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December 3, 2025 • 42 mins

Ben Maller talks about Sonny Gray bashing the Yankees after getting traded to the Red Sox, Ben Johnson saying the Bears are winning in spite of their passing game, Odell Beckham Jr. complaining about $100 million NFL contracts disappearing, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number four. Happy Wednesday. We're up all night
providing you with this fresh pod. Don't forget about Benny
versus the Penny. It's back today later today, a new
episode like this evening, a new episode out. We'll pick
the big Thursday night NFL game, but this hour talking
Bay's ball on this third day of December, what's the
most puzzling thing about pitcher Sonny Gray showing up to

(00:25):
his Red Sox news conference bashing his former employer, the
New York Yankees. Also, Ben Johnson says the Bears are
winning in spite of their passing game, not because of it.
Can you unravel what he's really getting at, what that
really means? And give me a word for Odell Beckham
complaining about the one hundred million dollars he's made in

(00:49):
NFL contracts and having that vanish. We'll go there as well.
All of it's coming your way right now. Have a
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in the NBA overnight. But we're not gonna start with
that because the story in baseball. I love this story,
all right. Our lead is actually from baseball. We are
you talking about Baseball's Deceber. You're talking about baseball. Shut up.
It's good story. We go where the stories take us.
So it was pep Rally Day at Finway. The Red

(02:59):
Sox welcome their newest, overpaid starting pitcher who's close to
being washed up. Wanted to bring him in, and the
rah rah go team. Here we go, We're gonna be great.
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. So pep Rally Day. Do you see
any of this?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Why would I care about that? Listen, good story, good story.
Let me make my pitch. I want to make my
elevator pitch. Why it's a good story. So introduced to
the Boston media machine Sonny Gray. Sonny Gray, who pitched
briefly for the Yankees years ago as a journeyman pitchers
on the Hobo express right handed pitcher, and he looked

(03:38):
back down memory lane on his time with the Bronx Bombers,
and he's like, oh, I'm so excited to pitch for
the Yankees' biggest rival, the Red Sox here. And he
didn't stop there. He went on to trash the Yankees.
He said, quote, it feels good to me to go

(03:59):
to a place where it's easy to hate the Yankees.
Let's say a quote from Sonny Gray. I said, well,
that's just raw rab trying to suck up to the
fan base. He said, I never wanted to go there
in the first place, meaning the Yankees. Gray, who waved
his no trade clause, came over from the Cardinals in

(04:19):
a trade just a few days back before Thanksgiving, and
so he's now with the Red Sox. That is a
good jumping off point. The question as we discuss the question,
is this, what's the most puzzling thing about veteran Major
League baseball pitcher Sonny Greg What's the most puzzling thing

(04:40):
about Sonny Gray bashing the Yankees. So I've got pet Smart, pitchfork,
and doctor Maller, and we will combine all of these
things together and we will go for a casual drive
is what we're going to do. So to lead off here,
and then we're gonna make the Bob Baba goods from

(05:00):
the gabbagool so to lead off, though, this is Lando
Lakes Territory, Lando Lakes Territory, meaning Sonny's obviously out there.
He's buttering the biscuits of the Boston baseball fan like
he's auditioning for the dairy isle at Star Market. He's
just really going for it, and why not. It is

(05:21):
a case of you see this with politicians and comedians
and athletes that change teams. It's called geographical pandering, plain
and simple. That's it. You're pandering, is what you're doing.
It's like when a comedian goes to a different city. Well,
this is the greatest crowd I've ever I was in
Cleveland last night. Let me tell you about the people.
They suck uh, And they do that in Detroit. And

(05:43):
then they go from Detroit and they go so, well,
I gotta gig over in Milwaukee. Then they go to
Milwaukee say, oh, the people in Detroit were terrible, but
you people in Milwaukee were so good. Yeah. It's geographic pandering.
That's the move, and it's you know, it's the baseball
version now, Sonny Gray, though, based on some of the
quotes that they've dug up for this guy, it's like
going down to going down to pet Smart and pretending

(06:07):
you are the reptile whisperer. And Sonny is not a
King Colber. He's not an anaconda or a black mamba. No, no, no,
He's a two faced rattlesnake. Is he sheds his skin,
there's sound of him reda depending on which fan base
he's trying to seduce. Of course, the problem is when

