December 9, 2021 • 38 mins
Ben Maller breaks down the media kerfuffle with Aaron Rodgers over the idea that Rodgers smack talk against the Chicago Bears crossed the line, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, Fact or Fiction, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number four, our number four
of our radio program. A media kur fluffle from the
National Football League involving the quarterback number twelve of your
Green Bay Packers and his smack talk against the Chicago Bears.
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Did Aaron Rodgers cross the line? The media is outraged
with his trash talk. We take a closer look at
that and much more right now in our number four,
a trip to mister Rogers neighborhood. Well come, in the
beginning of another hour of the Ben Maller Show. We
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are back at it again here in the air everywhere
as we right off in all directions, coast to coast,
border to border, in beyond. On the mast and powerful
microphones of fs are emanating live from the Highway, the
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Highway to Hell, the Fox Sports Radio studios at a
secret location somewhere in the north Woods. And we were
back at it again here our lead this hour, coming
from the land of Cheese, the land of dairy, as
we have the latest Aaron Rodgers fuels to controversy. Now
this one involves trash talk. If you didn't see it,
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and maybe you missed it, here, let me give you
the condensed recam So Aaron Rodgers met with the media
and he announced that he has no regrets about the
trash talk fiesta, the I oh you that he said
to the Chicago fans who were giving him the bird,
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telling him that he was the king and all that
at Soldier Field, Razzi raspberries at him. So Rogers says
that he is not not worried about the Chicago Bears retribution.
The old bulletin board material. This weekend Sunday night, that's
the made for TV matchup, unless it's not. But that's
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the game Sunday night, big television window at lambeau Field
on NBC. As Warner Wolf would say. Just to prove
that I'm not making this up. Here's Aaron Rodgers in
his own words when asked if he has any kind
of concern over his trash talk coming back into his
face like a boomerang. A lot of times in you know,
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situations like this, the trash talk is only able to
be used if you know if you're getting after that
individual that was trash talking. So in order to trash talk,
you have to have a lot of confidence and what
you've accomplished and what you're going to accomplish in the future,
at some point what I said will be used against me.
That's just part of it. I have, you know, no
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regrets for saying what I said, and obviously I think
the record kind of speaks for itself, all right. So
the key part of that no regrets, no regrets, which
upset the media establishment. So let us discuss the question,
did Aaron Rogers trust the line the bulletin board trash
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talk line, And I'm shaking my head passionately. No. No.
My observations, You've got customer interaction, force fed and shoulders,
and we will put all of these things together make
the babbaganoosh. We're gonna make the barbaganoosh. Now. Number one,
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Aaron Rodgers did not do anything untoort on this one.
And I know there's some people in the media that
are very upset and they're looking for any kind of
way to throw Aaron Rodgers name out there, the wokesters,
because that dislike is palpable. Aaron Rodgers is still public
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enemy number one. Any opportunity to jab Aaron Rodgers, he
will he will be the one that gets that jab.
And apparently he is immunized from the bullcrap. Rogers engaging
again and an exasperated fan who unscientifically voted him number one,
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which is really fantastic customer interaction. It is I mean,
that's the skills, the etiquette, and said, oh, that's inappropriate,
it's unsportsmanlike. I disagree. I say, whoever that Chicago Bear
fan that Aaron Rodgers gave the trash talk to, for
the rest of their lives, they will brag to all
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of their friends. They'll say, I'm the person that Aaron
Rodgers said, that said the thing too. I'm the person
right there. I get the bullwinkle batge. That's me, all right.
That may give it to me. In terms of the
Bears players being offended the bulletin board, there is no smoke,
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there is no fire. There is no smoke, there is
no fire. And these bulletin board stories I can go
off on a tangent. It's one of my pet peeves,
the bulletin board, which is still that's old school. That's
an old take, that's an old take repackage all right. Now. Secondly,
Aaron Rodgers passes the trash talk master class in many respects,
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not his first rodeo, but that there's all saying that
actions prove who someone is. Words just prove who they
want to be. But when you walk the walk, you
are then allowed to talk to talk. That's generally how
this works. And Aaron Rodgers is the living embodiment of
a player who has backed it up. Rodgers is one
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five straight starts the Packers have with Rogers against the
Bears and twenty seven career games with Aaron Rodgers at
quarterback against Chicago, NFC North Rivals and Green Bay is
twenty two and five. That is the third best winning percentage.
It's over eight hundred by any quarterback with at least
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twenty five starts against a single opponent. The other quarterbacks
ahead of Rogers are Tom Brady from his days with
the Patriots against the Buffalo Bills and Ben Roethlisberger against
the Cleveland Browns. But since twenty fourteen, since twenty fourteen,
Aaron Rodgers has thirty six touchdown passes and two interceptions
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against the Bears. Okay, and so don't give me your
bulletin board stuff. I don't want to hear about it.
Regardless of that, the trash talk gone bad storyline, it
is what it is. The word is contrived. It is contrived.
That is the word. When I get it, I get it.
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We are being force fed against our will Packers Bears
this weekend in prime time, and that is the Big
Island game off by itself on an Island Sunday night
with Al Michaels and Chris Consworth. Michaels will be slobbering
all over Aaron Rodgers and cons Worth will take care
of any part of Rogers that Michaels might have missed
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in the conversation, and they will be putting deodorant on
a skunk because that game is a stink bomb epic mismatch.
And so to gin up interest, the Rogers SmackDown has
been highlighted. It's really some WWE level drama or rama
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stage to heighten the entertainment value. Does it work? Now?
I'm gonna watch either way because I got a four
hour talk show at to fill time with on that night,
so I'm gonna look for something. There's always the possibility
that some player, a big name player, will get hurt
and then we got a story, or there'll be some
situation with the referee or something like that. So that's
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why we watched now. Final point, even if the Chicago
Bears defense. Let's say that this is the rare and
appropriate time that they get all worked up into a
flustered state and the Bears defense is upset. They're worked
into a ladder to prove Aaron Rodgers wrong. I say
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it wouldn't matter, and I'll tell you why. All right.
This is not the monsters of the Midway defense. This
is the kinder gentler. Let's hug it out NFL. As
far as the Bears are concerned, and they did have
a pretty good defense to start the year, but because
of injuries, good luck. I don't think that Richard Dent
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or Mike Singletary are going to be walking through that
door to play. The Bears. Stars of today are much
more likely, much more likely to rubbed shoulders with Aaron
Rodgers and tap elbows, then body slam, body slam and
break a kneecap. I see photo op Jersey swap for
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a thousand Alex Can I get that? Now? We understand
Justin Fields will come back and for the Bears, and
he's apparently gonna play, and he's the new flavor of
the month in Chicago, the new Messiah, the new Saviors.
So we imagine that that will get a lot of attention,
and despite a very shaky resume this year, he has
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already been tagged. He's been branded the savior of Chicago
Bears football. So can't mess with that, all right? It
is the Bend Mallisher. You know what also you can't
mess with, and that would be Benny versus the penny
Man versus metal, a in adamant object versus a human
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being who will do better picking games. Not a good
week last week and not one of my better perform miss,
But we'll get it back on track right now. So
let's strike up the band. Welcome are you? It's time
now Penny the Penny and it is on like Donkey Kong.
