July 8, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the idea that the Cowboys are handcuffed to Dak Prescott because of his massive contract, how much weight Donald Trump's endorsement of the Redskins nickname has, Patrick Mahomes saying that he wants to be called by his preferred nickname "Showtime," Cite the Bite, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shot out Laca. It's our nameber four. Happy Tuesday.
Thank you for listening to the podcast. It does mean
a lot. It really helps us out. So here in
our number four on this eighth day of July, by
or Sell the Cowboys being handcuffed to Dak Prescott because
of his massive contract. Also, how much weight does President
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Donald Trump's endorsement of the Redskins nickname returning have and
in a chief social media post, the one viral Patrick Mahomes,
the guy with the cannon arm, the no look passes,
and all that stuff wants to be called by his
preferred nickname. Showtime. Are you okay with that? We'll get
to it and much more right now, have a wonderful
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rest of your Tuesday. Thank you for listening. Here. It
is our number four, It's the Dak Attack, and there
is no going back. There is no going back. Welcome
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our lead this hour, though from Jerry's world, we are
contractually obligated not to go more than a couple of
monologues without mentioning America's team, the Dallas Cowboys that have
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not tasted a championship in a generation and a half,
yet continue to get Baffosako television rating so deep in
the heart of Texas. Now I read a recent report
that claimed the Dallas Cowboys, for better or worse, are
locked in on the Dak attack, that they are hog
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tied to Dak Prescott. So if you didn't see this,
or maybe you missed it pro Football Talk, which I
guess is still around, they claim that Dak Prescott is
not in any danger of losing the Cowboy job at
quarterback in twenty twenty six. Forget about twenty twenty five.
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He's obviously locked in. But in twenty twenty six, their
claim is because he's got a sixty million dollars per
year contract that would wreck havoc. Where have we heard
this before? It would wreck havoc on the salary cap.
And if the Cowboys were to cut Dak Prescott or
to trade Dakota Prescott, you see he has a no
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trade coass he can weigh that in twenty twenty six,
it doesn't matter. They are up poop Creek without any
toilet paper. They've got problems now. The complication is that
the Cowboys the reason they haven't gotten any real quarterback now,
and they duca floor on the guard from the Patriots
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Al right, But that's just a flyer situation. They didn't
draft someone they're grooming to replace Dak Prescott, and so
the Cowboys Scott has a forty five million dollar salary
in twenty twenty seven. That this is a complication that
we are told based on the nerds that have crunched
the numbers fully guaranteed on the fifth day of the
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league year twenty twenty six. So essentially they're stuck. That's
what the report says. They are stuck, the Cowboys, all
because they fetched around. They waited too long to give
Dak Prescott a second contract and then a third contract,
and so now they're fed. They are porked. So let
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us discuss the question buy or sell? Buy or sell
the Cowboys being handcuffed to Dak Prescott because of his
massive contract. So I've got unicorns, Gi Joe, and party foul,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we are gonna make a classic the Baba Ganoosh. We're
gonna get the eggplant. We're gonna make the Baba googe.
Not to lead off here to answer the question by
or sell, I am selling. I am selling this with
a capitalist. I'm selling the idea that the cowboys are
handcuffed to Dak Prescott. The issue here is more. It's
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not about the money. It's about the bromance that Jerry
Jones has with Dak Prescott. That is a bigger speed
bump than it is Dak Prescott. Financially, you can always
work out the finances, You can always work out the
mat The whole salarycap nonsense. The NFL loves to feed
us doom and gloom. This player can't be traded, that
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player can't be released because of the salarycap. It's a
fugazy fugazi whatever, right, wayzy woozy, remember that line from
the movie. It's all those things right, It's it's a scheme.
It's whatever suits the narrative you go with, and you
want people to think that you're stuck. Oh, the drama,
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the mathematical drama, the algebra because of a bad contract
like Dak Prescott two hundred and forty million dollars. It
isn't albatross, Oh my god, an albatross. So you hear
the talking heads and they whine and they belly ache
and they moan as all the cowboys are handcuffed to
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Dak Prescott. They say they're trapped. It's a trap, And
to that, I say, baloony, baloney. I'm not gonna get burned,
and you shouldn't get burned either. You shouldn't get burned.
The salary cap is as real as unicorns. And I'll
tell you right now, if you know where unicorns are
and you have some, you'll make a fortune because they're
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not real. But there's real as unicorns a salary cap.
But Dallas, they can kick Dak Prescott and punt him.
They can punt him over the border McCallum, Texas and
cross the Rio Grand over to Mexico if they want.
It doesn't matter. Remember the Broncos when they had this
turd named Russell Wilson. Oh man, they're so stuck with Russ.
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They can't get it rid of Russ's contract. Well, they
ended up getting rid of Russell Wilson faster than Russ
could say, let's ride Bronco country, and he got just
got rid of him. Dak Prescott was a quarterback that
the Cowboys played well in the regular season right for
a couple of seasons, play well in the regular season
and all that, and I would still put him in
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the average category. Listen, I'm a Dak Prescott hater. I
have a card that says I'm a Dak Prescott hater.
He's in that good regular season player, not great, nowhere
near worth the pedestal he's placed on because of the
uniform that he wears. Now the Dak Prescott loyalists, and
every time I bring Dak's name up, I always get
the messages from the Dak Prescott Marching and Chowder Society.
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And so the loyals Dak will say, well, you know,
mal Or, you're just a hater. That's why you're on overnights,
and they'll tad out, they'll trot out rather his regular
season stats and say, well, look at the numbers he
put up in Week six against the Giants. And then
I'll write back, I said, well, the Giants blow, so
it doesn't matter. It's a divisional game, and Duk played well.
And then the other thing is they say, well, Dak's
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a leader, he's a leader of men, and I was
right back, well how do you measure that? Like, where's
the where's the measurement on that? And he says the
right things. Okay, if you like robots, Ai says the
right things. Also, you want AI to run everything, maybe
it will. And so it's like Dak's Dax's in charge,
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He's in charge of the Huddel, He's in charge of
the Cowboys. He's got that Megal Watts smile man, he's
got that, and the teammates rally around him. Okay, And
even if that's true, even if I say, okay, he's
a leader, which is that it's something is subjective, right,
Leadership is subjective. Some people just lead it.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I know from being around sports teams in the past
when I was early in my career and locker rooms
a lot, there are some people that were thought of
as leaders that other people on the team said did
that for the camera and that behind closed doors they
were phony that when the cameras were around, they were
Like Russell Wilson's a great example. I brought his name.
He's a phony eater like Russ When the cameras are around,
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we'll say something. But in the locker room people just
think of him as a geek and a nerd and
just a dufus, just a total dufus. So back to
Dak Prescott. So the issue with that, and there's only
one way to fix this is to play better when
the lights are the brightest. For Dak Prescott, right when
the moment's the biggest, he goes limp. Now, we do
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do commercials on the overnight, and there's a product, there's
a pill you can get for that. But it is
a problem. He's got all the tools, but he's no craftsman.
