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September 3, 2025 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about Eagles coach Nick Sirianni saying he didn't even know Thursday night was banner night against the Cowboys, Johnny Manziel holding a grudge against the Browns after all these years, Cam Heyward's status for the Steelers, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dilly dilly and a boom shaka Laca. It's our number four,
Our number four. We go to the Delaware Valley where
coach Nick Sirianni says he didn't even know that Thursday
Nights NFL opener was a banner night against the Cowboys.
He says he didn't know and that he and his

(00:21):
Eagle guys will not even be out there to celebrate
the Super Bowl win. Are you buying that? Do you
appreciate Johnny Manzel holding a grudge for a decade with
the Cleveland Browns after all these years? And what is
Mike Tomlin looking to accomplish with his recent comments about
the disgruntled Cam Hayward and his status as a hold

(00:43):
in when the season begins here this weekend for the Steelers.
We'll talk about that as well. All of it's coming away.
Have a great, wonderful, glorious Wednesday. Here. It is our
number four. File it under Bird Brains, Bird Brains. Welcome

(01:04):
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This hour is from phil Delphi, PA, the Delaware Valley,
and that is the scene for the big NFL kickoff
which will be.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow, as the Birds and the Boys, the
Birds and the Boys get together there do not expect
much joy in the.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Eagle locker room. Why you ask, Well, it turns out
that Nick Sirianni, the head coach of the Philadelphia Football team.
If you miss this, he's decided and announced that the
team is not going to participate in the pomp and circumstance.
I think we have some audio on this, I believe.

(02:56):
So here is the head coach of the philadelp Off Eagles,
and listen closely here at the beginning, because he seems
surprised by what's going on. Take a list.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, I didn't know it was banner night. We won't
be out for that. We've had a good training camp.
I think we had good OTAs. I think our habits
are going in the right direction. And that's and you
and you focus on those things. Is you know, every
practice that we go through, we're thinking about how did
we tackle, how did we take care of the football,
how did we take it away? You know, how did

(03:28):
we catch it, how did we block? And so you're
just looking for those to constantly be on the rise.
And I think when you practice with the intensity that
our team practice is with and you get that good
on good work that we've gotten for so long. You know,
our good offensive line is going against our good defensive line,
you know you have no choice but to get better.
And so I feel I feel good about that. You

(03:49):
know now we got to go do it. We got
to let our habits take over in the game, you know,
as coaches are we got to let our habits take
over in the game as players. But I feel I
feel good about where we are right now.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I just wanted to begin just the beginning part of
that was the can you just play the beginning part
like that first two second things? Play that beginning thing
that because that was the key part to me.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, I didn't know it was Banner Night?

Speaker 4 (04:13):
How do you not know that?

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Seriously? All right, so let us discuss the question. Nick
Sirianni heard him just say he didn't even know the
Thursday game was Banner Night against the Cowboys, did not know.
I didn't even know that, and that he and the
Eagle players will not go out to celebrate the Super

(04:35):
Bowl win, although there have been some Cowboy players that
are saying they're gonna go out and they're gonna use
that as motivation. The gona get out there and use
that as motivation. So are you buying that? Nick Sirianni,
NFL head coach, the raigning Super Bowl champions, was unaware
was unaware of the event taking place on Thursday night,
So I've got Krusty the Clown, Pepsi and Anthony Bourdain,

(05:00):
three things that have never been combined together. But here
we are, in this mortal coil, going to combine them
together because we have to make some gaba gool. That's right,
gobba gool for our friend in Florida. So to lead
off two words, no chance, there is no chet none

(05:20):
that Nick Sirianni did not notice. Now he's playing the
clueless professor, right, that's what he's playing here, he's doing
the aw shucks, ah shucks. Man. I'm just a country bumpkin.
I didn't know no gee golly, I had no idea. Yeah, right,
don't buy it because that would be the worst situational

(05:43):
awareness you could possibly have. The NFL has been making
a big deal, and rightfully so. They've been making a
big deal that if you win the Super Bowl, you
begin the following season, you play that game in your stadium,
unless there's a scheduling conflict with the baseball team, you
play your game. I think the Ravens, oh they didn't win.