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Thursday Night football Tonight in the Twin Cities, the Petsburgh
Steelers traveling party the Circus comes to town. They're six
five and one Minnesota after a wretchy loss to the Lions.
How do you lose to the Lions? Could have been
six and six now you're five and seven. Could have
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showed a water. The game's on Fox, so you better
watch with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. The Vikings a
three and a half point favorite right in that area.
Give or take it's Vikings opened up a four point favorite.
Line's been bouncing around a little bit, so the weather
thirty two degrees, partly cloudia kick up, but it's a dome,
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so that's not gonna be a factor. And I am
taking the purple paper lads, I'm taking the Vikings. I
don't like favorites, but this is a spot I like
to I like the favorite, and I'm betting against Ben Roethlisberger.
He complained this week about having made a million throws.
He says his shoulders starting to wear down for seventy
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five percent of the game against Baltimore. He saw the
game last weekend. He was not only a quarterback. Roethlisberger
was lousy and then in the fourth quarter he was
like a tornado in a tunnel, and the Steelers came
out like Gangbusters. Pittsburgh seven and six straight up when
playing on three days rest, and the Mike Tomlin era
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fifteen seasons now with Mike Tomlin at the Helm. That
includes a two and five mark on the road. That's
just straight up. So the Steelers have not done all
that well away from home. On the short weekend. They
will be without again. Joe Hayden's gonna miss his fourth
straight game defensive back with a foot injury. Three other
Pittsburgh players are out of the lineup. Now I'm taking
the Vikings. The only thing I'm concerned about is if
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the light the loss to the Lions deflates the balloon.
If they just give up now and say that's it,
we are scart rude because mathematically, even though that's a
terrible low the NFC, you look at the bottom of
the NFC, you don't have to be very good to
get in the playoffs in the NFC. So will they
feel sorry for themselves? That's the concern. But I'm betting
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on perseverance winning out. And people love to kick Kirk
Cousins for being a garbage time player, not a primetime player.
Garbage time player, and if you look at the numbers,
some of these are enhanced because of blowouts. But Kirk
Cousins since twenty fifteen in primetime games has forty two
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touchdowns and sixteen interceptions. Now where I come from, that's
pretty deep. Be good in Minnesota is going to be
without Adam feeling so good luck on that high ankle spraying.
He gone, and Dalvin book is questionable with a shoulder injury,
not expected to play, also without one of their rookie lineman.
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Who's gonna miss a game here. But I'm taking the Vikings.
I just don't believe in Roethlisberger and that stealer's offense.
So I'll take Minnesota twenty four Pittsburgh seventeen the final,
and the Penny picks. Oh my dad, here we go.
Penny's going with Pittsburgh, all right, So we disagree on that,
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and that is the game tonight in the NFL, And
I've got the Vikings. The Penny has Pittsburgh. Good luck
to all. He should never take gambling advice from an idiot.
On the overnight radio show, all right, straight ahead for us,
we will have put by well with Eddie Garsia will
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take your phone calls as well. And a bizarre food superstition.
We'll get to that as well. We'll get to it
all and we will do it next. My right hand
was getting a workout. That's that's bogus. Be sure to
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It's Ben Maller at the scene of the Harry Have
Eddie will be in here in a few minutes. He's
in all night, all morning now puck the world, very
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very exciting. Let's go to the phone. Who is waiting
to talk. Let's go to credit card Gordon Rismas, formerly
in Ottawa, now he is in Waterloo. Our Canadian friend
who some have said is the single worst caller to
the show, with a wink and a nod to sir,
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eats a lot, who hasn't called us in several days,
so we have not been bogged down with his work
where we do have credit card Gordon. Hello, Gordy, Hello, Hello,
big Ben. Can I help you? Well, I'm not sure
if I can speak to you at this moment because
I'm wearing nothing. All right, thank you for the phone call. Okay,
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we're good. Thank you for that. I appreciate a good call. Yeah,
I don't want to. Well, no, I don't want to.
It's a good call because we entered it. Yeah, and
I don't want to talk to crack card Gordon when
he's fully clothed. The idea of talking to him all
these eats a lot, talks a lot more than that,
and he's terrible. Yeah, yeah, that is. And thankfully he's
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never called in and said that he's been nude while
talking to us. Yeah. So I think if I talk
a certain way like sir, Sir I was called him
by the wrong name, Sir Eats a lot his new name,
he will he will not call. So I have to
keep there's a certain cadence I have to have, and
then he will not call. And he thinks. The great
thing about it, Eddie is Sir Eats a Lot, thinks
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he's punishing me by not calling. That not having the
opportunity to talk to him is punishment. How's that working
out for weed Man Hippie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, weed Man,
I guarantee he's still Ben's gonna call me up and
beg me to come back to the show. Heaven. Ever,
although somebody said I think it was Ed Ed and
Christina who are traveling down ninety five going from Maine
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all the way down to Florida get married, that they
are going to meet with the caller formerly known as
weed Man Hippie. It's very exciting unless it's not. Boy,
I saw some interesting photos from Christina and Ed on
their trip to DC, and they're really they're going for
they got no shame in their game. Man. Anyway, that's well,
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I mean you can look at the photos there. I
don't do I don't know if I want to look
at the photos. Well, you won't like what, you know
what's there? But that's wearing. Yeah yeah, I was pretty
surprised by that. But you know, good for her. Let's
what what it's it's nothing of a sexual nature. I know,
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it's not you know, it's a it's an anti yeah, yeah,
just a little interest. I mean, you are talking about
a guy who went to a Black Lives Matter rally. Yeah. Yes,
promoted the Ben Maller Show. So I mean that's quite
the couple. Yeah yeah. So showing up to the was
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it the Lincoln Memorials that you were there? Weren't you?
Just in DC? Yeah? Yeah, she was wearing a Let's
Go Brandon, she had that on her. I just thought
it was interesting, that's all. Let's say hello to eaty
meany mighty mole. Let's say hello to Cooper in Virginia's
not very far away from DC. Hello Cooper, Hello, Ben,
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Hello speaking. I just I have a handful of jokes
that you're gonna hate about Zion. Yeah. Well, the reason
I'm gonna hate them is I've heard every fat joke
as a fat man. So there's no fat joke that
you can tell that I have not heard myself. But
go ahead, give me your best, all right. Soon's so
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big he doesn't dribble, he drools. Oh all right, all right,
all right, I got I got another one. I got
that one. Okay. Why did the chicken cross the road
because Zion tried to eat it? Yeah? I heard that
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one before. All right, what's what's your next one? What
do we got? All right? All right, all right, yeah
that's it. No, no, no, I got you. I got you?
Oh you got more? So Zion Williamson is he I've
actually heard he's a pretty good teammate. Is everyone in
the locker room? Is everyone in the locker room's really
close to him? Because I don't have a choice. All right,
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that was a little better. All right, all right more?
Oh man, this is impress all right, yeah, yeah, I'm
eventually all get cut off and that's that's all. I'm golf.
That's a good point. You will eventually be cut off,
did you? But did you see the game that they
had the other day, Zion the Pelican? No? I missed it.
Oh well it was. It was a it was a blowout,
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but unfortunately it was the team bust on the way out.
