
Oh No, I was flew out there to Seattle to
pick up the truck and uh, we're back, We're back.
All systems go back with the.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Full the mobile moving billboard from movie man, Matt and
where are you at their moving man, Matt? Like where where?
What cities are you going through? It's like a pilgrimage
across the country. And uh, in my head, men, women
and children come out of their homes to look at
the the malor moving billboard as it passes through their town.

Speaker 8 (32:23):
We are in Peoria, Illinois.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Oh, beautiful Peory.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Peoria is the city they used to test new products
in and they there's a phrase which is outdated these days,
but they said if it plays in Peoria, and they
would test food items. Mark knows this because he's from Illinois,
but they would test different items. Usually there's like food
items in in Peoria, Illinois. And if it's if it's
sold in Peoria, they said it could sell anywhere in

(32:49):
the United States.

Speaker 8 (32:50):
So random, I have a question. It is the new
studio accessible for this for this lovely Jacket trailer?

Speaker 5 (32:59):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Well yeah, it's the same building. It's just across the
across the hall. So yeah, when you when you're out
this way, let us know. We'll have you come by
and say hello. We have not had any listeners in here,
by the way, since we moved into new studio. All right,
I gotta go, but the safe travels, Matt, thank you.
All right, there he goes moving. Man, Matt, a quick
hello to a man who is right at the front

(33:20):
of the Cincinnati Reds bandwagon. The Red cloud is arising
yet again. Another win. You got that, Dexter, Dick and Dayton, Hello, Dick, Hello.

Speaker 7 (33:30):
Hello, I'm coming you. I came from band and my
friend was saying that the tribute of Joey Voto that
place we're in first place. I think we're gonna party today. Ben.
This is better than I think nineteen ninety.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
But nobody expected he won the World Series though in
nineteen ninety. That's a big thing. But you got two
more cupcakes with the Rockies. They suck. But then the
real test, the Atlanta Braves coming up this weekend.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
That's gonna be a tough one. That's a good Braves team.

Speaker 7 (34:07):
Yeah, listen, have a good day, all right.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Bye, bye bye.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
He knows the clock, he knows he had to get out.
That's it.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Dick and day just wanted a quick blast on the Reds.
We have site The Bite The Great Sports Radio Mystery
site The Bite. If you'd like to play, call right
now eight seven seven ninety nine one Fox.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
The way this works. We'll have an audio clip. We'll
play it. You have to figure out who it is.
No clues.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
We'll give you a couple of clues along the way
after a couple of incorrect answers. If we get that far,
but cite the Bite, the Great Sports Radio Mystery.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
We'll get to that. We will do it next.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
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Speaker 4 (34:50):
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(35:10):
give us a spicy hot review. M l I from
the Tiraq dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Malor.

Speaker 10 (35:18):
It's time now to site site a bite bite where
we play random generic sound bites. You know, in a
sports and entertainment cliches spoken by so called experts, you
try to tell us who's doing the talking.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
And this is how it works. We're gonna play a
sound bite from the world of sports the last seven
to ten days, someone a prominence, an athlete, a coach,
a prominent media figure, someone.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
If you consider yourself.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
A knowledgeable sports fan, I would say listening to sports
talk radio at this time means you care about sports
a little bit, so you should know who these people
are or this person. And let's go to the Audiit
no clues to start. Let's go to the audio tape.

Speaker 5 (36:04):
He's been great.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Play again, pleady he's been great. All right, Well, anyone
get this right. I am going to go call her
number five. I'm gonna go call her five. Eddie right,
you are such a schmuck. How dare you mark?

Speaker 1 (36:19):
You ain't here?

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Anybody will get it right. Nobody will get it right,
he says. Cooper Hoop agrees with me call her number five,
and yes he does. Let's start out with caller number
one on site. The bite j Dot in Utah. Hello,
Jay Dot, you are in the leadoff spot caller number one.

Speaker 11 (36:37):
Hey man, longtime no talk.

Speaker 5 (36:39):
It's been a minute.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
It has been a minute, Jay Dot. This is not
the time for small talk. This is a very serious
bit though, j Dott Right.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
Yeah, all right?

Speaker 8 (36:47):
Is that Sacramento of King Guard Legend Jada aka white chocolate?

Speaker 1 (36:52):
Is that white?

Speaker 7 (36:53):
No?

Speaker 2 (36:53):
That is not white chocolate. But I would like some
white chocolate if you have any, send it my way hard,
thank you?

Speaker 7 (36:59):
Get it?

Speaker 1 (37:00):
You know, and I understand? All right?

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Heavy metal Kevin. That is a favorite of Eddie Garcias.
He's a big fan of heavy metal Kevin. Hello, heavy
Metal Kevin, you're my caller number.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
What's the answer here? Heavy metal Kevin?

Speaker 6 (37:26):
Godag Caro.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
What are you saying?

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Oh, dime bag Daryl? All right, dimebag Daryl's is it
dime bag?

Speaker 5 (37:38):
No?

Speaker 1 (37:38):
It is not dime bag Daryl. Thank you though, heavy
metal Kevin? All right? Jonas is trying to get in here.
Let's say, who do we have here? Any meenie miney moe. Oh,
we have a clue. What's the clue? Coop? I don't
have the clue. What is it?

Speaker 7 (37:49):
All right?

Speaker 1 (37:50):
I sent you a picture because the printer ran out
of paper, and I don't know how.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
To printer ran out of paper. What a high class
operation we got here?

Speaker 1 (37:57):
All right? All right, you send me. I don't know
what is this? Give the clue. I.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
His senior year of high school was documented in the
Netflix series QB one Beyond the Lights. Okay, Madden, Arizona's
gonna get it right. This guy's a trivia savant. This
guy Madden. What's the answer, Matt.

Speaker 8 (38:14):
I just want to say one thing.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
First of all, the guy who entered the phone, he's
been great.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
You guys are patient, all right, good?

Speaker 2 (38:19):
You don't have time to play the game. Shane into Morne.
What's the answer, Shane?

Speaker 6 (38:23):
Is that the other ja Jake Warner?

Speaker 1 (38:25):
No, who is it? Koope? Justin field? Justin field? To
the Bears, it is somebody buys some ink for the printer, right,
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