Hour 4 - Streamers and Dreamers

Ben Maller talks about congressman Jim Jordan requesting a briefing from major sports leagues on anti-trust violations with streaming, the Browns still having Shedeur Sanders listed as their 4th string QB, Cite the Bite, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dingo, it's our number four knocking at the audio door,
our number four. Interesting story involving politics and sports. How
do you react the big sporty being called to the
principal's office, the anti trust violations involving streaming. What will

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the industrial complex of sports do to handle this sudden
political pressure? And what are the Browns saying by having
Shedur Sanders as their fourth string quarterback after he lit
up the statuet in an exhibition game against Carolina. We'll
talk about that as well, and who knows what else?
Give it up for our number four. Have a wonderful Tuesday,

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enjoy this twelfth day of August. Here is our number four.
It's all about those streamers and dreamers. Welcome in the
beginning of another hour of the Ben Map Show. We
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So our lead this hour is from the District of Columbia. No,
this is not not about the Washington football team formerly
known as the Redskins. No, no, no, but some big developments

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in the stream now not a stream of water. We're
not talking about a stream of water. If you haven't
heard yet, maybe not. We have learned that a longtime
politician from the state of Ohio, Congressman Jim Jordan, wants
to save you money. Say what now? Anytime I hear
a politicians say I want to save you money, I thought, Okay,

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this is a scam. So Jim Jordan from Ohio sent
letters to NFL Commissioner Roger the Dodger, Goodell Baseball Commissioner
Rob manfraud, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver from whatever planet he's from,
and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman to testify in DC. Now,

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I don't know about you, but I'm into it now.
Why why did he want to have these people testify?
He The argument being made is because the fan, you
and I, the fan is paying too much thousands, thousands
of dollars to watch a game, not a practice, not
a practice, a game, and plus struggling to even find

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where the games are being broadcast on dozens of random
streaming services. There's seemingly no rhyme or reason why certain
games have popped up, and so he's saying, like, enough
is enough, Enough is enough now. In the letters that
were sent out, of course, sent to the media as well,
Jim Jordan asked the four commissioners of the powerful sports

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leagues in America to visit Washington, DC to discuss changes
to these Sports Broadcasting Act the SBA. Now, you might
not know where that is or maybe a for gotten
about it. It's a really big f and deal. It's
the secret sauce that makes the megasports world possible. That's

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the argument sports make for the Sports Broadcasting Egg Now.
It originally was enacted in nineteen sixty one. So we're
going back a minute, and it allows I'll give you
the thumbnail version of what this allows. It allows the
major sports leagues to pool their broadcast rights, which otherwise

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would be a clear violation of anti trust laws. The
sports leagues have an exemption to commit anti trust. They're
allowed to do it something that would normally be illegal
for pretty much every other industry. There's a few that
also have loopholes and whatnot. All right, so let us
discuss the question, how do you react to we'll call

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it big sporty. How do you react to big sporty
being called to the principal's office on Capitol Hill. So
I've got my take on this. I've got the Golden Hammer,
Shitsu and budget rent a car, and we will combine
all of these things together and we're gonna make the

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always popular Baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make the Baba Ganoosh
is what we're gonna do. So to kick off here,
this is what I would classify as a hum dinger
of a store. Just a couple of ways this can go.
I think I know which way this is going to go,
and I'll give you my opinion here in a second.
But Jim Jordan, the guy, and you know we don't

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talk politics here, stay away, third Rail. Well, myam third Rail.
One of our old bosses used to say, But Jim Jordan,
who when I've seen him in the past, when I've
dabbled in that world, everything's like a public wrestling match,
you know. He gets a lot of media, gets a
lot of media for stuff, and he has now set
his sights on the most powerful people, most powerful men

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that run these sports organizations. And he's claiming he's doing
this because we're getting squeezed and we are getting bent over,
if you know what I mean, when it comes to
the streaming services. And so it's the equivalent though, even
though this guy's in DC and he's a big time
politician and all that stuff, Jim Jordan, it's kind of
like a small town sheriff when you combine what he's

