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January 22, 2026 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about Brian Flores signing an extension to stay the Vikings DC, Pats star Stefon Diggs being the leading daddy in the gossip pages, Bears coach Ben Johnson saying it all resets after this magical season, Fact or Fiction, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. It's our numbber four. Our four is
ready for you. Here an hour four of The Ben
mal Show. What is your perspective on Brian Flores signing
an extension in Minnesota. He's interviewed for multiple head coaching jobs,
but it sounds like he'll stay with the Vikings. What's
your takeaway from Patriots star Stefon Diggs as the leading

(00:24):
daddy in the gossip pages. As New England gets ready
to play Denver in the AFC Title game and after
the magical season Division title playoff win over the Packers,
Ben Johnson says, it all resets for the Bears. How
does that one hit you? We'll talk about all that
and more right now. Have a wonderful Thursday. Don't forget

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into it, and we begin in the NFL. Gonna go
to the Twin Cities here and you can fill another
spot on your coaching tortboard a toteboard toteboard. Terry in

(03:44):
England not a list if Terry in England's listing toteboard.
So if you didn't hear, perhaps not. We have learned
that former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores has decided
that he is going to stay put and he's a
candidate for various NFL head coaching jobs. However, he will
remain with the Minnesota Vikings. Flores agreed to an extension

(04:08):
as the Vikings defensive coordinator. There were some whispers that
the Cowboys and others were interested. I think that is
bull crap, but that's just my humble take on that. Anyway,
that is a good jumping off point. There are reports
and well, Brian Flores is still a candidate for the
Steeler job, and this job and the other head coaching jobs. However,
he's agreed to an extension with the Vikings. So let

(04:30):
us discuss the question for the seam panel. Let's keep
it simple here, all right, here's the question. What is
your perspective your perspective on Brian Flora's signing an extension
to stay as the defensive coordinator for the Purple People Eaters.

(04:50):
So my take on this, I've got Trek, agriculture, and Xbox,
and we will combine all of these things together and
gonna make some delicious strawberry pop tarts. I grew up
on strawberry pop tarts. That's what we're gonna make now.
To kick off here, this story as predictable as Lake

(05:12):
Minnetonka turning into an ice rink around this time of
the year. Brian Flores was never going to get a
head coaching job this cycle. Never ever, Ever, there was
a better chance that Shrek would be headlining at Coachella
than Brian Flores getting a head coaching job. Now, some
seem to be befuddled by all of this, holding out

(05:35):
hope that the Steelers will hire him. I would be
stunned if that happened. I just it's not gonna happen.
Flora's here's the problem. Let me spell this out for you. Okay,
let's spell it off you. Brian Flores has an issue.
It's an albatross that is strapped to his back, and
the albatross is he is suing the shield. Hello, how

(05:56):
do you like them apples? And we're not talking about
small claims court either. I'm not talking about some dispute
between neighbors. This thing is on track to end up
with Scotus, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court keeping it real.
These teams are not family run businesses anymore. These franchises

(06:19):
in the NFL, they're they're part of the mothership. And
it's kind of like if you sued corporate Pizza Hut
and then expected to be promoted to the regional manager
in Rancho Cucamonga, chances are that's not going to happen
because there's an active piece of litigation against the parent company.

(06:40):
And he said, well, he's working in the NFL. Yeah,
but head coach is a different world. Head coach, you're
the CEO. You got too much power, you're too visible.
That's taboo. However, defensive coordinator with the vikings allowed, that's safe.
You're essentially like a line cook. It's important, Like line

(07:00):
cooks are very important, but they're not running the restaurant, right,
they're not deciding what's on the menu, and they're not decided.
They just do make the food as it supposed to.
But they're not the one's making the decisions. So until
the lawsuit disappears, his head coaching dreams are frozen solid,
like the ice on so many of those lakes in

(07:20):
the Land of ten Thousand like stuff. Furthermore, we head
from Minnesota to New England the Commonwealth as the Patriots
get ready to be the biggest road favorite and AFC
Championship game history thanks to Bo Nicks's injury, they're also
filling up the tabloids. That's right, our old buddy, Stefan Diggs,
filling the content, kitty, Thank you for thanks very much,

(07:43):
Stefon Diggs. So I read this in the tablets. It
must be true. The star of the show, and this
involves DNA. DNA test has apparently confirmed. Recording to the tablets,
it must be true that Stefan Diggs is the father
of a bouncing baby daughter born this past April with
his ex Squeeze. The announcement coincides with Diggs welcoming a

(08:08):
son with his girlfriend Cardi b just happened there in
November last year, a couple months ago. So the question,
having read these tabloid stories, what is your takeaway from
Patriot star Stefawn Diggs as the leading daddy in the
gossip pages? So Robert Kraft here? Who loves Robert Kraft?

