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July 16, 2025 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about Eagles coach Nick Sirianni putting up the defense shield for QB Jalen Hurts, the Jets and CB Sauce Gardner agreeing to a new contract, Cowboys star Micah Parsons saying "I'm going to get mine no matter what," Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, boom.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number four. Ahead of the curb an hour
number four talking some football. Are you intrigued by Eagles
coach Nick Sirianni putting up the defense shield for quarterback
Jalen Hurts under attack by some in.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
The football media.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Also, how much of this Sauce Gardner Jets contract is
based on performance on the field and how much is
based on the razzle dazzle.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
We'll talk about that.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
And what do you think of Cowboys star Micah Parson
saying I'm just going to get mine.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
No matter what.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
That's the quote. We'll go there as well. All of
it's coming your way right now. Have a wonderful Wednesday,
the sixteenth day of July. And here it is our
number four. It's for the birds, It's for the birds.

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had the All Star Game last time. We're not gonna
lead with that. The All Star Game ended in a tie.
There's no ties in baseball. Well, they got rid of
the ties in baseball. So they went to a swing off,
the first ever All Star swing off, and Aaron Judge

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and Shoeo.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Tani neither one of them hit a home run. And
the reason that neither one of them at home run?
Did you know? Why were you watching? No?

Speaker 2 (02:44):
The reason they didn't at home run is because they
had gone to the airport to get the hell out
of Dodge or in this case, the atl They left
the stadium early.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
So, even though the Baseball All Star.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Game is the only real All Star game we have,
even that was Sully, the two biggest stars in baseball,
known as big Boppers, they could not be bothered to
wait till the.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
End of the game, just in cases tied. Anyway, the
National League did win.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Kyle Schwarber, who did stick around. What a loser, but
he had pre home runs and the old fight and
phil there was the MVP.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
More on that later. Our lead is.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Actually from Philadelphia, but not about Kyle Schwarber. We got
a spicy margarita of a story here regarding the raining
raining Super Bowl champions. Now, if you did not see this,
perhaps not. Eagles coach Nick Sirianni was throwing haymakers right.

(03:44):
He was upset a lot of criticism, some.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Of it on our air Colin Cowhard, some others very
critical of Jalen Hurts. Of Jalen Hurts that he was.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Along for the ride while Philadelphia won the Super Bowl,
and he wasn't the reason that they won.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
He was just along for the ride.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
So Sirianni responded by saying, I think that's bull one
two one thousand ship, as in a ship in the ocean. Yeah,
I can't. I mean I think we should say that word.
Can't say it. How about this one. I'll try this.
Nick Sirianni said, I think that's bullshoy, like the ballet

(04:28):
in Moscow. He said, I mean quote continues, I mean
he meaning Jalen Hurts plays the most important position in
all of sports, and it's the most ultimate team.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Game there is.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
And what I admire about him, meaning Jalen Hurts is
his selflessness of doing anything we need to win. Close vote.
All right, so let us discuss the question for the
esteem panel. Wish you are now part of congratulations.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
The question is what did you expect?

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Right?

Speaker 1 (05:01):
What?

Speaker 4 (05:01):
What?

Speaker 1 (05:01):
What do you expect him to say?

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Well?

Speaker 2 (05:03):
No, the actual question is are you intrigued? Are you
intrigued by what Nick Sirianni had to say right? Putting
the defense shield up around Jalen Hurts. So I've got
dog whistle, drug of choice, and prototype, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are gonna

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make the baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make the babag Noosh,
get the eggplant ready for the Babaganosh. So could you
imagine could you imagine if the Eagles coach had come
out and said, you know, after I thought about it,
those critics are right, Like, Jalen Hurts is a bomb dude.
I mean, I should get extra credit as coach. We

