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Ben Maller talks about Denzel Ward saying that he wants to retire with the Browns, Baker Mayfield and the Bucs not being close on an extension, what the trade market is like for Red Sox closer Aroldis Chapman, Maller Militia Feud, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hurt, Hurt, hike. It's our number fall and the factory
of sadness as horns swaggled another player here an hour
four The Ben Malers Show. Don't forget Fifth Hour podcast
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(00:22):
this podcast. When you're done with this podcast, thank you
a lot of fun this weekend. Here an hour number four,
Denzel Ward says he wants to retire a Brown and
doesn't want to be traded even though he's the last
man standing after the Browns decided to unload the franchise
Miles Garrett giving him to the Rams. How believable is this? Also,

(00:44):
Baker Mayfield is not close to a Buccaneers extension and
now he has said a deadline. How would you describe
what happens here? And what's the trade market in baseball
for Red Sox closer Eroldis Chapman as his name is
being floated before the August deadline. We'll talk about that
as well. All of it is coming your way right now.

(01:07):
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We begin this hour from Cleveland. No basketball to talk about,
no hockey. Sunday's always been a massive night for television,

(04:05):
massive night for sports TV. However, there were no games
last night. A buddy of mine tells me that they
changed the schedule to accommodate the World Cup, that they
don't want to compete with the World Cup. They're afraid
of the World Cup. Why are they afraid of the
World Cup. I don't understand anyway, So our leaders from
Cleveland where over the weekend, defensive back Denzel Ward, pretty

(04:28):
good player. Denzel Ward has re affirmed reaffirmed his commitment
to the Browns. He loves the Turds, big fan, despite
the team giving up on the season, saying goodbye to
the defensive MVP of the NFL Defensive Player of the Year,
Miles Garrett. So if you didn't see this over the weekend,

(04:49):
perhaps not speaking at his celebrity softball game over the weekend,
Award said, quote, I definitely still want to be here.
He then went on and waxed loquations. He said, we're
he's happy here despite everything, And he says we're hearing
the Browns are not not supposedly making Denzel Ward available

(05:11):
for trade. Of course, they also spent two years saying
that Miles Garrett was not available for trade. Ward has
two years left on his five year, one hundred million
dollar contract that he signed back in twenty twenty two,
no guaranteed money remaining after this season, which means he
is a duck. What kind of duck? Is he a

(05:34):
lame duck after this year? So that is a good
jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Denzel Ward
says he wants to retire a Brown, He wants to
stay with the Cleveland Browns. How believable is that? All right,
so I've got on this one. I've got breaststroke, Paul Bart,

(05:55):
malcop and QR code and were combined all of these
things together, and we're gonna quit belly aching and get
to the point. Get to the point, please, all right?
Now to kickoff here, to kickoff, you have the I
call it the P and P situation. Now what is
the P and P situation? That would be person personally

(06:18):
and professionally? So P and P personally and professionally. Now personally,
I totally get it. I totally get it. As Denzel
Ward is the ultimate Ohio Ambassador, mister Ohio the buck
guy state ambassador. If you will, He's Ohio through and through.
If you cut him open, Buckeyes will start pouring out

(06:40):
right there. He's an Akron kid just outside Akron, and
he became a star at the Ohio State University, dotting
the eye, local hero. The Ohio blood runs thick, it
just does. And I met many of our big supporters
there in Ohio when we did the mallor meet and
greet just across the border there in Newport, Kentucky, not

(07:02):
that long ago. And so when I see these comments
by Denzel Ward, I'm like, well, that's believable. I get it.
Local hero. Plus he's at his own celebrity softball thing.
I'm a jig. Can you imagine if he announced at
his own celebrity softball game. By the way, I hate
the Browns. I gotta get my ass out of here.
They suck. I only have a couple of good years left.