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doing and then what the mob family's doing that runs
the professional sports league. It's like trying to bring them
down for essentially a parking ticket is what they're trying
to do here. And so you think the lords of
modern sport, the people in charge here, the custodians as
they like to say. You think they're gonna be scared,

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No they're not. Now in theory, this could screw everything up.
Like in theory, this could f everything up. Absolutely, they
have more money in the professional sports leagues, maybe not hockey,
but the other ones. Then small nations, some small nations,
they wish they had the money these sports leagues have.
They still they have more lawyers than some of those

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bad infomercials that are on used to be on late
at night. But Jordan has this Sports Broadcasting Act in
his back pocket. It's the dusty old law that goes back.
And we mentioned in nineteen sixty one, and that was back.
If you think about what the world was like in
nineteen sixty one, there was no internet, people still read newspapers,
radio was the king, and television, while popular, the biggest

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conversation about television was like, I don't know, gun smoke, bonanza,
you know that kind of stuff. So this is a
dusty old relic that has stuck around. And what there's
places on the internet you can get all these old,
outdated laws that are still around and like, well why
is that there? I don't understand. So the relic, the

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sports Broadcasting act. He goes back to the black and
white TV days and all that stuff. And it gave
the professional sports leagues. This was for baseball early on mostly,
but it gave the leagues the equivalent of a hall
pass to operate as a cartel. Now, every once in
a while, I'll say, with the cartel of the NBA

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or the NFL. You said that, you're such a shocked
that literally allowed to act as a cartel. Hello, the
government signed off on it years ago. It is a
license to print money. A golden hammer has been given
to these sports leagues to gouge the fan. Now. Originally,

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like everything, it always started out back in the day,
we want to keep you away from the fire breathing dragon,
and this will protect you and you make everything better,
and we want our sports leagues and our entertainment and
all that stuff, and so okay. But now they have
impunity to do this. And so you're trying to watch

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every one of your team's games and you're you're ethical.
You're not watching on illegal streaming websites. You're doing it
the right way because you're worried about government chasing you
down for watching illegal streams or anything like that. So
you pay for all of the games. It's a scavenger hunt.
I don't care whether you're a Red Sox fan, a

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Dodger fan, a fan of the cheating astro, the Tampa
Bay Rays. It doesn't matter the twins. It is a
scavenger hunt designed by some kind of mad lunatic, a madman.
Because you got to have Peacock, because there's a few
games on Peacock. But then you got to get Amazon
Prime because there's a package of games on Amazon Prime.
The worst defender this is the Yankees. But then you've

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got I think maybe ESPN Plus might have some there's
a new streaming service from Fox coming along the way here.
There's about a dozen others that are out there, and
so it's not just the experience of streaming. It's a
portfolio of subscriptions. And you have to know, like when

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do I get rid of this? Do I need it
the entire season? Maybe there's a couple of games early
in the year. I can get rid of that one,
then I can subscribe to the other one. And you're
you're shuffling all this stuff around, and so it's this
digital this digital maze, and at the end of every
hallway in this corn maze. There's a hand out saying

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I need some money. It's like our buddy in Miami
weed man, hippie, send me money.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
You know.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
It's that kind. Now, furthermore, what is the industrial complex
of sports going to do to handle this political pressure?
So where do they go? So here's what we have
in our head. The cartoon bubble the top of my head.
So Roger Goodell is going to get up there and

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he's going to look like a televangelist promising salvation. That
the NFL is a religion. I am selling the religion.
People love the religion. And amen, can I get an
amen from the from the chorus? So the choir over there?
Can I get an amen?

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Amen?

Speaker 1 (11:06):
There you go. So then you've got Adam Silver. He'll
step up to the dais smooth talking, half man, half Martian. Uh.
He'll get up there, a corporate ambassador, Adam Silver, and
he'll try to be slick. Adam Silver, It's not very slick,
and he'll try to act like he's some politician on
the campaign trail. Next up you'll have Rob Manfraud, the

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Commission of Major League Baseball, a man who still thinks
the World Series trophy is just a hunk of metal.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
And then in the cartoon bubble in my head, we'll
have Gary Bettman, who is the punching bag commissioner of
the National Hockey League and will likely just be happy
that he got invited. Wait a minute, so you're gonna
invite us and I get to go with the other
big time commissioners. That seems like kind of cool, that's
kind of neat. Why not? And they'll walk into that