(05:47):
won a Super Bowl with a second rate quarterback. Like
that's kind of cool. Like that's kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Uh. He of course he can't do that.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Like, but imagine if Nick Sirianni said, imagine a wagon
wheel and Jalen Hurts is just a spoke in the wheel.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
I just spoke. He's not the star, he's not the
center of the wagon wheel. He's just a spoke. That's it. Now.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
That would be a humdinger, a humdinger of a story.
But instead we've got the classic from Tammy Wynette, stand.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
By your man. That's what we got here. Nevertheless, if
you listen between the words, you listen between the words.
Here Nick Sirianni talking up, he's upselling Jalen Hurts. But
he used the word that is a dead giveaway.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
As we like to say, he used the word the
S word. No, not that S word. He did use
that word. But selflessness, you know what, that was a
dog whistle. That was That's not praise. That's not celebrating
Jalen Hurts. That is a If you're a quarterback and
your coach says you're selfless.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
That is eulogy, is what it is. You're not.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
You look at the alpha quarterback big board, not un
list Terry and England, but the alpha quarterback big board,
and Nick Sirianni he's whispering. He's saying secretly that the
critics are right. That's a dog whistle. That is an admission.
That is an admission from Nick Sirianni that Jalen Hurts

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was not He was not in the captain's chair.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
He was not the one who was steering the ship.
He wasn't. Did anyone ever call Tom Brady selfless? I
don't remember that? Do you remember? I don't remember that.
Does anyone remember that?

Speaker 2 (07:44):
They called him ruthless, diabolical with his sideline temper tantrums
and yelling at Josh McDaniels and throwing the tablet.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Down and all that. Does anyone call Patrick Hoolmes selfless?
Does any one say, boy Mahomes is selfless? Don't I
don't hear that. They call him a magician, they don't
call him selfless. You call a quarterback such as Jalen
Hurts selfless. You make that statement, and he.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Might as well be the one bringing the sliced oranges
to practice for a juice box. Brank as well, you
have a little break, have a juice box, have some
slices of orange. Anyone who watched the Birds go on
that championship run knows that if you're playing tic tac toe,
it's Hollywood squares tic tac too. The center square was

(08:39):
the guy that likes to hang out in golf with
President Trump. Sakwan Barkley, Right, Jalen Hurts was just a passenger,
just a passenger on the the Eagles super Bowl party bus.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
He was not driving the bus. That was actually somebody
else that was not Roberto by the way, our favorite
bus driver was not him. And you know, kind of
even Jalen Hursts was waving out the window of the
super Bowl bus, the party bus.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Uh Sakwan Barkley, the afore mentioned Sakwan Barkley. He was
the one that was driving it. Also, the defense they
took care of the tolls while they were driving the
bus on Championship Road, not the Highway to Hell. Championship road.
And so the stats back up that the eyeball test
said Jalen Hurts was was not the alpha, and the

(09:28):
stats backed it up. Philadelphia out of how many NFL teams,
that's right, thirty two NFL teams, Where did Philadelphia rank
in average yards passing per game?

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Thirtieth? Oh m, j oh m, Jake, oh jay, yeah,
thirty thirty of out of thirty two teams.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
The only teams that sucked more the Chicago Bears with
the guy that likes to paint his nails, and and
Drake May with your New England Patriots. So that's not
just bad. That is we're hiding something. El stinko is
what that is? You understand? You understand?

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yes, Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Threw under two hundred yards in not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five six regular season games,
not even two hundred yards in six regular season games.
The Eagles won five of them. What does that tell you?
It tells you that they don't They didn't need him
in those games. Their defense was good, the running game

(10:28):
was good.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
So when your.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Coach, in this case, Nick Sirianni starts quoting the gospel
of it's a team game and selflessness.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
And all that. You know, he's not just defending his quarterback.
That's my quarterback. He's not just doing that, Okay, he's
defending the narrative.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
He's defending the story because he knows list and you
got to be in the same fox hole together. I
guess Bird's Nest would be better because it's the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
That's the way he goes. Not Secondly, we go to
New York City, well, actually in New Jersey, but it
sounds better when you say New York City than Jersey.
So another day and another one of those giant oversized
cartoon checks that Alf the Alien ol Pinter loves so much.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
But the latest player to get one of those giant
oversized cartoon checks handed out from Gotham adjacent would be
who that would be, mister Saucy. That's right, we learned
the New York Jets. The New York Jets have signed
defensive back Sauce Gardner. All right, you know who that is.