He's not a craftsman. And it's two five record in
the playoffs playoffs, and that is glaring like a neon sign.
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And even the numbers that Dak has put up, their
phony bullomny numbers because like he'll in garbage time. Remember
that the last playoff game I believe he started was
against the Green Bay Packers in Dallas. And how many
turnovers did he have in the first quarter, just giving
the game to Green Bay? And then by the and
he threw some touchdowns in the second half. Game was
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over by halftime. But yet, well the numbers don't look
all that bad all right. Now, moving on from that,
we turned the page to Washington, d C. Interesting story
bouncing around here the last couple of days out of
the Beltway. President Trump, calm down, I know some of
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you your blood pressure is going through their of comdown.
So President Trump said recently that he would support changing
the Washington commander's nickname back to the name they had
for all those years, the Redskins. And now he did
also point out, President Trump that if the commanders actually
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turned out to be a good team and win, that
he could get on board with the current current name.
So he tossed that out. So the Redskins moniker that
was dropped during the absolute lunacy that I mean, you
talk about looney tones twenty twenty. Can we all agree
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that was just a wacky year. We were all we
were all forced to stay away from each other, and
the people were some people were allowed to go out
and burn down cities. It was a wild year twenty twenty.
That's been five years. We moved on, but during that time,
when few people were paying attention, they announced they were
changing the name. So a question how much weight, how
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much weight does Donald trump endorsement of the Redskins nickname have?
So the first thought is the obvious one, Well, that's
the highest office one can have, right, President of the
United States and all that stuff, So it's kind of
a big deal despite that, and this is gonna upset
a lot of a lot of people. It's not an
unpopular opinion by Donald Trump because the Washington Redskins checked out.
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The Commanders have done service. When they changed ownership, Dan
Snyder was forced to sell a team, so they sold
the team. They did market research, and I have several
sources that have told me that they asked season ticket
holders what name would you like? And the first they
asked a series of questions did they asked it was
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market research? Do you like the nickname command? No, we
don't like the nickname command? What name would you like?
And then they had a list of options, and then
on some of the surveys, as I understand it, they
had fill in the blank. Most most responses they got
for any one name was the Redskins name. That people
wanted that name back. The people that actually, you know,
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buy tickets and watch the dem wanted the nickname Redskins
back and any So it's not because you know, Trump's
president or whatever that and that these are people that
of all political backgrounds who were saying that and uh, listen,
he's very bombastic and all that stuff. But a lot
of people, a lot of people when they watch the Commanders,
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they like, what is that what it's just, you know,
the helmet, the whole thing, the commander's nickname and the
uniform combination has the same sparkle as a wet sack
you ever put wet sox on. It's not very enjoyable.
And it sounds the commander's nickname, doesn't it sound like
a knockoff, ripoff version of a G. I. Joe villain,
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not Commanders. Sounds bogus. It's the kind of a name
that you get in corporate America when you put a
blue ribbon panel together of lawyers, marketing people, people that
wear bright colored glasses and have never watched the football.
They couldn't tell you whether a football's stuffed or puffed.
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They don't know, they have no idea. And those are
the people that we don't want to offend anyone. So
let's call it the Commanders. Ah yes, And then they
end up offending everyone who thinks that's just a dumb
name and its stupid and all stuff. So now it
is a launch. I will admit it is a long
shot that they ever bring back the Redskins name, despite
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the people banging on the table for the name to
come back. But can we at least admit, can we
find common ground that the commander's nickname there she blows,
as the Pirates like to say, I mean, at least
admit that. It feels like it was cooked off by
some focus group, as we said, right, and they just
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left it in the microwave, like ninety seconds too long.
Ninety seconds too long in the microwave. All right. Now,
last thing to cansa City, the team that played about
as bad as you can play in the biggest game
last year, the Super Bowl, Hue this year. Back in February, well,
the Chiefs social media post went viral. Recently, they had
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a post and in the post rather benign, but even
benign things go viral in the matrix. So they had
a post quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the guy with the big arm,
the trophies, all that the new Tom Brady and all
the champions was. So they had it post and in
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the post he has decided it will you know what
you what do you do in the off season? What
do you what's your nickname? So Mahomes on that post
said his preferred nickname is Showtime. Yeah, Showtime. So are
you okay with that? Well, people are not okay with
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that now, I'm answering the question. I'm not really okay
with it either.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I'm not gonna sit up all day because I sleep
during the day. I'm not gonna sit up all day
and be worried about it. But I have said for
a long time, just like when Kobe Bryant years ago
nicknames himself the Black Mamba, the same rules apply to
Patrick Mahomes. This is not how that works. It's not
how any of that works. Every man, woman and child
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knows the nickname is not something that you just cook
up on your own. You don't do it. You don't
do it. You don't get to pick your own nickname. Sorry,
not sorry, you don't do it. Party foul. That is
a party foul by Patrick Mahomes. It is throw the
yellow flag. There's a flag on the play, fifteen yard penalty,
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loss of down. Down, at least in the court of
public opinion, and not just the way listen, nicknames are earned,
but they're also given to you. They're also given to you,
and they're forged through the pulse of the people, public perception,
and they're handed down by the fan and by the
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haters and the gas bags on radio and podcasts and
bloggers with hangovers and all of those people. So you
don't get to stroll into the nickname kingdom and say, oh,
here's my nickname. I like Showtime, call me Showtime. No, No,
nicknames are like they're kind of like tattoos. You don't
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give yourself a tattoo unless you're a crazy person. You
know what I'm saying. You can get a tattoo, but
you have someone give you the tattoo. You don't sit
there and say I'm gonna give myself my own tattoo.
Nobody with common sense does that, right, And if you do,
everyone kind of I guess maybe in prison they do that.
But even then, even then, you know, people wind your back.
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But what's wrong with that guy? That's an ugly tattoo.
He must have done it himself. So if you're of
a certain age, when you hear the name Showtime, that's
already taken. That's Magic Johnson in the nineteen eighties, Lakers
and pretty much all of the other nicknames Mahomes has,
and he's got a bunch they're already taken by other people,
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or they're lame, like the only one he said, well
maybe that's okay is mahome boy. He said, well, I
can kind of work with that. Sounds like the name
you'd put on a funk go pop though, don't. I mean,
but you kind of go with that, And so I
would say go back to the drawing board. That's what
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I would say. All right, It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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So it's been a big, big off season. Things winding
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Hey back till we go and your witty commentary after
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the top of the hour. Mallor monologue. Let's see here,
Milkman Mike says, I do respect the time you're putting
those monologues. I have to disagree with the tattoo analogy.
