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July 23, 2025 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about  WR Terry McLaurin digging in his bunker against the Washington Commanders, Caleb Williams having goals this season, Patriots coach Mike Vrabel going after a reporter, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bang, bang, it's our number four, our number four, and
we go to the Beltway. Do you understand why wide
receiver Terry mcclaurin is digging in his bunker against the
Washington football team as he did not show up to
Commander's camp. The old Redskins Caleb Williams has goals this season.

(00:24):
The Chicago quarterback wants to be the bears first four
thousand yard passer and complete seventy percent of his passes.
What's the core of this story? And Patriot coach Mike
Rabel ravaged a reporter for asking a repeat question and
his press conference is this inbounds or round of bounds?

(00:46):
We'll get to all of that and more right now here.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
It is.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Have a wonderful Wednesday. Thank you, Thank you for supporting
this show and downloading this podcast.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Otherwise we'd be screwed.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Here.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
It is our number four. The Commander is not at
his post.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
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Speaker 3 (02:33):
Why not.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
We'll go inside the Beltway and that is where you
will not find disgruntled wide receiver Terry McLaurin. He did
not report to work to the team formerly known as
the Redskins as training camp got underway this week and
he was marked as absent. He was marked as absent

(02:55):
from a conditioning test that does mark the beginning the unofficial,
unofficial official start of training camp. So if you didn't
see this and you haven't been following along because you
actually have a life, and you know.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
I don't care about the Washington whatever.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
They are, all right, So this should come as no
surprise if you've been paying any attention. But McLaurin, who
has been the only viable player up until last year
for the Washington football team, he wants a new contract.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Pay the man now.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
McLaurin entering his age thirty age thirty NFL season, he
has been the very top target the depth chart there
for the Washington football team. So let us discuss the
question for the esteem panel, which you are part of.
Do you understand why Terry McLaurin is digging in the

(03:52):
foxhole if you will, against the Washington football team, the
front office there and all that. So I've got a
comic con insurance policy and Chuck E Cheese, and we
will combine all of these things together and we're gonna
make the Gabba gul.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
We're gonna make the Gabba goool.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
With a little bit on the side, We'll get some
eggplant and we'll make the Baba ganoosh is what we're
gonna make. So to kick off here, the answer to
the question is one thousand. I totally get it. I
gotta stand the industrial complex of pro sports in the NFL.
The time is short and all that mclaurin's window for

(04:38):
another salary bumpety bump is closing fast. Down, down, down
goes the window. And so we all know that in
real life, when you're thirty, you're not old. You're just
entering the prime years of your life, right thirty forties,
hopefully later than that, but you're entering the good years,

(04:58):
and you rapidly become a diminiishing asset in sports when
you're past the age of thirty. Now that said, there
are the exceptions to the rule that defy the science.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Trust the science. So that being said, on top of that,
these contract rhubarbs, which go on this time of the year,
is an annual mating ritual.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
And we've spent a lot of time here on the
overnight yapping about players who have been bitching about their contracts.
So it's something that is a staple of this time
of the year that you just mark it on the
calendar on your phone. You just put it in there.
It's an annual tradition. It's kind of like you mark
down Comic Con in San Diego, say, well, I gotta

(05:46):
go to Comic Con in San Diego. I got a
cousin of mine who has a very good job, very
smart person, right, and he goes to Comic Con every
year no matter what, he always takes his break for camera.
But it's a pilgrimage, right, And this, well, it's not
a pilgrimage. It's something that we know is going to
be on the calendar. This is millionaires fighting with billionaires.

(06:10):
On one side. You have the millionaires. On the other side,
you have the aristocrats, the oligarchs, the robber barons who
are the billionaires. And they get together and they thumb wrestle,
and then you and I, the great Unwashed, we sit
on the side and we munch on some popcorn and
we watch with our binoculars and we check everything out.