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hearing room and it'll be broadcast on se SPAN because
no one watches c SPAN, and it'll be on the internet,
and so they'll be in the hearing room and it'll
be a scene from you know, pick your favorite mob show.
I don't know. I always go to the Sopranos as
my default position there and not a shooting scene. No
one's gonna get stuffed into a bag and tossed into
the East River, none of that stuff, mind you. But

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in this scene, Anya, this is my story my head.
So you'll have a lot of these big shots. You'll
think of it like kind of a smoke filled room,
although they've banned smoking everywhere, and these power brokers of
sports will pretend to care and if you're a fan
of corporate doublespeak. This is like porn you're gonna have. Well,

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we really care about the fan experience, and we were
unaware that fans were offended by how much we're sticking
it to them. And we are worried about the integrity
of the game man even the television or in this
case streaming. It's the evolving media landscape, and we don't

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need to change the law. And so again it'll be
a symphony, a cacophony of corporate bull crap that'll be
coming out of the commissions. They're all going to have
meetings with lawyers on what we can say, what we
can't say, and all that stuff. It'll be a master
class by the commissioners of sport if this actually happens
the way it's supposed to happen, a master class of

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them saying a whole lot while saying absolutely nothing, because
that's what they do. You know, there's Jim Jordan. You know,
they say, well, bless his heart, or maybe you you
don't like his politics or whatever. But the theory is
he goes in it is and he's got a stack
deck against it because even though it makes all the

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sense in the world. This is ridiculous. This laws from
nineteen sixty one. There was no internet in nineteen sixty one.
There was no streaming. Obviously. There were a few local
TV channels and a few networks and that was it
in nineteen sixty one. And so he's trying to challenge

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Jim Jordan, big big sport and it's like a shitsu
barking at a lion. You know, there's a big, big
lion there. I'll use the lion analogy again here, because
you're the king of the jungle over there. And if
a shitsu goes up to and I used to have
a shitsu Bella passed away a couple years with my

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dog Bello. But if you put a shitsu out there
against the king of the jungle, the lion will will
what will yawn because the dog's so small, it's not
even an appetizer. So the lion will yawn, maybe scratch
its junk a little bit and then walk away and
no tail will be wagging and all that stuff. But

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the real action, I promise you will not happen in
the hearing room on Capitol. It is going to happen
in the shadows that there will be duffel bags filled
with cash, be called donations. Of course, there will be
political contributions. That's always a big way to take care
of these problems. They'll happen. These things will happen at

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cocktail parties and the Hamptons, and they'll be handshake deals
by people that know people who know people would all
that stuff. And so then you get the lobbyist. Of course,
that will enter the picture here, the well oiled political
machine in America where it's all about influence pedling. So
it will be a lot of that going on. And

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in the end, the politicians, the one allegedly that this
guy Jim Jordan from Ohio is trying to rally to
put a stop to the streaming price gouging in American sport,
in Canadian sports. But Jim Jordan will be trying to
rally that and the very politicians he's trying to rally,
he will do his best in theory and they will

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then with one hand they'll say yes, we're right there
with you. And then the other hand they'll have their
handout and they will take those manila envelopes filled with money.
They will smile at the cameras, they will pop up
on those old the cable news shows, and they will
move on to the next shakedown. Yes, so the league's

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what they get, maybe a slap on the wrist. They'll
get a lecture, they'll promise they'll study the issue, and
they'll bring in some blue ribbon panel to see what
can be done, and then they'll be back to business
as usual once people move on to something else, and
the faint, the old fan there, the SAPs, the dopes.