(11:37):
It's only about five defensive players, you know who they are,
and Sauce Gardener.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Is one of them.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
So Sauce Gardner gets a four year deal for up
to up to one hundred and twenty million. Now he's
gonna make thirty point one million per season, thirty point
one million.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
And he is now.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
More well compensated than Derek Stingley Junior, who had previously
this offseason became he had become the highest paid cornerback.
But now it is Sauce Gardener who will make one
hundred thousand dollars more. And I love that the NFL
is such a fugazy world where they just toss around

(12:24):
an extra hundred thousand dollars like the rest of us fart.
It's like, oh, I'll just give you an extra hundred thousand,
why not?

Speaker 1 (12:33):
What the hell? Now Gardner is due to make eighty five.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Point six million in gaonteed garanteed shekels, and so that'll
tie him up with the Jets for the next plausibly the.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Next six seasons.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Probably not, though, so question how much how much of
this Sauce Gardener Mega Mega Mega contract extension for a
defensive back record break class shattering how much of this
Sauce Gardner contract is based on performance and how much
is based on the razzle dazzle. That's the question. Good

(13:11):
old song razzle dazzle back in the day. So Gardner
he was gonna get paid either way. My argument, though,
and my hypothesis on Sauce Gardner is the reason he
got a record amount of money from the Jets is
largely because of the gimmick, right, the Sauce nickname, which

(13:32):
is not his real name, but he goes by Sauce Gardener.
His drug of choice is Aura, right, Sauce Gardner's got it.
He's got the good vibrations, he's flashy, he's got the
nickname Sauce right, he's got the chain, the whole thing
to look, social media presence, he's got the occasional lockdown

(13:55):
defensive play as well.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
So he's got that going for him.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
However, based on recent results, based on recent results for
Sauce Gardner, his performance.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Has been eh, it's not as good. His play on
the field is more like an appetizer.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
His personality, his social media footprint, that is more the
main course.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Now, what is my evidence on this one?

Speaker 2 (14:23):
So Gardner by any measurement, was not as good last
season as he had been his first two years in
the NFL, and he'd gotten worse. Production was not the same,
impact on games was not the same. And so the
Jets are like, well, we know that they know that.
If I know that, I'm doing the overnight show, if

(14:45):
I know that, they know that. But the Jets they
want someone who can not only occasionally lock down the
other team's elite players, but also move merch right, move
merch and anybody with the WiFi and the social media.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
They're all about Sauce Garden. And it's another give away.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
It's not the nineteen eighties, right, You're you're not just
scouting the body movements, the way you move your feet,
the footwork, the hips, all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
It's not just about that, right, You're scouting the swag.
I gotta the swag, and.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
You're online clout to look into that, and whether or
not you've got the wardrobe you wear becomes a trending topic.
And so Sauce as a defensive base, well he's a
number one defensive back, but in terms of marketing, he's like.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
A one of two or three or four.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Or five, Like he's all of that. And the Jets
they saw this bright charisma sign if you will, and
nobody cares about the Pro Bowl because they play tic
tac toe and all that, so they don't really care
about that, but they saw all of the other stuff

(16:03):
and they're like, all right, listen, we'll give you the bag,
and we're gonna brown bag it. We're just gonna put
cash in there, baby, brown bag it.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Why not? All right?

Speaker 4 (16:10):
Now?

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Final thought to Jerry's world. I am contractually obligated for.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
The obligatory Mallar monologue about the Dallas Cowboys. So the
Cowboys report to training camp next week. They'll be in
Beautiful Oxnard, California, which is between La and Santa Barbara.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Beautiful Oxnard.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Anyway, So the Cowboys will be in training camp, and
Micah Parsons has decided to feed the content machine. Now
he is expected to show up the training camp without
a contract extension. Parsons is gonna be there, He's unlikely
to participate. He's gonna hold a hold in where he
shows up but doesn't participate until he signs his John Hancock.