(06:33):
But this is what they do. This is what happens.
And so you skip the start at camp. Terry McLaurin
checked you play the leverage game. We're talking about five,
not five fifty thousand dollars. Is the magic number? Mandatory
fine per day you don't show up to work, fifty
g's you're out. Now my mouth or math tells me,

(06:55):
I think I'm right on this. That works out to
be three hundred and fifty thousand dollars week. Is that
tax deductible? You imagine missing work for a week and
being fined three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Holy crap man,
all right. So the thing about it is that you

(07:16):
think for that kind of money there would be some
kind of great support system out there, and there's people online.
There's a lot of fake stuff. It's the matrix that
are like, I support the player, but imagine spending three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to sit out a week
of practice and then nobody cares. And when I say nobody,
I mean the vast majority of people don't give a

(07:36):
rats ass about that because people have their own issues.
You don't, you know, can't act shocked when fans are unsympathetic.
But I guarantee you there will be players, whether it's
Micah Parsons who showed up, or Trey Hendrickson who didn't,
or Terry McLaurin, and they'll come play. And I don't understand,
because listen, people have their own issues, right. It's kind

(07:58):
of trying to make ends meet and all that.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
And you know.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Chances are your salary is not going up. The company's
a bunch of low ball artists, and they won't raise
your salary. But the price of everything goes up, but
they won't raise your pay. So we're supposed to sit
here and have a pity party because some NFL players
complaining because they can't get one last money grab. It
takes a special kind of person to be in line
and be.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Like, ah, this is terrible.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Now.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Like I said, I understand why McLaren's doing it. Am
I gonna sit here and lose any sleep?

Speaker 2 (08:28):
No?

Speaker 1 (08:28):
I sleep during the day anyway, I don't sleep at night.
I go to bed in a few hours from right now.
That's that's my bedtime. But anyway, what happens next is
the usual stuff, right, McLaurin will he'll use social media
and send some kind of cryptic quote maybe he already
has done it, about loyalty and I need to be

(08:48):
rewarded and some garbage like that, and then the commanders
will they'll leak something, they'll weaponize their position they'll say
we've made a fair offer. They'll leak it to schefter
Jay Glazer, State run propaganda NFL network, and they'll say
something like, well, we're disappointed. We wanted McLaurin here, and

(09:10):
we're evaluating our options. It's all, it's all there. It's boilerplate.
It's all boilerplate is what it is. And we are
at a fork in the road, and this particular story
in Washington does not appear to have a good ending,
because what are the options. Either McLaurin caves and says,

(09:31):
all right, I can't afford another fifty thousand dollars. I'll
show up to practice, but he'll be in a bad mood.
He'll be angry, or the team will give him a
new contract and then they will have regrets by week
nine when he's hopping around and going to the injury

(09:52):
tent and it's you know what happened to my hammy?
My hammy went whammy, And it's just another summer the
drama oram and I listen, I'm in for it. I
have a talk show to do. I'm in for it.
I love all these stories. I know how they play
out their textbooks. The other possibility for McClaren is Washington trades.

(10:14):
Then you get Jayden Daniels upsets and what the f
you know, that's my guy?

Speaker 3 (10:19):
What are you doing? All right?

Speaker 1 (10:20):
So they welcome to training camp. Now furthermore, we speaking
of training camp, another story the quarterback making crazy, crazy statements.
So to Chicago, Caleb Williams, Now, he's got big plans.
I know your Fomi Eugene in Chicago and all those guys.
They're very excited about this. So Caleb Williams has goals

(10:42):
this season. What are his goals?

Speaker 3 (10:45):
Do you see this?

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Uh? You did not, So rather let me tell you
the goals. Let's let's go to the audio tape. Here's
Caleb Williams, the quarterback of the Bears.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Take a list.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Obviously, I have self goals and that's you know, being
the first four thousand yard past serve in Bears history.
That's a you know goal of mine. Seventy percent completion
that helps the team keeps on the field, puts in
better positions, and then other than that, just trying to
go down and you know, score the most post points
that we can with these tracts that we have. So
that's kind of my self goal. And obviously other you know,
other than that, you gotta go win. That's success for me,

(11:17):
that's success for the team. That's all we wish for,
and all I wish for him.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Okay, so all he wishes for. Just for those not
paying attention. I saw you in the back of the
room not paying attention. Bad job by you. So Caleb
Williams says his goals this season. He wants to be
the bears first four thousand yard passer and complete seventy
percent of his passes. So what is the core of
this story? So the core?