(08:31):
Does anyone love Robert Kraft more than Robert Kraft? I
have never watched a Patriot game without seeing Robert Kraft,
even when he went to the orchards of Asia day
Spa in Florida. I still saw Robert Kraft on TV
even when he was suspended. They showed him on TV.
So Robert Craft should go out and hire Maury Povich,
put him on retainer. Moy's still kicking around. He's in

(08:53):
his late eighties at this point here, but wheel him
out a classic show back in the day many years ago.
Maury Povich shouldn' get the drum roll. DNA tests says
you are the father. Now forget the gold jacket. Stefan
Diggs is a good play. He's not gonna get a
gold jacket and end up in Canton, Ohio. Stefan Diggs, though,
we'd like to welcome him to the Maturnity Ward Hall

(09:14):
of Fame. Tremendous job by my man, Stefan Diggs. His
plumbing is working very well. And this is not football anymore.
We are past the football stage. With Stefan Diggs reading
this story in the tabloids. This is agriculture, like Stefan
Diggs is farming children like corn in Iowa. At this point,

(09:35):
this man has a bigger baby boom. I remember watting
stories about after World War Two. There was a massive
They call them the boomers, right, the baby boom, the
post war He's got his own baby boom with baby
mama's all over the place, post war like as wild.
How many kids does Stefan Diggs have this past year?

(09:57):
Not one, not two, not three? Four k it's four
kids one year. That is impressive. That's like an expansion franchise.
You had your own expansion draft. You got four, I
guess you need one more. You can have a starting
five in the NBA tabloids say that he's now up
to six kids total. But for this year, at this point,

(10:19):
Stefan Diggs is going to need his own general manager.
He's going to need a capologist and a full time
accountant just to collect and send out the child support
payments to all the baby mamas that baby mama drama
all over the country. Now we are told that's going
to cost him. According to estimates, the kids he has
right now are going to cost him over a million

(10:40):
dollars a year. That's not alimony. That is a recurring
subscription that you can't get out of for eighteen years.
All right, So this is the blueprint on how to
go broke as a professional athlete. Stefon Diggs is living
up to all the cliches and all that stuff. Not vegas,
not cars, cribs not those cribs, different kind of cribs, plural.

(11:06):
And the diapers, man, they eat money faster than a
slot machine with a broken level, you know, the lever
of the one armed bandit there, and so forget the
people talk about the masters. This is a tradition unlike
any other. That money, that big pile of money that
Stefan Diggs has, and money in and diapers out, formula

(11:28):
out all that stuff. And eventually Diggs will retire and
he won't be making the money, and the checks will
keep clearing and suddenly suddenly you're playing defense against your
own DNA. So there you go. It's fair to say it.
Stefon Diggs has pretty good hands as an NFL receiver,
but he's not able to pull out of coverage, if

(11:49):
you know what I mean. He can't really pull out
of coverage. All right. Now, last thing, two shit cargo
we go where coach Ben Johnson just dropped the hammer
on the Chicago media fanboys who were so excited all
these wonderful stories about the Bears have arrived They've marked
their territory like a dog, and it's wonderful. And this

(12:11):
Bears team, this is the beginning they've taken off and
it's going to carry over to next year. So Ben
Johnson said, quote there is no building off this, meaning
the Bears playoff success, we are back to square one.
We're back to the bottom again. Quotes quote. All right,
So the question after this magical season in Chicago, a

(12:34):
right win over the Packers, divisional title playoff win over
Green Bay, dramatic, getting way behind, coming back, and then
losing heartbreak Hotel to the Lrams, Ben Johnson is saying,
it all resets. So the question is, how does this
hit you? So nailed it, nailed it. It's like you

(12:57):
finally beat the final Boss. You're playing Grand Theft Auto
on your Xbox and you celebrate and your klutz and
you drop the controller and boom, the thing resets to
the loading screen. You don't start twenty twenty six. When
we get to the NFL season in September. It's not
like the NFL says, all right, you guys beat the

(13:18):
Packers last year, so you're gonna start one to zero.
Because Caleb Williams had a magic comeback. No, no, no, you're
back to zero fresh character, no upgrades, carryover. It's brutal,
that's the way it is. Or if you're more into
books like Harry Potter, I imagine if you will. JK.
Rowlings finishes one book and then yeah, there are references

(13:39):
to the past. There are references to the past, but
each new novel is its own beast, its own fire
breathing dragon. And so quarterback Caleb Williams and the Bears
cannot ride last year's broomstick into twenty twenty six. It's
a different kind of witchcraft and sorcery and all that stuff.
So they got to prove it again and right from scratch.