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Many will continue to pay thousands a year to watch
games that the whole law was designed to provide, not
having to pay extra for and watch it on your phone.
But you're paying a ton of money in there, and
the price gouging will continue up, up and away. And
the streaming services, I've been reading some stories here this said, well,

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there's gonna be some bundles now, which doesn't that sound
like what we used to have in cable television bundles
And they just keep multiplying like grimlins, and eventually I've
been told they're gonna be swallowed up by other streaming
services like Netflix is the biggest one, and they'll get
a bunch, and then Amazon's got a bunch, and they'll
they'll buy up these other ones, and then they'll have
the super duper mega, super duper mega streaming services. The

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more things change, right, the more they say the same.
The only difference is this time, this time we will
see them all these commissioners pretend like they really care
and oh man, I'm so sorry. I didn't think this
would happen, and we'll figure this out, all right now,
last thing, and then also brag it by well, you
don't have to buy all the games and you can
buy all a cart and that'll help you out, all

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right now, last thing to Cleveland we go the mistake
by the Lake one. What strip Club John's up to
that I've heard for him in a while. So on
the second depth chart, which was released on Monday Monday,
Monday Monday, the second depth chart of the summer, has
Shadeur Sanders moved up to a penthouse in the sky?

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Has he moved up the pecking order for the Cleveland Browns. No,
the Browns are listing Joe Flacco. Yes, that Joe Flacco.
I know, he's old. Joe Flacco is QB number one,

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followed by Kenny Pickett. He also sucks. Dylan Gabriel is
listed as QB number three and Shadur Sanders is number four,
number four. Now this has led to social media outrage
after Sanders seemingly played well, I didn't watch the game

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us o the highlights. He looked fine. Didn't get all
excited about it. They played a preseason game against the
Carolina Panthers and had some good stats and people got
all tingling watching him play. So what are the Browns saying?
What are the Browns saying by having Shader Sanders listed
as their fourth string quarterback after by all accounts, he

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looked really good in a preseason game. So they're saying,
for those of you in the back of the room,
there's maybe a little slow. They're saying, these exhibition games
are a joke. You are a sucker for caring about
these exhibition games. They're worthless, absolutely worthless. They're telling you

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straight up. They're not beating around the bush. They're telling
you right away. They're like, hey, we are not taking
this seriously. Why are you You should not be taking
this seriously? Are you dumb? Are you a dune? That's
what they're saying, right, Shader going out there and beating

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up guys wearing Carolina panther laundry that their next job
will be wearing shirts that say budget rent a car
on it not impressive. Who cares. It's the NFL Summer Theater, now,
that is it. It's it's like going to see a
Broadway show. And I've seen one Broadway show in my life.

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I was dragged by my wife. I was forced to
go to a Broadway show. And I was at this
old theater in Manhattan. It was designed for people that
are fund sized, not people my size. And I jammed
into the seat there and I did it. I don't
have to do it again. But it's like going to
a Broadway show and they have the understudy, but not

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just the understudy. They have the understudy understudy, if you
know what I mean. All right, and so you buy tickets.
It's like going to see that wicket you know, back
in the day, see Wicked. And then you find out
that the person playing the lead is normally the person
that sells the soft pretzels with salt or without salt

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at the at the snack bar and the lobby, and
they're the same person. There. Get a little side hustle,
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coming here during the day. I work at night and
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boxes the mail? Yeah, sell little Lorena FSR Tech Queen
and Coop at a Bronco fan. Why did they text you?

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Bill?

Speaker 1 (23:18):
You think they'd text me? I think they should text Ben.
It's not my issue. But anyway, we'll get back to
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All right, back to it. I did want to take
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this guy, he's still a fan, right And he wants
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to Houston do a Mallard meet and greet. I mean,
should I do like a dunk tank or something like
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I want to thank him very kind. And he's sent
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to decide who gets the mister Irrigation, Do I decide
who you know is good enough to get a ring?
And are we supposed to send these out? I send

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me an email. Let me know what you want me
to do with these. I mean, I can decide myself
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very kind. Got a big box, bling bling ring ring
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I'm not. I don't I didn't pay an He made
these himself. But he's a very ri People always want like,

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you know, they say, oh, I want to support the
show a shirt or something, and I am planning on
putting something together for that. But the ring thing is
is really pop weed man hippie there in Miami. He's
still he still cries about the fact that he was
such a hoarder he lost his ring because he was
hit so much crap there in Miami that he got evicted.
And anyway, let's go to the phones and we'll say