You may not do the artist part of the application.
It is ultimately your choice as to what the artist
puts on. Now, the point Milkman Mike was, you're not
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sitting there and you're giving you with the pen and
you're giving yourself the tattoo. That was my point. It's
not telling you. Obviously, you get a pick whether you
give yourself the tattoo or you have someone else do
the tattoo. You're the one choosing what's on there unless
you're forced. There's analogy I can use, but I will
not use that. But anyway, Jeremy writes in and says,
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so Trump knows about the Redskins, which I'm surprised he does. Racist,
and then he takes a shot at Trump. What else
do we have? Let's see page down. I can't read that.
Jose says, Hey, Ben, the Astros Championship is just as
worthy as the Mickey Mouse Dodgers Championship. No, Jose, clearly
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you're a little slow this morning. The Dodgers Championship the
hardest championship in baseball history. In twenty twenty. Baseball is
designed for one hundred and sixty two games. La la
la la la la la la la la la le
futs around. You play terribly in May. Who cares? Because
you got June and July make it up. And in
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that season it was a sprint. It was not a marathon.
It was a sprint. And it was the hardest championship
in baseball history. Uh, the sport was fundamentally different. All
let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
Mike the Leprechaun who has the balls to call back, Hello,
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Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
I have balls, Yes, I have tattoos. I also kicked
my own nickname.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yes I'm aware of that, and you also got you
got me in some trouble when you were here.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
How dare you what happened the follow follow up?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Well nothing, since I complained I did a full Mallard
monologue about the situation.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
So you survived, you survived.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Well I'm still here.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Did you like did you like the shot?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yes? I was, thank you for having You're very kind
and you know and I told you this. Uh, the key, Mike,
the lepracan is to if you're if you're worried about
meeting new people, just give them gifts. And you were
very You were very kind. You brought a bunch of
candy and other stuff in here, so you were very
Everyone loved you except except the one person that didn't
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like you is the security guard. Apparently the building and
those see the daytime, daytime radio people. I don't know
who was here during the day, but they're just not
normal radio people like nighttime people are different people. Why
did he come during the day. He was very excited
about visiting the studio and he wanted us to stop
(24:35):
by and see what it was all about.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Coop Coop, Coop Coop.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
I heard you won in Vegas, by the.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Way, Uh, I mean not big, but well.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
At least you got to the second day, right, Yes,
the big news is after then after I met you
that day. On the next day, on the Wednesday, my
first grandchild was born in Reno.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
So yeah, you know. The bigger news, no disrespect, you're
The bigger news is that you did a list and
I don't do lists, Mike. You do a list and
you were like, who your favorite people are on your
trip to Fox Sports Radio and you name someone you
didn't even meet at number one. Yes, you are a schmuck.
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You are a schmuck, is what you are.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Schmuck.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You put Brie. You put Bri in the number one spot.
You never even met Brie. She wasn't here the night
you came in.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Bree is always nice to me.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
You never met her though she's she would hate you
in person.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
They took it to you.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
The parakey are upset at.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
You right now.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
God, Blind Scott, Hello, blind Scott, you have clarity, Blind Scott.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
Yeah, dude, I was so impressed about your son joined
the Marines, Like it was so American that I got
all this Marines gear from the Calm Duty Free store
at the Coastguard base and now I'm getting a veteran's
discounts because I'm no.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
No, you're know that that's that stolen valor. You're not.
You're not supposed to do that blind.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
No, there's because I'm blind. They just assumed that a marine.
They even let me go back to seven to eleven.
Remember what happened at seven eleven. It was like a
fight there in my hand actually hit someone's nose and
they got a buddy nose there.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, well they walked into your hand. You couldn't You
didn't know where they were. You're blind, Yeah, it wasn't
my fault too.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Is this Dammian Lillard?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Talk?
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Man? We're not taking him in Boston. He's the king
of Portland. Portland sucks man.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
No, this is a good idea that the Celtics should
add everyone that has a popped Achilles. They should have
their They should have Lillard, They got Tatum. How about
you get Halliburton, Kevin Durant, get everyone who's popped in achilles.
Have the all achilles starting five.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
You know, we know John Wallock, the backup radio guy
for the Celtics. They should pop the other guy's achilles.
Can put him in a little bit of swamp in there, dude,
what about this TV show Betty Versus the Petty. We're
all very exciting.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I know we're very excited. I were waiting that we
have no announcement yet where we were waiting to hear
will the show returned for another season? I don't know yet.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
You just don't talk about Mike de lepercoon that much
because it won't be a good idea for the show.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Dude.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
It's one thing that supermarket Steve doesn't listen is we're
doing reaction radio here. If he wants to talk NBA,
he can call up and do a phone call about it.
The phone calls have actually been phenomenal tonight. You know
Van Obama man, he knows a lot about sports, but
his delivery is awful. You have to do all the legwork.
What he calls them. He could keep calling and everything,
but and then the poppy call man, it's just garbage,
(27:26):
the fake laughing, the stick, the cadence. Everything is just
awful about it. You know what I'm saying, We need
more competitive callers. We might have to know.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
We well, no, what we need, no, we well, the
town shows coming up. But what we need is and
I think we're gonna have to push the Town show
by back like a week from when we originally were
planning on doing it. We need to promote it more,
and we need to get the acts lined up and
all that stuff so they'll be perspective. But we got
to do more newby nights. I feel like people are intimidated.
They don't call up unless it's a newby night. We
(27:56):
get the same people to call up every night on
the show, which I'm fine with, but we need every
once in a while, we need to freshen it up.
We need new people to call in.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Oh no, I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I did of course, is you can't call in and
then you then you have a meltdown and send me
seventy five emails during the show. I just got blows.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
No.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Dan Patrick told me and Fred Toucher, they said, Ben
puts you on every night, so we don't have to
put you on the air.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
That is true. I'm doing this as a public service
for Fred Toucher putting blind Scott on ruining my show
so he has a better show. All right, go away,
Let's say hello to Mark who's on the North End.
Hello Mark, Welcome.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Ben, how's it going.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
If I was any better, I would not have just
taken that last phone call, but I did for some reason.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Might be a Redskin instead of a commander. I love
my president. And you know what, the people of Washington,
they want their Redskins back. And you know what, why
you're at it. Let's bring back the Indians to Lando
Lakes in Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, no, I'm fine with that. I don't think the
lands better. Yes, yes, the same same thing, same same,
the same concept.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
I mean, it didn't bother anybody for how many years,
and now all of a sudden it bothers people.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Ben it's racist. Yeah, well again, as I agree with
you do. I think that's going to happen. The one
that I'll give credit though, because not everyone the Atlanta Braves.
They gave up the All Star Game in Atlanta. There
were some other reasons for that too, but they baseball.