(14:00):
It's kind of like rookies in a new Hogwarts house
along the lines, but a Square one or bus there's
no carryover. You gotta have that reset mentality and all
that stuff and gotta do it same in our business,
you know, that's how we relate here in the radio game.
You gotta a lot of people listen. You have a
big audience and got to keep that audience. You don't

(14:21):
keep the audience, you got to embrace the grind, and
it all goes back to zero and it's all complicated,
the math on that. How do you attract this stuff?
It's big, it's a big mess. It is the Ben
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back to it, we go take some calls here in

(16:46):
a minute. Also coming up in a few minutes later
this hour, we'll have fact or fiction. Factor of fiction
that'll be coming up in a little bit. Mentioned Stefan
Diggs very productive on the field and in the bedroom. Yeah,
he's he's a baby maker, and it's he's absolutely way

(17:06):
to go, way to go. Uh. And so I saw this.
I was reading the tabloids. Don't ask me why. I
don't know. I got free time. I guess I read
the tablets. I'm looking for things to talk about. And
so I saw this story that Cardi B is a
she's really like fully into the Patriots. Now like Cardi
B's a big Patriot fan. Ou Patriot fan? Yeah yeah, yeah,

(17:27):
like she's followed them her whole life. That's a lie.
If act, she says that Stefan Diggs converted her to
become an NFL fan. Religion, that's she's now part of
the cult. She's been indoctrinated into the cult. She's all
about it, all about that action Alf the alien o'piner says,

(17:47):
why you got to pick on Stefan Diggs. He's just
following in the very viral footsteps of Anthony Grammarti and
uh and also Tyreek Hill. Well yeah, I mean there's
been a lot of guys. It was just fresh story.
I just saw this. I thought that was impressive, Hatch
Daddy writes in. You know, it's a big morning of
Hatch Daddy writes in. He says, morning Ben, I do

(18:10):
hope that Brian Flores does end up staying with Minnesota
because I really don't know what other defensive coordinator would
take his place. But I do have to laugh at
these other teams thinking he would jump ship knowing that
he has been building this defense since Ed Donna Tell left. Yeah,

(18:31):
but you know, Hatch Daddy that these coaches they'll go anywhere,
you know, as long as they get more money. They
don't care. Big Greg and Iowa says. Antonio Cramarti says
Defon Digg still has a ways to go on the
child front, but applauds his effort. Absolutely A Gunner, boy,
this guy's one trick. Pony Gunner, learn another trick. Come on, dude,

(18:51):
Gunner says, I can't wait till your Rams lose on Sunday.
Then you will cry and whine like a big baby,
he says. Sick also sent that same text, I can't
wait till your ram blues against the Carolina Panthers. I
can't wait till your Rams blues when they play the
Chicago Bears get some new material. Well here's a blast

(19:13):
from the past. That guy was a big star caller,
one of the biggest names on the show, and the
grind of being a celebrity caller got to him. He
had to retire, but every once in a while he
checks in. He comes out of retirement and he wants
to be part of the show. We say hello. Now
we go down the Oregon Trail, a fan favorite. I
still get email. What happened to this guy? And he's back?

(19:36):
Mark the full name Guy, Hello, Mark the full name Guy.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Hello, Dan Maher, You.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
Mis information.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
Masters.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
Where are you.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Celebrating the de mind of the forty nine ers in
the postseason? Exactly? You're so anxious to see their coach
get fired.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
I think, uh, they would love to see.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
The forty nine ers said coach get fired too, and
they've pretty much owned them for the last several years.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
That's that's a day to take, Mark, that's a day
to take. They played, they played literally a couple of
years back in the NFC title game. Who won that game?
I forget? Was it the Rams of the forty nine ers?
I forget who won?