(07:23):
I want to go somewhere else. He can't say, so
he's acting like the doppelganger of our caller Dick from Dayton.
We had to move mountains and have listeners pick up
Dick from the home there in Dayton and drive him
down to Newport, Kentucky. And we were worried once he
crossed state lines leaving Ohio to get to Kentucky that

(07:45):
we might lose the Dixter. Fortunately he survived the traumatic
trip to cross the Ohio state line. Man, so dezel
War like, he'd stay in Cleveland, and that's it. If
the stadium's on fire, you're still gonna stay there. Is
that how that works? Okay, because it seems like the
stadium's on fire now. Professionally, at this point, denzel Ward

(08:08):
is doing the breaststroke in a septic tank, which is
the Browns. They have a swimming pool at the Factory
of Sadness and it's a septic tank, and he wants
to stay the same way people want to stay at
a corporate gig right before a massive wave of layoffs.
We all know a thing or two about that. Huh yeah, exactly,

(08:29):
Like this is a man clinging to the Browns like
they're a life raft with a gaping hole in it.
He's like, nah, I'm happy. So denzel Ward is twenty nine,
that's not old. But in sports, you're in the middle
of your athletic prime. And even if you're a cock
eyed optimist and that's how you roll, like Benny Brightside,

(08:49):
my alter ego Benny Brightside, by the time Cleveland figures
things out, of course, we'll all be dead by the
time they're good. That aside, Let's assume you're an optimist
and the Browns, so we'll have a couple of good
drafts here, and they'll actually do something with the picks
they got from the Rams, which almost never happens. They
say they figure it out right fine, by the time

(09:12):
they get all those players on the roster playing high
level football, Ward will be coaching youth football at that point, right,
he'll be talking about his glory days, sip and lemonade.
Back when I played for the Browns, they had those
player named Miles Garrett who was a top defensive player
in the NFL, and he was giving away for some peanuts,

(09:34):
all right. Furthermore, the Tampa we Go where Baker Mayfield
spoke recently talked about the extension talks with the Buccaneers
said their quote not close to not anywhere close, not
anywhere close. That's a quote from Baker Mayfield. Not with
the offers are not what he and his agent wanted,
and we're expecting the talks have started. I know you're

(09:58):
very concerned about the future of Baker Mayfield. You try
to pay your own bills, so there's a significant gap.
What's the gap. That's a lot of money, A lot
of money there. Mayfield and his agent said, a firm
timeline always left timelines, So the firm timeline they want
a long term deal. Baker Mayfield from the Buccaneers done
before training camp, which opens up in late July. Now,

(10:22):
once camp starts, it's all ball, said Baker Mayfield. All ball.
I don't know about you. If somebody offered me a
ton of money, even though I said, hey, I just
want to focus on the show, I'd take the money,
Like why would you not? No reason not to, So
I don't get that anyway. Mayfield's editing the final year

(10:44):
of a three year extension he signed back in twenty
twenty four. He is under contract for this season, and
that means he is also a duck. What kind of duck?
Not a Mallard duck. No, no, no, that's right. He's
a lame duck as well. So a lot of lame ducks,
a lot of lame ducks out there. Mayfield has a
strong desire to stay in Tampa, noting that his family,

(11:08):
including his second child, born there. They're building roots in
the Tampa air. Because you could stay in Tampa. You
don't have to play for the Buccaneers. You could like
live there and hang out and enjoy the nice weather
and the good people and all that, and you don't
necessarily have to play for the Bucks. You can spend
the off season there and that's fine.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
All right.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Anyway, the question Baker Mayfield not close to a Bucks
extension now, he's set a deadline. So how would you
describe what's happening here with Baker Mayfield and the Buccketeers.
So a minutes long Mallar review, deliberating the available information.
This is a classic mid level quarterback who would like

(11:49):
to be paid like a top five quarterback in the NFL.
It's contract theater. There's a squabble, squabble, squabble, squabble going
on right now. And so Baker he wants another big contract.
Why not? And he feels like he's proven himself. I
would argue he has it completely. He's inconsistent, he's shown flashes.
I don't hate Baker Mayfield. He's not the most consistent

(12:12):
quarterback from week to week in the NFL, and you
look around the bucks you're like, well, he's been pretty
good and we don't hate him. He's not the greatest.
So if you just keep it at Baker Mayfield's deadline
has the same force to it as when Paul Bart
the mallcopmemb the Little Movies, Paul Bart the Mall Coop
came over there and say the food court is closing. Well, okay, fine, congratulations.