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hello to Eenie Meanie, Miney Mode. Let's go to Tony,
who's in the Bay Area. Hello, Tony, welcome.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
Hey man. I got two things. One is I was
listening to the twenty seventeen podcasts and I was I
heard the that got a murder gotta go up the
first time it was done, so that was pretty cool.
And then also the other day I found ten dollars.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
You think I'm lucky, Yeah, you're very lucky. You haven't
cursed on the show, so you're very lucky.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Here, Okay, thanks for the nickname.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Later, I like Tony Tony's Tony gets right to the point.
Got a couple of things. Hangs up. If I to
write a class on how to call talk radio, uh
and write like an online class. I'd use Tony as

(26:05):
one of my examples. Yeah, that's what I would do. Compliment. Yeah,
let's go to let's see who do we have. Let's
go to Dick in Dayton. Now this when I when
I heard of Jim Jordan complaining about streaming, I thought
of Dick, Dick and Dayton, because Dick, you you're someone
Dick and Dayton who you would agree the streaming thing
not not something that you were You're really into, Yes.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
And crew.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Hello, Dick and Dayton. Give me a little taste of that, Dick.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Good morning, Ben.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yes, you got a guy named Dave, Dave from Dayton, right,
your buddy Dave.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yeah, Dave. I haven't heard from him, but boy, I
turned watched the game Friday, and this Sanders guy look
pretty good for the Browns.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
I thought, you know, yeah, did you hear any of
the monologue?

Speaker 3 (27:00):
No, it was pretty late.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, but you said the Browns have announced that that
was a meaningless effort by Shader Sanders. You understand that
like they because he's still number I think you're ahead
of him on the depth chart. Dick, You're actually ahead
of shoulder Sanders, You're the number three quarterback for the Browns.
Congratulations number three. Are you ready to play in the

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next exhibition game? Are you now?

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (27:29):
You know.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
I think they if they do this, they're going to
have a good year.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
So who's who's doing the Browns exhibition games? I know
on radio, old Buddy Andrews Ciciliano is the radio voice
of the Cleveland Browns. But who's doing the games on TV?
Chris Rose another another Fox Sports Radio alumni. Guy Rose
worked here in the early days of Fox Sports Radio.
Look at that unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
And Joe Thomas he used.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
To play, Oh yeah, his offensive lineman.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah, it pretty good. I thought he did a good job.
Titus and Jeff Phelps.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
But he's no Bernie. He's no Bernie Kozar, right, Ian,
Bernie's your guy.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Yeah, Bernie. I loved him. I loved him.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
I understand you still call the Browns. Mean you call
the Browns postgame show or no?

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Yeah, you did every every week obviously the third caller
on there, third.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Or fourth, So your third that's a good yeah, good
batting average, a little bit of power. You're not a
leadoff guy. You're not a speed guy, but your third,
and so the leadoff guy gets on base, then they
the number two guy bunts the leadoff guy to second,
and then you come in there and knock him in
right right, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Oh I would just wondered Ben, You know, I asked
Cooper loom and maybe when are you coming down today Ohio?

Speaker 1 (28:49):
But we're still efforting that thing. I promise I will
call you. I will let you know. We have all
that schedule and all that we're doing one in Vegas.
You want to come to Vegas. We'll be in Vegas
on aug twenty third. You want to come to Vegas?

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Fair? Maybe no, you don't.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
You don't leave Ohio. You told me you never left Ohio. Right,
Everything you need is in the sovereign country of Ohio.
You don't need to go anywhere else. Exactly, all right,
thank you, Dick.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
My bye, bye bye.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
I am such a fan of Dick and Daton's calls
because he doesn't listen to anything I say, uh, And
he just has his own agenda. And it's magical. I
just said, twenty minutes ago, the Browns announced nobody it
doesn't matter what these exhibition games are, and Dick and
Dayton but I thought your heir looked pretty good. Oh,

(29:41):
it's so good. Let's say hello to eeny Meeni miney
mo Oh, moving man, Matt the mobile malor billboard, Hello,
moving man, mad Is it true? I heard a rumor
that you are in the southern California area? Is that accurate?

Speaker 6 (30:01):
I just pulled out of Barstow and headed down in
San Diego this morning.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Beautiful, and I am.