There was a push to change the Braves nickname. Uh,
the Chicago Blackhawk's nickname. We want to get rid of
(29:30):
that for a while. The Florida State Seminoles, they want
to get rid of that nickname.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
And even the family of the portrait that was on
the Redskins helmet pissed off.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I know. Well, so it's like when I went to school,
their mascot was the Gauchos, but they got rid of
that because apparently that's that's offensive to bring back. And
Jemima as well. I agree, Great Waller pancakes, great Panca,
Uncle Ben ask him a pie? Does anyone say no?
Come on the Eskimo pie? Come on? Yeah? All right, Well,
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thank you, Mark, your grant is over. Let's go to
keg drinking Steve, who I'm sure has a hot take
on the mahomes Man.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
You Toto shows, what are you doing? Depending the bakers Man?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
In show time?
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Mahomes you defend Tragic Johnson and all your all those
fakers from the nineteen eighties. Man who gives? Who gives
a crap about them? This is new man, This is
this is behind the You don't get to.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Take somebody else's established nickname. You got to wait at
least four generations till everyone's dad who remembered that? And
it's not been four generations. You will it's only been
two generations.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
Daddy did you? We will take it and you will
like it? And and Daddy says you would like it? Boy,
what tell yourself. Tom Brady is sitting there dating the
Sloppy Seconds with Kate Hudson and uh and you know,
in a yacht and a besa to try it?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Are you going to Are you going to read the
tabloids every day like I read the tabloids like every
other day you read every day?
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Why would he?
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Why would he sit there with Sloppy Seconds from somebody?
He can have any woman in the world and he's
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I don't care who the hell cares who Tom Brady's
hanging out with.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
It.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Just because you hang out with someone does not mean
you're sleeping with them. My god.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
You these aholes from Boston all all the time. Man,
way too many callers.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Well maybe if other people call it just because the
Boston people love the show and you other idiots don't call,
it's all Boston people to call. What do you want
me to do?
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Do we segment? Do we do? We say? No? If
you're from all this somewhere other than Boston, you can't
call no.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
All my long?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Why do you wake up some of your neighbors? He
sounds like you're trying to wake them up, Key Stephen
Kansas City, wake them.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
Up, shut up, man.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I'm alright, go all right, thank you, all right. Well
that was fun. That was that was enjoyable. That was
a great segment right there. That's why you don't take
calls and talk radio. Right there, Boom done so. Getting
the ring Deshaun Watson. To see this, Deshaun Watson, the
creepy quarterback, got married and the wedding ring had not one,
(32:27):
not two, not three, not four, not five, not six,
not seven, not eight, not nine. How about thirty four
carrots of diamonds valued it up to one point three million. Now,
I'm not here to say that the reason it had
thirty four carrots is that was one for every masseuse
that he stooped when he was with the Houston Texas.
I'm just sading thirty four carrots there of diamonds for
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Watson and that will be the only ring, the only
one that he gets in. How about Josh Allen, the
Bills quarterback who just got married in Santa Barbara this offseason. Now,
Josh Allen making some financial moves as he is now
married to I guess a Hollywood starlett and she's got
a big place in I think Santa Barbara. Maybe Malibu,
(33:13):
but up the coast, and Josh Allen had a compound
in Orange County, the very end of Orange County, about
halfway between LA and San Diego and a beautiful little
community called Data Point and right on the ocean. And
Josh Allen has put that house on the market. So
he's selling that house. He's going to clear probably a
(33:34):
million and a half dollars extra from the sale of
that house by the time it sells. And he has
said bye bye to the Swoosh. The Swoosh is on
the loose. After winning the MVP, Josh Allen has ended
his agreement with Nike. There are internet rumors. It has
not been confirmed, but I believe he's switching to New Ballance.
(33:56):
So they're the people that are involved in sports business say, well,
he's gonna with New Balance on the NFL map, Like
wasn't he with I thought he used to be with
New Balance. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but anyway, Josh Allen,
that's you talk about good timing, the good Timing Award.
That's it all right straight, It's been a good timing site.
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world of sports the last seven to ten days or so.
It could be a coach or prominent media member, a player.
Let's go to the audio tape. He really been dialed in?
Dial dial in sounds like hollering Jamestown. Is that hollering
(36:32):
James Marse? Yeah? All right? Will anyone get this right?
I'm going to go caller five, Caller five, call he
number fun, All right, caller four. Any guess is nobody? Nobody?
All right? Let's start out with Chris in Boston. Chris,
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(36:57):
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mystery person? What's up? Buddy? Marty Barrett? He whispered, He whispered,
Marty Barrett of the eighty six Red Sox number seventeen.
I believe No, that is incorrect. It's not Marty Barrett
from Chris. Let's try Edward in the Alamo city of
(37:22):
San Antonio, the home of Wemby. Hello, Edward. Who is
this mystery voice?
Speaker 8 (37:28):
Mike Brown?
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Is that Mike Brown the next coach to be fired
by the Knicks? No, all right, thank you, that is incorrect.
This person is a former a AC Defensive Player of
the Year. All right, former AAC defensive player. You play
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(37:51):
know who this is. Let's go to caller number three
and we say hello to hollering James, who keeps calling
back James or my caller number three? James? No wrong,
hang up on you?
Speaker 8 (38:08):
Oh wow? What I wanted to win?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Well, you lost your loser the.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Biggest I can't win twice?
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Yeah, go away, cowboy. John Brad is my caller number four. Hello, Cowboy,
your caller for.
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Beans. That former Major League player and manager Hel McCrae,
whose birthday is birthday?
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Is that Hal McCray who had one of the great
coaching meltdowns with the Kansas City Roles and his long Johns.
Remember that cowboy?
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Oh yeah, I remember that? And Lee Heliot had another
famous breakdown when he managed the Cup. Yeah eighty eight
on the seventeen.
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Oh great, the great Leela. Yeah, eighty five percent of
the world's work. The other fifteen percent come out here.
It's a playground for the blank blanks. Thank you?
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That was his right?
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Great? If you don't is google it? Just searching on YouTube?
Whatever do AI do? Whatever you have? All right? First
rookie quarterbacks is Ronnie a Lot to be named first
team All Pro? Let's go to caller number five Tree
in Chicago? Tree? Who is a tree?
Speaker 4 (39:16):
The last?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
First rookie quarterbacks? Is Ronnie a Lot to be named
first team All Pro? Who is that? It's sauce garden,
sauce gardener, Tree, you should he meant to say sauce garter,
so he wins. He meant he meant to say sauce gardener.
I know Tree, I know a tree.
Boom shot out Laca. It's our nameber four. Happy Tuesday.