Thank you, I got it. Go. I mean, I've always
enjoyed the fat athlete, and I'm pulling for Zion, but
I do believe he has to get fit fat. I
don't think he's fit fat. Seen photos of him and
he looks like she should be playing left tackle for
the Saints, not in the NBA. And I'd like to
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see him, you know, drop a few and uh. The
greatest fat basketball player I ever saw was Stanley Roberts,
and I no, Stanley Roberts was better as a Oliver
Miller wasn't bad, he could shoot for the Sun. But
Stanley Roberts, he played for the Clippers back in the day.
And I to my dying breath, I am convinced, and
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no one will tell me differently. He had more of
a post game than Shaquille O'Neil. Shaquille O'Neill just had
and they played together at LSU for Dale Brown. But
Shaquille O'Neill just powered over players and dominated physically. But
Stanley Roberts had some finesse. He had little touch in
addition to having the size. And I say, and Stanley
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got banned for life from the NBA of all things
for I think it was steroids, I think, or he
got banned for something and then he just kind of vanished.
That was it. He went away. Let's go to Florida.
Angry Bill gave us a sporto call right up until
the end last time. Let's see if he gives us
another one. Hello, Angry Bill, what about a nine year
old girl? Answer that question? How are you guys doing this?
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Then you know I know you've got your sticks about
certain things, the astros and all that. That's fine, but
you gotta give up on this Manning thing. I'm telling
you right now. They're gonna be around for years. You've
got these three Manning's gonna be coming at you, Eli,
going into the Hall of Fame. The funniest one is Cooper.
Would you see that red hot commercially? Does you gotta
be kidding me? The guys are riot, Okay, they're gonna
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be coming out. You just give up on these guys.
There's three nice young men and then you got to you.
By the time you're ready to die in about eight years,
this nephew didn't be coming along, okay, and they're gonna
be keep making me. You're giving me eight years, I
mean maybe seven? Yeah, yeah, okay. You don't even let
you just talk. You don't listen. What's wrong with you?
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That's wrong with me? Give up on the stick with
the Mannings. They're nice piece, it's not stick, listen. I
just I'm a truth teller. Let's let's talk about I
know you're a giant. Yeah, let's talk about the both
Manning brothers involved in scandal. Both the brothers, Eli Manning.
Look at the sports memory of Bill. Yeah. Yeah, you
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don't care about that unless you're one of the people
that paid a lot of money for a game used
piece of merchandise that was not game used. And Eli
had a lied about that and said he they're not
gonna settle. They settled, and then the paying many thing.
What's what's a lie amongst friends? What's a big deal
about a couple of lives? These are great young men.
And then you got to man, I mean, yeah, tell
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that if your dog or it was a trainer of
Tennessee back in the day, a boy Peyton Manning. Okay,
come on, all right, thank you. That won't very well.
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the overnight hours, and we're gonna cowboy up on the
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Ben Maller Show. Here in a mom why don't we
do that right now? We'll get back to Eddie, but
let's go to Cowboy John Brad in Windsor, Ontario, as
we cowboy up with Cowboy John everybody. Forty four years
ago today, the Lakers Kermit Washington nearly killed the Rockets
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Rudy tom Jonovits. Today, Washington resides in prison after being
convictive of Beasley five million dollars from an African children's charity.
Fifty six years ago today, the great branch Rickey, who
pioneered black players in baseball by signing Jackie Robinson, died
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at age eighty three. And on that same day, Samber Night,
Frank Robinson, one of my favorite players, was traded by
the Reds to the never heard of a Ball Me
Oriols for Milk, Pappas de twit like my mother. Robinson
won the American League Triple Crown that year and led
the Orioles to the nineteen sixty six World Series. When
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Unhappy nineties birthday Basketball Hall of Famer Cliffhagen, Dame Judy
Dench is eighteen seven, Dick Buckas is seventy nine to day,
four days older than my cousin first, and let's see Felicity,
and now they're John Malcovitch of the actors eighty sixty
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eight to day's five months that whole thing, and Kelly
Happy twenty sixth birthday Kelly Ubray Junior and Marty Robbins,
country singer and NASCAR driver died December eighth, nineteen eighty two.
Tard Anglie former WWE, such a radio you today and
die happy sixty four birthday Donny Osman and sixty people
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tomorrow morning. Oh another that I saw her bills Now
harba Bailey fine? Where the white women at? There? He
goes Outandy, how dare you? How dare you? Jay Scoop?
There you all right? Let's get back to Eddie right
now there is a hockey story that has my attention, Eddie. Yeah,
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I liked. There's a good scandal story, kind of a
financial scandal, which I enjoy very much. I'm sure that
will be in Puck the world. So let's get right now.
You're leading off. Oh how exciting it he Let's get
to Eddie right now to get caught up on everything,
and all right, thank you. Ben. The City of Glendale,
Arizona the Arizona Coyotes that they plan to lock them
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out of the Hila River Arena if the club is
not pay its delinquent tax bills and unpaid arena charges
by December twentieth. The city of Glendale is apparently owned
approximately two hundred fifty thousand dollars and unpaid city taxes.
The county said in a statement Wednesday night, quote, we
have already launched an investigation in German how this could
have happened, and the initial indications are that appears to
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be the result of human error. I believe I know
how it happened, Eddie. They didn't actually pay their taxes.
I believe that's how that happened. They continued, regardless, we
deeply regret the inconvenience of this is caused. We will
make sure by tomorrow morning the Arizonacoties are currently up
on all our bills and owe no state or local
taxes whatsoever. I think this is a great play. I
think when we all don't pay our taxes, we should
just say, don't know what it was, an oversight, human error.
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Let's let me pay my taxes now. Yes. Now. In August,
the Coyotes were informed by the City of Glendale if
they were opting out of its lease agreement with the
team at the end of this season. Negotiations to the
two sides has been ongoing on a potential extension, but
nothing's been finalized. A Forbes report this past week indicated
that the Coyotes are for sale and maybe on the
move to the city of Houston, where Rockets owner Tillman
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for Tita has said he would like to be an
NHL owner and he happens to have an arena, they
should build an outdoors arena and in Tombstall in Arizona
because the franchise. The franchise is heading towards the Tombstall state.
The Coyotes have strongly denied that Forbes report, well of course,
you never admit it until you leave. You never admit
you're leaving until you leave. That's how that's the rules
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of franchise movement. That's right. We had a couple of
coaches getting canned in the NHL this past week. Elaine
Vigno fired his head coach at the Philadelphia Flyers God Day.
He was in his third season with Philadelphia. Has been
replaced by assistant Mike Yo. Flyers were eight eleven and
four and had lost eight straight. Yeah. I don't want
to steal your thunder, but do you have There is
a Flyer related story that was on my radar. This
the dog poopy. Yes, yes, yeah, there was something going
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on at the arena there in Philadelphia. I can't remember
the last nine pooped right on the Philadelphia Flyers center
rized logo. Nice big turret right on the low. It's appropriate.
As I mentioned into the update, they've they've lost ten
in a row, so the coaching chang doesn't have the effect. Yeah,
and the Vancouver Canucks fired head coach Travis Green and
general manager Jim Benning on Sunday. Benning had been on
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the job for eight years and Green was promoted in
twenty seventeen from a mind ready. Normally in the radio
business just fires people in the Christmas season, but I'm
glad that hockey teams are firing people also. Yeah. Veteran
Bruce Boudreau has been named to replace him. He's been
former head coach with the Capital's Ducks and Wild. The
death of former Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Mattis Kivlennox earlier
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this year has been ruled accidental by a Michigan County
prosecutor's office and no criminal charges are going to be sought.
Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald's office deliberator over the case
for nearly five months. Kiv Lennox, twenty four years old,
died after being struck in the chest by a three
inch mortar shell fired from a tube during a Fourth
of July party that obviously went wrong. LA Kings forward
Brendan Lemieux, suspended for five games, were biting the hand
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of Ottawa Senators star Brady Kochuck in his against you. Now,
this is a this is really a video thing. It's
it's not audio. But there was a goal scorer this
week by Anahon Ducks young star Trevor Zegris that everyone
is talking about. Trying to explain it best I can.
He was behind the nets. He scooped up the puck
kind of like I don't know, if you were scooping
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something out of your pool, you know, like that, and
he scooped it up. He then tossed it in front
of the net, where his teammates Sonny Milano batted it
out of mid air and into the net. It's definitely
worth worth googling if you if you want to see
it's It's phenomenal. Really, it's a rasmtask. It's like a
sizzle real play. It's like the Harlem Globe Trotters a
hockey Google Trevor Zegres z e r Google. Do we
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have time for some cringe e audio? I always have
time for cringe Okay. So we've talked about this before.
The Montreal Canadians are adamant that they will hire a
head coach and a general manager only if they can
speak French. But they did hire an executive vice president
named Jeff Gordon, who does not speak French, and he
introduced himself to the good folks of Montreal by attempting
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to speak French. It did not go well, okay, ittle
audio hold on. If this did not go well, here
we go, yell that out. Roberto say a vic the coup,
Dave fear T k Ja accept a le role day
Vice President. This operations Hockey Eve Less Canadians Day, Montreal
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plus grant franchise, Dance La Histoi do hockey a vec
le Boo de Ramonet, la Kop Stanley and Montreal Mercy.
Jeff Molson poor say confiance. He was. He was saying, uh,
it's a great honor to be hired by the Montreal
(31:23):
Canadian Z. We want to win the Stanley Cup and
thank you owner Jeff Molson's amazing competence in me. Brian
Kelly spoke better occasion better you know, bat Paul Rouge.
Then he tried, I guess so we give him an
A for effort, but execution was it's not so good.
He says he's working on it. But then he also added,
(31:43):
I've also been working on playing golf for thirty years
and I still suck at that as well. So he
didn't try to make a joke at him. So that
is your puck. The World Report, all right, thank you
for Eddie. It is the Baan Maller show. As we
press and we've all been there. We've all tried, well,
maybe with a microphone, pretend like we knew another language
(32:04):
and then didn't know it. We need the Rosetta Stone
to come in and help us out. Did you matter
think Eddie mentioned that for the first time ever, there's
a a team worth two billion dollars. You didn't mention that, Eddie.
It's a bad job by you. Shame on you. The
New York Rangers. According to the good people I believe
over at Forbes, they are the first NHL team ever
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to be credited with the two billion dollar price tag.
But after you get rid of the New York tax,
they're only worth like one billion anyway. All right, it's
the benout of the show we are going to have.
We are just moments away, well minutes away from a
tremendous segment of Rater. It's called fact or Fiction. If
you want to be one of our judges, call right
(32:47):
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the scene. Is it fact? Let's face some rough fact
on the Ben Mallers Show. Listen to Ryan By the way,
Eddie wrote in from Boston. He says, the people of
Boston just woke up. What a rude awakening by you, Eddie.
How dare you Garcia? How dare you disrespecting the Celtics score?
(34:24):
Unreal Pat's play better and I'll report your scores. They
played played good fine, Actually in the second half they did.
They were down by twenty one. All right, let's get
to it. Here we go, fact or fiction play better
than they did against the Lakers. I know that. Let's
welcome in our celebrity judges. We have a Jack the
judge who is in the Great State of Florida, the
(34:45):
Power Couple, along with Leslie. Hello Jack, Well Ben, how's
everything Welcome in Jack? Everything is great. You're doing all right? Yes,
I am. I Have you seen any King's games lately? No,
I've not. I plan on getting out there over the holidays.
Are you concerned about the Rays moving to Montreal? No?
(35:07):
They talk about that for weeks and months, in almost years,
and nothing's happened. I don't think that's ever gonna happen. No,
all right, but I hope they get a new stadium.
They need it. But I don't know. I don't think
that's going to happen. All right, Well, hold on, Jack,
we have you. We have Tammy in Montana. Hello, Tammy. Hey, Ben,
(35:30):
So you've got birthdays this month. You've got Salfa Dominican
Mike Christen Houston, and of course our favorite Roberto. Do
you have an official calendar of birthdays from the Mallard Show.
That's unbelievable, Tammy, all right, hold on a sec. I
don't even know all that. Milkman. Mike in Colorado, Hello, Milkman, No,
(35:54):
I con them living in Londend and jotting down the days.
Did three triple wide in person. Oh that's right. You're
gonna meet him in the Brocco game this weekend. That's exciting.
That's very cool. Yeah, ye, all right, yep, kick kick
is behind, go ahead, I know, all right, hold on, Milkman.
Who else do we have? I think maybe one more?
(36:15):
How about Chris in South Carolina? Hello, Chris hike Man,
Welcome in. How's everything in South Carolina? Everything are not cold,
but we're good on good, okay, thank you? Yes, all right,
there you go. It's actually morning, by the way, now,
because all right, anyway, let's get to it. Here we go.
(36:36):
Factor Fiction A fitting tribute story Number one. An Oklahoma
State senator wants to give Lincoln Riley the appropriate goodbye,
and it's being discussed Lincoln Riley Highway. The road would
be three inches of roadway in a desolate part of
Oklahoma heading west, unless that's not true. Story number two
(36:57):
a Prime shave, Dion Sanders and Gillette teaming up this
week with a limited edition razor. The razors based on
the Dion personal mantra look Good, Feel Good and of
course Primes logo. Their signature number twenty one metallic a
gold the colored handle and money will be donated to
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charity as well. From that and story number three, again,
one of these is not true. You got to separate
fiction from fact. LA basketball fans mourning the loss of
Staples Center's sign. It was removed outside the arena in
prep for the new name. However, one of LA's most
famous fans, Jimmy Goldstein, his music guy, not ready to
(37:40):
let it go. It's being reported the Goldstein spent at
least six figures to acquire the Staples Center sign. What
the f would one do with that sign? But anyway,
that's story number between. One of these is not true.
Separate fiction from fact. We start out with Jack, the Judge,
the Power Couple. Hello Jack, We'll say number one is
(38:02):
the fake story? All right? Jack? Thank you? Hold on Jack,
you old number one. Tammy and Montana in honor of
Philly Rob whose birthday was a few days ago. Number one.
Number one do miss our friend Philly Rob and he
rested piece milk man Mike Well that we placed to
(38:23):
be the coming up behind Tammy. Let's start with number two,
number two, all right, and last one Chris in South Carolina,
Chris quickly, number three, dang La number three and Chris,
you are the smartest man in the world. It is
number three that was the fake story, the Staples Center
signed story being bought by that rich guy, Jimmy Goldsley.
(38:45):
Good job by you. Gotta murder, Gotta go
Hello and welcome. It's our number four, our number four
of our radio program. A media kur fluffle from the
National Football League involving the quarterback number twelve of your
Green Bay Packers and his smack talk against the Chicago Bears.