(06:28):
he pitches, he doesn't really seduce anyone, and so that's
that's the problem. So does Sonny Gray think that we
don't have the internet? Apparently he believes that we do
not have access to the internet. So went back and
looked at some of the receipts, like at CVS in
twenty seventeen, Sonny Gray said, quote, I couldn't be happier
with how it all played out joining the Yankees. A

(06:51):
twenty twenty he said, I love that place, meeting of
the Brons. It's a great part of my journey. Close quote.
Of course, now the guy shows up to Boston. While
I never wanted to go there. I hate those scummingbags,
that vermin. The classic athlete revisionist history is what it is,
a little performance art with a side of gas lighting.

(07:13):
A lot of gas. Smell the gas, a lot of gaslight.
Now when he struggles in Boston, we'll see how this goes.
We know he struggled with the Yankees, one of the
all time great the backles the Yankees have had the
last generation. Uh, and it'll be everyone else's fault, just
like it was with the Yankees, with everyone else's fault,
it wasn't his fault. And now in Boston he's like

(07:35):
brave heart with a cutter. You know, he's got a
brave heart, but he got a good cutter. And then
that's it. And Sunny Grade didn't just flip the script
on this one, by the way, he torched it. He
burn burn, baby burn. He burned the script and he
blew the ashes right into the charles and pretended that
we all hallucinated the whole thing, that we were not
paying attention and all that. Now for them to the NFL,

(07:59):
we go. We go from baseball in the NFL the
Windy City, Sweet Home Chicago, and we go there, despite
having the number one top seed in the NFC. The
Big Bad Bears are back hole he Mike dickke Batman,
is that refrigerator Perry or Walter Payton or Mike Singletary,
who knows? Anyway, the Bears are back on top and

(08:20):
coach Ben Johnson that's right, that's his name. Ben Johnson
said that there were issues that needed to be cleaned
up in the passing offense. He said, quote, we got
we gotta fundamentally be correct everybody, he went on, everyone's
gotta help get the passing game cleaned up. He said,
we're winning in spite of our passing game, not because

(08:43):
of it. And none of us are pleased with that
right now close quote all right, let us talk about this.
The question coach Ben Johnson says the Bears are winning
in spite of their passing game, not because of it.
You unravel what Ben Johnson's really getting at on this one.

(09:04):
So yes, I have used a couple of things. I've
got my Mallard Dakota ring not to be confused with
the Malard branded Rosetta stone. Using the Mallard Dakota ring
when Ben Johnson says the Bears are winning in spite
of the passing game. That was the money quote. He's
basically leaving you a trail of bread crumbs and it's

(09:27):
delicious rye bread and not slice bread, rye bread, and
he's dropping the bread crumbs there and he's like, Okay,
so this is what we're doing here. I'm going to
take you back to the crime scene. Okay, where's the
crime scene? And then yeah, so it's all going to
the cornerback room and the locker of Caleb Williams, calub Williams,

(09:50):
pig bat number one, pick all that stuff, and he's
not holding up to his end of the market. And
that's it. Johnson, Ben Johnson, did not say the name
Caleb Williams. You never named the guilty party. He might
as well have just put a billboard up an I
ninety and put flashing neon arrows at a photo of
Kayla Williams. Why not? And so this was the old

(10:14):
call out without the call out, sub tweet, press conference
thing thing image. So Ben Johnson again, he never said
Caleb Williams name, never said it. But we all know
the fingerprints are right there. And it's coach speak for
my quarterback. That's my quarterback. And he sucks. He's terrible. Yeah,

(10:36):
it's like he's a leaky faucet and otherwise the house
is great, but the faucet's just leaking and you need
some water and it's leaking and all that. And Caleb
Williams was supposed to remember the hype was you hire
Ben Johnson. He's the quarterback whisper. Oh, the quarterback whisper.
And Caleb Williams was going to hit orbit and leave

(10:57):
the atmosphere and a SpaceX rocket. Except he hasn't gone
to the Solar system, he hasn't gone up to the stratosphere,
hasn't happened, no superstardom yet, and instead he's the thing
Kayleb Williams here who's like spinning sideways. It's the rocket