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our number four on this eighth day of July, by
or Sell the Cowboys being handcuffed to Dak Prescott because
of his massive contract. Also, how much weight does President
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Donald Trump's endorsement of the Redskins nickname returning have and
in a chief social media post, the one viral Patrick Mahomes,
the guy with the cannon arm, the no look passes,
and all that stuff wants to be called by his
preferred nickname. Showtime. Are you okay with that? We'll get
to it and much more right now, have a wonderful
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rest of your Tuesday. Thank you for listening. Here. It
is our number four, It's the Dak Attack, and there
is no going back. There is no going back. Welcome
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our lead this hour, though from Jerry's world, we are
contractually obligated not to go more than a couple of
monologues without mentioning America's team, the Dallas Cowboys that have
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not tasted a championship in a generation and a half,
yet continue to get Baffosako television rating so deep in
the heart of Texas. Now I read a recent report
that claimed the Dallas Cowboys, for better or worse, are
locked in on the Dak attack, that they are hog
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tied to Dak Prescott. So if you didn't see this,
or maybe you missed it pro Football Talk, which I
guess is still around, they claim that Dak Prescott is
not in any danger of losing the Cowboy job at
quarterback in twenty twenty six. Forget about twenty twenty five.
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He's obviously locked in. But in twenty twenty six, their
claim is because he's got a sixty million dollars per
year contract that would wreck havoc. Where have we heard
this before? It would wreck havoc on the salary cap.
And if the Cowboys were to cut Dak Prescott or
to trade Dakota Prescott, you see he has a no
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trade coass he can weigh that in twenty twenty six,
it doesn't matter. They are up poop Creek without any
toilet paper. They've got problems now. The complication is that
the Cowboys the reason they haven't gotten any real quarterback now,
and they duca floor on the guard from the Patriots
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Al right, But that's just a flyer situation. They didn't
draft someone they're grooming to replace Dak Prescott, and so
the Cowboys Scott has a forty five million dollar salary
in twenty twenty seven. That this is a complication that
we are told based on the nerds that have crunched
the numbers fully guaranteed on the fifth day of the
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league year twenty twenty six. So essentially they're stuck. That's
what the report says. They are stuck, the Cowboys, all
because they fetched around. They waited too long to give
Dak Prescott a second contract and then a third contract,
and so now they're fed. They are porked. So let
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us discuss the question buy or sell? Buy or sell
the Cowboys being handcuffed to Dak Prescott because of his
massive contract. So I've got unicorns, Gi Joe, and party foul,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we are gonna make a classic the Baba Ganoosh. We're
gonna get the eggplant. We're gonna make the Baba googe.
Not to lead off here to answer the question by
or sell, I am selling. I am selling this with
a capitalist. I'm selling the idea that the cowboys are
handcuffed to Dak Prescott. The issue here is more. It's
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not about the money. It's about the bromance that Jerry
Jones has with Dak Prescott. That is a bigger speed
bump than it is Dak Prescott. Financially, you can always
work out the finances, You can always work out the
mat The whole salarycap nonsense. The NFL loves to feed
us doom and gloom. This player can't be traded, that
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player can't be released because of the salarycap. It's a
fugazy fugazi whatever, right, wayzy woozy, remember that line from
the movie. It's all those things right, It's it's a scheme.
It's whatever suits the narrative you go with, and you
want people to think that you're stuck. Oh, the drama,
(06:04):
the mathematical drama, the algebra because of a bad contract
like Dak Prescott two hundred and forty million dollars. It
isn't albatross, Oh my god, an albatross. So you hear
the talking heads and they whine and they belly ache
and they moan as all the cowboys are handcuffed to
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Dak Prescott. They say they're trapped. It's a trap, And
to that, I say, baloony, baloney. I'm not gonna get burned,
and you shouldn't get burned either. You shouldn't get burned.
The salary cap is as real as unicorns. And I'll
tell you right now, if you know where unicorns are
and you have some, you'll make a fortune because they're
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not real. But there's real as unicorns a salary cap.
But Dallas, they can kick Dak Prescott and punt him.
They can punt him over the border McCallum, Texas and
cross the Rio Grand over to Mexico if they want.
It doesn't matter. Remember the Broncos when they had this
turd named Russell Wilson. Oh man, they're so stuck with Russ.
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They can't get it rid of Russ's contract. Well, they
ended up getting rid of Russell Wilson faster than Russ
could say, let's ride Bronco country, and he got just
got rid of him. Dak Prescott was a quarterback that
the Cowboys played well in the regular season right for
a couple of seasons, play well in the regular season
and all that, and I would still put him in
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the average category. Listen, I'm a Dak Prescott hater. I
have a card that says I'm a Dak Prescott hater.
He's in that good regular season player, not great, nowhere
near worth the pedestal he's placed on because of the
uniform that he wears. Now the Dak Prescott loyalists, and
every time I bring Dak's name up, I always get
the messages from the Dak Prescott Marching and Chowder Society.
(08:00):
And so the loyals Dak will say, well, you know,
mal Or, you're just a hater. That's why you're on overnights,
and they'll tad out, they'll trot out rather his regular
season stats and say, well, look at the numbers he
put up in Week six against the Giants. And then
I'll write back, I said, well, the Giants blow, so
it doesn't matter. It's a divisional game, and Duk played well.
And then the other thing is they say, well, Dak's
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a leader, he's a leader of men, and I was
right back, well how do you measure that? Like, where's
the where's the measurement on that? And he says the
right things. Okay, if you like robots, Ai says the
right things. Also, you want AI to run everything, maybe
it will. And so it's like Dak's Dax's in charge,
(08:43):
He's in charge of the Huddel, He's in charge of
the Cowboys. He's got that Megal Watts smile man, he's
got that, and the teammates rally around him. Okay, And
even if that's true, even if I say, okay, he's
a leader, which is that it's something is subjective, right,
Leadership is subjective. Some people just lead it.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I know from being around sports teams in the past
when I was early in my career and locker rooms
a lot, there are some people that were thought of
as leaders that other people on the team said did
that for the camera and that behind closed doors they
were phony that when the cameras were around, they were
Like Russell Wilson's a great example. I brought his name.
He's a phony eater like Russ When the cameras are around,
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we'll say something. But in the locker room people just
think of him as a geek and a nerd and
just a dufus, just a total dufus. So back to
Dak Prescott. So the issue with that, and there's only
one way to fix this is to play better when
the lights are the brightest. For Dak Prescott, right when
the moment's the biggest, he goes limp. Now, we do
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do commercials on the overnight, and there's a product, there's
a pill you can get for that. But it is
a problem. He's got all the tools, but he's no craftsman.
He's not a craftsman. And it's two five record in
the playoffs playoffs, and that is glaring like a neon sign.