(00:22):
Did Aaron Rodgers cross the line? The media is outraged
with his trash talk. We take a closer look at
that and much more right now in our number four,
a trip to mister Rogers neighborhood. Well come, in the
beginning of another hour of the Ben Maller Show. We
(00:46):
are back at it again here in the air everywhere
as we right off in all directions, coast to coast,
border to border, in beyond. On the mast and powerful
microphones of fs are emanating live from the Highway, the
(01:08):
Highway to Hell, the Fox Sports Radio studios at a
secret location somewhere in the north Woods. And we were
back at it again here our lead this hour, coming
from the land of Cheese, the land of dairy, as
we have the latest Aaron Rodgers fuels to controversy. Now
this one involves trash talk. If you didn't see it,
(01:32):
and maybe you missed it, here, let me give you
the condensed recam So Aaron Rodgers met with the media
and he announced that he has no regrets about the
trash talk fiesta, the I oh you that he said
to the Chicago fans who were giving him the bird,
(01:54):
telling him that he was the king and all that
at Soldier Field, Razzi raspberries at him. So Rogers says
that he is not not worried about the Chicago Bears retribution.
The old bulletin board material. This weekend Sunday night, that's
the made for TV matchup, unless it's not. But that's
(02:17):
the game Sunday night, big television window at lambeau Field
on NBC. As Warner Wolf would say. Just to prove
that I'm not making this up. Here's Aaron Rodgers in
his own words when asked if he has any kind
of concern over his trash talk coming back into his
face like a boomerang. A lot of times in you know,
(02:39):
situations like this, the trash talk is only able to
be used if you know if you're getting after that
individual that was trash talking. So in order to trash talk,
you have to have a lot of confidence and what
you've accomplished and what you're going to accomplish in the future,
at some point what I said will be used against me.
That's just part of it. I have, you know, no
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regrets for saying what I said, and obviously I think
the record kind of speaks for itself, all right. So
the key part of that no regrets, no regrets, which
upset the media establishment. So let us discuss the question,
did Aaron Rogers trust the line the bulletin board trash
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talk line, And I'm shaking my head passionately. No. No.
My observations, You've got customer interaction, force fed and shoulders,
and we will put all of these things together make
the babbaganoosh. We're gonna make the barbaganoosh. Now. Number one,
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Aaron Rodgers did not do anything untoort on this one.
And I know there's some people in the media that
are very upset and they're looking for any kind of
way to throw Aaron Rodgers name out there, the wokesters,
because that dislike is palpable. Aaron Rodgers is still public
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enemy number one. Any opportunity to jab Aaron Rodgers, he
will he will be the one that gets that jab.
And apparently he is immunized from the bullcrap. Rogers engaging
again and an exasperated fan who unscientifically voted him number one,
(04:28):
which is really fantastic customer interaction. It is I mean,
that's the skills, the etiquette, and said, oh, that's inappropriate,
it's unsportsmanlike. I disagree. I say, whoever that Chicago Bear
fan that Aaron Rodgers gave the trash talk to, for
the rest of their lives, they will brag to all
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of their friends. They'll say, I'm the person that Aaron
Rodgers said, that said the thing too. I'm the person
right there. I get the bullwinkle batge. That's me, all right.
That may give it to me. In terms of the
Bears players being offended the bulletin board, there is no smoke,
(05:10):
there is no fire. There is no smoke, there is
no fire. And these bulletin board stories I can go
off on a tangent. It's one of my pet peeves,
the bulletin board, which is still that's old school. That's
an old take, that's an old take repackage all right. Now. Secondly,
Aaron Rodgers passes the trash talk master class in many respects,
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not his first rodeo, but that there's all saying that
actions prove who someone is. Words just prove who they
want to be. But when you walk the walk, you
are then allowed to talk to talk. That's generally how
this works. And Aaron Rodgers is the living embodiment of
a player who has backed it up. Rodgers is one
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five straight starts the Packers have with Rogers against the
Bears and twenty seven career games with Aaron Rodgers at
quarterback against Chicago, NFC North Rivals and Green Bay is
twenty two and five. That is the third best winning percentage.
It's over eight hundred by any quarterback with at least
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twenty five starts against a single opponent. The other quarterbacks
ahead of Rogers are Tom Brady from his days with
the Patriots against the Buffalo Bills and Ben Roethlisberger against
the Cleveland Browns. But since twenty fourteen, since twenty fourteen,
Aaron Rodgers has thirty six touchdown passes and two interceptions
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against the Bears. Okay, and so don't give me your
bulletin board stuff. I don't want to hear about it.
Regardless of that, the trash talk gone bad storyline, it
is what it is. The word is contrived. It is contrived.
That is the word. When I get it, I get it.
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We are being force fed against our will Packers Bears
this weekend in prime time, and that is the Big
Island game off by itself on an Island Sunday night
with Al Michaels and Chris Consworth. Michaels will be slobbering
all over Aaron Rodgers and cons Worth will take care
of any part of Rogers that Michaels might have missed
(07:22):
in the conversation, and they will be putting deodorant on
a skunk because that game is a stink bomb epic mismatch.
And so to gin up interest, the Rogers SmackDown has
been highlighted. It's really some WWE level drama or rama
(07:43):
stage to heighten the entertainment value. Does it work? Now?
I'm gonna watch either way because I got a four
hour talk show at to fill time with on that night,
so I'm gonna look for something. There's always the possibility
that some player, a big name player, will get hurt
and then we got a story, or there'll be some
situation with the referee or something like that. So that's
(08:05):
why we watched now. Final point, even if the Chicago
Bears defense. Let's say that this is the rare and
appropriate time that they get all worked up into a
flustered state and the Bears defense is upset. They're worked
into a ladder to prove Aaron Rodgers wrong. I say
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it wouldn't matter, and I'll tell you why. All right.
This is not the monsters of the Midway defense. This
is the kinder gentler. Let's hug it out NFL. As
far as the Bears are concerned, and they did have
a pretty good defense to start the year, but because
of injuries, good luck. I don't think that Richard Dent
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or Mike Singletary are going to be walking through that
door to play. The Bears. Stars of today are much
more likely, much more likely to rubbed shoulders with Aaron
Rodgers and tap elbows, then body slam, body slam and
break a kneecap. I see photo op Jersey swap for
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a thousand Alex Can I get that? Now? We understand
Justin Fields will come back and for the Bears, and
he's apparently gonna play, and he's the new flavor of
the month in Chicago, the new Messiah, the new Saviors.
So we imagine that that will get a lot of attention,
and despite a very shaky resume this year, he has
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already been tagged. He's been branded the savior of Chicago
Bears football. So can't mess with that, all right? It
is the Bend Mallisher. You know what also you can't
mess with, and that would be Benny versus the penny
Man versus metal, a in adamant object versus a human
(09:55):
being who will do better picking games. Not a good
week last week and not one of my better perform miss,
But we'll get it back on track right now. So
let's strike up the band. Welcome are you? It's time
now Penny the Penny and it is on like Donkey Kong.
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Thursday Night football Tonight in the Twin Cities, the Petsburgh
Steelers traveling party the Circus comes to town. They're six
five and one Minnesota after a wretchy loss to the Lions.