Speaker 4 (20:30):
Oh, you're talking about an interception right in the chets
and one of the forty nine ers I'm not even
gonna repeat his name. I think coach Guitar dropped an interception.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
But that's because the Niners aren't weren't They weren't good
enough to beat them. If they were good enough, they
would have made that play. And that's it.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
They weren't going. My grandmother could have made that play.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Well if your grandma, if your grandmother played for the
forty nine ers that day, they would have won. But
your grandmother didn't play for the forty nine ers that day,
so they didn't win.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
That's his game, you know, Esther, Yeah, she would never
have dropped.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
I bet she made some great great massa ball soup, esther,
good man of ball soup.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
That was a great interception by your Rams defensive back
against the Bears. By the way, that was about the
best play.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
Of the day.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
By your retire team.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
In fact, well, thank you. I appreciate that. I know
what to do with it.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
It was a great play.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
It was also a bad decision by a.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Certain quarter exact Well, you don't even know the guys say.
The guys say his name, Cam Curl's the guy. That's
the Cam Curl. That's a good.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
We used to root for when he was a USC star.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
As I recall Caleb Williams and Camul what's the guy?
The great Cam Curl? That great yet?

Speaker 4 (21:58):
But he's getting there.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
For those who don't know, Mark the full Name Guy's
been calling the show for many many years. He used
to live in the Bay Area. He lived in the
Tenderloin district of San Francisco. Then he was in Santa Barbara.
I know his whole life store. He was in Santa
Barbara for a while, and then he's now in Oregon.
And you're loving life in Oregon, right, Mark the full
Name Guy.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
You love it there clinning any liquor stores, Hey, what's
in the tender line? After a long day's work, I
just tweeted this to someone. After long day's work of
moving heavy wellnut furniture, I walked into one of the
local Palestinian run markets that are all over the Tenderloine

(22:42):
and lo and behold.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
I was trying to buy oh yeah, some pale ale
after work.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
And who was sitting on one of those bout plastic
milk crates, Rasser Arafat. I looked and I pretended I
didn't even see him.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Claiming what what? What year was this? What year was this?

Speaker 3 (23:07):
I knew it was not a safe place for a
Brooklyn boy like me to be living.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Now people are going to say, you're thank you. What
are you doing? I mean, my god, all right, let's
here you go. Say hello to Blind Scott, a professional
radio caller, Blind Scott. We have to share him with
the Boston.

Speaker 6 (23:31):
State The Insider. Yeah, and this sports Stephon Diggs thing.
I mean Cardi B. Yay, great, you're great, you're a fan.
I love Cardi B. But I don't know if Stefon
Diggs will be back next year. Here's the thing. If
I was Stefan Diggs, he's got a criminal case coming up,
I would complain that I'm a sex staddict, or check
myself into mcclean's and dum On for sex addiction, and
then the judge will throw it out. You know. Usually

(23:54):
I try to get those things squashed before they even
go to the click magistrate. They'll throw them out. I
know Mark, the full name guy. We were friends. We
spent hours talking on the phone together. I know his life.
So he's in his seventies now. Remember he made the
Alcoholics anonymous amens to me lost of parents he had
on the show. He called up and now died me
on the show and then apologized to me. Dude. So

(24:15):
here's the deal with Denver. Denver is one of the
worst cities in the United States of America. Like whatever
Mark you said about the tenderloin, Denver is like a
hundred times worse. Like I went to Denver one time
and I saw I even want to say who I
saw sitting in the convenience store, but it was very scary.
All men live in Denver, no women lived there. They're
all dating each other. Like my buddy, he went to
the Broncos game last weekend. Right, I'm done on a

(24:37):
reconnaissance mission. Right now, I'm going to go into this
homely shelter in Denver and beat the crap out of all
these guys. When he went there, they grabbed all the
stuff out of his backpack, took everything he owned. He
was just left there standing. They gave him a hospital
gown and said, hey, thanks for coming to Denver. You
know that would never that would never, that would never happen.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, well, I have the most amazing imagination. Is fascinating. Now,
would you like I have not on this in a while.
Would you like to get in to the verbal octagon
against the good people of Denver. We can get somebody
from Denver to represent the Broncos tomorrow. Obviously we don't
have time today. With tomorrow, dude, you.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
Put you got all these tomato cans for college. It's
like that dad boy Malcolm. He's like I heard a
sound bite. So I sent Loraina an email. Dude, Loraina
is the third microphone on an overnight show. You don't
need to network with Lorraina. You want to try to
go up through the radio.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Wow, you're taking shots. I mean, you're trying to set
you up for a bit here, I'm trying to set
you up for a bit.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
What's wrong with Well, No, Loraina's real talented. I'm just
talking about these guys. They got stuff going out of
their head that makes them think differently than other people.
It's not normal thinking that, dude, that participants in the show,
they're all fooled by Loraina's beautiful looks. You know, Lorain
is just trying to set a career here. Loreena is
actually pretty talented on the show. Dude, this dating segment
you did with Loraina yesterday, I got to go back
to it. You contradicted every dating advice Loraina gave. It