Speaker 3 (11:40):
I love how Caleb at the variance, Oh and win,
you know, and win?

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Caleb Williams thinks his solution here is numbers. And if
I'm the Bears and this is the real Caleb Williams,
I'm out. You're screwed. It's not going to work. It's
not This is terrible. Do you realize how bad this sounds?

(12:05):
I know Caleb Williams doesn't realize how bad it sounds.
I just let it sink in, like this is your
forever quarterback, Caleb Williams, the face of the franchise. It's like, well,
I want four thousand yards and I want a certain
completion percentage, and it's all about individual metrics. It's like

(12:27):
he's preparing his resume, his pro football reference page, rather
than plotting on how to beat the Lions and the
Packers and the Vikings and all that. It's like, oh,
isn't that adorable from Caleb Williams. Isn't that great?

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Now?

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Spoiler alert, spoiler alert from someone who has seen this
kind of rodeo before, it's not my first rodeo. I'm
relatively confident that no one that matters in the greater
Chicago area gives a damn about how many passing yards

(13:08):
you got or what your passing percentage was.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
It's about the Lombardy, right.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Those guys that played on that mid eighties eighty five
Bears team the eighty six Super Bowl, to this day
are still celebrated. It's been two generations and they still
celebrate those guys. So the fan is not interested. Other
than the Poindexter fan, they're not interested in the stats.

(13:37):
They don't want to spreadsheet trophy. That's not what they're
cunning for. And it's all about wins, you know, And
we learned this years ago.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
I learned.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
I guess I'm old now. But I always was taught
stats are for losers. It's all about winners. I want winners.
I want people that want to win, say one of
the all time great Bears, Mike Singletary. But do you
think Tom Brady when he's walking around his many mansions
around the world, do you think Tom Brady says, you
remember that completion percentage I had in New England one year. No,

(14:10):
he just loves to talk to everyone about how great
he is from winning super Bowls. You think in Kansas
City when Mahome's going out to eatle what a burger
in Kansas City that he sits around, He's got his
calculator as says, what can I do to improve my
yack aty yack? What can I do? No, of course
not now. In the NFL, you can put up great stands.

(14:34):
You can put up great sets from September until the
end of December. Unfortunately it's January and February where Glory
Road is. It's not during the regular season. Caleb truly
wants to change the narrative in Chicago and burn the statue,

(14:54):
set it on fire, you know, toss it out in
Lake Michigan and let.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
It burn, burn, burn burn learn. Here's what you do.
You win.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Nobody remembers these these stats. I'll give you an example.
There was a guy that worked in our building years ago.
He was a Bears quarterback. Eric Kramer played with the Lions.
You probably don't know who that is, but Eric Kramer
played in the NFL for a number of years.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
He was a weekend talk show host. Here.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Eric Kramer has the Chicago Bears record for passing yards
in a season three eight hundred and thirty eight yards.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
That was in nineteen ninety five.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
You know how I know that. I looked it up.
He worked here, I talked. I didn't know any worked.
I didn't Who cares?

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Nobody? Four thousand doesn't matter, right?

Speaker 1 (15:44):
And the quotes from from capable and it sounds like
he's working damage control in advance.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
And this is the part call me crazy if you want,
just call me.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
This is the part where you've got to be worried,
because when I analyze the words of Caleb Williams, it
sounds like he's planting an excuse. It's the old You know,
I did throw for four thousand yards. It's not my fault.
The team blows and only won six games. Like that

(16:19):
is the QB stat stuffer insurance policy is what it is.
It's like Kirk Cousins, great stats in Minnesota.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
For years the Vikings didn't win.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Dak Prescott great stats in Dallas. The team chokes in
every big moment, but they keep that in their back pocket.
They're like, well, you know, listen, I got this insurance,
and so you know the team suck.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
But look at my numbers. Look at my numbers. Yeah, no,
it's weak sauce. All right. Last thing we go now
to New England, and another.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Staple is the coach meltdown. This is not a coach meltdown.
I'd like to alert all the affiliates. This is not
a coach meltdown. It is good audio, though, and we
love good audio. So Mike Rabel giving his address, his
daily address about the Patriots in training camp. Now it

(17:18):
turns out that one of the reporters was apparently not
paying attention tail listen.