How do you lose to the Lions? Could have been
six and six now you're five and seven. Could have
(10:36):
showed a water. The game's on Fox, so you better
watch with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. The Vikings a
three and a half point favorite right in that area.
Give or take it's Vikings opened up a four point favorite.
Line's been bouncing around a little bit, so the weather
thirty two degrees, partly cloudia kick up, but it's a dome,
(10:58):
so that's not gonna be a factor. And I am
taking the purple paper lads, I'm taking the Vikings. I
don't like favorites, but this is a spot I like
to I like the favorite, and I'm betting against Ben Roethlisberger.
He complained this week about having made a million throws.
He says his shoulders starting to wear down for seventy
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five percent of the game against Baltimore. He saw the
game last weekend. He was not only a quarterback. Roethlisberger
was lousy and then in the fourth quarter he was
like a tornado in a tunnel, and the Steelers came
out like Gangbusters. Pittsburgh seven and six straight up when
playing on three days rest, and the Mike Tomlin era
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fifteen seasons now with Mike Tomlin at the Helm. That
includes a two and five mark on the road. That's
just straight up. So the Steelers have not done all
that well away from home. On the short weekend. They
will be without again. Joe Hayden's gonna miss his fourth
straight game defensive back with a foot injury. Three other
Pittsburgh players are out of the lineup. Now I'm taking
the Vikings. The only thing I'm concerned about is if
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the light the loss to the Lions deflates the balloon.
If they just give up now and say that's it,
we are scart rude because mathematically, even though that's a
terrible low the NFC, you look at the bottom of
the NFC, you don't have to be very good to
get in the playoffs in the NFC. So will they
feel sorry for themselves? That's the concern. But I'm betting
(12:25):
on perseverance winning out. And people love to kick Kirk
Cousins for being a garbage time player, not a primetime player.
Garbage time player, and if you look at the numbers,
some of these are enhanced because of blowouts. But Kirk
Cousins since twenty fifteen in primetime games has forty two
(12:46):
touchdowns and sixteen interceptions. Now where I come from, that's
pretty deep. Be good in Minnesota is going to be
without Adam feeling so good luck on that high ankle spraying.
He gone, and Dalvin book is questionable with a shoulder injury,
not expected to play, also without one of their rookie lineman.
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Who's gonna miss a game here. But I'm taking the Vikings.
I just don't believe in Roethlisberger and that stealer's offense.
So I'll take Minnesota twenty four Pittsburgh seventeen the final,
and the Penny picks. Oh my dad, here we go.
Penny's going with Pittsburgh, all right, So we disagree on that,
(13:27):
and that is the game tonight in the NFL, And
I've got the Vikings. The Penny has Pittsburgh. Good luck
to all. He should never take gambling advice from an idiot.
On the overnight radio show, all right, straight ahead for us,
we will have put by well with Eddie Garsia will
(13:47):
take your phone calls as well. And a bizarre food superstition.
We'll get to that as well. We'll get to it
all and we will do it next. My right hand
was getting a workout. That's that's bogus. Be sure to
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It's Ben Maller at the scene of the Harry Have
Eddie will be in here in a few minutes. He's
in all night, all morning now puck the world, very
(15:10):
very exciting. Let's go to the phone. Who is waiting
to talk. Let's go to credit card Gordon Rismas, formerly
in Ottawa, now he is in Waterloo. Our Canadian friend
who some have said is the single worst caller to
the show, with a wink and a nod to sir,
(15:32):
eats a lot, who hasn't called us in several days,
so we have not been bogged down with his work
where we do have credit card Gordon. Hello, Gordy, Hello, Hello,
big Ben. Can I help you? Well, I'm not sure
if I can speak to you at this moment because
I'm wearing nothing. All right, thank you for the phone call. Okay,
(15:54):
we're good. Thank you for that. I appreciate a good call. Yeah,
I don't want to. Well, no, I don't want to.
It's a good call because we entered it. Yeah, and
I don't want to talk to crack card Gordon when
he's fully clothed. The idea of talking to him all
these eats a lot, talks a lot more than that,
and he's terrible. Yeah, yeah, that is. And thankfully he's
(16:18):
never called in and said that he's been nude while
talking to us. Yeah. So I think if I talk
a certain way like sir, Sir I was called him
by the wrong name, Sir Eats a lot his new name,
he will he will not call. So I have to
keep there's a certain cadence I have to have, and
then he will not call. And he thinks. The great
thing about it, Eddie is Sir Eats a Lot, thinks
(16:38):
he's punishing me by not calling. That not having the
opportunity to talk to him is punishment. How's that working
out for weed Man Hippie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, weed Man,
I guarantee he's still Ben's gonna call me up and
beg me to come back to the show. Heaven. Ever,
although somebody said I think it was Ed Ed and
Christina who are traveling down ninety five going from Maine
(17:00):
all the way down to Florida get married, that they
are going to meet with the caller formerly known as
weed Man Hippie. It's very exciting unless it's not. Boy,
I saw some interesting photos from Christina and Ed on
their trip to DC, and they're really they're going for
they got no shame in their game. Man. Anyway, that's well,
(17:25):
I mean you can look at the photos there. I
don't do I don't know if I want to look
at the photos. Well, you won't like what, you know
what's there? But that's wearing. Yeah yeah, I was pretty
surprised by that. But you know, good for her. Let's
what what it's it's nothing of a sexual nature. I know,
(17:45):
it's not you know, it's a it's an anti yeah, yeah,
just a little interest. I mean, you are talking about
a guy who went to a Black Lives Matter rally. Yeah. Yes,
promoted the Ben Maller Show. So I mean that's quite
the couple. Yeah yeah. So showing up to the was
(18:07):
it the Lincoln Memorials that you were there? Weren't you?
Just in DC? Yeah? Yeah, she was wearing a Let's
Go Brandon, she had that on her. I just thought
it was interesting, that's all. Let's say hello to eaty
meany mighty mole. Let's say hello to Cooper in Virginia's
not very far away from DC. Hello Cooper, Hello, Ben,
(18:32):
Hello speaking. I just I have a handful of jokes
that you're gonna hate about Zion. Yeah. Well, the reason
I'm gonna hate them is I've heard every fat joke
as a fat man. So there's no fat joke that
you can tell that I have not heard myself. But
go ahead, give me your best, all right. Soon's so
(18:54):
big he doesn't dribble, he drools. Oh all right, all right,
all right, I got I got another one. I got
that one. Okay. Why did the chicken cross the road
because Zion tried to eat it? Yeah? I heard that
(19:15):
one before. All right, what's what's your next one? What
do we got? All right? All right, all right, yeah
that's it. No, no, no, I got you. I got you?
Oh you got more? So Zion Williamson is he I've
actually heard he's a pretty good teammate. Is everyone in
the locker room? Is everyone in the locker room's really
close to him? Because I don't have a choice. All right,
(19:41):
that was a little better. All right, all right more?
Oh man, this is impress all right, yeah, yeah, I'm
eventually all get cut off and that's that's all. I'm golf.
That's a good point. You will eventually be cut off,
did you? But did you see the game that they
had the other day, Zion the Pelican? No? I missed it.
Oh well it was. It was a it was a blowout,
(20:04):
but unfortunately it was the team bust on the way out.