(12:39):
If Tampa drops a giant bag filled with cigars and
just here you go, like in October or November, he'll
sign with his toes, not his hand, his toes. He'll
sign with Baker Mayfield. He's trying to manufacture leverage in

(12:59):
a market where he doesn't really have all that much.
While Tampa does what teams always do. They try to
get in that middle of the bell curve quarterback at
a bargain rate, and they want to slow play the
negotiations and put more pressure on Baker Mayfield. And if
he truly does want long term roots in Tampa, this

(13:21):
seems like he's getting the real He's getting what he's
supposed to to get Financially, he's the sixteenth. His contract
value is sixteenth in the NFL. That's about worries any
somewhere in that range as a quarterback. And we don't
do this, as you know, Terry in England would kick
my ass if I did a list. However, on Big
Ben's big board, Baker Mayfield's right in the middle. He's

(13:43):
in the average slightly above average NFL quarterback and it's
been a bit of a roller coaster for him with
the Buccaneers. He's been fun and there's been some great moments, unpredictable, inconsistent,
which is how you become a mid level quarterback. The
inconsistency there. Now, the truth is, good quarterbacks get to
set clocks. If you're a really good quarterback, you're the

(14:05):
one who is in charge. And it's it's a case
where it just polite disagreement between two sides, and we
know how this is gonna end. There'll be some kind
of agreement. Unless Baker goes out there and writes the
vomit comet this year, they'll be in agreement. Tampa knows it,
Baker Mayfield deep down knows it. Everyone's just playing the

(14:26):
game here and they're pretending to be tough while checking
their phones every five minutes to see if any text
came in with a bigger, better offer. All right, now,
last thing Major League Baseball. We go to Boston, where
the Red Sox have been terrible this year and the
trade deadlines coming up in early August. I know we're

(14:48):
about two months out, little less than two months out
from the baseball trade deadline, and a lot of noise,
a lot of noise that the Socks are preparing to
unload the few veterans they have that are on mid
level contracts. The biggest name mentioned, the closer over all,
this Chapman. The August trade deadline, Chapman should be planning

(15:12):
his exit in the portal. He's thirty eight years old,
I believe, left handed closer and one of the few
good players the Red Sox have had this year as
they are stuck in the muck at this point. Eight
time All Star, decorated Hall of Fame career, two time
World Series champion. He was on the Cubs when they
won the World Series. I believe he was on the Rangers.

(15:32):
Somehow pitch for the Yankees all those years and they
didn't win. I don't believe they won with Chapman on
the Yankees. Anyway, the question what is the trade market?
Give me the trade market for Red Sox closer or
all this Chapman So the season for the Red Sox.
If you see the smoke over there, that's actually the
season up in flames. So Chapman is the one thing

(15:55):
that with reasonable confidence they can pawn off. The Red
Sox bet on a lot of young talent, and that
young talent has sucked at a time you cannot suck.
And there's people to make excuses and say, well, it's
not their fault, it's this guy's fault, second fault. So
they don't have too much to pick from at this point.
But the Chapman's the guy that you definitely got a

(16:16):
trade and he's so available. How available is a He's
so available that on the back of his uniform they
should instead of a number, they should put a QR
code and then just click on the QR code and
that'll open up the browser and you can make an offer.
Even at age thirty eight, at this point, he can
be your top reliever. He's the top guy available on