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So the Cowboys eventually are going to pay. And it's
a matter of if. It's not a matter of you know,
it's not a matter of if.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
It's a matter of when. That's what I'm trying to
say so.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Parsons recently commented on his situation. He was commenting at
a football camp in beautiful Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He said, quote,
I'm just going to get mine no matter what, he said,
meaning what happens to the other players in the NFL.
Parsons said, I'm going to get mine, all right. Question,

(17:29):
what do you think of the Dallas Cowboy defensive star
Micah Parsons saying I'm just going to get mine no
matter what? So Parsons, My first thought on this is
I got the vibe from that schmuck Blake Snell, that

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malcontent who's always hurt for the Dodgers. Now, because remember
during COVID, I ain't playing us. I get mine, bro.
That was Blake Snell. And Blake Snell is undependable, He's unreliable.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
And that sounds like Michael Parsons.

Speaker 6 (18:09):
I'm not playing unless I get mine.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, that was not That's not Michael Parton. That is
Blake Snell from a couple of years ago.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
So I'd be very worried if I was the Dallas Cowboys,
I'd be I don't want to do business with that guy.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
That's Blake Snell. Two point zero. I mean, even if
you think that, what are you saying it public before?
I'm not. I'm just I'm just gonna get mine no
matter what.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Now, in terms of Bravado, it's it's wonderful, But it's
not just Bravado. That is a manifesto, if you will.
Right now, what is it is the antithesis. We like
to talk about the Code of the West. You do
what has to be done, you finish what you start.
And one of the other tenants of the Code of
the West is you ride for the brand. I thought

(18:58):
it was appropriate to bring this up because it's the Cowboys.
Does it gain any more Western in America than the
cowboys and the old cowboys.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
And the Indians and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
So it is the antithesis of the Code of the West,
which is ride for the brand. One of the tennises
you ride for the brand. Parsons is more focused on
writing for the brand, building, if you will, which makes
him the prototype modern cowboy player, does it not?

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Now?

Speaker 2 (19:30):
I mean the personification of the franchise is Michael Parsons.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
It's all about me, bro It's.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Not about you Brow, It's all about me and Jerry
Jones who's a wonderful showman and marketer and all that stuff,
but he is notorious for slow walking these contracts. And
the clock is ticking.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
You can hear it. There's sound of it.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
It's it's making more of a noise than a longhorn
stampede deep in the heart of Texas. And it's always
the eleventh hour. It's always the eleventh hour. The longer
they wait, the higher the price tag climbs right the
long other way, especially with TJ. Watt and Trey Hendrickson,
they're still out there and they're like, hey, what about mine?

Speaker 1 (20:24):
So TJ. Watt still think he'll get a.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Deal in Pittsburgh though his name has been floated and
trade rumors, and Trey Hendrickson will not get a deal
in Cincinnati. You can be traded somewhere else and get
more money. So the Cowboys are ready to push this
to the bitter end, the eleventh hour, as we said,
and then by that point, Micah Parsons by waiting, he'll
actually end up getting over forty.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Million dollars a year. Mark my words. It is the
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Game of the Stars that'll be coming up. We say
hello to Andrea in Berkeley. She's the astrology insider. And
could that All.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Star Game ending in a tie with Otani and Judge
leaving have been a result of a cosmic event. Let's
go now to our insider more on that developing story.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
Yes, hi, Dan, how are you?

Speaker 2 (24:04):
If I was any better, I would be Freddie Freeman,
or I'd be any of the other guys.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
That left the All Star Game early.

Speaker 5 (24:12):
Yeah, yeah, it's interesting. It was well, seven fifteen was
the date, and that was synchronized with the home runs
that was celebrated by Hank Aaron because as we know,
he hit seven hundred and fifteen home runs.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Well, and even that though, Baseball tried to honor Aaron
right and had the tribute and they cut off the
end of Vin Scully's home run call because he said
the line of black Man in the South. They cut
that part out of the home run call, which was
rather awkward.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
When Baseball had to explain why did they cut that
out of the call? But anyway, Oh I didn't know that. Yeah,
that was I.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Mean, I've heard that call a gazillion times over the year.
It's one of the great Vinscully call.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
And he that was the line that he used at
the end of it, and.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
They cut it off just before he said that not
as good, that line not as good as if you.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Have a sombrero throw it in the air.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
For Fernando Valenzuala. So that was still still my favorite
vinscoldi of the modern era, which is now not even moderningmore.
Vin's been gone for a while, but that's that's that.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
But yeah, it was an interesting night.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
So the story that the swing off and the two
biggest stars in baseball both left have a sombrero throw
a desk.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Of the sky so good. When Fernando threw a no hitter,
that was awesome.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
Yeah, you know, it was interesting. I mean, obviously he
was the first time of the All Star break was
All Star Game was decided by the swing off and
Kyle Schwarmer I got to say March fifteenth, nineteen ninety three,
as a met fan, we don't necessarily like the Phillies.
So I wasn't really enamored that you think.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
You think a little bit, even though every time I
watch a Phillies Mets game in Philly, it's mostly Mets fans.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
That come down.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
So yeah, I believe that.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, so you know, how about this one. Here's here's
a fun fact. Yeah, you're ready for a fun fact.
I don't know if you're ready for this Kyle's former
fun I believe he's the first ever All Star Game
MVP to go zero for two in the actual All
Star Game part of the event.