(06:04):
They had they were supposed to play the season opening,
and they'd have played somewhere else. Anyway. The point is
that Banner Night has been a thing for a good
amount of time, for a good amount of time, and
so saying you don't know, well, you don't know what
you don't know, and you knew this, this is what
you knew. And it's like saying, hey, I showed up

(06:27):
to my wedding and I was absolutely flabbergast, dude when
I got to my wedding and my bride was what
are the odds shocking? So either he's full of it,
which is the right answer, or he's just playing stupid,
which is also possible but also annoying. And you know

(06:49):
the playing stupid thing. Now, I do have an unpopular
opinion on this. The reason I brought this up. The
main reason unpopular opinion. Jalen Hurts, Jan Barkley and the
other Glue guys should be part of this. They should
be out watching this ceremony. This is the time to
another time to enjoy it. It's one of those measuring

(07:14):
sticks and soak it all in. It's something that you
worked for and you won the damn super Bowl, and
that doesn't happen very often, asked Jerry Jones about that.
So you don't get many of these opportunities to win
a championship, and the banner thing is part of the
whole deal, and that'll be up long after you're dead
and gone, that banner unless the NFL goes out of business,

(07:36):
and it's all going to be gone in the blink
of an eye. So you might as well enjoy it. Right.
One day you're on the float, there's people throwing beers
at you, confetti flying everywhere. You're on top of the
foot ball world, right, and the next you're in the outhouse.
If you will, it goes real quick. It's like my professor,

(08:00):
the Great Krusty the Clown, taught me years ago that
that show business, baby, it's an NFL show business. One
day you're the most important guy in the world, and
the next you're working at a box factory. Right, you're
just working somewhere to box factory. And not that there's
anything wrong with working at a box factory, but it's
not quite the same. It's not quite the same. And

(08:21):
that's it. It's over. You're done, and you don't get
many opportunities to celebrate something along these lines. So I
think you should be out there. Gotta honor it. I
got gotta lean into it a little bit, and then
you start the season, and you know, at some point
here in the near future, you will be the person
that the children today, the toddlers of today, in fifteen

(08:46):
years or so, they will say, oh, you're an old
head or whatever the term is at that point, right,
they'll just call you some offensive name, and thus the
circle of life. All right, now, furthermore to Cleveland we
go where Johnny Manzel remember him? Johnny Manzel went on
Shannon Sharp's podcast He still got that podcast lit up

(09:06):
the Cleveland Browns like it was twenty fourteen. He blamed
Manziel the Brownies for his failures as an NFL player,
saying he still roots against them every season. Manziel went
on to say that he will hate them forever. Manziel said,
he'll hate them forever. He roots for them to go

(09:28):
oh in sixteen every year. So I guess they can
have one tie. Or maybe Manziel stopped watching the NFL.
Maybe he never watched the NFL, didn't realize they added
a seventeenth game years ago. So now that's not just
sour grapes. No, no, no, that is not just sour grapes.
That is a vineyard of resentment. Is what that is
for Manzel. So do you question for the esteem panel,

(09:52):
do you appreciate Johnny Manziel holding a grudge against the
Cleveland Browns After all of these years gone by, he
still is bitter and broken about the Cleveland Browns. So
this one is very rich. And now I'm someone that
usually holds grudges for a long time. They tell you
not to do that, but I normally do that. But
on this one, Manzell, listen, I know he's not lacking

(10:18):
hutzba as big balls Bob would say, they're in Vegas.
But Johnny got knocked down and he did the thing
you can't do with the time, you can't do it.
He got knocked down and he never got back up.
He still hasn't gotten back up. He was a one hit,
one season disaster. He peaked at Texas A and M.