(16:38):
the market, and every contender, every contender wants to me. Now,
the way bullpen's work in modern baseball, we all know this.
You burn through your bullpen and then you reload your bullpen.
So the first half you just burn through your relief pitchers,
you overuse them all, and then you reload at the

(16:59):
trade deadline and fatten up your bullpen again. And so
he's Chapman's the top guy available, which means there should
be a strong market for Boston to get a decent return.
When I say decent return, some really good Keno cards,
really solid Keno cards coming back to Finway, which means
they'll have more young players, which means most of those
guys will suck. And here you go, you're on the

(17:21):
amazing hamster wheel of mediocrity. Good luck on that. So
let's play the Mallord match game. Let's play the Malord
match game. Let's match eraaldas Chapman, the wandering closer and
drifting from city to city. What a great vagabond career
Chapman has had mostly with the Yankees. He's bounced all

(17:43):
over the place, though, had some off field drama. And
so the trade, if he's traded here, he would make
the postseason. Playing the Mallard match game, Eradace Chapman would
make the postseason with a six different franchise. So who's
a good match, all right? And I'm never wrong about this.
I'm a distant relative of Nostra Damus and friend of

(18:04):
nos tradinas he's been on my podcast, The Top Match.
The Philadelphia Phillies, come on down in Philadelphia, Philly. Now,
Dave Dombrowski, former Red Sox GM. Dombrowski is known old
school wise making a lot of trades. He smells, he
uses the no test. He smells a reliever with a pulse.

(18:25):
Now the Phillies, they have a mixed bag in their bullpen.
And I'll bet you Don Browski's already plotting the choir
Chapman because you're not gonna have to give up too much.
You'll give up something decent, like one decent minor league
player and some other throwings to get Chapman. And then
you've got reunion with the Yankees. What is the real
weak spot of the Yankees? Well, Aaron Judge body falling apart.
And also the bullpen has not been spectacular. The names

(18:48):
aren't great, the results have been mixed for the Yankee bullpen.
So it would be poetic if poetry were written in
a one hundred and one mile an hour fastball back
at Yankee Stadium. And then you got the usual suspect
to the Padres, who don't need a closer. They this
is the kind of move the Padres would make, because
the analytics say it. They want to build a super pen,

(19:09):
the super pen bullpen, and have Mason Miller, and then
you have Chapman and games shortened all of a sudden,
the seven innings, and that's all you need in the playoffs.
Seven innings and you're good. And then don't discount the Cubs,
who we also played for, and the Pirates, who also
are somehow contending, although they are more Fox contenders than

(19:31):
anything else. They'll be lining up and we'll see what
happens at the trade line. But to Chapman, if you
like him with the Red Sox, you better enjoy it
because he's gonna be there for another few weeks. It
is the Ben Mahllor Show at eight seven, seven ninety
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(19:51):
Hall of fame. It is a miracle and a tragedy
at the same time, it would have been a much
different theme to the show. Oh had this gone the
other direction, but to tragedy and a miracle happening at
the same time. What is that all about. We'll get
to it and we will do it.

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Hey.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
And the rain of your best friend is Anthony and Louisiana,
so you can't have another. That's my cousin and your friends.
Back to it. We are rolling on here in NBA
Finals game tonight, the NBA Finals return. I know you're
excited about that. No game on Sunday, and again my

(22:22):
guy says it's because of the World Cup. They changed
the schedule this year. Sunday Night's always been a primetime situation,
but they they moved it around so they didn't want
to compete. I guess with the start of the the
World Cup, which is in a couple of days, the
timing worked out better. I don't know. I'm just telling
you what I'm here. So it is very odd that
they made that decision because you you'd think you'd want

(22:45):
to have Sunday Night, that's a big night for TV.
They chose not to do it. As far as the
gambling is concerned, as you know, we love our we
love our gambling and DraftKings. The New York Knickerbockers are
a minus one thirty home favorite tonight at that garden,
and they are a two and a half point favorite
on the spread. And as far as the money is concerned.