Speaker 5 (26:22):
He didn't get a hit right and get the m VT.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 5 (26:27):
It is that didn't you know, kind of sound right
or kind of gel with the rest of the evening.
So I don't think he really deserved the m VT.
But you know, he's with the National League, and that
is how they rigged it up. But you know exactly
my favorite way to him.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Well, yeah, I think you want I'm not gonna say
Pete Alonzo who hit a home in the game. There
you go, we didn't say it.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
I knew what you meant. I knew what you meant.
Alonzo and the three run bomb for the National Yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
Was interviewed by Ben Verlander and he was they were
talking about it, and it was, you know, probably one
of the more exciting parts of the whole All Star Game.
So it was just not fair. I think that it
went to Schwarber.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's an outrage. It's Tony Bruno. Is it outrage? Because
Bruno would say, yes.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
Okay, I'll go with that outrage.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
All right, Well, andreases some things cosmically in effect.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
Well, thank you, and oh yes, and mercury retrograde tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Oh my god. That all right, we will not forget that.
Thank you. Take good care, all right, the great Andrea.
So the reason the All Star Game was good for
like older dudes, well, you know it's what. It's an outrage.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
People tell me.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, it's an outrage. Is a big outrage. But no.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
The thing about the All Star Game, for the first
time ever, the winning pitcher was fifty nine years old
and the losing picture was forty seven.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
So if you're going to give the here's my theory
on this. Tell me.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
If I'm wrong, I'm gonna make my elevator pitch. So
Baseball awarded the MVP of the All Star Game to
Kyle Schwarber, who did not have a hit in the
actual All Star Game, but in the home run derby,
even though I want to call it that, Schwarber hit
three home runs, so he was the MVP. So using
that logic, the winning pitcher for the All Star Game
should be the pitcher who pitched to the Nationally All Stars.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Because the anl won the All Star Game.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
The pitcher was the batting practice pitcher for the Dodgers,
Dino Abel.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
He's fifty nine years old, and he was God.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
He was the one that was pitching in the swing
off for the Nationally All Stars. So Dino Able the
first ever fifty nine year old to win the All
Star Game. And the loser is a guy named Travis Chapman.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
You probably don't know that is.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
He's a coach. I think he's the first pace coach
for the Yankees. He's forty seven, so he's uh.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Ever, I mean, of course old, is that normal? They're old?
I know.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well, I've never done this before, but the winning picture's
got to be the one that gave up the most
home runs because that's the one that that was the goat.
So the Dino Able the winning picture at age fifty nine,
Dodger Coach and the losing picture at age forty seven,
Travis Chapman, Dick and Dayton.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Isn't that a great day for old guys Dick and Dayton?

Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yeah, good morning, Ben and Cu.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
How are you hello? Did you watch the All Star Game? Dixter?

Speaker 4 (29:25):
No, I know, But I've gotten a couple of little
things I want to tell you.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
All right, we have some updates here, Dick and Dayton
has some updates. Go ahead, give me a little taste
of that.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Dick.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Well, I've been to them as a Cleveland fan for years,
my family with from up there and my dad. But
I got three things that if you remember.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Okay, I want to do let me, let me get
let me it. Does one involve Jimmy Donovan? Yeah, I
know it.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
All right?

Speaker 1 (29:55):
What do I win? What do I win? What do
I win? I gotta go, all right, I gotta gold?
All right?