(10:41):
And it's it's kind of like, if you're in the
music business, you blame the record label because your band
couldn't come up with another song after you had your hit, right,
you know, it's a come on, Eileen, and then there's
nothing else after that, and you're like, well, what happened?
I don't understand. I know that man, he said, But Manzelle,

(11:02):
he was not. When he was with the Browns, he
was not just living the football life. He was living
the pepsi life. He was chugging the rock Star energy
drinks and some other things party favors. Allegedly, we have
to say alleged. I think he's pretty much admitted to
all of that in the documentary at Everything and a
little side of TMZ. Very popular on TMZ there Harvey

(11:24):
Levins group. But he didn't just burn bridges. This was
not a burn the bridge situation alone for Johnny Manziel. No, no, no,
no no. He went in there and just absolutely lobbed
model top cocktails and hand grenades and the whole thing
and did a ritual dance. I'm pretty sure he did
a ritual chance on the on the ashes of the playbook.

(11:48):
On his way out of Cleveland and Johnny football, he
showed up to the Mouse. Now, we were on the
radio when he was playing for the Browns and we
were like, well, this is exciting. We were into it.
We bought into the story. It seemed like it'd be
good talk radio and all that, and you know, he
showed up to the Browns and it's like somebody just
out of place, Like if you were to take a
boombox to a funeral, like it just doesn't really work there,

(12:10):
and usually you're not supposed to be doing that. And Cleveland,
I don't believe they ruined Johnny Manziel. Did they help
Johnny Manziel. No, they didn't help Johnny Manziel. I don't
buy the narrative that they ruined Johnny Manziel Johnny football
after eight minutes long malor investigation. The saboteur of Johnny
Manziel was Johnny Manziel. That he was the problem. He

(12:35):
couldn't get out of his own shadow. That was the problem.
He was the arsonist who lit his own career on fire.
I believe the cream rises to the top. Does it
suck to play for a crap bag franchise? Yes, it does, absolutely,
But to have a loser's mindset is even worth. It's terrible,
embarrassing and just the whole I'll use the Kobe Bryant

(12:59):
and out Kobe Bryant. People don't remember this. He's the
only remember the good things, not the bad. He was
terrible when he started with the Lakers, missed a lot
of shots. He was a ballhog. Nick Van Exel used
to yell at him. The players were annoyed by him
because he was a high school kid and he missed
some game winning shots that he shouldn't have taken because
they didn't want him to take him. But he missed

(13:19):
him early in his career. And he did not blame
Kobe did not go in blame his teammates for being
total schmucks. He didn't do that. He didn't blame the coach,
he didn't blame the franchise. He blamed the referees. What
he did was he took responsibility for missing the shot,
and he would go into the gym, and the legend
is he'd work out and all this stuff. He practiced

(13:41):
those same shots over and over hundreds of times, and
then he became this legend, you know, through repetition. Right
through repetition, he took responsibility. That's the lesson there. He
took responsibility. Johnny Manzel losers like Johnny Manziel, on the
other hand, always had someone or something to blame. You

(14:04):
got to play the blame game. Got to play the
blame game. They say things like, well the system's rigged.
You know, this is a lose and not just in
sports and life, and whose systems rigged against me. I
can't win. I wasn't given the right opertunities. All give me,
give me, give me. I just want to hear that stuff.
I just want to my head explodes. Dude, that's the
worst attitude. You have the worst attitude in the world.
And I like this one. My boss. My boss doesn't

(14:27):
appreciate me. Take a number from the deli counter. I
don't anyone's whose boss appreciates them. Does anyone know? I know,
I don't see any hands raised.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
I don't mind.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Does yeah, Okay, I generally, I mean I think they
they like the fact that I show up to work.
I don't miss a lot of time at all. That
I don't know they appreciate it. But I don't think that.
I don't think I've had any boss that really goes
out of the way to appreciate what you do. Uh So, anyway,
that's the point, and the people that are successful understand this.
And as far as the whole brown thing, the dark

(14:59):
cloud over the Browns and being pig pen and all that,
you can escape the factory of sadness and the old
line is not how you start it's how you finished. Now,
what is my evidence? Baker Mayfield who left Cleveland tattered
and broken and coming apart of the seams. Baker Mayfield
left Cleveland and he went to Carolina and sucked again.