(25:54):
was actually sounded pretty good. But I've never heard a
dating segment like that before where somebody gets out dating
advice and then the host Caatrid Dixon like with a
different opinion.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
That was it?

Speaker 1 (26:03):
What did I What did I contradict? What exactly did
I win?

Speaker 6 (26:07):
Anything?

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Rain, Give me some example, Give me an example, Give
me one example.

Speaker 5 (26:12):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (26:12):
It would be like, hey, you know, you can fly
anywhere in the country to go on a date. Like,
if you want to date a really hot man interest
your radio, you might want to fly to Boston and
stay at the Ritz and have sex with him on
his birthday, You know what I mean? That's what loraino
that and you and you were like, I don't know
about that. I wouldn't do that. But she was heart
about jet setting, you know what I mean. So there

(26:33):
are a lot of people that have private planes now,
so they will fly you out of air. You know,
it's a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, you can go to I've read about that is
it Dubai. They fly people in the Dubai and you
can have a great RAINA.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
Does it every weekend.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
She's a buy.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Lorena every weekend.

Speaker 6 (26:50):
No, okay, all right, she's a third microphone on an
overnight show. She doesn't want to brag. It's a silent prag.
You know what I'm saying. Dude, Dude, One more thing,
Ben with the Sean Payton guy, he guaranteed a win
for the Denver Broncos. That just goes to show you
that there's no win coming at all. This guy is
gonna be Loncha Bolt.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
So again Scott tomorrow. Just for the record, you're gonna
be online if I can find somebody in Denver. Three
rounds verbal combat the octagon on the Patriot Bronco game.
You're in.

Speaker 6 (27:22):
Yeah, what time? What are we doing it?

Speaker 1 (27:24):
I'd like to do it the first hour. If we
can do it the first.

Speaker 6 (27:28):
Off, I'll be ready. I get a lot of sleep
and I'm gonna start doing some punches right now, remember
the rise of wireless shutdown. I started slamming myself into
the ground. So I didn't know what was going on.
I was like, it was crazy around here.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
That seems that seems like a good choice to make.
That seems like a really good choice to make. To me,
I think I gotta go. Thank you, you're annoying me,
go away, all right. The family drama O rama. So
I didn't do a monologue about this because I you know,
I just didn't really interest me that much. But I
thought it was in the details. I've heard some of
this stuff behind the scenes, and it was all laid
out the the Lakers are being sold to the guy

(28:03):
that owns the Dodgers and the Bus family. I've long
pointed out how incompetent the Bus family is after the owner,
the old guy, passed away, Jerry Buss, and so it
all got laid out. I heard a lot of these
stories behind the scenes from my friends in LA media
about what's been going on and all that, the infighting,

(28:24):
and then it led to the Lakers being sold for
ten billion dollars by the Bus family, and there was
a long, wordy story that went into details about what
exactly was going on behind the scenes. And then of
course Genie Buss came out and said she didn't necessarily

(28:45):
deny it. It was completely unfair to Lebron James because
in the story, I thank god this didn't happen. Genie
Buss was so upset with Lebron allegedly that she was
looking to trade the Lebron to the Clippers. Now, that
would have really upset me. That would have really upset me.
And she was it's not like you did a parade

(29:07):
or something trying to get Lebron to go there. Well,
that was an event before Lebron went to the dark side,
and he was an upstanding citizen at that point. So
that was a long time ago, Coop. It's almost twenty
years since we did that meeting the Great Clipper Daryl.
And so Genie Buss was said to be upset with
Lebron's ego. So they asked Lebron's agent, the guy riding

(29:30):
Lebron's coat tails making all that money because he knows
Lebron Rich Paul and Rich Paul responded to the rumors
involving Genie Buss and her disdain for Lebron. James and
Rich Paul he gave the quote. He said, quote, let's
the one, two, three four words. This is the response
of Rich Paul, he said, who gives an S. I

(29:51):
don't think he was talking about a ship in the ocean.
But it's something. I don't know what it was. I
forget what word. I don't know what that word sounds like.
I'm not sure, but very exciting. Let's go to Mark
on the north end. Who's next? Hello Mark, Marky? Marky's next,
and then we're gonna have fact or fiction. You want
to be one of my judges for that call right
now and you can be Part eight seven seven ninety

(30:12):
nine on Fox. Hello Mark, Welcome, Hello Ben.