(23:10):
As far as the money is concerned, the public betting
on san Antonio, believe it or not, Yeah, san Antonio
getting the majority of the bets. The wise guys even
higher think san Antonio wins that game tonight, So the
public and the professionals backing the san Antonio spurs to

(23:31):
ruin the guard end party for dog right, since says
I've got a fun fact for you, Ben, Did you
know if the Knicks win the NBA Finals, they'll be
the first team in NBA history to win the NBA
Mid Season Mountain Dew Tournament and the Finals in the
same season. Wow, it's great. Here's another fun fact for
you for a dog fun fact. Did you know that

(23:54):
the New York Knicks refuse to hang refuse to hang
that dopey mid season made up thingam a jig banner
at the garden? They said no, unlike the Lakers, who
sullied every championship by putting up one of those dumb
banners and claimed they were forced to do it, claimed

(24:17):
they were forced to put up a banner for the
little mid season thing of a jig that they have.
Let's go to the foals. Let's say hello any meany
miney mo. Let's say hello to far out Dave. Let
me punch the right lineup. Far Out Dave is in Ohio,
Hello far Out Dave. Welcome, Hey Ben, Hey Dan Man.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
I just want to call and say I miss you guys,
and freaking.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Well, where have you been? We're here, We're here every night.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
Oh I've been listening, but I was about to tell
you I gave the girl so much stuff about not
taking to the mallard me and greet, but for crying
out loud on the first she took me and she
the lady's been saving money. I'm not gonna rint no more. Man,
We're going to be homeowners. So I don't know if
that's the pass for missing the mallard mean grave, but
in front of the gun's then beginning, well, congratulations, I

(25:08):
didn't homeown I think so as well, but any well.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
As you as you know, and as someone that owns
owns a home, I believe that when you own a home,
you're really just paying the government. The government is the
one that owns. That's what I'm saying. I tell them
what was the homeowner's insurance and all this exactly. They
you know, and everything breaks, you got to fix it
and it's a pain in the ass, and yeah, but
it's you know, you know who benefits from you know

(25:34):
who benefits from owning a house. I don't know if
you have kids who are not no, no, no, the
next generation they benefit because they don't. They just have
to pay property taxes.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Seventy five years old. Man, we're buying the house that
was built in nineteen fifty two. But the old people
took very good care of it.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
But well, the old houses have good bones. I supposedly
that's yeah, well I hope. So all right, Well, congratulations
Mazeltov enjoyed the home.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
Well again, I gave her a bunch of grain for
not taking to the mall or meeting. Great and that well,
now she.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Can fly at l A or we'll do one in Vegas.
Come out to Vegas.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
It already came up. It already came up. We're counting
on our boys slug to come through because we're gonna
definitely all.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Right, well slugg through, all right, thank you, go away.
All right, let's say hello to Meta Glass Kyle. Speaking
of Vegas, we go to Sin City and we say
hello to the man.

Speaker 6 (26:25):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (26:28):
Okay, because I'm not calling from the Meda Glasses today.
I'm actually using star Wink today doing the fact that
I'm I'm back on full duty again. So they got
me out in b f E. I'm not even in
Vegas right now. I'm in the middle of a desert,
in a desert.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Are you north of Vegas? Are you out in your paramp?
Where you are?

Speaker 6 (26:47):
I am in between loft wing needles, Boulder City.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Oh okay, yeah, that's way out there nowhere.