(15:21):
He went to the Rams, played like a couple of games,
was okay. He goes to Tampa and he reinvented himself.
You know that's true. He reinvented himself in Tampa. Johnny
Manzell left Cleveland bitter and broken. And what did he do?
He built a Netflix documentary about regret. That's what he did.

(15:45):
And so if Cleveland deserves the eternal wrath of Johnny football,
what about the rest of his tattered football career? For example,
he attempted to play for the Montreal Alouettes in the
Canadian Football League, and our buddy Nico knows that did
not go very well. They're Buddy Nico and Vancouver and

(16:06):
the Hamilton Tiger Cats also in the CFL. Unfortunately, Johnny
did not play for my favorite team to Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Does he also want those teams to go winless? Though?
I don't know. But it's about the king of pop
classic tune the man in the mirror, the man in
the mirror right now. Last thing to pet spurk Pa
we go where Mike Tomlin announced that he is not worried.

(16:30):
As weekly news conference, Thomas said he's not worried about
All Pro defensive tackle Cam Hayward, the spawn of Ironhead,
his hold in. Tomlin says, not going to be a factor.
Not worried about it being a factor. As the Steelers
open up with the Jets this weekend, Hayward has been
walking into practice. He'll stretch a little bit, smile to

(16:51):
the cameras, and sit on his fat ass. That's it, right,
and there you go. So Tomlin stressed he is expected,
he said, certainly expecting Cam Hayward to play. He said
there are no reservations about Hayward's participation or his readiness.
I'm sure he's champing at the bit. He didn't say chomping,

(17:11):
He said champing at the bit. Now. Hayward, who is
set to enter year number fifteen, Ye're number fifteen this season.
When he was asked about this on some podcast no
one listens to, he gave the following response. He said, listen,
he said, we'll see, we'll see what wall. We'll see

(17:34):
when I asked about that. So what is Mike Tomlin
looking to accomplish? What is Tomlin looking to accomplish on
this one with these comments on Cam Heyward and his
status a key defensive player for Pittsburgh going to that
game with the Jets, so decoding the language of Mike Tomlin.
Tomlin's channeling the memory of the late great Anthony Bourdain

(17:56):
and his show no reservations when he used that no
reservation line. It's kind of like going to dinner at
Buco to Beppo and you just go in there. Cam's
gonna show up. It's family style and he's just gonna
grab some egg, eggplant parm and that's it. And then
dominate the Jets offensive line because that's what he does,
and that's what he's gonna do, and that's it. And

(18:19):
so Cam Hayward being given a trip by Mike Tomlin,
now not a trip to Hawaii or Cam kun. Tomlin
is giving Cam Hayward a trip. It's called a guilt trip.
It's like, you better show up. It's peer pressure. Your
teammates need you, your coaching staff needs you. It's time
to show up. Don't let your teammates down. They need you,
Your co workers need you. Cam Hayward is under contract

(18:42):
this season is last year under contract for fourteen and
a half million dollars. Hopefully he'll be able to pay
his bills there. The average annual value for an interior
defensive lineman is number twenty three in the NFL. You
look around, you see guys like Dexter Lawrence and Quinn
Williams and some others that got paid big money, big money,
big money, a lot of big money there, and every

(19:06):
missed game will cost him seventy two thousand dollars, which
is a lot of money. I thought it would be
more because he's making fourteen and a half million. It
turns out that most of his money is in a
signing bonus which will not be as I understand it
will not be damaged. And so he's made a lot
of money. One hundred and thirty one million, one hundred

(19:27):
and thirty good for him. It's all about pride, though,
It's all about I got pride. I'm not going to
play for that salary. I need more money. Pay the
man right, pay them in not play the man, pay
the man. That's it. Pittsburgh. They figure, hey, we can
get one more year at a cam Heyward. That's it.
He thinks I can get one more contract because he's
in his thirties, mid thirties, which is usually a sign

(19:49):
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Can we'll be used against you in the court of
sports radio, Please act accordingly. We'll begin with a hodgepodge
of a Mallard monologue bounced around a couple of NFL stories,
and Fergduck says, I demand an encore of Lucky Tony's