Thank you, I got it. Go. I mean, I've always
enjoyed the fat athlete, and I'm pulling for Zion, but
I do believe he has to get fit fat. I
don't think he's fit fat. Seen photos of him and
he looks like she should be playing left tackle for
the Saints, not in the NBA. And I'd like to
(20:27):
see him, you know, drop a few and uh. The
greatest fat basketball player I ever saw was Stanley Roberts,
and I no, Stanley Roberts was better as a Oliver
Miller wasn't bad, he could shoot for the Sun. But
Stanley Roberts, he played for the Clippers back in the day.
And I to my dying breath, I am convinced, and
(20:49):
no one will tell me differently. He had more of
a post game than Shaquille O'Neil. Shaquille O'Neill just had
and they played together at LSU for Dale Brown. But
Shaquille O'Neill just powered over players and dominated physically. But
Stanley Roberts had some finesse. He had little touch in
addition to having the size. And I say, and Stanley
(21:10):
got banned for life from the NBA of all things
for I think it was steroids, I think, or he
got banned for something and then he just kind of vanished.
That was it. He went away. Let's go to Florida.
Angry Bill gave us a sporto call right up until
the end last time. Let's see if he gives us
another one. Hello, Angry Bill, what about a nine year
old girl? Answer that question? How are you guys doing this?
(21:33):
Then you know I know you've got your sticks about
certain things, the astros and all that. That's fine, but
you gotta give up on this Manning thing. I'm telling
you right now. They're gonna be around for years. You've
got these three Manning's gonna be coming at you, Eli,
going into the Hall of Fame. The funniest one is Cooper.
Would you see that red hot commercially? Does you gotta
be kidding me? The guys are riot, Okay, they're gonna
(21:55):
be coming out. You just give up on these guys.
There's three nice young men and then you got to you.
By the time you're ready to die in about eight years,
this nephew didn't be coming along, okay, and they're gonna
be keep making me. You're giving me eight years, I
mean maybe seven? Yeah, yeah, okay. You don't even let
you just talk. You don't listen. What's wrong with you?
(22:16):
That's wrong with me? Give up on the stick with
the Mannings. They're nice piece, it's not stick, listen. I
just I'm a truth teller. Let's let's talk about I
know you're a giant. Yeah, let's talk about the both
Manning brothers involved in scandal. Both the brothers, Eli Manning.
Look at the sports memory of Bill. Yeah. Yeah, you
(22:37):
don't care about that unless you're one of the people
that paid a lot of money for a game used
piece of merchandise that was not game used. And Eli
had a lied about that and said he they're not
gonna settle. They settled, and then the paying many thing.
What's what's a lie amongst friends? What's a big deal
about a couple of lives? These are great young men.
And then you got to man, I mean, yeah, tell
(22:59):
that if your dog or it was a trainer of
Tennessee back in the day, a boy Peyton Manning. Okay,
come on, all right, thank you. That won't very well.
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the Band Mallers Show as we press song shopping down
the overnight hours, and we're gonna cowboy up on the
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Ben Maller Show. Here in a mom why don't we
do that right now? We'll get back to Eddie, but
let's go to Cowboy John Brad in Windsor, Ontario, as
we cowboy up with Cowboy John everybody. Forty four years
ago today, the Lakers Kermit Washington nearly killed the Rockets
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Rudy tom Jonovits. Today, Washington resides in prison after being
convictive of Beasley five million dollars from an African children's charity.
Fifty six years ago today, the great branch Rickey, who
pioneered black players in baseball by signing Jackie Robinson, died
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at age eighty three. And on that same day, Samber Night,
Frank Robinson, one of my favorite players, was traded by
the Reds to the never heard of a Ball Me
Oriols for Milk, Pappas de twit like my mother. Robinson
won the American League Triple Crown that year and led
the Orioles to the nineteen sixty six World Series. When
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Unhappy nineties birthday Basketball Hall of Famer Cliffhagen, Dame Judy
Dench is eighteen seven, Dick Buckas is seventy nine to day,
four days older than my cousin first, and let's see Felicity,
and now they're John Malcovitch of the actors eighty sixty
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eight to day's five months that whole thing, and Kelly
Happy twenty sixth birthday Kelly Ubray Junior and Marty Robbins,
country singer and NASCAR driver died December eighth, nineteen eighty two.
Tard Anglie former WWE, such a radio you today and
die happy sixty four birthday Donny Osman and sixty people
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tomorrow morning. Oh another that I saw her bills Now
harba Bailey fine? Where the white women at? There? He
goes Outandy, how dare you? How dare you? Jay Scoop?
There you all right? Let's get back to Eddie right
now there is a hockey story that has my attention, Eddie. Yeah,
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I liked. There's a good scandal story, kind of a
financial scandal, which I enjoy very much. I'm sure that
will be in Puck the world. So let's get right now.
You're leading off. Oh how exciting it he Let's get
to Eddie right now to get caught up on everything,
and all right, thank you. Ben. The City of Glendale,
Arizona the Arizona Coyotes that they plan to lock them
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out of the Hila River Arena if the club is
not pay its delinquent tax bills and unpaid arena charges
by December twentieth. The city of Glendale is apparently owned
approximately two hundred fifty thousand dollars and unpaid city taxes.
The county said in a statement Wednesday night, quote, we
have already launched an investigation in German how this could
have happened, and the initial indications are that appears to
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be the result of human error. I believe I know
how it happened, Eddie. They didn't actually pay their taxes.
I believe that's how that happened. They continued, regardless, we
deeply regret the inconvenience of this is caused. We will
make sure by tomorrow morning the Arizonacoties are currently up
on all our bills and owe no state or local
taxes whatsoever. I think this is a great play. I
think when we all don't pay our taxes, we should
just say, don't know what it was, an oversight, human error.
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Let's let me pay my taxes now. Yes. Now. In August,
the Coyotes were informed by the City of Glendale if
they were opting out of its lease agreement with the
team at the end of this season. Negotiations to the
two sides has been ongoing on a potential extension, but
nothing's been finalized. A Forbes report this past week indicated
that the Coyotes are for sale and maybe on the
move to the city of Houston, where Rockets owner Tillman
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for Tita has said he would like to be an
NHL owner and he happens to have an arena, they
should build an outdoors arena and in Tombstall in Arizona
because the franchise. The franchise is heading towards the Tombstall state.
The Coyotes have strongly denied that Forbes report, well of course,
you never admit it until you leave. You never admit
you're leaving until you leave. That's how that's the rules
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of franchise movement. That's right. We had a couple of
coaches getting canned in the NHL this past week. Elaine
Vigno fired his head coach at the Philadelphia Flyers God Day.
He was in his third season with Philadelphia. Has been
replaced by assistant Mike Yo. Flyers were eight eleven and
four and had lost eight straight. Yeah. I don't want
to steal your thunder, but do you have There is
a Flyer related story that was on my radar. This
the dog poopy. Yes, yes, yeah, there was something going
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on at the arena there in Philadelphia. I can't remember
the last nine pooped right on the Philadelphia Flyers center
rized logo. Nice big turret right on the low. It's appropriate.