Speaker 6 (26:56):
Yeah, it's it's so dark out here that once I
step out the car, I disappeared that jeez, no, he listen.
I thank you for all the comedy that you've given
me tonight, first of all. And yes, I feel the
same way that you do. I had the weirdest dream

(27:18):
that New York is gonna get the party going after
this next game. They gonna be like, yes, we have
three nothing, get them broomsticks. And then San Antonio is
just gonna wilt. We just keep punching back. Yeah, and
then those sweet tiers of that joy when they get
their heart snatched from their souls, it's gonna feel so good.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Oh no, it's gonna be the win tonight. Knicks win tonight,
and then there's three nothing series over. No one's ever
been able to do that. So then in Game four,
the Knicks have like a fifteen point lead at halftime
and then uh oh uh is that a snap? Crackle pop?
What happened to Brunson? There's something wrong with Brunson. I
don't know. So you lose that game, maybe he'll be

(28:01):
able to play in game five. Okay, doesn't play in
game five. You lose as three to two. Fine, you're
you're going back. You're you've got game six. Oh, he
tries to play, hurts himself again. You lose game six,
he's out in game seven. Boom, you lose.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Mike.

Speaker 6 (28:15):
Listen, hey, hey, and I agree with everything. What what
Mike Brown is doing right now has me laughing so
hard because all the multi million dollars sports talking pieces
and talking heads aren't saying this. Mike Brown's literally not
drawing nothing on the playboard, on the on that chalkboard.
He's literally telling them you see that play that they

(28:36):
just ran, run that same exact thing. They're playing the
same exact game.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Well, I mean, listen, uh, the idea that the Knicks
could not have won if they had kept Tom Thibodeaux,
I don't see Mike Brown doing anything that's like, well,
this is amazing coaching, Like you just said, like you know,
the the timing on this. I know that they had
for some reason they had to get rid of Tips.
Somebody must have complained on the team. I don't think
they would have gotten rid of him if nobody complained.

(29:05):
I don't know what's going.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
On in Mike to me.

Speaker 6 (29:08):
Honestly, listen, Kobe didn't want the person that that person offense.
He told me to where you know, his worth was
more gentle or we're much more absurd than mine. But
he was like, get that, get that out of here.
We adn't running up.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
You realize, though, if the next win the champion, Mike
Brown's going to the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 6 (29:28):
He's of course, and and and But the back part
about it, though, Ben, is that he felled with the
Cleveland Cavaliers with Lebron. He did what he could when
he was with Golden State, but being the assistant coach
and your your your curse fall boy whatever. You tried
it with Sacramento. You got actually close, you could have won,

(29:51):
but you just play. And that's what I think he's
gonna end up doing. Mike Brown is going to actually
try to go back to coaching Game four and is
going to be abusinal. What would their Hawks do to them?
The Hawks beat them without the Hawks were beating them
without a center and power.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, I don't know. Something snapped, all right, We'll leave
it there. But to be safe out in the middle
of nowhere, okay out in the desert, heynquick. Would you
rather be stranded in the desert or the ocean? I
think desert, Eh, I feel like you got a better
shot in the desert. In the ocean. If you're in
the middle of the ocean, you're cooked. You know, you
can only tread water for so long your body gets tired.

(30:30):
That's I thank you. What a wonderful thought that is.
Let's say hello to Screaming Stephen. Who's up next on
the Ben Mather Show. Hello, Screaming Stephen.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yes, this is awesome. Home you do.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
If I was any better, I'd be a Spur, but
not a San Antonio Spur because they're up against it.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Ah, what about what about a lot of shoting to
the twins? They're really good at blowing fans.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Well, that would be perfect that you'd add them to
the twins. I can't. But twins having such a great
season this year, why would they not want to add
and roll this chatman?

Speaker 3 (31:04):
Correct, That's what I'm saying, because you know, you know,
maybe because they traded their whole bullpen away last.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Year, not just their bullpen, they traded everything in except
for two guys bucks then and then the starting pitcher
that I forget his name, but that is it.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
I want to play some more peppers, but it's raining out.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Oh I love pepper, you know, I put pepper on everything.
I love pepper. I can't make it.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
We make some good money growing green peppers, hot peppers.
They're so easy to grow, and they produce and they produce.

Speaker 6 (31:37):
The more you pick them, the more they produce.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
So is that that that's a cheat code for the
farming world, that you go pepper. Once you go pepper,
you never go back.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Well, if you're in the vegetables, not if you're in
the green well, that's a different Sorry, aren't you're into
like big farming? You know?