(22:58):
song until the and I want my sockback. Okay, fair enough,
it's on the.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
No, it's mine, now you leave it in my house.
It's no longer yours.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Well, Ferdduck still got a bunch of Brian Finley's boxer shorts,
so he said, I don't know what he's doing with that,
but that's a different conversation. What else do we have?
Big rig Rob rights in from the Highways and Byways
of North America and says, then all Nick Sirianni needs
to do is look at the fall of Belichick to
see just how quickly it could all end. As far

(23:29):
as Baker, Baker, the touchdown maker, we should loathe Cleveland
their second on him, and he goes on some different
words spelled weird there, So I'll skip that part of it.
What else do we have to see? Page down? I
can't read that on there? There was a lot of
Baker Mayfield trash talking and Johnny Manziel people ripping Manziel.

(23:53):
Nicholas says, it's maker Bayfield of dreams. Johnny silver Spoon
was not as good as his mind told him. Well,
wasn't the story on Johnny Manziel that he didn't come
from And that was all a bull crap story they
made up. Wasn't that the whole documentary that they made
the whole thing up, And it was he didn't come
from old oil money, And it was all just a

(24:15):
ruse because he was getting so much money from boosters
at A and M and so it was all a
joke and people bought into it. And so yeah, I'll
go to the phones and we'll say hello to Mike
the Leprechaun. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.

Speaker 7 (24:32):
Hello, Ben, How are you good luck with versus a penny?

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Well, thank you, Mike. I appreciate that. And I feel like.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
I'll do all your picks this year.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Bett, Well, thank you and bet all your money. And
when you're broke, blame Mike the Leprecaun.

Speaker 7 (24:46):
You know who was this homeless Mike guy?

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah, it's Mike and tem Mike and Tempee, the star
of the night, Mike and Tempee. He's homeless. He has
been convicted of was it three felonies, I believe or
one fella? One fella? I just had to yell at him.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
Yeah, make it seven felonies, seven fela one against coop.

Speaker 7 (25:05):
Okay, okay, okay, So the red Socks are on fire?
Then have you noticed when you come to Boston?

Speaker 1 (25:12):
L Oh, that's true. They could be in the World
Series if they the way they're playing. The American League
is wide open.

Speaker 7 (25:18):
Did you see the Well there's been many fun games,
but did you see the funky play at the Pesky Pole?

Speaker 1 (25:24):
I did? Now that should not How's that a home run?
Though I don't. I don't seem like that's a home run.
That's like a little league home run.

Speaker 8 (25:31):
He dropped it outside.

Speaker 9 (25:32):
She dropped it outside, So that's a home run.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
I should should be. It should be a home run.

Speaker 9 (25:38):
And you know what.

Speaker 8 (25:38):
I love Blue.

Speaker 7 (25:40):
My kids are going to be watching Blue in about
twenty minutes when they wake up.

Speaker 8 (25:44):
Blue is good.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
How long is an episode of Blue? It's half an out,
half an.

Speaker 8 (25:50):
Out, and it's brilliant.

Speaker 7 (25:51):
It has two layers. It has the adults just like
a movie.

Speaker 10 (25:54):
It has the adult.

Speaker 7 (25:55):
Layer where you laugh and cry, and it has a
kid level where are teaching himself? It's for younger children,
really honest, which is fine? Okay, anyway, Boston, I want
to do literation here if you know where that is.
Boston has beautiful people, as you know, so Anyway.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
I don't think that's a literation. I don't believe that's
I don't think that what you just did wasation.

Speaker 7 (26:18):
Beautiful people in Boston, Bluey and Boxton, red Sox. That's
a no.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
I still think that's what you're looking for. I think
you're doing something.

Speaker 5 (26:27):
He's a teacher, Ben, You must trust him. He's the
leprechaun teacher on the show.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Right.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
No, if you want to do an alliteration, it's amazing, astounding, astonishing,
that's an alliteration, like boom boom boom boom boom. Right, brutal, bitter, backbreaking,
that's an alliteration. Do you see what I'm saying?