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And even the numbers that Dak has put up, their
phony bullomny numbers because like he'll in garbage time. Remember
that the last playoff game I believe he started was
against the Green Bay Packers in Dallas. And how many
turnovers did he have in the first quarter, just giving
the game to Green Bay? And then by the and
he threw some touchdowns in the second half. Game was
(10:30):
over by halftime. But yet, well the numbers don't look
all that bad all right. Now, moving on from that,
we turned the page to Washington, d C. Interesting story
bouncing around here the last couple of days out of
the Beltway. President Trump, calm down, I know some of
(10:50):
you your blood pressure is going through their of comdown.
So President Trump said recently that he would support changing
the Washington commander's nickname back to the name they had
for all those years, the Redskins. And now he did
also point out, President Trump that if the commanders actually
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turned out to be a good team and win, that
he could get on board with the current current name.
So he tossed that out. So the Redskins moniker that
was dropped during the absolute lunacy that I mean, you
talk about looney tones twenty twenty. Can we all agree
(11:34):
that was just a wacky year. We were all we
were all forced to stay away from each other, and
the people were some people were allowed to go out
and burn down cities. It was a wild year twenty twenty.
That's been five years. We moved on, but during that time,
when few people were paying attention, they announced they were
changing the name. So a question how much weight, how
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much weight does Donald trump endorsement of the Redskins nickname have?
So the first thought is the obvious one, Well, that's
the highest office one can have, right, President of the
United States and all that stuff, So it's kind of
a big deal despite that, and this is gonna upset
a lot of a lot of people. It's not an
unpopular opinion by Donald Trump because the Washington Redskins checked out.
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The Commanders have done service. When they changed ownership, Dan
Snyder was forced to sell a team, so they sold
the team. They did market research, and I have several
sources that have told me that they asked season ticket
holders what name would you like? And the first they
asked a series of questions did they asked it was
(12:45):
market research? Do you like the nickname command? No, we
don't like the nickname command? What name would you like?
And then they had a list of options, and then
on some of the surveys, as I understand it, they
had fill in the blank. Most most responses they got
for any one name was the Redskins name. That people
wanted that name back. The people that actually, you know,
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buy tickets and watch the dem wanted the nickname Redskins
back and any So it's not because you know, Trump's
president or whatever that and that these are people that
of all political backgrounds who were saying that and uh, listen,
he's very bombastic and all that stuff. But a lot
of people, a lot of people when they watch the Commanders,
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they like, what is that what it's just, you know,
the helmet, the whole thing, the commander's nickname and the
uniform combination has the same sparkle as a wet sack
you ever put wet sox on. It's not very enjoyable.
And it sounds the commander's nickname, doesn't it sound like
a knockoff, ripoff version of a G. I. Joe villain,
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not Commanders. Sounds bogus. It's the kind of a name
that you get in corporate America when you put a
blue ribbon panel together of lawyers, marketing people, people that
wear bright colored glasses and have never watched the football.
They couldn't tell you whether a football's stuffed or puffed.
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They don't know, they have no idea. And those are
the people that we don't want to offend anyone. So
let's call it the Commanders. Ah yes, And then they
end up offending everyone who thinks that's just a dumb
name and its stupid and all stuff. So now it
is a launch. I will admit it is a long
shot that they ever bring back the Redskins name, despite
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the people banging on the table for the name to
come back. But can we at least admit, can we
find common ground that the commander's nickname there she blows,
as the Pirates like to say, I mean, at least
admit that. It feels like it was cooked off by
some focus group, as we said, right, and they just
(15:01):
left it in the microwave, like ninety seconds too long.
Ninety seconds too long in the microwave. All right. Now,
last thing to cansa City, the team that played about
as bad as you can play in the biggest game
last year, the Super Bowl, Hue this year. Back in February, well,
the Chiefs social media post went viral. Recently, they had
(15:27):
a post and in the post rather benign, but even
benign things go viral in the matrix. So they had
a post quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the guy with the big arm,
the trophies, all that the new Tom Brady and all
the champions was. So they had it post and in
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the post he has decided it will you know what
you what do you do in the off season? What
do you what's your nickname? So Mahomes on that post
said his preferred nickname is Showtime. Yeah, Showtime. So are
you okay with that? Well, people are not okay with
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that now, I'm answering the question. I'm not really okay
with it either.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I'm not gonna sit up all day because I sleep
during the day. I'm not gonna sit up all day
and be worried about it. But I have said for
a long time, just like when Kobe Bryant years ago
nicknames himself the Black Mamba, the same rules apply to
Patrick Mahomes. This is not how that works. It's not
how any of that works. Every man, woman and child
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knows the nickname is not something that you just cook
up on your own. You don't do it. You don't
do it. You don't get to pick your own nickname. Sorry,
not sorry, you don't do it. Party foul. That is
a party foul by Patrick Mahomes. It is throw the
yellow flag. There's a flag on the play, fifteen yard penalty,
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loss of down. Down, at least in the court of
public opinion, and not just the way listen, nicknames are earned,
but they're also given to you. They're also given to you,
and they're forged through the pulse of the people, public perception,
and they're handed down by the fan and by the
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haters and the gas bags on radio and podcasts and
bloggers with hangovers and all of those people. So you
don't get to stroll into the nickname kingdom and say, oh,
here's my nickname. I like Showtime, call me Showtime. No, No,
nicknames are like they're kind of like tattoos. You don't
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give yourself a tattoo unless you're a crazy person. You
know what I'm saying. You can get a tattoo, but
you have someone give you the tattoo. You don't sit
there and say I'm gonna give myself my own tattoo.
Nobody with common sense does that, right, And if you do,
everyone kind of I guess maybe in prison they do that.
But even then, even then, you know, people wind your back.
(18:05):
But what's wrong with that guy? That's an ugly tattoo.
He must have done it himself. So if you're of
a certain age, when you hear the name Showtime, that's
already taken. That's Magic Johnson in the nineteen eighties, Lakers
and pretty much all of the other nicknames Mahomes has,
and he's got a bunch they're already taken by other people,
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or they're lame, like the only one he said, well
maybe that's okay is mahome boy. He said, well, I
can kind of work with that. Sounds like the name
you'd put on a funk go pop though, don't. I mean,
but you kind of go with that, And so I
would say go back to the drawing board. That's what
(18:48):
I would say. All right, It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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So it's been a big, big off season. Things winding
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and adding to your bank account. We'll get to those stories.
We'll get to them, and we will do them next.
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the top of the hour. Mallor monologue. Let's see here,
Milkman Mike says, I do respect the time you're putting
those monologues. I have to disagree with the tattoo analogy.
You may not do the artist part of the application.