(11:20):
kind of spinning sideways as like a dollars store drone
caught in a wind gust is what it is. And
you think about where he is right now, how bad
Caleb Williams is, which just quarterbacks important. You need a
quarterback obviously, but Caleb Williams isn't playing well. In fact,
statistically speaking, he is worse than Kyler Murray the video
gamer and Justin Fields, the backup both those guys, by

(11:43):
the way, benched by their respective teams. They have a
higher quarterback rating this season than Caleb Williams of the
Chicago Bears, and they've been malfunctioning all season long, and
over the last four weeks. Caleb Williams the last month
is the thirty first ranked quarterback in the NFL, which
is basically, congratulations, you beat the clipboard holders, although statistically

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you did not beat the clipboard holders. And Chicago's passing
offense is futile with a capital F. And yet they're winning.
They're winning, they're opportunistic, they're getting turnovers, they're doing enough,
and the running games. That had a big running day
against Philadelphia the other day. He made some big plays
on offense last week on Thanksgiving, a week Black Friday

(12:29):
and all that stuff. So that's where we are. So
Ben Johnson, without actually naming Caleb Williams, he kind of
said the quiet part out loud, and the Bears are
carrying kayleb Williams. Now, you can win that way. The
Denver Broncos won a Super Bowl with the rotting carcass
of Peyton Manning. They pushed his hospital gurney across the
finish line and they won because they had amazing defense

(12:52):
with Von Miller that year and they won the Super Bowl.
Also helped the Cam Newton who wears funny hats on television.
And remember that there was a bumble in the Super
Bowl and rather than dive on it, heroically, he chose
not to dive on it. And that's the signature play
of Cam Newton's career. All right, now, last thing turning
the page. We always love when rich people complain about

(13:12):
being rich, and we have another example of that from
NFL Stars of the past. NFL Stars in the past,
former wide receiver Odell Beckham, the steroid cheat. Odell Beckham
made over one hundred million dollars, played ten years in
the league, made over one hundred million dollars. However, he

(13:35):
recently appeared on some fledgling podcast that has seven people
listening to it and explain how a five year, one
hundred million dollar contract isn't all that it's hyped up
to be. This sounds really depressing. He did some OBJ math,
not malor math OBJ math. He complained about taxation. I

(13:59):
agree with him on that, complained about paying taxes, saying
that it's really five years sixty million. So it's not
the one hundred million, it's five years sixty million. Beckham said,
you have to spend, you have to use, you have
to save, you have to invest, and you have to flaunt.
He said, if you're spending four million dollars a year,

(14:20):
that's really forty million over five years. Okay, is the
is the math mathing for you? Okay? Question?

Speaker 4 (14:28):
Give me?

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Give me a word for Odell Beckham complaining about the
one hundred million dollars he earned in his NFL contract vanishing.
So we've turned to doctor Maller on this one. Doctor
Mahler has determined the diagnosis is affluenza. That is the

(14:51):
illness that Odell Beckham is suffering from affluenza, a terminal case.
Unfortunately for OBJ, I'm sad to give you the news.
The rich guy flew, as it's known. There you sneeze
and that's ten million, your fart, that's another five million.
It just blows away. It's a real SOB story. It's
a real SOB story. It's you just don't understand. Can

(15:13):
we all shed some crocodile tears for Obj? Can we
do that? You know, maybe have a bake sale. I'll
make some brownies, bake some brownies. Why not there and
good old old bej I sell some brownies and sell
some cookies and all that stuff. And there you go,
right in the parking lot. We'll do it in the
parking lot. And hopefully Obj will then be an upgrade

(15:36):
to his third Mayboch. We hope that. We'll hope that
happens now. Odell, he broke down the numbers on his
five years one hundred million, and the way he was
breaking this down on this podcast, Odell Beckham, it sounded
like he was starring in Shark Tank, the Bankruptcy edition,
a special holiday edition, Taxes, houses, cars, lifestyle all that.