Speaker 5 (30:16):
So I want to know, now, do all the NFL
experts and critics, okay, are they still gonna say, well,
the Patriots had the ev schedule ever and then they
go out in the playoffs and they beat Justin Herbert
and the judges, they beat the so called Houston Almighty defense,
and now they are the largest road favorite against the

(30:36):
number one defense in the league. So is it so fluke?

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Is this different?

Speaker 5 (30:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:42):
All right? So the short answer is yes, it is
still a fluke. And the long answer is, absolutely it is.
But the great thing about this, Mark, and you know
this in the moment, what if even if they just
beat the Broncos and then they say they win the
Super Bowl, everyone will be the odds of it's bogus
and all that. But ten years from now, no one
will bring that up, right, It's it's only something that

(31:03):
happens right now. They you don't. You only remember the outcome.
No one's gonna remember how ridiculous this was on the line.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
I also want to ask, is this this still stem
over from the Bill Belichick Tom Brady era where just
everybody hates the Patriots.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Nah, it's just they you played a bunch of tomato cans.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
Is I don't like I don't like that some tomato kids, Ben,
But it's still professional NFL football teams.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yes, they are. They are. They're just not They're just
not good. What why do you care? Anyway? You shouldn't care.
Who cares? If you win, You have your parade, get
the duck boats out, have time and all that.

Speaker 5 (31:47):
Because people are making it sound like Ben, that if
the Patriots go on to beat Denver Sunday and then
they go to the Super Bowl and beat the Seattle
Seahawks because they're going to crouch the Rams.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
All right, so now you've crossed the lines. Now you've
crossed the line. Have you've seen Sam Donald? Have you
seen you think Sam Donald, whose kryptonite is that ram helmet,
is going to go out there and have a big day.
Come on, please, No, the NFL officials helped Seattle. Did
you not watch that game? There was a duo point

(32:18):
conversion that Seattle did not convert that they gave to
Seattle in order for them to win that game. And
Sam Donald had in two games, he had six interceptions
and I think it was I don't forget how many fumbles.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
Trying to make the point I was trying to make
is then people a lot of people going to put
an aster next to the Patriots the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
It's not like it's not like they're going to get
a smaller trophy. It's not like they're going to get
like the Lake, you know, like the Lakers. That's a
legitimate asteris that was a bogus championship and you know,
during the COVID year because it was at a resort,
you know, and only because the Lakers the Clippers would
have been the hardest championship completely bogus. It was. It
was a Mickey Mouse ring. It was a souvenir ring.
They got the gift shop on Main Street and that's yes.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
You do have to admit if they win it, number
seven's that's pretty impressive.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Well yeah, yes is one though. For Drake May it's
the piggybacking off with Brady and those guys did. All right,
I gotta go, but thank you there. You're very concerned.
We have a concerned Patriot fan right there. No respect,
I get no respect. Mark on the north end. Hey,
we go do a rant about that later on. I
guess I better do it tomorrow. If I'm gonna do
it because the game is on Sunday and I won't

(33:28):
be on on Saturday, I can do it on a
podcast anyway. It is the Ben Maler Show fact or
Fiction that is up ed. If you would like to
play fact or fiction, you can call right now. Operators
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Speaker 2 (35:00):
Fiction.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Let's face some raw fast on the Ben Maller Show.
All right, let's do this here. Factor Fiction We'll give
you three stories. You got to figure out which are
three is not true? Separating fiction from fact. Let's welcome
in our celebrity panel of judges. We have assembled and

(35:23):
formed voltron from all over the country. We've got Rick
in Maryland. Rick's famous for a certain line. Hello, Rick
and Maryland.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
One a time.

Speaker 6 (35:31):
How's it going?

Speaker 5 (35:32):
Hey the Coop?

Speaker 3 (35:34):
I know who that snake was?