Speaker 6 (30:07):
I am promoting the brand.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
In the motherland outstanding. We thank you for that. And
so you're you'll be coasting by your just leaving Barstow, now,
is that right?

Speaker 6 (30:18):
I am. That's the only way to beat the traffic
out here.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah, you've told me that, and you told me all
the rules. I didn't know that in California you can't
drive in the fast lane and you can't go over
a certain speed if you're an eighteen wheeler. Right, what's
the speed you can Is it fifty five or something
infty five?

Speaker 6 (30:34):
But ChB I've had a hb amoser say, I'll let
you go up as long as you'll cross sixty four.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (30:42):
That nine, That nine is the key.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Okay, So the nine is again. And I got told
one time about cop as long as you go seventy
nine or under. If you're in a regular car, you
won't get a ticket. But I got a ticket in Minnesota,
but in California I've not because so many people drive
like it's the Autobahn in California when there's little traffics.
Did you have ninety eighty five ninety miles an hour?

Speaker 3 (31:03):
So?

Speaker 6 (31:04):
Did? I can hear you say you're gonna be in
Vegas next weekend?

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yes, we're gonna be in Vegas August twenty third, malor
meet and greet in Sinn's city.

Speaker 6 (31:12):
That is for planning on my behalf, because I just
had a schedule change. Originally I was gonna be done
in southern California on the twenty second, headed back east,
and I could have been there with the whole unit.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Oh man, imagine that, Oh my god, we would have
just done the thing in the parking lot, all taken
photos with the truck. That would have been amazing.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Let me let me see, let me.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
See that would be amaze. That would be awesome moving man. Yeah,
you'd be a rock You'd be a rock star if
you showed up that with that truck in Vegas.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
My god, I could I do my best? Weed Man
had been set up a table next to the truck
for autographs.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Well, sell some sell some shirts, yes, charge charge money,
sell some t shirts. Get I still wear that. You
got me one of those long sleeved shirts. I still
wear it around. It's very comfortable around the house there
in the movie, I.

Speaker 6 (32:06):
Actually got I got. If I get to the studio,
I have something else for you.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Oh really, okay, all right, well, free stuff. I'm all
all about that. Get the get the Lorrainer treatment. Yes, absolutely,
all right, Well moving man, if you make it tomorrow,
that would be amazing. Otherwise, let me know and maybe
we'll make a special accommodations.

Speaker 6 (32:24):
So for the meat at the truck stop. They just
wanted to drop though on on the X machine.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Well, you gave me my I was a bit naive.
I did not know about lot lizards and things that
take place at truck stops that you educated me on
all that. I didn't. I had no idea. I was
completely uh, no knowledge at all. I was clueless.

Speaker 6 (32:47):
So it's it's an underworld.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah, it's a it's a whole magical place where a
lot of sodom and Gomora type things take place. All right,
I gotta go. Thank you moving man. All right, I go.
There's a great movie man. Now, let's say a little
Blind Scott on the north end of Boston. Blind Scot's
been on hold the entire show and request to go
on this hour so he can shamelessly promote the morning

(33:12):
show which is coming up on our affiliate there in
Boston with Fred the Toucher. According to one of our
college yesterday.

Speaker 7 (33:20):
You know who's the best father in the world, but Rena,
I guess who's the best father in the world. I'm
Fred Tocher. He brought his daughter to work last week
and this week she's in the studio.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
How old is his How old is his daughter? She's
in like junior high school. She probably doesn't want to
be there. No, she does, middle aged, middle teenager. I
don't know about that.

Speaker 7 (33:46):
No, No, you're not looking at it. Ben, You've always
been an overnight radio guy, Dude, You've never been a
morning radio star. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
I was.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
I was a midday star before I became an overnight star.

Speaker 7 (33:56):
You know, you were the first original morning radio star
in the nineties. You like the guy that had it
all only to see it just slip away to have
it all again. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Look at that. It's the Rise Fall, Rise Again story
arc in Hollywood.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
Yea.