(16:02):
It's kind of like watching a financial Jenga tower wobble
wobble wobble in slow ocean. So this is knicker bocker esque.
It reminded me of the Knickerbockers. The greatest quote of
dumb meathead athlete involving money all time, Patrick Ewing, Patrick Ewing,

(16:25):
This goes back at generation. But he used to be
a big star. You probably don't even who that is anymore.
But he played for the Knickerbockers and they were a
basketball team. Actually had some success when he was there.
So Patrick Ewing in the nineties, during a work stoppage,
famously said that athletes might make a lot of money,
but we spend a lot of money. That's great. So
it's parently impossible. You're really leaning into the dumb jock

(16:49):
mindset Odell Beckham that you can't be an adult and
figure out your finances and all that stuff. And this
is this thing called the interweb, and they'll teach you
all about that. It's wild, just came up. It's brand new.
It's a new invention called the Internet and world wide
Web called that. If you want, and there you go.
So there have been people like Rob Gronkowski. He's a

(17:10):
meathead too. Gronkowski famously with the Patriots. He claimed he
never spent any of his NFL salary. They just speA
A guy named Jay Leno was a big star on
television back when people used to watch late night TV
before it went woke, and Jay Leno supposedly saved all
his money. He just spent money he made from comedy.
He never spent his TV money. He must be spending

(17:31):
it now he's old. I would hope he's spending it now,
but who knows. So you're not really budgeting most of
these guys by Godell Beckham, It's like they're they're holding
a bonfire, burning man and they're just tossing just stacks
of cash in there. So do better, be better. It
is the Ben Maler Show. We will do better and
be better. We'll take some more of your calls. Also
a mini mall monologue. A future Hall of Famer has

(17:55):
apparently been fired in the middle of the night and
the news coming down here. We'll get to the bottom
of that. We'll try to figure out what's going on.
That's a humdinger of a story. It's a doozy. It's
a doozy. We'll get to that and we will do
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(20:04):
Malor Show YouTube page for the Malard monologues and who
knows what else right there, back to back to it.
I did want to mention we are going to get
to the calls here. The phone system will be a
reset here at momentary. But it was a big roster,
well big, I say, relative the guy's been terrible this year.

(20:25):
But Chris Paul, you might have heard of him. He
plays basketball. So Chris Paul has been kicked to the
curb by the Clippers. He sent out a message overnight
saying that he just found out that he's being sent home,
is what he said. And he did give the peace symbol,

(20:47):
so he's apparently at peace with it. The Clippers are
on an extended road trip. They are traveling around. They
remind me of the Washington Generals. The way the Clippers
are playing right now. They are horrific. And so the
big story though, everyone yapping about here in Clipperland is
the fact that Chris paul'sman sent home. You literally to

(21:09):
be around them, you need a hazmat suit. They're that bad.
And they said, we're not sure. I assume he's been
He's going to be released or traded or something like that.
I don't know. Trade with him the way, trade for
him the way he's playing. But this is a future
Hall of famer who's been apparently being let go here,
and so you look at it a couple of thoughts
on this. My first thought is this is not so

(21:32):
much basketball. This is I cannot wait to see what's
really going on. We're gonna get a watered down version
of the story. There's a lot of people that have
loose lips that will tell us what's really going on.
This is a basketball wives la drama o rama. And
you look at that locker room and they've got all
the makings of a team that is completely fractured. I

(21:53):
don't know why I've tried to get to the bottom
of it. Is it something to do with that Kawhi
Leonards story? Is more to that that we don't know about.
Is there some kind of gambling thing that we don't
know about. I'm not sure what's going on. All I
know is they don't appear to like each other at all.
There's no cohesion there, there's no pulse. They're a lifeless,

(22:14):
dead team. They suck okay, unwatchable garbage in a sport
that's filled with unwatchable garbage there and this is horrific.
And so you wonder what the tylou is he going
to be out there? What's going on? And Chris Paul
though that move coming down overnight, he has been let go.
So if you need a guy that can't play basketball

(22:35):
anymore but can sell some tickets as like a mascot.
Chris Paul should just go to Oklahoma City. He played
there before, and he can be like a mascot and
sit on the bench and then they can give him
a championship ring because I guess they're gonna win. They
almost never lose. Let's score the phones. Let's say hello
to any meenie money Moe. Let's say a low to
Mouthwash Mic in Lost Wages, Nevada.