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yeah? Hey, Benjamin, what.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Bron Ben You're awesome? You know why I appreciate you
so much. Every once in a while, here a shout
out with my name in it.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Well, that's not that's a mention. Again, people confuse that.
It's not a shout out, that's a form, that's a
morning shows a shout out, that's a mention.

Speaker 7 (32:13):
What I think.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
I think I need to be part of the maur militia.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
I agree, I think you right, I think you are
part of the Mala militia.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
I don't think I ever did the whole swear anything.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
I'm alright, all right? Would you like to do the
oath right now?

Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (32:30):
All right? Hold on a sex Hold on a second. See, Marcel,
this guy wants to do the oath, which will eat
up all your airtime. How do you feel about that?

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Take them?

Speaker 6 (32:38):
Take him down the immediately?

Speaker 1 (32:39):
How about you? You support? Hold on, Marcel, you need
to be supportive here. So I want you to approve this,
and I want you to bear witness. Can you bear
witness Marcel to screaming Steven? Can you do that for me?

Speaker 3 (32:49):
I will do it, all right, Marcel walls?

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Are you related? Marcel?

Speaker 3 (32:56):
No?

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Okay, all right, well Mars, that was gonna be our witness.
He's gonna, he's gonna okay, so he's gonna listen in
one thing.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Remember, I'm kind of burnt, so go slowly with me.
I did a lot of substance abuse years ago.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
I understand, haven't we all? Okay, here we go. This
is the official malor oath. You're about to hear a
swearing in ceremony with scream screaming Stephen and Marcel. If
you just listen in if you want to touch up
anything here, feel free.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
Okay, I understand.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
But in the meantime, all right, here we go. Just
repeat out of me, repeat after me, screaming, Stephen, I
stay your name.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
I Stephens screaming Stephen's screaming.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Steve, you have to a great story. Do solemnly swear,
Do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the
Ben Malor Show.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
That I will support and defend.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
The Ben Mallor Show against all enemies, foreign and domestic
and domestic, and that I will obey the orders.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
And I will obey the order.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
To peacefully fight back.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
To peacefully and I say, peacefully fight.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Back against hostile attacks.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Against hostile attack from.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Rival sports gas bags and blowhards from rival. So help me, God,
So help me God. Congratulations Steven, by the powers vested
in me by the state of the Malor Show, I
now pronounce you a sworn member of the Mallord Militia.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
I am truly honored.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Marcel. Any advice you want to give Marcel, any advice
to a new member of the Malor Militia.

Speaker 5 (34:42):
Give him a welcome.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
We just did what we just did. Yeah, we walked
pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Martialis I you know, a pulp fiction.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
I mean you were great, Marcel. You going to the
Knicks game tonight.

Speaker 6 (34:57):
Well we'll see what the New York Nates is going
to is it is it?

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Is it true Marcel that you're part of the motorcade
with the President tonight on the way.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
The price dodging of honest fans going to stop in sports,
never like the World Cup tickets and.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
When people it's never gonna get when people stop watching. No,
I don't think so it's too big, all right, right?
People supplying the man?

Speaker 3 (35:23):
It is then the government makes more money because there's
taxes on that.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Correct, Well there's taxes on every you take a bottle, move,
but you're paying taxes on the water. So yeah, all right,
I think I all right screaming see I love you,
my my one of my favorite scream Don't we love him? Marcel?
Did you see this wild story?

Speaker 3 (35:41):
You know?