Speaker 2 (30:04):
All right, So go ahead, Dick. Three things from Dick
and Dayton. Let's see if we can figure this out
here we go.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Go ahead, Dick, a good night everybody?

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Is that? Is that your tape? About this? Dick to
the line to the lane?

Speaker 5 (30:22):
Right?

Speaker 4 (30:23):
I got another one he's gonna be inducted in the
Hall of Fame. He's pretty good long time. But people
go on, let me see here.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Is that Tom Hamilton?

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah, oh man, do I not know?

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Cleveland broadcasters come on. Unbelievable, great, God, take it. Thank you.
I'm flattered. I got your approval. I have your seal
of approval.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
I'm very now.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Whenever we do this, Mallard meet and greet, we can
do like Dick and Dayton trivia.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
We can have fans of the show that live.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
In Ohio ask and you'll be like on a throne
because you're the star.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
I'm not the star. It's all about you, as you know.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
And and so we'll have people ask you questions like
famous Dave and Dayton.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
They call him Dave. Remember that Dave. Dave.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
I was telling Dave about you guys. He said he's
gonna call you guys sometime.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Okay, Well, I will hear every night. And we don't
hide we're here. We give out our number to talk
to all right, bye bye bye. There he goes say
hello to Mike the Leprechaun in Boston. Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.

Speaker 5 (31:38):
Get from David is great and so is fur gone,
and I like your tough love approach. I also like that.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
I also like that Lorena played the Titanic music.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Now he's sucking up. You see this, He's trying to
get a No one likes that song.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
Okay, I do.

Speaker 5 (31:58):
And our three an our Street slot to the Mallet Palooza.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
And last night I was in Boston.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
You may have seen that post. I was at the
Back to the Future musical.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
Kate and Talk was in the Boston Garden and she
got injured again.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Oh you know, I was at the We did the
TV show the last couple of years. We did the
TV show at Universal Studios where they have the set
they filmed the famous light tower scene in.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Back to the Future. So we've been in that little courtyard.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
Yeah, oh my god.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
So let me tell you something us.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
It's not real. I walked through the door. It's just
a movie.

Speaker 5 (32:33):
You talked about the letter of the law or the
spirit of the law. Kids were yelling at me in
the back of the car and Sid I said, Daddy,
you went too fast.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
And then of course we hit topics and then we
were going through slow.

Speaker 5 (32:43):
We almost missed the show.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Okay, that's good advice. How old your kids?

Speaker 5 (32:48):
Ten and eleven?

Speaker 1 (32:49):
Yeah, ten eleven, back to back, man, belly to belly,
ten eleven, big.

Speaker 5 (32:53):
Style, almost Irish trains, almost Irish.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Almost Irish twins. And so now there's a guy or
one of my my radio friends his named Bob. Uh
he hates you. Did you have a message for Bob?

Speaker 5 (33:06):
No?

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Kind of called the All Star Game a swingers club?

Speaker 5 (33:09):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (33:09):
Can I say that I live the swingers Club?

Speaker 1 (33:13):
We already did, Bob.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
There was a guy I know in radio named Bob,
and he thinks your actors played out Bob, the Bob,
the Bob, Bob.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, the Bob.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Bring your own beer whatever, bring your own beer, bring
your own beer.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Okay, all right, thank you eu yo, b not Bo.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Aren't you upset that you didn't meet the Leprecaun. You
could have met the Leprecaun. You had the chance to
meet the leprick.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
He was not. You know he's here or not you
were neither one of you were here. Oh yes, it's
one of the biggest regrets of the year. Right, come on, believable.
Let's see here. Have you used your cheesecake gift card.
I'm not have you no, but they're having a cheesecake
discount on the thirty for National Cheesecake Days. Cheesecake is
half pro be careful though they might not allow any

(34:05):
gift cards that day. It's possible it's money. Why would
they never know? I'm trying to get two cheesecakes for
the price of one. All right, super Marcus Stevens says, Hey,
it's my.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Thirty eighth birthday today and the only thing I want
is a shout out for my guy Ben Mallard. Unfortunately,
he cannot do that because he doesn't get paid enough.
I guess I'll have to message him on that stupid
cameo app and pay for it. Yes, yes, we are
not a morning show, and every time I get direct deposit,
I am reminded I am not successful in my radio career.