Speaker 6 (22:57):
Hello, correct, Hi, how are you doing then?

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Where we standing at night? Mouthwash Mike? What hotel you?

Speaker 3 (23:07):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (23:08):
My gosh, a little bit.

Speaker 6 (23:11):
Uh, We're we'll just heading out right now.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
You just head now. It sounds like you're inside somewhere.

Speaker 7 (23:17):
Yes, that is correct.

Speaker 6 (23:20):
I am inside and I'm about to head outside like
right about now.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Oh, this is very exciting. Seen our live coverage. This
is Mouthwashed mic, our favorite homeless guy in in Vegas.
He is gets cold. It's cold there though it's cold, right,
it's a little chilly now, Okay, everything all right?

Speaker 6 (23:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Well you have that Minnesota You have that Minnesota blood,
so you're not worried about that, right, Minnesota guy.

Speaker 6 (23:48):
I do have Minnesota blood, but I am still defrosting.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
I got you, all right, Yeah, gets it gets in
he gets into the thirties overnight in Vegas.

Speaker 6 (24:00):
Yeah, yeah, you know it'll dip down there, especially into
the end of February. Yeah, okay, so it'll be uh
chili for a while. I ran into a guy who's
got a whole lot of sports memorabilia and uh, in fact,
I've got one of the he's trying to get rid

(24:25):
of it.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
And there's there's a couple of ways to get rid
of it. There's way you can sell it or just
give it away. There's two ways to get rid of it.

Speaker 6 (24:34):
Yeah, they be one or the other. And and uh and.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, so what well, I'm spin it out, spin it out,
spit it out, spit it out, spit it out.

Speaker 6 (24:49):
Okay, I'm trying to help them get rid of it.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
So you want to use the show as like offer
up and try to get rid of it on the show,
I am not using your okay, all right, all right,
sports radio show. Yeah, I understand, I understand. I hope
he sells it. You'd be like helmet man. Helmet man
sells merchandise on the streets and he does.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
All right, Well, you know, I'm not a big merch guy.
I wouldn't know how to do that anyway.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Well, you just sit, you sit on one of those
walkways in Vegas and you have a you put a
towel down with all the merch, and then you tell
people here's how much it is, and you know, they
buy it or they don't buy it, and then that's it.

Speaker 6 (25:33):
Be one way to do it. A lot of baseball stuff, like.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
What kind of stuff were talking like, gloves, jerseys, are cards,
yep yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Okay,
all right, all right. As much as I'd love to
talk about some random person I've never met sports memorabilia,
I feel like we must move on.

Speaker 8 (25:52):
I hope you understand, all right, anybody come up to
you with a Mallard jersey.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
On shirt I've had have, yeah, supermarkets, Steve and his
wife made some malor merch and there's been we made some.
We made some a few times. There's been some shirts
that have made for the show. We were supposed to
make some. He's there were two things that were supposed
to happen, like a month ago or two months ago
we were going to go to Ohio that fell apart,
and then I had a merch thing that also fell apart.

(26:27):
So I mean and I hate. I never want to
say any of this stuff because most of the time
this just crap falls apart. People tell me, people will
email me. I got a deal, you know, I gotta
help you. Now they disappear. I gotta go say you're okay, Yes,
you're good.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
You're hanging in there.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
You sound good?

Speaker 6 (26:46):
Yeah, totally, totally okay, Well.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
You don't sound I didn't say awesome. I said you
sound good. So call us up later in the week. Okay,
all right, all right, a happy holidays, our favorite almost guy.
Let's go to uh is it quinn Field? Am I
saying that correctly? Am I saying that quinn Fell? I
screwed that up? I screwed that up, Quinn Fell. Welcome?
You're in Oakland, Quinn Fell. You're on the Ben Mather Show.
What's going on?

Speaker 7 (27:13):
Hey? What's up?

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Hey?

Speaker 7 (27:15):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (27:18):
What's going on with you? How's everything? How's oak.