It is ultimately your choice as to what the artist
puts on. Now, the point Milkman Mike was, you're not
(21:52):
sitting there and you're giving you with the pen and
you're giving yourself the tattoo. That was my point. It's
not telling you. Obviously, you get a pick whether you
give yourself the tattoo or you have someone else do
the tattoo. You're the one choosing what's on there unless
you're forced. There's analogy I can use, but I will
not use that. But anyway, Jeremy writes in and says,
(22:15):
so Trump knows about the Redskins, which I'm surprised he does. Racist,
and then he takes a shot at Trump. What else
do we have? Let's see page down. I can't read that.
Jose says, Hey, Ben, the Astros Championship is just as
worthy as the Mickey Mouse Dodgers Championship. No, Jose, clearly
(22:38):
you're a little slow this morning. The Dodgers Championship the
hardest championship in baseball history. In twenty twenty. Baseball is
designed for one hundred and sixty two games. La la
la la la la la la la la la le
futs around. You play terribly in May. Who cares? Because
you got June and July make it up. And in
(23:02):
that season it was a sprint. It was not a marathon.
It was a sprint. And it was the hardest championship
in baseball history. Uh, the sport was fundamentally different. All
let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
Mike the Leprechaun who has the balls to call back, Hello,
(23:22):
Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
I have balls, Yes, I have tattoos. I also kicked
my own nickname.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yes I'm aware of that, and you also got you
got me in some trouble when you were here.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
How dare you what happened the follow follow up?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Well nothing, since I complained I did a full Mallard
monologue about the situation.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
So you survived, you survived.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Well I'm still here.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Did you like did you like the shot?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yes? I was, thank you for having You're very kind
and you know and I told you this. Uh, the key, Mike,
the lepracan is to if you're if you're worried about
meeting new people, just give them gifts. And you were
very You were very kind. You brought a bunch of
candy and other stuff in here, so you were very
Everyone loved you except except the one person that didn't
(24:14):
like you is the security guard. Apparently the building and
those see the daytime, daytime radio people. I don't know
who was here during the day, but they're just not
normal radio people like nighttime people are different people. Why
did he come during the day. He was very excited
about visiting the studio and he wanted us to stop
(24:35):
by and see what it was all about.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Coop Coop, Coop Coop.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
I heard you won in Vegas, by the.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Way, Uh, I mean not big, but well.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
At least you got to the second day, right, Yes,
the big news is after then after I met you
that day. On the next day, on the Wednesday, my
first grandchild was born in Reno.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
So yeah, you know. The bigger news, no disrespect, you're
The bigger news is that you did a list and
I don't do lists, Mike. You do a list and
you were like, who your favorite people are on your
trip to Fox Sports Radio and you name someone you
didn't even meet at number one. Yes, you are a schmuck.
(25:17):
You are a schmuck, is what you are.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
Schmuck.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You put Brie. You put Bri in the number one spot.
You never even met Brie. She wasn't here the night
you came in.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Bree is always nice to me.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
You never met her though she's she would hate you
in person.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
They took it to you.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
The parakey are upset at.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
You right now.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
God, Blind Scott, Hello, blind Scott, you have clarity, Blind Scott.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
Yeah, dude, I was so impressed about your son joined
the Marines, Like it was so American that I got
all this Marines gear from the Calm Duty Free store
at the Coastguard base and now I'm getting a veteran's
discounts because I'm no.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
No, you're know that that's that stolen valor. You're not.
You're not supposed to do that blind.
Speaker 8 (25:59):
No, there's because I'm blind. They just assumed that a marine.
They even let me go back to seven to eleven.
Remember what happened at seven eleven. It was like a
fight there in my hand actually hit someone's nose and
they got a buddy nose there.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, well they walked into your hand. You couldn't You
didn't know where they were. You're blind, Yeah, it wasn't
my fault too.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Is this Dammian Lillard?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Talk?
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Man? We're not taking him in Boston. He's the king
of Portland. Portland sucks man.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
No, this is a good idea that the Celtics should
add everyone that has a popped Achilles. They should have
their They should have Lillard, They got Tatum. How about
you get Halliburton, Kevin Durant, get everyone who's popped in achilles.
Have the all achilles starting five.
Speaker 8 (26:39):
You know, we know John Wallock, the backup radio guy
for the Celtics. They should pop the other guy's achilles.
Can put him in a little bit of swamp in there, dude,
what about this TV show Betty Versus the Petty. We're
all very exciting.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I know we're very excited. I were waiting that we
have no announcement yet where we were waiting to hear
will the show returned for another season? I don't know yet.
Speaker 8 (26:58):
You just don't talk about Mike de lepercoon that much
because it won't be a good idea for the show.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Dude.
Speaker 8 (27:03):
It's one thing that supermarket Steve doesn't listen is we're
doing reaction radio here. If he wants to talk NBA,
he can call up and do a phone call about it.
The phone calls have actually been phenomenal tonight. You know
Van Obama man, he knows a lot about sports, but
his delivery is awful. You have to do all the legwork.
What he calls them. He could keep calling and everything,
but and then the poppy call man, it's just garbage,
(27:26):
the fake laughing, the stick, the cadence. Everything is just
awful about it. You know what I'm saying, We need
more competitive callers. We might have to know.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
We well, no, what we need, no, we well, the
town shows coming up. But what we need is and
I think we're gonna have to push the Town show
by back like a week from when we originally were
planning on doing it. We need to promote it more,
and we need to get the acts lined up and
all that stuff so they'll be perspective. But we got
to do more newby nights. I feel like people are intimidated.
They don't call up unless it's a newby night. We
(27:56):
get the same people to call up every night on
the show, which I'm fine with, but we need every
once in a while, we need to freshen it up.
We need new people to call in.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Oh no, I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I did of course, is you can't call in and
then you then you have a meltdown and send me
seventy five emails during the show. I just got blows.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
No.
Speaker 8 (28:13):
Dan Patrick told me and Fred Toucher, they said, Ben
puts you on every night, so we don't have to
put you on the air.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
That is true. I'm doing this as a public service
for Fred Toucher putting blind Scott on ruining my show
so he has a better show. All right, go away,
Let's say hello to Mark who's on the North End.
Hello Mark, Welcome.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Ben, how's it going.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
If I was any better, I would not have just
taken that last phone call, but I did for some reason.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
Might be a Redskin instead of a commander. I love
my president. And you know what, the people of Washington,
they want their Redskins back. And you know what, why
you're at it. Let's bring back the Indians to Lando
Lakes in Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, no, I'm fine with that. I don't think the
lands better. Yes, yes, the same same thing, same same,
the same concept.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
I mean, it didn't bother anybody for how many years,
and now all of a sudden it bothers people.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Ben it's racist. Yeah, well again, as I agree with
you do. I think that's going to happen. The one
that I'll give credit though, because not everyone the Atlanta Braves.
They gave up the All Star Game in Atlanta. There
were some other reasons for that too, but they baseball.