As I mentioned into the update, they've they've lost ten
in a row, so the coaching chang doesn't have the effect. Yeah,
and the Vancouver Canucks fired head coach Travis Green and
general manager Jim Benning on Sunday. Benning had been on
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the job for eight years and Green was promoted in
twenty seventeen from a mind ready. Normally in the radio
business just fires people in the Christmas season, but I'm
glad that hockey teams are firing people also. Yeah. Veteran
Bruce Boudreau has been named to replace him. He's been
former head coach with the Capital's Ducks and Wild. The
death of former Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Mattis Kivlennox earlier
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this year has been ruled accidental by a Michigan County
prosecutor's office and no criminal charges are going to be sought.
Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald's office deliberator over the case
for nearly five months. Kiv Lennox, twenty four years old,
died after being struck in the chest by a three
inch mortar shell fired from a tube during a Fourth
of July party that obviously went wrong. LA Kings forward
Brendan Lemieux, suspended for five games, were biting the hand
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of Ottawa Senators star Brady Kochuck in his against you. Now,
this is a this is really a video thing. It's
it's not audio. But there was a goal scorer this
week by Anahon Ducks young star Trevor Zegris that everyone
is talking about. Trying to explain it best I can.
He was behind the nets. He scooped up the puck
kind of like I don't know, if you were scooping
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something out of your pool, you know, like that, and
he scooped it up. He then tossed it in front
of the net, where his teammates Sonny Milano batted it
out of mid air and into the net. It's definitely
worth worth googling if you if you want to see
it's It's phenomenal. Really, it's a rasmtask. It's like a
sizzle real play. It's like the Harlem Globe Trotters a
hockey Google Trevor Zegres z e r Google. Do we
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have time for some cringe e audio? I always have
time for cringe Okay. So we've talked about this before.
The Montreal Canadians are adamant that they will hire a
head coach and a general manager only if they can
speak French. But they did hire an executive vice president
named Jeff Gordon, who does not speak French, and he
introduced himself to the good folks of Montreal by attempting
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to speak French. It did not go well, okay, ittle
audio hold on. If this did not go well, here
we go, yell that out. Roberto say a vic the coup,
Dave fear T k Ja accept a le role day
Vice President. This operations Hockey Eve Less Canadians Day, Montreal
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plus grant franchise, Dance La Histoi do hockey a vec
le Boo de Ramonet, la Kop Stanley and Montreal Mercy.
Jeff Molson poor say confiance. He was. He was saying, uh,
it's a great honor to be hired by the Montreal
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Canadian Z. We want to win the Stanley Cup and
thank you owner Jeff Molson's amazing competence in me. Brian
Kelly spoke better occasion better you know, bat Paul Rouge.
Then he tried, I guess so we give him an
A for effort, but execution was it's not so good.
He says he's working on it. But then he also added,
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I've also been working on playing golf for thirty years
and I still suck at that as well. So he
didn't try to make a joke at him. So that
is your puck. The World Report, all right, thank you
for Eddie. It is the Baan Maller show. As we
press and we've all been there. We've all tried, well,
maybe with a microphone, pretend like we knew another language
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and then didn't know it. We need the Rosetta Stone
to come in and help us out. Did you matter
think Eddie mentioned that for the first time ever, there's
a a team worth two billion dollars. You didn't mention that, Eddie.
It's a bad job by you. Shame on you. The
New York Rangers. According to the good people I believe
over at Forbes, they are the first NHL team ever
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to be credited with the two billion dollar price tag.
But after you get rid of the New York tax,
they're only worth like one billion anyway. All right, it's
the benout of the show we are going to have.
We are just moments away, well minutes away from a
tremendous segment of Rater. It's called fact or Fiction. If
you want to be one of our judges, call right
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the scene. Is it fact? Let's face some rough fact
on the Ben Mallers Show. Listen to Ryan By the way,
Eddie wrote in from Boston. He says, the people of
Boston just woke up. What a rude awakening by you, Eddie.
How dare you Garcia? How dare you disrespecting the Celtics score?
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Unreal Pat's play better and I'll report your scores. They
played played good fine, Actually in the second half they did.
They were down by twenty one. All right, let's get
to it. Here we go, fact or fiction play better
than they did against the Lakers. I know that. Let's
welcome in our celebrity judges. We have a Jack the
judge who is in the Great State of Florida, the
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Power Couple, along with Leslie. Hello Jack, Well Ben, how's
everything Welcome in Jack? Everything is great. You're doing all right? Yes,
I am. I Have you seen any King's games lately? No,
I've not. I plan on getting out there over the holidays.
Are you concerned about the Rays moving to Montreal? No?
(35:07):
They talk about that for weeks and months, in almost years,
and nothing's happened. I don't think that's ever gonna happen. No,
all right, but I hope they get a new stadium.
They need it. But I don't know. I don't think
that's going to happen. All right, Well, hold on, Jack,
we have you. We have Tammy in Montana. Hello, Tammy. Hey, Ben,
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So you've got birthdays this month. You've got Salfa Dominican
Mike Christen Houston, and of course our favorite Roberto. Do
you have an official calendar of birthdays from the Mallard Show.
That's unbelievable, Tammy, all right, hold on a sec. I
don't even know all that. Milkman. Mike in Colorado, Hello, Milkman, No,
(35:54):
I con them living in Londend and jotting down the days.
Did three triple wide in person. Oh that's right. You're
gonna meet him in the Brocco game this weekend. That's exciting.
That's very cool. Yeah, ye, all right, yep, kick kick
is behind, go ahead, I know, all right, hold on, Milkman.
Who else do we have? I think maybe one more?
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How about Chris in South Carolina? Hello, Chris hike Man,
Welcome in. How's everything in South Carolina? Everything are not cold,
but we're good on good, okay, thank you? Yes, all right,
there you go. It's actually morning, by the way, now,
because all right, anyway, let's get to it. Here we go.
(36:36):
Factor Fiction A fitting tribute story Number one. An Oklahoma
State senator wants to give Lincoln Riley the appropriate goodbye,
and it's being discussed Lincoln Riley Highway. The road would
be three inches of roadway in a desolate part of
Oklahoma heading west, unless that's not true. Story number two
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a Prime shave, Dion Sanders and Gillette teaming up this
week with a limited edition razor. The razors based on
the Dion personal mantra look Good, Feel Good and of
course Primes logo. Their signature number twenty one metallic a
gold the colored handle and money will be donated to
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charity as well. From that and story number three, again,
one of these is not true. You got to separate
fiction from fact. LA basketball fans mourning the loss of
Staples Center's sign. It was removed outside the arena in
prep for the new name. However, one of LA's most
famous fans, Jimmy Goldstein, his music guy, not ready to
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let it go. It's being reported the Goldstein spent at
least six figures to acquire the Staples Center sign. What
the f would one do with that sign? But anyway,
that's story number between. One of these is not true.
Separate fiction from fact. We start out with Jack, the Judge,
the Power Couple. Hello Jack, We'll say number one is
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the fake story? All right? Jack? Thank you? Hold on Jack,
you old number one. Tammy and Montana in honor of
Philly Rob whose birthday was a few days ago. Number one.
Number one do miss our friend Philly Rob and he
rested piece milk man Mike Well that we placed to
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be the coming up behind Tammy. Let's start with number two,
number two, all right, and last one Chris in South Carolina,
Chris quickly, number three, dang La number three and Chris,
you are the smartest man in the world. It is
number three that was the fake story, the Staples Center
signed story being bought by that rich guy, Jimmy Goldsley.
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Good job by you. Gotta murder, Gotta go
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