Speaker 7 (27:22):
Oh It's it's good, It's good. I love you. So
I've been listening to it for many years. An take
it out? Can you give me a lease have as
much time as you gave Man West. Michael, Well, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Do you have any friends that are trying to sell memorabilia?

Speaker 7 (27:35):
I mean, no, nothing about that. But one thing I
wanted to say, hey, because I was thinking about something else.
But when you mentioned Sunny Great, hey Man, Sunny Gray
was the man when he picked with the Oakland A's,
he's to be Sonny great day. When he picked me,
he was good.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
He was good with the A's And then aren't the
The A's are the ones that traded him to the Yankees,
and he couldn't pitch with the Yankees.

Speaker 7 (27:57):
Why would always trade somebody to you Thankees? I do
not know, But anyway, I just want three things to say.
All right, First, can you please call nenunciate the ladies
that pretty founding lady's name.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
Right, her name is Justin Cooper. Justinoper. I kidding, just
um love all right? Hold, come take your breath. Loraine Loraine. Okay,

(28:33):
now you're trying.

Speaker 7 (28:35):
Can you say that lorraina that sounds very nice. I
was saying you sound so pretty, That's all I wanted
to say. But you got happy hother days.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
But she has a theater. Actually down the street here
in l A. There's a Lorraina Theater. It's just down
the street. It's Family Theater.

Speaker 7 (28:52):
And I thought you were in Tennessee. A member. You
played on Member, But I used to call you back
in the day because he was always getting on my
East base teams, even though we don't have anymore.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yes, they've all managed. No, I'm not. Uh, there was
a guy there was our morning our morning guy, Klay
Travis used to he does. He works out of Nashville.
He was our morning guy for a while, so you
might be confusing me with him, but right, yeah, he's
in Tennessee.

Speaker 7 (29:18):
My bad, My bad.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
You know, all those talk all those talk show hosts
are the same. We all sound the same. I ain't
gonna We all complained. We get paid to complain. That's
what we do. We just complain.

Speaker 7 (29:29):
Yeah, but I want to ask, what's up? What do
you think? What? Well? Speaking about the sorry As Raiders,
I'm glad they're not even playing in anymore, like flipping
off the fans and stuff and all stuff. I mean,
I guess they race were like the number one pick
or something, right.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Uh, well kind of right now, would have the number
four pick, the top pick would go to Tennessee. The
Giants would have the second pick, and the Saints would
have the third pick, and then the Raiders are right there.
You got to pull for Tennessee, the Giants and the
Saints to win, and then the Raiders to keep losing.
What what? Who?

Speaker 7 (30:06):
Who?

Speaker 2 (30:06):
People taking for now? Because it's no longer the march
for Art right?

Speaker 3 (30:10):
I know?

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, that's a great point. You look at the big board,
Benny's big board in the draft, and it's there's really
nobody right. There's not a there's not a clearcut quarterback,
that's for sure.

Speaker 7 (30:23):
Arc Mandon ain't coming up busier right.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Well, even if he does come out, would you want him?
There's some I'm looking at my mock draft here. Ruben
Bain junior. Do you know who that is? Ruben Bain Junior?
Never it plays at Miami, plays at Miami. Supposed he's
edge rusher. All right, all right, I gotta go through you.
I don't think we can thank you. Just keeping it
real in Oakland. I mean, you gotta keep it really.

(30:48):
I don't think he was talking less. I hope not.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
But you know.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
I say that I'm out of work. But you know,
my man, he wasn't talking to well, somebody came in
the room. He wanted to let us go to hollering James.
I don't know that. Will that be on the podcast job?
I don't know hollering James? What's up? James? Hey, you

(31:19):
were faking us out. You faked us out?

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Man?

Speaker 2 (31:26):
You use you use some trickeration is what you did?
Tricker ration by hollering James.

Speaker 7 (31:32):
I need to run more than to play like the Vikings.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
James, I've met you, and you are more qualified than
that Gibroni that played quarterback for the Vikings last weekend.
Was somebody compared to brock Party. Oh my god. Oh
there's that's I needed that name, Steve Dill's. That's what

(31:56):
I needed. Yes I did. Hey, by the way, I
need I know we're talking, but I do need some
people to call. We're gonna play password the word Game
of the Stars in a few minutes. If you'd like
to play password, call up right now at eight seven
seven ninety nine on Well you're already on the air, though,
we don't you want to let someone else play? No,

(32:17):
you're both greedy. Why are you greedy? You should share
did you Are you an only child? Yeah, oh that's why.
So you're an only child. You didn't have any brothers
or sisters or anything like. You had to share with nobody.