Speaker 9 (26:46):
Did you watch the US Open?

Speaker 7 (26:47):
Their fancy meal of the of the tournament.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Is extraordinary, exceptional, eye popping. That's also some kind. It's
not great, but it's a literation. Be mused, bewildered, and bedeviled.
How about that.

Speaker 5 (27:01):
One and Bidazzle callously calling cats?

Speaker 1 (27:05):
No, it's three people like things in threes callously calling cats.
How about distressed, distraught, devastated?

Speaker 8 (27:12):
No, how about Blair.

Speaker 7 (27:14):
From from Maine with the eyebrow thing that was crazy
something to Boston?

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Oh he might if we you go back there, he
might show up his eyebrows. Will his eyebrows have grown
back by then? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Yes, you know, you know who was a Boston last weekend,
clearly in jiged eyebrows.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
What's that?

Speaker 7 (27:34):
Danny the son of Danny DeVito. I don't know Tommy DeVito.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
He's oh Tommy DAVIDO. Oh yeah, I saw that. Yeah,
he was at the.

Speaker 7 (27:42):
North End Saint Anthony Festival.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Shocking, He's already made an appearance in Boston.

Speaker 9 (27:46):
I can't believe that he's am am, I am I
a caffeinators kangaroo.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
You do seem like a caf You're a sun Tan
lotion kangaroo, is what you are?

Speaker 7 (27:58):
Okay, I haven't all.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Right, Let's say hello to Nick in Berkeley. Hello, Nick,
Welcome Nick the cub ben. Nick's got the he's got
the pipes. He's ready to go. He's got the pipes.

Speaker 9 (28:10):
Hey man, So I think you could be the little
angry lepracaun because he always sounds a little bit bitter,
you know what I'm saying. But let me tell you something.
You need the Giants in the playoffs. That way, the
Dodgers could come through and knock him out in one
game and put us out of our misery, and then
you get all the hype. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (28:26):
So you know that'd be.

Speaker 9 (28:27):
A good day for you, Ben.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
They're not the Giants are not making the playoffs. Stop stop.

Speaker 9 (28:31):
I can only wish man, but I just want to
say that that before, before there was a Coop de Loop,
there was also New Jersey Coop who I played baseball
with and uh he drove with drop top Camaro. In
one take one summer, we were driving up the Humble
Mountain in the back seat and one of my teammates
in the passenger seat and I wake up and my
boys like, grab Coop, Grab Coop, and Coop had passed

(28:54):
out at the wheel, rolled upon the little hill and
I go to grab him and I look down and
I don't even see my feet. I see a bunch
and Budweiser cans, half folders and half and the Cooper
was just like, oh well, I was like, so yeah,
he basically just had one too many and we gotta
let he's just druggle from the talking play a little
leading inside the parking lot and yeah, you made it
to Humble safety. But I hadn't put him in the

(29:15):
back seat to my boy Kimrick and drive and now
was very interested. But we called him Coop the Loop too.
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
If your name, if your name Coop, you have to
be Coop Coop de Loop. I guess that's a that's
a rule if your name Coop for sure. All right, Well, now, Nick,
don't get too excited when the Giants all make the playoffs.
And don't get too excited when the forty nine ers
are average this year.

Speaker 9 (29:33):
Okay, Nick, Hey, we're not gonna be average because you
know what, the Western Division it's a little bit tay
back this year, and we're about to let him have it.
And the one limitsis that was that beat.

Speaker 10 (29:43):
Us beat us out last year has gone.

Speaker 9 (29:45):
To your in Las Vegas Raiders, and so we ain't
gotta worry about.

Speaker 8 (29:50):
You.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
I gotta leave it there. But that's a great Nick
and Berkeley checking in. Let's say hello to uh, let's
hear Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcell, the Evil of Blair
Hater and the Mike the no good phony bloony con
is back.