Speaker 5 (17:24):
I mean, whether you were in a coma when I
answered Tom's question, or typing on your phone or tweeting,
I don't know, but I spent five minutes answering.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
That question, and I can go back through it, but
i'd rather not there you go.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
So there you go, Mike Rabel savagely mocking one of
the reporters there who had asked, like, the next question
was the question that just had been answered at his
news conference. So is this inbounds or out of bound?
So on my scorecard, I said in bounds in bad

(18:03):
Now over the years, I used to go to these
things on a regular basis. I love Rabel's response. He
was a douche, but not as big a douche as
Bill Belichick. Like a lighter douche.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Is what he was.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Like.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
These news conferences are repetitive.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
They are a all you can eat buffet of the
cliche is what they are. And Vrabel's not gonna sit
there and coddle the beat writers who.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Are half a stick.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Now, he didn't go full remember Matt Patricia with the Lions.
Patricia went like next level. He was like he was
upset with the posture of one of the writers who
cover the Lions.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
But the beat writer, if you're half asleep and.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
You know, probably was on his phone on social media
looking at whatever on Instagram, and then you repeat the
question like what are you doing? Hey, you have one job,
pay attention, right, otherwise you're gonna get, not the kick
and the ass, You're gonna get the SaaS.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
That's what you know. And Boom goes to dynamite.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
We're not hanging out here at a pizza party at
Chuck E Cheese.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
We're not doing it. He's an NFL. You your job
is literally and figuratively to pay attention.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Right, So, bad job by whoever that reporter was, and
and Mike Rabel essentially gave him an elbow right to
the right to the schnaz right there. And that poor schmo,
whoever that poor schmo is, who knows he's out there?
He must have been playing like news conference Bingo, he
ever done that? Like I predict that this question. One

(19:45):
of my buddies says, how does it feel right after
a game? How does it feel every game? How does
it feel? But this guy was playing Bingo's like I
wasn't paying attention. Did anyone ask about the so and
so yet?

Speaker 6 (19:57):
No?

Speaker 1 (19:58):
All right, so you know what that is? Bad situational awareness.
Bad situational awareness, bad job by them.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
So it's good.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
You know.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
The rule is you have to know what's been asked.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
It's not that hard. You have to know who's in
the room. Don't lob meatballs. No meatballs, certainly not when
the steak's already been served. You don't lob a meatball
when they've already served the steak.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
So I liked it.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
I'm predicting, and I'm never wrong. Just at relative of
Nostradama's friend of Nostradenas. We are going to get multiple
Mike Vrabel meltdowns when the things go bad for the Patriots,
when Drake May goes out and throws four interceptions against
the Jets. It's going to be good. It is going
to be good. And I'm I'm here, I'm here for it.

(20:51):
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And now back to it? Well, no burgers for you.

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The Seattle Mariners cal Raley hit a home run. The
Brewers winning streak is over and as a result, good
people of Milwaukee, where my voice is booming right now,
have been given the royal screwjob by the Seattle Mariners.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
You see the.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Promotion the brew crew if they won twelve in a row,
they a local burger chain there giving away one free burger,
one free burger. If the team had won twelve in
a row, they got to eleven and it didn't work out.
Famous burger spot. I get a local joint there in Milwaukee.

(24:06):
It's a tradition. It has been, if you're wondering, seven
years since the Brewers won twelve straight games and that
last activated the burger giveaway one stink and win. And
how happy do you think the people were at the
name of the restaurant, the George Webb's famous burger restaurant,

(24:30):
that they did not have to give away thousands of burgers.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Did not have to do it, but there you go.

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They claimed they were cheering for the Brewers to win.
Of course they said that after the fact. It is
the Ben Maler Show. Let's go to the phones.

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Now.

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We've met a lot of interesting characters, a lot of
interesting characters.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
At these Mallard meet and greets have done all over
the place, and it's been wonderful, had a lot of fun.
We everywhere, everywhere we go.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Is always new people that don't call the show, thank god,
because the people that know. But we met one guy
who does call the show, the one we did in Vegas.
I do that and he like vanished, like he vanished,
and we were like worried about the guys. I don't
know what happened. He became one of the great characters
on the show. He's known as Mouthwash Mike, and he

(25:19):
has returned. Mouthwash Mike is online. Why he's so, I
recognize that voice.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
Your back, mouth wash Mike.