Speaker 7 (34:10):
Now, if you get involved with me, hey, if you
stay in touch with me, they'll all take you to
the top. You see that idea about the radio convention
I had, I had. I think I put you on
that email. I don't know if I did. Actually, the
thing about the malth of meet and greets is they're
not accessible for blind people. They're absolutely not accessible at
all for blind people. They are the least accessible thing
for blind people in the world.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
What are you talking about? I literally didn't melon read
and greet in Boston a block from your house. How
is that not accessible?

Speaker 7 (34:40):
With these I stood with these dudes for two hours. Well,
you ate chicken palm with your wife?

Speaker 1 (34:45):
I was really good Chicken Pom. I love the restaurants
there on the North end of Boston, beautiful and amazing
restaurants ron And then.

Speaker 7 (34:51):
They attasked me with bigger torments for much time.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
No, they didn't. They were not part of our group.
They were not one more thing.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
One more thing.

Speaker 7 (34:59):
If you want to have a meet and greet for
the plant it has to be a full convention type
of setting where fine people can go from place to place.
Blind people need to come a day before instead.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Oh my god, the raine. What percentage of the people
are blind that they're out there?

Speaker 7 (35:14):
The ones that listen to the show are loses.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Well, thank you for that. Yes, you shouldn't say that
about yourself. Wow, all right, tag drinking see final word
keag drinking. See I I got a game, I got
a I got a bit coming up here breaking. No,
I don't care about that. Who cares? Oh you didn't
talk about it, man, I don't care about it. That's

(35:39):
a competitor. What do I care about them playing? Grab
ass on a podcast? Taylor's swift and come on? How
about this double life show? Hail Tani show, Hail Tani,
double life? His I'm sure he did not gamble and
all the person that was the closest to him was
doing all the gambling. Show. Hey was completely stupid up
to so he had no idea that the gaming. How

(35:59):
about this Otani, the Dodger star now being sued a
two hundred million dollar lawsuit, accused of sabotaging a Hawaiian
real estate project on the Big Island real estate investors
suing show Altani, claiming the Dodger star and his agent
Hornswoggle them got them fired from a two undred forty

(36:19):
million dollar housing development on the Big Island. What's going
on with Otani? Straight ahead? Sit the bit the great
sports radio mystery. We'll get to that. We'll do it next.

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the Internet, it's time now to site site a bite
bite where we play random generic sound bites, you know in.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
A sports and entertainment cliches spoken by so called experts.
You try to tell us who's doing the talking.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Alight, here we got it, quick bite, quick bye, sun bye.
Play the byte. Play it, humuy, someone from the world
of sports will last seven to ten days. You recognize
that voice? Way, humble guy. Just a humble guy, Just
a humble guy. Is that Lebron James? No, not apparently Notbron?
All right, let's see you. Why don't want to get
it right? I'm gonna go. I'll change it up this week.

(38:06):
Call her five? Oh you never changed up? Free five?
All right? Coop? He wants five? All right, let's go
here we go, play a get plenty again. Play a guy,
just humble guy. I heard the fox name there, hollering James.
Caller one hollering James. Who is that person hollering James?

(38:26):
Is that the fun? Oh you're actually awake. You're on
the air for like twenty minutes tonight. You've be sleeping
the whole time, all right? Not Stefon Diggs, Cowboy John
Brad Windsor Ontario Cowboy, You are my caller number two?
Who is it? Cowboy?

Speaker 5 (38:44):
Is that Canadian country singer Adam Gregory who was forty
July twelve and then a two thousands with the Wilf
for you the Cowboys?

Speaker 1 (38:52):
No, but thank you for playing first clue. Cadillac presented
his mother with a pink escalade shortly after he was drafted.
Just a humble guy, Just a humble guy. But he
got his mom's apparently not. Let's say hello to coach
Russell in the Orlando area. Coach Russell, I'm gonna go

(39:13):
with DeMarte. Is that Jamar Chase? No, but thank you,
Coach Russell. Let's try Chris in Boston. You're my caller
for Chris. Who is it Chris? That former VC star?

Speaker 7 (39:26):
In first round strit Fistons pick Billy Curly.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
It's a funny one, all right. Originally committed to the
University of Miami, then switched to Louisville. Last one Lean
Atlantas call of five A. It's Teddy Bridgewater Ley. He
was gonna say that Teddy Bridgewatt