Speaker 7 (32:28):
Then nobody loves, nobody cares.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Oh, don't say that we love you. You are a mascot
hollering James, Yes you are. When I go out I
do these events, I meet fans of the show, they
always ask about hollering James and weed Man Hippie and
Jed who fled, and Marcel and Brooklyn and all these guys.

Speaker 7 (32:47):
I'm freezing up here in Minnesota, and they turned out
the heat in my room.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
They turned down the heater, they turned on the heat,
the heat. Okay, there's no heat my room out. Well,
I know I don't live in Minnesota. Obviously there's much
colder there, but I like to sleep in the coal.

Speaker 6 (33:06):
You got that roy ticket from that rocket traffic control officer.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Oh well yeah, when I was in Minute, I got
a I got a speeding ticket when I was in Minnesota.
Bad man. I know I'm a rebel.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
I have a ticket.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
I think she has a way to get out of tickets.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
She's got at my car. Pretty girl privilege. I believe
it's what she has there. But yeah, anyway, all right,
I know everyone loves Tammy. I know, all right, all right,
well not everyone, but thank you, James, we love you.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Man.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Get some rest, Yes, okay, here you are. I'll put
you on hold, James. If somebody doesn't want to play,
we'll have you play. Marcel is in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcell
the campaigner of the fourth coller O the Year and
the Collar of the Millennium.

Speaker 9 (33:58):
Nobody between Dynasty is finally here right on darn time.
It is Ben Lorena and Coop de Loop and Ben
Coop de Loop. Congratulations, bolt on the double mixed match alert.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Thank you, thank you. That's a great moment in show history,
am I. It could be on the best of version.
It might be the best of version.

Speaker 9 (34:22):
You never know that's the best on version.

Speaker 7 (34:24):
It is.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
There's one night, is it Christmas Night or Christmas Eve?
One of those nights they play the best of versions
and nonstuff.

Speaker 9 (34:31):
Absolutely absolutely, But the question is can the picks representing
food and TV taking place for the double both or
world Lorena, We'll try to go triple A.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
We're doing TV, are doing TV. Picture Okay, I'm gonna
go first we go all right, all right, I'm gonna
say you watched Mike the Leprechaun. Now I'm kidding, I'm kidding,
you did not watch Mike de lepregn I'm gonna say
you watched on NBES see the New York knicker Bockers
going to the Other Garden, not the Mecca in Manhattan,

(35:07):
but the Boston Garden for a playdate with the Celtics.

Speaker 8 (35:11):
All the library of last year's playoffs mix match it is?

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Who oh good one man? Oh gosh.

Speaker 8 (35:20):
Well, you know I gotta go with the biggest new
show out right now that I have been pre watching
old episodes Stranger Things John on Netflix.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Yes, yes, not a mixed match.

Speaker 7 (35:35):
Wow, what a shame. This is a chance with Ben
and myself.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
I think that you were watching season four, episode twelve
of Breaking Bad titled end Times.

Speaker 9 (35:51):
Oh Breaking Bad on Netflix?

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (35:55):
Wow, that's not a mixed MAATCHI.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
No, yeah, that's a winner all right. It's just like
you always mean, just like Stranger Things. That's my eleventh win,
number eleven right there, just like the character and Stranger Things.
All right, Well, thank you, Mars. Unbelievable, amazing, job, and
we'll give why don't we give William We'll give Mike

(36:20):
the Leprecaun golden tickes. I'm gonna you know, it's a
holiday season. Yeah, you know, we'll just give William one. Well, No,
Mike's been on hold for all as we get unlast mile. No,
we've got people for past ords. So William and Mike
the Leprecaun, you each get a golden dick. You get
a golden dick. It I it's it's it's a season