(34:38):
So yes, we do not do shadows.

Speaker 6 (34:42):
Now.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
The moment they pay me real money around here, I
will absolutely do shout outs on the I'd be happy
to do that until then, pay to play baby, pay
to play over on cameo and I I mean I
had to do that, guy Kyrie, he made me do
a positive Oklahoma City monologue on that cameo, how dare him?

Speaker 1 (35:05):
We're gonna have password but word Game of the Stars.
We'll get to that and we will do it. If
you want to play eight seven to seven ninety nine
on the Fox, I think we have contestants, though we'll
get to that. We'll do it next.

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Speaker 2 (35:43):
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Speaker 1 (35:50):
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Speaker 2 (35:52):
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follow and review the podcast and rated five I have
Stars again.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Just search Ben malor wherever you get your podcast.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
You'll find the latest episode, best of version posted right
after we get off the air.

Speaker 6 (36:08):
Attention everyone and the password is password, you idiot?

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Password the word Game of the stars. Here's Ben Meler
and right to password we go. We have let's hear
any meaning money more.

Speaker 6 (36:22):
We have.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Mark on the north end. Hello, Mark, Welcome, Good morning Ben.
Good to have you.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
Mark.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
You're gonna play password? Who do you want to partner
up with? Mark? All right, we're in it. Mark in
the north end. We're gonna win. Just put a W
next to our name right now, hold on, say Mark out,
You're gonna play. And we have we have Mikey in
the state of Texas. It's kind of a big state. Hello, Mikey, welcome,

(36:50):
good morning. Sure, how are you guys going glad with shoe?
Thanks to welcome? And where you at in Texas? Mikey
and Jeff.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
A little north of Houston. I got you a very
cool let's play it. Who do you want to partner?
Have you got Loraina or cool?

Speaker 4 (37:08):
Then go with the loop?

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Okay, coop. The loop is the pick and we have
a list of words here.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
You can see them. You're cheating, don't cheat. You can
see them calling my attorney. All right, let's see your
pick a number. Mark on the north end.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Pick a number one to ten, please one to ten.
Oh oh, I say, it's not even up. Let's see
on the phones.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Let's say, all right, there you go, Mark, what is
the word you would like here?

Speaker 4 (37:42):
Number one?

Speaker 1 (37:45):
All right, yes, let's go with UH regulations rule. There
there you go. All right, good job, and it's ten
to nothing strong storry, good guys.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Okay, Mikey, you are up with cool picking number two
to ten?

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Please two to ten. Let's go with number ten, number ten? Yeah, alright,
like ambie noise in the background. All right, Mikey, let's
go with Let's go with tremble.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
Quake.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
No, no, let's go with he said tremble. I'll say
cold suver. Yeah, wow, gas nineteen nineteen.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
You think it's over now, we got plenty of it's over.
Pick another number over, Go ahead, Mark, let's run up
the score. Mark. Pick another number.

Speaker 6 (38:47):
Mark.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Let's run Mark on three. Number three number. He got
that last one from Mike Cliff, No, I got it
from mine. Let's go. I'm gonna use the malt, the
malamove work. I kind of want to use the mouth.
You know, we got such a big lead. I don't care.
I'll use the mala maneuver. Here we go, Mark, say, safety,

(39:11):
not a chance? What has it? No, that's not all right?
Sor right, Mikey, Let's go with it.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Let's go with quilt blanket.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yeah, let's go. We're back. Any we got it off
my clue, He got it off, Mike, Another number, Mikey
got it off my clue. That was my clue. He
got it off of all right, Ben, we got it.
Take another mark number, Mikey, Mike Lee what number?

Speaker 6 (39:44):
Oh, number nine, number nine?

Speaker 1 (39:48):
All right, let's something Coop needs to do. Let's go
with let's go with or yeah, rest rest rest, No,
we're out of time. And we went mass. The world
was relaxed. The word was relaxed. I come too slow.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
We won great job Mark on the North End. You
get a golden ticket. Unbelievable, a win, one of my
greatest wins of all time.
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