Speaker 6 (25:34):
Yeah, that's right. I just got out of the hospital
again again.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
Now, how long were you in for?

Speaker 6 (25:41):
Oh no, this time not very long, only like four days.
It wasn't too bad.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
But you haven't called the show in many, many months.
You've been gone.

Speaker 6 (25:49):
Oh yeah, you're right, because I was in the hospital
shortly before then, and then shortly before then, and then
I only get out long enough to realize that my
phone either hadn't gotten wet stolen or I can't call
you back.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Okay, all right, So you're still dealing with your You're
still drinking the mouthwash.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
You're still mouthwash mic Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah, yeah, yeah,
can't give up that life. I understand that.

Speaker 6 (26:23):
No.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
No, have you jumped into the fountains of the Bellagio.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
Recently since I've talked to you last, I think once.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Only have you moved on is there other are you
doing other crazy things around Vegas? You go over to
Circus Circus and go on the fund Zone, Like what
do you do?

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (26:42):
Yeah, well I tend to either get on stage or
do a lot of dancing in front of Freemont. That's
not too crazy though, you know, stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
I looked for you.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
I was in Vegas a couple of weeks back, and
I looked for you, like on Fremont Street. I thought
I'd maybe i'd run into you, but I didn't see you.
I did see a woman that had a giant on
her face, like it was more than a more growth
a growth. Yeah, looked like she had like a little
head growing out of the side of her face. I

(27:22):
felt very bad for her, but she was trying to
make money with it. She was like taking photos with people.
I was like, oh, okay, you can try to monetize.

Speaker 6 (27:28):
That, like one of those things from like South Park
or something like that.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
It was more like there's a show called Doctor Pimple
Popper that like that guy.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah. Yeah, it was like large, like.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
A giant cyst. Giant cyst. Well, listen, I'm glad you're okay.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Number one. I was worried. I was worried about you, Okay,
I was, I did. I wonder what happy?

Speaker 1 (27:52):
You seem like a nice chap and uh, we're gonna
we'll be back in Vegas.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
We're gonna do a meet and greet.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Slug is gonna make that happens about I'm guessing sometime
in August.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
Now, I'm still my entire schedule has been put on hold.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Because of the uh you some stelf I can't talk
about here, but anyway.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
So well you'll come out to that. Yes you'll show up.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
Should we should we buy this guy? So we should
buy him some mouthwash?

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Right?

Speaker 3 (28:16):
We should bring should we buy your mouthwash?

Speaker 6 (28:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Yeah, you like and you like the yellow? You like
the yellow mouthwash?

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Right?

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Yeah? I got you?

Speaker 1 (28:26):
All right, We'll be safe out there, Mike, Thank you, buddy.
All right, God hanging up on you mouthwash Mike.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
I'm so glad he's okay.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yeah, I am too, a nice guy. He listens to
the show, apparently not that much.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Marcel is in Brooklyn.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Hello, Marcel, Ben Ben, arm up.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Everyone's up up, day, let's go Marcel.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Marcel I got an email from Reggie from Detroit. He says,
are you concerned? This was directed to you? He wanted
to know, Marcel, are you concerned that you're losing your
power in the mal or militia that blind Scott and
Mike the Leprechaun and some of these other guys are
moving up at a higher rank because you have.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Not been as active?

Speaker 2 (29:14):
Oh whoa whoa soul down there put this way in
my humble opinion, Mike the loser con or should I say,
Mike the stupid con and the Blair hater not going
to be high at ranking than me.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
But you would admit you don't call in as much
as you have in the past. Like that is true, right,
you're very busy. You're a socialite there in Brooklyn.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Yes, yes it is. And I'm still ringing the fourth
time call of the year font time for me looking
for that next year.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Do you know what socialite means is a way.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
To connect with friends and family.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Of course you do, always is in.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Our brain and in our ears.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
Well said, all right, well, let's take some calls for you.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
Marcel said, well to s intect let's go to Mike,
who's he's on vacation, but he called it. Mike, you're
on with Marcel in Brooklyn.