Speaker 8 (30:08):
But if not, I'm still the dynasty. And a pleasant
good morning to you.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Ben all right, well, listen, I have excited I have
exciting news for you, Marcel that Blair in Maine has
called up. He would like to apologize to you. Well,
put her on now, all right, Blair in Maine, say hello,
you're on with Marcel and Brooklyn.

Speaker 8 (30:28):
Hello Blair, welcome to the show.

Speaker 10 (30:31):
Hey, it's me Blair from Maine. I shaved my eyebrows,
by the way, and I'm cooking in the kitchen this
morning at my new job. But I'd like to apologize
to you, Marcel. I'd like to just sing a song
with you since I'm an Eagles fan. Now, and here
we go, Here we go.

Speaker 8 (30:49):
Put some ear pumps on everybody.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
Here we go.

Speaker 10 (30:55):
Hey gee, el hey gee el ees.

Speaker 8 (31:00):
All right, my tell you no no no, no, no
no no no. That is not correctly right. That's not
correctly Spence. Can you write about it?

Speaker 1 (31:14):
I think he wants you to spell. You don't want
me to spell. He wants you to spell.

Speaker 10 (31:17):
I will, okay, but.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Eat eagle, Wow, look at you, Marcelle more.

Speaker 8 (31:26):
Time, Blair.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
But this is.

Speaker 10 (31:29):
Myself. Fly Eagles, fly, you go. You're gonna finish the
rest like.

Speaker 8 (31:37):
You gotta be choking, you know what?

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Fly I'm sorry what I'll hang up, but I apologize.
I don't know why he acted like that. I want
to hang up on your medicine mayor Philadelphia, right there,
elected official, right there, Marcia. Well look at this, Mike
the lepreca is called up to apologize. I'm believable. Back

(32:02):
to back eye Mike, Mike, Mike the Leprecaun. You're on
with Marcel and Brooklyn. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.

Speaker 8 (32:09):
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
There, idiots, that's gotta be a drop, that's gotta be
a drop.

Speaker 8 (32:17):
Good.

Speaker 10 (32:17):
I it's red, Mike Leaun. I like to just say sorry,
and I'm blessed in a goose? Right now? Am I back?

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Come on? Now, you can't. I can't say that. I
mean you can.

Speaker 8 (32:31):
Oh no, that is not.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Going to work, Marcella. Have you ever met a goose?
Have you ever met a goose?

Speaker 8 (32:37):
Goose? Thoughts from the Yankees? I never met.

Speaker 10 (32:43):
Marcel job. It's blind Scott.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Oh my god, it's blind Scott. Now look at that,
unbelievable Marcella.

Speaker 10 (32:52):
You just told myself. I gotta behavioral therapist. Now, oh,
put some.

Speaker 8 (32:57):
Of myth on before I get some teen picks and
rough things up for me and straight to paths were
coming away.

Speaker 10 (33:03):
Hey, Marcel, it's on COMO from Brooklyn.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
No, it's on go Mo. Now he's in Jersey. Uncle
Moe just moved to Jersey.

Speaker 8 (33:13):
Don't all right?

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Wait a minute, hold, I say, let me. Is that
Pete in Pittsburgh? Oh my god, Pete and Pittsburgh.

Speaker 10 (33:24):
I meet some wings right now at Brob Park.

Speaker 8 (33:27):
I want up dog.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
He just got back from Magic City, I think? Holds
is that Wait a minute? Hold is that Fred Toucher? Fred,
you're on with Marcel and Brooklyn Salo?

Speaker 10 (33:42):
Fred, It's me Fred Tutcher. I just got back from Knoxville, Tennessee. Actually,
and I'm back this morning. Are you gonna call him?
You called Fred Toucher this morning from the Toucher and
Herdy Show.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
What a all right? Enough of that? Thank you, tremendous,
tremendous job on the phones there. I would stay. So
this Framber Valdez story is outstanding. He's the ace of
the Houston Astros and he's been accused of intentionally drilling
a teammate in the chest because of a grand slam

(34:20):
he allowed. Now, both Framber Valdez and Caesar Salazar the
catcher were pulled into the principal's office after the game
against the Yankees. Valdez claimed through an interpreter that he apologized,
but claimed there was a cross up. It was not intentional,
absolutely intentional. Valdez did not want to throw a pitch

(34:43):
that was hit as a grand slam by the Yankees,
and he tried to change the pitch. The catcher, I
guess didn't allow him to do it or whatever they
fought and the next pitch Valdez changed the sign and
then he threw a different pitch and drilled the catcher
in the chest. And what he gave it away to
me was the body language of the catcher. Did you

(35:04):
see the catcher look like you mf usob what did
you You did that intentionally?