(36:40):
of giving. And we will have password the word Game
of the Stars. We'll get to that and we will
do it next.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
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Speaker 10 (37:07):
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Speaker 4 (37:26):
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Speaker 2 (37:27):
And the happy holidays, say mister PC classic from Michigan,
great song. This is a happy holidays to all and
a reminder to give the gift this holiday season. The
Ben Maller Show Podcast I can't think of anything kids
want more today than a link to a podcast on
overnight talk radio. My god, what a gift and you

(37:51):
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the Overnight show, you want to catch that podcast, or
search Ben mallor wherever you get your podcast right after
the show the freshest pod we'll be posted. Be sure
to follow the podcast rate at five stars can provide
a review, and also check out the fifth hour podcast
on weekends. Again for the radio show, just search Ben
Mahler wherever you get your podcast, and the best of

(38:14):
version all of five seconds long, and the regular versions.
Check it out.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
The attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot,
password the word game of the stars. Here's Ben Mehler.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Hell, we don't do shout outs, so we can't say
a happy birthday to the salsa czar who's in New
York City today listening to the show, getting up early
here on his sixtieth birthday. Happy, happy birthday, but not
a shout out. That's a mention, not a shout out.
We don't do shout outs. That's a mention. So big difference,
big difference. Okay, let's welcome in our contestants. We have

(38:51):
Manuel in Gardena who's going to play in southern California,
fresh off the jungle. Hello, Manuel, Oh.

Speaker 7 (38:58):
Being honored and privileged to play. I don't want to
give a shout out of a happy birthday to my
daughter Ana Lisa either, so you.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Know we will definitely not wish your daughter and Alisa
a happy birthday. We will not do that. I hope
she understands. Hope you understand. Yeah, Okay, who do you
want to partner up with? A man?

Speaker 7 (39:19):
I'm gonna go with you, all.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Right, man, Man, Well, we're in it to win. It
very good, sounds good. And we have Trent in which
it tall. Hello Trent, welcome, welcome, Yeah, thanks for having me.
All right, you got that early morning voice thing going
on there, Trent, I got you. I have the same thing.
Who do you want to partner up with? You got
Lorena or the Coop de Loop's okay, all right, Lorena,

(39:41):
You're in very nice we have you know, I just
have the best lexicon.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
I'm shocked.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Yeah, well you're picked. Now let's see what you've got man.
Well and Guardiana, we have a list of words. Here
is not a list it's a big board, big board,
big board, list, not a list big board whatever? Who
the kel cares? Go ahead, man, well, pick a number
one to tamnumber one, number one, all right, let's go
with them. Boo. How about bill fold? Billfold? Yeah, there

(40:13):
you go. Ten nothing, good, guys, ten nothing, trying to
pick a number? Pick a number two to ten? Uh think, Oh, okay,
I'm gonna do a good job and not say the
word out loud this week like I did last time.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
Let's go with them.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
It's passwords, the word game of the stars. Allowed, huh allowed?
What do you do? Which were you doing? Number five?

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Okay, that's just a bad okay, illegals, No way, there's
no way.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Are you kidding me? You gotta be joking. All right,
go Manuel, we're tied up. Pick a number two to ten,
but not five. You got it. You didn't give him
that hand.

Speaker 7 (41:04):
You heard me, lucky?

Speaker 2 (41:08):
All right? Number seven. Let's go with blah blah blah blah.
How about uh irritating?

Speaker 7 (41:20):
Uh obnoxious?

Speaker 2 (41:22):
No good guess? All right, go ahead there, let's go
with uh. Oh, take your time, Miranda, don't mind the clock. Obnoxious, annoying?

Speaker 4 (41:37):
Whoa that is too alright.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Hurry up, picking up or Trent?

Speaker 4 (41:43):
I do you believe I'm winning?

Speaker 2 (41:45):
Trent? Go with number eight number, go ahead, Lorna quickly, Oh.

Speaker 8 (41:49):
My gosh, travel travel, What was that travel?

Speaker 2 (41:56):
No, let's go with holiday.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
Holiday.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Hurry up holiday man, well holiday, yeah, vacation. The word
was vacation. I think you cheated. I think you cheated, Lorena.
I think there was some cheating going on. I'm going
cheating
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