Speaker 6 (30:07):
All is you know where I am?

Speaker 2 (30:13):
You know you're not beaten Nowhashenas you're on the Cape.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
We had a call earlier from from our friend and
dog Dead Duck Dynasty.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
He doesn't call in, he's out of socialize. He is Marceill.
How do you respond to that?

Speaker 1 (30:31):
The accusation from the Leprechaun is you don't call in
as much, the.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
Loser calling now, Ben and Mike, I do not agree
with you. I am socialized, I am keeping connected with
my friends and family. But instead you don't have anything.
You are the worst, the worst, worst, worst caller in
the history of radio.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
That's impressive because this call's got the worst. This show's
got the worst callers of all time, so this is impressive.
Congratulations Mike, Well thank you.

Speaker 6 (31:04):
You know what I can say. He is socialized like
a text dog, and he has no clue. He doesn't
have any new material.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
I come up with new material every single day.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Give us a give an example, get do a joke.
Let's see if Marcel will laugh. Let's get a little
joke here.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
I have a joke. This is.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Oi. Oi are the osbourn Rest in peace?

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Joke is not the way you speak to that there?

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Okay, disrespectful? Yes, all right.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Let's take another call where Marcel's hosting the show. Now
it's the Marcel and Brooklyn Show. Let's say hello to uh.
Let's go to Scott in Boston. Hello, Scott, you're on
with Marcel.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
Oh, Marshall, I got some breaking news here. They got
this free door dash and Uber each program. I'm really
pumped up about it. Like, so, since I'm blind, I
can get free door Dash delivered right to my front doory.
Do you have that in Brooklyn?

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Well, I have to say I don't have a door
Dag or Uber instead there in my home place there
my friend.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
Well, Marcel, so like, I'm blind, and like people make
fun of me, like this guy he spit in my
face the other day. So I stay in all day
and I go out at night. Like, do you feel
bad for me? Like people are mean to me?

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Oh no no no no no no no no, you're
you're you're not the ways that you're people making.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Fun of you, Marcel.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Marcel, you don't go out at all though, right, Marcell,
you just pretty much stay at home all the time.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Right, Well, I understand, but yeah, I got you.

Speaker 5 (32:44):
You know, Marcel, So Marcel I met Ozzie Osbourne once
and he wouldn't stop petting my dog and you couldn't
understand a word he was saying and he could barely
stand up. But he was a really good guy.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (32:54):
He was British, you know, Marcel, did you know Ozzy
Osborne was British?

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Well, yeah he does. And also he was the singer.
He's been a rock singer for years and yesterday.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
So would you look to join in prayer with me
for Ozzie? Like, since he has passed away, we can
wish him goodbye on the Ben Mellach Show, like maybe
with a little farewell Mama, I'm crying, Mama, I'm coming
home song? Would you like to start it?

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (33:24):
No?

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Now do you know what band he was part of?

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Oh, marsa? What famous band was Ozzy Osbourne?

Speaker 2 (33:32):
The front man for ooh from the Osbourne I think
all the band the Osborne's.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
That's right, amazing, everyone loved it The Osbourne's.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
No, No, it was a black it was a black group.
Actually there were black people Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Huh yeah, yeah, yeah, there was a group that.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Show Black Sabbath, Like.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
Nw A, there was n w A and then there
was Black Sabbath.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Remember in the nineties, Marcelle wasn't even alive in the nineties, right, Marcel,
you're your young guy nineteen ninety three.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
Oh my god.

Speaker 5 (34:11):
Remember he said what did your uniform number? And he
said his age?

Speaker 3 (34:15):
Oh yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Yeah, I would say Black Sabbath one of the all
time greats in that genre of music. You a big
fan of that call the music, Marcel? Obviously you called
the Osborne's the band the Osborne's.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Well, The Osbourne's is the TV show on MTV back
in the two thousands.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
Do you know why they call it heavy metal music?

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Oh? Wow?

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Do you know why they call it that?

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Oh wow, that's so much embarrassing of the heavy Rocks.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Well, actually starting in Pittsburgh, the Steel City, and that
was the first few ever do it, and so that's
why they call it heavy metal. Uh, it's actually a
tribute to the Steel City of Pittsburgh.