Speaker 6 (35:35):
That bit you was Britney Spears.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
That's right, it's Britney Spears. Might be right. Hold on, Rick.
We have Richie in the Bay Area. Hello, Richie, welcome?

Speaker 4 (35:48):
Are you?

Speaker 6 (35:49):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Rick?

Speaker 3 (35:49):
You got bit by Britney speirarits that would be it
because she's talking.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Awesome. Now we're I see what you did?

Speaker 5 (35:57):
All right.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Daniel is in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He's America's favorite crossing guard.
It's very cold in Fort Wayne, so Daniel's got lots
of layers of clothes. Hello Daniel, welcome.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Yes, I got about six layers and it's gonna get
even colder tomorrow morning. We may not have school.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
How many kids are out walking to school when it's
that cold.

Speaker 4 (36:21):
Tuesday when we had a delay, I had about ten high.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
Schoolers, two middle schoolers, but thankfully no one from the
elementary school crossed.

Speaker 6 (36:32):
In the morning.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Little kids away from that, I got you, all right, Well,
hold on, Daniel, we have six layers. That guy has
to do the crossing guard Jet. Coach Russell is in
Orlando and I'm so happy he's back. He had to
do this carpool with his struggle person that wouldn't listen
to the show, and now he's been Hello Coach Russell.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
Hey, good morning. I'm happy to be back.

Speaker 6 (36:51):
I'll be back in full forth.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
So thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Ben, all right you big football season right around the
corner a few months away. Rob in the three to one, Hello, Rob, welcome,
Good to have you on again. Hello Rob, Wow, good morning.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Then it's SpongeBob square Pants, winner of the twenty twenty
four Mallard palmosa.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
I'm ready to tell you what is back for? What
is fiction?

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Yea, I love him. He's great, and again we get
the Mallard Palooza is the biggest event of the summer
coming up at sometime in July. Jed who Fled is back? Hello, Jed,
keep it clean.

Speaker 5 (37:30):
D Griddy was a baby one more time?

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Okay, there, full moon. I don't know alright, sorry. Number
one on retire Good News boys, a former How are
you a former? Porn star? All right? A Bella Danger?
Is that her name? I made headlines this week as
she ended up on the ESPN broadcast Holy Mickey Mouse Batman.

(37:55):
She was in the crowd rooting for Miami during the
championship game. Now she's become a trending topic, very popular
on social media because she's an active woman and she's
decided that she's interested in unretiring and getting back to work.
She announced that she will be releasing a new football

(38:15):
themed clip or two sometimes next next month. Good good
news boys. And story number two, how about this Indiana
who's just win the championship? Coach Kurt Signetti said he
wants to celebrate sipping some beer from this brewing company,
the brewery Upland Brewing Company so excited about the shout

(38:35):
out that they announced this week they would be supplying
coach sig with a lifetime supply of beer as a
thank you. That's pretty nice. And story number three, Angel Reese,
I'm told that's a basketball player, has already brought her
talents to the runway with the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
and now she's bringing her talents to the small screen.
Netflix announcing that Reese will be joining the cast for

(38:58):
the second season of The Hunting Wives and in co
starring role of trainer Barbie. I should not watch that,
all right, those are the one of them is not true,
by the way. Let's go around the room. Rick and
Maryland one tour.

Speaker 5 (39:12):
Three, Rick's number two, number two Morning Time, Richie in
the Bay Area, Richie, good line, you had, Richie.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
What's the answer? One to or three? Richie? Number three,
very serious, number three. And Daniels in Fort Wayne, Hello,
Daniel three, number three, Coach Russell one tour three, Coach Russell.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
I'm going number three.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
Number three, okay? Rob in the three two one Rob.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
It's Sheldon.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
J Plankton here and I say it's number three.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
So talented, so talented. Jed who fled keep it clean?

Speaker 6 (39:51):
Jed?

Speaker 1 (39:51):
One two or three?

Speaker 6 (39:52):
Jed a corner time number one.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Number one. All right, time to reveal answers, reveal answers.
We don't have time to give you the rundown and
all the stories again. But the fake story this week
that would be the porn star unretiring story. Number one
was the fake story of course, how does Woe retire
from porn? You know, it's kind of like guardy, like, yeah,

(40:16):
you know, I mean you're still you know, whether there's
a camera or not, there's still activity going on. I
would think, but what do I know. I don't know,
you're not
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