Speaker 11 (35:11):
And Valdez like his his yeah, like body language right
after he threw it too. It's just kind of like.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
And Valdez is a free agent at the end of
the year. He's not going to be back in Houston.
He's a good pitcher, but he will not be back
with the Cheaters there and Houston will be on some
other team. But that is that was pretty obvious. What
that was pretty obvious. It is the Ben Maler Show.
We are going to have password my word Game of
the Stars. We'll get to that and we will do
it next.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
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Speaker 8 (35:49):
Welcome to the show, there, idiots.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
That's classic Brooklyn hospitality right there. It is the Ben
Maler Show. Does I Bill Miller? You're locked and loaded
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(36:34):
end of the show.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
Attention everyone. And theWord is password, you idiot, password, the
word Game of the Stars.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Here's Ben mal Let's get right. So welcome in our contestants.
We have Tree Crumb Chicago. Hello, Tree, Welcome, you made
it back. You're on the job right now, Tree, right,
you made it back? Yeh, Well, thank you, buddy, thanks
for all the just spoiled us with that Chicago gift package.

(37:06):
Thank you, man. I appreciate that.

Speaker 8 (37:07):
I love.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
I have my own cup socks now, I have cup
playing cards. I've got that popcorns wonderful, great popcorn town Chicago.
And uh and I have a hat. So I got
a couple of hats. So thank you. I appreciate a man.

Speaker 8 (37:21):
You have my family, no problem.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
I appreciate that. All right, Well you're gonna play the game.
Who do you want to partner up with? Tree? You
got me, Lorena or Coop? I'm gonna all right, that's
a bad decision, that's fine, And we have any Meeni
miney mo. Daniel in Fort Wayne, Hello, Daniel, America's favorite
crossing guard.

Speaker 8 (37:42):
Everyone but one parent would agree with you on that statement.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Well there's always that one, all right. Who do you
want to partner up with?

Speaker 8 (37:49):
Who?

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Do you want to partner?

Speaker 10 (37:51):
Dad?

Speaker 8 (37:51):
I gotta go with you, man.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
You're in it to win it. And this portion of
the Ben Malors Show with Daniel and Fort Wayne and
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(38:14):
up first. Pick a number please, Tree. I'm gonna go
with five, all right, number five?

Speaker 7 (38:22):
All right?

Speaker 11 (38:22):
Tree, let's go with Let's go with receive?

Speaker 12 (38:30):
Uh uh, I'm gonna go with uh, Harry, No, let's
go h Daniel, how about snatch?

Speaker 8 (38:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Okay, I think you just said yes. I disagreed with
me and said yes. All right, go ahead, Coop.

Speaker 11 (38:59):
Let's let's go with uh oh, we'll go a little
bit of different direction.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Tree.

Speaker 11 (39:04):
Let's go with capture.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
What yeah, you got it on my crew? All right?
Go ahead there, Danie'll pick a number one to ten,
but not five, please playing password the word game of
the star. Number three. All right, let's this should be easy.
Let's go with I'm gonna do the mallord maneuver crude.

Speaker 11 (39:31):
I don't know he is. He's asking to repeat.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Crewde c r U d E crude crude.

Speaker 10 (39:39):
Joke.

Speaker 11 (39:43):
Uh Tree, Let's go with lubricant.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Gets your mind out of the gards. Nothing all right, Daniel,
Let's go with petroleum oil.

Speaker 9 (40:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (40:05):
Win, that's a win.

Speaker 9 (40:07):
That's a time.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
I count that as a win. I count that the
rematch next week, I count that as a
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