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Yachdi air moline is. Do you ever heard of that name,
Yachty air Molina.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
As a baseball player.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Yeah, that's right, it was the Yeah that's no, that's
that's wrong. He played He played for the Cardinals. He's
not playing cards. What a while do you talk about
miracle and tragedy. So there was a private jet that
crashed in Uh where was this the Dominican? I believe

(36:08):
it wasn't the Dominican. I think it was in the
Dominican and it was a Gulf Stream that that crashed
and the video went viral. And the plane was I
guess going to was going to be picking up YadA
Air Molina and his family. It was scheduled to pick
his family up in Texas and it was involved in
an accident at the Lower La Romana International Airport and

(36:31):
two people died, the pilot and the co pilot. That
was the plane that would have that would have been
the plane that YadA Air Mollina was on. What a
wild story. Huh yeah, okay, thank you. Uh, there's Marsa.
I don't know what else tod ad do it. It's
just one of those weird things. I mean, it was
like people were supposed to be on the plane on
nine to eleven, they didn't make the flight, and they
they're still a lot. I think about that every time.

(36:52):
I'm like, oh, I forgot my bag back at the
house and I had to turn around. Well what if
I had to turn around because some horrible was going
to happen. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (36:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
They call that the burnt toast theory, where you know
you're upset because the toast burn, you have to make
it again, but it actually helped you, actually saved you. Right, Yeah,
I like that. Yeah, it's called the I think it's
called the burnt toastery. Anyway, we have the Malord Militia feud.
We want to play the feud. Come on down eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. We'll get to that and
we will do it next.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
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listen live.

Speaker 7 (37:33):
Gave you when I met you, my account was blown.
I set up to find you if the old phone.
I was high as a cat.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
The weed was something very strong riding on my.

Speaker 7 (37:54):
Junder in the ball ring ring thinking about my love from.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Mary jane E Breden along.

Speaker 7 (38:04):
I'm dedicaden to this fall. If loving is a crown,
we desire incnseration. We're in love with God's greatest creation.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Then we did it together. Another classic from Just Josh
and Jay Scoop. It is The Ben Maller Show, and
I'm Bill Miller. A reminder, this show is saved for
posterious sake. It's called the podcast, The Ben Maller Show Podcast.
It'll be up in the podcast domain, be available for

(38:42):
you shortly after the end of the show, and it's
been cannibalized. Now you can listen to every hour. We
recommend that, however, you can hear each hour individually. Maybe
a love hour three. I don't know why you'd love
hour three, you're an hour three person. Or you can
hear the best of version, very long day five point
five seconds. Very good job, Wow, impressive. Check that out

(39:04):
wherever you get your podcast. Thank you. It's winning so important.
Listened winning and everything.

Speaker 5 (39:12):
It's the only thing.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
It's time for another Mallard game show.

Speaker 6 (39:16):
You're so go.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
We surveyed one hundred people name sports teams associated with losings.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
I believe the answer is to Clippers. That is the
top answer. Forty points. It's real quick, let's play the game,
limited time. We have Mark on the north end and
he is going to play and Chris in Boston. These
guys play every every week. These guys play each other,
all right, Wait, every week? I want two or three?
Quickly loreno number two, number two. All right, here we go, gentlemen.

(39:47):
Hundred people surveyed the top five answers on the board.
Name your least favorite chore. Your least favorite chore, Mark, Mark,
mar Mark laundry. Laundry is on there, but not the
number one answer.

Speaker 7 (40:03):
You go again, Mark, Uh, how about mowing the lawn.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Mowing the lawn is not on there? All right, Chris,
here's your chance. Name your least favorite your top five
answers on the board. Taking the track, Taking the trash out,
that is out? Yeah, that is the number three answer.
Go again, Chris, Washing the dishes, washing the dishes? Is

(40:30):
that on it?

Speaker 2 (40:31):
It is?

Speaker 1 (40:31):
But it was with uh your answers laundry, laundry. Just
watch it all right, keep going, Chris, Yes, that was
the number one answer, Leaning the toilet, cleaning the bathroom,
and keep going, Chris. We're out of time. We have dusting,
taking out the trash, vacuuming. There you go, and there

(40:53):
is the Marvel motion. It's a hybrid version of the game.
Is what it was? There answer
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