Speaker 5 (34:54):
Yesterday, Marcel, what do you think of the Beastie Boys?
No Sleep till brook One? Is that one of your
favorite songs?

Speaker 2 (35:02):
No Sleep too Brooklyn from the osbourn huh, well, you're
really good at this man.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
Yeah, he's going to replace me as the host of
the show.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
Like he's like Eddie Trunk from Serious XM. So. So
one more thing before we wrap it up here with
Ozzy odgebe What was Ozzy odge One's wife's name. She says,
she has, oh, in.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Your in your face, in your face.

Speaker 5 (35:29):
I don't know that he watches. Yeah, he watches on TV.
You watch on TV, right, free table?

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Oh yeah, all right, all right, we must end it
right there.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
What a great intellectual this is a thank god NPR
is going out of business.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
We've got we're better than NPR.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Oh anyway, we will press on here and we've got
password the word Game.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
Of the Stars. We'll get to that. We'll do it next.

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Speaker 3 (36:06):
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(36:30):
the air.

Speaker 7 (36:31):
Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot, password
the word Game of the Stars.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Here's Ben Maller, right to the game we go.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Let's welcome in our contestants. We have Slug from Lost Wages, Novada. Hello, Slug,
what's that buddy?

Speaker 2 (36:50):
You think mouthwash?

Speaker 5 (36:52):
Mike is alive and praying and kick my vitamins making
sure he was still ground.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
Yeah. I think of him every time I use mouthwash.
Think of him, you know, I do. All Who do
you want to partner up with? Slug?

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Who is Slug's the guy that hosted the Mallard meat
we did in Vegas last year. We'll do another one
here soon.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Slug? What what do we got here? What's the answer here? Slug?
Who you gonna play?

Speaker 1 (37:14):
All right?

Speaker 3 (37:14):
We're any dog? That's my dog? That's my dog?

Speaker 5 (37:18):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Yeah, me and Slug. And then we have Clifford. I
was a big fan of Clifford the Big Red Dog.
And here is Clifford the Big Red Dog. Another dog
or that's my Willis.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Hello, Clifford, Hello Ben, how are you?

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (37:38):
You sound just like I would imagine Clifford the Big
Red Dog would sound.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Well, Clifford, who do you want to partner up with? Clifford?

Speaker 5 (37:45):
I will well, since you're taking already, I won't go within.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
All right, the raina you're in unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
Okay, let's play the game, right and then all right, slug,
you picked the first pick of number one to ten.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Slug number one to ten. Please, let's go lucky number four,
Lucky number four, all right, number, let's go with How
about we go with flask? Flask bottle? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (38:24):
All right, really, yeah, that's a good I bet you, slug.
I bet you've owned some. I bet you've owned some
flasks in your day.

Speaker 5 (38:32):
I got one of the one or ten in the cabinet, right, yes,
all right, Clifford number.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Slug number two, number two, Okay, okay, let's do hover.
I'm sorry hover.

Speaker 5 (38:57):
Hover a no, oh, come on, don't even wait.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Just to float.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
Yeah, here you go.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
That's you're just bragging now, slug. My next one was
going to be nineteen nothing. By the way, slug, go ahead,
pick a number one to ten. It's like we're playing
password the word Game of the Stars. Slug is in Vegas, Clifford,
the Big Red Dogs from child books. I don't know
where you lives. Go go ahead, sluck Kobe number eight, number eight, Kobe, alright,

(39:30):
let's go with I know one what's that?

Speaker 3 (39:32):
I know a clue?

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
I think this is one word. Let me hold on,
let me check. I think it's one word. Yeah, all right,
white wall.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Tire, Yeah, yeah, that's one word.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
Twenty twenty nine. Nothing.

Speaker 5 (39:55):
Wow, I was gonna say rubber.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
So I don't even.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Go ahead, Clifford, try to save some face. Surrey exactly five,
number five, all right, Germs, Germs, Cox Andrena. Oh that
is not I mean, that was a good clue. Actually

(40:23):
that was the way we were looking for. Was U bacteria.
We went slog another way. We just feeded Clifford in
Lorena Jcats gold and take it. You gotta golden, take it.
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