There was a push to change the Braves nickname. Uh,
the Chicago Blackhawk's nickname. We want to get rid of
(29:30):
that for a while. The Florida State Seminoles, they want
to get rid of that nickname.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
And even the family of the portrait that was on
the Redskins helmet pissed off.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I know. Well, so it's like when I went to school,
their mascot was the Gauchos, but they got rid of
that because apparently that's that's offensive to bring back. And
Jemima as well. I agree, Great Waller pancakes, great Panca,
Uncle Ben ask him a pie? Does anyone say no?
Come on the Eskimo pie? Come on? Yeah? All right, Well,
(30:04):
thank you, Mark, your grant is over. Let's go to
keg drinking Steve, who I'm sure has a hot take
on the mahomes Man.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
You Toto shows, what are you doing? Depending the bakers Man?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
In show time?
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Mahomes you defend Tragic Johnson and all your all those
fakers from the nineteen eighties. Man who gives? Who gives
a crap about them? This is new man, This is
this is behind the You don't get to.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Take somebody else's established nickname. You got to wait at
least four generations till everyone's dad who remembered that? And
it's not been four generations. You will it's only been
two generations.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
Daddy did you? We will take it and you will
like it? And and Daddy says you would like it? Boy,
what tell yourself. Tom Brady is sitting there dating the
Sloppy Seconds with Kate Hudson and uh and you know,
in a yacht and a besa to try it?
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Are you going to Are you going to read the
tabloids every day like I read the tabloids like every
other day you read every day?
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Why would he?
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Why would he sit there with Sloppy Seconds from somebody?
He can have any woman in the world and he's
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
I don't care who the hell cares who Tom Brady's
hanging out with.
Speaker 7 (31:24):
It.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Just because you hang out with someone does not mean
you're sleeping with them. My god.
Speaker 7 (31:28):
You these aholes from Boston all all the time. Man,
way too many callers.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Well maybe if other people call it just because the
Boston people love the show and you other idiots don't call,
it's all Boston people to call. What do you want
me to do?
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Do we segment? Do we do? We say? No? If
you're from all this somewhere other than Boston, you can't
call no.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
All my long?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Why do you wake up some of your neighbors? He
sounds like you're trying to wake them up, Key Stephen
Kansas City, wake them.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
Up, shut up, man.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
I'm alright, go all right, thank you, all right. Well
that was fun. That was that was enjoyable. That was
a great segment right there. That's why you don't take
calls and talk radio. Right there, Boom done so. Getting
the ring Deshaun Watson. To see this, Deshaun Watson, the
creepy quarterback, got married and the wedding ring had not one,
(32:27):
not two, not three, not four, not five, not six,
not seven, not eight, not nine. How about thirty four
carrots of diamonds valued it up to one point three million. Now,
I'm not here to say that the reason it had
thirty four carrots is that was one for every masseuse
that he stooped when he was with the Houston Texas.
I'm just sading thirty four carrots there of diamonds for
(32:49):
Watson and that will be the only ring, the only
one that he gets in. How about Josh Allen, the
Bills quarterback who just got married in Santa Barbara this offseason. Now,
Josh Allen making some financial moves as he is now
married to I guess a Hollywood starlett and she's got
a big place in I think Santa Barbara. Maybe Malibu,
(33:13):
but up the coast, and Josh Allen had a compound
in Orange County, the very end of Orange County, about
halfway between LA and San Diego and a beautiful little
community called Data Point and right on the ocean. And
Josh Allen has put that house on the market. So
he's selling that house. He's going to clear probably a
(33:34):
million and a half dollars extra from the sale of
that house by the time it sells. And he has
said bye bye to the Swoosh. The Swoosh is on
the loose. After winning the MVP, Josh Allen has ended
his agreement with Nike. There are internet rumors. It has
not been confirmed, but I believe he's switching to New Ballance.
(33:56):
So they're the people that are involved in sports business say, well,
he's gonna with New Balance on the NFL map, Like
wasn't he with I thought he used to be with
New Balance. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but anyway, Josh Allen,
that's you talk about good timing, the good Timing Award.
That's it all right straight, It's been a good timing site.
The Bite, the great sports radio mystery site, The Bite.
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(34:40):
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(36:06):
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world of sports the last seven to ten days or so.
It could be a coach or prominent media member, a player.
Let's go to the audio tape. He really been dialed in?
Dial dial in sounds like hollering Jamestown. Is that hollering
(36:32):
James Marse? Yeah? All right? Will anyone get this right?
I'm going to go caller five, Caller five, call he
number fun, All right, caller four. Any guess is nobody? Nobody?
All right? Let's start out with Chris in Boston. Chris,
you are my caller number one? Welcome Christ Hello, Chris? Hello,
(36:57):
what's going on? Chris? You're on there? Who is that
mystery person? What's up? Buddy? Marty Barrett? He whispered, He whispered,
Marty Barrett of the eighty six Red Sox number seventeen.
I believe No, that is incorrect. It's not Marty Barrett
from Chris. Let's try Edward in the Alamo city of
(37:22):
San Antonio, the home of Wemby. Hello, Edward. Who is
this mystery voice?
Speaker 8 (37:28):
Mike Brown?
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Is that Mike Brown the next coach to be fired
by the Knicks? No, all right, thank you, that is incorrect.
This person is a former a AC Defensive Player of
the Year. All right, former AAC defensive player. You play
again eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. If you
(37:51):
know who this is. Let's go to caller number three
and we say hello to hollering James, who keeps calling
back James or my caller number three? James? No wrong,
hang up on you?
Speaker 8 (38:08):
Oh wow? What I wanted to win?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Well, you lost your loser the.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Biggest I can't win twice?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Yeah, go away, cowboy. John Brad is my caller number four. Hello, Cowboy,
your caller for.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Beans. That former Major League player and manager Hel McCrae,
whose birthday is birthday?
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Is that Hal McCray who had one of the great
coaching meltdowns with the Kansas City Roles and his long Johns.
Remember that cowboy?
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Oh yeah, I remember that? And Lee Heliot had another
famous breakdown when he managed the Cup. Yeah eighty eight
on the seventeen.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Oh great, the great Leela. Yeah, eighty five percent of
the world's work. The other fifteen percent come out here.
It's a playground for the blank blanks. Thank you?
Speaker 4 (38:57):
That was his right?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Great? If you don't is google it? Just searching on YouTube?
Whatever do AI do? Whatever you have? All right? First
rookie quarterbacks is Ronnie a Lot to be named first
team All Pro? Let's go to caller number five Tree
in Chicago? Tree? Who is a tree?
Speaker 4 (39:16):
The last?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
First rookie quarterbacks? Is Ronnie a Lot to be named
first team All Pro? Who is that? It's sauce garden,
sauce gardener, Tree, you should he meant to say sauce garter,
so he wins. He meant he meant to say sauce gardener.
I know Tree, I know a tree.
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